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The Scarlet Tanager J
f • • A Story of Secret Service and Diplomatic Intrigue
j BY J. AUBREY TYSON ‘ ' *
L ‘ (Copyright. 1922, by tbs MscmlUsn Compter.i • •
E; ) . *
CHAPTER I. , *
The Head eC Seafalcon.
For several minutes the silence of
the big apartment was broken only
by the cries—shrill, hoarse and sepul
chral—^which, rising from the streets’
below, entered the opeff Windows.
They , ware cries of boys and men
who were hawking extra editions of
newspapers—cries that seemed to bc_
sinister echoes of a world • war that
was ended and which -a war-weary
world stolidly was trying to forget.
‘'Steamship Columbian torpedoed by
Seafalcon! To thousand drowned’.
Scafalcon sinks Columbian In mid-
Seafak-on! Two thousand drowned!
lumblan sent down by Seafalcon!
Two thousand drowned!”
Without speaking, Hayden Storrow,
scaled on a morris chair, and Capt.
George RCnnison. standing near one
of the windows, continued to read the
new spapers which had been obtained
for them by one of the bellboys. From
the face of Storrow horror had driven
all Its wonted florid color. That of
Rennison was pale * nd -S l ®?*
row was the first to break the si
lence. As his paper slipped from his
trembling lingers, he said; ..
“Oh. it is incredible. ,h«
ble! The world Is mad. Did not the
long and awful war R " I™
horrors? Ndw that all d \f* r n en ®S"
between the nations have Maen ad
justed and the processes ®f recon
struction are so well under « #> • ' ?•
should civilization be menaced by the
growth of the unseen power, •nhlch.
so mvsterlously and purposeless!!, ts
creating such havoc on the seas the
while it strives, in every **"?!‘ „
shatter the fabric of rational got ern
m Ft'ennlson. tossing his newspaper to
a chair, shook bis hcacl. .
“There is neither mystery nor lack
of purpose in the thing, Morrow, he
•.aid, as he proceeded to. strap and
1 lock the last of his four trunks,
i As he turned from the trunk. Ren
! nison. who was about to leave Wash
'iraton to become military attache on
ih# staff of the United States em
bassy in London, glanced gravely
1 around the large, handsomel> fur
: nished room In which he Mood From
the walls, table and desk had been
removed all those *ome
Invested the apartment with some
thing of the character of Us occu
pant It had been the living room Os
M, bachelor suite, a favorite resort
of his acquaintances and the scene of
ripening friendships.
Though the two men Presented
marked differences temperamental!!.
Rennison had been r ather .
mate with Storrow than with any one
| else he had met in the P*r ,od
had been in Washington Both were
popular in society, but for different
Rennison, .in his thirties. v-as the
only eon of a brigadier general, who.
while a major, had maimied a Wash
ington society belle. Now.
the elder Rennison and his wl » e
dead. Prom his mother the eon had
inherited a small fortune, in
cluded a 100-aore estate on the Con
necticut shore of Long Island sound.
On this now lived his sister and their
3 "shortly after the young , raal ?’*
graduation from West Dole, the
United States entered the world war
and Rennison went overseas with a
regiment of infantry. Refo . r * *’*
reached the battle area. howe%«r, an
emergency assignment ca Mm to
reveal qualities that attracted the
! attention of the bureau of
intelligence. A week later he was
ordered home, promoted to a cap
taincy and made an aide to the chief
of staff. Despite the
his efforts to get to the flghUng
front. was compelled to re-main in
(he United States until the end of the
war. Soon afer the signing of the
rrmistice he was sent to France and
Germany, and during the two years
he was abroad all attempts made by
his friends to learn his whereabouts
were vain. When he reappeared Jn
Washington it was in his former
capacity as an aide.
Doaplte his apparent fondness for
society, Rennison had a tendency to
ward taciturnity. In conversation
this sometimes took the form °;
quiet brusqueness. His habitual
aravitv seemed to mask a singular (
alertness of mind. He was a quick
observer and he had a knack of "tor
ing in his memory incident* which
others thought not worthy of remem
brance. It was noted, too. that Ms
choice of friend* usually led him to
person* who were rather older than
himself. ’ • * ’ -
Harden Storrow. a little pa*t forty,
had inherited a large fortune from
his father, who for two lerme had
been a senator from a western lUW-
H© w&s a good-natured Idler, with
many merits and few faults. He be
longed to fashionable clubs in ’J:
Ington. New York. Ix>ndon and Farts,
and was a familiar figure at the
opera, horse shows, polo • matches,
v*oht races and golf courses. Only
twice had he undertaken responsi
bilities. The first of these was mar
riage, hut matrimonial bonds had
chafed his spirit and he provided gen
erously for." the’ woman who divorced
him Then he bought a handsome
steam yacht, but this, too. palled, and
the next season he sold it.
What there was in Rennison that
so attracted the idler to him Storrow
himself did not understand. Their
relation* were those of men of equal
age. but Storrow recognized the mind
of Rennison as dominant. In the
roung Army officer’* conversation
lurked a note of finality whloh the
idler rarely attempted to combat.
One was a sophisticated young
thinker, and the other a mature,
cheerful, well informed social" but-
though Storrow often found
the voung officer preoccupied, he
never found Mm dull. Rennison was
a good listener. It was plain that he
■liked to hear Storrow talk. The
Idler an astute observer of men and
women, was something of a gosalp,
with a well defined streak of good
natured and amusing cynicism. He
knew everybody who aeemed to be
worth knowing, and Ms fund of so
cial anecdotes was inexhaustible. - -
As Rennison, leaving hi* trunk,
moved moodily toward the table near
which Storrow was seated, the Idler
looked at him quizzically.
“What do you mean, Ren, when you
pjay there is neither mystery nor lack
of purpose in these depredations of
Seafalcon and his folLowerst” Stor
row asked.
Rennison, drawing a tobacco pouch
from one of hi* pockets, seated him
self near the table. Not until he bad
filled and lighted his pipe , did ho
reply. s .•
“When 1 say thara is no mystery
In the thing. I mean that both Sea
falcon and the Brotherhood of the
Scales, of which he is chief, lack
mysterious attribute#." ha explained.
“Though for the time veins our
knowledge of the personality of Sea
falcon la. vggtfe. Til* activities Indi
cate that he Is little more than a dar
ing adventurer, who. taking advan
tage of present world conditions, has
become a modem- buccaneer. His suc
cess and hia picturesque attributes
naturally commanded the attention of
certain numerous and lawless ele
ments in Europe and the United
State* and it was not long before
these discovered that he possessed
remarkable qualities aa a leader.
When these elements were consoli
dated Into that international organi
zation which has beam designated the
Brotherhood of the Seale* Seafalcon/
became its chief." ’, •. . . /
“You do not believe, then, that the
man is ’an honeet fanatic—that he
has Taith in the dreams and doctrines
of a ‘new era/ which animate so
many of the subordinate leader*?"
. "So. I think Beafsloon its toe as
tute for that tort of thing. Study of
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. B>. <C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1923.
every great fanatical movement of |
the past shows clearly that, though <
the movement Itself was of honeet
fanatical origin, sooner or later mill- J
’tant leadership developed on some j
person who waa dominated only by i
desire for financial gain or political |
power. The little We ktiow of Sea- |
falcon seems to warrant tlve belief (
that he Is no zealot, but an .extraor- i
dinarily clever daredevil Who is im- j
Tiled with the spirit of a great ad- i
’Venture—an adventure which yields l
to him’ wealth, power anil a notoriety (
■"which for some year* to come may
•-•lavs as fame.”
' “But how. in heaven's name, did he
ever get such a following—not only
in our own country, bat. in the great
nations of Europe?” Morrow asked.
“The explanation Is simple/’ Renni
son replied. “The brotherhood is a
distinctly unmysterlous product of
the Late war. It consists in this coun
try of several hundred thousand men
and women, naturally idealistic, ,
whose old ideals were shaken out of.
them by the great conflict. They are
of a type that has existed since'the
world began—the unsatisfied. Hie
( failures, the dreamers—the waste
products of civilization. Centuries of
civilisation have failed to eliminate
from this type the ever-present ten
dency to revert to savagery. The
beating of a tom-tom stirs within
them an impulse to go head-hunting, i
The weird rites of an Imaginative
charlatan will • attract thousands of!
them to a nonsensical and debasing
cult which Ignores or defies the de
cencies of civilised life. Nature, not
man. ha* divided society into various I
classes. But In-every class are men
and women who, yielding to primal
instincts, become ecstatic when they
hear the beating of the tom-tom that
stirred their ancestor* centuries ago.
And in these days, when humanity
still is trembjlng from the shock of
the great world war, the beaters of
the tom-tom*—soap-box orators and .
parlor socialist*—are making hay
while the sun is shining. An orgy of
criminally absurd lawmaking in our
Congress and state legislatures has.
put so many ‘thou shall not*' on our
statute bonks that every class of our
citlxens. having some distinct griev
ance. has become resentful and Intol
erant of legal restrictions that seem
inconsistent with the spirit of true
j liberty. Hundreds of thousands of
predatory alien*, flocking annually to
I our shores, have had citizenship
1 granted to them before they were
j ripe for it and now virtually domi-I
nate the government of our cities. All '
| conditions have been favorable for a 1
i formidable attack on our govern
mental . fabric, and so we have the
brotherhood—and Seafalcon."
"If the movement were not so man- i
ifestly alien In its nature, one might 1
be Inclined- to view It as revolution- j
( ary." Storrow muttered,
j “Call It what you will—a revolu- I
tlon or an alien invasion—the menace j
to our Institutions Is more serious j
than any we ever had to face before.”
Rennison went on. “The French revo- j
lution cleared the way for a conqueror I
of France—Napoleon, without a drop of j
French blood in his veins. It was !
Napoleon-who coined the phrase 'lm- !
agination rules the world.’ It is to
this imagination Seafalcon is appeal
ing so successfully as be beats his
tom-tom.’’
, “Why compare such a man with
Napoleon?" Storrow protested. "Na
poleon was dominated by imperial !
ambition. . This man. as you have j
said, must be regarded as a modem j
buccaneer. Whenever hi* submarine* j
halt a shin. It and its passengers are |
searched before destruction is es- i
fected. Money and jewelry, food and,[
oil are all the marauders take from j
each doomed vessel, and the aMps of I
all ration* are subjected to attack. ,
Do you share the belief that Sea- i
falcon is an American?"
“It Is known that Ms accent is ;
ratbed more American than English,” |
Rennison answered shortly.
"But how did he get possession of !
such a fleet of submarines?" Storrow
asked. }
"We do not know that he ha* mors (
than three or four." said Bennlspn. j
“It is probable that theee formerly 1
belonged to the German navy and
were secreted on one or more unfre- |
quented coasts at the close of the 1
war. In the brotherhood rank* there j
doubtless are scores of men who
have had service as submarine sail
ors or mechanics. These probably .
have effected their complete repair J
and are engaged In their operation.”
"But where are their bases?"
"There are numerous islands, used
by the freebooters in the old days and
well out of the track*bf vessels now.
that would serve the purport*. Some
of these are in the tropics, others are
washed’by arctic waters."
“Do you think the situation on land,
so far as the activities of the broth- j
erhood are concerned, will ever be- j
come as serious a*-it -is now on the
sea?"
"Well, we know that every’ city in j
the United States is filled with the j
soles of Seafalcon. All classes of so
ciety are so affected that It has be
come difficult to distinguish between
friends and foes."
"But even though London Is as dis
turbed as Washington and New York
over the thing, I can’t quite make
out, Ren, why our government is
sending you there.” Storrow grumbled.
“What would I, a military attache,
have to do with the situation?” Ren
nison asked. “The Army Isn’t In It—
yet—you know.’’
“What is the use of trying to de
ceive me, Ren 7“ Storrow demanded.
Irritably. “Surely, by this time you’
"must have suspected that I know why
It was the War Department refused
to allow you to go to tho front dur
ing the war."
- Scarcely were the words spoken
when the idler flushed violently. In
stinct told him he had said too much,
and he glanced anxiously at his com
panion. Ho saw that over the well
molded. dark-complexioned face on
the other side of the table there had
come a change. There had been a
quick flush of resentment, but the
feature# now were inscrutable. The
gray eyes that, were regarding him
were no longer distinguished by the
penetrating quality of their gaze—a
gaze that now was suggestive of
dreaminess.
"What was the reason. Storrow?"
Rennison asked quietly.
“A good one. Ren," the Idler re
plied defiantly after a brief period of
uncomfortable hesitation. "It was be
cause the department knew that if
you went into the tranches It would 1
not find in the United States Army a
man who was capable of taking your
place outside of them.”
.“My place has been .that of an aide
to the chief of •taff." Rennison an
swered coldly. "My successor ha*
been found and has been appointed.”
“The office, so far as you were con- I
cefned. wa* purely nominal, as that I
of military attache in London will I
be," Storrow retorted. "Your real
office is one, you will carry with you !
wherever you may go, Ren. Young i
as you are and humbls as your mill
tary rank may be. you are tho super
man of the bureau of military intelli
gence—the Peer of every government
investigator in the United State* If
you are being eent to London, it is
because some troll hoe been found
there that leads to the haunts of Sea
fsloon—-tf. you are going to
London at oil. There are times when
w Ah electric bai l rang sharply In the
hall. Rennison rose quickly.
. "Probably the expressman for my
trunks." be muttered, and hurried to
tn© aoor* ,
(Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) ’ "
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