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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ AUGUST 27, 1920.
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erlug ovui it now?’
“Well, Pui—” Trls Ford didn’t fia
tsh. His expression was enough.
"1 know—you think I ought to be
fighting mad at the crooks that put
me aboard that bout drugged,” said
Win. "One way 1 am—another I’m
not. If I hadn't been sent off on the
Colonia 1 shouldn't have met Imogen
I collat'd."
Tris Ford wuggeil his head from
side to side, looking the while like a
fair reproduction of Resignation. He
4 asked the king of second basemen If
I he had any objection to further activi¬
ties on the manager’s part ttHimd the
t ’ hief crook in prison. Win Slime had
I none, provided lie was not drugged
into It until he had made his “play
for the girl." But when Tris Ford
jsought Information about Jerrold
Mansel, there was a protest.
“See here, Tris,” argued Win, “what
Mansel did to roe-suppressing n.v
jyon messages and faking a wireless from
to the eaptain-wns rotten bad, l
'know. But let me iell you something:
at the same time he was protecting
Miss Leonard!”
“How?"
"The captain of the Colonia was
getting messages asking him If a per¬
son answering her description was
aboard the boat—she traveled under
the name of Riley, remember 1 told
you. Same time she was .getting
wireless messages from some friend
ashore warning her. As l understand
It. her wirelesses were In code— but
she didn’t have the right code with
tier.; so couldn’t read 'em, and had to
ask for translations 111 plain English.
Of course then the wireless operator
spotted her. But Jerrold Mansel didn’t
give her away to a soul on the ship—
not even to the captain I
“What’s more—lie didn't take ad¬
vantage of his inside information; he
didn’t try to—to work on tier sympa¬
thies because he was shielding her.
There’s some good in that chap yet.”
Tris Ford gave assurances of fair
dealing In regard to the wireless op¬
erator— for Miss Leonard's sake! Ab¬
ruptly he asked ahum the young lady:
where she was. He was told that Imo¬
gen Leonard was detained In the best
hotel at Genoa, which was surrounded
l,y guards, anil that Win Sliute
wouldn't have left tier there alone if
stie hadn't insisted that he take her
mother to Rome to see the American
ambassador. This mission had made
it possible for Win to.obey the cable¬
gram diicctlng him not to leave the
■ship until arrival at Naples.
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The ninhnssadnr of the United
States of America accredited to Italy
welcomed Trls Ford with a broad, see
wlint-n big boy-ant-I grin. Ford could
guess—'mas the symbol of accom¬
plishment.
“Job's done!’ exclaimed John BIs
"hier "Jorold Mansel has confessed
and Incriminated that scoundrel Sting¬
er ! Seems it took a lot of work and
pull to get Mansel reinstated as an
operator and assigned to the Colonia.
The wireless company had kept tabs
on him—knew lie was .drinking and
slipping down grade—and they weren’t
keen to have him hack at the key
{.lake Stipger had to give that part lie of
(the plot his personal attention,
j.tenlt directly with Mansel. So you'll
|get your man higher up, all right.”
"Will Mansel testify against Jake
j-hlnger?" asked Ford joyously.
“No doubt of It—that Is, If you
j'Homlse hint Immunity.”
“We’ll do more than that.” said
■Ford. "I've been thinking of what
{Mansel did—saving the Regent’s pas¬
sengers—and can tell him that after
lie's helped us out by testifying he
van come to me and I’ll see that he
gets a fresh start.”
"I call that mighty liberal of you,
said tiie ambassador.
Trls Ford shook his head.
Mansel will be doing a great thing for
baseball—-helping to soak the gam
filers—-sn he deserves consideration.
Besides, there must he plenty of good
In a real hero like him."
“OtiL'Iit to be, and bet there Is.”
The ambassador pulled out Ills watch,
caught the time and got quickly to
his feet. “If you’ll excuse me,'’ he
said. ‘I’ll complete the job with the
British ambassador so’s we both can
get hack to Rome. Won’t I see you
there?"
"Sure.” answered Tris Ford, "we
play a game of hall there before long
—our club and the new world’s cham¬
pions."
“Of course! I hadn’t forgotten that
hij: event. Keep this under your j
shirt—Pve promised the president to
} Iget the king to see the game!”
j I 'Phe "Fine!” ambassador gripped Tris Ford :
hv (he hand preparatory to going. !
“One minute, please, begged Ford. |
John Risraer bobbed his head. !
“Fumy thing but Mr. Sliute has j
*nf it awful had—got stuck on a girl! |
A hy”—Trls Ford leaned toward the |
inhnssador—“she’s made him forget i
, 1 ! about being kidnaped—forget all
ell- ,
.bout baseball I This was the j
uax. baseball I The ambassador !
Forget i
0 orddn't believe it.
“Yes. sir. Why—he hasn’t asked m* |
la thing about the world series yet,
a nd I haven't had a chance to tell
him about the round-the-world trip Of
club and the world’s champions. n
our
“You don't tell me! He has got It
had. Hope she's Hie right girl.”
“Shiite swears she is—all right In
every department. 'She's what I want
to talk to you about if you'll give me
a minute more.”
Ttie ambassador was obviously sur¬
prised. Trls Ford added
H can help,”
I quickly. "Von see. she's no American
i girl, nnd she’s In trouble- In trouble
| over here."
“Over here? Where?" For the first
time the unilmssndnr spoke slmrply.
I “Genoa."
"She's not Imogen Leonard?"
Hint's her name— Imogen Leonard.
! And Win Shiite says she's a mighty
i ! fine girl."
I "I'll he d---d !” exploded Ills cxcel
I lpn '- v .lohu Blsiner. Then, after a
i I* 11 ' 0 ' 1 devoted to deep thought:
"Does the White House know any¬
thing of this—know your man Shiite’s
interested In this particular young
woman?"
“Not as I know.” answered Ford.
“Didn’t know it myself till- less’nn an
hour ago. But 1 say—why did -you
ask ?"
It was the horn diplomat, Tristram
Onrlingfnrd. who put the question.
It was the ambassador cx-ofHclo
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' “ Beon,,8e Washington knows -Hmt
Imotroii- Leonard Is under surveillance
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stiffly, the manager of the Giant-kill¬
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off. ltis gait at least was not accord¬
ing to the cations of diplomatic usage.
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Liberally and Figuratively Tris Ford
Threw Up His Hands When He Got
Back to Win Shute's Room.
threw up Ins hands when he got back
to WUi Shute’s room.
The president of the United States
had been inducted Into office with one
dominating ambition, namely, to place
a trust magnate behind (he bars.
While engaged in popularizing Winself
with the electorate he had attacked
the giant combinations, and especially
lambasted the heads of Hie trusts.
Guilt, he Insisted, was personal,
therefore nothing short of a mag¬
nate’s confinement in ti penal institu¬
tion would “make the punishment fit
the crime.”
But when it came actually to pick
tug the one trust—the one magnate
upon whom the presidential wrath was
to descend—It was far from an easy
assignment. The ramifications of big
business were multifarious, and to
turn in one direction was to trend on
some important body’s money-crusted
corns in another. Ultimately, the
president’s own predilections Influ¬
enced him—unconsciously, of course.
As a boy he had been afraid of fire¬
arms of every variety. Hunting held
for him no lure. Even when he be¬
came first citizen the presidential s«
lute of twenty-one guns made him
jump. He much preferred “Hall to
ttie Chief” capably rendered by some
iug brass and jingling cymbal. No.
the president wasn’t a sportsman. He
was an advocate of peace. Thus, un¬
wittingly swayed by his personal Idas,
the head of the nation selected the
president of the powder trust for the
role of horrible example.
J. Pierce Lament, president of the
Pierce Powder company, was the mag
nate marked for sacrifice. And the
attorney general, aided and abetted by
tfie secret service, got busy, very busy.
This was some time before Win Slittie
was shanghaied, before Imogen Leon¬
ard sailed for Alexandria, via Genoa,
under the name of Miss Riley—as di¬
rected by her employer, who explained
that her confidential relations with
him, big (jgure In the business world.
wou j ( j subject her to the importunities
of interviewers.
Everything was done with unwonted
secrecy, considering (hat It was a gov
ernment undertaking, and the man
hunt was progressing most favorably
, v | IPIli one (j a y j ,| ie Washington eor
respondent of the New York Standard
ca j| ef j a t the White House and re
quested an interview with the presi
dent. The Standard was an inde
pendent paper which leaned toward
the president’s party; its support the
executive fervently desired for his ad
ministrative and legislative program,
The Standard was a great .newspaper.
therefore not untinged with “yellow. p i
■
The details of that interview will
never he known. But It subsequently
leaked out that the president, inter in
the day, made the big mistake- of his
term in attempting to go over the cor¬
respondent’s head by appealing direct¬
ly to the editor. In a word, the presi¬
dent tried to suppress news! Result
—“pitiless publicity.” (The phrase Is
quoted because it was the president's
own, uttered before election and
turned on him when he ran counter^o
It.) In twenty-four hours the coun¬
try rockd with Indignation
An American girl, sole support of n
widowed mother, while enjoying Iter
first renI vacation In years—n trip to
_ Europe ... had been torn from . her
par
ent by Italian soldiers, thrown Into
prison, and there given the "third de¬
gree." Poor, persecuted Imogen Leon¬
ard! 1
Such was the “(lush," In newspaper
parlance, that traveled over free.
America. In more detail:
Miss Leonard was stenographer and
private secretary to one of the officers
of the Pierce Powder company. This
concern, sometimes called the Pow¬
der trust, because of its command of
the Industry, had manufactured pow¬
der for (he Italian government under
n secret formula furnished by Italy— a
powder peculiarly adapted for trans¬
portation and for use in the tropics.
The manufacturing was done by
agreement that powder so made was
not to lie sold to any other country
than Italy, excepting, of course, the
United States.
In the war with Turkey over Tripoli,
Italy found that the Turks were using
Identically the same powder! And
while the Turkish supply could not
be* directly traced to the Pierce com¬
pany, the Italian government was cou
vineeiMn Its monnrchlnl mind that the
American Powder trust had violated
its agreement.
If Italy coy Id prove this, there was
a large monetary forfeiture provided
in the original agreement—something
that could he enforced either through
diplomatic channels or through The
Hague. All that Italy needed was the
proof. /
Imogen Leonard could furnish the
proof! Because of her confidential re
lations with the head of the trust,
Italy believed there was no doubt
about it. This was why she had been
forcibly taken from the Colonia when
the steamship called at Genoa, and
placed under surveillance.
Regardless of party affiliations the
press, the country, hurled at the White
llousp the verdict—outrage!
The president was not without his
excuses. Proof of .7. Pierce Lament's
guilt under the criminal section of the
Sherman law lay in a secret memo¬
randum whereby the restraint of the
powder trade was maintained. This
memorandum had been dictated by
Lament to Ids stenographer, Imogen
Leonard, and by her transcribed and
mailed unsigned to the smaller, fear
ridden manufacturers <>f powder.
Wherefore Miss Leonard could give
testimony that would convict J. Pierce
Lament—land n trust magnate behind
the bars.
Unfortunately, Miss Leonard's vaca¬
tion, comprehending a sett trip at the
expense of her employers, was so
timed—owing to a leak in the United
States attorney’s office—that she was
beyond the three-mile limit before the
secret service knew it. Nothing re¬
mained. therefore, but to eugage the
oo operation of some foreign power In
the enterprise of detaining the vitally
Important witness and effecting her
return home—to flie witness-box.
Italy’s fight with the Powder trust
dovetailed into^ flits scheme. Miss
Leonard was to be detained by the
Italian authorities and pumped, but
with the American ambassador stand¬
IIL! by. ready to offer a refuge—and
safe return home!
Un the part of the administration at
Washington it was Machiavellian, on
Italy's part, the execution of Amer¬
ica's “third degree." At best it
wouldn’t look well In print—at worst
it would defeat the president’s party
at the next election. Wisely, the
White House kept silent. But the
tmerienn ambassador' to Duly he
stirred himself.
Less Chau twelve hours after the
storm broke In the United States
Imogen Leonard, under the courteous
■srort of his excellency John Blsiner
started for Rome to rejoin her mother.
Out of the horde of Americans who
have invaded Europe, -three are re
niemhered: General Grant. Colonel
Roosevelt and Pitcher Larkin. Each
made his Impress, lint of these impres¬
sionists Barney Larkin contributed by
■tar the most color, lie said when he
:mt hack to the Giant-killers’ hall park
that he might forget his trip abroad.
Out lie didn’t think Europe would I
Naples, where the globe-running
baseball players landed, was the one
piacfc where Barney devoted himself
strictly and whoie-heartedl.v to sight¬
seeing. Accompanied by Ernest Stead¬
man, his guide, custodian, and friend,
he fared forth, with the best intentions
to behold every treasure that the city
and its environs advertised. But he
was first conducted to the Neapolitan
aquarium—and never left It. Here
"Damon and Piscatorius” were enrap¬
tured with the curious marine won¬
ders of the Mediterranean—cuttle fish,
crested blubbers. Impossible-looking
crabs, crayfish, and pipefish, the elec¬
tric rays, which Barney, after experi¬
encing a shock, pronounced, “live
wires, all right!”
Above all, the eccentric twlrler was
delighted with the octopus! At home
Barney had seen pictures of it in the
papers, usually labeled “Standard oil."
or “Sugar," or "Steel.” but in a for¬
eign land he saw It In the original—
mother of the trusts I He had to be
dragged away to the train.
At Rome he announced that he was
tired of “lookin’ round." But some
one told him of the Catacombs—cel
lars where the early Christians were
laid on the shelf. He apparently be¬
came fascinated with ttie subter¬
ranean phenomenon, and devoured all
of the literature lie could find on the
subject. The reason he gave for visit¬
ing the Pantheon was that wenty
eight wagon loads of the best bones *»
had been carried there from the G’attt
combs and planted beneath the altar.
When he made his excursion to the
Roman Catacombs bo took Ernest
, su , a dmaii with him. Apparently he
wandered through the galleries ab
sorbed In what lie saw. But there
; wus mallce aforethought In his wau
derings. He succeeded In losing his
keeper!
Rome remembers to this day what
ensued. The alcoholic eruption .ended
shortly after midnight. Barney Lut\
kin, a dirty sweater draped togpwlse
about his powerful shoulders, his head
bare save for a wreath filched from
the tomb of Raphael, paraded tip and
down the middle of the Piazzi di Spag
na, pausing only to cool his brow In
Bernini's nautical fountain, and pro¬
claimed himself Caesar! At Ids heels
shuffled the riffraff, tagrag. and hob
tall of modern Home shouting: "Eviv*
vu l’Amer-i-ca-no I" It required six
Roman policemen, re-enforced by a
pair of Carabinieri, to complete his
arrest. The next day he pitched one
of the most effective games of Ids
careless career.
This game was staged in the Villa
Borghese, where Rome annually en¬
gages in the battle of flowers. It
was a rare occasion, honored by the
king of Italy and Ills suite, all In bril¬
liant uniform—especially the repre- !
sentatlve of the cavalry arm who wore
a long cape of Alice blue. The diplo¬
matic corps contributed quantities of
gold lace to render the spectacle even
more splendid. It really transcended
the posters with which the late
Phlneas Barnuni was wont to com¬
memorate the performances of Ids cir¬
cus before “the crowned heads of Eu¬
rope." Barney Larkin said it beat
pitching on ladies' day with the presi¬
dent of the United States looking on
—“heat it ail hollow.
Tris Ford was In the king’s loge, \
seated next to Victor Emanuel III, to
explain the game to Ids majesty. In
the adjoining box was the American
ambassador. Ills excellency John Bis
tner had with him Mrs. Leonard and
her daughter, Imogen Leonard. He
had Insisted that (hey he his guests,
and as James Win ton Shute offered
no objection—Indeed, offered no con¬
flicting Invitation—the ladies had ac¬
cepted. j
Baseball history repeats itself. The !
Giant-killers went to hat in the last
half of the ninth inning with the score ,
2 to 1 against them. On the first ball i
pitched, Ryan singled—nnd the king j
nodded approvingly at Trls Ford, his who j
was trying to sit unmoved in chair, j
The Giant-killers then fooled their op- j '
ponents—rated ar the world’s oham
pious—who figured that Olds, the next i
man up. would hunt. Instead of that,
the signal ami Ryan was given sprinted for the for hit second and j
run, j
base at the same time Olds was j
swinging at a fast ball. Expecting a
hunt, the first baseman was almost
toppled over by the “grass cutter” and
juggled It long enough to let the bat¬
ter get to first and Ryan to second.
A moment Inter the pair pulled off
the double steal. There was a man on
'bird, a man on second, and nobody
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