The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-06-18
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| had taken my place il the express
night train from Paris to MarseilcS, ou
my route 10 Algeria and Morocco There
vas nothing remarkable in my fellow trav-
elcrs, nor III their conyersation. until We
arrived at the third or fourth station,
where we received an addition to our party
in the person OF 4 passenger as remarkable
f)r the neatness of his equipment as the
perfectly Sent!emanly style of his general
appearance. Everything about HIM ex-
hibtsI the state oi /. man OF the upper
ten thousand. who had pIeuty of money at
his command, and Was accustomed to the
bes. society.
Up 70 the present time, rs the convcr
sation Of nay fellow travellers had consisted
IF nothing more interesting to stranger
than the prospect Of the harvest and the
vintage, had d9zcd in the corner Of the
carriage. quietly smoking my cisar.
All. monsieur, exclaimed our new
voyager, = what splendid cigar that i,
you are smoking. / knew it to be a lIa-
vana, by the aroma, the moment entered
the carriage. You cannot get such. :,
thing now in France, at any price, unle>s
you import them yourself, and then you
must get a special order 10 do 80 from the
government. Nevertheless. fine as yours
undoubtedly are, [ think mine equally
good" said he, handing me at III. same
tine his cigar case 10 he! !p my eli.
This lci to Il most animated converse
TO, .nl if was struck by the d>tiuguc
appearance Of the stranger 1t first, halt ain
hours conversation showed me that nc so,
: man al rare ability.
Like myself, lie Was also great travel
er he had been all oyer Europe aud :.
great part Of Asia aud Northern Airca,
spoke several OF the languages Of Europe
with great fluency, as well a little Rus
sian aud Turkish while comparing notes,
I found that he was - well acquainted
with the manners and customs OF The va
rious countries he had visited aa myself
very unusual thing in i'reuchmen, who
have nothing of the passion OF the En-
gish for travelling, and rarely speak any
language sufficient J vel to make them
selves understood
During the whole night We amused our-
selves with details OF our adventures, and
anecdotes of the strange characters We had
met with during our trave.S took refre n
meuts together at different Bullets along
! the line; treated ca ca other in the same
friendly confdinS nrnuer as if We had
known each other tor years.
Nothing occurred to interrupt our har-
mony until arrived at Marseiiles, where
having secured place in the s.eame,
bound for Alsiers, we sat dJyn to a COM
Portable breakfast at our hotel | had
however, scarcely taken the first mouthiu
when the waiter entered telling me there
was gentleman waiting to see me in al
adjoimn room. A glance was sufficient
to tell me that the person who had sent
for me was an agent Of the police
A" Monsieur est Anclais 2" said he rath
er abruptly, as | entered.
"Qui, monsieur"
Z" thought so. You have come direc
from Paris, and are on your way to AL
gers; you took some refreshments al
Lyons with your companion of tho rail
way carringe"
Most accurately described I repli
ed.
Did you ever meet with the gentle
man before? ?"
" Never"
"Of course. then, you know nothing o
his history or antecedents."
Absolutely nothing"
g No doubt you find in him n very pleas
and companion
II never met with one more agreeabl
+, -or gcntlemanly."
So much the worse for those he sc
lccts as his victims. Just look aud see i
you have lost anything"
i No; here is my mooey all right in m
t pocket book, and there are my despatche
, IA 'he breast pocket Of my coat"
Marvellous.--most marvellous !" erie
5 ~ interrogation. You will no doubt b
, "a cunded when tel! you you have mad
: tie acquaintance Of one Of the most as