The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-05

"Ah, by the way, Trcoupis, you will dine
with meT she lays the hand upon the belrope
IF you like"
'Mourarief will be my only guest
Break bread with himl'
''Why notl The Greek will break bread with
me and faith with me, both in one half hour
she laughs
"Oh, FiIia-well, will stop; he is traitor
and, | say" catching at her as she goes, Il mean
to make end of him; do you heari am pre-
pared in every way"
'Are you9 So am l." Fila signs.
These three people dined together with civil
speeches and light laughter. Madame kaitzln
was about to withdraw, leaving the two men to
the discussion of their wine when both sprang
to open the door for her to pass into the adjoin-
ing room. Both laid hand upon the door
handle; neither saw fit to remove in favor of the
other; Liofs was there first. He looked up
amazed into Tricoupis's face.
ALLOW me- sir"
mo, sir; will not"
will Madame Kalitzin kindly say which of
us shall serve herP'
II will serve her, sir now and always! Tri-
coupis laughs, impudently.
Il think not This lady is my promised wife,
Monsieur Tricoupis."
"'Tis false"
"The presence of Madame Kalitzin, SIR is the
excuse for my further silence"
'False!" hurries 5he Greek. ''She is mine!
mine! She is, too, not the wife or the widow OF
the General Kalitzin! she is what you traitor
cassover aristocrat that you are, call In your
new vernacular. a 'Nihilist-Ah, bah! your
promised wife!-To win from you your own con-
fessIon of infdelity to the cause" Liof
starts-"she has made so great dupe of you
while she threw the sweet meshes of love over
your miserable eyes. She sent also to Geneva,
twice a week. the secrets you confded to her
keeping. tell you. sir, this woman is mine,
and she is likewse-Filia Tzof-the rankest rad
ical that ever. breathed. For Russia she pants
to bleed; for the punishment of such as you she
would risk life itself Well, there she s-ask
her."
'Ask her!" murmurs the other in tones Of hor-
ror-"I love her, sir and would not dishonor
the woman who has pledged me her troth by
doubling her. l may be what you say | am
what you have said of her"-throwing his arm
about her grandly-'is all lie"
Fila, speak," Kisses the Greek between his
teeth
Fila covers. shaking, closer in the arms of
the man she loves.
Speak shrieks Tricoups.
II love Liof Mourarief,e whispers Fila.
ooh, do you-do you-do you?" reiterates Tri-
coupis, rushing out of the drawing room and the
house.
What shall say to thee?" murmurs the woman
in her agony.
''Thou hast said enough to me, my beloved.
when thou hast said to me L love thee, in the
presence of another. l will leave thee now-and
tomorrow
"Ah, tomorrow, we'll, yes, tomorrow in the
evening"
Fila Tzof lies down upon the floor; the can
dies one by one sputter back into the darkness.
When the dawn comes, the early dawn of the
English summer, it peeps in upon her lying there
still.
'Oh. Godl" cries she to the sunshine "why
does Thy day smile upon me; the most miserable
OF Thy creatures"
Tricoupis returned in the forenoon. Fila
rushed to meet him and threw herself into his
arms Stunned, he starts from her.
"Oh, WE'LL" she says, ''if you do not care
about it"
''But Fila, last night"
last night-poor innocent one-and you,
who aspire to diplomacy, can not detect the
false coin, even when it rings SO loudly in your
had almost ended all things for US with your
abominable jealousy, last night. You forced me
into very embarrassing position"
III You do not mean?-Filia!"
'But do-well-you think 1, woman, am
as clumsy as you man. No, no."
''And your words to him were the words of
dissimulationW cries the Greek, aghast.
Discrimination" echoes she.
'And after2"
''The packet-the acid-you left them here in
your passion--I have them"
"When"
"To-night.'
s'I?" questions the Greek hesitatngy
''Youl Oh, mol think this mission was-is--
NINE"
You alone?"
Exactly"
'You will meet me, where's"
''Wait for me in cab, prepared for any
everythine-at this side of Battersea bridge"
''Whena"
Sat o'clock"
'By the time you reach me the acid will have
eaten it's way through and"
Zone can hear the explosion there with ease
as it occurs here, eh2"
Precisely, Fila you are an extraordinary
girl" He leaves her after short time
Liof Mourarief came that evening at about
o'clock to the house of Madame Kaltzin.
She greeted him with a smile of the NEST
seraphic sweetness, and was to him In her man
ner and words the benediction that his soul had
ever craved.
At half after Constantine Tricouris was in
deed already at his post, watch in hand, with
strained eyes and ears. and listening for the one
whom he awaited presently.
Before the tme-twenty minutes before it-a
sharp shock shook the place: the horse before the
cab sprang into the air. the cabman, terrified,
turned his animal around.
Tricoupis pushed up the lid, and in a harsh
voice exclaimed:
''Drive me at once to the Bessie" ~
deus: No. 19-like the wind; you sha.. /
e6!n
What met him there9
A shattered building vast crowd of horror
stricken persons; in the midst of the ruins two
Oedu UoolcS-r liza IAOl dDu l1loI MOurarleI-
and in the debris days after-the little packet.
Tricoupis returned to Geneva.
Before him, however, had arrived swifter
messenger-by mail-the last dispatch written
by Madame Kaltzin. 1t ran thus:
''Mourarief, you know, is traitor-I also-I
love him. Tonight we shall expiate our peridy to-
gether. Perhaps you can say of that 1 did love
my country well enough to die voluntarily when
found that could no longer serve her cause.
LONDON, % july FILA TzoF"
The Watering-Place Young Man.