Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1891-12-19

not that I have snv doubts about your
husbands guilt, but as matter of ac-
commodation 10 you. / am very busy
now, but please call tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock, and Ill see what can be
done"
The grimaces and leers with which these
words were accompanied left no doubt in
the mind of his visitor as TO his real in-
teRtions, but she managed To conceal her
disgust and promised to call at the APP
pointed hour As for Suboff, he was In
an ecstatic frame of mind The manifest
absurdity III a man with his cast OF coun-
tenance creating favorable impression
on anybody, excepting perhaps himself,
never occurred to him.
An hour before the appointed time
Subon was arranging his toilet before the
glass. lie festooned hts dome of thought
with wisp OF about eleven lonesome
hairs that still fingered around the base
OF his bald head. To himself he appeared
to he excruciattng lovely. A carriage
stopped before the door. He pranced to
the window and gazed out, looking, as
Mrs. Sabinaky afterward told friend, for
all the world like an immense turkey gob-
bier. He opened the door aud gallantly
kissed her diminutiye hand.
I'VE are quite alone" he said
Suppose somebody were 10 comes My
reputation would be ruinedri exclaimed
the fair visitor.
There Is not the slightest danger; and
n there was here Is closet In which you
could hide"
why, that closet is not big enough.
How could get In there with my dressi''
1T is much larger than You suppose.
am quite large, and il can accommodate
me-
II don't believe IT," replied the visitor
incrednlousiy.
10 relieve her fears Suboff went into
the closet and partially closed the door.
The next moment the door was pushed q
and locked from the outside.
Suboff was very much crowded In thai
closet, almost as much, perhaps, as IL hs
lived in Harlem HAT. HeIthought his Wis
itor was playing a practical joke on hin
and that he would be released in q few
minutes, but this delusion was dispellet
by a firm female voice whispering through
the keyhole:
"Don't you try to get ont, you old
scoundrel, or I'll stab you to the heart. :
There was something in the tone Of tn,
voice that convinced him the speaker
meant business
Col Sabinsky's wife tripped to the table
and on one OF the official blanks, alread,
signed by the wretched Suboff, she wrote
''Release Immediately Col. Sabinsky.'
Snboff heard a silvery voice say:
Farewell, my dear Suboff, but dom
excite yourself IL anybody calls remem
ber that you are not in You have cheel
enough To carry you through anything ex
cept this door. Please shut this doc
after you. Ia ta.n
When Suboff realized the peril OF hi
situation he made frantic efforts TO burs
open the door. but il resisted all his ef
forts, although he swore like a man wh'
was trying to write with a stylographi
pen. He made almost as much noise a
woman's rights convention and will
just about the same result. He was gen
orally very successful in attracting atten
tion, but on this occasion he failed igno
miniously He was almost speeches
when he was released, and he had falle
of like ton of coal ON the scales of
dealer.
lie got ont, but the story also got oui
and he was the subject Of inextinguishabl
ridicule wherever he went. Hours befor
Suboff got out of that closet Col. Sabir
sky and his wife crossed the frontier
They reached Paris in safety, and there
was that the latter told the story TO th
writer, who was member Of the Germa
! legation. from the Germa
! by Alex. NJ. Sweet for The New Yor
Mercury.