Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-12-03

sourcesP Money alone would only
make her position more perilous,
Without friend to guide her, she
would abAolately be worse of than IL ]
had left her in the Sums"
at und&rstand that, but what do you
! mean by The suggestion that something
might habpen to you in afew weeks?
81 told 5oh that the police have tried
to kidnap me-"
"And failad"-
"They will be more careful next time
in consequence. They intend to take
me, and probably they will. Three
months ago the minister Of police re-
ceived an order from the Car to silence
me. He seldom has to repeat an order
Of that kind"
81 could not believe it when you told
! me-"
'tIt was credible enough to me-. The
warning came from a reliable friend In
the minister's household. The odd
thing is that l have heard nothing from
him or other friends who watch the mo-
tions Of the police. 1t looks as II he
had found q new agent-one less known
TO US than the old hands"
THE villaiuous looking scoundrel
you mentioned"
"Oh, dear, no. He is only a sub
agent employed by the agent-in-chief,
who himself takes care to keep well out
CT the way. He may be directing the
affair from Paris or Berlin. Certainly
be would not jeopardize his W life or
his position by an attack OF this kind.
The whole business has to be done by
carefully concealed means, like one OF
those clocks which defy ingenuity to
discover whsre the motive power is sit
uated. II would never do, in case OF
exposure, for a known emissarY OF the
Russian government to be implicated in
a conspiracy against the freedom Of a
subject on British SOIL"
That did not occur to me at the mo-
ment. What steps have you taken since
this attempt?"
made my will and"-
surely, they will not attempt to as
sassinate you?" Kavanagh said quickly,
interrupting Taras.
"Assassinate me? Mol The ras-
Gals have TOO much respect for
YOU hangman and their own
necks to venture that. But they
would not hesitate to Kill me II they
could Justify themselves by a plea OF
self defense. That might have hap
pened the other night If they had not
taken me so completely by surprise
that 1 could offer no resistance. Every
one Of them had his knife ready, and
l should have been cut down as
sure as fate il their chords had not held
me. Taking place in a villainous wa
terside beerhouse, my death would have
been attributed to a drunken brawl,
and all evidence of my indemnity being
removed it is doubtful II the papers
would take any notice OF the Inquest.
1t was all calculated to a nicety-the
agent must have gone over the ground
and mapped it out clearly. l would
give anything to know who be IS"
at is horrible to fight in the dark.
You never know when the blow may
fall"
mo, nor who may strike it-that's
the worst part Of the business. 1t
shakes ones faith. The mau you trust
turns out TO be an enemy-yOur favor
tie haunt a nest OF spies-anything may
happen at any moment. l fancy they
will give me a respite now. am all
right for a time"
ais it not possible" said Kavanagh,
'is there not just a chance that the at
tack was intended rather as a warning
than anything else, and that they would
have suffered you TO escape ii the girl
had not forestalled them? If they ST.
fenced you tonight, your works would
still exist. They cannot undo them
and they know il. Sent to Siberia,
you become a martyr, and greater i'm
portance is given to your work. 1t
seems to me that the agents-the minis
ter, the car himself-will be satisfied
with this manifestation OF power and
drop the affair"
"For awhile possibly-probably, In
deed. But when they find that l do not
profit by their warning and will not ac-
cept their conditions Of neutrality-that
1 am neither a child nor an old woman
to be frightened by menaces Of future
punishment from the course directed by
my conScience"-
But, my dear fellow, it is not as If
YOU were still an active enemy"
''If you think I sm nothing but a
passive enemy, you are wrong" said
Taral, with more fire in his voice than
l had yet heard. They have some
thing to gain by my removal. For
months 1 have been meditating a new
attack, and the Gar knows it, for he
has spies in our camp as re- have
friends in his. l have only been wait
ing for the idea, and the idea came to
my mind the first time l saw AurU. l
W her that as we'll, poor girl. Come
up with me and 1 will show the shell l
am preparing to throw at the Cars
feet"
As their chairs moved l slipped
from the door and ran up to my room
to mediate on what 1 had heard and
form a clearer conception Of It's mean
ing.