Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-28
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alone. and they have not They laid a trap
for me. and walked into it with the sim
plicity of a woman, mainly, | think, be
cause the agent employed to take me rep
resented himself to be an ex-convict and
looked the character so perfectly that
never suspected him of being something
worse. Usually, you know, the police
agent looks impeccable They got me down
in a cellar, bound hand and foot and gagged
Icould not get my hands free, but worked
the cord off my feet and ate through my
gag. There was pipe in the cellar, ana
through that / communicated with the girl
whose voice | heard overhead AT the risk
of her life she contrived to get herself into
the cellar and me out of it. vessel-from
which | had been led TO believe that three
refugees were to be rescued-lay in the pool
waiting for me, and most likely was 10
have been carried aboard and shipped off to
St. Petersburg the very night that this
brave girl saved me-"
THANK God you escaped Give me your
hand, old man. To think that | might
have found this room empty-that might
never have smoked another pipe with you"
"You can understand now my feeling to-
ward that girl.
by George. it's a heavy debtF' Then 10
reflective tone he added after pause i
see. You propose to raise this girl 10 your
own level"
Higher If may. aim at giving her
new life.
You have set yourself an enormous
task
''You may help me now il you will.
IF will! Why, there's nothing in the
world that would give me greater pleasure
z hs.1 fraoartfu of m
Irishman's friendship"
''If had doubted that. should not have
said word TO you on the subject. felt
that could rely ON your help in case of
need. but would not impose task upon
YOU which beforehand seemed utterly hope
Less
zone moment, old man, !" said llavanagh,
with a laugh. You are not going to hand
that young lady over to me'"
Eyes. You must promise to look after
her if anything happens TO me-"
Good heavens what do you meanp
cried Kavanagh with bated breath.
II mean that you must finish what have
begun if cannot finish it myself | must
make some provision of this kind for the
poor girl What would become of her if
in a few weeks. say, she We're thrown sud
denly upon her own resourcesS Money
alone would make her position only the
more perlous. Without friend to guide
her, she would absolutely be worse off than
if had left her in the Sums.
81 understand that, but what do YOU
mean by the suggestion that something
might happen TO you in few weekss"
~ told you that the police have tried TO
kidnap me.
''And failedn--
''They VIII be more careful next time in
consequence. They intend to take me, and
probably they will. Three months ago the
minister of police received an order from
the car to silence me. He seldom has TO
repeat an order of that kind"
II could not believe it when you told
me-"
at was credible enough TO me. The
warming came from a reliable friend in the
minister's household. The odd thing Is
that | have heard nothing since from him
or other friends who watch the motions of
the police. 1t looks as if he had found a
new agent-one less known to us than the
old hands"
'The villainous looking scoundrel you
mentioned"
'Oh, dear, no. He is only subagent
employed by the agent in chief who him
self takes care to keep well out of the way.
He may be directing the affair from Paris
or Berlin Certainly he would not leopard
RE his own 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 where the motive power Is stu
ated. 1t would never do, in case of expo
sure, for a known emissary OF the Russian
government to be implicated in a conspir-
acy against the freedom of a subject on
British soil"
s'That did not occur to me at the mo
ment. What steps have you taken since
this attemptf"
''Made my will and
surely they will not attempt to assassi-
nate your Kavanagh said quickly, inter
rupting Taras.
"Assassinate mei mol The rascals have
too much respect for your hangman and
their own necks to venture on that. But
the -nuld not hesitate to kill me If they
could Justify themselves by plea of self
defense. That might have happened the
other night il they had not taken me sc
completely by surprise that | could offer
no resistance. Every one of them had his
knife ready, and / should have been cut
down as sure as fate if their cords had not
held me- Taking paae = q villainous wa
terside beerhouse, my death would have
been attributed to drunken brawl, and all
evidence of my identity being removed it i
doubtful if the papers would take any no
tice Of the inquest. 1t was ali calculated
70 a nicety-the agent must have gone oyel
the ground and mapped it out clearly. ]
would give anything to know who he Is"
1T is horrible toalght ia the dark You
never know when TIE blow may fall"
mo, nor who may strike it,. ats the
worst part of the business. IL shakes ones
faith. The man you trust turns out to be
an encmF-your favorite haunt nest of
spies-anything may happen at any mo-
mont. fancy they will give me respite
now. am all right for time"
Is i not possible" said Kavanagh, sis
there not just y slance that the attack was
intended rather su+s warning than anything
else, and that they would have suffered you
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