Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-02-10

don's face when he called the next morning
told me that he had already received some
lntimation OF Taras' danger.
..NIasleinoiselle," said he almost as soon
as Mere Lucas had closed the door on us,
do you think YOU could understand me II
spoke In English,"
~ dare say can," replied.
'You can answer in French, you know,
which is lot easier to understand than to
speak. II you can't follow me, we'll give
1t mp and try the other way. But the fact
Is have something of u delicate nature to
tell you, and I'm so confoundedly bad at
French that It's doubtful il could explain
It just as want to, you know. In that Ian
Ruage."
| agreed to this proposal. and he, after
pulling his beard in silent meditation for
minute said with an uneasy laugh:
40 tell you the truth, madeTnoiselle,
now that toe the line 30 to speak. find
It's not such an easy matter to tell you in
English ~ | thought it would be. Well.
the long and short of it is. heard some
thing last night which has made me feel
deuctdly anxious and uncomfortable, and
though | should be awfully sorry to alarm
you think you ought to be made acquaint
ed with the facts OF the case. Tint is Barry
Kavanaghs opinion also. and he's man of
the world. you know. and deuced long
headed fellow"
"If it concerns our friend Taras." said
In low voice. II beg you not to hesitate
In telling me anything you have heard. :"
ut does concern him." he replied, drop
ping his voice also. Perhaps you know
that he is in danger of being seized by the
secret police Of Russia"
II have every reason to know It, Two
attempts have already been made to take
him away"
"Kavanagh told me that, and also that
In each case the attempt was knocked ON
the head, so to speak, by you Do you think
Taras ought to be warnedt"
what would that dor IT, you told Taras
that Rudersdorf was waiting out there on
the bridge to shoot him, Taras, without
second thought, would go out on the bridge
to face him"
Gordon nodded assent
~ think that 8 what should do myself.
he said.
"But that is not what we want Taras To
do"
mo, we want to keep him out OF danger
as much as possible; but. as kavanagh
pointed out, anything that we can do must
be done without his knowledge.
"All that we can do liz to he oil the alert
for anything that occurs. can ouiy watch
AZ have watched before"
"You will let me know II you see any
thing, won't your III drop In pretty IRE
quently. and should you want help at any
time when Pm not in the works oI AT the
office you will find me at my digHingS AT
the Adelphi terrace. shall look in every
night until ] feel sure that | may not be
wanted"
Just then we heard Taras coming down
the passage. He entered the room before
Gordon could beat u retreat Or even assume
the natural attitude OF u visitor a worse
actor never existed than this honest. sim
pie fellow, nor one less capable OF conceal
ing any thing, and his clumsy efforts To ap
pear uBconstrained and easy gave him such
an air of guilty embarrassment that any
one less acquainted with his an,iabie char
acter than Taras would have certainly s,ls
pected him Of some wrongdoing An lr
repressible smile broke over laras' face as he
shook hands with his friend and congratu
lated him on looking so rosy and well. IL
was "a trying time for poor Gordon, bui
fear OF the ordeal did not deter him from
keeping his word. Every day Ee called in
and always at an hour when Taras was
working in his atelier.
Mere Lucas was delighted. She saw In
these visits the realization OF her hopes and
gave me TO understand by many encotrag
ing winks and sly observations that she
knew perfectly well Gordon came only To
make love to me.
Il seemed to me that Taras put the same
construction ON these visits and the awk
ward behavior OF Gordon. He gave me no
verbal hint OF his belief. drew my con
illusions rather from his reserve on the sub
ject. Always he spoke of Gordon with
warm affection, and yet | fancied with IA
certain tinge of pain which was then quite
at "A loss to account for