The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-26

whispered an lnauulDie uirectlOn 10 nlm,
and the window was lowered. No doubt
he was preparing to come down. got
TO my feet, therefore, and felt my way
along the wall until my hand came in
contact with the paling. Itwas covered
in the corner nearest the avenue with a
struggling, but long-limbed creeper OF
some sort which clung partly to the
brick wall OF the house itself and partly
TO the wood. 1t was but poor support,
but by grasping with my hands the top
of it, 1 was about to let myself down
into the next yard, when a sound of
voices whispering together somewhere
near, arrested my attention. little
above me was the last of the row of three
windows in the second story of the
House with Green Blinds. BY getting
my feet upon the top OF the fence and
standing upright, 1 could see that the
glass was lowered slightly from the top.
The blinds inside were closed, SO that
the room beyond was invisible. / had
not a moment 10 decide upon which
course should pursue, for below me
heard Jackson coming along the pas
sage to make his exploration of the
yard. Again clinging lightly TO the
vine, / stretched out my foot until IL
touched the stone coping of the win
dow. A light push of the other against
the paling, little more dependence
upon the creeping plant, which happily
had fastened itself strongly against the
wall, and was standing upright in the
shallow recess of the window. AS Jack
son came out of the shadow in which l
had just been lying, 1 could see him
plainly. He was followed by the taller
of the other two men, and they made the
round of the yard together, coming
even TO stand close under my feet and
looking up at the VINE. Satisfied, APP
parently, that had made MY escape at
this point, they then returned TO the
house.
/ heard them set up the broken door
against it's hinges and go back along
the passage. The drawing-room in
which / had so lately been evidently
connected with the room from which
my window opened, for by putting my
ear close TO the aperture j heard the
two men enter and announce the surety
of my escape. They went on then to
talk rapidly in the language they had
used together, madam's voice ever ris-
ing distinctly and calmly above the eX-
cited tones of the men. Finally, how
| ever, she seemed TO take things into her
| own hands, for her voice alone became
audible, the sentences dropping crisp
| ly from her lips as when she had given
me her commands. All that / could
| gather of their conversation, however,
were the words Tuxedo" followed by
| the name of the man who keeps great
| establishment there. Then, after few
more apparently decisive directions, the
party seemed preparing to separate. L
| could hear nothing more of the girl
who had saved my life. Her voice had
not joined in the colloquy, and j de-
| cided that she had not been present
, while it was in progress, and that prob
| ably she had left the house as quietly as
| she had come. There seemed nothing
| farther to be gained by remaining IN
my present position. 1 let myself back,
therefore, TO my former place upon the
top of the paling and from there Ia
boriously made my way, with what aid
] could find, from one yard TO another
until once more l found myself upon
the street. Weary as l was, L could not
yet allow myself the luxury of rest. AS
l walked rapidly along toward the goal
to which / was bound / forced myself
TO think rapidly over my adventure and
some circumstances with which il was
connected. The chief of them was my
familiarity with madam's wonderful
voice. A popularity in the huklnn
voice was something had trained my
self never to forget. / had no difficulty
in recalling the time and place in which
voice singularly like hers, but pro-
ceeding apparently from a very diff
ferent source, had first attracted my at
tention.
Some Is months before / had been in
England, where / had been so fortunate
as to gain the friendship and esteem of
a man whose pleasure il was, with the
genius which had been given him and
the great skill which he had acquired,
10 urirayel the mysteries and to discov-
er the dangers which too often sur
round our fellow men and women. At
the time of my visit he had been er-
gagged in uncarthing an atrocious plot
which had threatened the existing gov
crnment. The scheme had developed
almost to the point of the perpetration
OF Al great crime, when my friends fore
sight succeeded i'm capturing and bring
ing TO the bar of justice the ringleaders
themselves. With the usual caution
ana conservativeness of the English ma
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with extreme secrecy and fear of public
knowledge. Being kept almost entire
L. out of the newspapers, few people
knew anything of il and the details of
the case went little further than the
court. Through the interest of my
friend. by whose sagacity the plot had
been discovered, Twas privileged to wit
ness the trial. One of the prisoners
had strangely interested me. lie was
singularly prepossessing in APPEAR