Evening star., 1895-06-08

| of as Luigi-he is Italian-among the papers,
| l say, is sort of notice convenng a meet
| ing for this evening to decide to the
| final punishment to be awarded the traitor
| Gerard, in charge of Comrade Pin
! gard The place of meeting is not MEN,
| toned. but it seems more than probable
| that it will be at the Bakunin Club, lot
| five minutes walk from this place. The
| police have all these places under quiet OBJ
| Servation, of course, and that is the club
| at which apparently important anarchist
meetings have been held 1t is the only
| club that has never been raided as yet, and
| it would seem the only one they would feel
| 1t all safe in using for anything important.
Moreover Luigi simply declined 10 open
| his mouth when asked where the meeting
was to be, and said nothing when the
| names of several other places We're Sug-
gested, but suddenly found his tongue at
| the mention of the Bakunin Club and de-
| MED vehemently that the meeting to
| be there-it the only thing he uttered.
| So that it seems pretty safe to assume that
| ii is to be there. Now of course the mat
| ter's very serious. Men have been dis
patched to take charge of the stable very
quietly, and the club is to be taken posses
sion Of at once-also very quietly. Il must
| he done without a moments delay, and
| there is a chance that the only detective
| officers within reach at the moment may he
known by sight, have undertaken to get
| in first Perhaps you'll come? We may
have to take the door with rush
| OF course, l meant to miss nothing If 1
could help it, and said
very well, Tepneu Hewitt, We ii PeI
ourselves up bit" He began taking off
| his collar and tie 1T is getting dusk" ne
| proceeded. land we shan't want old clothes
to make ourselves look sufficiently shabby.
| We're 10th wearirS bowler haIs which is
| lucky. Make a dent in yours-if you can
without permanently damaging it"
CHAPTER w.
We got rid of our collars and made
choKers of our ties. We turned our coat
collars up at one SIDE only, and then, with
deEted hats worn ratiiS!lly and our hands
in our pockets, We looked dsreputaple
enough for all practical purposes in twi-
light. A Gordon OF plain clothed police had
already been forming round the club, we
We're told, and so we sailed forth. We
turned into Windmill street, crossed Whit
field street, and in turning or two we
came to the Bakunin Club. 1 could see
no sign of anything like a ring of police
men, and said so. Hewitt chuckled. "Of
course not" he said. They don't go
about job of this sort with drums beat
ing and flags flying. But they are all there,
ana some are watching us. There is the
house-Ill negotiate"
The house was of the very shabby,
passe sort that abound in that quarter.
The very narrow area was rallied over and
almost choked with rubbish. Visible above
il We're three floors, the lowest indented by
the door and window, and the other
two by two windows eaCh-mean and dirty
| an. a ldlnt lSnt appeared IN the top
floor, and another from somewhere behind
the refuse-hedped area Everywhere else
was in darkness. Hewitt looked intenttly
into the area, but it was Impossible TO dis
Germ anything behind the sole grimy patch
of window that was visible. Then we
stepped lightly up the three or four steps
to the door and rang the bell.
We could hear Slippered feet mounting a
stair and approaching. A latch was shift
ed, the door opened six inches, an indistinct
face appeared, and female voice asked:
"oui est Ia ?"
"DeuN camarades," Hewitt grunted test
lily; "ouvreZ. vite."
/ had noticed that the door was kept
from opening futher by a short chain.
This chain the woman unlocked from the
door, but still kept the latter merely ajar,
as though Intending to assure herself still
further. But Hewitt Immediately pushed
the door back, planted his foot against it
and entered. asking careessly as he did
so: ",lui Sc trouve Lugi?"
I followed his heels. and in the dark
could just distinguish that Hewitt pushed