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her interference in my behalf, they had
no greater love, they tried to intinl-
date further with threats. 1t was nee
essary, however, that both her father
and herself, who might prove for
midable witnesses against them, should
things go wrong, be gotten out of the
way. For this reason she could not be
kept a temporary prisoner, as they nad
at first suggested. Her father mad
made all arrangements for fight, in
which she was to accompany him, and
she was, therefore, taken for the e.
mainder of the night 10 the hotel at
which madam was staying. She was
now on her way to join her father and
to again depart with him. She was an
important witness for my own side also,
but she had saved my life. What else
could do but further her own escape?
1 promised to do whatever in me lay TO
prevent the danger which threatened
our country and TO aid her TO my Ut
most ability both in shielding her IA
ther and in covering their escape. As
she bade me good-by when i left the
train at the last station before P
the tears had finally welled TO her eyes.
I was glad to think that partially, at
any rate, they might be tears of relief.
/ took the next train back to town,
.agerly looking at every station for the
first edition of the morning papers.
When finally they arrived and l opened
the one had selected, discovered both
the headlines had hoped to find. The
first was as satisfactory as the second
seemed to me conclusive. 1t stated that
81 young man had been captured in
Brooklyn, while in the very act of de-
stroying the valuable papers which had
been stolen two weeks before from the
state department in Washington. A few
had been recaptured. They were the
letters which had passed between the
Russian ambassador and our secretary
of state, regarding the return to the
Russian government of some suspected
persons now in this country. A guam
tity of dispatches from the said gov
ernment to their ambassador at Wash
ington, were also among the documents.
The young man in whose possession
they were found had been brought to
NEW 1Olk, anu was INV aNai'ihH tA-
animation. From what 1 could make
Of this article he had apparently given
no information which implicated any of
1.-The people connected with the House
with Green Blinds, and / doubted
whether any such information was in
his possession. 1t WAS scarcely prob
able that more than the barest dirac-
tions had been entrusted TO him.
The second headline read something
ms follows: Wealth, Wit and Beauty
TO do Honor 20 Our Executives. Mr..
IS Famous Ballroom Literally
Lined with Roses. Tuxedo on the qui
vive. a Brilliant Affair Tonight
Upon these grounds, then, was bas-
ing my case.
While l stood, listening, upon the win
dow ledge the night before, madam had
mentioned both Tuxedo and the name of
the man at whose house the bail was to
be given. 1t was 10 be given in honor of
a great statesman and his wife. Mem
bers of the various foreign legations
were to,attend. During the day l had
seen, in some mysterious connection
with madam and her associates, the
young man who had been tried and con-
,icted of a crime which had held in Eng
land position very similar TO the way
things here. as / dissected them, were
tending. Madam's voice and his were
strangely alike. 1t had been considered
no matter how / was supposed to be
related to the affair--eXpedient to get
me out of the way for "a hours, and to
do so without exciting my suspicion.
After that / might return. Miss Cut
ting and her father had been ordered to
escape from the country within the
same time, as il was desirable that they,
after that time. shoGld not be within
reach of the police. Last of all. the man
Jackson, a tool in the hands of the
others, had been experimenting very
recently-as shown by his absent eye
BROWN chemicals of an explosive ma
ture. And the third man at the House
with Green Blinds. who had not spoken
in my hearing, was wanted together,
for all knew TO the contrary. with the
others), in his own country to pay the
penalty of an attempt made upon the
life of his sovereign. .