Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-01

ing. and they were DESTROYS of getting pos
session OF the papers. if possible. before
this arrived. The signal was finally re-
turned therefore. and an appointment
made by letter. This. of course, was the
communication I had received the morning
before. All this Miss Cutting had learned
from her father. who had returned sud-
denly toward Z o'clock in the afternoon.
He had been much depressed and agitated.
The letters had been traced. and the young
fellow to whom they had been intrus ted
was being closely Swallowed by the police.
There was fear that the detectives were
also on the track of madams brother, and
it was necessary to send them a warning.
This had been intrusted to herself, with
what success has already been told.
She informed me that, after my escape in
TO the yard twhither. as had conjectured,
they had not at first dared to follow, for fear
Of attracting the attention of the surround
ing houses) a hurried consultation had been
held The men had thought that, were
detective sent to spy upon them, l would
doubtless decide that my next best chance
of learning their intentions would be to fol-
low madam's directions and go the next day
to P, where l would expect further de-
velopments. Miss Cutting told me (and
had suspected as much myself that, from
what she could gather, this had been merely
a scheme of madam's to get me out of the
way for twenty-four hours, no matter
whether were spy or Intrted confederate.
Madam herself, however. had disagreed with
her companions. She had declared that an
effort must be made to stop me, and that
every train to P must be watched Miss
Cutting herself, whom they had never Who'll
ly trusted, and for whom, on account of her
interference in my behalf, they had no
greater love. they tried to intfmidate further
with threats. 1t was necessary, however
| that both her father and herself who mig hit
prove formidable witnesses against them,
should things go wrong, be gotten out of the
way For this reason she could not be kept
| temporary prisoner. DIS they had at first
suggested. Her father had made all ar
| TO, RSryI,f ,;rh
! to accompany him. and she was. therefore.
| taken for the remainder of the night to 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 i'm
| portant witness for my own side also, but
| she had saved my life. What else could
| do but further her own escape? / promised
| to do whatever in me lay to prevent the dan
ger which threatened our country and to aid
her to my utmost ability both in shielding
her father and in covering their escape. AS
| she babe me goodbye when 1 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. eagerly
looking at every station for the first edition
| of the morning papers. When finally they
| arrived and opened the one had selected
| l discovered both the headlines 1 had hoped
| to find. The first was as satisfactory as the
| second seemed to me conclusive. 1t stated
| that young man had been captured in
/ Brooklyn while in the very act of DESTROYING
| the valuable papers which had been stolen
| two weeks before from the State Depart
| nent in Washington. few had been re-
| captured. 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
| quantity OF dispatches from the said gov
| eminent to their ambassador at Washington
were also among the documents The young
| man in whose possession they were found
| had been brought to New York, ard was
now awaiting examination. From what J
| could make of this article he had apparently
| given no information which implicated any
| of the people connected with the House
| with Green Blinds, and I doubted whether
| any such information was in his possession.
| 1t was scarcely probable that r1oTs tnan the
| barest directions had been intrusted to him
The second headline read something as
| follows wealth, Wit and Beauty to do
| Honor to Our Executives. Mr. IS Fa-
| Tuxedo on the qui vive. A Brilliant Affair
Tonight"
Upon these grounds, then. was basing
my case.
While stood listening, upon the window
/ ledge the night before, madam had men,
| toned both Tuxedo and the name of the
! man at whose house the ball was to be CIV
en-. 1t was to be given in honor Of a great
| statesman and his wife. Members of the
| various foreign legations were to attend
| During the day I had seen, In some nys-
| FERROUS connection with madam and her as
| sociates, the young man who had been tried
| and convicted of g. crime which had held in
England position very similar to the way
| things here, as dissected them. were tend
| ing. Madam'S voice and his were strangely
| alike 1t hid been conSidered-no matter
how I was supposed to be related to the af-