The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-01-03

to p must be watched. Miss Cutting
herself whom they had never wholly
trusted. and for Whon. on account OF
her Interference in my behalf, they had
no greater love, they tried to intmidate
further with threats. II was necessary.
however. that both her father and her
self. who might prove formidable wit
nesses against them, should things go
wrong, be gotten out of the way. For
this reason she could not he kept u tenn
porary prisoner, as they had at first
suggested. Her father had made all
arrangements for Il flight, in which she
was 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 important wit
ness for my own side also. but she had
saved my life. What else could / do
but further her own escape? / prom
ised to do whatever in me lay to pre-
vent the danger which threatened our
country and to aid her to my utmost
ability both in shielding her father and
IN covering their escape. AS she bade
me goodbye when | left the train at
the last station before P the tears
had finally welled to her eyes. | 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 l opened
the one I had selected l discovered both
the headlines had hoped to find The
first was as satisfactory as the second
seemed tn ME conclusive. 1t stated that
a 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, We're also among the documents.
The young man in whose possession
they We're found had been brought to
New York, and was now awaiting en-
animation. From what / 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 doubted
whether any such information was in
his possession. 1t was scarcely prob
able that more than the barest drec-
tions had been entrusted to him.
The second headline read something
as follows: wealth, Wit and Beauty
to do Honor to Our Executives. Mr..
IS Famous Ball Room Literally
Lined with Roses. Tuxedo on the Qui
vive. A Brilliant Affair Tonight"
Upon these grounds, then, l was bas-
ing my case.
While l stood, listening, upon the
window ledge the night before. madam
had mentioned both Tuxedo and the
name of the man a. whose house the
ball was to be given. 1t was to be given
in honor of Il great statesman and his
wife. Members of the various foreign
legations We're to attend. During the
day had seen. in some mysterious con-
nection with madam and her associates,
the young man who had been tried and
convicted of a crime which had held
i'm England a nostion very similar 10
the way things here, as I dissected
them. We're tending. Madam's voice
and his We're 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
twenty-four hours, and to do so with
out exciting my suspicion. After that
I might return. Miss Cutting and her
father had been ordered to escape from
the country within the same time, as 1t
was desirable that they, after that time.
should not be within reach of the police.
Last of all. the man Jackson, n tool in
the hands of the others, had been expert
menting very recently-as shown by his
absent eyebrow--in chemicals of an ex-
plosive nature. And the third man at
the House with Green Blinds. who had
not spoken i'm my hearing, w:.' wanted
together. for all | knew to the con-
trary, with the others), in his own
country to pay the penalty of an at
tempt upon the life of his sovereign.
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