The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-27

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lost. as Mullen and I would be caIle,
upon to give an account of ourselves
and he (Hughes) would forfeit his post
Mullen was evidently of the saml
opinion. for though he was livid to tn,
lips and was trembling with hate anC
rage until his teeth chinked in his head,
like a carelessly carried tray of china,
he gave no sign of wishing to continue
the contest.
| Nor was inclined TO shut my eyes
TO the wisdom of Hughes counsel, for
| was already conscious of the fact that
by haunting Mullen and provoking him
to blows / was doing my best to spoil
my own game There was all the differ
ence In the wCrld between his presence
on board the hulk being discovered by
the police az result OF a brawl and
his being arrested on information given
by me and supported by proof Of his
identity.
Mullen was the first to speak. He
was now no doubt convinced that he
had not acted with his customary dis
cretion, for he had even stronger rea-
SONS than / to wish 10 avoid visit
from the police. So long as it was a
question Of brains be might hope 10 hold
his own, bat let him once fall into their
hands and they would hold him by the
brute force Of numbers, whereas in me
he was pitted against singi- ~. whom
it might not be difficult t. oatwit.
Il beg your pardon for what happen
ed just now," he said, "but before we
go any farther tell me where and when
have seen you before.''
II saw yon in the Southend train
once. You 'ad row with bloke wot
SUNK the carriage out with fusee." /
answered, doing my best to sustain the
role l had assumed.
"AhP' he said, looking very much !
relieved and with wonderfully pleas
ant smile. THAT explains everything.
10 tell the honest truth, my good man. |
l knew l had seen you before the mo- |
ment set eyes on you, and the fact is
thought you were detective who has
been hunting me down for long time
and who has played me one or two
tricks too dirty and too cowardly even
for detective to play, and for which
one day mean to be even with him."
he was smiling still, but the smile
seemed to have shifted from his eyes to
his teeth, and the effect had ceased 70
be pleasant. He swung himself round
ana away from me, and with hands
,lasped behind him and bent head com.
nenced pacing backward and forward
evidently deep i'll thought-in the scan
y space the cabin afforded. /,
Five minutes went by in silence. and
hen he begun to mutter to himself in
ow voice, turning his head from side
o side every now and then in quick
lervous, birdllke way, his eyes never
nil moment but bouncing restlessly
Irst on one object and then on another
WHAT'S come to me;" he said TO
himself, and there was a look ON his
ace which have never seen except on ]
nc lace OF madman--as indeed / am
ow fully persuaded he was. whats
ONE TO me that | of all men in the 7
'orid should so forget myself as to be-
ave-and before two louts-like n n
runken, screeching, hysterical Jeze. n
ELF" Z,
de stopped his restless pacing for o
ioment, and it seemed to me that the Il
ian was writing under his self con. &
'Hpt, as IL every word had been lash O.
itting ribbons OF flesh from his hare II
ack once more he fell to walking m a
1d rro and holding converse with him. T,
IF. "-'" N'ii' h
Is the end coming that can break Il
own like this?" be asked. "No no, te
IS this being hunted down day and ii
ght' until l get to start at nv own ia
adow, that has made me nervous and in
pi
Nervousl Overwrought! NV God. is
no wouldn't be so who's led the life ar
We led these last six months-hearing M
the daytime the step of the Officer ce
no has come to arrest me in every is
und and lying wide eyed and awake an
whole night through rather than ex
nst myself to the sleep which brings ha
ways the same hideous dream. from tn
nich awake screaming and with the on
ia sweat running off me like water,u al
IL was magnificent piece of acting
acting 1t were, and there was a ma. We
etic break in his voice at the las. th
'lcn' had ne not been what he was. tal
,nld have made me pity him. gu
but James Mullen, alias Captain biz
annon, was scarcely an object for ri,
y as was soon reminded, for as be tn,
Ked up my eye met his, and he read "I
re suppose something of what was yo
ssing through my mind. To sucb = ha
ms vanity the mere thought of being pill
possible object for pity Is res
1t implies consciousness
superiority on the part of the pitier al
len Is resented more fiercely than an per
uit or wrong. For one moment pix
ught that he was about to attack me me
,in-.not this time with tooth and spa
i after the manner of a wildcat or a rea
'ericai woman, but with n heavy be
90 legged stool which was lying unon ran
DUNK tossed there, l snppose. bv sha
snes TO be out of the way while he , sha
clearing up. "e wa,