The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1900-11-30

pin through 1t As she stood up there
was u jolt of the train that caused her
TO sit down again somewhat hurriedly.
Passing her window she saw the lights
Of the station. The train was in motion.
"Thank heaven ~ she cried fervently.
"Ho is too latel Those plotting villains
will have all their trouble for nothing"
She glanced upward toward the cell
ing and noticed n hole about an inch in
diameter bored on the thin wooden par
tition between her compartment and the
ucSt. Turning to the wall behind her,
she saw that another hole had been
bored in n similar position through to
room Il. The car had been pretty thor
oughly prepared for the work in hand,
and Jennie laughed softly to herself as
she pictured the discontinue of the con-
spiraturs. The train was now rushing
through the suburbs of st. Petersburg,
and Jennie was startled by hearing an
other voice say in French
Conductor, ! have room a. Which
end of the car is that :"
''This way, exccllency, " said the con
ductor. Every one seemed to be "ex
cellency" with him.
s. A moment later Jennie, who had
again risen to her feet, Mortified to
know that after all the messenger had
come, heard the door Of his room click.
She stood there for n few moments tense
with excitement, then bethought her
self of the hole between her present
compartment and the one she had re-
Gently left. She sprang up on the seat
and, placing her eye with some caution
at the hole, peered through. First she
thought the compartment was empty.
Then she noticed there had been placed
at the end by the window n huge cylin-
der that reached nearly to the ceiling Of
the room. The lamp above was burning
: brightly. and she could see every detail
Of the compartment except toward the
floor. As she gazed n mans back slowly
rose, He appeared to have been kneel-
ing on the floor, and he held in his hand
the loop of a rubber tube. Peering
downward, she saw that it was CON
nected with the cylinder and that it
was undoubtedly pouring whatever gas
the cylinder contained through the hole
into room A. For a moment she had
difficulty in REFRESHING a shrek, but
realizing how perfectly helpless she was,
even if she gave the alarm, che repressed
all exclamation. She saw hat the mar
who was regulating the escape of gas
was not the one who had spoken to the
conductor. Then, fearing that he might
urn his head and see her eye at the
small aperture, she reached up and Gov
cred her lamp, leaving her own room in
complete darkness. The double covering,
which closed over the semiglobular
lamp like an eyelid, kept every ray of
light from penetrating into the com
partment.
AS Jennie turned tc her espionage
again she heard a blow given to the
door in room A that made it c%latter.
Then there was a sound Of a heavy fall
on the floor. The door of room B was
flung open, the head of the first Russian
was thrust in, and he spoke in his OWL
language a single gruff word. His as.
sistant then turned the cock and shut
off the gas from the cylinder. The door
Of room B was instantly shut again,
and Jennie heard the rattle of the keys
as room A was being unlocked.
Jennie jumped down from her perch,
threw off her hat, and with as little
noise as she could slid her door back al
inch or two. The conductor had un'
locked the door Of room A. the tai
Russian standing beside him saying il
a whisper:
"Never mind the mani He'll come tC
the moment you open the door and win
dow. Get the box! Hold your nose will
your fingers and keep your mouth shut,
There it is-that black box in the cor
ner."
ITO he continued next Friday.)