The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-01-25
A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE.

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ot LsnaoB ersibi,ion one evening wh
short ieraiss lootias msn. clothes
srsnias dress. approached ne sni said
los ton
H.vs lhs hoaor Of s3dfossiss N
Godirey ysncsi
He banded me hitter. ssyiag ahrapil
BE good es0ash 10 resd tais letter
viii ssrFs TO iolrodass ne
TIE nmuaiosiion y. from Coui
Antonio Delsfoces Of Milsn. ~bom l BIS
sized fome months befrs by carrying {
iof hin 9 famous Greek statue from .
Esslish e3npt,y honss Il ~as sei
bilsi sad merely ssij:
Sir This letter will iu,roinss - 20
/ ny sood ftsnd, Her Fdix Moskosii
.ho is sbIions for yen TO undertake 10
bim difiioult mission. hsve told bit
that you are the one msn 10 Eoglsni wh
can hope to carry oct such q wotk cit
snccsss, aud. wishing you oil good for,uof
bslieve me, yours. DrLARec2o.
We left the exhibition grouads st once
going 10 my sbode.
Ia the fiul place. my good tlf: hs q
claim. talking 10 40 excited uodettone =
10 The ftsi pi co | mat tell you thu, tbl
business is difficult slmUs, o the pvint 0
imposaibiity. Fnisy morning mex
about 3'oelock Couot Rodsholiz vii
cause to be posted or poet With bis osi
hsud 9, The pi,lsr boz fscios bis house II
Percy street, Ms, fair. . certain letter %
dressed to the Berlin foreign etlioe. IL II
sbsola.elely vital TO ms aud TO the cause
represent that that letter should never
reach ils destination. and | am commit
stoned to pay $4,000 10 the man who
will hand that letter TO me intact exact
y as be fnds it,
ls not 3 a. q. rather an unusual hour
Tor the dispatch oi diplomatic Goa mum
cstions2
Mos, certainly 1t 10, but the count is not
like other men. For the past four years =
10 fact, since he 6rst came TO the embassy
he has been in the habit OF pos ing THE
document between 8 and 4 o'clock Friday
mornings.
presume tha, the obvious and old
fashioned method Of obtsiuinlue the let
ter by force is out OF the question.
Otherwise we might wsylsy the person
posting the letter, oysfposer him and de
psrI with de document.
Useless quite useless, for il would sim
ply mean that the outrage would be die
covered almost Immediately, and then the
contents OF The letter would be telegraph
ed TO Berlin, deiestiug our plans most en-
tirely. Nc, the essence OF the whole Of
fair, my good, sir, Is that the letter should
b. removed and handed to me without the
embassy people having the slightest knowl
edge of the fact.
NsIt morGipg went to Percy street.
Nsyf,ir. TO survey the ambassadors
hous.. Thi.iy one. Percy ssssSs. "a. ...-..
sion in question was dull looking, gray
abode exrctly similar TO the ether houses
in the street. Facing the house
on tho other eide OF the street was
a pillar box The receptacle, it seemed,
wb,re the count wss 10 the habit OF post
ing bis communications to Berlin.
Had the pillar box been q receptacle
easily shifted the matter wonld have been
ss easy as smoking cigarette, fer we
should simply have had to divert the po
icemen on that beat away from the street
by means Of s fictitious drunken disturb
snce. and then We could have driven up
q van snd csr,ed the box away. But |
u ust think OF So metbipg Else.
Ard then OF sudden there flushed upon |
ne an idea, coming whence / knew not,
,ut it seemed to me that voice spoke in
ny ear, and this is what it said:
Substitute anol her pillar box on the op
,otite eide OF the street, Plscsrd the gen
Iioe boz with Q notice saying that 1t 10
emporsrily disused and that letters are to
70 posted opposite Clear tae streets OF
be Police by means of row aud wait
With . van at the corner OF the street till
be document is posted. Swoop down,
ollar the box aud drive eff
| jan ped into 3 cab and drove 10 Ger
ain hosselry in The Est Eud where !
new ! rho lid dnd pleG,y Of my pals,
rho Tor few dollars wond throw them
elves into any adventure oil the kind.
In few words conyeyei to them what
wanted done. Two OF the men. burly
ellows, known as jim Tbursdsy aud Bill
Cast, we're to devote their powers TO guar
cling and getting run in" at the corner
4 Percy street, while smother tso we're to
eep watch st the corners OF the street.
The remsiaipg man. Tom Rogers, vas TO
asist me 10 depositipg the pillar box and
emovipg it when the time came.
Then new difficulty srose. How was
be pillar boz TO bs obtsinedf
What is 10 be done sbout getting boIf
ssked the men. There was silence for
,oment. and then East, scrstehing his
cad, ssid arufiiI
Try old Bsnnelt, the iron founder 10
ioojse STREET, wot got five years stretch
u psssin fash coin. E's out on ticket
ow sud !. up to mskin . fancy pillar {
OF as soon as wick 1t yer
Having hidden them hid themselves at ,
y disposal for hDsl instruction. | went
irsisht 10 Gtootse street, vhsre found
,e worthy BeDnet, 10 surly mood owing
!, sisckpess Of trade. He smiled when
he'd him II be could build for us a pil
II boz 81 The government pattern 10 the (
me st o1r Gispossl /