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when the. commissary Of police had
pulled it out from the crevice of the
sofa.
The thing looked as if it might
have been designed to hold a peculiar
kind Of cigar, much longer than the
ordinary sort. On either side was
partition of soft morocco, the same
shade as the leather Of which the case
| was made; and on the broken fasten-
ing was the mark which showed the
discolored metal to be English sill
| yer.
English silver!'' I repeated to my
self. The three men who had travelled
! in the compartment with me from
London to Dover had all been Eng
lish. OF the three, only the little
rat Of fellow had had any oppor-
tunity to steal the treaty from me,
and thrust into my pocket in it's place
this old red leather cigar case into
which a diamond necklace, worth
| twenty thousand pounds, had been
carelessfy stuffed. If he had the skill
and quickness of a marvelously clever
professional pickpocket as we'll as the
incentive of spy, he might, either on
wards in the Care du Nord, have eff
fected this extraordinary exchange
but for my life could not fathom
the motive Of it.
| Surprising he were paid spy,
would the bride offered by his employ
er reach anything like the sum he
could obtain by selling the diamonds
come into his possession? was GER
tain that it would not. It would as
suredly have been far more to the adj
/ vantage Of an INSCRIPTIONS and am biz
tious man to keep the diamonds In his
own pocket, and let the document re-
main in mine.
1t was astonishing, too, that in get
ting into the train at the last moment
I should have chosen the one compart-
lnent of all others In which a spy,
travelling with the object of robbing
me, was sitting. II the fellow had
he knew / was carrying about me, why
hadn't he followed my lead. instead of
v me following his? 1t looked as IT the
man had been a mesn1erist. who by
!, some subtle influence had drawn me
into the compartment where he had all
4 believe that this could have happened
OF course; but everything was so queer
that I couldn't help thinking OF 1t. And
!. it occurred to me, too, that perhaps
, the three instead Of being antagon-
/ istic, as they appeared, had actually
l in some obscure way, been playing
into each others hands.
It was now not much after eight;
: and it was not yet two hours ago thai
y had saved the rat of man from a fs
in the railway station. Il decided tc
! go back at once to the. Care du Nord
! and endeavor, If possible, to discover
. traces Of the trio If thru any porter
n or cabman could learn where they
. had gone, might yet stand "a chance
!. of getting back the treaty. I hal
brought with me from home loaded
: revolver, warned to do so by Lore
). Cholmonde1ey; and I was desperate
4 enough now to use 1t quickly If haG
z the chance and the temptation.
81 I was beginning to be very hungry
s but that was detail OF no import
: ance. would eat when had done
\ my best to. serve Juliette and Lore
81 Reckworth GIN afraid that now
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had stolen ready to go to Lord Reck-
worth, with an urgent request that it
should be sent back to me the mo-
ment it had ben read, and
copied. I even went so far as
to tell him why, having refused the
undertaking, had changed my mind:
for could not bear to have him sus-
pect that Maxine de Ribaumont
(whon1 he was aware I knew in the
French foreign office) had betrayed
his trust. took the whole blame
upon myself, and assured him that, as
suspicion might already be on the
wing, there was nothing for me but
death If the treaty was not safely in
my hands again within twenty-four
hours. If suspicion should point the
right way, and the treaty be looked
was the end of everything for me and
another for whom I cared far more
than myself. Now you know all
except two things. The first, that I
am almost certain Count Ipanoff was
within sight Of my house when I left
it to send away my packet; the Sec
ond that the document which Is miss
ing is the actual treaty OF alliance
between Russia and France, whose
terms, until now, have been q pro-
found secret"
SIOOu llSdSStlSt i SSAC1dlluSuss TsIH q
wonder that the foreign secretary
called 1t important"
IA knowledge OF its real terms was
worth ten thousand pounds to the
British government" said Juliette
More, no doubt, If had had time tc
drive hard bargain. But to me-tc
Maxine lit Is worth the whole
world"
He doesn't know yet that It 4.
gone? 2" &
Mon Dieul no. shall be "a dead
woman before it comes to that
But II its loss were discovered he
would not necessarily suspect you
since he trusts you SO entirely IS
Those who do not trust me would
see that he had no doubt on that sub.
ject, and would have the agony Of
knowing, as we'll as having lost his
love and respect, that / had ruined
him. I could not live with tina,
knowledge"
mo-. I agree with you here" I re.
Isponded, gloomily. Yet If thi.
/ Ipanoff suspects
/ "Ah!- I know what you would say
But it is only suspicion. He did no
have enoughs evidence. to lay, before
| the authorities at the French foreign
Ioffice How could he, merely seeing
me come out with Maxine? And i
/ would be ruin for him to accuse s
man and then be proved mistaken
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But it didn't take any one long to OBJ
serve that the sympathies of the Japs
were with the little fellow.
The first round was hot and heavy,
and the honors were about even.
When the bos'n, who acted as referee,
the fighters, began tanning them
with handkerchiefsp and sprinkling
them with water. Immediately sew
eral Of the Japs jumped in with fans
and assisted, only they concentrated
all their attentions on the little fell
low. Another half dozen navy Japs
policed the crowd and kept the spec
tators back in line, SO they would not
keep the fresh air away from the
gladiators. During the progress of
the round there had been no cheers
or other demonstration from the
crowd, but now came a loud hum of
conversation. They were discussing
the relative merits Of the fighters.
Time was called and Immediately a
dead silence fell on the spectators.
After sparring, the big fellow landed
a hard knock on the little chap. A
distinct hiss came from the crowd
The little chap danced around and,
taking advantage of an opening, land
ed SO heavily on the big fellows jaw
that he f1oored him. Such a yell as
arose from the onlOokers would have
done credit to ten times their num-
Der.
"Good! Good! Good, little mani
they shouted their little brown eyes
glistening with excitement.
. So it. went on. Every time the big
fellow landed a blow they Missed or
were silent, but, when the small man
struck home, they Wept and }'hoWled
for joy.
Finally, several small uniformed,
mounted police appeared. II their
object was to dispense the crowd, no
one knew it. They were lifted off
their horses and swallowed up by the
throng. Later on one of them waved
his arms and screamed with JOY when
the little chap finally put his big oppo-
nent out of business.
Then the Japs carried the victor or
), their shoulders to the nearest tea
house, where they cheered him Justify
: made him drink as much saki as he
: could, cheered him again, and ther
the big fellow, for displaying sucf
good taste in being beaten.
;. The Japs themselves are not afrait
| of fight, even when their OppOnent
outnumber them. This is attested t
by an encounter several years ago be
tween two Japanese nan-of-war'
: men, and six hoodlums on Folsom
street in San Francisco. It was afte,
dark and the roughs, seeing two Jap
coming down the street, thought the.
: could bulldOze them as they cOult
: Cinnamon. They tackled the tw
3 Japs, and the two Japs tackled them
2 It looked as if the Japs were doing
!. ballet dance-their LEGS shot out in al
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Don't you see what he has done ?"
'.No;I can't say that.I do clearly"
I answered.
'.Why. he, too, has dared bold |
stroke. He informed the police that
he had reason to believe me a politi-*l
cal spy in the pay of England, and,
without venturing upon details which
he could not substantiate, he de-
cIared that had got possession ,of
secret information which I had for
.warded to England. Ipanoff is shrewd
enough to know that if by Maxime's
document from the French foreign
office, would expect it to be re-
turned before it was missed; there.
fore he would have stated that the
British secretary for foreign affairs
would doubtless send back by mes
senger what he had received from
me, and as quickly as possible.
"Of course, Lord Reckworth was
watched, and you see that all your
precautions as to hiding your identity
were vain. Your name was known
to the men who came to surprise us
here-having followed me, no doubt,
and if, as Ipanoff hoped, the docu-
everything would have played into
his hands,. The police would have
seen for themselves what the stolen
thing was, where it came from, and
| how it must have been obtained.
| without his having compromised him.
self in the least. Indeed, he would
have been rewarded. and have re-
| him and loving another. The only
cause for rejoicing have left is the
thought Of his blank. ointment
when he hears from the comm1ssary
Of police"
! Ia f{ryA1 Hp 40 fc VHdnnfF'G
agency that the treaty has SO mys-
teriously disappeared"
II would think it, If it weren't for
the necklace said Juliette. There
| lies the heart OF the mystery. Oh, to
pluck it out! You travel to me with
the. treaty. It is gone. You know
nothingsof the necklace-so you say
pocket. You actually put It IN my
hand-tIe Duchess de Calais neck
lace, which was stolen from Maxine
1 dea Ribaumont days ago, In Amster-
, 4supre 3 as IS that You are you
stand aha $ to am reason 4 N01 that NC Count t
i Ipanofs, even If he had the necklace to
1 dispose Off It had come by soma
miracle into his possessfo n--Would de-
Z liberately give 1t to. you for me instead
away from you to ruin me"
mo; it doesn't stand to reason,
returned. "But there is no reason in
the affair. It Is madness. believe
!. we are both mad or dreaming.
IF I am not mad soon shall be-
To think that I must go and play a
part for the first time at the theaterl
q How shall live thru 1t. By this time
i Maxine is on his way to make one
of the audience. He begged me to let
; him take me to the theater. but ]
i. would not. You know why. In fit
teen mintes the curtain will be ringing
!; Iup; but, thank heaven! don't go on
till towards. the end of the first act.
When leave the stage to make ready
. for the second act Maxine will be at
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the door of my dressing-room. How,
shall I look him in the face?"
'Will Ipanoff be in the audience
also?" r asked.
IT think it i certain that he will be.
He could not keep away. But-he
will wait until he has heard the news
of what happened there"
eff only your theory of his pro-
ceedings is right, then, and if you are
right, also, in your hope that he has
not the treaty at this moment in his
clutches, we may still be comparative
ly safe for few hours - said.
"Ah! If il, were a hope! 1t is but a
prayer. And there are other spies be-
sides Ivan IDanoff whom I have to
fear. Comparatively safe! Why we
are as safe as if we were in a house
with gunpowder stored underneath,
and a train laid to fire it. Yet what is
it all to you, Noel? l forget that you
are an outsider"
you can hardly call me that" I re-
torted. Whatever comes now T am
with you heart and soul; and as told
you, am ready even to give my life to
retrieve this failure Of mine. Already
T have given up something, but
What have you given up?" she de-
manded quickly.
my hopes OF happiness with a
woman whom love as you love Max
ine de Ribaumont," answered
blunt1y, on the impulse.
AS spoke the clock on the mantel-
piece struck eight The questioning
| look left Juliette's face. Without
comment on my words she said: u
must go. For PHYS sake come to my
house after the theater, and tell me
what you have, done, won't you, FOR
you will do something ?''
Yes. Everything a man can do
And T will come
''At midnight, then 2"
/ AT midnight
'Give me the diamonds then, and
/ I'll not delay another moment
/ I obeyed. whereupon Juliette hastily
| gathered up her cloak. her gloves, hel
1 veil, and was at the door before
could open It.
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thru the usual channel, to refuse. He
had offered me 10000 pounds If I'M
dertook it and succeeded.
II believed that I could succeed.
And with 5000 pounds Of my own,
which lately I had begun to save as a
really valuable jewels-the sum which
was the least Maxine had been in
structed to accept for the diamonds
would be made up.
All night, after rehearsing for this
play. in which I must soon be acting,
lay awake thinking. In the morning
wrote and asked Maxine if I might
office. I knew that he would say
Yes and he did. AS soon as we were
alone together told him that in the
course of three or four days at fur
thest I should be in a position to let
him have; 1900 pounds, and that to
do this would give me more Joy than
I had ever known. At first he would
quence had. and he yielded at last
to my tears. Then I pretended to be
very gay, since the trouble was prac-
tically past. begged him to give me
one peep at some of the state papers
kept in the safes. OF course, he
ought not to have consented; but !
implored, with kisses; and how could
tlS TSLuS6 WuSll lldlu JUST SdVSu ill1Il
from ruin? Remember, he trusted
me-he trusts me now as he trusts
himself.
He granted me the favor I asked.
He even pointed out, among others,
! the document of which 7 Intended to
rob him. And thru his help, all I'M
Willingly given, I succeeded. I alb
stracted it by putting another, which !
had prepared, In its place. I be-
trayed him to save him. Do you
comprehend?"
The thing itself + comprehend;
| but, by Jove!" cried 'if you talked
| to me a hundred years couldn't see
how you had the heart to do it,
Then that is because you are 9
man. A woman would see.. It was my
love made me do it. There was nc
| other way. And tho there was a risk
it was comparatively small: AS soon
| as the thing was In my possession ]
made an excuse to leave Maxine. He
took me out to my carriage, and az
he helped me in Count Ipanoff passed
For my life I could not keep the
blood from rising to my face, and al
the man lifted his hat saw the mos
awful look in his eyes. tt was {
| menace.
IT was frightened. So much wa.
| at stake that for the first time in my
| life I lost my nerve. When I reached
home I got the document which
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placed her first in my mind), and not
before.
I looked about in the railway sta
ton until I found a porter whose face
I thought I remembered seeing when
I had been there before, and having
slipped a franc into his hand to
sharpen his wits, I began questioning
him. Thus stimulated mentally, he
recalled the incident Of the little Eng
lishman's fall, and my catching him.
He (the porter) had been directly be-
hind me with some luggage when 1t
had occurred. He was not quite cer-
tain, but he fancied he had seen the
gentleman who had fallen get into
cab with two others. What they
looked like, he could not be sure; but
yes, they were taller than the first
gentleman, he had no doubt as to
that. He believed that the cabman
who had driven the party away had
now returned to the station with his
vehicle, and if so he would point him
out to me.
considered that thus far I was in
luck, and my heart gave a triumph
ant thump when was informed that
the right cabman had actually turned
up, having driven into the station only
ten minutes ago. I gave the porter
couple Of francs more, and followed
him to question the driver.
many another Partisan cabman, but
| the sight of the silver made him
amenable. informed him in French
| that I was looking for three English
friends of mine whom / was to have
met at the railway station when the
boat train came in, but | had been
| unavoidably prevented from Joining
/ them Now did not even. know where
they had gone, but If the fares he was
reported to have driven answered the
description of my friends, I should
j like him to drive me to the place
where he had set them down. then.
/ for obvious reasons, invited him to
describe the men who had hired his
cab, instead of taking the initiative
1 myself.
4 He reflected, said they were English.
]. one rather small and two rather large.
4 They had had hand luggage, but no
1 boxes. This sounded encouraging from
my point Of view. and as the cabman
remembered the place to which he
had driven, decided to take the risk
Of running them to earth.
/ When say risk" I merely mean
/ the risk that the men was going in
cfayse Of might turn out to be the
| wrong ones, for the description had
4 obtained from the driver was not &C.
4 curate enough to give a real sense OF
4 security. Besides, as he had taken
4 them out to Neuilly, the distance was
i so great that IL mistaken I should be
wasting good deal Of time on the
i wrong tack.
However, could think of no better
plan; and after vain inquiries concern
ing understood Englishmen who
. might have driven away from the
Care du Nord alone. I got into the cab
|. and started for Neuilly.
The horse was tired, and we did not
keep up as good a. pace as I should
have liked. However. we arrived at
the suburb at last, and turning into a
4 quiet street, stopped before a large
house with lights In almost all Of the
numerous windows.
Il (To be continued Monday
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directions, and six very sick-looking
hoodh1ns disappeared down q side
street. The two Japs seemed highly
elated. Several American sailors went
UP to them and said:
bad men. All Americans not like
them. Bad men," -.
They, understood English. Their re-
ply vibrated with good humor:
mo, no-not bad men. Like fight
We like fight, too. All right. Make
fight together. Plenty fun. All right"
Deep down in the Japanese sailors
heart is a glowing hatred of the Rus
sian sailor. It is about his only racial
particular animosity for the Jap; he
merely considers him very funny
and sometimes a very pugnacious lit
tie chap. The. Russian sailor likes
fight when he is drunk, and II any
Japs are around he will favor them
as well as the next one. But the Jap,
who does not drink, and who enjoys
fight when he meets somebody he does
not love, loves to get into mix-up
with the Russian. AS a result times
are never dull ashore whenever Rus
sian ships anchor in Nagasaki harbor.
In Nagasaki the sailors Of all ma
tons consider it a prime duty to get
$ drunk when they go ashore, and usu-
ally the Russian sailors are in the ma
jority The British tar or American
tar or German tar may run bowling
thru the streets, but unless he tries to
Wallop everybody he meets, the small,
neatly uniformed dock patrolmen will
wink their almond eyes at him. But
) let a Russian sailor attempt similar
antics, and it Is all up with him.
The first little patrolman who sees
him makes a dive and grasps the
czar's sailor by the wrist. Usually the
Russian is twice the Jap's bulk, but
that is inlmaterial. He stands no
show at all. The Jap has a peculiar
jujitsu twist that he applies to the
wrist, and the Russian goes along to
the lookup every time. If he begins to
fight savagely, the policeman shows
him what jujitsu tactics really are.
Therefore, it is not an unusual sight
In Nagasaki to see brown policeman,
scarcely five feet over all, coming
down the street with a stx-foot-thres
Russian sailor in tow and in complete
submission.
; In personal encounter, face to face,
body against body, the Russian stands
no show at all with the Jap. The
Russian always finds out his mistake
when he begins to bully the Japs, as
, he does the Chinese coolies in Hong
: Kong. He acquires an intense admir-
alton for the little brown fellows. after
, one or two unfortunate encounters.
But the Jap despises the Russian, even
| while he helps him up after knocking
him down.
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were given much shore leave. Their
monthly pay amounted to about what
an American sailor would tip a waiter
with. Still, they managed to get
gloriously drunk on it every time
they went ashore. At drinking, the
Russian tar equals even the British,
especially if he is in a home port,
were he can get vodka.
Russian sailors are fond of fighting
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He swelled up his gigantic chest
and stretched out,h arms that at, We're
the czar's navy, but had deserted, to
sail in foreign merchantmen. They
have Morse blood in them, those Bal
tic seamen, and they prefer the free
and vagabond life Of merchant sail
ors. Therefore, the seamen of the
Russian men-of-war are mainly dose
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Black sea fishermen"
The writer spent several months in
Black sea Russian ports, and, being
at that time before the mast, came
into close contact with the seafaring.
men. Despite the Baltic Russians
characterization, they are not par.
ticularly shriveled up, altho not so
tremendous in size as the Baltic men.
In Nikolaiev the men Of the war ships
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TALLY a steam DOaL sailor.
You never meet him on sailing ships,
except as cook or steward. He does
not like to climb out on slippery yard
arms over stormy seas. AT least, that
Is the inference, since he never does
lit But the captains Of foreign steam
ers like Japanese crews. They are
thoro. hardworking and steady. They
can be relied upon In time Of danger,
and when ashore they seldom get
drunk. In this last respect they are
the most wonderful sailors in the
world. "
The Russians, especially those from
the Baltic region, make nearly as good
sailors as the Scandinavians. Almost
every English or American sailing
ship carries g. few Russians. The
y writer was once aboard "a ship in
wSlich there were five Russians be-
fore the mast. They were typical Bal
tic, specimens and thoro sailors. They
could not read their native language,
bat three Of them were fond Of Eng
lish novels of the penny horrible"
sort. They had learned to. read after
leaving Russia. These men were all
Baltic Russians, and they always
made the distinction. -.
wat, you tink want to be taken
one Of them asked one day. well,
perhaps I don't need to tell you dat
sam not come troo de Bosphorus. I
don't look like dose shriveled-up
grain bumpers, do II"
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CHAPTER ".
Told by Noel Brent, Who is In Love
Y With the Home Secretary's
Daughter.
The Tangled Web.

ISAGREEABLE? Oh,
- you Englishmenl
OO 81 There was nothing
81 that would not have
done to help him. Do
you understand
nothing. I told him
to wait and say not q word to the
duchess, who, indeed, was not even
aware that he had come back from
Amsterdam. Already had the glim-
rnering of an idea--a desperate one.
II remembered the commission
from Lord sBeckWorth. had only
just written in the usual cipher, and
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BY ALBERT SONNICHSEN,
Able Seaman.

copyright, 1904. by Albert sonnich-
Sar \
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Ill
What One Is the Other Is Sure Not
to Be-Russia s Tars Fight with
Their Teeth and Feet; the Jap
Has Even a Stricter Fighting
sode Than the Yankee = The
Russian Is a Good Deep-Sea
Sailor; the Jap Hates the Sailing
ship-The Jap Loves a Brawl
at Any Time; the Russian Only
When He Is Drunk-The Rus
sian Is Amused by the Jap, Who
Has an Ir*ense Hatred for the
Subject of the Gear.
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two types of seamen are
quite so different as those
of Russia and Japan.
What one Is the other is
sure not to be. ,r
The little Jap Is essen