Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-02

! anu tne topped goes out. ana noDOuy
| takes the slightest notice of either. At
| this time of night the chances are that
| there's not Il soul in the building ex-
! ccpt ourselves"
You never told me you went in for
disguiscs,' said /. watching him as he
| cleaned the CRIME from his face and
| hands.
| "No. Bunny. I've treated you very
siia billy all around. There was really
| no reason why l shouldn't have shown
you this place 4 month ago, and vet
there was no point in my doing so, and
circumstances are just conceivable in
! which it would have suited us both for
you TO be in genuine Ignorance of my
| whereabouts. l have something TO
| sleep on, as you perceive, in ease OF
! need, and of course my name IS not
| Rallies in the Kings road. So you VIII
see that one might bolt farther and
fare worse
Meanwhile you use the place as
dressing ROOM"
It's my private pavilion said Rar-
fes. "Disguiscs: IN some cases they
are half the battle. and It's always
pleasant to feel that if the worst comes
to the worst you needn't necessarily
lie convicted under your own name.
Then they're Indispensable in dealing
| with the fences. l drive all my bar
! gains in the tongue and raiment OF
Shoreditch If | didn't there'd be the
very devil to pay in b!ackmai. Now,
! this cupboardS full of all sorts of tog
gerry. l tell the woman who cleans
the room that it's for my models when
/ find 'cm. BY the way, l only hope
I've got something thatll fit you, for
you'n want Il rig for tomorrow night"
| Tomorrow Nightr' l exclaimed.
"Why, what do you mean to do:"
The trick said Raff1eS. Il intend
! ed writing to you as soon as got back
| to nv rooms TO ask you to look me
up tomorrow afternoon. Then L WAS
going to unfold my plan of campaign
and take you straight into action then
and there. There's nothing like put
ting the nervous players in first. Us
the sitting with their pads on that up
sets their apple cart. That was anoth-
er Of my reasons for being so cOnfound-
eddy close. You must try to forgive
me. | couldn't help remembering how
we'll you played UP last trip, without
any time TO weaken on it beforehand.
All want is for you to be as cool ana
smart tomorrow night as you We're
then; though, by Jove, there's no COM
paI'is0n between the two cases.
Il thought You would find it so''
''You were right. | have. Mind you,
1 don't say this will be the tougher job
all round. We shall probably get in
without any difficulty at all; it's the
getting out again that may hummOX
us. That's the worst of an irregular
household" cried Ratiies with quite
| burst of virtuous Indignation. Il as
sure you, Bunny, / spent the whole of
Monday night in the shrubbcry of the
| garden next door, looking over the
| wall, ana, If you'll believe me, some
body was about all night longi / don't
mean the Kaffirs. l don't believe they
| ever get to bed at all-poor devils!
| No, l mean ROsenthall himself and
that pasty faced beast purviS. They
| were up and drinking from midnight,
| when they came in, to broad daylight,
| when / cleared out. Even then 1 left
them sober enough to slang each other.
BY the way, they very nearly tame to
blows in the garden within Il few yards
| of me, and l heard something that
might come in useful and make Rosen-
| thail shoot crooked at Il critical mo-
| mcnt. You know what an l. ID. l.. 50"
illicit diamond buyer
Exactly Well. it seems that Rosen-
thall was one. He must have let it
out to Purvis in his cups. Anyhow. l
| heard Purvis haunting him with it and
threatening him with the breakwater
at Cape Town. and / begin to think our
/ r.
tomorrow night There's nothing
subtle in my plan. It's simply to get
in while these fellows are out on the
loose and to lie low till they come
back, and longer. If possible we must
doctor the whisky. That would SIM
! plify the whole thing, though it's not
| IL very sporting game to play. Still,
we must remember Rosenthall's re-
volyer. We don't want him 10 sign his
name on us. With all those kaffirs
| about, however, it's ten to enc on the
whisky and hundred to one against
us if we go looking for it. \ brush
with the heather would spoil every
thing, if it did no more. Besides, there
are the ladies'
The deuce there are!'
/ Ladies' with an i, and the very
| voices for raising Cain. L fear, fear
the clamor, 1t would be fatal to us.
| An contraire, if we can manage to
| stow ourselves away unbeknOwn half
the battle will be won. Ii Rosenthall
turns in drunk it's a purple diamond
apiece. If he sits up sober it may be
bullet instead. We will hope not,
/ Bunny, and all the firing wouldn't be
on one side; but it's on the knees of
! the GODS
And so we left it when we shook
hands in Piccadilly-not by any means
as much later as L could have wished.
| RGfics would not ask me to his rooms
/ I'M night He said he madf II 4 IIlIn