The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-10-13
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By E. w. HORNUNG.

m4t1o nroiudice against her. | resent
~ bor success with Raflies, Of whom,
IN consequence. l saw less and less
naob dav 1t is a mean thing to have
=, confess, but there must have been
sopetlltng not unlike jealousy ranking
within me.
IaaIousv there was in another quar-
tor-crude. rampant, undignified jeal-
onev Captain Won Heumann would
onrI his mustaches into twin spires,
shoot his white cuffs over his rings and
s+ore ut me insolently through his rim
1oss eyeglasses. We ought to have con-
soIed each other, but we never eX-
changed syllable. The captain had a
rourderous scar across one of his
chaels. a present from Heidelberg, and
used TO think how he must long to
have Rallies there to serve the same.
II was not as though Van Heumann
meyer had his innings. Raflles let him
on in several times day for the ma
Hcious pleasure of bowling him out as
he was getting set" Those were his
words when | taxed him disingenu-
ouslv with obnoxious conduct toward a
German on a German boat,
You'll make yourself disliked on
board!"
"By Won Heumann merely"
"But is that wise when he's the man
we've got to get next to-"
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have chummed up with him would
have been fatal-the common dodge"
l was consoled, encouraged, almost
content. ! had feared RafIles was
neglecting things, and | told him so
in a burst Here we were near Gil
hraltar. and not a word since the So,
lent. lie shook his head with a smile
Plenty Of time. Bunny; plenty of
time We can do nothing before we
get to Genoa, and that won't be till
Sunday night The voyage is still
young and so are we. Let's make the
most Of things while we can"
It was after dinner on the prone
made deck, and, as Ratfles spoke, he
glanced sharply fore and aft, leaving
me next moment with a step full of
purpose. retired to the smoking
room to smoke and read in a corner
and TO watch Won Heumann. who very
soon came to drink beer and to sulk
in another.
Few travellers tempt the Red sea at
midsummer. The Uhlan was very
empty indeed. She had, however, but
limited supply of cabins on the prom
enade deck, and there was Just that
excuse for my sharing Rallies room
l could have had one to myself down
stairs but must be up above.
Rallies had insisted that l should in
sst on the point, so we were together,
| think, without suspicion, though also
without any object that could see.
On the Sunday afternoon l was
asleep in my berth-the lower one
when the curtains were shaken by
Rallies, who was in his shirt sleeves on
the settee.
Achilles sulking in his bunkw
"What else is there to do?" l asked
him as l stretched and yawned.
noted, however, the good humor of his
tone aud did my best to catch it.
Il have found something else, Bun
ny"
Il dare say!'
"You misunderstood me- The whip
persnapper's making his century this
afternoon. I've had other fish to fry"
l swung my legs over the side of my
berth and sat forward, as he was sit
ting, all attention. The inner door, a
grating, was shut and bolted and cur
tanned like the open portfolio.
I'VE shall be at Genoa before sun
set, continued Raffles. Its the place
where the deeds got to be done"
SO You still mean to do itv'
Did ever say didn'tT
You have said so little either way"
"Adyisedly so, my dear Bunny. Why
spoil pleasure trip by talking unnec-
essary shop? But now the time has
come. 1t must be done at Genoa or
not at ALL"
"0n land?"
NO on board, tomorrow night. To
night would do, but tomorrow is bet
Ter In case of mishap. II we were
forced TO use violence we could get
away by the earliest train and nothing
De known till the ship was sailing
and Won Heumann found dead or
drugged'-
Not dead" | exclaimed.
VI course not" assented Raff1es,
or there would be no need for US to
oolt. But, If we should have to bolt,
tuesday morning is our time, when
uis ship has got to sail whatever hap
pens. But l don't anticipate any
violence. Violence is a confession Of
terrible incompetence. In all these
years how many blows have you
known Ye to strike? Not one, L be-
neve' have been quite ready to
Na'n nan every time If the worst
came 10 the worst"
asked him how he proposed to en-
yer Won Heumann's stateroom unob-
served, and even through the curtained
sioom OF ours his face lighted up.
olmD into my bunk, Bunny, and
you shall see."
uiu So but could see nothing. Raj
ues reached across me and tapped the
.en.liator, sort Of trapdoor in the
wal wal above his bed, some eighteen
n .ucles long and half that height. 1t
shaft.
mat, said he, "is our door to for