The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-10-13

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"A aohlppe1 snapper oCiHt perpendicular
7RuStGcbeS"
should be seen from the time we turn
in. A couple of ships boys do sentry
go on these decks, and they shall be
our witnesses. BY Jove, it'll be the
biggest mystery that ever was NADER
IF Won Heumann doesn't resist"
"Resist! He won't get the chance.
He drinks 100 much beer to sleep
light, and nothing is so easy as to
chloroform a heavy sleeper. You've
even done 1t yourself on an occasion
Of which it's perhaps unfair to remind
you. Won Heumann will be past SEN
sation almost as soon as l get my
hand through his ventilator. 1 shall
crawl in over his body, Bunny, my
boyr'
"And II"
You will hand me what | want and
hold the fort in case of accidents and
generally lend me the moral support
you've made me require. It's luxury,
Bunny, but found it devilish difficult
to do without it after you turned pil'
He said that Won Heumann was GER
tain to sleep with bolted door, which
ha of ool1rca yvnrId Iaova 11nboIta1
and spoke of other ways of laying a
false scent while riaing the cabin. Not
that Rallies anticipated a tiresome
search. The pearl would be about Won
Heumann's person-in fact, Raff1es
knew exactly where and in what he
kept it. Naturally | asked how he
could have come by such knowledge,
and his answer led up to a momentary
unpleasantness.
"Its very old story, Bunny. 1
really forget in what book it comes;
I'm only sure of the Testament. But
Samson was the unlucky hero and one
Delilah the heroine"
And he looked so knowing that
SOlli BOL bC III al uOuUI dS
to his meaning
$50 the fair Australian has been play
ing Delilah?' said l.
"In very harmless, innocent sort of
way"
"She got his mission out of him.?
"Yes, I've forced him to score all the
points he could, and that was his great
stroke, as hoped it would be. He has
even shown Amy the pearl"
amy, Ell! And she promptly told
your"
Nothing of the kind. What makes
you think so? l had the greatest
/ trouble in getting it out of her."
His tone should have been suf-
fcient warning to me. had not the
tact to take it as such. At last knew
the meaning of his furious Irritation
and stood wagging my head and shak-
ing my finger, blinded to his frowns
by my own enlightenment.
"Wily wormw said 7. Nov / see
through it all. How dense I've beenp'
"Sure you're not still?"
'No; now l understand what has
beaten me all the week. simply
couldn't fathom what you saw In that
little girl. l never dreamed it was
part of the game"
$50 you think it was that and moth
ing more?"
"You deep old dog-of course l do!'
"You didn't know she was the daugh-
ter of a wealthy s2natter?"
,'"There are wealthy women by the
| dozen who would marry you tomor-
row."
at doesn't occur to you that I might
like to draw stumps, start clean and
live happily ever after-in the bush?'
with that voice? 1t certainly does
notr'
BUNNY he cried so fiercely that
braced myself for blow.
But no more followed.
"Do you think you would live hap
pily?" I made bold to ask him.
"God knowsw he answered. And
with that he left me to marvel at his
| look and tone and more than ever at
the insuff1ciently exciting cause.
|
OF all the mere feats Of craftsman
ship which have seen Raffles perform
at once the most delicate and most
difficult was that which he accom-
plished between and o'clock on the
Tuesday morning aboard the North
German steamer Uhlan, lying at an
ehor in Genoa harbor.
Not a hitch occurred. Everything
had been foreseen; everything hap
pened as l had been assured every
| thing must. Nobody was about De,
low. only the ships boys on deck ano
nobody on the bridge. 1t was twenty
five minutes past when Rallies, WIFE
out a stitch OF clothing on bis Dody'
but with a glass vial, corked Win
cottonwood, between his teeth and q
tiny screwdriver behind his ear
sonirnaed feet first through the ven
tilator over his berth, and it was nine