Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-21

Garians, Servians, Baigarians, Roumanians,
sno py no means least numerous IT'S sal
iow-Iaced Turks We're beyond any within
their experience.
NO wonder the people at the ministry
.e, you TO be careful said Kenyon ami
apis, as ne pointed TO a great Bashi- Ba zoak
~ ose very mustache might have been in
Itammabie would sooner meet a Chi
nese mandarin than that fellow anywhere.
.Aho tnefe are plenty more OF the kind
you see All sorts. shapes and sizes. ready
70 cut your throat for a golden coin any
day you may be wanting the iob done
All sham. my dear Arthur Knives made
IN birmingham and pistols in Germany
Don't worry YOU head about them W.
start for Okna at Z o'clock tomorrnvU
Oh, you've found out where il is then7.
wanted TO tell you before dinner but
these Fellows were listening. Cecii Chesny
was at the ministry today and he co,id
not have done more for me Okna means
Sun ride into the mountains and some
hunting when we get there. II the old
man, georges odin. is alive he is at Okna
OUR task is TO persuade him that London
is healthier place"
And the son, this man thew call tha
count. what OF him.
Il can learn little He has s,,,sa,,,
been living on his wits for a long time Jla
was here fortnight ago throwing morn
Iees TO his creditors right and left. The
local papers announce his engagement 70
Lord Melbourne's daughter-they smell n
Sir Lord Milbawn'-and declares that he
Is going up to buy the cid castle at era
Vitza. l don't believe he is In Bucharest
today-t he is, we'll, I must look o,It for
myself, and you must help to look out for
me- The rest depends upon his father /
coald go hack to England tonight and tell
the earl that Georges Odin was released
-FOUR years ago from the mines at Prahova.
but that would not help me- The count
would go back and blackmaiI them again
on the score of what his friends, the gym
sizes. meant 20 do. No, l shall bring the
father II he is to be brought and carry
my purchase back TO England That's my
plan, Arthur Time will prove whether IT'S
clever or foolish"
Arthur Kenyon listened as one listens TO
the tale of an eastern romance Gavin
had told him the whole story before they
left London, but here In Bucharest it
seemed so much easter TO comprehend amid
a people careless Of life and little unac-
quainted with death. All the gauds OF
passion. of love and hatred were known to
TINS mean city. Here. at least, it did not
appear difficult to understand how Count
Odin, the adventurer, having heard the his
tory OF Robert Forresters youth and of his
present wealth, had set out for England
determined to profit by his knowledge
we have no color in our roguery IN
London, Arthur said presently. TITS all
just one drab tint--the same color as the
yellow press that delights In It. Here one
begins to understand why the fittest sur
Vive. You are a pretty plucky chap, Gavin
or YOU would not take it SO easily
Not for womans sake Arthur
oh, well | suppose IL one Is sufficiently
woman's sake. l am less fettered. Here
in bucharest | begin to wonder whether
shall die for the charming Lucy or the
equally beautiful Lucinda. You have no
doubts. My dear old fellow. I'm afraid
you're In deadly earnest
so much in earnest. Arthur that II I
cannot go back to make Evelyn my wife
will never go back at all
Eros living IN dirty Roumanian hotel
on ancient meats: No, by all the gods.
But, tell me does your friend Chesny think
you are unwise TO so to Okna?"
He says l am mad told him as much
as / had the right to tell. Odin. the son.
Is swindler. but his gypsy friends are
honest They believe that an Enslishman
shut up one of their heroes for twenty
years, and If they can find the man who
did 1t they will kill him. There's the
counts chance. / am going one better by
offering to take his father to England to
meet the man who wronged him and say
THAI the vendetta is at an end. A mad
scheme! Yes. Well. possibly. mad schemes
are better than the others sometimes, and
this may be the particular instance. / will
tell you when we get to Okna, If ever We
get there
Then you are plainly not an optimist"
''Hush-theres your old friend the eel
list going home. 1t appears. A gypsy TO
the finger tips, Arthur. Let us talk Of
the weather.
{To be continued tomorrow