The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1906-09-22
Captains Double


him as his destination. He doubled
and twisted like hunted hare, listen
ing, as he fed, for the sounds of pur-
suit. None came to his ear, yet there
was a fitting shadow that followed
wherever he went. The society did
not leave it's instruments to work out
their deeds unmatched, unguarded.
The papers might remain with him
till he put them in securfty-if they
were taken. it should be On the tool,
not on the authors of his crime; when
they were safe, it would be time
enough to fling him of.
The door of the shabby lodging
yielded to his hand-there was some
one waiting on the dirty stairs for
him, and, breathless, he hurried into
the room above. A man with a griz-
zled beard stood smiling before him,
an eager CLEAN in his sharp eyes. The
man in the officers uniform tore from
the front of his red waistcoat bundle
of thin papers and thrust them into
the outstretched hand. "Take the
confounded things! and get me out of
the country, now, or I'll wiring your in
fernal neck"
The other grasped the packet with
triumph in his face. "You have done
what you were allowed to go on living
for, my friend. You may go now as
soon as you like. There is no more
use for you. This will blow into atoms
more worlds than one."
But you must get me out of this!
| may be nabbed before I can get out
of the town.
Again the man with the beard
smiled.
"The Southampton road is an easy
one" he said, composedly. "You had
better go along it for as many stations
as you feel inclined before you take
the workmen's train. Many steam
boats start from that port for foreign
places; tomorrow me see,-yes,
tomorrow is the mail for the Cape.
You had better take that There is
comfortable accommodation In the Sec
ond class-and you can be bound for
the diamond mines. You may find it
useful to shave that mustache of
yours, and to darken your hair and
eyebrows. You will have money given
you for your. passage, and you wi4
find plenty to pick up out at the Cape. "
IFS that all am to get for tonight S
work? Why, confound you, If I'd
known that l would have let those pa
pers lie and rot!''
mo, no, my friend, you would not
You forget there was another price
| to them You would have taken a
longer journey than to the Cape it you
had not been advised by me. Come
| be reasonable. You have more than
you earned, as it is. The Cape OF
| nothing-you can take which you
| WISH
When the grey dawn struggled
! through the darkness it found a man
in somewhat shabby suit of clothes
his head bent, his hat low over his
forehead, tramping along the South
ampton road. He looked neither tc
| the right nor to the left, except tt
glance up at the sign posts. He GOV
cred the ground with steady swing
that betrayed a drilled step. Still ir
his ears there rang the sound that hal
been there like strange music evel
since it first fell upon his sense-the
sound of girls voice with tenderness
in it, as the touch of her form fingered
still against his heart. He had seer
her again; for one wild moment she
had been his own-had believed her
self so. The radiant lady OF hi:
dreams the girl who had been to hin
like an angel from heaven-who hai
saved him from disgrace and punish
ment. He drew his hand slowly from
his pocket and looked OF it with won
dering eyes. 1t had brushed her sof
hair as she leant against him-ht
could recall the curious silken feel o
it; he looked now at his hand as if h
expected to find it transformed.
The same grey dawn lit up Ursula''
white face as she sat in Mrs. Field
>ing,s carriage driving back from Gov
ernment House She was silent an,
pale, and Mrs. Fielding thought sh!
must. still feel unwell and left hertz
herself It fell, too. on a figure still
dressed in uniform, staggering home
bewildered and sore, through. til,
streets where It had found itself lyin,
it knew not why or how. There wa
no memory to. guide. it-no% idea o
what had befallen- only q sense tina
it was out in the cold and the ope1
and must find It's way home. # -:11z s.
And in the ONCE Of zGovernmen
House there were alarm and conste1
nation and incredulity, for the; gene1
I ais safe was found open and paper
carefully kept there were gone. Tn
general stood before it, his face grave
| his lips BET, his brow troubled wa
not the loss OF the papers alone--tha
a was serious enough but not 50 serio,1