The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-05-04
open his door and waylaid me.
Are you going?" he demanded

there
Yes" I answceol fercely. thank
to you!' '''N
wei my glo. fellow" he said Ii.
iH'l hio)dei face .slten:nc AMI soften
ihg at the same tiMa. as thou.n n Ion,
Were OF his mini, its 10 pleasure +,
me to deprive auy man OF his billet
but you never We're Il ndr,e. AMI vo,
know that as wei "a / do
l began - wonder what hn meont
and how much he did know. and my
speculations kept me silent "Bnt
come in here Il moment" he continual
just as | decided that he knew moth.
ing at all. And leading me into his
minute consulting room. Dr.. TheoboId
solemnly presented me with a sover.
elgh by way of compensation. which I
| pocketed as s0lemnly ana with as much
gratitude as if had not fifty of them
distributed over my person as if was
The good fellow had quite forgotten
my social status. about which he him.
SELF had been so particular at our earli.
est interview, but he had never accus.
toned himself to treat me as a gentle
man, and do not suppose he had been
improving his memory by the fall
tumbler which l saw him poke behind
a photograph frame as we entered.
There's one thing | should like TO
know before | GO said |. turning sud
denly on the doctors mat. and that is
whether Mr.. Maturin is really ill or
notw
meant Of course at the present
moment, but DR.. Theobald braced him
self like recruit at the drill sergeant's
voice.
"Of course he is" he snapped-"so
i'll as to need nurse who can nurse
by way OF Il change"
With that his door shut in nv face
and l had to go my way. in the dark
as TO whether he had mistaken my
meaning and was telling me a lie or
not.
But for my misgivings upon this
point might have extracted some very
genuine enjoyment out of the next few
days. had decent clothes to my back.
with money, as | say. in most of the
pockets and more freedom to spend it
than was possible in the constant So
ciety of man whose personal liberty
depended on universal supposition
that he was dead Raffles was as bold
as ever, and l was fond of him, but
whereas he would run any risk in
professional exploit there were MANY
innocent recreatiOns still open to me
which would have been sheer madness
in him. He could not even watch n
match from the SiXpenny seats at
Lords cricket ground, where the gentle
men We're every year in worse way
without him. He never Travelled by
rail, and Ching out was risk only to
be run with some Interior object in
view-in fact, much rs it had changed.
Rafiles could no longer show his face
with perfect impunity in any quarter
or at any hour. Moreover. after the
lesson he had now learned. I foresaw
Increased caution on his part in this re-
spect, but | myself was under no such
perpetual disadvantage and, while
what was good enough for Rallies was
quite good enough for me, so long as
we were together, | saw no harm in
profiting by the present opportunity Of
doing myself we'll"
Such were my reflections on the way
to Richmond in a hanson cab. Rich
mond had struck us both as the best
center of operations in search of the
suburban retreat which Rallies wanted,
and by road in a well appointed, well
selected hanson was certainly the most
agreeable way of getting there. In
week or ten days Rafies was to write
to me at the Richmond postoffice, but
for at least Il week | should be ION my
own" 1t was not an unpleasant sen
satiOn as leaned back in the COM
Portable hanson and rather to one side
in order to have a good look at myself
in the beveed mirror that is almost
as great an improvement in these ve-
hicles as the rubber tires. Really l
was not an i'll looking youth, if one may
call oneself such at the age Of thirty.
l could lay no claim either to the strik-
ing cast of countenance or to the pc
culiar charm of expression which made
the face of Rallies like no other in the