The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-09-07
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eff. on the same day." replied Mr.
Zeno, twenty different men left twenty
different Continental ports and arrived at
twenty different English ports with SIM
liar continuance, they would carry good
deal"
That's true" said Frost, that's true.
But what do you want to help dynamite
into England for? That's no part of
your game"
"It will be part Of my game to know
who carries the parcels, and by what
ports they enter" Zeno answered. with
smile which looked uglier than ever.
"Oh. l see." said Frost. But l
thought"
"You are growing curious again, good
Frost Do not grow curious again. 10
not. Please"
Give me my orders them" replied
Frost, sullenly. They're all l want to
know"
You will produce your invention this
evening" said Zeno. You will advise
its immediate employment. The pretend
ed book parcels can be made up any
where. You can carry the necessary
books over with you, and can cut out the
insides, and fit in the tin boxes in Paris.
I'm not in that show" Frost inter-
rupted, rapidly; I'm on English SER
vice"
Every well. Your friends can do it,
then. The date of departure can be fixed
beforehand-of departure from the CONT
mental ports, / mean. Each man must
know from what port he is to sail, and
bo &c 70 |. of me-
know all their names, their ports OF de-
parture and arrival, and the date. That
is all you need to attend to for the mo-
ment. And now shall we go to dinner?'
I'm thinkin'," said Frost, that this
especial bird will not enter the arena,
and if he did, he would not fight when
he got there"
Translate, my friend, translate" said
Zeno.
at might have acted, last week. 1t
might even have acted the night afore
last But that old mudhead Of Dobroski
has got 'em for the moment dead set
against it. And they're after him to a
man, pretty nearly"
"Why, what is this?" cried Zeno.
"There was a meeting the night before
last" said Frost, land Dobroski was
there. Sullivan. who's the bloodthirsti-
est of the whole bloodthirsty assortment,
wanted to do a score of simultaneous ex-
plosions. Up gets Dobroski, and swears
he won't have it. Says he won't make
war against the innocent. Says he won't
run an indiscriminate Malay muck against
the wide, wide world. Says it's indecent
Ind; on6 Iito1u
to bring the cause into general disrepute
with respectable people. Says he wants
to kill off all the tyrants privately, and
enlist the sympathies of the churchgoing
community, while he prepares his plans
for general assault against authority
everywhere and all along the line. Then
Brennan gets up on his hind legs and
swears Dobroski's in the right. Then up
gets Falkland on the same lay. Then
the whole boiling got converted, bar Sui
Ivan, and took to hymn singing and pass
ed a resolution that they would only lay
out for the slaughter of crowned heads
and commanders-in-chief, and such like.
In short, sir, the trade in explosives is
in bad way for the moment"
Zeno sat down and looked hard at
Frost. us this true?" he asked, when
the other had finished.
''True as the rule of three" said Frost.
II reckon he added, shiftily, after a
pause, that the old man himself was to
have carried one of them parcels"
Perhaps" returned Zeno, rising sud-
denly. But if he will not, he will not,
my good Frost. And now, shall we 60
to dinner?"