Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-11-05

hight. we VIII 20 anu uchE
the performance afterWard."
''Can you distribute stalls among
your acquaintancesT
my dear fellow, will be delighted.
Sorry can't help Jowkacsy a bit my
self"
"You are helping him very well. 1
will take a dozen, two for you and me,
ten elsewhere for the claQue."
''You are good chap. Hello, there's
Jones! Jones is good for a couple.
Don't forget tomorrow night"
And the good natured enthusiast,
who was terror to many of his
friends, ran off to secure another vic
tim.
u Philip had sent his hanson home,
Shortly before II he quilted the club,
Intending to walk to Park lane by
circuitous route long enough to con-
sume big cigar.
He CHANGED to pass the hall in which
the concert was to take place. A few
people were hurrying from the stage
door. Evidently a rehearsal had just
taken place. A short man with huge
cluster of flowing locks that offered
abundant proof of his musical genius
ran out with violin case in his hand.
He was about to enter a hanson
waiting near the curb, but the driver
said:
Engaged, sir"
The man did not seem to understand,
% the cabby barred his way with the
whip and shook his head. Then the
stranger rushed to neighboring cab
rank-evidently an excitable gentle
man, with the high strung tempera-
ment of art.
d A lady quilted the hall few seconds
later.
"Are you engagedT" Philip heard her
ask the cabman.
''No, miss"
''Take me to No. A Mazda Crescent,
Regents park" she said. After ar
ranging her skirts daintily she entered
the vehicle.
''That is odd,' thought Philip, who
had witnessed both incidents in the
course of six yards walk. He
glanced at the cabman and fancied the
man gave a peculiar look of intelli-
gence toward couple of fashionably
dressed loungers who stood in the
shadow of the closed public entrance.
The two men. without exchanging a
word to Philips hearing, went to a
brougham standing at some little dis
fance. They entered. The coachman.
who received no instructions, drove off
In the same direction as the hanson,
and as If to make sure he was being
followed the cab driver turned to look
behind him.
Once in Naples Philip saw a man
gtealthily following a woman down an
unIighted alley. Without a moments
hesitation he went after the pair and
was just in time to prevent the would
be assassin from plunging an uplfted
Btiletto into the womans back The
recollection of that little drama flashed
into his mind now There was a sug-
gestion of the Neapolitan bravo's air in
fhe manner in which these men stalk
ed girl who was quite unaware of
their movements.
He asked himself why a cabman
should refuse one fare and pick up an
other in the same spot. The affair was
certainly odd He would see further
into it before he dismissed it from his
thoughts. The distance to Nadia Ores
cent was not great.
While thinking he was acting. he
sprang into the nearest hanson.
"a brougham is following a hanson
up Langham place." ne said to the
driver. Keep behind them. If they
separate, follow the brougham. when
1t stops, pull up at the best place to
avoid notice"
The man nodded. Nothing surprises
a London cabman. Soon the three We
hicles were spinning along the Outer
circle
1t was not very dark night, the sky
being cloudless and starlit Away in
front at a point where the two lines
of lamps curved sharply to the right
and vanished amid the trees a row Of
little red lights showed that the road
was up
The leading hanson drove steadily
on. There was nothing remarkable in
this. When the driver reached the OBJ
struction, he would turn out of the
park by the nearer gate; that was all.
But he did nothing of the kind. There
was a sudden crash of wood, a wom-
ans scream, and the horse was strug-
Cling wildly amid pile of loose wood
en- blocks, while one wheel of the cab
dropped heavily into a shallow trench.
simultaneously the brougham pulled
up, and its two occupants rushed to the
scene of the accident.
Philips driver of course obeyed in
structions, but he shouted to his fare
as he jumped into the road:
"That fellers either drunk or e did ii
A-puppuss."
Philip was Of the same opinion. He
reached the overthrown barricade al
most as soon as the two hurrying men
in front, both of whom were in even
ing dress.
One of them held the horses head