The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-10-26

respect forever after to-day"
You choose to be facetious, sir" said |
Zeno, with an air Of chagrin. Il will
not pretend not to understand you, but |
your good fortune is less agreeable to me |
| than it is to you. Will you kindly make |
a matter of business of our talk, sir2"
THAT is Just what wish. I happen
at this moment to be pressed for eleven
hundred pounds"
"Ah, sir !" said Zeno, eff should hap
pen to be pressed for any such sum as
that am afraid I should be forced to
quit the country"
| Il am about to transfer the pressure
from my shoulders to your own" said
| O'Rourke quietly. "The sum Is small
enough In all conscience. merely men
ton it because 1 happen to want 1t now.
1t does not leave me solitary five-pound
note when my immediate necessities are
met. Your employers will find my hum
Bile charge no more than a fea-bite, Mr..
Wroblewskoff."
very WE'LL" said Zeno, ~ throw up
my hand and go. That Is all. 1t Ia not
in my power to find such sum or any
thing like such a sum-"
"Win you ring the bell for me, Frost2"
asked O'Rourke. Frost rang the bell,
making a somewhat crab-like progress
across the room In order to keep an eye
ON Zeno. Bring me dozen telegraph
FORMS" said O'Rourke to the waiter.
There was another pause and when the
forms were brought and they were again
alone O'Rourke handed the sheets to
Frost. go to that table," he said, land
write to my dictation. Are you ready?
| I'll - I
J will take care Of him. Now, if you please,
write: Guard every dock and station.
Wroblewskoff Is Zeno.' Repeat that on
} every form. Address to Bremmer, to
Dobroski, Slater, Hughes, MacAdam,
Joyce; address them from yourself at
your own address l will give you more
names by and by"
Frost wrote one form after the other,
shooting a shifty, frightened eye at Zeno
every now and then. Zeno leaned back
: in his chair, looking from Frost to
O'Rourke with a mischievous, snakyness
J of glance, which expressed with tolerable
clearness his own feeling at the turn af-
fairs had taken. O'Rourke, with his
[ hand on the back of chair, stood at the
e head of the table, and never took his eyes
e from Zeno for an instant.
write me a telegram, my faithful
Frost" said Zeno, suddenly. Date from
n here. From Angelo, Angelo, to DR..
T. Brun, B-r-u-n, two dots over the u, my
9 good Frost, If you please. Thirtyeight
: Hollington place, N. w. Have you that
o DOWN. Check book. Immediate That
a is ALL"
}, "Give me the other forms, Frost, II
/ you please" said O'Rourke. ut will save
= trouble to keep them, perhaps. 1t would
d be pity to have to rewrite them. Thanh
IS YOU"
The telegram was dispatched to DR.
Brun, who responded in person, and aftel
e a parley paid O'Rourke the sum demand
II ed.
When O'Rourke and Frost reached tn,
. formers chambers after this episode
: Frost told of his fears for Dobroski.
: II think" he said, leaning forwar'
= and speaking in a whisper, "they wan
= to get the old man away-spirit him on
~ O. the country"
"Dobroski?"
"Dobroski. Wroblewskoff's In the pa
- Of the Russian government, and the oil
~ mans been in the very middle of all tn
plots against the Gear and the govern
ment this fifty year. It's my notion the
. want to get him into Russia and squeez
~ things out of him there. I guess they
m make 1t warm for him II ever they
Us get him into the Cars dominions."
!e' "But he will never be idiot enough I
ne 70 there" said O'Rourke half to himsel
co This was horrible If 1t were to be belie'
ed. To have left spies at liberty to dc
10 the old man and Illustrate his plans we
ms bad and base enough, since he who di
It, and was paid for doing 1t, had pr
ed fessed to be with him heart and soul, b,
to hand him over to his enemies VIZ
a worse. mo, no." he said "Dobroski
IN too willy to be caught by any trap Of Il
Russians. He knows better than ventu
ly. into any part of the Cars dominions
he "They amt going to ask his leave
nd whispered Frost. 'l'm certain about oil
m thing, and l can average the rest. They
IN going to drug him. I'm sure of tina
Use Zeno's been at me-Wroblewskof been
i've me. l mean. He's been at me about he
ow to give a man drug over and over agai
old Look here, he's brand new furnished b
ing rooms. caught chap making sketch
yer of the walls one day. Ugly as sin t
ess house was too and fellow there MAXI
hat mixtures Of the inside Of II. Walt
of You help to hunt this down. He sc
me down to the railway station with
an OF packing cases-one lot for Calais a
ged another for Vienna. His rooms did
ase stand In want of new furnishin' a bit. a
res these yer packin' cases came from
me- same establishment he got his furnitu
ave from. Do you see anything in all tn
now2"
oke Nothing" O'Rourke confessed-"not
me ing" He began to think that Frost "
inventing some sham secret to keep ba
you what he knew, and he watched and II
sui ened keenly, but with no great appe
ance of interest.
A.. "Try a bit further" said Frost, 81
yro' leaning forward and speaking in WI
"a per- "This struck me as being all
our tie bit queer. l wasn't let know mu
ou and 1t kind of piqued me. 30 took WI
into the Tottenham Court Road. and
got into talk with a warehouseman.
ted wasn't long In finding out what I'd que
cold ed to be about the thing before. !
that stock for Calais was the same as the ST
!, o.. Wanna and the stock for Vienna v