Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-13


 lever, and he carried 1t attached to . knotted bcotlace.
 1 Did he but know how far the his torical parallel had gone that day-how Jocky Mason had waited for hours out side his residence in the hope of seeing him and becoming acquainted with his appearance-he might have been sur. prised, but he would never have guess. ed the evil that this man would accom- pIish, and in some measure accomplish unconsciously.
 | He was not in his club five minutes when a friend tackled him for con cert subscription.
 "Anson, you are fond of music. Here is a new violinist, Hungarian, who wants a start heard him in Buda- pest last autumn. He is good chap. Take some stalls"
 Philip glanced at the programme.
 "Eckstein at the piano, see. He must be star. Who Is the soprano? I have never heard her name before"
 Miss Evelyn Atherley," read his friend over his shoulder. .I don't know her myself. Dine with me here tomorrow night We will go and hear the performance afterward."
 ''Can you distribute stalls among your acquaintances?
 ''My dear fellow, will be delighted. Sorry I can't help Jowkacsy bit my self"
 "You are helping him very we'll. will take 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 a terror to many of his friends, ran off to secure another vic tim.
 Philip had sent his hanson home. Shortly before ii he quilted the club, intending to walk to Park lane by a circuitous route long enough to con- sume big cigar.
 He chanced to pass the hall in which 1 the concert was to take place. A few people were hurrying from the stage door. Evidently 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" l The man did not seem to understand, so 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.
 A lady quilted the hall a few seconds later.
 Are you engaged% Philip heard her ask the cabman.
 "No, miss."
 "Take me to No. A Maida 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 a six yards walk. He glanced at the cabman and fancied the man gave 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 brougham standing at some little dis tance. They entered. The coachman, who received no instructions, drove of in the same direction as the hanson, and as If to make sure be was being followed the cab driver turned to look behind him.
 Once in Naples Philip saw a man stealthily following a woman down an unlighted alley. Without a moments hesitation he went after the pair and was just in time to prevent the would be assassin from plunging an uplifted stiletto into the woman's back. The recollection of that little drama flashed into his mind now. There was a sug- gestion of the Neapolitan bravo's air in the 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 befsre he dismissed it from his thoughts. The distance to Maida Cres- cent was not great.
 While thinking he was acting. He sprang Into the nearest hansom.
 "A brougham is following a hansom up LanglIam place." he said to the driver. Keep behind them. If they separate, follow the brougham. When 1t stops. pull up at the best place 10 avoid notice." The man nodded. Nothing surprises a London cabman. Soon the three ve- hicles were spinning along the Outer circle.
 It was not very dark night, the sky being cloudlcss 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 o5- strUctiOn. he would turn out of the park by the nearer gate: that was all.