The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1907-08-31

touch card again wonder Arsw Nefea |
Eve sworn to tAas? fsut Hnsuas aso:s |
must change sOme tirae. 1t eaaf1' - "a |
forever ike this"
A knock Al the street door krsfhe tise |
thread Of lis gr0vifngs. but he vssS
On pacing sin. and did not bear step
which came blunderinS up the staircase
and halted outside his door.
Come in J" he cried. in startled an
swer to Iapping on the panel. and q
slattsrnly servant girl pushed her head
round the edge Of the door.
Here's somebody for you, Mr.. Frost
Gentleman with a portmanteau. He
lidn't give no name"
I'm come down and have a look at
him." returned Mr.. Frost. taking up his
candle. Four separate flights of dirty
wooden stairs, uncarpeted. brought him to
the hall. Frost, holding his candle high.
advanced toward the shadowy figure Of his
guest. Its you ~ he said, with an odd
laugh. Come upstairs"
The guest, seizing the portmanteau,
mounted after him, and the dingy apart
ment at the top of the house was reached.
us this the palace you continually
live in?" asked the guest, with the faint
est possible trace of some foreign accent
in his voice. II had expected from your
last letter to have found you in marble
halls with vassals and serfs at your side.
Ohio !! you have been at 1t again, sup
pose," said the visitor, making a move
ment in imitation of the dealing of pack
of cards. Isn't it time you dropped
that? Haven't you lost enough by this
| time? What should you have done If
had not turned up?"
Il don't know" Frost answered, care
| lessly enough. but l was thinking at
| the very minute when l heard you knock
| at the door, and saying to myself, III
drop it, I'll tell you the truth, Zeno-'
| Tell me as much of the solid truth as
your constitution will allow, but do not
call me by that name. Wroblewskoff will
answer. It's jawbreaker, but it's very
easy when you come to know it. Well.
said Mr., Zeno. smiling still, "this is the
advantage of talking over things. l have
| lived in New York a year or two. You
knew me there. You meet me here. You
know me to be safe mana man to be
depended upon. You introduce me to
Dobroski- Well, at what are you
staring?"
II will see you boiled in OIL" returned
Mr.. Frost, with extreme slowness; II
will see you roasted on gridiron, l will
see you cut up so extremely fine that
microscope won't find you-and then
won't introduce you to Dobroski."
Zeno got up from his seat, and kneel'
ing on the floor unstrapped his portman-
teau and took therefrom a razor case, q
small metal soap bowl and a brand new
shaving brush. Frost watched him in 81
lence
Zeno took off his coat and threw II
across the back of a chair, then produced
pair of scissors, and taking a great
handful of his beard, sliced it off before
the glass then another, and another, ant
another, until he was close cropped al
over the cheeks and throat and chin. Mex
he attacked the mustache, and cropped
that also so close as the scissors woult
go to the skin. Then pouring littl
hot water into the metal bowl, he begal
to lather> himself with great energy, an,
then to shave. Even to himself tn
metamorphosis he produced must hav
seemed more than little droll. Unde
the razor he came out no longer Gree
and austere in contour, but chubby, wit
tat rOunQ cneekS, ana chin very curl
ously thrust forward and pointed, an
beneath the lower lip and the base of tn
chin there was a good half inch in lengt
less than one would have expected to FIND
The change was amazing, and when MI
Zeno drew a spectacle case from waist
coat pocket, set the glasses on his nose
and, removing a wig, appeared with hal
an inch of sandy natural hair below il
and forehead an inch higher than it ha
been, the disguise looked impenetrablt
He took a handkerchief from his Goa
pocket, rubbed corner of it on the soa
in his shaving bowl, and applied it vigol
ously to his lips. The corner of tn
handkerchief went crimson, and Nj
: Zeno's cherry lips grew pallid and DIR.
He soaped and moistened another corne
of the handkerchief, and scrubbed at h
e eyebrows The handkerchief becam
e black, and the eyebrows sandy, like til
a hair. Then he resumed his coat, set tt
two candles upon the table, drew cha
;. between them, and sat down.
Ito be continued.)