The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-10-12

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, sir ?"'
THAT is just what 1 wish. 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 l am afraid 1 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. l merely men
ton it because l happen to want it now.
1t does not leave me a solitary five-pound
note when my immediate necessities are
met. Your employers will find my hum
BILE charge no more than fea-bite, Mr..
| Wroblewskoff."
VERY WE'LL" said Zeno, II throw up
my hand and go. That is all. 1t is not
in my power to find such sum or any
thing like such sum-"
Twill you ring the bell for me, Frost?'
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 a 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. $50 to that table," he said, land
write to my dictation. Are you ready?
| Never mind Mr.. Wroblewskoff, Frost. !
will take care of him. Now, if you please,
write: Guard every dock and station.
Wroblewskoff is Zeno.' Repeat that on
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
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 a chair, stood at the
head of the table, and never took his eyes
| from Zeno for an instant.
Write me a telegram, my faithful
Frost" said Zeno, suddenly. Date from
here. From Angelo, Angelo, to DR..
| Brun, B-r-u-n, two dots over the u, my
good Frost, if you please. Thirtyeight
| Hollington place, N. w. Have you that
down? Check book. Immediate That
| is ALL"
Give me the other forms, Frost, if
you please" said O'Rourke. ut will save
| trouble to keep them, perhaps. 1t would
be pity to have to rewrite them. Thank
YOU"
The telegram was dispatched to Dr.
Brun, who responded in person, and after
a parley paid O'Rourke the sum demand
| ed
When O'Rourke and Frost reached the
| formers chambers after this episode,
Frost told of his fears for Dobroski.
Il think" he said leaning forward
and speaking in a whisper, they want
to get the old man away-spirit him out
O. the country"
"Dobroski?"
| 'Dobroski. Wroblewskoff's in the pay
of the Russian government, and the old
mans been in the very middle of all the
plots against the Car and the govern
ment this fifty year. It's my notion they
want to get him into Russia and squeeze
things out of him there. 1 guess they'll
make it warm for him if ever they do
get him into the Cars dominions."
But he will never be idiot enough to
go there" said O'Rourke half to himself
This was horrible if it were to be believ-
ed. To have left spies at liberty to dog
the old man and Illustrate his plans was
bad and base enough, since he who did
| it, and was paid for doing it, had pro-
fessed to be with him heart and soul, but
to hand him over to his enemies was
worse. NO. no." he said; "Dobroski's
too willy to be caught by any trap of the
Russians. He knows better than venture
into any part of the Cars dominions"
'They amt going to ask his leave"
whispered Frost. "Im certain about one
thing, and l can average the rest They're
going to drug him. I'm sure of that.
Zeno's been at -Wroblewskoff been at
me, l mean. He's been at me about how
to give man a drug over and over again.
LOOK mere, ne DTdnQ new 1ur0lSQeQ MS
rooms. 1 caught chap making sketches
of the walls one day. Ugly as sin the
house was, too, and fellow there making
pictures of the inside of it. Wait bit.
You help to hunt this down. He sent
me down to the railway station with lot
Of packing cases-one lot for Calais and
another for Vienna. His rooms didn't
stand in want of new furnishin' bit, and
these yer packin' cases came from the
same establishment he got his furniture
from. Do you see anything in all that,
now?'
Nothing" O'Rourke confessed-"noth-
ing" He began to think that Frost was
inventing some sham secret to keep back
what he knew, and he watched and list
ened keenly, but with no great appear
ance of interest.
"Try bit further" said Frost, still
leaning forward and speaking in whis-
per. "This struck me as being all lit
tie bit queer. I wasn't let know much,
and it kind of piqued me, so took walk
into the Tottenham Court Road, and
| got info talk with warehOlseman