Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-03-06

not pretend not to understand you, but
your good fortune Is less agreeable to me
than 1t is to you. Will you kindly make
a matter Of business of our talk, sir?"
THAT Is just what l wish. l happen
at this moment to be pressed for eleven
hundred pounds"
"Ah, sir !" said Zeno, ''if should hap
pen to be pressed for any such sum as
that / am afraid / should be forced to
quit the country"
II am about to transfer the pressure
from my shoulders to your own" said
OItourke quietly. THE sum is small
enough in all conscience. 1 merely men
ton it because l happen to want it 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 bite, Mr..
Wroblewskoif."
Every WE'LL" said Zeno, II throw up
my hand and go. That is all. 1t is not
in my power to find such a sum or any
thing like such sum"
"Will 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. go to that table," he said "and
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.
Wroblewskof 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
of glance which expressed with toerable
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. 1T 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
papley 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.
II 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. WroblewskoT's in the pay
of the Russian government, and the old
mans been in the very middle of all the
plots against the Gar and the govern
ment this fifty year. It's my netion they
want to get him into Russia and squeeze
things out Of him there. l 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. u
"They amt going to ask his leave, -
whispered Frost. I'm certain about one
thing, and can average the rest. They'r
going to drug him. I'm sure of that.
Zeno's been at me-Wroblewskof been at
me, l mean. He's been at me about how
to give a man a drug over and over again
Look here, he's brand new furnished his
rooms. l caught a chap making sketches
of the walls one day. Ugly as sin the
house was, too, and a fellow there making
pictures of the inside of it. Wait bit
You help to hunt this down. He sent
| ule uOWn " the runway bldllOu Will Il lOl
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 enthusiastically
ing" He began to think that Frost was
inventing some sham secret to keep hack
what he knew, and he watched and list
ened keenly, but with no great appear
ance of interest.
'Try a bit further" said Frost, still
leaning forward and speaking in a whis-
per. This struck me as being all lit
tie bit queer. l wasn't let know much,
and it kind of piqued me, 50 took walk
into the Tottenham Court Road, and l
got into talk with a warehouseman.
wasn't long in finding out what I'd guess
ed to be about the thing before. The
stock for Calais was the same as the stock
for Vienna, and the stock for Vienna was
the same, to a teacup, as had gone to
Zeno's rooms. Anything in all that,
now7" The patriots eyes were bent upon
the floor, and his face was shaded in his
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