The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-28
CHAPTER XIII.


The man in charge Of the apartment
house at No. % Rue de Santin was
short, dumpy man, Of the name Of Gug-
h2tof Though he spoke French fluent
h, even with the accent Of a native. bis
high Tartar cheek bones. his oblique
syes, and gutteral information when unduly
excited, sufficiently attested his Russian
krigin-
In Gughatof. the Russian. NJ Cas-
ngne found he had a far more difficult
person to deal with than the little laun-
dress, plant By reason Of her excessive
greed With Gughatof. whose political
opinions now constituted his whole life
motive. mere gain was a secondary con
Eideration- He devoted all his spare time,
which was considerable, as his wife did
most Of the work, to the discussion Of
politics he was one Of those men Of
whom people say: He would sooner talk /
politics than eat"
The Partisan detective now felt that Il
while his progress 50 far had been salts
factory, the greatest caution on his part
WIS Necessary. He had seen the most
likely cases ruined By too hasty conduct
BE did not suffer himself to be unduly
slated By the extremely satisfactory out
come Of bis interview with Nine Beau
santin- BE went about his work with the
greatest elaboration A man less a mas
ter Of his difficult profession would have
at oncs excited suspicion, which would
have resulted In the Russians closing
his mouth forever NJ Cassagne avoided |
this fatal error By the very elaboration ,
with which be went about bis work His
first step was to find out the kind Of man .
be had to deal with In two days. he I
had possessed himself Of all necessary
information On the third be continued
to ingratiate himself with the janitor, In
regard to whose antecedents and pecu- I
karities be had been 50 careful to make
himself acquainted
On the nth day the morning train bore I
the dstectivs away from Blois, the richer .
for some very important information. He 4
bad shown the portrait In the Iockef to
Gughaton, and the concierge, Ike Nine. a
Beaussnftn. had declared II to be the
portrait Of the American Henry Graham. n
In addition be bad actually persuaded .
Gughzto6 that he had been ali the time y
entertaining In Henry Graham a SPY Of
the Russian government: that he. Cas- D
saxns, belonged TO friendly circle Of Il
French cooperative Nihilists having ita D
-%~>.>-At ~~@o - 4 ~ - ludl t1rNnHIn had
been at one time a member Of the circle | n
and that be was about to betray his late
comrades. Gughatof, to whom a spv N
was as red rag to a bull, had greedilv b,
swallowed this remarkable fairy tale Of OF
the detsctiye's, especially when the latter q,
bad produced a skiiIfully prepared docu- at
nent In Russian which not only com =,
nended him to the Offices Of all good Nj hs
ailists. but even gave distinct account Sd
Il the object Of his mission and minutslv bl
described bis person Tor purposes Of iden- fu
ihcntion-
True, Cssszgns was the author himself AZ
this useful paper and had forwarded Il on
wo days previously to DAubnron In DO
'srix, where IL had been Translated into N,
luszian before being rs.aFned to BIois. tel
Tut happily the concierge was ignorant or
this deceit, and thu plan had therefore II,
,ccecded perfectly. Burning with hatred
'r ths supposed SPY. Gurhstoff had told ~
! be knew Of his late guest, which was
follows:
Henry Graham bad resided IN Biois blr
me SIX or seven years. during which kp.
ne hs bad had ccxrsspondsncs with two BE-