The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-02-26

reckessne dhing hurriedy through mist
peculiar everything fog
the did still as he had
it. partly went the path and after much ublng found
the knob of the doorbe and gave sharp pull
from depth and distance but followed from
inside the house. and although pulled the bell again again
could hear nothing the dripping of the about
be my way, but unless where going
little chance Of making any speed and determined that
until learned my bearings would back the fog
Sol pushed the door open and stepped into the house
6" found myself in long and hail. upon
opened from either side At the end of the hall
bauade which ended sweeping The baustrade
cred with heavy rugs the walls hung
with them The door left closed but the
of reception waiting and that empty The door
below also open with the idea would surely
there, walked the hail. evening dress and felt
did not look like burglar, had great fear that should
the inmates of the house, he would shoot sight
The second door in the hall opened into dngom This also
empty One person had been dining table the cloth had
been cleared away and Pickering candle showed haed wine
glasses and the ashes cigarettes The greater part the
in complete darkness.
"By this time had grown 1
dng about strange house, and that apparently
it. The silence of the place began and in sudden
unexpanabe panic started for the open But turned
sitting BENCH which the baustrade had
hidden from His eyes shut and he sleeping oundy
The before had been bewdered could
one but sight of this I much bewidered
HE large giant height with long yellow hair
which hung below his shoulders He dressed red shirt
that beted the waist and hung outside black velvet
which, stuffed high black recognized
that of Russian but what Russian
ant in his native livery could be doing private house Knights
bridge ncomprehensbe
81 advanced and touched the shoulder and after
effort he aoke and seeing pang his feet and began bow
ing rapidly and making depreaoy had picked enough
Russian Petersburg make that the poogzng for
having fallen asleep and also able explain him that
desired to his master.
He nodded vigorously, and sad will Exceency come
way? The Princess s here .,
I distinctly princess and was good deal
embarrassed had thought would be easy enough to explain
intrusion but how was another
matter and followed him down the hall puzzled
Gas advanced he noticed that the front door standing
and with exclamation of surprise, fastened and
closed Then he raped twice the door of apparently
the dwngroom There reply his knock tapped
again. and then d and crngng subsequently opened the door
and stepped inside He withdrew himself stupidity
at me- shaking his head.
She not there he said He stood for gazing bankly
through the open door, toward the dngoom
The solitary candle which still burned assure him that
the also empty He bowed me toward the
drawngroom She above, he ad will inform the Princess
the Excelency's presence
Before could stop him he running up the
staircase leaving alone at the open door the drawing
decided that the adventure had quite enough
been able explain the Russian that way in the fog
and only wanted back into the again.
the house the instant
Of when first the bell of the house had
expectation than that would be by paroraid who
would direct certainly could that
would disturb Russian princess in her bouo might
thrown out by her athletic bodyguar STILL thought ought
to leave the house without making apology
worst should could show card They could hardly
that member of Embassy had any designs upon harak
The room in which stood dmly lighted but could
that like the hail. hung with heavy Persian rugs
filed with palms, and there the unmakabe
OF Russian cigarettes and strange that carried back
the bazars of Vvostock Near the front windows grand
and the other end of the heavily of
black wood picked with ivory The ovhun
with canopy of sken daperes sort acove In