The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-01
Me Port of
Missing
Men.
By Meredith NicboISon,
Author Of The House Of =
Thousand Candles"
Copyright. 1907. by the Bobbs-Merril
Company.
CONTINUED from Last Issue.)

so.
Jules Chauvenet is the correct
name. | must inform my men," said
the minister.
"You wish TO arrest hlmT
"You ought to know me better than
that, Mr.. John Armitage! or course
shall not arrest him. But l must get
that packet can't have II peddled
all over Europe, and ! can't advertise
my business 10y having him arrested
here. IL could catch him once In
Vienna should know what 10 do with
him. He and winkelried got hold OF
our plans in that Bulgarian AFFAIR last
year and checkmated me. He carries
his wares to the best buyers-Berlin
and St Petersburg. SO there's wo-
man. is therei I've found that there
usually Isl
There's a very charming young
American girl, 10 be more exact"
The old man growled and eyed Armi-
tage sharply, while Armitage studied
the photograph.
Il hope you are not meditating
preposterous marriage. Go back where
rou belong. make proper marriage
md watt
EVENTS. And John Armitage laugh
ed. Il tell You. sir, that waiting is not
my forte. That's what ! like about
America. They're up and at II over
there. The man who waits is lost
They're a lot of swiner' rumbled
Won Stroebel's heavy bass.
II still owe allegiance to the Schom-
burg crown, so don't imagine you are
hitting me. But the swine are indus
.rious and energetic. Who knows but
that John Armitage might become IA
nous among them-in politics, in
anance. But for the deplorable acci-
dent OF foreign birth he might be-
come president OF the United States
As It is. there are thousands OF other
offices worth getting-why nOt?'
II tell you not TO be fool. You are
young and fairly clever"
Armitage laughed at the reluctance
OF the counts praise
Thank you. with all my heart"
Go back where you belong and you
will have no regrets. Something may
happen-who can tell? Events-evenfs
If a man will watch and wait and
study events. But''-he gulped down
more OF the brandy-"where and how
do you liver
where? own cattle ranch in
Montana. and since the archduke's
death have lived there. He carried
about 10000 TO America with him.
He took care that should get what
was left when he died. and I am al
most afraid TO tell you that have actu-
ally augmented my Inheritance Just
before | left | bought place In vlr-
ginia to be near Washington when
got tired OF the ranch"
Washington" snorted the count.
"In due course II viii be the storm
center OF the world"
you read the wrong American news
papers," laughed Armitage
They were silent for moment. in
which each was busy with his own
thoughts Then the count remarked
in as amIable tone as he ever used:
"Your French is first rate DO you
speak English as well?"
"As readily as German, I think. You
may recall that | had an English tutor.
and maybe | did not tell you In that
Interview at Paris that had spent a
year at Harvard university"
what the devil did you do that fory'
growled Won Stroebel
From curiosity or ambition. ms you
like. | was in Cambridge 1t the law
school for a year before the archduke
died. That was three years ago. | am
twenty eight. as you may remember
I am detalning you; have no wish 10
rake over the past, but | am sorry
am very sorry-we can't meet on some
common ground"
II ask you 10 abandon this democrat
ic nonsense and come back and make
n man Of yourself You might go far
very far-but this democracy has hold
OF you like n disease"
what you ask Is impossible. II Is
just as impossible now as it was when
we discussed Il In Paris last year. To
sit down in Vienna and learn how 10
keep that leaning tower of an empire
from tumbling down like n stack OF
bricks-it does not appeal TO me-"
Don't talk TO me like that. II is no.
amusing"
mo: 1t is not funny. To sec men like
you fetching and carrying for a dull
king. who would drop through the
gallows or go to planting turnlps with
out your brains does not appeal Ia
my sense OF humor or 10 my magma.
ton. II | were going to furnish the
brains for an empire | should ride In
the state carriage myself and not be
merely the driver on the box. who
keeps the middle OF the road and looks
out for sharp corners. Here Is n plan
ready to my hand. Let me find that
lost document. appear in Vienna and
announce myself Frederick Augustus,
the son Of the Archduke Kari. knew
both men Intimately. You may remem-
Der that Frederick and | were born In
the same month. j, too. am Frederick
Augustus! We passed commonly in
America as brothers. Many of the per-
sonal effects Of Karl and Augustus are
in my keeping-by the archduke's own
wish. You have spent your life study