Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-12


 saw-the sun searching out the gold in her brown hair She was hatless. Her white gown emphasized the straight line of her figure. She paused to pom der some new arrangement of line of hydrangeas, and he cHught glimpse of her against pillar of crimson ram- blers. Then he went back to the baron, ! How much of our row in the hills got into the newspapersi" he asked. sitting down.
 "Nothing-absoutely nothing. The presence of the Sophia Margaret off the capes caused inquiries to be made at the embassy. and several core spondents came down. here to inter- view me. Then the revenue officers made some raids in the hills oppor. tunely and created local diversion. You were hurt while cleaning your gun-please do not forget that-and you are a friend of my family. a very eccentric character. who has chosen to live in the wilderness"
 The judge and Armitage laughed at these explanations. though there was little consraint upon them all. The barons question was still unanswered.
 "You ceased to be of particular inter- est some time ago. While you were sick the fraudulent von Kissel was ar rested in Australia. and believe some of the newspapers apologized to you handsomely"
 That was very generous of them." and Armitage shifted his position slightly. white skirt had dashed again in the Claiborne garden. and he was trying to follow 1t. At the same time there were questions he wished to ask and have answered. The Bar oness von Marhof had already gone to Newport: the baron fingered merely out of good feeling toward Armitage, for 1t was as Armitage that he was still known to the people of Storm Springs. to the doctor and nurses who tended him.
 The news from Vienna seems tran quill enough" remarked Armitage. He had not yet answered the baron's ques- tion. and the old gentleman grew rest less at the delay. "I read in the Neue Freie Presse awhile ago that Charles Louis is showing an unexpected ca pecity for affairs. It is reported, too. that an heir is in prospect. The Win kelried conspiracy is only bad dream. and we may safely turn to other af- fairs"
 "Yes. but the margin by which we escaped is too narrow to contemplate" We have a saying that a miss is as good as a mile" remarked Judge Clai borne We have never told MT. Ar mitage that we found the papers in the safety box at New York to be as he described them" 1
 "They are dangerous. We have hesl- tated as to whether there was more risk in destroying them than in pre- serving them" said the baron. .
 Armitage shrugged his shoulders and laughed.
 "They are out of my hands. I posi- lively decline to accept their further custody" .,
 A messenger appeared with tele- gram. which the baron opened and read.
 "It's from the commander of the Sophia Margaret, who is just leaving Rio Janeiro for Trieste and reports his prisoners safe and in good health"
 Tt was happy thought to have him continue his cruise to the Brazilian coast before returning homeward. By the time he delivers those two scoun- drels to his government their fellow conspirators will have forgotten they ever lived. But"-and Judge Claiborne shrugged his shoulders and smiled dis fngenuously-"as lawyer l deplore such methods Think what a stir would be made in this country if it were known that two men had been kid naped in the sovereign state of Vir- ginia and taken out to sea under con- voy of ships carrying our flag for trans. fer to an Austrian battleship! That's what we get for being a free republic that cannot countenance the extradi: tion of a foreign citizen for a political offense."
 Armitage was not listening. Ques- tions of international law and comity