Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-03-06


Suppose we drive there?"
"As you please" returned Zeno.
In a little while the three were seated
together in quiet. Frost ordered cold
lunch, and intimated to the waiter that
they wished to be left alone until they
should ring for his further attendance.
81 had not the advantage of knowing
you very intimately at Janenne," said
O'Rourke. when they were finally left
alone Even if / had had that advan-
tage, / do not believe | should have rec
ognized you but for the little accident
of this morning. We have proverb to
the effect that little pitchers have long
ears l shall think of that proyerb with
respect forever after to-day"
you choose to be facetous, SIR" said
Zeno, with an air of chagrin. 81 will
not pretend not to understand you. but
your good fortune is less agreeable to me
than it is to you. Will you kindly make
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 Tor any such sum as
that / am afraid l should be forced to
quit the country"
81 am about to transfer the pressure
from my shoulders to your own" said
O'Rourke quietly. "The sum is small
enough in all conscience. l merely men
ton it because l happen to want it now.
1t does not leave me solitary ive-pound
note when my immediate necessities are
met. Your employers will find my hum
BILE charge no more than a hea-bite, Mr..
Wroblewskoff"
Very WELL" said Zeno, 81 throw up
my hand and go. That is all. 1t IL not
In my power to find such a sum or any
thing like such a 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.. WroblewskoF, Frost. /
will take care of him. Now, if you please,
write Guard every dock and station.
Wroblewskoff is Zeno.' Repeat that on
every form. Address to Bremaner to
Dobroski, Slater. Hughes, MacAdam,
Joyce; address them from yourself at
your own address. 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 tolerable
elearness his own feeling at the turn af-
fairs had taken. ORourke, with his
hand on the back of 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 II, my
good Frost, if you please. Thirtyeight
Hollingten 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
parley 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.
81 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. Wroblewskoffs 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 notion 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
60 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 die
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. lie knows better than ventur,
into any part Of the Cars dominions.'
They amt going to ask his leave.
, whispered Frost. I'm certain about on,
thing, and can average the rest. Theyr,
going to drug him. I'm sure of that
, Zeno's been at me-Wroblewskof been n
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