The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-02-20
CHAPTER XIII.

! The man in charge of the apartment
I house at No. % Rue de Santfn was a
short, dumpy man. Of the name Of Gug-
hatof. Though be spoke French fluent
Z ", even with the accent of native. his
high Tartar cheek bones. his oblique
eyes, and gutteral information when unduly
excited, sufficiently attested his Russian
origin.
In Gughatof, the Russian, NJ. Cas-
sagpa 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 politicsl
opinions now constituted his whole life
motive. mere gain was a secondary con
sideration. 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
while his progress so far had been salts
factory. the greatest caution on his part
was necessary. He had seen the most
likely cases ruined by too hasty conduct:
He did not suffer himself to be unduly
elated by the extremely satisfactory out
come of his interview with Nine. Beau
santin. He went about his work with the
greatest elaboration. A man less 9 mas
ter OF his difficult profession would have
at once excited suspicion. which would
have resulted in the Russians closing
his mouth forever. NJ. Cassagne avoided
this fatal error by the very elaboration
l. Oh,
first step was to find out the kind Of man
he had TO deal with. In two days. he
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-
Earities he had been SO careful to make
himself acquainted.
On the fifth day the morning train bore
the detective away from Blois, the richer
for some very important Information He
had shown the portrait in the locket to
Gughatof. and the concierge, like Nine.
Beausantin, had declared it to be the
portrait of the American Henry Graham
In addition he had actually persuaded
Gughatoff that he had been all the time
in Henry Graham spy OF
che RUSSIAN government Jndt he. N&S- ]
ga gne. belonged TO a friendly circle OF !
French cooperative Nihilists having its |
Headquarters in Paris; that Graham had |
been at one time a member of the circle. |
and that he was about to betray his late |
comrades. Gughatof. to whom a spy
was as a red rag to bull. had greed;ly 4
swallowed this remarkable fairy tsle Of /
the detectives, especially when the latter
had produced skillfully prepared docu-
ment in Russian which not only com
ner i'm to the Offices of all good Nj I
hill at even gave a distinct account
IF Jet of his mission and infinitely
I his person for purposes Of iden-
CasSagne was the author himself
II this useful paper and had forwarded il
;wo days previously to DAuhuron in
Paris, where II hsd been translated into
Russian before being returned 10 Blois.
But happily the concierge was ignorant
II this deceit, and the plan had therefore
ucceeded perfectly. Burning with hatred
or the supposed spy, Gughatoff had told
IL he knew Of his late guest, which was
IS follows:
Henry Graham had resided in Blois
ONE sir or seven years, during which
line he had had correspondents with two