The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-03-11
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q Story Of
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GEORGE BARR
M'CUTCHEON
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Alas for the committee or ten! The
widest fox il the history of the world
was never 20 willy as the Iron Count
Some day they We're to find out that
h. was using them to pull his choicest
chestnuts from the fire.
The committee was seated around
the long table i'm the sitting, breath
less room, the armOrer at the head.
Those who came by way of the sewer
had performed additions i'm the queer
toilet room that once had been q secret
vault for the storing of feudal plum
der. What air there was came from
the narrow ventilator that burrowed
its way up to the shop of William
Spantz or through the chimney hole
in the ceiling. Olga Platanova sat far
down the side, a moody, inscrutab1e
expression i'm her dark eyes. At
Spantz's right lounged Peter Brutus,
a lawyer, formerly secretary to the
Iron Count and now his sole represent
ative among these people. He was q
dark faced, snal1y eyed young man,
with q mop of coarse black hair that
hung OminouSly low over his high, re-
ceding forehead.
julius Spantz, the armOrer's son, q
placid young man of goodly physical
proportions, sat next to Brutus, while
down the table ranged others deep i'm
the consideration of the worlds gray
est problems. One of the women was
Nine. DrOvnask, whose husband had
been sent to Siberia for life, and the
other Anna Cromer, a rabid red lee
turer, who had been driven from the
United States, together with her anna
bic husband, an assassin of some dis
tinction and many aliases, at present
foreman lin charge of one of the bridge
building crews on the new railroad.
Every man in the party, and there
were eight, for Olga was not q mem
Der of the ''ten," wore over the lower
part of his face false black beard Of
huge dimensions-not that they were
averse to recognition among them
selves, but in the fear that by some
hook or crook Dangloss or his agents
might be able to look i'm upon them
Brutus was speaking. "The man il
a spy. He has been brought here
from America to Tullis."
"We shall continue to watch his
every movement" said William Spantz
''Time will tell. When we are posi-
tive that he Is detective and that
he is dangerous there is a way to stop
his operations"
''DanglOss suspects more than one of
u.s." ventureG Brutus, his gaze travel
ing toward Olga. There was lewd adj
miration i'm that steady glance. f'But
We'll fool the old fox. The time will
soon be here for the blow that frees
Graustark from the yoke"
lit appeared i'm the course of his re-
marks that MarlanX had friends and
supporters in all parts of Graustark
Hundreds of men i'm the hills, includ-
ing honest shepherds and the dishonest
brigands who thrived on them, coal
miners and wood Stealcrs, hunters and
outlaws were ready to do his bidding
when the time was ripe. Moreover,
Marlanx had been successful in his
design to fill the railway construction
crews with the riffraff of all Europe,
all of whom We're under the control of
leaders who could sway them i'm any
movement provided it was against law
and order. .........
With u cunning that commands adj
miration, the Iron Count deliberately
sanctioned the assassination of the lit
the prince OF the reds, knowing that
the condemnation OF the world would
fall upon them instead Of upon him
and that his own actions following the
regicide would Mt once stamp him as
irrevocably opposed to anarchy and all
OF its practices!
In the course Of his remarks Peter
Brutus touched hastily upon the sub
ject on the little prince.
He's not very big" said he, with
laugh, "and it won't require q very
big bomb to blow him to smithereens.
lie will
"Stopr cried Olga Platanova, spring
inc to her feet u cannot listen to
you! You shall not speak OF it i'm that