The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1911-04-26

SUBSTANCE 10 Ol consequence ---.-
"And you remember where / first
met your It was while you were in
vestigating the shooting of Senior Al
varez in the German embassy. That
shooting, as you know, was done by
Prince d'Abruzzi SO almost from the
beginning my plans went wrong be-
cause of the assumption Of authority
by the prince. The paper he took
from Senior Alvarez after the shoot
ing was supposed to bear vitality upon
Mexico's attitude toward our plan,
but, as 1t developed, 1t was about an
other matter entirely"
Eyes, / know" said Mr.. Grimm.
1.-The event of that night which you
did not learn was that Germany
agreed to join the compact upon con-
ditions. Mr.. Rankin, who was at
tached to the German embassy in an
~dvisory capacity delivered the an
swer to me, and pretended to faint
in order that might reasonably avoid
you"
II surmised that much" remarked
Mr.. Grimm.
"The telegraphing l did with my
fan was as much to distract your at
tention as anything else, and at the
same time to Identify myself to Mr..
Rankin, whom had never met. You
knew him, Of course; / didn't"
She was silent a while as her eyes
| IN a. Nf f. Grtv n
nally she went on:
When next ] met you It was in the
Venezuelan legation; you were inves-
tigating the theft Of the fifty thousand
dollars In gold from the safe. l
thrust myself into that case, because
/ was afraid of you; and mercilessly
destroyed a woman's name in your
eyes to further my plans. made you
believe that Senorita Rodriguez stole
that fifty thousand dollars, and l re-
turned 1t to you, presumably, while
| we stood in her room that night. Only
| 1t was not her room-it was mine!
stole the fifty thousand dollars! All
the details, even to her trip to see
Mr. Grlswold In Baltimore in company
with Mr.. Cadwallader, had been care
fully worked out; and she did bring
me the combination of the safe from
Mr.. Griswold on the strength of q
forged letter. But she didn't know it.
There was no theft, of course. l had
no intention of keeping the money. 1t
was necessary to take it to distract
attention from the thing / did do
break lock inside the safe to get
sealed packet that contained Vene-
zuela's answer to our plan. i sealed
that packet again, and there was
never a suspicion that 1t had been
opened"
only a suspicion" Mr.. Grimm cor
rected
Then came the abduction of Mon
sieur Bossegur, the French ambassa.
COR. | plunged into that case as did
n the other because | was afraid of
you and had to know just how much
you knew. 1t was explained to you
as an attempt at extortion with de-
ails which l carefully supplied AS a
matter of fact, Monsieur Bolssegur
onnnsed nnr nlans even ENDANGERED
them; and 1t was not advisable to
have him recalled or even permit
hin to resign at the moment. So we
bducted him, intending to hold him
until direct orders could reach him
ON Paris. Understand, please, that
III these things were made possible
~ the aid and cooperation of dozens,
cores, of agents who were under my
riders; every person who appeared in
hat abduction was working at my di.
ection. The ambassadors unexpect.
ID escape disarranged our plans; but
he was taken out of the embassy by
orce the second time under your
Tery eyes. The darkness which made
his possible was due to the fact that
lille you were looking for the switch,
nd / was apparently aiding, was hold |
ing my hand over 1t all the time to |
eep you from turning on the light. |
You remember that?"
Mr.. Grimm nodded.
"All the rest of it you know" she
Concluded YEARLY. You compelled |
me to leave the Venezuelan legation
y your espionage, but in the crowded |
hotel to which | moved had little DIFF.
iculty avoiding your Mr.. Hastings
your Mr. Blair and your Mr.. Johnson
so | came and went freely without
your knowledge, The escape of the
rince from prison you arranged SC
you understand all of that, as well as
the meeting and attempted signing OF
the compact, and the rapid recovery
Of Senior Alvarez. And, after all, il
was my fault that our plans failed. be
cause If / had not been-been I'm.
Easy as to your condition and had not
made the mistake of going to the de.
serted little house where you were a
prisoner, the plans would have sue.
ceeded. the compact been signed"
we would nave succvruvd IN sp,r.
or you," explained Isabel 1--WE were
AFRAID OF you, Mr.. Grimm. It was a
compliment to you that we considered
1t necessary to account for vour
whereabouts at the time of the sign.
ing Of the compact"
And If you had succeeded" ra.
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