New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-17

Charlie "Tha will give old Faner something to think
Boris laughed Not l." he said "Fafner loves mo
little and fears good deal and obevs me COMPLETELY
know perfectly well that pinned il on nv shoulder
and said, Nov. Fanerl next moment his tcetf would
meet in my throat. Wouldn't they old man."
He held the ticket up for half second on his shoulder
and called to the dog Instantly it crouched to spring
and he had barely time to fix it one of the dummies
before Fafner Swcrvng aside from his spring had his
teeth buried in the leather
"Good old boy" said Boris "But I won't try that
trick again. By Jove YOU said YOU wanted drink.
quite forgot.
There's time vet to remember But why is YOUR
room darkenci; 1t is light still outside"
Is" know. only wanted to see Fafner could recog-
nizc color by artificial light 1t is point that might
.un up. What willyOu have whisky"
Anything and plenty, please, said the other
THE meeting Of which Charlie NIccrs had spoken was
that of newly founded and at present unsupported
England had been the home and sanctuary of such
lulcnt folk but recent events such as the Hondsdch
murders had made them reluctantly believe that their
convenient sanctuary would not much longer be open
.1 them There had been planned. therefore. coup Of
,rocous proportions which, since their immunity in
England was certainly threatened would celebrate their
Joss of this tranquil home in a sufficiently becoming
manner. So much was known TO the members O: the
Tub. 1t was known also that 1t would be they col
.c,ivcy individually who would figure in grim
md dclberated tragedy; but the plan Of campaign
not vet even outlined to them II for this that they
.uked at the meeting for today.
The members OF the club all most carefully chosen.
we're without exception of respectable standing
r.,t, no Impoverished criminal of mean streets, had
me near its doors. II a small assembly of enemies
established society, the more dangerous because they
"a access to that society and were all such could
ugh at suspicion. But all had natural and inherited
0archiSm in their blood.
Charlie Mccrs. only halfway between the twentics
nd the thrtics was president His grcat-grandathcr
IN, he Iris, IL. had
damned the Phoenix Park murders and the wild pulSa
ION of revenge of the rough justice that desired any
member of the class that had made law % suffer for the
outrage of its class beat Sulcnly and strongly IN every
movement of his heart He had too that final and ines
Unable gift of the nSucctioniS the patience 10 abide
his time, and work swiftly and completely when the
.ine came to strike CONSERVATION into an entire race.
His fellow workers were no less carefully chosen.
There was Russian nihlist among them, who had his
town house and country place. but whose grandfather
had, mere suspicion, been sent 20 bc Wnppcl ana
poisoned in Siberian mines There were some q" It'an
blood whose fathers had been driven from their farms
bv landowners who lived in Paris. There were Germans
who had been evictcd from their holding, To make more
acreage for royal forests, where perhaps t"cc year
stays driven past their ruined hontstca [" SuoP
the more freely toward the rifles Of noble NportSmcn
OF Irish blood like the president mixed with the more
patient and more terrible Russian breed, there WAS
Boris Vane. He had been brought up by Russian
uncle brother of his mother who ten years before hdl
been condemned 20 lifelong imprisonment and It's name
less horrors for supposed Sedous talk which talk Was
repeated in court by police agents. who received sub
stantial rewards for their prcconccrtcd evidence.
All this true or false the belle. OF the members
Of the club. who were more savage but more patient
than the dog Fafncr They did not get excited over II;
they did not strive nor cry. They waited their time;
but meanwhile the iron ate deeper into their souls cor
roding them with revenge.
Doris himself was private secretary to Lord Agrn-
- court the tale OF whose Irish acres was as long rs
his lineage There he owned huge tracts OF snanagcd
estate where so far from being an absentee landlord