Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-15

.h' , noon and that It was now past midnight.
1 stood there Big Ben very iar away way u
ona great stroke conscious also that was
footsore and very weary, that the GILL u ' ~ 80
had me.
Food even though vile and devoured IN the com
pany O assassins. is sll food salo l, Anu ~
.;ses there are no assassns IN the world no"-ohy
pickpockets.' Yet this very night l hau &C..
man that in his own house III heiN'
remembered and laughed, hut not for mirth
went down three steps. across tihS i,o
area and into the Rendezvous des Assassins-m.o
a. long and low narrow room Ike a corr-ooI' WV"
row of little tables at each side ana oeni'o ~
leather-cushioned benches against the walls
Gas burnt suenly brackets mere ana me
and the air OF the place sme.e OF us 80 ,.Is to-
and of fish frying of bad butter and OIL stale ~
bacco smoke and. luckily OF coffee
l think 1t is quite possible that into this ntny hoie
of Soho gentleman evening dress had never before
come. 1 that my advent reused in all who were
there interest unakin to horror The t"o
who sat together behind one Oh the
little tables against the looked up from their
food with shocked. staring eyes; saunt cat WI. -.
tail still IN the middle OF the MOOT -
regard me- tallest even seen In tns
world see linped toward me down 'he
roomfor OF his legs taller than the other
.leg-with the expression upon lean and ho'seiihe
face who refuses to believe what his eyes ten
hma an incredui,y based. it be. upon bitter
knowledge Of the world. for one of his eyes mlsaa-
venture fortunes of domestic infeHclty
had soundly BACKED. Behind the waiter there ap
peared instant. with the sudden unexpected
ness of a mechanical red face in the further
doorway. surrounded by a wild circle OF hair
IKE ss sased and 9ansnea with the
low and musical moan . s + down behind
e. .. rs
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atroelous wine and afterward slipped little coffee.
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them sss q sss 9: no II ss. oS ss
him.
I thought Of my wandering through
the streets Of London since that frutess call. and
and half forgotten dream ea l found that did not
been, how I had happened into this unknown depths
in @ ~So f Ssa zf . .h.
wai1ing one, and l would have passed
her by was halted so abruptly that it might have
to me- and quite certain that did no speak
TO her-only halted there before her in the. gray
darkness long moment then passed en
that girls pale face had wrought upon II was
spell strange TO unprecedented in exper.-
enee i can not explain it now. say only that
If adventure had ended there, I had gone
peaceaby home to my bed and seen her more. that
haunted me through night and day. to the end Of
1t - 1@'
So sat coffee in foul room and
thought of poor young Dennis Blakely who Was co" on
Rerkeey SQUARE up r1e 70 sns d OF Seldom In
carous shame and of the face Of seen in
the Rendezvous Assassns bent fopward ov OF
their little table, heads together -