The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-13


that the Black Hundred had finally sue
ceeded In getting hold Of him. 1t had been
something Of blow; for while he looked
with disfavor upon the reporters frank re-
gard for his charge, he apprecia ted the fact
that Norton staff to lean on, and had
behind him all the power of the press, which
included the privilege of going everywhere
even IL could not always get back.
As he folded the telegram and put it into
his pocket, lie observed the man with the
opera glasses over the way. He shrugged
Well. let him watch til his eyes dropped out
of his head: he would see only that which
was intended for his eyes. Still, it was irk
some TO feel that no matter when or where
you moved, watching eyes observed and
chronicled these movements
Suddenly, not being devoid of sense OF
dry humor, Jones stepped over to the tele-
phone and called up her highness the Prin-
cess Perigos.
Who Is it,"
He was forced to admit, however reIuc-
family, that the woman had a m.rvelously
fine speaking voice.
at is Jones, madam"
Jones?"
Mr.. Hargreave's butter, madam
"O You have news of FloreneeY'
Yes" 1t will be embarrassing day
for humanity when some one invents a pho
tographic apparatus by which two persons
at the two ends of the telephone may OBJ
A.. u.
what is it? Tell mo quickly"
Florence has been found. and she is on
her way back to New York. She was found
by Mr.. Norton. the reporter"
- am so glad. Shall l come up at once
and have you tell me the whole amazing
story?'
1t would he useless, madam, for I know
nothing except what | learned from tee-
gram have Just received, But no doubt
time this evening you might risk CALI
81 Ring up the instant spe returns. Did
she say what train?"
md madam" lied Jones, smiling.
He hung up the receiver and stared at
the telephone as if he would force his
Euae III ana through IL 10 the Woman at Tue
other end. Flesh and blood! Well, greed
was stronger than that. Treacherous cat
Let her play: let her weave her nets, dig
her pits The day would come, and it was
not far distant, when she would find that tho
mild eyed mongoosc was just as deadly as
the cobra, and far more cunning.
The heads of the Black Hundred must be
A.
good to denounce them, to send them to
prison from which. with the aid of money
and a tremendous secret political pull they
might readily find their way out? They
must be exterminated. as one kills off the
poisonous plague rats OF the orient A wom-
an? In the law Of reprisal there was no
sex.
Shortly after the telephone episode (which
rather puzzled the prineessl she received
wiro from Brane, which announced the
fact that Florence and five had escaped and
were coming to New York on train No %.
and advising her TO meet the train en- route.
She had to fly about to do it.
When Capt. Bannock released Braine, he
had been in no envia bic frame OF mind.
ATleked ipoRa by the EiFi, whose minu was
as unclouded as his own. She had sue
ceeded in brbng a coal stoaer. and had
taken him unawares. The man had donned
the disguise he had laid out for shore ap-
pronch and the blockhead Bannock had
never suspected. He had lot recognized
Norton at ALL 1t was only when Bannock
explained the history of the shanghaied
Sf0 hat ba ypd dap
norton lie must be pushed off the board.
After this episode he could no longer keep
up the rretense of being friendly. Norton,
by a rare stroke of luck, had forced him out
into the open. So be it. self-preservation
is in no wise looked upH as criminal. The
law may have its ideas about 1t, but the IN
dividua recognizes no law but its own. 1t
was Braine whom he loved and admired, or
Norton whom he hated as a dog with rabies
hates water. With Norton free, he would
never again dare return to New York openly
This. .meddling reporter aimed at his ease
and elegance.
He left the freighter as soon as boat
could carry him ashore. The fugitives would
make directly for the railroad, and thither
lie went at top speed, to arrive ten minutes
too late.
!" Free" said Florence. as the train began
to increase its speed.
Norton reached over and patted her hand
Then lie sat back with sudden shock OF
dismay. He diyed a hand into a pocket, into
another and another. The price of the tele-
gram he had sent to Jones was all he had
had in the world; and he had borrowed that