The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-10


 come to you and your friends should
 you persist in defyfng the police. I
 can explain it to them once for you,
 and that I shall do this very day, but
 hereafter you must obey the law. If its representatives say, eComev you
 must come; if they say, Go? you must
 gct Now we shall go to my great
 friend in the department and fx up
 this matter of the Rue Maule. Come!''
 Together they entered the office of
 the police official half hour later. He
 was very cordial. He remembered
 Tarzan from the visit the two had
 made him several months prior in the
 matter of the finger prints. Having
 heard TarEan's story, he assured him
 that no harm would come to him from the police as result of his nights ad- venture.
 On their return to D,Arnot's apart ments the lieutenant found a letter l awaiting him from an English friend, William Cecil Clayton, Lord Grey stoke. The two had maintained a7cor- respondence since the birth of their friendship on that III fated expedition in search of Jane Porter after her
 theft by Terkoz. the bull ape, from
 whom she had been rescued by Tar gan.
 saThey are to be married in London In about two months said D'Arnot as he completed his perusal of the let ter. Tarzan did not need to be told
 who was meant by they He made l no reply, but he was very quiet and thoughtful during the balance of the day.
 That evening they attended the opera. Tarzan's mind was still occu- pied by his gloomy thoughts. He paid little or no attention to what was transpiring upon the stage. Instead, l he saw only the lovely vision of a
 beautiful American girl and heard
 naught but a sad, sweet voice ac- knowledgfng that his love was retufn- ] ed And she was to marry anotber! i He shook himself to be rid of his un- welcome thoughts, and at the same in- stant he felt eyas upon him. With the instinct that was his by virtue of train ing he looked up sQuarely Into the eyes that were looking at him to find j that they were shining from the smiI- l ing face of Olga, Countess de Coude. 1 As Tarzan returned her bow he was 1 positive that there was an invitation ln her look, almost plea.
 1 The next inteznission found him be- i side her in her box
 sI have so much wished to see you 2
 she was saying. eeIt has troubled me i not a little to think that after the serv- l Ices you rendered to both my husband and myself no adequate explanation
 was ever made you of what must have i seemed ingratitude on our part in not taking the necessary steps to prevent a
 repetition of the attacks upon US by | those two men"
 ssYou wrong me- replied -Tarzan. My thoughts of you have been only
 the most pleasant You must not feel
 that any. explanation is due me. Have
 they annoyed you further?' | They never cease" she replied sad. l ly. sI feel that I must tell some one, l and I do not know another who so de- 1 serves an explanation as you. You l must permit me to do so. It may be l of service to you, for know Nikolas l Rokon quite well enough to be posi- I tive that you have not seen the last of l him. He will find some means to be revenged upon you. cannot tell you
 here, but tomorrow I shall be at home l to M. Tarzan at 5.
 l @It will be an eternity until tomor-
 row at 5," he said as he bade her good l night.
 From 8 corner of the theater Rokon 1 and Paulvitch saw M. Tarzan in the l box of the Countess de Coude, and !! both men smiled.
 At 4:3O the following afternoon a l swarthy, bearded man rang the bell at l the servants entrance of the palace of l the Count de Coude. The footman who 1 opened the door raised his eyebrows in 1 recognition as he saw who stood with l out. A low conversation passed be tween the two
 At first the footnaan delnurred from some proposition that the bearded one made, but an instant later something passed from the hand of the caller to the hand of the servant. Then the lat ter turned and led the visitor by a | roundabout way to a little curta1ned 1 alcove off the apartment in which the l countess was wont to serve tea of an afternoon.
 l A half hour later Tarzan was usher i ed into the room, and presently his l hostess entered smiling, and with out l stretched hands.
 For few moments they spoke of 1 the opera, of the topics that were then occupying the attention of Paris. of the l pleasure of renewing their brief ac- 1 quaintance which had had it's inception under such odd circumstances, and this brought them to the subject that was. l uppermost in the minds of both. You must have wondered said the countess finally, what the object of Rokom's persecution could be- It is very simple. The count is intrusted with many of the vital secrets of the ministry of war. He often has in his
 possession papers that foreign powers
 would give a fortune to possess-se- crets of state that their agents would commit murder and worse than mur- der to learn.
 There is such a matter now in his
 possession that would make the fame
 and fortune of any Russian who could
 divulge it to his government Rokoff