White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-13

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but he shut up. Well, we have
agreed that FELTON, shall watch
from the street and Orloff from the
window. Orloff will whistle II he
sees Jones removing anything from
any of the rooms. The rest will be
left to Felton,
And. FELTON,. my friend" said
Braine softly-he always spoke soft
Ily when he was in a deadly humor
Fiction. you slept on duty the
other night. H~argreave stole up.
consulted Jones. and got away knock
ing me down. The next failure will
mean short shrift. Be warned"
Il saw only you, sir. So help me.
II was not asleep. | saw you run
down the street after the taxicab. |
did not see any one else"
Braine shrugged. Remember
what / said"
FELTON, bowed respectfully and
made his exit. He wished in his
soul that he might some day catch
the master mind free of his eternal
mask. 1t was an iron hand which
ruled them and there were friends of
his ~(Felton's) who had mysteriously
vanished after a brief period of re-
bellion. The boss was a swell: prob
ably belonged to clubs and society
which he adroitly pilferred. The
organization always had money.
Whenever there was a desperate job
TO be undertaken, Vroon simply
poured out the money necessary to
promote it. Whenever Braine and
yroon became engaged in earnest
conversation they talked Slav. Braine
was never called by name here; the
boss. simply that.
well. 10 per cent of a million
was a hundred thousand. This would
be equally divided between the
second ten of the Black Hundred.
Another 10 per cen would go to
eighty members; the balance would
be divided between Vroon and the
boss. But his soul rebelled at being
ordered about like so much dirt un-
der another mans feet. He would
take his ten thousand and make the
grand getaway.
The next afternoon the princess
called upon Florence. Nothing was
said about the adventure. and this
fact created a vague unrest in the
scheming woman's mind. She realiz-
ed hat she must play her cards more
carefully than ever. Not the least
distrust must be permitted to enter
the child's head. Once that happen
ed good-by to the wonderful emer-
aids. Was it not rather a yenom ac-
quired from the knowledge hal this
lchild's mother had won what she her
self, with all her cleyerness, was not
sure of-Braine's love? Did he real
ly ARE for her or was she only the
catspaw to pluck his hot chestnuts
from the fire?
When Florence showed her the
personal" her vague doubts be-
came instantly dissipated. The child
would not have shown her the news
paper had there been any d~istrust on
ner part.
My child. your father is alive,
then?" animatedly.
I'VE don't know" sadly.
Why, | should say that this proves
it
On the contrary, it proves nothing
of the sort. since | have yet to dis
cover a treasure in this house. ]
have hunted in every nook, drawer;
I've searched for panels. looked in
trunks for false bottoms. Nothing,
nothing, All, if | could only find
lit"
And what would you do with ii .
Take it at once TO some bank and
offer the whole of it for the safe re-
turn of my father. every penny of it,
l don't know what to do, which way
to turn tears gathering in her eyes
and they ere genuine tears, too.
There are millions In stocks and
bonds and cannot touch a penny of
it because the legal documents have
not been found. l can't ever prove
that / am his daughter. except for
half an old bracelet, and my fathers
lawyers say that that would not hold
in any court"
You were born in st. Petersburg,
my dear. Have the embassy there
look up the birth registers"
That would not put me into
| possession. Nothing but the return
of my father will avail me. And
then a horrible thought always of my
not being his real daughter"