Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-11-26

NcltHtT Odre you, sale Snc, ma
risks arc equal You wish to teephond.
t. Israel: He is not at his office today
And in any case, do not want you I'd
use your telephone before s o'clock"
The young woman stood quiet, and
smiling, rcsolute and confident, with her
revolver between tn shaking Spaniard
and the telephone.
The clock hand crept on, and BY
movement Of her eyebrows rather than
her eyes-whioh did not leave him-she
indicated that time passed. He hest
tated, cried a stream Of things under hi,
breath, stamped, wrung his hands, wen
silent and sullen, and walked heavily &c
a locked dispatch case upon the table
You are right" smiled the beautiful
terror watching his every move Ever
those thousands are not worth itnperil
ing the honor Of your family and you
position at court
"Fiend p said Predella furiously
The money was life or death to me
Without it | am lost am ruined I
And he paused a second on this to Sc
whether feminine pity were aroused
and was disappointed.
He flung at her a little bundle
notes, and they fell on the floor. Sh
stopped, picked it up like lightning, anc
was on guard again She moved back
ward to the door, uttered her thanks
still smiling, flashed triumphant eyes
him one second, and was gone.
She took taxicab to the grca
money-lender's palace in MAZDA Vale
with the address of which she had al
ready furnished herself
Information by the butler that MID
Israel was resting after yesterdays &C
cident and by his doctors orders was t
see no one. Kindly take him this" sal
she rnperiously.
This was an e1ligmatic messag
upon a visiting card. In three minute
the servant was back, to usher her int
small room off the hall, and in fiv
more Mr. Israel, very quiet very pal,
very alert, had entered, in his dressn
gown worn over a hastily donned shin
and trousers
Come, come, what is all this about
am very sick and not fit to recciv
anybody"
But you thought it advisable to I'd
ceve me-"
She looked him TIP and down, an
it was plain to Mr.. Israel that this i'm !
perious person regarded him as dirt be
meath her feet.
Your extraordinary communication
the moneylender began again consid
ering the card in his hand.
Il am here" said she with admirabl|
brevity and crispness, TO say that it b
known to myself and to one other thaI
part of the Spanish state dinne- 5ervic|
was nortgaged to you by Mr.. Predella|
and placed by you in the safe deposit a
Chancery Lane"
You are telling an extraordinary an
felonious tissue of lies" replied 1srad
deliberately.
You see the time she said, "a quar-
ter to six. shall leave this house in
mediately on receiving from you what |
consider an adequate sum for the Grind
inal kindness Of holding my tongue, B (
il | do not leave it by six o'clock witt
what l require that other person d
whom I spoke will proceed to Sco4
land Yard"
With a cock-and-bu story" reptile
Israel.
You know better than any one els
what truth there is in the story" sal
she. 81 am perfectly content to ava
your decision, The sum name
\ $4,000"
She settled herself in the chair, an
looked comfortable, but her very brigi
eyes did not leave Mr.. Israers face He
fingers, within the mutf, caressed
friend.
In ten minutes Anna Stuart had lie
the Mazda Vale palace, and in her chez
was the carrine and in her eyes Ii
stars of triumph.
She drove to her fiat in Emperor
Gate, led herself in with a latchke
flung her wraps to a maid, and entere
her green sittinR-room.
Standing on the hearth was Charlie
Captain, the fire OF adventure in h |
fine-cut face, lights of love and victor
in his eyes.
He kissed Annals hand. by her pcrmi
sion. A packing case lay on the foo
He took little chisel from his coz
pocket, pried up one end OF the lid, an
gave her a glance at what lay withi
whereat she clapped her hands.
She threw herself triumphantly upo
the green divan in the center Of Il
room and took from the pocket Of he
muff two cracking rolls which repre-
scented $4,000, and she entertained NJ
Captain with very lively relation
her activity.
The short sequel--somewhat ragge
in fnish-to this story is that, on Il
following morning Israel arrived ear
at his office to find Predella awaitin
him with painful story and a feveris
request that the dinner service Shout
ha he elf III
post and delivered to his care SO thu
he might restore it to the palace. Thu
should any tale reach the ears of tn
court visible retutation could b
proved by experts.
Mr. Israel went TO the safe deposi
and returned, white and sour, with II
bitterest experience of his life to rela,
to Predella, who awaited him in II
office.
Mr. Predella cried: You sold il
You sold it If had only known I wa
safe in denying its presence in End
land to that damned girl | need nd
have lost 42,ooo! You had no right
sell it, under our terms, | tell you
tell you, ] must have it back will hav
it back. | am lost | am ruinedl En-
posure will comet ! need not hay
given that fa,ocoT
And Israel: Il have been robbcdl
did not sell it l did not sell hav
been robbed But if only ! had know
last night, could have bluffed EN-;
need not have paid two thousand
| Here Mr.. Predella struck out at hin