The Washington herald., 1914-03-29
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tsvAT HEN / left Portland Prison.
w said Charles CAPTAIN, 'ther,

Soiu SHdIiCS Sdpldlur lhCi'
we're three men in whom / now fee
interested serving the maximum sen
tence."
To look at the young man-nicely
groomed, wearing one of the autumn:
newest shades of fawn, cut in Savills
Row-pleasurably occupied in entertain
ing a lady, one might have considered
the first part of his remark lightly. Not
so the lady.
my poor Charlesl" she murmured.
q had done nothing" said the young
man, looking meditatively across the
green park, now beautihed in rosy
sunset They were having tea by the
open window of his Piccadilly cham
bers.
"One knows that" said the lady
otherwise you would have no quarrel
with society or your government. You
could not be pledged to me"
And Anna Stuart, last descendant OF
a son (of whom history does not
speak, of the Young Pretender, smiled.
Otherwise" she resumed the sup
positions, you would not be a man
without hope and without fear, who
has linked himself with what the world
would call the biggest gang of thieves
on earth-my Army. My Hundreds
and Thousands! Charles-that is an
Army"
ITO return" he said, TO the three
men in Portland Prison. They are the
Hon. John Denesanton, DR.. Mount and
Holm, second cousin of the Duke of
Breeshire.
"Denesanton has relatives on both
sides who would between them sub
scribe kings ransom for his safe de-
livery into their hands; DR.. Mounts
parents are the richest people in the
north of England; Holm has a wife
who enjoys large fortune"
Anna Stuart listened with growing
Intention, but with obvious perplexity.
Your majesty" said Charles Cap
tain, your army is the most enterpris-
ing army on record; subscriptions for
your war fund are raised by all pos
sible means; draw your majesty's
attention to a new line"
Explain"
"The arrangement of escape for pris-
pners whose relatives can afford to pay
for il"
He sat back, enjoying first her sur
prise, then her pleasure.
"The scheme" she pronounced-not
that her pronouncement either way
would have had the least influence upon
this strange servant of hers, who Or
ganized as he liked, only that the mat
ter of form pleased her, as a tribute
to her embryo majesty-'has my full
approval"
Thank you, madam" replied he,
with an irony so fine that it slipped by
her unfelt.
81 shall expect to see you again
when?"
He deliberated.
81 hope to report myself in a fort
night or so, with, let US say, hundred
thousand pounds. That is, forty thou
sand for Denesanton; forty thousand
for Mount; twenty thousand from
Holm's wife"
Her rapacity-engendered by fanati-
cism for her cause-fashed out.
why only twenty thousand from
Holm's wife?"
Married as mere girl, idolizipg her
husband, practically widowed three
years later; suffering ever since the tor
lures of the damned" His fragmen-
tary explanation broke off, and he ran
his eyes over Anna Stuart, in white
from head to foot Il worked next to
Holm once We aren't allowed TO
speak, but We have lip language. He
used to talk about her. She always
wore white-as you do. Imagine your
self in her place"
"I-Anna Stuartl''
"You, Anna Stuart. Whenever I see
a pretty woman in white, I love her
because she is near enough to the rose
to have a fragrance"
The lover shone in his eyes. She |
rose and punished his presumption.
81 think you have told me all that
can interest me. am ready to CO."
He attended her down stairs, and
put her into a taxicab.
81 shall report myself, then, within
4 fortnight"
She did not look at him, knowing the
Iover to be still in his eye. He gave
the address of her fiat to the driver, !
and returned to his rooms. Here he
hat, stick, gloves. and note
book, and, descending again, was
lriven to a block of fats in Totten-
lam Court road.
He sought a small, elderly man, with
10 claims to significance save in an ex-
tenacious mouth and rapt
yes. This was Bourbon, commander
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