The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-02
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sign OF weakness: ana he dared not let eva
Susan see any sign, Of weakness in him.
So the reporter had found her, and she
was safe and sound and on her way to New
York? Knowing by this time something Of
the reporters courage, he was eager to
learn how the event had come about. When
he had not heard a telephone message from
Norton in forty-eight hours, he had decided
that the Black Hundred had finally sue-
ceeded in getting hold Of him. 1t had bsen
something Of q blow; for while he looked
with disfavor upon the reporters frank re-
gard for his charge, he appreciated the fact
that Norton was a stan to lean on, and had
behind him al the power Of the press. which
included the privilege Of going everywhere
even IL one could not always get bach.
Az he folded the telegram and put Il into
his pocket he observed the man with the
opera glasses over the way. He shrugged.
Well, let him watch tin hh eyes dropped out
Of his head; he would see only that which
was intended for his eyes. Sun, It was irk
some to feel that NO matter when OF 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 hishnsss the Prin
cess Perigo6.
"Who II isf'
He was forced to admit, however reluc-
family. that the woman had . marvelously
fine speaking voice.
cit IL Jones, madam"
"Jones1'
Mr.. Harsreave's butler. madam"
90! You have news Of F1orence1'
"Yss." It WIN be an embarrassing day
for humanity when some one invsnts . pho.
tographic apparatus BY which two psrsons
at the two ends Of the telephone may OBJ
serve the facial expressions Of each other.
"What b It? Ten me quickly"
Florence has been found, and she IL On
her way back to New York. She was found
by Mr.. Norton, the reporter"
"I am 20 glad! Shall come up at once
and have you ten me the whole amazing
storyT'
1T would be useless, madam, for know
nothing except what learned from q tele-
gram I have just received. But no doubt
some time this evening you might risk . call
Ring up the instant she returns. Did
she say what trainT'
No, madam lied Jones, smiling.
He hung mp the receiver and stared at
the telephone - II he would force hls
case In and through 1t to the woman at tie
other end. Flesh and blood! Well, greed
was stronger than that Tfeacherous cati
Let her play: let her weave her metz, dig
her pits. The day would come. and II was
not far distant when she would find that the
mid eyed mongoose was just a. deadly a.
the cobra, and far more cunning.
Tho heads Of the Black Hundred must b
destroyed Those were the orders. What
good to denounce them, to Send them to .
prison from which, With the AID Of money
and tremendous secret political publ, they
might readily find their way out3 They
must be exterminated, a. one kills OF tho
poisonous plague rats Of the orient. A wom-
ant In the law Of rsprfsal there was NO
sex.
Shortly sitter the telephone episode (which
rather pushed the princess) she received =
wire from Braine, which announced the
fact that Florence and ave had escaped and
WeS0 cunning 10 new LUX on Train NO. ~,
and advising her to meet the train en- route
She had to fly about % do it.
When Capt. Bannock released Brains, he
had been in NO enviable frame Of mind.
Tricked, fooled by the girl, whose mind was
a. unclouded ~ his own! She had sue
ceeded in bribing a coal stoker, and had
taken him unAwaTes. The man had donned
the disguise he had laid out for shore ap-
proach, and the blockhead Bannock had
never suspected. He had not recognized
Norton at all. 1t was only when Bannock
explained the history Of the shanghaied
stoker that he realized his real danger.
Norton! He must be pushed of the board.
After this episode he could no longer keep
up the pretense of being friendly. Norton,
by a rare stroke of luck, had forced him out
into the open. So be 1t. Self-preservation
10 in no wise looked upon a. criminal The
law may have its ideas about 1t, but the in
dividual recognizes no law but its own. 1t
was Braine whom he loved and admired, Of
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 eass
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