White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-10-25
The Million Dollar Mystery

doubt in Jones mind that the pail
had landed safely at Madrid.
AS for Susan, she did have hyster.
les. She went about the room, wall.
Ing and laughing and wringing her
hands. You would have thought by
her actions that Florence had Just
died. The sight of her stirred the
l~saturnine lips of the butler into a
smile. But he did not emonstrate
with her. In fact, he rather enyied
her freedom in emotion. Man a m
not let go in that fashion; 1t is a
sign of weakness; and he dared not
let even Susan see any sign of weak
ness 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 cour-
age, he was eager to learn how it
had come about. When he had not
heard a telephone message from Nor
ton in forty-eight hours. he had de-
icided that the Black Hundred had
finally succeeded in getting hold of
him. 1t had been something of a
blow; for while he looked with dis
favor upon the reporters frank re-
gard for his charge, he appreciated
the fact that Norton was a staff to
| lam ~ and haa kahf.1 hin. oil 4ha
power of the press. which included
the privilege of going everywhere
even If one could not always get back.
AS he folded the telegram and put
Ii into his pocket. he observed the
man with the opera glasses over the
way. He shrugged. Well, let him
watch till his eyes dropped out of his
head; he would see only that which
was intended for his eyes. Still. 1t
was irksome to feel that no matter
when or where you move. watching
eyes observed and chronicled these
movements.
Suddenly. moi being devoid Of a
sense of dry humor. Jones stepped
over to the telephone and called up
her highness the Princess perigoff.
who is it?'
He was forced to admit. however.
reluctantly. that the woman had a
~marvelously fine speaking voice.
1T Il Jones. madam"
"Jones?"
Mr. Hargreaye's butler. madam. :"
80, You have news of Florence?"
Yes" 1t will be an embarrassing
day for humanity when some one in
vents a Photographic apparatus by
which Two persons at two ends of the
telephone may observe the facial ex-
pressions of each other.
What is 1t? Tell me quickly"
Florence has been found, and she
is ON her way back to New York.
She was found by Mr.. Norton, the re-
porter"
II am so glad Shall | come up
at once and have you tell me the
whole amazing story"
1T would be useless. madam. for
/ know nothing except what | learn
ed from a telegram | have just receiy-
ed. But no doubt some time this
evening you might risk a call"
Ring up the instant she returns.
bid she say what train?"
mo, madam" lied Jones. smiling.
lie hung up the receiver and star
ed at the telephone as If he would
force his gaze In and through 1t to
the woman at the other end. Flesh
and blood. Well. greed was strong
er than that. Treacherous eat. Let
her play; let her weave her nets, dig
Ler pits. The day would come. and
1t was not far distant. when she
would find that the mild eyed mon
goose was just as deadly as the cobra.
and far more cunning.
The heads of the Black Hundred
must be destroyed. Those were the
CIutIb. what eoOU W uCaOuntc
them, to send them to a prison from
which, with the aid of money and a
tremendous secret political pull, they
might readily find their way out?
They must be exterminated. as one
kills off the poisonous plague rats of
the orient. A woman? In the law of
-eprisal there was no sex.
Shortly after the telephone episode
(which rather puzzled the princess,
she received a wire from Braine,
which announced the fact that Flor
ence and five had escaped and were
looming to New York on train No. 25.
and advising her to meet the train
en- route. She had to fly about
to do II.
When Capt. Bannock released
Braine. he had been in no enviable
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