Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-05
American Sunday Monthly Magazine Section


looking eXpeCtantly toward Knox
I'll tell you what it is in few words,
Knox interviewed. "I'm not exactly a
detective, but am watching foreigner who
lives in room in George Street | want
to know what he's up to there. The house
is half empty. It's beastly hole, anyhow.
| want you to take room in it, as near as
you can to his, and report to me anything
you can discover. Further than that |
want you to sham being i'll SO that | can
come and see you, either as a doctor or a
clergyman"
I'm on to it, sir" Jacks decided cheer
fully. "Sure he's a foreigner?
Dead certain.
81 am to go and engage room, Ell?
Knox wrote the address upon piece of
paper and handed the man a couple of
soveregns
Here you are" he said. "You go and
take lodging in that house. Keep your
eyes open, and find some fault with your
room, and move about until you get as
near as possible to a young foreigner, an
Austrian, | think, who goes by the name of
Rintoul. He's a smartly-dressed young
fellow for these parts, and you'll find he
until eight That's all | can tell you. |
| dIll SOlllS " hCN away III a hely vi oO'
You come down and tell Mr.. Ramsay here
if you've anything to say to me. Under
stand?"
Right enough, sir" the man replied.
"Theres Just one word I'd wish to say,
feeling as it's my duty. | don't care a
scrap about myself-Im too thankful to
earn a bit. But George Street is a little
bit of blazing Hell. If you get into mess
down there, | doubt whether your pals
would ever see you again. Those blasted
foreigners live there like vermin, and they
stick by one another, too. They come out
of their holes in hundreds if they're called,
long before bobby can get anywhere near.
A bull there alone wouldn't stand one chance
in a thousand. They'd tear him bit from
bit"
you look after yourself Jacks" Knox
advised. :" | sha mt run much of a risk.
" NOX pursued his regular life for two
IN or three days. Then he received a
message from Ramsay and made his way
down to the mission-house. Jacks was
there waiting for him.
"Got on fust-class, sir, he announced.
"There were four empty rooms in the house.
! The first one was no gOOd-the next room
was Crammed full of Russian families, doing
/ tailoring. lnen L UIlcQ dllOlllCl lIldI
wasn't much better, but | waited there for
a bit so as not to make 'em suspicious. |
soon tumbed on to the chap you told me
about I'm in the next room to him now
moved in yesterday"
Good" Knox exclaimed. "Anything
cIse?"
"Few odd bits, sir" Jacks continued.
"Theres two men with him and they used
to have the room I'm in as we'll. They had
to give it up because they couldn't afford
to pay for it, but they tried to get the land
lord to keep it empty. They seem just
about as poor as rats and every time the
Young fellow comes back they curse and
growl at him.
1.-TWO other men, ch?' Knox remarked.
Have you seen thcm?'
"Only once. Ones a great grey-hcadcd
/ Polish lew they call the Doctor-looks as
though he hadn't taken his clothes off or
washed for a year. The others a smaller
edition of himself They lie there in their
room like dogs all day long. | can't make
out what they do, but they've blocked out
all the light even in the daytime You
can see the lamp shining underneath the
doorway
Keep your eyes open Knox directed.
"To-morrow evening, at about eight o clock
send some one to the mission here. Say
YOU want to see Mr.. Ramsay or Mr.. Am
brose. | shall be Mr. Ambrose. See?
Make yourself seem as i'll as you can-lie
in bed.
"I'm on to it, Jacks agreed.