The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-09-20

4 AbuHl tdIOII tltdIctl HIS sDltt' anu
| laid his plans before his audience.
ITO act frankly and in the open, to
go boldly To the EIargreavc home and
proclaim myself Hargrcave. l can dis
guisc myself in a manner that will at
least temporarily fool the butler"
"Who has been with his master for
fourteen years. knows every move.
| habit, gesture. infection" iuterposed
Brainc. "Eut proceed Count. proceed,
| IoG will remember the old adage: too
1 many cooks"
"Ah." flashed back the count, but
IL new cook?v
Olga touched Bra!ne's arm warn
ingly.
You mean. then. that there has
been talk in st. Petersburg OF dis
posing of some one?"
"A good deal of talk. SIR" haught-
lily. forgetting that he had bent hum
bic enough but n few moments gone.
"Very well; go on
Thought the man at the peephole
above. There's another adege When
thieves fail out. then honest men get
their dues. Yes. yes: proceed. pro-
ceed!"
Paroff went on. ~ shall, then, go
frankly to the Hargreave house and
claim my own. Meantime l leave to
you the business of Turing the butler
away. Half an hour is all l need to
bring that child here, to break the
wall that stands between us and what
we seek"
"Is that so?" murmured Brainc.
Olga. l want you to play a trich on
this handsome delegate at large. I'm
not very enthusiastic over his talk
II IA i'm, linn .ata
do. he says, Is to walk into the Har-
greave house and walk out again.
Well. let's you and sec that he does
that and nothing else. I'll have no one
meddling with my own game
Some one sneezed. and everybody
looked at his neighbor. The sneeze
WAS repeated, but muffled, as il some
one was desperately anxious to avoid
sneezing. ~
ut came from above" whispered
Olga. Don't look up!"
Braine was cool. He walked idly
across the room TO where Vroon sat.
VERY we'll, Paroff; we give you free
rein" To Vroon he said: Some one
Is watching us from the. room over
hea1. / thought that room belonged
to u.s." .Y
81 .It doesR said Vroon stolidly. s,i
"Then how is 1t that some one Is
watching from up there? No excite
ment. I'm going to bid every one good
night, then I'm going to Investigate
When leave you will quietly send
men to all tho exits to the building.
want the man who sneezed. and
want him badly,
Glga departed with Braine, only
she immediately sought the taxi that
brought her and was driven home. It
was always understood that when any
serious exploit was under way here
abouts she was to make her departure
at once
Vroon stationed his men at the sew
oral exits and Braine went upstairs.
The man who had sncezed, however,
had vanished as completely as IL he
had worn that invisible cloak one
reads about in the Persian tales. AS
matter of fact, after the second
sneeze he had gone up to the roof,
got out by the trap. and jumped
rather risky business, too-to the
next roof and had clambered down
He was swearing inautiibly After all
these days Of care ;:ld planning, after
oil his cleverness in locating the rem
dezvcus OF the Black Hundred. and
now to lose his adv: 2ge because of
an uncomfortable snecze! IIo would
never dare go back. and just when he
was beginning to pick up fine bits of
So Florence Hargreave
was going to have rew father in a
day or so? There Y .e some clever
rogues among this band of theirs;
hut their clevernee was well offset
by an equal numbc OF fools. 4
/ Yes, there wero omc clever rogue,tI
and to prove this ,:ertion Braine se-
cured taxicab ID drove fur.ous,y
away. hts destirt on the home 'oV lds
ancient enemy dropped the cab a /
block or two way and preseutly
stoGst; :.:Essi rwzy IL ire sumner
house at the i3st of the lawn 1t
would have@i sn q capital idea--tnas
is. IL the otl's MAN had not Thought
of and antic iated this very thing. So
he used a pnblic pay. station tele-
phone; oydl Braine- waited In vain,
waited till the lights In the HargreaIe
house went out one by one and 1t be-
came wrapped In darkness within and
moonshino without.
Bra'nc was philosopher. He re-
turned TO his waiting taxicab, drove
,ltonic. paid tho bill. smiling grirnIy, |
and went to bed. It was going to be a |
wonderful game of blind mans buff, |
and IL was going to be sport to watc,,
this fool Paroff blunder into u nit. 81
: Tl.e, next afternoon Florence and |
Morton sat In the summer house talk
ing OF the future. Lovers are prone to |
talk Of that As. IL anything else IN tho
world ever equals the present Tney |
talked of nice little apartments and |
vacations Ia the sammer and hS.y
much they would save out OF his sal
ary. and thousand and one other
things which would, not interest YOU
mt antif ! recounted them in detail. |
But they did love each other. ana
they warf nninr. S1,. aan N, a !. ......