The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-01-22

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Man cannot let 60 in that fashion; Il
is sign OF weakness; and he dared
not let even Susan see any sign Of
weakness in him.
So the reporter had found her, and
she was safe and sound and on hel
way to New York? Knowing by THU
time something OF the reporters cour
age, he was eager to learn how the
event had come about When he had
not had telephone message from
Norton In 48 hours, he had decided
that the Black Hundred had finally
succeeded in getting hold of him. It
had been something of a blow; for
while he looked with disfavor upon
the reporters frank regard for his
charge, he appreciated the fact that
| Norton was staff to lean on, and had
behind him all the power of the press,
which included the privilege of going
everywhere even If one could not al
ways get back.
AS he folded the telegram and put
it 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 irksome to feel that no matter
| when or where you moved, watching
| eyes observed and chronicled these
movements.
Suddenly, not 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 is Jones, madam"
"Jones?'
Mr. Hargreave's butler, madam"
20! You have news of Florence?"
Yes" 1t will be an embarrassing
day for humanity when some one in
vents q Photographic apparatus by
which two persons at the two ends Of
the telephone may observe the facial
expressions of each other.
What is It? Tell me quickly"
Florence has been found, and she
is on her way back to New York. She
was found by Mr. Norton, the report
err"
81 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 1 learned
from a telegram / have just received.
But no doubt some time this evening
you might risk call"
Ring up the instant she returns.
Did she say what train?"
mo. madam" lied Jones, smiling.
He hung up the receiver and stared
at the telephone as if he would force
his gaze in and through it to the
woman at the other end Flesh and
blood! Well, greed was stronger than
that. Treacherous cat! Let her play;
let her weave her nets, dig her pits.
The day would come, and it was not
far distant, when she would find that |
the mild eyed mongoose was just as
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cunning.
The heads of the Black Hundred |
must be destroyed. Those were the |
orders. What good to denounce them,
to send them to prison from which,
with the aid of money and tremen-
dous 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 reprisal
there was no sex.
Shortly after the telephone episode
(Which rather puzzled the princess)
she received wire from Braine, which
announced the fact that Florence and
five had escaped and were coming to
New York on train No. rs, and ad-
vised her to meet the train en- route.
She had to fly about to do 1t.
When Captain Bannock released
Braine, he had been in no enviable
frame of mind. Tricked, fooled by the
girl, whose mind was as unclouded as
his own! She had succeeded in bribing
a coal stoker, ard had taken him I'M
awares. The man had donned the dis
guise he had laid out for shore ap-
proach, and the blockhead Bannock
had never suspected. He had not rec
,gnized Norton at ALL 1t was only
when Bannock explained the history
If the shanghaied stoker that he real ,
zed his real danger. Norton! He must ,
be pushed OF the board After this ,
Episode he could no longer keep up
he pretense of being friendly. Nor
on, by a rare stroke of luck, had .
orced him out into the open So be
/. Self-preservation is in no wise
,oked upon as criminal The law may
ave its ideas about 1t, but the in
ividual recognizes no law but its own.
was Braine whom he loved and adj =
lired, or Norton whom he hated as :.
dog with rabies hates water With :.
orton free, he would never again :
are return to New York openly. This !,
eddling reporter aimed at his ease :
i'd elegance.
He left the freighter as soon as = =
rat conid carry him ashore. The ),
g1tives would make directly for the