Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-12

N ] WAS n kOOu uEdl bAdN0A 4
I mined Like when he came back, and h
a eyed inc mighty curiously as II somehoN
v | I'd become a much more important per
SON As soon as we we're In his bedroom
I with the door locked behind us, ne saio
4 guess l can put your enemy IN IN
{ hollow OF your hand II you do what
! tell you Well, listened and at hrst
/ didn't cotton much to the scheme. II wa
! dirty one.
"He told me that the admiral was It
+ possession of a number Of plans anc
secret code-books, which were badly
wanted by a foreign power He mean
Germany, Of course. Also, he knew II
as a fact that he was working out the
plans of a new sort of torpedo
The engineer uttered an exclamation
and glanced towards the safe, over his
brothers shoulder Sydney noticed the
direction of his glance and proceeded
with his narrative.
THE admiral, as Huron had told me
already, was on very bad terms with
the authorities, and was believed to be
smarting under the slight put upon him.
| Huron saw In these circumstances a
splendid opportunity for me to ruin the
man who had ruined my sister"
Eustace interposed a question. why
was Huron so down on the admlral?"
Sydney shrugged his shoulders HE
was IN love with Mrs. Plessey," he told
me, or, he said that Plessey had stolen
her from him. He said that the admiral
had found out that she was meeting
man-that was himself-in London, and
that there had been rows in consequence.
Mrs. Plessey, to shield Huron, made out
that 1t was young officer named Arrol
she was meeting"
"She did, eh?" There was an ugly gilt
ter in the engineers eyes.
well, 1 amt defending her was out
for vengeance on Plessey, and 1 wasn't
going to quarrel with my confederates
because their hands weren't overclean.
Anyway, Huron's idea that / should get
hold Of these plans and sell them to Ger
many in such a way as to make Il appear
that the admiral himself had sold them.
Do you savvy7"
Sydney looked rather timidIy at his
brother.
Il saYvy," said Eustace grimly land e.
was the dirtiest plot ever heard a man
put MS hand to. never thought to hear
that brother of mine had any hand
in it, ' manu-
Cant! Rotr cried Sydney anSrilv.
Here was this skunk of an admiral Iiv-
ing IN wealth and dignity, looked up to
py hoilored men and women, consorting
with the highest in the land. while he had
ruined and dishonored that little sister ~
ours and left her to blow her brains ont
in dirty opium-den! No. street" Svdney
banged with his fist on the arm of bis
chair. "A dog like that deserved the
worst 1 could give him. You used IN call
me sott'-he said with a sneer-"I reckon
there's more grit in me than in Won"
The older man began to pace the room.
hands clasped behind his back his brows |
contracted Maybe you're right" be |
assented, but 1t seemed a dirty business
You don't seem to have remembered that |
you were an Englishman yourself"
I've long ceased to reckon myself an
Engllshman," retorted his brother. what
has this old country done for us, anyway?
rhe old man went bankrupt, you and I
had to make our living abroad. Talk
ABOUT nome, where the heart is! / guess
hat mans real country is the country
hat feeds hm-where he can earn a liv
ng My girl was born in America; II was
he American Government that got me out
" that fix in Mexico. Besides I hadn't
orgot, don't you see, that 1t was an Eng
lsh officer who had done for nv sister
No, Mr.. Eustace, sir, my conscience
weren't troubled any about that aspect
Il the transaction"
We'll 1t wasn't the worse of the two
-spects, perhaps" admitted Eustace
'loomily, but get on with 1t. We still
eem long way off from Arrols perfidy
or which you have prepared me-"
Sydney extracted a cigar from we'll
worm case, lit it deliberately, and went
NJ I'VE shant get to that for a minute
r two. That's a modern development
nd at present I'm IS years back
turon told me that the plans would [
etch a lot in the proper market
Mould make my fortune and ruin Plessey ,
the same time In return, Huron made .
ne promise that wouldn't molest or in 9
lre Mrs. Plessey in any way. 1 gave
i'm the promise, for, though 1 hated
he woman who stood in Aline's shoes, !
I course I'd no real ground for injuring !.
er I
well, hung round TOR about a fort :
lsht while Huron was going backward !
nd forward between London and Ports Z
outh; where the admiral resided Then
ne afternoon he showed me a telegram:
ne coast is clear; come down. He said
lat meant our chance had come and we
ere to start at once.
we got TO Portsmouth about nightfall
I'd took an ordinary street car to the y
itsklrts of the town. Then we walked .
some unfrequented lanes TO the ad- :,
irals house. 1t was big house situated :,
lts own grounds. tell you. Eustace, I
dnt like the business, and was much 4,
ore tempted to ring the bell. and 10 see ts
e admiral and fight 1t out there and 81
en- asked Huron what the plan was. a
told me that the admiral was away a,
om nome and that he CHuron) had an n
slgnation with Mrs. Plessey In the park, a,
d that on some preteXt he was to leave q
TO go back to her husbands study,
leIe ne would force the lock and give d,
: the papers" "a
lustaee uttered cultural sound. $50
= ne remarked. you seem 10 have pl
sh the poorest schemer 1 ever came Sc
ross thought the idea was to make IL er
pear that the admiral had parted with to
plans voluntarily. It wouldn't help
that theory to break open his locks. III
yaney flushed. II believe l said soma
ne ABOUT that at the time, but Huron
ufed me he had seen to all that. Anv- TT.
y we Climbed over the fence into the
A' Al was a very still night. luckily
y dark We got close up 10 the houss
en- woman suddenly pounced out an :
one was very pretty. fair girl ~ oI
lut twenty-five or twenty-six. n was an
:, Flessey herself. She laid her hand yer
,t tluIons arm and told him that Inc SSi "a,
nlral hadn't gone away after ali Ey ~,
ron told her who I was. and She lool-sS ee uel
NE eurlously, 1 was a bit staggered - 50.
she was In the plot, too. I was - ~
ls pack, but after some consuIts 10, y,ts S,is
loh decided that this was as roo5 49,
usnl ais as any Mrs Plessey said the Inc
= iiisl az was now In his bedroom Io,N SIC
rom the study She would % ,l5 ~,
engage him in eonversation .,.s,F M,
III ana negotiated the locks . "''''0 ~,