The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1915-05-07

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a seat in a compartment that she had
engaged for her OWL exclusive use.
The lady was Il woman verging on
thirty and had been very beautiful.
That beauty had but little faded. and
her mental attractiveneSs was at its
best. Delano soon became aware that
she was e~ndeavoring to f%ascinate him
She adOred Americans. pronounced
Them. n marvellous people. anu the alb
sence OF European cOnventionality in
them gave them a freshness that other
people did not have. Her eyes were
very expressive. and she kept them
constantly fixed on Delano's.
At 10 o'clock Delino left the lady's
compartment after she had eXacted a
promise from him to soc her the next
morning. He was intending to give
her the slip at Llcerne and tried to do
so. but when he was hurTying away to
a train for Bcrne Il man stepped up
to him and informed him that a lady
wished to speak to him. Resignin2
himself to another meeting with his
fair companion Of the evening before.
he followed the man to the waiting
room where he found her.
"Ah. Mr.. DclanO," she exclaimed,
ing to desert me? Did | not tell YOU
that | was going on the same route as
yourself? What have | done that you
should treat nc SOP The last words
were spoken with Il tinTc of sadness
and Il look from her beautiful eyes that
would have conquered almost any man.
DcIanc WAS certainly affected by her
apparent preference for him. and had
he trusted any one he certainly would
have trusted her He would have re-
signed himself to travel further with
her without reluctance had he not been
sensible of the great Importance Of the
message he bore.
On reaching Bernc the lady BEGGED
him to see that her trunks were phi on
the train for NcuchatcI. which did not
leav" for an hour. Dclnno went off 10
look for the trunks and was directed
from one railway official to another ill
he was in Il far distant part Of the sta
ton Suddenly he saw q; man comm"
hurricdly toward him and two others
from another direction They closed in
on him and were dragging him to an
exit when they were in urn attacked
by several others.
DclanO. whose brain worked very
quickly. saw at Il glance what this I'LL
meant The Greek was an agent of
others and had sent him after her
trunks to get him where ne could be
attacked by agents of the secret Serv.
ice with a view to robbing him Of his
dispatch. What he did not know was
that the Italian government had sent
men to follow him and be ready to as
Sist him should he be intcrfcrcd with.
He supposed those who had come to
his rescue were persons who had seen
a stranger attacked and considered it
heir duty to help him. .
The reScucrS were all powerful men
and soon drove off the asSailantS.
Then one of them picked up Delano's
hat that had been Knocked off in the
fray and offered it to him The others
disappeared in different directions.
Then the one who was left said to him
in , whi.nnr.
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into fine town and after turuin~ i'm diff
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him that he WAS I'm officer of thu ItnI-
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