The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-05-05
MS piercing eyes were fixed intently

MS piercing eyes we're fixed intently
upon mine.
am a friend of Count Ladsilas
lulrski, and | met you once or twice
III ms rooms in London a year ago.
You are Count Peter Vlademar. This
morning IA police agent from Warsaw
visited mt and regarded me as a sus-
pe'1 because of my friendship with
the ro'1n and because | admitted |
had SHOWN you. Take the warning
from me as a friend and be on your
guard. If | have recognized you 9TH
ers may"
1t was safer for us both o to be
seen together, so | walked off. leaving
am a very much surprised count in
deed.
| had not walked 300 yards toward
the village when | met the police
agent hurrying stationward at a pace
which would quickly bring him face
to face with Count Peter and his com
palion.
This must be prevented at any cost,
so | stopped him.
1 wish to speak to you"
They told me you had gone to the
station,
This was all right, for it showed he
was following me. "Our interview
ended hastily this morning, because I
thought you doubted my word and l
was angry. ] see now that you were
doing your duty. Come back with me
to the inn and let us talk things over"
You can say what you have to say
here he answered. He was a surly
dog, but | dared not let him pass me.
Scarcely that, because ! can adopt
your suggestion and prove to you. by
letters and 50 forth. that l am what I
told you. an Englishman and not IL
spy"
why do 0 change like this:' His
suspicious tone again. .
The reason is simple. have Clecid-
ed to leave here tomorrow probably,
and don't wish to be bothered by your
spies meanwhile. 1t is simpler to con-
vince YOU with proofs" linked my
arm in his.
By the time we reached my rooms |
mad worked some Of his suspicious
loose. and when l laid before him let
tiers from my sister and friends at
home and showed him such things as
my check book. letter of credit. and SO
on, he was sufficiently satisfied to have
a bottle of wine with me.
over this his tongue was looScned.
and we discussed the conspiracy. which
he admitted was widespread and in
some respects more dangerous than
any which had threatened the empire
for years. Its especial danger lay in
the skill With which the leaders had at
tempted to blend industrial discomfort
with political intrigue and so form a
union among vast masses of the popu-
lati"n in many industrial cities.
The practical grievances of the work
ers and the many wrongs Of the rural
population We're being used by the
democratic theorists. the dreamers and
political agitators. to foment discon-
tent. and ! knew enough of Russia to
be aware that such highly infiammable
materials as these might easily be
heaped together and then famed into
one huge simultaneous explosion all
over the empire, terrible enough to
startle the world.
In Russian Poland the cause was the
old one-national independence-and it
was in this that Count Peter Naldemar
had taken a part and that my friend
LadiSlas was involved.
l repeated my surprise that my
friend should be regarded as danger
GUS.
"He is a leader. and at such times
any man may be Il source of danger"
was the reply.
"And this Count pcter-where is hc:'
| asked casually.
He is probably making for the Ger-
man frontier. with tho intention of