The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-25

on it by accident. It fascinated him. He went further and then got caught.
 gathered that most of the people in it were the sort of educated anarchists that make revolutions, but that besides them there were f1nanciers who were playing for money.
 A clever man can make big profits on falling market, and it suited the plans of both classes to set Europe by the ears. He told me some queer things that explained a lot that had puzzled me-things that happened in the Balkan war; how one state sud denly came out on top; why alliances were made and broken; why certain men disappeared and where the sinews of war came from.
 The aim of the whole conspiracy was to get Russia and Germany at logger heads.
 When I asked why, he said that the anarchist lot thought it would give them their chance. Everything would be in the melting pot and they looked to see a new world emerge. The cap itaEsts would rake in the shekels and make fortunes by buying up wreckage. Capital, he said, had no conscience and no fatherland; besides, the Jew was behind it, and the Jew hated Rus sla.
 ''Do you, vonder?'' he cried. "For 300 years they have been persecuted and this is the return match for the pogroms. The Jew is everywhere, but you have to go far down the back stairs to find him.
 ''Take any big Teutonic business con cern. If you have dealings with it the first man you meet is Prince von Some thing, an elegant young man who talks Eton and Harrow English. But he cuts no ice. If your business is big you get, behind him and find progna- thous Westphahan.
 tHes is the German business man that gives your English papers the shakes But if you're on the biggest kind of job and are bound to get to the real boss, ten to one you are brought up against little, white faced Jew in bath chair, with an eye like a rattle snake. Yes, sir, he is the man who is ruling the world just now, and he has his knife in the empire of the czar be cause his father was logged in some one horse location on the Volga."
 could not help saying that his Jew anarchists seemed to have got left be- hind little.
 'sYes and no,' he said "They won up to point, but they struck bigger thing than money, thing that couldn't be bought-the old elemental fighting 1 instincts of man. If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing. These fool ish devils of soldiers have found some thing they care for and that has upset the pretty plan laid in Berlin and Vien- na. But my friends haven't played their last card by a long sight. They have got the ace up their sleeves, and unless. can keep alive for a month they are going to play it and win.''-s
 "But I thought you were dead" put in.
 Death is the door of life," he smiled. "I'm coming to that, but I've got to put you wise to lot of things first If you read your newspaper I guess you know the name of Constantine Karolides? ?''
 I sat up at that, for had been read ing about him that very afternoon.
 ''He is the man that has wrecked all their games. He is the one big brain in the whole show, and he happens also to be an honest man. Therefore he has been marked down these twelve months past. I found that out-not that it was difficult, for any fool could guess as much-but found out the way they were going to get him, and that knowledge was deadly. That's why I have had to decease.'
 He had another drink, and I mixed it for him myself, for Il was getting in terested in the beggar
 taThey can't get him in his own land, for he has a bodyguard of Epirotes that would skin their grandmothers. D %ho of hn ie coming to this city. The British for eign office hss taken to having interna tionaI tea parties, and the biggest Of them is due on that date. Now, Karo- tides is reckoned the principal guest and if my friends have their way he will never return to his admiring countrynnen."
 That's simple enough anyhow" l. said You can warn him and keep him at horne.''
 And play their game? he asked sharply "If he does not come they win, for he's the only man that can straighten out the tangle- And if his government is warned he won't come for he does not know how big the stakes will be on June 15."
 E'What about the British govern ment?" I said. They're not going to 10L IA0I $OCSLS OS AuIOOAOAs lily IhCAA the wink and they'll take extra precau tions.'
 .sNo good. They might stuff your city with plain clothes detectives and double the police, and Constantine would still be a doomed man. My friends are not playing this game for fun. They want big occasion for the taking off, with the eyes of all Europe on it. He'll be murdered by an Aus tr1an, and there'n be plenty of evi- dence to show the connivance of the big folk in Vienna and Berlin. It will all be an internal lie, of course, but l the case will look black enough to the