Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-01-31
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manuiactorN, covering two blocks
and employing 600 people. These
men and women and children live
Tor iNe most part in the crooked
lltlie streets Of the ncigllhorll0od
Tor the hours Of work are lone.
and TO walk back aud forth from,
a distance not TO De thought of
When q family has managed TO
scrape together u little capital.
more often than not the head of it
opens a tiny shop, while the young
er members keep ON working at
the factory until the business has
established itself. Then the fam
NY takes g step upward in social
grade.
In a little room back of such a
shop I'M the llcnnenstrasse. ON the
morning OF q day late i'm October.
three men sat down to breakfast.
III was a silent meal, for each of the
three was p%reoccupied. They were
roughly dressed i'm the blouses and
coarse trousers of laborers, and
their faces were covered with a
week S stubble of beard. One was
white haired, old and seemingly
very feeble: but the other two
we're ! the prime of life. At last
the meal was finished. and the
TWO younger men pushed back
their chairs and looked at each
other: then they looked at their
companion, who, with vacant eyes.
was staring at the opposite wall so
mtcnfly that the other two invol-
UNFAIRLY glanced around at it.
lit is time for You to 90. lien
tenant said n of the men, in a
low voice. TELL me again what
you have to do, so that nay be
sure there is no mistakes
What have to do is this.
general said the other: "from
here, | go to the house we know
or. taking a circuitous route. lott
erlng on the way, and making GER
tam that ! am not followed. IF /
ind myself followed, | will pass
tins shop. dropping my handker-
chlef IN front OF it and then turn
ing back to pick it up. If | am not
followed, enter the other house.
n CUNT to the roof and make sure
that everything is in order. At
lo minutes to IL, l.hoist into place
The two arms to which our wires
arc secured, stretching them tight
by means of the winch which we
have provided, and then ! at once
start the clockwork. ] then de-
-scend, make my way to the tram
station, and take a third class tick
ct to Colnar, where / will await
you at Valentin s cabaret. If you
do not arrive by shutdown, / am t.
go on to Paris to make my report"
THAT is right. You have your
passport?"
Yes"
Let me e your watch"
They compared watches and
found that they both showed 2Oi
minutes past 10.
"Adieu, tlen," said the elder
man; land let there be no fail
ure.'
Trust me, general" and the
lieutenant saluted and went out
through the shop.
and now, Mr.. Ward" said
Marbeau, in a low tone, "thc hour
has come"
The old man nodded, and to-
gether they left the room. Mar
beau stopped to secure the door,
then followed Ward up to the first
landing, where there was another
heavy door, which the Frenchman
also. bolted; SO with the next land
ing and the next. He smiled grim
iy as he thought of NJ. Delcasse's
warning TO leave open a road of
escape. He had, indeed, provided
snch a road, but he carried it in
his pocket. i
At last they stood in a tiny room
under the ridge of the roof. 1t
was lighted by a single dormer.
and, looking out through this, one
could % over the house tops, half
a mile away, the grim wall of the
arsenal. Before the dormer stood
q table, to which was bolted a