The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-13
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Lone Wolf win cling 10 my heels, q
tenacious % my very own, till you
bury me. MY enemies knew
would, on that account, be sus-
pected. my luggage be searched,
and lat the least-disgraced."
"Your enemies? You know Of
some aboard, sir?"
II can think Of 1t least two who
have no reason to love me-whose
fun I interfered with last night
when they were happily plucking
your pin-feathers. ! am reliably
informed that they are crooks Of
the first class in the American un.
derworld."
"Not really? How very interest
ing!" The young man took the news
in . disturbingly cheerful spirit.
s'That will make it all the more en-.
joyable to teach them . sound les
SON"
"You will do nothing Of the sort.
Be good enough to look to yourself,
if you please-you will have al you
can do to keep out Of Jail, the way
you are going-and leave mo to
manage my own feuds."
"Well," Maurice humored him,
"we1l see." Over the last Of the
Carbonnieux he pondered this COM
plication. "All the same" he con.
cluded, "I'm afraid you'll have to
count those two out. Il has Just
come to me that I probably shall
know the chap who took liberties
with with =! your ri luggage next time lay
"You mean." Lanyard asked In
civil curiosity, 'the other chap?"
"TouchS" Maurice laughed with
out the least embarrassment. II
haven't told you everything. have
"You have, to the contrary, mani
tested most affecting faith in my
forbearance."
"Why! Fenno Crozier and had
looked all over for you, except Of
course In the writing-room, before
it occurred to me that you might be
still in your cabin. -. BY the way:
what's your room-steward like?"
=, Very ,s1 like Ike : Breton. . burly ras-
"With . Breton accent, natur-
ally? Then I know who the thief
was-and he wasn't either Of our
card-sharps."
"Not my steward"
~Probably not anybody's steward,
but made up well enough to get BY
ia the part. I could hear somebody
moving about in your room. though
he didn't answer my knock; % I
knocked again. This time he opened
the door,-a smallish beast with
mean eyes In . mean white face
saluted me, muttered, Pardon,
|m'sieur, one has just finished here
lin the veritable accent Of the
Partisan Apache. now. I come to
think OF it-and ducleed down the
passageway like . startled rabbit.
I paid him no particular attention.
but went in-thinking you wouldn't
mind II had . look round to see
how we'll my father did himself
and was just about to 60 out again
when I happened to notice your
steamer trunk wasn't locked. The
temptation to look IN was too strong.
and the Habsburg emeralds were
hardly hidden under your dress
shirts, with one corner Of the
shagreen case in plain sight"
Lanyard effected ct IN early hour
an inconspicuous withdrawal from
the life Of the ship, prefsrring the
solitude Of his stateroom 20 observ-
ing from the sidelines the gayeties
Of the younger generation, which
would have amused him only BE-
cause his boy figured In them.
Through no fault Of his own,
then. the book which hs took TO bed
with him went unread bet 81
snatches, and lay most Of the time
open on his knees but ignored.
The man was, In short and in Ill
effect, bewitched; he could think Of
nothing but 4aurice @ be Was and
Maurice - ho might BE-: how clever
the younggter was, and how adapt
able, how easily he had fitted him.
seH into . circle % which nothing
could have won his Introduction e..
cept Fenno Cro9ier's mischief bred
interest and her mothers friendly
disposition toward his father-hov
far he might 50, and unquestionably
would with such Q start, e only Il
lmight y fsasibls . wean him G