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' The Junior member of a private firm of
dalei'tlvett In New York becomes lntertPil
in a deserietl house, opposite nhh'h hu
happen lu lake a room. While watching
It during a cunvulesceuce from Illness, I lie
iillltds of una of the Windows are openetl
auddeiilyK tiiMcliixliiK the tlKUie of uMniall
man who waves his hand and dlsuium.
Three iluya later the detei-tlve reivlves 11
lnyiitrloUH letter, appulntiiiK un hour to
tall, lie look aims at the deserted
fcvuae. ahadiiiK his eyes with the letter.
The Hguie reappeara ami repeats lis bIht
oal. That evening the Selec tive arms
himself, pushes open ttm Iron gate of t lie
desfrted house and niters a dark passage
Way. He, Is ustuveU into a lighted room
by the amn st ran ire figure. Two man
and a hundsuiue woman in evening dress
rereive him. ull masked. He bus been mis
taken for an expected Irmsseliger. He pre
tends that It has not been safe to brlnu
. certain papers, una Is commissioned to
visit the town of r" next Jay. As he Is
bout to leave, a young girl arrives with a
warning. He runs downstairs, and es
rapes by the rear door.nto a yard. Cllmli
ing the feme, he overhear the conspir
ators, who mention Tuxeilo and the name
of a prominent man. He thinks that he
recognize who voire of the lady, and co:i
rludi's that some great crime Is under
Way. The house Is shadowed hy other de
tectives, and he decides to watch the train
to H himself. In disguise. The vomit;
girl enters the station also the lady dis
guised as H man. The detective eludes the
latter and takes the train.
PAHT IV.
I followed the girl Into the onr nml
eated myself behind and near her. She
had sunk Into the corner of the seat In
11 attitude of utter weariness and dis
couragement. I owed tier my life, no
doubt, and 1 felt for her at the inomoent.
beside gratitude, a sltu:ere pity. Yet I
was on the point of askinn her to risk
Htlll more thun ahe had already done.
There wan no' other way. I looked
around at our fellow-passengers the
old vornun with her basket; a hoy who
Mas uudlbly sleeping; and 11 younjr man
who was Heated In the front of the ear,
absorbed lu a yellow-covered novel.
There whs not one whom I could mispect
of watching us. I went, therefore, with
out further hesitation, to take the place
In front of her and, with 11a much 11011
clinluiue us I could command, nuked
tier if Hhe could tell nie the name of the
jnun who had followed her into the sta
tion. For a moment she seenicd startled,
and shrank Mill further lutck, but a
Klunce at my cloth seemed to reassure
her.
-l saw no one," she replied. "I came
quite alone."
it nvr occurred to me to doubt her.
I knew, whatever the character of those
with whom she had been associated
that she, ut lenut, wns Innocent an un
willing foul in their Imnilx. I told her,
therefore-, in n few words as possible,
who I was, and tried first of ull, to
t1hunk her for what she had done for me,
w hile she was kind enough to express
pleasure In Icumlng of my escape. I
then wVnt on to beg of tier that. If she
were in trouble, as f felt that she wan,
to let me help her. I explained without
reserve my connection with the House
with Green Blinds, and ull 1 hoped to
1 iiccoiupilsh with the knowledge I had
'concerning ll. Hho listened quietly
while I told her, and 1 saw a look of
Wilfulness, of longing, of resolve, grow
In her great dark eyes. Finally It came.
"I will tell you what I know," she
mid; and there were tears lu her voice
though tier eye were dry. "There is
Do other course. 1 had no hope of dolliK
anything, but now you may lie aide to
, do what i cannot." And she told me the
following:
Her name was ruttitifr, find with her
father a widower--she lived nt 1' .
The winter before they tuid Hpent In
; Washington, where, at a reception
given at the white house, her father
first had met .Madame of the White
.Shoulders-as I still must cull her.
This woiiinn was 11 stfnnuer in the cos
mopolitan city, a magnificently hand
some woman, part French, part Kus
Hlun and was said In he a sister of one
. of the members of the Russian legation.
Her beauty had created a sensation;
Mlsfe Cutting's father had fallen under
Its spell. Wudame seemed to exercise
a strange liilluetice over lilm. He be
came strange, moody, irritable, lie
was often ubsent upon sudden and un
explained Journeys, from which he re
turned dejected and, apparently,
frightened and desperate. The cause
Miss Cutting herself had never known
until her own connection with the af
fair began, out a few weeks ago. At
that time new aid had been needed hy
the gutip: of which she hail since became
c ognizant, and she, as one who would
not dare betray her own father, had
been chosen. Since then she had been
constantly employed as a messenger
between the members of the organiza
tion , whenever a messenger had been
needed.
For some weeks she had niiown thnt
n plot of magnitude had been silently
hutching, but In what direction she
could not conjecture. Her father had
been silent and careworn when at home,
which was rarely. She herself hud been
dispatched hither and yon, to deliver
such messages as I had heard, at any
time of day or night. She had not dured
to rebel, 'for her father's Hake. From
the- messages which were necessarily
confided to her, she hud learned that
the people with whom her father had
become entangled, belonged to a large
society which had members and organ
izations In many countries. From tele
grams and cables which she hud been
required to send (written In cipher, of
which she hud been able to acquire
, some knowledge),, she had learned that
t the plot which was forming In this
country was duplicated In many Kuro
jicati ones, nml that the consummation
. was near she feared from many signs
which the designers had not been able
! to keep from her knowledge. Madame
of the White Shoulder was here the
leading; spirit. Her brother, of the
ttusslun legation (in the description of
' whom 1 recognized both the man who
, had given the note to the messenger
boy and he who had assisted Jackson
ticiuira
Instantly Mtm
SKIN
TORTURES
A warm bath with
Cuticura Soap,
. a single application of
Cuticura (ointment),
the great skin cure, followed by mild
doses of Cuticura Resolvent (the
- new blood purifier), will afford instant
. relief, permit rest and steep, and point to
a speedy cure In every form of torturing,
disfiguring skin humours.
gM tttronrtrortMis eerM. fHll.h depoti Niirr,
(. lenses. Peitss Data Cam. Cear . llnHa.U.se.
in his search for me about the yard),
was her chief assistant. The third
man. she believed, was a Russian who
had escaped to this country after Im
plication in a desperate attempt to as
sassinate the czar, discovered, happily,
in time. Jackson was a mere tool, w hose
skill in the manufacture of delicate ex
plosives rendered him of Incalculable
value to the others. Of the man who
had traced her to tiie station she had no
knowledge, having never seen anyone
who answered to his description.
Of my own connection with the af
fair she was able to give me some
knowledge. Two weeks before, utter
many desperate attempts, imidnme's
brother had succeeded in abstracting
some state papers of great value to his
associates iu Washington. They hud
.Miss Cutting's lather HaJ l allcn I'nder
Its Spell.
made every effort to get them to New
York undiscovered. He, however, had
been obliged to deliver them ut once 10
a trusted messenger, since it was unsafe
to have them remaining iu his own
hands. The messenger had been 110
other than Miss Cutting's father, who
had been peremptorily suiuomiied to
Washington to answer the needs of his
confreres. The papers had I n ini-.
mediately missed, but, thanks to his ex
treme cunning, the actual thief had
been able to escape detection or even
suspicion. The latter, however, had
fastened Itself, through a succession of
strange circumstances, upon Cutting
himself, and it had Immediately become
necessary to (1ml a new messenger to
brlns; them to miulume in New York,
In wiiose hands they must be placed.
In this predicament they had been
obliged to tlx noon a young man w ho
hud lately become entangled with a part
of the Hoclety in Knglund, and who had
Just made his escape to America. He
was personally unknown to ine prin
cipals here, but they had no oilier
course than to direct Cutting, by wire,
to trust him. With the extremest cuu
tlon, therefore, t lie papers were con
fided to his cure and a communication
to that effect immediately forwarded
to madume and her confederates. The
young fellow was directed to proceed
with the utmost secrecy, It being feared
that the Washington detectives had al
reudy found the scent. Cutting was be
ing watched closely, and had much ililtl
ctiity lu performing his part In the pro
ceeding. The messenger was to com
municate with Jackson (who had been
stationed in the House with fireen
Minds, which madnme hud rented for
like needs some weeks before), In the
wuy which recommended itself to him
when the opportunity occurred.
As he was personally unknown, the
only way In which bo could be recog
nized was by giving uu unobtrusive sig
nal u given number of times. When
this was done he was to be admitted to
the house. About the time he was ex
pected u young mun was seen to take up
Ills abode in the opposite house. He
never left It, but Rut conspicuously at
the window, gazing Intently at the
House with (Jrcen Blinds. He hud
given the signal (which was the rapid
passage of the rhiht hand across the
eyes) clumsily and openly three times.
They had entertained grave suspicions
as to his identity, but there was noth
ing to do but trust him. The time for
action was rapidly Hearing, and they
were desirous of getting possession of
the papers, if possible, before this ar
rived. The signal wus finally returned,
therefore, and an appointment made by
letter. This, of course, was the com
munication I had received the morning
before. All this Miss Cilttnis had
learned from her father, who had re
turned suddenly toward seven o'clock
depressed and agitated. The letters
had been traced, and the young fellow
to whom they hnd been intrusted was
being; closely shadowed by the police.
There was fear that the detectives were,
also on the track of madam's brother,
and It was necessary to send mem a
warning. This had been intrusted to
She Listened Onietl? While I Told Her.
herself, with what success has already
been told.
She Informed me that, after my es
cape Into the yard (whither, as I had
conjectured, they had not at first dared
to follow, for fear of attracting the at
tentlon of the surorunding houses) a
hurried consultation had been held.
The men had thought that, were I a de
tective sent to spy upon them, I would
doubtless decide that my next best
chance- of learning their intentions
would be to follow madam's directions
and ko the next day to P , where I
would expect further developments.
Miss cutting told me (and I hud sus
pected as much myself) that from what
she could gather, this had been merely
a scheme of madam's to get me out of
the way for twenty-four hours, no mat
ter whether I were a spy or untried con
federate. Madam herself, however, had
disagreed with her companions. She
had declared that an effort must be
made to stop me, and that every train
to 1' must be watched. Miss Cutting
herself, whom they hud never wholly
trust-d, and for whom, on ncocur.t of
her Intel Terence lu my behalf, they had
no in eater love, they tried to intimidate
further with threats, it was necessary,
however. Hint both her father and her
self, who might prove formidable wit
nesses against them, should things go
wrong, be gotten out of the wuy. For
this reuson she could not lie kept u tem
porary prisoner, as they had at tlrst
suggested. Her father hud made all
urrungements for a lllght, in which she
was to accumpuny him, and she wus,
therefore, taken for the remainder of
the night to the hotel at which madam
was staying. She was now on her way
to Join her father and to again depart
with him. She was an important wit
ness for my own side also, but she hud
saved my life. What else could 1 do
but further her own escaoe? I prom
ised to do whatever in me lay to pre
vent the danger which threatened our
country and to aid her to my utmost
ubility both in shielding her father and
In covering their escape. As she bade
1110 good-bye when I left the train at
the last station before F the teara
had linully welled to her eyes. I wus
glad to think that partiully, at any
rate, they might be tears of relief.
I took the next train hack to town,
eagerly looking at every station for the
lii st edition of the morning papers.
When tinully they arrived and I opened
the one I bud selected, 1 discovered both
the headlines I hud hoped to llnd. The
first was as satisfactory as the second
seemed to me conclusive. It stated that
a young man had been captured in
F.rooklyn. while In the very act of de
stroying the valuable papers which hud
been stolen two weeks before from the
state department In Washington. A few
hud been reca pt tired. They were the
b-tters which had passed between the
Russian ambassador and our secretary
of stute, regarding the return to tlio
Russian government of some suspected
persons now In this country, A quan
tity tif dispatches from the said gov
ernment to their ambassador at Wash
ington, were also among the documents.
The young man In whose possession
they were found hud been brought to
New York, and was now awaiting ex
amination. From what I could make
of this til tide he hnd apparently given
no Information which Implicated any of
the people connected with the house
with green blinds, and I doubted
whether any such Information was in
his possession. It was scarcely prob
able that more than the barest direc
tions hud been entrusted to him.
The second headline read something
ns follows: "Wealth, Wit and Heuuty
to lo Honor to Our Kxecutlves. Mr.
's Famous Ball Itoom laterally
Lined with Roses. Tuxedo on the qui
vlve. A Hrllllunt Affulr Tonight."
1'pon these grounds, then, I was bas
ing my case.
While T stood, listening, upon the
window ledge the night before, madam
hud mentioned botii Tuxedo and the
name of the man at whose house the
bull was to lie given. It was to be given
In honor of u treat statesman and his
wife. Members of the various foreign
legations were to attend. During the
day I hud seen, lu some mysterious con
nection with madam and her associates,
the young man who had been trletj and
convicted of a clime which had held
in Ktiglund a position very similar 10
the way things here, as T dissected
them, were tending. Madam's voice
and his were strangely alike. It hud
been considered no matter how I wus
supposed to be related to the ufl'uil
expedient to net me out of the way for
twenty-four hours, and to do so with
out exciting my suspicion. After that
I might return. Miss Cutting and her
father had been ordered to escape from
the country within the same time, ns It
wus desirable that they, after thnt time,
should not be within reach of tne police.
Last of all. the man Jackson, a tool lu
the hands of the others.had been experi
menting very recently as shown by his
absent eyebrow In chemicals of an ex
plosive nut tire. And the third mun ut
the House with (Ireen Blinds, who bad
not spoken In my hearing, w;a w'anted
(together, for all I knew to the con
trary, with the others). In his own
country to pay the penally of nn ut
lempt upon the life of his sovereign.
(.To be concluded.)
RAILROAD NOTES.
The New Haven compuny Intends to
extend the New Kngluud line from Al
lyn's 1'olnt Into New London, where
large terminals will be established. It
also proposes to build a line between
liultlc und Tafevllle. Conn., which will
give New hnglund un Independent
route from Wllllmantle. to New London,
paralleling New London Northern about
twenty-six miles. Work bus begun In
the matter of Improving New lOiiglund
facilities at various points. The New
England management allowed Its prop
erty to run down materially. In 0110
case, the drpot at a thelvtng manufae
turliiK village on the Hurtford ana
Providence lino was burned and a good
many months elupsed before anything
was done in regard to repairing it. on
the other hand, the New Haven man
agement Is creating Irritation by taking
off whut huvu been considered essential
trains. Kveu on the main line from
Boston to YVillimiintlc, there Is now only
one through train to New York daily.
A company of capitalists of Spartan
burg, S. C. has been formed to build a
branch railroad to the Seaboard Air
Line, twenty-four miles long. This will
give the Seuboard Air Line u connection
with Spartanburg, which Is one of the
principal mill cities of the South and one
of the largest cotton manufacturing
cities. In case the Port Hoyal and
Western Carolina railroad Is separated
from the Southern system by order of
the court, the new road would connect
with It, giving a new Independent route
by the wuy of the Seaboard to Augusta,
(!a and Port Koyal, S. C. Mayor (lui
vert, of Spartanburg, Is president of the
company and a president of one of the
largest banks Is included In the direc
tory. Surveys are now being made
prior to early construction.
The prospects for reorganizing the
Oregon Hallway und Navigation com
puny are not very encouruglng, accord
ing to the reports received from New
York, and Receiver McNeil will soon
return home. His plan of reorganiza
tion. It Is aid, called for nil assessment
on the stock, which has been rejected
by a sujiient number of stockholders to
prevent Its consummation. Whether
Mr. McNeil has given up hope of ac
complishing reorganization is not
known, but that he has met with sutll
clent opposition to delay matters Is no
longer a secret.
It Is understood that the Northern
Pacific receivership difficulty may be
passed upon by the I'nlted States Su
preme court within a short time. This
ill settle the matter to everybody's
satisfaction. There is no difference of
opinion between the various interests in
the property who recently came to an
agreement on the point. It Is expected
that the Supreme court would have
passed upon the consolidation scheme
before this.
INDUSTRIAL.
The expectation Is that 50,000 cars and
600 engines will be built by or for the
vurlous railroads of the country during
the next half year.
II II II
Imports of merchandise at New York
for the year ISO aggregated S."d9.2:.913,
a comparative Increase of $72,69S,."!G0.
II II l
About SIOO.000,000 will approximate the
amount to be paid out thin month in
dividends and interest in Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. .
' II II II
The Readings coal tonnage for the
week ended December 28, 1895. showed
a comparative increase over the same
week in 1SIU of "8,211 tons. ' ,
UNDER Tfi:
EUENING
ADVENTU
LOVE and
MYSTERY
A new story will occupy the columns of The Tribune the
week from January 6th to January nth, and will be from the
pen of
SIR ROBERT PEEL
the brilliant son of the late speaker of the House of Commons.
This young man, having made himself conspicuous in various
ways, has decided that his talents lie in the direction of fiction.
We have secured the serial rights of his first story, "An Engage
ment," a charming love story of the England of today.
Another young writer of great promise is
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
author of "The King in
Yellow," and "The Red
Republic." On January
13th and 14th, we shall
print a story by him, en
titled "The Whisper," deal
ing with the mysterious
murder of a beautiful girl,
a resident of Chinatown in
Xew York. The scene is
laid in a saloon of the quar
ter, and the characters ein
brace various striking
types of its frequenters.
Tew names of American authors are now belter known than
that of
HAMLIN GARLAND
author of "Iain-Travelled Roads," "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly,"
and other tales of Western life. His work is perhaps the most
distinctive produced in the West today, and is the subject of
more comment than that of any other writer of his region. In
"A (iirl from Washington," which will appear on the 15th, 16th,
17th, and 18th, he has brought the East and West together in
the meeting of the heroine with a graduate of a Western college
who has taken a place on a Denver dairy farm. The course of
true love runs far from smoothly, and the contrast between East
ern culture and Western honesty and merit is finely drawn.
We have obtained from
DR. MAX NORDAl)
the distinguished German novelist and critic, the sole right to
publish in'this country an exquisite love-story, called "A Mid
summer Night's Dream," which will appear in our paper on the
20th and 21st. The author of "Degeneration" has quite
outdone himself in this romance. It deals with the love affairs
of a beautiful American woman and a German physician. The
story has been translated by Mary J. Safford.
This will be followed on the 22(1 and 23d Jy a tale of Scottish
life, entitled, "A Prize Winner," by
FLORENCE WARDEN
(Mrs. James), author of "The House on the Marsh" and other
favorite English novels. It recounts the story of a Scottish
baronet who devotes himself to his prize cattle, and neglects
his pretty young wife. The
folly of such a proceeding
is brought home to the
baronet in a very realizing
way.
On the 24th and 25th
there will be a rattling good
story by our old friend,
DAUID WECH5LER
"The Defaulters Protective
League," describes the ca
reer of an organization of bank employes who are
concealing embezzlements, and who band together to supply
each other temporarily with funds whenever an examination is
made. The story carries out one of Wechsler's quaint ideas in
a remarkably entertaining fashion.
LAMP.
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IIIS is the season for sitting in the firelight glow,
with a good story to read, while the storm howls
without and beats against the windows. Dur
ing January our daily feast of fiction will include
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