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M ;' ? ?-? ' Vf " - ?? V I Mynhe: i I www i BY ST. QE0RQ1 I ??????** CorrBiOHT 1883. Bob i_ V^IMI . .. .I- PUIU- T- BL-^. CHAPTER XXIII. [Continued.] / "Kito, you have your orders," he ays in English, which language most Hindoos speak. ."Oh, yes, sahib?the hotel; It Is aI3 right," replies the Hindoo driver, who has been bought, body and soul, with Russian gold. Away they go; and en route the baron chuckles to himself a dozen times as he pictures the consternation and jenious rage 01 111* mniiw rnai ui finuiug him so favored by the fair American. He caresses the scented note froui tint' to time, and has read it so often that each word comes distinctFy before him, thus: "The writer begs leave to inform the baron that she will receive him at eight this evening and be at home to bo one else. Regarding the proposition contained in his letter, the near future can decide better than the present." What can he make of this other than a willingness to surrender? He, the canning diplomat, who in times past has met and successfully wrestled With the most masterly questions of the day, now Suds himself in the toils of the merciless little god Cupid, who throws dust in his eyes and temporarily blinds him. At the appointed time the vehicle pulls up before the hotel, and Baron Fopoff alights. He bows to several people, looks at his time-piece, smiles to note the exactness of his arrival; for the diplomat Is a great stickler at ' punctuality, and. if going to his exe cation, would want the volley fired at the nrtfccr time to the second. Then he enters the caravansary and Sjves his card to a waiter. Presently that functionary returns with the information that the lady is in the parfor. and conducts the baron thither. He finds Molly and her father in the small parlor, quite alone. The p:esv ?nce of the senator is not exactly to ? the liking of this ardent lover; but since the game seems to be playing Into his hands, he docs not see how he can feel very badly about it. Af' ter all, the question is only one of ^ ?ime. He believes he has won by virtue of his name, and the father as well us the daughter favors his suit. >"o one knows better how to carry ttimself in the drawing room than the baron, for he has mixed much with royalty in his own land and other countries where he has been sent as Russia's agent. He apologizes to Demosthenes Tanner for the scene in Cairo, and hopes it lias been quite forgotten. At this the tjiant from Illinois laughs good-nntur ?dly and declares that all parties -ought to be satisfied; at least, as he and the baron came out of tiie small -end of the horn together, there is no wesson they should be foes. ' p Conversation becomes general, and the diplomat exerts himself to make a good Impression on the stout legislator and his daughter. He has a large bump of conceit, and believes that as )he evening passes he draws nearer his goal. Several times he finds an opportunity to whisper to Molly. She blushes beau tlfully and holds a warning finger up. aying: "Not yet, baron. You must wait uctiJ we know each other better." Then the courteous Russian bows aud smiles and mentally pats his boulder as he sees victory in the near future. Poor fool! So the mighty Bamsou of old may have congratulated himself when making love 'o Delilah, never dreaming that he would awaken to find h:$ head shorn and his strength gone. So many another giant in the " history of the world has been brought to his Waterloo by means of the blinding god Cupid. One thing gives the baron the keenest delight. He drinks the sweet cum to the dregs. While engaged in an animated conversation with Molly, as he describes the glories of the Russian capital in wJnter. he chances to glance toward the end of the little parlor. Here a fine mirror is set in the wall, for the furnishings of the room an* K ** 1" V* J o r?lOOC Irn COPQ XV11 '11 BUJJCi U. XL Id iu luio giuco uv wvw pleases him. I A man stands in the large drawingToom?a man he fins good reason to ^ remember, since it was his sword that pierced the baron's shoulder under the palms on the bank o'f the Nile. Mynheer Joe makes no move to advance. He seems to have come npon the scene by accident, and la rooted to the spot. The wily diplomat sees his opportunity. He will now* proceed to put n weapon more painful than a sword U.to the Yankee's heart. "If you will pardon rae for taking your hand, Miss Tanner," pleaded the baron, "I will explain to you how the lauies are supposed to act when being presented to the czarina, as I hope ere long you will have that pleasure." She allows It. of course, although half understanding his motif. Tht.t is the picture Mynheer Joe gazes upon ?his hated rival in the act of raising Molly's sweet hand to his lips. All the while the baron has cue eye on the mirror. He sees the look of fury upon Joe's face, notes that he Dresses ft hand agaiust his brow, ec - ./ V \ . y". - ' dd Tnc I U1V J UL. | ? pATHBORNE. EST JSOVXXX'S SOHfl. ? ? , though struck a blow, and turning, rushes out of the room. Then the diplomat smileR. He no longer feels the pain In his shoulder. It has been wiped out by this Inst clever stroke of fortune, since he believes he has given better than he re* ceived?a Roland for an Oliver. The Russian's cup is full to overflowing. He thinks fortune has turned to smile upon him again. It is like a toboggan slide?one has to toll us the hill, but the exhilaration of the descent pays for the trouble. In that descent, so speedy and grand, all obslacles must be swept out of the way. Since Mynheer Joe is one of these obstructions he will And himself hurled through space perhaps before he Knows what is wrong. Little does -the wily baron suspect that all this affair is a deep-laid scheme, which has for its foundation the desire to rid the little company of his hated presence. They find it impossible to breathe the same air as the diplomat, and hence there must be an exodus on the part of someone. Like everything else in this world, the evening must come to an end. although the baron makes no note of the lapse of time. He finds the old senator yawning frequently with a noise like rhe rushing of a mighty wind through the forest, and wonders why he does not botske himself off; but the legislator shows no signs of doing it Evidently, the suitor must content himself with the progress already made, and leave the balanca for another time. He makes an engagement for the following morning?immediately after breakfast he will be on hand with a palke? gharry to take Miss Tanner and her father to meet some of the highest dignitaries of India, just at this time chancing to be In Bombay. The American girl accepts the invitation in h way that at another time might excite a Wttle suspicion in the brain oi the diplomat, but just now he is too Intoxicated by love to notice It. This is what Miss Molly says: "We will be ready to fro with you when you come, baron. Eight o'clock, remember." "To the minute," he responds, bowing low over her hand, and even daring to press It. The young girl smiles as she bids him good night, while Demosthenes bubbles over in his effusive way. Both are thinking of the same thing, that at eight o'clock on the following day Baron Fopoff in order to keep his engagement may have to walk over miles of green water, unless the carefully laid plans of the plotters fail to operate. The next hour will tell. It is fraught with deep suspense for Molly. The senator retires, but she coutmues to keep her seat in the parlor, awaiting news. CIIAPTEIi XXIV. "bon voyage, mynheer job!** The baron finds his vehicle awaiting him just outside the hotel. His driver is on hand, and with his usual form shows the nobleman into the carriage, j Some jocular remark is made by the baron, who is in such a decidedly jolly humor that he can even notice a menial. Just as they arc about to move off, a man gives a signal, and the baron stops the vehicle while he holds a low consultation. The driver sits like a statue. If he hears, he gives no evidence of it; at any rate, the talk must be a sealed book to him, for the men converse in Russian. "Move on. Klto," comes the order. The stranger has not entered the vehicle, and yet. when the driver casts a look behind, he fails to see him. Of course, the shadows are dense along under the trees near the hotel, and !t may be he has secreted himself among these. Again it is possible he hanga on behind the vehicle. Away they go, in. a cloud of dust, la the direction of the city proper, where lights still abonnd, and there is no sign of sleep, such as would be falling upon an American city at this hour. The baron leaDs back in his equip* age and gives himself up to delicious reflection. lie has won many diplomatic victories in the past, but, really. for the life of him, he cannot remember one that has given him half as much genuine pleasure as this signal conquest. He declares he is beginning to grow old; that this is the real reason Mynheer Joe got the better of him in the affair of honor. But if he is unable to wield the sword with the same desoo r.t fnr<v he has trained iu uriiij u>} v?. ^ v.?f w other things. As a man grows older, he is apt to prove more foolish with regard to love affairs. The baron knows it, and does not deny the soft impeachment with regar.. to himself. It is time ho was marrying and keeping his place in the family. These sorts cf comfortable reflections come to his mind when he lolls back in comfort in the shigram and thinks of the future. Mynheer Joe, outwitted at lsst and deserted by the fair American, will fly from India. The barcn may finish bis diDlouatic - I 1 task with honor, proceed with h!8 bride to St. Petersburg and be received with great eclat by both potentate and people whom lie lias mutually served by his brilliant work. Thus he muses, smoking his cigar meanwhile and taking life as comfortable as lie can. It strikes liim that the vehicle is tossing about more than Is necessary. If the driver has taken the direct road, and tl>e baroD idly thrusts his head out Of the opcu window. The mcon is concealed for the time, being back of some clouds, so that nil he can make out is that the neighborhood does not seem familiar. Just then there is a grand lurch; one side of the sbigram drops into a small cavity in the streeV, and the baron comes very near being tossed out. He lias the breath somewhat shaken from his body by the sudden concussion. Th? vehlvle come* to a sudden stand. This makes the baron furious; he has a violent temper that occasionally flashes into hot heat when things do not go to please him. *I\ito!" he roars, shaking the door. "Sahib, I am here," answers a voice. "Oh, you are! Unfasten this door! I cannot"malFeTFslide." snaps the baron. "Sahib, it opens this way." Whereupon the baron steps out upon the street. "Where arc we?" he demands, looking around at the dimly scon houses, with their strange fronts. "I do not recognize the place. This is not the road from the hotel to my rooms?the. road we traveled over in going. Spena Klto!" "It is not, sahib," meekly replies the humble driver, who stands close Ly him. "How does this come, miserable dog?" demands the Russian, half tempted to chastise the wretch who has led him into this pickle. "It is my fault. I thought to tak; a short cut to your rooms. The moon betrayed me. I saw not this hole. Thank Allah it is no worse," replies the other, endeavoring apparently to conciliate him; but the enraged Russian grows warmer every minute. ' 'No worse!' You fool, unless we can lift the wheel out of the hole, I wollr?nil hrmiP'h vmir stupidity! Do you know, I've a mind to teach you a lesson such as the svnfs in Russia learned long ago!" With that, the baron, blind with passion, leaped over to the vehicle and snatches the whip. It is a wicked looking instrument of torture, especially in the hand of one who knows how to handle such a thing; and the baron, no doubt, has had experience among sledge dogs during his journeys in the frozen wastes of Siberia to be able to pluck a piece of flesh from a certain spot on an animal. An adept with such a whip can annihilate a horse-fly that has lodged upon the back of the leader, and, although the report sounds like the discharge of a pistol, the animal has not been even touched. It can be set down as certain, merefore, that the person familiar with a whip has no desire to feel such an instrument of torture laid upon his back or legs. Kito raises his hand in pro test. "Sahib, forbear! It would not be well for you to strike me," he says calmly. The moon has appeared again. It shows a singular spectacle?the shigrani partly turned over, the angry baron, whip In hand, and the splendid figure of his Hindoo driver standing In nr. n+tiiiiria nt lOfirlpSS vara- I Iliac m 41AI illliiuuv vr ing, his right arm raised as If to keep the Russian from going too far. Perhaps the baron had seen the knout laid upon wretched humanity so often in his native laud that his tirst inclination is to use a whip upon one for whom he has conceived a sudden anger, not counting the consequences. That may do when applied to the debased serfs of Russia, but it will not be endured in this land, where proud blood flows through the veins of even the meanest of the people. The baron does not know what he invites. He sees the action of his driver, and instead of moderating his zeal, It enrages him still more ' "You scoundrel! Dare to threaten me, a Russian nobleman! Take that.*' liven as he speaks he gives the cruel whip a sudden momentum. The lash cuts the air and comes with a tremendous snap against the limbs of the Hindoo driver. He simply gives an exclamation, although the pain must be intense. Hardly has the blow been struck tbnn the " +Vin ilriror is SPOn il auueuc luiiu mi ?.. ? ? motion. Instead of retreating, he springs toward the baron. Already he is too near the Russian for the other to apply the lash a second time. He immediately drops the whip, having no further use for it, and throws himself Into an attitude of self-defense. In addition to being a master with the foils and a ehanipion pistol-shor, the baron has done what Russian officers do not practice as much as their British cousins; he knows the science of self-defense. He is not a giant In size, nor yet a pigmy, but a wellformed man, with muscles hardened by constant exercise. Thus, when the Hindoo driver comes plunging at him. Baron Popoff assumes his favorite attitude and expects to lay the fellow out with one solid blow. Like many another man, he counts without his host As the driver reaches the baron, he, too, has bis hands before him in pugilistic style. There is a quick interchange of blows, some lightning counter*, and the dull sound of a heavy stroke is heard. i Barsa I'opoff gives no crjr but sinks to the ground severn! feet away, senseless. Perhaps, in that brief space of time when lie finds his most difficult, leads met and parried by his antagonist. some dim suspicion of the truth may have flashed into his brain. Xo common Hindoo driver could nse bis 1 n flint cfrlo UOIS JU uuii Before be ha.s time to form a definite conclusion however, there comes the blow that all his science cannot ward off, and the unlbcky Russian knows no more until he opens his eyes on a strange scene, with the shores of India low down In the cast. l?:c?rr hart, made Itielr Hppcaiat.ee? Mr. Grimes himself. Besides, here is Knssee and Sandy Barlow. Then the Hindoo driver. Kito. the man who delivered such a telling blow to the baron, must also be an old acquaintance. Mr. Grimes has him by the hand. In a cherry tone he exclaims: "Thftt was a knockout worthy of n Pnllivan. Mynheer Joe. It cancels all your past obligations to the baron." "He struck me with the whip, the beggar." says Joe, ruefully rubbing the spot where the terrible lash had flecked him and drawn blood. "It's lucky for liini my nature differs from his own, or I'd have his life for that blow." "If you haven't taken It already. I'm afrnid you've broken his neck," says Grimes. "Oh. no! He'll come to presently. We have the chloroform ready to dose him. Come; lay hold of the wheel. She went in as neat as you please." from which talk it may be inferred hat there has been something singular about the accident that has occurred to the baron's pnlkee gharry. The vehicle is raised upon a sound portion of tno pavement Then the still senseless Russian nobleman is placed witliiu. and Sandy gets alongside, having the chloroform ready, while the man who lias taken the place of the original Kito, who lies in a stupor at this hour in the rear of rtie Malabar Hotel, his liquor having been drugged, mounts to the driver's seat. "You will look after that party, sir?" he calls back. "Rest easy. When he comes to, in the morning, he will find himself lying by the Towers of Silence, with no one to tell him how he got there. Go you: way. Joe," returns Mr. Grimes. An hour later, the strange passenger is handed up the side of the good ship Avalanche. A few low word3 are exchanged between the captain ahd the swarthy Hindoo, who^e arms seem o! steel; then a warm handshake, a "God bless you, Mynheer Joe!" and they separate. As Joe and the little newspaper correspondent leave the boat at th< ghaut, they see the ship gliding towarc the sea and bearing the vindictive Russian diplomat to far-away Valparaiso. In all probability he will never crosi their path again. The little party met at the early chota hazri, and around the table the story is told in low tones. Even the old war-horse, Demosthenes Tanner, confesses to a feeling of relief, now that the baron will give them no more trouble. He experiences the sensations of a man who. after vainly striking repeatedly at a bothersome fly, finally succeeds by a lucky blow in demolishing his tormentor. It is not necessary that we should follow these friends further. With the disappearance of the baron from the tield, their troubles cease, and the sea before them premises pleasant sailing. Mynheer Joe manages his case with wisdom and tact. Much planning is done by those concerned, and. dually, when they reach Calcutta, the vivacious Molly becomes Mrs. Mynheer Joe. - It is decided that Joe and his bride set sail for China, to explore that country, while the others bead for New York, via London. Thus, one pleasant July morning? the most delightful of all months in India?these two stand on the deck of the Hong Kong steamer, waving farewell to the friends ou shore, whiie the fog-horu voice of the Illinois statesman comes over the green waters like a henison, calling: * "Bong voyage, Mynheer Joe, bong voyage, dear hoy!" And there the curtain falls. < The End. ' - The Philadelphia Strike. 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