HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-02-15, Page 7JENNif IIIIXJER: J011RNLI8J
By ROBERT BARR.
1111.--ll<e ROM 10 lie Sleepiog Car,
(Copyright, 1000, by Robert Burr.)
PLAN of SLEEPING CAU.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, excellency,
that room B hue been taken by an Eng-
lish lady, who is there now!"
"Ten thousand devils!" cried the
Russian in a hoarse whisper. Why did
yon not say that before?"
The voices now fell to so low a mur-
mur that Jennie could not distinguish
the words. A moment later there was a
•rap at her door, and she had presence of
mind enough to get in the farther cor-
ner and say in a sleepy voice:
"Colne in l"
The conductor opened the door. '
"Votre billet, s'il vous plait, ma-
. dame."
"Can't you speak English?" asked
Jennie.
The conductor merely repeated his
question, and as Jennie was shaking
her head the big Russian looked over
the conductor's shoulder and said in
passable English:
"He is asking for your ticket, ma-
dame. Do you not speak French?"
In answer to the direct question Jen-
nie, fumbling in her purse for her tick-
ets, replied:
"I speak English, and I have already
shown him my ticket."
She handed her broad sheet sleeping
• car ticket to the Russian, who had push-
ed the conductor aside and now stood
within the compartment.
"There has been amistake,"he said.
"Room C is the one that has been re-
served for you."
"I am sure there isn't any mistake,"
said Jennie. "I booked berths 5 and 6.
See, there are the numbers"—pointing
to the metallic plates by the door—"and
here are the same numbers on the tick-
et."
The Russian shook his head.
"The mistake has been made at the
office of the sleeping car company. I
am a director of the company."'
"Oh, are you?" asked Jennie inno-
cently. "Is room 0 as comfortable as
this one?"
"It is a duplicate of this one, ma-
• dame, and is more comfortable because
it is nearer the center of the car."
• "Well, there is no mistake about my
reserving the two berths, is there?"
"Oh, no, madame! The room is en-
tirely at your disposal."
"Oh, well, then, in that case," said
Jennie, "I have no objection to making
a change."
She knew that she would be compel-
led to change, no matter what her ticket
recorded, so she thought it best to play
the simple maiden abroad and make as
little fuss as possible abort the trans-
_ fer. She had to rearrange the car in her
.mind. She was now in room 0, which
bad been first reserved by the British
•embassy. It was evident that at the
last moment the messenger had decided
to take room A, a four berth room at
the end of the car. The police then
would occupy room B, which she had
first engaged, and from the bit of con-
versation she had overheard Jennie was
convinced that they intended to kill or
render insensible the messenger who
bore the important letter. The police
were not to protect, but to attack. The
amazing complication in the plot con-
• centratecl all the girl's sympathies on
the unfortunate man who was messen-
ger between two great personages, even
though he traveled apparently under
theprotection of the British embassy at
St. Petersburg. The fact, to put it bald-
ly, that she had intended to rob him
herself if opportunity occurred rose
before her like an accusing ghost. "I
shall never undertake anything like this
again," she cried to herself, "never,
never 1" And now she resolved to make
.reparation to the man she had intended
oto injure. She would watch for him
-until he came down the passage and
then warn him by relating what she
had heard. She had taken off her hat
when she entered the room. Now she
put it on hurriedly, thrusting a long
pin through it. As she stood up there
was a jolt of the train that caused her
to sit down again somewhat hurriedly.
Passing her window she saw the lights
• of the station. The train was in motion.
"Thank heaven!" slie cried fervently.
"He is too ]ate 1 Those plotting villains
• will have all their trouble for nothing."
She glanced upward toward the ceil-
ing and noticed a hole about an inch in
diameter bored on the thin wooden par-
a.•tition between her compartment and the
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next. Turning to the wall behind her,
she saw that another hole had been
bored in a similar position through to
room B. The car had been pretty thor-
oughly prepared for the work in band,
and Jennie laughed softly to herself as
she pictured the discomfiture of the con-
spirators. The train was now rushing
through the suburbs of St. Petersburg,
and Jennie was startled by hearing an-
other voice say in French:
"Conductor, I have room A. Which
end of the car is that?"
"This way, excellency," said the con-
ductor. Every one seemed to be "ex-
cellency" with bins,
A moment later Jennie, who had
again risen to her feet, horrified to
know that after all the messenger bad
come, heard the door of his room click.
She stood there for a few moments tense
with excitement, then bethought her-
self of the hole between her present
compartment and the one she bad re-
cently left. She sprang up on the seat
and, placing her eye with some caution
at the hole, peered through. First she
thought the compartment was empty.
Then she noticed there had been placed
at the end by the window a huge cylin-
der that reached nearly to the ceiling of
the room. The lamp above was burning
brightly, and she could see every detail
of the compartment except toward the
floor. As she gazed a man's back slowly
rose. He appeared to have been kneel-
ing on the floor, and he held in his hand
the loop of a rubber tube. Peering
downward, she saw that it was con-
nected with the cylinder and that it
was undoubtedly pouring whatever gas
the cylinder contained through the hole
into room A. For a moment she had
difficulty in repressing a shriek, but
realizing how perfectly helpless she was,
even if she gave the alarm, she repressed
all exclamation. She saw that the man
who was regulating the escape of gas
was not the one who bad spoken to the
conductor. Then, fearing that he might
turn his head and see her eye at the
small aperture, she reached up and cov-
ered her lamp, leaving her own room in
complete darkness. The double covering,
which closed over the semiglobular
lamp like an eyelid, kept every ray of
light from penetrating into the com-
partment.
As Jennie turned to her espionage
again she heard a blow given to the
door in room A that made it clatter.
Then there was a sound of a heavy fall
on the floor. The door of room B was
flung open, the stead of the first Russian
was thrust in, and he spoke in his own
language a single gruff word. His as-
sistant then turned the cock and shut
off the gas from the cylinder. The door
of room B was instantly shut again,
and Jennie heard the rattle of the keys
as room A was being unlocked.
Jennie jumped down from her perch,
threw off her bat, and with as little
noise as she could slid her door back an
inch or two. The conductor had un-
locked the door of room A, the tall
Russian standing beside him saying in
a whisper:
"Never mind the man 1 He'll come to
the moment you open the door and win-
dow. Get the box I Hold your nose with
your fingers and keep your mouth shut
There it is—that black box in the cor-
ner."
The conductor made a dive into the
room and came out with an ordinary
black dispatch box. The policeman
seemed well provided with the materials
for his burglarious purpose. He selected
a key from a jingling bunch, tried it,
selected another, then a third, and the
lid of the dispatch box was thrown
back. He took out a letter so exactly
the duplicate of the one Jennie had
that she clutched her own document to
see if it were in its place. The Russian
put the envelope between his knees and
proceeded to lock the box. His imagina-
tion had not gone to any such refine -
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pened in a tenth of the time taken to
tell it.
"Oh, pardon mei" cried Jennie. "I'm
afraid a lurch of the car threw me
against you."
The Russian, before answering, cast
a look at the poor and saw the large
envelope lying there with its seal up-
permost. He quietly placed his huge
foot upon it, and then said, with an
effort at politeness:
"It is no matter, madame. I am
afraid that I am so bulky I have taken
up most of the passage."
"It is very good of you to excuse
me," said Jennie. "I merely calve out
to ask the conductor if he would make
up my berth. Would you be good
enough to translate that to him?"
The Russian surlily told the conductor
to attend to the wants of the lady. The
conductor muttered a reply, and that
reply the Russian translated.
"He will be at your service in a few
moments, madame, He must first make
up the berth of the gentleman in room
A."
With that she retired again into her
compartment, the real letter concealed
in the folds of her dress, the bogus one
on the floor under the Russian's foot.
She closed the door tightly. Then, taking
care that she was not observed through
either of the holes the conductor bad
bored in the partition, she swiftly placed
the important document in a deep in-
side pocket of her jacket. As a general
rule, women have inside pockets in their
capes and outside pockets in their jack-
ets, but Jennie, dealing as she did with
many documents in the course of her
profession, bad bad this jacket espe-
cially made, with its deep and roomy
inside pocket. She sat in a corner of her
sofa wondering what was to be the fate
of the unfortunate messenger, for in
spite of the sudden shutting of the door
by the Russian she caught a glimpse
of the man lying face downward on the
floor of his stifling room. She also had
received a whiff of the sweet, heavy gas
which had been used, that seemed now
to be tincturing the whole atmosphere
of the car, especially in the long, narrow
passage. It is not likely they intended
to kill the man, for his death would
cause an awkward investigation, while
his statement that be had been rendered
insensible might easily be denied. As
she sat there, the silence disturbed only
by the low, soothing rumble of tho train,
she heard the ring of the metal cylinder
against the woodwork of the next com-
partment. The men were evidently re-
moving their apparatns. A little later
the train slowed, finally coming to a
standstill, and, looking out of the win-
dow into the darkness, slie found they
were stopping at an ill lighted country
station. Covering the light in the ceil-
ing again, the better to see outside, her-
self unobserved, she noted the conductor
and another man place the bulky cylin-
der on the platform without the slight-
est effort at concealment. The tall Rus-
sian stood by and gave curt orders. An
instant later the train moved on again,
and when well under way there was a
rap at her door. When she opened it,
the conductor said that he would make
up her berth now, if it so pleased her.
She stood out in the corridor while this
was deftly and swiftly done. She could
not restrain her curiosity regarding the
mysterious occupant of room A, and to
satisfy it she walked slowly up and
down the corridor, her hands behind
her, passing and repassing the open door
of her own room and noticing that ever
and anon the conductor cast a suspicious
eye in her direction. The door of room
A was partly open, but the shaded lamp
in the ceiling left the interior in dark-
ness. There was new no trace of the in-
toxicating gas in the corridor, and as
she passed room A she noticed that a
' fresh breeze was blowing through the
half open doorway; therefore the win-
dow must be up. Once as she passed her
own door she saw the conductor engaged
in a task which would keep hint from
looking into the corridor for at least a
minute, and in that interval she set her
doubts at rest by putting her head
swiftly into room A and as swiftly
withdrawing it. The man had been lift-
ed on to his sofa and lay with his face
toward the wall, his bead on a pillow.
The dispatch box rested on a corner of
the sofa, where doubtless he had left it.
He was breathing heavily, like a man in
a drunken sleep, but the air of the room
was sweet and fresh, and he would
doubtless recover. Jennie still paced np
and down thinking deeply over what
bad happened. At first, when she had
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had made up her w,utl to return it to
the messenger. but farther ponderiug
induced her to change her mind. The
messenger had been rubbed by the Rus-
sian police. He would tell his superiors
exactly what had happened. and yet the
letter would reach its destinction as
speedily as if he had brought it himself
—as if he had never been robbed.
Knowing the p0. trpoc; which Mr. Hard-
wick bad iu his mind, Jennie saw that
the letter now was of tenfold more va''--o
to hint than it would have been had sue
taken it from the messenger. It was
evident that the British embassy, or the
messenger himself, had suspicions that
an attempt was to bo made to obtain
the document ; otherwise room 0 of the
sleeping car would not have been
changed for room A at the very last
moment. As it was the editor could say
to the official: "The Russian police rob-
bed your messenger in spite of all the
precautions that could be taken, and
my emissary cozened the Russians. So,
you see, I have accomplished what the
whole power of the British government
was powerless to effect; therefore it
will be wisdom on your part to coma to
terms with me."
"Your room is ready for you," said
the conductor in French.
She had presence of mind enough not
to comprehend his phrase until, with a
motion of his hn,id, he explained his
meaning. She entered her compartment
and closed the door.
Having decided what disposal to make
of the important document, there now
arose in ber mind the disquieting prob-
lem whether or not it would be allowed
to remain with her. She cogitated over
the situation, and tried to work out the
mental arithmetic of it. Trains were in-
frequent on the Russian railways, and
she had no means of estimating when
the burly ruffian who had planned and
executed the robbery world get back to
St. Petersburg. There was no doubt
that he had not the right to open the
letter and read its contents; that privi-
lege rested with some higher official in
St. Petersburg. The two men bad got
off at the first stopping place. It was
quite possible that they would not reach
the capital until next morning, when
the Berlin express would be well on its
wry to the frontier. Once over the
frontier she would be safe, but the mo-
ment it was found that the envelope
merely contained a copy of an English
newspaper, what might not happen?
Would the Russian authorities dare tele-
graph to the frontier to have her search-
ed, or would the big official who had
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She sprang isp on the scat and, placing
her cyc at the hole, veered through,
went as the placing of a dummy copy
where the original had been. Quick as
thought Jennie acted. She slid open the
door quietly and stepped out into the
passage. So intent were the two men on
their work that neither saw her. The
tall man gave the box back to the con-
ductor, then took the letter from be-
tween his knees, holding it in his right
hand, when Jennie, as if swayed by the
car, lurched against him, and with a
sleight of hand that would have made
her reputation on a necromantic stage
she jerked the letter from the amazed
and frightened man, at the same mo-
ment allowing the bogus document to
drop on the floor of the car from her
other hand. The conductor had just
emerged from room A, holding his nose
and looking comical enough as he stood
there in that position, amazed at the
sudden apparition of the lady. The
Russian struck down the conductor's
fingers with hie right hand, and by a
swift Motion of the left closed the door
et compartment A, ail of which bap-
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She jerked the letter, from the amazed and
jvi!pttened roan.
planned the robbery suspect that she,
by legerdemain, bad become possessed
of the letter so much sought for? Even
if he did suspect her, he would certain-
ly have craft enough not to admit it.
His game would rather be to maintain
that this was the veritable document
found in the Englishman's dispatch
box, and it was more than likely, tak-
ing into consideration the change of
room at the last moment, which would
show the officials the existence of sus-
picion in the messenger's mind, or in
the minds of those who sent him, that
the natural surmise would be that to.
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other messenger had gone with the real
document, and that the robbed Tian
was merely a blind to delude the Rus -
elan police. In any case, Jennie con-
cluded, there was absolutely nothing to
do but remain awake all night and
guard the treasure which good luck had
Bestowed upon her. She stood up on her
bed, abort to stuff her handkerchief
into the bole bored in the partition, but
suddenly paused and came down to the
floor again. No; discomforting as it was
to remain in a room under possible es-
pionage, she dared not stop the open-
ings, as that would show she had cog-
nizance of them, and arouse the con-
ductor's suspicion that, after all, she
bad understood what had been said,
whereas, if she left them as they were,
the fact of her doing so would be strong
confirmation of her ignorance. She took
from her bag a scarf, tied one end round
her wrist and the other to the door, so
that it could not be opened, should she
fall asleep, without awakening her. Be-
fore intrenching herself thus she drew
the eyelids down over the lamp, and left
her room in darkness. Then, if any one
did spy upon her, they would not see the
dark scarf which united her wrist with
the door.
In spite of the danger of her situation
she had the utmost difficulty in keeping
awake. The rumble of the train had a
very somnolent effect, and once or twice
she started up, fearing that she had
been slumbering. Once she experienced
a tightening sensation in her throat,
and sprang to the floor, seeing the rising
gas, somehow made visible, the color of
blood. The scarf drew her to her knees,
and for a moment she thonght some one
clutched her wrist. Panting, she undid
the scarf and flooded the room with
light. Her heart was beating wildly,
but all was still, save the ever present
rumble of the train rushing through the
darkness over the boundless plains of
Russia. She looked at her tiny watch;
it was 2 o'clock in the morning. She
knew then that she must have fallen
asleep in spite of her strong resolutions.
The letter was still in the inside pocket
of her jacket, and all was well at 2 in
the morning. No eye appeared at either
of the apertures, so she covered up the
light once more and lay down again,
sighing to think how rumpled her cos:
tame would look in the morning. Now
she was resolved not to go to sleep, if
force of will could keep her awake. A
moment later she was startled by some
one beating down the partition with an
ax. She sprang up, and again the scarf
pulled her back. She untied it from her
wrist and noticed that daylight flooded
the compartment. This amazed her.
How could it be daylight so soon, in
northern Russia? After a breathless
pause there was a rap at her door, and
the voice of the conductor said:
"Breakfast at Luga, madame, in
three-quarters of an hour."
"Very good," she replied in English,
her voice trembling with fear. Slowly
she untied the scarf from the door and
placed it in her hand bag. She shivered
notwithstanding her effort at self con-
trol, fur she knew she had slept throngh
the night and far into the morning. In
agitation she unbuttoned her jacket.
Yes, there was the letter, just where
oho had placed it. She dare not take it
out and examine it, fearing still that
she might be watched from some unseen
quarter, but "Thank trod," she said to
herself fervently, "this horrible night is
ended. Once over the frontier I amsafe."
(To be continued.)
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t In 1004 the gross receipts of beans in
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In each barrel are five bushels. The
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and when these beans were sold again
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Lover and friend in your chosen spouse.
Married in golden Septomber's glow
Smooth and serene your life will go.
Married when leaves in October thin,
Toil and hardship for von begin.
Married in voile of November mist,
Fortune your wedding ring has kissed.
Hunted in days of December cheer,
Love's star shines blighter from year
to year.
—.~Toni Old Rhyme.
Varieties
Guzzler—I was np with the lark this
mnrniag. Wigwag—Kept the lark up
all night, eh?
Suffering Passenger -0i! Captain
I'm afraid it's all up with mel Captain
—Well, you've been at it long enough..
"Jobny, I thought I told yon not to
go outside the gate," Yeb'm but you
said I could play dog, an' Ihad to run
ont an' bark at a wagon,"
"What did old Guff say when you told
him to find an opening in his office? "He
showed me the door."
Winnie—You've been out every night
since I married yea, and yon swore you
would be as true as the stars above.
Hugh—Well, ain't the stars above out
every night, too?
"Were you ever a reformer?" "Oh,
yes," nnswersrl Senator Sorghum. "ant -
I found that being a reformer is like a
great many other things. Success de-
pends on knowing gust when to ouit."
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iuer,t is a certain
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"Oh," he exlaimed, as she accepted
him, "this is heaven!" "SVhat," cried
the girl suspiciously. "Do you mean
there is to be no marrying or giving in
marriage'?"
Her—A ger] is a fool who doesn't mar-
ry rich. Him—There's only one bigger
fool. Isar—Who:• Him—The man who
marries the girl who thinks that way.
Miss Castiqua—I think we resemble
each other in one respect, Mr Wiadig.
Windig—Indeed! I:1 what respect? ]Mss
Castiqua-1 also enjoy hearing you talk.
Biggins puts a great deal of thought
into his work. "Yes," said the sarcas-
tic person. "Ile works ten minutes and
then thinks about it for an hour end a
half."
THREE Trying Times in
A WOMAN'S LIFE
WHEN
MILBURN'S HEART
AND NERVE PILLS
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future health.
The frst when she is just budding from girl-
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The second period that constitutes a special
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The third and the one most Heide to leave
heart and nerve troublesisduring"eheti&eof lif0.••
In all three periods laiilburn's Heart and
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they aro the best remedy I have ere r used for
building up the system. You are at Marty to
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