The Son of Clemenceau

e Persepolitan Hotel, he gave preference over the policemen, felt a fellow feeling for a man pallid, totte

watchdog, who received the new guest with a blinking eye and affectionate tongue, an ostler was washing down a ramshackle chaise. Claudius guessed that it was prepared for his flight and his heart warmed at this proof of the Jew having counted on his coming, though belated. T

ss," he added, "but you will have no trouble in finding the rooms. It is that one where the candle burns, one floor above, numbers 11, 12 and 13-the numb

se. He was closing the door behind him when he heard a heavy tread at the street gate where he had com

is th

with one hand, to prevent the dog gliding through, while he showed

ound? But catch me putting silly questions to my boon-companion, my old

but flesh-and-blood is what my true Ogre is waiting for! We are up betimes, wort

es a pleasant memory! and we have orders to overhaul every suspicious character in the streets, while none can get out of the town. It appear

s, for one of the theatrical players is a lady lodger of ours. She was unfairly supplanted by some insignificant young upstart and, of cours

nd withdrawing his booted leg from the door. "I may see you when I am off duty and we wi

before him at the end of a clean, bricked passage. His progress was more easy when he reached the landing, as the lamp mentioned, in a r

th bare head, and, having cleared the chairs back to enable him to make the circuit of the table in the center of the spacious room, had apparently been walking round it like a caged lion. On th

ernally. "I feared for the worst-that you would never come. It is so serious a matter: a nobleman a

" said the student; and he

music-hall by the artistes' door and of the help of the woman whom he did not profess to distin

ld stoop to listen, the student related the rest wit

ld hardly appear that he could survive the beating by Baboushka's gang, the ill usage from the street sweepers and that of the ghouls of the dead-house. All this makes me tremble for the plan I formed to have you conveyed hence in a chaise. I have the papers to cove

ould be taking me greatly out of the road

ose address I will give you and I answer for his helping you to get into Switzerland. After all, th

est I mo

et me cover you with a traveling-rug. When

hom I depri

rmand the chaise, and return with the food. This house is not a famous inn, but my coreligionists, who are traveling merchants, frequent it, and the

ostler had jestingly turned him off and quieted his suspicions. Before his host had reached the door, where he pause

ushka is a witch of malevolence, or I am woefully misinformed, and the major an awkward antag

er hair in curl-papers and a candle in h

"I am not sorry you have ris

coffee and light food as soon as you get the hot water? My daugh

tchen. No one else seemed afoot in the large and rambling house, through which the Jew sent searching looks as he

w to drive. The young gentleman whom you welcomed is quite unfit for a journey before at least three days are over. Meanwhile, not an incautious word that wil

in one of a people who seldom dep

ve off an attack of fever. Rebecca was his nurse in the same devoted and intelligent manner as her father

d, wrapped in blankets, to his quarters in the great barracks; the iron constitution, of which Daniels spoke, bore him up, and b

had the habit of conceiving singular fancies. This lady engaged the cantatrice as a "noble companion," and she hurried off with her into Italy. So the story ran, and added that her manager found that the Vieradlers promptly repudiated any

his searches therefore to discover him. He was sure that he had not left the town by the ordinary channels, but, as time passed, and t

the most hideous of fates, which even the homeless and hopeless dread. But for the enemy whom he hated, he might now be a boxful of dissected bon

k care astutely to represent as quite non-personal. They led him to the street of the Persepolitan Hotel, where, before he e

sword as if he wanted to loose it and flog her. "After receiving my gold, to bring me to death's door! What h

his glance firmly, and her ey

those stalwart bullies to obey an old woman like me? They would have beaten me to a jelly if I had tried

the sword if worthy-with

he dialogue turn on another head than her own in spite of her unconcern. "I am going to t

but a boy and cannot ha

upted her career of splendor! Alas! one that had a palace whe

aughter of that calibre!"

, in parian, in plaster-made the round of the civilized world? 'The Bather!' That was my daughter! She had her faults-even the truly lovely have mental flaws, though bodily they are perfec

served but a dim remembrance of the noted beauties-the stars of the li

me blunder is not made by-no matter! Enough that my science-at which you smile, I see-points out to me that your

al?" he said, ceasing to curl h

e Harmonista, La Belle Stamboulane and the Turkophonist Daniel, and the you

fuse in your explanations!

se five or six days, and they only await the chance to smuggle him out of the city. Have him seized and secure him in prison, where he shall rot-for I declare

want to return him blow for blow-and ye

farther claim upon her-his existence was pure indifference to her. I answer for it! They tried his father for the atrocity. Even a French jury could not find extenuating circumstances for that kind of cold-blooded assassin who slays in the small hours the wife of his bosom-after having cast her off and driven her to evil ways, poor, spotless angel! They brought him in guilty of a foul

endlingen. "But I shall not cease aching in the heart until

Major, it is one potentate speaking with another," the singular woman went on with sinister pride, and trying to draw her shrunken form into straightness; "I rule an army of my own, camped by cohorts in the capitals of Europe-dating farther back than your own, and, perhaps, as formidable. It is we who spy out the weak spots i

he might ally himself with this avowed leader of the evil-doers, who announced the pillage

oad. But for precaution, they will not have him go to the train at the depot; he might be questioned and the discrepancies in the passport be perceived. The

eciating the plan at its due value. "I

ll certainly refuse to surrender, whereupon, bang, bang! he falls into the ditch with a brace of bullets in his body. You and I will have an enemy

eme is p

like well-oiled machinery if you

questione

whereabouts, and that they harbor the charitable young man who saved your life. Touch lightly on his thumping you within an inch of it, and enlarge on your undying gratitude. Apologize to the young lady-lay all blame on her irresistible charms and abuse a little the fair and fickle Fraulein von Vieradlers who has eloped without so much as an adieu to you! Depend upon it, Jews though they are, they will applaud your Christian forgiveness, and, I do not doubt, Frenchman though he is, young Clemenceau will give you

stamped his foot, suppressed an oath, and

e spur. I will lay the train and prepare the match. Let

an offended employer into a vigorous ally, she shuddered as if he wer