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Teiith Raffles StoryTenth
a decent soul, and It'a lucky for me I got
a word with him before they trussed me up.
I've promised to set him up In life, and I
will, but I don't want htm out of my sight
for the moment."
"If you squared him last night," "I ex
claimed, "why the biases didn't he come to
me till the eleventh hourT"
"Ah, I knew he'd have to cut It fins,
though I hoped not quite so fine as all that.
But all's well that ends well, and I declare
I don't feci so much the woiho. I shall bs
sore about the gills for a bit and what do
youHhlnkt"
He pointed to the long black ruler with
the bronse stain; It lay upon theflnor. He
held out his hand for It and I gave It to
him.
"The same on) I gagged him with," said
Raffles, with his slUI ghastly smile. "He
was a bit of an artist, old Corbuccl, after
all!"
"Now let's hear how you fell Into his
clutches," said I brlJ'tly, for I was ss
anxious to hear as 1 e seemed to tell me,
only for my part I cou'd nave waited until
we were safe In the fliu
"I do w.int to ret It oft my chest. Bunny,"
eld Raffles admitted, "and yet I hardly can
tell you after all. I followed your friend .
with the velvet eyes. I followed him all the
way here. Of course I came up to have a
good kok at the house when he'd let him
self In, and damme If hi l adp't left the
door ajar? Who could rai.lst that? I had
pushed It half open, and had Jut one foot
on the mat when I got such a ciack on the
head as I hope never to get again. When I
came to my wits they .were hauling me up
to that ring-bolt by the hands, and old
Corbuccl himself was bowing ' o me, but
how he got here I don't know yet"
"I can tell you that," said I, and told
how I had seen the count for myself on
the pavement underneath our windows.
Moreover," I continued, "I saw him spot
you, and five minutes after 'n Furl's Court
road I waa told he'd driven off In a cab.
He would ae you following his man, drive
home ahead and catch you by having the
door left open la J he way you describe."
Well." aald ' Raffles, "he dtwerved to
catch me somehow, for ds'd come from
Naples on purpose, ruler and all, and the
ring-bolts were ready nxed, and even this
house taken furnished for nothing else!
He meant catching me before he'd done
and scoring me off it exactly the same
way that I scored oft him. only going one
better, of onurse. He told me so himself,
elttlng where I am anting now, at t
e'clock thla morning, and smoking a most
abominable clgsr that I've smelled ever
sines. It appears ha sat twenty-four hours
when t left htm trusned up. but he said
twelve would content him In my rase,
ea there was certain death at the end of
them, and I mightn't have life enough
left to appreciate my end It he mads It
longer. But I wouldn't haven't trusted
him If he could havs got the clock to go
twice round without tiring off the pistol.
Ho explained the whole mechanism of
that to me. He had thought It all out
on the vineyard I told you about, and then
he asked If I remembered what he had
promised me In the name of the Camorra.
I only remembered some vague threats,
but he was good enough to give me so
many particulars of that Institution that
I could make a European reputation by
exposing the whole show If It wasn't for
my unfortunate resemblance to that In
fernal rascal Raffles. Do you think they
would know me at the yard. Bunny, after
all thla UmiT Upon my soul, I've a good
mind to risk It!"
X offered no opinion pa the point How
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could It Interest me, then? But Interested
I was In Raffles; never more so In my
life. He had been tortured all night and
half a day, yet her could alt and talk like
this the moment we cut him down. He
had been within a minute of his death,
yet he waa as full of life aa ever; Ill
treated, and defeated-at the beat, he could
still smile through his blood aa though the
boot were on the other leg. I had Imagined
that I knew ray Raffles at last. I was not
likely so to flatter myself again. !
"But what has happened to these
villains?" I burst out, and my Indignation
was not only against them for their cru
elty, but also against their victim for hie
phlegmatic attitude toward them. It waa
' difficult to believe that thla was Raffles.
"Oh," said he, "they were to go off to
Itajy instanter; thejr should be crossing
now. But do listen to what I am telling
you; It'a Interesting, my dear man. Thla
old alnner Corbuccl turns out to have been
no end of a boss In the Camorrasaya so
himself. One of the capl paranse, my boy,
no less; and the velvety Johnny a glovano
Some Tersely Told
urelr at .
R. S. WEIR MITCHELL, relatee
D
the sad case of a young woman
from Baltimore affecting literary
fads who attended a reception
given by a Philadelphia woman In
it-
honor of a well known writer.
The young woman from Baltimore was
Introduced to the whole roomful of more
or lens celebrated Individuals, and It seemed
to be a circumstance on which she prided
herself that she could remember an amas
Ing proportion of the names of those pres
ent. When, however, she came to say
farewell to a certain rather distinguished
young man. who, by the way, was probably
the only person there who was not of a
"literary" turn, she remarked:
"Do you know, Tve remembered very
nearly all the names, but when it comes to
yours I must confess that I'm entirely at
sea."
With a smile the young man replied:
"Then you're not far from' wrong. My
name la Atwater." Philadelphia Ledger.
Pakddlg the Marriage Fee.
Rev. Joseph Fawcett, when pastor of the
First Congregational church at Osslpee.
had many curious experiences with the
"mountaineers," who are ust now attract
ing a good deal of attention. One of them
was suddenly consumed of love for his fair
damsel, andhls Impatience would not await
proper preparation for wedding, so he
levied upon various relations for an outfit.
From one he got a shirt, from another a
coat, from a third a pair of trousers, and
so on, until his. wardrobe was complete, If
unique.
A license having been procured he and
his soon-to-be-lira , whose wardrobe had
been furrlshed In a like manner to her fu
ture lords, started for the parsonage. The
knot being firmly tied, the bride and groom
held a whispered consultation, resulting In
the turning over of her purse to the future
master, who then asked Mr. Fawcett:
"Haw much do yer git for this Job, elder?"
"The law allows me replied the rev
erend gentleman.
EmpDlng the entire contents of the purse
Into hie hand the genere i groom bvaoned
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onorato, Angllce, fresher. This fellow here
waa also in it, and I've aworn to protect
him from them evermore; and it's Just as
I said, half the organ grinders in London
belong, and the whole lot of them were
put on my tracks by secret Instructions.
Thla excellent youth manufactures iced
poison on Saffron Hill when he'a at home."
"And why on earth didn't he come to
me quicker?" .
"Because he couldn't talk to you. He
could only fetch you, and if waa aa much
aa his Ufa waa worth to do that before our
friends had departed. They, were going by
the 11 o'clock from Victoria, .and that
didn't leave much chance, but he certainly
oughtn't to have run It aa fine as he did.
Still, you must remember that I had to fix
things up with him In the fewest possible
words In a single minute that the other
two were Indiscreet enough to leave us
alone together."
.The ragamuffin In question was watching
ua with all hie solitary eye, as though he
knew that we were discussing him. Sud
denly he broke out In agonised accents, his
upon the lucky parson as he aald: "Well,
there's 10 cents to add to It; that'll make
ye 11.50, which is earning a lot o'-money in
a mighty short time." Boston Herald.
Oae om Twali,
At bis summer Wa In New York Mark
Twain had an aged negro aervant, who
some time ago celebrated his wedding an
niversary by Inviting in twelve friends to a
'possum dinner, the delicacy having been
supplied by relatives in the south. Twelve
by no means marks the extent of the ser
vant's friends, ajid those unbidden to the
feast cor eluded that, after all, they did not
think much of It. One of the more pro
gressiva started the report that Instead of
'possum; tt,e host served plain coons.
The next day, with great severity, Mr.
Clemens said to the servant: "Jim, I've
known you a long time and found you a
truthful fellow. I want you to tell me
honestly which you had for dinner last
night, 'pessum or coons?"
The old servant hesitated, but In an In
stant said: "Which do you mean, Mr.
Clemens, on the table or around the table?"
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but said that the plaintiff knew at the
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"That's It, your lordship one of the it
may be for years, and It may be forever'
' aort."
Were Prejudice.
It la known that a Jury, theoretically.
Is composed of a set of unprejudiced men
with open minds, still there may be occa
sions when a alight personal feeling In
vades their ranks. Such was evidently the
thought borne in upon the tailor who,
rising to stale bis case, and havlug de
clined the aervices of a lawyer for rea
sons best known to himself, looked over
the Jurymen and then turned to the Judge.
"It's no use for me to tell about thla
case, your honor," be said, dejectedly,
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Raffles
hands clasped and a face so full of fear
that every moment I expected to aee him
on his knees. But Raffles answered kindly,
reassuringly, I could tell from his tone,
and then turned to me with a compassion
ate shrug.
"Ho says he couldn't find the mansions.
Bunny, and really it'a not to be wondered
at. I had only time to tell Mlm to hunt
you up and bring you here by hook or
crook before 12 today, and, after all, he
has done that. But now the poor devil
thinks you're riled with him and that we'll
give him away to the Comorra."
"Oh. It'a not with him I'm riled." I said
frankly, "but with those other blackguards,
and and with you, old chap, for taking it
all -as you do, while suoh Infamous scoun
drels have the last laugh and' are aately on
their way to France."
Raffles looked up at me with a curiously
open eye an eye that I never saw when
he was not In earnest. I fancied he did not
like my last expression. After all It waa
no laughing matter to him.
"But are they?" said he. "I'm not ao
Tales Both Grim
"not unless you dismiss that Jury and get
a new lot There isn't a man among 'em
but owes me something for clothes." Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Penalty Fits the Crime.
A Richmond (Va.) Judge tella a story
which Illustrates the difficulty met in try
ing to stop the carrying of' pistols. A
tough youth waa brought before the Judge
charged with firing a revolver In the street.
The testimony In the case waa to the ef
fect that the young hoodlum had filled
himself with whisky and had discharged
his weapon In a crowded street "Twenty
dollars and costs," said the magistrate.
"But, your honor," interposed counsel for
the prisoner, "my client did not hit any
body." "Why, you admit that he fired
the gun?" "Yes, but he fired in the air,"
explained the lawyer. "Twenty dollars and
costs," repeated the Judge. "He might have
shot an angel." And the riotous fellow
went to Jail, not having the money to pay
hie fine. '
Lost His Reasoa.
Danny O'Brien worked on the section
and was as tender-hearted a man as ever
got drunk and cracked a pate with a
ahlllalab. At the time of Pat Dunphy'a
great misfortune Danny was chosen by
the section gsng to break the news gently
to Mrs. Dunphy.
"Good morning. Mrs. Dunphy," aald
he. "Did ye hear about Pat?"
"I heard nothing about- him alnce break
. fast," she anawered.
Did he seem to be all right then?"
"Sure, he did."
"Ye noticed nothln' wrong wld his
mind?"
"Nothln' at all. Why did ye ask?"
"Well, I hear that his mind do be wan
derln" a little."
'An' phwat do ye mean by that?"
I mean to have lost his reason, Mrs.
Dunphy."
Lost his reason, Is It? An" how did he
do that?"
'Well. Mrs. Dunphy," aald Danny,
scratching his head, "I don't know exactly.
Ye aee, I wasn't close by whin It hap
pened. But I do be hearlo' from the rut
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StoryTenth Raffles Story
aure."
"You said they were."
"I said they should be."
"Didn't you hear them go?"
"I heard nothing but the clock all night
It was like Big Ben striking at the last
striking to the fellow on the drop."
And In that open eye I saw at last a deep
glimmer of the ordeal through which he
had pauised.
"But, my dear old Raffles, if they're still
on the premises"
The thought waa too thrilling for a fin
ished sentence.
"I hope they are." he aald grimly, going
to the door. "There's a gas on! Was that
burning when you came In?"
Now that I thought of It, yes. It had been.
"And there's a frightfully foul smell," I
added as I followed Raffles down the stairs.
He turned to me gravely, with his band
upon the front room door, and at the same
moment I saw a coat with an astrakhan
collar hanging on the pegs.
"They are in here, Bunny," he aald, and
turned the handle.
0 the b'ys he fell across the track an a
train cut his head oft." Brooklyn Eagle.
Reversing- aa Old Saw.
Abe Hummel, the New York lawyer who
Is known as a master of repartee,. Is to be
credited with a new, pithy and very-much-to-the-polnt
retort. The other morning,
accompanying a client to court, the case at
Issue being a breach of promise suit for
damages based on letters written by the
defendant, the counselor had given a lesson
on morals to his client, when the latter de
jectedly remarked: "O, I know all about
It, Abe; the same old song, 'Do right and
fear nothing.' " ."No, no. That'a not it at
all," answered Abe; "don't write and fear
nothing."
, Doctors la Wobnrn.
"A number of yeara ago, when I lived in
Woburn, Mans.," said a well known Bos
tonlan the other day, "a Dr. Kelley resided
there and was the leading physlrlan of the
town. Later there same a young physician
who was far less successful than his neigh
bor; in tact, he lost so many cases that
many remarks were made concerning him.
"One morning while out making calls the
two doctors met, Dr. Kelley having one of
his patients riding with him. Dr. Brown,
the other physician, saluted him with:
'Ah, good morning, doctor; I see you take
your patients to ride.'
" "Yes,' aald the other. 'I see Griggs
takes yours.'
"Griggs waa the undertaker." Boston
Herald-
When the Flaaaeler Beored.
The late Baron de Hirseh. the Jewish fin
ancier, was dining at a German noble
man's house In company with a certain
rrlnce who made no secret of his venom
ous antipathy to the Jews. Courtesy proved
ne barrier to the outflow of his spleen.
Remarking u&n a tour he had made in
Turkey, he said he had been favorably
Impressed with two of its customs:
"All Jews and dogs that are caught are
Immediately killed"
The baron, with smiling sangfroid. Im
mediately relieved the scandalized conster
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The door would only open a few Inches.
But a detestable odor came out, with a
broad bar of yellow gaslight. Raffles put
his handkerchief to his nose. I followed
his example, signing to our ally to do the
same, and in another minute we bad all
three squeezed Into the room.
The man with the yellow boots waa ly
ing against the door, the count's great car
cass sprawled upon the table, and at a
glance it was evident that both men had
been dead some hours. The old Camorrlst
had the stem of a liqueur glass between
his swollen blue fingers, one of which had
been cut in the breakage, and the livid
flesh wbs also brown with the last blood
that it would ever shed. His face waa on
the table, the huge mustache projecting
from under either leaden cheek, yet looking
itself strangely alive. Broken bread and
scraps of frosen maccaroni lay upon the
cloth and at the ,bottom of two aoup plates
and a tureen. The maccaroni had a tinge
of tomato, and there was a crimson dram
left In the tumblers, with an empty fiasco
to show whence it came. But near the greit
and Gay
nation of the other guests with a bland
rejoinder:
"How fortunate you and I don't live
there." M. A. P.
Welcoming: a Keataeklaa.
Ex-Congressman Asher O. Caruth of
Kentucky tella this story of an experience
he once had on a visit to a little Ohio
town:
"I went up. there on legal business," he
says, "and knowing that I should have to
stay alt night I proceeded directly to the
only hotel. The landlord stood behind the
desk and regarded me with a kindly air as
I registered. It seems that he waa a little
hard of hearing, a fact of which I was not
aware. As I Jabbed the pen back Into the
dish of bird shot I said:
" 'Can you direct me to the bank?
"He looked at me blankly for a second,
then sa-lnglng the register around, he
glanced down swiftly, caught the 'Louis
ville' after my name, and an expression of
complete understanding lighting up his
countenance, he aald:
" 'Certainly, sir. You will find the bar
right through that door at the left."
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tblrd of hlro remained out at one side of
the tent and one-third at the opposite side,
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gray head upon the table another liquor
glass stood, unbroken, and still full of some
white and stinking liquid, and near that a
tiny silver flask, which made me recoil
from Raffles aa I had not from the dead, for
I knew It to be his.
"Come out of this poisonous air," he said
sternly, "and I will tell you how It has
happened."
So we all three gathered together la the
hell. But It was Raffles who stood nearest
the street door, his back to It, his eyes
upon us two. And though it was to me
only that he spoke at first he would pause
from point to point and translate into Ital
ian for the benefit of the one-eyed alien to
whom he owed his life.
"You probably don't even know the name,
Bunny," he began, "of the deadliest poison
yet known to science. It Is cyanide of
cacodyl, a.id i have carried that small
flask of It about with me for months.
Where I got it matters nothing; the whole
point is that a mere sniff reduces flesh to
clay. I have never had any opinion of aul
clde, aa you know, but I always felt It
worth while to be forearmed against the
very worst. Well, a bottle of this stuff is
calculated to stiffen an ordinary roomful
of ordinary people within five minutes;
and I remembered my flask when they had
me as good as crucified In the small hours
of this morning. I asked them to take It
out of my pocket. I begged them to give
me a drink before they left me. And what
do you auppose they did?"
I thought of many things, but suggested
none, while Raffles turned this much of
his statement Into sufficiently fluent Italian.
But when he faced me again his face was
still flaming.
"That beast Corbuccl!" said he; "how can
I pity him? He took the flask; he would
give me none;' he flicked me In the face
Instead. My Idea was that he at least
should go with me to sell my life as dearly
as that and a sniff would have settled ue
both. But no. he must tantalize and tor
ment me. He thought It brandy; he muat
take It downstairs to drink to my destruc
tion! Can you have any pity for a hound
like that?"
"Let us go," I at lost snld hoarsely, as
Raffles finished spesklng In Italian, and hla
second listener stood open-mouthed.
"We will go," said Raffles, "and we will
chance being ceen. If the worst comes to
the worst this good chap will prove that
I have been tied up since 1 o'clock this
morning, and the medical evidence will de
cide how long thoee dogs have been dead,"
But the worst did not come to the worst,
more power to my unforgotten friend, the
cabman, who never came forward to eay
what manner of men he had driven to
Blonmsbury square at top speed on the
very day upon which the tragedy was dis
covered there, or whence he had driven
them. To be sure they had not behaved
like murderers, whereas the evidence at
the Inquest all went to show that the de
funct Corbuccl was little better. His repu
tation, which transpired with his Identity,
waa that of a libertine and a renegade,
while the infernal , apparatus upstairs re
veuled the fiendish arts of the anarchist to
boot. The Inquiry resulted eventually in
an open verdict and was chiefly Instru
mental In killing such compasHion aa Is
usually felt for the dead who die In their
sins.
But Raffles would not have passed thla
title for this tale.
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