Show I In I ii tile the Cause Gauge of ofF Freedom F By Bv ARTHUR W T Author of ot The Queens Advocate A Courier of Fortune etc Copyright 1908 by Arthur W Marchmont nf CONTINUED FROM SUNDAY NOV 7 CHAPTER Black Monday in Warsaw I was almost afraid arad I catch you rou up said Burski Durski 1 I though you ou get away I growled Oh J I managed Jt it all right I 1 thought It would be a pity for tor or you ou to miss any anything an anything thing I could show you on your last Jast day In the city and such auch a day so I hur hurried ned ried after you vou Nearly lost you in that crowd though Going to td the Church ot of St Paul are you make a I capital starting point Jump in But it was wag not In my program proP m to take him to meet Volna No I think as youre with me we se shall see more if It we walk I t replied and I tossed the driver a rouble and dismissed him Burski Burak laughed That Illustrates one of my pet theories he lie said that you English are sometimes a 0 most change changeable changeable able and impulsive people I am not Interested in your our theories about my countrymen Oh I 1 wont force them on you ou I 1 hate a man who is always cramming his views down your throat Hes a bore the poorest sort of creature In the world Which way shall shaH we walk I All AU ways are the same to me meLet meLet meLet Let us stroll on then It will take tale taleus us to the Church of St Paul PaulI PauJI I was so angry so perplexed how to shake him off and at the same time so anxious to get to Volna that I would not trust myself to speak Every min minute minute mm ute of ot delay increased the risk that she might tire of waiting or Jump to the conclusion that I could not keep l the ap appointment and go back to the house where I knew men might already alread be waiting for he liep Burski acted as though he saw noth nothing nothing nothIng ing of my uneasiness He chatted away quite unconcernedly calling my atten attention attention tion now to a church and again to some public building and accepting my monosyllabic surly replies with unruffled unruffled fled complacency Once chance offered of getting away awayA A great crowd of strikers came march marchIng marchIng Ing past filling the roadway and as the accompanying mob of stragglers surged on to the footpath I was about I to plunge into the midst of their ranks when he slipped sUpped his arm into mine and anddrew anddrew anddrew drew me back into a 0 doorway For heavens sake be careful h he cried The scum of ot the city is there I and your very ery life lite might be in danger It appeared as though he might well wen be right but I could have hae cursed him for tor his forethought all the sae Tho The strikers themselves looked for formidable formidable formidable enough There were several hundred of them men aP resolute silent determined dogged is s though moved moed by a common purpose they maintained a rough order of march leaders at the head and on the flank of each band The mob hanging on their skirts were of ot a very different class however ill JH clad dirty unkempt tatterdemalions the dregs of the alloys alleys and byways b was f tile the city ripe for any an mischief or devil devilment devilment ment mente Evil men and wor worse o women i they shuffled and scrambled and hus bus hustled hustled tIed along with occasional cheers for forthe forthe forthe the strikers hoarse cries crl s and oaths to toone toOne toone one another and execrations for the government a a toweled disorderly rab mb rabble tile ble unquestionably dangerous and nn with thoughts and hoper hope of violence It would not be their fault if it tho flay day da ended without open resist resistance resistance resistance ance looting and bloodshed For many minutes precious to me they filled the streets and made pro progress gress impossible and before they the had passed paRsed a clock dock near by struck 12 An hour past the time at nt which I Iwas Iwas Iwas was to have hoe met Volna Voina She would surely have given me up and in all nil probability had already gone back to the house hou Je to which in my con confidence in my own cleverness I had bai la 1 been reckless enough to send Bremen Bremon hot hof Where hero have the strikers come from I asked Burski as a sudden thought chilled me From where we are going the square in front of ot the Church of St StPaul StPaul StPaul Paul They have an ugly look and we shall have Petersburg over again a ln if st they dont shake themselves free from the rabble And nd It may be even worse here for the fraternity have brought In arms and are prepared to resist There will be bo fighting before night Spoken very much like a police agent that I exclaimed He shrugged his shoulders One gets the habit I suppose I 1 was a 0 police agent long before I Joined the fraternity ty and one Judges of ot things from that standpoint at times See they have swept the tho square clear he added as we reached the church And at this point well part com corn company company pany please He assumed great surprise Part company Why we have seen scarcely anything yet yetI I mean what I say flay He paused and then his manner changed I am really sorry for this Mr Anstruther Sorry for what Of course I have seen that I am not wanted but the fact tact Is I myself am being watched I am compelled to keep with you ou for an hour or so You suggested Just now that you came because I had asked you I rapped back backWell backWell Well Veti you did ask me you And you put it so naturally that I real really really ly lit thought you were In earnest earnestI I 1 I dont wish to be seen by b bour our friends today In the company of so sowell sow well w known a Ill police agent as yourself Let us see then how we can manage it The simplest way wa will be for me to t drop behind The friends wont know we are together and my m superiors will see sec I am obeying orders But I dont don wish to be shadowed either He spread out his hia hands with an ar arof of ot bewilderment For the sake of at the fraternity I must not lose my position in the police ponce You see sec that I see ace one thing which Is enough for forme forme forme me I am nm not going to be shadowed You may as well understand that But we are not going to quarrel surely If It necessary necel su we are arelIe He lIe sighed as though I were most un unreasonable unreasonable unreasonable reasonable It has always been one of ot my pat pet theories Hang your theories Are Aro you rou going to persist In following me mo meNo moNo meNo No I am not Then go your way and leave me to togo togo go mine Yes I will do that But he kept at my side Then go goback goback goback back Very Tery well I 1 am sorry s rry I have an annoyed annoyed annoyed noyed you I shant be annoyed if It you leave me ue menow m now I am glad to hear that But you are still coming on onI onI onI I am thinking The square was nearly deserted and andI I looked everywhere for Volna The lock clock the quarter past the tha hour She lue he was not there I pulled up I have had enough of t this What are you going to do doI I have av a suggestion Let us go to Colonel Colon l Bremenhof and tell tell him He Is close elos here hereTo hereTo hereTo To le Continued Tomorrow |