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Show H I lm Eeee w Iamsi 1 1 I : BY GEORGE HORTON 1 1 - z Oopyrihtl, 1906, by Tks) BobWlaairfil Ooayamj. 9 Russia is the clumsiest kind of a clumsy dog." "By the way," said Hardy. "I wonder won-der what became of Mordecai 's mother! I forjrot all about her in the excitement." excite-ment." "The Christians killed her," said Wang, who was standing in the shadow. "Hello!" exclaimed Emery, "that boy of rours speaks Russian. And blamed well, too? " (To Be Continued.) CHAPTER XXIX ' "Do you doubt my word, sirf " asked Hardy. "You had better help me in this' trying situation, if you know . on which side your bread is buttered. Thia is your opportunity to win Mr. Emery 'g favor." -.. "I do not doubt your word, sir, Dut these people will be hard to convince." "I saw the Jew go into the store!" - shrieked a bov. "He crawled under the i ran door."' r'He is lying to us," howled the mob. - '. Beat in the door. Death to the . Jew! 'to the Jew! " Pandemonium now broke loose again. Heavy rocks were hurled against the doors and windows, and three or four stout Russians brought up a log, to batter bat-ter in tha iron shutter. "Ohrmy desr master," pleaded the Korean boy, "flv while there is yet time! They will" kill you, they will tear you to pieces! They are madmen!" "I shall not fly," said Hardy. "They may kill me, if tlrey wish, but I will teach them a lesson first." At this moment a dmshky drove up through the throng, the driver furiously furious-ly lash ing bis horses, and stopped before be-fore the door. A corpulent man with white side whiskers sat in it. He wore an American Amer-ican fall overcoat, of the latest cut and a derbr hat. "What's the matter here, friendst" he asked, standing up in the carriage He spoke perfect, fluent Russian. There was no fear in his face, his voice, or ' his attitude. A sudden hush fell on the throng. "If you please, Mr. Emery," said the tall Russian, who had acted as ringleader, ring-leader, ""we want the Jew who is being sheltered in the store. Another Christian Chris-tian child has been sacrificed, and we are punishing the Jews. We want Mordecai, Mor-decai, and if this msn in the window is a Jew, we want him. too." "He a Jew?" laughed Emeiy. "He is as good a Christian as any man arn.onest you. Do you thick that I wrfvld have sent a Jew here to take ebfsrg e of mv store? Do vou not know 'df iMter than that?" y,U thought so because he assoei-MM assoei-MM with a Jew constant'v, in preference pref-erence to Christians," said the ringleader. ring-leader. "How is that. Mr. Hardy?" asked Emery, "what explanation have you to make to these good people?" "I hired the .Tew to teach me Russian," Rus-sian," said Hardy. "He was the onlv man in town who spoke English sufficiently suffi-ciently well." "Ah, do vou see? Do vou nee?" cried out old Emery nnctnorslv, waiving waiv-ing a conciliatory arm in the air. "He made rjse of the Jew that he might learn the beautiful language of holy Russia and thus become able to converse con-verse with yon. his friends and neighbors, neigh-bors, my friends and neighbors. T see it all! Here Mr. Emer- opened both palms ajid extended mem over the crowd. "He. no doubt, kept the Jew constantly with him, that he night learn tho language as sc n ;i possible and thu get rid of Vim at the earliest earli-est possible moment, compatible with his laudable purr You see what astounding progress he has made. I could hard'v believe mv ears when I heard mv friend speaking Russian so well. Mr. Hariy. is there a Jew concealed con-cealed in the store!" "Nyct." replied H3rdv. "He gsys 'N'.-.' and that convinced me. Nevertheless, you shall come in and see for yot:reIvi s, and if you find a Jew here. I -jil! agree to eat him. without pepper or salt. Mr. Hardy, come down and open the door. " Hardy complied with the request, and Emery, jumping briskly from the carriage, car-riage, en'cred, calling out cheerfullv: ' 'Vladimar. Anatoli. Sergei, come in and look about, and then you shall . take out a barrel of vodka and all the friends shall drink to my safe return to holy Russia." The three men entered shamefacedly, protesting that thv would take Mr. Emery's word as to the .Tew, but he flapped them one by ope heartily cn tjjk ra"k. shourirg" fVorre in. brot!,.-rs, come in'" XsTentv minutes later they went out wVfn fi 'barrel of vodka, announcing: "Christians, tl.ere is no Jew here. Let us drink to the health of Frederick Fred-erick Emery'" The mob disperse. 1 '"Well!" exclaimed old Frrerv. as he slammed down the ir-n shutter, "what in the devil does all this mean?" "It means. " explained Hardv. "that there has been a mar-sacre r f ,fW5 an that' Mordecai, whom I employed to teach me Russian, fled here for shelter. ' Wang', here, my Korean bov. and I disguised dis-guised him as a priest ;:; sent him about his business. ' ' "Good!" exclaimed Eni.-rv, "good! Blamed clever! " He sprang to his feet and paced the trre. He was an excitable ex-citable man. "But I gut here just in time. T came up on the Ingnda. Those bloodthirsty devil? might have set fire to the store and perhaps have killed you. I think I'll stay here for a month or so, and help vou our. Mv bov, I have great news' C',mj news' f'lo-riouf f'lo-riouf news!" Here be jumped upon the counter and. sitting there, looked triumphantly at Hardy, pulling fiercely meanwhile at his -tide whiskers. "What is it?" asked Hardy. "War, my boy, war, between Russia and Japan ! " "And do you call that good news?" "Yes, for merchants, for commerce. I fear you haven't acquired th commercial commer-cial spirit yet. my bov. Big contracts, tremendous sales, high prices. An unparalleled un-paralleled demand for everything on earth. Business! business! business, till you can't rest that's what war means! We Tl have tremendous shipments ship-ments of goods sent over to Vladivostok, Vladivos-tok, and every steamer that comes up the river bringing them to our stores. It '11 be a big war, a great big war, for little Japan is going to give Russia the fight of her life! " . "Do you think sot" asked Hardy wonderinglv. "Do you think Japan will be able to stand up against Russia?" Rus-sia?" "Stand up against her!" shouted XrniT. "Why, she'll make her trem-tily" trem-tily" the verv foundations. My friends onVjbere will have something besides Jewiniting" to attend to when- that war breaks out. I've been in Japan, looking look-ing the ground over, and I know what I'm talking about. Di you ever see a mother cat pounce on a big clumsy dogf Well, Japan is a whole nation cf wildcats, thirty million wildcat!, and s. |