A PLEASANT LADY PASSENGER

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4295, 2 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

A PLEASANT LADY PASSENGER

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■•Ncwf.y” he rc-piicd. with a muttered ejaculation v. liioh I forbear writing ; “the ’■cry worst; there mii-t be som c traitor amongi-ii, us. 1 can't, imagine, otherwise, how the police manage to git every one oi our men a ; soon as thev

set t'jot in France. Desfarguc.s mul S: hrnich have both hccn seined at Bouhmge, .Minimim hin boon fool enough to bcr i rapped ai, liarvc. and so our prrcious scheme b. b.’owu to tb e wind.-. U is now a. rjurr.tlon of a day or two, perhaps. only of hours. iif wo are to save t'entucle.- 'from the guillotine. They nsay execute him any morning. We must so.» about doin': something to-night or it -a ill be iuo late.’’ An hour later onr ewcuiivc committee, of which 1 bad been fleeted a member, met. to discuss 'he situation. An air of distrust pervaded tho meeting, Cecil, man apparently suspecting bis fellow, and probably mo among the rest. For my part f suspected, nobody: f know too well how all the arrests had been brought about. As.a, result of our deliberations it. was resolved that stid another cH'ori,- was to he made to strike terror into the. official world of Paris, in the hope of saving tin; condemned maids life. The Bureau of Public Safety, the head']iiisrtors' of the clcctcctive department, was to be the object of ntl::ek. II an explosion lo foiled these offices to the groaud', tile Anarchist cause would be in a fair way of tmr.uphing. Furl her, to pmni effectually against the suspected •-reach cry, otsr committee unanimously agreed to leave all arrangements in the hards of Stahl as to the time and manner of carrying out the scheme, and (he men to in; entrusted with the dangerous task, ft was time in Ihe morning eve onr conclave broke re. By five o'clock i was on my way to Paris.

I. had an hour to wait in Ncwhavcn civ, the tide permitted, the Dieppe boat in -mi. !; was a raw cold morning, ami i he draughty writing-room anything bat ph-r- ’.id. [ solaced myself, however, adh the thought how wonderfully well I had carried cut. the onerous and dangerous mission dint had been entrusted to my hi:herd) untried hands. Ami this homeward journey T was now engaged' ;u

making was to l>i> the seal ,of all my successful work, tin- ono effective- countercheck to the last, scheme of Stahl and Lis In other plotter-, whatever it might prove to ho. Hcuccfi.Tth my future was c-u ■•tired, only I felt it would he discreet h> keep ;>t r- re-)j; el fid <le-..-:nuv from any ol my late associates. I was indulging in a. ilay du-am of ;uv as-uivd riso in my prei'e wien who:: f felt a light touch mi my arm. ! am nothing if not gallant. so vhen T toil my readers that. i< was a, lady who was invoking: vny :■■,- • Stance, id-ey w ill under; bind that for the moment I forgot all about th 0 Aiver. chists and their wrotehed plots and consniracios. And the rasm -~o as nay fair unknown was venter, eighteen or nineI' .en summers at mo.-t-, and very beaut i. !’d. She was pale, and her large, dark , res showed signs of recent tears. "Monsieur is going, to Paris?'” she asked me in per-cet Fngll-b. -Yes. mademoiselle. Can I he of service to you'd’ She looked so gratefully at me before vmliving that her lustrous eyes made my licart throb, and I felt myself os if faili.m iu love, and at. first sight. "Well,

there v;a* no reason why I shouidr.':, tor was not my future already assured? i ”1 via in .such trouble/’ she v/ent oi; ; I ‘bny brother was to come irom I \ rrs.eft mo here, and the train has y.:-t ee:r:e in without mm. ■‘Pt.ru.ips he will <*nno by thr- ii(-xL"

‘‘■ii-'t ir will b<>. too late. "Wo v/cvy* {;-«iuK to (tins together ’ . '1 si’iill bo rinligh* {•«*.. jnac!cjfio:.-.«’'-- ; t , fill your iu'oth'.-rY plaor-. it you will ;v i.s' o uiucii iuippiuc.-.-. ’ "You :■!■■■ vry yooil. moii'i'-ur, I ; u

• rr''; imi, i shouM oaly fm r-.c-nf; t>: ■ •. -■ rw.'-'.rov.. pm-imps, 1 kn.'jv.v;?—far my hrotlim' lia-; Uio pa - jmrf.-, far i’-. Ami f. mu-.t b»* *. i iri.■> ‘n-nimii-- my moUrnr m

fi'C.v -1 llp:r! or /: dal; i! ;e to rah -i, ! rain • am! ;•i tlii ■. uonbi 3 upon in! ri-'- tr! '.Vhn>-hr.li ] iior" She hid j 10-1- face in her cambric hni'O-h'-re;;ie:' and rooked com ahavely, 1 la -aril that pily v/ar akin to iovo; in •; I heoan to r‘-i(lire ]■'•■" true the ad;:,'.: ird-dic ho alter V* liiKt I vans s t _■. ( he .itarkip: a-, to v/hat I ehonld a-.y u, ccmtort :ny lair companion in her mnek f; -:t "i iet, tin; d. : ;;; '■ i’.a. ball rang loud y - -a, rianr.l tor a!: uitornlino pnr-.-ienj'c: to o.i hoard ar, unto. .Suddenly. (.vitii an or idea;: „{fort, toe la:, item lea’ la i i -a: a yyi; iny ;,o: rim, :a rraady dried learn, ;.,nd picked a < a. raia.'l Ivlae.k iaio that lay beside hr. _ -d.y 0.-. r. i r.yy,.;yo eras booked t'i.o;';rri to td;.is direct.

; "Allow n:c. ntiidiunoisello,’’ I said. i “it i ■ very heavy, monsieur, for i‘ ■iio said, as I took it; “it belongs to ;/iy !,ri;tr.t?i', and contain:-, son;; oi hi; ‘dch’nrs cm copper. 'they ; r.v ry valuable, uni L eta re not ontni-; them in. the van. Perhaps monsieur hu ; hi aid ol j;i, rs, Issue:'Aucrier” ! nad liT'iji.a nted the Parisian studies bciaia. definitely corning to a decision on lay mm orcor, ana viucriu's mum v.;'a Familiar to me as 1 feat <;f :i ver.praini- ine ,venue: arli-t. hiy the time .! n.al told rdadenjorndle (Inerin tidy -.-A 'vci r; seatcd on hoard of the- Greta, an i the wulors were it I roue ly beginning 1, ca A c!f. i voyage sea; was one ol - tin pl( rdcab u has hcem my fortune to excorieo: A i.rduiy M;a7[. M (a in eari t i-.pwng;, il l (' an a mu oi.-i. h as gh:r-, anti a cha l l y. agree ihlc companion to ivh.-h away till! ad t jnit, anti the fac. licit 1 tih returnin'; to nay native conn, try idler a Ion;; absence ant! adder a.rdnoi:. anti dangerous wort; in her service coiiiiniraicd to a, sum ot enjoy meat Ilia, lid’-, hut r.irci.v to ones, lot. hludcnicds.flie "as oftia.-ioualiy lost in thought, rs iviy natural eunsidcring her mother’s iilne’v. Vm* exchanged many conllt'cina-. v. i! I; each older, and though ’! was (r.r<iul not to inform her exact a a-: to my unity -ion, she wm. doiuditr'. to loam Hint i was m lyaa s< rvice of tin. ■'sdn:, Utdl upon. u, in Paris, clic. dJo-n-iatir Air.rqniir’—it was tdius she pronounced my name. 'T am sure- mi further "ill he deluditcd.' Ami any one tuacp’’ I ventured to ask ' Ah: there you wont to ask too much. I will tell you when wo meet ; hut, ol dear; wo are close upon Dienpc, ant. how am I to get pr.-t all those horrid dei eel ire- ? They wonrt iianri-on mo. will the;' Y” 'T iioci' no!, mademoiselle; hut tin'.' may .scud you back to tMewhavon. 1 ’ ‘'Oh, monsieur, L must get through— I must indeed !dy this time the passengers were crowding the narrow gangway leadiu. on to iho quay. At it, end stood ; number of detectives, with most o. whom I was acquainted. My rug wa. thrown ever m.v right arm. ihc hand at tached to it holding innctamuLsoHc's blue:, hay;, (leufdy and limirlly she laid he. glned liiiud on my left arm. Our ni s giV'-s wai slow, for oho passengers wo.: nujiifro!t.s ami tlieir pa-sport.s and lug., pngo wore being subjected Co a, rigie scrutiny.

At last it came to my turn. ‘‘-Halloa, Markham!’’ said Ckollot, who hod been specially detailed there Iron. Paris. “Wo diiiu’t expect- you over. Anything fresh "Yes. much,” I whispered. "It’s i,h:v has brought mo over.’' ".And madame! We never heard o; your marriage, you sly deg.” Here ho bowed profoundly. The 1m 1 ; on my arm graeiousiy returned the salutation and said: "I shall be delighted to receive any d my husband’s friends at our new henu. in Paris Coin", Albert, wo ate delaying the others.” Nexc moment we wore lni.rr.vnig to- tin train, while mademoiselle was piofusely expressing the thanks that [ could nut for ri!y life malic out how 1 had deserved.

‘■flow nice it must be to be in tin. public service,’’ she said ; “but for you,! friend knowing you 1 should never haw got through.” Wo reached Palis without further adventure, where I saw my fair fellowtraveller into a. fiarco, promising at the same lime to oa.ll upon her on the morrow. 1 reported myself at headquarters. whcr n my reception was of a very cordial kind, for my efforts had been appreciated. 2 returned there again in the evening, provided with a detailed report iu writing of tho latest move on the pan of tho anarchists. I was sitting talking to our chief, when suddenly tire room in which we . were sitting seemed to rock, there was a crush of breaking glass, and then a. deafening roar burst upon our ears, and I remember no more.

ivnon I came to. I found myself in tip. hospital, terribly shaken, but forte, irately without sj ry loss of limb. Others of our men had not been so fortunate. I. learned mat a bomb had boon exploded on the ground floor of the cilices of tho Bureau of Public Safety. and that the'whole place had lice a wrecked and many nf the clerical sta.'f wounded. A man had been captured immediately after tho explosion, and tho contents of a black br.a found in h;i possession had led to further arrests. .My own presence was urgently require u at the preliminary, or extra-judicial, examination! of the prisoners; itr one, if not more, had been traced a. i coming from Loudon, and it was thought 1 might be able to give important evidence a.s U> their identity.

And hi. on the first day the doetc-n judged it safe for mo to leave my room, I was taken to th 0 , house of tho_ inug.V.-t-ra-to entrusted with the investigation. Iu an ante-chamber I ioimcf ChoSlct sitting; but bo, did not recognise me a’, all when I nodded to him as I passed, ily head was partly enveloped in band aEe.s. and no doubt my appearance ivi: otherwise very greatly altered;. Bat that was not the reason of the blank shire be favoured me with. I was unable to identify either of the first _t,vv prisoners brought forward, as, in tavi. i had never set eyes on them below They were removed, ami then a 1 In 1 ■

v.t. s brought in. a. young woman, f<> lowed by Chollct. who carried in hi hand a black ling, whren X bad some do recollection, of having seen before. ".Remove your veil, ’ said the niagi-tr-ito to the prisoner. "Do you kno-. tb.is woman?” ho then asked, aadrcssm mo.

’ ''Speak out, Albert; _ tell them the truth,” said the lady briskly. And then I wished the explosion In . indeed killed me: it was Mademoiselle Guerin whom I was confronting.

It would have gone lm.ru witu ir.o 'A the trial which followed, and in wine-1 I had to take my place in the doc.: along with the other three. but f: r mademoiselle's confession, which amuse 1 everybody but myself, especially when

fJie described how she got me to carry the fatal bomb, and "frank’' 3ier through to Paris without being onoo asked for hor papers. ‘■\Ve had found him cut. in London,” .-ho added complat oiitly, "and thought it well ho should bo made to help u-.” They wore sentenced to long tein:.-. of imprisonment. I got a your, and whoa 1 oame out found that my occupation was gone. And .vet what else could 1 havo done, or even you, read, r, who arcno doubt much wi-.,;-, in such ci.xuntsfauoe.s as I havo narrated.” —”Vi'cc!;,ly 151 .patch.”