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CIIAFTEtt X.
Claud Tyars walked through the nar
row streets, westward, without noticea
ble haste. Ills gait was neither that of
the busy city merchant nor the easy
lounge of the sailor out of work. Pres
ently he seemed to recognize some famil
iar landmark, lie turned suddenly up a
narrow passage and, pushing open a
swing-glass door, climbed a flight of lead
covered stepB. .. On the second floor he
topped before a door bearing on a small
braiis plate the name, "M. M. Easton."
Wltnout knocking ne opened tne door,
and on hie entrance an elderly man rose
from his seat at a low tablerand, after
a quick glance, lowered his colorless eyes,
bowing gravely. Tyars returned the sal-
utatioif with a short nod. '
The elderly man then turned to go Into
a room beyond the small, bare office.
When he turned his back, this city clerk
was no longer elderly. His back was
that of a young man. Addressing him
self to some unseen person In the inner
room, he uttered two words only the
name of. the visitor waiting in the outer
office without prefix or comment.
Come in, Tyars ! ' called out a cheer
ful tenor voice, Immediately ; and the
clerk, turning Into an old man again,
stepped aside to lot the visitor pass
through the doorway.
The man who rose to greet Tyars, hold
ing out a thin hand across the table at
which he had been Beated, was singularly
slight. Ills narrow shoulders sloped at
a larger angle from the lines of his sin
ewy neck than is usually to be found In
men of the Anglo-Saxon race. The hand
held out was unsteady, very white and
long. The face was narrow and extreme
ly small; at school Matthew Mark Eas
tern had been nicknamed "Monkey" Eas
ton. Despite his youthful appearance It
was some years since he had left school,
and Indeed men of his year at Harvard
were mostly married and elderly, while
Easton still retained his youth. In addi
tion to this enviable possession there was
still noticeable in his appearance that
slight resemblance to a monkey by which
he had acquired a nickname singularly
appropriate. It was not only in the small,
Intelligent face, the keen, anxious eyes
and thin lips, that this resemblance made
Itself discernible, but in quickness of
glance and movement, In that refined and
nervous tension of habit, which Is only
found in monkeys and all the lower ani
mals.
By way of greeting this man whistled
two or three bars of "See the Conquering
Hero Comes" softly through his teeth,
and pointed to a chair.
"Smith," he said, raising his voice,
"you may as well go to the bank now
with those checks."
There came no answer to this sugges
tion, but presently the door of the outer
office closed quietly.
"I call him Smith," continued Easton
In a thin and pleasant voice spiced by a
distinct American accent, "because his
name is Pavloskl. That unfortunately
luxuriant crop of gray hair standing
straight up gives him a foreign appear
ance, which the name of Pavloskl would
seem to confirm. Besides, It takes such
a long time to say Pavloski."
While he was speaking Easton's face
had remained' quite grave, hnd, conse-
quently, very sad. . There was a short si
lence. Both had much to say, and they
appeared to be thinking and searching for
a suitable beginning. Easton spoke first,
"I see," he said, "that you are trim
and taut, and ready as usual. The ex
ecutive keeps -up to the mark."
"Yes," replied Tyars, "my department
Is In working order. The ship is getting
on well, and I have found my first offi
cer."
The slight, delicate man looked at his
companion s large limbs and half sup
pressed a sigh. His wistful little face
contracted into a grave smile, and he
nodded his head. '
"I dislike you," he said, In his peculiar
ly humorous way, "when you talk like
that. It seems to Imply an evil sense
of exultation In your physical superior
ity, which, after all, is fleeting. You
are only dust, you know. But but it is
rather poor fun staying at home and pull'
Ing strings feebly."
"It has its advantages," said Tyars, In
an unconsciously thoughtful tone, which
brought the restless eyes to his face at
once. "Besides, he added, more lightly,
"you do not pull feebly. The tugs are
pretty strong, and the strings, you must
remember, reach a good distance."
"Ye-esI" Mathew Mark Easton had a
singular habit of elongating the little
word into several syllables, as if in order
to gain time for thought "Ye-es ! I sup
pose It has. But," he said, rousing him
self, "I have not been idle. That la to
say, Smith Pavloskl Smith, "you know,
He has been working terrifically hard,
Poor fellow I His wife Is out there at
Kara."
"Yes, I know. You told me," Inter
rupted Tyars, and his manner uncon
sclously Implied that a fact once Impart
ed to him was never forgotten. "Has he
heard from or of her yet?"
"No, not for two years. He believes
she Is alive still, and a report came from
Riga that she had been sent to Kara."
The Englishman listened without com
ment. His strong, bearded face was not
pleasant to look upon just then, for the
massive jaw was thrust forward, and
there was a peculiar dull glow in Ms
placid eyes.
"There was a child, you know," con-
tlnued the American, watching the ef
fect of his words, "to be born In prison-
In a Siberian prison, where the attend
ants are the riffraff of the Russian army
-more brutes than men. That would
probably be a year ago."
He paused, his thin roles lowering to
ward the end of the sentence In a way
that rendered his American decent singu
larly Impressive in Its simple narrative.
I wonder," he continued, what has'
become of that refined lady and that help
less Infant now. It brings the thing
before one, Tyars, In rather a bright
light, to think that that man Sm Pav
loskl, who comes here at half-past nine
every morning, goes out to lunch In a
small eating house next door, and goes
home to his lodging at five o'clock ; that
that man has a wife in a Siberian prison.
A wife a woman whom he has lived with
every day day after day j whose every
tone, every little gesture, every thought,
Is familiar to him. I surmise that it
must be worse than being in a Siberian
prison ones self!" .
It is easy to set down the words, but
to render the slight twang, the wondor
ful power of expressing pathos that lay
hidden in this man's tongue, is a task be
yond any pen. Tyars stopped him with
a quick gesture of the head, as if to Inti
mate that all this was no news to him.
"Why," he asked, curtly, "are you
showering all this upon me? Do you
think that I am the sort of fellow to turn
back?"
Oh, no !" answered Easton in an alter
ed tone. Then, he turned in his chair
and, unlocking a drawer in the pedestal
of his writing table, he drew forth sev
eral leather-bound books, which he set
upon the table in front of him. Oh,
no!" he said, turning the pages. "Only
you seemed to be of opinion just now that
the Pastime of staying at home and pull
ing strings had its advantages."
"So it has," was the cool reply; "but
that In no way alters the case as far as
am concerned."
"Then I apologize," said Easton, rais
ing his eyes without moving his head. "I
thought, perhaps well, never mind !"
"What do you think?"
"I had a sort of notion that some other
interest had sprung up that you were
getting sick of all this long preparation."
"And wished to back out?" suggested
Tyars in his high-bred Indifference.
As he spoke he looked up and their
eyes met. A strong contrast these two
pairs of eyes. The one, large, placid ; the
other quick, keen and restless. Although
Easton's gaze did not lower or flinch, his
eyes were not still ; they seemed to search
from corner to corner of the large glance
that met his own.
"I am afraid," he said, Ignoring the
question, "that I am getting a trifle skep
tical. I have had more than one dis
appointment. Our doctor PhilippI, you
know has been appointed sanitary in
spector of the town of Lille, or something
equally exciting. He has Intimated that
while fully sympathizing with our noble
scheme, he can only help us now with his
purse and his prayers. I do not imagine
that his purse will assist you materially
to steer through the Ice on a dark night
in the Sea of Kara."
"It comes, no doubt," said Tyars, half
apologizing for the French doctors
treachery, "from his failure to realize
the whole thing. The nation took up the
question of the slave trade without a
moment's hesitation, and that was one
upon which there were undoubtedly argu
ments upon both sides of equal weight.
We are not sure now that the compara
tively small proportion of the human race
victimized by the slave trade has really
benefited. The state of Russia and her
system of government Is a disgrace to
the Whole world yet the whole world
closes Its eyes to the fact. The Siberian
exiles, In my estimation, call for more
sympathy than those thick-skinned, dense
brained negroes."
Easton said nothing. His father had
been a slave owner, but he. fact was
unknown to Tyars, and he did not think
it necessary to mention it. Had the slave
trade never been suppressed, Matthew
Mark Easton would have been one of the
richest men In America. As it was, he
sat daily in this little office In the city
of London conducting to all outward
appearances a small and struggling com
mission agents business. It was some
what characteristic of the man and his
country that Claud Tyars should be al
lowed to remain la Ignorance of these
matters. .
Easton now turned to the leather-bound
books, and the two men sat far Into the
day discussing questions strictly technical
and strictly confined to the fitting out of
the small vessel lying in the London dock
for an expedition to the Arctic seas.
Even In the discussion of these details
each man retained his characteristic man
ner of treating outward things. Eastan
was irresponsible, gay and light, while
beneath the airy touch there lurked a
truer, firmer grasp of detail than is pos
sessed by the majority of men. His
aueer little face -was never quite grave,
even while speaking of the most serious
matters. His manner was, throughout,
suggestive of the forced attention of a
schoolboy, ready to be led aside at the
slightest interruption, while the relation
of hard facts and the detailing of long
statistics ran from his glib tongue with
out the least sign of effort
CHAPTER XI.
More conspiracies have failed from 1m
pecunlouslty than from treachery. If a
man has money in sufficient quantity, se
crecy is easily purchased. Even if he has
enough money to Duy a respectable coat,
he is already on tne nign road to success,
If the conspirators assemble in swallow
tail coats and white ties, they are almost
free from danger. Suspicion fixes herself
noon the impecunious, the unfortunate,
the low in station. She haunts the area
steps, and files at the luxurious sound of
carriage wheels. Bnt never eaters the
front door, but If she wishes to reach
the upper floor, croepoth up the back
stairs. Under the respectable shade of a
silk hat, gloved and washed, any of us
may trespass where he with but a shabby
coat and forlorn boots will call down
Ignominy on his head Well Hreasod, we
may steal horses ; shabbily clad, wo must
not even look over walls.
There was In the tomperamcnt of Mat
I thew Mark Easton that small seed of ag
gressive courage which makes conspira
tors, agitators and rebels of sensible men.
Under the Influence of such men as
Claud Tyars and Pavloskl, he was capable
of developing great enorgy, and there is
little doubt that these two, unconsciously
working together, forced the Amorlcan to
assume a gradually Increasing weight, of
responsibility, to the dimensions of which
he remained partially Ignorant.
In persuading Tyars to espouse a
cause of which the particulars will be
hereafter narrated, Easton had, some
years previously, unwittingly cast his
own lot with that cause to a greater and
fuller extent than his easy going nature
would ever knowingly have allowed. lie
had set the torch to a brand of which the
flames soon enveloped him. Meeting Ty
ars at an International aquatic compe
tition, a friendship had sprung up be
tween them, both being lonely men wltn
no sisters or cousins to admire tholr
prowess. "
These slight retrogressive explanations
will serve, perhaps, to make clear the po
sition of Matthew Mark Easton with re
gard to Claud Tyars In the events that
follow. To some extent the outcome of
these past incidents was a dinner party
given by the American one November
evening. Of those assembled some are
living to this day, but others, tnougn
young, are now dead, leaving to the sur
vivors the memory of a brave example,
the unanswered question of a useless Hie,
lived and lost.
There was nothing singular or remark
able about the fare provided. It was, In
fact, supplied "all hot" by a neighboring
confectioner, but the guests formed as
unique a collection of feaaters as could
well be found even In the metropolis or.
England.
Among the first to arrive was Smith
"P. Smith," as Easton playfully called
him. The old young clerk of the little
office In the city, Pavloskl Smith, was
dressed In Irreproachable swallow tall
coat and white tie. lie shook hands with
Easton, bowing his gray head In a pe
culiar Jerky manner, as if they had not
parted at the office two hours before.
After him came at Intervals tnree
men ; the first elderly and stout, the oth
er two younger, but all alike had that
peculiar repose of manner which was espe
cially noticeable In the man called Pav
loski. They were evidently foreigners.
They spoke English remarkably well, and
made few mistakes in grammar. Easton
received them with a few words of wel
come. Tyars." he said to each in turn, "has
found a gentleman who will serve as first
officer. He brings him to-night." ,
"Is." inquired the stout man, who was
of a somewhat ceremonious habit, "is
Mr. Tyars well?"
"Quite well, thanks; at least, I sur
mise so," was the answer.
The two younger men heard the news
without comment. Without awaiting an
Invitation Pavloskl drew a chair for
ward to the hearth rug and sat directly
In front of the fire, holding his two hands
out toward the warmth. In this position
it became evident that he was a contem
porary of the two younger men, who
presently moved toward tne nre and stood
talking together In their peculiar Eng
lish, while Easton and the stout gentle
man exchanged meaningless platitudes.
The three younger men had thus
grouped themselves together, and when
placed in proximity there was some sub
tle point of resemblance between them
which could not at first sight be defined.
It lay only In the eyes, for in build and
complexion there was no striking like
ness. Each of these three men had a
singularly slow glance. They .raised their
eyes to one's face rather after the man
ner of a whipped dog, and when looking
up there was noticeable a droop of the
lower lid which left a space of white be
low the pupil of the eye. It may be
seen in men and women who have passed
through great hardship or an unspeak
able sorrow. Such eyes as these speak
for themselves. One can tell at once that
they have at one time or other looked ,
upon something very unpleasant. Finally
Tyars entered the room, closely followed
by Oswin Grace.
There were thus seven partakers of the
good things provided by a neighboring
confectioner four Russians, two Eng
lishmen and an American. There had
been no secrecy about their coming; no
mystery taps at the door, no strange
sounding passwords. Moreover, the con
versation was of a simple, straightfor
ward nature, without dramatic relief in
the way of ambiguous and irrelevant re
marks respecting the length of some alle
gorical night and the approach of a sym
bolic dawn.
(To t continued.)
What She Wanted.
Mrs. Newed My dear, I wish you
would letin e have a little pin money.
Newed All right, sweetheart How
much do you need?
Mrs. Newed Two hundred dollars.
Newed Oreat Scott! Two hundred
dollars for pin money? !
Mrs. Newed Yes, dear. It's for a
diamond pin.
Other Side of It.
"Why, young man," said the stern
parent, "you certainly don't think I
would be foolish enough to let a penni
less youth like you marry my daugh
ter, do you?"
"Well, lfs up to you," rejoined the
poor but nervy youngster. "It's a cinch
that no rich young man would marry a
girl ai homely as she U," .