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Crisply she commanded the girl to come forth; she wanted to talk with her. She was in the outer room for the better part of an hour, listening to Anna Cromer and Madame Drovnask, who dinned the praises of the great Count Marlanx into her ears until she was ready to scream. They bathed the girl's face and brushed her hair and freshened her garments.
One of the women was Madame Drovnask, whose husband had been sent to Siberia for life; and the other, Anna Cromer, a rabid Red lecturer, who had been driven from the United States, together with her amiable husband: an assassin of some distinction and many aliases, at present foreman in charge of one of the bridge-building crews on the new railroad.
Peter Brutus, you are not to speak of of what I am to do! Never never again!" They looked at her in amazement and no little concern. Madame Drovnask was the first to speak, her glittering eyes fastened upon the drawn, white face of the girl across the table. "Are you going to fail? Are you weakening?" she demanded. "No! I am not going to fail!
But I will not permit any one to jest about the thing I am to do. It is a sacred duty with me. But, Madame Drovnask all of you, listen it is a cruel, diabolical thing, just the same. Were it not in behalf of our great humanity, I, myself, should call it the blackest piece of cruelty the world has ever known. The slaughter of a little boy! A dear, innocent little boy!
"All women are alike to him," said Spantz sententiously. "I hope she is not to be left here for long. I don't like women about at a time like this. No offence, Madame Drovnask." "She'll go to-morrow night, I'm sure," said Peter. "I told the Count we could not keep her here over the over the 26th. You see, there is a bare possibility that none of us may ever come back after the bomb is hurled. See?
A new strike will be declared on the railroad on the 25th and the strikers will be in the city with their grievances. Saturday's celebration will bring men from the mountains and the mines to town. A single blow, and we have won." So spoke Brutus. "Then why all this fear of Tullis?" demanded Anna Cromer. "It is not like the Iron Count," added Madame Drovnask with a sneer.
"Isn't it possible that he is merely attracted by the beauty of our charming young friend here?" ventured Madame Drovnask, after many opinions had been advanced respecting his interest in the shop and its contents. "It is a habit with Americans, I am told." "Miss Platanova is most worthy of the notice of any man," agreed Brutus, with an amiable leer. Olga seemed to shrink within herself.
"Julius and Peter will come for you to-night," said Madame Drovnask, with an evil, suggestive smile. "We will not be here to say farewell, but, my dear, you will be one of us before well, before many days have passed." Truxton was beginning to tremble with the fear that she would not be returned to their room, when the door was opened and she came in most gladly, he could see.
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