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Troops might even now be in Prussia. Moreover, even with interrupted communications they would soon learn of the blowing up of factories in other Silesian towns; no doubt hear them. It was true the railways and bridges between Pless and Berlin were if they were! destroyed, but there were always automobiles; enough for a small force.... And the police, the police of Berlin!
I happened to see his name on the Pless register; he'd put himself down as from 'Frisco. I figured it out that he would be next door to broke and getting desperate, ready to do anything to get home; and thought we might utilize him; to smuggle some of the stuff into the States.
"That's the way it sounds to me." Elsie seemed repentant. "I suppose we are a little hard on the poor thing. She was very young, you see." "What you mean to say, then, is that she wasn't good enough for Mr. Pless and his coterie." "No, not just precisely that," admitted Betty Billy Smith. "She made a bid for him and got him, and my contention is that she should have lived up to the bargain."
"It is only fair, John, that you should know that Pless is not his real name," she said, lowering her voice. "But, of course, we stand sponsor for him, so it is all right." "Your word is sufficient, Elsie." She seemed to be debating some inward question. The next I knew she moved a little closer to me. "His life is a a tragedy," she whispered. "His heart is broken, I firmly believe. Oh!"
I haf chust peen to see him in his boor home, vere he ees happy mit his children " "I will give him the cashier's place. Old Baudrand is going to leave." "Ah! Gott pless you!" cried Schmucke. "Very well, my good, kind fellow, meet me at Berthier's office about four o'clock this afternoon. Everything shall be ready, and you shall be secured from want for the rest of your days.
"Yesterday I failed to gain admission as a visitor, to-day I come as a labourer. We work in a mysterious way, sir." "Is it necessary for Mr. Pless to resort to a subterfuge of this character in order to get a message to me?" I demanded indignantly. He shrugged his shoulders. "It was not necessary yesterday, but it is to-day," said he. He leaned closer and lowered his voice.
"Pless hur! heggs and pacon and toasted cheese Cot pless hur!" exclaimed Betty. "Aunt Dinah," said the child, "here are two women in some great distress, they told me and astray and hungry." "In some great distress, and astray and hungry? then let them in here, child, this minute."
"He was the piggest man that ever lived, and he was puried here; and this is the piggest skull I ever found: you see now " "Nothing can be more logical," said Mr Escot. "My good friend will you allow me to take this skull away with me?" "St Winifred pless us!" exclaimed the sexton, "would you have me haunted py his chost for taking his plessed pones out of consecrated cround?
A corner sign, remarked in passing, had named the spot "Aspen Villas"; though he felt he knew the sound of those syllables as well as he did the name of the Pless, strive as he might he failed to make them convey anything tangible to his intelligence. When had he heard of it? At what time had his errant footsteps taken him through this curious survival of Eighteenth Century London?
I found myself wondering how dear, puritanic, little Elsie Hazzard could have fallen in with two such unamiable wrecks as these fellows appeared to be at first sight. The Austrian's name was Pless. He was a plain mister. The more I saw of him the first afternoon the more I wondered at George Hazzard's carelessness. Then there were two very bright and charming Americans, the Billy Smiths.
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