SOCIAL DUTY.

i The doorbell rings, I Tin 1 jjorial swings, t • My lady con;os a-calling, ! In vufvet dressed, !Iler veil close pressed; The formal talk's appalling.

i The style, the day, ! The church, (.he play— i Whatever line she fancies; I Ten minutes pass; | . She says, "Alas, i Time flies!" and off she dances.

No real word said From heart or head, No thought to live in beauty; Her list she checks; What name's the next? ! She's doing social duty. •-Lydia A. Coonley-Ward in Woman's Home Com panion.

A DIPLOMATIC ADVENTURE.

f How an Effort Was Made to Ob- * * tain Possession of an Impor- "

taut Letter aud the Re salt Thereof.

I was wandering through the grounds of a London exhibition one evening when a short, foreign looking man, clothed In evening dress, approached me and said in a low tone:

"Have I the honor of addressing Mr. Godfrey Vance?"

He handed me a letter, saying ab ruptly: "Be good enough to read this letter. It will serve to introduce me."

The communication was from Count Antonio Delarocca of Milan, whom I had aided some months before bj car rying off for him a famous Greek statue from an English country house. It was very brief and merely said: Sir—This letter will introduce to you my good friend, Herr Fritz Moakovitz, who is anxious for you to undertake for him a difficult mission. I have told him that you are the one man in Eng land who can hope to carry out such a work with success, and, wishing you all good fortune, be lieve me, yours, Delarocca. We left the exhibition grounds at once, going to my abode. "In the first place, my good sir," he exclaimed, talking in an excited under tone—"in the first place I must tell you that this business Is difficult almost to the point of impossibility. Friday morn ing next about 3 o'clock Count Eode holtz will cause to be posted or post with his own hand at the pillar box facing his house in Percy street, May fair, a certain letter addressed to the Berlin foreign office. It is absolutely vital to me and to the cause I represent that that letter should never reach its destination, and I am commissioned to pay $10,000 to the man who will hand that letter to me intact—exactly as he finds it."

"Is not 3 a. m, rather an unusual liour for the dispatch of diplomatic communications ?"

"Most certainly it is, but the count is not like other men. For the past four years—in fact, since he first came to the embassy—he has been in the habit of posting this document between 3 and 4 o'clock Friday mornings."

"I presume that the obvious and old fashioned method of obtaining the let ter by force is out of the question. Otherwise we might waylay the per son posting the letter, overpower him ,and depart with the document." '/'"Useless, quite useless, for it would pimply mean that the outrage would .be discovered almost immediately, and then the contents of the letter would <be telegraphed to Berlin, defeating our plans most entirely. No; the essence of the whole affair, my good sir, is that the letter should be removed and hand ed to me without the embassy people having the slightest knowledge of the fact."

Next morning I went to Percy street, Mayfair, to survey the embassador's bouse. Thirty-one Percy street, the mansion in question, was a dull look ing, gray abode exactly similar to the other houses in the street. Facing the house on the other side of the street was a pillar box—the receptacle, it seemed, where the count was in the habit of posting his communications to Berlin.

Had the pillar box been a receptacle easily shifted the matter would have been as easy as smoking a cigarette, for we should simply have had to di vert the policeman on the beat away from the street by means of a fictitious drunken disturbance, and then we could have driven up in a van and carted the box away. But I must think of something else.

And then of a sudden there flashed upon me an idea, coming whence I knew not, but it seemed to me that a voice spoke in my ear, and this is .what It said:

"Substitute another pillar box on the opposite side of the street. Placard the genuine box with a notice say'fig that It is temporarily disused and that letters are to be posted opposite. Clear the streets of the police by means of a row and wait with a van at the cor ner of the street till the document is posted. Sw^p down, collar the box and drive off."

I jumped into a cab and drove to a certain hostelry in the East End where I knew I should find plenty of my pals, who for a few dollars would throw themselves into any adventure of the kind.

i In a few words I conveyed to them .what I wanted done. Two of the men, burly fellows, known as Jim Thursday and Bill IJast, were to devote their powers to quarreling and getting "run In" at the corner of Percy street, while another two were to keep watch at the comers of the street. The remaining man, Tom Rogers, was to assist mo in depositing the pillar box and removing it when the time came.

Then a now difficulty arose. How was the pillar box to be obtained?

"What is to bp done about getting a

box?" I asked the men. There was si lence for a moment, and then East, scratching his head, said gruffly:

"Try old Bennett, the iron found er In Goodge street, wot got five years' stretch for passin flash coin. 'E's out on ticket now and is up to makin a fancy pillar box as soon as wink at yer."

Having bidden them hold themselves at my disposal for final Instructions, I went straight to Goodge street, where I found the worthy Bennett In a surly mood owing to slackness of trade. He Einiled when I asked him if he could build for me a pillar box to the govern ment pattern In the time at our dis-

posal.

On reaching home I wrote briefly to Herr Moskovitz informing him of my scheme and adding that I hoped to have the pillar bos and letter safely at my house between 4 and 5 on the fol lowing Friday morning. I asked him to be waiting at my residence to re ceive the document and to bring the promised reward with him, as I would only part with the letter In exchange for the same.

All went well, and on the following Friday morning the van with the pillar box, my assistants and myself set out for Percy street, where we arrived at 3:10. I noticed with satisfaction that the night was very dark, which fact was of course advantageous. lat once dispatched Thursday and East to do their "quarreling act," the other two men taking up their places at the cor ners of the street.

At 3 o'clock I heard loud shouts and curses proceeding from our two friends, and a moment later two police men were hastening" in the direction of the noise. The coast thus clear, we drove up to the embassador's house and In a twinkling deposited the dum my box, which was an exact duplicate of the genuine article on the opposite side of the street.

"Now for the notice of temporary disuse," I said with a laugh, and in an instant afterward the mouth of the genuine pillar box was closed with gummed paper and the following no tice posted In front of the time table of postal deliveries:

Notice.—This pillar box being in temporary disuse, the public will oblige by posting com munications at the temporary box across tha road. By order.

This work completed to our satisfac tion, my pal and I climbed back into our van and drove noiselessly down a side street, from which we could watch all that happened outside of Count Rodeholtz's mansion.

I confess that, hardened and experi enced as I was, a terrible thrill of nerv ousness went through me as I stood in that van with my companion wait ing. The return of the policemen from the station before the conclusion of the business would ruin all; nay, if a chance youth on the way home from a dance were attracted by the notice on the box and lingered to look at it, we might be equally overthrown.

It was therefore with a feeling of re lief that amounted to positive joy that I beheld at about 3:15 the door of the house open and a young man, evidently the embassador's secretary, glide into the street. He held in his hand the let ter, and 1 saw him run up to' the genu ine box and peer at it for a moment in surprise. «

Then, with some expression which of course we could not catch at that distance, he crossed the road and, hav ing deposited the letter in our box, re turned with all speed to the house.

Not a soul was In sight—the street was silent as the grave. We quickly tore down the notice which had done us such good service and removed the paper from the mouth of the box. Three minutes later we were driving away quickly In the direction of my house. We arrived at 4 a. m. and found Herr Moskovitz awaiting us in Intense excitement.

"Well," he cried, gesticulating with both hands, "well, have you succeed ed?"

"Perfectly," I replied. "Here la the box and here is the key. We have not touched or looked at the letter, believ ing It to be private."

"You have acted well," he returned quickly. "And now to obtain the let ter."

With hands that trembled so violent ly that he could scarce insert and turn the key the excited man knelt down and drew forth the envelope. As he looked at ibe superscription a. cry of disgust escaped his lips, and he tore it open. One glance at the letter seemed to suffice, and it transformed him utterly. He strode across the room and shook his great fist In my face.

"Foolt Simpleton! Imbecile!" he yelled, each word having the malignity of a blow. "You have failed after all and made a fool of yourself and me."

He flung the letter at me and darted from the house, uttering curses as he rolled down the stairs.

I took up the letter and read these words:

Dere Mary Anne—Master eittin up late tonight, as per usual, with his blessed letter ritin and sich like. I 'aye a lew ininlts to rite to say as 'ow I 'opes this finds you as it leaves me, in 'ealth an spirits, tho' dog tired, and please to meet me at the Marble arch at 8 sharp next Sun day, from your luvvin George.

I saw through the whole business at once. The man was merely a valet or butler, and the letter was a servant's communication to his sweetheart In stead of an embassador's letter to his government. We had come away too soon.—Pittsburg Press.

A Social Formality.

"What do you propose to do with this man?" said the stranger in Crimson Gulch.

"We ain't goin to do nothin to him," said Rattlesnake Pete, "only jes' show him that we don't feel under no obliga tions whatsoever. We're goin to take him out an stan him up in a wagon under a tree with a rope aroun his neck, an then we're goin to drive off an not have any more sociability with him."—Washington Star.

m® ASHBTTRTOtf OnAftDLAK TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1900

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