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WHAT HAS HAPPENED Diana Brooks, lieautiful daughter of RoifPr Brooks, owner and published of the Catawaba City Times, and a chain of nine other newspapers, was kidnaped and then released, unharmed. Her father is engaged in ft persistent fight against the corrupt administration of Catawba City ami through the medium of the Times, redoubles his scathing attacks on politicians of the Ring and def.es the Underworld. w , . , , ~ A few days later Brooks himself disappears. Donald Keene, literary editor, in an attempt to locate Brooks, is wounded and forced to remain entomb ed for 50 hours in a sub-cellar. With him is Edna (Teddy) Farrell, to.* ward and Sob Sister of the T mes. She effect* their rescue and while both asc in a hospital, Roger Brooks suddenly reappears. . . . , Out of gratitude, and because he has learned that Teddy loves him, Don asks her to marry him. She refuses, realizing that he does not care for her as she cares for him. Roger Brooks, on h>s return, finds that Brooks newspaper stock is being manipulated and suspects John W. Walden. member of a prominent law firm, ot being involved in the plot to wreck the Brooks orgranzation. He visits Walden who maintains an evasive attitude. Brooks continues bis investigations and tells Bill Canfield, city editor, that Walden has been blackmailing him for years. NOW GO ON. CHAPTER XV A woman of 30, beautiful, a picture of health, was looking up at him and laughing. They were the two, the man and the woman of the courtroom scene. Bill heard a sigh, and looked up. Pop Brooks had withdrawn his gaze from the unmarked spot on the wall and was looking at him smiling. “Yes,” he said as if the question had just been akked, “I want you to know. I may, of course, be wrong. It’s not impossible that I’m doing Jawn W. an injustice in this one instance. But if I am wrong I’ll not worry over it. He’s given me plenty of excuses to suspect him of anything. But, of this matter in hand: “I’ve a thoroughly rooted conviction that J. W. is th’ brains of a conspiracy to wreck th’ Brooks organization. Why? Because in th’ first place, such a conspiracy is on foot. Os that I am positively convinced. And J. W. is just th’ kind of man, a schemer, unscrupulous as th’ devil is wicked, and th’ logical man for th’ position. “Who better than he knows where I stand? No one. Who, among all th’ men you can think of, is in just th’ place to swing such a deal? Jawn W. Walden. It came to me today, th’ certainty that he is th’ works, th’ mainspring and th’ lever of th’ Ring! I know—we haven’t beenable to hang it on him—yet. But we will. “Yes, Sir, by the Eternal —” Pop’s big fist smote the desk with a resounding crash. “I’m going to make that fellow eat crow meat: He’s played me for a lot of money and a lot of worry in th’ past ten years. I’m tired of it. I’m either going to get him—and get him right, or he’ll get me. I feel it in my bones that he’s out to lay me flat this time!” I.awrence (Larryl) Copley did not belle, in looks or manners, the nature of his calling. He was called a thief, a petty larceny crook. He looked the part—both parts. Bill Canfield presented him to die Big Boss with small regard for the proprieties. “This is th b’ird, Mr. Brooks,” he said as he ushered the ex-convict into the chief’s sanctum. “He’s been told that if he talks and talks straight and plenty he’ll get a hundred dollars and immunity from arrest. If he gives us any cock-and-bull story he’ll get into trouble. Now Copley,” he added tensely to the man accompanying him, “sit down in that chair there and spill your load:” Larry Copley shuffled forward and eased his hulking carcass into the chair indicated. Pop studied the fellow’s face. He knew the breed and the type, knew the man would tell the truth just as long as it suited his purpose—and no longer. Honor among thieves was a com-' modity with which Copley hau little in part. If his interest lay in the betrayal of his associates, his so-called friends, any such damphool stuff as honor wahn’t going to stop him. All this Pop knew after his one brief scrutiny. He looked at Bill Confieid and nodded. Bill stepped across to the door and turned a switch. This threw on the electric liights of the chandelier in

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the ceiling. It also started a dictaphone cleverly concealed beneath some papers six feet from Copley’s chair. • “Now Copley,” said Bill again as he pulled Jane Dexter’s chair over close to his stool pigeon and seated himself, “tell us th’ whole story—how you abducted Miss Brooks first, the street and number to which she was taken, names of the men who hired you and all about it. Then tell us of th’ last job, th’ kidnaping of Mr. Brooks. Go ahead now—shoot!” Copley responded nobly. He told it all—everything he knew and a lot that he didn’t know but guessed. He gave names—all he could remember —and his memory was excellent. And the little dictaphone grinding away silently, but steadily, in the waste basket got it allr It' was a pretty story. Then when he had told everything, answered various questions more or less satisfactorily, he was given SIOO in cash. Pop’s verbal promise not to prosecute him, and told he could go. He went. Immediately on the heels of his departure Roger Brooks gave Jji.:e Dexter the dictaphone record for transposing in type from the finished product of the Copley story. “It’s no good, of course, as evidence —yet,” said Pop, as he resumed his chair, tilted back his old hat a little further on his white head and looked at his city editor. “Not yet,” admitted Bill Canfield, his Irish countenance agleam with satisfaction, “but soon—maybe!” Four —cr rather five —others, Don, pinny, Diana, Teddy and Robert Creedy were let in on the secret. A week later Don was back on the job, rather pale and a little weak yet, but anxious to get back in the game Then one day a conference of the eight, including Jane Dexter, was called to discuss ways and means of circumventing the Ring and its gangsters. The Times boasted of what very few newspaper plants possess, even in this age of up-to-date equipment, a regular directors’ room with its long table and a plentltude of comfortable leather chairs. The conference, naturally, was held in this room. It had been a Very conversational meeting. All present—all but one—had said something; at least they had talked. “And now,” said the Big Boss frim his place at the head of the table and speaking in a tone that implied no doubt of his seriousness, “I for one, would like to hear th’ junior member of this select body, T. M. Farrell by name. Everyone has expressed opinions—everyone but her. Each has told his or her story, pro and con —largely con, and now I’d like to hear th’ story direct of those 50 hours in that sub-cellar, of th’ Italian’s death, how th’ idea for escape came and just how th’ job was done.” A deep flush dyed the cheeks and brow of the little sob sister. In the brown eyes lay a scared look. She glanced swiftly about as if seeking aid or a chance tc make a quick getaway. What she read in the facec around

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the table, however, seem to give her courage, a sudden newborn strength. Then all at once she was perfectly calm, absolutely mistress of herself. She rose with a quiet dig nity and in a clear musical voice told again the story of the sub-cellar experience. “What is th’ latest ‘best seller,' Don?” The literary editor of the Times looked up from his typewriter and intp the brown eyes of Teddy Far rell. She was garbed in a one-piece gown cut lqw in the neck and almost sleeveless, a wonderfully becoming garment. Her pretty round arms, white and smooth as polished marble, lent to the girl an allurement that was new to Don. His gaze rested on her with a tenderness that was a trifle disconcerting to the little reporter. "Th’ latest ‘best seller’ Ted?” he repeated absently, his sub-conscious mind partly roused and whispering to him of “lips like the heart of a rose.” Then a tiny imp leaped into his brain and added: “With pretty white arms and a small red nose ” He smiled at the absurdity of the couplet. "Yes,” said the girl shortly, “L' there anything funny about th’ question? You seem to be finding something very amusing.” His answer was an indulgent laugh that Teddy, for some reason found particularly irritating just then. “Th’ ‘latest best seller,’ ” he said

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