Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 215, 27 July 1916 — Page 10

PAGE TEN THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JULY 27,-1910

The Iron Claw

or xne wagon. He directed bis course towards that subterranean baven oC Illicit beverage known as tbe Owl's Nest, where Margory Oolden was listlessly making preparations for tbe coming xneaL She started suddenly as she stooped over tbe fire smoldering in fne blackened fireplace. For from a crevice in the wall, a crevice no bigger than a man's hand, a piece of mortar unmistakably flew out and struck her on the arm. She was still staring incredulously into this crevice when a flutter of white passed her eyes and a small square of paper fell at bar feet close to the edge of the coals. 8he unfolded tbe missive and read: "A cask of cognac is coming. If Legar and bis men drink from It they should be drugged asleep inside of ten minutes. Press spring concealed on top of cask and follow directions there. Don't give up. And if you understand ;als, tap twice with the fire tongs." Below these words was the sign of .he Laughing Mask, So fortifying was this knowledge In 'act, that when Casavanti and Legar iilmself entered tbe gloomily-lighted room, Margory Oolden no longer cringed at the sound of their voices. Casavanti, walking over to her, turned her face to the light. He peered at it hungrily, from balf-closed eyes. "Legar," be called out to that worthy, who had remained at the door to warn his stickup to admit nobody but Immediate members of their band, "I like the spirit In this girl. She's as sleek as a she-panther." Legar's stickup dodged In through the door. "Say, chief, there's an outsider tryin to butt in here!" Both men promptly wheeled about at those somewhat disconcerting words. "Who Is be?" was Legar's quick query. "An ol boob wit a bar'l o brandy. Says he's driven In from Oyster dump!" Legar looked relieved. Casavanti even lighted another cigarette. "That's all right. It s Old Ell. Help him In with it. But see that nobody else gets near that outside door." "There's always help around, Casavanti, In a case like this," proclaimed the scoffing Legar as a whlte-wbisk-cred old figure in bottle-green coat and bat laboriously rolled the cask of liquor through the opened door. The Owl, with unlooked-for nimblcncss in one of her years, was already close at hand, waiting with bung starter and glasses.

Margory watched tho suddeuly clam- : orous group as they clustered about the open barrel, llcr heart sank as : glasses were refilled aud tho clamor, i instead of diminishing, grew loader j and louder. j Then, even as she stood depressed ; find tronhlfiil hv this thoutrht. a soft i

. - j - pedal seemed to bo slowly applied to the tumult about her. The soporific Owl herself, stumbling to a chair, sank inertly Into it. Then one after another tfiey sank into dreamless rtupor. It was thon, and only then, that Margory dared to move. She studiously stared at that uncouth company of sleepers. Then, no longer watching them, but with her eyes on the door through which their lookout might at any moment appear, she Kroped her way to the side of the barrel. There she felt about the blackened oak barrel top for the hidden rpring. A gasp of relief escaped her lips as she found it. The covering fell back on its concealed hinge, and floating inside it she found a white pine shaving on which was written: "Turn barrel and empty it. Then get in and replace cover. All will be well." The stickup so covertly yet so disconsolately watching for any suspicious approach to Legar's Watergate quarters, was astonished, a few minutes later, to behold the white-whiskered old man in the bottle-green coat once more drive up to the door of the Owl's nest.

"ux, you, gimme a hand with this Dart!- that be whiskered driver commanded. "What hare you got this timer Inquired tbe watchman. "I was bonehead enough to leave the wrong cask with the chief! Stung him with thirty gallons of 'cooking sherry that's about one-half wood alcohol." "And whafs that?" demanded the lookout, with envious eyes on the

cask. "This Is the real stuff! That raw dope's for Doolan's election workers!" "And the bunch a'ready soused wit' it!" commented the even more envious stickup as he helped roll the second barrel into Legar's inner quarters. Slowly the two men carried out the barrel and lifted it to the wagon. Then the driver climbed aboard. It was not until that driver was well away from the waterfront and had rounded many a corner, that he ventured to pull up and tap on the oak staves beside him. "It's all right!" he called out as he felt about the rough oak and found tbe hidden spring. "Just hold steady now, and I'll help you out." The girl uttered a sigh of thankfulness as they once more got under way. The Race for Freedom. Those two worthies known as Old EH and Oyster Joe had, in their time, struggled with many knots. But never had they worked harder than ovex the knots of the mysterious stranger who had left them trussed and bound to tho beams of their own sail loft They might, indeed, have remained gurgling and writhing there like two tethered copperheads while the careless tides rose and fell about them, bad not one Scupulo visited Coney Island in his dilapidated car of ancient vintage, and having there conferred with a lush dip in hiding from the flatties of Manhattan, decided to circle homeward by way of Oyster Joe's, in the hope of that refreshment which had more than once cheered him on his dusty journeys. Instead of finding refreshment, bowever, he unearthed two ferocious-eyed and dry-throated captives, who, when released, danced and gesticulated incoherently about their habitation. Then, when speech bad returned to them the visit of the mysterious stranger was explained and the necessity of petting in touch with Legar made p'-a'n. It wa3 not Ion?:, accordingly, before thrco men and a car mivcly missing on one cylinder went coughing inland along' the narrow road threading those uncounted acres of sea marsh. They were within fifty paces, of a cross-roads landmark known as Chimney-rot Corner when a bellow not unlike that of a branded range steer burst from the indignant throat of Old EH. For that worthy had the unique experience of beholding not only his own purloined team and wagon, but a disconcertingly lifelike replica of himself driving it Scupulo, with the genius of a true general, arrested the progress of that wagon by promptly stopping his car directly in its track. This collision in no way improved the vehicle of ancient vintage; but sterner issues were at hand. A moment later the belligerent trio from the broken car were trimphantly charging for Margory Golden and her guardian. That guardian, fully realizing the meaning of the charge, tossed his reins to the frightened girl and commanded her to drive for all she was worth. Then he himself prepared for invaders. It was to the first comer that he directed his main attention, for Scupulo, he noticed, already held a knife in his swarthy hand. One well-placed kick on tho clenching knuckles, however, sent that glimmering icicle of steel circling off into the road-dust and an equally well-placed blow on the jaw sent the owner of the knife after (To be Continued.)

66Tlie Crevice By Wm. J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander

A Real Detective Story by the World's Greatest Detective. A Fascinating Love Story Interwoven with the Tangled Threads of Mystery. Copyright, 1916, W. J. Watt Company. Newspaper rights by International News Service

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"And you gave it back to her!" Blaine exclaimed, with will-simulated

incredufity. "You actually had the letter in your hands, and relinquished

it? In heaven's name why?"

"Miss Brunell had shown it to me

in confidence. It was her property,

and she trusted me. Since I was unable to aid her In solving it, I returned

it to her. The chances are that it is,

as she said, a matter of private business between her father and another man, and it is probably entirely dissociated from this investigation." "You're not paid, Morrow, to form opinions of your own, or decide the ethics, social or moral, of a case you're put oa; you're paid to obey instructions, collect data and obtain whatever evidence there may be. Remember that Confidence or no confidence, girl or no girl, you go back and get that letter! I don't care what means you use, short of actual murder; that cipher's got to be in my hands before midnight Understand?" "Yes, sir, I understand." Morrow rose slowly, and faced his chief. "I'm sorry, but I canot do it." "You can't? That's the first time I ever heard that word from your lips, Guy." Henry Blaine shook his head sadly, affecting not to notice his operative's rising emotion. "I mean that I won't, sir. I'm sorry to appear insubordinate, but I've got to refuse I simply must. I've never shirked a duty before, as I think you will admit, Mr. Blaine. I have always carried out the missions you entrusted

to me to the best of my ability, no matter what the odds against me, and in this case I have gone ahead conscientiously up to the present moment but I won't proceed with it any further." "What are you afraid of Jimmy

Brunell?" asked the detective, significantly. The insult brought a deep flus to Morrow's cheek, but he controlled himself. "No, sir," he responded, quietly. "I'm not going to betray the trust that girl has reposed in me." "How about the trust another girl

has placed in me and through me, in you?" Henry Blaine rose also, and gazed levelly into his operative's eyes. "What of Anita Lawton? Have you j considered her? I ought to dismiss j

you, Guy, at this moment, and I would if it were anyone else, but I can't allow you to fly off at a tangent, and ruin your whole career. Why should you put this girl, Emil Brunell, before everything in the world your duty to Miss Lawton, to me to ourself?" "She trusted me," returned Morrow, with grim persistence. "So did Henrietta Goodwinfi in the case of Mrs. Derwenter's diamonds; so did the little manicure, in the Verdun blackmail affair; so did Anne Richardson, in the Balazzi kidnapping mystery. You made love to all of them, and got their confessions, and if

your scruples and remorse kept you !

awake nights afterward, you certainly didn't show any effect of it. What

difference does it make in this case?" "Just this difference, Mr. Blaine" Morrow's words came with a rush, as if he was glad, now that the issue had been raised, to meet it squarel "I love Emily Brunell. Whatever her father is, or has done, she is guiltless of any complicity, and I can't stand by and see her suffer, much less be the one to precipitate her grief by bringing her father to justice. I told you the truth when I said the cipher letter was an enigma to me. I could not solve the cryptogram, nor will I be the means of bringing it to the hands of those who might solve it." More Tomorrow.

TheTwo Sisters

"I do not know who called up," the man said. "Wang answered the phone and was told to inform me that as Miss Marvin was not well she would not be here until 11 o'clock. Now shall we get to work?" Caryl glanced at him suspiciously. Was he lying to her, she , wondered, and had Julia had a talk with him about last evening's affair? One of the prices the liar pays for

his sin is that he always suspects

that other people are lying to him.

This morning Caryl Marvin pinned her mind to the work before her. , She

took Delaine's dictation with an air

of absorption in his every sentence

that could not faif to impress the au

thor. After all, he thought, she was

a good little thing, even if she was silly, and she was evidently trying hard

to please him. She could hardly live

with such a girl as her sister and not absorb some of the conscientious industry that that splendid creature possessed. At the remembrance of the woman whom he loved his voice grew gentler, his eyes kinder. And Caryl, noting this, thought that he liked bis stenographer better today that ever

before. Was it because of ber efforts

to do her work well, or because she was looking so pretty this morning? The shrill summons of the tele

phone on tbe desk interrupted Kelley

Delaine's train of thought, and, with

an impatient scowl, he took the receiver from its hook. "Well," he asked. "What is it?" Something in Us tone of personal detatchment made Caryl catch her breath. Could the message be for her? "Yes." Delaine was saying, "I understand. She's here. Hold the wire." Then he turned to his steno

grapher. "Miss Marvin," he announced coldly, "you are wanted on the phone. You can sit here in my chair." As he went out of the room, closing the door behind him, Caryl had a swift sensation of discomfort mingled with relief. His deportment seemed to im

ply that 6he might have something to say that she did not wish him to hear, yet she was glad that be was not to be present while she talked with her unseen friend. She guessed at. once who had asked for her, but expressed surprise when the voice at the other end of the wire 6aid: "Good morning! Guess who this is!" " Why why Mr. I mean, why Ben," she stammered, in well-feined astonishment "I thought you were someone else." She lowered her voice lest Kel'ey might be listening outside the door as she herself would do under similar circumstances. (More Tomorrow)

A codfish weighing ninety-seven pounds was caught off Popham, Me., and when placed on exhibition at Bath, was pronounced the "father of all cod."

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