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upon which she leaned, watching the Mr,. Struber's regard roamed over
detective intently. me in a speculative way,
"Might as well, I s'pose," he said "Why," hereturned, coughing de -
hesitantly, "but it ain't a matter to precatingly behind his hat, "what else
pass round too freely," could he a -been doin''if he didn't wrap
I acknowledged both look and hint up a package? An' then, who else
by banishing Stub. was it for, seein' he pastes one o' your
"Miss Fox," I explained, "is as much own cards on for a label? Must a -
interested as I am. Anyway she is been a small package, too, or he
in ray confidence." wouldn't a -had to trim the card" ,.
Mr, Struber helped himself to the. , I contemplated the detective oar -
chair facing nne,and sat holding hie rowly, e'en with a twinge of appre-
derby hat against hiss bosonm while he 1 pension. It was beginning to dawn.
talked, in my mind that the appearance. of
"Well, it's quite a . little story —, -a the man might be deceptive in more
blamed funny one, too. This morn- ways than one; certainly he was.
ing Billy Hatfield sends word to shrewder than a casual glance at his
headquarters that something queer's twisted fea'
tures, totally wanting any
on at the Republic Hotel, where Billy's force of character, or his shabby cloth-
chief clerk. The Republic, y'' under- ing, indicated, . His maladroitness. was
stand, ain't what yuh'd call a swell disarming; yet hisquick deductions
hotel, and queer things is pulled off were taking my breath away with
there every once in a while, So Silly their undeniably plausibility. If I
an' me's pretty good friends, were not watchful he would have me
"`What's en'?' says 1 when I see talking about the diamond despite my-
Billy. And he tells me this:
"Sone time Saturday afternoon a
guy registered, at the Republic. He
self.
•"I can only repeat," said I, "that I
can not imagine who the man is. As
signs his name 'S. Willets,' just like to your conclusion that he sent me a
that—`S. Willets.' He writes down Parcel of any description, you are
after it `Johore Bahru' as the place he mistaken,"
hails from." Mr. Struber's ferret eyes narrow-
At this point I stole a glance at ed as they again surveyed me. I had
Miss Foy;; but the name manifestly an uncomfortable feeling that he was
was unfamiliar to her, and her pretty checking off the details of my appear-
countenance was not altered from its Anes, In a bit his long knuckly fin -
look of deep interest, gers began drumming absently upon
"The QId Man," Mr. Struber pur- the crown of his hat, and he appeared.
sued, "he looks up this Johore Bah= to be pond°"ring. Presently he said,
place, an' finds it's a {auk town in without addressing anybody in par -
the Malay Peninsula, where ane tieular:
brand''ti' Chinks comes from." "Funny thing, D' yuh know, this
Here the girl grew more alert; she `anY What sign's his impure `S. Willets'
had herself too well in hand now, swers Steves description to a dal,
however, to betray her profound con- When Billy deseribes hint to , me I
cern by another sign, shows him Steve's gallery picture.
"When Billy sees S. Willets' on his Billy says: `Fut a raggedgray mous-
register he thinks it's just a josh an' "ache on that fella' ---meaning Steve--
lets it go at that. People don't al ,t`an' give him a mop o' gray hair, an'
ways give their real names, y' know, he's the man'—meanin' the guy what's
at joints like the Republic, an' Billy disappeared."
he's not the kind o' guy what butts ing in a keen, penetrating look, tray -
He's a pretty good scout, Billy is, an', eled to Miss Fox.
he notices that this Willets is nervi "What ?t
oyou know 'bout Steve Wil-
ous an'fidgety, like somethin' don't lets, Miss?" he politely asked.
set well on his chest. That ought to Taken thus off her guard, Miss Fox
a -put Billy next that the guy wasn't paled and drew back with a little
in no frame o' nmind to be handin' out gasp of dismay.
any kind o' josh just at that time; butt '+I?" she exclaimed. But before she
somehow Billy doesn't notice, or think had time to reply further, 1 sharply
about it. !interfered.
"Well, sir, this Willets is shown a1 "Here, Struber, a joke's a joke, But
roam, an' he must a -went out some- . you will please leave Miss Fax out of
wheres soon after, for he don't show this discussion. 1 am very litisy, and
up any more till 'way after supper. a I vie given you a good bit of my time;
Then he breezes in an' proceeds to I'm sorry I could be of no more assist -
bawl out Mr. Corrigan --Billy Hat- ance:'
CHAPTER V.--WCont'd).
The whole proceeding was, in truth,.
t.slar; of a nature to render one
sexed with impatience because curi-
oeity was raised to a high pitch only
t+. i,e—wilfully, it seemed—disap-
pointed and unsatisfied. A man will
not journey half -way round the world
to interview a comparatively obscure
young lady stenographer,whom he
has never seen, unless the motive im-
pelling hien to do so is extremely
potent.
Then, to keep the long trail blazed,
as it were, with letters and a tele -
grate., c,nl, hoard meant.
m; h at the journey's end,had the ef- ;
feet of plunging an already myster- It was the remainder of the card;
i.a*is opt: Cade into yet greater mystery, from which had Been cut the address
There was something positively un- on the parcel enclosing the diamond.
canny about it.
ter. I'm a city detective; Struber's
my name."
''Without waiting for my consent,
he advanced and laid upon my blot-
ting -pad the object he was carrying..
It was a small, right-angled strip of
white pasteboard that is, it was
shaped like a carpenter's square,
"Can you identify that?" he asked,' gone.
regarding me shrewdly. "Yet that doesn't quiet him, and he
For the life of me, I could not re-, seems kind o' frightened till Corrigan
strain a start. Right at the angle, gives him a room on another floor.
in small type that was unmistakably; This all happens Saturday night.
familiar, appeared my office tele "They leaves the guy in his new
?hone nunmher. Cn the instant I' room -424 it was; fourth floor, look -
field's
�tihat th ' in t Spring Street—and that's
out
field's off duty then, an' Corrigan's l In the face of this curt hint Mr.
the manager—swearing somebody's. Struber could scarcely do less than
broke into his room and gone through take his leave, which he did at once,
his baggage. There was signs all mumbling unintelligible apologies.
right that this Willets guy was tell...! The instant the door closed behind
ing the truth; but there wasn't noth- him Miss Fax hastened to my desk
ing missing. Corrigan makes him and dropped into her accustomed
turn out everything and check up his place. Her face was pale, her eyes
belongings, but he admits nothing
is fro merit of este-'
v to have the traveler z an- g P
"Anyway," I reflected aloud after CHAPTER VI.
thi;i unique correspondence had been
c <i, •idored at length, "either your I glanced up from the bit of card
c,:i = i -confirmation of Strang's belief and into the eyes of Mr.. Struber.
taleut the tattoo -mark, or else some What I saw there warned me that,
,..stair in your letters to him not officer of the law or not, he was no
: w haus but immanent—what hex read proper person hi whom to cot/fide a
i ctween the lines, possibly --hastened matter so weighty as the diamond.
hi • determination to come to America.
Ile: you show these letters to your meat say Cringing—mein, I saw sly-
Ai.nt Lois?" ? ness and cynical distrust; it would
"I cg. But they only Puzzled her have required no great temptation. I
::r,'1 excited, her curiosity as much as fancied, to kindle cupidity in his
at ° tifrlic tra2 gSlie' never heard of any heart.
7 est, however, I excite his suspi-
+ cions it behooved me to say some -
hey frightened her, too, I be- : thing, and by way of answer I reach-
liew e. She was obstinate—refused to eel into a drawer of my desk and
upl iy me with the information that brought ford
Behind his defcr.:ntial—I might al-
�f my profess'
m.s l ; have enabled me to answer all . n 4„V trim -
his c,ueotions more fully. Aunt Lois cards. I placed this besidetithe rubor
t ai ped ine repeatedly to be careful • med border, and of ati Mr.cStruber
let «ae`hing terrible come out of , give a slight nou satisfaction.
he. "
it. But I couldn't see anypossible .Just as u thought,"onisaid n Nowt
� then,the question is to learn who it
e - , i;eforalarm. I was not deaf to was cut one of your cards Like that,
theunderlying note of sincerity that and why he did it." And then, in the
reek _ns all th letters, and I don't think ; most matter-of-fact tone, as if he
I did anything either rash or unbe- were uttering the veriest common -
coining in answering them—do ?'
Most emphatically, I did not. And ; Wiilets, I s'pose—"
I was saying so when Stub knocked ! Mr. Struber got thus far, and stop -
and entered. His eyes were shining ! ped. With the mention of the name
with suppressed excitement, but be -1 Miss Fox uttered a little cry and
plemented to Miss Fox: f frightened, she stood staring at the
"If you don't mind, I'll keep these detective. Stub was so electrified
letters for a while; I should like -to 1 with mingled emotions of rapture and
study them over at leisure. It may anticipation, that` I curbed an impulse
be advisable to report the matter to " to send him from' the room, which
the police; Strang—whoever he is—! just then would have been an act of
may have met with foul play. I'll sheer cruelty.
gladly take the matter off your ! After a brief questioning regard of
hands," I the startled girl, Mr. Struber turned
Stub could restrain himself no l to me again and:; completed what he
longer. f had started to say:
"Boss," he interrupted in an ex- "Was he ever a client of yours?"
cited undertone, "there's a gum -shoe 1 I, refused to be surprised. Indeed, I
out hi the office right now wanting to `felt I had passed the' stage where
see you."
Y on ! place, he added: "You know Steve
fore giving him my attention I sup- wheeled from the window. Tense and
anything that might have happened
Miss Fox and I both fixed upon him would appear unusual or strange. If
a blank stare. Mr. Struber had suddenly been trans -
"Gum -shoe!" I echoed. "What on formed into a monkey and gone caper-
earth do you mean?" -
The imp fairly writhed with vex-
ation over my obtuseness.
"Elbow—bull—sleut'—detective," he
rattled off. "It's Heinle Struber.
He's dead anxious to " see you, too,
boss."
Miss Fox rose hastily, as if to re-
tire.
"Wait," I charged her. "This might my cards. They are for the aceom
have to do with the very thing we modation' of any one likely to have
business with me."
A disappointed expression aver -
spread Mr. Struber's lean, twisted
expression.
"Just so," he complained, darting a
furtiveglance at Miss Fox, who had
not stirred , again. "I looked for
somethin' o' the : kind."
"Perhaps," I offered, "if you tell me
why you mentioned Willets in con-
nection with this fragment of card,
and tell me under what circumstances.
it came into your possession, I may
be able to give you some informa-
tion."
The man drew a long breath, and
his regard, taking on a doubtful ex-
pression, ` shifted from .Miss Fox to i
Stub. She 'moved over to a chair,
ing and chattering around the roomn,'I
believe I would have regarded it un-
moved as a part of the crazy situa-
tion in which 'I was so confusedly
groping. So i replied calmly:
"My practice does not extend to
the criminal branch- of the law. It
would be impossible for me to name
everybody who might have access to
on pt
the last anybody about the hotel ever
see of him. That's why Billy tele-
phones in to Headquarters this morn-
ing and wants to see me."'
"But my- card," I took advantage of
this pause to inquire, "where does it
come in?"
"I'm just ready for that. First
thing after hearing what Billy and
Corrigan and all the rest has to say, I
took a slant at the inside of 424. The
only things that look like a clue I find
an a dinky little ,table. - There was
some wrapping -paper there, like as
if he'd done up a package; then the
table was scratched: where he'd been
cutting something with a pocket-
knife. The edge of card shows what
that was, and Central give me the
name belonging to the telephone num-
ber."
Up to this stage I had formed no
very high opinion of Mr. Struber's
astuteness; now, without the slightest
warning, he gave me a genuine jolt
of surprise. In the same colorless
tone that marked the balance of his
recital, he asked:
`"Who is this guy, Mr. Ferris? What
was it he sent you?"
"I haven't the' least idea who the
man can be,"I assured him. "And
what in the world makes you think
he sent me something?"
have been discussing. I can't imagine
otherwise why a detective should fa-
- vor me with a call.
She moved over to a window, turn-
ing her back to the room, and at a
nod from me Stub sprang at the door
and had it invitingly open all in one
motion.
So promptly as to suggest that he
had been waiting not, far away, a
hatchet-faced man . entered. . He
winked covertly and knowingly at
Stub, darted a sharp glance at Miss
Fox's back, and then smiled ingra-
tiatingly `. at ine. He ' was holding
something in his hand.
"Sorry to bother yuh, Mr. Ferris,"
he began, "but I want to- ask yuh a
Eew questions on an important mat-
were enormous with anxiety and tre-
idati
p on.
(To be continued.)
If singleness is bliss, it is folly to
marry.
The United Kingdom produces only
one-fifth of the wheat which it con-
sumes.
Sir Hiram Maxim's many inven-
tions include roundabouts and mouse-
traps.
It has been estimated that each in-
habitant of England uses ninety
bricks a year.
Blondes should avoid the lighter
shades of blue, which gives an ashy
appearance to the complexion.
The greatest known age attained by
an insect was that of a queen ant,
which Sir J. Lubbeck kept alive for
nearly fifteen years.
The necklaces worn by the native
women of the Congo are large metal
collars, weighing as much as thirty
pounds.
A witty clergyman awakened his
rather drowsy congregation by say-
ing, "My dear friends, I have come
here to preach a sermon, not to re-
feree a sleeping match."
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Cheater's Speech, again at the tugs, one of them slip.
Chester Thompson did not like to ped and fell on its side.
"speak pieces:" There are few boys Perhaps the horse was discouraged.
Perhaps it was entangled in the har-
who really enjoy declamation in ness. Anyway, it lay there with
school, but for Chester the day was quivering sides while the driver leap -
particularly full of terrors, He was q ed forward and struck it again with
not shy or sensitive among his mates, his whip. It was a cruel thing and a
was
foolish thingdoand the sight as
but when he faced an audience, even s to , s g
more than Chester could bear in
though it was made up wholly of those silence, Indignation boiled within
same school friends, he promptly for= him, and before he really knew what
got what he had learned, and felt as he was doing, he found himself be -
if he were walking off a high cliff side the angry driver and speaking to
into space. him with a great earnestness that
Chester felt ashamed of this weak- caused the man to turn in amaze-
ness and tried hard to overcome it, ment, ,
but with poor success, Now he was Chester could never remember just
face to face with something far worse what he said. Fragments .of things
than speaking in school. In only two that he had learned at the Band of
days more he must stand in the vil- Mercy meetings and snatches of his
lage square, beside the new drinking carefully prepared address for the
fountain, and deliver an address be- dedication of the drinking fountain
fore all the people gathered there. mingled with`the simple and common -
Row could he ever do it? sense plea `that be made for kinder
Several years earlier, Chester had treatment for the fallen horse.
e anger left the driver's eye and
joined the Band of Mercy and his love Th
for pets and all animals had led him he flushed under his tanned skin,
to remain a member when many of "Well you are right young man " ha
the boys of his age bad dropped out. said. "And how you can talk --for a
Now he WAS its president, and this little fellow,
was why they had selected him to
speak at the dedicationof the beauti-
ful drinking fountain that had been
Chester and the driver helped the
horse to its feet, patted its nose, and
removeda little of the load, and then
given to the village. His pride would the man drove away with no more
not let him evade the task, but how he . loud words or use of the whip.
dreaded it: With the help of his Chester said nothing about what
teacher he had prepared a brief ad- had happened until after the dediaa
dress, and as he said it over and tion exercises at the new fountain
over, he was rather proud of it; but were over: When his teacher, among
he felt absolutely sure that every many others, congratulated him and
word of it would fly from his mind in told him how splendidly he had done,
he told her briefly about the driver
and the fallen horse.
"I knew I could do it after that," he
said. "It wasn't simply that I found
the panic of the moment.
That is what Chester was thinking
of one day while lie was walking along
the road just outside the village. He
stopped to watch two men who were I could forget myself and talk when
loading a cart with gravel. When I had something to say, but it gave a
the men had filled the cart, one of wholly new meaning to the address
them spoke sharply to the horses and that you helped me prepare."
they plunged forward; but the rear "That is the only way that anyone
can speak well in public," said his
teacher; "that is, to have something
to say that is worth saying, and to
put the whole heart into it."—Youth's
Companion.
wheels were deep in the ditch and
the horses could not start the heavy
load. The driver again called loudly
to them, and struck them with his
whip. As the willing span strained
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A dejected, sallow, friendless -look-
ing, low-spirited man walked into the
grocery store:
"I want some clothesline," he said.
"Whatcher yant it for?" asked the
man behind the counter.
"To hang clothes on—the old lady's
washing to -day."
"She is, heh?" said the shopkeeper,
giving his customer the once over
from head to foot. "Well, you go
back and tell her to come down here
and get it herself. The only way a
fellow looking like you do can buy
rope from me is on a prescription."
The "Hohenzollern Luck" is a plain
gold ring, with a black stone, in the
possession of the Kaiser. Frederick
the. Great received it from his father
with a note, declaring that so long as
it remained in the family the race
would prosper.
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