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Address Sals.da.,Toronto 1 sate y The Law of Tooth an Talon By MERLIN Id ORE TAYLOR O CHAPTER I. play the game safely as long as he "The Gray Wolf" Lays His Plans. i pay, he ould mould tak: when e his timehe came ras it Louie 'Vogel, gunman, thug, ail�l; was dealt him without squealing. ; leader of criminals, sat in the back; However, he had no intention of room of "Silver Danny's" saloon and! hastening that day by carelessness. 1 frowned perplexedly at the glass of That was why the whisky before him ! whiskey before hien. was untouched. 1 For half an hour he had been `.?sere, Earlier in the day word had reach.; the liquor before him untested, much: ed hips through one of the nniltitudin- to the ', bartenderrwhoe of pedeh hisaoned headoras methods of communication known popped i to Isis kind that there was big game the door every few minutes to see if in sight, and his for the taking, The ! the glass needed replenishing. For reward was large for the one who' Vogel was accustomed to tossing off agreed to a certain "job," as yet un - the fiery draught at a gulp and imme- explained, but it required a cool head, diately requiring another. Moreover, a scheming brain and absolute fear - he was not the kind to relish being lessness. It was not something to kept waiting when in his cups. There appeal to a weakling. were times, though, when he ordered whiskey and did not touch it. Those who were intimate with him knew that at such times Vogel—"Big Louie" the police called him—was busy with his thoughts and in no mood to be disturbed. • Perhaps it • meant that plans were 'being made for. a new and daring raid upon the pocketbooks of those who . would not miss then; perhaps he schemed a way out when the net of the law seemed to be drawing close about him. Certainly it never quite "BigLouie" ' had enmeshed hint. •Fox played in what his cxonies called "horseshoe luck," although lie knew it was merely the reward of unceas- ing calculation and everlasting vi.gi= lance. His face adorned the rogues' gal- lery of police headquarters in many and varied poses. in violation of the stock. Now he spoke 'for t'be first time. "What's yours ?" he asked and started to press the button in the" wall at his side, Vogel noticed that he spoke from the corner of hie mouth and without moving his lips. It is a trick learned ` mostly behind prison walls, where conversation is under the ban but still is carried on at 'will. "I'm not drinkin' to -night." Vogel. pointed at the glass of whiakey be- fore hint, "I never drink when there's business on." . "That's good." The stranger rub'-. bed his hands together. in approba- tion. "That's good. I prefer • a man who has no time for drinks 'when he' has other fish to fry." "Catchin' comes before fryin'," re- plied Vogel. "I haven't, seen io fish around here." Plainly he wanted the other to make the first plunge into whatever matters he had in mind 'to . discuss. Evidently the stranger was satisfied with the looks of this man he hall come to meet and he quickly took the lead. "I have a matter that calla for a clever man, a daring man and one who uses "his head,'.' he began. "I m told that you are that kind of a man and that I may rely upon you im- plicitly." - plicitly." He paused as if for some sign from the gangster, None carie and he went on: "To such a man wile can deliver what .he undertakes'a r- 'tain persons are willing to 'pay—five !thousand dollars" n a m m h e fiv I Still Vogel gave no indication that q he was interested. An offer of five I hundred dollars would have been ;eagerly snapped up. Anything short of murder in broad daylight on a crowded street could have , been ar- ranged for the lesser sum. If he neither batted his eyes nor shifted their at the mention of ten tinies that amount it was through sheer surprise at the= hugeness of the offer. He saw the whole deal falling through because the stranger was about to demand something impossible. In his exper- ience nothing ever broached to him !was paid for at such rates. "Five thousand dollars," repeated !the stranger. "One thousand pay- able as soon as you accept." He dis- ! played a roll of bills in a fold taken from his inside pocket. "Another !thousand the day the trick is to be turned and the remainder when the job is completed. Are you interested now?" "Go on," orderer. Vogel briefly. "Five thousand dollars is a lot of money for a small job like this. It ;is not the ability to do it that calls ifor such large pay. That coisld be arranged for a few hundred. The rest is a reward for ability to forget it ,after it is done. Of course you can - {not be expected to accept without knowing what tis. He leaned over `until his face almost touched that:of the gunman, his voice dropped to a whisper: "I want a man kidnapped," the concluded. "Give me the thousand," said Vogel, and held out his hand for the money. The stranger counted out ten crisp, new one hundred dollar bills and Vogel stowed them away in his watch pocket. "'Who's your man?" he asked. This time he was forced to put his ear almost against the lips of the , other to hear the reply. Then he started to his feet, his head shaking, his face fr-owning, his hand straying toward the watch pocket, ready to retrieve the money and return it." "I'd sooner tackle the devil," he said briefly, but his fingers paused in the act of fingering; the hills. "You have taken my money," point- ed out the other, noticing the signs of wavering. "That, as I understand it, is binding in all contracts." Vogel's 'rand came away from his pocket and reached out to grasp the whisky glass. But he merely toyed with it for a moment. "All right," he agreed. "What do. you want done with him?" For half an hour the stranger talk- ed in tones inaudible five feet away, Vogel listening intently and interrupt- ing only to ask a question now and then. Then, as the other concluded, he nodded. "Saturday night, then," he said. "But God help us both if that old devil ever has a chance to get even." The stranger rose and started for the door. But he stopped for a mo- ment, long enough to draw a card from a vest pocket and toss it upon the table, "Telephone to that number when the job is done," he said. "It will not be necessary to go into details. Simp- ly say 0, X.' and the person who takes the message will understand, He made not a sound as he disap peeredinto the barroom, edged around the table and chairs in his way and softly passed through the outer door into the street. Across the street 'Ralph Charlton, agent of the Department of Justice, hesitated but a moment in Isis stride as lie saw the stranger's figure out- lined against the bright lights of the saloon's interior, but he crossed the street at an angle and ' when the stranger, without so much as a glance behind him, strode swiftly away,, Charlton swung into step a few yards. behind him, . "The Gray Wolf, eh?" he said,, softly to himself. "Now, 1 wonder what the dickens he's doing h this neighborhood? Guess I'll just trail along and see," But he r,ad his pains and a long walk to boot for nothing, for the man whom he had dubbed "The Gray Wolf" merely walked rapidly for a couple of nsiles to a neighborhood of: middle-class hoarding houses abs s e. ant' dis- appeared behind the portals of a' weatherbeaten stone house,. Whereat Charlton snorted in disgust and wont in search of his delayed supper, for "I told this here bird that I cou:d put him in touch with the very man for him if he was willing to pay," flattered "Silver Danny," when Vogel, nosing around on the scent of the roan who was.back ci the play, finally entered the saloon. "No, I didn't mention yer name to him," as "Big Louie" displayed signs of anger. "I tells him I would see the party I had in mind, meaning you, and if it was agreeable I would have him here at seven bells to -night. At that time he'll come in. If it's 0. B. I gives him the office.to hunt you up in the back room. If not, 1 tips hint the 'nothin' dein' ' sign and he beats it. It's up to you." "How do you know it ain't a plant?" asked Vogel. "I don't, but this bird looks right to me," "Silver Daunt'" went law which prohibits the "mugging" neglected to mention that a hundred - of a roan before he has been convicted dollar bill tendered by the stranger of a crime. He knew the county jail and a dozen police stations from the inside as a result of frequent deten- tions therein, but he had yet to do his "bit" behind the bars, and the detectives who had camped on his had aided hint greatly in reaching that decision. "You know me, Louie. I've always played on the square with all the boys and I'm not handing out any bum steer. I think it's safe." 'To2e1 nodded "P 11 a2pare when trail for years and were morally cer- seven o'clock comes." The interview tain they had him dead to rights a had taken place in the bcck room dozen tines, had almost begun to where Voge] now sat, "I'll pipe him despair of ever sending hire "over the off when he steps into the barroom. road." If he looks like you say, he'll find Still they patiently hided their me sittin' right here. If not„ I'll be time, waiting for one of two things 1 gone by the time he gets the office." to happen. It is an axiom in police 1 Vogel was not merely killing time circles that no matter how clever a against the stranger's arrival. He was criminal niay be, the day will come i paving the way -for washing his hands when he will . blunder, when he will? of the affair if -he became suspicious grow careless and overlook some little 1 of the other roan when he saw him. trifle that will loom like a mountain !He would not enter into any dealings of accusation to those who seek to 1 with him until he knew what the game lay him by the heels. Also a veteran i was and the size of the stake for - and expert French.. thief -catcher had i which 'he would play, If it were worth once cryptically said, "Cherehez la' while, and the stranger did not say femme,' which translated into the; or do something that savored of a jargon of the underworld is, ' l„eok ; police trap, Vogel would talk business for his skirt." 1with him. One suspicious move, how - "Big Louie" knew these axions as ; ever, and no amount of money would well as did the police. If he had tempt "Big Louie." overlooked trifles in the past they had Through a crack in the door he been so small that his pursuers had watched the stranger's arrival on the overlooked them, too, and had begun ; dot of seven o'clock. He sawalso, to despair of ever catching bun when i the almost imperceptible nod with he did blunder. Of late they had be- I which "Silver Danny" indicated the gun to hope that the second saying back room, and he studied his pros - night prove the right lead. Fqr i pective employer in detail as the later Vogel, violating all precdents • of ; crossed the barroom to the door of ereokdom, heretofore had fought shy; the back room. When the stranger, of , all women, but for several weeks! pushed it open Vogel was again in now he appeared to be wavering in) his chair, back against the wall, fee - the direction of Stella Lathrop, Mg the doorway coolly. Beneath the country -born and a puzzle to the po- i table, however, one hand caressed .the lice because of the suddenness and 1 butt of a revolver. Characteristically, ease with which she appeared to have too, it was the left ;land. Vogel could become one of the intimates of Vogel's I shoot with either one and he pre - satellites. 1 ferred the sight, the one which usual- It was not -,of Stella, however, that • ly is kept ready for action, to be con - Vogel was thinking now. She knew 1 spicuously in sight on the table, It nothing incriminating against hint.1served to disarm suspicion. But he had been meditating on the 1 He aaw a tall, smoothly shavers man , fact that some day his luck would j with curly black hair and deep, dark • turn, that he was long past due to + eyes that glowed in their sockets. i Make 'that one and 'fatal slip which They were cruel eyes, too, and the; would end his seeming immunity, Still , nose and mouth were -those of a bird the knowledge that it was bound to of prey. The hands were white and come some time did not serve to make well -kept, the fingers long and sinewy I him the leastbit timid. He would —the fingers of a strangler. Thus far his scrutiny had satisfied Vogel. Remained one other point to be taken into consideration ---the feet of the stranger. With relief the thug saw that they ware long alid narrow. It aeons that the feet of those who play at. hare -and -hounds in the underworld invariably are one of two kinds, and a policeman can disguise everything about him but his big, broad feet. nobull," l "He's u Vogel decided. c .. His hand came away from the -weapon in his lap and he motioned to the chair opposite. The stranger, too, had been taking sed u cats oC all type all carte sutra stili run o f sameedi atan,e 11' 200 mites, iw h in es go,r..: uitler as nrrr•h'.>.e!ei, nr p.iirlaa.se Fti 4C'r met' aril,.• of your nw i hoira to look Hipp over, ar ',sk us . tLic++ any car to it.'' ,fpr Yvon ?rico f%•r rr.'pecttcn. :Vet large .,tick a•iweya on halo!. Brezkey's. Used Car Markt 402 ie oneo Street, Torry '0 the house was well known to the De- partment of Justice as the boarding place of Otto Lebrune, alias ' "The Gray Wolf," a man with ready. money, but no visible means of obtaining it, suspected of a great many things which were ihteresting to the Govern- ment, but who, so far, never had been connected with any of them. "He reminds me of ' an old gray wolf I tried to trap for ten years back on the farm," a veteran Federal agent had said once. "He's right under your nose all the time, but the minute you think you've got hini he's disappeared, only to bob up serenely some other place another day." So "The Gray Wolf" Lebrune had become to the agents, and "The Gray Wolf" he remained. (Continued in next issue.) Women! Use "Diamond Dyes." Dye Old Skirts, Dresses, Waists, Coats, Stockings, Draperies, Everything._ Each pacgage of "Diamond Dyes" contains easy directions for dyeing any article of wool, silk, cotton, linen, or mixed goods. Beware! Poor dye streaks, spots, fades and ruins ma- terial by giving It a 'dyed -look." Buy "Di!mond Dyes" only. Druggist has Color Card. - Tractors in France Easily Become Tanks. Every French farm will become a potential artillery depot, if the sug- gestion made by prominent farm trac- tor manufacturers to the Ch aril er of b Deputies is carried out, as now seems possible, says a Paris despatch, They contend that certain tractors con- structed•at moderate expense can be. transformed without difficulty into powerful tanks with armor clad tur- rets to be constructed according to the Government design and supplied throughout the border areas to reli- able owners of suitable machines. The details of 'supplying these tanks with ammunition are• still to be work- ed out by the military officials, who are showing such interest in the plan that special films are being prepared for presentation before the Chamber of Deputies. Prominent military crit- ics are said to have urged the accept- ance of the scheme, declaring that if eastern France had been equipped thus in 1914 the massed advance of -the German army could have been stopped in the Vosges foothills. Things That Have Blasted Promising Careers. A soft snap. Being somebody's pet. Being held in a position by influence instead of earning it. Being pushed, leaning upon others, depending upon others for influence, waiting for soinethilig favorable to 'turn up, trying to get the most with- out trying honestly to earn it. Depending upon luck or a pull. Trying to be somebody else. Getting into a position which he could not honestly fill, which he didn't have the training, the education, the preparation to fill. Getting a job does not always mean that one Is able to fill it, and has ruin- ed many acareer. Minard's Liniment for Burns, etc.. Princess Juliana Sees Her First Movie. The little Princess Juliana, only child of Queen Wilbeimina and Prince Consort Henry, who may one day suc- ceed to the throne of the Netherlands, has just been permitted to see her first motion picture show, says a des- patch from the Hague.- She is 11 years old and is being reared in the sheltered fashion characteristic of the home lite of Queen Wilhelmina. The little Princess, however, is being train- ed in music and other arts as well as in the duties of a housekeeper. Her first motion pictu.re show was of the educational type, a South Pole picture. Queen Wilhelmina,rarely appears at fetes, public receptions or patriotic celebrations. In fact, she is seldom seen in public. except when walking through the woods or driving in one of her carriages or automobiles. She prefers dignity to display, and her re- sidences could hardly be• called pal- aces. Minard's liniment Relieves Colds, etc. There are over a hundred varieties of holly. Faith is the greatest magnetic power for the attraction of the things that belong to us. The man who conquers is the one who moves steadily, persistently, everlastingly towards his goal, un- mindful whether it is always in sight or not, unmindful of obstacles, of dif- ficuities, of discouraging conditions. He moves ever forward because he is invinci!ble.. Vegetable, Farm, Flower, New Improved Strains M! tested. sure to grow 3endforCa6,s/off 38.42 Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal !ai• . . HIDES -WOOL -FURS BEACON' S3CXNS—The handl- ing of these skins is our spe- cialty. It will pay you to ship to us if you have three or more shins, but on a less number the freight charges are too heavy. WILLIAM STONE_ SONS LIMITED WOOD STOCK, ONTARIO ESTAGLISHItD 1870 COARSE SALT LAND SALT Bulk Carlots TORONTO SALT WORKS C. J. CLIFF - TORONTO WHY LOOK OLD? When one applica- tion df `Illiiton'a Bair Restorative every 2•.montlie keeps the hair natural. No oil, aic dirt; the hair can be washed when desired. Try it, Black or Brown.?rice, $3,00. a ,,7 Sent prepaid to any address in Canada. poweii live., Ottawa £. lt. Caraeohati, So many daily uses In 2, 5, and to -ib: tins s it is served in some form at every ureal, and keeps Indefinitely, many thrifty housewives order several cans of Crown i:2rand at a time. Thus they, always . hove a supply on hand. How pleased they are to find .that no emergency calling for cooking, baking or candy -making finds them unprepared. It is economical. .CANADA S'tAItCFI Co., LTMn80, mos/remit i [4Q T: 4A1 sae Great Sweetener' PEASANTS BLOT OUT. SOMME SHELLHOLES TRACTORS USED IN RE. CONSTRUCTION. Sometimes Plows Hit Unseen Shells and Farmer and Horses Perish. A miracle has' beeii. wrought in u battlefield of the Soin ne region, the scene of constant action ever sinci0 the first battle of the Soninie, writes Sir William Beach Thompson in the London Daily Mail. "A good part of that spacious field yielded most excellent crdps last au- tumn,' ho says. "Even the small farm- er, who loves to grumble, confessed that. Much of it has grown two crepe since the war. "An eager peasant who had helped to;, produce the iniraele gave sire the "details. - "7 he first year a plague of Mice and rats appeared. He seemed to think they had been spontaneously bred from shells or released from some devil's cavern by burrowing soldiers. The rodents ate every other plant that pushed up. • "The second year they vanished as mysteriously as they came. "This peasant had his stock housed, some under lean-to tarpaulins, some under bits of tin and wood jutting from .shattered walls. Be'himself lived in a hut with his family. Intense' Patriotism of the French. " 'What would you?' lie said, `A man loves his country.' "He meant not France, but his bit of country; his parish, his plot; and in this sense I doubt whether any people in the world have such passion as the French for their land as such. • "The state, with a simplicity that marks the best French work, sent out men with spades and tweezers. After cutting the limitless wire into two - yard lengths they went to work like Darwin's earthworms, so patiently, so effectively. Eve'r'y shell hole was fill- ed in by spade and shovel; and so thoroughly done that there is no cracked shrinking to denote the crater. The unlocal and casual read - men who fill up holes near the road leave wire sticking out, and after some days a subsidence i s very ul aim. "It is not so at all on the farms. .A. rough tractor follows the long,liand- led spades; and then the tarmors get to work with those very shallow plows of theirs that regard only the surface, but are by no means superficial. "Shells work up by degrees, and when found are put up conspicuously or stacked and Sagged for the engin- eers to collect and explode, Some- times they are hit before being seen, when good -by plowman, plow and horses; but for the sake of the Ian_d that risk is run, "If a class prize were given for re- construction energy the French farm- er would get it. "If there were a village competition I should pick from the very many vil- lages I have seen Villers Bretonnenx asprize winner. "It would please every Australian, especially the people of Melbourne, wise have adopted it, to see already built a large and well. equipped fac- tory, a new chateau with many archi- tectural trimmings and a :nmber of real brick houses under construction. The village saw the death of German hopes. When with a tank or two the Australians stopped the German ad- vance there, what an incurable mess of ruin the village was --of brickbats, beans, trunks, girders, airplane sheds and bits of tanks; of dead things en - dead life: "Tt is naw alive a g a i n , with rich farms around it and a cheerful peo- ple." Moonrise at Sea. From any shore afar 1 catch no scent If lie the land a -port or lie' a -lee; There is a rest, "a vast tranquility tt'pon the waves like God's arbitra- ment. The gulls fly high as though their wings were bent Toward airy ports to which we may not flee, Those happy havens of the blest which we Have dreamed of, some aerial conti- nent. The harper of the sly evokesi no tune From any chord that mortal eat has heard; If any word is breathed it is God'a ward=- Silence—as when the earth first came to be, And out of the wan east crept up the moon, • A great fire, opal on a silver sea! When you drop a match in the or leave otic camp -fire, be , �ioocls y p , sunt, it is dead out. Care with. fire in the woods should be a first principle' with all Canadians.