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BEGIN HERE TODAY. gutsts of the restaurant, an alterca-
tion arranged, 1 suspected, for the sole
purpose of affording time and oppor-
tunity for the robbery of the jeweler.
He began to argue with the crook.
John Ainsley, a pian of education
and breeding, whose war wounds left
him unfit for manual labor, pawns an
rrory miniature of his mother in order
laughed. Then, though having recog-
nized nze, he would have detained rate,
I walked over to my table. What •did
I, who was about to die, have in corn -
mon with such a person? The thanks
of himself, or of his pretty feminine
companion, would notdo me any good.
I paid my waiter and walked to the
sheck-room, will confess thatI
was
, than the figment of a policeman s
t myna , '
slightly embarrassed a blli
i t3
to tip the coat -boy. But I need not imagination. I would bring to my new
have been; for Daragon, just donning profession the brain of a gentleman,.
his overcoat, saw me and seemed to! certainly fitted to cope with the intel
regret hilt lack of courtesy. He handed lett of a detective. I would bring to
the coat -boy an extra coin, my new art the culture of an aristo-
"Let me do that much," he said, crat. I would raise it from the sordid
"—even though you did me a shabby level to which such people as my fur -
turn."
to pay his landlady and to buy food. His hand reached for his waistcoat
A prosperous -looking bootlegger and pocket, to produce the jewel. But the
all-round crook, takes Ainsley to his girl had not had time to effect the sub -
home and attempts to enlist him as an stitution. She went dead white as
accomplice Insulted, Ainsley leaves Daragon leaped to his feet, overturn -
the room. in his chair as he did so. For his
Ainsley is disgusted at the sight of g
a pretty young girl in the company of suspicions, never more than slumber -
a gross -looking man in a restaurant. ing, I imagined, awoke to full activity.
Later he sees the prosperous -looking Then, before he could attract the
crook join the man and the girl at attention of the head waiter and the
their table. Ainsley finally recognizes manager, I rose from my chair and
the gross man as Daragon, a famous walked swiftly to their table. I had
jeweler and roue. Daragon draws out no particular sympathy for the girl
a ettle cardboard box and hands it to , and her crook companion. But I had
the girl. even less for Daragon. For while I
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.watched him, I remembered some of
I saw my acquaintance reach for !! the unpleasant tales that had been
the box; though I could not see his icurrent about him in the years before
face, I knew that his eyes were shin- the war. The girl was a thief, but
ing with ill -suppressed desire. And Daragon was a filthy beast -
then, as I saw his right hand drop 1 I gained their table in three strides.
into the pocket of his coat, I knew „You dropped something on the floor,"
what he planned to do, even before I said. I spoke to Daragon, but look-
£ caught a glimpse of the white abject ed squarely at the girl. If she had
that he drew from the pocket. He the quit wit of her kin, I could save
planned to substitute one box for the her.
other. She had it; as I bent over, groping
I smiled with amusement. Also I beneath the table, her hand touched
appreciated his cunn'_ng, Unqupurchases tion- i mine and slipped into it a box. In her
ably he had made purchases from s excitement her shaking fingers relax_
Daragon. Probably he had let the , ed their grip of the second box. ' I got
jeweler understand that the purchases
ithat too, and would have been at a
were gifts for hi? sweetheart.
Then . '
he had elmitted Dara n to meet his; loss how to proceed, but for the fact
lady. The lady had sled upon the I that, leaning over until her face was
jeweler. Daragon had seen an opper- j close to mine, she whispered frantic-
tunity to combine business with plea- ally: The first one, the first one.
sure, the sort of pleasure that appeal -1 I slipped the second box swiftly into
ed to him. And it was not unusual Fmy pocket, arose and handed Daragon
that, in trying to close a bargain, he , the first one. He took it from me, and
should bring a jewel from his store.',immediately untied and opened it. He
And the girl had been waiting for him sighed with relief.
alone; her seductions were to lull1"Much obliged," he said. "For a
Daragon's suspicions, if any might be • minute 1 though --damn it, I didn't
I saw my friend's head shake in I in my pocket, and it couldn't have
aroused. think! I know that I put that box
negation. Argument, presumably fallen out-"
over the price of the trinket, seemed "I picked it from the floor," I re -
to arise. The girl pleaded with her minded him.
lover. Oh, it was all well staged. "It didn't fall there," insisted the
* * * * jeweler.
Then decisively, my crook shook his "Then how did it get there?" Be-
head. He pushed the box across the mended the crook.
table, as though the incident were "I don't know," said Daragon. '"If
closed. Daragon argued a few min- I did, I'd call the police."
Utes, seemed to make concessions "What do you mean?" demanded
which were not accepted, then slowly the crook.
wrapped up the box and tied the "I don't mean anything; I don't
string around it. He placed it in his• have to mean anything, do I But
waistcoat pocket. I wondered how that box didn't walk out of my
they planned to get it away from him, pocket," snarled the jeweler.
to substitute the box which, under- "Are you insinuating—" began the
neath the table, the crook held in his crook.
right hand. Daragon interrupted him. "When
Then I saw. My friend the crook a fifty -thousand -dollar diamond ring
turned in his seat and pointed toward leaves my pocket, I can insinuate all
the door. Daragon looked in that di-
rection.
irection. The girl's hand .shot out;
deftly it flicked from his pocket the
box which he had just placed there.
No one but myself was placed so that
the action could have been seen. I Brook.
waited for the next move, which must "Don't worry about me. You said
be the substitution of the other box. you'd give me forty thousand; you
But although the crook handed the said you'd bring the cash here. I said
girl the other box, Daragon's atten-
tion was not held by the incident near
the door, which was nothing more
than an altercation between two
given me, for the one that lay in
Daragon's pocket.
I nodded farewell to him—to more
than him: to all the past that lay
behind me. And I kissed niy 'hand to
the future. I was nothing within the
law; I would be the greatest living
figure outside the law. I would make
the supercriminal something more
I stared at him. "What do you
mean?" I asked. -
We were at the cloak -room entrance
now. • Daragon jerked a fat thumb
toward the dining -room.
"Don't you think I had that crook's
number It was the girl I wanted.
I guessed their game, and played the
come-on simply to get her where 1
wanted her."
"And where was that?" I asked.
He grinned. "She's stuck on him.
But I figured that if I caught them.
with the goods, she'd forget how stuck
she was on him if I didn't prosecute.
Get me?"
"I do," said I coldly.
'I suppose she dropped it, and you
saw it fall. If you hadn't stepped in,
I damn please.. If you don't like it,
lump it. I was a fool to bring it down
here anyway. My store is the place
for nie to do business."
"Better be careful," warned the
I nodded farewell to him.
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CLUB OF ONE -EYED MEN."
The Wanderer
Love comes back to his vacant dwell-
ing—
The old, old Love that we knew of
• yore!
We see him stand by the open door,
`With his great eyes sad, and his
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—Austin Dobson.
I'd have had them dead to rights Oh,
well, a man can't get everything he
thinks he wants."
A sense of the monstrous injustice
of life came to me. That injustice
could be remedied by money. For in-
stance, that jewel in Daragon's pocket
could be turned into thousands of dol-
lars. Even I, a gentleman, had heard,
in recent month of poverty; rof
"fences," those men who buy the loot
of thieves; I even knew where one or
two of them. resided. The skirts of
poverty brush the feet of criminality.
I was about to die, because I had
neither productivie nor constructive
brains. But perhaps I had the third
kind, a destructive brain. If my fur -
collared friend could make a success
of crime, despite the paucity of imag-
ination which his clumsy scheme for
robbing Daragon had disclosed, what
a tremendous success I could achievel
Honor? Adherence to it led me to
the gutter, was about to lead me to
the river!
Daragon stepped aside to let me
precede him through the restaurant
door, I exercised the only talent that
I had, sleight-of-hand. I substituted
I the second box, which the girl had
re
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I wanted fifty."
"Well, what about it?" demanded
my host of the earlier evening.
"This much about it," cried Dara-
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sore. Well, if I'm wrong, I'll apolo-
gize. Produce forty thousand in cash,
and I'll give you the ring. You'll
prove your good faith, and I'll prove
my regret." He waited a minute. I
thought, considering the vast amount
of cash that the other man had shown
me earlier in the evening, that he
Wright be able to produce forty thou-
sand; But if he could, he evidently
did not choose to do so. "I guess that
will hold you," sneered Daragon.: "If
I didn't hate • scandal, I'd call the
police,"
t * * *
He turned on his heel, gave ane a
grudging nod. of thanks, and walked
out of the restaurant. I stood a mo-
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