Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1921, Page 36

; Spect the staga was —for any ! eventuality. He had even taken tiie precaution. before _doing _anything Copyright, 1921, by Copyright, 1821, by (Continued from Yester Star.) The lashes lifted, and for a mo- ment_the dark eyes looked steadil into his, and then they were veile again. “I will wait here for you.” she said. i VIL i The Man With the Flashlight. The silence canny, livin: seemed to beat ear drums emed Tike breathi and p hecome some un- thing, It wte, until the! with it. It dis- some mad, seemed to cordant chorus, i emotion vied that hman tier one Wt prevail over all thej fury, and a triumpaant | hty hope, which ev with every it m 1d e eruel ¢ And a mig joy, and a chill. u s though some wil ed. until fi and cold Dave upper hall. is hand, the W the | Henderson crept alons The pocket tashlight one of hi t wild riot in his at remained now Tt drew his into hard, t Was no more tite; but Nicolo ¢ ed tempered by that slim fizure maable nd— of move = below nly an ex- He wae upner flight of and he stopped to listen. emed to b that ¢ down the nothing—onlyy ated and made e gain, ow. There no rea. some one hour. 1sel. to bed hour, Tere re about, 6 who wa remembe band g0 Georze was he remembered t one had come down the stairs behind her and rge. But T hersei tly been unsee whom command; and them; ctionaries ¢ > likely to zo their won i Yoe at all unlikely icw ofihis out- kept no homes It whuld not a_vicious smap. of this sort got him nowhere! would find out soon enough! If T Gieorge were mnot alone, there I still several hours till daylight; he could wait his chance with grim patience. He was concerned witi only one thing=-to square accounts with Dago Georg in a way that would both s s his fury and force the man to disgprge the contents of his His ja one, single. disturbing fac thing went wrong, Te upstairs there. In ever. ws tightemed. There was but . If an A Was s other re- v clse, to get the out of the r any < they meant to steal away from this accursed traphouse af Dazo George. 1t had been simple enough fo dispos of the baggage via the firc es and through the yard. and down the Jane, where the valises had found a temporary hiding place in a shed. whose door. opening on the lan had discovered r. and enough, with Teresa’s help in regain- ing the fire es from the ground, 10 return in the same way: but he had been actuated by more than the jdea of being unimpeded in if a critical situation subse- uently arose—though in this, his ul- terior motitte, he had failed utterly of | success. Teresa had agreed thor- wughly in the wisdom of first remov- ine their belongings; but she had J5E o e ~in i ~& x 1 and Lace Curtains Inspect your door and window drap- Dainty lace curtains and exquisite, ’ Draperies, Portieres eries! heavy portieres are careful hands. 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He lently, noise- nded the stair- step to listen . The sound, with negligible, interrup- ed; and with it now though he could dis- ound of heavy breath- now it seemed. too, though the kness were less s though. while there was cct discernible, the hall- was in a sort of murk, ind as though from somewhere light rays that were either carefully irded or had expended, through 1lmost all their energy were to pierce the darkness. pped now, a few steps far- wn, Dave Henderson leaned the banister—and hung sely. rigialy. like looking upon some annily clever effect that own upon a moving pic- en. The door of Dago s room was wide open, and this he could see a white e of light. the rays thrown away from and in the opposite direction to y flooded the face of v, behind the light were faintly out- ; i g at the safe, the other holding a flashlight and stand- ing over the Kneeling man's shoul- der. And now the nature of the ds that he had not been able to as obvious—it was the click : asp of a bit eating into stee the kneeling man worked at the fs of the safe. For a moment his eves narrowed; half in sudden, angry menace, half in P he hung there gazing on the and then, with all the caution that he knew, his weight thrown gradually on each separate tread to guard against a protesting he went on down stairs. as strange—damnably and most strange! Was one of those f there Dago George? If so. it would account for the presence of a second man—the one Teresa had But, if so.-what was Dago George's game? Was the man going to put up the bluff that he had been robbed, and was th fore wrecking his own safe? That was an old gag! But what pur- poye could it serve Dago\George in the present instance? It wasn't as though he, Dave Henderson, had con- fided the package to Dago George's kceping. and Dago George could take this means of cunningly securing it for himself. 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