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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1924. 25 = while my father and myself had been m when my father called me into his| T felt my palms sting, as though 1|the curb had saved the smeir of pow- | Fucsswork at that, but at the time guess- 8ood enough friends up to this, oUr | e drove back to the Matallurgical |T00m. He had come upon an old | had landed on some sharp sand, but | dered giass from being compiatersy oblit- | work was about’ all any one had to ®,had lain very much apart. He| ;rough gtreets that seethed with ex- | Eastern plece of gold money, which | when I stood up to brush the stuff |erated. 1 took a sample of this, too. and | start from ’I‘ devoted to his banking business, - ‘ he kept as a curiosity I t th s y skl full of Mered the packag vhich 1 fold-| 1In an 8 h k h cited humanity, Newsb ere run- osity In one of the|off I saw that my skin was full of [ numbered the package in which I fold-| In any case, T thought the cofnei- ‘ o Ar Of t e COVenant and 1 was fmmersed in aeronautical [ "ot TR e Lol drawers of his desk. It was not of | little splinters of glass. 1t was no|ecd it | - Gt I gt offending the ear with | t smears of pulverized glass :::eélrlrdh'n;]ur:\::‘:dr::e?n:,‘,fi;".“,',’:',{ unlawful and raucous vells, flourish- | the ordinary disk shape, but was like | consclous alertness that made mMe| Naxt 1 went on down Pine street un- ] outside three of the robbed Wwhen we came together again It had | N newsbllls that smote the eveballs | two little beans stuck together cross- | look down on the cugb. but Just the | i | came to the Dyers' Natione, bt | b3 lently strange to be worth 4 simply been, “Hullo, Jimmy!” and,¥ith their flaming scare lines. One, wize and turned over each other.lordinary hwman foollshness that al-|ihis time, although 1 worked as closely : pursuit of the A Story of Mystery and Adventure il | “Fullo, dad!—pretty much as it we | journal, apparently despairing of ad- |I had seen it before as a shining) ways makes a fellow turn to 100k | ang ug carefully as 1 couid. T found no i went in search e b SBg hat parred o\-fr:m’m" { kn‘ew all | Jectives sufficiently lurid to describe |Plece of particularly pure gold, but|when he has trodden on a banan | reqard tor my search, Remained then | Of the policeman of the tarnished BY VICTOR MacCLURE. right what I thought of kim. What | (N reported enofmity of the raid on (now it was sadly dulled to a color (skin. My interest was caught by a|(he last of the raided bants, the Trad: | loc R oy he thought of me had batn ansther | the banks, had printed a sheet con- | With which I was becoming famillar. | smear of powdered glass &long the |Eanic and 1 waikec round to tans s afraid he would nave gone off Copyright; 1024, by Harpet & Brof story. That he had a good enough | (#INiT& nothing but one large excla- | “You had better keep that, Jimmy,' | Curb and in the gutter—like the re- ! 'iroogiications there, | duty, but my luck held, and 1 came Suore Ll mation mark. Broadway was Babel. |my father said. “I expect you'd like | Sult of breaking an electric bulb, only | ""gignt in the middle of Broad street | upon him practically on the same spot opinion of me to hand me a job of ner policemen were v bigger. SN (Nas ROIIGLE ME ANOUL [y ore joins W Stree Jene - e ‘Iv_hm" the run of his | At every other corner poll to have a sample of the tarnishing.” l‘ e Pt ethme By UL | where it jolns Wall Street 1 | wh I had parted with him earlier ; vou said the very she T g ol ng to move o row at in- he pulverization and distribytion of | iy iy sorink, wders ps. ol 1orning e had - n tar.) |and vou said the very thing nurse with it, put me in such a way |U5InNE t on.the.crowds that | I was glad to have it, and I wrapped | (1o brofr g ioation of | anothr sprinkle of powdered gla ass m ng. He had just been — coul re said when trouble was ‘ i vitably clustered round each fortu- 4 g feet had made ery fai nd was going hom “I've a Dit of a 1 2 W "l‘\unddun'l]r:membor your | that I could only nod acceptance nate with a newspaper, and go dense | !t ‘.'; e of Hssue paper before|still. 1 was suddenly taken with a :L;'k.grflm» mnr‘;fi:g had T walk ith Wits e B Cabwey 16 o : rl t. She “Good boy,” said he. *“Now here's 5 3 he los d ot | Placing it in an empty match box to| notion of what the stuff stood for, s 4 s ] i fetall “with a ph rlin u was the press at the lower end of | PEUTRE 0 R 33, SmBLY match box to the traces left were unmistakable nal Metaliur makes me t me heart I shook my head. My mother dled | another point. During the day you'll | Broadway that it took two mounted | k3°% !t fhom bel ternishing anaiysea | 2nd T swept a few grains of the Pow- | reckoned now that 1 had reasonable 1 st to ye 1w 1 was an infant, and T had [be free to conduct your investiga- | men neerly a quarter of an hour to in the hope that the result would tur. | 2¢7, Lo8ether and wzapped them In|grounds on which to work out m R = f of | tions, but 1 shal] want you to iy me v h R thi tissue paper, placing the tiny packet |5 a created any definite picture drive a path for the car through the | "o TRRC T A0 L e thetic used | tion, and I contented myself with pi and he produced n " to a great extent because my |INto the country every evening. I'm |last hundred paces to the bank door. | .S A0S e to the anesthetic used D et oot Iy o= puaten ban M ling up what T oouid of the powder o 2 e s 1e. e w E » er sel n sp e of . ot 0 S 1. > * v 00k ar a ger e ha his tunle. H v seldom spoke of Mot ek 0% | the telephone buasing. i e oarayl | . Dnce we ware inside T immediately | crux of the whols affair lay in the | Xt ) e et Cave & look around|a finger tip to test it nature. It I IF YOU HAD A prised than 1 w - [pect it was'that he missed hec-too](hs telephone bussing in my ear all | - CRGS FA WOt OIS R CUESARIAT | orux SF (he whols aftals iay in the e, d o the same character as my two sampl K nished to a dull br much. Sha had' besn dead cloxe on [[UERC, X/ keep Hazsldens oveninad | ycn onens telephone, and/sdld iim| was the thing T dstarniined o foilay 3 : By this time 1 had four ideas firmly | NEC 0 years. but T could see, even then in - i S to tune up the Merlin. Wise fellow | up in the best way I could. I had no| ! Walked down Broadway to the|fixed in my head, and could not AS LOMG AS THIS FELLOW AND HAD CHAPTER IT. his presidential room. how much she | l’h:’““‘l,d‘ ](y::dhe((‘e‘rr»"‘an(ziad there | that he is, he had anticipated the or- | other notlon of where to make a|Guaranty Trust and, acting on the|quit of them: that the erooks ha D HA ¢ “alse B still He Jooked a¢ me ¥ | der, and could pi se to have the idea that was simmering In my head.|used an anesthetizing gas; that this | I 50 softened either before or sinc job, vou'll find Milliken a first-class 1 apskolito| the hrayakanpac at nen e e C|roadway round about. T half expected | that the gas, in liquid form, had bee 2 oy A S NG e d slowly. ‘You were |man. e d o crowd in front of the bank was thin R e L i s uarter past 8| “No." h bwly: teuiwa “That's settled then. T take it vou | Hazeldene and arranged for the place | ning before the maneuvers of the | %.q discovered opposite the Nationn | N€/d In Elass containers. and that the AL when I got back he Na 1y a s _ 4 to be kept open for my father and i 4T waiteh s the Acorwiey il A smears of powder outside the three il He broke off and lifted his shoyl- [have something better in your shed tiv: police, an Waite n & doorway | Metallurgical, but was disappeinted. THE 1 it dim et e a myself. In the ordinary way I lived 11 the T - g ! banks were what was left of the co am hour had |ders in a sigh han (the slaiseaplaneiyouiudsd unie YR ¢ Maione to (el hangar. and ;‘1“']' ‘,L" e s A2 osa Broad. | There had been, however. a fairly dense | (4inepy after the release of i WAY | landed with my | “You're right” he said. “Break- | morning?’ FoLkabin ¥ 2 ¢ jo ttiy was able to cross Broad-|crowd all down Broadway that morn- | % hat h Flt 1 i th el “You bet. There's my own Marlin, | Workshops on the beach, only J0Ining | way, and it was when I had reached | {ro" und 1 aas nor reany iy oot MOM | had shattered them DOWN \eipated that by this time there | Three hundred kilometers and more | MY father at Hazeldene when he went | the ‘opposite sidewalk that a SUEK! | poseibiiity that the same sort of smeny | These were a weirdly fanciful lot Tfl N s l l I "E b to come upon another of the smears an hour are nothing to her. T'll have | {here for the week ends. e accident happened to me which was|pod peer in 1 o oo imedr | notions, I admit, but, like th AR e her tuned up for vou right away. 1|been at the cottage on one of these | fd S il JAFPALT 10 TG W TR JTED | hac rampling o many feet hER Rl | those concerned, T was more 5 . -| can get you from the Battery to Ha- | Visits when the news of the robbery | i the development of my theories, Sy ? by the idea of the mysterio g SR T e A e T had pulled him out of bed for our| m4 avold bumping Into a fellow who | Po75¢d 1t that had fallen on the district during i The National Sore Throat Remedy o one P hile we wsalted my | “Bully! said the ola man, and rose | fight this Monday morning: was hurrylng past on the sidewalk 1( By the Subtreasury, at the comner of [ those two dead hours than by the SHOULD QUICKLY RELIEVE IT ¢ | futtier ‘issueq instructions for carry- | With & clgar going strong "Now 1| I was on the point of stepping out | stepped short on the curh. 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