Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 20, 1916, Page 7

THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1916 AUTHOR OF “WHISPERING SMITH,” “THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE,” “STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROADS,” ETC. COPYRIOHT, 1913, BY FRANK H. SPEARMAN. THIRTEENTH INSTALLMENT. Symopsis. L.ittle Helen Holmes, daughter of General Holmes, railroad man, is rescued from imminent danger on a scenic rallroad by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to voung womanhood, Helen saves Siorm, now a fireman, her father, and his friends. Amos Rhinelander, financler, and Robert Seagrue, promoter, from u reatened _collision afebreakers em- v Seagrue steal General Holmes' <urvey plans of the cut off line for tl ridewater, fatally wound the general ani escape. Her father's estate badly 1n voled by his death, Helen goes to work on the Tiaewater. Helen recovers the gurvey plans from Seagrue, and though hey are taken from her, finds an ao- cidentally made proot of the survey blue- print. Storm is employed by Rhinelander. Spike befriended by Helen, in his turn saves her and the right-of-way contracts when Seagrue kidnaps her. Helen and Storm win for Rhinelander Seagru right-of-way. Helen, and Rhinelander rescue Spike grue's men. Spike steals records to Rhinelander, and Storm and n save Spike from death In the rn'ng court house. Veln in Supersti- tion mine pinches out: Beagrue saits it and sells it to Rhinelander. The mine is reated A Fight for a Fortune. (Copyright, 1915, by Frank H. Spearman.) A bright morning sun beat down in winter warmth on the Superstition mine. Near the mouth of the tunnel stood Amos Rhinelander, now sole owner of the prop- erly, giving orders to his foreman. At the loading platform not far away Gegrge Storm was bantering with Helen Holmes. It was the day after her hasardous flight down the aerlal rallway, but she looked as refreshed and charming as if she had never known the meaning of the word trouble. (leorgd Storm, her companion, stalwart wnd young, was disputing with Helen for the possession of a pocket mirror he had filched from her vanity bag when fiinelander approached. I am afraid i am de trop here,” he sald dryly, look- ing from one to the other. Helen's brows arched in felgned amase- ment. “What do you mean?" she asked innocently. He looked with a shade of suspicion at her and at Storm. I feared this might be an intrusion.” He threw the slightest bit of raillery into his words. “You two,” he added, “‘seemed so deeply engaged.!" Helen flushed the least bit. “Why, not at all,” she disclaimed. ‘“We were only aiting for the team to come back from alley.” And you found it easier to wait to- gethe: continued Rhinelander, un- abashed. “However,” he went on, spar- ing the manifest embarrassmen of the “I've somehting to say to They looked at him questioningly. ; “Helen,” think, pretty thoroughly, my title to the Superstition mine. I never expect to get any stronger claim on a plece of property than I now have on this. Unless,” he added, quizzically, “to my lot in the home cemetery after I occupy it perma~ nently. In fact’—his face lighted with a smile—"it looked awhile yesterdsay as it T shouldn't have any real use for that even, I certainly thought, George,” he sald, speaking to Storm, “while we were trapped in the tunnel, the Superstition mine itself would be our last resting place, but while we were relocating that big vein you, Helen, were getting with- out the loss of a minute the help neces- a7y to help us out alive ““That is one reason’” he went on, de- liberately, *“why I have decided over night to convey to you, little girl, with my compliments and best wishes, a cer- tificate for one-third the capital stock of this property. He handed her a paper. “Here it is."" Helen regarded him with astonishment. She took the paper because he had thrust it into her hand—not because she was able to speak or to move from where she stood rooted in surprise. “‘But that is not the only reason I am doing it.”" continued Rhinelander. ‘“Your father, Helen, was my best friend. When T lost him I lost half the backing I ever had in life. But it seems, when I think of the way you have stood by me in all the trouble I've had since his death, that you must have been raised up to take his place. If T gave you the whole mine, it wouldn't be too much for what I owe you over and over again." Helen could only protest that it was not right and that he owed her nothing. To all her appeals, not to dc what he was doing, he turned a dear ear. “No,” he persisted. “I know what you are entitled to. Say no more.” George”—he turned to his assistant— you, too, have stood by me at every turn of the road since I went into this git-off fight. You lost your job with the Tidewater line through sticking to me. I could have got you reinstated—you know that, of course, as well as I do. But there was a little selfishness, I ad- mit, in my not doing so. 1 feit you could be of more aid to me on the front; and my expectations have not in a single in- stance been disappointed. ‘I don't expect to spend all my life in this country. T shall have to leave be. hind me, when I go east, somgone to rep. fesent my interests and to guard them ' The great wealth that has come to me this property has come almost over night. T wasn't suffering for money be- ore I owned it. But I want the man who %, out in this country, for the in- terests of Amos Rhinelander to have a substantial monetary backing outside his are of my affairs. This is why, George, I am presenting to you in this certificate, @ second one-third of the capital stock of the Superstition mine. Now,” he ex- claimed, putting up his hands to shut off the protests and expressions of gratitude voloed by his companions together, ‘I don’t want to hear a word further about this from either of you, All Helen and I will ask from you"—he was speaking to Storm—"is to ses that our @fvidend ecks are mafled to us > A man eame up to Rhinelander with a letter. He opened the note and read: Dear Mr. Rbinelander: Please tell Helen Holmes that Leary, known likewise as Lefty (but whose veal name was Hyde), has confessed he killed her father The warden says that maybe I will be pareled about the 16th EPIKE Her Coach Palled Last Box Car Rhinelander read the note aloud viry | three were silent. Had they possessed | the gift of vision, there might have risen before them at that moment the picture of a great stone quarry In which | many men in a tell-tale gang of convicts were moving about their work; they might have seen a man tamping beneath | an overhanging ledge and a huge rock, breaking unseen above his head, crushing him to the ground; they would have seen his startied companions running in with the guards to pick the injured convict up. And they would have seen the same man lying on a cot in the hospital, a man sitting beside him taking down his con- fession, while the warden direoted a guard to bring the comwict known as Spike into the room; and while the dying criminal spoke on, they would have seen Spike standing at his side as the guard showed him the confession. And lookiug over Spike's shoulder they might have read the words: “1 struck General Holmes in that fight. Spike did mot touch him at all.” Rhinelander handed the letter to Helen. She stood deeply moved. Her two friends respected her silence. She looked up after a time. “I never could be- Heve,” sl sald simply, “that Spike killed my father. Seagrue, in his apartment, was still chagrined over the loss of what he had belleved to be a worthless mine, but which had already became known all over Nevada as the richest gold-bear- ing property on the great Superstition range. He had not yet abandoned his hope of recovering through some clever trick the property that he had parted with for what now seemed a paltry sum, and his mind was set on regaining con- trol of it. He was now studying the bill of sale that signalized his loss of the property. He presently took up & pen and wrote out a dispatch: Amos Rhinelander, Superstition Mine: Quarterly payment Superstition mine due tomorrow. SEAGRUE. He read the message over the second time, and, seeming satisfied, called a servant and bade him dispatch it. Storm and Helen were with Rhine- lander when the telegram was handed to him at the mine. Rhinelander showed it to his companions. “I think I will draw the money from the bank and go to town with it in the morning,” said Rhinelander, studying the substance of the message. “Why not take him a check?' sug- Zested Storm. Rhinelande~ reflected a moment. “That would be all right with any ordinary man. But we're dealing with an ex- traordinary one This contract is drawn very precisely and it calls for the pay- ment of these amounts at specified per- fods. Time Is, In fact, the essence of this contract, and if T go down there with a check, Seagrue might refuse it on a technicality. A check would not be a lexal tender of the sum stiptulated, George, and I cannot afford to take any chances with Beagrue. Especlally, since we find the mine is worth milllons in- stead of hundreds of thousands. Helen intervened: ‘Let me go with you,"” she exclaimed, “and I can start Spike for the mine when he leaves the jall. I should hate to see him get mixed up with any more crooks when he gets out.” Rhinelander assented, and writing out an answer to Beagrue's message, read it to Storm before he gave it to a messen- ger: “Earl Seague, Albemarle Apartments, Oceanside: Wil make payment on time. | In on the morning passenger. “RHINELANDER."” Seagrue received the prompt answer without much elation He continued thoughtful, and as Adams, his servant, | leaving, called him back, asked for his hat and coat, and, accompanied hy‘ the man, left the apartment Directing his steps up the street, Sca- grue made his way to a quarter of the town less noted for Iits attractiveness | than for its reputation as a haunt of | | men of doubtful characte Having | reached the vicinity he desired—a shabby and deserted side street—he Jooked about to see whether he was observed, and, per- | celving no one, started down an obscure alley. He knocked at the door of a weatherbeaten house standing close to the street. A man opened the door. | Seagrue, followed by Adams, went lhside. “Ward,” said Seagrue, addressing the scowling oocupant of the room, “TI've got |- job for you." The man addressed as Ward, a swar- | thy, beetle-browed adventurer, scrutinized Beagrue silently at the intimation. “I know you're sore” continued Sea- @vee, “st the way the last jJob went,” he added, recalling the incident of the steal- i hia idea to the hardened crook and the promise of ready money and enough of it—whether he succeeded or failed—finally énlisted him. “You and Adams, here''—8eagrue nodded toward his servant—“can handle the thing without any trouble. If you can't do it, you'll be paid anyway. But if there's any possible chance, I want to see you separate Rhinelander from his money for twenty-four hours.” “There's no time to lose,” muttered Ward, picking up a railroad time table. “Are vou ready to go, Adams?’ Adams nodded. Seagrue supplied both plentitully with money and the two left together. Seagrue himself remained in Ward's room toying with a drug to which he had become addicted. When he returned to his apartment he looked at the clock and threw himself on the lounge to await news from his emissaries. Ward and Adams, proceeding to the station, boarded an outgoing passenger to intercept the train from Las Vegas which should bring Rhinelander to Oceanside: Learning from the conductor where the down train would be flagged, they left their own train at a convenient station and buying tickets back boarded the Las Vegas passenger when it stopped. In the observation car Rhinelander, seated with Helen, was watching the landscape through the window when Sea-~ grue’s men coming in pald for seats not far away, In his lap Rhinelander held a emall bag, and from the care with which he retained it, Ward surmised it might con- tain something of especial value. He called Adams' attention to it. It was, in fact, In this handbag that Rhinelander had placed the money with which he was to make his payment to Beagrue. Strap- ping the bag and locking it when he left the bank, Rhinelander had been careful not to let it go out of his hands. Ward, while he sat studying out a scheme to take a chance on the proposi- tion and at least get the bag into his own Possession, presently spoke to Adams: ““The train stops twenty minutes at Clin- ton Junction,” he muttered to his com- panion. “We can get hold of a bag there somethink like Rhinelander’ No further words were needed to con- vey his meaning. The moment the train pulled into Clifton, Ward and Adams hurried off uptown to a leather goods store. Breaking precipitately in on the proprietor, they pulled and hauled his stock about with small sense of respon- sibility. Evidently they wanted a bag, but they seemed to the shopkeeper hard to suit. It was only after much search- Ing and many hard words that Ward's eye lighted on something such he as was looking for. When he saw the right kind of a bag, he grabbed it in such haste that he was about to leave the store when the proprietor reminded him he had overlooked the little detall of paying for his purchase. Throwing a bill back at the man—twice the price of the article taken—Ward, followed by Adams, ran back to the station and boarded the ob- servation car just as the train started The diner had been put on and luncheon called. Rhinelander, taking Helen, started for the dining car closely watched by Ward. No sooner had the two seated themselves at table than Beagrue's men following took seats directly behind them. Rhinelander placed the handbag at his feet. Ward made no move until Rhine- lander became occupled closely with the bill of fare. While he was trying to tempt Helen with the various delicacies offered, Ward .put his foot carefully out, slid Rhinelander's bag away with his toe and, unol ©ed by the hurrying walters or the diners, pushed the dummy leather bag into its place The knaves then coolly ordered their | luncheon, ate ft—somewhat hurriedly and left the dining car ahead of their vic tim. However, they did not venture back again Into the observation car, but taking seats In a coach with the bag hidden on the seat between them, they became ab sorbed in two newspapers When slackening speed warned Ward and Adams that the train was nearing Oceanside, they were in no hurry to start out | their movements and Helen and Rhine lander loft the station and took & taxicab uptown before noticing the change of bags that had been played on them. | And just at this juncture blind chance | itself took a hand in the little game. Two city detectives in plain clothes had come to meet the train and were refreshing their memories by reading a deseription of two holdup men expected on it. Scan- | ning the faces of the incoming passen Sers for such a pair as would fit their ing of Rhinelander's payroll. “But that wasn't your fault or mine." Ward, without answering regard him askance continued to Seagrue unfolded | search, the detectives noted Ward and | Adams getting slowly out of the coach | While the pair did not quite suit the de- | seription, the officers. on general prin- | elples, cr 1 over to mect them and In fact, they lagged noticeably in | stopped them for examination. curt questions and equally voluble an- swers did not satisfy the plain clothes men, who, after some discussion, insisted that the suspects should accompany them to the station. Ward's mouth fell when he heard the order. Uselessly tried to convince the detectives that he and his friend knew absolutely nothing of the holdup in question. To, the station they were compelled to go and there were held in cells untll the sergeant could send out & man to bring in the victim of the holdup for their further identifica- tian. . % To complete Ward's chagrin, the prec- fous handbag was checked in under the sergeant’s desk. But a suggestion on the part of the sergeant to search the bag itself met with a flerce objection from Ward, “I tell you, you can't do it,” he exclaimed heatedly. The sergeant was unperturbed. ‘‘Hand over the key,” he demanded. “I've got no key. I tell yoy I'm in the employ of Earl Seagrue, superin- tendent of comstruction of the Colorado & Coast rallway. That bag is his prop- erty. I'm only his messenger. I don't know even the contents of it, but I want to tell you he will hold you re- sponsible if you touch it." The sergeant, considering that nothing was to be lost by waliting, stuck the bag grimly under his desk and ordered the men marched to & ocell On reaching the hotel to which Rhine- lander had taken Helen, she suggested that while he made his payment to Sea- grue, she would go to the safety de- posit vault—Rhinelander himself was president of the Safety Deposit Vault company—and place their securities away before starting for the jail to intercept Spike when he should be released. In parting they agreed to meet again at the hotel. Helen went directly to the vault, which she reached just in time to make her deposit of the stock certificates in Rhine- lander's box; the watchman was clos- ing the cage when she came out to &0 to the penitentiary to meet Spike. It was a long drive, but once there she was not kept long in suspense. In the warden’s office she awaited Splke, who, greatly changed, presently entered the room. She greeted him with the kindly cheer that had won him over from the company of knaves surrounding Sea- grue to her own side of the long-drawn cut-off. She told Bpike A few battle for the just why she had come. Unable to ex- press his foelings in words, he merely | put himself at her @isposal and left the place of detention in her company. Rhinelander had found Seagrue in his Without wasting words, the two rooms. set about the business in hand. Seagrue showed the agreement and Rhinelander, | placing his handbag on the table, opened | 4 to take out the money. Inside he found | an 0da looking package and thought that Helen must have wrapped the currency up differently after she had taken it from him. He unrolled a bunc h of news. IIIIWI‘HI'UH‘I)!"I‘ at the situation—but could find nothing insid them that looked like currency. The money was gone. He turned to the telephone. Spike Helen had reached the rooms at the hotel when Helen heard the ring of the telephc She answered the call Lis tening, dumfounded she did not tell ke what she heard, but with her face some what blanched and Rhinelander's words ringing in her ears, the hung up the re celver. “Get the stock from the safety | deposit box,” he had directed, “and 1 can replace the money." | Tn the interval, Rhinelander was trying to satisfy Seagrue. He told him he would have ample security there for the pay- ment within half an hour. Seagrue only smiled. And while Helen and Spike were hurrylng from the hotel, Rhinelander, worried somewhat by Seagrue's pecullar expression, told him he would give his personal check for the amount Seagrue shook his head. Rhinelander,” he sald slowly, “that won't do. 1 must have legal tender, and have it today, or our contract doesn't go. | Helen. with Bpike as her strange escort the bank to tind it closed “No, Mr reached only 4 will use that as temporary security until | a8 she had feared. The watcniuan, despite her appeals, refused them admittance. But a little obstacle such as that wes not a serious deterrent to Spike. He had defled the law too long to be balked now in the interests of justice and fair play. He had been a malefactor with the law against him; he brushed aside all scruples now in taking the role of a benefactor with the law still against him. The watchman had his way. “If the case s as bad as you say,” Spike mut- tered to Helen, “we've got to do some- thing." Helen shook her head despairingly “It may_mean millions, Spike,” she ex- claimed. What can we do?™ In her dis- tr he clasped her hands. Do, echoed Spike, scornfully. “Go in and open the box and get vour prop- erty—there's nothing else to d “But how?' cried Helen, wide eyed with perplexity, Spike tossed his head. It was wet high above a pair of swinging broad shoulders and whenever Spike shook his head in that way, Helen knew some suggestion was coming. He bent forward and pointed his finger at her to emphasise his words. ‘You put the stock in the box, didn't you?' She nodded a half- frightened assent. “That,” he continued stiffly, “was your -business. Now, you want to get it out, don't you?' She nodded once more. ““That,” he declared with much positiveness, “is my business." A 'moment later, at the side of the bank, Helen, frightened to death followed Spike through an unguarded door. He led the way hastily and stealthily to the vault and Helen, with her key, opened Rhinelander's box. It was while they were thus felonfously abstracting their own property that the watchman saw them. He turned in an alarm. At the police station where It registered, the sergeant called out the men and they started on the jump for the bank. Helen, In the interval, had taken the securities from the box and showed them |to Spike. As they turned to leave, the | watchman, re-enforced by the officers, pounced down on them, Helen, desperai over the situation, upbraided the watch- man. | “I told you, I must get into our box," she exclaimed, angrily. “And you refused to let me, I have taken nothing away, but | what I put in it two hours ago and this man was only here to help me."” A wordy discussion followed. But Helen |and Spike were started for the statiom, | where more development had already taken place. The victim of the holdup, in response to the sergeant's message, had {arrived, and on having the suspects, Ward and Adams, paraded with others before him, was unable to identity Sea- grue's retainers. In fact, he distinctly declared these were not the men that had eaten all his free lunch and robbed him. The chlef, refusing to he satisfied, con- tinued to ask ‘questions. His instinet con- cerning criminals, seemed to tell him that this pair were crooks, and, if not an- swering to one charge, should justly be held to awalt another. While this was going on in the office of the chief, Helen and Bpike were ushered, with the com | pushed Into the group to ask whether he |had made a mistake | “No mistake at all," hedrtily and reassuringly, and to he | | watchman's great rellef. “You did ex actly right. You didn't know these peope. They had no business in there. But th were there not only to get my securities | out of a box, but to get me out of a box!" The watchman stared, “80"'—Rhine- | lander turned to the sergeant In explan- ation—"there's really nobody to blame, sergeant, except that your men and you have a box of cigars coming from some | bedy and it might as well be me as any body else.” The sergeant scratched his head. “This is the queerest mix-up 1 ever struck, he muttered, perplexed. At Rbinelanders suggestion he for the chief. The moment the appeared everything was made right The chief knew Rhinelander well, and | without hesitation ordered the prisoners released. And a8 he returned to hix office, after Rhinelander had thanked him, the latter. with Helen and Spike, | started away Within his (1 knotted problem. He had been try ng In every way to extract some dam- aging admssion from Ward and Adams, bit unable to do so, had reluctantly | dismissed the pair, satistled that it jus- | tice had her due the two would be be- | | \ina the bars Just outside the police station and Rhinelander—8pike listening—were | conferring as to what should be done in | the awkward emergency facing them. How could they now save their prop- erty from Seagrue's cager clutche moved away together slowly, Ward and Adams, having got | handbag from the wsrgeant, walked out | of the station. The two men encoun-| d the halting and perplexed trio, Rhinelander's roving eye fell on the bag as Ward passed him. He crled out and | pointed ard and Adams turned ner- | vously. “'Stop, tnfef!" yelled Rhinelander, | making for them Seagrue's men recognized their victim. Away they dashed. Helen and the two men after them at top speed. Across a city street & block away the hind end of a long freight train was rapidly pull- Ing. Ward and Adams headed for It, and, outdistancing their pursuers, sprang ‘tor and gained the nearest boxcar. It drew away with them as Helen, Rhine- lander and Spike ran up too late. Pulling themselves Into the empty box- car, Ward and Adams were well pleased with their escape. But they were not yet done with their pursuers. Farther down the line, at a Santa Feo crossing, a Tidewater passenger train said Rhinelander went Iatter own room the chief had Helen | | ing to telephone or The nearest Helen began to retrace her steps, think- station was to the north to get momehow in tonch with Rhinelander from there | Hiastening on, ahe he: her name called, and, looking up, was astonished to see Spike waving his hand at her from th bridge just ahead He and Rhinclander, ollowing the train in the machine, had seen her spring from the boxcar She started to run forward to join Sulke. Hut Ward and Adama had come p. Seeing Helen approach, they hid, and when she passed them, they seized and overpowered her and dragged the ba trom her hands Not without stout resistance on her part. Bhe fought the two with blowa ms, and Spike, hearing the com- motion ran to where he could slip over the side of the bridge and drop to the tracke. Shouting loudly as he scrambled to his feet, he ran to where Ward anl Adams were fighting Helen, who had again got her hands on the bag. But when Epike reached the roene the encoun- was short Ward, the more powerful of Seagruc's men, engaged him furiously, and, as a hoxer, would have put kim out, had not Spike cle: A and slammed the big fel- low heavily to the ground. He jumped At Adumu before Ward could come back and the two crooks, seeing the game lost, ook to thelr heels Spike turned to see what damage had been done to Helen. She had the bag safely in hand and they started together to joint Rhinelander. He was waiting for them eager-eyed. Helen waveu the bag before his eyes and Rhinelander, more elated at the victory than at the mers recovery of his money, clasped his nervy | ttle protogee in his arms o a fervor of cengratulation. The bag was now committed to Spike for safekeeping, and Rhinelander headed the car for the city in an effort to reach Beagrue s quarters quickly with the pay- ment. Burning the tires all the way Into town, he pulled up with a jerk before Seagrue's apartment and the three alighting from the car, hastened up 1o | his roomm Seagrue, expecting the return of Ward and Adams with their loot, caught his breath when he faced Rhinelander and his escort at the door. Rhinelander he could account for, Helen, he was not at great loss to account for; but to see the eraning neck, square jaw, straight nose and cold-gray eye of Spike In the twi- light of the hallway was too much for even Seagrue's polse. When they pushed thelr way In upon him, he made hardly any attempt to resist. “I—I wasn't look- ing for you," he stammered. Rhinelander- laughed. “Ne! T under- stand. However, it's all right. A couple of your men, Seagrue, ha¢ this bag in had slowed, and for this Helen, Rhine- lander and Spike made. But the emch ment and speed were telling on Rhine- lander, who was not in the class ani training of his companions. He weak- ened. Splke stopped to help him along. In that brief interval Helen made the side of a coach as the Tidewater pas- senger train picked up speed. Her com- panions could not overtake her, but Rhinclander hastily chartered a automobile and away he went with Sp ke after the two trains, It was a triangular race, but the passenger train, on a paral- lel track, gained rapidly on the freight. Helen had already climbed to the coach roof, and, with both trains running, she watched the gap lessening between the passenger and the freight that bore the two thieves on the adjoining track. As she found her own train rapidly over- hauling the other, she made up her mind what to do. The moment her ooach pulled abreast of the last box car in the long drag she jumped from the top of the coach to the top of the freight car, landed safely, regained her . feet and looked over the side of the train for the men she was after. Within the box car where they had taken refuge, Ward and Adams were try- ing to open Rhinelander's bag. when, to their /consternation, Helen, through the open sidedoor, swung down and in on them from the roof. The thieves jumped to their feet. But be- fore Adams was up, Helen had knocked him over again, and as Ward jumped at her, she managed to shoot out her foot at the handb By a fortunate chance she kicked it cleanly out of the car. Free ing herself from Ward's clutches with an energetic blow, she sprang to th, door herself and jumped after the bag from the fast-moving car to the ground. As soon as she could regain her feet she ran back to search for her hard-won prize. Adams, when Helen pushed him over, had struck his head against an fron bar and he lay on the car fleor unconacious. Ward turned to him the minute Helen Eet out of here before you get pinched Waiting their chance when their train slowed down In passing the next station the two men jumped out of the boxcar. Down the line Ward saw the bridge they plaining watchman, into the booking |;oq passed when Helen sprang from the | room. Helen demanded the use of the | cor ‘That girl can't be very far off telephone and in spite of the serious | o' ng muttered. “She may be hunting charge lodged against her something in | g0’ tne by If we got there quick her bright eyes or her demeanor matisfied | unough. we can get hold of it ourselves.’ the sergeant she was no criminal and he | handed her the phone from his desk. She called Rhinelander up at Seagrue's rooms. When the bell raug, Beagrue told Rhinelander to answer it, and from Helen at the station the latter learned of the plight she and Spike were in No explanation that Helen and Spike could make moved the desk sergeant in | any degree to take the two to separate cells when & commotion was heard in the hallway and Rhbinelander dashed into the room. | In the twidkling of an eye the aspect of everything changed. In Rhinelander, the consclentious watchman recognized the president of his own safe deposit com- pany, He had directed the officers and when the great transporta- tion magnate rushed up to Helen to ex- tend his sympathy and nodded, as an old aequaintance, to Ppike, the humble Helen, running s fast as she could, #scarched the right-of-way keenly. Help was nearer to her than she was aware of. | But she had eyes for nothing beyond her | search and, finally, hardiy a stone's throw from the bridge itself, she saw the bag lying on the gravel hand"—he held up the leather grip for Beagrue's Inspection—"to bring to you.” Rhinelander's oyes were sparkling with the zest of vistory, “They were detained, Seagrue,” he went on, enjoying to the tull the consternation of the breathless rascal before him, “In fact, the two met with a little accident,” He nodded toward Helen as the little accident, herself. “The police are looking for the pair now, explained Rhinelender, jestingly. ‘Fut we thought it only nelghborly to brinz the bag In, ourselves. Hspeclally since you seem to consider that our title to the Superstition mine rests on your receiving the actual cash today for the second pay- mant."" ‘While speaking, Rhinclander had gone to the table, thrown the bag open and was tossing the packages of currency out. “‘There's your money, Seagrue— $25,000, Count it, Seagrue, and give me o receipt." (To Be Continued.) e Uncle Fogy's Philosophy. ; ster is sort of a pl torial nut. ;:: ::nno't reform the vafllv yelling it 'A motion to ldj?’llm can always get an thusiastic second. "Ifimsl lo‘mnm\dc is 'eo'n‘l'm of sour a _swee 3 '"\'i’&.,"," J\'::n has wheels in his head the spokes stick out of his mouth. You have often heard of a mere baga- telle, but did vou ever soon one? Every school boy who is entirely "=|h beu'ov thmetic, A damn has no tangible value, and v many 8 three-cornered old fel his son-in-law is not worth one. 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