The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 26, 1914, Page 6

Bhabeivire esd By Barone: jan Novelist and Famous Avs Bertha Von Suttner | ‘ cuce Advocate, and in 1005 Winner of the Nedet | sit upon it hay Prt CHAPTER Xill We passed the remainder of the summer the neighborhood of Geneva Bresser's ot persuasion had at last succeeded fn moving us to fly from the In fected country, I at first strove against leaving so quickly the graves of my family, and, as I have sald, | such @ resignation had become wholly ap and held every attempt at to be tee Jess; but, in spt all this, Brresser was certain to conquer when he represented to me that f{ was my maternal duty to carry little Rudolf out of the way of danger as well as I could Frederick had given in his resig nation of the military service, and as a preliminary had received & year's leave till his request should be granted. I had now become rich, very rich. The death ‘of my father, and of my brother and two sisters. had put me tn possession of Grumite and of the whole family property The spring of 1870 found us im Paris. The chateau of Princess Mathilde, St. Gratien, then Cha teau Mouchy, and next in Dr. powers was filled with to death that I thetic fF | $3 H i ¥ i is i & . ny i il si SoG i a Hi ale i | | ; i Hf 5 f tis fi Hf if Hf : f i i i ° E i if i i f : j | Hl i Ht ! iy ' i i i i 7 j i id i i is : I ] Eb HF i tt Ht ; id : i He if a] ij i ai F i i i if | I si garnyes ni t F ig i 3 F (Copyright, 1914, by Harold Mac- Grath.) CHAPTER XIV. Perhaps the most amusing phase of the secret agent's discomfiture Was the fact that neither Jones Ror Florence had the least idea what had happened in the summer house nor that anything had hap- pened. Florence regretted a hun- dred times during the evening that she had not gone out to the sum- mer house. It might really have been her father. Her regret grew 80 deep in her that just before going to hed she confessed to Jones. “You received a letter of that fort and did not show it to me?” said Jones, astonished. “You warned me never to pay any attention to them.” “No; I warned you never to act upon them without first consult- ing me. And we might have made @ capture! My child, always show Mme these things. I will advise you whether to tear them up or not.” “Jones, I believe a little too far,” haughtily. my father.” said Florence, “It might have been Baron | the HE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY O, | exceedingly Rothschil other 8 of our near or now ‘a place, Ferrieres, and amer residenc besides acquaintance, were situat Parts, and arranged twice a week to pay a to one of them, now we visit, to another, It waa, I recollbct, salon of Princess Mathilde I first of “the qv that was soon to come into tation. the that jon” in heard agh after was sitting terrace, kk Who ' I do notr now; only two of the persons present remain in my memory, Taine and Renan The cenversation was very lively one, and I re that ft was Renan o led the talk, sparkling aol wittictame. The he Vie de Jesus to man may be and yet exercise fascination . Now the talk turned upon polt tles. A candidate had been sought for the crown of Spain. A prince of Hohenzoliern was to receive crown. 1 had scarcely been company dejeuner, on the on to the park the people the lect them all a ct fy who with author of an exampl* incredibly an inere} this is our fortress. been impregnable. The police are watching !t; and that prevents a If we tried to leave would be followed; and they play that game well, Now, good- We'll have you out of all night. these days, There will not be any past; that will be lopped off as you'd lop a limb from a tree.” “Please let it be quick. I want to see my father.” Jone’s eyes sparkled. “And you have my word that he wants jo see you. But more I dare not tell you.” “Do you think he would object to Mr. Norton?” she asked, study- ing the rug. “In what capacity?” he coun- | you are going |to crawl from tered, forcing her hand. “Ae—as a husband?’ bravely. Jones in his turn studied the patterns in the rug. “It ts only natural for a father to look high for his daughter's husband. But, after all, an honest man ts worth as much as anything I know of. honest and loyal and “Thank you, Jones. I intend to marry him when the time comes; #0 you may as well prepare father for this eventually. “There {s an old adage—" But she intgrrupted him. “If you ha an adage, Jones, I shouldn't mind hearing it. But I'm fust out of school, where old adages are served from soup to pudding. Good-night.” And Jones went to the rear of the house, chuckling. In the passing it might well be observed that the Hargreave house had a remarkable menage. There was a gardener, a cook and a maté ported to Jones each night before going to bed. They were all three detectives from one of the greatest organizations in America. Finding themselves unable lure Florence from the environs of the Hargreave home, the Black Hundred set some new machinery in motion. They proposed to rid the house of every one in it by a perfectly logical device. But the first step in this new move was going to be extremely delicate and risky. It was no small adventure to enter the Hargreave home; and yet this must be done. So finally “Spider” Beggs was selected for the work. The man could practic ally walk over crockery without causing a sound; he could climb a house by the window ledges; and he coulé hold his breath like those professional tank swimmers Three or four nights after the Paroff fiasco, Jones started the rounds, putting out the lights. He left the one tn the hall till the last, for it was his habit, after having turned off that light, to stand by the door for several minutes, watching. One never could tell, On the other hand, “Spider” Beggs never approached a house till an hour after the lights went out. Persons were likely to move about for some minutes later; they might want something to eat, a drink of water. So he remained hidden behind the summer house till long after midnight. When at last he felt assured that all in the Hargreave house were asleep, he moved out cautiously, Both his future and his pocketbook de- pended upon the success of this venture. It took him ten minutes the summer house the veran and to have de | to ted this approach Jones, had he been watching, would have needed “Never in this wide world, Miss|a searchlight. Beggs hugged the Florence. Still, 1 beg your pardon| lattice work for another ten min for raising my voice. What I do| utes and then drew himself up and und have done is only for your| wriggled to one of the windows own sake. There are two things I| Here was an operation that needed Wish to impress upon your mind|all his art and skill: to lift this before I go. comedy or a terrible tragedy. You have already had a taste of the latter; and each time you escaped because God was good to us. But He is rarely kind to thoughtless people. They have to look out for themselves, I am acting under or- ders; always remember that.” “Forgive me; I acted wrongly. But I'm so weary and tired of this eternal suspicion of everybody and everything. Can't 1 go somewhere, some place where I can have rest?” “If I thought for a single moment it was possible to take you thou- @ands of miles from this spot, it This can be made a| window without sound But he was an old hand and windows with or dinary locks were playthings under his deft touch. He raised the win dow, stepped over the sill into the Mbrary, and crouched down, He did not close the window: house thieves never do, They leave win dows and doors open, because sooner or later they have got to make their eseape that way Presently he stood up, flashed his torch, found the library shelves, and tiptoed toward them, He then selected three or four volumes, opened them at random and laid neat packages of money between ‘would be done this very night, But! the leaves, It was not real money, general assault by the scoundrels. | this doubt and suspicion one of| the bullet which followed anipped and the three of them re-/ to| THE SEATTLE STAR listening, for what could the |tbrone of Spain or he who was te do with these nochalant folka! But then some one sald “A Hohenzollern? France would | not permit that! The words cut me to the heart, | for what did that “not permit imply? | On. July 31, King William quit ted Herlin. and left the following writing . “In going today to the army, to fight along with tt for honor and for the preserra- tion of our noblest posses sions, | leave an amnesty for | all politteal offenders My | people’ know as well as. I that the breach of treaty and | hostile proceedings are not on our side, But as we have | been provoked, we are de termined, like our fathers, | and fm firm reliance on God, | | to brave the battle for the | | or all |here? deliverance of our fatherland.” | cee } Metz fallen! The news re sounded In the city like some | strange and overpowering ory of terror, To me the news of the taking of @ fortress w: @ message which brought rather a relief; for | thought, “Weill, that le decisive.” And | it was only for this. that the | | bloody game might be over, it | So far it has|but only a bank clerk could have; told you that, This done, he moved toward the window again. | “Spider” Beggs gasped, it was so | unexpected; but at the game time almost instinctively he plunged headiong through the window, and & lock of his hair. Ho threw him self off the veranda and scurried across the lawn, sig-aag fashion. But no more bullets followed. Jones turned on the lights and j investigated the room, but he coulé not find anything disturbed, and naturally came to the conclusion | that the Intruder had been inter rupted before he had begun his work. He turned off the lights and sat up the major portion of the night. Nothing more happened. Florence came down, but he sent her back to bed, explaining that some one had attempted to enter the house and he had taken a abot at him. “Spider” Beggs had a letter to write, He was in high feather. Ho had tackled a difficult job and) had come away without a scratch. | But he had the misfortune to write his letter to the secret service of- ficials in a hotel often frequented by Norton. And so Jim, on finish- ing his own letter, blotted ft and| casually glanced at the blotter. A sin, word caught his eye. Being | work-people “Stop!” #ald Jones quietly | wae for this, only thie, that I longed, But no, there was nothing decisive in it-—more remainad. After a t all that is done is to pick yourself up again, and strike out at them twice as hard. The chance of arms may change at any time. Ah yes! The advantage may be now on this side, now on that. It In only woo that Is cortain—death that |e certain to be on both, Bvents followed over hastening me now only military eve thing else was suspend ing else was any more of around us except Prussions. A storm of savage hatred collected Tt had not yet broken out, but one heard tt rum ble. In all official proclartations, in all the street erties, in all pub lle transactions the conclusion was always “mort aux Prussiens.” All these troops, regular and ir regular, these munitions, there pressing to the fort! other {n But Every Noth thought “mort aux each ment fications with thelr tools and bar rows, theses transports for w pons, everything that one # and bears means, In tts every form and tone, in all tte leht nx end bluster. tn all tte flaw and rage, “mort aux Prussiens. Or, in other words, and n in deed it sounds ke a ery of love ;ond warms even the softest hearts, jit means “pour ja patrie,” but in cenence it is the same. | 4% Sedan! “The Emperor Napol eon has given up his sword.” The news overwhelmed us, Now there had really occurred a great an historical catameophe, The French army beaten, {ta leader eheekmated | Then the game was over, won triumphantly by Germany “Over! over!” I shouted bal there were people who have the right to call themselves citizen of the world they might illum inate thelr windows today. If we had temples of Humanity yet, Te Deums would have to be sung in them on this oceasion—the butch ery ts over! Do not rejoice too soon, my darling,” said Frederick In a warn ing tone. This war has now for some time lost the character of a game fought out on the chers board of the battlefield, The wh nation is joining tn th fight. For one army annihilated, ten others will start ont of earth Bur would that be just? It ts caly German toldiers who have for themselves into the coun try—-not the German people—and #0 they ought only to oppose them with French solver How you keep on appealing to |justioe and reason, you unreason 000 “The Millien Del aclutions. fs the most necept ‘The jodace are to be Herold of the acenario, and Miss Mae Tinee of € ‘The Inst two reels, whieh wilt lution of mystery, will be ‘The Star and other newspapers presented at he country which will rom determine which of the many solu- bie. Noth of = iWerary MacGrath, Lieyd Lonergan, author ralenge 10,000 prine the give the pp which have secured rights or as soon after an alert newspaper man, always on the hunt for stortes, he examined | the blotter with care. It was an} easy matter for him to read writ-| ing backward, having fooled away many an hour tn the composing | rooms. The word which had awak-| ened the reportorial sense in him) was “counterfeit.” He held the} blotter toward the mirror and read} enough to #atisfy himeelf that the Biack Hundred had become tive| jonce more. And this was one of the best ideas they had yet con cetved. Hargreave had always been something of a mystery to his neighbors. Where he had lived tn other days was unknown; nelther had any one the remotest idea from what source his riches had -been| jobtained. And nothing was known jof Jones or the daughter, It was a very shrewd method of clearing every one out of the house and leaving it to be examined at lets- ure. And he had fallen upon this thing; he, Norton, all because his tallor had written him « sharp note about his bill and he had been provoked to reply in kind! Coun terfeit money. There was quite a flurry these days over certain {ssues of spurious paper. It was so good that only experts could detect It. There were two plates, one for ten and another for twenty For a while he was pulled between duty and love. Well, it would only add another Interesting chapter to the general story when he pub Mahed {t. He started out to River- dale to acquaint Jones with the dis. covery. “Humph!" said Jones; “not a bad idea this. So that’s what the sneak was doing here last night. I've been wondering and wondering. Let's have a look.” He went through the books and at length came across the three volumes, These held an thousand in excellent counterfett “Mighty good work that. What are you going to do?” asked the re- porter Jones rubbed his chin reflect ively or how long may @ coun terfeiter be sent up?” “Anywhere from ten to twenty years.” “That will serve. My boy, this Black | hole.” time we'll go and take Mr. Hundred right in his cubby | “You know where it Is?” | “Every nook and corner of It | Now you go at once to the chief of | | the local branch of the secret serv- ice and put the matter to him | frankly. 1, Florence, Susan, and the the rest of us must be arrested. ‘The wretches must believe that the house is empty. They'll rove about | fruitlessly and will return to their den to report the success of the leoup. All the while you and T and| | some detectives will be tn hiding upstairs, dictagraph and all that | When the time comes you will fol- }low. This will not reach the heads, | perhaps, but it will demoralize the | organization in such a way as to) make it helpless for several months |to come. There ts a tunnel from) the stables to this house,” “What, & tunnel” Mr. Hargreave had St bullt several years ago. 1 don't know what his idea was; possibly he an tlelpated an event like this and your men will find entrance by this method. It can be done with out exciting the suspicions of the watchers.” “Looks as if my yarn wasn't going to be delayed jong after all Jones, you ought to have been in the secret service yourself,” ad miringly. Jones smiled and shrugged. “I am perfectly satisfied with my lot or would be if the Black Hundred could be wiped out of existence.” “I'll see the secret service people at once. I stand in well with them all.” “And good luck to you. We'll need good luck.” Norton was welcomed cordially by the chief. men trusted him and told him lots of tales that never saw light on the printed page. The reporter went directly to the point of his story, without elaboration, and the chief smiled and handed him the original letter “Norton, I've been after this gang of counterfeltera for months and they are clever beyond words. I've never been able to get anywhere near their presses, And for a mo- ment I thought this note was from a squealer. I've a dozen men scour. ing the country They find the bogus notes, but never the men who pass them. You see, it's new stuff I know what all the old timers are at; but none of them has had a hand fn this issue. Some foretgen era, I take tt, under the leadership} of a man I'd very much like to know. Now, what's your scheme?” Jim outlined it briefly t all depends,” said the chief, “upon the fact that they will be impatient. If they have the ability to walt, we lose, But we can afford to risk the chance, The man who wrote that letter is not a counte: feiter. He's an old yeggman, We haven't heard anything of him lately. We tried to corner him on & postoffice Job, but he slipped by. He may be a stool, Anyhow, I'll draw him in somehow,” “There'll be some excitement.” “We're used to that; you, too. All we've got to do Ss to locate this | man Beggs. There are signs spite in this letter, What's Black Hundred?” “I'm not at iberty to tell just yet. It's a strange game; half political, half blackmail, It's a pretty strong organization. But if they're back of this counterfeiting, there's a fine chance of landing them all.” Here the chief's assistant came “Got Beggs on the wire, Says of this in. You j j he'll conduct you to tie home if you'll promise him immunity for |some other offenses.” | “Tell him he shall have immunity on the word of the chief. But also say that he must come to see me }in person.” | “Al right, sir.” “1 don't believe it would be wise for Beggs to see me here. 1 gave him a good sendoff—Sing Sing five years ago, He may recollect,” | said Norton | “Suit yourself about that. Only, keep {nto communication with me by telephone and I'll tip you off as to when the rald shall take place Lucky you came in. I should have honestly gone there and arrested |{nnocent people, and they would have had a devil of a time explain- ing. It would have taken them at least a week to clear themselves Tho secret service | That would leave the house empty | all that time.” Norton did not reply, but he put the blotter away carefully. There was no getting away from the fact, but the god of luck was with him im you know what's back of it jal? | | “I can’t tell you any more than I have,” said Norton “Then I pass. 1 know you well jenough. If you've made up your |mind not to talk a mgn couldn't | Set anything out of you with a can Jopener. And that’s why we trust you, my boy. Don't forget the tele phone.” “{ shan't. So long.” That samo night Braine patd the Russian woman a brief visit. “I think that here's where we go forward, The secret service will |raid the house tomorrow and then |for a few days we'll roam about as we bally please. I’m hanged if I |don't have every plank up and all the walls pulled down. More and more I'm convinced that the money is in that house | “Don't be too confident,” warned |should be guarded but not entered after the raid is cold, I'm begin- ning to see traps everywhere.” “Nonsense! Leave it to me, We shan't stick our heads inside the Hargreave house till we are dead certain that it 1s absolutely empty. Olga, you're a gem. I don't think Russia will bother us for awhile. | Bh? Paroff will not dare tell how he was flim-flammed, The least he |can do to save his own skin is to say that we are fully capable of taking care of ourselves.” Olga laughed fo think of his writing a note Iike that! Florence would have recognized—and no doubt did—a palpable attempt to | Olga. “So many times have we been tripped up when everything | seemed in our hands, The home |for a day or two; at least not till| able creature, in 4 madman France is mad with iain and re ; and from the point jof w of tons of country, her pain is pious, her rage justifinble |W hatever desperate thing sho may do new is inspired, not by per sonal self-eeeking, but by — the highest spirit of sacrifice, If on the timo were come when the | powers of virtue, which is the es xential thing that binds men to. wether, were diverted from the work of destreetion and devoted to the work of feltetty! Hu. this unholy war bas again thrown us back a long distance from that goal.” No, no! 1 hope the war is over.” If it we » (and I despair of It) there would be sown the seeds future wars, and it could onl the seed of hatred which ts contained in expulsion of the Germans. Such @ thing as tharhas effect far beyond the present gen ation ptember 4, Another act of violence, an outbreak of passion. rnd, at the same time, a remedy tried for the salvation of the coun try—the emperor is deposed France pre ims herself a repub He Whatever Napoleon Ul. and his army may have done, matters not Mistakes, treachery, cow ardice, all these faults have been committed by individuals, the em play an old game twice” “How does she act toward you? “Cordial as ever; and yet re “Yet what?” “I thought her an ordinary school girl, and yet every once in awhile she makes what you billard players call a professional shot. What mat- ter? So long as they do not shut the door In my face, I ask nothing more. But do you want my opin- fon? I feel it in my bones tha something will go wrong tomorrow.” Good lord, are you losing your ‘The secret service has the warn. ing; they will find the green stuff, and Jones & Co, will mog off to the police station. And theré'll be a | week of red tape before they are tturned loose again. They'll dig }into Hargreave's finances and all |that, We'll have all the security }in the world to find out ff the | money {# in the house or not. Why worry?” “It's only the way I feel. There is something uncanny in the reg- |ularity of that girl's good luck.” “Ah, but we're not after her this it's the whole family.” “The servants, too “Everybody in the house will be under suspicion.” “And you can trust Beggs?” “His lite is in the hollow of my jhand. You can always trust a man |when you hold the rope that’s around his neck.” Stull the frown did not leave Olga’s brow, With all her soul she longed to be out of this tangle. It had all the way looked so easy at the start; yet here they were, weeks later, no further forward than at the beginning, and added to this they had paid much in lives and money. Well, if she would be fool enough to love this man she must abide with the consequences. She wanted him all by herself, out of danger, in a far country. He might tire, but she knew in her heart that she never would. This was her one great passion, and while her mode of living was not as honest as might be, her love was honest enough and unswerving, though !t was not gilded by the pleasant fancies of youth. “Ot what are you thinking?” he asked when he concluded that the pause had been long enough. “You.” H’'m. Complimentary?” just ordinary everyday lo “Ah, Olga, why the deuce must you go and fall in love with a bun- dle of ashes like myself? Ashes jand bitter ashes, too. Sometimes 1 regret. But the regretting only seems to make me all the me savage. What opium and dope are to other men, danger and excite- ment are to me, It is not written that I shall die in bed. I have told you that already There is no other woman—now. And I do love you after a fashion, as a man loves a comrade, Wait till this dancing bout is over and I may talk other- wise, And now I am going to a reception. I am going to hands and hobnob with the elite beautifal world! And while I bow and smirk and crack witticisms, I and the devil will be chuckling In our sleeves, But this I'll tell you, while there's a drop of blood in my veins, a breath in my body, I'll stick to this fight {f only to prove that I'm not a quitter.” | He caught her suddenly in his arms, kissed her, ran lightly to the door, and was gone before she could recover from her astonish ment out a hiteh, Norton and his men gained the house through the tun nel without attracting the least Jattention. The Black Hundred, watching the front and rear of the |house, never dreamed that there Jexisted another mode of entrance, room Half an hour later the head of the secret service, accompanied by his men, together with “Spider” Beggs, who was in high feather over his sucee: arrived, demanded admit tance, and went at the fount of the business at once, “Your name is Jones?” began the chief. The butler nodded, though his face evinced no little vilderment at the appearance of these men, “What is it you wish, sir?” “Tam from the secret service and 1 have it from a pretty good source that there is counterfeit money shake | The affair went smoothly, with-| or that there was a secret cabinet! | ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN STORY, “LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS HUSBAND OF BERTHA VON SUTTNER SHOT TO DEATH IN PARIS AS A SPY ing with ,peror and his generals; but France ;ed them with has not committed them, she ie | this ae th not answerable for St hen the cou was to show that throne was overturned, the leave nvincible in France's history, on which Metz f the previous pages have and Seday we inscribed, were I write th ddering and with simply torn out of the book, From f-compu was not with this time the country itne ould h t 1 could dee carry on the war, at least gh whieh # Germany dared to continue this a © it in order te infamous tnvasion eof loved i Hut how if poleon had con | on t jem ma: quered?” I asked, when Frederick | "In case I dle you, you mm communicated this to me take my task hand and labor f “Oh, then, France wou have | the work of peace,” If thin bindl taken this victory and his glory as injunction ha t been Jaid on n the country’s victory and glory so far prevailed “Ie that Just? to tear open the “Cannot you get out of the habit of my remin of putting that question ; ingly ¥ I had soon to # my hopes, that : bee: to tia the catastrophe of Sedan would put aw a an end to the campaign, vanish. A : 2 ee i: around us seemed as warlike as) yo, , as laden with say r. The air tried 10 half-written, o ing on the flooi age rage and hot lust of ven, writing table~ Rage against the enemy, and alm seized: 106; sar as much against the fallen dynasty. 70%. i or got into wild emi The scandalous talk, the pamphiets ad a hich ured 4 aainat thd ut in my brain, and I which now poured down against the |i tow the pen aside and wi emperor, the empress, and the un-| ior") tears, with ork | the landers, the Insults, the jeste—| og my 1 But as tout |i was disgusting. In this way the the pertioulats of the Maan uncultured masses thought they | cs relating what I felt when could lay the whole burden of the ‘ pened, I must give that gj ts of the country on the shoul ders of one or two persons, and, now | that these persons were down, pelt-| hidden in this house. that, | can put my | place it is hidden.” “That ts impos Jones indignantly, “I'm an old hand, Mr. Jones, put up that bold front.” | Beggs smiled. know that this was a comedy set especially for his benefit? said Jones, not quite so bravely “Come with me,” said the secret | “Beyond that door, sir. The chief, beckoning to his men, entered the library, went directly to a certain shelf, extracted three | Yolumes, and there lay the money in three neat packages. | “Good heavens!” gasped Jones. “I shall have to request you and the family to accompany me to the/ station.” “But tt is all utterly impossible, sir! I know nothing of that money, nor how it got there, It's a plot. I declare on my oath, sir, that I am innocent, that Miss Florence and her companion know nothing about ‘You will have to tell that to the | federal judge, sir. My duty is to take you all the station. It |} would be just well not to say | anything more, sir.” | “Very well; but some one shall amart for this outrage.” | “That remains to be seen,” w: |the terse comment of the secret) service man. He led bis prisoners away direct- to jly. | Norton and his men had to watt far into the night. The Black Hun- dred did not intend to make any mistake this time by a hasty move. Cantaloupes . me At quarter after 10 they descended. | camnoures yov--7171"*" Braine was not with them. This was | Oregon Gravensteins . due to the urgent request of Olga, who atill had her doubts. thing itself is sufficient. By Harold MacGrath More than|By luck Norton found the ind on the very | called to the men to follow, ible, sir,” declared | way and called out to him to der. It stairs collapsed. Real fire b will not do you a bit of good to | and Norton and his comp How was he to|smoke to gain the street. | there was nothing in the “I should like to see that money,” | prove that there had been a | terfeiting however, at least one co ling | nerve?” eried Braine tmpatiently. | service man. “Where's the library?” | ture; in the future the Black ‘dred would have to hold their chambers elsewhere, was a draw. (Corrected daily by J. W. Godwin | New potatoes . | Carrots Corn, per sack, 19 dom . Local radishes .... Caulifiower, per dos. Local celery Parsley Cal tomatoes Local tomatoes | Waterme! | Honey, new, care Money. strained . Valencia oranges Cal. lemons, per crate .. be ea Concord grapes The men | Staines» (Continued Monday) w Beggs at the top of the st He held up his hands desperate battle with flame The fire was put out fh den there. There It was checkmate; or, ratl (To Be Continued.) ane a3 & 3 eooe Bd hd of » : se pa tute Rsaeasas per ib. . rioted about the house, searching | Tokars ... 19 3 nooks and corners, examining floors | Loca! peaches 4 § and walls, opening books, pulling jout drawers, but they found noth- jing. They talked freely, however, and the dictagraph registered every | |word. The printing plant, which | had so long defied discovery, was in| | the cellar of the house occupied by |the Black Hundred. r |his men determined to follow and | Bro\'*y | raid the building. And the reporter | promised himself a good front-page |story without in any way conflict- |ing with his promises to Jones. | Events came to pass as they ex- pected. The trailing was not the| easiest thing. Norton knew about where the building was, but he could not go to it directly. He was quite confident that its entrance was identical with that which had the trap door through which he had | been flung that memorable day | when he had been shanghaied, | When they reached the building he warned the men to hug the wall |of the stairs. The trap yawned, but| ¥ere: Ruth Purrington, Sail |no one was hurt, They scampered| Wash.; Heln Watson, 3652 |up the stairs like a lot of eager| place; Morgan Waltham, Seattle, | boys, broke the door in—to find the f | weird executive chamber dark and| frien, Everett; Gladys empty and an acrid smoke in their| Blaine; Alice Larson, 8! jnostrils. This latter grew stifling] Wash.; Francis Hastings, W! |as they blundered about in the dark.| Wash Hens, over 3 tba Hens, 3 Ibe and under Ducks, old Ducks, young wu | Guinea fowly Norton and | Old pigeons, Wisconsin triplets HONOR MENTIO tion tn this week's Circle Coa Harry Fredericks, Seattle; Paid Poultry. Veal roosters, live .. 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