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% [om Browne, “Phil May’ s’ 4 Oo 02 New Mork Types for THE EVENING WORLD NSSGRESTS Isat ISCGSUOSNTeGSTCRTALSGINWRETAEREEIOGTS 2 HobeoorNOEoD: BOOSDED-S $14404-989-4080949494450805.66 94666800008 2589 $29 28-60090685200068-55% A WONDERFUL + (Copyright, 1904, by #ress Publishing Co., New York Wortd.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Cyril Ballard, a+ young New Yorker, led dh © musleale st Paul, Craddoe partment tn Carn ‘Several wente attend. ‘Nis . eee Tabletm also. are found tn his ut the automey reveals no To which td tell me ve reply and tells 9 evi ham, that the Satter may erely as * feuman’ the Bae? nm fakes to-aolve the Ballard mys- man's suspicions at length fall rd, the = murd ans, to sbelleve that @ certain document bearing resol’ 1 Eerie fe nleht door of tip taki “ ate a plent svoures contents of hi pockets a donras An uptown cable car Royce and ihe police give cha: . ———— i wr CHAPTER IX. A Trolley-Car Race. ERE was a dilemma, For the moment The Englishman was comparatively safe. His ruse of capturing the car, finding It devoid of passengers and of securing the motor- man's 00-operation—e co-operation as hearty as it was totally unconsctous— had enabled him to leave his pursuers far in the rear, He half smiled os he Pictured the furfous, profane group— the policemen, the muddy conductor, Royce Ballard and the chance pedes-} trians—tolling ajong on foot in pursult of @ trolley car that was going at the Fate of almost twenty miles an hour. But ‘the danger ahead was none the Jess.grave.. The policemen’ had doubt- Yess telephoned uptown to have the carj * stoppéd. Officers were probably alread? waiting somewhere along the track in front. Then, too, The Englishman's cas was rapidly gaining on.the car in front pf ft, Long before Grace Church could de reached they must perforce slacken } aven supposing that no vehicle ftom; some side street should sooner truct rapid progr “/At Fourtéenth atreet, Police must stop them. Grand street was already paszed, the ear almost grazing the noses of a pair f horses drawing a westbound blue car. Chancing to glance backward toward «fhe; porse-car driver, whose scintillant oobrofanity was still splitting the. night, ‘ere Englisman’s gaze became fixed and furthest, the ed, & northbound trolley car wag _ @astiing Along in their wake. j_ With eyes phenomenally far-sighted Py nature, and whose keenness had been further trained by a lifetime of observa~ Sion.. The Englishman could see in the cy \Mgpted interior of the pursuing car bluecoated policemen. Understood the whole Situation at Hie pursuers had taken’ a leaf Out Of his own book, had seized and tm- prersed into service the first ‘trolley car “hat had followed the one taken by *wthe'Englishman and were ordering the Orman “in the naine of the law" to crowd on all power im the hope of over- hauling their prey. s rhe: (artiobmen was thus menaced Sore aba att. AL Any moment now the elated Bedextrian hajled him at ‘the memear, jet Pakes tne onext car! “ghouted the 7 joanne se ptor ‘with a grim gmile at * dest, and the ohdse oviitihued. DETECTIVE STOR Ye ——— By Albert Payson Terhune ° Distant, but whizzing forward at top ne DOSS SH or, A look at the next fluminated corner sign as it flashed by showed the fugitive he had reached Spring street. ‘The pursuers were still too far distant for the average eye to detect The Engitshman’s figure on the rear plat- form of the car they were chasing. But (probably through some lingering man’s motorman to risk his car's mechanism by @ too-excessive fracture was gradually creeping closer. On whirled the mad race between black and silent walls, rows of dark windows gazing down lke sightless eyes on the sport. The street, which by day- light forms the pulsating, plethoric chief artery of traffic for one of the greatest cities on earth, slept alent, inert, almost deserted at this late hour. he next street's Bleecker, He pulled the bell. Reluctantly the motorman applied the | brakes, The portion of the block where they now were was comparatively dark. As the oneed siackened ‘Phe English- man jerked the bell twice, and as he: id 80 he tossed the borrowed cap to’ the platform, resumed hia own hat and sprang lightly to the ground. ‘The motorman put om speed once more and the conductorless car sped on up Broadway. ‘As the second car rushed on a half minute later a man strolling unsteadily into Broadway from the eastern part of Bleecker street paused in drunken won- der to watch the unusual speed, and in- cidentally to take note or its passen- gers. These consisted of three police- men, one of them covered with mud: n extra conductor, hatless and simt- disfigured, anda well-dressed man Vellous suddenness, ied rapidly up Bleeckur street. wArrived at the Sixth avent w sta- tion he bearded an uptown “L" train, which he left at Twenty-third strent, by § “wonder st ft worth wehilo waiting any longer for ‘The Bnglishman?" re- ‘ked Gresham, yawning and noisily upping the “case of his big watch, tipped us off that this was, te lant “and sald wo might watt here (0, jile “rooms till, be. sat back from olding up oes ke pected he'd be. early 3." ter one shall wi wered ‘Beck- it'll be aay w chime he'll get What fe went for io eins * said Beckwith calm: Wat steet" back that $10 by betting ‘makes you so confident?” ! man may fail once, But that Englishman tsn’t the man (to ge A performance of a failure. Iie'll fo, through Royce Baliard’s clothes t! je'll. néver come back al! “Never come back allye?” echoed -a voice trom the: door. ‘@ Father Aoletul prophecy. old, mad “The Englishinan!"* exclatmed the two * asked Gresham, or Feply Tho IaneLlahmer pulled from vanlous pockets @ watch, a roll eof, bills and a handful of papers, af of which fe iaid on the table, tersoly recounting as he did so the adventures of the “Great a pol, t ba bid reshare, prod w bills and them over Beck- with The lishinan smiled as he ee . is time iecwan Bi hewitt “wh this, tme Ke wan Re had. the faith, eh?” he obi Whe) icech nen Inughed sheepis: 1 eae I might have known better,’” ‘sald, ray in Fay dnt fait ‘errr jes hay 104 your beo! ne ‘ra oa eae agrting Sout the money and je detect! ‘What lus THE FATAL CHORD; reluctance on the part of The English-| jj, of the speed ordinance) the second oar | ‘¢F : : | Successor, Fharchea W774 — —— TrR, SNAKE: CHARMER - A Sitetan ON STA Avenue DORDEPROEOIAEDDIDODDODIDOADPHAODURIGED © 8 P1IGOHODIDOPOSODES DOOD MPEGHOAODDEHDODDD)-FOEFHOI DH < MA) LZ spec . YERESEETEEDOS DPE R SEE EEE EERE ees AM MENTS, | MADISON SQ. GARDEN. Barnum &Bailey |i Greatest Show on Barth. ‘NO FREM TICKERS TO ANY ONE. | LAST TWO WEEKS, | Bxniniting In n of April Halsey Street and Sarat » Avent the Baffling Mystery of the Carnegie Hall Murder. what are you going to do with the cash naked eye, ‘writer about 5 feet 11 inche: and the watch? tall, slender, not over thirty, And here's | ‘L just brought chem along to avett/the' mark of Royce Ballard's pont ‘ed icion from my real object.”" the corner of the sheet. replied ‘1 nglishman, “I'm going to| Beckwith came put them up in a neat lttle package! gianced over The En and send them back to Ballard with, a | Gers nat the careteas, Hote to the effect that T am, the ‘Rentie- /’graphy. man burglar,’ Raffles, whose aatics | *“giurd von Rickerl!” Magnificent beep “eXploited in the papers. of fingw his aaadesiting welt" "T| THE GORGEOUS DELHI DURBAR. Vl tell tim. ie hi: tuabl: " June tor amursment “and that here rhe paige plang! neni thats cigaged ANCILOTT, THE MODERN ARIEL, Pe rene LOOPING THE GAP. VOLO, THE WIZARD VOLITANT, t trae pretty Raffles mys-| and it was at the musicale in his aw the rent te honor at Craddock’s that Cyril/Ballard Ree he In. was eelied went on Beckwith. “You hinw the Aerial Abyna. Teads about it!” chuckled Beckwith, ap-\ temember. he had just gono into the al; : ote Ghd CHECO. the Macvetiour Unt- Tait At the plano. “For an instant they. two | Loot openat Tanger Fo Me we ove alot ryiy Degciauively. Jia nin ahead of him and scated himself | the alcave, the portiere en ee to everything, 23 and 50 centa m entleman bur ered rename. | “Lord hate that orm 0 as sensible to speak 4 sf cutter them off from, the view of the | ard 27th street doors). Reserved seats, oC on ‘Honest shoplifter,” or a ‘black-| rose of the wiete Then Vow Wickert) 2 car and $150 (3h came out alone, Cyril struck one chord | § on the nian, then’ fell back dead. It haired albino,’ Whenever a thief doean't murder his victim or burn down looks bad Rickert‘ testified later that orm he was in the alcove wing chiro- at entleman burglar,’ iL swear when he rea How 1 ponies, 13 and, $1: $2 and ‘$2.60 2 Mt fo OP. ht tor advance No 25. 60 and 75. seats sold tn ats reserved by telephone. Beware of specur ators and bogus tickets. Buy at box office the house or eat one of the children, ho'g, heralded as a ‘gentleman bur Ta Say, let's get at those pape: { r mystery, fr probably’ the chemical formula Polson In the tablets,” hazard- Gi 7, But no, stich formula came to light. Letters, bills, memoranda—these were all the ‘searchers could find. No chem- foal formula, no cipher, po eryptogram oy other incriminating ‘document came it ‘he letters, which Gresham unscru- Rulously procesded to read, had no direct bearing on the murder. “It'y as I feared,” ed ‘The Engli¢h- man at last, leautng back in bis chatr And lighting another cigarette, fellaw took fright yesterday and in chosen some other hiding place for treasure. We're sold!" “This sounds Int’restin’,” sald Gres- ham, looking up from one of the letters was reading, murde RICHARD CARLE i. TENDER-| FOO Mate, wee. 4 & Sat. 80,78, 31. 31230.” NEW AMSTERDAM oo8. Wet und nus how any inee another could have ty nough to write such an incriminatiog tte” as that, “A professional crook wouldn't,” re- plied Beckwith. “It shows how’ little sense, and forethought Von Rickert Matas we and Sat, at 2 Regular Prices > HURTIG & SEAMON’S| tter alone,’* Gresham, “should ‘be snough evideoce | for arresting Von Ricker! for the mur- What is it?” asked The Englishman. | der ‘and Royce Ballard ax accessory, The signature's torn off, | But the | B Listen: interrupted SEXLSEDNA WALLACE HOPPER A AND ae p hed. W. 44 st. EV.8, Mats. Thur. & Sat eS LA) sT MURRAY tt. Henry Vv. ly Stock Co. wed Bt Med He Sieh, PAY | fomething exelting in atore BARI SEA MAJESTIC ae HEARD OL gherimatf lated note Evan f — and and wae scanning {t “3 USELESS LABOR. Gro Re - TURATRE 0 ARLETISS Ba BD wey. Tay through his pocket microscope. “Paper of German make.” he mut-| stra, Gray—Lucy, 1 hope you didn't Fe ER oe ed a ruer Cars lrorget to wash the fish’ thorougiily be ehted or wronged. Highly sensi-| Lucy—Mah lan'! wat fur Ah gwine Pet Shnoemelly. ore anit muscles wash a fish dat’s bin a-ltbin in de Professional, Wait” scannigg @ thum we mark so faint as to be invisible to the | ger. But," out in The Englishman, speak- ing for the first time since the discussion had begun, I've had another lesson -|in the mistakes a man may make in f,| {lis country of yours, I'd have sworn that Von Ricker, gC0uld not commit a ed A sudden stab: Beckwith, not! — all there is, Signature's tore Ne. date at the top?’ said es. M. 3. Evening at 8 Mats. T’ with STO 1s New Musical 50,75.1. Daily Russel Bros. 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