The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1904, Page 15

| | } “om Browne, ‘Phil May’s’’ Successor, SKetches le w. wo New York Types for THE EVENING WORLD Waa PL Ba weed cay chee avails thy LO : IEOSEODS G1ODO40599G8E94 25569080507 9446604089 5.0692 SedE0 829 28-629906R 500006089 $ i cA WONDERFUL . : fp DETECTIVE STORY. ‘ Ce eee By Albert Payson Terhune * Copyright, 194, by w#ress Publishing Co., New York Wortd.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Cyril Ballard, killed it) age ‘2 me bana boards Ihe police give c ewe t ERE For the moment was comparatively safe. ‘young. New Yorker, © musteale of Paul Craddock’ Carnegie Hall: venta, attend | his tab! ‘are fow also, Bag- ieee torsolve the Ballard mys: mamay muspictons at length fall murdered — mi anon acca fteolves oo secure Pivae ees ms serves uptown cable car Woyee and ———_ CHAPTER IX. A Trolley-Car. Race. was a mi ‘he Englishman His ruse of capturing the car, finding it devoid of passengers a of securing the mot. man's oo-operstion—e co-oper: Dearty as it was totally unconsclous— had enabled him to leave his pursuers far in the rear, pictured He half smiled os he the furfous, profane group— the policemen, the muddy conductor, Royce Ballard and the chance pedes-; trians—tolling along on foot in pursult ef @ trolley car that was going at the Fate of almost twenty miles an hour. But the danger ahead was none the less .grave. The policemen’ had doubt- Jess telephoned uptown to have the car stoppéd. waiting OMcers were probably alread¥ somewhere along the track in front. Then, too, The Englishman's cas ras rapidly gaining on.the car in front rd ft, Long before Grace Church could pe reached they must perforce slacken eed; aven supposing that no vehicle ‘ftom; some side street should sooner Grand ear almost grazin; obstruct rapid progress. “'At Fourtéenth street, at furthest, the Police must stop them. ‘cet Was already passed, the the noses of a palr or, A look at the next Miuminated corner he had reached Spring street. for the average eye to detect The Englishman's figure on the rear plat- form of the car they were chasing, man’s motorman to risk his car's {5| mechanism by @ too-exceasive fracture ae the speed ordinance) the second car 8 gradually creeping closer. “on ‘whirled the mad race between black and silent walls, rows of dark windows gazing down lke sightless on the sport. The street, which by day- Ught forms the pulsating, plethoric chief artery of trafic for one of the greatest cities on earth, slept silent, Inert, almost deserted at this late hour. “The next street's Bleecker,” though (‘The Englishman nervously, “There's no more time to be wasted. He pulled the bell. Reluctantly the motorman applied the brakes. The portion of the block where they now were was comparatively dark. ‘As the sneed slackened ‘The English- man jerked the bell twice, and es he did so he tossed the borrowed cap to the platform, resumed his own hat and sprang Ughtly to the ground. ‘The motorman put on speed once more and the conductorless car sped on up Broadw: ‘As the second car rushed on a half minute Inter a man strolling unsteadily into Broadway from the Bisecker street paused in der to watch the unusual speed, ai cidentally to take note or its pussen- gers. These consisted of three polic men, one of them covered with mus an extra conductor, hatless and simi. larly disfigured, anda well-dressed the ear trian recovered hie sobriety with ma: vellous suddenness, crossed Broadway and walked rapidly up Bleeckst street. ares at the Sixth avenue sta- tion he board an uptown train, which he left at Twenty-third streyt, “I won der ‘| worth, any longer for ‘The Ey Gresham, ng and noisily snapping the easel "OL his big watch, “When he tipped us off his was the rant and eal ‘43 might watt here By rooms ck from foun pe Bunlara i ‘expected Hy da be whil wai Lishiman 2" re- sign as it flashed by showed the fugitive | @nd The pursuers were still too, far distant | rep) But (probably through some lingering |}! d| reluctance on the part of The English- THE FATAL CHORD; or, the Baffling Mystery of the Chinegis Hall Murder. What are you going to do with the cash "t Suse brought them along to avett Bailar: iclon from my real object,”" led The Englishman, “Lin gol put them up In a neat Little package and send them back to Ballard with a note to the effect that Tam the ‘gentie~ borgiar,’ Raffles, whose antics beep exploited in the papers of late, Lil tell fim. I stole his valuables Just for amusement and that I here- With return them intact. The» papers RU have another pretty Raffles mys- ¢o amu low thi gentleman burglar,’ wear when le man whoever reads about it relat ‘Lord! Tow ‘that It would be as oenalble ‘to, speak f on ‘honest shoplifter,” or a ‘black- haired albino.’ Whenever a thief doesn't murder his victim or burn down the house or eat one of the children, 0" as a ‘gentleman burg- ., Say, let's get at those papers, iw ¥, swiftly, with speed born of long experience, ‘the trio attacked. the Ilttle pile of pa“ers among which, they helleved, lurked the key to the Ballard murder ‘mystery. “Its. probably. the chemical, formula ‘he ver ting) tard was killed! for the poison In the tablets,” hazard- ed Gresham But no stich formula came to light, Letters, bills, ail the ‘searchers could find. No chem- foal formula, no cipher, og gther inériminating "phe letters, whieh Gresham unscru- Rulously proceeded to read, had no direct bearing on, the murder. “It'g as I feared,” sighed The Engligh- man at last, leaning bacic In bts chair and lighting another cigarette, ‘The follow ‘took fright yeuterday and hes chosen some other hiding place for his treasure, We're sold!” “This sounds int'restin’,” said Gres- ham, looking up from one of the letters asked The Englishman. “The signature’s torn off. But the letter means something, Listen: “Dear Mr, Ballard: "Many thanks for the tabl ure they are uxt what T war tain and painiess? Remem! ford ta run the rink of any ‘Tntat waite att Signature's tore focument wilt , chuckled Beckwith, ap- peered Be memoranda—these were] joy © eryptogram | Ri aN there fe, 9 date at the topr” before Cyril Bal- ied Beckwith, man had already sna‘ ated note from Gri hand end wae scanning It through his pocket microscope. “Paper of German maice, “Yea The En the mut! he mut- | iter a, Gor- | of horses drawing a westbound blue car, Chancing to glance backward toward , the; horse-car ¢river, whose scintillant \, Distan: , Casting, + With preets {tepid pressed ‘Btorm: ed, @ northbound By nature, and whose keenness had been (ee. The Englishman could see in the “hat had followed the one taken by “Englishman and were ordering the i splitting the night, it. but whissing forward at top trolley car wag along in their wake. eyes phenomenally far-sighted trained by a lifetime of observa~ interior of the pursuing oar S bluecoated policemen, Understood the whole Situation at Hite yursuers hed taken’a lent Out of his own book, had seized and t Into service the first ‘trolley car an ‘in the name of the law" to crowd on all power in the hope of over- Paging ~ the mement. i ‘Fake> the rnext car!’ shouted tne. pus, por (peeudo-cphductor with a grim smile at Biorewa obfitthued. their prey. Engtiohman was thus menaced Sore and a(t: AL any moment now the » Achelated pedestrian hajled him at Seat, and the chase wwered jeck- he went tor]! time?’ Ad id Beckwith call Fee get ae TAT SP Eng What ‘maces ‘ou so confident?” ‘Any man nay fall once. But that isn't the man ‘to giv aie £0 sore of & fatlures Fret ™i exclaimed the two detec What luck?” asked Gresham For reply Tho Iunelshman pulled from various pockets a watch, a ot Go Puls ecounting fd so the adventures of ae stim, solamoly prod Over: var Be with The Englishman smi reed ie tune semen B ei n "So. thin time, twas Beo wi had vhe faith, eh?” bs paeee Gresham Intighed sheepis might have known bett: he sald. Reckwithr sald you couldn't fail twice. Now lela have a look at yous ing Out the rs. ee Te pam of aritio temperament. Gentle by naa t capable of sudden anger slighted or wronged. Highly sensi- | tive. Abnormally developed muscles in forearm and hand, Pianist, protmbly. fessional. Wi ™ | romething exciting Instore." THe, SNAKE: CHARMER . naked eye, “writer about 5 fest 11 inc tall, slender, not over thirty. And hero's the’ mark of Royce Ballard's fingers on the corner of the sheet. He’ — Beckwith came around the table and ey over The Eng! n'a shoul- ers at the careless, scrawliag chiro- ‘graph: "Stund von Rickert!" ne exclaimed. “I his handwriting wel Rickerl!"’ said Gresham, amazed, “The young plano genius that's engaged. to Miss Durant? “and it was honor at Crad was killed,” went on Heckwith., remember, he Vind just gone into the ale where the piano was, when Cyril n ahead of him and seated himself an instant they two alone in the alcave, the poecene CUtuing: them. off. trom, the view of the Test of the guests, ‘Then Von Rickert came out alone, Cyril struck one chord on the piano, then’ fell back dead. It looks bad. I “But Von Rickert‘ testified later that during the histant he was in the alcove he saw another man standing there the piano,” put a onew art nut looks’ still sweredt Beckwith, “if he really kilieg Cyril Hard it would sidetrack suspiqlon from him if it were thought another an wag there too, I know he always Gisiiked Cyril Ballard—most of ua did for that inatter—and after he ‘shook’ the Pittant girl I hear he made violent ve to Iris Durand. There's a. motive But Von eri's the last man on earth whom kuspect of such an act.” yhat I, can't understand,” observed Gresham, “is how any man who planned to polson another could have been fool enough to write such an incriminating ter as that professional crook wouldnt’ pliea Beckwith. | “It shows how little and forethought Von Ricker! alone,"' interrupted be enough evidence for arresting Von Ricker! for the mur- der and Royce Ballard as accessory. 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