The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1912, Page 17

slashed in the heavy brocade portiere. & e ‘ kK | & petter groomed man. je woft-uffing tool of the :master -thiet, ‘THE RUBE AND i CHIEF MUSSING UP Al ea Ad ile} Maser BEING THE Finer euy uP $5; WAS THE FIRST TO wei — iS AND MOwERY RoTH WAPTD “Th GRCKER, A RAUSER Mabe THE THRO sine IH A.ROW WHEN DEVORE PULLED A WONDERFUL RUN “ro THE. FENCE FOR Wis BALOONER HAUSER AMBLED OVER EROM SHORT AMDGRAGRED DEVORES Wan Fou — DOYLE AND SHODG RATS. FOLLOWED our wn pocea or a’ Dovpie on “THAT BOUNCED OVER HAUGERS DOME AND WENT THRoUsH CAKES WAN By Barton W. Currie Based on the Successful Farce of the Same Title (Copyright, 1912, by H. KK, Fly Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, Pravers Gladwin, an eccentric young ne secretly from beypt, wr, York millionaire, in Sadie that She and Sadie call Sie hs friend Whitney Bi: tion for the girl, Helen d not make known his identity 1 away with them the most ‘bas been impersonating i reatead he twusting « man of whom she kuows so little, a angers er, and rere, to avort the tlreatened robbery of his treasures, sends for a fw as Officer 666) responds, Travers borrows Phelan's uniform Wide in a darkened room as they bear some one trying to enter realizes ama her CHAPTER XXVI. on ery ea as fellow put the sharp Gladwin Meets Himself. ink"W this room ‘fist as you TANDING es stiff and tmmov-| late it when able as if he had been turned} +1 don't know, air,” replied Watkins, to stone, Travers Gladwin} with characteris' deference of tone. Deered with one eye through |““Bateato, the Jap, closed the fouse.” he had! “Il'm,"" said the other, laying his cane Say BELTON: CONN oe, jand hat on a table and drawing from the pocket of his Hght overcoat a blue print diagram of the house. Casting his you went away with Mr. S MARCRYRS Stor CHE CrER THE GLAB AG GALER WAS DUSTING WISHOOKS =HE WHIFFED ¢ te ence LOADED - CHER MEYEEs HEFT FIELD T HE EVENING @_WoRLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, at P1%. BECKER AND MURQAY SPRAWLED OK MOWERY'S HOT GROUNDER AND ME Gor @ TRIPLE = SCORING ON KOMETRHEY'S oy euus To al THREE RUNS ALREADY: (H AND* “tWo CoOwN SACOHD-BRCKER Ayrton one “TO HAUSA WHO DIDH'T_ HAVE TO MOVE. TO GRAB ‘ DALE Now IN: SED A mae RO INTO THA, BUMPED MARQUAR: WWE BUNCH VAL Gis “TVA Pak AND GRO cen Second) Ui SaSSNAVANS ROMER SIFT “THROVEH FAIS SHINS: IN MOVIES VIEW OF HAUSER FROM Ress STAND AFTER MARRUARD BASED A HoT ont on HS WIN BOWERY TALLIED OW FRAVANS) OUT SHOWING EXACT Locarno WHERE BROKER ConecTED OALE'S | WOBBLY DwLiVERY Mone OF THE RUBE HOISTING HIS FORM OVER ONLTHAT WAS HEADED FoR ms swin' terly different expression as he swung about and visualized the Rembrande on the wall above where the great empty cheat had stood, There was reverence and quick admir- ation in every feature as he bowed and exclaimed with a long sigh: The other raised his eyebrows to ex- “Rembrandt! Rembrandt! God!—to|preas surprise. Paint like that!” The emotions of this remarkable “Do they really? he drawied. “You amaze me, Officer. I've always sup- young man came and went with the Quickness of his eye. Domed they broke in somehow and used While still in the act of outpouring dark ‘lanterns. rm abit * @aid Gladwin, obstin- his admiration he whipped trom the tail “Not always, ately. of his dress coat a flat fold of a dozen! ‘The big man shrugged his shoulders or more sheets of wrapping paper, shook | contemptuously, puffed his cigar for a them out and laid them on the lid of/moment and sald indulgently: the chest. “Well, I'm sorry, Officer, to deprive With another ewift gesture he pro-|you of the pleasure you’ would evi- duced a knife, sprang the thin gleaming | dently derive in catching @ thief and blade and walked up to the Rembrandt. | making an arrest. with a lent He ratsed the knife to the canvas with | Jaush, u imagine T was?” the ease of a practiced hand, when he isn’t. sure Mr, Gladwin heard @ movement behind him, and} was across the Atlantic I'd imagine turned his head, that yes were Mr. Gladwin himeelf.” Travers Gladwin had step; This was said with such laborious m |Sheltering @creen of portieres canniness that the thief made haste to ped abruptly, discover just how the land lay. ow hatevér shock this sudden appart- Yh, 80 you're sure Mr. Gladwin {s tion of @ uniformed policeman wi the man caught in the act of cuttin: priceles 8 from its frame he man- aged to conceal by taking tight arp of every muscle in his body. His eyes revealed nothing. There was no rush of color to or from his face. His first change@of expresvion was to smile. Dropping the arm that poised the knife, he Jet himself down easily from Uptoe and turned squarely to Gladwin. “Good evening, Officer,” he sald without a tremor, showing his teeth would come to the front door—untock it—walk in and turn up the Nghte?— &@ thief?" “They do sometimes,” said Gladwin, cocking this head to one side with an alr of owlish. wisdom. from the nd stop- Bee be the papers.” earty laugn escaped this time, tly: ‘oliceman, T'll tell you Gladwin (@ not “Then yen are Mr. Gladwin, sorr!” erted the young man eagerly, as If do- Ughted at the discovery, The other leaned back against the table, crossed ono foot over ‘the other gazing into inky darkness he could | the cautious tread of two persons, serises told him that one of the vis: a feat wure-footed man and ether was of lighter build and wary. His deductions ceased Uy ee @ flash of light crossed his eyes about the room, he unfolded the diagram and pointed to it, nodding his head behind him for Watkins to come and lool. easily. For a moment the concealed watcher saw nothing save the incivive ray of light that cut tke a knife thrust | Hitch thro ; i pointed to the panel-like ugh the darkness; then as he fol-| vison a few minutes before had ewale the shaft of light to its source | lowed the very much undress Officer 066, he made out tho silhouette of a man eee whit hirt front, fn evening dress—a white shir “And there's no other way out save square shoulders that branched off into |, . e cloaking shad- thtough the front door or by way of this the nothingness of the cloaking she rk Sebind thesctoriatoate ows and a handsome, sharp profile that Tost itself in the gloom of a silk hat. He also mado out a cane from which flashlight beamed. It was a naw expertence of Travers) “Out that way is the corridor to the kitchen.”’ door © manifest in the wleam of a rev muzzle that suddenly protrudes {Itself | trom the mysterious depths of darkness, ‘The wielder of this smart burglar’s | tmplement did not move as ho gashed the darkness with the ray of light, and to Gladwin ho seemed !nomiInatelyealm, Ha companion was somewhere behind him, groping, and did not come into the until guddenly he found the puYh button in the wal and switched | on the full glare of the electroliers sus- | pended from the cellin | Gladwin saw and recognized, He drew tn a deep breath of surprise. Tt was Watkins, the thieving butter he had discharged in London, is at- tention did not Inger on this familar yes to the great portrait of the| ancestral Gladw! “Ah!"' he exclaimed suddenly and with | patpahle relish, ‘that’s a Stuart! Is that the grea “Yes, sir,” out any of hs companton's enthustasm. “H'm," with the same grim emphast and off came the overcoat to be care. lessly tossed across his hat and eticl His eye fell upon the great antique ¢! by the wall. He lifted the itd to inspect its vold Interior, Glaneing up above it, he mo- tloned to Watkins and sala: “Here, way.” However, but ganpped tadgeto the tig,| Watkins glided to one end of the ‘chast and together they hauled it cloar Breroning ahoittcrs and. erect, const Of the Wall. This done, he addressed dent carriage. Watkins as if he were but a creature to Used as he was to tmmaculate ex. | command: terfors, Travers Gladwin had never seen! “T can’ manage otone in here, but T “ want to be ready to leave by the time He had never! \tiss Burton arrives. You go outside eeen ‘a man with a'quicker eye and more F ih bie capcand kenny & atADO anconsolous grace of movement was no wonder ‘that’ bitter envy gnawed his heart for a little while as| We: there romp again before him the picture | ‘of that bewilderingly pretty girl and her passionate insistence that'ehe would elope with “Travers Gledwin” in spite ‘of any and all obstacles: Phat underneath all these splendn mheathings man had the mean spirit of @ deceiver and @ rovber never en- tered the young man's. head But presently things began to happen with such avalanching rapidity of ac- tion’ that there was not even a second to spare for ‘speculation upon the vast p between their soclal positions. The Mghts had hardly been Ci W. L. DOUGLAS | SHOES a fa the World hee Ba and sells more , $3.00, $3.50and $4.00shoesthan ; any o' er manufacturer in the wor! ? BECAUSE he protects the wearer & ainst high prices and inferior shoes, by stamping his name and¢ ‘price on the bottom and guaran- their value. ECAUSE for style, fit and wear are superior to ordinary | es of shoes. Don’t take a sub- and w lookow kins bowed himself out with his y * and the door ‘The now ‘lone invader returned to his interested survey of the paintings that covered the walls turning easily on his From his diMcult peephole Travers Gladwin could 806 the wharp, stern fea- wures wrinkle with smfles before he Jaurhed lightly and breathed with seem- ing great enjoyment “Ha! The Blue Boy? The smile went out as swiftly ag it had come and wad rv ur dealer cannot wuphily We L. las, Brockton, “Mass., for cata Gent evecyorie Delivery chirses tecpald, gf ace at M. L. ea W803 Third a hMignth Avenue iets Eh “We're in this room now," he sat, | help mo get this out of the| ®t and said musingly: “You found me out, admit it. in as engaging a smile as Travers Glad- win had ever looked upon, Bvenin’!* said Gladwin, shortly, with an admirable affectation of Phelan's brogue, “Do you find something on the bal- cony that interests you?” sald the other aowly, still holding his smile and his azingly confident bearin, "You climbed up there Moonlight, perhaps?" he added, even more softly, gaining reassurance from the wooden expression that Gladwin has, forced upon his features, “No, not the moonlight,” responded the uniformed similitude of Officer 666, “the other light. I seen ‘em go on. This house has been closed for month “Oh, yes, to be sure,” the other shrugged. “You're most alert, OMcer— right on the job, as they say. tulate you.” been watching this house ever officer—I_ must Permit me to thank you again for looking out for my house, {and if you don't mind I'll double this Uttle reward.” Again the roll of bills came out and another $20 sold certificate was gath- ered in'by ‘Officer 660, who grinned as he took” tf “Thank ye, sorr' The gesture with which this second benefaction. was bestowed was a Kee ture of dismissal and the bestower set off on an easy saunter about the room, humming. a tune. Officer 666 Aid not move, and after a moment the other casually remarked: ' “You don't seem to be in hurry to get back to your post, offc I con-| ‘No, sorr— ain't !n no hurry.’ “Have 4 cigar, then,” and one was offered with the same assumption of since Mr. Gladwin went away,” said! good-natured indifference that had ac- | Gladwin slowly, unable to make up his)companted the tender of the bribes. | mind whether to call Phelan or to con-|Giadwin accepted the cigar, took off his tinue the intensely interesting dialogue | eap, dropped it In and returned the cap ‘His visitor decided the situation for | sep—e tn him by coolly lighting a cigar, taking @ few deliberate puffs and turning it o in his fingers to inspect it as if it were the only object worth attention in the room. Gladwin read this elaborate for what it was worth—an effort to de- clde just how best to play his part—and was pleasantly thrilled with the realiza- tion that he himself was so well dix gulsed in the uniform of Officer 668, 6o he clung to his own role and for ael Phelan, ‘m,” said the invader, reflectivety, “That's very good of you, OMoer. Let me affer you this es a slight token of my appreciation, His left hand si!d into his trousers pocket and brought up a roll of bills, His nonchalance was a@ perfect mask as ho stripped off one of the bills and held it out carelessly to Gladwin, ‘On his part, Gladwin's expression was superbly blank as he reached for the bill, pocketed {t and eald with his purr ing brogue: ‘Thank ye, @orrt And might I ask who ye are?” “EH'm, that's ood,” the other, now thoroughly eee of him- elf and utterly confident, Ni who do you suppose, Officer, enjoy the JAMES PYLE & SONS, New York When you pass one of my stores to-day —follow the arrow and come in for a swell straw hat. My straws are the sensation of this summer because of their wonderful ‘quality and classy styles. Stores Real $3.00 Straws to his head, siculled copper in the matter with perlor. Therefore UU pay you well “What is it?" “You look to.me keep a sect “Good! Well, call from a lad; “Oh, T see, #0) another fatuous “No, you don't impresdvely. “Thy. hugely. thief. “oh, “I'm about I'm going y" about that, can I ‘Tho thief was puzzled for a moment, until tt occurred to him that tt would sult his purpose best to have this thiok- than have him go outside and discuss “Oh, officer, could you be spared off your rounds for, say, an hour?® “Why, yes, sorr; I think so,” “Well, I want you to do me @ favor. “That's part o' me trade,” then, I'm expecting. grin, Ml, that's your bust: win was beginning 1 don't understand,” explained the yer are about to be narrtedt" with a slight wince. “Oh, yes, his company rather Interpreted. & more ehrewd eu he said quickly: sore?’ for it." ike a chap who could habltadle. much time, That's the ‘button, Then st and Gladwin forded! seo," said the others! * 18 lady 1s my Mancos,” is, aor.” 0 enjoy the door to the left and help me t (To to be married."" to be married to- nant ed back. “Ll show you later on. timo help mo take the covers off this hten my room.” you can, because T wart it Kept quiet on the lady's account." “Well, I'l help you keep it quiet on the iady’s account! with an emphass that got away from Aim, but was mis “Good!” and out came the roll of Bille again and another yellow boy was sitp- ped into tho greedy palm of Officer 6, “Thank you, sorr. 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