The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1913, Page 8

_ 2EE EVENING WORLD, DATURDAY, JUNE errs ee) e Saturday i r we used off key an untuneful air from a roofless farce comedy. The next afternoon Ravenel, while polishing = ragged line of a new son- net, reclined by the window overlooking the besieged garden of the unmere ary baron, Buddenly he sat up, spilling two rhymes and a syllable or two. Through the trees one window of the 14 mansion could be seen clearly. In {te window, draped In flowing white, leaned the angel of all his dreams of romance ahd poesy. Young, fresh an a drop of dew, graceful as a spray of clematis, conferring upon the irden hemmed in by the roaring traMo the air of @ princess's bower, beautiful he any flower sung by poet-—thus Ravenel saw her for the first time, She lingered for & while; then disappeared within, 1 ing @ few notes of a birdlike ripple of song to reach hie entranced ears through the rattle of cabs and the snarl- ing of the electric cars. ‘Thus, as if vw ohalienge the poet's flaunt at romance and to pu him for his recreancy to the undying spirit of youth and beauty, this vision had dawned upon him with @ thrilling and accusive power. And eo metabolic was the power that in an inetant the atoms of Ravenel's entire world were redis- tributed. The laden drays that passed the house in which she lived rumbled a deep double bass to the tune of love. The newsboys’ shouts were the notes of wing birds; that garden wae pleacance of was an og! with sword, lance or lute. ‘Thus does romance show herself amid forests of brick and stone when she gets Jost in the olty and there has to be sent neral alarm to find her again. four im the afternoon Ravenel looked out across the garden. In the window of his hopes were set four emall vases, each containing a great, full- dlown rose—red and white. And, as he the four roses in her window for him to see! Hhe must have a sweet, poetic soul. And now to contrive the meet- ing. A whistling and slamming of doors preluded the coming of Sammy Brown, Ravenel smiled again. Even Sammy Brown was shone upon by the fa flung rays of the renainsance. Sammy, with his ultra clothes, his horseshoe pin, his plump face, his trite slang, hie shot pa uncomprehendi miration of Rave- -tiding again in one of the city's nel—the broker's clerk made an excel-!earg," 1 remarked. “i thought the last lent foil to the new, bright unseen visi-| Police Department shake-up had put a ‘or to the poet's sombre apartment. stop to that. Gammy went to his old seat by the rg it Ley iy ated oe Window and looked out over the dusty Sige ohne badd car?’ green foliage in the garden. lewnind wes cn Se Canes oad bag senate ‘Lt wae Inspector—I mean, First Dep- uty O'Connor. I thought he recognised ‘us a9 he whissed along, and 1 guess he did, too. “Ah, congratulations, O'Con- nor! @ haven't had @ chance to tell you how pleased I was to learn you had been appointed first deputy.” “It ought to have been Commissioner, though, added Kennedy. rejoined O'Connor. “Just another new deal— election coming on, Mayor must make & show of getting some reform done, and all that sort of thi gan with the Police here I am, frst di nedy, he added, droppi ‘T've @ little job on my mind that I lke to pull off in about as spectacul @ fashion as I—as you know how. }o0d, conspicuously good, @t the start—understand? Ma;be 1'll be ‘broke’ for it and sent to pounding Pavements of Dismissalvilie, but I don't care, I'll take the chance. On the level, Kennedy, it ig thing, and it ought to be done. Will you help me put it across?” “What is it?” asked Kennedy, with & twinkle in his eye st O'Connor's esti- fe of the security of his tenure of ‘T wae what in coll ‘good through dividing our attention be- Glowing red unset across the nd the string of homewara- bound automobiies on the broad park- y. Suddenly @ huge black i car marked with big letters, “P. D. he exclaimed. I can't etay, 014 man; I've je at 4.30. “Why did you come, then,” Ravenel, with sarcastic jocularity, turned pinker. ‘Fact is, Ravvy," he explained, as to & customer whose margain is exhausted, ‘I didn't know I had it till I cam tell you, old ma in that old house next door that I'm dead gone on. I put 1 straight—w engaged. The old man says ‘Nit'~but that don't go, He kees her pretty close, me @ tip when she's going shopping, and I meet her. It's 4.90 to-day. Maybe I ought to have ex- plained eooner, but I know it's all right with you-#o long.” “How do you get your ‘tip,’ call it?” asked Ravenel, losing a little spontaneity from his emile. | “Roses,” said Sammy briefly. Means four o'clock at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-third.” “But the gerantum?’ persisted Rave- nel, clutching at the end of flying Ro- ws wal office. Four of | O'Connor drew us away from the au- tomobile toward the stone parapet ov- erlooking the railroad and river far be- low, and out of earshot of the depart ment chauffeur, “I want to pull off a successful raid on the Vesper Club,” he whispered earnestly, scanning our faces, ‘Good heavens, man.” I ejaculated, “don't you know that Senator Danfleld {a Interested in"— @ letter into Ken- AVENEL—Ravenel, the trav- enel, quietly. ‘Now, there is a poem— eller, artist and poet, threw |i¢ you will allow me to call it thet—of his magasine to the foot. /my own in this number ef the mage- mn, Droker’s slerk. | sing” by the window, | “Read 1 to me," said Sammy, watoh- Ing @ cloud of pipe smoke he had just blown out the window. * Ravenel was no greater than Achilles, No one is, There is bound dba etaeer| Somevody-or-Other must t us somewhere when she dips us in ae | Something-or-Other that makes us in- vulnerabi He read aloud this verse : with her loveliness an to direct her eyes pensively toward his own window, And then, as though she ihad caught his respectful Sut ardent eegard, she melted away, leaving tne fragrant emblems on the window-sill, Yes, emblems !—he would be unworthy 14} 4f he had nat understood. She had read is poem, “The Four Rosocs: reached her heart, and this was its ro- mantic answer. Of course she must know that Ravenel, the poet, lived there moroes her garden. His picture too ol must have seen in the magazines. The Gelicate, tender, modest, flattering mes- gage could not be ignored, Ravenel noticed beside the roses a emall flower-pot containing a plant. ‘Without shame he brought his opera- siasses and employed them from the cover of his window curtain. A nutmes Geranium! With the true poetic instinct he dragged a book of useless information from his sleeves and tore open the Veaves at "The Language of Flowers.” “Geranium, Nutmeg—I expect a meet- “What is it, Ravvy™ he asked. “See you to-morrow.” critica been hammering your stock OS MEAN. hate sick at your houser" O'Connor ahe @ feminine ‘nan It was such a letter “But I saw @ swell automobile stand- a comes by the thousand to the police ing out in front yesterday.” ie In the course of @ year, chough seldom “Yes,1we own ft. That makes eome- | {fem tedies of the smart eet: body eick at your house now, dosen't] Dear Bir: TI notice in the news- {t?"—Detroit Free Press. fist "bes thie morning that you have ————— Mastonee of Pollce and that you Comm! joner of ico at you WAY TO WORK IT. have been order to suppress “What am I¢o do? My girl wants ae pee in ew 2% aie ane te Ne that once printed Poe and and Whitman and Bret Harte “It is elther give up cugarettes or give up the girl.” “Nonsense, Use diplomacy. Get her Interested in the coupons, my boy."— Courier-Journal. —-—_ LITTLE QUESTION ANSWERBO, Tommy—Pop, what is a diplomat? Tommy's Pop—A diplomat, my som, is & man who remembers a woman's birth- Gay, but forgets her age.—Philadeiphia Record. —_— ANOTHER MRS. MALAPROP. “No, she wouldn't listen to reason, sald Mrs. Twickembury. “She was in moat indicative mood."—Christian Reg. later, The Slit Skirt of To-Day Dates Back 100 Years). aera Ss than to the club. However, I can get i righteous hese in’ thie fret, city, close ups gambling hel! Flin scores of our finest 10 doubt you know or have mates ee ‘or eet pels of the theaan et of sia at at at the ernes, Club, becoming the common iy of our st eet, Tam ‘ommissioner, in not rich, Mr. pite of our social Doaition, but tem juman, as human @ mother in any etation of oh, if there ia ony way, opanat Bilded aocte mall fa ort ¢ Taaipats go anal our foruun Eke of @ Standard Preferred | course”—— yw deal in| “Oh, let's have the rest, old maa,” & ‘poem’ bear that] @nouted Sammy, contritel; 1 President missgi, another ‘story’| mean to cut you off. I'm who spent a week! @ poetry expert, you know. J never saw Gey making ‘fiction’ story that reeks | have termina! facilities at the end of and « certain make of | every verse. Lvl off the you have aa dys Romance never does things by If she comes back to you she ‘rings gifts and her knitting end will ait in your chimney corner i you will Met her, And now Ravene) smiled. The lover lee when he thinks he has won. ‘The woman who | ceases to amile with victory. ruin i 7, a8 worthy ot protecilon ss Aematal ona’ the stn. Sta tig ewan inet Of the Bor oI ferryboate; enother Steen garden and left, whistling in an tleal boss who won the Te least “rom ey eon, Percival, hydraulic fg woul Club, Mu or Congress), and nineteen aby the nee. @regging about hecks, beautifully matched tn fy the ends of four cigars that vest pocket poorly concealed. Light ‘Were his shoes, gray his socks, sky- Ris apparent linen, snowy and and adamantine his collar, which a biack butterfly hed and spread its wings. Gammy'e important—was round and inkish, and in his eyes ut i hears of it—is the famoug steel door, three inches thick, made of armor-piate. It’s no use to try it at all unless we can pass that Goor with Fr joke wer Go it tonight if you say 60,” comet Kennedy quietly. “Are you wFor a ‘answer O'Connor simply grasped ig’s hand, as if to seal the compact. ot right, then,” continued Kennedy, “Send a furniture van, one of closed vane that the storage warehouses use, up ¢o my laboratory any time be- fore 7 o'clock, How many men will you eed in the raid? Twelve? At Kennedy's order I hunted up a man who undertook to introduce ps the Veeper Club that night, T hurried back to our apartment and was in the process transforming myself into a full-fledged boulevardier, when Kennedy arrived in an extremely cheerful frame of mind. window of Ravenel's apartment an old garden full of and shrubbery. The apart- goatee. evening clothes of decidedly Parisian it, clothes which he had used abroad 4 had brought back with him, but had Saale him to wear oe he came met my friend a at the Riviera and Mined sumptuo' Fortunately, he seemed decidedfy impressed with my friend Monsieur Kay—I could do no better on the spur of the moment than take Kenned; initial, which seemed to serve. Later we walked around to the Vesper Club. We did not stop to examine the first floor, which doubtless was innocent enough, Out turned Sui ciy up a fight Of steps. At the foot of t! ad stair- case Kennedy to "es amine some rich carvings, and I felt him nudge me. T turned. It was an inclosed staircase, with walls that looked to be of rel! forced concre| Swung back on bin; concealed like those of a modern burg: lar proof eafe was the famous steel door, ‘The upstairs rom into which enter- ed was absolutely windowless, Tt was @ room hullt within the original room of the old house, Thus the windows over- otr, in reality bore ne Telation to it, For light It depended on @ complete oval of oa as to be iy. ee ae it from the second Moor | th “TR, Evening World's Short Story Page @ SES RUSES AND Romances. |\l #e= Sree =r Door. as | | which stretched al "| room. Bome ten ing clothes were ed watching with Intent faces the spinning wheel. was no money on the table, noth! piles of chips of various denominations. Leaning forward, almost oblivious to the rest, was Percival Delong, @ tall, lithe, handsome young man, whose bo: ish face il] comported with the marks appeared again. A ‘banker staked @ pile of ohips on " to come up w third time A murmur of applause at hi through the circle. De Long hesitate as one who thought, “Seventeen come out twice=the odds against bed coming again are too great, @ though the winnings would be fabute ous, for a good stake.” He placed his next bet on another number. ‘He's playing Lord Rosslyn's sya- tem, to-night,” whispered my friend. ‘The wheel spun, the dall rolled, and the croupier called again, “Seventeen, black.” A tremor of excitement ran through the crowd. It was almost un- precedented. De Long, with a stifled oath, leaned back and epanned the facea about the tabdle. “Ana ‘17 has precisely the same chance of turning up in the next spin if it had not already had a run ot " eald a voice at my elbow, It was Kennedy. The roulette-tadle needs no introduction when curious ae- afoot. All are friends. theory of Sir Hiram Maxim," commented my friend, as he himeelf reluctantly for al ppointment. “But no true gam- it, monsieur, or at turned on Kennedy, ure of polite depreca- the remark of my friend ‘were true, but. nonchalantly placed hin chips on the eh y having appeared ‘three times, ri is just as likely to ap- it is the usual Practice to avold a number that has had ® run, om the theory that some ot! number ts more likely to come up than it i. That would be the case if {t were drawing balis from a bag full of red and Diack balle—the more red ones drawn the smaller ¢he chance of drawing an- other red one. “But if the balls are put back in the bag after being drawn the chances of drawing a red one after three have jt ejaculated Be Long contemptuously. ‘The wheel spun again; the ball rotled. ‘The knot of spectators around the table watched with ‘pated breath. Seventeen won! As Kennedy piled up his winnings superciiiously, without even the appear- one Ss, triumph, @ man Ddehind me for —wateh him.” “There ts no way you can beat the game in the iong ran ff you keep at it,” ed ign nobleman with a system ‘but It I am losing to- " while every one eise is winning.’ are not winning,” persisted Craig. 1 have had « bite to eat T will demonstrate how to lose—by keeping on playing.” He led the way to the cafe. DeLong was too intent on the game to leave, even for refreshments. ‘ou see, he is hopeless,” Kennedy over our light repast. yet of all gambling games roulette offers the player the best odds, far bet- ter than horse cing, for instance. ‘Our method has usually been to outlaw roulette and permit horse racing; 11 other words, suppress the more favorabi and permit the less @avorable. However, ‘re doing better now; we're suppress- ing both. Of course what I say applies ony to roulette when it is honestly played—Di ‘would lose anyhow, I fear. 1 started at Kennedy's tone and whispered hastily: “What do you mean? you think the wheel ie crooked?” ‘I haven't a doubt of it,” he replied im an undertone. “That run of ‘17” might happen—yes. But it is improbabie. They let me w... Deeause 1 was a new player —new players always win at first. It te Proverbial, but the man who is run- bead thie game has made it leok tke @ platitude. “To satiety myself on that peint 1 am going to play again—until I Rave lost my winnings and am just eq mused nd | with the game. When I'reach the point |} that I am convinced that aome crooked work is going on I am going to try a to stand close to me ao that no one can see what I am doing. Do just as I wil indicate to you." ‘The gambling room was filling up with the first of crowd. Long's tadle wag the centre of attention, owing to the high play. A group of young men of his eet were commiserating with him on his fuck and discussing it with the finished air Of roues of double their ages. He was doggedly following hi Kennedy and I approached. here ta the philosophical stranger again,” Del exclaimed, tehing sight of Kennedy. ‘Perhaps can enlighten on how to win At roulette by playing his own system," Kennedy played and lost, and lost feo then he won, but in the main he Atter one particularly awe dows rt felt his arm on mine, drawi closely to him, I found that Craig hed paused in his play at a moment when Long had staked large sum thet & number be- low would turn up—for five plays the numhers had been between “18” and “38."" Curious to see what Craig was doing, I looked cautiously down us. All eyes were fixed on the wheel. Kennedy was holding an ordinary com- pass in the crooked-up palm of hand. The needle pointed at me, as I happened to be standing north af it. The wheel spun. Suddenly the needle swung around to a point between th north and south poles, quivered a mo-/| ment, and came to rest in thi eh bry! it swung back to the Ne significance of iu. Tt had polited at the jeance of ib It point table—and De Long had There was some electric attachment at work, Genator Danfield had just come in to tee how things were going. He was a sleek, fat man, and it was amasing to wee with what deference his victims treated hii "Mesaw alle Kennedy and f paused on| w. the way out to compare notes. My re- compass ot the loat again, | be! We passed the formidable steel duor and gained the street, jostled by the late-comers who had left the after-thea- tre restaurants for a few moments of Play at the famous club that so long had defied the police. Almost gafly Kennedy swung along toward Broadway. At the corner \+ hesitated, glanced up and down, caugit sight of the furniture van in the middie of the next block. The driver waa tug- ging at the harneas of the horses, ap- parently fixing it. We walked alo and stopped beside it. “Drive around in front of the Vesper Club eaid Kennedy es the driver The van iumbered ahead, and we fol- towed it casually. Around the corner it turned, turned also. My heart was going like a sledge-hammer as the critical moment approached. My head was in-@ whirl, What would thet ga: throng back of those darkened windo: down the street think if they knew what was bet: Prepared for them? On, ike the Trojan horse, the van lumbered. A man went into the Vesper Club, and I saw the negro at the dour eye the oncoming van suspiciously, The door banged shut. The next thing I knew Kennedy had ripped off hie disguise, had flung him- self up behind the van, and had swung the doors open. A dozen men with axes and sledge-hammers swarmed out and up the steps of the club. “Call the reserves, O'Connor!" cried Kennedy. “Watch the roof and the back ard. The driver of the van hastened to wend in the call. ‘The sharp raps of the hammers and » There was a scurry of feet d hear a grating id a terrific jar as the inner steel door shut. ‘A aid! A raid on the Vi outer door was slowly forced, crashed tn, the quick ae of ae pee patrols unded. for them to club that there was going to be a raid, as frequently occu! bed pact * melee behind me, I wreckage with the steel door barred all ith its cold blue Im- those| little experiment, Walter. I want you| P™** I turned in time to » O'Connor hurrying up the steps with a tank studded with bolts like a While ¢wo other men carried a Out of the tanks stout tubes led, with stopcocks and gauges at the top, From op @ case under his arm Kennedy produced a curious arrangement like a huge hook, with @ curved neck and a s! which ran into a sort of cylinder, of mixing chamber, above the nozzle, while parallel to them ran a third separate tube with a second nozzle of its own. Quickly he joined the ends of the tubes! from the tanks to the metal hook, the oxygen tank being joined to two of the tubes of the hook, and the second tank being joined to ot With a match erly, Instantly ieabn, fn intense blinding needi “Now for the oxy-acety! the blowpipe became ‘mcandescent. Minute after ininute sped by, ae line burned by the blowpipe cut t from top to bottom. It seemed hours to me With a quick motion Kennedy turned off the acetylene and oxygen, The last ‘bolt had been severed, A gentle pusn of the hand and he swung the once impregnable door on ite delicately poised hinges as easily as if he had merely said, “Open Sesame.” The rob- ’ cave yawned before u ‘We made a rush up the stairs. Ken- nedy was first, O'Connor next and myself scarcely a step behind, the rest of O'Connor's men at our heels, I think we were all prepared for some sort of gun-piay, for the crooks deaperate characters, I my- pelt was ourprised to eneounter noth- physical fores, which was Tp beak. | Really ft consisted of two metal tubes, with |) In the now disordered richness of the rooms, waving his “John Doe" warrants in one hand and his pistol in, the other, O'Connor shouted: “You're al! under arrest, gentlemen. If you resist further it will go hard with you." Crowded now in one end of the roo in specchless amazement was the late gay party of gamblers, including @ena- tor Danfield timself. Kennedy advanced toward the table with an axe which he had seized from one of our men. A well ed blow shattered the mechanism of the delicate wheel. “De Long,” hi aid, “I'm not going te your old professor at nor like your Hi friend the Frenchman with a a} This is what you have been up againat, my boy, Look" ‘His forefinger indicated an ingentous but now tangled and twisted series of minute wires and electro-magnets in the broken wheel tefore us. Delicate brushes led the current Into the whcel. With an- other blow of his axe Craig disclosed wires running down through the leg of the table to the floor and under the car- pet to buttons operated by the man whe ran the game. “Wh-what does {t mean?" asked De Long blankly. “It means that you had ittle snecet, chance to win at @ straight gami But the wheel ts very pal , even Ww! the odds in favor of the bank, ae yare, This was electrically controlled. Othe other dewic “The: e in the ihlack pocket ith another DUiOR And tad beh This ball ts not really of plat? Platinum ts non-magnetic, It 4 hollow ball, plate Ichever set of ele* tro-magneta Is et ized attracts the ball, and by this aimple method tt in the power of the operator to let the ball dor black, as ho may wish. rr arrangements control the ven, and other combinations from other push button “A apectal arrangement took care of that ‘17 freak. There isn't an honest gambling machine in ¢ whole place—] liight almost say the whole city, ‘The {whole thing is crooked from start to | finiah—the men, the machines, the’— | “That machine could be made to beat me by turning up a run of ‘17 any num. ber of times, or red or black, or odd or oven, over ‘18 or under ‘18," oF any- thing?" “Anything, De Long.” “And [ never had a chance," | he re- peated, meiitatively fingering the wires. y broke me to-night. Danfleld"—De Long turned, looking dazedly about in the crowd for his former friend, then his hand shot into his pocket, and a Uttle orgs handled pistol flashed out ‘Di head. Kennedy must have heen expecting something of the sort, for he selzed the arm of the young man, weakened by dissipation, and turned the platol up- ward as if it had been in the grasp of @ mere child. A blinding flash followed in farthest corner of the room and @ huga> puff of smoke. Before 1 could my wits another followed in the epe posite corner. ‘The room was filled with & & dense smoke, Two men were scuffing at my feet. One was Kennedy. As I dropped down quickly to help him T saw that the other was Danfleld, his face purple with the violence of the struggle, Don't be alarmed, heard O'Connor shout, “the explostons were only the flashlights of the official police photographers, We have now the evidence complete. Gentlemen, you will now fo down quietly to the patrol was: ons below, two by two. If you ‘hat anything to may, say Jt to the M of the Night Cour naeren “Hold his arm: nedy, 1 aie Iter,” panted Ken- With a dexterity that would ne credit to a pic ached into D Pulled ‘out some pape Before the smoke order had been Walt De Long, here are the I O U's against Tear them be—they are not even bene"