The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1916, Page 15

Rte annie The Evenin THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN By ARTHUR B. REEVE ee nee World Daily Magszine. Friday: September 15; 1916 OS Can You Beat It? By Maurice Ketten NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL MIRABEL'S ISLAND before we . rambling along, and Keonedy, with ; long before we were again qnd hasn't heard of the rald comes in GAN | WON 3 gr] found” ourwiven sin” tit incomtre Gue''eye’ om: mim and the other eo a the part of the city where the You should see his face change at 4’) where was the house, [ had no idea garage was located. the sight of my uniform, y never v7 | what we wer running up inat, something which he was working We stopped, and Kennedy beckoned to ask questions.” but ch had been chained over In the ight, was too busy to 0 ask questio ‘oke away from hia . to & hoy @ couple of Docks below the — Kennedy was calling me from the AN YOU mie at lag oh rom Ris) pay mush attention to my futile of + Barage. at Atay EAT IT! | Hoe ae eet od savage mrowi, corte to find & means of escape. ‘Do you want to make a dollar?” ack room, and I excused my If, The ! ‘) jus with @ We aro “He kidnapped me—brought me be asked, jingiing four quartera, man went back to his post at tho A | Kennedy planted @ shot squarely at his disposal, and it was not ‘The boy's never left the fist that held the tempting bait, “Beteher door into the room, C aoe ee ema ke «ball, Sanaa: Ife!" he anawored. While {had been busy fixtng up | jmalition, such ae ringing te bel “Who brought you here? queried Well,” instructed Craig, “take the faked edition of the Star, which we We 4 te sy 2 Agen nedy, sharply. these newspapers. 1 don't want you had so alarmed the owner of the gar- | Reo eee rei ena de: tke aoe tae don't know his name—man at the to sell any of them on the street. age and set things moving rapidl ee ee ee ad cout have sambling place—atter the rald-—tooks 1 But when you come to that garage Kennedy bad also been busy in a ide was terrific, No one could Rave me in a car—from the other place— up there—see it?—1 want you to yeil: +‘Extra, all about the gambling expo- eure. Warrants ou Just go in there. They'll buy, all right. And if you say a word about any one giving you these papers to sell, there'll be a one to chase you and get back this dollar to the Jast cent—get me?” The boy did, and after Kennedy had given him final instructions not to start with the papers for five min- hich ar ‘ ; thing which looked like a telephone iy g Up his hat and coat, he dashed also, that will be too raw, He'll no- which he took from a wardrobe, a © receive floor had been extinguished, as I have J Mies, we. ilped) auleny, arcane: tee Re eee a eee Tet out of the room, past the surprised tice that,” huge arrangement which looked like oe eaiter,”’ aked Craig, walle Chet heecrintoe tas was tomaniitne transmitter, “Only the Back of It Old Tav Sue Per ay front ‘of it. had not unearthed the remains of the Policeman at the door, ané took the “Stop,” answered Kennedy, taking a reflector, @ little thing that looked T am fixing this thing, 1 wish you corner where it had been, Room gleamed curiously under the light as ;, Craig left the car—I had been rid- ing -almoet on the mud guard—in charge of Warrington's man, who wee t ; A binge h 4 waa saying, “and have eurprised us oS " id, e feed OWN car and reach the corner of engine running.’ thing trom @ field gup to @ battering- tinue Iking with O'Connor in & wrenched it open. 2 Eee Pe Sener ati ne aie wig founG.” he wald. “that the feed Jorty-ninth Street when the bis black | We went back, and stood by the ram, ee votce ovidently explaining to Alm "There was surely nothing for us to S2d,lecNed ua in the room on the to and to keep an eye on anything that ‘bappened down the street. . wivoh, we found the other detects: “We must hang onto him!" cried — It neared the toy xy y eral times at the gambling joint, and '. ¥ ae p of a hill, then car, O'Connor, who had come up by finally came off I could see that it pear the bed in the corner, Ease Paneer een can te the ae from hie, wre inrasarwsis Craig, turning to follow. “Did you dipped down over the crest and was train to meet us according to the ar- was some bulky Instrument that “Quick, Walter!” he shouted, fis, at Sn Werrinaten en eae tan a cic. Eorueone® tacts to tiie fee, witty ieading to. it Onee® zlimpse of him * It’s our man, lost ‘on the other side. Kennedy rangement With Craig, was already looked like a huge gun oF | most & “Open that other window. Til ntte wes ante badly overcome, but I've . l . rit the Ko- en, the Jeape ck into our car, ani ‘ol- waiting, and w im was one of mortar. It had a sort of bar at to this man, He's grogay, anyhow. a Wan evidently helping him, one of the from the room in which we now were. Bur ee aay 3 4 t A r Li » any! brought him around. _workimen we had heard when the in- What the purpose of the connection garage, He was as pale as 8 Rhoet. lowed, He turned the bend almost on the most trustworthy and experienced might have been forty inches in Kennedy had dropped down on his ri trument had first introduced us to ‘Listen,” cautioned Craig. “What's that they are saying? Some one has told the boss—he's talkir —that they can go over O'Connor's head and get Se mbling paraphernalia back? ell, I've been there at the raided plage to-day, and {it doesn’t look so. ‘Phe stuff has all been taken down to headquarters. Ah, so that is the @ame that is in the wind? Get it back nd open mewhere else. Here's our boy.” ‘The newaboy had apparently stuck hia head in tho door, for we could i P . and approach the ferry by. going down little country estate, the lights on the car, He was risking nary bullets ound from tt, flat- “Good Hea ni! ‘ instantly if this fellow proved as re- Rear them greot him wi ba growl: dy caught the puagled 100k 1 itferent street ao that there w Fe ieee eat an unpretentious Hotting thet inlght lead to discovery tarda, “Wet try it 1¢ will do NO claimed suddenly, as Bay eee sourceful aa I believed him to be. Bo an Oe ea bling expoauce--Wwar= ~ now,” he laughed. “You po evidence that we were following house mt ihe ede the Tans: ; ie yet. with the sheins pauttied son8 harm if tt does no, ood. Now, are he bent over him, “It's that young Loa Se eee neLa oot i ome, nowy aus i, river got out and walked up to the we coasted slowly down the other we ready, O'Connor?’ fellow Forbes.” ‘ : extra, know as well as I do what sort of MY ai ioue fockeying wa auc- back door, which seemed to be side of the hill into the valley. There were ‘just a minute, cautioned ‘Sure vernes » been really telephoning on @ * came a voice from ‘let's see that pa- he Star? Well, I'll Read that, Some one's In the room which we had used #0 p: snd adm watch the place, by him. CHAPTER Xt. The Speaking Arc. now deserted gambling den, old rounders who has been out of town front door, and Kennedy closed the other direction, He had explored n only the raided gambling den, but the little back yard which ran all the ‘way to an extension on the back of t! house ig the next street, in which Was situated the woman's pool room He had explored the caved-in tunnel enou to make absolutely certain Is euspecions had been correct in the first place, and that it ran to this other joint, from the tunnel or taken any action in the matter yet. Something else appeared to interest him just now, the time in that main room over there he place on Forty-seventy Street in through the back of the wos I had no {dea, “What's that?” I asked, as Ken- nedy produced a package from a loset where he had left it earlier in ad unwrapped it that it was a very powerful micro- phos and a couple of storage cel jo attached it to the wire leading out to the electric light wire, ‘There followed a most amazing series Of groanings and mutterings from Craig, [| could not imagine what he was up to, The whole pro- ceeding seemed so insane that for the 1 was speechless, those gamblers are—super- I did this once people stitions as the deuce, before to-day, This is a good time to do it asain before they persuade lfte!" Threo times he repeated it to make sure that it would carry. Then, grab- steps in front of the house two at @ mi We hardly had time to enter our automobile which we had followed up- town shot by almost before the tr fic man at the crossing could signal a clear road, T guess ho thowset he st tween the newspaper fake and tho speaking are, I think we've got him going. There he is.” It was an exciting ride, for the man ahead was almost reckless, though he seemed to know just when to put on bursts of speed and when to slow down to escape from belag arrested for speeding. We bung on, managing to keep only @ couple of blocks be- hind him, Tt was evident that he wa: making for the ferry uptown acrose the river to New Jersey, and, taking advantage of this knowledge, Ken- nedy was able to drop back a little, ceeded in getting on the boat on the pposite side from the car we were yilowing, and in such a way that we could get off about as soon as he around of the main road, “What are you going to do?” J asked Kennedy quickly. “If we turn in the situation instantly, “Come on, Walter, get out. We'll fake up @ little tire trouble, only I'll keep the rear wheel. Kennedy bent over it, keeping his eye fixed on the other car, now perhaps half a mile up the narrow crossroad, two wheels and let her out as we swept down short hill and the: took the incline, eating up the al tance us though it had been inches instead of nearly a mile. A tew feet from the top of the hill Craig put on the brake. ot us walk up the rest of the way.” he sald, “and sec what is on the other side in the valley.” We did so cautiously. Far down below us we could sce the car we had been trailing making its way along the country road. As we watched It it turned out do up a sort of lane that led to what looked ke @ trim stealthily opened to admit him, "Good!" exclaimed Craig. we are on a hot trail.” “At last At the laboratory Craig loaded the oar with paraphernalia, There were SQ) THAN THE MONEY ; ¥ three coats of @ peculiar texture merely like the mouthpiece of a tele- phone transmitter, and @ large, heavy package which might have been any- it was twilight when we arrived at the nearest railroad station to the little cottage in the valley after an- other run up in the country with the of the department chauffeurs, Cra looked about at the few loungers curl- ously, but there did not seem to be any of them who took any suspicious interest in new arrivals, We four managed to pile into a car built omy for two, and Craig started off. A few minutes later we arrived at the top of the hill from which we had already viewed the mysterious house earlier in the day. It was now quite dark, We had met no one since turn- ing into the crossroad, and could hear no sound except the continuous music of the night insec' We halted, and © Was no moun yet, and we had only the light of the stars to guide us, “We'll stop here,” announced Craig when we had reached @ point on the Craig attached two wires which he d famened to an instrument, cylindri- was & great Ther qui plained Craig. powerful luni ig turned out all 5, O'Connor. Any, - —\ cal, with a broadened end, like a tele- found no one. The light on the thi length, and where the breochlock knees, and had deftl should have been on an ordinary gun of ¢! hemispherical cavity. si was also @ peculiar arrany ment of spriugs and wheels in the dow butt. p “The coats?” he asked, as he took from the wrappings of the package all went?” several rather fragile-looking tui I had laid them down neur us, and handed them over to him. They were te heavy and bad a rough feel. 1 mAVE POT One ox Mi u a = Craig Kennedy, the “Scientific Detective,” wins ASE tg Pee ANOS ) Sec" gerry LAwrer ; R we By LOUIS TRACY @ remarkable duel of wits with a master criminal LAM Tiken « ° a he LPs WON ) sy paral ¢ Why @ beautiful and eultured girl te whose methods are scientific as his own | ue | = tin A? | — on @ sturm-swept island is only the starting point of anew nae. ee Pe a") the bafling mysteries that the ee ee ee ont @ hore #, ene ) iA hero ¢ mtn a Ormores oF rai iiiNe ineraonerm Ne Whe 8 png DADDY “ her, act to solve, Fee ay eye ur vee " ' BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD Cote Hh Gened es porting view we ey . 5 oot 6 eed ee hme 6) one A the fines melee hy the low 6 6 om 6 emnny wee p : A ee ee : ' a ke weak tartans ne, mts Meier Briss NS &. . bs the route Ree fallowed cme dead bedy of 1M) foamy Crees © dinwrmed wider im tanto 4 ‘, aw D0 euviones ond ups overdo ew SoMtwEN & .: Cewe eeomining bet tty, wrng Bow (Ante Ae ' ee ee oy ¢ « . b4 eases mary « tundetutis of » in the totes to ne blocwed roo: them coming. Ponce » ‘S ewtwn sorkes. ita way inte - sets ‘tae busy the oppasite aide = Bi Aeon, “Ot uiee"l? win [DIN T you) —) NO. TAgY APPEALED To Tne Cour inciaed ioe, ‘ranot, Wi 8 Lary We hung on seven A Rag Ger iT? j i OF APPEALS ve @ bark whiuthog Saal mprecstion, oer ee | apd hour $+ — THe: 4 4 crash followed ‘ jae oe an urned into Forty seventh Pm Y Took G short tautlered Kennedy, ee. wet i yt deed (he indie Ca. % The Suresne elevating the angle of the wun @ tien of we ath Fe | Again the gue barked, and another bows was evidently known, for he was id that it had they were out in the stable at immediately adinitted ae #endiO# Anyhow, they must have seen us g9 Kennedy not # He kept on sgl tad ba om ‘othe Tat in, followed us quietly, and around the ¢ rhe to the ride d pool sae Sat custner’ eatinaatanad Wy Vas caught us here. fan wao had bee nad th fuses or by the hand of some one who realiaed that it afforded an ox pt mark to mt at hope one them hit him,” Ob who had ne leetion of that oo you have we v of What next the thing OKA pretty deserted here,” | 4d anticipated thin queatic ked out of both windows, remarked Kennedy to| Already he Was bulioning up hie ‘There was no way to climb i O'Connor's man, who had ) at, = the same, - down, and it was too far to jump, CHAPTER X, BFE accompanied us into the @ O'Connor, You and Jim MAY pypecially in the uncertain darkness ignal from us what to do next The Newspaper Fake, “Yen” he gridned. ‘“Thero'a not WE WON IN DIDN'T You (te LAWYER come oi It was effectuaily braced. ENNEDY had come downs much use in keeping mo here since TE SUPRENE COURT QeT Ir ‘ hy ed ME NOW tie Sens aa St ee talaaly, a ee town in the car whieh they took all the stull down to head ¢ 5 1S BE 0 - Stambling over @ plowed Geld neat ¢o shied the light Again, and placed it Warrington had placed at quarters. Now and then one of the HIS E I$ MORE the clump of wooda, We next encoun. %Y the window tered @ Beld of wheat, then a fone Forbes, now partly recovered, was which we climbed quickly, and his head @tayed in that house and retained his senses. One by one, Kennedy flung open the windows, and we were \forced to stick our heads out every few minutes in order to keep our own breath. From one room to another we pro- ceeded, without finding any one, then we it to the second floor, The odor was worse here, but still wi would help me by undoing that large after room we entered, but atill found package carefully.” While I was thus engaged, he con- that no one, At lust we came to a door was locked, ‘Together we the use to which he wished the large fear in this room, for a bomb had reflector to be put, I was working quickly to undo the plot large package, and as the wrappings saw a figure sprawled on the Qoor penetr had filled it com- ted it, # A rushed in, Kennedy slipped a pair ming handcuffs on the unre- ing wrists of the man, Then ho agmered to my side at the open win- for air, 2 jeavens, this is awful!" he od id sputtered, “I wonder where they ‘Who is this fellow? I asked. don't know yet. I couldn't # A moment later, together we had dragged the unconscious man to the ‘So-called bullet-proof cloth,” ex- window with us, while I fanned him I from it, and at a di “At close range, quite with my hat, and Kennedy was we as of a dagger or knife ting his face with water from @ ance ordl- pitcher of ice on the table, Sure enough, it was the young gam- “Ler me ace first whether bier whom we had seen ct th - that chauffeur has returi eo gam Hoe can bling Joint before it was raided—the n “tWhat does it do?” asked O'Con- run that engine so quietly that 1 My- jong-lont and long-sought Forbes who self can't hi tnitched to the District Attorney, I'll themselves that there is nothing in cowd ket ay Oe . er rT rar ‘ : had disappeared after the raid, and ‘ - pet. That'll muke the chief sore that story which we printed in the could. We managed tc Bare aad CHAPTER XIl. road @ few hundred yards from the y4e disappeared into the darkness from whom no one had yet heard a era partes n'a sina eae peti nen way up in the country, too. Star, That fellow is in there now, and. In the general soran loam et Ae house, toward the road, where he had de- ‘dd, L did not know his story, of flexible material, silvered mica or and Re mare wite it, No, some oneli probably in that room where wo tends the landing, to nogotate toe The Siege of the Bandits, He ran the car carefully off the gpatched the car @ few minutes be- T gurmised that he had been in oe Convio taseron Olt eree ware ae have to take a copy of this paper up Were, and it is possible tat they may hill ont a other sido of the river © the one they call the boss Toad and into a little clearing in « fore Eviden ty the chauffour had with Violet himself and was wore at of this mirror my voice le dirested, 6 to him and tip him off, Fo'll sett ust suppose Without attrac ef clurnp of dark trees, We got out and successful in. bia mission, Varrington for closing the gamblinj A > Tee ae AAI know Ste a murder had been committed in a the man in the other car. His one has led us to tho refuge of jusned stealthily forward through O'Connor was back directly with @ joint where he hoped ultinately. te Uinowe o Variable electtion! restetane Murry up, finish up this car; I'll take room, and you knew it, and heard seemed to be speed, and he had their chief, the scientific the underbrush to the edge of the hasty: “Yes, cll right. He's back~ recoup his Josses, and for winning the ts produced by the pressure ot the it myself.” groanings and mutterings—from no- no suspicion yet that he was betog gunman, at ia Kennedy woods, There, on the slope, just a ing the car around so that he oan favor of the girl whose fortune might diaphragm, Based on. the ar ih ( Kennedy Inughed almost gleefully, where, just in the air, about you, followed, remarked with some satisfaction as little way below us, stood the house run it out on the road \nstantly IN have wetted his debts if he could carbon 18 not so good @ conductor of , The plant has begun to work,” he overhead—what would you do, If you | Tour Afar “nae pa pane ie fas we returned slowly to our car. ‘It is ve either direction, He'll be here in * have had a free fleld to court her electricity under pressure, Here the te “We'll wait here until just were superstitions?” car ahead, leaving behind the cities, . oO" moment.” 1 felt that his pre: 7 Cred We dy to atart. “Three of Before 1 could answer he had re- and passing along the regular road atill early in the day. They suaprcs ring in an undertone, ‘us. | Craig had in the meantime been member of the trang eapiained rang ookin satel aisoneeen t us around our car on the street are sumed, ; Bed through, town TY a s, Sieh eaes no trouble up here, Here they feel helped them bring the packages one roughly sketching on the Dace oan things, Who would have been more mirror on the back ts at too many, He must be getting ready ; POC ALi Pai ay aes i aren fal a rt erat e4 aoe No Sout ey Tp we are after another from the car to the oe ovenre er ON tine av cont A) sett ie bday byw at any apparatus for transformin for a long run.” . “But what has that to do w e to « hack to escape too close still’ hunting for thein fruitlessly in edge of the woods, Craig had slipped dently he we cos! n he? I never had any love yibratic ced he vi Tow much an, ts. there fn this 1? "he groaning, are not rvation, ‘Then we would strike a New York, £ think wo oan leave them the little telephone mouthpiece wi aiatance of 0, house from [the tree for the fellow, who had allowed ln Siereslgr a Br raeed ee tae veut ae tank?" the gruft votce of the boas ¢ here. You haven't been me} o It wan dry ne clouds here for a few hours, We must re- iy pocket and was carryin back of which he stood, anc ‘aulty and hia tempations | manded, “You dummy—not two & in over there to attach ning, Of Gust served to hide us, On we turn to the city and 1 must see O'Con- Larter hy ms that tee nue? with the light of a shaded pocket get the upper hand of Nine yee Lp eer ewer Be ie Mah Thy ons! No, you finish, I'l fill it my- t do you mean?" went, until it was apparent that the nor and then drop into the labora not be Injured in the darkness, I had Mash light felt & sort of pity at frst, but now flected is thus thrown into vibrations H self.” ‘No, he admitted, “Rut did you man was now headed toward Tuxedo. tory! tee peace toati ot a peculiar texture “Ready, then,” he cried, Jumping UP that was changed to a feel.ng of dis- corresponding to those in the di } There was the sound of the draw- ever hear what you could do with a | We now pa the boundary bos He had turned the car around, and over my arm, while O'Connor and his 4nd advancing to the peculiar inatru- yust phragm.” es ae je dine ; * tng of gasoline, a a microphone, & rheo at, and a amall tween, New York and New Torvey, we made our way back {2 the main man struggled along over the ment wateh 1 had Mow (A pER ane meme thoughts were coursing “And then? I asked impatiently. “any extra tires? nt! 3 ransformer coll if you attached them and came to the house octor road, and then southward again. We certain pathway, carrying between Was in his element now rough my head, and Kennedy wa “ 9 new shoe in the place? Give me a properly to a direct-current electric- Mead, where Warrington was conva- stopped for a few minutes to see War- ee naeiieees Stine! F neaeieal Weary houre of watching and Drepa- working hard to’ bring him around, muNatininern ana ls cauane io couple of the best of those old ones. Jighting circuit? No? Well, an ama- lescing. There was no chance to stop rington, the first time since the morn: package, Which must have welghed ration, hore was action at last, and when a mocking voice came from the huge reflector which you saw = a Never mind, here are two over by the teur with a little knowledge of clec- there now, Kennedy scarcely looked, ing after the attempt on bis life. 1 some sixty pounds or so, Craig went at it like a starved man hail: up at the foot of tl huge tree felophone. Say, what the devil ts thts tricity could do it; the thing is easily so intent was he in not missing for was surprised to gee him looking 80 — Kennedy had selected ag the site of at food You, It's Forbes, all right, and which you can just see against the wire back there attached to the tele- constructed, and the result 1s a most An instant the car that was leading well. our operations @ corner of tho grove — Firat he elevated the clums joking much good may it do you to lave dark sky over there, That parabolic ne wire? Well, cut It! That's ated matter.” us in this lone chase, T saw a car — “What's this trouble you spoke of?" where a very large tre inatrument, pointed in the ‘al dis him. 2 4 id Us ee raised itself mirror gathers in the scattered rays, Rrore of that fellow Kennedy's work T qu : standing In front of the house, and he asked Kennedy earnestly. “Why as a landmark, silhouetted in black rection of the housg, Ho had fed The door to our room banged shut, focuace them on the selenium. cell * tapping the telephone, We got rid trie are,” he cont! recognized it, P can't [see her after to-day? What is pxainst a dark sky, We deposited the angle hastily fytired out on the The lock was brokea, but there must which you saw tn the middle of of one thing last night. Thank “isn't aiways just ‘a silent ! Migs Winslow's car” T remarked, it? Is there anything that threaten the stu% as he directed, envelope. Then he took @ cylinder have been two of them out the the reflector, and that causes the Heaven, 7 didn't have any telephone hight, You know that, You've h “Quite evidently that ix the tonic that her? Are they plotting agalust her » Jim," ordered O'Connor, about twelve inches long, and almost hail, for we heard the hoise and cell to vary the amount of electrie Calle to-day.” nea Crate, aw them make noises Under the ri is doing Warrington so much good." "Nothing is going to happen to Vlo- back to the car with hia as much in diameter, a huge thing acraping of fest as they piled up current passing through it from @ snfound iti” muttered Crate, conditions it can be made to speak— “I think this fellow noticed It," an- let,” sald Kennedy finally. “Before man, “l want you to take the car constructed, it seemed, of @ substanca heavy furniture againat the door, battery of storage cells, It is con- a pair of pliers made our second de- the speaking are, as Professor Dud. swered Kennedy, “He seemed to they have even planned anything We and go back on the road until you that was almost dragging it from the next room be: nected with a very good telephone re- tectaphone die with an expiring gasp dell calls {t, In other words, an are slow up a bit as he passed. 1 hope shail bo upon them, They wou't knoW reach the top of the hill.” shell, Into the large hemisph fore we could do anything, Piece ceiver. Every change in the beam of in the middle of @ sentence of pro- jight can be made to act as @ tele- he didn't look hack at us." What has struck then I could not hear the rest of the cavity at the breech of the gun he after pi in between Hight due to the vibrations of mj fanity. phone receiver,” It made no difference if he did. We We left the impatient Warrington, order, but it seemed that he was to shoved It, He took another quick look our door ite wali voice ls caught by that receiving we There was no use now in Femalning He had cut’ out the microphone kept on, around the bend where War. and took up in earnest now the Jong meet some one who had preceded us at the light gleaming from the house We could hear them taunt us a ror, and the result ts that the dia- any longer in the room. Gathering while ho was talking. He switched rington had been held up. We turned, return trip to the city, covering the on foot from the rallway station, in darkness ahead of ua, they worked, and I thought I recog- phragm in the recelver over there up the receiving apparatu: ty f it in again now with tho words: the forward car not a quarter of a distance in almost record time. Al- Craig in the meantime had set to ‘This is what ja known aa the nized at once the voice of the stocky which O'Connor ts holding to his ear quickly carried it down and toned It “Now, get ready, Walter. Just one nile ahead. though it late when he arrived We work putting Into position the huge Mathiot gun," he explained, a» he keeper of the garage, which I had jonds, Only I wish it would work into the waiting car around the cor- m¢ hen wa must hurry around to “We must close up on him," said found O'Connor, and had @ hasty reflector, At first I thought it might brought it into action, “invented by @ heard often before over the detecta- both ways. I would lke to know that ner, Then he sant, Warrington aman that oar of oura and watch the fun.” Kennedy, throwing in the clutch, conference with’ him. He was even be some method of throwing a power- French scientist for the express pur- phone. ‘The other voice, which seemed O'Connor gets me." , eo beng around | ipo erreee One we fan he we talking late the “He mag turn off ut a crossroad any more excited than we were When he ful light on the house, but on closer pose of giving the police a weapon to disguised, [ could not place, It must I looked at the stmplo little instru~ ‘ 8 8 i age — microphone. In a most solemn, se- time now learned how far we had gone in trac- examination I saw that tt could not use against the automobile bandits have been, I thought, of the man ment with awe, 4 Kennedy was to drive the car him- pulchral voice he repeated; "Le ‘i eee rere ecine ia nave Wane puleare, ji Blee a ee a a et the = Still kept on, past the entrance ing out our clues, be a light. ‘The reflector socmed to who entrench themselves in houses whom they referred to as the chio “You'll have to hurry," continued & 9 i el Pg et EA a Eb si ayer Rena ‘ ‘ay oF beware. She to the park, We hung on doggedly. Immediately the police deputy be- have been constructed so that in the and garages, as they have done in t With @ parting volley of profanity, Craig, speaking into it. “Give them Y manen's roan behing, We could fel will be avenged. She will protect | Sure enough, at a crossroad the gan to make arrangements to accom- focus was @ peculiar coll of some- outskirts of the city, and as some an- they stamped down the narrow stairs the signal, Get the car ready. Any- aa sericna O° bie mah Go =e vote ¢ nslow, Beware—a life for a other car slowed up and swung pany us, thing, and to the ends of this coil archists did once in @ house in Lon- to the ground floor, and a few seconds thing, so long as it is action, Use afterward we could hear them out in back of the use, working over the , away from you.” CHAPTER X11. The Man Huat. ERE we were, locked in @ little room on the top floor HE of (he mysterious house, — I threw myself at the door again and —brought here—three daye—t’ been shut up in this room,” murmured luat | remember—woke up here.” “A prisoner?” I asked. | “Yea Craig sald nothing. Either he wi too busy solving our present troubles, or he was, like myself, not impressed by Forbes’s incoherent story, He continued to adjust the little instru- ment which I had seen him draw from his pocket, and now recognised as the handled it, “They have somehow contrived to escape the effect of the bombs,” he r, where the light is. ry e with a young fellow named Forbes, whom we have captured, He's the young fellow that I saw sev- ither doesn't know much or . That doesn't make any difference now, They escaped in a They are leaving by the road, I'll’ see if they have ra@ched it y No, I can't tell. It's too dark, and they have no light on the car; but they must have turned. The: said they were going in the direction “What of it? 5 “But O'Connor doesn't,” replied Craig, in great excitement now. “I knew that we would have to have some way of communicating with him “Well?” L asked, know all that." 1 beam of light.” “Telephoning on a beam of light?” I repeated incredulously. You see, 1 talk into thie your owa judgment.” (To Continued)