The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1916, Page 9

The Evening World Daily Magazine. THE TREASURE VAUL By ARTHUR B, REEVE Belenve Meets Science When Craig Kennedy, Super-Detective, Trails Wizard of Crime World — A Story of Clashing Wits and Cross Purposes. i OAR ORd bis Frved Jemmum of the Hier abe uy eae thee * thee ered, oe . enable rte! diese uk the Righi | Kenmedy Ot od tele Oe Harte that the Hemi CHAPTER xu (Ceotiqwed | The Fali Guy. BENT over to try to eato! be sat Aa nearly as 1 could make @ sounded as If he were a tne over and over to lth an cel diacor dog pallid t SUP—2 come-on—afer alt!” “Who were they agked Kennet) speaking into his ear, The man shook Dts head. as @1@ not Know, and continued, tngt “I was the fall guy—the call wor” At last we heard the clang of the vel of an ambulance dashing down the etreet. The crowd parted as the soung surgeon leaped off the back, yen closed up again, and, ao ts Jways the caso, doudled tn site. He rook his head gravely as the now reely breathing form was lifted @ the ambulance and rushed to the epital, while we followed more varly on foot, & was some houra later that we received word from the operating room that the case was hopeless, that the man might linger for a day or eo, but thar he had scarcely the slightest chance to recover. OCon- ner left a man at the hospital with orders to try to sroure an ante-mor- tem statement, and at last we parted. “E shall eee you the frst thing ta the morning.” were Craig's parting words. “1 had no idea that events would take euch a tura But if we can get an ente-mortem statement it be all right ta the end as it Is.” “The eveata of the evening had rather shaken me, Dut I could not fhe ap See marine tow tin aay ives ae you suppose barpened to L asked. “Poor fellow!” Cue turned on me sudtenty, I Seenante my tone had deen rather re- for T had been thinking that he Mee te cacoaty teok the thing In every matter-of-fact way. “Poor fellow?” he repeated. “Have you eo soon forgotten the evidence of the serum test, the needle, acd the ‘eetere™ I qatd nothing. It was true—i had. We bad now reached the door of our apartment. Our faithful Pinker- tem with the scciety aspirations was waiting for us impatiently. * “Good evening, sir,” said Keanedy, What's the latest news among the + Your Hundred t™ “News enough.” be repied. “Have you Beard that Miss Ciyde Hamiltoa is to be married very quietly and privately at Cliffside to-morrow night © Hardias?" “Nol” repeated Kennedy ineredu- yusty, “Tou doa't say sot” But it is eo. I have tt on good w@ority. You know, 1 told you that Meta was being rushed by Latham, as well as Smith, to say nothing of that young Ford? Weil, I don't know how true it Is but it is reported that she has given them doth the mitten—I mean Lagi en and Smith-—and ts gol hat young Ford, after al! hori they say, is furious, and threatens to break up the partnership aad cut Ford loose if it costs him his last dollar, | won't ewear to that last about Miss Meta, but the wedding ef Miss Clyde [ got straight from my society friend, who hears all that woes on in Cliffside and those other wwell places. He got it from the min- igter of the Hamilton Chapel.” “That's 4 function we most at any cost.” remarked Crs detective departed, proper. attend, e@ for his activity. “It wil Durry me and inconvenience me a good dea), wut I must think out a way to-niel: t© overcame the odsta so that an Gnish this business up with a gmap to-morrow night. If 1 could only be sure March woelt make a matement it would be all right But Well have to wait and see.” was dead Ured and tely. | miuust have y, too, for though 1 Kennely was up ad ‘ras awake eariy, and out. T had just given him up # ' wean! Aim talkiug tn the Rall to Q’Connor. [I could not hear what he eaid, but, as be soe ed the door O'Connor waved h sd at me, de- } clined to come in my as he at down tn the elevator shouted back “AN right, Kennedy, Til do it. You ve Li ue be, As te pou ready for Motel Ut will be CHAPTER Xi. The Interrupted Wedding HK wedding of Harding ant Mins Clyde Hamfiton hed Indeed, been arranged tor that night at eight o'clock | ia. tt wan. of « to be a qitet affatr at the nie outer of the Hamtitone ON faite Vere few people were t attend, ant they wees only the mest Ate triad Apparently ft turn of @vente had unuerved Clyde, and ahe felt the nead of sup port #0 keenly that ehe had dete mined to defy convention and hav the ceremony r at once, so t sve and Marding might ve able earry on the flight, tf fight (neve wer to be, together. Meta, who, under ord oun frances, Would Rave bee doe wa ow 7 on @ unt of the wd dew a between gated to the beckare aad her mother we waent Ben tty tarily, was to § two give away the ae old friend ort the oveasion w ride. Ford, supposed to ance of Meta, was also to # was Latham, though, if wt A true, the coolner existed between them did not « ctr presence world produce an 8 wae the uncer wedding party hat was * £9 soon af Mr, Mamul cause of it there at th nedy, as Ww Ag ourselves the Ion. tide up on the train. “I suspect tha re Will be developments before te hight which will interest same of thos people up at Cliffside, It ts a ls place, I understand, and the ner fac of our presence there need not t the least inconventence or embarras © Wedkting party." Of course, Craig had to have som excuse for going up there, and the op that occurred to him was that h wished to examine some papers in th Hamilton Library which Mr. Hamilto: had collected for a sort of autodiogra phy. He had told Smith that they might shed some light on the Evan correspondence, and Simith had reat! accepted the excuse, calling up Harg- ing and explaining to him the situa- tion, without saying very much Hard. ing also had been perfectly w: rs We arrived at Ciiffsile in the after. some stuff from ¢ ry over to the train. and, » my aid, he managed to carry it so th it did not appear bulky. Harding met us and conducted us to the Ubrary, where we talked for a few moments about the case. He praduced the papers which Craig had professed & desire to examine, and Craig began & systematic search among them, al- though even when he came to Hamil. ton's own verston of the Evans letters : incident It did not seem to interest him very much. That was not what be had come for, apparently At the frst moment that Hanting left us, Kennedy opened a cabinet in @ corner of the library, and, working Quickly, with his beck toward me, in- stalled an apparatus of some kind, which I could not see, and oarried the wires ot back of some draperies through the windows aad outdoors. These wires be later attached to two telephone wires. Having done this, he called up New York om long dis- tance, and talked for some time, in & low voice, with O'Connor, Then he went back to bis examina. tion of the papers in the autodiog- raphy. All the afternoon he worked, though to me tt was apparent that he Was doing nothing but killing time. What was about to happen I had no” inking. I had long since discarded every hypothests | bad ever bed re- wanting the case It was within half an hour of the time when the weddiag would take place that Keonedy, pow almost des- Perate, booked Into the cabinet for nearly the fifweth time tn an bour. He closed tt with a bang, rang « bell whieh summoned a servact, and asked whether Mr. Smith was disem- gaged, and would come inte the ii- brary. In a few minutes Smith ap- peared, all expectation. “Mr. Smith.” seid Kennedy, con- trolting his own excitement admir- ably, "I have eome very grave news.” “What ts It? Quick!" asked Smith. “ZT think #t will be best if you cap all be present.” replied Kennedy firmly, “It won't take long”* Tk Was a most audacious request, yet Kennedy's manner tn making it brooked no refusal. Smith quietly ruse, and Went out to see if be could gather the little group together, Finally the wedding party streg- gied (nto the Library, apparently mueb concerted at such an unusual eum- mene at such 4 time. “1 feed that a most sincere apology © is @ue you” began Kennedy. “On the eve of eo auspicious an cocasion % would avem that it was not quite hed Just to mer anybody's happiness. But , certain things have been transpinng in New York while we Lave besa gathering eught to know them, and. indeed. you 7||Can You Beat It! WE CAN'T STAND HE NOISE IN This FLAT ANOTHER ‘YEAR _ IT'S WORSE Tran & Factory” Borer “~ LET'S MOVE! THis FLAT 1S So NOISY IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY _ I CAN'T STAND THIS FLAT ANOTHER YEAR| WE ARE GoinG To M LHAVE Found A Quie PAT IN THE PIPRLE Se aoe fale taR EAST. JusT SIGNED 4 FIVE YEAR Lenck here. Y think that you em tm an our of so, for @ talk of the and here to-night tn full . that it te o should be placed on just that yor your guant. the end you will more t me this otherwise unseemly truston.” He paused @ moment. as if not q satisfied how to taunch forth tnto b subject. but only for a momeat. and I feel sure that tn san parton & ine “and thar is somethiee some of you. Mr meet his fate on the has he Chansons Arms, al- though be actually died there. The fact of the matter is that he was move! down there from the tenth floor. Right here t gay that I entirely abdeolve Dr. McMullan of anything (0 connection with this case except 4 too great seal in covering up what Was, and is yet. a great scandal. 1 think we oan no longer concesl it, though I am not going to emphasize the part he played in tt because of bie faithfulness to. Mr. Hamiiton. “Mr. Hamilton, thea, we we a. was seatet in Miss Ffunters sitting room at the . sons Arms when some one entered. passed across the floor poiselessly, jabbed a hypodermic needle carrying cocaine Into the beck of hie neck. and injected the cocaine tate the spinal canal of the wafortanate men. At the same tima to prevent outery, this struck Mr. Hamilltoa a blow which for the mo- ment stunned him, but was tn no sense responsible for hie death. How, then, did Rte bedy come to be found on the eighth floor? Simply decaussy, while he was insensible, the sssasein must have gagged him. and thea, af- ter he came to, and the cocaine be- An gradually to work, be dragged fs victim down there. “But the fact as [ want to present it te that Mr, Hamilton did not dte of ptomaine potsoning. It ts quite true that an alkalold caused hie Geath, as Doctor McMullan thought he could show, perhapa, tf ever questions!. But that was a vegetadie, not an animal. Told, and it was not a ptomaing but lees common drug thes c ine.” ever there wae consternation written en buman faces it was as Kennedy shot out that last eentence which we had been keeping quietly to ourselves for eo many days “One moment.” tnterrupted Smith “You have said flatly that Mr. Ham- ise was tn the apartment of Nerme Norma Hunter was not ‘A sd i! ih there rae time.” put tm Craig. “Yea, of course,” said the lawyer: “certainty not there at the time. But how do you know be was there? “T made a minute examination of the carpet and hantwoed floer of the prarenay Cratg replied simply. found th&t most of the evidence of bloodstains from cut on his heed hag A bee removed. there was stil! fictent evidence te be very convine- tae There were algo spota on the ‘arpet outaide the door, leading down 4 be corridor t@ the stairs, and on wo fligh ey akg plainly that Mr. Hamilton Deen dragged, halt conscious and room.” ae a start he resumed, slowly eR, Ae Saturday By Maurice Ketten September 30. 1916 AULRIGHT JOHN, FIND | ir QUIET FLAT Ann / WE LL Move \ Va \ - — | | mo and every ether obetecie b meene of jo Hew imelrument, the electric fry Sereage (he obyacetyions biowpiys [ser Ne everyining, any hina wie brough (he marsive walle of - ole sanltl J concrete, aad as ruthiowsty ie oe | Ko the barrios af steel as his _— had cut inrwuah hie heart and —_ _ What matter? If only be could ———— ——————— leay sions, hold his job. HOTELS TS \ tease latin” ent ake tt CAN FIND a Q Aud # March e@tarted doggediy vier tientiy ont to kno FLAT \ | Ieee’ St eek tana 4 tunaeiied out that part THAT'S The FLAT WE ARE CivinG UP ON Acco) There was no escaping such thor with the fact that, al, he was cughness as nnedy's only humas apd powerless against the dd Hanlten was murdered.” Be same forces which baffie you and me— concluded. Who but the man whom Mr His very tone carrted caaviction With sears ago had insu b it We banily breathed Even bo ft dad seen and heard it yh before, Was apart- meat, saw Mr. Hamiltoa seated there, iselessly approached bim, ran the tb a doedie into bis spine, and thea beat Bim of New York Evans March s) Unat the cocaine be had injected might take effec, withou: outcry of resistance on the part of his victim Who was { that gagged him, who per- over the and cht les dying ta the S it ds all the same which you call him They THE EVENING WORLD'S “Figure Improvement Contest.” Wented— And— SIX STOUT WOMEN WHO SIX THIN WOMEN WHO wish TO DECREASE OESIRE TO GAIN WEIGHT THEIR WEIGHT AND] AND BUILD UP THEIR MEASUREMENTS. Freuree. $100 IN PRIZES. Contest te open to ONE STOUT WOMAN ead ONE THIN most progress tp REDUCTION aad the THIN bas achieved the greatest DEVELOPMENT will DOLLARS IN GOLD. NAMES OF CONTESTANTS WILL NOT BE PUBLISUED. qmalifed. MISS FURLONG will WEIGH ond MEASURE ali CONTESTANTS at the START an4 END of the CONTEST, end they will report thelr progress to her every two weeks ‘ All APPLICATIONS must be MADE IN WRITING ond MAILED, adéresseg “FIGURE IMPROVEMENT CONTEST,” Evening World, 63 Part Row, New York City, Each APPLI- CANT must fereieh @ certificate from her phyeictan stating that she beg undergone o physical examination en@ fa! Be to physically Gt to undertake the contest course Ales the certificate must give assurance that the applicant's preseat ceeditien ts not hereditary nor @ue te ony organic trouble @iaense or operation. must certify to the applicant's age and give height and weight Only women set younger thas TWENTY-FIVE er older than THIRTY-FIVE years of age may enter the contest. From the written applications MISS PURLONG will per eonally select @ gumber of women who wil! be Invited to re @ort to her fer a FINAL SELECTION ef the TWELVE CON- TESTANTS Toe CONTEST wil be STARTED fest os soos os Be ‘TWELVE CONTESTANTS have been selented 48 7 mate SpqusesegeoooscsseseseseRasooocsssess: ETtSSSISOHS §s ~ AB EEC ST i Ih eh IORI 928 2 oe be man whe ne after Mares mm reach he took He missed Ris chance ietters-but, as fortune ve Tam across bie rival sttem that every fury ia { all Bike power wo one of revenge. You know af the story s story of (he tunnel te too impussibie!” gasped “What authority bave you too wiht, Harting. for such speculations T™ [they are Bot speculations.” re. [marked Kennedy, calmly, notselessty walking over to almost car. [net and opening it Hie Sody was ta- 5 NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETB NOVEL SAM By FE. J. RATH Fate Playa the Winning Hand in @ Tangled Romance of the St. Lawrence When Burglar Suspect Weee Imprrivus Beauty —Society Debwtante’s lott day Leads Her Inte Strange Adventures With “One Cylinder Sam.” BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD Grew plainer, wat we evuid almost read thee nthe thette bape ye visible rations ) water It appears Dave « plain ebest of paper agai . © oaseage written in aynpe \&." sald Keasedy, “or pam better Ee a would call it ‘ok = Linseed off, A water wil om » #0) many das dteappearedt. Read tt” We crowded around The wrtting wae falar bw oe then Me dropped it | Metwoen the white Sas another bat iegttie, We read: Sits me i - a Sse eee Mae Wd StS5S =e end Bie sect, So ars i cm - terposed betweea us and it, Dut as de pF, ce turned and chised the door he held CoS — 4 = © oog strip of aper, which he quietly (“ad Snes Se igus Knesas ae ait on thedibrary table, ae 2S ee | We gathered about in amazement & *., Py Re RE There WAs a diagram, of the streets ss = id Chaat the Inaurance Trust Duilding. Food shy Seat SS = The rault of Mr. Hamilton wae plain- © Mee Se sme ama ty Indicated. Straight from tt, aerees We were toe stunned te move tunnel, drawn with — “It's o forgery, @ lie, a fake!” orted Ford, rising aagrity. “You have made up & dastardly plot agains: me.” Kennedy three open the canines, watchman on the Hamilton Build! meat that looked ithe than om until oge night «® found Bim lus the tunme! bed been —welrdly writing, pusked by unseen wit? cocaine and fired him He was tt was oecessary ‘o trace bande It was @ mackine composed of hot given to visiting that district of . 0. 1 have Dad am expert doi levers and disks an@ @ roll of = laborous!y since last might, and and the pen wae at the end tw this is the resuit of Rie ex- aluminum arma whieh were actumted eatantion” Wy ceatremegnes | ye " “Thin” Re said, 2 It te difficult for me to descrihs the seks, RPA Sete attont 9 the fevelation. Tt seed ae 80 instrument whist hee tees ‘oan vices, “wel cocaine, unitl he bad 4 pos _ meeey one soe aianee mem 2 the paper, moving ae a pamct! nervous Meta was tn teare and ead in New York moves, fg the suppert of Ford, who was In from the paper whem it rafulous Siaith wae half cynical, ‘s_Writtem on the creme ‘ard though that may have Deea Because 1 °') oMied exactiy here . rapid as the litte girl he bad beard much of this Gefere, fal-nful festatie em thie resateam, St womanhood. At last Dis ater 14° digcloqures, with & 2s” as you Save coma im toe aie waa forced to go ints cheap theatr.- none af the rest Sram of the tunmel = Dt Col companion "But she was abl. ’ The hour of the wedding S'Sic © \s something elms that hes Mioua, and rose im spite of the vice Tos OME 82 Past But Konneiy come ia. Om this aheet af pager is = pressed every **" Seemtoa, an ante-cmortem geeageeCOSSLCTSSESSSRERERSSSESSOSSENOSSSSNOIESS ON PET, NS, Side a suceans, vet! St Bad gone to the bitter ead ANS aritiee bp sna i Sin nly to attract the attention of ee. lucid intervaia, umder a ee cece. 86cm Re Oe ised every art to bout her aa Dis urder Will Out. Koanedy hastily ram his ere dome M it, “Tt begins with @ stasement how. “ HE fret intimation that years ago, some leitere were obtaiied Norma Hunter was the stage same Kennety, as de laid © {already An here it sale wath this ot Feree Mae se Worse Bvene, large leather document statement. Listen: man that the case o@ the Udrary tadln tae ome i = oo ingurance merger Dad 54, when Mr. Smith suddeniy discor~ ees = Re “E eam Well leave ft t _ ered that the Evans correspondence "=, speats-t meting = £ \nation to pee Now cresed this, mata was missing from the aafety deposit law © Ce March man dave peng to see Bis vani Theo, after the Jeath of Mr. _— own ruined, his daugbier the pamittos, tt was discewered thes the ee rte OF fie ee rte Dat beaten weit nad deen altered. We know that t= walle bis victorious enemy was ris- ‘he will bas been forged—that we have >: me, | ing to Spe g a 1k proved As for the lettere—there they amom. pre! on m alres disease! a with cocaina and as he eat for long “* ne agnature of (hie oun He drow them from the casa, ané Mung them oa the table as if they ad Doure every wigat in bis little shed of @ construction bowse dowa over the Duge excavation out of which the great Hamilten Bullding was rising—hated name to him'—wbat must have been the bitterness of his thoughts? > “March was not an ignorant man, even io Ais misfortuge In bis prima, be Dad deem one of the leading ¢ ready of facts which inary man little dreamed of, Dad fallen in Wit other mea, om ignorant than Dimeelf, But derre exLied tp certatu arta Use tbar . f bite ef ovtdence which wil! nally safe-cra king. Sometimes be Bad cicch the cagn In our earch of Norma Hunter's room we discovered something more than the Dicedstains There was a most remarkable message. Ir was nothing Dut @ blank sheet of paper--which I hold here tn my baad. At firet 1 thought ft was merely a sbeet that bad parhape protected an inciooura and that the inciosure bad been throwe away or otherwise extracted. Closer examination, Row- ever, showed @ very pecultar thing, luctéd tatervala, when be left bis de- * ye condition an Hels Kiteben, Uived at the Mills Hotel—doud:- whose of those many me: are crammed with which would make their they could only be recognised. Pardon me tf I eeem to exercioe © little tmagtnation, but it le prob edly quite tame compared to what Was actually taking place in tbe mind of this man March, or Evans, a> you please. Put yourself tn Sus place, Here be was, with abdsoutely 2) | S : acthing te loee and everytaing, ir. it Showed that such wae net the cluding what was gweeter tban asa it was still cnly a Dianm& sheet of paper But I noticed that it Ded seemed to bim a revelation Fancy Here be was sitting in the littie bed, Bad Why Dad it Deen wet? The the envelope bad aut deen placed im water, at least “] took that sheet of paper away with ma and I Mpped it into water even a2 1 am ging to fo now.” © caper ip a Jer of water which be hed newer “He woul tumnel under the street. prepared om the ‘adie = Actuaily at Bp Tay iBrougy steel marae Oegan to appear op it Ther been fredranda Seme one im the room, I felt sure, must have winced at the steht of them. But no ome mowed, one breathed Again his hand weet beard that fate- been wet AD idea Mashed into my | steady Rand beside the two letters ia the sympathettc in. The writing wae leaped y through the Freack window, frame disappeared and ail, darkness of the shrubbery and nad i [eee ! chan any of the rest of um Den pushing his way Im (reac oxiending his arma “The surrounded for puiiee dogs which O'Conner up here for the find and atop any one whe does, onted into the it ag ome of (hose new German, 2 sdoot Duilets of Light Co caluamer the Jarkness Tn the light, couple t get excited.” eoieail of i for the last i rae we ot Belgian a ——— oes