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Canadian Pacific—Thint week May, , incrense, $676,000, From .1, $68,681,000, Increase $11,359,000. os Brothers Tea Co, Sales— $1,740,936, increase, $431,591. months, * $6,365,048, increase, Suits at $9.45 Genuine $15 & $17.50 G 8 NOTE— ALL WOOL Come and see —make us prove it. You dont have to keep the suit, you buy — simply see the quality and style. Latest Norfolk Model ‘and ae of a fine f fast-color serge. to 17. . ae $17- Suits e 45 ba 58 $481,507. + DECORATION DAY SERVICE IN FRANCE Marshal Petain to Speak on Behalf of French Government ‘at ~ Suresness Cemetery. PARIS, May 2 Marshal Petain will speak in behalf of the French Government at the Memorial Day ex- ercises to be held in Suresness Ceme- tery, near this city. Ambassador Hugh C. 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HIT SHOE INDUSTRY Factories in East Slow Down and|@nd thousands are working only part May 26.—The shoe industry here/has been reduced | Among the causes given by, manufacturers |stocked. Many goods return 34 Pine St, N.Y. are unstable marketing conditions |cently on cancellation of orders have "NEW YORK STONE 3 Big Upstairs Stores NEW YORK Suits, Coats and Dresses for Spring and Summer wear are at Menter's and we want you to see them. Remember, that Menter wants you to open a charge BROOKLYN _ account and pay for good clothes the easy way. Suit Sale 30 to 50 Coats . . 25 to 50 Dresses . 20 to 5 “Millinery, Blouse: Girls’ Coats Boys’ Suits We carry furs, children's wash and silk drewes, Junior suite for both Ixy In fact mowt every boys and « LBROCKLYN STORE 438 Fatton St. ~ One Flight Up. Open Saturday Eventhg MENTER’S TERMS $2.00 down and $2.00 0 @ week on a purchase of $80.00. On purchases Ss of 50, 75, 100 or 150 dollars liberal term will be cheerfully arranged, ng for the children, NEWARK STORE 149 Market St. One Flight Up, « Ogen Saturday Evening N Open High 80% “6 10 18% D4 Oy 14 wo * 8 106 108 a 7% Low Int Mor Marine 19% 3 os 28%* 25% 16 1% 13% Mathian Alkali Whe 91% By 81% Maxwell Ofotors, 2 2 2 Mexican Petroleum 177% 20% a a. 24% oo 20% 20% largely due to cancelling of orders, delay by buyers in placing orders, liquidating of stock by merchants and changing of style demands, Hundreds of shoe workers are idle time, There is virtually no activity in turn-shoe factories, while welt and McKay factories are operating with varied success. , Some shoe men say they are easing up on Ly 8 Joans and lining uggheir business fpr the fall, arguli _— tallers and ‘merchants are jer- Te. been reshipped into new markets, Shoes Will Be Cheaper ter, He Expect WASHINGTON, May 26,—Lower shoe ‘prices next winter are predict- ed by Edward A. Brand, Secretary of the Tanners’ Council of the United States. Tanners and manufacturers delieve prices will fall, Mr. Brand said, because of the recent decline in leather prices. ~ Fe ER ad BACK BROKEN, LIVED 4 YEARS Otto E. Freer Dies in Chicago After ext Win- —For four years en years old, rick W. Freer, the artist, jainst the death which overtook him Monday, the result of a broken back ‘received when he fell thirty-five feet from a tree. Dr. Otto Tiger Freer sald to-day that among physicians the caso is considered. re= markable, as the average victim of a spinal fracture lives only six months. Young Freer was studying forestry -at Amherst College when the accident oc- curred, He was paralyzed in the lower part of his body and had mever been out of a chair since the accident, Ho was brought to the Henretin Hospital PERSONALS. WILL ANY PERSON that waa on the D. L. N. 234 FRRRY BO. SCRANTON, 8.30 trip from Hoboken on the moming of APRIL 26, when the boat bumped into the dock’ and lady and gen tleman fel downstairs please communi cate by Phone, ison Square T7895. WILL MISS HERMIMIE BUNSBLD of Wxigecomb ay., N. Y., again communicate her address, whioh was lost, to the lady tg gkirt In "oth Av, Bus, __HELP_WANTED—FEMALE. MEMORIAL NOTICES. MANNER.—In loving memory of my dearly beloved” husband, FRANK MANNER, died May 26, 1918, ‘ing Pariors, T44T Amboy Road, Totte ville, Thureday morning, 10 A. M, torment Moravian Cemetery, 6 1 pal 5? IT3% 17% D.| ING WORLD, WEDNESDAY ¥ a nad : x 4 ‘~~Cumecere stock quorarions—2 ew. | OITY CRIME RECORD 11% | 45% 454! A% 25%) ! ne i APPALLING DESPITE NEWS SUPRESSON (Cohtinued From First Page.) nm, No, 184 Bowery, sav- Thieves escape. men smashed plate glass window of peat, Osterwell’s jew- I tore, No, 1634 Third Avenue. “driven off by propri youths held up James But- gtocery store, jo, 1246 = St. Nicholds Avenue, locking clerk in room. } ‘Men's tufnishing store of Charles Endres, No. 195 am Avenue, lyn, held up and robbed by two men who beat praprietor, throw him in corner and pile boxes and goods upon htm while they loot place. 5. Dr. Charies Faust, No, 431 West 96th Street, twice blackjacked by bart in his own home and robbed Joseph Hanlon, U. 8. Customs guard, ~ while on way home, No. 25 West 93th Street. Youth, 19, ar- rested, charged with crime, Mrs. Alexander Dawviduk, No. 883 Cherry Street, robbed hy two men of $2,900 after being beaten. Mrs. Edith Sellinger, No. 1226 Vyse Avenue, th fought battle on roof with thief. 6—Martin Rathstone, No. 615 West 150th Street, battled in hallway with intruder. iss Josephine Civie, No. 238 East 39th Street, shot by Police- man Soran tiene who had. held up cafe of jomas Farrell, No. 410 34th Street. Emil Hoffman, beaten with black- ae when a. ce two" hold-up near e Jewish Hi 5 Brooklyn, # Laan Miss Margaret Kelly battled with thief in her room, at No. 303 Bast 26th Street. 1—Thieves robbed Golden Rule shop, Grand Concourse, the Bronx, of silk @nd dresses valued at $7,200. Then go next door and take $2,80 ‘orth of loot from Avalon & Pis- jetor.. s y. Patrick White, policeman, arrest- ed charged with robbing freight while in full uniform. er soldier knocked down by four men in St. Felix Street, Brook- lyn, near Fulton, beaten and robbed. Three masked men robbed drug ore of A, Di Bella, No. 1361 Og- en Avenue, of $600, binding and robbing two brothers. ‘Loo Cantor, druggist, shot twice defending store, No. 365 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, from three bold- up_men. ‘Policeman arrested truck driver one finds $7,000 worth of stolen Three burglaries in block be- tween Eifth and Sixth Avenues, on West 2tet Street, netted robbers $125,000. Three arrested. » ers carried off Miss Dorothy Dowling’s wedding gown from the shop of dressmaker, No. 2 West 47th Street. |12—Five gunmen held up dice game, get $5,000 and escape. ~,Jane Scharfrin, No. 212 West 69th Street, robbed of diamond ring by chauffeur of taxicab. Irving Maxwell, No. 2803 Third Avenue, held up, gagged and robbed ‘our masked robbers held up garage at No. 60 West 144th Street, taking $700. Three men beaten and robbed by bandits in daylight hold-up in the Estep Laboratory, Albany Avenue and Pacific Street, Brooklyn. Stapleton, Staten Island, store looted of $1,200 worth of clothing. Schulte Cigar Store, at Fulton and Church Street, robbed while crowd watches, 16—Delivery van of Browning, King & Co., Brooklyn, looted in daylight. 17—Highwaymen held. up two cashiers of the Atlantic Litho- graphing and Printing Company, within half a, block of-the West 37th Police Station and cucaped with $5,000 payrill. Miss Fannie Aghin, No. 124 Ches- ten Avenue, Brownsville, finds man in her room packing clothing and drives him off after a fight. BIG HAULS IN FURS, SILKS AND CLOTH. 18—Rrobbers broke into the store of Isaac Moskowitz, No. 846 Manhat- Rava took $12,000 worth of Peter Sohimacher, watchman for the Fulder Dyeing Company, Brook- lyn, beaten by four robbers who es- cay with $5,000 loot. Thieves take $50,000 in furs from firm of Edgar Lehman, No. 45 West 27th Street. Silk stockings worth $10,000 stolen from shop of Marchese Sis- ters, No. 419 Broadway. Charles Lehman, No. 97 Bast Broadway, robbed of furs valued at $5,000. Hamilton H ery, No, 2959 Broadway, looted of $3,000 in goods, adr bed Dompany, Mos 88 niversity Place, robbed of goods worth % Sigmund Weiss, No. 983 Avenue St. John, the Bronx robbed of $3,- 000 clothing and jewelry. 20—-Morris Blafoux, jeweller, No. 174 Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn, beaten and bound With hose by burglars who stole $5,000 and escaped. . Liquor valued at $4,000 stolen from No, 270 East Houston Street. Miss V. Donnell, No. 132 West 12d Street, robbed by burglars of gems valued at $3,000, Mrs. Gertrude Borak, alone in store at Tist Street and Third Avenue, beaten and robbed by two men, who mangied finger to steal rings, valued at $500, Joseph Stern, druggist, No. 4020 Broadway, beaten and ‘bound by robbers who flee with’ $249 cash, Morris Bernstein, joweler, No, 1220 -Gilbert Place, the Bronx, robbed and beaten as he entered store at No. % Columbia Street, in his shop by three men. reekiya ‘Thievos got. $160 in jew: ensh. $75,000 worth of gems, Wolcott of jewels for which he of- fered & reward of $2,500... 24—Police battled with f loot. 26—Miss Della Baxer, singer, robbed tata and jewelry, valued at 1,000. Elevator boy killed when five masked men attempted to raid poker game at No, sq St. Nicholas Avenue, 2—Mrs. Gertrude Russell, robbed of jewelry and silverware valued at 70,000 from her home, No. 19 West 86th Street. Seven men held up nine in Bus company’s office and steal $2,000. MAY. 1—No, 78 Fifth ‘Avenue, burglars; $12,000 worth of furs and silks, 2.—James Dowling df No. 52 Ashford Place, Brooklyn, held up and rovbed in a poolroom at No, 29 Park Row, pockéts @lit; $112 taken. 3.—Max Rosenwasser, No. 429 East 64th Street; home entered and nine guests robbed of $2,000 by four masked men. Carson's saloon, Brooke Avenue, Bronx, held up, robbed. Charles Cadmus of No. 303 West 108d Street, heid up and robbed a Chinese restaurant at 96th Street. 4.—Marcus Kozowski of Jersey, held up and robbed of $900 by footpads in Central Park. Louis Gotthold, jeweller, of No. 2345 Wighth Avenue, robbed of $2,500 worth of jeweiry by thieves who smashed 6—Max Berler, clothier, No. 552 W)illis Avenue; robbers entered as customers, beat a clerk with a re- volver; they got nothing. 7.—Five men raided apartments of two young women in West 72¢ Street; chased by girl in pajamas and her coltie dog, the robbers dropped a revolver. EXPRESS WAGON HELD-OP ROBBED IN STREET. —American Express wagon robbed of $2,000 worth ‘of laces at Hudson and Christopher Streets. Many shots fired by police chasing rob- Cedric Chivers, bookbinders, No. 911 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, safe blown open; $2,000 and’ many valu- able books stolen. i 9.—Benjamin Braica, dealer in iron, shot in restaurant at No. 87 Ken- mare Street, by a man who escaped unrecognized. Gamuel Wisoksy, No. 213 South Third Street, Brooklyn, beaten and robbed in an apartment in West 57th Street by two girls and three men, who took $50 from him and his jewelry. 14.—River pirates at 116th Street and East River stood off a police launch by firing revolver volleys and es. caped in a boat. 15.—Thieves retired’ ‘under revolve: 4 fire from $2,000 worth of silks being loaded at Second Street and Ave- nue A. ; Mary McCormick, cashier at a garage at No. 530 West 44th Street. knocked senseless at her desk, a’ from the desk. 16.—-Safe of Manhattan Opera House blown open; $3,000 taken. Henry Clark, murdered, Prook- lyn; Morris Fishbein shot and killed by bandits in hig home on Second Avenue. —$50, 18 cars in New York Central yards re held up, kjacked and robbed of $185 and everything, even his cuff buttons, by footpads in front of ar. ™mory of 22d Engineers, in 168th Street, Masked men attacked George Ko- nochier, treasurer of a_ clothing company at No. 17 Hope Street, and took $8,000 payroll from him. Masked bandits deat aged watch- man at Nos, 17-19 Moultrie St-vct, Brooklyn, until unconscious and stole $5,000 worth of silks. R. Moskowitz of No. 848 Mantat- tan Avenue, robbed of cloth worth George Lorello murdered by foot- pads in street, Brooklyn. 19—Daniel Barbello murdered at Eils- beth and Prince Streets; no trace of murderers. * Sloop with $200,000 in stolen silks and woolens from railroad freight yards found after an explosion on the oat at the foot of West 35th Street, ‘wifé of Policeman Charles Her- ol attacked by armed men in her home, beaten insensible and house robbed. Mr Rosa Caldino, Brooktyn, robbed of $2,018 in her home y masked nen. Home of Commissioner Bird 8. Coler, Brooklyn, robbed of $5,000 silverware. 4 Detective John Fitzpatrick shot and killed in West 55th Street, near 5th Avenue by automobile thieves. —Louis Beyer, bank messenger, foueht off three armed highwaymen in ‘West 19th Street; robbers fired on policeman who confronted them. Roy Allen Garner caught holding up Third Avenue jewelry Store with revolver by detectives on an- other errand, Richard Armstrong, up for sen- tence, boasted how easily he entered opened fifty safes. 2. rno and Pasquale Bit!- Mo, both eleven years old confessed to forty burglaries of small stores. 23—Two More small boys caught en- ring a loft in West Houston treet, confess to a series of burg- laries. %4—Eugene Tzscheutachelers, furrier, his wife and daughter, all robbed at Broadway and Astoria Avenue, As- toria, By grab thieves and pick- | pockets. 25—-Five unmasked robbers took $40,000 worth of jewelry in midday revolver raid on Gumbiner’s jewelry store, 105th Street and Broadway, and ride away in a stolen automo: bile. Members of the Lambs Club called a detective from the East 47th Street Station to catch a thief working in plain sight on the fire escape of the rear of the Hotel Woodstock. FUNERAL DIRECTORS. | for the Grave or the vw VICTORY Indestructible—Bronzette—Nov | FUNERAL DIRECTORS. FLANDERS FIELD MEMORIAL WREATH Home—A Fittin to the Dead Heroes Buried Tribute in Flanders Field, WREATHS = }—Attractive ve PALMS OF HONOR wz for the Heroes of the G. A, R., the Spanish-American War, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the World War—Lasting—Full of Sentiment. his a | ah wri Mrs. Hamilton Fish robbed of E. B, Hopwood, robbed at Hotel burglars caught in store at Bowery and Kenmare Street, save $15,000 worth his window at noon.' ported. i Charles H. Storms of Chicago, $10,000, ‘at this hour aroused no interest, and ‘The Mystery (Copyright, 1910, SYNOPSIS OF PRE FAINT glimmer of dawn was A in the air and the streets we traversed were almost com- pletely deserted. Occasion- ally a tax! passed, and I, could hear street cars in the distance, with here and there a belated pedestrain home- ward bound. A policetnan yawned on 4 corner curiously watching us go by, and a porter was sweeping out a sa- loon. Evert night lite had died out in this vacant hour between night and jay. It was like a ghost city, yet as 1 stared rather dumbly at these things, | @nd the broad back of the driver in front, hid horse plodding steadily over the smooth pavement, I was conscious of being able to think clearly-—the first paralyzing effect of fear was | Passing away. One thing was settled: | I must go back to the hotel. If I was to pay my bill and depart I would lose | would then possess no means of find- ing me. I qpuld not seek her, but she possessed my address, and must surely endeavor to communicate with me be- fore night. The only thing, then, was to remain and wait for her to call. Yet this surely, exposed me io the danger of arrest, if Waldron named me to the police in connection with the death of Harris, He probably wug not aware of where I w: topping, but he knew my name, had doubtless recog- easily supply the address. Yet by this time I was firmly con- vinced that the Russian would either le outright in the affair—claiming that Harris's injuries had wholly from a fall downstairs in the dark—or else would swear them upon some unknown invader, who had caped after knocking him senseless, Whe latter explanation was far more ikely, owing to the presence of othe! | when I struck that final blow, and di | appeared. Unless one of these chance: to see what actually occurred, he would possess witnesses to sustain this story. Certainly he would never re- eal the truth, unless compelled to do midday by fobtpads who took $1,000/ go, To do so would queer his whole me. eThat is, it would if his game was anything as I had doped it out. If he, working alone, or with some ac- nized me and Costigan would very | resulted | [its close complice, as now appeared more prob- hing had been concerned in the Alva | mi&der, his main object at, present His’ one desire would be to re.nain out of sight, and in order to do this he must shicld me from arrest. That appeared cleplest. manner in which this ‘end might be attained was to shift this later crime onto some un- known assailant. I became so thoroughly convinced this would be what would occur that the immediate sense of danger left me and I arrived at the hotel in fairly good spirits. It was already gray dawn, with signs visible that the great city was awakening to a new day, A sleopy clerk handed out my key as though the arrival of a guest the elevator boy was so deeply im- inersed in an early edition of a morn- ing newspaper as to give me no at- tention. I locked the door, and with- out undressing, flung myself across the bed, almost instantly dropping asleep. v |" woke at 11, rested and with a clear brain. Nothing had oceurred to clear and reasonable enough | disturb me, and as I looked at the watch and realized the hour, I felt no longer a doubt but that Waldron had found some way in which to protect us both. It was a disappointment that the girl had not yet telephoned, but probably she would before night: If there was any mention of the affair in the papers she would be sure to sve it and feel anxious to hear my version. With these thoughts in mind apd eager to look over the noon edition myself, I dressed rather hurriedly und descended to the lobby. The paper secured contained barély a stickful, devoid Of particulars. “Gentleinan George” Harris, well known to the police, had been found dead in the hallway of a, rooming house on Le Compte Street, operated by Mrs. Sarah Waldron. His head was crushed in by the blow of a heavy club, and he had fallen the full length of the stairs. It ig believed to have been @ thieves’ quarrel from the evidence of those in the hous who heard the sounds of a struggle and saw a strange man es- cape through the front door. There were no arrests, although the police were searching for certain parties who might be implicated. So far 90 good; but now what about the Russian? He had evidently es- caped suspicion, yet would be far from easy in his own mind, The situ- ation in which he found himself would only ,serve to increase his desire to secure the mdney and get safely away while the going was good. Lf"he ac- tually knew where such money was to be had he would scarcely delay seeking it, It he had personally niti- den that bag of currency taken from| Alva he would be after the stuff with- in wwenty-four hours; while if nether held it he would as surely ‘the fellow out and demand his Mhis gave me two liaes to follow; might | locate Waldron and shadow him, or I might see what discoveries I could make in the Colmar Building. The Jew would probably be suspictous.and j hard to follow unseen. He. would | imagine the police might be’on his trail and wateh every sign. The bet- ter chance therefore seemed to me to |lay in Broad Street. I ate a delib- erate lunch, planning how best to proceed, and hoping some bellboy | would call me to the telephone, J finished the meal uninterrupted, Both Wall and Broad Streets were |busy enough when I elbowed my passage through the shifting crowds of men hurrying in every direction, e edge of the curb, gazed upward at the ornamental front of the Colmar Building, It was A stone structure of twebve ageing | it covering perhaps half of @ block, w Nanas ot, Silver Dagger| By RANDALL PARRISH Randall Parrish.) si EDING CHAPTERS. is 'w wide-arched entrance, leading into high-cetled rotunda through t this busy hour of the day, @ constant throng scurried seek the constantly moving elevators. ‘ould be useless seek ny one’ th oH and. after staring at the ceaseless current for ‘a few moments 1 joined the stream and was borne along inside. A direc- tory of tenants occupied much of one wall, but, although 1 stopped and ran my eyes over the list, 1 recognized no name of either individual or firm which gave me any clue to the man sought. I was hunting a needle in the haystack, yet persevered merely because 1 knew of nothing better to do, determined not to abandon the search while any hope remained. I took an elevator to the twelfth nd walked slowly from end to end of the marble corridor, readin the names on the glass doors as passed, I met but few people and ut- tracted no attention, passing down the stairway to the floor below.” All kinds of business seemed to be repra- sented in the various offices, pu all connection with Marie Gessler; she #among them no glimpse of a familiar name. In this manner, growing more pessimistic as I proceeded, { nad reached the fifth floor, when, as I turned at the front of the iron stairs, my glance rested on the letters sten- iled along the frosted glass oppogte ‘Mutual Investment Company, Gaspar Wine, Manager.” 1 stopped still, my heart beating wildly, feeling that I had stumbled blindly on the very thing I had been seeking. Gas- par Wine was the nume of the man who, through accident, had opened \ to me the door leading into the Alva * factory; the man who had left me alone in the entry while he disa) peared to talk with Alva privately i the little side-room. I could not de mistaken in the name, and I recalied the glimpse I had of his face, with trimmed beard, and oddly high forehead, the hair brushed straight up. Gaspar Wine! For the first time I really believed the old hack driver was right—he had actually picked up jtist such a fire, lugging a fag with him, and drivea the fellow to this place at midnight. I had never cohnected the crime wiih Wine befere—yet why not? He was among those present; he had beew alone with Alva: he doubtless know of the transferring of the money; and he answered fully the description of the man the cabby had picked up near the Jersey docks. There were seemingly two offices in the suite occupied by the ‘Mutual Investment Company,” and each had an outside door, one marked “Pri- in Net eries from freight would assuredly be to escape detec-| vate,” the other “General Office.” The ion, ahd get a division of tae spotls. | former was directly opposite the foot of the stairs, the latger a step or two down the corridor. The elevator shafts were some distance away, across the hall, while the office space udjpining appeared to be unoccupied. There was lettering on the door, “Railway Exchange,” but the glass was dingy with dirt, and light stream~ ing through spoke of no shades at the outer windows, Several people léft, ard took the elevators as I stood there, half hidden behind the curve of the wall, the former disappearing through various doors along the o ridor, but none approached Wine's cflice, or perceived me on the stairs, I stood there irresolute, undecided as to my next move. I had made an important discovery, and felt con- vinced I was at last on the right tre but how could I verify my suspicioi There seemed to be but one sure method. Whoever had actually com- mitted the murder and robbery, I still slung to the theory that Ivan Wald< ron knew him, and would demand his share as the price of a silent tongue. Nor would he, under present circum- stances, be content to wait very long” for such a division. He needed the money more than ever to escape from the observation of the police. If Wine had possession of the valise he would certainly be called upon to de. liver a portion of its contents very shortly. My best course then was to keen an eye open-for Waldron; if he came, there would be no doubt as to the exact nature of his errand. , Yet where could I remain to ob= serve’ his arrival? And, above all, how could I hope to overbear any~ thing passing between the two? Mere suspicion gave me nothing to act ‘upon; I must obtain some direct of, guilt ‘before even venturing to make, my theory known to others, Thus far I had none worthy of con= sideration, nor would the mere fact hat Waldron visited Wine's office be connecting the of Gustave Alva. He might com there for a hundred reasons equally. innocent, and while his mere pres, ence might convince me that the two were implicated in the same crime, it would ‘satisfy no one else; woul yield no proof of guilt warranting an arrest, The stairway gave me no advan+ tage; it was open and doubtless quently used. ‘To be seen loite! there for any length of time woul attract attention. I ventured to try the private door, but, as expected, found it securely locked, nor did I dare exert any force, not knowing who mfght be inside. The office re- mained quiet, no one either leaving or entering, ‘nor did I observe any shadow OM the frosted glass indica- tive of movement within. Baffled and uncertain, I had barely returned to my point of concealmeni, wheif an elevator stopped at this fivor level, and three men stepped out into the corridor. Two of them attracted no attention, but the shird shirt sleeves and wore a cap wi some insignia upon it. He advanced briskly, and flung open the door lead- ing into what had once been the “Railway Exchange,” and motioned the others to enter. As the three! vanished, I heard him explain thal ‘this was the only vacant suite on thi floor, and then another vojco sald dise satisfied that it was altogether tog, small for their-purpose, They\ wel not ‘inside five minutes, and. \p they came out, the agent close door carelessly, and pressed the vater button, saying he would show: them something on the second floor above, 1 (Another Thrilling Chapter To- Morrow.)