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SYNOPSIS.
IIAPTF.R I—Hardlni? Kent calls on
,’iVnsh lo Propose marriage anil
ri11as llic house In great excitement over
o*e Htteiiiptnl suicide of her sister Hath
ai tie. Kent starts an investigation ami
tiruls that H ugh Crandall, suitor for
amarine, who had been forbidden the
!:o,,v by General Parrish, had talked with
J*> 11 bar: ne ove the telephone just before
*■'** s'|,d h»*rse!f. a torn piece of vellow
p;\rV'\,,s f‘ Ht s~ht nf which Oen
«r,-al earns!) is stricken with paralysis.
1 / K-nt discovers that.
I • ..all ' is left town •hurriedly. An
J i -s'r- an aged banker, commits
. 1 th*‘ same time as Katharine
attempted her life.
c'(, ^ T'cnt is convinced that
Cmndall is a t the bottom of the mystery.
f U 'f’.T R v Kent nad Davis search
*! uda!I‘s rut m and find an address.
Box 17. Ardway, X J.” Kent
*n’s tf* Ardway to Investigate and be
comes si j spit ions of a “Henry Cook.”
/'TTAPTER VT A woman commits sul
f’d*- at the Ardway Hotel. A yellow let
ter- also figures in this case.
r'lAPTER YH Kent calls Louise on
the long distance tebnhone and finds that
?' * had just b a n called by Crandall from
C • same booth. “Cook” disappears. The
Ardway postmaster Is missing.
CTTAPTPU VTTT Inspector Davis nr
r \ * at Ardwnv and takes up the inves
t gat ion. He discovers that the dead
v ' »• m Is Sarah Sackeft of Bridgeport.
1 *uiK, t.-lephones Kent Imploring him to
dr.»p the Investigation.
( HAPTPR TX Kent returns to New
• i to fcr.-t an explanation from Louise.
the body of a woman in (Vn
l rk and more yellow letters He
s t’rnndall, whom be recognizes as
( 'ok.“ enter the Parrish home.
,r n M'T'.a) X T.oulse again implores
! ' ' to dt p tb<* Investigation and re
1 s p» g< e unv explanation. Later
: ’ ’ r : ' ' P andall and Louise in an au
tomoblle. •
t i \ P'TTTI XT Kent returns to Ardwnv
aunounees that be has planned to
n rr‘ the missing postmaster and also
tue m::ster criminal.
CTf'PTPR XTT While seeking the
' »Piiif. . 1M is , tp comes across Louise and
fV:i•>dm11 Pursued bv' Davis the postma«
t • bin f>«j ..'T ,i prei-?nicf* and Is killed
I • 11 •• master crlmJnal. Is
f • d In i but in a morphine stupor.
(•M^TTrr» XTTT Totlfse tells Kent
tb°t she nnd Crandall had come to get
tuners from Young which gave Mm a
hold over General Parrish.
At last—It must have been an hour
later- -physical exhaustion conquered
iiirn anil he lay back, after one last,
frantic struggle, weak and panting,
unresisting.
The inspector arose, and. waiting
over to the couch, stood there look
ing down at him.
“Aleck Young,” he said evenly
“your whole game is up. 1 know a 1
about General Parrish and Andrew
Kisser and the woman from Bridge
port. I know about Dora Masting:,
who committed suicide in the pari;
lake yesterday, and about Henry
Kberle, who sent you the five thous
ind I know everything that your
unfortunate aide, Rouser, knew, and
now I want you to surrender all the
otters and papers in your posse. •
ion.”
“You will never get them.” sneer' t
Young, as I sat there marveling at
the inspector's revelations. it was
news to me that he knew tile name
>f tlie Central Park suicide, and wki) i
myself had found the five thousand
’ollars, I had had not ti e slightest
ntimatSon that Davis knew from
whom it had come.
"Either T get tho e letters,” sni I
lavla evenly, “or you get no more
aorphine.”
Young laughed in hi- face.
“You haven't tin lightest evidtv. ■
gainst me for anything, ,V\'itht a I* -
ers or documents yon can p.ove nulli
ng. Itou have no right to keep mo
;oitnd up here. I ^liu! 1 get free an I
hall make you pay for this. 1 don't
are what Houser has told yen, you'd
get nothing out of me and you have
proof of nothing.”
“Very welt.’ said the in p rior, “n >
letters, no morphine.”
Turning away from the couch, he
-■poke to me in a tone as indift'erei.'
as it we had been camping t get hi r
“Conte on, Kent, let's see what v. •
■an dig up lor hr. si '
\Ye found the cottage well ■ i pplfe I
with provisions, a- i! it h ml b.eii th ■
.ntention of the eonspin.tor.- to mak *
t their headquarters for some -tin
a a very few minutes D vi h..<! oi. ••
I ''Aron fried ard toast and coffe.
l,: , wi !i t:« spread in the little
■ ' -in-to that v.:i ii: td as a kitchen
>"n fit- .n to eh.rve him, too •*
d it; an ui't'tiioiie polming m
: a.t II.KCll.
"It v. >n’t !, r 'essary,” said Davis.
■■’I'a • cluing in 1ft aim if you like
You’ll find that tht only uj petite iic-'il
•lu'.'t e. ill la- tor lli-jl-Jihllic-.”
Net art he ess, 1 i < c.a t ;p of t’offt 1
i- '•'! some toast in to the prisoner. A
voile., of oaths vr-s sn> only atv. ii
so 1 rotOi ned and sat with Dave
hiu Ilf ate. I r::y:.«u I ;.d la; apye-.
tite, hilt lh<- events of the night did
liot seen, ip the U a St to hr.' e a: -•<_ t < <1
his. 1 drank only part t.t a cup o'
coffee, though he urged ffie to eat
something.
"It Is apt to be a long ricge,” he
said, "and you must keep you.
strength. Our prisoner is a man c
considerable will power and is r t
going to confess readily. If you wi 1
ket p guard on him for a couple or
hours I am going to sin p.”
"Of course, I will.”
“Under no circumstances,” sail
Davis, as he flung himself down cu
the floor of the lean-to, "loosen an;,
of Ills bonds, and pay no attention to
his pleas for mercy. He h is a win
ning way about him that 1; danger
ous.”
i on need not rear, i replied lle
member the agony he has caused to
the woman I love.”
“And to many others,” said Davis.
“Speaking of that,” said I, “I wi: h
you would tell me before you ?<>
asleep how you learned where The
live thousand came from.”
“Uouser told me.”
“1 was not aware that you had ai
opportunity to talk with him.”
“I didn’t,” said the inspector. “1
just used my eyes in the postofflet."
I thought 1 had used n ine pretty
well in the post office, but. certain';,
1 had seen nothing that would lead '
me to identify the per: on who it 1
sent the five thousand dollars I had
found In the cii'h drawer.
"Don’t tnik in riddles*’’ I exclaimed
rather petulantly “What did you find
in the post office?”
Davis grinned
I nodded assent.
“Did it not strike you as peculiar
that there should be over two thous
and names and addresses in tin. for
w-r,'i y li t of a sn ail post office like
Ardway, where probably not imoi
tb’ii ten i a milieu move away k; ten
years?”
“i did not examine it « ■. v." <
plied, “but even it 1 bail ! ant all aid
I w uid have failed to identify it as
important.”
’ it you Lad seen tk - name of An
:'rc”v K ,vr In it,' said Davis, “would
you put have examined it?”
“Was his name there?’'
‘"t es, raid also the names of the
fi» djTgnort victim and Dora Hastings
UtiU - M-'il 1'} ISbtHlt- ft Wa. Y UUII,
R.o user who si :it oat the .voile-, 'of
! teik and checked the Hit, .
plain, oidinary shorthand fot
words as ‘Sent,’ ‘Answered i'i.
Thousand • Fortunately, ti e 1;
shows that while move than «• . .
drcu letters were s i t out, h..uw a
dozen had brought n-pc . . : ;
only tli.ee eases lied mumy be-n .
• ivi d.
“VGeneral Farris’.’3 lsh.c L.
the list"
answered Davis sleet i’v "*•
I ha. I‘y expf trd to find it there ”
"And the letters sent out,” I j. ■
si-t'-i. “were they the y alio - kn
ter.-V”
"Of course,”
‘‘What whs in them?”
“That ? just what !’ve g.-t a fin ’ ■
from Young," said Davis, and in «a
Other minute he w < t a Ci ij.
As I saw Davis iyi. 1 <e a r.»
thought came to me li . .
Tact the information he huua. . .
-
I Felt My Eyes Bulge. My Lungs Fill
to Bursting.
Young, what was to hinder me from
doing it. Surely our prisoner by new
had • i u the liopeles u. -rs of his po l
tfon and woiild be ready to tail. At
It - l liit . e would bo no harm in tty
iiig.
t entered the room win-re Young
was, ami, appioaelii'ug his (•ouch, la..i
my hand on his shoulder, hi had been
lying there with his; eyes closed, and
the* mere touch of my hand so jotted
his shattered nerves that Ui.s whole
body bounded to the limit of tils
bonds Iiis tightened lips show mi la.a
tlii'iruJt it was lor him to suppress a
. C’i'fJTM.
Look here. Young.” said I, “I’vt?
come to you as ft friend lo tell you
ju 1 how tin land lies. Houser is dead
ami the inspector has pos--v chut i>l
all his i• He knows evet ytliin .
abort tbs yt I’ov. ! ■; t i-r.i
An e\il smile .a- Young's only
!■ . ■ ■ Uit cunning leer 6T tlie u.an
n hu t< i Ola a tri( k.
"’I: < u are sf.oks am] stacks of
«= . i . ii st you. \\ e have the
' ’ :• ole to vhom Houser seat
a i your evidence!” he sneered
” . iiu i have evidence again.-t tlm
i .A itc..:. er, but you’ve nothing o
- > Si' t insi < t j r ■> you ca.l hti
ian «cm e enough to convict me.
do you ; i.; cse he’d have me tied up
hcie tie ha. n’t a bit of evidence
a, .dust me. He never wi.l have
Kc . h i: e 11.. r medicine.”
lie i'.;. d i hi ■ d in the direction
morphine that lay so tantali.
in- ■ i. There was soi cthing in
v. e some indefinable power 01
l ersiu.s iveu. . s that aimo .t influenced
*-■ to do v. hat he asked. Invohm
t.u •• u, h n 1 went out t ) the bottle
eono.ii.:. g a., solution, Lut 1 caught
ii. s it in Hire.
’(.••• f h ml it. to me,” ha begged.
‘ '. a t j t r i» hew 1 n« ed it? C: ,
.. e huu I'll tell you anything you
.t :o Lnovv.”
“ • !l iv.e Ur::i.,M said I, “and yoi
Cii : h: V“ it.”
“1 Ui.it ta’k, I can't tb’nk,” lit
' a 'I I 1 t it. You can see foi
. oi‘. :’ liuvv shaky I am.”
1 i aid e f.,r r. / ;eit that he wav
.. )iif lurnii.j of me uauinou.
• mil lc in Ills body e med i
. = ,k rhi involuntarily, doubling il
ini hun jry knots that
ion ii iiis aching nerves in the sLrL.
■ ’ r lor morphine- morphine.
"Give ine just ore dose,” he plead
ed. :i'] I’il t.11 you anything, ev
thing you v.Mit to know. I'll die if.
1 don’t get it."
So pitiable was liis condition that
I feni i i :• ,'f sy. .jmti.izing with
him in spite o! my e i. y y eyes ici
loved hi;! g’ uice to the «hair hear ti;
couch, where, be. ide the hypodermi
syriugo and the morphine, Davis, a -
if to aec< ntu.nte the torture of hi
f.-'terc, had pi seed the key that uj>
looked them. ! would not have known !
h w to • •• ini t ■ vi e moiyhine, eve/
if I l ad wi«i:'’d to do so. and besides,
I had i strong eversion to drugging
a ’,‘tlovv '? iin, hut ns I raw the ke
tiieie, i IiiOi;-;iiL of a solution.
"Ii I the fetters on your
arms," slid i, ‘‘so fkaL voa can rear',
tit morphine, v.u'1 you promise me to
ate wer i v (ruesiion?”
•Til pronri e on my word of hone •
■... a a " .t , rerj n you ;■ d
h« replied, an e; er light Cuming ii •
to hi.- t yr \
"I sweir Si—on my mother’* hrmor. •
Tl n,.mg how amaaed I) vis won ’
‘■e '■ hen be awoke to leirn that 1 in
’. i'l- i r.. oiier's iui! entifession, i I. • i
• 1 for the ’••••' Young turned ovc. >
:r a be c. tld to permit me to in ■
■Ilk the fetters.
•• i mm a is ip:hfrlrtr, ns t!
steel •. ii . from hi;- wri.Hs, p.
till:, Ot out Milll ClUtCilOU Iny .i-.ek
v itu maniac i-trength 1 teit my eyes
bulge. u.y mug rill to bursting l
pul for;b my hands to try to shake
■ gtlp. tut i felt n:y strength fast
failing
A hietically inclined though I have
■1' ’..iti and matched though I
".as against a drug weakened wretch
' in fettered teot, I touna myself no
eauui tor his maniacal desperation.
I . U and forth over the couch we
swayed in a silent death-struggle, my
cut-off breath all the while pound- -g
unpuriflod through my bursting ictu s.
my brain turning weak, and my si"'it
growing dim 1 was beaten 1 knew
1 could held out but a few seconds
longer. I saw nothing ahead of me
i but death—strangled to death by a
drug fiend.
There passed through my mind in
my struggles a vivid picture of wii.it
was about to happen. Young would
silently choke me to death. Silent’y
he would hobble with his lettered foot
to where Davis lay in the lean-to
sound asleep and brain him with a
blow. He would oast off bis fetters and
long before the constable would ie
t rn to find our bodies would n. . e
In escape on Rouser’s bicycle. Toe
mystery of the yellow letters never
would be explained. Roor Loube -
i ouiig a hands fell from tr.y threat
and 1 staggered fc.-mk gasping lor
breath. I thought at first that the
stii iii had been too much for his drug
ra.-ki-d body, but soon 1 saw wbat
bad happened His muscles had not
weakened, but his will. Standing
over him was Davis with a revolver
pointed at his head. Even before I
had recovered myself Davis had the
fetters readjusted and the rope passed
through them.
Our lives were saved. The mystery
might yet be solved, despite my fool
hardiness. 1 turned to the inspector
to express my gratitude, but dropping
the key of the shackles on the chair
whore it had been before, he flung
himself down on tile floor to resume
Ills interrupted sleep
As soon as my aching throat would
permit me to speak J began making
abject apologies for my foolhardy con
duct and trying to express my thanks,
but be would not listen to me.
“1 guess you’ll guard him safety
enough now," he said, and once more
was fast asleep.
With something of the feeling of a
■ •h, --tb ed school-boy who knows tie
de rived far more than he got, i sat
down beside the couch and for four
1 bug hours w tehed the strugg es and
beard the curses and listened to the
•atreaties ol the drug-mad prisoner
Hut now I had no sympathy left dor
i 1* * 1st
To Be Continue,} Next Wff.k.)
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