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Cleer as QaylSnt, oIaikn' oo gun
barrell"
ANY one squealed''
YES"
-Who2"
Martin Bloom. He's given the whole
thing away; and besides, Max Morris has
just been pinched.
HAS he confessedp"
NO, but we've got him dead to rights.
The whole three will swingl"
And the one we've been after-Cole
Winters2"
Hes innocent ss babe. Obi One
thing more. Take it down"
GALL right
Tell the men to look for Detective
Mat Hyland. He's at large and in an
insane condition"
I know where he is"
-Where2"
AT his room in the. South Division.
Send officers there from the Cottage
Grove Avenue Station"
How do you know that?"
a friend OF his saw him 60 up there
not long ago."
"All right
With look of triumph on his face
Cole Winters stepped back from the in
strument through which he had just re-
ceived such welcome intelligence.
Thank heaven" he cried.
Then he thought of Berenice, lost to
him forever. and. covering his face with
his hands, sank down upon the bed be-
side Hyland.
For some time the two men, both be-
clouded, the one in the mind, the other
in the heart, sat silent, listless.
Suddenly our hero was aroused from
his mournful soliIoquy by a rapping upon
the door.
In an instant he had unlocked and
thrown it open.
AS he expected, he was confronted by
man in the uniform of a police officer.
behind whom stood another in the garb
Of q citizen.
where's HylandG" asked the blue
coated individual.
There"
AS Cole turned and pointed toward the
detective the hindmost man sprang for
ward and seized him by the arm.
Before the young man could exert his
feeble strength in the way of resistance
he heard q snap and saw and felt pair
of handouts close upon his wrists.
@Duped! Fool that I ami" cried Cole
Winters, in accents Of despair.
The man who had placed the gives
upon his wrists wns Martin Bloom, while
he now recognized the seeming police
officer as Almon Sears, his mortal enemyl
CHAPTER XXI.
GREAT SURPRISE.
Right op both points, sneered the
burly burglar, as he pushed our hero
rudely back. You're fool, and you've
been duped."
'Cole Winters is as innocent as babe,f
laughed Sears.
- And Martin Blooms given the whole
snap away" added that individual, join.
ing in the laugntsf.
As for Cole, he said nothing. His con.
sternRtion and disgust were too great to
admit Of his making any reply to the
taunts and jeers hurled at him by the
heartless twain.
Thought you were talking with police
Headquarters, did you?" asked Sears,
when he had endeavored in vain 10 OBJ.
tain word from Hyland, who sat uncon.
cerned and unobserving open the
door, Mart, and let the guy see how it
was DONE"
Bloom produced key with which be
with the adjoining apartment.
Then he returned, seized Cole rudely
by the arm, and followed his comrade in
crime through the open doorway.
There's the little joker. We've got
private circuit O. our own
Sears pointed to the opposite side OF
the room where q telephone was fastened
against the wall.
Like flash. Cole realizel how he had
been deceived.
His instrument had been connected
with the one before him, and he had been
carrying on conversation with his
enemy.
you are hardly up to the standard Of
q reporter for one of the leading morning
papers of metropolitan Chicago" re-
marked the younger of the Williams, with
q mocking laugh.
did you count the bonds?" asked
Bloom, suddenly.
Count them! didn't as much as take
them!"
You're chump! Business before
pleasure. money before revengel"
But Almen Sears did not hear his fell
low criminal. He had passed into the
room where the detective sat-
-Furiesl" he shouted, moment later.
whats wrong2" demanded Bloom, who
had followed his partner, drawing his
manacled prisoner after him.
What's wrong? Everything's wrong!
The bonds"
You don't mean"
That they're gone? That's what ]
do"
How could that be2"
He has fhem."
In an instant Sears had darted forward
and was rumpaging the pockets of the
unresistirg detective.
With d curse the baffled murderer start
ed back.
The powers of darkness are against
us!" he shouted. They wers on that
table less than a minute ago, now they
are gone" -.
He may have thrown them out of
the O." suggested Bloom, pointing to the
one window which was open little
ways.
Without the loss of q second Sears was
leaning out aud gazing far down on open
court beneath.
1t was un!ighted. save that numerous