The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-22
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like that want to say that DR.. Lamp.
kin and ! are going ont into the coun-
try, and that you need not expect TO
hear from me again tonight"
Another pause, ihen TIE voice of the
detective broke the silence:
yes. really. / can Tell you nothing
tonight 1 am sorry TO say that so far
! have been unsuccessful. but while
there is life, you know, there is hope"
Then there was silence for a moment
and Hendricks rang of. When he en-
tered the room he was white in the face,
and his fat hands, the hands which had
tightened about the throats and wrists
Of hundred c1imiuals-were trem-
bling
"Old man, he said. II heard her fall
to the door just now. heard her aunt
scream and run 90 her" Hendricks sat
down and leaned on his desk. There
was something in his eyes that Lamp
kin had never seen IN the eyes Of any
human being.
doctor" Hendricks added, III do
run across that dirty scamp, IL am
afraid / never can wait for justice TO
take Us course. ! ana satisfied that he
is not only Gielow's ab2uctor. but that
he is the man who he's tried twice to DO
me up in such a.,vvardly fashion"
Then Hendricks shook himself, rs IL
ashamed of his outburst and leaned
bsck in The light Of the green-sho led
lamp.
81 heard you telephone Miss Bunt
ington that you and I were going out
into the country" said Lampkin. WAS
that only preteNt?"
~Fo, am going out TO have tam
with Koia, and as you said you'd like
70 see his big rambling den, want to
take you along for company"
Nothing could please me more"
Il have ordered a carriage to meet us
at the One Hundred and Twenty-fftb
street elevated station. Come on, I'm
ready"
As the carriage, after having passed
through a rather dense wood for abodt
half mile, drew up at the old brick
mansion with its three and a halt
stories and massive huted columns
reaching from the ground &c the rather
fat roof, Lamplin remarked;
Rather an isolated place. No bad
/ place for the gang Of robbers of which
1 you spoke"
1T Just suits Kola, as I said once be.
I fore" answered Hendricks. "By the
/ time his hoodwinked toners get here
I they are prepared anything i'm
/ aginative."
4 Telling the driver 60 wait for them at
the door they alighted There was but
one light in sight and that was dis.
NAL red one which could be seen
through the old-faehioned side lights Of
the big door on the stone veranda
There was no bell on the door, but sim
ply a quaint old knocker.
81 wish, observed Hendricks, that IL
were day instead of night. You can
form no idea of the picturesque rugged
ness Of the scenery. You see we came
by the old road through the woods, but
just behind the house there is a new
drive At this point it has been cut
through solid stone and there is a cliff,
within 400 feet of us, over hundred
feet in height. In blasting the stone
away, IL was thought that the old man
sion became unsafe, especially as il is
believed that there are caverns under
the hill"
Hendricks mounted the steps aud
used the knocker vigorously, The
clatter had scarcely died out whep the
tones Of a bell as soft and mellow as
cathedral chimes in the distance cams
from the house.
"Kola knows my rap and the bell is
n signal TO his attendant TO admit me, '
said Hendricks "1f make no mistake
you are going to be repaid for your ride
out here. In psychic tom-foolery and
mysticism you are "a schoolboy com
pared TO Kola. He imbibed it at the
dusky breast of az eastern mother. and
his very life is stepped in it,"
The door was opened by an Indian in
the costume of his country. He placed
his finger on his ZIP to indicate that
they were to remain silent, and ther
gave a salaam that brought his turbar
almost into contact with the floor.
II want 10 see your MASTER" whis
, pered Hendricks handing him his card
Again the man bowed silently, closed
the great door, ard left them in the
spacious hall With many and profusC
, draperies, Kola had hung tht walls and
, ceiling 80 that ihe effect was distinctly
oriental. The ornaments, scrolls, paint
! ings and statues were all eastern, bui
what struck Lnmplln most forcibly
perhaps because II was so ill suited L
{ its environment was q dragon of carved
4 walnut which stood al the foot of the
! wide curying stairway.
/ THAT belongs TO the house" eX
planned Hendricks IN a whisper. 1T &
a genuine curiosity. The carving is eX
cellent. One would think it of Japanesl
origin, but IL YOU will notice, It is Of th'
same material as the balustrade, an,
that must have beer made in this coun
2 try"
p just then the attendant glided iron
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