The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21
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this interview winds up the whole bust
ness"
Il hope it does, sir. indeed I do,"l
Macklin fervently rejoined as he
forced smile to his CHASTITY face while
he shook the criminals hand
You still look after the grip Ran
ney. ! don't want the care of that"
Leave it to me, then
And you. Macklin, get your plumber
out of sight, Never mind seeing US to
the door Well find our way out. You
get your blunt under cover"
The speaker, always a rufflan and a
desperate despite his rare craft and
vicious abilities, strobe abruptly into
the hall. with Ranney at his heels, and
FASTENED toward the front door of the
house
To Macklin, whose arrest was of
secondary Importance, Felix Boyd paid
no immediate attention. Revolver in
hand, with his resolute features grimly
set, he stole quickly through the side
hall and reached that leading to the
outer door, bent upon lending hand to-
Coleman and his companion.
Once more, however just as the
! clever work Of Felix Boyd approached
its elimination, just as the arrest of
this arch-criminal chief appeared all
but inevitable-once more Satan served
| his own
The suecor came in a most unex-
pected form. and from an entirely
unexpected quarter. As the two
criminals STROBE through the hall,
Macklins one male servant, who
had been out during the evening.
came hurrying across the grounds
| from side gate, accompanied by a
| bulldog. AS they rounded the corner
of the house, the dog caught sight of
Alderman and Jimmie Coleman, crouch
| ing with drawn weapons at either side
| of the vestibule door,
| With q yelp that fairly split the
| still night air, the animal instantly
| leaped at the nearer of the two, and
| fastened his teeth in the calf of Aker-
mans leg. The detective vented one
irrepressible shrek, a cry that COM
pletely drowned the furious snarling of
the dog, and leaped involuntarily from
| his concealment ~
At the same moment the criminal
chief opened the inner door Of the yes
| thule and beheld him and the figure OF
Coleman dashing up the steps. He
uttered only two words, as he closed
the door with violence that threat
ened it's hinges
Bolt, Ranneyn
Ranney turned like a flash to dart
back through the hall, only to behold
Felix Boyd some twenty feet away
II.
by God, we're cornered!" he yelled
| above the commands that Numbered
from Boyds lips as he approached
mot on your lifei''
up with your hands, or I'll fire."
roared Boyd, for the second time.
The face Of the criminal chief, though
white as the linen at his throat, had
turned hard as flint. a picture of ut
ter desperation. With leap like that
of a leopard he darted back of Ramney
and instantly vanished into the dark
parlor adjoining the hall.
Boyd fired the moment the reckless
scoundrel moved, but he had in mind
too, the imminent danger of shooting
Coleman, who stood nearly in range
and was furiously battering to frag-
ments the glass pane of the front door
Under these conflicting conditions il
was not strange that Boyd missed the
mark intended.
Ranney, however. as the report went
ringing through the house, threw up
both hands with single wild cry and
pitched face forward TO the floor shot
through the breast
Boyd instantly sprang over him and
dashed into the parlor. In one of the
shattered windows a chair still hung
| swaying from the sill. The Big Finger,
| the one man whom Boyd would have
given all to have taken, had
beaten out both panes and sashes and
had vanished in the gloom of the No
vember night.
- ~
THE bondS-yeS, Jimmie, it's true
! that we recovered them. It's true that
we turned Ranney down, and have
sent poor, misguided Mackilin up the
river for a term Of years. It's true
that I have fulfilled to the letter my
contract with Dunn & Raddam, and
have only their unqualified approval
1t is true that my measure of the
case was absolutely correct-yet, alasl
to me il has only the aspect Of dis
NAL failure
Coleman laughed upon hearing these
comments of Felix Boyd nearly week
! later, and knocked the ashes from his
cigar.
"Boshi'' said he bIuntly. "You take
it too much to heart, that curiously
lucky escape of the Big Finger. 1t
was not fault of yours. nor any Of us
Who the devil could have foreseen that
that internal bulldog would show up
at just that moment and fasten to
| Akerman's leg? In ten more seconds
| Felix. we'd have had wristers on both
of the sooundrels."
That's true enough. Jimmie. yet
only the lamentable failure remains
Not that alone" growled Coleman
| shortly. Zone other fact remains"
What's that. Jimmie?''
That we still are in the ring, Felix,
and good for another battle"
Boyd laughed deeply, and nodded
much less grimly
That's true. Jimmie, dear fellow"
said he. Next time, too, it may have
a different finish"
II would wager that 1t will, Felix"
Let us hope So" smiled Boyd IF
not Jimmie, it shall be through no
fault of mine. Is Alderman about
| AGAIN."
He is out on lame peg" laughed
| the central office man. Really. Felix
Alderman finds only one solace in that
whole affair."
| What solace is that, Jimmie?"
| He shot the dog"
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