The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-21

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the room, and while the attention of the
others was diverted by the arrival, lie
quickly slipped both OF his revolvers
into the side pockets of his sackcoat.
Before Magee could reply to keene's
curt queries, however. the latter halt
ed, as if suddenly transfixed.
Whats this?" he cried, with startling
severity. You free, SOley-and d
stranger here, Who brought him.
"Oh, it's all right, Tony" cried Soly,
starting up. Yes. 1 am free
Cleared by our lawyer"
mo, Tony, but by this fellow. He did
the job, and I've brought him here to
ring him in with our gang You'll find
him all above board and
Stop right there! Tell me how the
trick was turned"
Solely caught his breath, staggered
briefly by the threatening countenance
of the man who addressed him.
Boyd indifferently crowded the tobac-
co down in his pipe and prepared him
self TO divert the suspicious already too
obviously stirred. The climax OF the
situation came in a way and with an
abruptness. however. that even Boyd
could not anticipate.
1T was like this, Tony" Michael So
ley began to explain.
But before he could conclude his
glowing description of the trick played
upon the court that morning Keene
again interrupted him, saying CURLY,
without glance in Boyd's direction:
We'll, well, it's all right, Solely, and
you're luckily out of it. Now about that
party below wish to question him.
Wait here until"
He did not finish, for while speaking
he had edged toward the door
by which he had entered. and
Felix Boyd anticipated the full
scope of his suspicious and designs
that the court trick was game, the
! intruder there a detective, the house
probably surrounded and escape cut
off. unless effected by one swift and
secret move.
Boyd did not wait for him to make it,
nor waste time with words. With the
, leap of a man electrified, he covered the
distance between them and dealt
Keene, even while speaking, a blow
that laid him stiff and senseless- upon
the floor. Amid the startled cries OF
CONSERVATION and confusion that en-
sued, he snatched up the nearest chair
and hurled it through window, to
which he instantly sprang, and thrust
out his head through the shower of
splintered glass.
, Hurrying into a narrow court ten
feet below, with his attention drawn
upward by the noise. was Jimmie Cole
man, to whom Boyd wildly yelled:
up here, Jimmiei Look lively! I've
five men under my guns!'
; Fairly mingled with his cries, there
rose loud and clear the prolonged alarm
whistle of the central office man. With
in ten seconds all the neighboring air
was thrilled with shrilied responses.
Boyd had turned even more quickly,
turned before the gang in the room
could fathom what the swiftly enacted
episodes portended, and when at last
they pulled themselves together, it was
to stand gazing into the frowniug muz-
zles of Boyd's leveled weapons.
your hands-up with Them he
shouted, in a way not wisely disregard
cd. Your lives hang by a thread! One
move by any man of you and he's done
fort Your hands only-up with them, 1
sayP'
Not a man among them dared invite
by refusal the threatened bullet, yet
some eyes were turned instinctively 10
the closed doors, and some upon the
senseless, PROSTATE figure of their rec
ognized leader. So three minutes
passed, while the crash of falling doors,
the thunder of many feet over carpet
less stairs. the loud cries of officers
approaching from different directions,
told the fateful story.
1t was ten minutes later, however,
before the last man was in irons, and
Jimmie Coleman, hurTying up from
visit to one of the cellars, found Felix
Boyd leisurely opening a square box
which he had taken from the chest in
the corner.
Just as you predicted, Felix" cried
Coleman, as he entered the crowded
room. I'VE found Palfrey bound hand
and foot in the basement"
/ Boyd's thin, firm lips curled with
/ satisfied smile.
That's good enough. Jimmie" said
he, with odd elaboration. Found Pal
frey, too, Ell? And it's a good move
we have made in taking that man
Keene. A bad egg and much better
behind prison bars. He couldn't swal-
low the court trick, Jimmie, and was
about to bolt alone. couldn't quite sit
for that, yet saw that words would be
vain, so 1 seized the bull by the horns.
l Lucky you were right handy, Jimmie,
or only the devil can tell how things
would have gone. might have landed
them alone-yet that's too much like
! fiction. For in real life we accomplish
only about one-half Of hat we think
we can, and All, Jimmie, behold"
i Mr.. Felix Boyd had finished opening
the box.
From a bed of velvet and satin, as
dazzling as a sunburst with its radiant
glory, there cleaned up at them-the
yal tiara, gift to the Russian cZarina.
/ x X x
Eyes. Jimmie. a curious case I'm a
way" admitted Boyd, as the two saun-
tered into the latter's Pine street office.
Under the adverse circumstances and
considering the CELEBRITY required, we
did well to land the czarina's tiara
safely in the keeping of the Russian
consul, and the scamps who stole it
securely under bolts and bars Yes,
curious case"
You've not told me just how you
measured il so quickly
Have a chair, Jimmie. You were In
forming me of the burglary at Glen
dale's house, you remember, when he
came here and stated that the tiara
had been stolen and that his clerk. Pal
frey, was mysteriously missing"
'T recall it. Felix
cit at once reminded me of the news
paper stories about the tiara, and I