The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-04

with quite craze for prom1scu0u5
tubs that afternoon, but nothing hap
pened; nor was il to be expected that
vigilance would be rewarded while the
passengers were in and out of their
cabins.
1t was not till dinner was in progress
| in the saloon, and after our steward
had brought us our tray and departed,
that anything happened; and then it
was only the faint click of doOrlatch
some way along the corridor, but it
sufficed. Flash Taylor laid down his
knife and fork and took up the hand
cuffs. which l had entrusted to him.
You foolY' 1 whispered You'll
| never live up to your adage that way.
Go on eating. Chatter your croekery,
and don't be so KEEN
NY prisoner looked his chagrin. but
obeyed, and ten minutes later, when
the distant door clicked again, l I'M
leashed him with the possibly unkind
remark:
There must be a crime before there
can be a conviction, my son, as your
own experience ought to have told you.
If am not mistaken the crime has now
been accomplished, and you can have
your revenge. Come along"
The door of the Due de Vionvilles
stateroom was our goal. and our unit
ed efforts broke it down in time to
prevent it's occupant from throwing
Lady Ravenbury's million dollar tiara
through the portfolio into the sea
My prisoner snapped the handouts
onto the French nobleman's" wrists,
while 1 covered him with my pistol.
There, Toff Larkin." Taylor painted
That's pay you for rounding on a
pal three years agoI'
Mr.. Radford Shone was not seen
much during the last days of the trip,
but when he did appear his sublime
egOtism carried him through without
any confession of defeat. His mouth
piece, Mr.. Samuel Martin. labored to
explain that Shone would have caught
the sham Due had it not been for Ian
casters folly in attracting suspicion by
his over anxiety.
The eminent expert lad. I was told,
some very hitter things to say about
my alliance with a corvict in order to
gain my ends. As matter of fact.
never tried to conceal that my capture
of 'Toff LaFkin" was entirely due to
his chance recognition by Flash Tay
| IOr," whose faithless comrade he had
been in, a former enterprise. Taylor
was able to tell me that 1.-The DUO
was one of a gang who had begun
to Systematically work the mail steam
ers by assuming a rank that was above
suspicion ana having as a confederate
a young and pretty woman. They had
procured a key to fit the bullion-room
/ by taking a wax impression of the
captains key. and after that all was
plain sailing with the exception of get
ting the proper lettering of the combi-
nation lock. This they contrived by
closely studying the custom of the ship,
which was for the captain and the sec
ond officer to decide upon just before
sailing. One or other of the confed-
crates generally managed to be in the
vicinity of the chartroC m at the cru
cial moment and overhear the letters.
Larkin had abstained from rObbing
the bullion-roo on the outward voy-
age this time because he had ascer-
tanned that better plumber was to be
obtained on the homeward one, and be-
cause he knew that ShOne's vigilance
would be relaxed after his apparent
success.
1 considered that I was more than
justified by the clearing of Phil Lam
caster, who was on the bridge when
we reached Liverpool, and, as a free
man. was bile to wave glad greeting
to the girl waiting for him on the
quay.
! Copyright, 1907, by w. G. Chapman
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