The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30
THE MAN WITH THE MASTER MIND

third message arrived. Sent from the
same station, 1t read:
come to-
Would there be a fourth that would
give us the final clue? All the day we
waited with all the patience we could
summon. but it came, not. Clarke
spent the time porting over the time
ia bles of the north and south lines. AT
last he gave up and, throwing the time
tables from him, he exclaimed: Some
thing has happened. She cannot finish.
But there is another means If only she
will try it."
Then he nay back in his chair and
closed his eyes. For more than an
hour he did not stir. l began to think
he slept. Then he jumped I'D so sud-
denly that he startled me.
Quick, I have il. We are going.
Pack. Don't forget the arms and
plenty of ammunition. and put in those
four automatics we got the other day.
There may be hot work before we ever
see Chicago again. Let's see the train
leaves in an hour and quarter"
But where are we going?" / asked.
involuntarily.
New Orleans" he shouted as he
dashed into his room to throw his
clothes out to me to pack
We reached New Orleans at dusk and
TOOK a cab from the railway station.
AS we drove away. looking out of the
cab window, / saw a swarthy, roughly
dressed man enter another cab, which
immediately followed u.s. / thought
nothing of the incident at the time ex-
cept to wonder how such a looking in
dividual happened to be riding in cabs
As we entered our hotel / looked
back. The roughly dressed fellow had
discharged his cab and taken up a po-
sition across the street where he could
watch the door of the hotel.
"Ah; we are watched" whispered
Clarke, exultantly. THAT proves we
are on the right trail. We have but to
turn watchers ourselves to find the
end of it,
We registered under assumed names
went directly to our rooms and had
dinner brought up. While we were
eating Clarke laid the plans for the
night. I felt assured that his iron
body and nerves-of steel would not re-
lax until he had accomplished some
thing. yet L complained that he had
assigned to me the hardest task of
all. that of waiting patiently in the
hotel until he should need me. ] bent
however, to his argument that one OF
us at least should get some sleep and
be fresh for the morrow
Keep your ear open for the tele-
phone" warned Clarke, as he left
"Ill call you the minute l have need
of you"
| may have rested. but | cannot say
| slept much. All night l turned over
in my mind all phases of the puzzle
What had the note told Clarke? Why
were we 50 soon met and followed?
How did he expect to pick up the
tran in this strange city? Where then
would it lead to? There was obviously
no answer to any of these questions,
and l must have dropped off to sleep
when the telephone bell in the ROOM
startled me into consciousness. I
snatched up the receiver.
It's me-Clarke. Are you dressed?
That's good. Pack everything and slip
out through the kitchen. Give the
night porter a dollar and he will guide
you Don't worry about the bill. It's
paid. You'll find boy waiting at the
kitchen door. Follow him He will
suide you. Watch that you are not fol-
lowed Now hurry"
He needn't have added that i.
found the kitchen door as he directed
and discovered there, putting nonchal-
antly at a cigarette, one of those beaA'
giles of the city, a messenger boy. He
grabbed one Of the suit cases that ]
carried ans we We're away. / followed
him blindly through alleys and courts.
turning hither and thither after a fash
ion so devious that l would have de-
fed the most expert shadow TO have
followed us. At last we emerged onto
a street where the boy hailed a car
Takes us right to where de udder
chap is waitin'. gOv-neT. he said.
BY this time II was dawn and
hnr 1al in, he Il
rection OF the levee; the streets were
filled with two-wheeled cotton carts
guided by sleepy negroes. We left the
car and my guide lodged IN and out
among the long wharf houses until he
came to a small boat landing where
number of small craft were tied up.
One of these I had marked from affair."
1t was graceful launch of about