The Huttig news., 1908-12-05
SYNOPSIS.

SYNOPSIS.
 CHAPTER Mad" Dan Maitland, on reaching his New Fork bachelor club. mt an attractive young woman at the d. or Jantor OHasan assured him no Ole had been within that day. Dan dis ivered a woman's finger prints in dust on his desk, along with letter from his attorney
 CHAPTER IL-Maitland dined with Zimmerman, his attorney. Dan set out for Greenfields, to get his family jewels. During his walk to the country seat, he he had seen leaving his bachelors club. Her auto had broken down. He fixed il and by ruse she Host" him.
 CHAPTER I1I.-Maitland, on reaching home, surprised lacy in gray, cracking the safe containing his gems She ap- parently, took him for a well-known crook. Daniel Anisty.
 CHAPTER Iv.-Half- hypnotized, Malt land opened his safe, took therefrom the ing partnership in crime. The. real Dan Anisty, sought by police of the world appeared on the same mission. Maitland overcame him. He met the girl outside the house and they sped on 10 New York in her auto. He had the jewels and sine promised to meet him that day.
 CHAPTER v-Maitland received a MT. Snaith,' introducing himself detective. To shield the girl in gray. Maitland about to show him the jew. els, supposedly lost. was felled by blow from .Snaiths" cane. The latter proved to be Anisty himself and he cured the gems.
 CHAPTER vI.-Anisty. who was Matt lands double, masqueraded as the latter.
 CHAPTER vII@The criminal kept Maitland's engagement with the girl Tn l~Tx fl,. Coll ing in love at first sight. They were to meet and divide the loot.
 The sidewalks. north and south, swarmed with children Of assorted ages. playing with the ferocious en- ergy characteristic of the young of Harlem; their blood-curdling cries and premature Fourth-of-July fireworks created an appalling din, to which. however. the more mature denizens had apparently become callous. through long endurance.
 Beyond the party-colored lights of a drug store window on Seventh avenue. the electric arcs were casting sick1y radiance upon the dusty leaves of the tree-lined drive. The avenue itself was crowded with motor cars and horse-drawn pleasure vehicles. mostly bound uptown, their occupants seeking tie cooler airs and wider spaces to be found beyond the Harlem river and along the Spec 1way. A few blocks to tfe west Cathedral heights bulked like a great wall, wrapped in purple shad ows. it's jagged contour stark against n evening sky of suave old rose.
 The short and thick.set body, how ever, seemed to have no particular ap- preciation of the beauties of nature as exhibited by West One Hundred and Eighteenth street on a summers sven Ing. If anything, he could apparently have desired a cooling breeze; for, after a moments doubtful considera- tion. he unbuttoned his waistcoat and heaved a sigh of relief.
 Then, carefully shifting the butt of dead cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, where it was al most hidden by tie jutting thatch of his black mustaohe. and drawing down over his eyes the brim of a rusty plug hat he thrust fat hands into the pock- cts of his shabby trousers and lounged against the polished pillar even more energetically than before, if that were possible. An unremantie, anathetic figure. fitting so naturally into his sur rosndings as to demand no second look even from the most observant; yet one seeming o possess a magnetic attrac- ton for the eyes of the hallboy of the apartment hotel (who, acquainted by sight and hearsay with the stout gen tleman's identity and calling, bent upon him a steadfast and adoring re- gard) as well as for the policeman who lorded it on the St. Nicholas ave nue corner. in front of the real estate office, and who from time to time shifted his eontemT lation from the in finite spaces of the heavens, the better to exchange a furtive nod with the idler in the hotel doorway.
 Presently-at no great lapse of time after the short and thick-set man had slowed away his watch-out of the hroaged sidewalks of Seventh avenue man apr cared, walking west on the north side of the street and reviewing carelessly the numbers on the illumin lted fanlights; tall man, dressed all gray, and swinging thin walking tick.
 The short. thick-set person assumed mien of more intense abstraction than ever.
 The tall man in gray paused indefi- nitely before the brownstone stoop of the house numbered 205, then swung ap the steps and into the vestibule Here he halted. bending over to scru- tiGiEe the names on the letter boxes.
 The short, thick.set man reluctantly detached himself from his polished pillar and waddled ungraeefully across he street.
 The policeman on the corner seemed suddenly interested in Seventh ave nue, and walked in that direction.
 The gray man. having vainly de eiphered all the names on one side of the vestibule. strengthened up and turned his attention to the opposite wall. either unconscious of or indif ferent to the shuffie of feet on the koh h,