The Huttig news., 1909-01-09
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 CHAPTER Mad" Dan Maitland on reaching his New fork bachelor club. nfnt an attractive young woman at the is or Janitor O'Hagan assured him no obe had been within that day. Dan dis slvered a womans finger prints in dust pn his desk, along with a letter from hls lttorney.
 CHAPTER H-Matland dined with >annerman his attorney. Dan set out )r Greenfields, to get his family jewels.
 nlring his walk to the country seat, he net the young woman in gray, whom
 e had seen leaving his bachelors club. Ter auto had broken down. He fixed 1t md by ruse she lost him.
 CHAPTER ILL Maitland, on reaching
 ome, surprised lady in gray. cracking he safe containing his gems. She, ap- ,arently, took him for well-known rock, Daniel Anisty.
 CHAPTER Iv-Half- hypnotized. Mait- land opened his safe. took therefrom the jewels, and gave them to her. first form ing partnership in crime. The. real world, appeared on the same same mission. Maitland overcame him. He met the girl outside the house and they sped on to New York in her auto He had the jewels and she promised to meet him that day.
 CHAPTER v-Maitiand received a MT. Snaith" introducing himself as detective. To shield the girl in gray, Maitland, about to show him the jew blow from '.Snaith's" cane. The latter proved to be Anisty himself and he se- 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 in gray. He gave her the gems, after fall ing in love at first sight. They were to meet and divide the foot.
 CHAPTER vIII-Maitland revived and regretted missing his engagement An ly avoided capture through mysterious lip. The girl in gray visited Maitlands apartments during his absence and re- turned gems, being discovered on re- turn.
 CHAPTER Ix.-Maitland, without cash. called up his home and heard a womans voice expostulating.
 CHAPTER x-Anisty. disguised as Maitland. told her his real identity and realizing himself tricked tried to wiring from her the location of the gems. Then he proposed marriage. A crash was heard at the front door.
 CHAPTER xI-Maitland started for home. He found Anisty and the girl in his rooms. Again he overwhelmed the crook. allowing him to escape to shield the young woman. Dan himself nar- rowly avoids arrest.
 CHAPTER XII Janitor O'Hagan vined and dined the officers of tre law. fused to partake and Unused on his ill- fate.
 4 moment gone she had been so sure that all would now be well with her, once Maitland succeeded in rid ding himself of the police, He would shut the door and-and then she would come forth and tell him, tell him everything, and, withholding naughI tslat damned her in her own esteem, throw herself upon his mercy, bruised with penitence but serene in the as. surance that he would prove kind.
 She had such faith in his tender and gentle kindness now She had d.yined so clearly the motive that had permitted Anisty's escape in or der that she might be saved, not alone from Anisty. not alone from the shame of imprisonment, but from herself as well-from herself as Maitland knew her. The burglar out of the way, by ruse. evasion, or subterfuge she would be secreted from the prying of the DO lice, smuggled out of the house and taken to a place of safety. given new chance to redeem herself, to clean her hands of the mire of theft. to be- come worthy of the womanhood that was hers.
 But now-~she thrust finger-nails cruelty into her soft palms. striving to contain herself and keep her tongue from crying aloud to those three brutal. blind men the truth; that she was guilty of the robbery, she with Anisty, that Maitland was-Maitland a word synonymous with man of honer''
 In the beginning. indeed, all that re- strained her from doing so was her knowledge that Maitland would be more rained by her sacrifice than glad dened or relic ed. He was so sure of clearing himself. It was in- conceivable to her that there could be men so stupid and crassly unobserv- ant as to be able to confuse the iden- tity of the two men for a single in stant. Whst though they did resemble each other in form and feature? The likeness went no deeper; below the surface. and rising through it with every word and look and gesture. lay worldwide gulf of difference in every shade of thought, feeling, and instinct.
 She herself could never again be de ceived-no, never, Not for a second could she mistake the one for the ether. What were they saying?
 The turmoil of her indignation sub sided as she listened. breathiessly, to Msitland's story of his adventures; and the icy that leaned in her for his frank mendaeity in suppressing every incident that involved her was all but overpowering. She could have wept for sheer happiness: and at later time she would; but not now, when everything derended on her maintain ilg the very silence of death.
 How dared they doubt him? The insolentsi The crude brutish insol- ence of them! Her anger ragged high again and as swiftly was