Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-12-22
CHAPTER Iv.-contlnued.

CHAPTER lV.-Ccntlnued.
The girl laughed. EFT was really
Ridiculous. He over-speeded and was
caught by one of those roadside motor
car traps, 10 or IL miles out in the
country. They timed him, and stopped
him by a bar across the road. From
what the detective says, l Judge he
was frightened almost to speechless-
ness. He may have thought that he
was being arrested for stealing the
car. When they dragged him before
the country justice, who was sitting
under a tree near by, he was white
and trembling.
"They fined him $40. He had in his
pocket only $11.6S, and the marked
bill was nearly half the sum. He
begged them to let him go-offered
them his watch, his ring, his scarf
pin-but the justice insisted on cash.
Then he told them that the bill had q
formula on 1t that was valuable to
him and no n else.
''The justice was obdurate, and MT
poritol finally hit on the device which
you have seen. 1t fitted in well with
his sense Of the theatrical; and the
detective says that there was not a
scrap Of pape at hand. The point
was that Mr.. Poritol was more afraid
of delay than anything else. He knew
that I would put some n on MS
track"
when did all this happen?" asked
Orme.
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Poritol
came back to Chicago by trolley and
got some money. He went back to
the country Justice and discovered that
the marked bill had been paid out
He has followed it through several
persons to you, just as Maku did
and as I have done. But l heard
nothing Of the Japanese"
"You shouldn't have attempted this
alone" said Orme, solicitously.
She smiled family. Il dared not lei
anyone into the secret. l was afrald
that q detective might learn toe
much" She sighed YEARLY. i have
been on the trail since morning"
"Apd how did you finally get my ad
dress?"
AThe man who paid the bill in q
the hat shop lives In Hyde Park.
did not get to him until this evening
while he was at dinner. He directed
me to the hat shop, which, Of course
was closed. / found the address o
the owner Of the shop in the director.
and went to his house. He remem
bered the bill, and gave me the ad
dresses of his two clerks. The secon'
clerk / saw proved to be the n VIII
had paid the bill to you. Luckily b
remembered your address.
Orme stirred himself. Then tn
Japanese have the directions for fine
ing the papers"
"My ~predicament," said the girl, Il
complicated by the question whethe
the bill does actually carry def1nit
directions"
'It carries something's set Of al
hreviations," said Orme. aBut l coul
not make them out. Let us hope the
me Japanese can't. The best cours
for us to take is to go at NICE to Sc
Walsh, the burglar"
He assumed that she would acceI
his aid.
"That Is good Of YOU" she sal
SBut it seems a little hopeless, doesn
M"
"Why? What else can we do?
suppose you saw to 1t that no or
alse should have ACCESS to Walsh"
eyes, father arranged that by tel
phone. The man is In solitary CO
tlnement. Several persons tried to 81
him today, on the plea Of being rel
i&ives. None OF them was admitted"
What money king was this girl
father, that he could thus regula
the treatment Of prisoners?
80 there were authorizations {
the bill2' she asked.
Eyes. They weren't very elaborat
and I puzzled over them for son
time. The curious fact is that, I
III my study Of them. ! can't RENEE
Der much Of anything about thel
what I have since been through, q
parently, has driven the letters OUT
my head"
"Oh, do try to remember" she !
plored. Even IL you recall only O.
Sr two bits Of 1t, they may help me
"There was something about a nj
Aamed Evans" he began. IS.
Evans, 1t was"
Evans? That is strange, ! ca
mink how any one Of that name COZ
be involved"