The Huttig news., 1910-09-24

"i, Too7 Hss-Anybody Else-2" trouble. It had been smuggled in to him in some way. You might get me some "baccy," he said, thrusting the bill through the bars and grinning.
 Now 1 understood what was going on. l reached for the bill, as though 1t were intended for me, but Mir. Po- ritol was quicker He snatched the bill and put it in his pocket
 q didn't know what to do. But suddenly Mir Poritol seemed to be frightened. Perhaps he thought that would have him arrested though he might have known that there were reasons why 1 couldn't. He gave me a panicky look and rushed out of the corridor. Afterward learned that he told the guard had sent him on an errand.
 .Welr'-she sighed-'of course. 1 followed. after ~ last glence at Walsh, l who was peerinx through the grating with look of evil amuse ement He must have been we'll paid, that burglar. But then" she unused, they could afford it-yes. they could well afford it.
 When got to the street, PoritoI was just disappearing in my carl can only think that he had lost his head very completely. for he didn't need to take the car He could have mixed with the street crowd and gone a-foot to the hotel where-''
 "Alcatrante
 Yes, MT. Alcatrante-where he was stopping, and have waited there. But MT. Alcatrante was playing golf at Wheaton. and MT. Poritol seems to have thought that he must go straight to him. He cannot escape from being spectacular, you rec.
 ''He ran out through the western suburbs. putting on more and moro speed. Meantime I set detective on the track of the car That Is how learned what 1 am now telling you. As for the car. Mir. Poritol sent 1t back to me this morning with hired chauf- feur. He wrote a note of abject apol- ogy, saying that he had been beside himself and had not realized what he was doing.
 After setting the detective at work, went out to our place by train. I dreaded confessing my failure to fa- ther, but he took it very we'll We had dinner together in his study. Maku wns in the room while we were talking. Now can see why Maku disappeared after dinner and did not return"
 But how did Poritol lose the bill?" asked Orme.
 The girl laughed. "It was really ridiculous. He over-speeded and was caught by one of those roadside motor car traps, 10 or 12 miles out In the country. They timed him. and stopped him by bar across the road From what the detective says. judge he was frightened almost to speeohless- 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 tree near by. he was white and trembling.
 They fined him $10 He had in his pocket only $11.63, 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 a formula on it that was valuable to him and no one else.
 "The justice was obdurate. and Mir. Poritol finally hit on the device which you have seen. It fitted in we'll with his sense of the theatrical; and the detective says that there was not scrap of paper at hand. The point was that MT. Poritol was more afraid of delay than anything else He knew that would put some one on his track"
 When did all this happen?' asked Orme.