New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-06-08
CHAPTER TX.

O'CLOCK IN the managing
10j EDITORS room in the Advance
ISS7@e building Wheeler Brand and
lS2s&&J three other men, Howard
Hartley, jeff Thorne, staff reporters,
and Bill, their much browbeaten I'M
derstudy, were industriously at work.
At one side Of the Office diagonally
from the managing EDITORS desk was
a high mahogany desk which backed
against wooden partition which cut
off a small room used as "morgue,"
the place where newspaper and maya
zine clippings are kept for reference.
Through the partition round hole
about five inches in diameter had been
cut with handsaw, and on table in
the morgue camera had been rested
with the telescope protuberance con-
tanning the lens projecting through the
hole in the partition into a private
mail box directly above the desk. The
door of this box, into which were
placed letters arriving for the manag-
ing editor during his absence, had
been unlocked. A line of shoe thread
had been fastened to the door of the
box and extended down behind the
desk to the floor and across to the
left hand side of Brands desk. A
slight tug on the thread would cause
the door of the mail box to open, ex-
posing to the lens Brands desk, his
chair and another chair which had
been placed at the right Of the desk
next to the telephone.
For several minutes the mysterious
preparations went on. Just what they
meant no one but Brand could tell,
and he was strangely silent, except as
to directing what should be DONE
Hartley was anxious to make GER
tain that the lens aimed directly at
Brands desk. He measured the line
with his eye.
"Get ity' called Jeff.
mo, not yet. Wait a minute" How
ard answered, lodging around quickly
toward the little "morgue." II haven't
got the focus right yet. Hold onv'
JEFF lighted match, held it up and
stood between the two chairs.
s'How's that?" he cried.
AO dA0 WS11uS SO4CO CtluS UdCk.
"Yes; that's the very thing. It's all
right now"
Brand stepped forward from cor
ner Of the room from whence he had
been watching the final preparations
for the strange event that was to occur.
B Are you all set now, boys?" he
asked. us your camera in the right
place for the fashlight? p
''Yes, STRIP cried JEFF and Howard ST.
multaneously.
The fashlight is planted here, SIR"
said Howard, pointing to narrow pan
in a Swallowed spot on top Of the ma
hogany desk and close to the lens.
Have you tested this 2" asked Brand.
Yes, sir"
BE careful, sir, or you'll explode
the flash, warned JEFF as Brand light
ed match to ascertain the location
of the powder.
GO into room 4, boys, and wait till
/ send for you,' directed Brand.
JEFF and Howard went out. Brand
went to his desk as the office boy,
Durkin, entered.
Joe billions here" said the lad.
Drunk ?''
"Just one over
broker"
'.surep' The boy grinned.
Dillon, one of the '.has-beens' char
acteristic Of the type that prey on the
newspaper men at night in the big
cities, would ordinarily have received
short shrift from busy man like
Brand, but Dillon, an ex-newspaper
reporter. had once given Brand. when
2 beginner, some valuable pointers,
Which the now managing editor had
never forgotten. S. .ssss ne Is
Tell him to come Ii, ordered Brand.
he reached for the Office telephone