Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-15

shuddered weakly, but he only shrug-
ged his shoulders and said, with a
fnality that cut of further discussion:
Hes a spy. 1 won't be spied upon"
| When Boyd entered his room at the
hotel, whittier he had gone after leav-
ing Cherry at billiards bank, Big
| George greeted him excitedly.
Here's the dickens to pay. We can't
| get that barkentine."
THE Margaret? Why not? Tho
| charter was all arranged"
1.-The agent telephohed that we could
not have her"
What reasons did he offerT'
''None. We can't have her, that's
all"
shes the only available ship on the
sound. Our stuff will be here in fort.
night"
"some of it will" -
"What do YOU
Boilers held up"
''Boilers?"
Eyes. Read that" Bait tossed him a
telegram.
Shipment delayed" read Boyd.
''Well, this is growing interesting.
Thank heaven, other people handle ma
chinery" He reached for q blank
and hurriedly wrote a message cancel
ing his order. 81 guess Cherry was
right. Marsh is fighting to delay u.s."
He began a recital of the mornings oc-
currence, but before he had finished he
was called to the telephone.
More bad news" he exclaimed as
he re-entered the room. THE Jackson
Nj, H.
delivery of their order. wonder what
next"
1--WE don't need anything more to Grip
pie u.s. George declared blankly. ANY
one of these blows is 3 knockout"
1t was perhaps an hour later that
Cherry entered unannounced.
ST just ran in for a minute to tell
you something new. When I came
up from the bank the elevator boy
at the hotel made a mistake and car
ried me past my floor. Without MOTTO
ing the difference, went down the
hall, and whom should run right in
to, coming out OF a room, but our de-
tective! AS he opened the door heard
him say, Very well, sir, I'll report to-
morrow.
10 wnOm was he repor1n&F
AZ don't know. A few minutes later
called you up to tell you about it, but
while / was waiting for my number
the operator evidently got the wires
crossed or left a switch open, for
heard this much of a conversation:
"'Our contract covers $4,000 cases
at So. We thought that was at least
20 cents under the market
81 was about to ring of when I re-
membered that you had sold your out
put of $4,000 cases to Bloc & Co. for So
a case, so I listened on a chance and
heard another voice reply
Whose voice?'
'I don't know. 1t said, Wen under
sell that by ST.
"'Good Lordr said the first speaker.
THAT means a loss Of And then 1
was gut of. I thought I'd better come
overSin person instead of trusting to
the wire"
"And you didn't recognize either
speaker"
mo. But 1 discovered at the of3ce |
that rooms 610 and 612-the suit saw
that detective coming out of-are occu-
pied by a Mr.. Jones of New York, who |
arrived three days ago. I'll bet any |
thing you please that you'll hear from |
Bloc & Co. within twenty-four hours |
and that the occupant of those rooms |
at the Hotel Butler is Willis Marsh"
Big George began to mutter profane- |
". at looks like they had US. and all |
because Frsser's tongue Is hung in the |
middle"
"AI the same, wen fight It out" said |
Emerson grimly. 'If I can raise that |
money in Tacoma"- Again the tele- |
phone bell buzzed noisily.
"Bloc & Co.." predicted Cherry, but
for once she was wrong.
"a call from Tacoma" said Boyd. the
receiver to his ear: sit must be the |
Second National They were not to let |
me know till tomorrow" Through |
the open door Of, thr adjoining room |
his words came distinctly, while the
others listened in tense silence.
"HellOi Yesi This Is Boyd Elmer