Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-06

"T viii remain here he said. II have
bribed the hall porter to keep awake,
and I may be wanted on the telephone
at any moment"
"Then I will stop with you" cried
Fairholme.
And I. too" chimed in Talbot.
You win do nothing Of the Sort" he
answered with pleasant insistence.
You will Just be off, both of you. and
get some. hours of sound sleep. You
may need all your energy tomorrow.
Do not be afraid. 1 will arouse you
IL anything dramatic should happen"
Left to himself, Brett again inter-
viewed the hall porter and returned to
the sitting-room, where he disposed
himself for q nap on the sofa. Like
all men who possess the faculty OF
concentrated thought, he also cultivated
the power of Diminishing a perplexing
problem from his mind until It became
necessary to consider 1t afresh in the
light Of further knowledge.
Within five minutes he was sound
asleep.
At length he woke with a start. He
was stiff with cold, for the fire had
gone out. and the tiny gas jet he had
left burning was not sufficient to warm
the room. He sprang to his feet and
looked at his watch. It was half-past
six.
Surely" he cried, there must have
been a message from Paris long be-
fore this!"
He ran downstairs encountering on
his waBdsome Of the hotel servants,
Who even thus early had commenced
work, for your Industrious Frenchman
is no laggard in the morning. Going
to the hall porter's office he found that
functionary snoring peacefully. The
poor fellow was evidently tired out.
and twenty telephone bells might have
tangled in his ears without waking
him.
So, for the third time. Brett rang
up the exchange to get In touch with
Paris. AS he had anticipated. he quick
ly learnt that the prefecture had en-
deavored to get through to him about
4:30 a. m. but the operators were un-
able to obtain any answer.
"I can hardly blame the man." said
he to himself, "for I was just as tired
as he"
The intimation he received from the
prefecture was startling enough. In ac-
cordance with his instructions a num-
Der of detectives had raided the Cab
aret Noir soon after three o'clock.
They found the place in possession of
a waiter and a couple of female SER
wants. Gros Jean had quilted the house
the previous evening, and. most
astounding fact of all, with him were
three Turks.
Neither the waiter nor the domestics
could give any information whatever
concerning the hidden room. They
knew OF its existence, but none of them
had ever seer it. and the place was
generally regarded as a sort Of cellar
for the reception of lumber.
The police forced a paddock which
guarded its trap-door. and found to
their surprise that the place was much
more spacious than they anticipated.
1t really contained two apartments,
one of which was so firmly secured
that it had hitherto resisted all their
efforts to open 1t. The other was a
sort of bed-sitting-room, and it had
recently been occupied. From various
INDICATIONS they came 10 the concur
sion hat its latest tenants were Hus-
sein-ul-Mulk and his confederates.
Judging from the fact hat these
gentry had quietly left the cafe In Gros
jeans company about half-past seven
the previous evening, they were not IN
confinement against their will. In fact.
the police theory was that this secret
chamber provided a safe retreat for
any person who desired complete Sc
other than that provided by
the authorities.
II is assumed" said the officer who