The Huttig news., 1910-06-04
1y f1ARY ROBfRTc RINEHART

Good God. that's my mani" I said boarsely. as the audience broke into applause. Mcknight half rose: in his seat ahead Johnson stifled yawn and turned to eye me
 l dropped into my chair Imply, and tiled to control my excitement. The man on the last platform of the train. 9 said He was just about 10 leap; I'll swear that was my bag"
 Could you see his face?s Mcknight asked in an undertone Would you know him again?'
 No His hat was pulled down and his head was bent I'm going back to find ont where that picture was ta- ken They say two miles. but it may have been forty"
 The audience. busy with it's wraps. had not noticed. Mrs. Dallas and AL ison West had gone. In front of us Johnson had dropped his hat and was stopping for it.
 This way" I motioneds to Me Knight, and we wheeled into the mar row passage behind us, back of the boxes. At the end there was doc leading into the wings, and as w went boldly through l turned the kes
 The final set was being struck. an no one paid any attention to us. Luc. fly they were similarly indifferent a banging at the door I had locke, a banging which, I judged, signife Johnson.
 I guess we've broken up his inter ference,'' Mcknight chuckled
 Stage hands were hurrying in every direction; pieces of the side wall oi the last drawing room menaced us; a switchboard behind us was singing ike tea-kettle. Everywhere we stepped we were in somebody's way At last we were across, confronting man in his shirt sleeves, who, by dots and dashes Of profanity seemed to be directing the chaos.
 Well?" he said, wheeling on us. What can 1 do for your"
 T would like to ask I replied, eff you have any idea just where the last cinematograph picture was taken"
 Broken board-picnickers- ?'
 No. The Washington Flier"
 He glanced atsmy bandaged arm.
 The announcement. says two miles, Mcknight put in, but we should like to know whether it is rail- road miles, automobile miles. CT DO liceman miles.
 T am sorry can't tell you,o he re piled. more ciyilly. We get those pie lures by contract We don't take them ourselves.
 Where are the company's offices?
 New York He stepped forward and grasped super by the shoulder. What in blazes are you doing with that gold chair in kitchen set? Take that piece of pink plush there and throw it over soap box, if you have not got kitchen chair
 l had not realized the extent of the shock, but now I dropped into a chair and wiped my forehead The unex- pected glimpse of Alison West fol lowed almost immediately by the rev elation of the picture. had left me limp and unnerved Mcknight was looking at his watch.
 He says the moving picture peo- pie have an office downtown We can make it if we go on now"
 So he called cab, and we started at gallop There was no sign of the detective Upon my word, . Richey said, T feel lonely without him.
 The people at the downtown office of the cinematograph company were very obliging. The picture had been taken, they said. at M, just two miles beyond the scene of the wreck. It was not much, but it was something to work on. I decided not to go home, but to send McKnights Jap for my clothes, and to dress at the Incubator I was determined, if possible, to make my next days investigations without Johnson. In the meantime, even if 1t was for the last time, l would see Her that night. l gave Stogie note for Mrs. Klopton, and with my dinner clothes there came back the gold bag wrapped in tissue paper.