The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1910-01-06
CHAPTER xv.-con,Inusd.

Maitland. yielding the initiative 20
the others superior generalship. stood
sentinel, revolver in hand. until the
detective returned. overheatee and
sweating, from his tour. to report
'nothin' doin'." with characteristic
brevity. He had the same report 90
make on both the twentieth and TWEEN
ty-first floors. where the same pro
cedure was observed: but as the latter
was reached unexpected and very vel
come reinforcements were gained by
the arrival Of a third car, containing
three patrolmen and one roundsman.
Yet numbers created delay; Hickey
was seized and compelled to pant ex-
plantations. to his supreme disgust.
And. suddenly impatient beyond en-
durance, Maitland left them and alone
sprang up the stairs.
That this was simple fooIhardiness
may be granted without dispute. But
II must be borne in mind that he was
very young and ardent, very greatly
perturbed on behalf of an actor in
the tragedy in whom the police. to
whatsoever. And II in the heat of
chase he had for an instant forgotten
her, now he remembered; and at once
the capture of Anisty was relegated
20 the status of a matter OF secondary
importance. The real matter at stake
was the safety of the girl whom
Anisty. by exercise of an internal in
genuity that passed Maitlands COM
prehension, had managed to spirit into
this place OF death and darkness and
whispering halls Where she might
be. In what degree Of suffering and
danger-these were the considerations
that sent HIN in search Of her without
n thought of personal peril. but with a
sick heart and overwhelmed with a
sitting sense of anxiety.
More active than the paunch-bur-
dened detective, he had sprinted down
and back through the hallway of the
twenty-second floor, without discover
ing anything ere the police contingent
had reached an agreement and the
stairhead.
There remained two more floors, two
final flights. A little hopelessly he
swung up the first And as he did so
the blackness above him was riyen by
a tongue Of fire. and a bullet. singing
past his head. fattened itself with a
vicious spat against the marble dado
Of the walls Instlnctiyely he pulled
up. finger closing upon the trigger of
his revolver; fash and report fol
lowed the motion, and a panel of
ribbed glass in a door overhead was
splintered and fell in clashing frag-
ments. all but drowning the sound of
feet in fight upon the upper staircase.
A clamor Of caution. warning, en-
couragement. and advice broke out
from the police below. But Maitland
hardly heard. Already he was again
Ia pursuit. taking the steps two at a
leap. With hand upon the newell
post he swung round on the twenty
third floor. and hurled himself toward
the foot of the last flight. A crash
like a rifle-shot rang out above, and
for a second he fancied that Anlsty
had fred again and with a heavier
weapon But Immediately he realized
that the noise had been only tho slam
ming Of the door at the head of the
stairs-the door whose glazed panel
doomed above him, shedding a diffused
light TO guide his footsteps. its opales-
cent surface lettered with the name Of
HENRY NJ. ZIMMERMAN,
Attorney q Counselor-atLaw.
fha door 90 The offica whose Threshold
he had so often crossed to meet
friend and adviser. II was with a
shock that he conprehended this,
thrill Of wonder lie had all but for
gotten that BaDnermar owned an Of
nee IN he bulldog, in the rush. the