The Huttig news., 1910-10-01
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-At the expense of | s-lrd hat Robert Orme saves from arrest Slri in a black touring car who has 2 H1 tr lie jam State street. He pugs - hat and is given in change I ilVe doii. wit Remember person you pay this on it. sec ond time he helps tae sii in the black ar and learns that in Iyai md Bessie NaiDngham they have mutual friends. put gets no further hint of her identity ial in lo ms ms rooms at the Pere Marquette he te tte'epn1ehes a1e Jessie Wallingham and agrees eo eo Soil al Arradale on the morrow. He alseoVers another inscription on the marked bill, which. in a futile attempt to ueclpler Il, he copes and places the copy In a drawer.
 CHATTER CHATTER IL-senor Poritoi. South Aneriean, calls, and claims the marked DliL Orme refuses 10 give 1t up. Por- itoi atacks Orme, is overcome and calls la,,. ln Senor Aleatrante, minister from his t, ", To Nouch for him. Aleantrante lfles diplomacy to get the bill. Orme is suspiclous and dismisses them with a rat pauii,lse ,l 10 keep the bill until ten tomor- that a Japanese has called for him hui sage. VI ~ CHAPTER III.-Orme goes for an eve hiIas aIass walk and in Lincoln park rescues ta1ie u. ante again tries diplomacy but .iIs tdiIs 10 get tie mar&ed bill On his re- edIh to the Pere Marauette Orne is neI-11ihita dI11hea py two Japanese into the tun- itt5 passage to the courtyard ju- yttsuea ihto silent submission and anstt eAchdnge of the marked bill for 1ioeiiSl s IS effected. His assailants es. forehead. ~'S e1
 Yesterday afternoon. MT. Poritol came back to Chicago by trolley and got some money. He went back to the country justice and discovered that the marked bill had been paid out. He has followed it through several persons to you, just as Maku did, and as 1 have done. But I heard nothing of the Japanese"
 You shouldn't have attempted this alone said Orme, solicitouslE
 She smiled faintly. T dared not let anyone into the secret l was afraid that detective might learn too much" She sighed wearily T have been on the trail since morning..
 And how did you finally get my ad. dr s?'
 The man who paid the bill in at the hat shop lives in Hyde Park | did not get to him until this evening. while he was at dinner. He directed me to the hat shop, which. of course was closed. l found the address of the owner of the shop in the directory and went to his house. He remem- bered the bill, and gave me the ad- dresses of his two clerks. The second clerk I saw proved to be the one who had paid the bill to you Luckily he remembered your address
 Orme stirred himself Then the Japanese have the directions for find ing the papers"
 My rredicament," said the girl, "is complicated by the question whether the bill does actually carry definite directions"
 Tt carries something's set of ab- hreviations," said Orme But I could not make them out Let us hope that the Japanese can't. The best course for us to take is to go at once to see Walsh. the burglar
 He assumed that she would accept his aid
 That Is good of you" she said. But it seems little hopeless. doesn't it?"
 Why? What else can we do? suppose you saw to 1t that no one else should have access to Walsh"
 Yes, father arranged that by tele- phone. The man Is in solitary con anement Several persons tried to see him today, on the plea of being rela- tives. None of them was admitted"
 What money king was this girls father that he could thus regulate the treatment of prisoners?
 So there were abbreviatiens on the bill?' she asked
 Yes. They weren't very elaborate. and l puzzled over them for some time. The curious fact Is that, foI all my study of them, cant remem- Der much of anything about them. What l have since been through, ap- parently, has driven the letters out of my head"
 "Oh, do try to remember" she i'm plored. Even if you recall only one or two bits of it, they may help me-"
 There was something about man named Evans" he began. "S. R. Evans, it was"
 Evans? That is strange I can't think how any one of that name could be involved"
 Then S. R. Evans is not your ia ther?' he ventured.
 "Oh. mo- She laughed light little laugh. My father is-but are you sure that the name was Evans?"
 Quite sure. Then there was the abbreviation 'Chi.'-which l took to mean Chicago"
 "Yes?" she breathed.
 And there were numera's-a num- Der, then the letter N. another num- Der. followed by the letter E. So far north, so far east, 1 read it- though | couldn't make out whether the numbers stood for feet or paces or miles"
 Yes, yes she whispered. Her