The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-25
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 5 KY PIRATE by GARRETT p o ~ SENVISS.

uSllc0 IE tU0 HedFClS J him, and we'll give him his deserts. And, young man. your fortune is made. Do you know what MT. Grayman will do to reward you for restoring his daughter?"
 "No. sir; I haven't thought about that"
 well. I don't know, either," he re- piled, with quizzical smile, "but have thought about it, and I know what I'd do, anyhow"
 Then he looked at me for a moment, laughing good humoredly. But, sud- denly becoming serious, "We'n take the first train for New York;" he said. There is no time to be lost. Payton will communicate tomorrow, and we must be on the spot with everything in readiness
 The next morning MT. Grantham and I went together in an auto from our hotel, where we had arrived in the middle of the night, to MT. Grayman's office
 ''This is Lieutenant Allan," said MT. Grantham, presenting me very courte- ausly. q have already told you about him and my expectations of bim. He is not going to fail us. He has brought along little apparatus which. fancy, will do the business for MT. Alfonso Payton. Lieutenant Allan, please show MT. Grayman your machine and tell him how 1t works"
 The great millionaire was as delight cd with the explanation as the secre- tary had been.
 But how" he asked, after a mo- ment's reflection, "are we going to in- duce Payton to send two messages to different points? And how do we know that he will send them from his hiding place? He may communicate from his aero"
 'T have worked that all out, Gray man." replied the secretary. "In the first place, as to his communicating from his Iodge'-for I judge by your daughters letter that that is what he calls his lair-I believe that there is very little question. He will want to continue to entertain her and to Hull her suspicious; and so, having, prob ably, no more important business than this. he will remaln there. You can make sure by asking for news of your daughter.
 Then, as for inducing him to send two messages, that win be easy. Lieu tenant Allan tells me that he wishes to select place for the second communi- cation at a considerable distance from New York, in order to be sure of hav-' ing a manageable angle.' Assuming that Payton's place is somewhere in the Allegheny range, or the Blue Ridge although, Of course. we cannot bank much on the indication of the post marks, but it is not likely to be much farther away-Buffalo would. probably serve our turn.
 ''All that you have to do, then, will be to interrupt Payton after he has gone far enough in his communication today to enable Allan to determine the direction of the waves and tell him that sudden imperative call has sum- moned you to Buffalo and that you must go there tonight. Tell him that until you have seen your man in Buff falo and arranged the affair that you have in hand you cannot name day when you will be free to meet him, but that if he will communicate with you in Buffalo tomorrow you will be in a position to settle it.
 ''Of course you know the wireless telephone number of some Buffalo cor respondent. Give it to Payton and tell him to call you up there. Then we wtll take the night train for Buffalo and be ready for him in the morning, and guarantee that after that Allan will not be ten minutes in uncovering the hawks nest
 But" objected MT. Grayman, "since I have already put him off on a simi- lar plea, that will only excite his sus- picions."
 "Of course it will excite his sus- picions," replied the secretary. He is bursting with suspicion now. But what does that amount to? He will not give up his game simply because he knows that you are laying a trap for him. He is used to keeping out of traps. The beauty of our scheme is that let him e'--pect until doomsday, he can never Ut upon it. He will never have the ghost of an idea what we are about. Go ahead, Grayman, and do as I tell you, and I'll be responsible for the result
 So it was decided, and immediately I made my arrangements for connect ing my instrument with the aerial re- ceiver on the roof of the building con taining Grayman's offices. We rigged up, a temporary telephone from the sanctum to my station, and Secretary Grantham remained with Grayman to give hS word the instant that Payton's call was recognized, in order that I might not confuse it with some other. So was left alone to wait, and I con- fess that the strain made me very nerv- ous.
 I had to deal with many crooks in the service, but never with one of Pay tons caliber. Besides, felt more and more the importance of this affair to my future, and the secretary's myste- rious words about reward which he thought that Mir. Grayson ought to offer me had got hold of my imagina- ton. I certainly think that neither of the others could have awaited that call as anxiously as did.
 It seemed to me that I had sat there for hours with my eyes glued upon the s<efIfssfo needle when suG0apIy E .umH-