Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-20

II MA lack OF presence OF mind.
8lount turned to follow. fell ovar a
chair, picked himself up and. CROPPING
for the latch on Collins door. let him
self out into the corridor.
There were no signs Of the escaping
safe blower. and Blount ran hastily to
the elevator and rang the bell until
the sleepy operator set the machinery
In motion and lifted himself to the
door of happenings. Here the incident
came to an abrupt end. The elevator
man had heard no one descending the
stairs which circled down the elevator
well from floor to door to the street
level.
Bleunt went back to his office, turn
ed In a police alarm and waited until
al officer came from headquarters.
Leaving the man In charge Of the
wrecked w~orkroom. hs went to report
the safe blowing in person to the cap
tain on duty at police headquarters,
after which he carried out his original
intention of going to the hotel and to
bed.
But for a long time after the post
midnight quiet had settled down upon
the hostelry he lay wide awake, wres-
ting with this newest problem which
had risen up to confront him, for now
there was no longer any doubt In his
mind that the long arm of the ma
chine was reaching out for him per-
sonaIly and that sooner or later 1t
must come to a life and death grapple.
CHAPTER XIV.
ON THE KNEES or THE HIGH GODS.
UT was on the evening Of the day
following the safe blowing In
Blount's offices in the Temple
court building that a n car
special train slipped unostentatiously
into this capital from the east, running
as second section Of the overland.
Coincident with its sidetracking,
O'Brian, the vice presidents secretary,
dropped from the step Of the a and
mads his way across the tracks In the
yard to the nearest railroad telephone,
which CHANGED to be In the yardmas-
ter's office.
Fifteen minutes later the result Of
0'Brian's telephoning became evident.
Gantry and Ktttredge, the division SUI
perintendent, left their respective Of
fees In the railroad building, met In
the echoing train shed and walked to-
gether down the yards.
The vice president, sitting at the
great table In the open compartment
which served him as a desk In work
ing hours, looked up and nodded when
his two subordinates entered.
You got my messenger" he queried.
Gantry answered for both. Eyes,
and we were waiting. Your orders
have been carried out. Nobody out
side Of the dispatcher's office and the
few men in the yard crew knows that
you are here"
MI. McVickar sat back In his chair,
took one of the large black cigars
from the open box on the table and
passed the box across to his two sub
alterns.
Light up n6 cu1Q lCAoCAys aAA
due In Twin Canyon City tomorrow
morning. and we've got to thrash this
thing out In a hurry. Any change In
the situation since your last reporty
Gantry shook his head. Nothing
very important. Blount's uptown Of
fees were broken into last night, and
his safe was ripped open with dyna-
matte. That'a all"
aWell," said the big man at the Ia
bic. what came of III"
Nothing SO far as any mi can ind
out"
have seemed a little curious that the
vice president made no further inquiry
into the safe blowing. AS a matter of
fact, his next question completely ig-
nored II. !.
"what hiss Rlcunt been doing this
week. he asked.
"He has spoken twice, Ia at Arr
quipa and once at Hellersville. Col
Inns says he has engagements enough
to keep him out of town right up to
election day"
That's good" was the nodded APP
prevail. He'd only be In the way here
at the capital"
'sThat young man has been pretty
nearly q frost" remarked Kittredge
casually. "If he isn't q wild eyed
fanatic. as Gantry here insists he is,
he is deeper than the deep blue sea.
I'VE been keeping tab on him. as you
directed, and he has worn out three
of my best Office men trying to keep
cases on him."
"You are prejudiced. Kittredge,n
was the vice presidents comment. "ft
was the best move in the entire cam
paign putting him In the field. i don't
suppose be has accomplished much in
a practical way, but we have kept the
Honorable Dave from using him, as he
meant to-"
81 don't know about the accomplish
ment," put in Gantry. There is a
four ply mystery linked up In this
speechmaking business. At first /
thought Evan Blount's sudden popu-
larity dated back to some word sent
out from your Chicago Office. but when
you told me it didn't / began to do q
little wondering on my own account
/ can't make up my mind yet whether
1t is pure popularity growing out Of
his speeches OF whether it's the as
sisted kind"
"Assistedf" said the vice president,
with a lifting Of the heavy penthouse
eyebrows.
yes" Gantry went on. at has
been too unanimous Collins has kept