El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-08
..In a few minutes"

exit when messenger boy entered,
! bearing a telegram. Valentine tore
/ it open, apologizing to Rose as he did
! so. The girl saw that the assistant
/ cashier was very busy. She deter
mined to leave him for the present.
AS Valentine dismissed the boy she
| announced that if the press of BUSH
ness would not continue all day she
would return. Valentine assured her
| that in a half hour be would be at
| leisure and that he would sacrifice
everything Use in order to talk to her.
She started toward the door. assuring
him that she would return. AS she
opened the door she turned and cast
a smile in the direction of the assist
ant cashier.
But Valentine did not notice it. He
did not see it. His eyes were glued to
the slip of yellow paper that he held
in his hand The girl saw that as be
] read the telegram an expression of
! tenseness, of unsubdued excitement,
she softly closed the door, A few
steps carried her before Valentine.
! who looked up in surprise. thinking
she had gone.
What is it-that telegram she
gasped. Its bad news for you-very
bad" she went on 81 must know"
Valentine, undergoing pronounced
shock owing to the contents of the
message which he%held in his hand,
was almost completely unstrung by
the interruption of the girl he loved.
Was it not fate that prompted her to
appear before him at the very moment
| when
'Oh. it is nothing" he said weakly.
.S1erely a little business tangle-that
Ia all"
He stepped out from behind his
desk. crumpling the fateful telegram
in his hand. and gently led the girl to
the door. Remember" he said, Il
have an engagement with you in
half hour"
II will remember"
| Unconyinced. mysti1ed and thor
oughly agitated by his nervous man
ner, Rose Lane went out of the office.
Valentine. smiling as best he could
.nder the circumstances. closed the
door behind her. He crossed to her
chair. sank into it and hattened the
wrinkled telegram before him. Again
he read it from end to end:
Look out" he read. Doyle win be
in town this afternoon at 4 to see you
/ about an important matter"
The assistant cashier dropped his
chin into his palm and stared vacant
" at the opposite wall.
Doyle" he muttered = George
Doyle He said he'd get me if it took
ten years-a lifetime Well. perhaps
he can; then, again. perhaps he can
not At any rate, he can probably ruin
my career. my hopes, my standing here.
where l have friends. who believe in
me-
Valentine leaned hack meditatively
| In his chair The fatal telegram drop
| ped unheeded TO the floor. His mouth
set determinedly. A new fire blazed
in his eyes. the fire that had consumed
him and had spurred him on when in
/ the days and nights Of the past he had
ventured forth on a desperate enter
prise
He would give George Doyle a race.
that he would He would match his
wit against that of the skilled sIeuth.
He already had laid the basis for what
now must he his course of procedure.
and he believed that it would with
stand even the cunning and force of
George Doyle. At any rate, he could
try.
Valentine leaned forward and press
ed a button A clerk entered. The as
sistant cashier hesitated a moment.
then spoke quickly.
Tell the Waterman to come here"
/ he directed
The clerk nodded and went out in
search of Red Flanagan-yes, Red.
none other than the one time accom-
plice of Jimmy Valentine. whom the
latter, true to his word. had taken
with him in his attempt to Ego it
straight"
flanagan must be told Of the COM
ing Of Doyle. who was his sworn enc
my also. In addition, Red would have
to assist the assistant cashier. now
known SIS Mr. Randall. in the maneu-
yer which the latter was about to ex-
ecute.
Then there was Avery-old Bill
Avery. From the day that Valentine
had sent him away from the hotel in
Albany Avery had been making heroic
efforts to live ION the square"
The three years that had elapsed
since No. 1899 had advanced Avery,
long '.yeggman' of the most desper,
ate type. the price of railroad ticket.
had made a revolutionary TRANSFORMED
ton in him. Today he was married,
had a growing business and had per
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