The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-14

| III nau Decn Uun2 with SuCh
| terrific violence that II had passed
through six inches of bricks and mortar
and lodged In the front of the house.
| The human form was barely recogniz
This time Crewe smiled no longer.
!, one can but TALL vertically from a bal
loon, loon he, he mused This man must, have
| ton. | think III look for your friend Shay
again but this time well avoid his rec
That night. accordingly we went into
the Earls Court grounds, We loitercd
In the, vicinity of the machinery exhibit
ton but there was no trace OF Shay.
After a while VIC strolled through the
| gardens, listened TO the bands and in
| spected n number of sideshows from the
outside. Suddenly felt Crewe pinch my
arm.
We were passing the Aerial Ride"
Everybody. probably has ridden In this
continuance at some time or other. One
gets Into boat. suspended, with num-
i, by long stays OF steel. a mechanism
underground sets the boats revolving
| through the air. AS they swing further
and further out they tilt inward until
! his side. II the machine were not oper-
ating one would fall to the ground below.
but the force of centrifugal motion keeps
one, in the boat as water STAYS in a
| bucket whired round the head We were
passing this contrivance. I say. when,
looking up. In response to Crewe's pinch,
I
l knew him, though he wore a me-
chanic's cloth cap and a workman's
clothes. More than that he knew me.
| ] SAW an expression of uncomfortable
hate pass over his features and. fairly
| frightened. hurried away,
| l hurried away with Crewe and. at
newspaper kiosk. saw the familiar black
headlines on an evening paper. I pur-
| chased one. 1t was the usual story. A
| third body had been found, three hun
dred yards from the exhibition grounds.
4 haI Tod
three chimncys and torn OFF a cornce
and had doubtless been thrown there
during the preceding night.
| Crewe was very thoughtful when we
| sat together in my rooms that night
1T can't be due to Shay lie cried.
"rhe story OF his about an irresistible
what does It mean? 1 cannot fathom 1t.
| His glance fell upon my bookshelf and
he rose to his feet.
| IL sec you have an enlarged map OF
London-an ordinance survey. believe"
he said, 81 saw It yesterday as we were
passing out of the door. Yes. here it is.
Let us investigate
He spread the great sheets on the
table. turning them until lie reached that
of the Ear's Court region. Every house
and street car was accurately depicted
upon this monumental record of patient
industry.
THE. first body was found here he
said, piercing the paper with a pin. And
the second in the Bromley road-here.
street-here. Now we have hree-fourths
OF circle IL we join these pin holes by
a faint line. Upon the fourth floor
He ceased for through the open WIN
dow we heard newsboy shouting in the
street.
"Another body found" he cried cor
rihle discovery in Preston road. All the
details
We raced downstairs and bought copy
Another corpse had been located in
branch OF a tree in Preston road Crewc
| led rrl, n ha mar q nd pYir lfnJ fh.s
spot.
81 have it,. he shouted. -Four points
on circumference. Find the center
LanstoD | am going to spoil your map"
He connected the points and using his
thumb and finger AS pair of compasses.
completed the circle with his finger nail.
tracing Ing, the nail marks 9n h the paper oith with
the center and l sprang 10 my feet,
choking.
The center of the circle was the band
stand of the Earls Court grounds. And
the bandstand was not twenty yards from
the Aerial Ride,
What does II mean?" cried.
ton. said Crewe impatientiy, Wen find
trance to the Exhibition which leads
mo. 1 Thought there was none"
81 mean the low wall that one can
vault over" said Crewe impatiently.
The gap left by, the workmen, who are
devil can't you use your eyes? We
passed 1t yesterday on that omnibus,
Never mind; Listen! The exhibition
30, when all the people have left, We
hide in that cluster OF trees-you didn't
see them, those Japanese laurel shrubs?
Well, take my word for II. they are there
and we hide in them I'LL midnight. when
everybody has gone home. Why not walt
TIL midnight before vaulting the wall?
My good Langton. at midnight the peo-
-l., Cf1,,r IVAN nctlE glh
the law forbids them to purchase drinks
after that hour. No, l can understand
you didn't notice the restaurant"
l glanced at the clock as | put on my
hat. 1t was half past ten. There was
just time to reach our objective com
fortably, but none TO spare. We de-
scended the stairs. went into the street
and took n motor omnibus FOR Earl s
court, where we got down.
To cross the wall was simple and we
were soon ensconced in the clump OF lau-
rel shrubs Carl's court was empty OF
its throngs and the proprictors OF the
booths and amusement shows were wend- |
ing their tired way homeward, After
ten minutes more we remained practical |
ly the sole inmates of the gardens.
"Langton.' said Crewe. we've got TO
find what is going TO occur at that Aerial
for me while i 20 forward and lnvesu
gale whether or not our masquerading |
engineer has closed up his property and
S Shse Ws ha an S' hoSF SGw then
cautiously In search of me-
I had no watch and the minutes passed |
like hours. Once or twice, shiverlng |
there alone in the darkness. fanced |
] heard faint calls from the bandstand |
But the whistle did not blow. At last |
wearicd OF my delay. and with eramped |
limbs that demanded stretching. l set of |
toward our objective, | passed the
chutes and the bandstand, Tho place
seemed wholly deserted; not even a |
watchman to be seen anywhere AS
drew toward the Aerial Ride ] noticed |
a faint glow from the basement In which
the mechanism was located. Over my |
head the boats hung idly and emptily
against the sky. Then
An arm was round my throat, COM
pressing il so that / could utter no sound.
My head was forced back till the ver-
tebrac felt on the point OF breaking; and
was staring into the malignant eyes
of Shay.
He was quito mad. furiously and In
cohcrently mad. and as he held me in
his powerful grip. he babbled out his
triumph,
eve got your friend he cried, "But
you'll come first and he'll wait in the
engine house. I'll smash you. you sneak-
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