El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-13
:" Below the Belt "
BY NTontmorency Bee.
Mick CULTIVATE stood at the
N telephone receiver waiting to

wires, a conversation that at first HI
listened to with scant interest.
ST say! Are you there? Well,
don't care about doing business Will
voice. You may be all right. but II
rather see you personally. I reckon
I've got no hold on voice at the enc
of wirer
The voice at the end of wire cal
draw checker, rather, can pu
banknotes in an envelope and post 'em
You see in funny business of THU
kind, Identities are best kept in the
dark
That's all very well, but how could
I guarantee handling the brass?"
ut would come in advance-wltf
your instruction"
Very well; then We'll put it the
other way. Suppose I'd got the brass
Halo. Are you there?-suppose To
got the brass, what hold would you
have on me-what guarantee that
should do the work?"
That would be all right, Mr.. Gibbs
I should keep the strings on you!"
Here, steady with that namel"
'All right But 1 know enough to
get you 20 years"
The voices were cut off suddenly. as
though the crossed wires had been
separated.
Just as the conversation was get
ting interesting" murmured Nick to
himself ST somehow seem to know
offering to pay the other for doing
I've heard it before, but I can't remem-
ber"
And then over the wire into the re-
ceiver that he held to his ear came
the voices again.
- you think? I know all about
you. I've known you long enough.
There was a fire in Moser Road. Brad
ford, a year ago, and the owners
scooped in q fine pocketful of insur-
ance over it. Do you think 1 don't
know about 1T. and who did it for
them?''
"Oh, rot: You can't prove anything.
I suppose you want similar job done
for yourself while you go for a holi-
day. eh?"
well. something like that. I kept
your name and address in my. mem
DRY in case I might want you. No. %
Northaven Square, isn't it?"
Confound- it. Be careful what you
say over the wire. Who are you, any
how?''
.I don't mean you to know-not just
now
Where are you speaking from?"
Never mind that. Are you going
to do the job? I'm offering fifty
How can ten if I don't know
where it is? I can't estimate the diff
culties"
They won't be many. You got
Job in that Moser Road mill. and let
yourself. be locked in at night-eh?'
"The man you arranged that with
owed me money. 1 had my suspicious.
got the money, and l frightened him
nto telling me. Well. there's my Of
pounds"
There came a blank, and then an
,ther few words-by post in the morn
ng-must get the notes-instructions
With it"
Halo! Are you there? who is
1t was the trunk call Nicholas Outh-
waite went on with the particular bus
ness he had been, waiting to transact,
nd then. when ne had finished that
lie hung up the earpiece and wrote
Iown on a slip of paper:
Gibbs, % Northaven Square"
IAN interesting address," he muir |
nured, but where is it? There's no
Iorthaven Square in this town.
He called Garth, who put it down |
s a potential insurance fraud at once. [
1T sounds like it, admitted Nick. /
But is anybody doing so badly in this j
istrict that it would pay to get burnt I
ut? Anyhow, If someone wants to +
lake himself into criminal. I sup t
ose it's that mans and the insurance
ompany's business
81 don't know; I'm afraid it's my
Nick said refiectively I've
cen putting some spare cash into in
nrance shares lately, and If someone
ONES along with a big claim, the
dds are that my company will be
it. We've taken up cotton mill in
1rance pretty largely"
Which end are we to start on-the
ian whose voice you think you know
ut can't recall. or the other who,
n the showing. seems to be an ex-
srt fire producer?"
Both ends, if possible, and meet in
lie middle. Anyhow, here's the start
II you. Find out where there is
orthaven Square It means going
trough a library of directories. You
y
And. meanwhile, in the intervals of
lying cotton today. will look UP thesl
surance affairs of some of our neigh
ors, The crossed wires must have
zen somewhere at this end
Garth came back from the public
ference library with pleased smile
Id some information.
I've struck two now. There's one
Bradford and one in Bailey. They
Ight both to be inspected.
"And I've got the number down. I'd
re to go and look around tonight
here's train to Bradford In half an
,ur"
You're a sage Garth. Well, have a
v. I'll stay and wait for an inspira-
1n to remind me of that voice. BY I
vet 1t did not occur to me before,
It it has just struck me that the
ice I heard on the phone was Rich
d Walshs. It was the pronouncia-
IN of certain words. You know ]
alsh has a few patent pronouncia-
ms of his own. He makes business
you remember, rhyme with '1zzi- {