The Huttig news., 1912-04-13

| llldt iuAuIy dtl HHknONlHSlY gave tO the other side an advantage in the race for the Missioner jewels that well might prove fatal to his success Long before Rritz reached the hot-air room of the bath. the man with the glisten ing eyes who had passed him in the l hall of the tumhl e-down loft building l was at the door of Burlen's workshop, straining the angle of his vision to fol- low the phoTo-engraver at work. Those glittering eyes forcnsed their gaze through the keyhole on piece of pa per which Burlen had fastened with thumbtacks 10 board, and which. in the glare of an arc lamp, confronted big camera with powerful lens. AL
 though the eyes followed Burlen as well as they could about the room, l their owner was not so much interest ed in the artisans activity as he was in the small white sheet of paper on
 which he could discern lines traced in woman's hand. Patiently waited the owner of the eyes He was of race
 that had cultivated patience through i the centuries. Soon or late. undoubt- ] edly, the man inside would go from l the bench beside that great white
 light 10 another part of the room. A ! few yards would suffice for the man i with the eyes. and even while Britz
 still was talking to Raweon in Police ] Headquarters, Bur.en briskly covered
 those dozen or so feet 10 get a chem 1 cal Tn the TOW Of bottles in the rack l 3t the far end of the shop. The man l outside cfouching until he was little i higher than an upreared cobra of his native land, slipped through the door way. crawled across the intervening 1 pace between the threshold and the i camera whisked the Millicent note i rom the board and as silently made l lis escape hefore Eurlen had replaced l he cork in the bottle By the tfme l Detective lieutenant Britz was en
 teloped in the foe Of the steam room
 hat little note was iD the possession If the Swami and Prince Kananda 1 ind those Wotthies were studying il
 70 swiftly and so nrofitably that ere
 8ritz took his cold plunge. the sage l ind the Maharaiah's son made a
 swifter, deeper dive toward the hear 1 - tut M aftHSlobtI HIA SiFt It N dS d
 q result of what they learned from l &ilicent's missive that the Swami md the Prince went separately to tho
 ballroom of Doris Missioners most
 fashionable friend It was also in
 onsequenee of the information glean-
 ad from those netulant feminine lines
 that the Swami found Mrs Missioner's
 eciety 90 interesting, and that the
 Prince. before and after that tete-a
 fete, experienced keen curiosity con
 corning the doings, characteristics
 tad state of mind oi Curtis Griswold
 The third result of Millieenf's Iittle
 letter and the Fasteners joint visi;
 to the Fifth Avenue ballroom, wa
 their dash in separate eahs to bach
 e}or apartment in side street just
 of Central Park, where, shortly after
 their several arrivals. they were in
 close consultation for an hour or more
 with Ali. the supposedly devoted re-
 tainer of the rich Mrs. Missioner
 For the second noie te Curtis, ( ~i
 wold that fell into the hands of the l Hindoos-the one Prince Kananda in
 tercepted at the door of the Fifth Ave.
 nue mansion Tn which the great ball
 was held-was written on letterheao
 hat revealed to Mandy and the
 Swami an address they verv much de-
 sired to kl,ow Had that address found
 it's way tc Detective-Tieute enant Britz
 ss soon. if would have saved him
 much delay, and world have spared
 large part of the city's detective force the necessity of labo1ioas search
 through Manhattan's hotel registers.
 Rurlen was one Of the most aston. ished young men in lower Manhattan when, turning from his TOW of bottles, l he found the note entrusted to him by
 Pritz had vanished. At first he as. sumed he had fastea ed It carelessly and that 1t had fallen to the floor. A quick hunt showed him he was wrong.
 He extended his search to every part Of the room. and il vas not until he had disturbed the dust of ages that he realized the scrap of paper actually Was gone. His sensations following hat realization were rot of the pleas antest Britz was one of lis best cus- toners. and he knew from the detec. 'i'N N v VHA hF@tlFos lue HtIP was OI eN- eerttonal importance II solaced him only in part to find on taking the plate from the camera and putting it through deve oping process that the
 lens mad done it's work more faithfully than he He held In his hand perfect duplicate of the letter That would not satisfy Rritz. Of course, but 1t was better than il would have been if the note had disappeared before the photo graphing was complete. Rurlen hasten to subject the lit.le plate Of copper TO the acid hath. and as the minute points of the halftone came out with Zlatliyins distinctness, the young man
 rejoiced that he at least was able to l produce the facsimi:es the Headouar- ters man had ordered. Remorse <. spurred him so effectively that all the hundred impressions were ready when 1 Rawson sent for them. Half an hour alterward. as many detectives were comparing the halftone prints with the signatures of all the Miiicents in
 the registers of New Works mors