The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-10-17

above the rain | could hear tn,
squash of the watchman's boot
In the mud. He flashed nigh
lamp in at the window next TO ours
but he was not very near. and the
open window escaped his notice.
felt all the nervous dread of a rea
malefactor. and when heard the gate
close behind him and saw Burton put
leg over the sill | was almost as re-
lieyed as | would have been had some
body's family plate tied up In a table
cloth. been reposing at my feet
Unlike the first floor. the second was
subdivided into rooms. Ii took II
dozen precious matches TO find our
way TO the side OF the building over
looking the club and another dozen to
find the window we wanted When
We were there at last Burton leaned
his elbows on the sill and looked
down and across.
Gould anything be bettcr?" be said.
''rhere's our thenter, and we've got a
proscenium box. Tint room over there
stands out like spot light"
He was right Not more than III
teen feet away and perhaps foot
lower than our window was the win
dow OF the room where Fleming had
been killed. Il was empty as far as
we could see. The table. neat enough
now. was whore IL had been before
directly under the light. Any one
who sat there would be an nlumInat-
ed target from our window. Not ouly 4
hue 4,
the sill. allowing for an almost per-
feet aim
Now where's your stalrcase5" Bur
ton ieered
Above the rattle OF the rain came
the thump. thump. OF the piano aud
half dozen male voices. The shutters
below were closed We could see
nothing.
think It was then that Burton had
his Inspiration
"Ill bet you a FIVE dollar BILL" he
said. that II | FIRE or my revolver
here now not one Of those fellows
down there would pay the slightest
attention"
"I'll take that bet" | returned "Tll q
wager that every time anybody drops '
a poker since Fleming was shot the "
entire club turns out 20 investigate"
"Ill tell you what I'll do" said Bur !
ton. Everybody down there knows Y
me IN drop In for bottle Of beer, {
aud you FIRE a shot into the floor here
or into somebody across. II you happen q
10 see any one you don't care for .
suggest that you stay and fire the shot. y
because II you went. my friend. and u
nobody heard II you would accuse me !"
II shooting from the back of-the build II
ny somewhere" :"
He gave me the revolver aud left me :, -
With a tnal injunction. -
wait for ten minutes" he said "It ?,
will take five for me TO get out OF here, -
nd five more TO get into the clubhouse
Perhaps you'd better make 1t fifteen" G.
He went away into the darkness. aud ~
sat down on an empty box by the -,
window and waited. Had any one ask ~
d me at that minute how near we ~,
we're TO the solution OF our double mys- -,
cry ! would have said we had made b.
o progress, save by eliminating War
rop. Not for one instant did dream
hat ] was within less than half an ~
our OF revelation that changed my y,
hole conception OF the crime | had "
n idea that II would be hard to er- ~,
lain my position. alone In the ware =,
Duse. firing q revolver into the floor, -,
my own argument was right and ma
'e club should rouse TO n search. ha
oked again at my watch.
Every one who has counted the pass h.,
& OF seconds knows how they drag. A,
18th my eyes on the room across. and nic
y finger on the trigger | waited as ,Ir
st could At ten minutes / was no,
nscious there was some one IN the 4
om over the way. And then he came sta
TO view from the side somewhere. /
Id went 10 the table. He had his 6oc
TEX TO me, and could only see that fou
was large man. with massive out
oulders and dark hair. loo
IL was difficult TO make out what he lea
as doing. After half minute. how l G
er. he stepped to one side and | of
W that be had lighted n candle and Il
as Systematically reading and then tive
rning certain papers. throwing the niz,
AIRED fragments on the table. With Bui
e same glance that told me that. | to
ew the man. II was Schwartz. bre
was so engrossed in watching him -
at when he came directly to the win. q Ia
w stood perfectly still staring at MOI
m. With the light at his back | the
Il certain had been discovered but I'm,
was wrong. He shook the newspa- and
r that had held the fragments out woJ
t OF the window, lighted a cigarette mat
d turned back into the room II
He was not alone. for be addressed "let
me one In the room behind. any
You are sure you got them alp he thel
id. W
The other party came within range rep'
vision. 1t was Davidson. We
All there were. Mr. Schwartz he ally
olied. 1--WE were nearly finished be- ed,
e the woman made a bolt" He ] lie
ID out small object on the palm of wht
hand. whe
I would rather have done 1t alone, VI
!. Schwartz" he said 81 found this stat