The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-01
THE MARION DAILY MIRROR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81 1912

race for the Missioner ieweIs tnat wen
might prove fatal to his success. Long
before Britz reached the hot-air room
OF the BATH the man with the gllsten-
Ing eyes who had passed him in the
hall Of the tumble-down loft building
was at the door OF Burlens workshop,
straining the angle of his vision TO fol-
low the photo-engraver at work. Those
glittering eyes forcused their gaze
through the keyhole on a piece of pa
per which Burlen had fastened with
thumbtacks to a board and which, in
the glare of an arc lamp, confronted
big camera with a powerful lens AL.
though the eyes followed Burlen as
we'll as they could about the room,
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
a woman's hand. Patiently waited the
owner of the eyes. He was Of a race
that had cultivated patience through
the centuries. Soon or late. undoubt-
edly the man inside would 20 from
the bench beside that great white
light to another part Of the room. A
few yards would suffice for the man
with the eyes, and even while Britz
still was talking to Rawson in Police
Headquarters, Burlen briskly covered
those dozen or so feet to get a chem
ical In the row OF bottles in the rack
at the far end of the shop. The man
outside, crouching until he was little
higher than an upreared cobra of his
native land, slipped through the door.
way, crawled across the Intervening
space between the threshold and the
camera, whlsked the Millicent note
from the board, and as silently made
his escape before Burlen had replaced
the cork in the bottle BY the time
Detective-Lieutenant Britt was en-
veloped in the fog of the steam room,
that little note was in the possession
Of the Swami and Prince Kananda,
and those worthless were studying it
so swiftly and 80 profitaby that ere
Britz took his cold plunge, the sage
and the Maharajah's son made a
swiftcr, deeper dive toward the heart
of the Missioner mystery. II was as
result of what they learned from
Millicent's missive that the Swami
and the Prince went separately to the
ballroom of Doris Mlssioner's most
fashionable friend. Il was also in
consequence Of the information CLEAN
cd from those petulant feminine lines
that the Swami found Mrs Mlssioner's
society so interesting. and that the
Prince, before and after that tete-a
tete, experienced keen curiosity con
corning the doings, characteristics,
and state of mind Of Curtis Griswold.
The third result OF Millicent's little
letter and the Fasteners joint visit
to the Fifth Avenue ballroom, was
their dash in separate cabs to bach.
elor apartment in a side street Just
Off Central Park, where, shortly after
their several arrivals, they were in
close consultation for an hour or more
with All, the supposedly devoted re-
tainer OF the rich Mrs. Missioner
For the second note to Curtis Girls.
void that fell into the hands OF the
Hindoos--the one Prince Kananda in
tercepted at the door of the Fifth Ave
nue. mansion in which the great ball
was held-was written on letterhead
that revealed to Mandy and the
Swami an address they very much de-
sired to know. Had that address found
its way to Detective-Lieutenan Britt
as soon. II would have saved him
much delay, cnd would have spared a
large part OF the city's detective force
the necessity OF a laborlous search
through Manhattan's hotel registers.
Burlen was one Of the most aston.
ished young men in lower Manhattan
when, turning from his row of bottles,
ne found the note entrusted TO him by
Britz had vanished. At first he as.
sumed he had fastened II carelessly
and that II had fallen to the floor. A
quick hunt showed him he was wrong.
lie extended his search to every part
OF the room, and 1t was not until he
mad disturbed the dust of ages that
he realized the scrap of paper actually
was gone. His sensations following
that realization were not OF the pleas.
ATTEST. Britz was one of his hest Gus.
toners, and he know from the detec,
tiVe's earnestness the note was of ex.
ceptional Importance. II solaced him
only In part to find on taking the plate
from the camera and putting II
through a developing process that the
lens had done its work more faithfully
than he. He held in his hand perfect
duplicate OF the letter. That would
not satisfy Britt, of course, but It was
better than 1t would have been II the
note had disappeared before the photo
graphing was complete. Burlen hasten.
TO subject the htele plate of copper to
the acid bath, and as the minute
points OF the halftone came out with
gratifying distinctness, the young man
rejoiced that he at least was able to
produce the facslmiles the Headuuar-
ters man had ordered. Remorse
spurred him so effectively that all the
hundred Impressions were ready when
Rawson sent for them. Half an hour
afterWard. as many detectives were
comparing the halftone prints with
the signatures Of all the Miilicents In
the registers of New York's more
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