New Ulm review., 1913-08-27

low voice. wave out your window"
A moment later Manning drew back.
"It's all right, governor" be said.
They're waving"
regions somewhere outside the house
walled plaintively.
Here they come, governor" said
Manning. and he started to close the
window. but Kayton stopped him.
"You hustle right back to the other
house by the roof" be ordered. "and
get on the dictograph. Don't leave It
for second until you get my orders =
"All right. governor" nodded the
young man. and the next instant the
darkness Of the fire escape had swal-
lowed him up.
Aren't you going with him?' asked
the girl quickly. speaking for the 6rst
time since their entrance into the
room. ~ aa
I'm going to stay here with you."
was the quiet reply. Miss Mazuret
gasped and Kayton felt his pulses
quicken.
"Oh. don't-don'tw she protested in
real terror.
He smiled i've heard that befo''-
Steady as were the great detectives
nerves the word was wiped of his lips.
and he started like race horse as an
angry buzz burst just over his head.
"Oh! What's that?" gasped the girl,
both hands at her throat. Kayton
threw his light above the door and dis
covered the "buzzer." g
"Thats their warning he explained
softly, Fastening her toward the stairs.
'"They've got the front steps wired.
There's some one at the street door
now" 4.- .., rs.
The girl hurried down distractedly.
"What shall we do?" she whispered.
fright into your room!' he ordered.
They were barely concealed from view
before the other four members of the
household came in the front door.
AS they passed the door Kayton
could hear them talking uneasily in
undertones and now and then catch
word such as don't like it" and "all
the locks" and he smiled to himself.
He knew they were discussing Man.
ning's theft Of the bag.
On the second floor the party broke
up and their voices died away. The
woman and the older Of the three men
went on to the attic, followed a min
ute later by the youngest member OF
the confederacy. -.
They were strangely assorted trio
The leader and brains Of the conspira-
cy against the currency Of the land
was the strangest of the three. He
was a man Of about fifty years. but
one terrible experience had taken the
stinening out of his spine and the COL
or out of his face. though it had not
dimmed the hot fire Of his dark eyes.
The other man was much younger.
fashily dressed in the extreme of
masculine fashion. His face was fat
and pasty. He was small boned and
undersized-anaemic, crafty, ratlike.
He chose to be known as Simeon
Gage. The older man was known to
the secret service and number Of
police bureaus as Friedrich
Kreisler. and with certain heroism
of crime he scorned an alias. He
calmly lit the gas while Mrs. Martin
drew the curtain. The younger man
stood in the middle Of the room and
idgeted.
doctor, We'll have to have all those
locks changed, don't you think?" he
inquired nervously in a high pitched
voice that was almost whine. 1--WE
might as we'll go to bed with the front
loor open."
There was nothing in my bag to
show what house the keys were for"
Mrs. Martin reminded him quietly.
II know. Mrs. Martin. but I've been
Uneasy lately-ever since that girl
'ame," he confessed. II thought was
,eing followed yesterday"
you're always being followed"
commented Kreisler. You must have
4 had conscience"
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