The Washington times., 1913-12-06

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| the idea"
Clancy chuckled.
Which hospital did you send hin
top he asked, Erinning.
Il didn't hurt him. Somewhat later
the inspector came out l was across
En-" Knowing you, he crossed
| the avenue, and he came over to Inc.
| over
"Oh! he didn't know me at first
took him into the park, behind the
I trees. l said some of the things tc
him that l intended to say to Chester
but l was soon assured that would
| not get one. l think he went straight
home when we parted"
Then WHAT
This is the point, Tom. The Inspec.
| tor didn't lose any time when he gol
home in communicating with headquar.
ters. Now, if 1 have guessed correctly
about you, he has got ar idea that you
will make an effort to get into com.
munication with me at once"
"As 1 should have done-only the
Lord only knows how I would have ac-
complished it If you hadn't come here
yourself"
well. he's just about doing that very
thing gnow-telephoning to headquarters
Inside of half an hour there will be at
least two men from the central office
stationed outside Of your home, and
hereafter you will not take step thai
is not observed
IF l stay here now they will see me
go away, and even IL they should not
make an attempt to capture me TO
night you would be compromised. So
you see. 1 ought not to remain a minute
longer than is necessary to tell you
what I came to say"
."Rine look at mo" Clancy SWING
his leg clear Of the rail. Did you ever
know me to funk in the old days."
Never, Tom"
And you're the very last one that
don't care a hang If the whole New
York police force is waiting outside of
my house. We will find way to get
you out of It, all right, when the time
comes"
He turned without another word and
mounted the stairs to the second floor,
and Bingham Harvard, alias the Night
Wind, followed him.
The room into which Clancy con-
Quoted his guest was exactly such a one
as a man of his temperament would be
supposed to enjoy. Heavily-laden book
shelves lined the walls which otherwise
were covered with well-selected engrav-
ingS, paintings and a various collection
of curios and keepsakes, autographed
photographs, ant que and modern wea-
pons. mounted heads and what not.
bag of golf clubs stood in one cor
ner. The room answered to the de-
scription that Clancy had given it-a
den.
Help yourself 20 a chair that suits
you. Bing. You don't smoke. l know.
nut | m going 10. Now. what's on your
mind?''
First, / would like TO hear you say
that goa do not believe me guilty OF
that affair at the bank. Tom"
Huh. I'd punch your head for that,
if ] dared OF course, don't. Neither
afraid you are, and his soul is too lit
tie to understand the difference be-
tween being afraid of 4 thing and be-
lieving in it. You give me pain.
Blng
Il have broken the law since that
is that what you call 1t? The law?
Bones. BiDg. homes, You're the star
OF he world, old man. Gee!
| always thought you were wonder.
but now
Nevertheless I an an outcast. An
outlaw. A hunted man There is "A
price on my mead. although Il has not
pe publicly announced. Today, the
edict has gone out TO the members OF
the police force to shoot me on sight; !
10 get me, lead or alive. That is |
pleasant thing for a man to have to |
contemplate, isn't it,"
Maybe. / .lon't know. But that isn't
what you came here to say to me |
Bing ] know you well enough to know
mat much |
NO. II is not
What them
VIII you keep quiet and listen to me- !
through rather long statement. with
)ut interruption. TOm?'
Sure l will. If can"
Il have reached the point where | |
nave got to talk TO somebody. A hunted |
nan, wanted by the law is "A solitary
;hap. He has no friends whom ne can
rust. He gets into the habit OF being
suspicious of everybody. He
Hold on minute. I've got to inter-
-upt you there"
"Oh. my remark does not include Won
( it did would not be here
"Go ahead. then
Tom. this thing fell upon me like = |
out of a Cloudless SKY. II /
= wonder 10 me that under the stress
If it ! did not X those three men V ho
attempted to arrest me at Chester's
louse. II
zone of them l would have killed. had
thought twice about il. But | win ret
lin vet. when the proper time comes
When ] went from that house r,at
fight I realized exactly what I yrs nm
%ainst. | knew that until I fou,-;j ,t,n |
cal thief ! would he hunted man 7 |
$50 understood perfectly well Thar nvan !
| cld hhu MN would stiIl be a |
marked man and hunted one for wh3f I
did to those three officers
"I had money in my pocket: 2 yo,d |
upply of 1t. which was fortunate r..
-" Had gone two blocks / had de-
ided what to do in the immc,Iiase
uture.
~ won't bother you with the Iat.u, \
= 'h"t NJ with what I actually lid do II
is enough to tell you that for w.n.:c II
- ""cuDied toe same room rwic..
Il went from house to house frnm
ne locality to another. from one civ
. another to get my rest I slept in
he daytime. and went abroad at r;,I't
nr "i- and exercise" !
:, You sure got the exercise. all rich:
'lancy could not avoid remarking.
Il never engaged a room for the day
nat did not first see to 1t that there !