The Washington times., 1913-11-23
CHAPTER Nv (Continued).

TE was crossing diagonally an
- avenue and a street, where two
car lines intersect. at 3.l5 in the
morning. Two cars travelling at
right angles met there at the moment.
AS Shuster permitted one of them to
pass him and stepped behind the other
he came face to face with the elusive
one-and recognized him instantly
He struck out Straight from the
shoulder with his fist upon that same
insf'tnt-and his arm was seized and
twisted. and he was lifted and thrown
over the bent hip or the man he at
tackled, so that ne fell in a sprawling
heap upon the tracks, with the arm that
would have delivered the blow broken
just above the elbow.
He jumped TO his feet and blew his
whistle. He pounded his stick upon
the pavement with his good arm, but
the man who had thrown him, and
broken him, with some new and i'm
proved method of jiu-jitsu, or some
thing better, was gone.
The street and the avenue were prac-
ticaily deserted, save for the two cars
already mentioned, yet Shuster swore
that the man could not have boarded
either one of them, and that he was
nowhere TO be seen within a second or
two Of time.
Il met the Night Wind" he told the
lieutenant in charge of the station
house. Il started TO hand him one, and
| L got this. He just reached out for 1t
as If he liked it, and took it on the fly,
half way to him; and when sat up, a
second afterward. to look for him he
was gone. And 1 didn't hear a sound
out of hin-not one
1t was three nights after that when
Casey nf the Tw4nfv-eiPhfh was fa
TO st. Vincent's, and headquarters was
notified of the fact
Three broken ribs and a very slight
rupture of the plura," the night super
intendent at the hospital reported over
better keep him here for a few days"
ct ceterr, ct cetera-
Rushton, whose theory of suicide had
been SO rudely shattered, went in per-
son to question Officer Casey, who had
slight pleurisy and therefore could
not leave the hospital as soon as pre-
dicted, and Casey account of it was
no less. vague than the experiences of
;:is compatriots had been.
Il had been off duty, and was on my
way to report in at the station house,
ryin' to beat the band. So ] was fairly
runnin' down the stairs of the elevated
when sees him comm up 'em toward
me- i didn't hear him; / saw him, just
dS ne I1e. knew nlIn
minute; and as he was ten steps r SO
below me took a flynn leap for him,
rememberin' all that has been said
about him, and. takiR' no chances as
thought. And say, I've heard of guys
that's lookin' for trouble an meetin' IL
halfway, and all that, but I'm the first
damfool that's been known to jump for
1t. ! sure found it. How'd he throw
me? Search me, 1 guess he just opened
up a valve an let loose one uh them
blasts uh night wind onto me.
Anyhow, l got mine good an plenty
And fr a minute r two afterward /
didn't know 1 was hurted-much. 1
rolled plumb to the bottom of that low
est reach of stairs an landed on me
feet like a cat. And / couldn't see him
nowheres on the stairs above me. So l
says to meself, he's legged it f'r the
/ was hurted, ] chases after him, know
in that there amt only that one stair
way on that side of the road at that
station.
well, he wasn't there. an the ticket
man an the chopper both swore that
went down, an there wasn't any train
pulled IN r out on either side since the
one ] got off of, and he had vanished
into thin air. so he had.
Then all of a sudden I begun to feel
sick an faint like. an the next thing
knew I was down here. There's just
one thing that I'm dead certain about,
an that is that the Night Wind amt
healthy. Every guy that's laid a hand
onto him so far has got a broken bone
or so to show for it There's one thing
I'm thinkin'."
What is ii, Casey?'
They'll have to make some changes
and additions to that Sullivan law
about the concealed weapons. There
amt anything in it about bottled up
cyclones an pocket hurricanes, Is
there? An, that's what your Night
Wind carries around with him. Sure,
/ ought to have knowed better than to
tackle him at all. at all, when he could
do you up the way he did-you, an
Banta, an Coniglio-an you the
strongest man on the force"
Lieutenant Rushton returned to head
quarters with a frowning brow.
skipper" he said TO his acting
chief, as soon as he could get into the
private office there amt but one way
to get that guy we call the Night Wind