Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-06
The Argyle Case 0G s.e<, =" E5 Be" w RGo''''
BY J. w MCoNAUGHY

this somewhere in your room and carry
the wires out Of your window. We'll
connect with it. It's like a telephone, hui
much more sensitive. II you want help,
you need only whisper ana youH get il.
! They couldn't even come into your room
while you were asleep without me know
ing it,
Manning waH. meantime, surveying his
work with the pride OF an expert. but he
regarded the folding bed obviously.
Il hope the chap that hunks in here
don't snore, he remarked.
Don't worry. Joe,' said his chief, no
body sleeps here
At this moment cat in the dark reg
ions somewhere outside The house walled
plaintively.
Here they come. governor said Man
ming, and he started To close the window
but Hayton stopped him
You hustle right back to the ether
house by The root hc ordered. and get
on the dictograph Don't leave IT for a
second until You get my orders
AN right, governor" nodded the young
man, and the next instant the darkness of
the fire escape had swallowed him up -
aren't You going with him. asked tile
girl quickly
"Im going TO stay here with YOU" was
tho quiet reply. Miss Mazuret gasped auG.
kayton felt his pulses quicken.
ON. on't-dont,' She protested in
real terror.
The counterfeiters Return.
He smiled. I've heard that before"
steady as We're the great detectives
nerves the word was wiped Off his lips ana
ne started like race horse as an angry
buzz burst over his head
"Oh. What's that" gaspcd the girl
both hands at her throat Kayton threw
his light above the door ana discovered
the 'buzzer,"
That's their warning he explained
softly, Fastening her toward the stairs
They've got the front steps wired. and
there's some one at the street door now"
The girl hurried down distractedly.
Right into your room he ordered
They We're barely concealed from view
before the other four members of the
household came in the front door.
AS thy passed the door, Kayton could
hear them talking uneasiI in undertones
and now and then catch a word such as
don't like it" and "all the locks" and
he smiled TO himself. He knew they were
discussing Mannings clever 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 minute later by
the youngest member of the confederacy
They were a strange assorted trio The
leader and brains OF the conspiracy
against the currency of the land was the
strangest of the three, He was man of
about so years, but one terrible experience
had taken the stiffening out of his spine
and the color out of his face, but had not
dimmed the hot fire Of his dark eyes His
face was gaunt and his body thin and UNI
shapely in the ill-fitting clothes a tousled
and dishevelled mass of iron gray hair
hung over his forehead and through it the
burning eyes cleaned evlly, like a beast
OF prey peering through a thicket So
might have looked an alchemist of the
middle ages after 50 years pursuit of the
philosophers stone or the secret of trans
mutation The last thing that he resem-
bled was a counterfeter
I'm in n very peculiar position. Mrs.
Martin, and it Mas occurred TO me that
you could help me
Mrs. Martin was Enthusiastically sur
prised.
Il don't understand" she said.
kayton leaned back in his chair. put
| the tips of his fingers together and spoke
easily.
We'll, in this way 1t has become
practically necessary that Miss MaZuret
should be protected from the prosecutions
of reporters and photographers and even
the comments of intimate friends She is
az the point of breaking down"-Nlrs.
Martin made an inarticulate exclama ton
of sympat ht~-"and you know even an in
nocent woman win do things to implicate
herself if she's strained beyond the limit
Of her strength"
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