Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-06
The Argyle Case 0s s,c Of E5 sc w 2Ges,'0e
BY J. w. MooNAUGHY
J. w. M'CONAUGHY.

won't fail YOU
kayton turned abruptly to Manning
Joe, bring Mrs. Martin in" Have you
plenty of money with your" he asked, in a
low voice
Yes" returned the girl in the same
tone Then, suddenly with a little shiver:
OH dread to meet herl
kayton looked at her in curious wise
for moment or two.
l must ask YOU" he said coldIy, Ito
show no feeling of repulsion for this
woman"
Il WON'T won't" Miss Mazuret as
sured MIN, under her breath, as Mrs Mar
tin slowly walked into the office.
Mary ripped the top of chair by which
she was landing and waited, rigid and
erect. The woman entered almost re-
Iuctantly, stopped and gazed at the girl
with mixture of dread, curiosity and
something else.
Mrs. Martin said Kayton in cusual.
| matter Of fact tones, "this is Miss Ma
zuret."
He resumed his seat at his desk and
bent over his papers. The girl looked at
the woman and smiled slightly. The
woman looked at the girl and moved
slowly over to her and held out her hand.
My dear" she said, gently will you
come with me-"
The neighborhood of Washington
square, like one or two other older sec
tons of New York is essentially mediae-
val lndividualism is its most salient
characteristic. Even the many who live
| there to think thoughts of social brother
hood insist on adhering to their own par
Ccular thoughts. And thus, as in the
middle ages; when a man enters his
3 dwelling har he a.,
all danger that his neighbors may intrude
on his privacy
This petrified survival of the time when
every man was for himself in thought and
deed and even the great philosophers
wrote their treatises in secret cells lest
the world discover their thoughts, newt
aoiy draws to the region number of men
ana women who are at odds in greater
| or lesser degree with the rules of society
| as at present constituted
Mrs. Martin recognized that this COM
munity was the Ideal one for her room
| ing house" No one would or could in
quire as to the character or OCCUPATIONS
OF her roomers. No one cared. Beyond
a little printed sign above the belI-puIl
that protruded from the dingy brick wall
| by the door, she made no effort to secure
dodgers. The few who came were told
mat the house was full. She had three
| lodgers-all men. These three came when
she took the house and remained always
No new dodgers were adde to their num-
| oers and these never left her house.
Tn Counterfelters' Plant.
They occupied rooms on the second
| floor, 1t was a two-story and attic house,
with dining room and kitchen in the
| basement. They were not often in each
others rooms, but they met frequently
| IN the garnet, which was scantily but in
nocently furnished But by the manipuIa-
ton of certain boards in the floor and
sliding panels at the back of closets and
cupboards these men could instantly avail
themselves of the tools for a printing trade
industry that is most severely frowned
| upon by the treasurer of the United
States.
But that there was no possible occasion
for her to appear in the upper rooms of
the house, Mrs. Martin would never have
consented that Miss Mazuret should be-
come a lodger. She had a back parlor
bedroom on the first floor, in which she
lodged the girl and felt that she was as
much out OF the way as if she had been
| in Broadway hotel.
Immediately thereafter events moved
with great swiftness. An organ grinder
began haunting the block at all hours of
the day and night. There was a new man
at the newsstand on the corner across
i the street. The saloons at either end of
| the block began to do surprisingly good
| business and the attic of the house next
| door to Mrs Martins was rented by
| couple of inventors who wanted to work
| secretly on a new electrical appliance that
would make a stir in the world This
| new anDlianCp the Siptopra nh a
greatest of caves choppers. which has al
ready made considerable stir in various
quarters of the United States
| This photograph is a fearsome device.
| 1t is so small and unpretentious that it
can be concealed in the barest of rooms.
| 1t is a telephone produced to the ultimate
| power of sensitiveness. Placed in a cor
ner on the floor behind the dresser of a
! great chamber II will transmit over little
wires to listeners miles away every syI-
| liable of a whispered conversation in the
| opposite corner.
| All Of these changes in the neighbor-
| hood occurred within a few hours after
! Miss Mazuret had entered the house in
| Greenwich Village. Also one or two men
! dropped in to call on her In the course
of the afternoon and evening.
| A few of these things were noted with
| some dlSqu1er Dy the tnree OId lOdBeFS IN
the house and they demanded expana-
lions of Mrs. Martin. She told them the
simple truth, They were Increasingly
alarmed, at least two of them but they
understood that she could not well do
otherwise in the circumstances.
The Unusual Visitors.
The next day there were other callers
| on Miss Mazuret and finally, early in the
afternoon, the four-Alrs Martin and her
| three lodgers-left the house in a body.
| Thereafter there was no caller until
! nearly o'clock in the evening, when
night had fallen. These We're unusual
visitors There were two of them and
! though they had never entered the house
| before they produced a bunch of keys
and fitted one into the front door The
younger of the two men carried a wom-
ans handbag partially concealed under
| his coat. Miss Mazuret met them in the
| hall and greeted them with nervous and
eager relief. They were Mr., kayton and
! his irrepressble assistant
| The girl plotted them upstairs through
| the empty house to the attic, where Kay