Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-18

lost his sense of personal fear in
another and deeper and less selfish
emotion Yet he realized the gam
bler's power over him, the power of
a perfect and absolute knowledge of
his most secret and hidden con-
Germs.
Gilmore surveyed him with a
glance of quiet scorn.
ut was about half-past when
she turned up at North's rooms. He
had just come UP the stairs ahead
Of her; | imagine he knew she was
coming, / guess l could tell you a
few things YOU don't know! All
during the summer and fall they've
been meeting on the quiet" he
laughed lnsolently. "Oh, you have
been all kinds OF fool, Marsh: I
guess you've got on to the fact at
last. And I don't wonder you are
anxious to see North hang, and that
you won't so near him: I'd kill him
if l stood i'll your place. But maybe
we can fix ii so the law will do that
job for you. 1t seems to have the
whip-hand with him just now. Well.
wife when she went away this fall
and then he began to take up with
the generals girl-sort of to keep
his hand i'm, l suppose-the damn
fooll For she amt patch on your
wife. / guess Mrs. Langham had
been tipped off to this new deal
that's what brought her back to
Mount Hope in such a hurry, and
she went to his rooms to have 1t
out with him and learn just where
she stood. l was in my bedroom
and 1 could hear them talking
through the partition. 1t wasn't
peaches and cream, for she was row.
ing all right"
IT'S o lie," cried Langham, and
he strove to rise to his feet, but
Gilmore's strong hand kept him in
his chair.
mo, I don't lie, Marsh; you ought
to know that by this time; but
there's just one point you want to
get through your head; with your
wife's help North can prove an alibi.
He won't want to compromise her,
or himself with the Herbert girl, for
that matter: but how long do you
think he's going to keep his mouth
shut with the gallows staring him
in the face? I'm willing to go as
far in this matter as the next, but
you ought to do your part and pay the
price, or I'll throw you down so hard
you'll never get over the jar!" His
heavy jaws protruded "Now, I've
a notion / want to know your wife
like her style. l guess you can
trust her with me-you amt afraid
of that, are your
TAKE your hands off met" cried
Langham, struggling flercely.
He tore at the gamblers wrists
but Gilmore only laughed his tan.
talizing laugh.
"Oh, come, Marsh, let's get bach
to the main point. If North's in.
dicted and your wife's summoned as
a witness, she's got to chip In will
us, she's got TO deny that she wat
in his room that day-you got Il
see to that; I can't do every
thing"
ION your word
well. you needn't quote me TO he
lit wouldn't help my standing Will
her-but ask her where she was be
tween $3.50 and the day of the muir
der; and mind this, you must max,
her understand she's got to keep still
no matter what happens! Put asid
the notion that North won't summon
her: wait until he is really in DANCE
and then see how quick he squealsi
"She may have gone to his rooms,
said Langham chokingly, but tina
doesn't prove anything wrong
"Oh. come, Marsh. you amt foo
enough to feel that way about it
Let me up, Gilmore!"
mo, won't; Pm trying to max
you see things straight for your owl
good. What's the matter, anyhow
don't you and your wife get on?"
Ito Be Continued TomorrOw.)