The Washington times., 1913-12-09
CHAPTER XVIII.

~ oRTUNE is sometimes kind even
II to the oppressed.
The excitement rampant in the
house which the Night Wind mao
entered so unceremoniously worked u
bis advantage.
The frightened women-three OF thehl
were huddled together near teieI
phone in the front room OF the se|otro o-oN
fioor One of them was taihinS - 80
fusedly over the wire; Inc ss+.ii% hT
two were adding to her coHitaon -!
hasty interpretations and suSsesHoIisii
Each one had her back turned toMa,t toaIst
the open doorway that HafNaru iiio'
pass. .c,.-.-- ND si,ance
ma meyer worked more to ms duNall
tage than then. The three woniS.t tH "a "a
the telephone instrument nellieI ne
nor saw him when he pasSeuii On front
gained the parlor iioor anu ~ N IroII-
door of the house WIthou' I"i
For Just one moment ne 1eSIrafsn 4aar he.
after he had closed the inner uout I,,,1fsd
bind him. Then. with jerk ne Pui,o Pai,',I
hi. bi.tu hat down over his eyes, hunche"
ne shoulders and passed outsluS'
The way was clear - ,...-, ,,f,-ay,
Whatever alarm may heVe pee. -
over the teiePhonssii asiect II hau' %
he descended the brown-sloii loiiS oil's
stems he saw that the "lnLu" ,, tioht-
5o6Ts nf the adjoining house WelT 9 be
iy shuttered. II was ~ thirt eenth
"a descended through the i'm
house. ,o farther along the
str.et discovered three men N ~ Ia
snnarently engaged IN an aLiI-ii"' a..,eS' T-ticb
,ssion on the steps of mousse ~
,ho,,ghr was Clancy'S- one oI @ tiis
- rs hatiess. Evidently tha' ""S
All this he noticed in the bIleL III
a
teryal while he ran doNh inc rF,1.-.,l 4
Half way TO the corner, as ne Passe4
,,t,iftIv down the street he saw UNI UNI
formad policeman hurrying toward hl'Ii'
Ia by maid who had doubtless peeh
sent out 10 find him. Harvard sLoPpeLcc
lifted one foot to the secoilu StGp =,
ti Lo IT. Iacing Of his shoe. The pollce.
man and the white-faced maid pasSel
hir, without so much as glance III
his direction. . tircSo,f
The Night Wind smiled to hlIiseIl
when he thought how puzzled that po-
Itcnn1an would be concerning the sup
posed burglars method Oh seItlhs ti ou'
Of the house. The iron oaf u. 4'a'I
abandoned in the hallway al the tOP ot
il: the hammer and remaining haHs ne
dropped into convenient ASH ceh 17
he PASSED along. -,
Al Clancys house the man WHO Ht1u
rIng the doOrDeQ proved TO be Lleuttn-
ant RushtOn. There was one man Win
him and another at the bottom OF tie
steps He explained 10 Clancy thaI lhe
inspector had sent MIN 10 make some
general inquiries concerning the Nl7ht
Wind II was thought that he might
have called Upon his friend during the
preceding nIght-and remained there.
They would like To De convinced that
he had not done so.
They were convinced.
Clancy invited them 20 search the
house il they wished. They finally did
30, in a pertunctory manner. Tney re-
Joined Clancy on jhc doorstep. satisfied.
There was only one circumstance WhiCn
did not entirely satisfy RusEtOn
The sCuttie-Irap 10 the roof rad beer
nailed down. he sand 10 CLANCY tenta,
lively. Clancy hooded.
L wear IL that way, he replied
'Scipio, my man, may have done il
Nothing odd about tnaL is Jnere?"
But II is nailed from the outside, Mr.
Clancy
How did scipio get back into tn,
house after he had done tAat?'
IN give il up, In sure; but III ash
him
ter carried an entry concerning the at
tempted burglary Of that other house
tie discovery Of the iron bar which tn
man had used in breaking IN from th'
roof and his mysterious getaway. Par
OF the truth was surmIsed by the po
lice-that the man had succeeded II
passing through the house without dis
covery; but the Night Wind was no
associated with the incident.
At haIf-past eleven o'clock that night
four hours or more after the escap
from Thomas Clancy's house, the Nigh
Wind settled himself upon one OF tn
benches in Union Square to wait.
He had conducted himself even NOR
boldly than usual that evening sine
his departure from the house of hi
friend He mad decided that he woul
not-could not, in fact-longer continu
the hunted life he was leading.
His defiance of the authorities, hi
aggressiveness when attacked, his swif
and mysterious movements, the fear o