Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-07-18

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retainer. Good morning. gentlemen
! l., Over to Broadway and the subway
~ passed and In halt IN hour we wers
In the firms apartment looking on
tho Plaza Tom Railway. Rand's q.
gantio Sioux student helper. was busy
In the laboratory and I went into the
once to answer clients correspond,
enoe: Scarcely had opened the dicto-
graph whom heard . crash some.
whore IN the locality Of tho laboratory.
We never knew whom the assassin.
the maniac or the avenger would visit
10. II fact. for three years W had
been expecting blood thirsty calls
from at least two men. Snatching
my Luga magazine pistol out Of
drawer. i tore through the place. It
was deserted. Beside . powspeul
microscope lay Rand's hat, under the
scope was what seemed to be: . tiny
bit Of feather % nearly % could toll
at . hasty glance. did not recall
having seen 1t - any Of the material
evidence. In any Of our cases. In
front Of the hall door lay Tom Rah-
ways laboratory apron torn In pieces
40 If it had been snatchsd from his
body. Two chairs and Z water.coolef
lay overturned. I ran on: down the
dark hall and stumbled over something
70 forcibly that fell sprawling. n
human body lay there. ~ .7
Turning on tho hall light, saw that
1t was neither Rand nor Tom. but
tall. powerful young man laid out un-
conscious with = big purple bruiso
beginning to stand out on tho side Of
his face and . cut in his head. In
ono hand he held . piece OF Tom Rah-
ways apron and It was plain to mo
that the Sioux's list had stretched him
there. Now It flashed over me that
I had seen that face twice before with
In a few hours. felt sure of it, but
had hurried on down and nearly
reached the street before I remem-
bered. The first time had been in
the crowd in Wall Street before Pur-
don's door as we came out; the second
time was on the platform OF the sub
way at Columbus Circle.
BY this time was on the sidewalk
looking wildly about for signs of Tom
and Rand, who doubtless had gone in
pursuit of the second man. II Rand
wanted to capture him, surely he
would wish to retain possession of the
man upstairs in the hall. should
not have left him. Back hurried with
all speed and to my intense chagrin
he was gone. ran down the steps and
found a mite of a milliner's delivery
girl there. staring stupidity down to-
ward Madison avenue. Yes, she had
nearly been knocked down by two
men who brought third out of tho
door and put him in cab, then drove
away very fast toward the east. One
of them had q big brass thing in his
hand. That was all she could tell.
I returned to the apartment gravely
puzzled and only when entered
the laboratory did I realize the sig
nificance of even that little. The
brass thing the girl has seen was the
microscope-theo one that had had the
bit Of what seemed to be feather
under the lens.
Since I could not follow and assist
Rand and Tom in whatever they were
doing, the only thing was to bide
their return or word from them. I
did not have long to wait. It was
less than half an hour before Tom
I.ahway came In breathing heavily,
but grinning. He did not stop even
when he heard Of the escape Of the
man he had doored and did not
blame him for his amusement when
no told me what had happened. ::
Al ho was 1T work over the Bunsen
burner he heard Z door creak and
looked Just In time to SEQ two men
behind Rand, who was 1t tho micro
scope. The short dark man dealt q
mis.aimed blow ut Rand with black.
Jack. Both Rand and Tom rushed the
pair and when Tom had stretched out
his man In the hall he ran on after
Rand, who was pursuing the heavy
dark man across the Plaza. The pur.
sued dashed into the Park and Rand.
telling Tom to continue the chase on
foot, sprang to q nearby taxicab
stand. where No knew ali the drivers,
caught cap and coat from one and
jumped into his cab running it into the
Park with the Vacant" sign show
ing gea II wa m AnRv thing ia coma