The Washington times., 1913-11-24
CHAPTER v.-(Continued.)


head of the bureau, a wire from the
police department Of Boston was deiv-
cred. 1t was:
Night Wind here. Detective Lamber'
ton met him Summer street 1870, rec
ognized him, tackled him, and has dis
located right elbow as consequence
Night Wind disappeared, but have the
dragnet out for him. Will get him il
possible and put one over on New York,
Seen in Summer street, Boston, al
1880 last night; seen at Park avenue
and 12Sth street, New York, at 4 this
morning." the officer in charge re-
marked, as he reached for a Bulhnger
and began to turn the leaves. Presently
he added: There .sn a passenger tralr
that leaves Boston after l0:51 that could
have get him here by 4. How'd he dc
II? Has he got a double, 1 wonder?'
TT don't sound like no double, him
cis1ointin' that teck's elbow" Brainard
replied "Mebby he's an aviator, cap'n
an keeps a biplane."
He's just an animated hell-that's
what he is" was the retort. ''G'war
home, Brainy, and consider yourself
mighty lucky that you've got two sound
legs to take you there
They both forgot, or did not know,
that there was q fast mail out of Bos-
ton at IL p. m. which carried no pas
songers, and which covered the dis
tance to the metropolis in a little less
than five hours. The Night Wind might
have used that train, notwithstanding
the fact that the railroad employees and
particularly the crew of that train,
would have said that it was utterly
impossible to beat a ride upon II.
The alarm was Immediately sent out
that Night Wind had been seen again
that morning. and SO the entire police
force was once more on the alert for
him.
A. -.x H.. H.. -. A., -
Might Winds seeming withdrawal from
the limelight Lady Kate had not been
idle. although nothing whatever had
come Of her enforced activities.
She had been abroad every night IN
the hope of encountering him, and she
once before, and that he had escorted
har to a car on that occasion to make
1t possible for her to hold him. at least
for moment or two, when the second
encounter should take place.
She heard the news concerning. the
episode In Boston, and the experience
OF Officer Brainard with the man, and
she experienced an inexplicable sense
OF exaltation. Of intuitive foresight
men would call 1t a hunch-that she
would, somewhere and somehow, see
and talk with Bingham Harvard dur
ing the following night
Throughout the weeks that had
elapsed since the dramatic episode at
had never once been seen by day. He
had been encountered always at night,
and usually during the wee, small hours
Of the night.
So it had been Lady Kate's method
since her last interview with the head
of the bureau-to sleep by day and to
go abroad in the streets at night, and
this going abroad had to be at random.
since the object of her search had NOT
been known to frequent any particular
~ hn 0if l.aIt
at intervals in widely separated local.
ties.
Nevertheless. there was one saving
clause in this latter respect. IN tnat
thus far he had not been known 70 d Sisis
the slums or to gravitate toward those
localities most frequented by the inhap-
itants of the underworld
But IL would have made TO dinerence
70 Kate had it been SO, for she was
we'll equipped for the profession she
had elected 20 adopt--was fearless. re
sourceful aud entirely capable of tax
ing care of herself under all conditions.
The night that followed upon the Bos-
ton and the Park avenue incidents be-
came a memorable one TO Katherine
Maxwell, and to alias the Night Wind
as we'll
She left her room in the house in West
Eleventh street shortly after O'Clock
that evening, and went to other quar-
ters that she had secured in one of the
West Seventies, about which even her
chief down at headquarters knew moth
ing.
LADY Kate had realized at the very be-
ginning of the game that there wGs one
man who would keep iniefaugably upon
her trail, by one method or another. il
IL were possible for him to do so-and
that man was Rushton. Hence the small
establishment in the seventies. She did
not intend that Rushton, or anybody
else, should know of the existence of
that retreat
Arrived there IN that particular night.
she present. dressed herself exactly
as she had been gowned that evening
when Bingham Harvard had so court
oIIsly escorted her to Madison avenue
car. She believed that he would re
member her at once, If he should see
her soon again. and in this, as IL proved,
she was not mistaken.
Shortly after II o'clock she went ou+.
At the door a taxi of nondescript char
acter and outwardly mean and common
place appearance awaited her. No one
but herself knew that the black man
who drove IL was her own faithful
henchman. and that the cab was as
dependable as its driver.
She directed that she be driven
slowly east and west through the cross
streets Of the city for two hours, so
that IL was after ! o'clock when she
got down from the cab in Seventy
second street, midway between Colum-
bus avenue and BroadWay-withln rifle
shot OF her starting point.
Why Lady Kate selected just that
place TO leave the cab she could not
have told. save that in a sense she
seemed that night to be acting sub
consciously. as il she were impelled by
an Intuition more forceful than reason
ing powers. And this young woman
was not without her superstitions. She
had implicitly believed, since the receipt
Of the news that the Night Wind was
again in evidence, that she was TO come
upon him that nigft-that some mex
plicable influence over which she had
not the power of direction was bringing
them together.
black man at the steering wheel, nor
did ne direct SO much as a glance at
her when she started down the street
toward Broadway. But after a moment
he drove on again, turned about, and
followed slowly after her, always main
tanning a respectful and sufficient dis
tance. SO that the girl in the street
and the cab that pursued her might
not be associated with each other by
any chance observer.
Half way between her starting point
and Broadway, Lady Kate met Rush
ton. He still carried MS arm in
sling, but had refused TO be reported on
sick leave. He saw and recognized her
at q distance, and stopped directly in
front Of her when they met.
You're on the job all right. Miss
Maxwell" he said to her with extraordi-
nary DOliteneSS for him ''Anythinp