Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-14
CHAPTER II.
The Shadow of Mystery.

Darrow walked up the one flight of steps to the story above. He found his acquaintance in, and at once preached the subject of his errsnd. Doctor Knox promised the matter his attention. The two men then em- parked on a long discussion of Profes- sor Schermerhorn's discovery of super. radium, and the strange series of s~ents that had encompassed his death. Into the midst of the discus sioC burst Mccarthy, his face red with suppressed anger.
 Can use your phone?- he grovled. :oh. yes" said he, as he caught sight of the instrument. Without awaiting she requested permission, he jerksd ne receiver from its hook and placed if to his ear.
 'Deader than a smelti" he burst out This is a nice way to run a public business! Thanks" he nodded to Doc tor Knox, and stormed out. Darrow rose languidly ~Ill see you again" he told Knox "At present I'm going to follow the human cyclone. It takes more than mere telephones to wake Mccarthy up like that"
 He found the boss in the hall, his finger against the down" button. That's three cars has passed me- he snarled, trying to peer through the ground glass that, in the Atlas Building, surrounded the shaft. ''Ili tan somebody's hide. Down." he bel lowed at shadow on the glass. Have a cigarette" profered Percy DarTow. Calm down. To the scien- tific eye you're out of condition for such emotions. You, thickneeks are subject to apoplexy." ,t...s }. ,'iI
 "oh. shut up!" growled Mccarthy. There isn't a phone in order in this building two floors either way. .PEs tried 'em-and there hasn't been for twenty minutes. And I can't get a messenger to answer a call :; aud that ring-tailed, star-spangled ornament of janitor won't answer his private bell I'll get him bounced so high the black birds will build nests in his ear before he comes down again"
 After trying yainly to stop a car or. its way up or down, Mccarthy stump ed down flight of stairs. followed more 'leisurely by the calmly unhur- | ried Darrow. Here the same per l formance was repeated. 4 half dozen 1 men by now had joined them So they progressed from story to story until an elevator boy. attracted by their fronsfn ahn aVa sz a was the matter. Immediately the door was slid back on it's runners, Mo Carthy seized the astonished operator by the collar.
 Come out of that, you scum of the earth" he roared. Come out of that and tell me why you don't stop for signals,"
 q ain't seen no signals!" gasped the elevator boy.
 Some one punched the button, but the little, round, annunciator disk in the car failed to illuminate.
 q wonder If there's anything fin order in this miserable hole!" snarled Mccarthy.
 The lights is gone out" volunteer. ! ed the boy; and indeed for the first time the men now crowding the car noticed that the incandescents were dead
 While Mccarthy stormed out to sDread abroad impartial threats against two public utility concerns for interfering with his business. Percy Darrow, his curiosity aroused, inter.
 viewed the janitor. Under that func. tionaTy's guidance he examined the points of entrance for the different wires used for lighting and communi cation; looked over the private-beI in stallations. and ascended again to the corridor. abstractedly dusting his fin. gers. There he found a group of the buildings tenants, among whom he dis tinguished Doctor Knox.
 Same complaint. suppose-no phones. no lights, no bells." he re. marked.
 Seems to be-" replied Knox Gen. eral condition. Acts. as though the main arteries had been cut outside" Inside bells? House phones!" sug. gssted DarroE
 The repair men came in double