Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-09-30

God be good to you'-God or some.
body win have to be awful good to mo
now Then her thought turned. and
SO did her speech.
"'Tell the mantilla blanca she Is
beauttfup-an' smilin' when he said It
we'll, there's one reiievin' feature,
he won't break his heart over Betsy
Barbara. It was only irritation with
him, after all. wonder what they're
made Of inside-those high-class
dagos!"
Inspector Martin McGee, as one who
must do something, no matter how frl-
tile, to lull his impotence, rang bell
on his desk.
-send for Grimaldi again." he said
to the doorman.
~Grtmaldi," he greeted the scholar
of the Italian squad, what did this
Mrs LIE Grange say to you when she
let you go-and Just when was 1t p
EFT was night before last" replied
0rimaldi. 'I'd met her for report
and told her that Estrilla-or Perez
had an engagement with his tailor to
try ons ONE clothes for twothlrty
yesterday afternoon. She told me then
that she had finished with me, and l
was to report back to hesdquarterD-
which I did yesterday. l don't know
Why she called me OF SO suddenly;
maybe she thought ! was spotted.
She's q mysterious thing, and she
never would let me know what she
was doing; but you instructed me to
obey her orders and ask no questions"
yes, that's right" responded the
"His rooms-Estrilla's-
are being watched in case he re-
tuFns?' !,
eyes. One man in the house and
three shadowing from the outside.
We've got some one at every place
where he's likely to appear.
"All right. That Will do"
But 9rimaldi's curiosity got for the
moment the better Of his sense OF dis
cipline.
the door, where is she. anyhow"
II wish knew" replied MCGEE. II
wish I knew-that will do, Grimaldi. I"
Then the Inspector fell to pacing the
door and to meditating. He had paced
and meditated in this fashion ever
aimee eight o'clock that morning. He
duret not leave his ONCE. The search
was covered at every point where the
missing criminal or tho missing Rosa
liz 10 Grange might be expected to ap-
near. Hero. at headquarters, one
would get the flrst news. He must
stay In his ONCE until-oh, why had
he trustsd Resale LIE Grange to ar.
rest desperate criminal alone? For
that Perez, alias Estrilla, was Grim
inal, and the tale about apopiexy .
bizarre invention Of desperation, In
spector McGee, cynical by police habit,
never once doubted. One obvious sus-
picion did not occur to him; never
for a moment did he distrust Rosahe.
She had gone out to make the arrest
single-handed, for some good reason
Of her own. She had failed, and dread
ed to come back without her man;
she had been delayed and would appear
with him yet; she had ventured too
much and-something had happened
to her. Here, Inspector MCGEE smote
f,st into an open palm and swore un-
der his breath. That consideration,
and not the failure Of the department
to put the finishing touch on a big
case. was the thing which haunted him
now. made him unable to rest his body
or to quiet his mind.
The last eighteen hours had been
one long secret hunt for Juan Perez
alas Estrilla, and for Resale lie
Grange. When, after the detectives
nnished with Miss Estrilla- 6enorfta
Perez-he found Resale LIE Grange
|mysteriously gone, he waited for .
time at the house. Rosalie made no
sign. Presently, Miss Harding and
Miss Jones came home to dinner, and
afterward Professor Noll. MCGEE de-
tanned them all. Seven O'clock passed
and the other three boarders failed.
like the landlady, to appear. They
were Mr.. North, Mrs. Hanska, and
Miss Lane-all involved in the Hanska
case. When he noted this suspicious
circumstance, he removed Miss Els
trilla to q private room in the GRIM
|inal ward at Bellevue Booked as
Margaret Perez, she attracted no great
attention from the reporters; espec-
tally since surgeon, instructed in adj
vance. gave out hint that she was
merely a witness in a counterfeiting
case. Then began an all-night search
for Estrilla frst. for Resale next,