The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-16

Nervous and Eager Relief. transmit over little wires to listeners miles away every syllable of a whis- pered conversation in the opposite cor ner.
 All of these changes in the neighbor hood occurred within & few hours after Bliss MaZuret had entered the house in Greenwich village; also one or two men dropped in to call on her in the course of the afternoon and evening. The next day. there were other call CTS on Miss Mazuret, and finally, early tn the afternoon, the four-Mrs. Martin and her three ,lodgers-Ieft the house in a body Thereafter there was no caller until nearly o'clock in the evening, when night had fallen. These were unusual visitors. There were two of them, and, though they had never en- tered the house before, they produced 1 l bunch of keyssRnd fitted one into the front door. The younger of the two l men carried a woman's hand bag par |. tially concealed under his coat. Miss Mazuret met them in the hall and greeted them with nervous and eager relief They were Mr. Kayton and his 1rrepressible assistant l The assistant had shortly before clev- { erly possessed himself of Mrs. Martin's g 1 bag end the keys while the party lei surely dined.
 The girl piloted them upstairs through i the empty house to the attic, where Kayton unlocked the door with a key of the same bunch that had enabled bhem to enter the house. A rather large work table was be- tween the door and the fireplace. and %I74 koY but backed against the wall opposite the windows, was low lounge. A folding bed stood between the win dows. To the right of the door was another door which evidently opened into a closet Kayton tried the handle It was locked.
 ''I'd like to search this rat ho1e," he muttered. Then, Where's that dicto- graph, JoeT' he demanded suddenly, looking up. Manning produced the Ht- tie square box that had caused one of his pockets to bulge. Connect it out of that window" ordered his chief, indicating the one that opened on to the fire escape.
 Manning gently opened the window as Kayton shut off his fashhght. He groped around in the dark, and after much grunting and swearing to him. self, reappeared from the outer dark ness with two little wires. Deity and swiftly he scraped the insulation off the ends and twisted them on to the wires that protruded from the dicto- graph. Then he fastened the little box securely in the angle of the window frame in the corner where it came out several inches from the wall Only a search with the foreknowledge that
 
 the room could possibly have uneartE- ed it.
 When he had finished Kayton walk ed out into the middle of the room, and Manning again thrust his head out of the window.
 "If you get this," said the chief in a low voice, wave out your window
 "A moment later Manning drew back.
 "It's all right, governor" he said. They're waving"
 At this moment a cat in the dark regions somewhere outside the house walled plaintively.
 Here they come, governor said Manning, and he started to close the window, but Kayton stopped him.
 You hustle right back to the other house by the roof,' he ordered, land get on the dictograph. Don't leave it for second until you get my orders"
 "AI right, governor" nodded the young man, and the next instant the darkness of the fire escape had swal- lowed him up.
 Aren't you going with him%' asked the girl quickly, speaking for the first time since their entrance into the room.
 "I'm going to stay here with you," was the quiet reply Miss Mazuret gasped and Kayton felt his pulses quicken.
 "Oh, don't-don'tp she protested in real terror.
 He smiled. Ss'I've heard that befo''-
 Steady as were the great detectives nerves the word was wiped off his lips, and he started like race horse aS an angry buzz burst just over his head.
 "Oh! Whats that?" gasped the girl, both hands at her throat Kayton threw his light above the door and dis covered the ''buzzer.'
 That's their warning" he explained softly, hastening her toward the stairs. 'eThey've got the front steps wired. There's some one at tine street door now.''
 The girl hurried down distractedly. "eWhat shall we do?" she whispered.
 Right into your room!' he ordered. They were barely concealed from view before the other four members of the household came in the front door.
 As they passed the door Kayton could hear them talking uneasily in undertones and now and then catch word such as 'fdon't like it'' and 'aIl the locks" and he smiled to himself. He knew they were discussing Man