Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-05
The Argyle Case 0E s,,; 1N E6 Sc w Pc'<5'F
By J. w. M'CoNAUGHY.

| Kayton turned abruptly to Manning
| Joe, bring Mrs. Martin in" Have you
f, plenty Of money with your" he asked, in a
| low voice
Yes" returned the girl in the same
! tone. Then, suddenly with little SILVER:
| 'Oh-I dread to meet herr
| Kayton looked at her in curious wise
| for a moment or two
| Il must ask YOU" he said coldly, ITO
show no feeling of repulslon for this
woman"
~ WON'T won't" Miss Mazuret as
sured him, under her breath, as Mrs. Mar
tin slowly walked into the office.
| Mary ripped the top Of a chair by which
she was landing and waited, rigid and
erect. The woman entered almost re-
luctantly, stopped and gazed at the girl
with a mixture of dread, curiosity and
| something else
| Mrs. Martini" said Kayton in cusual,
matter Of fact tones, this is Miss Ma
zuret"
He resumed his seat at his desk and
bent over his papers. The girl looked at
| the woman and smiled slightly. The
| woman looked at the girl and moved
| slowly over 10 her and held out her hand
| My dear" she said, gently, will you
come with me?"
| The neighborhood of Washington
| square, like one or two other older sec
| tons Of New York. is essentially mediae-
val. lndividualism is it's most salient
| characteristic. Even the many who live
| there to think thoughts OF social brother
hood insist on adhering to their own par
! tcuar thoughts. And thus, as in the
| middle ages, when man enters his
dwelling and bars the door he Is free of
all danger that his neighbors may intrude
| on his privacy.
This petrified survival of the time when
every man was for himself In thought and
deed and even the great philosophers
| wrote their treatises in secret cells lest
| the world discover their thoughts, newt
ably draws to the region number of men
and women who are at odds in greater
or lesser degree with the rules OF society
as at present constituted.
Mrs. Martin recognized that this COM
munity was the ideal one for her room
ing house" No one would or could in
| quire as to the character or OCCUPATIONS
OF her roomers. No one cared Beyond
a little printed sign above the bell-pull
That protruded from the dingy brick wall
by the door, she made no effort to secure
dodgers The few who came were told
that the house was full. She had three
lodgers-all men These three came when
she took the house and remained always.
No new dodgers were adde TO their num-
oers and these never left her house
| Tn Counterfeiters' Plant
They occupied rooms on the second
floor. 1t was a two-story and attic house,
with a dining room and kitchen in the
basement. They were not often in each
others rooms, but they met frequently
in the garnet, which was scantily but in
nocently furnished But by the manipula-
ton of certain boards in the floor and
sliding panels at the back of closets and
cupboards these men could instantly avail
themselves of the tools for a printing trade
industry that is most severely frowned
upon by the treasurer of the United
States
| But that there was no possible occasion
Tor her to appear in the upper rooms of
the house. Mrs. Martin would never have
consented that Miss Mazuret should be-
come lodger. She had a back parlor
bedroom on the first floor, in which she
lodged the girl and felt that she was as
much out of the way as if she had been
in Broadway hotel
Immediately thereafter events moved
with great swiftness An organ grinder
began haunting the block at all hours of
the day and night. There was a new man
at the newsstand on the corner across
/ the street. The saloons at either end of
the DOCK began TO do surprisingly good
business and the attic of the house next
door 10 MRS. Martins was rented by
couple of inventors who wanted to work
secretly on new electrical appliance that
would make a stir in the world This
new appliance was the dctograph, the
J greatest of eaves-droppers which has al
ready made considerable stir in various
quarters of the United States
This photograph is q fearsome device
II Is so small and unpretentious that it
! can be concealed in the barest of rooms.
1t is telephone produced to the ultimate
power of sensitiveness. Placed in a cor
ner on the floor behind the dresser of a
great chamber 1t will transmit over little
! wires to listeners miles away every syl-
! liable of a whispered conversation in the
opposite corner.
All of these changes In the neighhor-
hood occurred within a few hours after
Miss 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
few of these things were noted with
some disquiet by the three old dodgers in
the house and they demanded explana-
lions of Mrs. Martin. She told them the
simple truth. They were Increasingly
alarmed, at least two of them, but they
understood that she could not well do
otherwise in the circumstances.
, The Unusual Visitors
The next day there were other callers
, on Miss Mazuret and finally early in the
, afternoon, the four-Mrs. Martin and her
three lodgers-left the house in a body.
Thereafter there was no caller until
/, nearly 7 o'clock in the evening, when
night had fallen. These were unusual
! visitors There were two of them and
! though they had never entered the house
before they produced a bunch of keys
and fitted one into the front door The
younger of the two men carried a wom-
ans handbag partially 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 irrepressible assistant
The girl piloted them upstairs through
the empty house to the attic where Kay
) ton unlocked the door with a key off the
: same bunch that had enabled them to
enter the house.