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The Washington times., 1913-10-06

an envelope which Creegan had in hi
hands at the instant of the attack. HI
| casually examined its contents ant
thrust It into his pocket.
"Oh, Mr.. MARSHALL whispered tn
girl. She was shaking from head t,
foot with shock and dread and terror
'You-youTl let him go, won't you
You'll let him go?''
Mr. Marshall ignored her. His eye!
were on Creegan. to whose counter
ence intelligence had returned. He was
rubbing his jaw. uncertainty.
I'll get you for this!'' he growlct
hoarsely. Mr. Marshall drew UP to hin
Iongingly.
You get gay and you'll get another
he assured him.
Gimme back that roll" snarled the
burglar.
Mr.. Marshall laughed unpleasantly
You got a swell chance of getting
this. None G that side stepppin
either he added reaching out Ions
arm and jerking Creegan toward him.
Mr. Creegan shook himself. squared
his shoulders and pulled down his un-
speakable vest.
"Oh, I amt tryin' to beat it, he said,
with lofty contempt. Il don't have to.
Got me? / don't have to!'
"Is that so?' inquired Mr.. Marshall,
with cold sarcasm and a yearning fist.
Yes, that's so.' sneered Mr.. Creegan.
"Oh, you don'tI' exclaimed Mr.. Mar
shall In the same tone. Mrs. VAIN
wright took his arm again.
"Oh, please. Mr.. Marshall!' she beg
ged feyerishly. please let him go.
Please let him go"'
Mr.. Marshall turned TO her slowly.
I've told you, Mrs. Wainwright he
said. little impatiently, Its quite i'm
possible-'
But. if you only knew.' she was
rapidly becoming hystericaL as she
heard sounds overhead. III L could
only tell you-oh. you will. you will"'
Madame" replied the detective with
respectful firmness, Il am In your hus-
bands employ
But It would be doing my husband
the greatest possible kindness TO let
him 20. Oh, ! know it sounds queer.
but it's true: it's true
Without your husbands s knowledge?'
asked the detective, slowly.
'Yes-yes. He mustn't know-he
mustn't. Oh. I can't tell you why.
can't. can't" she went on desper-
ateIy.
But l swear to you on my honor that
my husbands happiness-his carcer-
Yes. his honor-all-all depend on Your
doing as ask you! PIease-pIease.'
''Impossible"' exclaimed Marshall. in
stantly.
But I'm his wife-his wife, You can
trust me,'
''Oh, can II" he said, slowly. with
meaning. But the girl
was too overwrought to notice.
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You Can Begin This
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By Reading This
First
Synposis Of Preceding chsptsr,.

SyuP0SAS u HIeco010E C2aptofo,
\. yeune WashinStonaan named Nano,
eeSd. while In etatuaFy HAu, y seaFtjod
~ ne21ne oome one mention nlo mama.
He dnde himself bs1ng discuased 0y z
man ana beautiful young W0unan who =
being tnstructsd 70 follow him with th0
Idea e nnding oome mysterious documoue
which the man evidently believes 3 IN
Mansdsads posceadon. Becoming inter-
ested. AansnsA decides 70 lsad the
Nsnsasid deliberately scrapes acquains-
ance with his fair purSuer and at her sug-
Esstion they 20 70 reception a. the
In the midst Of the festivities the vom-
an begs to ne taIsen home At the door
she Jumps quickly into q motorcar and y
whisked away. leaving Mansdeld standing
on the curb. He gives chase, and after
many exciting experiences follows his
quarry to Baltimore and to Q large house
on Eutaw place.
Mansfield learns that the strange woman.
whose name . Mary Donaldson. has been
selected by Vtnton and several associates
10 get possession Of a patent compass for
aeroplanes. which Mansfield II trying to
sell TO the Government. Mary. Mansfield
also learns. is a pawn in the hands Of
Vfnton. who wields a strange power over
her.
Mansfield finds that vinton is conspirins
TO get possession Of Mary's share in the
estate Of her uncle-Rufus Jennings-and
he agrees to help in outw;ttlnR the man.
He calls on Vin;on in his rooms In Wash
ington in the hope Of getting from him
the will left by Rufus Jennings
Mansfield gets the will. but q few hours
later ne Is caught in trap set by Vinton.
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SYNOPSIS.

waiter Blount. who is known n The 1r-
cerworld as Diamond Willie." through
the Intervention OF a man he knows as
MIR. Andrew. finds himself snatched from
the talons of the law Just as the Pink
ertonS are about TO capture him for one
OF his various crimes. and placed in an
apartment on Riverside Drive. andrew
acts as his valet. and furnishes him with
man and woman who act as his father
and mother. These people are from
Laramie. Wyo.. but IT develops they have
criminal records. ane are in the valet >
Bower.
Young Blount tells his father and
mother that Andrew is working against
Wainwright. former district attorney. who
70 being mentioned as candidate for
governor.
The valet also furnishes Walter with 4
sister" Lucene Blount who is entire
" different from the relatives he has
picked out for her. There Is great af-
fectcu between Mr.. Andrew and Lucene
who has Just returned from four wears
study in Europe He tells her that he
has supplied the relatives SO that she
can meet the man whose life s1e saved
Chicago. when she was a waif OF the
streets. She says she Is true to her
early love and Is glad to know She Is TO
meet this man.
Wainwright calls to thank Walter
Blount for having saved his life from an
ASSASSIN the night before.
After q short courship he marries her
and the Blount family. with Mr. Andrew
the valet are visiting at the home of tho
watnwrtghts. on the Hudson. Creegan. a
crook from Chicago. calls for Blount at
the Wainwrights. Andrew tells him he
He explains that he win not be prose.
cuted II captured. and shows him the
picture Of Mrs. Wainwright. whom Cree
gan recognizes a. Maggie Flint the
Chicago waif.
Andrew tells walter and the Bfounts
that he has finished with them for the
present and orders them all to leave the
house the next day. He gives to Lu-
Gene S. coo in money that Lucene has got
from her husband and then given to
Walter. Wainwright has marked the
bills He tells her that Creegan will
have to be bought of or he'll expose her
TO her husband. Creegan is coming at
a..
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To Be Continued Tomorrow.
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CHAPTER xIII.-(Continued.)

I~H HE was gone for little time, ant
1 then i could see her on the hearth
~ again. Wriggling her way int
| the fireplace, SO that her body Gu
off the light from below me. / could hea
her feeling about with her hands. Pres
emily she slipped back into the room
again and then called up:
| Eleven inches at the narfowest point
1 used a tape-measure."
My heart sank I never could max,
it. Against a smooth surface and under
less cramped conditions I might pos
sibly, by violent effort, squeeze jny body
! through an eleven-inch aperture, but
/ knew that 1 could never manage thai
flue. To slide into it, feet first, woult
simply mean to jam myself fast;
/ should be like cork in a bottle, an(
/ with little prospect that / could sxtri
cate myself. 1t was only her forethough
| that saved me from such a disastrou,
and ridiculous predicament.
Its too narrow, isn't it?" l heart
her ask. in a guarded voice.
| Yes, I'm afraid So"
tried to keep discourasement out Of
my voice. but l doubt if I succeeded
very we'll.
| There isn't any way / could help T.
make the opening larger" she asked
anXiously.
1T would take hours to get those
bricks out" answered.
/ was dismayed and almost discour-
| aged, for now it seemed that all the
hardship and toll Of my sixteen foo,
climb had been a useless expenditure O,
efrectually separated, so far as all the
assistance / could give her was con-
cerned, AS IL 1 had remained in The
| room below.
You'll have to go back" she whis-
pered. I'm afraid it's no USE
Waltz l said. Let me think a bit
Could you get me glass Of water?"
She disappeared from the hearth and
was soon back again. with a glass in
her hand. Thrusting her head and
shoulders part way into the flue she
reached upward into the chimney. l
stopped. took the glass from her and
drank greedily. My throat was dry
parched from breathing the SCOT in the
chimney, and l was thirsty as a re-
suit of my eXertions.
your room?" asked as 1 handed back
the glass.
Yes: all the windows in the house
are barred"
THE place is q dungeon ex-
claimed despalringly.
1T seems So" her voice answered.
I'm sorry you can't get into the room.
I'D feel a little safer then. II you
were only as small as T."
"As small?' l echoed. What do YOU
mean?"
why, I could get through that fiue. :"
she, replied with a sigh. Il found I
could do that when l handed you the
glass"
] felt my blood leap again.
You are sure?" I asked eagerly.
SURE she answered.
! turned my head upward. The light
/ had observed when first looked into
the chimney was nearer now. l Won
dered If II were possible to
Anything was worth trying. no ma liter
how desperate.
Mary" / called.
Yes"
If there a rope in your room
I IN see'
This time she was gone for two or
three minutes while / stood braced in
the black hollow of the chimney, trying
to consider calmly daring scheme.
There are some very strong curtain
Cords / heard the voice.
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PART II.-(Continued.)
(e A TTEMPTED robbery" Mr..
~ Marshall was very close to
the erect figure.

n ~
~ Marshall was very close 70
n the erect figure
'1 think so. sir" wa. tbe
guarded. reply.
TN remain up." Marshall said ,ru1
Iy.
Yes, sir. Good night sir" said An
drew, and turned to the steps.
At O'Clock Mr.. Andrews light in the
tower OF the old country house Wen,
ont 1t was the signal that all within
were asleep. Yet in all that house. save
in the servants quarter, not an eye had
closed.
In a big room, lighted only by the
moonlight, the master Of the house
paced to and FRO, raging and helpless,
and feeling himself powerless to avert
an impending blow. In a nearby cham
Der sat his wife, wrapped in a big, loose
gown. awaiting, dry-eyed and feverish.
Tor the hour Of 2. And in her hand
was an envelope filled with marked
money.
In another room, the Blounts and their
son" whispered and consulted in the
darkness
In the silence and gloom of the lower
rooms Davis, the detective, '.Mr. Mar
shall" prowled silently about.
And high above it. like some super-
natural being, the calm, relentless au-
thor OF the tense and tragic situation
Sat by a shaded lamp and read "sartor
Resartus'' until his watch told him II
was time for the signal
For possibly ten minutes the quiet of
the house was unbroken. Then Mar
shall. approaching the living room from
the library. thought he heard sounds
from the study beyond. He quickened
his steps. but halfway across the living
room he stopped and swiftly drew back.
A dim figure in white stole down the
stairs. paused for a moment at the foot,
and disappeared silently in the gloom
of the study. Marshall followed like a
black. menacing shadow.
The white figure stood by the safe
and near her Marshall made out the
figure Of a man. The man saw him at
the same moment There were two low
oaths, a suppressed scream from the
woman. and the detective leaped. His
opponent was slight beside the massive
Pinkerton. but he wriggled his throat
out OF Marshall's left hand like an eel.
This was not lasting success for the
moment he was free his chin collided
with the detectives dubbed right fist
snd a fair proportion Of great weight
behind II. He collapsed with a gurgIe
across the safe.
"Oh. Mr.. MARSHALL Mr.. MarshaII,''
gasped the girl. clinging TO his arm. Mr..
Marshall was too much devoted to his
business TO be especially surprised by
the presence of his employers wife at
that hour in that place and that COM
pany. He was man of simple direct
ness Of purpose.
He's not hurt" he assured her re-
spectfuIy. Hell come around in a
minute. Here your' He picked up
Creegan by the shoulder with one hand
like man picking up a sack. Go on
get out Of here!" and he gave him a
spinning flip that sent him into the
living room table. where he clung and
rearranged his shattered consciousness.
Marshall and Mrs Wainwright were
al his heels. Marshall had picked up
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clung to me Historically. sobing and
gasptng for breath
Seore one on Mr. vintonrs said.
patttng her soot-smeared head and try.
Ing to assume jocular tone.
1t was wonderful she whipered.
but oh. 80 horrible!
could feel her shudder in my armA
But It's only half the job, Mary"
Now whatT she asked. looking up at
me. and then turning her eyes wonder.
inSiy to the expanse Of roof.
4 CsntanuatSon - Thas Story WIN
- FouDa In TeuorFov1's
1a1oe ~ TIE Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-20
CLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE

Optimism is great institution, but don't
bet your money on it.
If your manager wanted to sell you
would there be any bidders?
The boneheads aren't all engaged in
our celebrated national pastime.
In police court is a poor place to begin
to shield your proud old family name.
Although he gets a rapid start, a train
robber rarely becomes president of the
road.
A loafer seems convinced that the con-
versatfon of natural resources should be-
gin at home.
Every woman thinks her illustrious son
learns to swear from the Other Children
in the neighborhood.
Sometimes company stays so long they
are treated like members of the family
and then hurry home.
Short jerks will study for the ministry
with the view of getting four weeks va
cation every hot season.
A gent who has been there derives
some pleasure whenever he hears of a
New York restaurant falling in business.
Whenever we are almost convinced the
people are pretty smart, we think of some
popular song and change our mind.
Given a bunch for economy man is
likely to quit smoking ten cent cigars and
consume twice as many of nickel brand.
At some time in his life. nearly every
boy wishes he could be an orphan for
awhile and enjoy little Personal Liberty
Blight Lights popular that many
who sojourn among them take booze that
they may see two of those notwithstanding
bulbs where only one shone before.
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AXHAWKER JOTS

Another post-nuptial remark from
Deacon Walker of the Osborne Farmer:
VIII science ever develop self filling
salt and pepper cellars.
Dried cantaloupes will be on the
market as delicacy this winter, re-
ports the Leavenworth Post.
Proprietor Patterson of the Woodson
County Advocate calls attention to the
fact that 1.-The talkative barber illus
trates his story with cuts
Experience is the highest priced
comm odfty on the market, says Mrs.
Pefer, in her Eureka Herald, but the
demands always remain steady.
Probably the worst heat sufferers,
1t occurs to the Hiawatha World are
those who have nothing to do but fan.
How can they expect women police
men, to be success. asks Editor How
ard of the Arkansas City Traveller
when there is certain to be row or
the force as soon as one coppette OBJ
serves that the other coppettes have
uniforms Just like hers.
Sam Owings was on the streets
TUESDAY looking like he had been in
a hight, reports the Kingman Journal.
There was long cut just east of his
right eye, his lips were cut and he had
scarcely enough teeth left to hold the
big cigar he was smoking. group of
friends gathered around him and he
told them that he was riding his mo-
torcycle out of Kendall about eight
miles an hour (and the crowd said
eighty, when he ran into a chuck
hole at the edge of the bridge near
Lige Clapp's house and took a header
onto the plank floor of the bridge He
thinks he was stunned for an instant
for his arm was burned by the ex-
haust of the engine and he doesn't
know when it was done. A little later
Sod Clapp, the county commissioner
came along and seeing the blood on
the bridge he got down, examined it,
and recognized it as some more of Sam
Owing's blood. go 10 .s- 800 '-i'i
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said Tilbury. 1T is wonderful thing Tor
the college. If had money should want
to spend it that way. too. The educauoh
of the young men and women OF the couh-
try is one of the most benefic1a! WoIks
that can be DONE Tilbury was glad thal
Miss Gray didn't gloat over him because
he had said young women. 1t was tne
day before their Thanksgiving Nacdtion-
their first superintendent he hao peeh
trying all day to nerve himself 10 q coi
feSSion.
He noticed her hands playing over .he
papers at his side, he saw the Jaoe IAlis
on her finger-the whiteness or her han .
Miss Gray" he said, suddenly neF'tIs
himself and pressing his hano over lle
hand that wore the jade ring. we know
each other so little and yet so Well can
you forgive me? / must conffde IN somie
one. 1 have never known woman Hhe
you before and I swear 1 have never
loved
Miss Gray did something unexpected.
She leaned nearer to Dudley T1lbury- no
one but Miss Gray with her sel1-posses-
sion, could have done it just that way
and then she laughed.
''And you were the woman nater anu
would have kept the Ashley bequest out
of Baily if you could. and you Woulon,
register the women students, Dudley M
bury She had inclined her head close
to him and yet he felt that she was iar
away from him. $50 I came and tr1eu TO
convert you-you the woman hater, the m
vulnerable Dudley Tilbury. Siben-Ashley-
whom you call Miss Gray-came with her
millions 1913, by the NC
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.
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QUAKER MEDITATTCNS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many literary lions are very tame.
The fellow known a borrower is al
ways lonely
The sign painter can always make a
name for himself.
Too many of us wait for the clouds be-
fore saving up for a rainy day.
Some take things as they come others
take chances; it's a toss-up.
Many fellow has made his mark by
making a mark of some other fellow.
While many women are lacking in a
sense of humor. yet all of them like to be
humored.
Hoax-"Isn't it funny how many society
girls go on the stage?' Joax-'Yes; and
isn't it funny how few of them go'?'
Bess-"Young Mr. Gotrox is rather
stupid, isn't he?" Jess-"Stupid? Nothing
of the sort. He was clever enough to be
born with a rich father"
Wigg-"The Newriches say hay-fever
is hereditary in their family" Wagg-'I
shouldn't be surprised. You know the old
man used to keep a feed store
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SAYS UNCLE CIV

The prime beauty of human activity
is team work. The team worker is
the highest development of the spe-
cies and the eventual redeemer of the
race. All progress is a matter of CO.
operation. No victory is won single
handed Somewhere along the line
somebody else has given physical or
moral support if he hasn't put in the
so-ealled winning lick. No man sue
ceeds with the hands of all other men
against him. He is the greatest sue
cess who is an organizer. The or
ganizer is the man who has team
work down to fine point and knows
how to break others to the harness of
brotherly effort.
These laws are as old as Nature
herself and they are as unavoidable
as they are immutable. 1t is true that
a man may fight Nature single handed
and apparently beat her, but his vic
tory is worth nothing until his fellows
help him to realize upon it. Another
may hold a thousand at bay for time.
but he soon needs the cooperation of
comrades or he starVeS to death in his
coign of vantage.
If you play a lone hand, you have
all the odds against you and sooner or
later you fail The pariah is one who
cannot flock with his fellows. The
odd sheep is another whose life is
stand cooperation. The Ishmaelite
is a third who knows team work only
in a limited sense and whose hand is
too often against his neighbor's
We are accustomed to regard
genius q thing isolated and abso-
lutte, but this is an error. Even from
the subjective side, it is q matter of
keen and intimate sym pathy with the
wide wOrld-a splendid, universal CO.
operation. No man liveth unto him
self alone-he who is utterly alone
knows death in life.
All of which means that, whatever
your station in life, whatever your
dreams, you can do nothing alone.
Y GU must give and take, and give and
take again. In the counting room or
the workshop it little avails you If
your performances are brilliant to the
point of establishment if your efforts
are not In line with those of your fell
low workers.
The esprit du corps is one of the
greatest things in the world. being
but a practical, efficient manifestation
of the great fact of the brotherhood
of man.
In intellectual life, your efforts are
barren if you have not come into cleo
trio touch of your times. If there be
no response to your inspired deeds
and utterances you'd better be an ash
man, heaving at one side of a recep-
tacle for waste while your comrade in
labor heaves equally hard and eff
fectively at the other. 1t is the long
pull. the steady pull. and the pull al
together-the response and the quick
ening impulse that follows your own
effort that count for results Copy
right. 1913, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
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HUAOR or THE DIP

Maud-"I understand Mr.. Pryde has
stopped trying to trace his family tree T
suppose the farther back he went ~
harder it got" Jack-"Yes, and the f,,ro
Their back he went the harder his ancea
tors got-"-Boston Transcript.
There are $4,000 words in the Trneliv,
language, said the fussy little na1 a.
the corner in his usual Impressive ,,,a.l. IN
Il thought 1t was more than that ssid
the mild man with the talkatfve ,,7it.
ana the 1ussy man collapsed.-CIeyeIand
Plain Dealer. eia"u
us he fond of peace and uuieto, ..I
guess not: He's giving his three dausbI
ters musical educations." Detroit Free
COOPER say. Hooper, was DIR. Rlinlxe-
t gutuy OF POKE In his prayer for our
pupnc oficials this morning % Hooner
he a1 Drsved c3 POP you notice that
upon those who guyed the people ?'ioPncI'
80. D;d your son graduate with bonors7.
should say he did. He had a hst,t,..
average OF 'S1s. Detroit Free Press.