Charlevoix county herald., 1914-05-30

concerned the happenings on the
train, and at Monterey. "Branton
wanted il kept quiet, and it has been,
but it's a cinch that Shannon was on
that err. and got it, and it's cinch
that Crewe's got it now.
Il wouldn't know it any better'n ]
do if he shook it under my nose. 1t
isn't any pipe-dream, either, to guess
that maybe Crewe was on that train
with Shannon when he got it, and
that Crewe worked that eXtra-Her-
adm the-car-seat act"
Nonsense. If he had been there,
if he had known that Branton had
the money with him pinned inside of
a Herald, he wouldn't have known
which seat in the car Branton would
occupy"
al don't know about that. Men
mostly take the same seats in cars
when they're vacant. You'll see it
done day after day in the Subway
and also on the L."
admitting that, then, he couldn't
have known that Branton would
move away from the window and sit
on his own paper, uncovering the
other one"
"Maybe not; but Crewe is slick
enough, and catlike enough in his
motions, to have slipped forward
from the rear end of the car and to
have swiped Branton's paper and
left the other one in its place when
Branton was looking out of the win
dow. Anyhow, inspector, Crewe's
got gall enough to accept that invi-
tation you left him with Christy.
"If he does show up, | wish you'd
keep him long enough to send for
me. I'd like the pleasure of going
through his clothes just once to see
what he's got on him."
"Who is Crewe, anyway, Shaugh-
Messy" the Inspector asked in
manner that implied more than the
words meant. IF | were your chief,
I'd put you on him and tell you to
lock him up, thoroughly"
1--WE tried that. He hasn't got
any record-that anybody can find.
He's the smoothest proposition that
ever came over the i1dge, and that's
no dreamW
They parted at the next corner.
Shaughnessy returned to the flat
on the East Side. He found the wo-
man still reading the book that had
absorbed her when Crewe made his
unexpected call, but she put it aside
and raised her boldly handsome eyes
to his when he stood beside her.
They were man and wife, but
Shaughnessy was a headquarters de-
tective, and "Shannon's Jess" had
polce-record. So it hadn't been
deemed wise to take the public into
their confidence.
"Well," she said, was it Crewe?"
without a doubt, Jess"
did you get what you went
after?"
81 got nothing-not even Crewe
himself"
"What did you have in those
weights that sent Crewe here to get
them, and that shot you off on his
trail like a sky-rocket?"
"Some papers, Jess, but important
ones"
"Come off the perch, Brian. Pa
per money, more likely, and a wad
of it. How much, Brian? You're
pretty smart, but you amt smart
enough to let me play the game with
you, when you really need me. We'd
have had the wad yet if you'd let me
in on the deal. How much was it,"
Fifty thousand dollars in ten
thousand-dollar bills in one of the
brass weights, and"
"Stop the swing, Brian. I'm diz-
zy."
"It's the truth. And there was
thirty thousand in the other one"
''For the love of Pete, Shaugn.
where'd you get it,"
"Never mind that. The point is
that | haven't got it now, and that
Crewe has. The big bills won't be
any rood to him unless he can find a
way to euchre Branton into buying
'em back. But the rest of it"
whats the matter with the big
ones?"
"The banks have got their num-
bers, and their series Oh, let's for
get it for a while. I'm near crazy
with it all. What have you been up
to, Jess. all day."
"I've had call-from one of the
real things, too; one of the swelis
from Swelltown. and Pm 70 have my
portrait painted in oils. My. but he
was some ginger! Here's his card
Mr.. Birge MoreauX. Um-tee-umm
'1'm to sit for him as a model for
Juno in a work Of art that he is Gre
ating," she added with fine mimicry
Shaughnessv sat staring without an
swer, and she went on. "h saw me
in the street and realized instantly
that ! fulfilled his dream Of Juno
anyhow. that's what he said. And
he followed me home. And when he
saw the address, he made bold tc
come inside. And when he saw tho
way the fat is furnished, he wasn't
G Ain about IL
"But he remembered the street anC
number again, and offered me hun
dred dollars Cor three sittings-fifty
down, and fftv when he calls three
strikes, and out. Did ! take il. says
you ?" She bent toward him. He;
a swell, all right, with money ant
jewels, and other things worth hav-
ing; and if ] don't get the lay Of thc
land and few wax impressions, anC
so forth, while those sittings are go
ing on, you can say that I'm as dead
as Shannon is, believe me! Say
Brian, it's a pity that Shannon''
dead, amt it, honey? 2"
you'll do nothing of the sort
Jess" the man said savagely.