The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-11-26

little hotly. Il heard 1t quite plainly.
He can't be far away"
TOO far FOR us to catch him." God
frey retorted. and, torch In hand, pro-
the ground beneath II. There is
where he stood" he added. n the
marks ON the sill were evident enough.
"of course, he had his line OF retreat
blocked out" and he flashed his torch
back n forth across the grass, but
footsteps was visible. We went slowly
back to the house. and God
frey sat down again to q contemplation
OF the cabinet.
TITS too much for me-" he said. Mt
last. The only way l can find that
But ! don't want to smash h thing TO
pieces
II should say not! 1t would be like
smashing the Venus de Milo
Hardly so bad as that. But we
won't smash II yet awhile. I'm going
to look up the subject of secret raw
~ers-perhaps I'll stumble upon some
thing that will help me-
And then, of course" I said. dis
c~ons0lately, lit Is quite possible that
there isn't any such drawer at all"
But Godfrey shook his head decidedly
Il - ~ Z o0ACO Will IVo @AANACp $3.50
I'll wager that fellow who was looking
in at us could find 1t in a minute"
He seemed mighty frightened lest
you should"
"He had reason to be-" Godfrey re-
joired grimly. I'll have another try
at 1t tomorrow. One thing we've got to
take car OF. and that IS that u friend
of h burning eyes doesn't get a chance
at 1t first"
Those shutter are pretty strong" I
pointed out And Parks is no fool"
YES" agreed Godfrey, 'the shutters
out for 10 miutes-scarcely longer than
that. AS for Parks, he wouldn't last
10 reconds. You don't seem to under
stand the extraordinary character OF
this fellow"
During your period Of exaltation last
night" I reminded him, ''you referred
to him as tie greatest criminal OF mod
ern times"
well" smiled Godfrey, perhaps that
was a little exaggerated. Suppose we
say n of he reatest-great enough,
surely, to walk all around us. IL we
aren't on guard. I think I would better
drop a word to Simmonds and get him
to send down a couple Of men to watch
the house. With them outside, and
Parks on the inside it ought to be
Il should think so!"t I said. zone
would imagine you were getting ready
to repel an army. Who Is this fellow.
anyway, Godfrey? You seem to be half
afraid OF hint" -. .
I'm wholly afraid OF him, II he's
who / think he is-Dut IFS a mere guess
as yet, Lester. Wait a day or two. I'll
call up Simmonds."
He went to the phone, while I sat
down again and looked at the cabinet
in a kind Of stupefacation. What was
the intrigue, of which it seemed to be
the center7 Who was this man, that
Godfrey should consider him so formid-
able? Why should he have chosen
Philip Vantine for a victim?
Godfrey came back while I was still
cropping blindly amid this a OF mys-
terry we
sending two OF his best men to watch
the house, He stood for a moment
gazing down at the cabinet. I'm COM
ing back tomorrow to have another try
at it." he added. IT have left the
gauntlet there on the chair, so II you
feel X having a try yourself, Lester
Heaven forbid!"'I protested. But
perhaps I would better tell Parks to
let o in. I hone ! won't find you a
corpse here, Godfrey" ..r;n. -.
s do Il But I don't believe you
will. Yes. tell Parks to let me in
whenever I come around. And now
about Rogers"
What about him?'
81 rather thought I might want to
grill him tonight, But perhaps I would
better wait till I get a little more to
go on" He paused for a moments
thought. Yes; I'll watt" he said.
finally; 7 don't want to run any risk
of falling" -
We went out Into the hall together,
and I told Parks to admit Godfrey,
whenever he wished to enter. Rogers
was still sitting on the cot, looking so
crushed and Sorrowful that I could not
help plying him. I began to think
that, IL he were left to himself q day or
two longer ne would tell all we wished
to know without any grilling.
I confided this idea to Godfrey as we
went down the front steps.
Perhaps you're right" he agreed. IT
don't believe the fellow is really crook
ed. Something has happened to him
something In connection with that wo-
man--and he has never got over It.
Well. we shall have to find out what
1t was. Hello, here are Simmond's
men," he added. as two policemen stop
ped before the house.
us this Mr., Godfrey2' n Of them
asked.
Yes. said Godfrey.
NJ Simmonds told us to report to
you. cir, If you were here"
What we want you to do" said God
frey. lis to watch the house-watch IL
from all ~sides-patrol clear around II
and see that NJ one approaches it."
Very well, SIR" and the men touched
their helmets, and one Of them went
around to the back of the house, while
the other remained in front.
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