The Washington herald., 1914-01-18

bedroom door open / went out into
the passage. She walked right past
| me without seeming to take any heed
of nv presence. She had prayer
book in one hand and green leather
handbag in the other. / jumped to
| conclusion.
"Mr. Montagu's property is in that
bag. She's going to meet that-that
creature"
F; followed her down the staircase.
3, DIR. Riderman and Wheeler were in
! the hall, the latter in multi. Both
of them took off their hats TO salute
her as she appeared, an attention on
their part which she utterly ignored.
We all three followed her as she went
out into the street. Inspector Ellis,
! in plain clothes, was on the other side
/ of the road. Without crossing to us,
he moved in the direction IN which
! she was going.
You'll find shes going to the cor
ner Of the Pimlico road, said Wheeler
to me. that's where he always meets
her. II | could only get within COM
! Portable reach of him
He stopped-in time. His agitation
was obvious. DIR. Ridernan deemed IT
necessary to address to Wheeler a
warning word.
/ Don't you let yourself go; control
yourself, my lad. You leave the coll
| duct of this business to others"
! We were nearing the end of Lower
! Sloane street when Inspector Ellis mo-
/ toned to us from his side of the road
We stopped short, letting the girl go
/ on. The inspector, on his side of the
road. strolled carelessly on Crossing
the street, the girl disappeared round
| the corner. The inspector vanished,
| too. In another moment the inspec-
tor reappeared; when he beckoned to
US we moved forward. A taxi cab was
standing by the curb. The Inspector
explained.
Shes in that motorcar with the
professor, as you say he calls himself
We could see that closed car was
moving rapidly. In you get; this cabs
] mine
We got in; the cab started. The in
! spector continued to explain
Some of our men are shadowlng
our friend in front j don't propose
( to take him single-handed.
! The cab ran over Ebury Bridge into
| Warwick street, turning into what
afterward learned was Alderney street.
then suddenly stopped. We were on
! the pavement in an instant.
! There's that other motor going of
/ in 'front.'" observed the driver. It's
put the pair down There is the girl
turning into Sussex street. She don't
seem well The man has gone into
the house four doors from this;
fancy the door must have been kept
open for him-he slipped in so fast
Four men were coming toward US
/ down the street.
! There are my chaps said Ellis.
What we've got 10 do is to get into
| that house before the professor gets
! out of it-perhaps by a back door.
1 For the moment we'll leave the girl to
herself"
This did not appeal to Wheeler at
all. for he made a rapid movement to-
ward the street into which the girl
had turned. We approached the house
of which the driver had spoken
! Inspector Ellis had in his hand a
key, which he inserted into the key
hole, and which opened the door as
easily as if it had been made for
it. An elderly woman was in the hall.
who are you2" she asked. What
do YOU want What do YOU mean by
coming into my house without knock
ing"
/ There came a sound from some
where above, as If a heavy piece OF
furniture had fallen. Thrusting the
woman aside, the Inspector ran up the
stairs with us at his heels. There were
two doors on the first landing, which
he threw wide open; then, turning.
sprang up three more stairs which
were on the LETT. to a door beyond. He
turned the handle-then exclaimed:
The doors locked. He's in here
Pankhurst, drive this door OPEN
4 great. big man. one OF the four
who had met us outside. went rushing
forward. and by the mere force of
his impetus carried the door away
as If it were so much matchwood- In
another second we were all OF US
swarming into the room. Then
heard some one shout:
Look out! He's going to jump
through the window
=, Just as | entered the man whom
had heard addressed as Prof. Argus
jumped. before any one could stop
him. There was an old-faShioncd
French window leading on to a little
balcony: it was open when | got into
the room saw a tall figure pass
through it, then vanish. One of the
inspectors men. running on to the
balcony, looked over the low railing.
He must have struck the spikes
: OF the railings and fallen on the wrong
side to the bottom OF the area. Hes
) lying all OF a heap
Inspector Ellis voice, as he replied
to this information, was cold and Of
ficisl.
Two OF you men go down and look
after him. He turned to some ono
else who was in the room. You arc
my prisoner: if you are wise Man
!: yon won't make any fuss"
The man addressed did not look as
though he were likely to make what
the Inspector called fuss-it was
Turner, from whom Maggie Harris
had fled in the Embankment Gardens.
. and whom | had seen concocting his
) hideous plot in the restaurant. His
confederate was dead, the archcriminal
! Whether his intention was to commit
!. suicide, or merely to make a wild
!. effort to escape from the police, was
: not clear. In his pockets were that
!. whitey-brown parcel which we had
seen Maggie, Harris take out of Mr.:
Montagues safe, and which contained
| large number of uncut diamonds !;