Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-25

.-I eticafe that balf m uour rassed w'trort c word being spoken. Then hc pulled up another chair and sat town beside me.
 'T see,u to be pretty much up against it," he said. mo doubt just as the de- zIgner of the cabinet would wish me to be. The whole bottom of the desk is inclosed, and those three little drawers take up only small part of the space Then the back Of the cabinet seems to be double-at least. there's a space of three inches 1 can't account for. So there's room for dozen secret draw CTS, if the Montespan required so many. And now to find the combination"
 He adjusted the steel gauntlet care fully to his right hand and sat down on the floor before the cabinet
 "rll begin at the bottom,' he said. If there is any spot 1 miss. tell me of it-"
 He ran his fingers up and down the graceful legs. carefully feeling every inequality of the elaborate bronze or. nan,entntion. Then he examined the
  torch to illumine every crevice. but again without result
 Another half hour passed so, and when at last he came out from under the table his face was dripping with sweat
 "Its trying work" he said, sitting down again and hopping his face. But isn't 1t a beauty. Lester? The more 1 look at it the more wonderful It seems"
 I'd point out one thing to you. God frey" I said If you go on poking about with the fingers of both hands. as you've been doing. you are just as npt to get struck on the left hand as on the right"
 That's true.- be agreed. "Stop me if forget"
 There were three little drawers in | the front of the table and these God | frey had removed. He inserted his hand into the space from which he had taken them and examined 1t care fully. Then. inch by inch. he ran his | fingers over the bosses and arabesques with which the sides and top of the table were incrusted- IL seemed to me that if the secret drawer were any where 1t must be somewhere in this part of the cabinet. and l watched him with breathIess interest But no hid den spring was touched: no drawer sprang open; no poisoned fangs de- scended.
 "well." said Godfrey. sitting back in his chair at last and wiping his face again. now we'll try the upper part"
 The upper part of the cabinet con sisted of a series of drawers, rising one above the other and terminated by a triangular pediment Its tympanum ornamented with some beautiful little bronzes. The drawers themselves were concealed by two doors, opening in the center and covered with a most intri cate design of arabesqued incrusta' tions.
 If there is a secret drawer here. said Godfrey. ''it is somewhere In the back, where there seems to be hollow space. But to discover the combina tion"-
 He ran bis fingers over the inlay and then. struck by sudden thought tested each of the little figures along the tympanum, but they were all se solidly in place.
 .-There's one thing sure" he said sthe combination. whatever ft Is, is o such nature that 1t could not be dis covered accidentally. It is probably question of releasing q series of lev CTS, which must be worked Tn cer tain order or the drawer won't open Pm afraid we are up against 1t"
 "I can't pretend I'm sorry," I sai' with sigh Of relief. "As far as an concerned. I'm perfectly willing tha the drawer should go undiscovered"
 don't know what 1t was. for l wa conscious of no noise. but some myste rious attractiol drew my eyes to tn window at the farther side of tn room. Near the top of the woode shutter. which Parks and had put i place, was a small semicircular oper ing. to allow the passage of nttl light. perhaps. and peering throug this opening were two eyes-two burr ing eyes.
 They were fixed upon Godfrey. wh was now examining the back of tn . cabinet. with such fsyerish intentnes the. they did not sec my glance. an . lowered my head instantly.