The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-11-20
"a I've a GOOD denl 10 lam. :,

turned on again.
Hes gone. You really think he's ]
watching me?"
HE is watching this apartment, ,
know that much"
And even at that moment the watch
er was watching from his vantage be-
hind the corner.
"Suspicious!" he murmured, tossing
the cigarette into the gutter. They're
watching me for a change. I'll drop
out know what know. It's a great
world It's fine to be alive and kicking
on top Of it," He went on without
haste and took the subway train for
downtown.
rs there any way could get near
him?" asked Braine.
Tomorrow night you might leave
by the ianitor's entrance. III keep |
the lights on till you're outside. Then |
I'll turn them of and you can follow
and learn who he is"
It's mighty important"
Don't scowl. At your age a wrinkle
is apt to remain If you once get it
started"
He laughed. "wrinklesi" She could
talk of wrinkles!
"They are more important than you
think. Every morning / rub out the
wrinkle go to bed with
Il wish you could rub out the gen.
eral stupidity which is wrinkling my
brain. I've made three moves and
failed in each. What's come over
me?"
Perhaps you've had too many suci
cesses. The wheel of chance is al
ways turning around"
May / smoker"
Thanks. At least 1t proves you still
have some consideration for me. You
would smoke whether It was agreeable
or not. But like the odor of a good
cigar And it always helps you to
, think"
Braine lit the cigar and began his
customary pacing. At length he
I paused.
Z Suppose we have a real old-fash1
! Toned coaching party out to the old
! mansion we know about?"
And what shall we do there?"
Make the mansion an enchanted
castle where sometimes people who
! enter can't get out. Do you think you
could get her to go?'
= II can try"
! "Olga, ] must have that girl; and I
: must have her soon. Sometimes find
=, myself nightly puzzled over the
. whole thing. II Hargreave is alive.
: why doesn't he turn up now that it's
. practically known that his daughter
presides over his household? / might
Y understand It If / didn't know that
Hargreave is really afraid of nothing.
Where is the man with the five thou
sand, picked up at sea? What was
~ the reason for Jones carrying that box
out in broad daylight? Who is the
u chap watching across the street
X Sometimes I believe In my soul-if
. have onel-that Hargreave is playing
- with us. playing! Wel,' fiinging the
80 half consumed cigar into the crate
Oh the Black Hundred always goes for
D ward, win or lose, and never forgets.
10 I'VE are a fine pairl" said the wo
~ man bitterly.
20 I'VE are exactly what fate intendei
d. us to be. They wrote you down In tn
70 book as a beautiful body with
40 crooked mind. They wrote me dow
40 as the devil. doomed to roam earth
40 top till I'm killed"
ID "Killed?"
why, yes. I'm not the kind @
chap who dies in bed, surrounded b
no the weeping members of the family
10: doctor, nurse, and priest. I'm
u scoundrel; but It has this savin
80 grace, enjoy being a scoundrel. Nov
~. I'm going up to the club There
III nothing like a game Of billiards {
un chess to smooth that wrinkle whic
seems to worry you"
In the great newspaper Office theI
"a was a mighty racket Midnight a
GU ways means pandemonium in tn
-. city room Of a metropolitan dali
~ Copy boys were rushing to and fr
messengers and printers with stick
~ galleys in their hands; reporters wei
.ns banging away at their typewriter
10 and intermingling you could hear Il
en- ceaseless clickety-click from the tel
10, graph room.
lna The managing editor came out
- his Office and approached the desk
~ the night city editor.
o -e,s Editorial page gone DOWN.
,e- Twenty minutes ago." said Il
lns night city editor
~ II wanted a stick on that Panan
W rumpus."
TOO late"
az where's Jim Norton?"
70 "At the chamber of commerce ba
do quet The major is going to throw
bomb into the enemy's camp"
nlm Nothing on the Hargreave stuff"
" mo. Guess I'd better put that
ean the cubbyhole He's dead"
mo will found YETI"
mot a piece as big as a posta
yer stamp"
II THAT win leave the girl in a tou