New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-06-17
CHAPTER XIV.
Red November's Work.

- f all his weird adventures this
latest pleased P. Sybarite
~ least. It's one thing to take
chances under cover Of night
when your heart is light. your pockets
heavy and wine is huZzing wantOnly
within your head, but another thing
altogether to burglarize your enemy's
apartments via the fire escape and in
broad daylight For by now the light
was nothing less in the open
Yet to his relief he found no more
than limpid twilight in the cramped
| and Swallowed we'll down which Zigzag-
ged the fire escape.
The window was wide open. to force
whose latch he had thoughtfully pro
| vided himself with fruit knife from
Peter Kenny's buffet. Within was
gloom and stiffness absolute. He step
ped noiselessly in his unshod feet down
through the window. cautiously parted
| the draperies and advanced into dark
ness so thick that there might as we'll
have been night outside instead OF
glowing daybreak.
Then. with eyes becoming accustOm
ed to the change, be made out shapes
and masses that told him he was in
the dining room.
Over across from the window stood
/ a door, its oblong dimly luminous with
light softly shining down the walls Of
a private hall from point some dis
lance to the left.
Rounding dining table. P. Sybarite
stole softly on and paused. listening
just within the threshold.
From some uncertain quarter. pre-
Sumably the lighted room he conld
hear sound. very slight. SO slight that
it seemed guarded. but none the less
unmistakable-the hiss of. carbonated
! water squirting from a siphOn into A
glass.
Ceasing. a short wait followed and
then faint "A-ah.' Of satisfaction.
with the thump Of Il glass set down
upon some hard surface
And at once soft footballs became
audible in the private hall shuff1ing
back toward the dining room.
Instinctively the little man drew
,, back, regretful now that he had Yield
ed to Peters prejudices against loaded
pistols retreating sideways along the
wall until he had put the bulk Of a
; massive buffet between him and the
door,
The footsteps came no farther than
the dining room. then died out for
what seemed full two minutes. a pause
as illegible to his understanding as
their manifest stealth.
Suddenly and more confidently the
footballs turned into the dining room,
and without a glance right or left
man STROBE directly to the open win
dow. There for an instant he delayed
with an eye to the crack between the
, curtains. then. reassured. thrust one
aside and stepped into the embrasure.
there to linger with his head out of the
window. intently accommodating long
enough to enable p Sybarite to make
an amazing discovery. The man was
not Bayard Shaynon: 1t. was Red No
: vember.
What P. Sybarite would have done
had he been armed is problematical
What he did was to remain moveless.
even as be was GREATNESS and power
less but for his naked hands either for
offense or defense. for that November
was armed was as unquestionable as
his mastery Of the long barreled re-
volver Of blue steel. favored ly s..::.-
! men of the underworld. which be held
at poise all the while he carefully sur
yeyed bis line y retreat. ~,
At length, releasing the curtain. the
gang leader hoped lightly out upon
the grating and disappeared down the
iron staircase. watched from above by
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Then the little man ran back through
the dining room and down the private
hall. abandoning every effort to avoid
noise. 5a ,s#4a3t.
No need now for caution II his pre-
monition wasn't worthless-if the
vengeful spirit Of Mrs. Inche had not
stopped short Of embroiling son and
father. but had gone on to the end.
What he saw from the threshold Of
the lighted room was Bayard Shannon
still in death upon the floor. one tenn
pie shattered by a shot fred at close
range from revolver that lay with
butt close to his right hand. carefully
I DISPOSED Elsa with evident intent to indi-