Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1914-01-16
Mrs. Martin seized Kreisler's arm.

Mrs. Martin seized Kreisler's arm.
"He knows" she gasped. Gle knows
she's my daughter"
Kayton threw back his head and
Strengthened up.
"Do you think I'd have sent her
here If you weren't her mother?" he
snarled s%avagely. ''You ought to have
gone when I told you to. Good God!
Haven't you any feeling for her at all?
l might have known couldn't trust
her to a woman who left her when she
was a baby for a man like Kreisler"
He had apparently lost all sense Of
the terrible situation save in so far as
the girls name might be smirched.
With a woman's quick intuition Mrs.
Martin saw and her face lit with a
fierce Joy.
"Friedrichw she cried. in a shrill
voice. We've got him!
The Germans burning, steady eyes
had never left the detectives face. but
his right hand had made the trip it
started before-but this time it had
fulfilled its errand. 1t was concealed
in the folds of Mrs. Martins skirt.
"What do you mean?" be growled.
"He's in love with her"
Her finger pointed to the scene across
the room and Kayton WINGED as If the
hand had thrown a spear at him.
"Whatever you do to me!' cried the
woman triumphantly. you'll do to her!
She's my daughter and II. claim her!!"
Kayton's eyelids narrowed, and he
gritted his teeth.
you're a rotten pair" he said
slowly.
But the woman was all but hyster-
zeal.
give got her out of my life until
now-and you brought her into It'll" she
cried. "From now ON she'll get what
I getv'
You can't drag her so low that l
won't drag her back!" declared Kay.
ton in a tense voice. "She's accused OF
this murder. and the only way I can
clear her is by showing you up"
At the word Kreisler's right hand
darted up. Kayton's lip curled, and he
tossed his revolver across the floor. He
was a brave a like Kreisler.
go ahead!" he exclaimed contemptu'
ously, walking almost up to the luz
Zle of the revolver that was held in q
hand as steady as the cool mind behind
it. '"Shoot and she'll hang for it," He
pointed to the woman that still chung
to Kreisler's 4eft arm. "And my boys
will I-ill Won opd vo,,r y, = lilo ~ n tc ir
a trap! The house is surrounded
There's a photograph in that window
My men hear every word we say.
have only to speak IN order to have i
obeyed. The moment you threatened tt
kill me they started to raid the house.
AS if in instant proof Of his words
ven while the white crease in Kreis
ler's forefinger showed the pressure OF
the trigger, the buzzer above the door
way buried out it's warning.
F., Slowly the finger relaxed, and the arm
camedown to his side. His eyes turne,
.. to the woman's face with an expires
= sion that in its very calmness strucl
despair and agony to her soul.
!. at has come" he said simply.
2 "Put up your hands!" snapped Kay
ton. Kreisler glanced at him indiffer
emily and found himself facing tn
steel circle Of the muzzle Of a secon,
: revolver. Then his eyes came back t
> the oma His look at Kayton an
the revolver was no more than that W
= !. give a stranger on the street.
= "Put up your hands!" repeated Kay
ton w%arningly.
!, The German, Ignoring him, kissed tn
woman's dank forehead, gently diser
gagged his arm and, leaving her stand
ing rigid with eyes closed, turned hi
= back on Kayton and walked slowly t
). the door. Here he suddenly threw u