The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-29
TIE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY
By Harold acGrath

"of everybody" looking boldly into
the reporter'D eyes.
"Of me?" smiling.
I Even OF myself sometimes"
Conversation dropped entirely after
| this declaration.
You're taciturn sort of caap"
"Am lIfe y Malsg1aiaa
"4on are. Bnt an agreement is an
agreement. and while I'd like to print
this story. III not. We newspaper
meA Celdom break our word"
Jones held out his hand.
Sometimes | wish I'd started life
right" said the reporter gloomily. "A
newspaper man is generally improvi-
dent> He never locks ahead for to-
morrow. What with my special ar
iicles to the magazines. I earn between
Iour and five thousand the year; and
I've never been able to save q cent"
Perhaps you've never really tried"
| replied Jones with glance at his
| companion. II was good face, strong
In outline; little careworn, perhaps,
but free from any indications OF dissi.
patton. IF had begun life as you
did. I'd have made real and solid use
OF the sreat men / met, I'd have
made financiers help me TO invest my
earnings, or favlngs. little as they
might be. And today I'd be living on
the income"
"You never can tell. Perhaps a
woman might nave made you think
OF those things; but IL you had re.
mained unattached up to 81, as have.
the Thought OF saving might never
have entered your head A man In my
present condition. financially. has nc
right TO think of matriinony."
ut might be the saving OF you II
you met and married the right wom-
an"
"But the right woman might be
heiress to miliions. And poor devil
Ike me could not mary a girl with
money and hang onto his SELF respect"
True. Biit, there are always ex-
ceptions to all rules In life, eXceut
those regarding health A healthy man
Is normal man, and q normal man
has no right to remain single. YOU
proved yourself man this afternoon,
consider that YOU did not know I oc-
cupied the wheel seat. Come to think
It over. you really; saved the day. You
gave me the opportunity OF steering
straight for the police station. Well.
good-by." 80
Queer duck!" mused the. reporter
as, after telephohfng, he headed sor
his office. Queer duck, indeed! What
q game II wSs going to be! And this
, man Jones WAS playing 1t like d mas
ter. It did not matter that some one
else laid down the rules It was the
way IN which they were interpreted.
Braine heard of the failure. TIE
Black Hundred was finding It's stock
far below par value. 'Fonr valuable
men locked up in tiis Tcnibs, await
Ing trial, TO say nothing al the seven
g1nmen gathered in at tho old ware
hesse. BrRine began To suspect that
his failures were less due 10 chance
than to calculation. that q. last he
had encountered niih,. which anti
Icipated his every, move. He would
have recognized this fact earlier had
| 1t not been that revenge had tempo.
rafily blinded him. The spirit Of
revenge never makes for mental { 'ari-
lty.
Il There was o meeting that night OF
the Black Hundred. Four men were
told on, and they drew their chairs UP
to .Vroon's table for Instructions
Braine sat at Xrc0n,s elbow. These
four men comp0s..d 80; most t;li ger
! a.,s ..aste! On TaM.g yAsl. c!. 1,i.s.
were as daring as s.;a1 were ia:isss;;,,ssIr ss;;,,ssIr.
ate. They were the men vile held up
bank messengers aud sot away with
thousands. They had learned tol
swoop down upon III cir victims as the
hnwks swoops down upon the heron.
Tie newspapers refer ei,d 20 lnem iis
the :"auto-bandits,n and the tilen took
d deal or pride In tho fufore they had
created. @
vroon went over the iIarsreave case
infinitely; he left no detail unexp:ain-
cd. Blu i.,y ala Irahkly /. tie daughter
OF Stanley Hnrgreavea must bf .nneh III
! and turned over to the ctrs of the
Black Hundred. Il must be quick es-
tion. -Four yaleabie members were In
ttlIe Tombs. They might or a.lsii, NOT
iwd1ken ,;nder police pressure. For
| the organization stood facing actual
peril; and its. one possible rhaiire 0f1
salvation lay In the fact thht no ones
face was know TO his ncigabor. He,I
vroca, end the boss nloEe knew wl;ol
and vi. At eiicb nifsn WAS. But the
tplans. the rnniliieati tions Ut tao nrgaiii-
z0tfon might become pil;siie pfoperty; !;
and TINT would mean an eitd svE aIf,
lcxceedlngty profiteble biIs ness.
The deugEtes ts HRfRreaYS rode
lkorSeback early every morning. She
Twas iiiyariably attenaal by The riding
You four viii make your own
tplaps.
che shsntd be tpiurais'.
.aASeid IT. II posHfbie :.
-We nave a free hand p
Absolutely, s
! eve risk bad fall from her horse1
| if dts d spirited one.
| Pretend freakdown Ia the roe ID, !, - Z
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