The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-15

hearts.
This last was covered, as to It's face,
with plauly-writtcn message
with the compliments Of Seneca
Urine to Alan Law We are due in
Chicago at eleven tomorrow morning
and leave Immediately for the Pacific
coast via Santa Pc route"
Comparison between this and the
message purporting to be from Rose
distilled the conviction that the same
hand was responsible for both.
Alan shrugged So he was to be
lured away from New York and Rose
by this transparent trick, was he? No
fcarl
He glanced at his watch, finding tho
hour far too early to attempt what no
had in mind.
With plenty Of time on his hands,
he gave the matter serious considera-
ton and concluded to take no chances:
il was just possible that Urine had
taken Rose with him on his western
trip, after all. In such case the only
possible way of overtaking the special
would be by air line.
Promptly Alan called up the avia.
! ton fields at Hampstead Plains and
got into communication with a gentle
man answering to the surname of
| Coast: the same birdman who had
come to Alan's rescue with his hydro.
aeroplane.
Their arrangements were quickly
contaminated, Coast agreeing to wait
for Alan with his biplane in Van Cort.
laudt park from midnight till daybreak.
prepared II need be to undertake a
transcontinental fight.
Thereafter Mr.. Law proceeded to 70,
habilitate himself in decent clothiug
and his own esteem; after bathing, he
dined alone In his rooms, from a tray;
after dining he slept soundly for three
hours-and may be thought to have
earned at least that much rest through
having been for four hours a passen-
ger in a hydrOaeroplane lost in fogs
that wrapped Long Island and all the
adjacent territory in an impenetrable
shroud.
Nor had this been all. Leaving aside
all that had led up TO Alan's rescue by
Coast; the forced landing of the hydro
aeroplane for lack OF fuel had taken
place on the south shore OF the Great
South bay; a search OF hours had fol-
lowed before a boat was found to con.
Vey Alan and the aviator to the main.
land; and q motor run of several hourS
had followed that, conveying Coast to
his Hampstead hangers and Alan on
to his hotel In New York.
Another man would have needed |
twelve houu In bed at the least 70 |
compensate for such q day: Mr.. Law
awakened IN q lamh-Hke temper when |
called at elOVen-thirty.
At midnight he committed an act OF |
burglary, calmly and with dstarnina-
ton breaking his way inAS Ne house
Of Seneca Trina through the area win-
dovs and baAsment.
In this nafArions husInAas nOthinx
hindered and none opposed Aim. But
for q single lighted window In the up
per tier (but not, he noted, the window
TO RoseS bedchamber) and one or two
lights which he found burning dim in
The kitchen ofioes sud other servants
quarters ON the lower hoor he would
have thought the house empty. The
silence Of an abandoned place In.
formed 1t all-below the upper story.
But he was not to DO satisfied With
'ueh negative evidence: he explored
he dwelling minutely, room by room,
tory by story, passing with little IN
crest through apartments By every
Ilgn dedicated to the tendency Of his
Mortal enemy, intent on one object
find Rose Urine, that one
woman whom he loved, or else make
Iure she was not there.
He negotiated that last fight Of
teps which led to the topmost floor
With extraordinary stealth, advised
hereto by a sound or rather a series
4 sustained sounds, which had there
ofore been inaudibIe to him. Possibly
hey had not TIL then existed; possibly
he man servant whom he found snor-
ng In a chair outside a closed door
lad not fallen asleep and begun to
more until the moment when Alan set
Dot upon the lower step of that final
scent.
Turning the head OF the stairs,
Ian paused for a little, speculatively
ltent on this man who must somehow
9 disposed Of before he might solve
he secret of that shut and guarded
COR.
Aside from actual violence no solu-
on offered to the puzzle-and VIC
snce was abruptly forced upon him.
No sound warned him of the door
nat opened at his back as he stood
Iatching the SLEEPING guard. A pierre
lg shrek was the first intimation he
eceiVed that his presence had been
iscoVered. II served as we'll to move
i'm instantly into action a single
lance oVershoulder showed him the
CURE Of a maid-servant in cap and
own. her mouth still wide and full OF
ound-and Alan fell upon the guard
Ike thunderbOlt. The man had
arely time to jump up and recognize
ne alarm: then a fist caught him on