Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-15

v simple remedy has never been known to fail
 I'll see to it that he doesn't get away from you. Strikes me you have oppor. l tunities that old Flint would appreci- ate"
 The man no longer tried to dissem- ble.
 "I see that you have me spotted all ,he game? Phineas had no time to put me wise"
 He couldn't have told you so very much, replied Tom-"little more than can myself l am not in Willard's confidence, but I have the best of req sons for knowing that whatever it is he's up to, 1t is strictly on the level"
 "Hm-m-m," Cornelius unused that makes my position a bit difficult. doesn't it?"
 Not particularly so. All you have to do Is play fair. If anything crook ed shows up you can count on my as- distance. But the orders are strict about going and coming, and you couldn't expect me to make an excep- ton of you, Flint or anybody else. On my side. l shall say nothing to Will lard about you"
 Cornelius picked up both bill and letter, returning the first Go his pocket and tearing the second into tiny bits.
 Flint will be all up in the air over not hearing from me-" he remarked; but if l cant, l can't. You have the l dead-wood on me now. Have you any idea what was in that box they ! brought aboard last night?" 1 Not the slightest returned Tom
 "It looked a whole lot like a coffin" Tom filled and lighted his pipe ! while Mir Cornelius sat and watched him intently As the same idea bad occurred to the irst-nsmed, he could not disparage 1t now. Cornelius broke the silence:
 "Coffins, you know, are only used when there are dead people to put iD them. Any cadayers around here that you've nouced?"
 You're a nice cheerful chap, be. Heve me" retorted Tom. No, there are none. It can't be Callis, because
 he's getting well-saw him less than an hour ago"
 Just suppose" Cornelius went on
 meditatively, that Willard is expect
 ing somebody to die-at given time
 say"
 Hang it all" Tom cut in. You
 don't think the man is plotting delib
 crate murder, do you?" .' Cornelius did not say what be
 thought He sat considering.
 We'll" he said at last, rising. 'l , guess I'll have to take your word for ii that everything is all right until see ' different. But a cofin'-he shook his
 head dubiously-"it don't look good tc , me" Whereupon he took his depar ] ture
 ] shortly after nightfall Tom saw Wil 3 lard and the man Cornelius board the . launch and go ashore, and he watched . them with a quickened sense of antici ] patton.
 'It that sleuth is worth darn" h' ]. reflected, now Is his chance to gel word to Flint"
 He did not witness their return, bu about an hour later be had glimpse T of Cornelius and one of the othe young men, garbed in soiled and wor' Q oyeralls and jumpers. like pair O stevedores.
 Somewhere around half-past nine the coain-shaped box once more ap peared
 But now. instead of two men. all fou of Wnlards retainers were carrying it E Indeed, it would scarcely be too mucl to say that they staggered with it s'
 heavy had it grown, and so marked was the contrast between the ease ant indifference with which 1t had beel
 brought aboard, and the extreme eau s ton with which it was being handle 4 now
 W1llards patent explosive aashed ir to Toms mind After all, was it no n possible that he was about to perpe
 trate some appalling disaster, am y that Paige and Jessie had been vol I over to whatever extreme mistake V principles he justified his conduct by u so that they to believed them to b -I IlEuL anu ulBA A-AlihAoh+ W AeN .+-f poo N minent sense of the mans powerful 1T U dividuality strong upon him, the ide' hldeous as 1t was, was not altogethe
 impossible.
 N Willard was himself superintendin
 the box's conveyance with such am S ious regard and solicitude that Tom r misgiyings swept over him again, fl n teusifed a hundredfold
 With no clearly defined purpose
 mind. be involuntarily stepped up the gangway, as they began to neg ,o tiate the di@cult descent of the a a commodation-steps.
 (To Be Conrnued). --