The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-31

after midnight.
And espionage was all he feared
save and except always, of course,
failure to find his Rose.
1t was about one In the morning
when he arrived inconspicuously (but
not so much so as to seem deserving
OF police suryeilance) in the neighbor-
hood OF the Riverside drive home of
his mortal enemy, grim white house
that lowered. stark and tall, upon a
corner.
His preliminary reconnaissance pro-
vided little more than comfortless ex-
ercise. Huge, still, its wall bathed in
the milk and ink of moonlight and
shadow, all it's windows dark but one
-and that one, in the topmost tier,
Showed only q feeble glimmer, SO
slight that Alan almost overlooked II
But once discovered, It focused upon
itself his thoughts with a power lit
tie less than hypnotic.
He believed with small doubt that
Rose was a prisoner within those
walls; that Judith must have convey
ed her there with all speed.
And. this being the presumptiye
case, that small, high window of the
iAohe might WSllH Do neFS.
directly across the street from the
iFIne residence. on the opposite COR
ier' colossal apartment structure
STOOD half-finished. stonework to ITS
second story, gaunt iron skeleton
rearing above.
To his infinite disgust, Alan found
.he guardian very wide awake, ve--
much on the Job; no chance here so
Steai unseen into the building.
ihis In itself might have been DEEM
gu suspicious circumstance: not for
pothlng does an honest night watch
nan SO deny the laws OF nature and
.he .enets or his craft. But Alan mere
praiseo the man while cursing the
sery iact or his existence; and. ac-
ooaebg' overcame with bank-notes
,.a1s,,,, ~nas seemed an uncommonly stubborn
reiuctance. and got his way.
nc could not that another s,xu,tad
overheard all that passed and ~, nu
Alan had ducked smartly into The ,,,1
iinfshed building, rose and sti,a attn.
nim with footsteps as noiseIess ,s =
CARS and face that had the sayaaers
OF q tigers when 1t was transian.,,,
ne Kept his eyes level: and reneraS
renewed In a Shaft OF imooulieI1 %
AT length Alan gained tho ,r,,,
iron OF girders on a plane with tbo
hehtea windows across the v,av anS
erepl along .one Of, these, gingerivS on
nus hands and Knees, until he came
20 its end and might; If he cared to
loox Gown a. hundred feet to the side.
That view, however, did not temnt
ne Kept his eyes on q leyei..an,i Irs :
reWorded4 witha bare glimpse OF :
prettiiy-draped wall framed In the
face or ha.f-drawn curtsine.
AND or d sudden-whether throuph
iortuity. or instinct, or the phycoIoe.
icaL attraction Of his steadfast con.
centratlon- the tenant of the room
came TO the window and stood there
Ior little, looking pensively ont
aiuogetner unconscious OF the watch.
or in his aerial coign.
Again horrobiei uncertainty har.
rassed him. Was the woman Rose q,
JuulthE Z That she was one OF these he
0Vuid plainly see. But .wnichY ,Isared
no assume his hopes fulfilled?
with difficulty ho detached his hun.
cry vision from her, and drawinr
Tom his pocket a small notebook. tore
out flank page, placed this fiat or
the girder. found pencil and will
tne assistance OF ray or two o.
moonlight scrawled q message OF oil.
most istenographic brevity.
When he looked up from this lacl;
she had VANISHED.
/ Sitting aup, astride the girder. ht
took his watch-a cheap affair he hai
pickeG up when reclothing himself ir
the garments Of civilized society, d
iFoyldence.. that morning --openinf
the pack of the case, and closed 4
pom; the folded message.
Then drawing back his arm, n.
breatheds a silent prayer to the sot
| OF all true lovers, and cast Il from
him with all his mieht--with such :
force that At almost unseated him A.
the end OF the swing. But nothing les,
would have served to bridge tina
yawning ellasm. tss5f1,
| And the watch few straight an.
true. sqcafely through the ligfite,
window and to- the further wall.
In that very instant OF his exulta
/ tion over an obstacle, he heard .
sound behind him OF heavy breathine
The assassin had come that clos
i upon his prey when Alan turned an,
discovered bis peril. - s
4 The same moonbeam which had aid
cd Alan In the composition OF hi
i message struck across the other,
face, and showed It HE q hideou
lChfnSse mask Of deadly hatred, wit
Its eycbalIs gIaring. and It's lips draw
back from the naked blade grippe
l5et%een its teeth stiiietto notiiin
short ola No0t In length.
\ With q sharp, startled movement
Alan swung himself bodily about. 8