The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-09-07

ment of our apartment house.
First WI entered the dark cellar
cautiously and beckoned to Long Sin
and the other Cinnamon to follow
One Of his followers carried the Big
Six detectaphone, which he placed on
an old rickety table which the janitor,
Jensen, sometimes used.
We opened the oak case and began
to look about for place to install the
little listening ear by wires that would
run up from this cellar hiding place
to our apartment above.
"Ughi Looki" cried one Of the
Cinnamon, pointing toward a corner
of the cellar wall
WI turned. There was rat which
had run out Of hole, had seen them
and scafnpered quickly across the
floor and away safely.
1t interested WI and he walked over
to the rathole and examined it.
wait here" he ordered quickly,
leaving his men on guard in the cellar
1t was not very many minutes later
that WI returned to the cellar with a
large cardboard box under his arm.
No one has gone in, MASTER" re-
ported one Of the Cinnamon.
WI nodded and turned to another
who had been engaged in enlarging the
rathole In the wall
Does it run upstairs?" he asked.
Yes. MASTER" returned the other.
"Then wait here" ordered WI, TAX
ing up the detectaphone transmitter,
| the spool Of wire and the box.
He left the cellar stealthily and q
few minutes later reached the upper
hall. which at the time happened to be
| deserted. Somehow he had obtained a
skeleton key which fitted our lock, and
with it's aid he entered our apartment.
Quickly he looked about the room.
Finally his keen judgment told him
that the corner by the bookcase was
that nearest over the compartment in
the cellar in which he had left his
lieutenants with the detectaphone.
WI Fang had method Of wiring
in the detectaphone that was all his
own. He went over to the corner and
drew from his capacious blouse
section of the Dashboard. After he
had removed it he made little hole
in the plaster and laths on the wall.
| Next he drew on a pair Of thick
| gloves and carefully reached into the
pasteboard box. From it he drew
| ferret.
This ferret wore a small leather har-
ness around his shoulders. To this
harness WI attached one end of the
wire from the spool, and made sure
that the spool would unwind readily
Then he reached into his pocket and
drew out rat. Asshe held them, one
in each hand, he let the ferret get
good look and smell Of the rat as 1t
squeaked In fright.
Finally he pushed the rat into the
hole In the plaster which he had made,
and an instant later, loosed the ferret
after it, as if on leash of wire.
There WI stood paying out the wire
as the ferret scampered after the
scared rat
WI faithfully paid out the wire, hop
ing for the result he had calculated
carefully.
At last the Juggling at the spool Of
wire ceased. Three sharp jerks told
him he had succeeded. Then WI set
the transmitter in the hole In the
wall close up to the Dashboard. which
he had replaced.
Perhaps half an hour after our re-
turn into the laboratory after Kennedy
had soaked the mat, he decided after
much elaboration to attempt to carry
the war into the enemy's country. We
left the laboratory, he to seek some
clue, to go down to the Star, where
had little work to do
Kennedy had scarcely hidden me
good-by and turned out of the campus
on the avenue. when he happened to
see face in the crowd which inter-
ested him.
1t was that of the woman who had
posed as Elaine-Innocent Inez. He
paused moment as she went by and
gazed after her. She had not seen
nifty to miss. He turned and followed
her to the Mandarin, q chop suey joint.
is the master in?" she whispered
to the proprietor.
NO." he replied, "but Long Sin is
in the other place."
A short time afterward, as they still
talked, Kennedy after pausing outside
the chop suey joint, decided to enter.
While Inez and Sam we're engaged
in earnest conversation he sat down at
table near by with his back to them
4 AS nearly as he could make out,
there was a room somewhere which
was at least one headquarters of Long
Sin. IL not WI himself. But it was too
risky to remain
Around on Park row again, he
stopped in drug store where there
was a telephone booth and called up
the agency whose operatives he had
frequently employed on routine mat
tiers like shadowing
Can you send Chase down here inn
mediately?" he asked, giving the adj
dress Of the drug store. i've little
shadowing in Chinatown for him."
It was only matter of few min
utes before Chase. Joined Kennedy.
and together they went back to China
town, Craig explaining to him in low
voice just what 1t was he wanted
done.
! The operative furtively watched
Inez and Sam talking until finally she
rose and went out by the street door.
J She turned abruptly on the street and
entered a doorway that led up in the
! same building, only outside.
] Chase entered the dark, ill-smelling
J hallway and mounted the steps eau
tiously, careful not to make them
creak He paused at each door until
he was sure that there was no one on
! the other side
J At one, however. he could hear low
! voices. He listened a moment, then
. tried the knob softly. The door was
l locked Carefully he put his foot on
8 the knob and raised himself up by
) gripping the transom.
: There were Inez and Long Sin talk
ing earnestly as Inez removed her