Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-23

headquarters? Connect me with the
Elizabeth street station. please"
He waited impatiently. Sergeant" he
shouted. this is Kennedy. Craig Ken
nedy. You remember dropped in there
a few minutes ago and told you I was on
the trail of something. Well, I've got
1t. The place is over the Mandarin
While we hurried downtown the police
were being detailed for the raid and the
patrol wagon was waiting for the squad
We drove up in taxicab just as tho
wagon swung around the corner. Al
most as soon as we. the police were at
the side door. Two of them rushed the
Mandarin and arrested the taclturn pro-
prietor. The rest battered down the door.
1t crashed in and up the stairs we
dashed.
This door-this onel" pointed out
Chase.
II also was locked. but It was the work
of only minute TO batter it down. we
broke through into the room. ready for
anything. man or devil.
II was bare.
WI Fang had already plugged IN the
six receivers OF the detectaphone and
though we did not know 1t, was eagerly
listening with the others down in tho
cellar as Kennedy gave his orders for
the raid. Not a word escaped their ears.
What one Of them could not understand
another managed to catch and repeat.
Tom" muttered WI, you must get
down there at once"
T0ra TIno had atr,. H. t..-a 60
planned and needed no urging. He hur-
ried downtown with speed that would
have done credit to an occidental hustler.
WI Fang had outwitted US and saved
both Long Sin and Inez by the marvel
lous little eavesdropper.
II was some time after Kennedy left
the Dodge house that Elaine returned to
the library, stlll thinking about the noto
which she had received with the flowers.
AS she entered she hardly noticed that
both Marie and Jennings were there.
she had scarcely awakened from her
day DEAN in which she was walking, as
II were. when her quick eye caught sight
OF the vase Of red roses on tho window
sill. For the moment she was almost
unable to speak in her fear and anger at
seeing this direct invitation for attack
on Craig. She ran 10 the window. seized
the flowers. and dashed them TO the
floor.
who put those flowers there?" she
demanded OF the astonished butler and
maid.
Neither Of them. naturally knew
thing about II. Nor did Aunt Josephine,
who happened to pass through the room
at the moment
"oh. must see him-I must" cried
Elaine. excitedly, as she hurried out for
her wraps. who knows what may have
We returned to our apartment, chag-
rined, after our flat failure 10 capture
either Long sin or even evidence against
WI IL was not so much Craig feared
the ridicule of the regular police, though
that was not pleasant 1t was the mere
faet that he had been outwitted II
worried him.
Chase protested that he had actually
seen Long Sin and Inez I'm the room. and
we could not help believing him. Though
II looked as though we had been leading
wild goose hunt, we felt sure that Il had
not been so. The birds had simply flown.
But how had they found out? Surely the
police had not tipped them off And yet
how had there been time for a warning
to get 10 them?
As we entered the apartment. Craig
dropped into chair. soowling TO himself.
I watched him in gloomy sympathy sud
denly his face frightened.
What do you think they"
He cut me short with his finger on his
lips. pantomiming silence. Instead of an
swering me he wrote on a slip OF paper
and handed II to me:
There must be a detectaphone In this
room. Talk about the weather-anything
while ! locate H."
Craig went over 10 his desk and took
out small piece OF apparatus which
seemed 10 consist OF two sets Of coils.
placed on the ends OF a magnet bar. 4
moved over close while Nc fiyed the AL
paratus TOR action.
At one point he stopped and moved the
instrument vertically up along the wall
That's a gas pipe" he sorawled ON a
pad nearby.
whats the iustrumentg" ] wrote IN
derneath
New apparatus to find pipes cleo
trically'' he returned still writing I