The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-30

not do this without Mrs Darnelrs help.
 As he expected. she flew into tow ering rage. but her keen mind saw that Drake must be pacified. and she managed to control herself at last She read the account carefully and then looked through the rest of the paper for some item about John Dorr. Her eye lit upon an advertisement, which she read twice before speaking; then she pointed it out to Wilkerson. He. too, read it;
 FOUND. Deeds to certain mining prop erty On proof of ownership same will be returned Reward expected. s J. C.. 201 Hill street
 '"They must be the papers," he ac- know ledged "Pell probably threw them away for fear of their being used as evidence against him, and some one picked them up."
 This time shall see to the matter" Jean said sharply Whether they are the papers or not, We must be sure"
 Other people will see that ad.." he suggested.
 "All the more reason for hurry," she snapped Then she called her maid
 "Estelle," she said. 'l want you to dress for the street and go on an CT rand for me. It Is very important. and you must hurry"
 Yes. madame"
 And if you show good judgment you shan't be sorry. You know how Miss Gallon dresses and acts want you to impersonate her for . little while"
 But, Inadame"-
 "'rhere is DO danger at uli." Mrs Dar- nell went on. All you have to do Is to go to this address and get those pa. pers."
 The mad looked at the advertise Inent and finally consented to go to the Hill street address and see if they were really kutb's deeds and if so re cover them. In few moments she had departed on her errand, aud VII kersOn and Jean once more resigned themselves to waiting.
 Estelle tripped along the street to a car line and took the first car that came along, which, the conductor in formed her. crossed the street she sought
 Arriving at her street, she got of and found herself iu u ueighborhood inhabited by very poor people. She looked with disgust at the tumbledown shanties and dirty shacks that Uttered the rubbish heaped yards Two blocks up from the car line she found her number. a house slightly better kept than most But she noticed in the yard an uptilted ash mans cart ln the rear was rickety stable She entered the gate and rang the bell
 very large, i'll dressed Italian wO. man opened the door, letting out a tremendous odor of garlic and cheese She surveyed her caller with suspicion and then beamed.
 "Oh you come looka de lapes?" she demanded.
 Estelle merely showed copy of the advertisement
 Yes. my husband he put that in de pape" the woman said, losing heI smile
 For some moments Estelle tried to get q glimpse of the documents The Italian himself came on the scene and demanded a full description. When Estele said that they had been lost from the Manx hotel he nodded and explained that he had been removing the ashes therefrom when his eye had been caught by the folded papers, but he still insisted on an accurate de. scriptiOn. which the maid could not give. At last she said quietly, "The papers are of no value to you, and ] am authorized to pay good reward for them."
 At the word reward there was change. and the woman demanded to know how much 1t would be-
 Estele thought rapidly. It had been impressed on her that haste was nee essary. She decided on offering good ly sum, yet not enough to make the ash man and his wife think they were in possession of papers of extraordi. nary value She pulled out her purse and held out $5. The man was taking it His wife intervened.
 Twenty dolla," she said cunningly.
 Estelle bargained for some moments and then said In a tone that was de- cisive. If you show me the papers and they are the ones 1 want I'll give you S15 and no more."