The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-25

READY wong SIN OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES attA-r55
ton, just to be handy. There he had
been with his servant. playing With
his two trained white rats.
Wong placed them up his capacious
sleeves and carefully opened the door
to look out. Unfortunately he was
Just in time to see the door Of sos
open and disclose US.
We hurried into 511 and shut the
door.
Kennedy mounted a chair and ap-
piled his eye to the detectascope Just
then Mary and Elaine entered the
next room. Mary opening the door
with a regular key.
Won't you step in?' she asked.
Elaine did so and Mary hesitated
in the hall. Wong sin had slipped
out-5on noiseless feet and taken ref
uge behind some curtains. AS he saw
her alone he beckoned. to. Mary.
There's a stranger in the next
room he whispered II don't like
him. Take the money and as quickly
as possible get out and 20 to my
apartment
at the news that there was a suE-
picious stranger about Mary showed
great alarm. Everything was SO rap
ID now that the slightest hesitation
meant disaster. Perhaps by quick
ness even a suspicious stranger could
be5fooled. she reasoned. At any rate.
Wong Sin was rcsourceful. She had
better trust him
Mary followed Elaine into the room.
where she had seated herself already.
I'D locked the door.
Have you the money there?" she;
asked
Yes nodded Elaine. taking out
the package Of bills which she had got
from the bank during the half-hour
delay
All this we could see BY gazing al
ternately through the detectascope
Elaine handed Mary the money.
Mary counted it slowly. AT last she
looked up.
IT'S all right" she said. "Now. I'll
take this to that tong leader. Hes in
a room only Just across the hail.
She went out.
Mary had just succeeded in getting
on the elevator as Kennedy hurried
down the hall. The door was closed
and the car descended. He rang the
push bell furious1y. but there was
no answer.
He dashed back to the room With
us and ierked the telephone receiver
Hell hello hello.. he called.
There seemed to be no way to get
2, connection. What was the mat
ter!
He hurried down the hall again.
Down in the hotel lobby. with his
follower. the China man paused before
the telephone switchboard, where two
Ills were at work.
You may 60" ordered Wong, and.
as his man left. he moved over close
to the switchboard
Just as call from 500 flashed up,
Wong slipped the rings of his little
fingers and 1ousened the white rats
on the telephone switchboard itself.
~ With shrek the telephone system
Of the Goste went temporarily out Of
business.
81 kennedy had succeeded In finding
the alcove of the floor clerk In charge
of the fifth floor There on his desk
was an instrument having stylus on
the end of two arms. connected to a
system of magnets. Il was telauto-
graph.
Unceremontously Craig pushed the
clerk out of his seat and sat down
himself 1t was a last chance, now
that the telephone was out OF com
mission.
Downstairs in the hotel ONCE where
the excitement had not spread to ev:-
cry one, was the other end Of the cleo
trio long-distence writer.
1t started to write. as Kennedy
wrote, upstairs:
House Detective qulck-hol won1-5
an with blue chatelalne bag. getting
out of elevator
The clerks downstairs saw It and
shouted above the din Of the rat-bait-
ing:
Mccain --N1cC CANT
The clerk had torn or the message
from the telautograph register and
handed it to the house man, who
pushed his way to the desk.
Quickly the detective called to the
sbell-hops. Together they hurried at
ter the well-dressed woman who had
just swept out OF the elevator. Mary
had already passed through the ex-
cited lobby and out, and was about
to- cross the street safe
McGannand the bell-hops were now
in full cry after her Flight was use
less. She took refuge ii indignation
and threats.
But Mccain was obdurate. She
passed quickly to tears and pIeadings.
It had no effect. They insisted on
leading lead her back. Tho game was up.
ere, cried Kennedy take her up
il the elevator. III prove the. case.
Now:-not a word OF who she Is In
the papers. McCann.'' Kennedy con-
Guided. referring to Elaine. You
know It wouldn't sound well for the
Ia e. $Coste. AS for that woman-well,
I've got the money back. You can
take AXE her eff - Ike the charge
AS the house man left with Mary ]