The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-05-14

know II al the time. In room $40. al.
/ ready Wong Sin had taken up his sti
tion just 20 be handy. There he h0d
been with his servant. playing win
his two trained white rats.
Wong placed them up his oapaclous
sleeves and carefully opened the door
10 look out. Unfortunately he was
just in time 10 see the door OF 56s
open and disclose us
We hurried into 5ll and shut the
door
Kennedy mounted a chair and ap-
piled his eye 10 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. on noiseless feet and taken ref
uge behind some curtains. AS he saw
her alone, he beckoned. 10. Mary.
There's a stranger In the next
ROOM" he whispered - don't like
him. Take the money AID as quickly
as possible get out and 90 to my
apartment"
Az the news that there was a sus-
picious stranger about Mary showed
great alarm. Everything was so rap
i'd now that the slightest hesitation
meant disaster Perhaps by quick
ness even a suspicious stranger could
be fooled. she reasoned. At any rate,
Wong Sin was resourceful. She had
better trust him.
Mary followed Elaine into the room.
where she had seated herself already.
and locked the door.
Have you the money there?" she
asked.
yes" nodded Elaine, taking olt
the package OF bills Which she had got
from the bank during the half-hour
delay.
All this we could see by gazing a.
ternately through the detectascope.
Elaine handed Mary the money.
Mary counted it slowly. At last she
looked up.
ITS all right" she said. "Now, I'll
take this to that tong leader He's In
a room only Just across the hall"
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 furiously, but there was
no answer.
He dashed back to the room with
US and jerked the telephone receiver.
"Hello-hello-hello he called.
There seemed to be no way to get
a connection. What was the mat
ter?
He hurried down the hall again.
Down in the hotel lobby, with HIS
follower the Chinaman paused before
the telephone switchboard, where two
girls were at work.
You may CO." ordered Wong, and,
as his man left, he moved over close
to the switchboard
Just as a call from 500 flashed up,
Wong slipped the rings off his little
fingers and loosened the white rats
on the telephone switchboard itself.
With shrek the telephone system
of the Coste went temporarily out Of
business.
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 a stylus on
the end of two arms, connected to a
system of magnets. It was telauto-
graph.
Unceremoniously Craig pushed the
clerk out of his seat and sat down
himself. It was a last chance, now
that the telephone was out of com
mission.
Downstairs in the hotel Office, where
the excitement had not spread to eY
cry one, was the other end of the eler
trio long-distance writer.
1t started to write, as Kennedy
wrote, upstairs:
"House DetectiVe-quiek-hold won4
an with blue chateiaIne bag, gettins
out Of elevator"
The clerks downstairs saw it and
shouted above the din of the rat-bait
ing:
"McCann-McCann!"
The clerk had torn off 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
bell-hops. Together they hurried af-
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.
McCann and the bell-hops were now
in full cry after her Flight was use
less. She took refuge in indignation
and threats.
But Mccain was obdurate. She
passed quickly to tears and pleadings.
1t had no effect. They insisted or
leading her back, The game was up.
Here" cried Kennedy, take her W
in the elevator. Ill prove the case"
"Now-not a word of who she is In
the papers, McCann," Kennedy con-
cluded, referring to Elaine. You
know, it wouldn't sound we'll for the
La Coste AS for that woman--wen
I've got the money back. You can
take her off-make the charge"
AS the house man left with Mary !
handed Craig his bag. We moved to-
ward the door, and as we stood there
a moment with Elaine, he quietly hand
ed over to her the big roll of money
If he had been less of scientist, he