The Ordway new era., 1915-11-26

we drove of. At last we pulled up
at the Dodge hall again.
Wont you come in?" asked Elaine
as we got out.
Thank you. l believe I will for
few minutes" consented Del Mar. con-
cealing his real eagerness to follow
me. I'm all shaken up"
AS we entered the living room l
was thinking about the map. opened
a table drawer, hastily took the plan
from my pocket and locked it in the
drawer. Elaine, meanwhile. was
standing with Del Mar, who was talk
ing, but in reality watching me
closely.
Down the road past where we had
turned, before a pretty little shingle
house, the taxicab chauffeur stopped.
One of the bullets had taken effect Oh
him, and his shoulder was bleeding.
But tho worst, as he seemed to think
it. was that another shot had given
him n fiat tire.
He jumped out and looked up the
road whence he had come. No one
was following him. Still, he was wor-
ried. He went around to look at the
tire. But he was too weak now from
loss OF blood. 1t had been nerve and
reserve force that had carried him
through. Now that the strain was on,
he felt the reaction to the full.
Just then the doctor and his driver.
whom the valet had already sum-
moned to Del Mars, came speeding
down the road. The doctor saw the
chauffeur fall in a half faint, stopped
his car and ran to him. The chauffeur
had kept up as long as he could. He
had now sunk down beside his ma
chine in the road.
A moment later they picked him up
and carried him into the house. There
was no acting about his hurt now. In
the house they laid the man down on
a couch and the doctor made hasty
examination.
How is he?" asked one Of the kind
Samaritans.
The wound is not dangerous" re-
piled the physician, but he's lost
lot OF blood. He cannot be moved
for some time yet
We talked about nothing else at
Dodge Hall after dressing for dinner
but the strange events over at Del
Mars, and what had followed. The
more / thought about it, the more 1t
seemed to me that we would never be
left over night in peaceful possession
of the plan which both Elaine and
decided ought on the following day
to be sent to Washington.
IoI ! In, frr
some method of protecting both our
selves and it. The only thing I could
think of was a scheme once adopted
by Kennedy in another case.
had a snail quick-shutter camera
that had belonged to Craig. and just
as we were about to retire. brought
it into the living room with pack
age / had sent up from the village.
AS soon as Elaine had gone to bed
and was alone. opened the package.
There were the tools that 1 had Or
dered, a coil of wire and some dry
cells. Then ! went to the table, un-
locked the drawer and put the plan
in my pocket.
Although | was no expert at wiring.
I started to make the connections un-
der the table with the drawer, not
very difficult thing to do as long as it
was to be only temporary and for the
night. From the table ranthe wires
along the edge of the carpet until
came to the bookcase. There, masked
by the books. placed the little quick
shutter camera, and at a distance also
concealed the flashlight pan.
Next I aimed the camera carefully
and focused 1t on a point above the
drawer in the writing table where any
ono would be likely to stand il he at
tempted to open it. Then I connected
the shutter of the camera and little
spark coil in the fash pan with the
wires, using an apparatus to work the
shutter such as recalled having seen
Craig use. Finally l covered the
sparkling device with the flashlight
powder, gave last look around, and
snapped off the light.
Up in my bedroom. must say