Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-14

seemed TO approve II.
This Is trap Of the Clutching
Hand, Walter" he whispered, adding
tensely, and we're going TO walk right
into il"
But, Craig" | demurred, that's
foolhardy Have her trailed-any-
thing-but-"
He shook his head, and with mere
motion of his hand brushed aside my
objections as he went TO cabinet
across the room.
From one shelf he took out small
metal box and from another test
tube, placing the test tube In his
Iwaistcoat pocket and the small box in
his coat pocket with excessive care.
Then he turned and motioned to me
to follow him out into the other room,
did so, stuffing my gait" into my
pocket
Let me introduce my friend, Mr..
Jameson" said Craig. presenting me
to the pretty crook.
The introduction quickly over. we
three went out to get Craig's car,
which he kept at nearby garage.
That forenoon Perry Bennett was
reading up case. In the outer Of
fee Milton Schofield, his Office boy.
was industriously chewing gum and
admirlng his feet, cooked up on the
desk before him.
The door to the waiting room
opened and an attractive woman Of
perhaps thirty, dressed In extreme
mourning, entered with a boy.
Milton cast a glance of scorn at the
little dude" He was in reality about
fourteen years old, but was dressed to
look much younger,
Did you wish to see Mr. Bennett"
asked the precocious Milton. politely,
on one hand, while on the other he
made wry grimace.
"Yes-here is my card" replied the
woman.
II was deeply bordered in black.
Even Milton was startled at reading
it: Mrs. Taylor Dodge"
He looked at the woman In open
mouthed establishment. Even he knew
that Elaine's mother had been dead
for years.
The woman, however true to her
name in the artistic coterie In which
she was leader, had sunk into a chair
and was sobbing convulsively, as only
''Weepy Mary" could.
II was so effective that even Milton
was visibly moved. He took the card
in, excitedly, to Bennett.
There's woman outside--says she
Is Mrs. Taylor Dodge!" he cried.
If Milton had had an X-ray eye he
could have seen her take a cigarette
from her handbag and light it non
chalantly the moment he was gone.
AS for Bennett, Milton, who was
watching him closely, thought he was
about to discharge him on the spot
for bothering him. He took the card.
and his face expressed the most ex-
treme surprise, then anger. He
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ness in writing he Numbered CURLY
at Milton.
As 'ne poy 'u'i,eu 70 80 pdch 70
.ne waiting rooh' "eepy NARY near
ins mn oohins' nds'iy snoseu 'no
cisare''e INTO ner son nand'
WI, peniie'' says io' you W WIZ
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"oo'' opo''e N.'''o"' inue sNe
laoie oeio'e "hioh sue was si'''he'
MARY nau autoihsl'cahy 'ahen up
sopping WIN .he release Oh the ciEa
rette. she looked at the taole on
WHICH were ie'.er paper pens anu inA'
! may write mere sne asker.
surrey ma ain' iep,ieu mh,on'
stiii very MUCH oser"heiineu W hei
SORROW
"eepy MARY Sd. 'heie' "ri,ins
ana sopoihs.
IN tne must Vi MS sympathy NV
ever milton shiheu inoie "as ~
uhihistahapie ouor Vi 'ooaoco siioAe
ABOUT the roohi. ne iooheu SHARPLY .,
the son. ana disco'efeu 'he SUN
smoking cigarete'
1t was TOO much Tor milton out
raged dignity behne.. uiu NJ. aiio"
him that coveted privilege rms up
start could not usurp IT,
He reached over ana sel2ed the BOY