The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-05
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and John Storm stands at present in
the light of this luck"
You are fool Baird" snarled the
sick man. you are falling in love
with zudora. may be i'll, but l am
not blind. She Is not for you Don't
waste your valuable time with any
thought like that | tell you, she
must die! / hate herr"
You have promised that IL you
should die what you have would be-
come NINE" said Baird. "You have
promised to make me your heir; |
have seen that will; but wills can be
torn up and rewritten"
| Hassam Ali rubbed his hands to-
gether so they can" he said. 80
they can. | don't quite like the tone
you use today. Do you think / am
moribund? Are you looking specula-
lively at my shoes? Jim, if you make
the least misstep, I'll break you as
easily as / could church warden
pipe. AIMED knows and my attorney
knows. If | disappear mysteriously
and don't return" # Hsssam
Ali drew his finger around his throat
suggestively.
But if | rid you of this girl, what
are You going to do with all that gold
millions? You're a miser and we
both know it,"
Perhaps | want the gold to play
with" grinned Hassam Ali Il had no
playthings when | was child | was
to poor. Go along I've talked enough, :"
peevishly.
There is another little secret said
Baird
20, there is? And what might it
be-"
Diamonds
Hassam Ali sat up stiffly, What
the devil do you mean?"
'Zudora's father once had a partner
who went to Brazil This partner found
brilliants Of high order; she has a
half interest in this mine without
knowing such thing exists
Hassam Ali lay back 81 have warn
ed you. Now go and send AIMED with
my tea"
Baird returned to the mystic ROOM
his mind awhirl with a thousand
schemes. He played his little comedy
with Iudora, saw some patients, and
later took the evening paper. Upon
the front page he read bit of news
that interested him. The Van Wyck
child heir to millions, had been kid
mapped despite all the precautionary
measures to prevent such a catastro-
phe.
80 they've done it" he unused aloud
unthinkingly.
Kidnapped the Van Wyck child
There may be a little work for us, my
child; little work for us. ! think
I'll go downtown and make few in
vestigations before they come to us
For one thing he wanted to get away
from zudora. All these thoughts of
her were crowding dangerously near
action. A misstep at this moment
would bring his house Of cards tumb-
ling about his head. He proceeded to
a house situated in semi-fashionable
district and rang for admittance. The
servant admitted him without question.
This house was the residence of a wo-
man called herself Nine. du Val. The
fall of her late confederate, WI Chang
the hypnotic opium smuggler, had not
implicated her. She had made her
escape before the police had battered
their way into the Chang house.
She came into the drawing room to
find Baird, sans wig and makeup. in
fact, himself. He was in the middle
thirties, and certain kinds of women
would call him fascinating.
"Jim?"
yes. So you've accomplished the
feat in spite of the private detec-
tives?"
What do you mean?" innocently.
Come, come, Nora; between you
and me there should be no secrets.
mean the Van Wyck child. You've got
him."
$50 we have. And it will take a
cool hundred thousand to get him
back. I'm getting tired of this career.
| want enough to live in simple COM
| fort In France. Do you know, Jim,
| that you are fine looking man."
| Baird shrugged his shoulders.
| And that if you'll listen to me this
! girl Zudora will vanish so completely
that she'll be as hard to find as puff
of smoke? And when that is done,
by-by to Hassam Ali, whom I've always
hated He's as cold as a fish. Mil
lions, boy, for both Of u.s. travel and
luxury"
She sat down beside the man. She
was undeniably handsome; but Baird
had seen tigers equally handsome. And
even as he seemed to fit past.