The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1915-04-09


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 500
open and disclose us.
We hurried into 511 and shut the
door.
Kennedy mounted 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.
Wont 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. 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 go to my
apartment"
At the news that there was a sus-
picious stranger about Mary showed
great alarm. Every thing was so rap
i'd now that the slightest hesitation
meant disaster Perhaps by quick
ness even 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 out
the package of bills which she had got
from the bank during the halfhour
delay.
All this we could see by gazing al.
ternately through the detectascope.
Elaine handed Mary the money.
Mary counted 1t slowly. At last she
looked up
Its all right" she said. "Now. I'll
take this to that tong leader. He's in
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.
o-hello-hello!" he called.
There seemed to be no wav 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 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 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 stylus on
the end of two arms, connected to a
system of magnets. 1t was a telauto'
graph.
Unceremoniously 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 Office, where
the excitement had not spread to ev
cry one, was the other end of the cleo
trio long-distance writer.
1t started to write, as Kennel!
wrote, upstairs:
"Hcuse Detective--quick-hold WON
an with blue chateIaine bag, getting
out of elevator"
The clerks downstairs saw it ant
shouted above the din of the rat-bait
ing:
"McCann-McCann"
The clerk had torn off the message
from the telautograph register ant
handed 1t to the house man, WHIT
pushed hrs way to the desk.
Quickly the detective called to thu
bell-hops. Together they hurried al
ter the well-dressed woman who hal
Just swept out of the elevator Mar,
had already passed through the Ell
cited lobby and out, and was abou
to cross the street--safe.
Mccain and the bell-hops were nov
in full cry after her. Flight was use
less. She took refuge in indignation
and threats.
But Mccain was obdurate. Sh
passed quickly to tears and pleadings
1t had no effect. They insisted Oh
leading her back The game was VI
Here" cried Kennedy, take her VI
in the elevator. I'll prove the case"
"Now-not a word of who she Is il
the papers, McCann," Kennedy cor
cluded, referring to Elaine. "Yo1
know, it wouldn't sound well for tn
La Coste. AS for that woman-wal
Eve got the money back. You ca