Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-19

ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta
ton Just 10 be handy There he had .
been with his servant. PLAYING with .
his two trained white rats
Wong placed them mp his copacious
sleeves and carefully opened the door
20 look out Unfortunately he was
just Co time Co see the door of SEQ
open and disclose us
We hurried into 5ll and shut the
door
Kennedy mounted q 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
Won't YOU step in 7' She asked
Elaine did SO and Mary hesitated
in the hail Wong sin had slipped
out. on noiseless feet and taken ref
uge behind some curtains AS ne saw
her alone. he beckoued. to. Mary
There's a stranger 10 the next
room. he whispered y don't like
him Take the money and Is quickly
as possible get Ont and go to my
apartment
At the news thar there was sus-
picious stranger about Mary showed
great alarm Everything was SO rap
id 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 out
the package OF bills which she had got
from the bank during the halthour
delay
An this We could see by gazing al
ternately through the detectascope
Elaine handed Mary the money
Mary counted It slowly At last she
looked up
ITS all right she said Now III
take this TO that tong lender 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 hail The door was closed
and the car descended He rang the
push bell furiously. but there was
no answer
lie dashed back to the room with
us and jerked the telephone receiver
Hello hello helo'' 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 call from 500 flashed up
Wong slipped the rings off his little
fingers and loosened the white rats
on the telephone switchboard itself
With a 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. It was a telauto.
graph
Unceremoniously Craig pushed the
clerk out of his seat and sat down
himself It was last chance now
that the telephone was out Of com
mission.
Downstairs In the hotel Office where
the excitement had not spread to CIV.
cry one, was the other end Of the cleo.
trio long-distance writer
1t started to write, as Kennedy
wrote, upstairs:
House Observation-Disclosures WON.
an with blue chateIane bag, getting
out Of elevator
The clerks downstairs saw It and
shouted above the din Of the rat bait
ing;
"McCann-McCannl"
The clerk had torn of 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
bellhops. Together they hurried af
ter the welldressed 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.
Mccain 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 pleadlngs
1t had no effect. They insisted ON
leading her back The game was up
Here. cried Kennedy take her up
in the elevator I'll prove the case
'Now-not a word Of who she Is IN
the papers. Mccain" Kennedy con.
Guided referring to Elaine you
know. It wouldn't sound well for the
La Coste As for that woman-well
Eve got the mnnnv hnck Ynn cnn