The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-04-16

ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta
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 611 and shut the
door.
Kennedy mounted chair and APP
piled his eye to the detectascope. Just
then Mary and Elaine entered the
next room, Mary opening the door
with 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. Il 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. Everything 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.
Eyes," nodded Elaine, taking out
the package of bills which she had got
from the bank during the half-hour
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.
TITS all right" she said, "Now, III
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-hellol" he called.
There seemed to be no way to get
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 go" 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 q shrek the telephone system
> of the Coste went temporarily out oil
J, business.
Kennedy had succeeded in finding
9 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
system of magnets. 1t was a telauto-
graph
s. Unceremoniously Craig pushed the
5 clerk out of his seat and sat down
himself. 1t was a last chance, now
g that the telephone was out of com
r mission.
g Downstairs in the hotel office, where
n the excitement had not spread to eY
cry one, was the other end of the cleo
d. trio long-distance writer.
1t started to write, as Kennedy
II wrote, upstairs:
"a blouse Detective--qulck--hold WON
an with blue chatelaine bag, getting
T. out of elevator"
The clerks downstairs saw 1t ant
shouted above the din of the rat-bait
W ing:
70 "McCann--McCann!"
"a The clerk had torn off the messag
from the telautograph register ant
handed 1t to the house man, VIII
IN pushed his way to the desk.
II Quickly the detective called to tn
~ belI-hops. Together they hurried al
y ter the well.dressed woman who ha
70 Just swept out of the elevator. Mar
g had already passed through the e'
~ cited lobby and out, and was abou
~ to cross the street-safe.
Mccain and the bell-hops we're no'
= in full cry after her. Flight was us'
q less. She took refuge in indignatio
4 and threats.
:, But Mccain was obdurate. Sh
!. passed quickly to tears and pleading
" 1t had no effect They insisted o
70 leading her back. The game was VI
!. Here" cried Kennedy, take her u
= in the elevator. Ill prove the case"
"Now-not o word of who she is
a. the papers, Mccain" Kennedy col
10 cluded, referring to Elaine. "Yo