The Ely miner., 1915-12-31

0omeHoW IL seems as tpOuSn u KNOW
my way about town alone: yet have
a feeling that Chicago is not wher'
belong. If were in my home towr
I'm confident that places and stree
names would be familiar--not merel!
like printed page that has been once
read, but like one that ] see ever!
day."
They left their unfortunate charg'
| in comfortable waiting room, while
Hazard and the girl repaired to hi
! private office.
sit down, Helen" Hazard invited
"and let's go over this thing together.
Doesn't it strike you as being odt
that this poor chap should have hat
four empty envelopes in his pocket
not one Of them containing scrap o
the original letters?"
Il hadn't thought of it BEFORE" th'
girl replied. "but they were placet
there purposely."
Left there purposely," Hazard cor
rected. Those are Rawlings clothes
he has this mans, or I'm sadly mis-
taken.
"But the four envelopes-they ant
the postcard are all addressed in th'
same hand; the envelopes were al
postmarked at New York; but th'
card bearing the latest date wa!
mailed in Chicago"
And your conclusion is" appended
Miss Bertel, that rendezvous wa.
arranged; that the card definitely fixet
the time and place."
Exactly. Now, then, here's some
thing you don't know.
The first of this month contrac
is going to be awarded to the success
ful bidder for the construction of the
Wrye Neck ship canal in Massachu
setts-a ten-million-d dollar enterprise
Just between ourselves, the Hercules
construction company of Chicago is
the only one among some seven OF
| eight bidders that is at all likely to be
successful, because it is the only one
of the lot that is able to put up the
heavy cash bond required The others
might in time, of course; but the Her
cules people have the cash, and that's
what counts.
Last Thursday-July 2, bear In
mind-Henry Biddle of the Hercules
company received word that one John
Prince of Prince G Penthouse, a big
firm of New York engineers. would
arrive in Chicago with certain draw
ings and specifications that are OF
vital importance in connection with
the projected canal work. He should
have come Friday morning, and Biddle
and one or two others of the company
were at the station to meet Prince
Well, he didn't show up"
Il see," Miss Bertel interposed
Prince is missing and you hoped l
had found him for you"
Correct. But your protege is not
John Prince; Prince is a much older
man.
Friday went by. and no news from
the mess ssenger. Then Biddle became
alarmed. The Hercules people had
reason to move cautiously, you under
stand; the matter had been kept as
secret as possible; but it began to
look as though they had been circum-
vented by their enemies. If these par
ticular plans and specifications fall
into the hands of q certain competing
concern it will be all up with Biddle
and his crowd
well, by the time Piddle got busy
on the wire Friday, Prince & Pent-
house had closed-not to open again
till today, because Saturday, the
fourth, was holiday, and then he
called us in. We have been securing
the city for Prince without picking up
a trace of him.
Stealing those papers is just the
sort of stunt that Rawlings and his
gang would pull off,"
Hazard called police headquarters
on the telephone and inquired whether
Denver Ed" Rawlings was known to
be in the city. The reply came back that
Rawlings ard two confederates we'll
known to the police had been in Chi
cago at least ssnce the third (Friday),
and that they wore being watched.
"P;ach the whore m1S," Hazard ear
nestly requested, ~fafst as soon as you
can get the order out. I'll tell you
why you want them by the time
they're brought i'm