The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-26

watcher came in with the find. |
weighed three carats and was of tn
purest white. A stone of this qualit
meant more. Howard immediatel
J tcabled to the supposed owners. TIL
next day the strike travelled up AM
down the region.
Bruce, the smuggler himself, receiv
ed the cable, and he FASTENED away t.
acquaint Nine. Du Val with what haI
happened. Nine. Radcliffe and seVera
others were in the Grecian salon whel
he arrived through the secret passage
He was greeted effusiyely. Nine. d.
Val looked extremely beautiful to hin
at that moment. There were time,
when he wished his friend Radcliffe,
in the neither regions. The woman
puzzled him. She was rich. Her home
was one of the most beautiful in New
York, yet she played a crooked game
She was evidently one of those womei
who played the game for the sport OIL
it, for the blind hazards, the excite,
ment The morals of her engage
ments never bothered her He hat
watched Radcliffe for some time, and
gathered no little satisfaction from the
fact that Nine. Du Val simply tolerated
| him because he was a redoubtable
schemer, brave and shrewd
We'll, what's to be done?" lnquir-
ed Radcliffe
send for Howard to bring the dia-
monds here. We will have to see that
man personally. That story in the
newspapers is the devil to pay. The
! girl is sure to see; if not she, Storm.
It's going to be big game now, in
stead OF little one Bruce declared.
'All the more excitement in pulling
the wool over the eyes of the law.
This man Howard may be an honest
man" said madam.
I'm that case, good night to Mr..
Howard, and We'll put man in his
place who will not bother us with
questions so long as he gets his rake
off," said Radcliffe.
When Henry Howard received the
cable directing him to bring the
months find to New York he froWned
There was another cable at hand, and
this one astonished him greatly upon
it's arrival. For years he had been
sending the small but valuable output
to those he believed the rightful own
er, and here was a contestant, and
this contestant seemed to be a legiti-
mate one. 1t was a miXup which dis
turbed him greatly.
There had always been something
mysterious about the present owners.
He had never seen any one of them,
only their accredited agent, who in
variably presented lettered heart
when he came to claim the diamonds.
And now they wanted him in New
York. Was there any sinister purpose
behind this command? Henry Howard
was an honest man, and before many
weeks he was going to pay for his
honesty.
He sent two cablegrams, one to the
present company and one to John
Storm. The first read: will come to
New York" The second read: ARRIVE
New York tenth. Will give account
ing of Zudora mine" Then he booked
his passage and sailed from Cape
Town to Liverpool.
Storm was elated over his cable.
He Informed Zudora and they visited
Detective Hunt And while they and
Hunt We're talking over the affair
Baird came in looking rather debon-
aire and carrying a cane. At first he
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1r Zudora i'm the eyes-remembering
low at the instigation of the real Has
sam Ali, he had attempted the young |
awyer's life. But these days he was |
ible to look with serenity into the eyes |
If all mankind
Hello, Baird!" cried Hunt. You're
ust the man ! want for a stunt"
I'm always ready for that
Iudora looked at him gratefully |
Somehow his eyes always puzzled her. |
It always seemed that somewhere she |
lad known those eyes intimately. The |
our of them left the office together
Ind later separated in front of a flor
SITS shop
Now" said Hunt, "a little work
or you, Friend Baird"
I'm with you, if there's any ex-
element in it."
"Therell be some. l want you to |
keep watch on that garage and
Junk shop where they nearly got you
hat night. Something strange about
hat junk shop. People go in there
and don't come out again. There's
some kind of tunnel, and between
you and me and the gate post this
tunnel leads to the marble home of
Nine Du VAL"
20, you saw but one of the faces
Of this clever diamond woman. In that
day you were using her; consequently
she did not tell you any of her secrets.
Now you watch the hut and I'll watch
the marble palace, and then we'll com
pare notes as to whom we seen enter
Or leave the hut and the palace"
But when they compared notes they
had nothing that was important.
About four weeks later, however,
they were rewarded. Baird saw Bruce
enter the hut and disappear, and De-
tectiye Hunt saw Bruce come out of
the villa without apparently having
entered it. Hunt proceeded to follow
his man back to town. Bruce had an
office in one of the downtown sky
scrapers. The door had no business
such as is usually
found upon office doors. There was
merely number, and below that in
small letters the word private" Pri-
vate, Hunt was sure this office was.
He hung about in the shadow until
Bruce left when he set about calmly
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