The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-04-16
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In the Twenty Million Dollar Mystery
Bv Harold MacCrath
Y Harold MacGrath

ward the spot where he had seen the
two men last Baird occupied himself
with the painter. The engineer knelt
before his cylinders and hunted for a
possible bit OF damage.
The man Ike thought that he might
just as well dispose of Baird In that
event the detective would be between
two fires, and they might be able to
put him out of business. Baird was in
the act of tying the painter when Ike
struck him a violent but fortunately
a glancing blow on the head. Baird
stumbled and fell and Ike drew his
knife with murderous intentions. But
Baird turned in time, caught the wrist
and fought savagely for all that his
head was ringing like discordant
chimes. He succeeded in making his
assailant drop the knife, then he
stepped back and began to spar. AS
Ike stopped to recover the knife Baird
caught him fairly on the chin. Baird
did not wait to learn whether or not
the man was senseless. He took to his
heels, confident that Hunt would pres
emily have urgent need of him.
| Hunt was famous runner, and he
| reached the house on the hill just as
Bruce and Gyp entered it.
The two smugglers went directly to
the kitchen. Bruce dropped the water
bottle on the deal table, unscrewed
the top and dumped out the diamonds
Hunt saw this through the kitchen
| window. He now wished he'd brought
Baird along with him.
And Baird had lost his way. Meth
or Hunt nor the men he was pursuing
were anywhere in sight. Baird swore
and began rubbing the side of his
head, which ached painfully. Where
the deuce had Hunt gone?
Meantime Ike recovered. Instead
OF attempting to follow Baird he stag
gered off to the first telephone he
could find and called Radcliffe, who he
was sure had arrived at Nine Du val's
by this time Radcliffe had his hands
full of documents-most Of them
rightfully belonging to Zudora-when
the telephone rang.
"1t's Ike" he said to madam. "He
says he needs us. Here, put those pa
pers away in your handbag. Well go
right to Storms Office first. You'll
know what to say"
Storm, having left Zudora safely at
home with Mrs. Ramsey, had returned
| to his office. He was vastly surprised
to see Nine. Du Val enter, but he man
aged to form his features into gra-
ciousness. He was curious to learn
what the woman wanted. He dismiss
sed his typist, who, making pretense
of leaving the room, stole behind a
screen. Nine. Du Val was yelled heav-
lily, but Storm readily discovered her
identity. What did the woman want
] ShezWanted advice about some pa
Ipers. When she brought them out OF
her handbag, Storm felt furry of ex-
element But they were only some in
surance papers regarding madam's
property. Storm managed to read them
over carefully. He returned them with
the remark that they were perfectly
good. He named nominal fee for
his investigation. 1t was paid, and
Nine. Du Val left the office.
| well, hang me, if that isn't fun
ny game. What the dickens can she
want? Or was she just getting the
lay of the office for some future work
AS he could not solve the enigma, he
went back to his own work. Fedora
would be along presently
On going out of the office madam
had set the latch so that it would close
but not lock the door. When she saw
Zudora coming in at the entrance of
the building she hid herself and fol-
lowed the girl back upstairs. The
typist was leaving.