Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1915-03-05

Baird Neatly Fished tho vaIse From
Under the Table.
was another cable at hand, aud this
one astonlshed him greatly upon its ar
rival. For years he had been sending
the small but valuable output to those
he believed the rightful owner, and
here was a contestant, and this contest
ant seemed to be Il legitimate one. 1t
was mixup that disturbed 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 invH-
riably presented n 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 lie
was going to pay for his honesty.
He sent two cabcgrams one to the
present company and one to John
Storm The first read, "Wlll come to
New York" The second read Arrive
New York 10th VIII give accounting
Of Zudora mine" Then he booked his
passage and sailed from Cape Town to
Liverpool
Storm was elated over his cable. He
informed Xud0ra, and they visited De.
tectlve Hunt And while they and Hunt
we're talking over the affair Baird came
In, looking rather debonaire and carry.
tng cane At first he had had some
difficulty IN looking Storm orHndora In
the eyes, remembering how Mt the in
tigation " the real IIaSsHm All he had
attempted the young lawyers NE. But
these days he was able to look with Sc
Gently Into the eyes Of all mankind.
Hello Baird cried Hunt You're
Just the man want for a stunt"
I'm always ready for that
Zudora looked nj him gratefully
somehow his eyes always puzzled her
Il always seemed that somewhere she
lad known these eyes intimately The
tour Of them left the office together aud
,atcr separated IN front Of florists
shop.
Nov " said Hunt, "a little work for
you, Friend Baird"
I'm with YOU, If there's any excite
ment in it,"
"There'll be some | want 10 keep .
watch on that garage and Junk shop .
where they nearly got you that night.
something strange about that junk
hop People 90 In there mud don't
come out again There's some kind /
# tunnel and between You and me
md the gate post this tunnel leads to
he marble home Of Nine. Du Val"
81 never heard anything about tun.
nell" said Baird honestly.
'Or You saw but one of the facets
4 this clever diamond woman In
hat day YOU were using her, ronse-
luently she did not tell yuu any of
ler secrets Now YOU watch the hut
nd I'll watch the marble palace. and
len we'll compare notes rs to whom
we see 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 We're rewarded Baird saw
Bruce enter the hut and disappear, and
Detective 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
announcement, 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
to pick the lock. He was rather curl
Gus to see what kind Of an Office this
was. He found many interesting
documents, but nothing discriminating
The smuggler was a shrewd fox
Suddenly Hunt heard footsteps, He
heard key In the lock, Bruce had
returned! Hunt made quick scramble
out Of the window, where he chung to
the iron shutter. The effort was worth
his while. The man who accompanied
Bruce was none other than Howard,
the superintendent of the Zudora dla.