The Springdale news., 1915-04-30

EACIQ2S luc HdII. We HiU uON know It at the time, in room $40. af ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta-s tion. 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 509 open and disclose US
 We hurried into 511 and shut the door
 Kennedy mounted a chair and ap- piled his eye to the detectascope Just then Mary and Elaine entered the next room, Mary opening the door with a 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 T 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 there9" she asked.
 Yes" nodded Elaine. taking out the package Of bills which she had got from the bank during the halfhour delay.
 All this we could see by gazing al- ternately through the detectascope
 Elaine handed Mary the money Mary counted t slowly At last she looked Up
 It's all right" she said "Now. I'll take this to that tong leader He's Tn a room only just across the hall"
 She went ont
 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.
 "Helio-hello-hello'" he called.
 There seemed to be no way to get connection What was the mat ter9
 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 n7l left he moved over close to the switchboard
 Just as a call from 509 flashed up, Wong slipped the rings off his little fingers and loosened the white rats on the telephone switchboard itself
 With a shriek the telephone system of the Coste went temporarily out of business
 
 Kennedy had succeeded in finding the alcoye Of the floor clerk h charge of the fifth floor There on his desk was an instrument having a stylus on the end of two arms. connected to a system of magnets It was telauto- graph.
 unceremoniously Craig pushed the clerk out Of his seat and sat down himself It was last chance now that the telephone was out of com- mission. zo~ H
 Downstairs in the hotel office. where the Excitement had not spread to ev- cry one. was the other end of the cleo tric long-distance writer
 It started to write, as Kennedy wrote, upstairs:
 House Detec.ive-quick-hold won an with blue chateIaine bag. getting out of elevator"
 The clerks downstairs saw It and shouted above the din Of the rat-bait- ing:
 MeCann-MeCann," :"
 The clerk had torn of the message from the telautograph register and handed 1t to the house man, who pushed his way to the desk.
 Quickly the detective called to the bellhops Together they hurried af- ter the well-dressed woman who had just swept out Of the elevator. Marx had already passed through the ex- cited lobby and out and was about to cross the street-safe.
 NcCann and the bell-hops were now In full cry after her Flight was use less She took refuge in indignation and threats.
 But McCann was obdurate She passed quickly to tears and pleadings. It had no effect. They insisted on leading her back The game was up
 Here" cried Kennedy. take her up