The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-24
CHAPTER Vi


SlIdi!-GuGSS Ot lie NiGlI anu
at the same time into the arms Of two
bury plain clothes men.
Strong arms clipping him. he strug-
gled violently for an instant.
Here 4 voice warned him roughly
at amt goiu to do you no good
Another interrupted with an accent
Of deep disgust, Hanged if it amt a
patrolmanr in patent recognition Of
his borrowed plumage
Why didn't You say 500" demanded
the first rs p. Sybarite fell back. re-
leased
"Didn't--have-time," painted the lat
ter. Here be added quickly. gin
me leg over this fence, will you?"
What for?"
They've got a door through to the
next house-Setting out that way
That's what I'm after-to stop 'em
Shut up 2. Sybarite insisted savage
Is, and give me a leg"
CuriouSIy c0mplaiSant for one of his
breed, the detective bent his back and
made a stirrup Of his claSped hands.
but no sooner had =. Sybarite fitted
foot TO thar same than the man started
and Strengthened up abruptly, throwing
him hat on his back.
You a patrolman! Whatcha doin
In them pants and shoes if you're pa
troll
Hello" exclaimed the other indig
nantly. 'lmperSonatin' an officer, eh -
4
who, having bounced up from Il supine
TO sitting position. promptly and
peevish!y swore. rolled to one side and
scrambled to his feet
Immediately the other closed in upon
him. supremacy confident of overcom-
ing by concerted action that smallish.
pale and terrified body. Whereupon
2. Syberite stepped quickly to one side
and. avoiding the rush OF one. directly
engaged the other Ducking beneath 4
windmill play Of arms he shot an ac-
curate fist at the aggressor's jaw.
There was n click Of teeth. the mans
head snapped back. and. folding up
like a tripod. he subsidized mt full length
upon the ground.
Then swinging on a heel Z. Sybarite
met a second onset made more danger
Gus by the cooler calculations of more
sophisticated antagonist Nevertheless.
deity blocking "A rain of blows. he
closed in as II eager to escape punish.
ment ard planted a lifted knee In the
large OF the detectives stomach so
neatly that he. too, collapsed like a
punctured presidential boom and lay
him down TO rest.
The next moment spurred by an
alert discretion F. Sybarite scaled the
fence with the agility OF a back yard
tom cat.
Hard flags received him on the other
side. Stumbling. he lost balance and
sat down with an emphasis that drove
the breath from him in one mighty
"Ooof!"
There was a simultaneous confusion
OF new. strange voices on tie other
side of the fence; cries of surprise.
recognition Of the two detectives, fol-
lowed by:
Gimme back up that fnce"'
~ bdttLt llNhtI i4l4llStlA w W ltu
even more alacrity than if he'd land
ed in Il bed Of nettles, tore across that
terra incognita. found a second fence
and was beyond it in twinkling.
Swift as he was, however, detection
attended hin-a voice roaring. There
goes wan ~ thin nswr'
BiDdly clearing fence after fence
without even thinking to count them.
P. Sybarits hurtled onward
But in time he had, of necessity, to
pause for breath, and pulled up in the
back yard 81 a Forty-sixth street resi-
dence, his dNty-to find a way to the
street and 4 shift from that uniform
of unhappy inspiration-as plain as the
problem it presented.
To break his way TO the street
through one of the houses would be
not only to invite apprehension 1t
would be actual burglary
To continue his headlong career of
the fugitive back yards feline was out
of the question. Gravely be considered
the inoffensivc building whose back
premises he was then infesting
1t showed no lights. had not an open
windows far as could be determined
by strain!ng sight aided only by faint
reflection from the liyid skies. But the
back Of this house boosted a fire es-
cape
BY invertIng an ash can which kis-
met had disposed convenient to his
bands, and standing on it an active
man mtskt possibly, if sufficiently des
peFate, manage to jump vertical
yard, moro or less, catch the lower
most gsEaEtzS Of the fire escape. draw
himself uEs and thus ascend.
In a theught P. Sybarite had turned
the gahvzentxed iron cylinder bottom up
and had slaEnbered upon it, and in less
than a brace of minutes p. Sybarite
at the top was pulling himself ginger
ly over the lip of a stone coping.
SuFDitnG that he had attained not
to the roef-of the house, but to that of
two SsaaT rear extension. he found