Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-24

Across the hall. although we did not
know It al the time. In room $40, al
ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta
ton. Just to be handy. There he had
been with his servant. playing with
his two trained white rats. .
Wong placed them up his capaclous
sleeves and carefully opened the door
to look out Unfortunately he was
just in time to see the door of 50s
open and disclose Us.
We hurried into Sill and shut the
door
Kennedy mounted q chair and an.
piled his eye to the detectascope. JUST
then Mary and Elaine entered the
next room. Mary opening the door
with a regular key.
Won't you step I'M" she acked.
Elaine did so and Mary hesitated
in the hall Wong Sin had slipped
out. on noiseless feet and taken ref
uge behind s5nle curtains. As he saw
h$r alone. he beckonei. to. Mary.
~rEaae's q stranger ID the next
room" no whispered. Il don't like
him. Take the money and as quickly
IS possible get out and go to my
apartment"
At re news thar there was s-s.
picinus stranger. sbou. Mary showef
great aIarrp. Everything was So rap
i'd now that the slightest hesitation
meant disaster. Fc:haps BY quick
ness escn suspicious stranger could
b. fooled, she reasoned At any ratel
Wong Sin was resourceful. She had
better trust him.
Mary followed Elaine into the room,
where she had seated herself already,
and iocsrd the door. -
"Hsve you the money there9" she
asked. ss5 s5ess sissst
Yes nodded Elaine, taking out
the package Of ills which she had 90.
from the bank dlring the halfhon'
delay. tise Boz.
All this we could zee b, gazing al.
ternately through the istactaseope.
Elaino hangsd MARY the money.
Mary counted 1t slowly. At Iast she
looked u0.
Its oil right" she s>id "Now, III
take this to that tong leader. He's n
room only just across to hail.
She went out
Mary had just succeeded IN getting
on TIE elevator as Kennedy hurried
down the hall The door was closed
and the car descended. He rang the
push bell furiousiy, but there was
no answer.
He dashed back to the room with
US and jerked the telephone receiver.
Hello-hello-nello! se called.
There seemed to be no wsT to get
connection What was thu MAJ
ter?
He hurried down the tall ngaia.
Down in the hotel lobby, sith his
follower, the China.sfn paused before
the telephone switchboard, where two
girls were at work.
You may go. ordered Wong. and.
as his man left, he moved over close
to the switchboard, -,
just as q call from 509 flashed u,
Wong slipped the rings Of. his little
fingers and loosened the white rats
on the telephone switchboard itself.
With shrek the telephone system
of the Coste went temporarily out of
business !.
Kennedy had succeeded in finding
the alcove Of the floor clerk in charge
Of the fifth floor. There Oh HE 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 tn
clerk out of his scat and sat doS'n
himself. It was last chance. lsw
that the telephone wa: out CT en-
mission.
Downstairs in the hotel Office, whcr'l
the excitement had not spread to ess
cry one, was the other end CT the cleo;
trio long-distance writer tsls
1t started to write, az Kennedy
wrote, upstairs:
Blouse Detective-q.:ick--l, I'D woni-
an with blue chatelaine ba3, getting
out Of elevator"
The clerks downstairs ssw it md
shouted above the din OF tho rat-:ait-
ing:
''McCann-McCann
The clerk had torn OF the message
from the telautograp1 register and
handed it to the house man, ano
pushed his way to the desk.
Quickly the detective "al:cG to lie
belI-hops. Together they hurried al
ter the well-dressed woman who lad
just swept out Of the elevator vary
had already passed through .ns ef-
cited lobby and out, and was as:ut
to cross the street safe.
Mccain and the bellhops were ro7
in full cry after her. Flight wac rss-
less. She took refuge in indignation
and threats
But Mccain was obdurate. So
passed quickly to tears and pleading.
1t had no effect. They insistcf O.
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