Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-12-10

ing Me Closely.
we drove on. At last we pulled up
at the Dodge hall again.
Wont you come in?". asked Elaine
as we got out.
Thank you, / believe I will for
few minutes" consented Del Mar, con-
cealing his real eagerness to follow
me. I'm all shaken up"
As we entered the living room !
was thinking about the map. / opened
a table drawer, hastily took the plan
from my pocket and locked it in the
drawer Elaine, meanwhile. was
standing with Del Mar, who was talk
ing, but in reality watching me
closely.
Down the road past where we had
turned, before q pretty little single
house, the taxicab chauffeur stopped.
One of the bullets had taken effect on
him, and his shoulder was bleeding.
But the worst, as he seemed to think
it, was that another shot had given
him a fat tire.
He jumped out and looked up the
road whence he had come. No one
was following him. Still, he was wor-
ried. He went around to look at the
tire. But he was too weak now from
loss of blood. It had been nerve and
reserve force that had carried him
through. Now that the strain was on.
he felt the reaction to the full.
Just then the doctor and his driver.
whom the valet had already sum-
moned to Del Mars, came speeding
down the road. The doctor saw the
chauffeur fall in q half faint, stopped
his car and ran to him. The chauffeur
had kept up as long as he could. He
had now sunk down beside his ma
chine in the road.
A moment later they picked him up
and carried him into the house. There
was no acting about his hurt now. In
the house they laid the man down ON
a couch and the doctor made q hasty
examination.
How is he?" asked one Of the kind
Samaritans.
The wound is not dangerous" re-
piled the physician, but he's lost a
lot of blood. He cannot be moved
for some time yet"
We talked about nothing else at
Dodge Hall after dressing for dinner
but the strange events over at Del
Mars, and what had followed. The
more / thought about 1t, the more II
seemed to ne that we would never BE-
left over night in peaceful possession
of the plan which both Elaine and
decided ought ON the following day
to be sent to Washington.
Accordingly cudgeled my brain fol
some method of protecting both our
selves and it. The only thing could
think of was q scheme once adoptet
by Kennedy in another case.
had q small quick-shutter Gamers
that had belonged to Craig. and Jus
az we were about to retire. / brought
it into the living room with q pack
age I had sent up from the village
As soon as Elaine had gone to bet
and was alone. I opened the package
There were the tools that had or
dered, a coil of wire and some dr.!
cells. Then / went to the table. un
locked the drawer and put the plal
in my pocket.
Although I was no expert at wiring
started to make the connections un
der the table with the drawer. not {
very difficult thing to do a. long a.
was to be only temporary and for thu
night. From the table ran the wire
along the edge of the carpet until
came to the bookcase. There, maske'
by the books, placed the little quick
shutter camera. and at distance ais
concealed the fashlight pan.
II Next / aimed the camera CAREFUL.
and focused it on q point above tn
, drawer in the writing table where any
one would be likely to stand II he at
tempted to open 1t. Then connecte'
, the shutter of the camera and littl
: spark coil in the fash pan with tn
wires, using an apparatus to work tn
. shutter such as I recalled having see
Craig use. Finally covered tn
| sparkling device with the aashligh
powder, gave . last look around, an
+ snapped on the light.
1 Up In my bedroom. must say