The Dermott news., 1915-06-10
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talking to two of his emissaries, an at tractive young woman and man.
 They were Flirty FTorrie and Dan the Dude.
 Now. I want you to get Kennedy" he said The way to do 1t is to sep arate Kennedy and Elaine see?"
 All right, Chief, we'll do it" they replied
 Clutching Hand had scarcely left when Flirty Florrie began by getting published in the papers the story which l had seen.
 The next day she called me up from the suburban house. Having got mo ly turned from the telephone when Dan the Dude walked in from the next room.
 Hes coming" she said,
 Dan was carrying a huge stag head with a beautifully branchod pair of antlers. Under his arm was a coil of wire which he had connected to the inside of the head
 Fine" he exclaimed Then. point ing to the head he added. It's all ready See how fixed it? That ought to please the Chief
 Dan moved quickly to the mantel and mounted stepladder there by which he had taken down the head, and started to replace the head above the mantel.
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 There" he said. unsCrewing one of the beautiful brown glass eyes of the stag
 Back of it could be seen camera shutter
 "One of those new quick shutter cameras he explained
 Then he ran couple of wires along the molding around the room and into closet. where he made the counec- ton with sort Of switchboard on which q button was marked. SHUT TER" and the switch. WIND FILM
 Now. Flirty he said, coming out of the closet and pulling up the shade which let flood Of sunlight into the room. you see. l want you to stand here-then. do your little trick
 Just then the bell rang
 That must be Jameson. she cried Now get to your corner
 With 4 last look Dan went into the closet and shut the door
 Perhaps hnlf an hour later Clutehing iat.i himself called ne up on the telephone It was he-uot the Star as learned only too late
 
 had scarcely got out of the house. as Craig told me afterwards. when Flirty Florrie told all over again the embroidered tale that had caught my ear
 Kennedy said nothing, but listened intently. perhaps betraylug in his face the skepticism he felt
 You see" she said still voluble and eager to convince him. T was only walking on the street Here-let mo show you. It was just like this"
 She took his arm and. before he knew, 1t. led him to the spot on the floor near the window which Dan had indicated. Meanwhile Dan was lis tening attentively In his closet
 Newsstand there. You are just as l was-only didn't expect any thing
 She was pantomiming some one ap- preaching stealth!ly while Kennedy watched her with interest. tinged with doubt Behind Craig in his closet, Dan was reaching for the switchboard button.
 You see. she said advancing quickly and acting her words. he placed his hands on my shoulders so-then threw his arms about my neck-so,'
 She said no more, but imprinted a deep, passionate kiss on Kennedy 5 mouth clinging closely to him. Be fore Kennedy could draw away. Dan in the closet, had pressed the but ton and the switch several times in rapid succession
 "Th-that's very realistic" gasped Craig. good deal taken aoack by the sudden osculatory assault.
 He frowned.
 Tn look into the case" he said. backing away. "There-there may be some scientific explanation-but- CT
 He was plainly embarrassed and hastened to make his adieux.
 
 How little impression the thing made on Kennedy can be easily seen from the fact that on the way down town that afternoon he stopped at Martins. on Fifth avenue, and bought ring-a very handsome solitaire, the finest Martin had in the shop.
 It must have been about the time that he decided to stop at Martins that the Dodge butler. Jennings. ad' mitted a young lady who presented card on which was engraved the name
 Miss Florence Leigh,
 20 Prospect Avenuo.
 As he handed Elaine the card. she looked m from the book she was read