The Monticellonian., 1915-11-11

1 we drove of At last we pulled up at the Dodge hall again.
 Wont you come in?@ asked Elaine as we got out.
 Thank you, I believe I will for a 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. I opened 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 l turned, before pretty little shingle 1 house, the taxicab chauffeur stopped | One of the bullets had taken effect on him, and his shoulder was bleeding 1 it. was that another shot had given him fiat tire.
 He jumped out and looked up the 1 road whence he had come. No one was following him. Still, he was wor- 1 ried. He went around to look at the tire. But he was too weak now from l loss of blood It had been nerve and reserve force that had carried him l through. Now that the strain was off, l 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 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 a nasty 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 De Mars. and what had followed The more thought about it, the more ii seemed to me 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 U Washington.
 Accordingly I cudgeled my brain foI some method of protecting both our selves and it. The only thing I could think of was scheme once adopted by Kennedy in another case.
 I had small quick-shutter camera that had belonged to Craig, and just as we were about to retire. brought it into the living room with a pack age I had sent up from the village
 As soon as Elaine had gone to bed and I was alone. I opened the package There were the tools that I had or dered coil of wire and some dry cells. Then I went to the table, un' locked the drawer and put the plan in my pocket.
 Although 1 was no expert at wiring I started to make the connections un der the table with the drawer, not a very difficult thing to do as long as il was to be only temporary and for the night From the table ran the wires along the edge of the carpet until came to the bookcase. There, masked by the books, I placed the little quick shutter camera. and at a distance also concealed the flashlight pan.
 Next I aimed the camera carefully and focused it on point above the drawer in the writing table where any one would be likely to stand if he at tempted to open it. Then I connected the shutter of the camera and little spark coil in the flash pan with the wires, using an apparatus to work the shutter such as recalled having seen | Craig use. Finally I covered the sparkling device with the fashlighi powder, gave last look around, and snapped off the light.
 Up in my bedroom, l must say  new the licenses or to establish muni