Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-06-29

d tary had waited until the girl hat
n closed and locked the vault door. TheI
: he had leaped for the figure behint
the drapery.
r But that intruder behind the drapery
: had apparently not been altogether
} unconscious of the danger confronting
. him. He had at the same moment
side-stepped nimbly through the quick
ly opened door, throwing an approach
ing and suddenly hysterical housemaid
aside as he had swept past her. The
redoubtable Wilson, who had also at
tempted to block his exit, had even
more promptly gone down, knocked
fiat by one fierce blow. 1t had been
then, and then only, that Manley dis
covered the identity of the intruder.
He had caught sight of the SCARED
face, which even an ample beard failed
| to screen. He had seen the right
arm of wood which ended in its sin
lister iron hook, and all doubt as to his
enemy had vanished.
But this discovery had in no way
interfered with Manley's pursuit of
tudl duudClOub I'LL uQ6T.
1t had not been a pretty fight, that
hand-to-hand contest between the Slim
bodied youth and the scar-faced ex-
ploiter of evil, but it had been a des-
perate one. AS Manley, pressing stub
bornly on, had struggled to close in
on his opponent, Legar had discreetly
and nimbly backed away until he
found the double house door itself
barring his farther retreat. There
upon he had promptly shattered the
plate-glass backing the iron grill work
on the hinges, and had actually swung
could gather himself together and
spring bodily on his escaping enemy.
They had gone down the broad steps
together, locked arm in arm, fighting
and clawing as ferociously as midnight
cats in tenement court. And Man
ley, with one hand on Legar's leathery
throat, would surely have won, had
not closed car glided up to the curb
along which they were writhing and
painting and rolling. From that car a
yellow-faced Italian known as Scoop
had taken prompt and active part in
the encounter. He had withheld
finalities, however, until Manley was
uppermost. Then, with a quickly
drawn billy" he had blackjacked that |
youth into, utter indifference as to
Legar and mysteriously waiting limou-
sine and all the rest Of the world.
Before Manley's senses had come |
back 10 him ne and the green-feath- |
cred parrot had been tossed bodily |
into the closed car, and, three minutes
before the arrival Of the police for |
whom the white-faced girl in the |
library had so frantically telephoned,
that mysterious limousine had speeded
of into the night, carrying not only
Legar but the youth who had been so
as to attempt to inter-
fere with Legar's exploits.
But Manley did not altogether give
up. His heart still had the residence
Of youth. He still believed in his
star.
What fretted Marley most, however,
was his lack of freedom. Rolling a
little over on his side, he studied min
ltely the rough brick floor on which
,e lay. After this inspection he
vormed his way carefully from side to
tide, lying face down and trying each
'ow of exposed bricks with his shoe
oe, in the hope of finding one of them
Oose
He had deliberately tested eleven
ows before he found any reason for
Iope in this direction. A chill Of ex-
itement ran through his. tired body,
n fact, as he discovered one brick
which seemed less securely embedded
a cement than were its fellows. He
worked at 1t patiently, laboriously,
licking away small particles of plas-
er, humping it with his boot heel,
rying at it with his sole until 1t
ocked free in its row. Then came
he even sterner task of shifting 1t
rom its place. This he did by turning I
bout and lying close to 1t, on his side,
0 that the fingers of his tightly i'm 0
risoned hand might come In contact a
nth its edges. Time after time 1t fell 9
ack, but In the end he triumphed.
Yet 1t was not this unearthed brick +
'hich Interested him. His attention II
as directed towards the rough-edged D
where that brick had n
rested, for the corners OF O
MS opening, he soon realized, pro- u
ided him with saw edge which In u
me might serve to abrade and cut u
lrough the stoutest Of cotton rope. n
ut the consolation Of this hope did D.
OF stay with him long. For even as c
Q started to work, his movements u
ERE interrupted by the sound OF a &c
ey In the heavy iron lock on the door 81
nat shut him in. He rolled over
uickly, twisting about so that his ap- u
arently inert body covered both the d.
'osened brick and the spot from 81
hitch 1t had been taken. He con- Of
nued to lie there as though In sleep IN
exhaustion, for his yelled eyes had 10
READY caught sight Of the two heavy ~
3aturod rufiana advancing into fha IN