The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-12

from his pocket and held it between
him and the disappearing touring car.
He pressed the spring, knowing that
his telescope lens would carry to the
waiting film the secret OF that mys-
terious cars number.
Jules Legar, in his role as a master
of underworld activities, was both
adroit in his engagement of the
services of others and painstalxing In
So the preparation of the field wherein
they should labor
So when I.egar and his scientific
friend, DR.. Herman Stein, engaged
their triple-foor office suite at the
top of tho Central Tower Building
they insisted on certain structural
alterations in those offices. Not only
was one of. the largest windows COM
Wandered for the installation OF
strangely complex apparatus USED III
STEMS electric wave-projector (whlcn
was announced 10 be the latest I'M
provement on wireless), but the upper
and lower floors of the suite were
connected by a smooth-Wailed shalI
which, it was explained, would MAKE
easier tho passage back ana ioitl ~
chemicals and apparatus needeu Wy
the illustrious DR.. Stein in his care
fully guarded experiments.
E,auallv well prepared was Legar 3
second base of activities, tne seel CT
subcellar beneath the Owls Nest
ONCE used for the storing OF spirit
teps and wine casks Cd which a rev.
anna tax was never too pmctiiously
Maid. This second warren, deep as II
stood underground, was also proVlded
with q Secret passageway Leading INTO
a water gate opening on the East
River itself.
IT was from both OF these points
that I,egar was conducting his cam
naipn against his old-time enemy,
E,noch Golden. And both or these
noints might have remained as well
hidden as their user still dreamed
them to be had 1t not been Tor the
casual agency of a pocket camera
For less than an hours work IN the
ONCE of the register of automobiles
had duly shown Manley that license
No. 6al9 belonged to one Professor
Herman Stein of ~ Maple avenue. fet
Manlev. armed as he was with the
Knowledge of this cars identity,
showed no undue haste in interfering
with its movements. For still another
hour of cautious shadowing on the
mart of Golden's private secretary
provided him with the knowledge that
Dr. Stein was in the habit Of motor
ing from Maple avenue to the Central
Power Building, and from that pros
nervous skyscrapei to a humble point
within a block of the Owls Nest it,
self. Thirty minutes later found Man.
lev in a telephone booth, talking to mis-
employer.
Have you received any message
from that man Legar?" asked the
Younger man, after impatiently ex-
planning who he was.
II have received message, but I
don't know it came from Legar.3
'Then how did you get it?"
at was thrown through my house
window folded up in beer bottle"
''Will you please read me that mes
sage. And quickly. for this is i'm
portant."
Here 1t U.s." answered the bewil-
dered voice over the wire. ''You are
keeping Blonde Casey a prisoner in
your house. Unless you liberate her
within an hour that house will go up
in flames. And after that house. your
next house, and the next. 1t is
signed The Cookson Gang. But
what am J to believe? What am
j to do? And what is the answer
TO all these mysteries?"
Il intend to keep that girl here"
was the grim reply. mo matter what