Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-24

tary had waited until the girl had
 closed and locked the vault door, Then
 he had leaped for the figure behind
 the drapery.
 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. It 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 ister iron hook, and all doubt as to his enemy had vanished.
 But this discovery had in no way interfered with Manley's pursuit of that audacious intruder.
 It 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 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 one of these doors open before Manley 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 a tenement court. And Man ley, with one hand on Legar's leathery throat, would surely have won, had not a closed car glided up to the curb along which they were writhing and GdANAhS anu hhhS SeAA e yellow-faced Italian known as Scoop had taken a prompt and active part in the encounter. He had withheld fatalities, 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 to him he 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 whitehead girl in the library had so frantically telephoned, that mysterious limousine had speeded off into the night, carrying not only Legar but the youth who had been so presumptious 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.
 w Hat lICllCu LAOolf was his lack of freedom. Rolling little over on his side, he studied min utely the rougn brick floor on which he lay. After this inspection he wormed his way carefully from side to side, lying face down and trying each row of exposed bricks with his shoe tee, in the hope of finding one of them loose.
 He had elaborately tested eleven rows before he found any reason for hope in this direction. A chill of ex- citement ran through his tired body, in fact, as he discovered one brick which seemed less securely embedded in cement than were its fellows. He worked at it patiently, laboriously, kicking away small particles of plas- ter, humping it with his boot heel, pryipg at it with his sole until it rocked free in its row. Then came the even sterner task of shifting it from it's place. This he did by turning about and lying close to it. on his side, so that the fingers of his tightly i'm prisoned hand might come in contact with it's edges. Time after time it fell back, but in the end he triumphed
 Yet it was not this unearthed brick which interested him. His attention was directed towards the rough-edged parallelogram where that brick had originally rested, for the corners of this opening, he soon realized, pro- vided him with a saw edge which in time might serve to abrade and cut through the stoutest of cotton rope. But the consolation of this hope did not stay with him long. For even as he started to work, his movements were interrupted by the sound of key in the heavy iron lock on the door that shut him in. He rolled over quickly, twisting about so that his ap- parently inert body covered both the loosened brick and the spot from which it had been taken. He con tinued to lie there as though in a sleep of exhaustion, for his yelled eyes had already caught sight of the two heavy- featured rufhAns advancing into the room.
 Let the poor boob sleep" warned l