The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-10-13

| Putting a woman wise to anything
Is like lighting a faulty time-fuse: yor
never can tell when you're going te
get your fingers blown Off! But tel
me something, Guy. What was thai
tune you whistle q moment ago, wher
Marsh came in with the news? 1t hat
. vaguely familiar ring"
"Oh, that" asked the operative
with sheepishly guileless air. I'll
| was just 4 bit from an English musical
comedy Of two or three years back,
think. It's got q silly-sounding name
something like There's Boat Sails or
Saturday."
Blaines wry smile broadened to
grin of genuine appreciation, and ris
ing, he clapped the young man heartily
| on the shoulder.
Right you are, Guy! And It won't
be our job to search the sailing lists
You may not always be able to see
| what lies under your nose. but your
perspective is not bad. He'll has only
! one fury worse than a woman scorned
that know of, and that Is woman
fooled! Well let 1t go at that"
The evening had already grown late
but that eventful day was not to end
without one hnore brief scene OF Vita
import. Marsh presently reappeared
this time bearing card.
"'Mr. Mallowe,," read Blaine, with
a half-smile. SHOW him in, Marsh
and have your men ready. You know
what to do. No. Guy, you needn't go
| This interview will not be private
one"
"Mr Blaine!" Mallowe entered
pompously and then paused, glancins
| rather uncertainty from the detective
to Morrow. It needed no keen observ'
er to note the change in the man since
| the scene Of that morning, at Miss
| Lawton's He had become a mere
shell Of his former self. The SNUG
righteousness was gone; the jaunty
| side-whiskers dropped; his chalk-line
| skin fell in flabby folds, and his crafty
eyes shifted like hunted animals.
"Mr. Blaine. had hoped for strict
ly confidential conference with you
| but presume this person to be one
Of your trusted assistants, and 1t Is i'm
| material now--the matter upon which
/ have come is too pressing! Scandal,
| notoriety must be averted at all costs!
/ find that a frightful, hideous mis-.
take has been made, and l am actually
upon the point of being involved IN a
conspiracy as terrible as that Of which
my poor friend Pennington Lawton
was the victim! And am as innocent
as he! l swear IT."
"You may as well conserve your
strength and your strategic ingenuity
! for the immediate future, Mr.. Mallowe.
You'll need BOTH Blaine returned
cody. "If you've come here to make
any appeal"
"I've come to assert my innocence!'
the broken man cried with flash OF
his old proud dignity. II only learned
this evening the truth, and that those
scoundrels Carlis and Rockamore had
implicated me! How a man OF your
discernment and experience could be.
lieve for moment that was party
to any fraudulent"
Blaine pressed the bell.
There is no use in prolonging this
interview, Mr.. Mallowe!" he said,
CURLY. "All the evidence is In my
hands"
But allow me to explain!" The
flabby face grew more deathlike, until
the burning eyes seemed peering from
the face Of corpse.
Two men entered, and at sight of
them, the former pompous president of
the Street Railways Of Ellington plump.
ed to his fat, quaking knees.
For Gods sake, listen! You must