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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
J. 4. BATTRAM BUYS STORE

This week James Battram closed
deal whereby he will take over the
Ellis Blumenthal store the first Of
the month and again become identi-
fed with the business men of Malta.
Mr.. Bat,ram is no stranger to the
people of this locality, as he has
been tie general mana ger Of the
MAJ Mercantile store for the past
seven years, where he made numer-
GUS friends who will be pleased to
see him again enter the business
life of Malta. Mr., Battram has had
years Of experience in the mercantile
business and will, no doubt, NEE,
Win flattering success. For a mum
her OF years he was connected with
enc Of the big firms at Big Sandy
and the people Of Malta are pleased
to have him decide to remain with
us.
Mr. Blumenthal is lisposing of the
business on Fifth Avenue so as to be
able to give his entire time and at
tention to the new wholesale bust
ness recently opened by himself and
Mr.. Plott.
We wish Mr.. Battram all the sue
cess in the world in his new enter
prise and stepping INTO the busi-
ness he is his success is assured
from the start.
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NOT AN EiGtiT-t4CUR LAW.
Recent Ho|d-Up Legislation Docs
Not Shorten Workdi !
Minute.

AS Il matter of fact, it is not
an eight hour law at all. 1t does
not curtail the trainmen's work
day by single minute. If an
engineer has been receiving S5
for working ten hours Il day, this
law will raise his pay to S6.25;
but it will not shorten his work
day even the tenth part of Sec
ond. This is no more like the
true eight-hour principle than
chalk Is like cheese.
The reason Why people call
this an eight-hour law is be-
cause 1t says that in the case
of railroad trainnen they shall
get their days pay for the first
eight hours work, and all the
rest Is to be considered over.
time.
Do not tell me that this strike
could not have been called off or
postponed If President Wilson
had shown that he meant busi-
ness. do not for one minute
believe that those four brother
hood leaders started the blaze
going without knowing how to
put it out. One of them ad-
mitted that he could put it out
SO far as his own brotherhood
was concerned, but that his fol
lowers would think that he had
gone back on them if he We're
to do so.-Statement of Con-
gresham A. ?. Gardner.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
New Site Donated
For Court House
leading Malta Citizens Donate Site For
Phillips County Court House.

Just as we go to press we learn that at the spec
ial session this aftrnoon at which all of the commits
soners of Phillips county present, it was de-
clded to retain the Trafton site as originally planned
for the reason that the proposed site offered
was inadequate for the building thereon of the
buildings necessary for county purposes, and there
fore the site known the Fifth Avenue site was not
accepted
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
BOY SCOUTS ATTENTION

All members of Co. A, Malta Boy
Scouts, will assemble at the City Hall
in full uniform Sunday, Sept. 3Oth,
at 1000 O'Clock a. M, to attend SER
vices at the M. f. church.
JESSE STONESIFER, Sergt.
EDDIE POWELL Captain.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
Notice to Contractors

The Board of County Commission
ers of Phillips County, Montana, will
receive bids up to two o'clock, Oct
Der 18th, 1916, for the erection and
completion Of reinforced concrete
and brick jail building to be erected
for Phillips county at Malta, Mon
specifications prepared for the same
Montana, and now on file with the
county clerk and recorder of Phillips
county, Montana.
Each bid to be accompanied by a
certified check in an amount of not
less than 5 per cent of the amount
OF bid and made payable to M. j.
Dabney, Treasurer of Phillips coun-
ty, as matter of good faith and the
contractor submitting bid agrees to
enter into a formal contract and
furnish bond OF approved sureties
and by failure to do SO, forfeits his
certified check to the said Phillips
county.
The board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids. All bids to
be made out on proposal sheet which
may be secured at the office of the
county clerk and recorder, or at the
office Of the architect at Havre, Mon
tana. All bids to be addressed to
w. G. Schneider, County Clerk and
Recorder, and marked "Bid for Jail
Building."
By order of the board.
(Signed) w. G.. SCHNEIDER,
County Clerk and Recorder of
Phillips County, Montana.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
ONERNOR STEWART COMING

Committeeman Kildnff informs us
that he has just received notice that
Governor Stewart is Dilled to make
nm address in Malta next week Fri
day evening at time and place to
be announced later. The governor
will speak on tie issues Of the dav
from a democratic standpoint.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28

Burner Survant left On the early
train Sunday morning for Faribault,
Minn., where he will again enter
Shattuck Military school.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28
LET'S LOOK THEM OVER

1t costs you nothing to have us
examine your old tires.
We do not undertake to repair a
tire unless 1t is worth the expense.
MODEL TIRE SHOP.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-09-28

George Heath has moved in from
Zortman and taken charge of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mrs. Heath
will look after the hotel for some
time until George can get his bust
ness matters in the mountains in a
position to leave.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-03-30

"Our telegraphic address, Of course.
@. 2 is our chief factor in Antwerp"
$50 they got Greggs."
Stupid oaf!" Wertheimer observed;
give no sympathy to waste on him.
The whole affair was a blunder."
But you got Greggs out and
burned Troyon's-"
"Still our friends at the prefecture
weren't satisfied Something must
have reused their suspicious"
"You don't know what?"
There must have been leak some
where"
If so, it would certainly have led
| the police to me, after all the pains
you were at to saddle me with the
crime. There's something odder than
mere treachery in this, Mr.. Vert
| heimer."
Perhaps you're right" said the 9th
er thoughtfully.
"And it doesn't speak well for the
discipline Of your precious organiza-
granting, for the sake Of argu-
ment, the possibility Of such non
sense
well, well, have your own way
about that. / don't insist, SO long as
you're agreeable to join forces with
me-"
ooh, it's with you alone now-is it:
! Not with that insane bogy, the Inter
national Underworld, Unlimited?"
CheerfuIly the Englishman assented,
nodding: with me alone. offer you
clear field. Go where you like, do
what you will wouldn't have the eff
frontery to attempt to guide or influ-
ence YOU
Lanyard kept himself in hand with
considerable difficulty.
"But your" he asked. "Where do
you come in?"
Wertheimer 1ounged back in his
chair and laughed quietly. Need you
ask? Must I recall to you the founda-
lions of my prosperity? You had the
name Of it glib enough on your tongue
that night in the Rue Chaptal. When
you've done your work you'll come to
me and split the proceeds fairly-and
as long as you do that, never syllable
will pass my lips!"
"Blackmail!"
ooh, if you insist! Odd, how dis
pleasing find that world"
Abruptly the adventurer got to his
feet. "By Cod" he cried, ''I'd better
get out Of this before I do you an in
jury"
The door slammed behind him on a
room ringing with Wertheimer's I'M
affected laughter.
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anew end, trembling in every limb,
ran on for several hundred yards. But
time pressed, and the usefulness Of his
car was at an end as far IS he was
concerned; there was no saying how
many times it's identity might not
have been established in the course Of
that wild chase through Paris, or how
soon the police might contrive to over
haul and apprehend him; and as soon
as bend in the road shut off the scene
of the wreck, he stopped finally
jumped down, and plunged headlong
into the dark midnight heart of the
Bots, seeking its silences where trees
stood thickest and lights were few.
Later, like some furtive, worried
creature of the night-panting, dis
heveled, his rough clothing stained
and muddied-he skunk across an open
space a mile from his point of disap-
pearance, dropped cautiously down to
the dry bed Of the moat, climbed as
stealthily the slippery side of the for
tifications, darted across the inner
boulevard, and began to describe a
wide arc to his destination, the Omber
house.
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spot to substitute false numbers ~
those he was licensed to display;
then, at more sedate pace, followed
the line of the Notifications northward
as far as La Muette, where, branch
ing off, he sought and made a circuit
Of two sides Of the private park en-
closing the home OF Nine. Omber.
But the mansion showed no lights,
and there was nothing in the aspect
Of the lodge and carriage entrance to
lead him to believe that the chate-
laine had as yet returned to Paris.
Now the night was still young, but
Lanyard had his cab to dispose Of and
not a few other essential details to
arrange before he could take definite
steps toward the reincarnation Of the
Lone Wolf.
Picking a most circumspect route
across the river-via the Pont Mira
beau-to the all-night telegraphic bu-
reau in the Rue de Grenelle, he dis
patched a cryptic message to the min
lister of war, then with the same pains
to avoid notice made back toward the
Rue des Acacias. But it wasn't pos
sible to recross the Seine covertly-
in effect, at 1east-without returning
the way he had come-a long detour
that irked his impatient spirit to con-
template.
Unwisely he elected to cross by
way of the Pont des Invalides-hoW
unwisely was borne in upon him al.
most as soon as he turned from the
brilliant Quai de la Conference into
the darkling Rue Francois Premier;
he had won scarcely twenty yards
from the corner when, with rush, it's
motor purring like some great tiger
cat, powerful touring car swept up
from behind, drew abreast, but instead
of passing, checked speed until it's
pace was even with his own.
Struck by the strangeness Of this
maneuver, he looked quickly round, to
recognize the moonlike mask Of De
Morbihan grinning sardonically at him
over the steering wheel of the black
car.
A second hasty glance discovered
four men in the back With no time
to identify them, Lanyard questioned
their origin as little as their malign
intent = Belleville DULLES, beyond
doubt, drafted from Popinot's bat
talions, with orders to bring in the
Lone Wolf. dead or alive.
He had instant proof that his appre-
tensions were unexaggerated. OF a
sudden De Morbihan cut out his en-
gine's muller and turned loose his
electric horn. Between the deep
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in anticipation, escaped injury and eff
fected instant recovery.
The car Of the Apaches was upon
him in a pulse beat. With no least
warning of his intention, De Morbihan
had no time to employ brakes. Ian
yard saw it's dark shape fash past the
windows of his cab and heard shout
OF triumph. Then, with all his might,
he flung the heavy cushion across that
scant space, directly into the face OF
De Morbihan.
It flew straight and true.
In alarm, unable to comprehend the
nature of that great, dark, whirling
mass, De Morbihan attempted to lift
a warding elbow. He was too slow
the cushion caught him full force on
the side of the head, and before he
could recover or guess what he was
doing, he had twisted the wheel sharp
~ to the right.
The car, running at little less than
locomotive speed, shot like a projectile
from a lannon's mouth across that
strip of sidewalk, caught its right fore
wheel against a sapling, swung heavily
broadside to the drive, and turned
completely over as it shot down the
gentle slope to the lake.
The terrific crash of this catastrophe
was followed by a hideous chorus of
oaths, shrieks. cries and groans.
Promptly Lanyard started his motcr
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CHAPTER XVI.


Lanyard, weary with futile cruis-
ing, and being in the neighborhood of
the Madeleine, sought the cab-rank
there and moodily took his place at
it's end, silencing the motor and re-
lapsing into morose reflection so pro-
found that nothing about him claimed
place in his consciousness.
Thus it was that a brace of furtive
thugs were able to SLOUGH down the
rank, scrutinizing it covertly, but in
detail, pause opposite Lanyard's car
under pretext Of lighting cigarettes,
identify him to their satisfaction, and
take themselves hastily off-all with
out his knowledge.
And not until they had quite disap-
peared did the driver Of the cab ahead
dare warn him.
Lounging back carelessly, the latter
itively.
1T is, them" he inquired civilly,
when Lanyard at length glanced
around, annoyed by Inconsistencies
Of the others stare, that you are in
the bad books Of that good General
Popinot, my friend?"
"Eh-what's that you say?" Lam"
yard exclaimed, showing a counts
nance Of blank misrepresentation.
The man nodded wisely.
"He who is at odds with Popinot,"
he observed, "does well not to sleep
in public. You did not see those two
who passed just now and took your
number-rats of Montmartre, if |
know my Paris! You were dreaming,
my friend, and it is my impression
that only the presence of those two
flies over the way prevented your i'm
mediate assassination. If | were you,
l should go away very quickly, and
never stop till I had put stout walls
between myself and Popinot."
A chill of apprehension sent shiver
stealing down Lanyard's spine.
You're sure?"
"But of certainty, my old one!"
"A thousand thanks
Jumping down, the adventurer
cranked the motor, sprang back to his
seat, and was off like a hunted hare.
And when, more than an hour later,
he brought his painting car to pause
in quiet and empty back street of
the Auteuil quarter, after course that
had involved the better part OF Paris,
it was with the conviction that he mad
beyond question shaken off pursuit.
had there, in fact, been any attempt
made to follow him.
| He took advantage Of that secluded
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hands - tightly clenched that the

hands - tightly clenched that the
nails bit painfully into the flesh OF his
palms, while he looked back over the
abyss that yawned between the Lone
Wolf of tonight and the man who had,
within the week, knelt before that safe
in company with the woman he loved,
bent on making restitution Of his theft
that his soul might be saved through
her faith in him.
He closed hisSeyes to shut out the
accusing darkness, and knelt on un-
stirring, save as he shuddered now and
again with the sickness of a strong
man rent in the conflict of mans dual
nature.
Minutes passed without his knowE
edge in the crisis Of that struggle.
But at length he grew more calm;
his hands relaxed, the muscles Of his
brow smoothed out. he breathed more
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nAstsr u tie touring sar purred coa-
teRtedlY inst az hSs o,h-nr

2stor q ne touring ear purred coa-
tentedly just at his elbow.
there were police about, Lanyard
saw nothing of them-not that he
would have dreamed OF stopping or
even of checking speed for anything
less than an immovable barrier.
But as the minutes sped it became
apparent that there was to be no re-
neWed attempt upon his life for the
time being. The pursuers could afford
10 wait. And it came then to Lanyard
that he drove no more alone. Death
rode with him, his passenger.
Only when in full course for the
Porte Dauphine did he appreciate De
Morblhan's design. He was to be
rushed out into the midnight solitudes
OF the Bots de Boulogne and there run
down and slain out of hand.
Now and again glances over his
shoulder showed him no change in the
gap between his own and the car Of
the assassins. But his motor ran
sweet and true-humoring it, coaXing
it, he contrived a little longer to hold
his own.
Approaching the Porte Dauphine, he
became aware of two sergents de vile
standing in the middle of the way and
wildly waving their arms. He held on
toward them relentlessly-it was their
lives or his-and they leaped aside
barely il time to save themselves.
And as he slipped into the park like
a hunted shadow he fancied that he
heard the sound Of a pistol shot
whether directed at himself by the
Apaches, or fired by the police to lend
emphasis to their Indignation, he
couldn't say.
Bending low over the wheel, search
ing with anxious eyes the Swallowed
reaches of that winding drive, he
steered for a time with one hand, while
with the other he tore open his ulster
and brought his pistol into readiness.
Topping the brow of the incline, he
heard above the whine Of his motor
the sharp clatter of a horses hoofs
and surmised that at last the police
had given chase.
And then, on a slight down grade.
though he took it at perilous speed and
seemed vertically to ride the wind, the
pursuing machine, aided by its great
er weight, began to close in still more
rapidly. Momentarily the hoarse roar
ing of it's motor sounded more loud
and menacing. 1t became mere ques-
ton of seconds.
Then inspiration of despair came to
him, as wild as any that was ever
conceived by brain of man.
They approached point where a
dense plantation walled the road on
the left. To the right, a wide footwalk
of asphalt separated the drive from a
gentle declivity, sown with saplings,
running down to the lake.
Rising in his place, Lanyard slipped
from under him the heavy waterproof
cushion that fitted the seat.
Then, edging ever to the left Of the
middle of the road, abruptly he shut
off power and applied the brakes with
all his might.
From it's terrific speed the taxicab
came to 9 stop almost within its
length.
Lanyard was thrown forward
against the wheel, but having braced
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chested detonations Of the exhaust and
the mad, blatant yowling Of the warn
ing a hideous clamor echoed and re-
echoed in that quiet street-a racket
in which the report Of revolver-shot
was drowned out and went unnoticed.
Lanyard himself might have been I'M
aware of it had he not caught, out Of
the corner of his eye, a flash of fire
that spat out at him like flaming SER
pent's tongue, and heard the crash of
the window behind him falling inward,
shattered.
That the shot had no immediate sue
cessor was due almost wholly to Ian
yards instant and instructive action.
Even before the clash of broken
glass registered on his consciousness,
he threw in the high speed and shot
away like frightened greyhound.
So sudden was this move that it
caught De Morbihan himself unpre-
pared. In an instant Lanyard had ten
yards lead. In another he was spin
ming on two wheels round an acute
corner into the Rue Jean Goujon; and
in a third, as he shot through that
short block to the Avenue d'Antin, had
increased his lead to fifteen yards. But
he could never hope to better that
rather the contrary. The pursuer was
the more powerful car, and captained,
to boot, by one reputed to be the most
daring and skillful motorist in France
AS he swung from the Avenue dan
tin into the Rond Point des Champs
Elysees, the nose of the pursuing car
inched up, snoring, on his right, ef-
fectually preventing any attempt to
strike off toward the east, to the boule-
wards and the center of the city's night
life. He had no choice but to fly west
ward.
He cut an arc round the sexpartite
park of the Rond Point that lost no
inch of advantage, and Strengthened
out up the Avenues des Champs-Ely-
sees for the Place de IEtoile, shooting
madly in and out through the tide OF
more leisurely traffic. And ever the
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slowly and more deeply, his set lips
parted and through them a profound
sigh escaped, whispering through the
stiffness.
A great WEAKNESS was upon him as
he rose slowly and heavily from the
floor and stood erect, no longer the
slave of self, but its master, free at
last and for all time from that ancient
evil which SO long had held his soul in
bondage.
And then, in that moment of victory,
through the deep hush reigning in that
house, he heard the sound Of an incau-
tious football on the parquetry of the
hallway.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
A Meeting by the Safe.

/
1t was a sound so slight, so very
small and still, that only a supersubtle
sense of hearing could have distin-
| guished it from the confused multiplfc-
| ity of almost inaudible, interviewer
sounds, that go to make the slumber-
Gus quiet by night of that essentially
animate organism, the human habita-
| ton.
| Lanyard, whose training had taught
| him how to listen, had early learned
that the nocturnal hush Of one Louise
is to be differentiated from that Of an
| other as readily as the respiration of
two sIeepers may be Disseminated. He
knew that every house had it's singu'
lar cadence, its own gentle movement
of muted but harmonious sounds
wherein the introduction Of alien
sounds produced instant discord.
Now, in the muted voice of this vast
mansion, he had detected a little fiut-
ter Of discordance, sounding a note OF
stealth-such note as no move OF his
own since entering had evoked.
And while Lanyard stood at alert at
tention the sound was repeated from
point less distant This new intruder
was moving through the salons to the
library.
In two swift strides Lanyard left the
shelter of the screen and enscOnced
himself in the recess Of one Of the tan
windows, behind it's heavy velvet hang
ings.
That movement could have been
timed no more precisely had It been
rehearsed. He was barely in hiding
when a shape Of shadow slipped into
the library, paused beside the massive
desk and raked the room with pow
erful fash-lamp.
It's initial glare struck full and
daZzlingly into Lanyard's eyes as he
peered through narrow opening in
the portiere.
When at length his vision cleared
the other was kneeling in turn before
the safe-or, rather, rising from q
kneeling position there, for more light
was needed, and this one, lacking the
patience of his studious caution,
turned back to the desk, seized the
electric reading lamp and transferred
it to the floor between the safe and the
screen.
But even before she had put down
the lamp Lanyard had recognized tho
woman; before the swift food Of lighr
followed the dull click Of the switch
he knew that she was Lucy Shannon
He felt dazed, half-stLnned, suffocat-
ed-much rs he had felt with Greggs
fingers tightening on his windpipe that
week-old night at Troyon's.
For an instant he experienced real
difficulty about breathing and was
conscious Of q siclzish throbbing IN hiR
temples, while the pounding IN his
bosom was as the tolling Of & great
bell. He staI ed, swaying lib@ man
who has been struck heavy blow.
In one breath be swore 1t could naA
and knew It must, be she.
FTO BE CONTLNUN1s
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-07-01
FILE MORE SUITS

City Attorney John NJ. Calhoun yes
torday filed thirteen more suits for the
collection OF back taxes. The suits filed
and the amount in each case we're as
follows:
Henry Myers and Peoples Building
Association. S12.43.
George Mcdonald and Peoples Build
ing Association, 1927.
Ed overley and Limestone Building
Association $14.00.
William Perkins and Limestone
Building Association, 1852.
Gilbert Tolle and Mason County
Building and Loan Association, s39. AZ.
Frank Purdon and Peoples Building
Association. S10.17.
Drucilla Whaley and Peoples Build
ing Association, $6.16.
LYDIA Walker and Peoples Building
Association, $10.77.
Fanny Wilson and Limestone Build
ing Association, $22.56
James White and Limestone Build
ing Association, 1892.
Rosa Williams and Mason County
Building and Loan Association, $3.50.
James Williams and Peoples Build
ing Association. $500.
Boone Webster, $1419.
The city will get a great deal OF
money from these back taxes, some
Of which have laid over for six years.