Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1916-11-11

| ourselves And TO this the chief Of de-.
tectives perforce agreed.
| At o'clock next morning Grant and
! Cadogan. hidden in a doorway on Msdi-
son Avenue, watched first striking-look.
/ Ing young woman with small hand bag.
/ then Baron Won Lichtfeld. enter an apart
ment house across the way. They were
( hardly out of sight when the watchers
i were after them.
you stay down in the street and tell
the cops TO keep out OF tho way" whs-
pered Grant his wiry, athletic frame
tingling in anticipation Of the coming fun
| And lend me a gun" With an automatic
| pistol IN hts hip pocket he started silently
up the stairs, pausing to call down guard
eddy: "ItA be the empty apartment. II
you don't hear from me in fifteen minutes
come after me-"
Grant located the empty apartment
without trouble. and soon discovered that
there was something going on inside. Aft
er little accommodating he climbed out
on a ledge outside the building, edged his
way to the next window. and suddenly
crashed into the empty apartment, sash
and all. shouting. Throw up your
handsw
BY the light of shaded electric torch
ne saw the Baron and the striking looking
girl-Mamia the Rose-start erect from
an open trunk over which they had been
bled pile Of jewels, chains. watches. silver
and other loot in the trunk then, as ha
shifted his position to keep the Baron COW
cred. a chair. swung In Mames capable
hands, crashed down on his arm and the
automatic went flying.
For the next few minutes everything
WAS a jumble-a frantic Juggling at a jam
med door, race upstairs to the roof aft
or swift but furious fight with the
Baron, and then-bafllement. The two
crooks had crossed to the next roof by
means of a board and had pulled the
board after them! Already the Baron had
dropped to the fre-escape and the girl
was preparing to follow him. They would
get away!
Grant stared In dismay at the yawning
chasm at hts feet It was seven or eight
stories down. and at least twenty feet
across. Twenty feet Is not SO much on "A
level and with sandpit to land in. but
with death beneath you But the reporter
took a running start and Jumped.
He landed In a heap on the other roof.
and lay there for moment half stunned
from the shock. But after a moment he
scrambled to his feet and looked around,
dazed. He could have sworn he heard
Mamie scream as he leaped, but she was
nowhere In sight.
Grant ran to the edge OF the roof and
looked down, and there was the Baron
already well on his way down the fire.
escape But there was also a scaffoding
with a swinging platform where some
painters had been a work. BY the light
from the street lamps and the moon the
reporter made out a trailing rope below
that promised q chance TO head of the
Baron. Without hesitation no let himself
over the edge and started aiding down
the rope.
Hey, you hell-cat, stop 81" yelled
Cadogan's voice suddenly from tho roof
from which he had Just Jumped, and
Grant looked up-and blanched. For Ma
mie the Rose was hacking furiously at the
rope which supported hin-already 1t was
givingl Cadogan's pistol rang out, but the
girl made final slash with the knife she
held and the rope parted with crack.
Grant had had just time to realize hts
danger and to plan way to meet II At
the instant that the rope gave he twisted
It around his arm and hung on for dear
life, bracing himself against the shsef
that was coming.
HIS body hit the lowest point OF the ara
made By the other rope OF the platform.
and his arms were nearly wrenched from
his shoulders. But he managed to hang
on Eorashow, and even TO estimate about
thu poink where his pendulum-like swing
would take him. II was. right to the fre-
escape platform where the Baron was.
a moment later Grant finished his giant
swing and let go-to drop almost on top
of the petriAed Baron, who was too
startled 70 put up much OF a fight. And
when the two policemen arrived with n
crowd OF excited tenants he went quits
neekly 10 his fate.
Put. Grant" puzzled Mansaeld, the
city editor, "how did you dope cut this
uessage2 Meet ne o'clock al 40 Madt-
son AFe-ve' can't see Il"
The words n the nessag. rhyme with
ire numerals" explained Grant serenslY.
" Firing is thirteen, the thirteenth letter
q tire alphabet. which Is n: alive Is FIVE.
CT e hive me same, ., ard plenty TWEEN
-. witch g r. Doat you know the cid
rurse-.-rlyz-e, 'O1e. tHo buckle NY
sE5e three. for zcI- the dor? I. was
q cirea" Az5 - rez5ed ITS asns tsa-
derry.