The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-09-21
Continued from Yesterday

jim puSnel MIN uD"n On the cOucn
and swiftly searched his pockets. find
| ing first revolver. In another pocket
| was a large handkerchief. Jim stuffed
this cloth quickly into Bole's mouth,
and, securing ii there, he loosed the
| moose about the mans neck BOle's
| breath returned in loud, rasping
SHORES. There was no way to stop
the snoring but to remove the gag.
| Jim dared not do that. He worked
swiftly, binding Bole as he had been
bound and. III addition. Sc 'uring him
| to the couch. The man was conscious
again, though weak and breathing
| hard Jim delayed over him no longer
He switched out the light. stepped to
the window. pulled back the shade
| and peered out
4 man suddenly moved out into the
| moonlight as jim was putting his
| hand to the window-a young. active
man, alert and watchful. Some noise
in the alley seemed TO have attracted
his attention. for he stepped quickly
| to the gate and before opening it drew
a revolver and held it ready. Another
| man appeared from the other side of
| the house and joined the first To
gether they Investigated the alley,
| closed the gate and withdrew to the
seclusion of the shadow.
Jim moved away from the window.
| Opportunity to escape through the
house could not be worse than the
risk of attempting fight through that
window He felt his way to the door
Without again turning on the light.
He stood and listened there, opened
the door a crack and peered into a
| handsomely decorated, dimly lighted
hallway with polished hardwood floor
and with a rich oriental rug down the
middle.
Enough light glowed in from the
hall to show Jim that he was in the
dining room-a large room with
| heavy, fashionable furniture. The rug
/ upon which he stepped was soft and
thick. There was another door at the
other end, and as Jim crept cautious
ly toward this he heard voices They
/ were the voices of women as well as
men, speaking in quiet. guarded tones.
| In the air was the odor of cigarettes
and cigar smoke.
A girls voice suddenly rose in
| reckless, excited exclamation which
| Jim could not make out, but at which
a man laughed. Another with a deep,
heavy voice-it was not the voice of
the sir who had visited the rear
room-rebuked the girl, and there was
| silence Jim gained the front Of the
| dining room. Velvet hangings half
covered the doorway, which opened
into a front hall. Directly across this
| hall was another room, lighted and
evidently much larger than the dining
room-a salon with delicate paper and
| pretty gilded chandeliers and wall
| lights, with graceful table and chairs
and with a grand piano of CORE
spending style. Brocaded curtains
were drawn close over the windows
/ and at the larger table near the center
of the room and also at a smaller
table at the side men and women were
i at work
There was heap of papers upon
one end of the larger table and a tall
man. who Stood with his back to the
door sorted over this pile, put some
sheets aside and passed others along
the table, giving verbal direction
with each. In some cases the direc
| ton was brief-only a word or two
in other instances it was lCnge". and
i twice while jim watched the tall man
himself bent and wrote upon the pa
pers which he took from the pile
/ jim CORD see us the sheets were
held up that they already bore writ
ing. There was 10 possible question
of the nature Of the work going on
Under the direction of the tall man at
the large table the others were pre-
pairing letters of the sort found on
Ingouf's body. The papers in the pile
which the tan man was sorting were
; undoubtedly just the ordinary form
/ letters of life insurance solicitation,
and the great majority of them would
remain no more than that They
would be addressed to persons who
had no connection with the plots of
i the regents agents. and they would
be offered life insurance in the regu-
lar manner if they applied for it at
: Marlatt's office The letters which the
tall man passed down the table I'M
questionably looked the same as the
others, but they were addressed to
spies, and at the tall mans direction
) orders were being written ia invisible
fluid between the typewriter lines
orders which the spies would develop
by some chemical.
Jim crouched and crept closer, for
getting his impulse merely to attempt
escape If he could cause the capture
Of those in the rooms across the hal
he would have the chief of the re
gents spies there. together with the
lists Of the agents and designation OF
= the work leach was ordered to do. The
e letters, between the lines of which the
secret instructions now were being
written, evidently had been at Mar
latt's Office when he had learned after
midnight of developments which made
it imperative for him to issue new
a orders, so Marlatt had gone to hi:
office and directed another TO NEE
r him there. When jim had surprised
: them they had overpowered him an(
| brought him unconscious to this house
where they had impressed the famil!
| m tho work .oUTlirad