The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-05-01

Can you arrange TO spend the week
telephone.
up?" 1 asked siriiy. adding. lis AZ a
large house party you are getting
l confess that had forgotten II.
but now I recalled that for several
days 1 had been reading little para
graphs about robberies on the big
Sound.
Well" he hurried on. that's the r.s-
son Why l have been taken up by socie-
Y. as you 50 elegantly phrase IL. Prom
the secret hiding places OF the boudoirs
and cafes OF fashionable women at
blunwood thousands OF dollars worth
teriously vanished The whole colony
out there IL terrorized. They don't know
VINO me rooeer Is. or how ne operates.
skill and success seem almost uncannv
Mr.. Nerpianck has put one OF his cars
Az 1a my my disposal and I'm up here at the
that may be useful. III pick YOU up
anywhere between this and the Bridge
how about columbus Circle. in half
Good, agreed.
Why. remarked Kennedy a. We
sped over the picturesque roads Of
the north shore OF Long Island This
fellow. or fellows. seems TO have taken
me measure OF all the wealthy mem
Ihere-the Mcstport Yacht Club. the
e,Lunw0od Country Club. the North
shore Hunt. and all OF them. It's pos
ltlNe scandal. the ease with which he
seems To come and 80 without detsc-
ton. striking now here. now there often
az places that ~ seems physically i'm
possible to gct at and yet always with
the same diabolical skin and success
One night b" will take some haubles
oy lot something apparently Of no value
AZ All. a piece OF hric-a-brac a bundle
or letters. anything"
q, seems purposcless. insane. doesn't
Not when he always takes some
money - rs,,r,l more valuable than
Stuyvcsant Ncrplauck had tetenborad
tather hurrledly To Craig earlier in the
only In the brictest way OF the .Nt"nf
or the Expectations. and hirtInE that
more lhHn Jcwelry micht be at stake
II was pleasant ride. hut We fntsnea
u in silence. Ncrplanch WAS as / re
.aIled a large mastcrful man. one 81
those who demanded and liked large
things-such as the estate ~ sovcrsi
hundred acres which We at last emit
As We pulled IN under the broad
stone porterocherc. NoTnlanck who had
been expecting Us. led the way into his
VIZ, P5rbar., great room. literally crowded
had collected on his travels
on VIII recall began Nerplanck.
wasting no time over preliminaries. but
plunging directly into the subject that
mo prominent robberics Of late have
been at Seacoast resorts espocfafv ON
the shores Of Long Island sound, with
IN, say. a hundred miles or New NorS
mere mas be'n great deal Of talk
that have conveyed mysterious parties
swiftly and silently across country
Perhaps the Iubbcrios last summer
az NarreganSett. Newport. and dozen
other New England places were p.rpet-
Ia,"d ~ the sam" craftsman. be
mat there plies today on the wide watt
ers OF the Sound slim. swift motor
boat which wears the air or A pleasure
few The Jolly Roger. She may at this
moment De- anchored on some exclusive
OF the Ciub-who knows
He paused as 90 his deductions settled
ed IN IN" same vein. II the door had
not opened. lady in cob-Wcbbv
goT1n, entered The room She was OF
with skill that her sisters Of less
leisure always envy.
Mrs. Nerplauck." her husband intro.
duced Professor Kennedy md MS as
sociate. Mr.. Jdmcson-those detectives
We have heard about. We were discuss
"oh. yes" she said smiling. my
husband mas been thinking OF forming
himself INTO givilance. committee.
The local authorities are all at sea"
! thought there was a trace Of some
thing yelled in the remark and fancicd.
not only then but later. that there was
an air o. cougfraInt between the courI.
You have not been robbed yot.seIf.''
querief Craig tentativclN
Indeed we have" exclaimed Yer
planck quickly rho other night
was awakened lv "a, noica ~ some one
down here in this very library { fired
shot wild. and shouted. rut before
could get down here tIo intruder had
fed through window. and half rolling
down the terrace Mrs. Esrulanrk was
awakened by the rumrus and both of us
heard "a peculiar whIrrlng noise
ibid tho intruder E"f anything
That's tho lucky part. lie had Ius'
opened this safe apparently and begun
% ransack d. This is my private safe"
1T f. not a very modern safe. is itg''
General 4 = Grant aud tbe r,roorsr,,