The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

ten years through that sand. looking
for his precious TREASURED Now It's
my chance; and want that paper.
And unless you want your secretary
to come home a rather unpleasant
thing to look at, you're going to have
that map in my hands in half an hour.
So tell me quick. what your answer Is.
Do get it?''
For one moment the girl sat silent,
breathing quick through parted lips.
Yes, III bring g." she at last said
over the wire. Then she sat motion
less, with her hands gripping the desk
edge for several minutes. When she
moved it was with the quickness of a
sudden and elear-cut decision.
Give me police headquarters" she
called out as she caught up the re-
ceiver. The next minute she was ex-
planning to the desk official at Center
street the news of Legar's latest
threat and the need of forestalling it.
Then, after another interval OF studi-
Gus thought, she crossed to the vault
and began a hurried search for tho
document which Legar had described
as being stored away there.
She found it at last, in package Of
faded deeds and papers to do with
Windward island, and while one
glance at It persuaded her that it was
indeed a chart of the island, the fact
that 1t represented only one-half of
this island tended to convince her that
Legar had spoken the truth.
But she had no time to deliberate
over that discovery, for her next
move, she felt should be to call the
servants and warn them against any
midnight intrusions.
She crossed to the rosewood desk to
carry out this plan, and her finger
was even extended to press the bell
button when a sudden soft move
! ment at her shoulder caused her to
swing sharply about.
Confronting her. with slightly tri
umphant smile on his deep-scarred
face, stood Legar himself.
81 am intruding, l know" he began
in his suavely acidulated tones, but
there was a possibility, you see, oi
your friends in uniform interruptine
our meeting beside the Soldiers mon
umenti"
The girls fingers, as she edged
away along the desk, closed determin
edly on the scrap of MANILA paper
still held in her hand. The vault door
she saw, was also still open. But tha
was not the thought troubling her
The vague fear at the back OF he
mind was whether or not she was to'
late to save Dave Manley from th'
danger threatening him. And sh
edged still farther away.
Her movement was arrested by tn
ringing of the telephone bell close be
side her.
Answer that phone!" he suddenl
commanded.
The next moment a great loa
seemed to lift suddenly from he
, heart, and renewed wave of audacit
Il swept through her body, for the yoic
A. that spoke to her over the wire wa
Il the triumphant voice of Manley hin
self. Manley declaring that he wa
- free and that he would hurry back
fast as wheels could carry him.
}" "Who spoke them" cried Legar, hi
II face clouded by a move which appa
4 emily was an unexpected one from hi
"a standpoint. But the wine OF hope no
e. singing through the girls veins mad
her more crafty, more ready to FAC
IL Legar with his own weapons. lnstea
of answering him her hand moved ol
,g to the bell button, for with the rim
ing of that bell, she felt, would surel
I come help. And once the slip OF m
10 nilla was back in the vault, and IN
lr door locked, she now had little to fes
re from Legar. So when she fell bac
ut as he sprang forward to strike n
NJ hand from the bell, she saw that HI
ID retreat lay in the direction OF IL
,u vault door.
ar Her pursuer, however, was in
,u mood for equivocation. He SCENE
suddenly to foresee her intention. Fl
e. without warning he leaped toward
her, as an animal leaps for its pre-
ou And with one sweep of his maine
mt arm the iron hook at its end WI
is shared deep in the folds OF her clot
II ing.
rt, Give me that map" he said, in
on voice husky with blind and unreaso
ing rage.
?" Margory Golden, however, had
or intention of giving him the map
question. She fought against hi
he with all the strength at her comman
Id knowing that any nom ent now wco
he bring the needed help.
us But Legar, With his ssnd on h
III throat, hurl-a her hack against q
OF heavy vault door. shook her ss a Il
no rier snakes lat. snatched the yenC
ior shsst from her hngers dung her sts