East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-11-20

whoIe apartnent. Running out to
investigate. they found Parrish lying
at fun length on the hallway floor. As
Harold drew near the detective slowly
raised himself to his knees, clntehing
agonizingfy at mis- throat.
IL guess must have keeled
over he evaded, bTokenly, in answer
TO Stanley's excited questions. +
oh, there you are, Miss Montrose.
Ealf an noun later, ieaving Felix to
notify the doctor Of Parrish's pres
ence, Harold and Florence went to
the Photographic DARK room the
girl had equipped on the second door
Of the Montrose nome.
At the same moment, Pierre La
Rue, creeping along the hallway.
halted just outside the dark room
door, and listened, in evident worry.
leaving the door he ran noiselessly
toward the now empty laboratory, re-
turning a minute later carrying an
odd-shaped tank to which was at
tached tube
Holding the end o. the tube to the
keyhole OF the unventilated dark
ROOM" La Rue turned on the tap.
The dark room" straightway began
to fiil with a dizzying vapor. But m
his haste Pierre turned the lever too,
suddenly in order to increase the.
pressure. As a result the tank ex-
ploded with force that tore he.
dark room" door from its hinsea
Stanley staggered out in the hall,
and, at a glance. recognized La
Rue from his Photographic likeness.
With shout he sprang at the man,
La Rue, deity wriggling out OF reach
OF Harold's descending arm. boltea
across the han and upstairs. Harold
followed.
Up, up ran La Rue; the two young
men at his heels. He spranE al laEt
up the scuttle ladder, Kicking Il away
nom under him, and gained TIA
roof Harold, picking up the fallen
ladder and climbing n turn 10 the
roof, was in time to see Ia Rue
crouch for an instant on the parapet
edge, then launch himself into the
air.
Across a ten-toot space La Rue
sprang; till his outfung arms seized
the boughs of a tail tree that grow
beside the house He worked his way
swiftly to the trunk and, with the
speed Of a cat, slid down 10 the
ground far below.
As tierre's feet touched the earth
Stanley bent over the parapet and
drawing his revolver, fired at the
heeing figure. La Rue's left arm
was suddenly jerked upward by a
twitch Of the nerves.
Felix alone Of the household. took
no part in the man-hunt. In the de-
serted laboratory he stood, his left
sleeve rolled up; bathing a wound
in his forearm.
AT last the Searchers realjzed that
Ihey were on a fools errand. They
gathered in the great lower hallway.
painting ffom their fru.tless efforts,
And there Felix, descending the stair.
way, found them.
Il have been searching the roof
dr, he said in reply TO a question
rom the unhappy doctor. NO traSs
4 him up there
. There is trace Of him hora
hough, said Florence, IN sudden tri-
lmph, as she recalled that she stili
'arried the precious photographlc
'late- Look. dadt"
She handed Il 20 Dr.. Montrose. He
eld the negative to the light, study.
ng II long and earnestly. his face
ray with suffering Then Parrish
iretched out his hand for II.
It's our best clew. 90 far SAID
larold- TIE photograph OF the
Crimson S.ain" murderer. And no
ne viii Delieve how We got H.
..1ke off with cry OF anger
arrish, clumsily handling the fragile
ate, had let IL slip from between hia
lGers. II fell TO tho polished hoor
ld smashed into a dozen pieces
Lord. but I'm sorryl" suffered
ar'sh, in noisy gontrition, Tn "a
itter-hnBered b0nehsadi That's
hat 1 ami I'm"
Harold Stanley was not Listening
hsd caught a queer look In 10.
= crafty bye az the plate fon.
florence. watching her lover, saw
light ot sudden knowledge and un
Istanding fash across his faea
lis was the expression OF q man
% has an az once triumphantly
we'd a batiling problem.
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