The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

plainly Y1SiDle. Yet GOluen soChV
tary had waited until the girl had
closed and locked the vault door. Then
he had leaped for the figure behind
the drapery.
But that intruder behind the drapery |
had apparently not been altogether
unconscious of the danger confronting
him. He had at the same moment
side-stepped nimbly through the quick |
ly opened door, throwing an approach |
ing and suddenly hysterical housemaid |
aside as he had swept past her. The |
redoubtable Wilson, who had also at |
tempted to block his exit, had even
more promptly gone down. knocked
fat by one fierce blow. 1t had been
then, and then only, that Manley dis
covered the identity of the intruder.
He had caught sight OF the SCARED
face, which even an ample beard failed
to screen. He had seen the right
arm of wood which ended In its SIN
lister iron hook, and all doubt as to his
enemy had vanished.
But this discovery had In no way
interfered with Manley's pursuit OF
that audacious intruder.
1t had not been a pretty fight, that
and-to-hand contest between the slim
bodied youth and. the scar-faced ex'
ploiter of evil, but 1t had been a des-
perate one. AS Manley, pressing stub
bornly on, had struggled to close In
on his opponent, Legar had discreetly
and nimbly backed away until he
found the double house door Itself
barring his farther retreat. There
upon he had promptly shattered the
plate-glass backing the iron grill work
on the hinges, and had actually swung
one of these doors open before Manley
could gather himself together and
spring bodily on his escaping enemy.
They had gone down the broad steps
together, locked arm in arm, fighting
and clawing as ferociously as midnight
cats in a tenement court. And Man
ley, with one hand on Legar's leathery
throat, would surely have won, had
not a closed car glided up to the curb
; along which they were writhing and
painting and rolling From that car a
yellow-faced Italian known as Scoop
had taken a prompt and active part in
/ the encounter. He had withheld
fnalities, however, until Manley was
uppermost. Then, with quickly
t drawn billy" he had blackjacked that
, youth into utter indifference as to
: Legar and mysteriously waiting limou
sine and all the rest Of the world.
l Before Manley's senses had come
. back to him he and the greenfeath
: cred parrot had been tossed bodily
e into the closed car, and. three minutes
q before the arrival of the police fol
4 whom the white-faced girl in the
8 library had so frantically telephoned
r that mysterious limousine had speedet
e off into the night, carrying not only
Legar but the youth who had been 81
J. presumptious as to attempt to inter
}, fere with Legar's exploits.
r But Manley did not altogether give
It up. His heart still had the resilienc'
II of youth. He still believed in hi
star.
o What fretted Manley most, however
d was his lack of freedom. Rolling
g little over on his side, he studied min
d utely the rough brick floor on whicl
q he lay. After this inspection n
y wormed his way carefully from side Z
d side, lying face down and trying eac
y row of exposed bricks with his sho
u toe, in the hope of finding one OF ther
Is loose.
ut He had elaborately tested eleve
n rows before he found any reason 10
III hope in this direction. A chill of e.
nt citement ran through his tired bodl
lg in fact, as he discovered one brio
le which seemed less securely embedde
in cement than were its fellows. II
ne worked at it patiently, laboriousl.
e. kicking away small particles of pla
ly ter, humping it with his boot hee
ad prying at it with his sole until
he rocked free in it's row. Then cam
is the even sterner task of shifting
w. from its place. This he did by turnin
nd about and lying close to 1t, on his sid
Or. so that the fingers of his tightly II
le, prisoned hand might come in conta
as with its edges. Time after time it fe
N, back, but in the end he triumphed.
III. Yet it was not this unearthed brio
he which interested him. His attentic
ey was directed towards the rough-edg'
ed parallelogram where that brick hs
er- originally rested, for the corners
this opening, he soon realized, pr
I'm vided him with a saw edge which
re time might serve to abrade and C
'or through the stoutest of cotton rop
lst But the consolation of this hope d
not stay with him long. For even
to he started to work, his moyemen
US were interrupted by the sound OF
key in the heavy iron lcck on the do
.le- that shut him In. He rolled ov
quickly, twisting about SO the. his
tut parently inert body covered both &
lad loosened brick and the spot fro
which it had been taken. He &C
rst tinued to lie there as though in sle
of exhaustion, for his veiled eyes h
ian already caught sight CT the two heaN
md featured fuffians advancing into {
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