Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-03-16

SSeAAS
"All right, all right!'' doomed Monk
in deep voice.
The buzzer sounded; Monk went in.
And right behind him was Tom. Monk,
1t was plain, supposed that he was at
tached to the Office. Fisher, glancing
at Tom, paid no more attention to him.
AS Tom had hoped, he supposed that
Monk had brought some one with
him.
Tom realized in a moment that luck
had favored him to an almost intredi-
BILE degree, for Monk, without pream-
BILE, launched into report OF the most
confidential sort.
WELL it's all right, boss!" he an
flounced. He spoke in what he evi-
IDENTIFY believed to be a low, carefully
modulated voice, but every word was
audible to Tom. III brought in the
cargo all right, all right. And none of
them smart Alexis of customs boys
was q bit anxious to search the ship
not with the lions and tigers and. crit
tiers of that sort the hold was full Of
So the opium's all ashore and in Cru
ems place."
Tom had heard all that he needed to
know. Slowly and so as not to attract
suspicion to himself he went out the
door,
Fisher, meanwhile, had frowned
slightly as he saw Tom go.
Look here, Monk" he said, "thls
sort of thing ought to be kept pretty
much to ourselves. The next time you
have confidential report to make
don't bring any one with you.''
"What!' rOared Monk. 81 didn't"
"Then who was that fellow who
came in with your
Him? He works for you, don't he?
He just followed me in, and when you
didn't say nothing supposed he was
all right"
They stared at one another mo
ment. And then Fisher. with sud.
den suspicion. reached into his desk
for batch of photographs, which he
studied He cried out sharply and
then handed Monk picture of Tom
Larnigan.
That's him" said Monk.
Yes. and he's Tom Larnigan,' said
Fisher, "a government special prose
cutor OF agent--a spy set upon the syn.
dictate to destroy it! A fine trick we've
let him play on u.s."
The -" said Monk, with a great
deep sea oath. .'I'll get him or my
names not Monk!''
You'd better try!" said Fisher satir-
ically ''If you don't he'll get us-l
can promise you that! I'll go to work
too Go along now and warn Gruen to
be careful. That wild animal store
of his has been too useful to us for us
to let the government get on to it's
real character"
Fisher, when Monk had gone, tele.
phoned at once to Stanford Stone. tell
ing him what had happened
"All right" said Stone after mo
ment. II suppose shall have to pull
us out Of the hole that you and Monk
in your stupidity have dug for us.
Fine business!''
Stone set the wheels of his organiza.
ton turning at once. He sent for
Dunn, the man who served him in his
most critical affairs and over whom
he held as constant threat his knowl-
edge of certain criminal episode of
the past.
''As matter of fact" said Stone
i'm not sorry this has happened
Fishers fool, but his folly has turned
out well this time Larnigan will go
to Gruen's. You can see to 1t that
when he does so he walks into a
trap"
Meanwhile. however, there had been
change in Toms plans. He had
gone Immediately to the office of the
Independent. the newspaper which
was backing Bruce Larnigan's fight
with Jack Stevens as its editor There
be had found Bruce and also tele.
gram from Washington ordering him
to go at once to Rio de Janeiro, where.
1t was said. the consul would be able
to give him instructions concerning a
special mission connected with the OPP
erations of the graft syndicate.
you'll have to go" Bruce said
But I'm nearly well now I'm well
enough. at any rate, to take hold of
this affair. So there need be no change
in our plans
And another factor was about to be
introduced into the case. Dorothy
Maxwell and her chum. Kitty Rock
ford We're by this time. thanks to
their more or less accidental success
in the past in helping the Larnigans.
convinced of their own powers as de-
tectiyes. Dorothy had been engaged
to Bruce. Stanford Stone was in love
with her, and owing to his hold upon
her father and his threat if she did
not yield to him to ruin him Dorothy
was afraid to come out openly against
Stone. In secret. however. she was
his enemy.
The two girls while out walking spied
Dunn and. remem bering him from rre