Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03
Hut your salary Will lie greater, son-dny.r
said Beutrlce.

from his mesnacing contemplation Of me and
pointed 10 Jean. Quick Let's get through
with it,"
He picked up n heavy weight which 7 bad
not noticed before. but which must have been
part OF his devilish stage properties This
he fastened to Jeans feet by heavy rope
their arms and Madame Laurette opened the
heavy shutter which barred the window
II seems unbelevabe-but it happened
me child could not protest. could not SCI
her doom. could not fight against it-auI
yet with the implacability OF Fate it was
approaching.
leaDed across the room to the table
where lay that heavy gun and caueh, it in
my hands Then raised it and took STEADY
aim.
did not know what meant to do. for
even If ! shot fellow human being the
odds against us were so heavy that ! could
accomplish almost nothing. But / meant to
shoot.
Before could pull the trigger tho man
who had been holding Billy eaped across
the room and knocked the gun from my
And then felt that the end OF every
tn MAD come There was nothing more 20
he done. Little Jean must de-ani what
Biiy.s fate would be or what mine. l did
not dare TO guess
ming within me protested that help must
come: It simply was not possible that Peter
tardly purpose. The gun which had been
my r last hope lay on the honr a, my feet
panorama I could see Peter Raven aud an
other man holding jean with little con
Germ as III theS haN vale or
through into space. My eyes turned with the
desperation OF all hunted things to Billy
On the boys face there was q look Of other
worlds. ! have never seen any human be-
forgetfulness.
An in the same ugly second | heard
received Jeans body.
Ten hours before City Editor Barnes had
a In Cd inc
porter 1t was note scrawied in bury
pencil strokes.
Peter Raven escaped from Sing Sing GET
after it,"
And Jimmy proceeded a, once to get
He started on the trail OF Peter Raven by
way OF the Detective Bureau, where his
same assignment as .Iir,my's, but from
different source-no less person than the
Warden Of Sing Sing; They liked Jimmy
over ut the Detective Bureau, and the Chief
was glad enough To include the young re-
porter in the circle of detectives to whom
ne was giving instructions.
Jimmy studied Peter Ravens face curl
ousiy-Lit was degenerate type. that OF
must he a menace to himself and any com,
munlty Of which he is part.
,ora ae Wv VIII t come t" New York Get him be-
raked up all the evidence against him and
the Judge sent him up the river. Raven said
around after Morton.
'7'''h drounu lnc touil ana follow him.
Keep near his office. 100. 1t might be
wise for one OF you to watch his house from
distance. But the main thing is to get
Raven-and get him-pronto."
Jimmy attached himself to the detective
who was going out 10 Mortons house. That.
he thought, would give him the most inter-
esting possibility OF finding real human
interest story in connection with Peter
Raven.
That decision OF Jimmy's led him far aficld
ON a long and devious chase. Rut in the
end 1t had strange results.
When Jimmy and the detective arrived at
the Morton residence they noticed heavily
yelled woman in deep mourning leaving the
house.
They attached no particular significance
to the woman'S visit She out with
an accustomed air in which there was moth
ing furtive-nothing hidden. They both felt
that she was probably visitor-some friend
of Mrs. Morton's.
"Nothin' doin here said the detective.
Guess we'd fettcr stroll down to Grand
Central and watch a few trains. Fat old
ladies with market baskets. or hayseeds with
heavy whiskers or extra black coons--that's
lay. Peter Raven viii in dis
guised."
The detective. as later events proved. was
not astute enough to guess how Peter Raven
would come into New York.
There were suspicious looking indi-
viduals, and at the end of hours walt ne
and Jimmy roamed away rather dejectedly.
There didn't seem much to keep them there
nor did there seem much to follow up in
any other direction.
AS they passed the baggage room one OF
the attendants came out, sharing the burden
OF heavy trunk with a taxi driver. Jimmy
watched them Idly. They approached n tail
cab. and mechanically Jtmmy's mind made
note of the number. Then his eye focused
on heavily yelled woman In deep m burning