The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-02-25

1uZZer when neS ready Tor you Io
.ome in"
"All right, all rightw doomed Monk
deep voice.
The buzzer sounded Monk went in.
And right behind him was Tom. Monk,
4 was plain, supposed that he was at
rched TO the office Fisher, glancing
Il Tom, paid no more attention TO him.
As Tom had hoped, he supposed that
donk had brought some one with
vim.
Tom realized in n moment that luck
>ad favored him to nm almost incredi'
lie degree. for Monk, without pream-
Ne. launched into report OF the most
confidential sort.
"Well it's all right, bossw he an
q0unced He spoke in what he evi-
'ently believed TO be low, carefully
nodulated voice, but every word was
audible to Tom. 81 brought In the
argo all right, all right. And none Of
hem smart Alecks OF customs boys
Vas bit anxious TO sea 'ch the ship
lot with the lions and tigers and crit
ers Of that sort the hold was full OF.
10. 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 a confidential report to make
don't bring any one with you"
what" roared Monk. 81 didn'tw
"Then who was that fellow who
came in with you"
Him? He works for you, don't he?
! He Just followed me I'm, and when you
didn't say nothing | supposed he was
all rightr
They stared at one another a mo-
ment And then Fisher, with sud
den suspicion, reached into his desk
for n batch Of photographs, which he
studied. He cried out sharply and
then handed Monk picture OF Tom
Larnigan.
"That's hlmr' said Monk.
"Yes, and he's Tom Larnigan," said
! Fisher, "a government special prose
cutor or agent-a spy set upon the syn
dicate to destroy it! A fine trick we've
! let him play on us"
"The -" said Monk, with q grea'
deep sea oath. "1'll get him or my
names not Monkw
you'd better try!" said Fisher satir-
ically. "If you don't he'll get us-I
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 its
real character"
Fisher, when Monk had gone, tele.
phoned at once to Stanford Stone. tell
ing him what had happened.
"Al right" said Stone after a mo-
ment. 81 suppose ! shall have to pull
us out of the hole that you and Monk
/ In your stupidity have dug for us.
/ Fine businessw
Stone set the wheels OF his organiza.
| tion turning at once He sent for
! Dunn. the man who served him In his
most critical affairs and over whom
/ he held as a 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
he had found Bruce and also n tele-
gram from Washington ordering him
to go at once TO Rio de Janeiro. where,
IL was said. the consul would be able
TO give him instructions concerning n
special mission connected with the op-
eratious of the graft syndicate.
You'll have To GO" Bruce said.
"Rut I'm nearly we'll now I'm well
enough. at any rate. 10 take hold of
this affair. So there need be no change
I'm our plans"
And another factor was about TO be
introduced into the case. Dorothy
Maxwell and her chum, Kitty Rock
ford. were 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-
tectiver Dorothy had been engaged
20 Btuce. Stanford stone was I'm love
With her. and owing TO his hold upon
her father and his threat if she did
not yield 10 him 60 ruin him Dorothy
was afraid 10 come out openly against
Stone. In secret, however. she was
his enemy.
The two girls while out walking spied
Dunn and. remembering him from pre-.
n