The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-07-22

Whatever you do, don't let them
get that young woman away from
you!"
Family the listener could hear the
sound of sudden calls, OF quick ques-
tions and answers and counter ques-
ton. Then the voice of Golden was
once more frantically calling him over
the wire.
"Manley, Manley, is that you?
You've spoken too late. Wilson, my
butler. has just hurried in to me here
Ten minutes ago stranger. claiming
10 be a meter inspector. got entrance
TO the house. Do you hear me, they've
taken the girl! She's gone!'
Gomez" echoed Manley. Then l
haven't time to stand here talking
Yet, Enoch Golden, even as Manley
himself, had little time for talking
over that strange abduction. For two
minutes later his still flurrled butler
announced the arrival Of James Girls
void. the president of the Union-Trad-
ers' bank. on urgent business.
The banker showed Golden letter
threatening his bank because he was
a friend of the multi-millionaire. He
also told him that the newspapers
had launched campaign against
Golden's tenements and that fellow
banker of the Third National had re-
ceived a similar warning.
The telephone bell interrupted Gold
en- as he was about to speak.
"Yes, this is Mr.. Golden's house.
Yes, Mr. Griswold is here. What's
that" He leaned forward for mo-
ment, listening. Then the receiver fell
from his fiaccid hand "My God, Girls
void, your building is on fire! The
Union.Traders bank is burning.
The next minute Griswold was hur-
rying from the house and leaping into
his waiting limousine.
Golden, sitting at his desk, stared
startled and vacant-eyed before him.
Yet that young secretary who was
so foolishly accepted as feather-head-
ed was, at the time being, anything
but idle. Ten minutes after his talk
over the wire with Golden he was In
a taxicab speeding towards the Stein
house on Maple avenue. A block away
from that house he dismounted, saunt-
ering casually up to the home Of Lee
delivery wagon stopped before it.
Handing the boy dollar Manley took
his packages and presented them to
the maid. AS she turned to get the
money he darted up the stairs and hid
behind the portiers Of room. He
heard man tell another that wireless
waves had started combustion in
two different parts Of the city.
Moving curiously forward, he peer
ed out into the room. Clustered about
the table, bent close over the map,
he could see Stein and Legar and two
of his unknown accomplices. Maniey
advanced silently into the room,
crouching low as. he went. For on the
table he had already caught sigh of
the blueprint of STEMS protector ap-
paratus So holding his breath, he
crept closer. He had the blueprint
in his hand, but before he could slip
back from the table edge his presence
He darted for the window, going
through it like circus rider through
paper hoop.
a minute later the conspirators
were after him. But Manley, rolling
through clump OF shrubbery and
doubling rabbit-like on his pursuers,
dcdged under cover. BY the time he
had recovered his breath and his wits
he slipped unobserved from the
grounds, rounded the block and climb
ed into his waiting taxicab.
Police headquarters" he told the
driver.
Brief as was Manley's visit to po-
lice headquarters, that call resulted
in sudden and startling movements
from the great gray structure in Cen
ter street. For the mysterious fires
were now breaking out even in crowd
ed tenements on the East side, keep
ing bewildered fire department shut
Ting impotently back and forth
The attack on Legar's skyline quar-