Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-26
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~AANEIuf ANHiiUGF ana night
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Twenty thirty. forty-two, six
ty." she repeated, recalling her faith
er's Instructions ever the wire For
ward and back and forward and back
again. for it's a four movement dial.
whatever that may meant"
The vault door opened. obedient 10
the combination, and seeking out the
inner compartment marked -" she
restored the papers to their place
Her band was still on the open vault
door when the shriu call OF the teie-
phone bell sounded through the quiet
room.
SIZE crossed to the desk and took up
the receiver.
10 you know who is speaking?'
demanded "a voice which sent thIiu
Of apprehension through her forward
STOPPING body And the question was
repeated as she sat silent. staring be-
fore her.
"Yes," she finally answered, trying
to steady her voice Its Lcgar.
The wire brought his answering
lauaa close into her ear.
cc know the voice, I see. And /
think sou know the man So listen 10
,aae I have to say I've got your
friend Nauley, and he'll stay where
I've e.. him. And unless you want
him turned ont Of here with about
>alf u that pretty face of his burned
10 a crisp. yoI,H de what / ten you
10 DO. DO ycu understand? I'll scar
him worse than / was SCARED. il YOU
Try eay tricks with me in this"
"ln-iu what?" demanded the white
faced girl
I'm exactly one-half hour l want yen
to walk Uast the Soldiers monument
ana hand me paper That paper is
somewhere sd your fathers vault It
is one half Of a code list and chart,
On q square OF yellow MANILA. DO you
uudeesta d."
"Hut how am TO know this papor p
asked the terrified girl fencing for
trl-
Tta chart q map one half Of the
map Of Nudward island For ola
Golden wasn't saeh fool as he
seemed" ana aeaa the venomaus
laaal sounded loss over tae wire IL
yc8l father had hold of my ha.f ci
t4st mau .rae stor In .he game
he voultn have 9aaied 20 dig Tor
ten years through that sand, looking
Tor his precious treasure Now it's
my chance, and I want that paper.
And unless you want your secretary
to come home rather unpleasant
thing to look at, you're going to have
that map in my hands in half an hour.
So tell me quick, what your answer is.
DO get it?"
For one moment the girl sat silent.
breathing quick through parted lips
Yes. I'll bring it," she at last said
over the wire Then she sat motion
less. with her hands gripping the desk
edge for several minutes. When she
moved it was with the quickHcss of
sudden and clear-cut decision.
Give me police headquarters she
called out as she caught up the re-
Ceiver The next minute she was ex-
planning TO the desk official at Center
street the news of Legar's latest
threat and the need of fOrestalling it,
Then. after another interval of studi-
Gus thought. she crossed to the vault
and began hurried search for the
document which Legar had described
as being stored away there.
She found it at last, in package of
faded deeds and papers to do with
Windward island, and while one
glance at it persuaded her that it was
indeed a chart of the island, the fact
that it represented only one-half of
this island tended to convince her that
Legar had spoken the truth.
But she had no time to deliberate
over that discovery, for her next
move, she felt, should be to call the
servants and warn them against any
midnight intrusions.
She crossed to the rosewood desk to
carry out this plan, and her finger
was even extended to press the bell
button when a sudden soft move
ment at her shoulder caused her to
swing sharply about.
Confronting her, with a slightly tri-
umphant smile on his deep-scarred
face. stood Legar himself.
4 am intruding. ] know" he began
in his suavely acidulated tones. but
there was a possibility, you see, Of
your friends in uniform interrupting
our meeting beside the Soldiers mon
ument,"
The girls fingers, as she edged
away along the desk, closed determin-
eddy on the scrap of MANILA paper
stilI held in her hand The vault door,
she saw. was also stiu open. But that
was not the thought troubling her.
The vague fear at the back Of her
mind was whether or nc she was too
late to save Dave ManIey from the
danger threatening him. And she
edged still farther away
Her. movement was arrested by the
ringing OF the telephone bell close be- /
side her.
Answer that phonel" he suddenly
The next moment a great lead
seemed TO lift suddenly from her
heart. and a renewed wave Of audacity
swept through her body, for the voice
hat spoke TO her over the wire was