The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-10-16

room aand turned the key in the door.
Il got your wire agreed Freddie.
/ picking IN the cigar case which lay on
! Ihe table and helping himself. I guess
/ there's something moving. he crossed
his legs and struck Il match. Well, you
| know I've always admired your talents,
! Wolf though if you'll forgive me saying
! SO. you're little too inclined 20 play
! Il lone hand. You need a partner 70
: balance you Iike--to help with the
heavy work, I'm somewhere around H.
! CHI"
Don't pull any of that dope on me-"
! said Coyne sharply. What l want you
| for is no partnership gag. You II get
! paid for what you do. and 1t won't take
| your a couple Of hours. It's worth just
| live hundred dollars to me and not IL
| penny more. Thut'll PERHAPS save argI-
mcnt.
"You always was harsh. Wolf" asid
Freddie in hurt remonstranCe. ~ NAT
arc you going 10 pull out OF H. WHAT
tho stunt. anyway:
I'm going to pull out Of it just what
can make" snapped Coync You'll
got five hundrcd-and easy. money 1T
! that--or you'll get nix. Now listen.
| Been on the boards lately?'
The stage" lamcnted Freddie. is in
| tested with knights. There's no chanst
! in the legitimate, and demean myself 10
/ vaudevillc-
Cut it out" advised Coync, ''Do. yon
know AnsoIl--thc boss bull Of the four
| tenth diviSlnn!
"Do I know youc" rctorted Freddie.
| why. Ansoll is the friend OF my youth.
nv long-lost uncle. Hasn't he pulled mo
| twice. once because l stood outside
, bank wondering what ! would DO II |
had all the money ;hat was in the safe
! and oncc--but say, If he's on 10 yoH'
/ count me out Of tho game.
! You're yellow. snecrcd Coync. IL
hll nI.r
| five hundred jimmics' lie CROSSED
over and laid a hand on tn" locked ! door;
| Don't he haSty." urged frrGdl". lei
me what il syand III consider"
Covuc rrsurded his seat. ITS simple
enough, THERE'S not ha' rorth of risk
| in it for you. All l want you to d" is
| this"
Frcdde's solemn face expanded In 4
! Grin rs he listened He nodded his head
YOU'RE sure toplin"r. Wolf, he cX-
! claimed. ITS the nutticst move I've
| bad, and you have your swell witnesses.
an lor' lummc. I'd like to see his lace
when you open out on him"
That's all right then. You'll u" on
hand-7:ii TO the minute. And nlnd,
Freddie. no soaking. Here's a flyer. Get
Lick is a great handmade to tho dc
tectivc though he invariably has her
on a lead She must not b" confused
with coincidence. for cNauplH. 1t was
no blind luck that had caused the clerk
! mt tho desk to scratch his head when
visitor applied for Mr.. Arthur. 'rhat
was duo to the activity Of couple OF
very ordinary-lookinE young men Who
for many days past had spent murh
tirno lettering in the palm court OF the
Palatial Hotel.
Nor was it luck that they happened
to be there That was Il very Sinrl"
prcCaution of AnSoll's. The only pi"""
of luck in the whole business was that
Wolf Coync should have overloaded
their possible presence. Thereafter
everything became more or less IN
For while Coyne and his satellite w"r"
planning the downfall ri the Inspector.
n man in one of the trlcph"n" boxes ''.-
low was talking over the wire 10 AnN"ll.
And when Flash Freddie. actor 10y pro
fcssion and what the United States calls
SNEAK" by vocation. stepped out OF Tho
elevator and moved jauntily To til" ruiz
bnr-payed courtyard. he had no NuNri-
rion that the young fellow viii" looked
like n bank clerk and brushed by him,
was at all interested in his mission.
He whiStlcd rs he turned int" tho
strand and bent his steps Westward
Tho Young bank clerk dropped farther
and farther behind. hut an H"ui" oh
server might have noticed that his rel
ntive position to Freddie was 1nainiHin-
cd by a heavy Jaw"d man--Whn. if sud-
denly addressed might have answered
TO the name Of Jimmie. And ton yards
hohind Jimmie Cntt"rll, smiling and
hand red rose in his huIt"nh"lc
strobe Detective Inspector AnS"ll.
Continued in Wednesdays lntclli-
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