Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-19

NOt on your He. was the ElfI quavering reply. I'm through with those people,"
 But you're not through with me yet, my girl. You're going to take this note to Enoch Golden. and you're go- ing to do it without any risk. I'll call up Golden myself and tell him he'll get 1t back. ten to one, if he makes a single move against you. And besides that. we've got him so beaten at this game that he's going to cry quits the minute he sees we've roped in the last of his gang. the minute I tell him I'll leave the country on condition he coughs up the paper,"
 And s'posin' he does weaken and hand over that paper? Where do get Off?"
 "You come back here with it as fast as wheels can carry you. And if you move as quick as want you to nov e. yurn just about get back in tin e to see the finish of your friend in the yellow maski'
 But Betsy LeMarsh's friend in the yellow mask. for all his captivity. was apparently preparing for that finish in a more active manner than was ima g. ined by his eaptors. For. the moment he was locked in the narrow closet. he had undertaken a systematic search of it's gloomy corners. That search, however. was rewarded only | by the discovery of a group of insulat- ed wires running along it's outer wall. Yet these wires he examined with not a little care And the examination led him 10 conclude, both from the nature of the wires and the heaviness of the insulation about them, that they were an integral portion of the light ing system of the hotel That they were not dead" he promptly discov- cred by scraping away the insulation tissue and bringing two of the barred wires in contact This resulted in an immediate hiss and spark Of light And that gave the prisoner an idea. By breaking the current, he knew he could send a message needing through all the nervous system Of the house. And at some one point, he felt sure. that methodic play Of dot aD-i dash in the light bulb would arouse suspicion and cause a search to be iustigated
 It was. in fact. in the office Of the hotel itself. where High-Colar Davis. the house detective, leisurely perused an evening paper for certain racing returns close beside @ rotund and robinlike room clerk in a red vest, that an electric bulb just above the register began to conduct itself in manner that was first mysterious and then challenging.
 Hish-Collar Davis. looking languidly ID from his racing charts. watched this light for several moments of si- lence
 Well. I'll be blowed!" he finally calculated.
 Whats wrong?" asked the room clerk.
 Instead of replying the house de- tectiye took out paper and pencil. and. careful,y watching the winking and thinking bulb. wrote a number of let tcr5 down cn his s'.a Of paper.
 "Ttai's the first time" he -solemnly announced. 'T ever saw an electric Dulh talk 1Iorsc!"
 Talk No-sc?' echoed the other.
 'Yes. talk Morse. or ! never pound ed tho brass for two years. And here's what it has said. twice over. Help room n-help-help." Tho house detectivc suddenly stoof upright Say. who is in BOT in this house. anyway?'
 That Vireiniau with his arD in a sling!"
 Then it's up to US to find out what's going on in that roOm,"
 The Laughing Mask. in the mean time. was no lonGsr giving his attcE- ton 10 the wires along the closet wall Eut with his pocket knife he had a. ready removed the set screw from the door knob of the closet door. Then. swinging lightly up to the shelf that stood some five feet from the fCor, he seated himself there opposite the door. By graspiDg the-two heavy clothes hooks screwed into this door, and by rlsntirg his feet firmly against the sash on either side Of it. he felt that ta was not altogether at the mercy of 1,is enemies.
 Even as he sat there he could hear Inc key turned .n the lock and then the sound of Legar's quick oath Of eX- asperation as the door knob fell loose to the floor. in response to his tug al it At the same time hope rose in the captive's heart for he could hear the mufled sound of a knock on the outer door And still again the prisoner in the closet could hear Legar's oath Of cxasperation. This was followed by tho sudden imnact of the heavy wing chair against the panels of the closet ! door. That blow. repeated again and yet again. was heavy enough to break l through the wood. But that dignitary known as High-Collar Davis. being a gentleman not given to inactivity in l moments of emergency, and being suf | fciently persuaded of untoward pro l ceedings behind the door which re- l fused to open to his knock. promptly | seized a ire ax from it's vermilion- painted rack in the hall. and sent it |