Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-15

glass. She had queer sense ths: ne was
pudence fascinated her even while it re-
Voted yoltsd; ., suddenly sud the man rose and APP
of complete understanding.
III you haven't the money, my dear-a
Kiss might do as partial payment
The leaned close as he smoke and
Madeline suddenly awoke to the fact that h.
sudden fury took possession Of her. She
struck him across the face with the Nat OF
nr s Nann u ina I r he IA she
the letters in an hour from now"
Too late she realized that the man was
Implication OF her words. She had warned
MN, ne stared ut her for moment. then
And the unhappy woman felt that she had
put herself beyond any chance Of help.
1t was Madeline Grey's rash declaration
,nat she %ro would have her letters in an hour
iar ahead Of schedule time We all
And perhaps her reckless admission to- the
man she wished 10 keep unaware of her
undong
While stood crouched in the dark closet
waiting for ,Itmmy's action to give me the
sigma! as to what it were best for me to do
FvnE MY nS sn"t sns 5mmy hsa
pulled sillen mask from his pocket and
"s the part Of a Rass
Cold; still holding his gun ready to fire.
ing that the combination had sufrced to
banle whatever burglar had been in the
apartment he smiled in ugly triumph.
He did not expect that he would be called
on to deal with trained minds. He simply
'yegEmen" to do her work.
res1a , f@Id he to do nest Did he
room? In moment he moved in answer
Ter 3erksd I, open springng bac, as he pulled
the hiding place OF his burglar and he had
no hesttancy about shootng-if a bullet
AS the door jersed open I staggered into
The room and Cold seeing woman. for;
out savage demand that she explain her
presence there
could not open the door of The safe. Gold
must
reply in the most matter of fact tone in the
world IA II It ought to be perfectly obvious
he calling on Simeon Cold at midnight.
And suppose n YOU came to get the let.
look much AS II YOU had succeeded: you
haven't got the thing you came for. have
Back Of the waving curtains I knew Jim.
If there need of h G't kn sTa
too. that he had faith enough in 10 let
fere with my plans. even though what it
WAS could no yet he clear TO mm
them. | dropped them out of that window to
friend who was waiting below If you
SER believe me you might look for your
Gold studied for n moment. but | met
full smile of one who has succeeded and is
willing to take the consequences 1t half
convinced Simeon Gold. lie started toward
the safe and then stopped suddenly.
In an"wer 10 sharp whistle the door
into the room. In his hand he held a heavy
Sttiison wrench Evidently the chink of
Hight which had betrayed To Gold that there
were alien presences In his house had In
vited him TO careful preparation for deal
Take this In the and
hold her, said Cold And as Vas n; nrag ,;s
Jimmy had fully understood my plan It's
Sss as F we ss,hs the h
to the outer room Gold tossed n casual COM
R"os her my ON the IF San fs help!
law
Outside the law" /, was quit. .s, true IN;
would remain in possession OF tho letters
and we might nnd ourselves facing some
rather unpleasant charges 1t might mean
the end OF Iimmys career-and or Advice to
Tn" The a0s chauffeur dragged me In the next
room, threw me roughly Into chair and
mounted guard with grim enjoyment of his
what happening In the other room?
action. For moment or two there was 81.
sence-and then suddenly I heard the sound
my guardian turned eavngcly upon ME and
swung his wrench
sit still!' he snared.
When | was dragged ignominiously from
the room trusting only to Jimmy's alert
wits. that gentleman smlingly awaited the
knew that Gold would have 10 investigate
the truth of my story.
And Simeon Gold did not disapront him.
At once lie crossed over TO the safe and spun
the s,. comb ,h The ,d door swung open ne
1t held packet OF letters. They were of
that soft bluc-gra called cadet gray
Jimmy knew at once that they were writ
ten that same betraying paper which
Mrs Grey had .l,n used IN ,appea'ng to me So
with one of his own private stock grins.
After he had made sure that his loot had
rot been taken, Gold turned to replace the
letters deep in the vault. Before he could
ment and dealt savage blow to the man
before him Gold went down in an inert
heap. AZ he fell; Jimmy caught the gun
ment leaned over the PROSTATE body and
dashed to the door OF the room into which
the chauffeur had led me.
the fail of Colds heavy body. and we re-
sponded after our kinds
Even IA the man swung up his wrench in
threatening gesture. Jimmy threw open the
door and covered him with his masters re-
volvcr.
The man dropped his weapon and lost
time In rushing back to the room, we
had attempted to burElarizc and completing
tho nefnrtous deed We had managed so
poorly.
In another moment that packe, of gray
blue letters was in my hand. Madeline Grey
was safe: had kept my promise those
teli-tale letters would never appear in the
Vampire!
In flash OF intuition | saw the day when
there should be Vampire Ia make n feast
on carrion--the day when Jimmy and
should be working with our paper instead
OF without its Knowledge and outside the
law.
Rut that Is another story only promised
to tell you how we got ono exclusive fea-