The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-28
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from his pocket and held it between him and the disappearing touring car. He pressed the spring, knowing that his telescopic lens would carry to the waiting film the secret of that mys- terious cars number.
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 Jules Legar, in his role as master of underworld activities, was both adroit in his engagement of the services of others and painstal5ing in the preparation of the field wherein they should labor.
 So when Legar and his scientific friend, Dr. Herman Stein. engaged their triple-floor office suite at the top of the Central Tower Building they insisted on certain structural alterations in those offices. Not only was one of the largest windows con- mandeered for the installation or a strangely complex apparatus used Tn Stein's electric wave-projector (whlcn was announced to be the latest lm- proyement on wireless), but the upper and lower floors of the suite were connected by a smooth walled smart which. it was explained, would nahe easier the passage back and fortn oI chemicals and apparatus neeoeo oy the illustrious pr. Stein m HIS c"ie- fully guarded experiments.
 Eoually well prepared was Legar second base of activities, the secret suhcellar beneath the Owls Nest. once used for the storing or spirAt Eees and wine casks on which rev. anue fax was never too punctlliousiy naid. This second warren, deep as IL stood underground, was also provided with secret passageway leading lnto a water gate opening on the Eass River itself.
 Tt was from both of these points that I,egar was conducting his cam- nairn against his old-time enemy, Enoch Golden. And both of these noints might have remained as well hidden as their user still dreamed them to be had it not been for the casual agency of a pocket camera. For less than an hours work in the office of the register of automobiles had duly shown Manley that license No. 6249 belonged to one Professor Herman Stein of AZ Maple avenue. Yet Manley. armed as he was with the knowledge of this cars identity, showed no undue haste in interfering with it's movements. For still another ho,1r of cautious shadowing on the mart of Golden's private secretary nrovided him with the knowledge that Dr Stein was in the habit of motor- ine from Maple avenue to the Central Tower Building, and from that pros- nerors skyscraper to a humble point within a block of the Owls Nest it. self. Thirty minutes later found Man lev in a telephone booth. talking to his employer.
 Have you received any message from that man Legar?" asked the younger man, after impatiently ex- plaining who he was.
 II have received message. but I don't know it came from Legar."
 "Then how did you get it?"
 'It was thrown through my house window folded up in beer bottle"
 twill you please read me that mes- sage. And quickly, for this is im- portant."
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 Here it is," answered the bewil- dered voice over the wire. "'You are keeping Blondie Casey a prisoner in your house. Unless you liberate her within an hour that house will go up in flames. And after that house, your next house, and the next It is signed The Cookson Gang But what am I to believe? What am I to do? And what is the answer to all these mysteries?"
 q intend to keep that girl here,' ,' was the grim reply, mo matter what