Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-20


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The triumphant Asnt soon went 2pt
or yoons 1ls'ile ace however rs
hs .9d e captain ~ BPS
telephone bo".h. lla could near ai
olcial can Ter the number aa& l.
Stonlngtcn. aut crisply demand ci The
banker if the order for the vault trans
fer was authentic or not.
OF course it's authentic. And J.
want 90 know what this game is'
What are you ana your bunch out
there tff.ng . put over
bat Nancy kHe'S what ne knew.
tet You tDat wasn't st2nhgton
that spoke lt couldn't nave been. Il
cried the desperate young secretary.
The captain aas already on his feet
ard fighting mis- way back to the ire
lines
Then suppose you so UP and ten
him he's been dreaming Knocked the
rate oficieL Then get his affidavit
to that effect and amhle back with IT,
Nancy himself was already darting
for the door,
lhat S just what ia 40 he called
out as ne made for the corner OF
Broadway on the run, and there, still
on the run, leaped to the running
board OF an empty taAicab north
bound
Manlev's wait on Stonington's door
step was doubly disquieting. Sun
more disquieting, however, was that
obese bankers reply TO the questions
so fierCcly hurled az him.
Il save out no such order And no
such telephone call ever came 20 my
house tonight"
Then get your phone quicki" Man
warned him. Get police head
quarters and stop that raid stop it in
side OF ten minutes or your bankn
look like last years bird nest,
The excited man of finance, who
had been shouting 10 mis- servants. sud
denly ran to the nearest desk phone
and struggled with the instrument. But
bis struggles We're fruitless
My phones dead, he cried out TO
Nanley. II can't raise central
Then beat it Tor that bank OF
yours" advised AIanley as he made for
the door.
Take me with you; for Gods sake
take me with you, cried Stonington,
catching up his hat and coat and fol-
lowing him.
4 can't, retorted the young man
as he dartod for his waiting taxi. I've
got TO look for q crook called Oyster
Joe!
The police lines about the ruins OF
the Third National bank, as Manley
went scurrying through the streets lit
tie dreaming that stranger had pre-
ceded him ON that errnd. had all
ready been strengthened by addition
al reserves as the great motor truck
with its bank guards was piled higher
ana h'sher with the gold from the
clustering vaults men came the call
Aoi N'""b way A'ld II became more
ana more evident lhaI no timely IN
leIeepLl1h was 10 ioD Lsesaf ana ms
mon OF their spolls. The heaYy truck
was already craving out from the
cuto, us great Wheeis crunchng over
cils'ers anu cnoIreo WOOD as mes
eS,s9I ~ " 70 inc oH,ce' IN charge
'''lI,4is nllA - 'ue 'eletlohe'
II nat oluCl'l helu inc receiver IN ms
manu- "' .no MOTOR tIucA' satherlhs
speed as IL IhIeaceo IT'S way through
q mario" alSle Oh omen aspnalt FORMED
ny surglng humanity rounded the cor
heF INTO broadway, numbered north
ward Tor three DOCKS ana again
turned eastward
By the time John Stonlngton's Ian
dauiet reached the bank following the
warning Already sent on from mead
quarters an empty vault lay anna me
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.i.o - i'iN VIZ us
s'e'OI So -'''o 9'iip0e """y UiiCloi
leheeI 'lii .Usu 'I0 udi Ni'esS anu al
'iaOe u I. H~1 oeen lose'
ne cRJectlVo 81 lhat Wheeied gar
leon however seemed 70 nave been
nicely appreciated by oyster Joe, quiet
~ smoking On the DECK OF an extremely
po"eriui-engined out extremely dirty
iaanch mooreo IN the shadow OF a
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