The L'Anse sentinel., 1916-02-26

JubL mmutes OupIdl0 hOuk, aaiO
voice. "Mr. Fisher win sound his
buxzer when he's ready for you to
come In"
IAN right, all rightw doomed Monk
In deep voice.
The buzzer sounded; Monk went In.
And right behind him was Tom. Monk.
It was plain, supposed that he was at
tached to the Office. Fisher. glancing
at Tom, paid no more attention to him.
As Tom had hoped, he supposed that
Monk had brought some one with
him.
Tom realized In a moment that luck
had favored him to an almost incredi-
BILE degree, for Monk, without prcam-
BILE, launched into q report Of the most
confidential sort.
"Well, it's all right, bossr' he an
hounced. He spoke In what he evil
IDENTIFY believed to be q low, carefully
modulated voice, but every word was
audible to Tom. II brought In the
cargo all right, all right. And none Of
them smart Alecks Of customs boys
was bit anxious to search the ship
not with the lions and tigers and crit
tiers of that sort the hold was full Of.
So, the opium's all ashore and in Cru
ems place."
Tom had heard all that he needed to
know. Slowly. and so as not to attract
suspicion to himself he went out the
door.
Fisher. meanwhile, had frowned
slightly as lie saw Tom 60.
Look here, Monk" he said, "thls
sort OF thing ought to be Kept pretty
much to ourselves. The next time you
have a confidential report to make
don't bring any one with you"
"What!' roared Monk. II didn'tw
'.rhen who was that fellow who
came in with your
"Him7 He works for you, don't he?
He just followed me In. and when you
didn't say nothing I supposed he was
oil rightw
They stared ut one another mo-
ment. And then Fisher, with sud-
den suspicion. reached into his desk
for a batch of photographs. which he
studied. He cried out sharply and
then handed Monk picture Of Tom
Larnigan.
That's himp' said Monk.
Yes, and he's Tom Larnigan," said
Fisher, "a government special prose-
cutor or agent-a spy set upon the syn
dicate to destroy 1t! A fine trick we've
let him play on us!'
"The ~" said Monk, with a great
deep sen oath. "I'n get him or my
names not Monkr'
YOU'D better try!'' said Fisher satir-
ically. IF you don't he'll get us-I
can promise you that! I'll go to work
too. Go along now and warn Gruen to
be careful. That wild animal store
Of his has been too useful to us for us
to let the government get on to its
real character"
Fisher. when Monk had gone, tele-
phoned at once to Stanford Stone. tell
ing him what had happened.
IAN right" said Stone after a mo-
ment. II suppose shall have to pull
MS out Of the hole that you and Monk
in your stupidity have dug for us.
Fine businessw
Stone set the wheels of his organiza-
ton turning at once. He sent for
Dunn, the man who served him In his
most critical affairs and over whom
he held as a constant threat his knowl-
edge Of a certain criminal episode Of
the past
"As q matter Of fact" said Stone.
I'm not sorry this has happened.
Fishers a fool, but his folly has turned
out well this time. Larnigan will 60
to Gruen's. You can see to It that
when he does 30 be walks into a
trap"
Meanwhile, however, there had been
Q change In Toms plans. He had
gone Immediately to the Office Of the
Independent. the newspaper which
was backing Bruce Larnigan's fight,
with Jack Stevens as its editor. There
be had found Bruce and also telc-
gram from Washington ordering him
to 30 at once to Rio de Janeiro. where.
IL was said, the consul would be. able
to give him Instructions concerning q
special mission connected with the op-
erations Of the graft syndicate.
you'll have to CO." Bruce said.
but I'm nearly well now. rm well
enouRh. At any rate. to take hold Of
this affair. So there need ~ no change
In our plans" 80. ~
And another factor was about to be
introduced into the case. Dorothy
Maxwell and hsf chufn. Kitty Rock
ford. wers BY this time. thanks to