Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-24

for his precious treasurei Now it's my chance, and l want that papsr And unless you want your secretary to come home a rather unpleasant thing to look at, you're going to have that map in my hands in half an hour So tell me quick, what your answer is. Do 1 get it?"
 For one moment the girl sat silent, breathing quick through parted lips.
 Yes, I'll bring it." she at last said over the wire. Then she sat motion less, with her hands gripping the desk edge for several minutes. When she moved it was with the quickness of a sudden and clear-cut decision.
 Give me police headquarters" she called out as she caught up the re- ceiver. The next minute she was ex- plaining to the desk official at Center street the news of Legars latest threat and the need of forestalling it. Then, after another interval of studi- ous thought, she crossed to the vault and began a hurried search for the document which Legar had described as being stored away there.
 She found it at last, in a package of faded deeds and papers to do with Windward island, and while ono glance at it persuaded her that it was indeed a chart of the island, the fact that it represented only one-half of this island tended to convince her that Legar had spoken the truth.
 But she had no time to deliberate over that discovery, for her next move, she felt, should be to call the servants and warn them against any midnight intrusions.
 She crossed to the rosewood desk to carry out this plan, and her finger was even extended to press the bell button when a sudden soft move ment at her shoulder caused her to swing sharply about.
 Confronting her. with slightly tri- umphant smile on his deep-scarred face, stood Legar himself.
 q am intruding. I know" he began in his suavely calculated tones, but there was a possibility, you see, of your friends in uniform interrupting our meeting beside the Soldiers mon umenti"
 The girls fingers, as she edged away along the desk. closed determin- edly on the scrap of manilla paper still held in her hand. The vault door, she saw. was also still open. But that was not the thought troubling her. The vague fear at the back of her mind was whether or not she was too late to save Dave Manley from the danger threatening him. And she edged still farther away.
 Her movement was arrested by the ringing of the telephone bell close be- side her.
 Answer that phone!" he suddenly commanded.
 The next moment a great load seemed to lift suddenly from her heart, and a renewed wave of audacity swept through her body, for the voice that spoke to her over the wire was the triumphant voice of Manley him self. MGEley declaring that he was free and that he would hurry back as fast as wheels could carry him.
 "Who spoke then?" cried Legar, his face clouded by a move which appar- cntly was an unexpected one from his standpoint. But the wine of hope now singing through the girls veins made her more crafty, more ready to face Legar with his own weapons. Instead of answering him her hand moved out to the bell button. for with the ring ing of that bell. she felt. would surely come help. And once the slip of ma nilla was back in the vault, and the door locked, she now had little to fear from Legar So when she fell back. as he sprang forward to strike her hand from the bell, she saw that her ] retreat lay in the direction of the | vault door.
 Her pursuer. however, was in no | mood for equivOcation. He seemed | suddenly to foresee her intention. For | without warning he leaped towards | ler. as an animal leaps for its prey. | and with one sweep of his maimed | arm the iron hook at its end was | shared deep in the folds of her cloth Ing.
 Give me that mapi" he said. in a | voice husky with blind and unreason- ng rage.
 Margory Golden, however. had no ptention of giving him the map in question. She fought against him. with all the strength at her command, 1. SnowlHg that any moment now would 1riug the needed help.
 But Legar. with his hand on her hyOat, hurled her back against the laavy vault door. shook her as a ter 'leT shakes a rat. snatched the yellcw .haaf fr,,.la Izr iopars nuuc her stag. :