Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-06-29


} my chance, and l want that paper
And unless you want your secretar.
to come home a rather unpleasant
thing to look at, you're going to hav,
that map in my hands in half an hour
So tell me quick, what your answer is
Do / get it?"
For one moment the girl sat silent
breathing quick through parted lips.
yes, I'll bring it," she at last sale
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 q
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
planning to the desk official at Center
street the news of Legar's latest
threat and the need of forestalling it.
Then, after another interval of studi-
GUS thought, she crossed to the vault
and began hurried search for the
document which Legar had described
as being stored away there.
She found it at last, in package of
faded deeds and papers to do with
Windward island, and while one
glance at it persuaded her that it was
indeed 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.
Il am intruding, / know ne 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
ument!"
The girls fingers, as she edged
away along the desk, closed determin-
eddy on the scrap of MANILA 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 Manley declaring that he was
free and that he would hurry back as
fast as wheels could carry him.
"Who spoke them" cried Legar, his
lace clouded by a move which appar-
entity was an unexpected one from his
But the wine of hope now
singing through the girls veins made
Ter more crafty, more ready to face
-egar with his own weapons. Instead
If answering him her hand moved out
o the bell button, for with the ring
ng of that bell, she felt, would surely
ono help. And once the slip of ma
lilla was back in the vault, and the
oor locked, she now had little to fear
rom Legar So when she fell back,
8 he sprang forward to strike her
and from the bell, she saw that her
etreat lay in the direction of the
ault door. 1
Her pursuer, however, was In no !
food for equivocation. He seemed
1ddenly to foresee her intention. For I
'ithout warning he leaped towards
err, as an animal leaps for its prey. '
nd with one sweep of his manned I
rm the iron hook at its end was O
1ared deep in the folds Of her cloth
lg.
Give me that map!" he said, In q .
,ice husky with blind and unreason- 3
g rage.
Margory Golden, however, had no
tention Of giving him the map in "
iestion. She fought against him, o
18th all the strength at her command, III
lowing that any moment now would a.
ing the needed help. u
But Legar, with his hand on her
roat, hurled her back against the u
'avy vault door, shook her as ter al
er shakes a rat, snatched the yellow o.
eet from her fingers. aung her stag.