The Washington times., 1916-10-15

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and pointed q gun at the still shected
figure. which threw up its hands IN ABB
ject surrender. .'
"Tsk. cs that sheet. you eadr. com.
A. moment later, / heard Jane Hamlin
shrek in DISBELIEF. which swung
to Wild unhappiness. "c1ayteni Clayton
how could your"
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any blunderins explanation, another
figure entered on the scene OF action.
When Jimmy had come upon the man
who was guarding the scuttie down
now facing had vanished he had Crap
Piled with him promptly and choked him
Into unconsciousness He had no way
Of knowing that the man whose throat
his fingers were encirciins was Beth
III The King of anarchist. wa. pessssssd
Of an uncanny genius for avoiding pub
licity. Photographs 81 his victims had
decorated the front pages OF, newspaper
, But Bethune Sverdrup was a bogey
man with whose face no one in the
| world was familiar.
And 80 Jimmy held the NE Of sysr.
drup IN his hands and refrained from
| have recognized as 1egal-and which
might have been the price to buy 80
many other lives.
sverdrup had q magnificent constitu-
| tion and a few moments after HIS as
sailant left him. he resained conscious
ness. He inhaled deeply or the brac-
Ing night air, and then-none the worse
for his adventure-he crept down
through the seuttle on the trail Of the
| Al the particular moment when Jane
Hamlln was sitting up IN bed trying TO
adjust herself to the cruel disloyaity
&c es ssnsanp q ss oS n.
volver at Clayton Boyd when this fe.
| rocious-looking man. whom ] did not
know. entered with . gun ieveied at the
base Of Jimmy's brain.
Mine not to reason why. mine but TO
do or-see Jimmy die. and SO took
ann a. the gun hand Of the man whc
was creeping up behind Jimmy and nag
a moment later with his arm hansins
useless at his side and rage and pain
twisting his face into a mask OF mon
ace.
Jane Faints. :
Jane Hamlin chose that moment to
faint. II was entirely excusabie
Probably II gave her q good deal
more relief than any consolation
might have offered her would hays
done. But no one had anJ time ie
| minister TO her.
Jimmy was busy lining his captive,
against the wall and trying to KEEP
them both In order with two guns
since mine had come to rest IN M, ~,
left hand, with which, tie swo msr
he was entirely unable even TO pun Q
Now, before Jimmy came TO No. t2ei
Madison avenue he had called on hii
sS WISE and d prosidsnt. row sergeant had sem
two able members OF the force u
The sound Of my shot brought then
next % move in the whiriwind series o.
events In that house. which Grann.
had SO truly called q storm center.
was their entrance on the scene.
posa ae and nsySso the man m % who st,ii rem ain e
4 unknown to US led away by th.
Of. hardness had settled across hsl
moved when Boyd pleaded with her Z
save him. I suppose Cyrus Hamlin'i
daughter could not be entirely weak
Whatever suffering she had endure'
was bound to bring out any lat isten ?,
twenty -four hours Is a short tim,
for a girl to run a gamut Of emotion
such as she had been compelled 4
, endure.
In a peculiar reaction. she turned I
us, directly the police had led from tn
room the two mon who had plotted :
, rob her. and she asked US II We woul
like to see the casus belli.
Jane Opens the Safe.
by Jove! I'd like to see that in
} fernal machine of your fathers" eric
Jimmy with boyish enthusiasm. 'Iv
always had q lot of respect for
tarantula or q rattiesnake when thin
4 of the death-dealing power the iittl
cuss carries around inside OF him---bu
an internal machine-say. Miss HAmlir
. kowtow TO that and to you for ownin
: 1t. Come on, girlsv'
! smiled to myself at Jimny's salleu
: attempt to cheer the overwrousht cir
: who must not be left to bear her ow
: thoughts during the long watches OF tn
. night, ! know that for tho sake Of he
sanity we must keep Jane Hamiin o,
cupied.
But I did not guess with what tr,
mendous adventure we were going I
keep her occupied!
Down through the corridors Of he
gloomy old mansion Jane Hanlin ie
which she endured her awakening
: the caliber OF Clayton Boyd'a Affeotioi
When We reached tho library wher
d Jane told US her undesirable treasur
ures Of two skulking men outlined ]
tho window. But l dismissed my ide
. a moment later.
y II seemed very likely that I was hyI
d terical from the adventure Of the ever
| ing. and I did not want TO max
> James burden heavier by oommunicai
4 Ing my terrors to her. Al all evsnti
n when Jane switched on the iishts ther
a was no one 70 be seen.
0 The room had an altogether differer
h appearance from the sembiance q
cheer II had worn earlier In tho ever
I Ing. II seemed to be lying in wait "a
something.
: Jane hurried over TO the heavy scres
I which was set in front Of the safe, an,
with Jlmmy's assistance. she pulled I
. to one side. -
h like machine resembling The portabl
y typewritsrs one sees adverttssa Z