The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-07

NItO FNoWdEus
lust opens and swallows Mr.. Sangui-
nary Stingaree! En-. eh, what then?"
All at once Fergus seized the lamp
on his own initiative and set IT on the
floor before his kneeling elder, going
upon his own knees on the other side.
"a trapdoorF' exclaimed Fergus in
a whisper.
A trapdoor 1t was, of huge dimen-
stons, almost exactly covered by the
self colored square. But at each side
a tongue Of llnoleum had been left
loose for lifting It. and the lamp had
scarcely been replaced upon the counter
when the bulk OF the floor leaned up
right in one piece against tho opposite
wall 1t had uncovered a 1T of cor
responding size, but as yet hardly deep
enough to afford n hiding pl9ce for the
bucket, spade and pickaX Which lay
there on a length OF sackiug
you're going to make a deep hole
Of it?"
mo. I'm going to pay yo1 to make
4 deep for me-
"And then
lat dead O. night; you can take out
your sleep by day"
when Stingaree comes
III he waits till we're ready for
HIM
you touch some lever
"And the floor swallows him, as said,
II he waits till we are ready for him.
Everything depends on that and on
your silence. In the end suppose
shall have to tell Donkin, my cashier,
and Fowler the clerk. Donkin's dis
believer who deserves the name O.
Didymus more than Ony mon o. my ac-
quaintance. Fowler would take 80
kindly to the whole idea that he'd
blurt 1t out within a week"
The young mans answer was to strip
of his coat and spring into the hole
and set to work with such energy, yet
so quietly, that the bucket was filled
In few almost silent seconds. Mac
bean carried It of. unlocking doors for
the nOnce, while Fergus remained in
the hole to mop his forehead.
TO and fro, over the lip OF the clos
ing WELL back into the throat OF the
many night.
II was now the beginning of the cool
but brilliant Rlverina winter, and, de-
spite the disparity I'm their years, the
two ScOtsmen were fast friends. They
had worked together ms one man. with
the same patient passion FOR perfec.
ton. the same delight in detail for it's
own sake Almost the only difference
was that the old fellow refreshed his
energies with the glass of whisky
which was never far from his elbow
after banking hours. while the young
one cultivated the lo"al excess of con,
tinual tea. And all this time the ras.
cally Singarec ranged the district,
with or without his tacitu.n accom-
plice. covering great distances In fabu-
ISus time. lurking none knew where
AMI Springing ON the mwary In the
last places IN which his presence was
suspected.
But he has not yet robbed Il bank,
and we have our hopes" wrote Fer,
rus TO a faithful sister at Largs 1T
may be for fear OF the reyolyers with
which all the banks are provided now.
Mr.. Macbean has been practlclng with
ours and purposely put bullet through
Que OF our back windows. The trap
door over the pit is now practically
finished. It's too complicated to de-
scribe, but Stlngaree has only to
march into the bank and stick II up
aud the man behind the counter has
only TO touch lever with nj, foot for
the villain 20 disappear through the
door into prison it'll take INN an bis
time 10 break. ON Saturday the cash,
Ter and the clerk are coming 10 dinner,
and before we sit down they are TO be
shown everything"
ITO bo continued)