Bisbee daily review., 1916-11-12

uteS, l want you 10 get any nelp yOV can. and come after me"
 Margery stole along the shadowy roadside to the spot where she had seen Legar creep in through the bushes. She followed as best she could. found herself face to face with a tunnelopening that showed itself dimly in the moonlight, and after a moments hesitation stopped low and crept into this tunnel. feeling her way cautiously along the smooth patchwork of it's walls. She came to turn, but tressed with heavier masonry, and padded along this wall until her grop- ing fingers came in contact with light switch. This, after a moments thought, she turned on.. The next mo. ment a number of bulbs along the cor rider roof above her lowered into light.
 Staring ahead of her, she saw that the corridor ended in nothing but a blank wall. But as she stared intently at the wall she detected in one side of it a partially concealed electric but ton. She moved toward this cautious ly, for she had learned of old to be wary of approach to any of Legar's fastnesses. Then, as she advanced, she came to a sudden stop. For she saw on the fiagstono upon which she was about to step small cross. There was also a minute crevice, unnctice- able in it's companions, about this quadrangle so suspiciously marked by it's cross. So she stepped carefully over the suspected area, crept forward to the button. and touched it with a tentative fingertip.
 The next moment a remarkable thing happened. A section of the heavy masonry shutting of the end of the corridor. at that touch, swung silently about on it's axis, leaving an aperture wide enough for a human body to pass through. The girl, hold ing her breath, stepped through the ponderous masonry.
 This chamber, she saw. was empty, except for two mysterious strands of iron chain that ran from ceiling to floor. close against the wall. while against the other stood deal table and a camp couch across which lay a couple of very dirty blankets. But along the floor at the far end of the room her quick eye detected Q thin pencil of light. So she tiptoed cvietiy forward until sine stood close to the door above this illuminated crevice. Then she stopped lower, listening in tently, for the sound of muffied voices came to her from the room within.
 T tell you we cant afford to fail in this mcve," she heard the voice Of Legar himself announce. The things got to be settled. and settled before morning."
 But how?" asked one If his fol- lowers.
 With two pounds of g1ncotton and a time fuse.r was Legar's reply.
 'In the O'Mara cottage?" asked an other voice.
 Yes: I want that cottage wiped of lue idCe Ol tub tGt lus anu thS AeAA4ii with it, And 1 want 1t done before morning!"
 Margery listened. oblivious of tht passing of time. as the conspiratori behind the closed door continued C debate on their plan of action. The she started. even as much as they dif when the sudden buzzing of an eles tric annunciator warned that inter group of an intruder's approach.
 It was then ara only then that tn girl remembered her parting message to tho taxicab d. Ser. All that was len her to do was to dart over to the camp cot. and drop down on the stone floor beside it.
 The next moment Legar and his men were in the outer chamber. While one of the men crept to a secret out look crevice m the farther wall Le- gar himself stegped to one of the con- trol chains which ran from floor to ceiling on the other side of the room. and by pulling one of these started into action some mysterious mech anism which the watching girl could not quite comprehend. She saw them run back to the inner room and, stand waiting while Legar manipulated still another secret spring which threw open a hidden door in the back wall of that room. And that door, she surmised. led by some unknown passage to the outer world.
 But Margery did not give much thought to this. for there came to her as she regained her feet the repeated cry of a human being. a cry husky with terror. She ran to the pivot door in the masonry. swung it back, aud there beheld Q sight which made her blood run cold It took her, in fact a ponderable space of time to under- stand the scene confronting her. But as sue stared out she saw where hsr unsuspeCting chauffeur had step7e1