The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-06-03

closed ana locked the vault door. Ihen
he had leaped for the figure behind
the drapery.
But that intruder behind the drapery
had apparently not been altogether
unconscious of the danger confronting
him. He had at the same moment
side-stepped nimbIy through the quick
ly opened door. throwing an approach
ing and suddenly hysterical housemaid
aside as he had swept past her. The
redoubtable Wilson, who had also at
tempted TO block his exit. had even
more promptly gone down, knocked
fiat by one fierce blow. IL had been
then, and then only, that Manley dis
covered the identity OF the intruder.
He had caught sight OF the SCARED
face. which even an ample beard failed
TO screen. He had seen the right
arm OF wood which ended in its sin
lister iron hook, and all doubt as to his
enemy had vanished
But this discovery had in no way
interfered with Manley's pursuit OF
that audacious intruder.
II had not been pretty fight, that
hand.t o-hand contest between the slim
bodied youth and the scar-faced eK-
ploiter OF evil, but IL had been a des-
perate one. AS Manley. pressing stub
bornly on, had struggled TO close in
on his opponent. Legar had discreetly
and nimbly backed away until he
found the double house door itself
ri 70
upon he had promptly shattered the
plate-glass backing the iron grill work
on the hinges, and had actually swung
one OF these doors open before Manley
could gather himself together and
spring bodily on his escaping enemy.
They had gone down the broad steps
together, locked arm in arm, fighting
and clawing as ferociOusly as midnight
cats I'm tenement court. And Man
ley, with one hand on Legar's leathery
throat would surely have won, had
not a closed car glded up TO the curb
along which they were writhing and
painting and rolling From that car a
yellow-faced Italian known as Scoop
had taken a prompt and active part in
the encounter lie had withheld
fnalities, however until Manley was
uppermost Then with a quickly
drawn billy" he had blackjacked that
youth into utter indifference as to
Legar and mysteriously waiting limou
sine and all the rest OF the world.
Before Manley's senses had come
back 10 him he and the greenfeath
cred parrot had been tossed bodily
into the closed car and, three minutes
before the arrival OF the police for
whom tho whitefaced girl in the
library had so frantically telcphoned
that mysterious limousine had speeded
off into the night, carrying not only
Legar but the youth who had been SO
presumptious as 10 attempt TO inter.
fere with Legars exploits
But Manley did not altogether give
up. His heart still had the residence
or youth lie still believed in his
star,
What fretted Manley most, however
was his lack OF freedom. Rolling o
little over on his side. he studied min
utely the rough brick floor on which
no lay. After this inspection he
wormed his way carefully from side TO
side, lying face down and trying each
row OF exposed bricks with his shoe
toe, In the hope OF finding one OF them
loose.
lie had deliberately tested eleven
rows before he found any reason for
hope in this direction. A chill OF ex-
citement ran through his tired body.
in fact, as he discovered one brick
which seemed less securely embedded
in cement than were its fellows He
worked at Il patiently. laboriously,
kicking away small particles OF plas-
ter. humping II with his boot heel,
prying az IL with his sole until II
rocked free in It's row. Then came
the even sterner task OF shifting II
from its place. This he did by turning
about and lying close to IT, on his side,
so that the fingers OF his tightly i'm
prisoned hand might come in contact
with It's edges. Time after time II fell
back. but lin the end he triumphed.
Yet IL was not this unearthed brick
which interested him, His attention
was directed towards the rough-edged
parallelogram where that brick had
originally rested, for the corners OF
this opening. he soon realized, pro-
yided him with a saw edge which In
time might serve TO abrade and cut
through the stoutest Of cotton rope.
But the consolation OF this hope did
not stay with him long. For even as
he started TO work. his movements
were interrupted by the sound Of a
key in the heavy iron lock on the door
that shut him in He rolled over
quickly. twisting about 30 that his ap-
parently inert body covered both the
loosened brick and the spot from
which Il had been taken. lie con
tinued to lie there as though In a sleep
of exhaustion. for his yelled eyes had
already caught sight Of the two heavy.