The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-02

during those embarrassing moments with Mrs Morton and Eunice in his apartment, and then he gritted his teeth and strode to another corner of the ballroom, Ackerton, eXcellently disguised, crept toward him In true brigand fashion.
 ''Well?' asked the chief of detectives
 Its in Briar street" said Strong "There Is not a moment to lose. The girl Is therein great peril. They are going to torture her. Let's make for the place"
 Easy, boy. easy" cautioned Acker- ton. "Suspecting that Briar street dive right along. l sent one of my best in formers, The Shadow. there We are 10 meet him near the place within ten minutes He will report on condi- tiOns Then he and | will get every policeman within two miles of the house and will sweep out the whole gang. I am going to pull the biggest raid in the history of the New York Police Department. And l want you to be in the house beforehand to gath CT evidence Follow me
 As they left the hall The Great Mas. ter called one of his henchmen
 "l just saw Detective Ackerton talk. ing to Chug.'" hc said Something is wrong, Go over to Briar street and give them the tip"
 Strong in his disguise had no dihi- culty in entering the Rriar street den. In room on an upper "Oor >Of the place was Beverly Clarke She was being guarded by Jane Warren, who had been taken away from the Clarke home and pressed into that service by Zulph in the belief that she might coax Beverly into telling something about the contents of the treasure casket. Jane Warren, acting against her bet ter nature. failed miserably in her questioning of the girl Then "RmW Whalen appeared and threatened Ber- erly
 Whalen had just left the room when Strong came up the stairway. Whaen spoke to him. He replied. Recogniz. ing the clubmans voice. Beverly be- gan calling for help
 Al that moment the real "Chug" en- tered the den On his way to prison he had knocked down Ackertons as. sistaut and escaped.
 Some one told him another "Chug' was in the building and realizing it was William he began making fran. tie search "Chug" encountered his double outside the room where Bev- erly was imprisoned.
 "So this iS yer gamef' exclaimed the gaug~ter. "Nou knocks me out on a fuke an then you puts on my clothes an comes here to be a spy, huh? Well I'u uN you for sure this time' The other de~peradoes began edgiug to- ward Strong Chug waved them back
 "I1l take him ou alone" he said. He cant whip half man like | am. He got me lucky in his home; now m get him 'unlucky' stand back. fel- lows. Leave him to me'
 'S0 you think you can whip me. do youT asked Strong. deliberately talk ing off the coat he wore lie was spar ring for time, because he knew the police were ou their way to the build. ing and he hoped to avoid an enc0un- ter until they arrived Well. wen have auother scrap. Chug All 1 ask k thai you make it n fair night"
 Chug gritted his teeth and drew back his right arm.
 This is yer finish, Mir. William Strong" he beloved as his fellow gangsters gathered behind him. You give me knockout over in your room and yon stole my claihes Now HI give you Knockout and steal yer gal stand hack. Auuse husisies. Let \ me trim him by myself
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