The Arvada enterprise., 1917-08-02

WuIi, WHiIe Gurr Delayed only TO grnSI
Patria almost roughly by the walls,
and drag her with him.
''Thut corner house." he said sharp.
ly to Ryley Indicating an unoccupled
dwelling which adjOined the Claiming
residence on the Fifth avenue side
somebody stationed in an upper room
behind those shutters-with gun OF
some sort. Maxim-silenced. That shot
couldn't have come from any other
qunrter. Here: take care of Miss Chan
ming. please; don't let her expose her
self I'm going to have try for our
gny assassin"
Bent almost double, he ran In the
shelter OF the wall to the rear of the
half-burned house, and. catching the
low sill Of window. easily swung him
self up and into the library.
The room had barely escaped becOm-
Ing Il total wreck-wns In truth little
better; yet there remained of the floor
Ing web OF charred and greasy tim
bers strong enough to sustain mans
weight. Parr picked gingerly way
out to the entrance hnll, found the
stairs negotiable, and within very lit
tie time was climbing out on the roof
through broken skyllght. Nor was he
In any way surprised to find the scut-
tie on the roof OF the corner house
open-recently broken open, IL he read
the signs Alright.
Stealthily. then. automatic In hand,
Captain Parr let himself down into
the ostenslbly vacant residence, stole
back through the upper hallway, and
suddenly threw open the door to one OF
the rear rooms.
simultaneously little man who had
been kneeling at one OF the shuttered
windows swung round. and whipped
two shots ut Parr from a heavy re-
vOlver furnished with Maxim 81
lencer. PARIS answering shot rang
brutally loud. The little man dropped
his revolver and subsidized into curl
ously disheveled heap. quite dead. The
captain delayed only long enough to
make sure that there was no other
occupant Of the room. and to verify the
fact. which he had all along suspected,
that the murderer was Japanese.
"Left here to discourage any attempt
Of ours to break into thnt vault" he
surmised. "That means the enemy has
surprised our secrets probably even
now trying to get away with the
loot. :, :"
Throwing open the shutter. he called
to Ryley In the Gnrden that the danger
Ind been done away with. then turned
and set himself to hasty exploration Of
the corner house
He found no living soul therein. but
every evidence that many had been In
lawless possession Of the premises not
long since. The place hud been guttcd
of its furniture. the trail OF whose
hnsty removal led Parr to and through
the front door
As he ran out into the avenue Gus
ual-minded policeman, strolling past.
HIVE you noticed anybody leave
this housc?" Parr asked.
i've noticed about two dozen leaving
it-and thnt's about all they did leave.
A big guy bossln' the job tells me the
japanese consul has purchased the
property and IL moving every stick out
before refurnishing. Three vanloads
they carted away-Gnd In IA hell OF IL
hurry they were. mt that"
(which way did they go?'
The policeman obligingly Jcrked II
thumb wcstwards. "They made on
that way" said he. but where they
were bound. | dunno"
Pnrr fanclcd he could hazard n
shrewd guess. He ran hastily across
the avenue and down the side street.
And, 80 running, he disappeared for
"a time from human ken.
THE HOLE IN THE WALL.
Ignoring the protests of Mr.. Rylcy
Patrin crcpt along under cover of the
wall To the window through VIII y she
had watched Parr disappear. md
climbed through.
Just why she elected to follow him
she could hardly have said.
She was inside the house bcfrc she
appreciated that she had yielded to
what was most probably foolish i'm.
pulse.
The first thing to greet her MS she
hurried through the upper hallway was
the crinnlng mask OF n dead Japanese
huddlcd up or th" floor of the back
room; aud turning from this In dread
aud disgust she ran bindly down the
stairs. But she discovered no sign of
Captain furr-or indeed OF anybody
clsc-nnd though sh" stopped ut the
front door long enough for II hnsty
glance out into the avenue. the man
she sought wns by that time several
blocks AWAY.
But this she couldn't know and be.
llcring that hc must stlll be somewhere
In the house, she pursued her inycstign.
lions In the cours" OF which. descend.
ing To the cellar. she discovered IRE.
iutnblc evidence OF what pnrr had sur.
missed Ia his own rntisfnctlon. II he
hndn't stopped to verify It. that the
treasure vnult Of the Claiming house
had been looted through brcnch in
the connecting wnll.
Or was II empty altogether? Had