Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-11

Patrla almost roughly by the WalSl and drag her with him.
 ''That corner house." he said sharp ly to Ryley. indicating an unOccupied dwelling which adjoined the Charming 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 fny other quarter. Here: take care of Miss Chan ming, please; don't let her expose her self. I'm going to have a try for our gay assassin"
 Bent almost double, he ran in the shelter of the wall to the rear of the half-burned house, and. catching the tow sill of window, easily swung him. self up and into the library.
 The room had barely escaped becom- ing a total wreck-was in truth little better; yet there remained of the floor ing a web of charred and greasy tim bers strong enough to sustain mans | weight. Parr picked a gingerly way out to the entrance hall. found the stairs negotiable, and within very lit , tie time was climbing out on the roof through broken skylight. Nor was he in any way surprised to find the scut- tie on the roof of the corner house open-recently broken open, if he read the signs alright.
 Stcalthily, then, automatic in hand, Captain Parr let himself down into the ostensibly vacant residence, stole back through the upper hallway, and suddenly threw open the door to one of the rear rooms.
 Simultaneously a little man who had been kneeling at one of the Shuitcred windows swung round. and whipped two shots at Parr from q heavy re- vOlver furnished with Maxim si- lencer. Parr's answering shot rang brutally loud. The little man dropped his revolver and subsided into curi- 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 that vault" he surmised. That means the enemy has surprised our secret-is probably even now trying to get away with the loot.
 Throwing open the shutter. he called tO Ryley in the garden that the danger had been done away with, then turned and set himself to nasty 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 had been gutted of its furniture. the trail of whose the front door.
 As he ran out into the avenue a cas- ual-minded policeman, strolling past,
 "Have you noticed anybody leave this hOuse?" Parr asked.
 I've noticed about two dozen leaving it--and that's about all they did leave. A big guy bossin' the job tells me the Japanese consul has purchased the property and is moving every stick out before rcfurniShing. Three vanloads they carted away-and in hell of hurry they were. at that"
 (Which way did they go?"
 The policeman obligingly jerked a thumb westwards. "They made off that way" said he. But where they were bound. dunno"
 Parr fancied he could hazard Shrewd guess. He ran hastily across the avenue and down the side street.
 And, so running, he disappeared for a time from human ken.
 THE HOLE IN THE WALL.
 Ignoring the protests of Mir. Ryley, Patria crept along under cover of the wall to the window through which she had watched Parr disappear, and climbed through.
 Just why she elected to follow him she could hardly have said.
 She was inside the house before she appreciated that she had yielded to what was most probably a foolish inn pulse.
 The first thing to greet her as she hurried through the upper hallway was the grinning mask of dead Japanese hUddled up on the floor of the back room; and turning from this in dread and disgust she ran blindly down the stairs. But she discovered no sign of Captain Parr-Or indeed of anybody else-and though she stopped at the front door long enough for a nasty glance out into the avenue. the man she sought was by that time several blocks away
 But this she couldn't know; and be- lieVing that he must still be somewhere inf the house. she pursued her investiga- tions; in the course of which descend ing to the cellar, she discovered ire fulahlc evidence of what Parr had sur missed tO his own satisfaction. if he hadn't stopped to verify it, that the trcaSura vault of the Cumming house had been footed through breach in ihr connecting wall.
 or was if empty altogcther2 Had her quick ears caught the sound of footstep beyond that breach? If so. it