The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-31
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AUTHOR of"THE LONE
WOLF" THE BRASS
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COPYRIGHT BIZ LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE,

bearing out MS pTemOnillOu, Nl"'S
stopped to speak to the chauffeur
and the ea~vesdropper cursed bitterly
to heal no more than the confused
grumble of their voices.
Then without the least warning the
car shot away at a round pace west
ward.
Simmering with profanity, Peter
seized the speaking tube to below a
demand for incontinent halt; but on
second thought permitted the car TO
round into Madison venue before he
gave the rider.
Again at pause, this time halfway
down the avenue block, the cab elected
an Infatuated fare.
"What the blank did you do that
for2"
why in blank shouldn't II" the
chauffeur demanded as hotly. you
told me not to let on, didn't your Here
come through with that hveP'
Choking, Peter found his money, dis
bursed. How did 1t happenT'
"Why the old gink says. did | bring
q young lady and was l waitin' for her,
and l says yes, an he slips me three
bones-the clock says two-forty-and
says to clear out, / won't be eed
And what did you want me to do o
that, SEEM you didn't want him to
know you was inside?"
ooh, all right" said Peter YEARLY.
"You did precisely the right thing. Only
Il didn't quite understand" He eyed
perplexedly the colored lights or a
drug store across the way.
well, what's the good word now,
boss? If you're done with me, I'm on
my way"
NO" Peter insisted, "Tm keeping
you. Run across the block and wait
lust out of sight on Park avenue. I'll
walk back"
Buttoning topcoat to chin and sacri-
icing his Bond street topper to the
elements, Peter trudged back to Sew
enty-sixth street, then eastward past
number 90, regarding the house agrees
sively.
1t looked down ON him now, he
thought defiantly, with a touch of con-
temptuous pity for his impotence TO
read the riddle of its staid, uncommuni-
cative walls.
Embittered, he walked on to Park
avenue, and found his chartered a at
the appointed place. Pausing beside IL,
and ignoring the chauffeur's well-meant
advances (stimulated by the romantic
, notion that this swell young guy was
irwin to beat it with the old buffers
daughter, and had stubbed his toe In
the getaway, Peter painfully excogi-
tated the inevitable conclusion thai the
only thing he could do was wait ana
watch. He comforted himself q little
with the cold assurance that Craven
was now with his daughter. Whatever
old Tad's shortcomings, Peter couldnt
believe he would suffer a hair OF
Lydia's innocent head to be harmed
Only
What the deuce was keeping the two
of them there so long?
Then abruptly a second taxicat
swung round one of Park n
scrubby little ovals of grass and shrub
DeIN. STU l1lO oCNChhJ n
/, checked briefly in front of SO, dis
: charged two passengers, and slipped
away toward Madison Pete
recognized something familiar In tn
? association of a long and slender ngur'
: with one short and stoutish, as tn
two lodged hastily into the basemen
area of number 90 and disappeared.
Musical comedy rogues," unused tn
perturbed young la 1.-THE tall thl
scoundrel and the short fat sharper
Messrs. Southpaw Smith and Gordon
: of course. What in thunder Contour
= It'll she must be all right Crave
y would never let anything happen
her."
g He began to fume impotently. n
good trying the front door again.
y Then he thought of consulting Quoi
! by telephone, and had started Dac
: through Seventy-sixth street towar
= the corner drug store, when a taxica
" shot round from the avenue, passed
a sharp clip, and Immediately slid
pc as smart a stop, while the door swur
III omen and a man, jumping out, halle
sharply:
- "Peteri"
"Quoin-thank. heavenl How In Il
% name of wonder"
IS sFound Craven had left the Gre
II Eastern, TAXED back to the MargraS
hs got the address Miss Craven gave fro
d the carriage porter. Luckily you ma
such a sensation boiling after her ia
VI that 1t had fixed the number In the Il
he lows memory. Now what's upr
his Briefly Peter detailed the inconcl
ex- siye and unsatisfactory circumstanc
~ of his vigil.
au' "In through the basement, you say
tLy Ouoin pondered this darkly. Loo
let like a move to trick somebody-Cl
ven. at a guess. Come along"
Grasping Peters arm, the detect
he trotted hin rapidly back toward nu
lm- Der 90.
syl- "What are you going to dor