Bisbee daily review., 1917-03-18

before her face. In the palm she saw the hilt of a knife whose long, shining blade was half-hidden in the cuff.
 If you want a taste of that"
 She found her voice and cried out. Blaspheming, the fellow bent over and picked her bodily out of the chair.
 His strength was extraordinary. She was helpless in his arms.
 Parr had just recovered the bracelet from waiter when he heard Patria's cry in the lobby.
 He dashed through the doors, to find the place empty of all but four or five liveried men.
 "Where's the lady who was waiting for me?" he demanded of the nearest man.
 Gone off with her manager" the other grinned. "They had some sort of row and he picked her up and"
 'You fool :" Parr cried. That lady has no manager, She is Miss Chan ning-Patria Channingw
 "G'arn.' was the reply. "She's Elaine, the dancer. and the mans Jules Edouard, her manager. You bet ter keep out of this. she's his girl, and he's a hard man"
 But Parr was already running down the corridor. It led him out upon an empty roof beneath the stairs.
 The faintest echo of a call for help drew him to the head of the fire-eScape. How he got down that fire-eScape. he never knew. When he reached the bot tom, it was to find the paved court destitute of any trace of the kiduaper and his prey. He dashed round it in frenzy, trying door after door. One yielded. disclosing a long and tunnel like passage between two buildings. At venture he ran down this. Coming out at the far end. he saw the base ment door to dilapidated Forty-first street residence closing. and threw his weight against it, with the added mo mentum of short run, full-tilt.
 Entering a basement hall. he saw be- fore him a flight of stairs leading to the first floor. At the top of these he paused to listen. From some indeter- minate point in the upper stories he heard a sound of heavy pounding. He took the stairs to the third story three at a stride.
 The sound of hammering came from behind a closed door at the back of the hallway. But that door was not 'ocked; Parr thrust it open and dis covered Patria's persecutOr standing over an old trunk against one wall of what was evidently used as a store room for discarded articles of furni- ture and the like. Of Patria there was never a sign. But the drunlsard seem ed possessed with the notion that she had hidden in that trunk. which he was insanely endeavoring to break open.
 In one bound Parr was at grips with the man, who turned just in time to es- cape being taken at disadvantage.
 A struggle ensued that demanded every ounce of Parr's strength and de- termination, every atom of his wit and will. The fellow fought with the power and fury of a demented thing. and presently contrived to trip Parr backwards across the trunk. The cap tain was up again almost as quickly as he had been thrOwn-but only to see his man throwing himself across the room toward a knife which, Parr saw for the first time, lay on the floor close by some rolled-up rugs.
 In trice Parr was upon his back. md the contest was renewed.
 AT the moment of final extremity. when the captain was on the point of giving up and trying to find something herewith to defend himself before it was too late. one of the rugs became amazingly animate. It rolled like a live thing across the floor, unrOlling as it came. From it Patria emerged. a creature of cat-like grace and quick ness. Her hand closed upon the knife in the nick of time.
 The man leaped to his feet as Parr released him. But now the disadvan- tlge was his. Parr closed in. raining lows upon him. He sought vainly to Suard against them until one caught he point of his jaw, his head jerked sharply back, and he fell like a dis tlrded marionette. cleanly knocked ut.
 ASSASSiNS.
 Dawn. q forlElesS sheen of gray, emhlcd in thc skies when Captain iJrr sought his bed.
 Ic spcat hours after leaving Patria
 her 1ltcl in the care of Mrs. AGair cha>| 9g.."tioI seemed natural . -oUghl. .;. corresponding th" chauf-
 Ir ac iae ki''.aper'S CT. and with
 li1-C'o;hcs McR searching a cheap sriy-scvcath street hotel for two nests who were not there. Tha sG,l "f his investigations was as ''3a"-: ca thr words of half q dozen rr...Gllc witnesses the wog1an who 9.cei mighty radcr the nGme of J.ad-iao.Sc.lc Elaine" was StriEiucl, 70 a-.ss la,ri2 Cha.ning. The wn,. 8 had Gaacirg partner known Monsieur Llouard.' The two rc;:G the 5: me tHcatrcal hotel. Hcc;g z E,lcu2rd had been drinking -atl f, Ia.