The Pensacola journal., 1917-08-17

ninety But this lens was globular,
and. Ike a drop Of water. refrac'ea
light from all directions. When placed
that half Of it caught the light 1t
saw" through an angle Of $50 de
Erees. saw" everything in the room
instead of Just that little row Of bot
Ties on the shelf opposite.
Constance set herself to watch. and
It was not long before her suspicious
were confirmed. and she was sure that
this was nothing more than a coke
Joint Stiu she wondered whether +
Muller was the real source Of the
traffic of which SleiEhheUs was the
messenger. She was determined 70
find out.
All dav she watched through her de-
tectascope Once she saw Adele come
in and buy more dope. II was with
diffculty that she kept from inter
fering. But. she reflected. the time
was not ripe. She had thought the
tthing out. There was no use in try
ling TO get at it through Adele. The
only way was to stop the whole curse
at its source, to dam the stream Peo-
pie came and went. She soon found
that Muller was selling them packets
from a box hidden in the woodwork.
That much she had learned, anyhow.
Constance watched faithfully all day
with only time enough taken out for
dinner 1t was after her return from
, this brief interval that she felt her
- heart give leap OF apprehension, as
S she looked again through the de
IteCtaSCOpe. There was DTumm0nd in
the hack Of the store talking to Muller
Z and woman who looked as If she
- might he Mrs Muller, for both seemed
e nervous and anxious.
As nearly as she could make out
4 nrummond was alternately threaton-
t ing and arguing with Muller Finally
& tn
5 mond walked over TO q typew riter or
a table took a fresh sheet of carhor
It paper from q drawer placed It he
10 tween two sheets of paper, and hastily
a wrote something
l. Drummond read over what he ha'
= written. II seemed 60 he short. an
10 the three apparently agreed on II
Then. in a trembling hand, Mule
signed the two copies which Drum
mond had made. one Of which Drum
mond himself kept and the other O
which he sealed in an envelope an
sent away by boy. Drummon
reached into his pocket and pulled on
huge roll of bills Of large denOmI
nation. He counted out what SCENE
to be approximately half. handed it {
the woman, and replaced tie rest
his pocket What 1t was all ahOl
Constance could only vaguely gues
She longed to know what was i'm IT
paid to the woman.
Perhaps a quarter OF an hour aft,
Drummond left Adele appeared aEai
pleading for more dope. Muller we
behind the partition and made up
fresh paper of It from a bottle al
concealed.
Constance was torn by conflictil
Impulses. She did not want to mi
anything in the perplexing drama tn
was being enacted before her. yet $
wished to interfere with the dead
course Of Adele Still, perhaps I
girl would resent interference II s
found out that Constance was spyi
on her. She determined to wait ]
tie while before seeing Adele. It "
only after a decided effort that
tore herself away from the detec
scope and knocked on AdeIes door
if she had just CONS IN for a vi!
Again she knocked, but stilI there ~
no answer FsvorV minute dEomethi
hurried back to her post Of obser,
tion.
One OF the worst aspects Of the 7
Of cocaine, she knew. vas the dos
of the user to share his experie7
with some one else The passing
or the habit, which semed to he one
the strongest desires Of the dr.
1end. made him even moro danger,
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