The Elbert County tribune., 1918-01-25


Jimmy's conversation meant an ex-
ira for the Journal and information
that would put the police Of New York
on the trail of the two dangerous
spies.
: The headline Of the extra read:
INVENTORS PLANS STOLEN.
Brayton Rifle Sight In the Hands Of
Spies.
'Tt is not particularly surprising,
is it, that Mr.. Barton so suddenly
ceased fuming and fretting at his en-
forced inaction, when Mlmosa San
breathed that little sentence which
told how the Spanish lady made secret
signs to Hakui"
A pretty little waitress approached
our table. Excuse Afimosa San.
You come telephone?"
Jimmy leaned across the table and
spoke to Mimosa.
Can you show us where they
wentT' asked he.
Before the girl could answer. the
waitress repeated earnestly: "You
come telephone, Mimosa San-you
come now"
Back from the telephone she came,
smiling, happy, transformed from the
gloomy little maiden who had poured
out her sorrowful story to me few
minutes before.
You excuse me, please-that / gone
so long. 1t very important"
eyes, Miss Fairfax will excuse you"
cried Jimmy in the tone of royal
In
us where they went"
A sudden change blurred the girls
face to an appearance of indlstinct-
ness.
II don't remember said the girl.
Miss Fairfax, would you mind tax
ing the check-Pve got to hurry back
to the paper" said Jimmy, and, un-
der cover of Mimosa Sans interest in
the way in which western men treated
western women, he whispered:
IF she goes out. follow her, and
meet me at Morans."
Moran is the proprietor of the best
detective agency in New York.
Jimmy left me, to all appearances,
cavalierly, and paid the check and
escorted myself out of the Nippon Tea
garden.
1 found taxi at the very entrance
and / hid myself in Its dark, uphol-
stored depths.
After u few minutes out came
cloakedr and yelled figure 1 knew lit
tie Mimosa ct once, in spite Of her
Intellectual disguise, and 1 ordered
the taxi driver to follow her.
In Hfp,oca etnn-oJ L. f-ou<
an apartment building this
would prove to be the apartment
fiat" of which she had spoken.
l paid my driver and cautiously on
foot crept after the little japanese
girl. Once in the apartment building,
she climbed the stairs, and 1 meekly
followed after. At last she came to the
apartment she was seeking, rang the
doorbell, and a second later she was
admitted.
Whereupon 1 did the only thing
there was for totally mystified young
woman to do. hurried down to tele-
phone booth and called Moran's. Then
gave Jimmy the address and num-
ber of the apartment in which Mimosa
San had sought refuge.
wen be there In a jiffy-twenty
minutes or half an hour at the outside.
You hold the fort"
I hurried back to the building into
the depths of which Mimosa San had
vanished.
At one side of it was dark alley
way, and sketched against the dingy
gray wall was zig-zag of fire-escapes.
d. -
limousine. There was a gap of two
OF three feet between its top and the
lowest fre-escape. I measured the
distance with my eye, made a care
full examination Of the muscular de-
velopment Of my arms and climbed to
the top of the car. A moment later
was swinging in space.
hate to leave myself dangling from
the lower end of the fire-escape, and
| detective agency down near Bowling
Green to One Hundred and Thirty
sixth street. But the necessities of
the raconteur compel me.
The, threads of the plot which was
devised in the Nippon Tea garden must
be gathered and woven into the pat
tern which had taken definite form, al
though 1 knew nothing of 1t.
So shall hurry ahead twenty-four
hours, and tell you of letter which
came to me the next morning ad-
dressed: "Senorita Beatrice Fairfax"
| 1 knew almost instinctively that it
must prove to be from the Spanish