The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-13

sees the rescue from afar and gnashes
his teeth in rage. He does not recog-
nize Anne as the savior of Sharpe al
though he suspects her. Anne, Iron
Hand and Potsdam meet in a room
back of a curiosity shop where they
plan to steal some freshly made bonds
from a printer. The bonds are being
printed for a foreign country and are
worth thousands Of dollars. Black
Flag secures employment with the
printing concern. Iron Hand and Pots
dam by many articles rent desk room
in the office Of a poverty stricken
lawyer on the floor above the print
ing concern. By a ruse and the temp
tation of a huge sum of money they
induce the lawyer to unsuspectingly
leave the city and then they put their
plans into effect for robbing it. Anne
watches from a room across the street.
Sharpe has given up the chase for
the time being and is resting himself
at Captain Vests Military Camp. He
is unable to get any clue to Iron
Hands whereabouts. Captain West
suggests that Iron Hand has quit or
reformed but Sharpe knows better and
laughs at the suggestion. After a time
the inaction annoys him and he starts
back for Los Angeles.
Anne learns of his return to the
city and knowing of the progress of
the plans to steal the bonds she
schemes to warn Sharpe and put him
on the trail of the gangsters and their
chief. But in the meantime Iron Hand
Potsdam and Black Flag have robbed
the printing shop Of the bonds. They
leave in their place, boxes and crates
labelled like the genuine and not I'M
til some hours later is the robbery dis
covered. Sharpe and the police go on
the case and they arrest the dupe of
whom Iron Hand hired the office room
which enabled him to perpetuate the
robbery. He gives them enough inform
alton to assure Sharpe that Iron Hand
and his gang is again the culprit.
Anne gets a in the hotel next
to the n occupied by the detective.
Sharpe notices the name Of the girl
and her party on the register, and al
though they are fictitious they arouse
his suspicious. He investigates the
room, while Anne hides herself in a
room cross the hall. In searching
through the drawers of the table he
finds several more clues put there by
Anne in hopes that he would find
them. Sharpe is confident that he will
recover the bonds in a short time after
once taking the trail, so he goes to
his room to rest and read awhile. In
the midst of. his cigar and paper he
suddenly notices a line attached to a
pole that is showed thru the transom
from the adjoining room into his
apartment. On the end of the line is
a note. He snatches off the message
so mysteriosly sent and the line and
the pole disappear back thru the tran
som. Determined to find out who it
was, the detective rushes into the hall
and forces the door on the adjoining
room. He is chagrined to find it emp
ty, but the faint odor of toilet water
assures him that it was a woman. He
then opens the note. 1t is a message
saying that the stolen bonds are in the
cellar of the old curiosity shop on
Lawrence Street. Sharpe swoops down
on the place with a squad of policemen
and Iron Hand and the rest of the
gang after a desperate battle make
their escape and go to Nest Two. They
leave their loot behind them. Sharpe
investigates and finds the bonds in
the cellar just as the note had told
him. He sends the police away and
decides to wait and see if Iron Hand
will return for his loot.