Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-05-14

shadow merry chase. Jumping into |
a taxi | bade the driver take me tc |
q department store. Looking back ]
saw the shadow hastily entering an
other cab. Arrived at my destination |
| thrust fare and tip into the drivers |
hand and hurrying inside managed to |
catch an elevator just ascending. One |
fight up l got out and redescended to !
the main floor by a staircase at the
rear, emerging thence on to a sida
street. A second taxi tcok me to
the Twenty-eighth street subway sta
ton, and there, with no sign of my
pursuer, l took a train to Times
square and went to the Astor to meet
Barbara Bradford arriving on the dot
of one. She was there awaiting me
and we quickly found a secluded table
in one of the less conspicuous rooms.
"Tve told Claire everything" she
said as soon as we We're seated. 81
hope you're not angry with me-"
"Of course not. You had to tell
her. I am sorry to have frightened
her."
''She shouldn't have gone to your
room. That's just like Ler, though.
She always acts on the spur Of the
moment. She's awfully worried, too,
poor girl
1--WE can save her." / said.
"Why," she asked. quickly, what
have you learned?"
81 was convinced that they must
| have someone in the house aiding
| them. I've found out who it is. It's
the telephone girl-Nellie Kelly is the
name she goes BY"
ST can't believe it, cried the girl,
shocked at my statement. "Shes only
a girl like myself. I have talked to
her lots of times. I'm certain there's
nothing wicked or wrong about her."
'"rm afraid there is" I explained
ST took her out to dinner last night, to
the White Room. The house detective,
while she was off telephoning, prac-
tically ordered me out of the place be-
cause I was with her. Shes notorious.
Her husband is Lefty Moore, a we'll
known burglar. He's IN Sing Sing
now, Detective German arrested him.
He ought to know"
"Oh, the poor girl" exclaimed Miss
Bradford, tears yelling up in her eyes
''I'm so sorry for her."
"But think of your sister. Think
what they are trying to do with Miss
Kelly's aid"
''But how do you know she's aiding
them?"s
81 don't know it. But do know tha
nobody could pull off all the thing:
that have been happening in tn,
; Granddeck without some one ther'
> helping them. We've found someone
used to helping criminals-a criminal
wife. Isn't that enough? AL we neec
to do now is to watch her closel.
and fasten the thing on her"
"How are you going to Go that?"
. ''That's why insisted OF your com
ing here today. am to meet Detectiv
German at three. l feel that he coul
aid us, and l think we ought to tel
him everything"
"Tell the policei" Her face greN
= white at the thought. wouldn't tha
!, mean a scandal-the newspapers an
:, all that sort of thing?"
= shook my head decisively.
"Gormans not with the police nov
= He is employed as a hotel detectiv
= But he is just the man we need TO hel
q US. He knows all about criminals an
c how to track them. With his aid "
can quickly clear the whole thing up
- ''Will you have to tell him ever
- thing-about Claires marrjage?
=. "We've either got to tell him ever
IL thing or nothing"
- "Oh, how I wish we did not have t
II The more people there are who kno
about things the more likely they a
~ to become public"
10 "Yet you trusted me with your 81
10 ter's secret"
~ She gave me quick glance of co
w fidence.
e you're different"
=. "Pm afraid most people would n
"a agree with you. They would rega
10 me as a worthless, discredited you
no fellow out Of a job
~ But it's not your fault
q "The point is," went On. shat '
,d have reached a place where we ne
in expert advice. German has fortuitol
nd ly turned up to give it. The only W
ha IS to tell him everything"
20 For a moment she debated the M
~ ter silently, her pretty forehead put
nv cred in thought.
VI eyes," she said at last, 81 suppe
IS. it is the only way. But won't he wa
,c- a lot of money for his services?"
,st ''Pll attend to that" answer
Id ''I'll make my great-uncle reward b
he handsomely for recovering the CAST
he Jewels"
''If he does"
nv HE must. We've got to get tn
ar back"
nd From her handbag she produe
M the anonymous letters she had
he ceived and handed them to me.
re "Will you want to show the detect
nv these?''
nm Eyes, I think I had better.
AS whole tale sounds so prepesterous Il
be- need every bit Of corroborative {
7as dence we can muster"
led For half an hour we fingered o
,re the table, discussing all the aspects
I the case. Eventually I think I r
at suaded Miss Bradford that the {
m dence pointed most damn1ngly to
telephone girl as one of the conspi
JUS tors or at least one of their aides.
zed was eager to know what pl:in of act
be- German would advise and as we p;
ice ed we arranged to be at our adjoin
not windows at ten that evening in or
ian that we might have another chat.
,et. I found German waiting for me
per the place he had mentioned.
ion ST told you that girl was bad OF
was his greeting.
ing "What do you meanw I cr
to "What have you learned about her
or Nothing except that the addr
kly she gave you last night was pho
oW- The number she gave is the hosp
of grounds"-he pronounced it "h'