The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-11

OdelI, sergeant of detectives, HE learns of the friendship between NT Eugene Chalmers, another son, N and Farley Drew, man known to the police. He details men to
 watch for Drew and they locate q him. Odcll is notified and with
 another operative he goes to the house which the man, they want and Eugene have been seen to enter.
 " As Miller nodded to them careless k1y and sauntered across the avenue fPorter observed with grudging ad- kmfration in his tones:
 1k T thought that Gene was just a fwillie-boy, but had the wrong dope; fhe's about as slick as they come: I kthought at first that he was too blam- \ fed affabIe when he invited me into + This room, but he seemed SC anxious l1o tell me all about how that picture fnearly fell on him the night before land ready to offer hundred different | Suggestions that he threw me off the K ttrack; and boy! how he can play t7cards! Not that I took my hand off fmy number for minute until just | lat the last" he added hastily. "But iyou yourself might have been taken In by the way he worked that, ser fgeant."
 | Possibly" Oder assented dryly. "I itried to get word to you before left Ethe house to warn you against That Every thing! but you didn't come down tto report and let you alone to handle Tthe case your own way. How did he lmanage to give you the slip?
 Tt was after dinner and he wanted la drink; said that his stepfa ther had nome private stock locked away in i6he cellar, but he had duplicate key | (which the old man had given him. I mad my suspicious to how hea had l tcome by that key; but it was none of | tmy business. so I went down cellar | with him. There were stone steps iand a flat door bolted the inside Heading up into the back yard, and | 1Hmall room partitioned off where he fsald the liquor was stored.
 "He turned on the electric light by fa switch in the wall near the stair | lease, took a key from his pocket and Ilppened the door of the storeroom. I ietroned after him to take a peep in- .feide when he called to me to look on Hone of the hanging shelves that were Hull of preserve jars and find glass" Y lPorter hesitated. "I suppose was a | {fool. but I never suspected he had a tchance in the world to make a break HOT 1t then; so l turned to do he asked, when the lights went out like "a flash and heard the door of the Ito it. but it was fastened by a spring Flock and by the time I found the I tswitch in the wall and turned on the Flight again Shaw blew his whistle \ fputside.
 II i- "There must have been g. second | Flight switch in the storeroom and Il Esecond door leading up into the yard; land the kid had evidently planned This getaway ahead. for he's wearing \. Ia cloth cap, which I guess he had been | tcarrying folded up in an inside pocket Itsince before I came. the job. I ,llran out of the house, found Blake on NJ guard at the corner, and he told me lIlyoung Chalmers had come out of the |I |I(tradesmen's entrance on the side VI EEtreet and started due east, with N ESEaw trailing him.
 ' E 1T borrowed Blake's hat and hot N Ifooted it after them, picking them up Hat, Third avenue in time to relieve XII lt4Ihaw just as Gene was boarding a Ntfeurface car. By sheer luck a drunk MI |IIhappened to be getting out of a taxi IN an front of Bud Westley's old pool | Broom, and I grabbed it and trailed \ the car. The kid couldn't have had |I(a suspicion that he was being sha- ! {idowed; for he got out at this corner l Hand made straight for that shop over Itfthere without even looking around" INA You were an ass to be taken in MI like that, Porter, but perhaps it is J lIt1ust as we'll" Ode1l commented. "Our ' I{young friend must have been pretty kdesperate to risk such a move when he knew that the house was guarded Inside and out. I wonder why Miller khasn't come back? It doesn't look f "Look!" Peter exclaimed touching [kf11is superior's arm. That man. He has walked twice past the mouth of
 that alley; there he goes in! Think live had better trail along?"
 E NO. Give Miller a chance. If Ehe gets in any trouble he'll blow his {whistle. For few minutes longer they wait Ted in silence, and at length Miller ap- ipeared from the shadows of the ,al- t1eyway and hastened across the ave- Inue toward them.
 "Did you see that man?" he ask ed CT had a narrow squeak, I can ltel1 you. That was Sims. Farley {Drew's valet.''
 .'What have you been doing all {fhis timer" Odell demanded. "Does ffhat alley extend through the block ?''
 sNo. It ends in a blank wall mid- 2fway, back of that butcher shop, l {ahould say" Miller responded. There hare doors opening on it from all the
 fehops as far as it reaches. and win
 tdows, too; but the back room of the
 ktailors is. the only one lighted up.
 tThe door was locked and the window
 Fastened and covered with shade;
 kbut the glass in the lower sash of
 tfhat window is broken by what looks
 bike bullet hole. and the shade ne II. IS
 Eand reported at once, I suppose; but
 kn put my eye to that hole and
 kthought you would want to know what
 Twas going on in there. A young
 Ism mooth-faced. blond-haired man was
 {sitting at table-I guessed that was
 Your bird4and facing him was ar
 Alder man. nearly forty, judge. who
 f3doked like a dissipated swell.
 "IIe talked so low that I cou1dn't
 hear what he said, but he seemed
 To be laying down the law to the
 IEid, who was SelC1nS 1nauuSr by lHe
 k1ninute; and when he broke in he
 [raised his voice that I could heal
 Ievery word. You can't bluff me witf
 lanv more of that bunk, Drew he
 kgaid T know you can send me up
 Hut you won't. because you'll go, too
 nd you know it! You can bet youi
 Lots kept your letters, they were
 k only protection I had! I wa:
 Nsucker and you bled me white
 M don't forget I've got a come
 3k.' The other one growled some
 y< N couldn't hear, and then thu
 Kid broke in again Not a chance
 It don't know whether I got ava.
 With it tonight or not, but it's thu
 lst; and ifszyon> don't want to hav'
 answer some embarrassing ques
 Nas you'll clear out until this thin:
 }yer I tell you Titheredge wiset
 that chap from headuarters as t.