New Britain herald., 1921-12-16

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 ono more complication that it alt i Thank you for telling me this part "uIur ihu- however, tt wHl hop to
 know it hrforc-hnnd. And now, while i W.T. have the chance, ! want to trlI
 you smuch aa may of what l have
 learned this morning"
 The door of that Inner room inside
 whose rlgid walls i1an keeps the
 emotional part Of herself locked most
 of the time, swung again, and its
 lock clicked audbly in my curs For an Instant | had aecn within, hnd
 caught q glimpse of this "compicn- l tinn'-s she had named it-which was
 marrng her autumnal love idyLI had
 counted Robert Savarih inc Eentlest.
 the most devoted, self-ahnogating of lovers, It shocked and disappointed me
 to find that he could be as pettily
 jealous ms DicEy, us tyranncal in his attitude toward her work as Harry Underwood had been in his nsistencc upon her dyoing her hair and using rouge.
 The Last Details
 My heart aChcd for my friend but | knew the only kindness ] could do her was to ignor that locked door as she was doing, Therefore l dropped into a chair and asked the question which neither Dicky nor l had ven tured to hroach before, knowing that If she thought best she would give us whatever news she had in good season.
 But she herself had said that she was
 ready to talk, and l knew no quicker means of shelving the tabooed subject 0f Robert Savarine ...
 Have they caught tho man Smith ?,,'
 No, they havCn't-yet." shc said slowly and her enunciaton of the last word was significant to me of the long relentless arm of the government service "But he has been eTectually cleared out of this section, his power and influence reduced by zero, and his property placed under surveillance, so that if he comes back to it he will be apprchended. There is no other place where he possibly can be in5any,degree as dangerous as he was up here, and he ultimately will be captured, of course, it he doesn't get out of the country"
 She paused and loked at me steadi- iy, as if she were debating on how much to tell me.
 You might as well know what it was he was trying to do" she said |
 But there are threads to the tangle | which l must still keep in my own hands, so don't ask me any questions | you are always such dear about | that, anyway, Madge, But l shudder 10 think how near you were to death last night. He was completing his g-conceiVed plan to blow up the reservoir and put New Yorll's water supply out of business. He had enough explosives hidden in different places to turn the Catskill into a valley, and he was busy at some of the last detailh when young Crowley came upon him.
 A Sinister Background
 The trooper was able to ruin enough of the delicate mechanism smith was handling" Lillian went on before my gasp had died, 50 that his purpose was frustrated, before he struck Crowley that awful blow. He vas evidently sure that Crowley was { nearly dead, and would never again 'egain consciousness. So your sudden { itting up must have effeCtUaly l 'tartled him, He had arranged such Z Ind effective alibi, however, that he ( lid not stop to silence you as less lngle-minded criminal might have | lone. He was anxious to get back to | he inn, and exhibit himself, so that l ater he might get back to the reser- ( ,oir" .. .-.. .... ....
 She paused while I tried to digest he startling information she had f given me. ...
 'Of course, he's monomaniac I 'he said, but while this was his own i particular scheme, and we are sure le played a lone hand in it, yet his { money and his peculiar talents and his l hatred of this country, dating back to )re-War times, make him a dangerous ool for certain gentry whom the serv- ce is watching. told Col Trayers his morning that it was just as .well l le escaped for q time. His own par icular crazed scheme has failed, we lnow him and his characteristics, specially his VoiCe-you could recog- { ,ize that now in any disguise, could rou not? she broke off abruptly,
 I nodded an emphatic assent.
 "So we can afford to let him run oosc for a little," she resumed, keep ng close upon his trail. | fancy that { will lead us in surprising direc- ions"
 She rose and stretched both arms ] hove her head. and l knew that she ad told mo all she meant to reveal. ( iut ! thrilled with the conviction that ohind her story was a sinister back .