The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-24
Blu Isabel OStrdnder

/ rupUcd EOr the love Oi hCaVCul. as
YOU Mac Aud what have you
thcru''
"What you should have had n
you'd bcru on your beat. CLANCY
/ NcCarty Triortod Rrimly "A tino
young Second story worker that Ivo
/ been trailing tht,tc tour bllcNH and
moro. ana nahbrd just aa he wa
4orpuhlug out of the window uf
/ that white house there after he had
finished his lob."
- didut nuish no iob'" m,
youth cried desperately. "Iionost
. wasn't in dqro two toruudE II sou
. was trtiliu me, miHt"r yuu know
dat just give II - look an started
/ to mako my getaway Dont sond
mo to dc Dhair''
Chair. ls ~" McCarty rav, tho
| policeman ~ significant glance "I's,
| been trying 20 get out ~ him what
/ ho did do I'm there while was
| waiting Tor you 10 show up."
/ won take him along and find
| out" CLANCY declared briefly
"No,' DON'T take me back In ia,
| houqr'" the wrctrhcd youth walled
Il don't wanna look at IT again
| can't t-l" I"
UuhcodinR his protoatntious. they
| dragged him buck the frw steps ~
| the house. whore McCarty pointed
| 10 the opened window from which
| the subduod light fllt"riug through
! the lace curtain foll iu a dcicaioly
patterned square on IN" pavement
"Who lives here he asNod. a.
the policeman pressed the button
| At the entrance door.
"IirVoiing, the millionaire Clan
cy responded.
"Not Eugene Crovoliug. the tel.
| low who usod to pun or all thOH.
| Wild stunts on broadway a matter
OF 10 or 10 years ago." MCCOrty de-
| mnndcd "Thcy used TO call him
| Million a month Crevoling''
| II don't know anything ahou,
| that" Clancy asserted Must have
| been before my time. All know Is
| he's got grand looking wife and
barring the big entertainments thoy
give the house IL the 1uictcst on the
! block Here. youi Quit that or ~
| give you n rap thatll pat you e.
| qlccp'" This 10 tho struggling youth
| who now. utterly unncrvcd wns
aobhing wildly. II wondor II they're
all dead In horei Mac, go and try
the other bail"
| McCarty ohcycd, hu, with no re-
suit, Save for the low light glow
|
| house might have been indeed q
| tomb.
| "Thcro's nothing to n, Mac. W.
| cnn + get anything ont Of this hire
either now YOU get a hold OF him
| and III so ln the way he did
through the window "
| McCnrty Rrippod tho shabby
sweater collar once more and clanc'
Jumped up, caught the sill an'
swung himself over e. sweeping th'
curtain aside. II fcll aIoin into place
and Tor minute there was silence
\ sccond bus rumhlod past, lin
CUISINE or two and n prowling taxi
hut none saw the two figures hud
died tense In tn" shadows.
SAY. what are you mlHtT.
dick" tn" youth whinod. pnssinl
his sleeve across his slobhcrcd taco
"if You trnilcd me lilrc yuusc said
| YOU Gnow you didn't hear nottin'
| You know I wasn't here hong onougl
to cronk HIM"
."Cronk whom demanded Me
Cnrtv
"Dc guy In dcrc I'm dc soup an
fish, Wit his Ghost al shot 20 pieces
You know | didn't do g. Doro ain
n pill zone from my gat' " yous
an dc bun frames me-"
| lHtIf ttlllt u lhA'HNE ~ ''l
and chains on the inner side ~
tho hugo entrance door and II di
4 vidcd and swung slowly inward re
vcnling CLANCY standing grave facot
In the nprrturc eud behind him TIA
wide marble EtsircAse and rug hun
| gallery ot nm imposing rotuudn.
Come In" he invited lRconiCally
Il switched on thcsc hRil lights NV
self. but there was some nlrcad
, going In this room back here, com
ana see what I found"
tie led the way across the marhl
. hail rich I'm the mellow. suhduc
D culoriurs ~ the RUGS and drap'uio
, under tho soft LIGHTS. hut funrrn
, with the huge, carved chairs range
1 I'm mathematical precision again
the walls. MrCartv followed wit
! the Tagging, haudcuffCd youth /
| tow
I Tho door of n room hcsidc IA
\ staircase was oucn and ns the
| reached Il all three paused for
mnmcnt on the threshold n wa
! spacious I'm lfsclf although small I
comparison with the vostness of IN
, hnll aud was furnished os a stud
r with two daVcnpprtS fncing enc
\ Othcr projecting from cithor sid
NJ tho fireplace and long Jncol
can rc"octorv tahlo between Hooa
cases liuct tho walls. a mlseiv
writing table stood between Nv
windows at the rclr and d"up'v ar
holstcrcd chairs werc scattered hor
nud thcrc. rach with smoNu
stand beside e. hnt McCartvs cv,
, took I'm the details with q m,j
+ .'arrc
1Iis attention wos "iyctcd ON IN
/ l.n" figure clad I'm tho p"rtrgtio