The diamond drill., 1921-06-25
Illustrations By A. wail

a woman Ia the place Ia met by a man
seemingly by appointment. and severn,
nis suspicious aroused. follows them
They go 10 the designated meeting nlaca
an abandoned iron foundry.
CHAPTER III.-At the rendezvous Ga.
vern Is accepted as one of the consuara !.
tors and admitted He meets a strange<
who appears to recognize him.
CHAPTER IV.-The stranger addresses
severn as Harry DAILY. The Incident PLAYS
into boveyn's hands and be accepta A
Ills new acquaintance ts notorious
tniet. oenuernan George" HarriA Con-
ceAied, Severn hears the girl be had fol-
towed address the conspirators. she urges
enem 70 hasten the work OF revolution.
CHAPTER v.-Leaving the crowd 70
discuss the message she had brourht the
giri discovers Severn listening She ac-
cepts his explanation OF HIS presoncs and
makes an appointment 10 meet him NEXT
day. He tells her his name is DAILY. Har-
ris infos7ns him OF schone he has 10
secure sum amounting to u.mm. the
revoiuuonary fund. and offcrs 10 'spiit"
with him Severn accepts the proposition.
CHATTER vI-Severn learns n WINS
his new friend and a Captain Ava who
mad lost the box which siartad him on
me trail. Harris tells him the woman Is
marie Gessler. He arrangas To meet
Severn next day at Tom CosttCan's sa-
loon. leaving the building, sevorn notices
a stalled automobile n few blocks away.
investigating. he hnds the body Of Cap
tain Ava, stabbed 70 death win hatpin
dagger. Securing Il, he remcxnbcrs having
hat
CHAPTER vIL-Besieving Marie left
the foundry with Alva. Secern Is forced
to believe she is the slayer He takes
me dagger with him. leaving the body
20 DO discovered later. At tho ADDRESS
Marie had given him he nnds she Is
unknown He visits Coedxans ana learns
that Harris has disappeared. Onstisan
apparently has no doubt that Severn IA
really DAILY" and gives him his full
confidence
CHAPTER vfII.-At his hotel Severn
finds message asking him 10 phone III.
Hotel McAlpin. lie does 80 and Is invited
20 cali. At the McAlpin he meots Marie
Gessier. She refuses fully TO explain her
position. and he Is unable 90 make up
his mind as 10 whether she Il guilty or
innocent or Aiva's murder. The prestnp-
ton, however. In all against her, and
severn. on whom abe has macfe q deep
impression, In In a quandary.
4 CHAPTER Ix.-With Marie. Severn vis-
Ns Perond's cafe. an underworid resort.
where the girl believes they may meet
Harris and Rnsslan Jew, Ivan Waldron
leading spirit I'm the schesne OF robbery
AT Perond's. Harris discovers Severn. and
believing tho latter has obtained the
money after killing Alva, attacks him.
Severn fights him and waidron of. and.
with Marie. escapes. The girl refuses
fully 20 explain her position In connection
with the conspirators. insisting that Se-
vern must give her his frdl confidence.
With that Ire 10 forced TO be content
CHAPTER x-After leaving the girl
at the McAlpin, Severn finds thai hts room
has been entered and the dagger stolen.
Bewildered, he about comes TO the con-
clusion that Marie has secured ~ as in |
eliminating evidence. On n telephone |
call from Harris Severn visits Custigan's.
There Harris, CostiRan and wnldron con- |
front him. They refuse 20 bclteve he has |
not got the money stolen from Alva and |
after fight Severn Is left unconscious.
morning, but somehow Severn must
have woke up. an got out o. the |
room. for the next thing / know'd he
was fightin' Harris out In the hall, an
after that found the girl had skipped
out durIn' the fracas.'
"They both got away"
"Clean, leaving Harris behind with
his skull busted; deader than a door
nall when I got TO him"
"And you don't know who this
Severn Is or what he Is up top
( mo, don't, Wine but he's sure got
some game on. an he's got my goat
He's In with the girl all right. and
knows too d--n much That's what
makes me leery about her being here
pumpln' YOU"
"She didn't pump me-"
"You mean 10 say the two OF you
didn't talk about Alvaf"
1--WE talked about him. of course
we couldn't help It, bat she never
limited MT nothing, and she didn't ask
no questions. Only IL seems they've
found out one thing that hnln't been
reported by the poilce-she knew
what he was killed with"
whats that! She told you what
stuck him7'
"You bet she did; she had one OF
'em herself. an took Il out OF her
hat, and put II right down here on
the desk. l thought for a second I
was going 10 keel over, but she didn't
notice. just went on tallsln'. How do
yer suppose she ever found that outT'
Severn told her, that's how. II
was dropped there IN the dark That
feller got Il some way, and hid u In
his vallse. That was what made IInr-
ris SO sure he was IN on the Job,
because he raided the room at some
hotel and found the thing"
"You don't imagine the girl is play.
In usTn
II don't Imagine nuthln, but I'm
pIyin' safe I don't know what the
III either OF thcn are up 20. but
figure they know too DIN much. an