The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-31

lust what that crime IL. or II IL
succeeds shall know about II.
and I'm that case, | shall equally
know that you anu not prevent 1t.
| think you quite understand what
that means, don't you. Bundyy
However"-she smiled again, as
she opened her purse and took out
a pencil--'1et us put Il down to a
woman's Unsuitable curiosity, II
you like, and decode y together"
Decode It! The twisted smile
that came to his lips was genuine
enough. He couldn't decode II. He
had only one card TO playa fiat
and unequivocal refusal.
Nothing doingl" he snarled.
"Oh, yes, think there Is" she
said softly again. -,
He stared at her. Her pencil
was flying across the paper. Who
was this woman2 She knew the
key! Was there any thing that she
did not know? He watched her in
a stunned way. his mind In confu-
sion. And then he leaned forward
to observe her work more closely.
Beneath the original cipher she
had written this:
ziduve sfuufw efwjfdfs uofnch-
jtopd teopnbje ofu eobtvpiu
tasbmmpe zbepu npsg nbesfutnb
fwbi opjubnspgoi flu fmpn u
hojzbm uobmq pu ufh nflu
uihiopu offxufc uihjf cob fojo
lpmdp cob usfwje opjdiqtvt pu
fnpt fop ftmf ovs flu fmpn pu
iusbf aoh nil ihvnd nv.
ut is so simple. Bundy," she
murmured caustically. The nu-
merals to designate the numbeE of
letters In the words, the transport
fion OF "a for b. and SO on, and
the words spelled backward. 1t Ia
so simple, Bundy. that 1t Is strange
you should have forgotten-and
forgotten that there are other Sc
crets ! have found in that den of
yours, apart from that very con-
vepient and ingenious doorl"
She was working as she spoke,
paying no attention to him. He
made no reply, only watched her
as she set down a second series Of
letters:
yhctud rettev deviecer tnemn-
gisnoc sdnomaid net dnasuoht
srallod yadot mort madretsma
evah noltamrofni eht elom ST
gniyal a tnalp OF teg meht
thginot neewteb thgie dna enin
kcolco dna trevid noscip.us OF
ennos emo esle nur eht elom OF
htrae dna exam mih hguoc pu.
A moment more, and she had
written out the message in plain
English:
Dutchy Yetter received con-
signment diamonds ten thou
sand dollars to-day from Am
sterdam. Have information the
Mole is laying plant to get
them tonight between eight
and nine o'clock, and divert
suspicion to some one else
Run the Mole to earth and
make his cough up.
She was studying the paper In
her hand. Billy Kane lighted an
other cigarette. He was still
watching her, but 1t was in a de-
tached sort of way. Between eight
and nine o'clock! Peters was
rarely able to leave the Ellsworth
home on his evenings off until we'll
after eight o'clock; Peters, there
fore, would not reach his fiat much
before nine, and was not likely to
leave there again Immediately.
Billy Kane's mind was working
in quick and seemingly unrelated
snatches OF thought. There was
time enough to see this Vetter
game through without interfering
with that interview he meant To
hold with Peters. 1t was
strange that il should be Vetter.
White JACK had spoken of
Vetter Savnak, the violin
player, and Vetter White
Jack said that Savnak and Vetter
spent most Of their evenings to-
gether at Vetters playing pinochle
and the violin Savnak would
likely be there then between eight
ana nine. Upon whom was ii
that the so-calied Mole intended to
point suspicion? Here was
the moral obligation again.
He had fought that out last night.
She, this woman here, was
not the driving force. She
only represented disaster from an
ShtllOlJ u4utItul source III he
failed. . II he stood aside with
the foreknowledge of crime in his
possession he was as guilty as dis
Mole. Perhaps he had been
trying to trick his own conscience
In not pressing Red Yallon for ex-
plantations. A.. Perhaps, In
measure, he had allowed the argu-
ment that he might invite Red Val
Ions suspicious to act as an ex-
cuse for evading the responsibility
that this foreknowledge of crime
entailed. Well, that respon-
sibility was his now, thanks to
her. He had no choice.
1t was hKely 10 be the man In the
mask again, and
She pushed the paper toward him.
Perhaps you would like TO de-
stroy this-ior safety's sake" she
observed coInplacently.
He took the paper mechanically,
and mechanically tore IL up.
III do not know the Mole ner-
sonally"-she was speaking almost
more to herself than to him, as
though feeling her way cautiously
along q tortuous mental path-'I
only know him as an exceedingly
clever scoundrel and as tho head