The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-09-22
CHAPTER v
The Masauer unmssks.

difficulty in obtaining accommoda tons,
| for II is not nearly enough to have
the money; one must also have the In
| Productions, come well recommended,
and be under the tongue of coed re-
pute.
Gramont had obtained small apart
ment en- pensions quiet and severely
retired house In Burgundy street,
maintained by very proud old lady
whose ancestors had come out OF
Canada with the Sieur d'Iberville.
Here Gramont lived with Hammond,
quite on basis of equality ard they
were very comfortable.
The two men sat smoking their pipes
before the fireplace, In which bIazed
small fire-more for good cheer than
through necessity. 1t was Sunday
evening
Gramont stared into the pickering
Ere and sucked at his pipe. Students
he reused himself and shot a glance
at Hammond.
Sergeant You seem to have A
pretty good recollection OF that night
at the Lavergne house, when l found
you entering and jumped on you"
"You bet l have" Hammond
chuckled. "When you'd knocked the
goggles off me and we recognized each
other-h-ll l felt like boob"
Gramont smiled. "How many places
had you robbed up to then? Three.
wasn't it?"
'"Three is right cap'n," was the un.
ashamed response.
I'VE haven't referred to 1t very Of
ten, but now things have happened"
Gramont's face took on harsh lines OF
determination. do you know. il was
lucky thing that you had no chance
to dispose of the Jewels and money
you obtained?"
mo CHANGER" snorted the other. mo
chance is right, cap'nl And l was
sore, too. Say. they got ring of
crooks around this town you couldn't
bust into with grenadesl Listen here,
and I'll tell you something big"
Hammond leaned forward, lowered
his voice, and tamped at his pipe.
when was young fellow lived
In little town up north-I amt say
in where. My old man had a livery
stable there. see? Well, one night a
guy come along and got the old man
out of bed, and slips him fifteen hun
dred for rig and team, see?
drove the guy ten miles through the
hills, and set him on a road he wanted
to find.
Nov. that guy was the biggest
crook in the country in them days
still is. l guess. He was on the dead
run that night, to keep out o. Leaven-
worth. He KEEP out, all right, and he's
settin' in the game to this minute. No !
body never plnched him yet, and never
WILL
"Why?"
politicians and rich guys all over the
country. You ask anybody on the in
side II they ever heard OF Memphis
Ivy Gumberts! Well. cap'n, l seen
that very identical guy on the street
the other day. never could forget his
side crooks can get in. you believe
met"
Him Memphis Ivy Gumberts, ehf
What kind Of crook is he, sergeant?"
THE big kind. You remember them
lotteries? But you don't, o.
course. Well, that's his game-lot-
cries and such like"
Gramonts lips clenched for a min
lte then he spoke with slow distinct.
less:
Sergeant, I'd have given FIVE hun
ired dollars for that information a
week ago"
"Whyr Gramont shook his head.
Never mind. Forget it Now, this
tunt of yours was clever. You showed
rains when you got yourself up as an
lviator and pulled that stuff, SER
cant But you handled it brutally-
erribly brutality"
ut was little raw. guess" con-
eded Hammond. II was mp against
t, that's all. When you took over the
ostume and began TO get across with
he Raffies stuff-why, il was pipe
or you. cap'n Look what we've done
A month. Six jobs. every one run
ing off smooth as glass Your mo-
on Of going to parties ready dressed
nth some kind of loose robe over the
yin buds was scream And then
lie running that motor with the cut
II on-ail them birds that never
card an airpiane think you come and
, by air. for certain Nobody win
YER find us out"
Gramont NODDED thoughtfully.
Eyes? But. sergeant, how about the
met little man who came along last
ght at the Maillard house and asked
bout the car? Perhaps he had dis
'vered sou had been running the
igine.'
"Him?-- Hammond shifted in scorn.
lie wasp no dick"