Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-12
CHAPTER XVII.
Into the Hands Of His Enemy.

Durand waited alone for word to be
hs>sied him that the debt he owed
Clay Lindsay had been settled in fill.
A telephone lay on-the desk close at
hand and beside it was a watch. The
secondhand licked its way jerkily
round and round the circle. Except
for that the st Illness weighed on him
unbearably. He paced up and down
the room chewing ~nervously the end
of an unlit cigar. For the good It'd
ings which he was anxious to hear
was news of the death Of the strong
young enemy who had beaten him at
every turn. = &,
Why didn't Collins get to the tele-
phone? Was it possible that there
had beer q slip-up, that Lindsay had
aga'n broken the trap seo for him ?
Had "Slirn's" nerve failed him {? Or
had Bromfield pee unable to bring
the victim to the slaughter?
His mind went over the details
again. The thing had been well plan
ned even to the ~unguarded door
through which Collins was to escape.
job, make his getaway along with
Dave. n be safe from any chance of
identification. Bromfeld, to save his
own hide, would keep still. If he
didn't. Durand was prepared to shift
the murder upon his shoulders.
The minute-hand Of the watch pass
ed down from the quarter to the half
tiers. Still the telephone bell did not
ring. The gang leader began to sweat
blood. Had some one bungled after
all the care with which he had laid
HIS plans. Il
A door slammed below. Hurried
footsteps sounded on the stair "treads.
Into the room burst a man. &
Sims been croaked," he -blurted.
What" Durand's eyes dilated.
AT Maddock's." >
WHO did it,"
DE guy he was to gun"
Lindsay 2"
Oats de fellow" -
Punched him right on de spot"
Gun 81 M did he .
"Nope. Knocked him cold Wit a
chair. Cracked his skull"
rs he dead" j.
Hell never be deader. Dave grab.
bed-this sucker Lindsay and yelled
that he done 1t. The bulls pinched
him like I said right there"
Did it happeR IN the dark ~"
Sure al you're a foot high. My
job was dousin' the glims, and I done
it right"
ing when e'got it?"
The other fellow shook his head.
This Lindsay man claims he. was. l
talked W.T. a bull afterward. Dey.
didn't md no gun or Slim The bull,
says there was no gun-play."
What became OF Sims gum" Il
Search me-"
Durand slammed i big ist exultant-
" down on The desk. Better than-the
way I PANIED it. II tho guns gone,
I'll frame Lindsay for the chair, It's
Salt creek for his"
He lost no time in getting into touch
with Gorilla Dave, who was under ar
rest at the station house. From him.
he learned the story OF the killing Of
Collins. One whispered detail OF It
filled him with malicious glee.
THE boob! He'll 60 to the death
chair sure II I can frame him. We're
lucky Brornheld ran back into the IT
tie room. Up in front a dosengnys
might have semitic whole play even Ia
the dark" ~
Durand spent the Neutrality-suspicious.
ing the Web he had spuHSto destroy.
his enemy. He passed TO and fro.
among those VINO had been arrested
mony of some Of them to suit his q
More than n of the men caught IN
the drag-net Of the police was-wNlinS
to see the affray,frot1n the proper ans
sle in exchange for protection from
prosecution.
After breakfast Durand went to the
Tombs. whore Clay haa been trans
ferred At daybfeak.
You needn't bring the fellow here
ne told the warden. eli 80 right ID
,hts-cage and see him. I wantta have
q talk with him.
Between two guards Clay climbed
the iron steps TO an upper tier of eng
cell which held two bsds. sonA above
thk other. u In thAsseabin Bf m ocean
liner. BY the aids of the hunks 5ywas
= narrow space Just long enough Tor