The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-12-20
Florence Bingham
Livingston

"a
a"ay' So. so he came in for it; and l
uon nave to remind you, Carline
na' It's easy to find things in this
house. He found the package. and
mere was the money beside it Wbv
no' take 1t. as longs he was going on,
OF town anyway?'
"hat are you talking about. Uncle
'erryI Why was he getting away
and" away
Shaw, now, Car'line, the idea of
your being confused cause I began at
.he wrong end of my story. I'll take
.ne other end If you'd like it better.
iou see, l been trying out a little
sleuthing."
ohF Mrs Penfield drew a deep
breath. On the instant her memory
caught up few perplexing occur.
eehces In the past months.
Yes, I've always had a leaning
toward it-read good deal and fol.
lowed what other fellers had done
and all that; and when / got my
knockout for the woods. / naturall,
wanted to go into something that ap
pealed. l had a lot of personal recon
mendations and letter to a man con.
nected with the lumber company
through him and considerable red
tape, l finally got sworn In as a spe
cial with the secret service, when they
were taking on number of extra
men to work on the Bosley ring. My
particular assignment has been to
shadow Bosley. Believe me, I've sweat
blood over that feller, darn himi"
Mrs. Penfelds eyes were fixed on
his face. That's why you came here
took the loft and"
Sure. l wanted to be round as
casually as possible. I've worked ev'ry
scheme could concoct to worm myself
into that feller's life. But he was a
slick one in his own line. He's been
stringing me on real-estate deal, and
I've allowed myself to be strung. OF
course he didn't suspect my object, but
sort o. made him nervous, hanging
round and getting in with his cronies."
Uncle Jerry, you're worse'n a wom-
an for not getting at the main point
You may be star detective, but you'd
never make a reporter. Now will you
kindly stay still in your tracks till
you've told me what you wanted him
for?"
"Oh, that" Jerry Winston chuckled.
Yes, mebbe l did overlook that, it's
been in my mind SO long. Why. he's
been a leader in ring that's been
supplying drugs to lot of fiends in
exchange for their passing off counter
felt money. Choice circle, and big
one. too All nations represented-Chi-
nese and whites! Lettie put me wise
to their money-factory. was sure
they had one, but"
"Lettie!' Mrs Penfield came to her
feet. "What do you meanT
Holy smoke, Car'line, don't get so
excited! Lettie didn't know what she
was doing, and l hain't never men,
toned 1t to her. Catch me Quizzing
kid! No, all is, / overheard her twit
ting Bosley, bout Sinking into house
next to one of the vacant lots. ]
hugged the lean-to and listened; but.
believe me, did more prowling than
Lettie has fore found the vacant lot
and the house Raiding 1t was part of
last nights work.
"You see, yesterday l got hold of
one of his dope fiends that was willing
to squeal on him, so last night we
put II through as smooth as silk. The
feIler bought the stuff with money
we could have identified in Siam. One
of our own men was within witnessing
distance. too. Some of the very
powder you were guarding yesterday
Car'line, is one of our choicest ex-
hibits today. We sure got Bosley;
darn 1t all, we got him|
"I s'pose," said Mrs. Penfield slowly.
"that Mrs. Bosley's been honorlng me
with her packages Of counterfeit
money and dope, but seems as II 1t
wasn't very clever"
"Cleverm Jerry Winston took the
word out Of her mouth. "She was the
life of the ring in the beginning. but
lately she'd lost her nerve, and Bos-
Lows had the DEVILS own time to Keep
her from breaking away. She didn't
care II Bosley got caught, so long as
she'd cleared her skirts. If the house
was going to be searched. the goods
weren't going to be there. Seer Amt
onv of these folks SO clever that they
don't do something foolish fore they're
through"
"Poor thing!" commiserated Mrs,
penfield. ~ wonder what1l become OF
her"
"Well. / can tell you. She'll get
chance TO think 1t over. We got her
last night, too. She was staging an
ex,t of her own, but we trailed her to
s,.teenth street station, just in time
IN see her getting on the local FOR
the mole. That gave her two chances:
To 90 on to San Francisco or come
hack on a through train. We tele-
graphed the police on the other side to
watch the ferry; then we waited for
the shasta limited-and there she
wasI Gee, / was glad. The more OF
the trick 1 could help to turn, the