New Britain herald., 1923-10-16

arrid sarcasm. ''This thing isn'i
 quite as simple a- it sounds. You
 start out to telephone and you'll Dc
 nahbed sure"
 Half.eonvineed, Kelsey gave wa,
 nngraeiously.
 ! iarluma" The brusaue tang of the question gave Kelsey the feeling that Charlie was really heading some. where. and aroused him from hls melancholy abstraction,
 "Bristow's?" He looked up. "one Of the best in the country Only for the very rich of course: thoroughly modern. spendidly managed. Bris- tow is an alienist of the first rank. with a criminal twist and a craze for money"
 What were you doing thcre?"
 Kelsey told him briefly Of his posi- ton as assistant-surgeon. and tho cir cumstances of his dctcntion; of his first experience with Hope and of the role she was playing; of their subse- quent meetings and the escape,
 Charles cigarette burned to ashes in his fingers as he listened. his face sharpcned down until it was wolfish; but he did not once interrupt the story, or ask question.
 "Bristow.' He held up one Of his lightning-rolled cigarettes. naming it. But" squirting thoughtfuly. as he laid it on the table. "he couldn't swing it alone. Too big. Who else is in it?"
 He shot the question at Kelsey like a bullet from rapid-fre revolver.
 Miss Copley. She's q nurse. Looks strikingly like Hope. Passes as an older sister in charge Of the insane younger one"
 Charlie pursed his mouth in a whistle.
 Any ono else?"
 Higgins. An ex-alderman. An old millionaire. Made a fortune in Wall Street. they say"
 Charlie bounded up with stified exclamation, his tongue clicking his teeth.
 Hobo Bill! That does settle it. Hobo Bill! I might have known 1t. The joker in the deck."
 He bobbed about the room like cork, snapping his fingers. muttering broken phrases under his breath
 "rhe hobo messages.-- This oooby-hatch for headquarters.--Thc nurse. ringer.-Tve got the whole hing"
 CHAPTER NH.
 "In the first place." said Charlie, .I've known Ranger ever since l was !, boy, and when I heard about his little girl, I started out on my own | nook to find her. know crook | psychology better than old Byrnes ,ver did but this gang that are hold ng her fooled me forty ways from he ace. But last night l got tip hat led straight to Bristow's Sanl- arium.
 T rode as fast as my motorcycle ,ould race from Westchester to Bar ,elona, taking all the short cuts. It vas on one of them that came on you two. And so I rushed for q doc or. thinking you were ready to kick n; and as soon as l reached the VII age, I got pinched. So just turned n and went to sleep that is, as much IS that fierce storm would let me.
 But in the meantime my mascot lad got busy. She it was who gave ne the lead to 1,risttow. I'd had din- Ter with her, and put her back in a us with her party. They all went n to spend the evening with some riends. and as they came back about midnight. they stopped at the Lone Till garage for some gas. Up steps he garage mans assistant, a shock eaded funk, that had driven me and ,y queen to the Inn. He was all wittering with excitement, and tells CT that have been arrested over ere at Rarceona.
 What headpiece that girls got. [ere's her friends kind of giggling at CT for being took in. She don't be- eve that; for she saw me with Ran CT. And Barcelona is the tip she ave me. But she wants 10 make ire. So what does she do but call D the man whose names been in all ie papers as Rangers attorney, Eus- ice Higby,
 "He tells her that I'm all right, and