New Britain herald., 1924-04-10
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY


 returned to his friends shabby, com- , fortable bachelor quarters it was to
 report no progress; he had spent tho ] day riding on the tube trains and
 ferries, questioning guards and deck | hands, and taxi drivers at the New York terminals without result.
 The newspapers had given a para
 graph to the missing girl but Head quarters could report nothing except vague rumors and there seemed to be no alternative but to wait.
 I'm about in the same boat, Mike" Trevor exclaimed soomily. 1 "I saw Miss Cope,and---Alva--at her l window this afternoon when was trailing round tbe block in the car
 and she seemed to ke staring down
 straight at mo but wouldn't reply to any of my signals until finally she
 made an abrupt motion 10 me 10 go
 away. can't understand if! If she didn't recognize me why should she
 wave at all and if she did-oh, she
 could not have meant that she did
 not wish to sec, mo any more."
 Never mind, we'll get on the job again in the morning." Mike replied. I'm likely to be up and out before you and youil hear from me when you get back from that horseback ride of yours"
 He was as good AS his word for when Trevor awakened it was to find his guest gone. After fruitless can- ter along the bridle path in the park across the Avenue from Inc blank windows of the Copeland house he returned 10 find no message from Mike and he paced tho floor gloomiy with dire but vague plans of abdnc- tion forming in his mind for an hour or more before the telephone shrilled.
 "'rhat you, Tresor?" It was nn- occasionally Mikes voice but shaken with some emotion which his former lieutenant had never heard in ii. even in the heat of battle. ''i want you to come down here at once and watch your step as you travel, Got your old army resolser"'
 "Ycs, but what's the idea and where is here '" Trevor demanded.
 Make gave an address on an old fashioned block in the fifties and added:
 "I have found lady who has q strange story 10 tell ns both, for it interests you as well as mo. Look out that somebody doesn't try to drop q brick on you from housetop or run you down with taxi crossing street, for I think you're being watched and if they trail you here, they may try 10 get you!"
 "0h, come, Mike." The, or laughed, "f didn't think you'd develop nerves at this late dayi"
 ''it's serious!" Mike insisted. "T cant talk over the phone but have news for you of--of the girl in the window. Now do you understand 2"
 The girl. Mike! i'll be there as quick as a taxi-."
 Not a strange onc.' warned Mikc once more. "Ill be waiting for you
 Trevor loaded his old army "can- non" and thrust it mechanically into his bolt. then put on topcoat to hide the bulge and hurried from his apartment. So keenly wrought up was he in anticipation over the pos sible news which Make might have for him that he forgot the warning until carcening taxi nearly bowled bim over ss he crossed Fifty-sixth street and two men sprang from mo- where and started up brisk fight 1ifectly in his path when he had proceeded q little further down the block. He avoided the combaianis and reached the house number given him. 10 find stout but very dis tressed looking elderly woman in her Sunday black silk holding the door open for him as he mounted the iingy high stoop
 'Is II Mf. Trevor" she asked. Your friend's right in the parfor. He wouldn't let me fix his head-.''
 Nike" Carin Trevor daHhed past her and into the little reception room where he found the detective seated un haircioth sofa holding a rcd- jencd handkerchief 10 his head.
 "It's only scratch!" Mike an- nounccd defensiHeiy. "A loose tile fell off a roof as passed bt. but my hat saved me. Come in. Mrs. Jennet, and tell Mir. Trevor tho details of the story you just told me"
 Mrs. Jennet bustied in and seated herself in the chair which Trevor 1rew forward for her.
 "Well. must say I'm glad your friend thinks I did right" she began. 'of course I'd ought 10 have gone to 1 he police yesterday E'hcn seen that l lrtiele in the paper about the young ady being missing. but l been rum 1ine a respectable boarding house here for good many years with never 4 word or scandal and I-I was ifraid."
 'To you mran tl1p biack haired soung lady in the biue-g" Trevor spoke in q puzzled tone but she cut him short with an energetic nod.
 Yes. There's two or three old aI fellers that used 10 be hanson irirers in the old days. who hang sround the river tunnels and if q fare 0oks all right 10 them. and asks for ! nice, quiet place to board they bring 'cm 10 me. That's how the Eoung lady come. last Tuesday after- noon at half-past four. She ras 2 stranger in the city and real tired .nd frightened but quite the lady and vT.. her m .fird rfsr,r Fresry and