Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-20

place yet-anu YOU maven sucked
up all Of my knowledge yet. III
you don't learn any more, all your
work will be wasted!"
"All OF which is so obvious that
I wonder you trouble to mention
it." returned Brill. 1T amazes me.
Cunningham. that you raise the
very points that ought to show you
the futility Of your protests. Hav-
ing committed murder-I freely adj
nit ito you at least-is II likely
I'll turn lack now? Very well. Let
me tell you a little more Listen.
The caretaker's daughter has fol-
lowed her father here Last night
/ came upon her in the house. on
the upper floor. and it isn't very
likely that she'd have escaped but
for some meddling fellows who
came along at q very unfortunate
moment. / dealt with the lady
rather roughly. and, in making my
escape afterward. had the supreme
pleasure of punching one Of the
meddling fellows on the nose. I got
away from them in their own car,
and then leaving it some way up
the road, came back to have a look
at them and to report the theft.
I can't help calling myself ingen-
ious. Cunningham, because you
know / really AM Why. 7 even
dropped a little button in the car
to SOW confusion concerning the
theta button that ! got hold OF
by accident during my little en-
counter with the girl"
"And-and you mean to tell me
that-that you'd have killed her?"
gasped the professor.
IF necessary-yes. for the great
or cause I serve. Yes. I would have
killed her, Cunningham. as / will
kill your daughter If you do not
obey me implicitly from this mo-
ment onward-and as / killed a
tramp who. with mistaken generos-
ity. tried to interfere while ! was
completing the kidnapping Of your
daughter. And now" he added. II
think. perhaps. we really and truly
understand each other at last. Cum
ningham?"
A door swung open. and the spot
light vanished.
Charlie stared helplessly into the
blackness. A few yards in front OF
him. behind an unseen door, Pro-
fessor Cunningham was about to
conduct an experiment, and to de-
liver the secret of that experiment
into Simon Brill's hands. The ma
ture Of the experiment was obvious.
IL involved some new explosion
which. in its evolution. had already
reverberated through the old dis
used mine that ran beneath Coon
Der house. Brill's cunning had been
Napoleonic. not merely in choosing
such a perfect site for the expert
ments. which had probably been
carried out in different portions Of
the mine. but IN using local mate
rial--the battering OF the sea into
the caves. and the superstitions OF
the ~villagers-to camouf1age those
other sounds that periodically crosse
Probably. in the past. the expert
ments had been On a comparatively
small scale That now about to be
made vas clearly a more elaborate
one. Charlie had not the bigneSs
of mind to cogitate Just then or
the ultimate effects Of the expert
ment. He was wondering what
would be the immediate effects
upon those who still remained un-
foreground while 1t was in progress.
For one point had struck Charlie
forcibly-a point which had appar-
emily been overlooked by the pro-
fessor's clouded mind. Simon Brill
had admitted himself TO be a muir
derer. Was II likely that. having
made this admission. he would al
low anyone who had heard II 10
regain his freedom and spread the
tale?
The professor. himself. will be
Brill's next victim" Rroaned Char
lie. "And-aftcr him2"
Well. well-hc must do some
thingl No good standing and star
ing. The question was-what?
Up till now. Charlie had seer no
moment when NJ could usefully in
terfcre- IN the first place. he was
no match for Simon Brill. who
probably had a revolver tucked