The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-09
CHAPTER xXxv1u


modification. "you're only guess
"That I grant you; and in van
ity, i you like-paternal vanity
that holsters up my faith in the
courage and resource Of my boy. !
will confess" Lanyard with fond
smile admitted, II like to believe
Maurice . true child Of my own
spirit-that he met the situation
and dealt with it as I. at his age,
would have"
"Oh, WE'LL" his friend admitted,
IF It had been you in his place, /
guess ! wouldn't be 20 slow to take
stock in your theory. The Lone
Wolf, ! remember, got away too reg
ularly with the impossible"
Permit me to commend the Lone
VOLTS whelp, then, to your atten-
ton. Not that / need to, II you know
Is much Is ! imagine you know
about what went on behind the
scenes on the way over"
II know . lot more than you ever
let out to me, hon,bre. I'm willing
to admit he's , = likely youngster-
81 have found him that the
father confessed. "Still, I do believe
the boys too intelligent not to see
what as IN ass he's been before It's
too late-n he hasn't already, if it
needs more than that affair Of last
night to open his eyes. And it is
there, # you understand me, that I
find the most cause for being COM
forted by what you have told me-
in what the door-clerk's story would
seem to prove, that Maurice found
himself, his true self, when he per-
ceived to what ends his folly had
led him"
"I'd like 70 think you're right"
Crane protested. "But It takes q
heap Of believing; and while I don't
like to seem . crab, !! can't help To-
eating the fatal flaw in your theory.
II Maurice and the girl made .
clean getaway, a. you assume,
what's become Of them? Why hasn't
Miss Fenno shown up at home?
Why isn't the boy waiting for you
1t the Walpole? Why has neither
Of them 90 much a. tried TO COM
municate with their parents?"
Common prudence may have
counseled their keeping under cover
till the mob that murdered Fowler
was put where it couldn't take SINH
lar measures 70 silence them, too.
As long - Maurice remains lost.
you see, he enjoys much the same
advantage over the mob that I en-
Joy, who am ct large IN New York
while It believes me still . prisoner
aboard the Ncudrre-able to make
my own reconnaissances, and per-
hsps execute reprisals, unembar-
raised By espionage"
"sReprisals'7" Crane 1rawled,
with derision IN his eyebrows Is
we'll. "You surely don't think the
lads simp enough TO dream OF try
ing to get level with that bunch
single-handed?"
"You are doubtless Justified In
terminR It . simpleton's course"
Lanyard admitted. "But Il ] know
my son, the Lone VOLTS son.-and
I am one who knew his father!-
Maurice, whatever his first inten.
lions may have been in respect OF
those wretched emeralds, will never
rest, now that his folly has resulted
In their being stolen from Fenno.
till he refinds and restores them"
esIts . man-size contract, all
right. But-seeing you're 80 sure
You know how his mind works-why
not put yourself In the boys place
and try to figure what his first
move would naturally BET"
"But figure to yourself that one
has already done %. Maurice would
do rs I shall-waste no time on the
understrappers, but strike instead
straight at the genius Of the plot,
the head that conceived and ordered
e and supervised its execution"
aOh. yeah1" The native son, VINO
knew Its own people and their ways
better than any benighted foreign
er could pretend e, enjoyed . ser.
castle moment. sAnd who migns
that Be. 70 your way Of thinking7"
NYou do not known"
y mob's . mob" Crane etouay
argued; at amt any one particular
ssThink again. A mob, ~ know.
II : Group Of individuals more q
less held together by common 1neeI.
~ 81 crime: e can work . one
nm 20 one end only when domi'
nated 81 . single superior. 1nteul'
800 Eez, taka hees 49, =!