The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-01-02
BY BAILEY WOLFE

you"
I'm living in the lap OF luxury. :
Laughed Sally. "and I'm getting ideas
that have no place in the head Of O
working girl"
"Are your" asked Philip. Il hope
not. rather hke-working girls"
Sally. looking at him closely,
thought he seemed very tired and
worn. He had not spared himself
since he came to Warrenton.
What shall ] do?" she demanded.
u came to work"
"First-tell me about McDonald.s
He wouldn't talk to me. saio Sally.
May is sick and all could do was
send them some food. Mcdonald
wants to see you.s
"McDonald's coming here tonight, /"
said Philip. as there any news-has
anything happened ! should know
about?"
Sally told him of.the evening when
she and Giles Benton had surprised
Mcdonald in the Morris driveway.
Il can't be sure it was Mcdonald, g
she added. but think 1t was. Why
was he there7 1t couldn't have been
to thank Mary for the food she sent
to May-not at midnight"
NO" agreed Philip. HE might have
wanted to see YOU"
But why did he run away?"
Wen find out. Don't mention IL
to him until ] have chance to talk
to him. Perhaps he'll tell us of his
own accord" Philip leaned forward
and looked at her keenly. Tell me
did you let Giles Benton know you
recognized McDonald?"
mo, l didn't" said Sally slowly.
u don't know why, but didn't"
That's good" Philip sat back and
played with some papers on the desk.
I'm going to trust you with q bit of
information. Sally. Partly because
know ! can trust you, partly because
l may need your help"
"I'll keep it secret" promised Sally.
She clasped her hands together and
sat up very straight in her chair. her
face flushed. her eyes bright. She
looked, Philip could not help thinking,
like little girl who had been warned
that something very solemn and
serious was about to be confided to
her.
He's An Industrial Spy
DART of my business these last
1 three days has been to find out
something about Giles Benton" said
Philip.
"But-he's the guest of Mr.. Morris.
He's an efficiency expert, Mary says"
Benton is very highly paid detec-
tive" said Philip deliberately. Mr..
Morris secured him from an agency
that furnishes spies to big Industrial
lists"
But why?" Sally was still unbe-
lieving.
Morris wants to find out which of
his workmen are stirring up trouble
for him by organizing his men to
demand better working conditions.
Also, he's anxious to find whoever 1t
is that has been sending him threats.
He believes that the per son who sent
the threats also burned the Palace
theater."
sBut-but Giles Benton lives at the
house as a guest" Sally said. 'sHe
spends half the day in the factory,
where he is studying ways of improv-
ing Mr.. Morris methods"
Before he came to the Morris
house as a guest" said Philip, che
stayed for several weeks at the board
ing house run by Mrs. Phipps, on the
edge of Midtown. When he lived
there, he was machinist out Of
job"
"How do you know all this?" de-
manded Sally. Surely there was some
mistake. The fastidious Giles Benton
could never have lived in Mrs. Phipps'
boarding house.
II did some investigating on my
own" said Philip. "and have some
friends who are a great help. OF
course, Benton doesn't work alone.
He's got at least one other person
helping him here"
'If that's true" said Sally slowly,
ut explains at least two things he said
to me-"
"What were they?'
'He said that you had mortgaged
your house, and he said that the man
who set fire to the Palace theater
would soon be known and punished"
1.-THE first thing is true enough"
said Philip. "Your father could have
given you that information. The sec.
ond shows that Giles Benton has
nearly completed what he came here
to do"
But what does it all mean? It
doesn't fit together"
at means that Mr.. Morris will go
to any lengths to protect his inter-
ests," said Philip. at means that he
will convict some working man OF
Ills theater. that he will make
an example of that man, and discredit
the whole workmen's alliance that
asked him for better houses and more
pay. Mr.. Morris means for things to
stay as they are in Warrenton, and
he has no scruples about driving me
out because stand for change"
Sally's head was in a whirl. She
caught at the one solid spot in the
whole affair-Philip. She believed
in Philips integrity.
81 don't understand yet" she said,
but / believe you. I'D trust you
to the ends of the earth"
Philips eyes lighted. That's the
one thing on earth needed most to
hear he said.
(copyricht. 1886. Bailey WolfeJ
Mcdonald tells how he was con-