The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-22
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CHAPTER KY

CHAPTER XXV
 TT was about week later that l stumbled on the Brooklyn ad- dress. I'd been going through those papers of Boggio's, and in a com partment of the leather briefcase had come siipon 8 small envelope with a Yale key in it. The address was in Bogglo's handwriting.
 Ordinarily I wouldn't have wor- ried about it. But what intrigued me was the fact that the address was in the neighborhood of Harris, Ferguson & Go, What was Bog gio doing with key to a place in that district? And what kind of a place could it be?
 The key seemed never to have been used. It was probably a due plicate, but the fact that Boggio kept 1t in his portfolio proved its importance.
 Throughout the day I kept try ing to dismiss the matter from my mind, but 1t was no use. At about 4 o'clock I decided to go and see for myself.
 It wasn't hard to find the place which was stones throw from the Brooklyn side of Brooklyn bridge. I must have passed Tn front of 1t dozens of times without giving it a second look when l was working at Harris, Ferguson & Co. You went around the corner from their store and up an alley barely wide enough for a truck to go through, Then you faced a desolate looking building in weatherbeaten brick and limestone that might have been small factory or ware house in its time. It looked as If 1t had been abandoned for the past few years.
 Then 1t all came back to me. This alley was where I'd first met Boggio, ,,.
 walked up to the big double doors to find them securely locKeu and bolted. There were also Q couple of windows tightly boarded up and so deeply covered with dirt and soot that they looked like a part of the wall But l finally found what I was looking for: a small side door in slightly better shape than the rest of the build ing, It had e Yale lock, I took the key from the envelope in my pocket and slid 1t In easily.
 THE interior of the place was in \ pitch darkness. lit a match and Rroped around until found a light switch. A naked bulb suspend ed from low beam barely illumin- ated small section of the oulio- ing. - o,, ing cases neatly stacked agalnst the far wall. The light was too feeble for me to make out the let tering so lit another match. Be- fore 1t burned out I'd seen enough to know that all those cases had once contained liquor And "a also seen something else, the aim outline of a circular staircase ris- Ing vertically to the top of the building. oao,, stems, The first few creaked ana the others let out a hollow souno that echoed loudly through the nlace I must have made about | seven COnplSVS tulhe SSANNN st a ing the gallery that gave onSo .os e series of rooms, pronaply olllceS In the days when this had been u factory. - .,oxn the gallery and peered into several ol the rooms. They were all empty; Tn one of them the wallpaper hao Income unstuck and was drooplne down, A couple more had no no doors but attracted my attention for it's door was closed. ... o. T
 My heart began pounding as | slowly turned the handle. The door wasn't locked and 1t swung open with It's hinges creaking. There was was just enough light from d.ns the bulb downstairs to help me Ilno '''f wasn't exactly prepared for the