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Maitland opened his safe, took thfrefrom the jewels, and gave them to her. first forming a partnership In crime. The real Dan Vpisty, sought by police of the world, nppoirtd. Maitland overcame hirn. He and tl g'rl wont to Nw York I D in her auto. had the jewels. She was to meet him that day. A Mr. 1n reduced himself as a detecSnafth tive. To shield the girl in gray, Maitland, about to show him the jewels, supposedly lost, was fd led by a blow from SnaithV cane. The latter proved to be Anisty himself and he secured the gems. Anisty, who was Maitland's double, masqueraded as the latter. The criminal kept Maitland's engagement with the girl in gray. He gave her the gems. The girl in gTay visited Maitlands apartments during his absence and returned gems. Maitland, without cash, called up his home and heard a womans voice expostulating. Anisty, disguised as Maitland, tried to from her the location of the gems. wring A crash was heard at the front door. Maitland overwhelmed the crook, allowto to shield the him young escape ing woman. The girl In gray made her escape, jumping into a cab. An Instant later, by working a ruse, Anisty was at her side. He took her to Attorney ofllee. There, by torture, he tried in vain to wring from her the location of the gems, He left her a moment and she phoned OHagan, only getting in the words: Tell Mr. Maitland under the brass bowl," the hiding place in the latters rooms, when Anisty heard her words. Bannernian also was revealed as a crook. He and Anisty set out to secure the gems and leave town. The girl was still imprisoned. Maitland finding the girl gone, searched his rooms and unearthed He the jewels under the brass howl. struck Anlsty's trail in a big office building. Kw PINGREE Is the newest town in Idaho. It will be opened early in June with sale of lots and excursion new on Oregon Short Line branch to be completed to that point at the same time. : : : : AHO The wonder state has developed in years thousands and homes. Do live and thrive of the west, the last five of new acres you wish to in a really NEW TOWN If so, ask about PINGItEE. Merchants of all kinds are wanted there at once. Now is your opportunity. Write for booklet to W. H. Scott, Gen. Manager Pingree Townsite Company ssa Pingree, Idaho MM or Jas. F. Burton, Secretary Ogden, Utah SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE ... 3 CHAPTER XV. Continued. Maitland, yielding the Initiative to the other's superior generalship, stood sentinel, revolver in hand, until the detective returned, overheated and sweating, from his tour, to report nothin' doin, with characteristic brevity. He had the same report to make on both the twentieth and twenty-first floors, where the same procedure was observed; but as the latter He Said Gently, Please Dont Run Away from Me Again. Dearest, was reached unexpected and very welInto the come reinforcements wrere gained by urge of this wild adventure. Strange hind forced Maitland the arrival of a third car, containing that Anisty should have chosen it for room. As he recovered he saw Hickey three patrolmen and one roundsman. the scene of his last stand strange, hurling himself at the criminals throat one second too late. True to his Yet numbers created delay; Hickey and strangely fatal for the criminal! was seized and compelled to pant ex- For Maitland knew that from this pledge never to be taken alive, Anisty eyrie there was no means of escape, had sent his last bullet crashing planations, to his supreme disgust. through his own skull. And, suddenly impatient beyond en- other than by the stairs. A cry of horror and consternation Well and good! Then they had the durance, Maitland left them and alone forced itself from Maitland's throat and man, the stairs. sprang up The thought was flashing In his The police halted, each where he That this was simple foolhardiness mind, illumining the darkness of his stood, transfixed. Anisty drew himBut without be dispute. may granted with the hope that he would self up, with a trace of pride in his despair was he mind It must be borne in that to force a word as to the girls pose; smiled horribly; put a hand very young and ardent, very greatly be able from the burglar ere the mechanically to his lips . . . perturbed on behalf of an actor In whereabouts And died. Maitland's foot was arrived; police the tragedy In whom the police, to Hickey caught him as he fell, but their then knowledge, had ho Interest on the upper step, when a scream of And If In the heat of mortal terror her voice! broke from Maitland, unheeding, leaped over the whatsoever. chase he had for an Instant forgotten within. Half maddened, he threw him- body that had in life resembled him so fatally, and entered Bannerman's her, now he remembered ; and at once self bodily against the door, twisting office. with that knob frantic private the fingers was the capture of Anisty relegated The gray girl lay at length in a to the status of a matter of secondary slipped upon its Immovable polished corner of the room, shielded from obsurface. Importance. The real matter at stake servation by one of the desks. Her was had he been The bolt shot, whom was the safety of the girl eyes were closed, her cheeks wore the Anisty, by exercise of an Infernal In- barred out, and, with only the width of hue of death; the fair young head was genuity that passed Maitland's com- a mans hand between them, the girl on one white and rounded pillowed terror. was and in deathly peril prehension, had managed to spirit into A sob that was at the same time an forearm, in an attitude of natural rest, this place of death and darkness and and the burnished hair, Its heavy colls whispering halls. Where Bhe might oath rose to his lips. Baffled, helpless, from their fastenings, tumbe, In what degree of suffering and he fell back, tears of rage starting to slipping bled over her head and shoulders In In accents his his her considerations were ringing eyes, the these danger glory, like a Bplash of livthat sent hm In search of her without ears as terribly pitiful as the cry of a shimmering flame. ing a thought of personal peril, but with a lost and wandering soul. With a low and bitter cry the young God! he mumbled incoherently, sick heart and overwhelmed with a men dropped to his knees by her side. t pistol-butand In desperation sent the stifling sense of anxiety. the outer office the police were asMore active than the paunch-burdeneIt was In crashing against the glass. sembled in excited conclave, blind to detective, he had Bprlnted down tough, stubborn; the first blow scarce- all save the momentous fact of and back through the hallway of the ly flawed it. As he redoubled his eftwenty-seconforts to shatter It, Hickeys hand shot Anisty's last, supremely consistent act. floor, without discoverFor the time Maitland was utterly ing anything, ere the police contingent over his shoulder to aid him. . . . alone with his great and aching lonehad reached an agreement and the And with startling abruptness the liness. stairhead. barrier seemed to dissolve before their while timidly he After a There remained two more floors, two eyes, the glass falling inward with touched her little hand. It lay upturned, final flights. A little hopelessly he a shrill clatter. white slender fingers like exotic petals so did as he And first. the of a picswung up Quaintly, With the effect in the rosy hollow of her the blackness above him was riven by ture cast by a cinematograph In a curling Andupon It was soft and warm. a tongue of fire, and a bullet, singing darkened auditorium, there leaped palm. He lifted It in both his past his head, flattened itself with a upon Maitlands field of vision the pic- own, and so heldtenderly for a space, broodit vicious spat against the marble dado ture of Anisty standing at bay, face Its perfection. And of the walls. Instinctively he pulled drawn and tense, lips curled back, ing, marveling at he bent and touched it with Inevitably of the up, finger closing upon trigger eyes lurid with defiance and despair. his lips, as if their ardent contact his revolver; flash and report fol- He stood, poised upon the balls of would warm it to sentience. . . . lowed the motion, and a panel of his .feet, like a cat ready to spring, The fingers tightened upon his own, was In overhead a door ribbed glass in the doorway between the Inner and slowly, and In the blinding Joy splintered and fell in clashing frag- outer offices. He raised his hand with of that surely; he was made conments, all but drowning the sound of an Indescribably swift and vicious scious ofmoment' Ineffable sweetness of the staircase. feet in flight upon the upper gesture, and a flame seemed to blaze opening, wondering eyes. A clamor of caution, warning, en- out from his finger-tips- . couragement, and advice broke out At the same instant Hickey's weapon CHAPTER XVI. from the police below. But Maitland spat by Maitland's cheek; the young Recessional. hardly heard. Already he was again man felt the hot furnace breath of 1L Thus Hickey, the Hm, hrumm! in pursuit, taking the steps two at a ' The burglar reeled as though from inopportunely ubiquitous, lumbering leap. With a hand upon the newel-pos- t K tremendous, blow. His inflamed fea- hastily In from the other office and he swung round on the twenty-thir- tures were suddenly whitened, and hfe checking, in an extreme of embarrassfloor, and hurled himself toward right arm dropped limply from the ment, In the middle of the floor. the foot of the last flight.- A crash shoulder, revolver falling from fingers Maitland glanced over his shoulder, like a rifle-sho- t rang out above, and Involuntarily relaxing. and, subduing a desire to flay the for a second he fancied that Anisty man alive, released the girl's hand. Hickey covered him. "Surrender! had fired again and with a heavier he roared. And fired again. I say, Hickey, he observed, careFor weapon. But Immediately he realized Anisty had gone to his knees, reach- fully suppressing every vestige of that the noise had been only the slam- ing for the revolver with his unin- emotion, will you lend me a hand ming of the door at the head of the jured arm. here? Bring a chair, please, and a stairs the door whose glazed panel The detective's second bullet winged glass of water. loomed above him, shedding a diffused through the doorway, over Anistys The detective stumbled over his light to guide his footsteps, its opales- head, and bit through the outer win- feet and brought the chair at the risk cent surface lettered with the name of dow. As Anisty, with a tremendous of his neck. Then he went away and HENRY M. BANNERMAN, strain upon his falling powers, strag- returned with the water. In the Attorney & Counselor-at-Law- , gled to his feet, Maitland, catching the meantime the girl, silently enough for the door or the office whose threshold murderous gleam in the mans eye, all that her eyes were speaking, with he had so often crossed to meet a pulled trigger. The burglar's answer- Maitlands assistance arose and seated friend and adviser. It was with a ing shot expended itself as harmlessly herself. shock that he comprehended this, a as Maitlands. Both went wide of their You will hare to stay hero a U w thrill of wonder. He had all but for- marks. minutes, he told her, until er ofAnd cf a sudden Hickey had drawn gotten (hat Bannerman owned an I understand, she told him la a fice In the building. In the rush, the the holt, and the body of police be choking tone. :Jr? IS i VIA. pell-me- CEETI1, flEUADA saly 65 aito Iran JARB1DGE and ii ra tl suit Use tf both the Souther! Pacific and the Veeten Pacific Railroada. DEETH i MEN AND WOMEN to Learn BarberTrade in Eight Weeks. Tuition, with eet ol tools, 5. With partial net of tool, $45. With your own tools acts. Address Motor Barber Col loco U Commercial Street, Halt Lake City, Utah. WANTED Mada in Utah" leather goods. MEREDITH'S 165 8. Main Street SUIT CASES send for catalog. TRUNK FACTORY Salt Lake City, Utah HEALS, STENCILS BADGES. TRADE CHECKS, Etc. Full line Rubber Type Outfit, and supplies In stock. Mail orders receive prompt attention. 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Ckrfluer Were you pleased with the overcoat which I sold you? Customer Oh, yes! all my boys have worn it. Well,, think of that! "1 do. Every time after a rain the ext smaller one has to take It." "Down-town- , ' confl-oienU- shop-windo- Fair. To say unpleasant things in a pleasant way la & fine art. A certain Writer of biographies, states the Troy Times, had highly developed his along this line, and his verdict on. the great of his chosen period is much like that of the New Hampshire parson at the funeral of a parishioner. "Brethren, he said, "we must agree that our deceased friend was mean In some things, but let us In Christian oharlty allow that he was meaner in others. The Youth's Companion. Being ta1-n- ts d d - , Hickey awkwardlv handed her the glass. She sipped mechanically. I have a cab below, continued And Ill try to arrange it Maitland. so that we can get out of the building without having to force a way through the crowd. She thanked him with a glance. There's th freight elevator, suggested Hickey, helpfully. Is there anyThank you thing I can do for you, anything you wish? continued Maitland to the girl, standing between her and the detective. She lifted her face to his and shook she her head, very gently. No, breathed through trembling lips. You But there was a youve been sob in her throat, and she hung her head again. Not a word, ordered Maitland. Sit here for a few minutes, if you can, drink the water and ah fix up your hat, you know, (damn Hickey! Why the devil did the fellow insist on hanging round so!) and I will go and make arrangements. k you, whispered the small voice shakily. Maitland hesitated a moment, then turned upon Hickey in sudden exasperation. His manner was enough; even the obtuse detective could not ignore it. Maitland had no need to speak. Im sorry, sir, he said, standing his ground manfully but with a trace more of respect in his manner than had theretofore characterized it, but theres uh gentleman uh your fren' Bannermans outside 'nd wants tuh speak tuh yeh. Tell him to Excuse me. He says hes gottuh see yeh. If yeh don't come out, hell come after yeh. I thought yeh d ll ruther Thats kindly thought of, Maitland relented. Ill be there in a min- ute, he added, meaningly. Hickey took an impassive face to the doorway, where, whether or not with design, he stood precisely upon the threshold, filling it with his burly shoulders. Maitland bent again over the girl, and took her hand. Dearest, he said, gently, please dont fun away from me again." Her eyes were brimming, and he read his answer In them. Quickly It was no time to harry her emotions further; but so much he had felt he must say he brushed her hand with his lips and joined Hickey. Thrusting the detective gently into the outer room, with a not unfriendly hand upon his shoulder, Maitland closed the . door. Now, see here, he said quietly and firmly, you must help me arrange to get this lady away without her becom- Marlowe 7 am glad to write my endorse -ment of the great remedy, Peruna, I Julia Marlowe, do so most heartily, Any remedy that benefits digestion strengthens tne nerves. The nerve centers require nutrition. If the digestion is impaired, the nerve centers become anemic, and nervous debility is the result. U afflicted with aore eyes, um ; Thompsons Eyo Water HIS HOBBIES. Jimpson Is Watson a pleasant talking man? Simpson Yes if you dont get him started on religion, golf, automobiles or politics. Terrors of Frankness. There is no worse vice than frankness, said Booth Tarkington, at a farewell dinner in New York precedent to his departure for Europe. How should I feel, for example, If I asked you for your opinion of mi plays, and you answered me frankly, quite frankly? Why, I should feel like the poor lady at the bridge drive who said to her hostess little daughter: " 'Your eyes are such a heavenly blue. And what color are my eyes, darling? The childs high treble traveled easily to the further corner of the quiet room as she replied, looking earnestly up Into her questioenrs face; Dwab middles, yellow whites and wed wims! Tit for Tat. Stranger (to prominent clergyman) I came In here, air, to criticise your church management and tell you how it ought to be run. Prominent Clergyman (amazed) What do you mean, sir? How dars ing identified with the case. Hickey, you? Who are you, anyway? 1 am the humble Im In a position to say a good word editor of the paLife. for you in the right place; she had per you have been writing to. positively nothing to do with Anisty, Remedies Too Costly. (this, so far as he could tell, was as household Get out the black a lie as he had ever manufactured under the lash of necessity), remedy book and scratch out two and there's a wad in It for the boys remedies, one advising raw beefsteak spread on a bruise and the other adwho help me out." Well. . . . The detective shift- vising bacon for a felon. We cant ed from one foot to the other, eying waste beefsteak and bacon on bruisee these days. Atchison and felons him intently. "I guess we can fix it Globe. freight elevator nd side entrance. Yeh have the cab waitin, nd How Careless! Smith Why did your pretty cook Ill go with the lady, .you understand, and assume all responsibility. leave you? You can come round at your conJones Got mad. venience and arrange the details with Smith At what? Jones She caught me kissing my me, at my roopis, since you will be so kind. wife. Cleveland Leader. (TO BE CONTINUED.) WHERE SHE MADE THE MISTAKE. 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