Show OUTSIDE THI LAW LAWAs 1 As Baum Ballin offered his eX s anat sneer passed over o the other man m ir mans man's hIp nor did tho the gun that ho he held In u h hhand 3 hand waver sixteenth one of ot an i It H HAll All Baum Ballin could see ee was al Al a small ro n hole and tho the mans man's mans man's finger nger O cm on n thO trigger trig lj Look here hero he ho saul said Lok SoI after afler a a ment's ments thought You dont don't no what whal Im I'm Im telling you ou do you you- ou No tho tue other answered gr t Why WhY should I 1 I dont don't look Ike tool fool do I 1 I see ace Ballin nodded Xo 1 c say that you look hook like a a fool foo I truth of the all matter Is t mater t I blame you for thinking n my roy queer out bUt 1 nJ happened to sorti Come com here hero In m a queer wa way Ho IVIO core I I an instant trying to to f lop formUlate trYing aie i story lor in his mind hi You Yon s see Im I'm Im not a a. New York he r. r explained leaning easily against again Jamb of the tho doorway I 1 11 here this Only Kot mOrnIng I COL came tom from cago I. I lund had to get out to CM dr dragnet nel When hen I got ot h here i Went a tearoom called the sit to tG Maybe youve you've heard of or it t Th The other I nodded briefly briel and continued I met my friend there sho she's sho's the girl you OU there saw sw out In the othe room room and and it seems that she ha doing some work ork for tOr h been name ot of Susie S ehi a while women I cy th the he Wel I wasl tearoom heard Susie came In She Sh me say Ray that I 1 had a fence out in fri been L e w inn ce over 01 came cane anti and offered nt me this Job she didn't tell room In tel fact mo me she anything didn't a bc back tell thin thing I just came camo down tel here me an any ay and soon as W wo We got ot inside the a aj a ot place came out of or this room and a a ina man ml asked itI was aM the wa person who had b been en down tent e t here to take lake cown charge I 1 told h Mm m I was as and he said ho lie nc was as through went out Didn't and Id make any lion just na ton went out Since then en bc-en walling waiting for or some one ono to con com Ive I've l e down and arid COIt put me rime wise to what supposed to know Im I'm Im Ive I've Ive a fat at of Ct running this Joint without anything anything- haven't hl I knowing That the man was in doubt the time truth of this stor regarding story was vas clear Iron irom tho the expression with wih which he lie regarded tom the time teller tener finally with a sudden thought Ballin spoke again fl There Isn't an any hurry about cUb cash cath- Ing in that stuff is there Why don don't dont you OU wait walt and come back later ila b someone will wil come como down in the thc mean time and antI wise me up to things things' That Tat suits me mite the time man maim who had bad called himself Willie Sims returned the cunning light of or suspicion corn com In ing again to his br eyes cyca Ill Il be back Still ti holding the gun pointed back It ai ItI at I Baums Baum's chest ho walked toward the I door every nerve o of his hod body to tor prepared r I against a false faso move from the rain man by I the doorway Backing out o ot of man the bj storeroom he ho gained the shop and came camo to a pause in front of or the tho candy an counter to All Al ri right ht he ho said at last survey of the tho girl Irl who returned hla hi glance with wih complete indifference thought as a a. a matter mater of or fact hoT hor he hear n was beating like a R trip hammer l i guess your OUr storys story's straight I cant can't tnt open that back wal wall but ut Ill I'll Il show shon you this stuff and get et an advance on lt l need some mone money Ag Again in he pass passed d Into th the storeroom this time after aler he drew the handke chief from froni his pocket he spread it out on a small airmail table talie exposing to tD v vw v a dozen or so articles of Jewelry sty et eral rings a scarf pin two or three broaches and one long par pin set with Il a score of beautiful diamonds As Dahlia Ballin stared down at the tee e as Sims had termed It It I. I a su sudden tn thought shot through hh hU his brain 10 It was disturbing though and nd one that tbt 1 made him hint hesitate before belore an opinion of ot the display It expressing tb I bar har pin that aroused his suspicion T TRI Th I thing was wa so beautiful that al finally picked it up studY studying n it mo moI momI mon mom I minutely Were ere the tIme stones diamond I or were thc they not not Frankly he wa wu no t I prepared to sa say and falling failing back ck 0 ot 04 I hi his impressions o of what diamond looked like he lie began to believe theA beleve Ib I were imitations Ho lie lo made a 3 quick corn prison With wih thin n ni ni COf ni them quite different Just ho how m rauel difference existed he dared not say u not but the difference remained i And Arid then therm his mind shifted back OV 1 the events of or the da day Wasn't it i we within tho the range of possibility na eJ that thai Susie would send this man d down wn t. t U test him to find out if he really realy kite anything about his professed trade trae 0 01 pawn brokers broker's a assistant doubt he faced a difficult problem Well Sims asked impatiently a athe aj the tho silence continued th Ut matter mater Give mo me a price Dont Don't Donto yot 70 like tho the looks of that pin fr If It I th tho man roan had remained silent J Billin would probably have have ue guesse tho the other wa way As It was Sims Sim's I ln ii swung swung his mind In favo avot o 0 othe ol the Imitation and amid he shook shok his That pin Isn't the real thin thing thinh vh h h said I cant can't give you OU a that Aint the real thing Sims repeated 5 For or a a moment lie he stared at time the th other part partly in anger then lau laughing di dis- dis I ho gathered up the handkerchief chief stuffed It Il back Into Ills his 11 p c and walked out of the room moines A A momen later Ballin heard herd the tho door of the tho hD slam angrily e f J i To bo be o continued is Copyright U 1920 Thompson c Au Service V J |