Show e M ys t ery ot by parrish randall author of the D idaa 99 er the of cavendish strange 41 case bf awl A MILLION synopsis in a now new york lork jewelry tore store philip severn united states consular agent notices st small box wl fell attracts him lie he purchases it later ho hn discovers in ft a secret compartment a writing gluing giving a clow clew to rt re revolutionary v ol 01 u movement in this country necking g to overthrow the chilean government the writing mentions a rendezvous and severn to i investigate finding ing tile the place mentioned in the writing ng apparently deserted severn visit a saloon in tile the vicinity A woman oman in the place la Is mot met by a man limn seemingly by appointment and severn ilia his suspicions aroused follow follos a them they go to the tha des dea ignatee meeting place an abandoned iron foundry at the ren delvous bearn in IB accepted ns as one of the and admitted ile he meets a etringer et who addresses hi him in as a harry arry daly tile the incident playa into a bands and ana tie he accepts accept it ilia now new acquaintance Is a notorious thief gentleman georgo harris concealed severn hours hears the arld address tho the tors tor she urges them to hasten the work of revolution tile the girl discovers severn listening she bho accepts his explanation of ills hla presence and baks asks him to meet her next ex day 11 III tells her ilia his namo arim 1 la daly bhe Is IB miss conrad CHAPTER V continued 7 I 1 began to think clarris had find goric gone away awny with taw others and left me there alone I 1 heard voices speaking earnestly eai nestly in the lie but without venturing forth from lily in hiding place then lie he appeared suddenly bringing in his arrus a bottle and a box of cigars touch a match to the gas jet daly lie he said sald feeling for the table in the lark dork better I 1 hung around until the gang all rot got out so BO OB as to ile be sure we ware wore safety sulta alone hie a drink and light up old mail we are is as secure here ns as we aou would id be nt at the bottom of the sen sea tills this la Is alvas whisky but good I 1 sampled it before ile he sat on oil tile the table nursing ills knee rather pleased vw hilli himself self I 1 thought n cigar thrust between betin ills his lips the lie blue smoke curling up bhore his face I 1 ignored tile the invitation imitation to to drink but helped myself to a weed waiting for him to open conver om gation well lie ho sald said finally everything eci thing Is going according to biolo but tit Is a knot or two yet set to ile be untie fore we MO squeeze that million dlo dd 1 hear bear what as said in there no you sou told ine to stick here still in a way vai youre on waldron aldron roust must le have spilled part of the scheme to you iou what got your soui toot foot in the mess 11 II 11 1 I know ivan ian wal dron the d d Itus jew hed double cross tits his best friend what aliat liat was it he told you ou not very eri much I 1 said wondering how fur far I 1 had better go yet feeling it necessary to relate enough to convince him that I 1 was really conversant with the situation and endeavoring to lull lint tate tits his style stile of speech according to its story there was a gang of con here birds from south america mostly who had been round id ed up hi by tills this fellow alvn aha to pull olt oft some frightfulness or other I 1 latch catch on to just what it was and per hops haps waldron himself know or care some revolution I 1 took it to he waldron explain d how lie got there Is a knot or two yet to be untied hold of the scheme it senis hes in with the bunch to some extent that its 1 they use him whenever they the need to no and occasionally hand him blui it a bunch of inona its never neer too dirty for hirn him to touch anyhow lie knew kneir enough to put ire ir wise ise to this dump gave me tile the pasi antti and all that it looked na as there might be something in it t so I 1 blew over ner here tonight just to take a look I 1 was merely prowl ing around when I 1 run ran into zou you 1 I see sec ile he ronfred ron ered as I 1 rame to tin nil cud chewing t on ills his cigar did the russian say bu anything nn thing almut 1 mo not a whisper I 1 supposed I 1 had a clear run nin for the except t its his the dirty dog I 1 show up till on oil tile the lot dot lie wits waa ready to ditch tile me now 11 listen sten and ill tell you ou the straight story ini im going to need ion oil and well Q divide alft efty leaving leading tills guy to 0 o suck stick his thumbs Is that lint a no go i iles hes sure nothing to shoot poured out it a stiff drink will put it down then touched a match to to the extinguished cigar waldron sent tile me a cable celile in ili betig land about a month ngo ago lie ho explained briefly br lelly lie ile make tile the thing very vcr clem clear only that he ila lind a big benl pill on of find wanted me file tn III on of it I 1 lind hall made enough to get buck back on oil tint and tool took it second class passage on tile the vulcan it was not 11 big loat alad to escape lose close inspection I 1 went aboard tit nt Queens queenstown town at that time I 1 had no more notion what was up till than it blind rat I 1 wits just desperate enough to take n chance clin nce 11 lie paused find relit delit ills stub with midi nil donth nt at finding it again useless then rii tn things to happen I 1 was roommate room mate with it 11 bird named 11 orner who claimed to live in ili detroit ile he must have cottoned ot toned to tile ino for we vc rot got n lilt chummy and in taint way I 1 picked odds odda find ends out of film which sot set me thinking ile he was quite a foxy bird ono one of these tall row raw boned secretive cusses us ses who talk a lot I 1 but never say nothing and lit w came near getting my gont goat I 1 went through ills buggage of course but that was ans just ordinary stuff he only tind had one olle grip which lie he left unlocked but I 1 did get onto it a pocket belt 0 the 1 fellow wore around ills his aalst alst 11 he let that ret got awny from hlin film night or lay I 1 studley every cry d 1 11 way ny I 1 could collid think up lip to ret get n peep ut at it hut but nothing gave tile me it chance clin nce I 1 came near benr going bugs over ncr the thing ile ho laughed exhibiting a row of rather ugly teeth liel behind lind ills his thil lips then the blell tlell must have helped me file one night lu days out for foi we were ere it i slow hont boat wo e ran nin into it li I 1 of a storm we both of us tumbled out and begner on our duds ile he wits ns trying to get a slice shoo on and ami delit ent plunging headon head liend on into tile side of tile lie ship I 1 reckon it nearly br brained allied tin but to make things sure I 1 hand I 1 I 1 him lalni one to the jaw before no lie rot got iila 1114 sell seq and lie he went out for lie aunt then believe le tile me I 1 did t 1 loae ose no time tit in frisking the guy and say what do you ou filial I 1 found I 1 shook my lily head to interrupt effit o I 1111 t ed with ills 1119 description 1 tin tilt fellow wits na a revolutionary agent I 1 get onto nil all of it then 1 I have ahnie tarp but I 1 found n letter of credit for a million dollars doll nis and a memoranda of how it was to lie be to do livered tile alio d n tiling thing nry firs good to me itic it was wag tu to be paid to follow fellow by a bati banker lier in 16 new named krantz but it suro sure made my lily mouth water just to we see it a million dollars good old U S currency call you iou betit bent it looked easy ou tin had it and you ou have it you raid it daly I 1 fare dare keep heep the thing nil and it time have lone done me any good it if I 1 lint there was no way wn of my lily cashing the paper tile the li 11 1 could I 1 do if I 1 denounced him the game was wag till all orf off it I 1 held on to the stuff lied hed report ills his loss soon nt as lie landed in new york and that 1 at letter of credit he be worth the 1 e paper it was written on oil S sui I 1 was in ili sonic some boat beat hut but hele me I 1 had no notion of giving up tha eliat t in million 71 it looked darned good 1 I should tay say yes and I 1 leaned forward to show my lily interest ali and fron what I 1 know of you harris that gili gil had no show on oil earth did you ou croak him ile he grinned el evi dently demly pleased nt at tho note of admiration tn in my voice oice and tossed down another drink that never neer aint been in my line of course I 1 was tempted to t to o a cool million would tempt any guy gily hut but 1 I just shoved everything back exactly where it come from and fetched the steward between us we holsted hoisted horner back into the alie bunk and doused him with water till ho he carr ne to first thing lie he did was to feel for that licit belt and he never got wise that it had ever eer inen been touched tou cheil anyhow lie never let on oil to no suspicion CHAPTER VI the deserted automobile I 1 was impatient tor for him to continue but he sat there chuckling to bilm himself elf and toying boeing with a fresh cigar well what did you ou do played it safe cud and sure im too old a bird to be caught napping I 1 put in most of 0 that flint night holding wet cloths claths to homers head anti thinking out giue some plan of action before morn ini ing ile he thought I 1 wits tile the best fellow lie ho ever linew knew and I 1 hail had the guy where I 1 wanted him for one of his big breed he wits was rather a friendly cuss this was how I 1 mapped it out that letter of credit had to lie be turned tinned into currency before it could do III nn any good and the only way wa that tn fIt lie done was through this guy alva I 1 must pet get to him somehow in a way ahm would put me next his scheme m so id know when he tind lind the cash once I 1 got chibe so details attended to t lit in little old new york the swag snug wnm wai as good as my own I 1 knew a dozer dozen guys that would bump homer oft for foi a hundred indred lii it t it come to that so the th price high A oh milli and it lint and dropped right into nii illy lap into hut but to to do tills this it was feces sury hiir that I 1 should be homer that thai wits as lilain us its tile lie nose on oil my race face us as iworner II 11 orner coming with credentials anti and a letter of credit ahn would b be bound to receive me with open arms sect see 1 after that I 1 figured it would bo be easy casi enough hut but how was I 1 to become iworner you divvy with him 1 I 1 should aa fly not lie ho was a square guy it take tile me he five days das to find that eliat out so there here but one way out of it I 1 had to put iworner out of commission and cot cop tits his belt it wits was either cither that or lose a million I 1 looked nt at bilm fill with it a sicken sickening lag feeling fee ing of lion horror or I 1 found hard to suppress hut but lie went merit on oil indifferently in ili the same cool calm calin voice theres no use going into details daly 1 a I 1 y wo landed good friends and homer mas in it strange land you C r 1 I ei aa 11 1 I 1 I 1 he jotted down an address on oft a bit of paper know new york pretty well veil and I 1 lost him the lie first afternoon down own on oil the I 1 aust list side I 1 never did know just what became of tilt lie fellow but tile the next morning I 1 was alone in a back room in greenwich and had ills his belt with me ile he chuckled grittily grimly there much in ili it except the letter hitter of credit and n notation as to and when krantz toil could be seen arl athly it was the lie next net night harris 1 as to call on the banker banbor up in le compto compte street le lc compte what number le lc compte do you ou knew sy body there no only le compto Is an old stamping gromad of mine go on oil you ion went avent there of course sure krantz know me from adam not even ee my name I 1 was just to him but lie he was mighty nervous just tile the same anti and anxious t to 0 ge get t uny I 1 could see that I 1 dont think it was tits his house houg e either just tin an erdl nary joal looking ing shack brick three stories and a bilwin basement ent that banker was wag business till all right and he put me through the whole bundle of tricks before hod hed even let me sit down I 1 had biad to lie ile some but mostly I 1 was ans posted well enough so ns as to give him what he was looking for anyhow I 1 passed bypassed assed and after that lie he was rather tie decent cent took we me into a room find and gave roe me a drink besides asking me about affairs in europe 11 II 1 I 1 1 I know only what hat id seen in the papers but I 1 gave him an earful and on the lie strength of his name I 1 cussed england for all I 1 was worth which at that time was about n million bucks then I 1 handed over OT flip lie letter of ermila wid lie he it into ills his pocket lit ili it wel wai a scrap of paper I 1 dont n bember that he even looked at it ater after that lie he was for getting rid of m ITU i lie sooner the better hut but I 1 needed to know where alva aha was so eo I 1 hung hun on oft telling the old guy I 1 had a message that I 1 had to deliver 1 p anally straight from them in london so after a i willie while lie ho jotted down nn an on a b bit it of paper and the next ll ili evv I 1 knew I 1 was out in the alil ith that gripped in my mitt that female Is as i smart mart as a a teel steel trap TO BE ED |