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Show and turned to give profane welcome to the policeman who had noticed the street and who cab at Twenty-thirnow panted In, blown and perspiring. Much to his disgust he found himself assigned to stand guard over the basement exits, and waddled forth again Into the street. Meanwhile the first officer to arrive upon the scene was taking his turn at agitating the button and shaking the gates; and with no more profit of his undertaking than Hickey, After a minute or two of it he acknowledged defeat with an oath, and turned away to browbeat the straggling vanguard of belated wayfarers messenger boys, slatternly drabs, hackmen, loafers, and one or two plain citizens conspicuously out of their reputable grooves who were drifting In at the entrance to line the lobby walls with blank, curious faces. 4 Forerunners of that mysterious rabble which Is apparently precipitated out of the very air by any extraordinary happening in city streets, If allowed to remain they would In five minutes have waxed in numbers to the proportions of an unmanageable mob; and the policeman, knowing this, set about dispersing them with perhaps greater discretion than consideration. They wavered and fell back, grumbling discontentedly; and Maitland, his anxiety temporarily distracted by the noise they made, looked round to find his erstwhile cabby at his elbow. Of whom the sight was inspiration. Ever thoughtful, never unmindful of her whose Influence held him in this coil, he laid an arresting hand on the mans sleeve. Youve got your cab ? "Yissir, right houtslde." Drive round the corner, away from the crowd, and wait for me. If she the young lady comes without me, drive her anywhere she tells you and come to my rooms morning for your pay." Thankee, sir. Maitland turned back, to find the situation round the elevator shaft In statu quo. Nothing had happened, save that Hickeys rage and vexation had Increased mightily. But why dont you , go up after him? How 'n blazes can I? exploded the detective. Hes got th night car. F I takes the stairs, he comes down by th' shaft, nd how'm I tuh trust this here mutt? He indicated his associate but humbler custodian of the peace' with a disgusted gesture. Perhaps one of the other cars will Maitland suggested. run Ah, theyre all dead ones, Hickey disagreed with disdain as the young man moved down the row of gates, tryYehre only ing one after another. wastin He broke off with a snort as Maitland, somewhat to his own surprise, managing to move the gate of the third shaft from the night elevator, stepped Into the darkened car and Presently groped for the controller. his fingers encountered it, and be moved it cautiously to one side. A vicious blue spark leaped hissing from and the cage the controller-bobounded up a dozen feet, and was only restrained from its ambition to soar skywards by an Instantaneous release of the lever. By discreet manipulation Maitland worked the car down to the street floor again, and Hickey, with a grunt that might be interpreted as an apology for his incredulity, jumped In. Let er rip! he cried, exultantly. Fan them folks out Intuh th street, Bergen, nd watch ow-ut- ! Maitland was pressing - the lever slowly wide of its catch, and the lighted lobby dropped out of sight while the detective was still shouting admonitions to the police below. Gradually gaining momentum the car began to shoot smoothly up into the blackness, safety chains clanking beneath the floor. Hickey fumbled for the electric light switch but, finding it, immediately shut the glare off again and left the car in darkness. Safer, he explained, sententious, "Anisty ll shoot, nd they says he shoots straight. Floor after floor In ghostly strata slipped silently down before their to the top, approxieyes. Half-wamately, Hickeys voice rang sharply in the volunteer operators ear. Stop er! Hold er steady. T'others cornin' down. Maitland obeyed, managing the car with greater ease and less jerkily as he began to understand the principle of the lever. The cage paused In the black shaft, and he looked upward. Down the third shaft over, the other cage was dropping like a plummet, a block of golden light walled in by and bisected vertiblack filigree-worcally by the black line of the guide-rai- l. d PICTURES louifdojmibcL. lOT TM, I told cabby to wait Anisty seems to have walked out right on Mad Dan Maitland, on reaehlns hta your heels. New York bachelor club, met an attracAnd a moment later: "Hell! tive young woman at the door. Janitor What's this about a woman in the O'Hagan ensured him no one had been within that day. Dan discovered a woman's finger prints in dust on his desk, case? Maitland took swift thought on her along with a letter from his attorney. Maitland dined with Bannerman. his atbehalf. torney. Dan set out tor Greenfields, to Too long to go Into now, he parried get his family jewels. Maitland, on leaching home, surprised lady in gray, the query. "You help me catch this his gems. cracking the safe containing scoundrel Anisty and I'll put in a She, apparently, took him for a crook, Daniel Anistv. word for you with the deputy Maitland opened his safe, took good therefrom the jewels, and gave them to commissioner. her, first forming a partnership In crime. "Ah, yeh help me nab him," grunted The real Dan Anisty, sought by police of 'nd I wont need no the world, appeared. Maitland overcame the detective, him. He and the girl went to New York good word with nobody. In her auto. He had the jewels. She The hansom swung into Broadway, was to meet him that day. A Mr. Health Introduced himself as a detecgoing like a whirlwind; and picked up tive. To shield the girl in gray, Maitland, about to show him the Jewels, supposedly an uniformed officer in front of the Flatiron building, who, shouting and lost, was felled by a blow from "Snalth's cane. The latter proved to be Anisty himself and he secured the gems. Anisty, using his locust stridently, sprinted who was Maitland's double, masqueraded after them. A block further down anas the latter. The criminal kept Maitother fell into line; and he It was who In with the lands engagement gray. girl He gave her the gems. The girl Ip gray panted at the step an instant after the his visited Maitland's apartments during to a stop before the absence and returned gems. Maitland, cab had lurched without cash, called up his home and entrance to the St. Luke building. heard a woman's voice expostulating. Hickey had roiled out before the Anisty, disguised as Maitland, tried to wring from her the loeatlon of the gems, policeman had a chance to bluster. A crash was heard at the front door. Lo, Bergen," he greeted the man. Maitland overwhelmed the crook, allow"Yeh know me Im Hickey, central ing him to escape to shield the young woman. The girl In gray made her es- office. Yehre jus In time. Anlstys cape, jumping Into a cab. An instant in this buildin r was ten minutes later, by working a ruse, Anisty was at her side. He took her to Attorney ago. We want all the help we cn get." office. There, by torture, he By way of reply the officer stooped tried In vain to wring from her the location of the gems. He left her a moment and drummed a loud alarm on the and she 'phoned OHagnn, only getting In sidewalk with his night stick. the words: Tell Mr. Maitland under the brass bowl. the hiding place In the lathe panted, rising, youre a 'Say," ter's rooms, when Anisty heard her wonder, Hickey If you get him. words. Bannerman also was revealed as a crook. He and Anisty set out to secure grunted the detective the gems and leave town. The girl was still Imprisoned. Maitland finding the girl with a sidelong glance at Maitland, gone,' searched his rooms and unearthed "Cra long." He the jewels under the brass bowl. The lobby of the building was quite struck Anlsty's trail In a big office bulld-t- , n deserted as they entered, the Ing. elevator Invisible, the night CHAPTER Xvl Continued. on Its way to the roof as was discovHickey ered by consultation of the Indicator "Ah, clt that, can't yeh? got ca all fours, found his cigar, stuck dial above the gate. Hickey punched It in his mouth, and fell into place at the night call bU savagely. Maitlands side. Me 'nd him, he said, jerking the "Hickey, I mean. But how" free thumb at Maitland, ll go up and "If yeh're Maitland, nd Anisty's at hunt him out. Begin at th top floor the St Luke buildlu, tell that fool up an work down. That's th way, huh? there to drive! Nd, to the policeman, yeh stay here Maitland had no need to lift the an' hold up anybody 't tries tuh leave trap; the cabby had already done th buildlu. There aint no other enthat. trance, I spose, what?" "All right the young man called. Basement door an ash lifts round Its Detective Hickey. Drive on! th corner," responded the officer. But The lash leaped out over the roof that had ought tuh be locked, night." and the horse, presumably Well, f anybody else comes along convinced that no speed other than a yeh put him there, anyway, for luck. dead-ruwould ever again be de- What n hells th matter with this manded of it, tore frantically down the elevator?" The detective settled a pudgy index-finge- r avenue, the hansom rocking like a chooner in a heavy gale. on the push button and elicited Maitland and the detective were bat- a far, thin, shrill peal from the antered against the side and back of the nunciator above. But the Indicator arvehicle and slammed against one an- row remained as motionless a3 the car other with painful regularity. Under at the top of the shaft. Another sumsuch circumstances speech was diffi- mons gained no response, In likewise, cult; yet they managed to exchange a and a third was also disregarded. few sentences. Hickey stepped back, face black as a storm-clousummed up his opinion Yeh gottuh gun? of the management of the building in twe good cartridges." Anistj one well I'm along, I guess. "Jus phrase, produced And again: Howd yeh s'pose An- his bandana and used it vigorously, uttered a libel on the ancestry of the isty got this cab? and the likes of him, "I dont know must 've been in the house SYNOPSIS. well-kno- d, Ban-nerma- Uh-hu- night-watchma- -- n topsail-s- g x k Stop that there car! Hickeys stentorian command had no effect; the block of light continued to fall with unabated speed. The detective wasted no more breath. As the other car swept past, Maitland was shocked by a report and flash beside him. Hickey was using his revolver. The detonation was answered by a cry, a scream of pain, from the lighted cage. It paused on the Instant, like a bird stricken a wing, some four floors below, but at once resumed Its downward swoop. After em! Hickey Down, down! I dropped one, by God! bellowed. Tother cant "How many In the car?" Interrupted Maitland, opening the lever with a firm and careful hand. Only two, sames us. I hit th feller what was runnin It "Steady! cautioned Maitland, decreasing the speed, as the car approached the lower floor. Tht other had beaten them down; but its arrival at the street level was greeted by a short chorus of mad yells. a brief fusillade of shots five in all and the clang of Then, like a ball rebounding, perhaps the gate the cage swung upwards again, hurtling at full speed. Evidently Anisty had been received in force which he had not bargained for. Maitland instinctively reversed thi lever and sent his own car upward again, slowly, waiting for the other tc overtake it. Peering down through he could India the iron lattice-wortiactly observe the growing cube o light, with a dark shape lying huddled in one corner of the floor. A secono figure, rapidly taking shape as Anisty stood by the controller, braced against the side of the car, one hand on thi lever, the- other poising a shining oval of his fact thing, the turned upwards in a supposititious at tempt to discern the location of the dark car. Hickey, by firing prematurely, lent him adventitious aid. The criminal re plied with spirit, aiming at the flash his bullet spattering against the back wall of the shaft. Hickeys next bullel note against the rang with a bell-likmetal-worAniBtys presumably went wide though Maitland could have sworn he felt the cold kiss of Its breath upon his, cheek. And the lighted cage rocked past and up. Maitland needed no admonition tc pursue; his blood was up, his hearl singing with the lust of the man-bun- t Yet Anisty was rapidly leaving them his car soaring at an appalling pace Towards the top he evidently made some attempt to slow up, but eithei he was Ignorant of the management ol the lever, or else the thing had go! beyond control. The cage rammed the buffers with a crash that echoed through the sounding halls like a pea! of thunder-claps- ; it was instantane Then ously plunged Into darkness. followed a splintering and rending sound, and Maitland, heart in mouth could make out dimly a dark, falling shadow in the further shaft. Yet en It had descended a score of feet the safety-clutcacted and, with a thiri tremendous jar, shaking the building the car halted. Hickey and Maitland were then som. five floors below, Stop er at 19, or dered the detective. There was a 111 of exultancy In his voice. We go him now, all right, all right. Hell try to get down by There! Overheat the crash of a gate forced open wa followed by a scurry of footsteps ovei the tiling. Stop er and we'll hear him off. So now eeeasy! Maitland shut off the power as thi car reached the nineteenth floor Hickey opened the gate and jumped out. Shut that, he commanded sharply, as Maitland followed him, in case he gets past us." He paused a moment In thought, heavy head on bull-necdrooping forward as he stared toward the rear oi the building. He was fearless and re sourceful, for all his many deficiencies Maitland found time, quaintly enough, to regard him with detached curiosity, a rare animal, illustrating all that wat best and worst in his order. Endowed with exceptional courage, his ad dress in emergencies seemed alto gether admirable. Yeh guard them stairs, he decided Ill run through this hall suddenly. nd see whats doing. Dont hesitat to shoot if he tries to jump yeh. 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