| Show 0 1 if a 1 please she said gald gently gleaso tell the cabby to take mo me horr horne mr maitland Malt land PICTURES by p lv FJ V R ff 1007 ane mahill CO SYNOPSIS wad dan on reaching his r new 11 york bachelor clu club met an attractive young woman at the door janitor Ollit gan a assured h him im no one had acen within that day dan dimo a worn wom nm anger prints in dust on his desk long with a letter front from his attorney maitland Malt land dined W with th bannerman his attorney dan set bet out for or greenfield to get bet hla his famil family Y jewels Malti il altland and on r reaching hang home surl surprised ried lady in gray fray 0 cie t cracking eking the safe bate containing tills hla gerna gems sho she apparently took him for or a w well if known crook daniel aniel anesty half hyp hip noti noticed zed maitland Malt land opened his sate safe took the jewels and rave gave them to hl her r first forming a partnership in crini crime ta the real dan antaky sought bought by bv police 0 ot i the world appeared maitland overcame hirn him lie and the girl went to now new york in her auto lie he had the jewels she w waa to meet him that day A mr snaith t h introduced himself us its a detective to shield the girl in bray gr maitland Malt land about ti in show how him film tile levels 5 P 1 lly I r lost was felled by a blow from pvn snaith as ha a cine cane the latter proved to be anasty him himself anil and lie he secured the gems anist anesty who wil was 8 Malt Matt tanda lands double masquerades masqueraded masquera masque rad ded e yf us as the tha latter tile the criminal kept malt lands land 11 engagement engri Bement with tho the giri ln in gray ho gave tier her tho the gems bema tim elior gir 1 in gray visited maitlandt Mal Mait lands lurin sr his absence and re returned gems bema ma maitland Malt iland land without cash called up lip his homo home anil na heard a womans comans voice anisey disguised as maitland tried to wring from tier her the location of the genie gems A crash wan waa heard at the front door M maitland Malt s land overwhelmed overwhelm ea the crock aliw allowing him to escape to shield the young woman the girl in gray made tier her ei ea cap raitt bumping Um Ping into it a cub cab an instant later by working a ruse anesly was WAH nt lit tier her side ile ha took her to attorney nan dart germans ner maus mans ollace there thiera by bv torture ho he tried in vain to wring from her the location of ft the tha senis genie llo lie let left tier a moment mon int and ud she phoned cd 0 diat nn only anly witting in the words tell mr M 1 land under the tha brass bowl the hiding place in the lat rooms when anasty heard tier lier words Uan lian nerman at bilco wao a rave revealed as i crook lie anti anasty set out to secure the wems gems and leave town the girl was still imprisoned maitland Malt land finding the gl karl A rone no hn his rooms and unearthed unearth rd the tha ewels under the brass bras bowl ile ha n trail N I 1 i a 11 mg lilg tit hulad nf where w era tho the crook was killed molt I 1 kiil liil roil girl karl in gray confessed contes seil toys idya for each ach other i CHAPTER XVI continued 1 I dunno 11 hackey flick ey licked halted hla his lips apa watching with a somber eye ei the tha prop orations allons ar being made tor for the removal of 0 AnI anistes body id vu va give a farm if I 1 could iva ve caught ehni of a run gun 0 live alive he added at apparent random and vindictively all right yell yeh bo be responsible for th lady it if she ashes s wanted d will yeb delit positively 1 I gottuk have her neme nd address la Is that essential sure gottuk protect myself n asa any anything thin turns up yeh tell ought tuh to know that 1 1 I dont want it to come out malt land hesitated trying to invent a plausible lie ile well any one can sea sat how you feel eel about IU it maitland Matt land drew a long breath anti and anticipated rashly its mrs malt halt land he told the mar ina with a tremor iickey unimpressed uh buti lino weil that all along alona ho he r replied but heeln as yen yeb want it talked about and apparently heedless of 0 Matt lands startled ind suspicious stare it Y ehre eoin coin 0 see yer fren ren yeh better get a on lie he wont lt for kocg who Banner nian inam what the delalco do you mean iles hes the feller faller I 1 plugged in the elevator all ail put a holo hole through ills hla lungs lunga they took him into an office on the twenty first floor right opps te the shaft but what in fleaven s name fiame has he to dewith do with this ghastly mess mass hickey turned a shrewd eye U upon po n maitland Malt land 1 I guess he can tell tel I 1 ye yeh h battern bet tern me with a smothered exclamation maitland Malt land hurried away still incredulous and impressed with a belief firmer with every minute that the wounded man had been wrongly identified ile he found him film as hickey had bad said he would sobbing bobbing out his life supine upon tile the couch of an office which the janitor had opened to afford him a place to lie die in Matt maitland land had bad to force a way through a crowded doorway where tho the night watchman was hold ing inc forth in aggrieved incoherence on the cruel treatment be had suffered at the hands bands of the lawbreakers law breakers A phrase came to Mall Malt lanila lands ears as he shouldered through the group robbed grabbed me an trun me outer the case cage inter the hall an the then n tho the sho shoat otin ln be begins ins an I 1 jumps do downstairs eta I 1 rs t the sixteenth ent floor an bannerman opened dull eyes as maitland Malt land entered and smiled tal faintly atly all ah h maitland Malt land he be gasped thought come racked with sorrow nothing guessing of the carper career that had bi brought ought the lawyer to this pass maitland Malt land slipped clipped into a chair by the head of tile the couch and closed ills his hand over chuat chibly Y icy fingers poor poor old c chap hot lie said brokenly how frow in heaven 1 but at Binner mans look the words word diet died on oil hi slips the lawyor indeed restlessly 1 doll dont t pity mo me he ha in a low tone this la Is what I 1 might have haio expected I 1 suppose man of AnI anistes stamp desperate character its al all right dan my just duo due 1 I dont understand ot of course faltered maitland Malt land lay illy still a moment then continued 1 I know you dont that 9 wily why I 1 sent for you member that night at the primordial when the deuce was waa it t I 1 cant think straight long at a time that night I 1 dined with you and touched you up about the jewels we had a bully salad you know and I 1 spoke about the Gra erno affair yes yea yes wolf well ive been up to that gamo game for years id flad find out where the fi plunder funder wall waa and anisey always divided square quare I 1 used to him of course you wont understand youve never wanted tor for a dollar in your life Al altland land said noth nothing ing Buthi but hla hand shand remained upon the dying maus maug this would never have happer happened lej it if anisey been itada lie he was waa hard bard to handle sometimes I 1 sure auro you know about the jewels I 1 only said I 1 thought they were at greenfields then I 1 under took to mid find out from you but he was restive and without saying anything to mo me went vent down to on his own hook just to have a look around he be said and so so BO the tat fat w was s in the alre dont talk any more bannerman Dan nerman maitland Malt land tried to soothe him pull ali through rough this all right and you need never have gone to such lengths it if como to me the ghost eliast of a sardonic smile flit flirted flitted ted incongruously across the tha dying mans inana waxen cherubic features oil oh hell ho he said you understand perhaps you born with the right crook to la your nature or the wrong one perhaps its because you cant seo see the tun fun in playing the game its that that counts ile he compressed ills his lips and after a moment spoke broke again you never did have the truo true sportsmans sports mans lovo love of 0 the game tor for its own sake youre like most ot 0 the rest of the crowd content with mighty cheap virtue dan I 1 dont know that id choose just this kind of a windup wind vind up but its been fun full while it lasted goodby good by old man ile he did not spent speak again but lay with closed eyes alve minutes later maitland Malt land rose and unclasped the cold fingers from about lila ills own with a heavy sigh olgh he turned away at the door heckey was waa awaiting him yer lady he said as soon as they had drawn apart from the crowd la is walthal walten for yen yeh in the cab downstairs she was gettin a bit high ste nil nd I 1 thought id better get her away oh ashes walten all right he added alarmed by malt aloft 1 lands expression nut but maitland Malt land had bad left him abruptly and now as ho he ran down flight after echoing flight of marble stairs there rested cold tear fear in ills his heart in the room he be had just quitted a man whom ho he had called friend and looked upon with affectionate regard had died a self confessed and unrepentant liar and thief if now he were to find tho the girl another time vanished it if this had been but a ruse ot of hers finally to elude him if all men mea were without honor all women faithless lf if he had indeed placed the love of his bis life the only love that he had ever known unworthily it if she cared eo 80 little who had bad seemed to care much CHAPTER confessional 1 I hut flat the tha cab was there and within it the girl was waiting tor for him the driver after taking up hla his fare had at her direction drawn over to tile the further curb out of the fringe of the rabble which besieged the st luke building in ia constantly growing numbers and through which maitland Malt land too impatient to think of leaving by the basement exit had elbowed and fought ills his way in on an agony of apprehension Ilen slOn that brooked no hindrance heeded no difficulty tie ile dashed round the corner stopped short with a sinking heart then as the cabrys signaling whip across the street caught hla his eye fairly hurle hurled d himself to the other curb pausing at the wheel breathless lifted out of himself with joy to flad bad her fait falth bf ul tul in this ultimate instance she was vaa recovering whose high spi spirit r and recuperative powers were to him then and always rema remained ined a marvelous thing and she was bending forth front from the body of the hansom to iva welcome him with a smile that in a twinkling made radiant the world to him who stood in a gloomy side street 0 of f new york at three of f a summers bummers morning a good I 1 hour 1 our and a half before the dawn for up there in tile he tower of the skyscraper sky scraper he had its as much as tol told d hor of hla his love and she had waited and now and now he had keen been blind indeed had bad fiat ho failed to read tile the promise in her eyes weary she was and spent and overwrought but there la is no tonic tn in nil the world IN like tho the consciousness that where one has placed onos ones lovo love there love has burgeoned in response and despite all that she had bad suffered and endured th the a happiness that hat ran like soft fire in her veins wrapping her being with its beneficent rapture had deepened th the e color in her cheeks checks and heigh heightened tene it the glamour in her eyes and he be stood and stared knowing that its in all time tg no man had bid ever wo woman mail seemed more lovely than this sirl air 1 to him a knowledge that robbed his mind of all thought and his tongue of words so BO that to her bar fell fall tho the task of rousing him please she said bantly aly pl please case tell tiro the cabby to taku tako me M home mr maitland Malt land lie he came to and in confusion abtam sta 11 inbred yes yea lie he and he climbed cupon up on the step BC with no other thought than himself at hp lier r side and drive awny away ro forever rever bilut this ome amo the cabby bro brought light him tc his senses forcing him to remember that some of coherence was wa dimani lit mainley led even of u a man in love lore where to sir kb eh what ohl oh and bending to the th 0 girl home you said bald sho she told him tho the address addess a nuni num her on park avenue above thirty fourth street below forty second lie ile repeal repeated ed it mach mechanically a al c a ly I 1 unaware that it would remain stamped forever on ills memory indelibly indell bly the first personal detail that she had granted bran tod him the first barrier down lie he sat down the cab began to move and halted again A face aco ap nt at the apron adron ille keys ted red aid nn d anoon gooon like and not lacking lu la complacency ency for or the man counted on profiting variously by this nights work Ex otise me mr nattland Malt land nd touching tho the rim of hla bill derby Y yeh 4 too maam fr buttan in Illic keyl maitland Malt land a suddenly d in a tone of smoldering wrath what the what do you want yeh told roe me tub call round tomor to mor row yell yeh know yeh bo be in ill leave a note for or you with Ol lagan Is that all yep that is 13 theres so methin else 11 well excuse me for ment mentioning ionin it but I 1 know it aint generally known yeh know nd one uh th boys might ve heard me speak tuh tub yer lady by i namo name nd might pass it on to a reporter what I 1 means this hastily as the maitland temper showed allowed dangerous indications of going into active eruption 1 I spose yeh dont want me tuh tub mention t behre married jes yet mrs maitland Malt land here with a nod to her seeni tuh full take kindly tuh tub the notion ot of its abeln known hackey ali ah excuse met mel drive on cabby instantly instant lyl do you sou hear hickey suddenly away and tho the cab sprang into motion while maitland Malt land with a faco face ot of fire sat back and ra raged ca and wondered across broadway toward fourth avenue dashed the hansom hnnson i and from the curb line hickey watched it with a humorous light in his dull oyes eyes in deed the detective seemed in extraordinary conceit with himself lie ile chewed with unaccustomed emotion upon his cold elgar cigar scratched his cheek check and chuckled and chuckling pulled his hat bat well down over brows thrust both hands into his trousers pockets and shambled back to the st luke building his heavy body vibrating amazingly with ft tin his secret mirth and so ab shuffling sluggishly lic he merges into the shadows into the mob that surges about the building and passes from these pages II if in the clattering hansom steadying herself with a hand against tho the win dow irame frame to keep from being thrown against tho the speechless man beside her the girl waited and since malt land in contusion confusion at the moment found no words from this eloquent allen silence she drew an inference unjustified such as lovers are prone to draw the world over one that lent a pathetic color to her bar thoughts and chilled a little her hei mood she had been too sure but better to have it over with at al once rathe than permit it to remain forever a wall of constraint between them ile he must not be ba permitted to think that she bhe would dream breaul of taking him upon his generous word it was very kind of you she said in a steady small voice to pretend that wo we what you did pretend in or der to save me from being held as a witness at least I 1 presume that Is why you did lt it with a lot noto or of un certainty it Is unnecessary that you should bo be drawn into the tha affair he replied with somo some resumption of his session it as it if you were A thief she supplied as he be hosl best bated A thief he be assented gravely hut but I 1 I 1 am with a break in het her vo voice ice dut but you are not he asserted al most mos fiercely fler cely and dear h he a said boldly dont you suppo suppose so I 1 know 11 1 what do you 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