Show rat araj prowl to be winner mawn fr w the short story uy by R T M SCOTT 3 proxy as a B valuable Talu able it be worth orth at of a hoard board mett ing in to few joew vork york tin n the ati fid day lay jeffries and 1 wion mo out to corthe country house on long 1006 filand tn to argue against curb each other otter for the duru kneut but of i course they HI did not travel tn in the tt same car fat old jeffries toik aurelius along nith ith him ID to safeguard fa valuable a p it he obtained 14 it up to u the minute 1111 flute flint it laotto bo voted on oil hie file neit nelt tiny day smith ostensibly at as rlee aad not as a private detec the ill get the ih paar and you coill keel keei it rumbled tiled and nd chuckled old jeffries together well ell lied lick son derson and hie his dirty crew As A the two entered the be me big coun try it feminine shriek rung cu out end and binl built llie hs long les lep carried bim him up A flight of otner without their customary cinto roary indolence in a back room he found round a very pretty maid with her tool fool caught tn ill a steel rut tit ernp he lie wrenched the ds ins apart and held her ankle for or a few moment while fille the she writhed lu III pain the business busl nes meetings meeting occurred in the rodin rown on oil the geould boor floor it hud had to he lie short as ilbong 1 uon us inning lelling by plane within n an on hour on till his auy ay to there ai as nothing dimmed bitely for roof smith to da he ile toda lani 1113 u alth ith Boling worth and nd hander handerkin xin and got aljer mixed as dar people door at u id d V pal 1011 to or people too inzy tf think hufh it uh pew few people could bollete bellee that to so indo lent a 8 nan man wits a oh crying tery ery thing thin with accuracy hile the three men ilion gathered around i table smith viAn dered to the piano and slid run ran his fisberg over the les but sto plied quickly 10 us as not to 10 interfere kb fib he con ter gation lon t lite end ot of an hour boling worm slimed i a looper and jeffries liml had won llillie worth left 1 the house at offer ordering lunch et em n to be to his ills three buesig the proxy lay upon the table hc foe alde a wily hwy blue envelope jeffries in inserted it in the envelope 1 bill tell file map at tint flint moment he roar rf of it i plane tAlde jeffres M acs 0 11 ell the tile Ove lille 1 HI I lite be ainu tile he laed ala hie lite roar of die lite cigne beavin axi unit louder vid id nil chrite men walked to 11 ilie tile lit lit tile smith ind mi oil lite ili it inhume orinte of f boha they 0 i the tuble lite lie i gone other hue tuti filipes a in lit a ruck rock en lie table but they nere viere all empty sail awn laughed abl offered off trel to kt itt jeffries search the offer vias bellied nel lied nil and degries found hui bt binish hi hill anderea an dered to the i inno mi was agair running his fingers the kes title lie lip finned as li U un an ila 11 a flood tin 1 oil it been torn born and enil sald billat lift lie curot to buike inn in n it eter certain hint flint lie ina il it had hall put nn an an on I 1 er low foit eo so tint flint lite told not inot be PLIs pinioned tined bj by the rat trap 1 I 1 dlan t brier you out wat here to fiddie ith maid ankles grunt bled NO jeffries la Is in the air 1 und and we oe rant cant get another artly alloe e are 11 smith rang the tile I 1 ell tell hie rhe butler the tile auld nho Itil lied lo 10 Sil lItIf und and talked in low tolles v nah fth him olle she lie secretly fe crelly ret elied a lei dalr bill 1111 the maid out of the room and shortly after which binotti joined JEf filea and find in the hall where deffries lef fries find ordered his car cir 1 I boint lint understand you amith 01 gal all I 1 jt tyl as Is alie lit walked toward the front door leading ban ders D beliinda titre jare just a little patience re turned balth matiy alii the dir door to tonii speak fak to jeffria Jef frka 0 1 jeffries lt lucked mikel ills DM 1 i us as alie nir roared if the attilo ua fir ir a fe ev moment moments tn ili the i dix ruji jeffria Jef fric toll t surprised to budi lenly a yell ell founded sounded inside the tile hoube on I 1 amith as fl be clashed li ack to the lite tousle beside belde lite piano aoud stood Sn tinder niler eon son lih the rut rat trap dangling from hia ills hand ON ho he cursed nil ills drip dripping plug from hta his hand to tile floor 1 I 1 knew that he be met hale taken the ent elope from nini ile table ex el pul benith but I 1 did not know where here lie lit had bad put it until I 1 touched the piano ker the tile second time and found that three strings tre lend dead lie tood stood quite close to the piano ben wo lie looked out the tile win do dow tSan handerson derion helpless let pry the trap from frota till his hand lian the maid brought me the trap con continual ti n u el I 1 and I 1 placed it on tile strings under which he lie had slipped the cantelope en catt elope end ond copied it nith my handkerchief then it wa as that flint sanderson struggled to turn defeat into lie lory tory he lie reached ren clied into the piano and snatched out the blue euve euid ope jeffries started toward the mad mail bened but pulled him back 1 I substituted nn an empty envelope when ine to of you first erg t turned to toward ard the vi window he lie eald bald the proxy has ha been in my pocket all the time ume |