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LANSENG, Route No. 1, Lert South Dakota. will women continue to suffer SEE -~ BRITZ OF AEAUQUARTERS BY MARCI BARBER Supplied Exclusively in Canada by the British & Colonial Preis, Limited, ' Toronto. ------------------------a------ "What's new?" he called to The leutecant shook his "Very little,' he answered. "Still working on that line?" quired Manning, permitting himae the luxury of a slight'y sarc flection, He was no: over Britz, perhaps 4s no d head éver feels really cordi a too capable second {u-comin his direction of the Bureau he the shrew sleuth's brain, and seldom he risKed offending The faint aspenity of his supsrior: tone was mot lost upon Britz, but he ignored it. "Yes," he sald, pausing near (3 threshold for a second ere he went t his way to the other room, "lI p= pose to fight it out on that lng i takes all winter!? Manning grinned. It was & busy Detective-Licutenant hic Mulberry Street him was a cablegram froin Bean, say ing brieifly he was trailing all the workmen who had taken part in: thg manufacture of the paste Missione necklace, and that none of them had left Paris. Britz frowned slightly as le read the messeage, then with a heavy foun tain pen that falrly raced over the paper, and, addressing his faraway assistant by his cable word, he wrote "Logan, Paris, Was Mahrance made there, too?" Britz tapped a Bell and looked up as hia ae or of an LovY passed office. AWAD a Headquarters patrolman opened the door, - "Rush this down to the Union office," he mid. "Take self, and sée that it goes at once." Then as he saw a question ftrug gling for escape from the bluecoat's muscle-bound intelligence, he added: "No, don't send it over our loop; take it right down to 195 Broadway and take it yourself; and, more, take -it right away; there be any mistake about this." The patrolman saluted stiflly, and Britz swung his feet to the leaf of his desk. . The leutenant took from his pocket a cigar, black and clumsy enough to indicate its value to any connoisseur; made his teeth meet with a savage crunch inone end, struek a match with a rasp that evidently was a slight outlet for his emotions and smoked stuc i8ly. He had lean ed something course of the last twenty-fou urs. First was the tect that Griswold was a master of the pencil; and next c: the know ledge that mén «who would stop ut nothing, even in the heart of New York, were on the ale tor somebody they anticipated would, come out of the Missioner house. An equally interesting point in con nection with these men was that they were not of the West. Britz's mem ory was a criminal directory of Man hattan. He had at his thoughts' end a picture of every »k who had ever been caught on the island. Desperat Bs many of them were, and daring a nota few of them had shown them selv to be, he recalled vividiy sev eral Instances that had gripped th attention of specialists in many lines, and there was not one among them he felt sure, who would 'have dared the abduction of a valuable man in that particular way and In that par ticular place. The deed had been com mitted unquestionably by a band of desperadoes from anether land. They came from #b6me mysterious country where midnight crimes on occasion bh noonday ~ achleve- ment. Now, it "hardly would pay the Hindoo ruffians, however expert, to be come pioneers of their peculiar brand of crime in a place so distant from the scenes of their normal operations unless they were inspired by a pur pose big enough to attract them the width of t world, and make them pursue it in indifference to the j ba bility of their safe return. Undoubt- edly, New York at that moment wcs the unconscious possessor of about as enterprising a band of thugs as Hin- dostan could produce; but those thugs had not come to establish thuggee as one of America's protected industries. They were here for a specific object, and in the clarity of the grea sleuth intelligence, that howe luminously--they were lLere Maharanee diamond The Swami had done hlz best to deceive him. It went wii: va sly the Brahmin was connected in so way with the acts of the low caste Hindoos, and, moreover, even in the darkness, of the hall in the Missioher house, Britz had not fatled to recog nize the gwart and sinister features of the man All. Of Kananda, Britz as vet knew nothing. That anglicized potenta'es had absented himseif from the scholar's room throughout the de- tective's visit, and Nandy so far for Fontes club ethics he had learned in 8 to 'peer and listen through of the lunér doorway; but Portieree did not know this. The Heéand quarters man was convinced, however, that the Swami had cognizance of even If he did not actually direct-- the attempt upon his I!berty, He guessed, too, that it was by accident he was whirled away from the park path, instead of a man the Orientals evidently considered it worth their while to capture and search. True, he was not much eloser to {solation of the germs of suspicion that sprouted in his mind in regard to Sands, Griswold, Blodgett, and Ali. Motives for the theft were easy to conjecture In the cases of two or three of them, but how to &ccount for its achievement by any one of the four was something that fill pussled the acute mentdlity of him 'Whom the Swami had called "New York's clever est detective." . Where was the Maharanee made? How could it have been made? He sdw rio reason for deception on the gant of tiie Swami In that re In plant Re We ey a to n de gi Sie Western it your me d ford for the What's, don't let RUTH ST. who appears with her original company at the Grand Danse artiste, on Friday, Aug. 28th. » 1 DENIS, "I don't see how thore can be any cheer for me," he sald, "as long as that poor girl is a prisoner in the Tombs. When are we going to get her out?" "1 know lust how you feel about it, doator," said Britz sympathetically, "but you'll have to leave that in my hands for the present. Miss Holcomb trust stay 'where she is a while longer." "But surely," persisted the physi cian, "it cannot be necessary to leave her thére forever to establish her in- nocence. You know she is gulitiess; { know it; Mrs. Missioner knows it, an.. it would not take much to bring al' her acquaintances to the same view. Why must we wait?" "My dear fellow," said the detective, "you forget that a large proportion of oui fellowmen are not prepared to be lieve anything of the kind. the eyes of the public your flancée is the only person who can be suspected of having stolen Mrs. Missioner's jewels All the circumstantial evidence points in her direction; in fact, as far as the public knows, she was caught red hand. Bear in mind my esteemed col- leagues are not given to over-modesty. You may depend on it, they've filled up the Headquarters reporters with big steries about their discovery of one of the diamonds in Miss Hol comb's room, Trust Donnelly for that." "Oh, what do I care about the pub He!" eried Fitch. "What has it done for us? W doés th amount to, anyhow? What's the use of talk ing to me about the public? All I'm thinking about is the fact who has never harmed anybody in her Ife is locked up in Tombs jailbirds and felons of- every kind! It's enough to make a crim 1 oit of a parson! And with nothing to sustain her exc the hope of what you and I may Jo to get her out; and here we are dragging along, dig ging out facts inch by Inch like a pair of relichunters prodding the ruins of Herculaneum!" The usually mild-mannered clan was goaded to rudeness by the fmperturability of the thief-taker who confronted him. He started to fling himself in a chair, then brought him- golf up roundly, and with a quick step reached the detective's desk. Plant ing his fists upon it with force that drove the blood from his knuckles he looked the lieutenant directly in the eyes and asked "Are you ping fair with me Britz? Are you really trying to clear my flancée of all this horrible mass of false evidence which has been col lected about her? Are you really deep down inside of you, convinced of her Innoc ence- are you as convinced Ss I an A sicady look was the only response Britz was a man who made his word his servants. He saw no reason foi wultiplyfug them now against the per fectly natural impetuosity of Miss tol comb's lover. "My God, man! It's not sou're playing with me in a this?" Fitch continued n't use me as a tc fase against that ? you have permitted you she Is guilty, and timt keeping me on the string in formation about her you al get anywhere else. Why, that bie it's too damnable to think The sleufh's look His cool, gray eve self-possession throu; excitement infq the chamber of his brain. into them a few moments ic the temsion of his knuckles relaxed; his eyes fell away from the licuten ant's, and, turning slightly, he sudden Brite bellevea wh swim to De sincere In saying he knew of no one in any European capital who could fashion & duplicate of the giant diamond It was when his thoughts were tan ged In the tighest of knots in that Mune that a card was brought to him by the twin brother of the heavy-foot ed bluecoai who even then was sup posedly. on his way to the Western Union office with the cable to Logan. "Show him in." said Britz after a glance at the name; and, as his visitor entered, he swung his feet from the désk, Advancing hallway to the door, and extended his hand cordiaily. "How are you, doctor? he said. "1 hope I see vou cheerful," public physi- would then A wan smile broke the fixity of the' doctor's countéatice for an instant, and book bis beat slighi * drive that a girl | with | ly and rather weakly sat on the edge of the desk 1 broke out like that, old i "Of course, you are faith. It. is not con- any man of your stamp ty of double-deatling with as helpless to protect » a case | this as are b and myself, 3ut, by this longdrawn out un- enough to shatter any- is playing havoc knocking all my ex- ambitions, my very practice it into several kinds of a cotked 1 How much longer can I do anything, think of anything, plan anything while Miss Holcomb rests under such a suspicion and is subject to such daily, hourly, and momentary wretchedness as 1 know she suffers in that infernal hole! You are asking too much of flesh and blood!" "Now, doctor," said Britz, lowering himself gently into a revolving chair, and restoring his carefully polished feet to their comfortable position on the desk leaf, "let us be reasonable. You say | expeet too much of you. Now, what do you expect of me? Do you think that I am the whole Rus- sian Secret Service system roiled into Are you jollying yourself with the idea that I'm a Turkish Grand Vizier with all the genil at my com- mand? You know very well 1 am do ing the best I,can with the materia: the Department appropriation permits, 1 have taken the pick of the force, but only a few of assistants have any- 1 their You cannot dubs." Fitch nodded impatiently. "1'1i tell you what I'll do," continued the detective relighting his cigar, and umming on table thoughtfully, "1 will make a bargain with you. know vou want to get that girl out of jail, and I don't blame you a bit. She too fine a girl for that not that anything can e~ntamipate her though; the stuff in too good for that. You can't real sort by a few weeks' as socliation with undesirable citizens, but 1st the same, you want to get her out m going to tell you some thing. I do, too. 1 know you are in Jove. with Elinor Holcomb, and I know you are not a bit more anxious to see ber out of that place a free woman than I am, and I know I am not a bit -moré eager to see her come ou with her reputation as white as milk than you are. It stands to reason, a vou are the magn to be responsible for her name all your life. 1-only acting ceivable could be two parsons all the gods! certainty 1s body's nerves. It with mine. It's periments, my one? my houlders. is altogether sort of thing her is spoil the hold myself accountable until this casa 1s ended How can you think of 1 a thing as setting her the smallest scrap of against her? Why, ther "you don't have You know want her t in exactly » eyes of her friends went there I petuous chump, and of 18 not &n {dea of for g ) 1and in any way But you needn't pretend you don't un derstand ho bard it is for a man in my position to hold himself in." Britz laughed--not unpleasantly. In fact, there was a 'ring of hope in the sound that made the doctor prick up his ears and turn to him expec tantly, "Say," said Fiteh, thing?" Britz nodded. "Something important? Good news?" The detective's head wis motionless. With excruciating deliberation heQook thg.pencil from his pocket, examined at po 1#ed that point to push the ashes off his cigar, slipped the pencil back into his pocket, and then nipped the cigar between his teeth. He then brought the fingers of his two hands together, tip to tip. and looked at the physician with an air of judicial ab- straction. - "Good boy!" he said. just how good it is. key to the whole situation, and it may only deepen the mystery. 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