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y.«MB»3g:aBWMCTTSW ^a^myk-W Ml wwwt*"-* • &- --• •""'*•"1"w? * •'*•*-"*"• $*Mfw'&- % * » m '*>j* i <-r * m £-•*' vtrt'r. , , < < * - -, «.»" •»','. i r„ -*•• . • "4, * #?*& ^.rU»;2 / HlO^0 3 SYNOPSIS. The story opens with a scream from Dorothy March In the opera box of Mrs. Missioner, a wealthy widow. It Is oc­ casioned when Mrs. Missioner's necklace breaks, scattering the diamonds all over the floor. Curtis Griswold and Bruxton Sanda, society men In love with Mrs. Mis­ sioner, gather up the gems. Griswold steps on what Is supposed to be the cele­ brated Maharanee and crushes It. A Hin­ doo declares it was not the genuine. An expert later pronounces all the stones substitutes for the original. One of the missing diamonds is found in the room of Elinor Holcomb, confidential compan­ ion of Mrs. Missioner. She is arrested, notwithstanding Mrs. Missioner's belief In her Innocence. Meantime, in an up­ town mansion, two Hindoos, who are In America to recover the Maharanee, dis­ cuss the arrest. Detective Britz takes tip the case. He asks the co-operation of I>r. Fitch, Elinor's fiance, in running down the real criminal. Brits learns that duplicates of Mrs. Missioner's diamonds were made in Paris on the order of Elinor Holcomb. While walking Brits is seized, bound and gagged by Hindoos. He Is imprisoned In a deserted house, but makes hie escape. Brits discovers an In­ sane diamond expert whom he believes was employed by either Sands of Gris­ wold to make counterfeits of the Mission­ er gems. Griswold intimates that Sands Is on the verge of failure. Two Hindoos burglarize the home of Sands and are captured by Britz. On one of them he finds A note signed by "Milllcent" and ad­ dressed to "Curtis." Britz locates a wo­ man named Mlllicent Delaroche, to whom Griswold has been paying marked atten­ tions. The Bwami attends & ball at Mrs. Missioner's home, but learns nothing fur­ ther about the diamonds. CHAPTER Stop, Thief! Millioent Delaroche slept soundly. Hers was the type of beauty that re­ tains Its freshness through Indulgence in creature comforts. Not all her fondness for amusement could lead ber to rob herself for many nights of the repose she Instinctively knew was essential to the preservation of her charms. She was the sort of woman, past thirty, who retains a false youth sometimes more effective than the im­ maturity which Is measured by the calendar. Her complexion jvas as delicate as a debutante's. Her eyes were brighter than those of \he aver­ age athletic young woman, and no silver thread shot the dusk of her luxuriant hair. All this was due large­ ly, she was convinced, to her life­ long habit of sleeping early and cften, and of resolutely refusing to let her slumber be disturbed by any «uch useless things as dreams, which, after all, are mere gtiosts of thought --and too much thinking was not one of her foibles. Though Mrs. Delaroche slept pro­ foundly, her external senses were not wholly unvigllant. Long etudy of her­ self had made her sensitive to disa­ greeable impressions that were purely corporeal; and so, though no intrusive vision of mind could interrupt the fluid calm of her beauty sleep, a slight­ ly uncomfortable feeling at the pre­ cise spot whence her tresses swept upward in an elaborate coiffure or parted In the braids of negligee had the effect of arousing her as no mere dream possibly could have done. It required not many seconds, allowing for the habits of her mind, and the fact that she suddenly was recalled from deep repose, for Mrs. Delaroche to realize there was a hand beneath her pillow, and that hand was not one of her own. Rigid with fright, she waited an Instant to assure herself ehe had not committed the innovation of dreaming, then she made a swift reach for the alien hand--too late. It had been withdrawn swiftly in the few moments requisite to complete comprehension of the situation, and if Mrs. Delaroche had not been so cer­ tain that she never dreamed, she might have thought she still was sleeping. Hasty exploration of the space beneath her pillow, however, told her the midnight hand had not gone away empty. Realizing that, she was broad awake tn an Instant. She sat erect so swiftly that she bruised her forehead slightly against some­ thing cold and hard and round and smooth that was Immediately pressed menacingly to her head. "Don't move, or you'll get this!'* •aid a rough voice. Mrs. Delaroche gasped, and despite the hand, sank back again to her pil­ low. She could still feel, however, or fancied she could, the icy rim of the metal that had touched her brow. This was a great feat of imagination for Mrs. Delaroche. "That's right; lie still!" continued the voice. "If you know what's good for you." plough though the voice was, it was carefully subdued. It couid not have been heard in the corridor. Mrs. Dela­ roche drew a deep, fluttering breath, and was evidently on the point of making another attempt to speak when the metallic ring touched her forehead again, chilling her to silence, and the voice went on: "See here, lady, I've got no time to waste with you. Just you stay where you are, and don't make a sound, un­ less you waut to get this!" and the metal was pressed a little harder to her forehead "I am going to get out of this room quietly, and I'm going right BOW. If you make any noise for the nut five minutes, I'll blow your head off!" The cold pressure was- removed from her forehead, and the burglar moved about the room. The thick carpet and doubtless the felt soles on the man's feet as auxiliaries, made his steps soundless. He went from her dressing table to a writing desk, light­ ing each m turn with a vivid circle •f rays from an electric pocket torch, but holding the Illuminating device always in such position that no faint­ est gleam fell upon himself. Not for a moment, however, did he slacken his alertness sufficiently for Mrs. Del­ aroche to have a good chance to get to the inner room. He pretended to search thoroughly several places where money or jewels might be kept, but, even to a woman of her slow wit. it wag apparent he did so in a half-hearted way. Milllcent felt assured the man knew just what he had taken from beneath her pillow, and that he was satisfied with it. He showed that to be* true when he gave up the pretended search without so much as trying the handle of a small safe in a far corner of the room. Re­ turning to the bedside, he renewed his warning, throwing so much savage meaning into his words that Mrs. Del­ aroche was1 certain there was no pre­ tense about that Then he walked to the door giving on the corridor, turned the handle cautiously, thrust his head through a second opening, and looked up and down the hall. Evidently reassured, he opened the door, stepped outside, and closed It swiftly and silently. There was not a sound to indicate whether he had gone along the corri­ dor, or still stood Just outside the door. Mrs. Delaroche waited, listen­ ing intently In the hope of hearing his footsteps, but she listened vainly. She waited perhaps a minute, for she had no desire to hazard a shot from that terrible thing the burglar had pressed against her brow. Then her courage oozed back, and she bounded to the floor, screaming with all her might, pausing only long enough to snatch a peignoir and throw it about her shoulders ere she pulled open the out­ er door of her suite and sent her shrieks shrilling down the long hall. Her crjes, for she was a magnificently constructed animal of most expansive lung power, not only echoed far along the corridor, but penetrated even the sound-proof doors of the other apart­ ments. The disturbance she made was alarmingly novel to the exclusive calm of the Hotel Renaissance. Doors were flung open, heads popped out, and a dozen inquiries were flung at her from, as many parts of the hall; but Mrs. Delaroche had exhausted her coherence In framing that one pur­ pose of screaming with all her might until some man of action should speed to her assistance. She did not waste any strength in articulation. She sim­ ply screamed, and so eloquent were her shrieks that although she uttered no concrete word, only a few of them were needed to tell the nfore intelli­ gent of her auditors that she had been robbed, and that what she had lost was of priceless value to her. Before the fusillade of her cries died away in a scattering fire of gasping sobs, half a dozen pajamaed specters were racing down the corri­ dor in the direction they deemed the burglar had taken. What account they would have given of themselves had they come up with the fugitive is conjectural. They were spared the disagreeable necessity of submitting their courage to that test, for as the burglar turned a corner of the hall many yards in advance of his pursu­ ers, he was tripped by a foot adroitly Interpolated in his path, and when he recovered his breath after a jarring fall, it was to find two men of sturdy build sitting upon him as composedly as if nature had planned him for a conversation chair. The pistol he had carried iq his hands throughout the pursuit was snatched from his grasp, and although he struggled furiously, his arms were dragged behind his back and handcuffs were snapped upon his wrists. Then he was dragged to his feet by four insistent arms and impelled with much vigor along the hallway in the reverse direction to that which he had followed. Unmistakable was the rejoicing of the pajama squad at the sight of his captivity. Undeniably heroic was its surge toward him. Faces grim with postscript bravery were thrust into the prisoner's, and voices raging from mockery to indignation bombarded him with questions. All of which the prisoner met with sullen silence and with looks that made the squad re­ treat a pafce or two in spite of thb firmness with which his captors held him. Mrs. Delaroche's fading screams guided the little group to her apart­ ment, where the hands of ministering angels had adjusted her peignoir to its normal position upon her Junoesque form and fastened its fluttering rib­ bons in becoming bows. She there re­ ceived the heroes of the man hunt with astonishing composure. "Is this the man who robbed you, madam?" asked one of the men who had caught the burglar. He was the house detective. "Stand behind him, Jim," he said to his colleague, a por­ ter with the fullback's shoulders. "It must be," said Mrs. Delaroche, "but I cannot tell by his face. I did not see it. It looks like the man, though. Make him speak." But that task was beyond the house detective's powers. Irresponsible though his mind might be as com­ pared with the city's sleuth's and blue- coats, he hardly felt justified in em­ ploying the most medieval forms of torture to accomplish that purpose. Seemingly, nothing short of the boot, the thumbscrew and the Iron Maiden I . She Was Broad Awake in an Instant. would drag a word from the captive. He maintained his sullen silence, al­ though It might be said he broke It In a way, for the furious looks he cast at the pajama squad were almost audi­ ble. Those looks caused several of the squad's doughty heroes suddenly to realize the unconventionally of their attire, and to send them precip­ itously in search of dressing gowns. One or two of them remained, how­ ever, and the house detective, who, in hotels as frostily patrician as the Renaissance, did not often have an opportunity to hold the center of the stage, waB fairly well content with his audience. "Now, then, you!" he said, brusque­ ly addressing the prisoner, "speak up. What were you doing here?" "He got my Jewels!" cried Mrs. Del­ aroche. The prisoner turned one of his sul­ len looks upon her, but, conscious that she was robed as daintily as the most fastidious society actress in the Du Barrvest of bedroom scenes could be, her equanimity was not so vulnerable as that of the deserters from the pa­ jama squad. "He took the whole case of jewels from under my pillow," she continued, addressing the house detective. "They must be in bis possession still, unless he dropped them while he was running away." "We will soon find out," said the leading man. "Jim, go through him!" Jim only shrugged those fullback shoulders when the burglar attempted to petrify him with a look, and his search through the prisoner's pockets was thorough. Mrs. Delaroche gasped her delight when from the captive's coat the porter drew forth a heavy sil­ ver casket, and held It toward her. "Is that your property, madam?" asked the house detective. "Yes, yes," said Mrs. Delaroche, eag­ erly. "Oh, dear, I am so glad he did not escape with it. What would--" She checked herself hastily. "You must come to me In the morn­ ing, Mr.--Mr.-- for a reward," she add­ ed in tones so sweetly suggestive of a golden guerdon that the detective's eyes glistened. "Thank you, madam, that is not nec­ essary," he replied perfunctorily. "Let's see what else this fellow has got." He and the porter explored the cap­ tive's pockets further, but found noth­ ing more in the way of loot Mrs, Delaroche looked hastily through her desk and dressing table and told the man apparently nothing else was miss­ ing- "Then," said the house detective, "I guess there is nothing else for us to do but to turn this burglar over to the police. May we use your telephone, madam?" Mrs. Delaroche gladly nodded assent, and the sleath continued: "Jim, call up Headquarters, and have a couple of men sent here to take this fellow away." The effect of that command upon the prisoner startled everyone. Not only did it cause him to break his sul­ len silence, but it drew from him words that made the house detective Involuntarily loose his hold on the man and step back, staring. Jim's jaw fell, and Mrs. Delaroche gazed at the fel­ low, wide-eyed. "I can save you that trouble," said the burglar. "You need not telephone for the Central Office men. I am Lieu­ tenant Detective Britz of Headquar­ ters! And these," and he nodded to­ ward the silver casket, "are the miss­ ing Missioner diamonds that were stolen from the richest woman in America." "Turning to Mrs. Delaroche abruptly, he said: L *--the Jewels Are Mrs. Missioner's, 'Madam, how do yon come to be in possession of these jewels?" All the panting loveliness of Mrs. Delaroche shivered as the sharp ques­ tion bored its way to her inner con­ sciousness. It was now her turn to be silent. She looked at the Headquar­ ters man as if he held In his hand her life, liberty, and whatever chance re­ mained to her of happiness. A gleam of appeal glowed In her beautiful eyes for a moment. Plainly, if she did not speak it was not for lack of will. Her words were as frozen as the normal condition of ber thoughts. Ehe put her hands to her breast and gazed at the Central Office man as pltecusly as a woman at her Junoesque charms could be expected to do. The Ingenue role was impossible to Mrs. Delaroche; but had It not been so, undoubtedly she would have asumed It in this emer­ gency. "Answer me, madam; this calls for an Immediate explanation. You told this man these jewels belonged to you. How doeB it come you have the dia­ monds everybody in New York knows as the Maharanee necklace of Mrs. Doris Missioner?" Mrs. Delaroche still struggled faintly for speech. Her lids quivered; her eyes alternately closed and then were fixed upon the detective, and a tremor, be­ ginning at the crown of her adorable head, move^ in waves to her perfect feet. She sank into a chair and let her head fall upon her arms as they stretched inertly across a little table. There was no smallest streak of pity in the look Detective Britz bent upon her. He had dealt with women of her type before many times, he told him­ self, and now that he was so near the heart of the great Missioner mystery, it was not his purpose to be Influenced In the slightest degree by the distress of a Diana, to say nothing of an Aphro­ dite. Dry sobs choked the woman. Her eyes strained at ther tendons so painfully that tears would have been a divine relief. Whether she was grieved or frightened was not so apparent as that she was sorely distressed. Min­ utes passed before she lifted her face and once more looked at the detective. The house sleuth and his porter had retreated a yard or more, and the erstwhile pajama squad, now an as- founded force of Cossacks and Bedouins in a varied array pf dressing gowns and bathrobes, looked and listened In hushed expectancy. "Come, Mrs. Delaroche," said Brits, Bternly. "You really must not waste any more of my time. I have spent an hour in getting these Jewels away from frou, and I don't Intend to put ^n many more words in getting the facts from you. You have got to answer soon or late, and you may as well do It at once." If there was to be any third degree In her case, the detective was deter­ mined to apply it then and there. "They were given to me," said the woman faintly. "By whom?" "By--by a friend of mine," she re­ plied. "And his name?" inquired the detec­ tive curtly. "I do not care to tell his name," said Mrs. Delaroche, who had recovered a little of her calmness. "You must tell it!" Brits insisted. "I cannot," she said. "But I tell you you must!" returned the detective. "Don't you see you have got to tell it to square yourself?" "What do you mean, Blr?" she asked with a pretty show of indignation. "Now, don't try any of those games on me," said Britz. In his impatience, he was descending close to the meth­ ods of Donnelly and Carson. He re­ membered that in a moment and re­ sumed more persuasively: "It will save you a great deal of trouble for you, Mrs. Delaroche, if you tell me the truth, and tell it at once, without holding anything back. You understand, I am a detective from Po­ lice Headquarters, and I was assigned weeks ago to find Mrs. Missioner's dia­ monds. I have found the diamonds, and now I must find the thief." Mrs. Delaroche shivered, and started slowly to her feet. She turned a dis­ dainful glance on the group at the door, then faced Britz once more, and in a voice lltle more than a whisper, she said: "Whatever you may think, I did not know the Jewels were stolen. I did not know they ever belonged to Mrs. Mis­ sioner. I never heard of Mrs. Mission er before tonight, except through the papers. I did not know that any of my acquaintances knew her. I was not aware she had lost her diamonds. What you tell me about the theft of a necklace from Mrs. Missioner is en­ tirely new to me. I seldom read the papers, and when I do, I do not read accounts of crime." "All you say may be true," Britz per­ sisted, "but you may takte my word for It--the Jewels are Mrs. Missioner's; they were stolen from her, and you must tell me the name of the person who gave them to you." The beautiful woman's distress at this time was so sincere that the Headquarters man involuntarily dealt more gently with her. He urged her to be seated again, and then for the first time apparently remembered his hands still were gripped by the bands of steel the house detective had snap­ ped upon them. "Madam. I must Insist once more that you tell me the man's name," Brits said. "His name?** she returned wonder* ingly. "It Is Curtis Griswold, Isn't it?" said the Headquarters man incisively. Mrs. Delaroche, with a little cry which showed more emotion than any­ one would expect from so self-centered a woman, sprang to her feet and ad­ vanced toward Brits with hands out­ stretched in protest. "You don't mean to say that you be­ lieve Mr. Griswold to be a thief!" she exclaimed. "We shall see, madam," rejoined Britz, "how successful he has been in at least one robbery." "Inside this little casket," he said, "are jewels worth more than half a million dollars. Please let me have the key to this jewel box." Reluctantly, she unfastened a slen­ der gold chain that hung about her neck, from which depended a tiny sll- vefr key. Britz fitted it into the lock and turned the bolt. Triumphantly he seised the lid, and as everyone else in the room focused eager eyes upon the Bllver box, Britz opened it; then drop­ ped it on the table with a furious ex­ clamation. The box was empty! I want ewy pertos •who is billoma, consti­ pated or bast any stom­ ach or liver aliment send for a free package of my P»w-P»w Pills. I »"ant to proTe that i'~e j positively cure law; digestion. Soar StoijjT' acta. Belching, Wind. Headache, Nervous­ ness, Sleeplf sneaaaad are an Infallible cur* for Constipation. Tods this I am willing to give millions of pack­ ages. I take all the risk. Bold by drag-gists lor 25 centa a vial. For free package add* Pn». Munysa. 63rd ft IsBsrson SU-.^hiisusipitlStPa. Guarding the Money. "Why was he guarded by the po­ lice," "They were afraid somebody else would get his money." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first pal up 40 years aeo. They regulate and invig- orate stom&co, liver and bowels. Bugs* coated tiny granules. if you can't marry the one you Lot* try to love the one you marry. CHAPTER XXII. Hot on the Scent. Brits bounded into the inner room and made a quick examination of every window. He found marks on one of the casements that told his practiced eye entry to the apartment had been made through the window by some one skilled In daring burg­ lary. It gave on the fire escape. Brits flung up the sash and looked out. As he expected, there was a long string of ladders and balconies that ended one story above the street The fire escape was at the least frequented end of the big hotel, and an awning threw a shadow from an arc lamp on the globe big enough to afTord oppor­ tunity for an agile man to mount on the shoulders of comrades, grasp the second-story window and swing him­ self up unseen. He let his eyes fall on the balcony one story below the window. On It lay something yellow, crumpled as if dropped Inadvertently. Brits ran down the ladder and re­ turned to the room with the object. It was an Oriental handkerchief such as he had rieen in the Swami's pos­ session. It was perfectly plain to Britz that the Hindoos had been beforehand with him in recovering the Missioner jewels. By this time he knew enough to be certain that their object in get­ ting possession of the gems was even stronger than the professional pride that had actuated him to recover them for their owner. He was aware they had a reason yet to be explained why they were In such a desperate hurry to take the stones of the necklace, or at least one of them--the Maharane« --to India. Even now they might be aboard a vessel that would put to sea In a few hourB, leaving no trace of their departure. Or, it might be they were beyond the city limits on their way to another port of exit. He must stop them at all hazards. He leaped to the telephone, called Police Headquarters, got Manning on the wire, and asked the Chief to give per­ sonal attention to the request he was about to make. "Notify all precincts," said Brits, "to stop every man of Oriental ap­ pearance attempting to leave the city by boat or train. Have all the ferries watched, and send a double detail to the Grand Central Station. Telephone the Associated Press for a list of the vessels about to sail today; have the water front watched for tramp steam­ ers, and don't forget the small craft, both sail and steam." "Have you found the Jewels?" asked Manning, at the other end of the wire. "No!" roared Britz, "but I will have them in a few hours, if you'll make the bunch hustle to help me. Will you attend to all this yourself. Chief?" Britz found Doctor Fitch waiting for him on the sidewalk, as he had ar­ ranged before entering the apartment of Mrs. Delaroche in the guise of a burglar, and in a single word told the physician how he had been balked la the chief object of his nocturnal visit "Quick's the word now, doc!" said Britz. "Where are you going?" asked Fitch. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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HN1 ca&b, balaiR** w nn at *%. from market, baa rural •oT«minMM wW'phonw conn«v tU'ii. fc'itrta lays ft'#!* '*** Soil the best. Natural uprinis «o tsuildljiij: cor onMT. S)Uacr«6 iiewir broken. yartlj r«a4F SB* 'licb does line b« ri*. S.V icres mos» tUM broken without any ciearluit. w»lj f Ti be " rb#at, ' Jane Had Change of Heart Telephoned for the Police to Arrest Little Willie Jones and Then Repented. If Jane wore 25 instead of 5 she would perhaps suspect that it was ad­ miration on the part of Willie Jones, who has of late singled her out for curl-pulling, cap-snatching and other boyish methods of teasing. At any rate, Jane considers UuU her dignity has been 'put upon" and her peace of mind destroyed. "Do that *galn, Willie Jones." she sputtered, "and I'll have you arrest­ ed!" And Willie Jones did It Jane marched Into the house, took down the telephone receiver and de­ manded: "Give me the police sta­ tion." As no grown-up was present to toil this 4&pBtle measure* the eo* -V?? nection was secured, and then Jane said in a firm voice: "Please send an officer up here to 176 svenue to arrest a young gentleman. Hurry, please." Jane's family were amazed when a policeman presented himself to carry out his duty. Several other officers were soon called in to help locate the criminal, and there was much excite­ ment for some half hour around No. 178 avenue. It was finally thought that the olll- eers' services would he needed in a hunt for Jane, who had mysteriously disappeared, but when Uncle Wilson went to get his overcoat from the hall closet, Jane was dragged forth, a very frightened little girl at the wheels of law had set revolving. "I-I-guess I don't wan't WilHe Jones sent to prison, after all!" she ex­ plained. Toot* Elbows. 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