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(AVTttOR OF "TIIE MIRACLE MAN")
CorvrieM, lttl, Ml PubUe Ltietr Cemvanu
Tins deAins TnK PTOIlV
,iPVnl" I n" I nt te Martin Tide.
J?n te t 1 100.000 te recoup .nwlnr
Effii A a chance te obtain a
i'Sfma rnJ leave the dlatiuteful world
S' lcreki? a J he .teal, and hide, the
Mifei ? Bharvan ftl.e Plan, te double
"!!. hi. illent partner In racln ven
?J?! tit the Ihup. he hlre. for the
m, e"lSK.r that Henderaen ha. fore.
tilled them. Captured W the police,
v. I .cnieiiced te the penitentiary for
Ke year". nd Juat before hi time la
Si Selective llarjan . trim t learn
J&ere the money I. hidden and fall.,
skar'an a1 vl.lta him with the .arne
Sleet, and whsn Hcnder.en remains
inent he V. threatened with the Power.
If im "underworld." He realUta with
Siieair that he will leave the pnnlten
tiary mStlnii man with no et-pei lunitjr
Va. vullhit the .pet where he has
fiSdW t"" money Vnd lie confide. In
Vfniman. ft prl.en mate, wlv preml.es
Ti the Ht. buclcn ll0'l ln J'iw vr.k
. it'nl'in
ii l the loot from the old pluweii cot.
-here It I. hidden, nnd miet Hendnraen
Ve ioencr lias he disclosed his eecret
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MMinvi ha. been lylnc In wait for Ju.t
thl. information, nl alnce he leaves
I? "en before Honduraen will have time
te rutin hla retawey. Dying In his cell.
Se Teny l.emlir.1 calls for Hendersen
and ftps out the name of his friend,
"Nlo'le Caprlane. Krljce." , ,wlie. he
lays, will pay te Dave the old debt he
"Hse'umB IT CONTINUES
CIIAPTEK Mil
Tlie Doer en the Lane
WAS that ft shttdew cast by the pro
jection of the deer perch out thtre
cress the street, or was It mere than
badev? It was true that, te a rc
..likable degree, one b ryes became
aecUStOmCU 10 lliu llliuiw. uiiiiudi. uum in
Utcknen, of. the MMIglited street; but
it., mlnrl rliil net nrCOinilledatC ltSClf BO
readily a long nnd sustained vigil, the
train spurred Inte abnormal activity
ind under tense strain, produced n men
tal Quality of vision that detracted from,
rather than augmented, the detondence
te be placed upon the physical organs
ef right. It peopled ppnee with Its own
imaginations; It created, rather than
iescrjed. Dave Hendersen shook IiIn
head In grim uncertainty. He could net
l jure what It was out there. With
lis black background of the unllghtcd
room behind blra lie could net be wen
it the window by any ene en the street,
tthlch was two stories below, and he
tad been watching here since It had
trevrn dark. In that time he had seen a
dozen shadows that he could have swem
were net hadews and yet they were
no mere than that after all. He was
only wire of one thing that out there
lemcwiicre, perhaps nowhere within eye
range of his window, perhaps even half
a block away, but somewhere, some one
was watching. He had been sure of
that during every hour of his new
found freedom, since he had reached
Filfee that neon. He had been sure
of it Intuitively ; but he had fnllcd sig
nally te Identify nny ene specifically as
hiving dogged or followed him.
Freedom! He laughed n little
harshly. There weren't uny ttene walls
enjr mere; this window in front of him
wasn't grated, nor the deer of the room
ftcei'barrcd, nor out there in this cor
ridor was there any uniformed guard
cqc te It was frcodem.
Hie short, harsh laugh wan en Ills
.lips again. Freedom! It was a curi
tm freedom, then! He could walk nt
will out therrf In th streets within
limits;. Hut he did net dare go yet te
that thfd where Mr. Toelcr's old plg-ton-eetc
was. The money prebubly
rn't there uiiyhew Mlllman almost
certalnh had wen Ibe lirtt triel; nnd
had get away with it: but It wns alo ale
lutcly necesary flint he should be pur.
He biid freedom ; but he had dared go I
"lowhere te prerifp n f-teel jimmy, for .
..Inslnnce. or n Mlbhtltillc for u steel
jimmy, with which te force that shed
deer; nor had Iih dared te go anywhere
and bu) r love'.v'cr with which te arm
hlmu'lf, nnd of which hi' steed dw
rcratcly in Heed. ll'J liad only n few
de'lars, but lie knew where, under or er
dinarv elreum-itiinres, be could obtain
these things without any Immcdinte out
lay of money only It was n moral cer
tainty that every move he made wnfl
watched. If he proeurcd. say, a chisel ;
If he piecured, hay, n revolver, he was
net feel enough te imngine such facts
would be hidden long from- these who
witched. They would be suspicious
facts. It was his piny new te create
no mtpiolen. He could make no mev
until he had definitely nnd conclusively
identilied and placed these who were
watching him ; nnd then, with that point
rettled. it should net be very bard te
threw the watchers off the track long I
enough te enable hira te visit Mr. Toe- j
Itr's niceon-cetc. und. far niore im
pertant, his ene vital objective new,
eld Teny Lomazzi's friend Cnprinue.
Ills jaws locked. He meant te tercc
that Isue tonight, even if he could net
discriminate between shadows and re
alltics out there through the window!
He had n detliiite plan worked out in his
faind including n visit te Square Jehn
Kelly's. He hadn't been te Square
Jthn's yet. Te have gene there irume.
diatcly en reaching San Francisce would
have been n feel play. It would have
been net only risky for himself, but
rMy for Square Jehn; nnd be had te
protect Square Jehn from the Marching
and pertinent questions that would then
have certainly ensued. He was going
there tonight, casually, as simply te one
of many similar places that was part
of his plant , ,
And new he smiled in mingled bitter
ness and menace. The underworld had
complimented him once en being the
possessor of potentialities that could
mnke of him the slickest creek in the
United States. He had net forgotten
that. The underworld, or at lenst a
section of it in the persons of Baldv
vlckcrs and his gang, was leagued
against him new, as well as the police.
He would strive, te merit the undtr undtr
werld b encomium !
He turned suddenly awny from the
window, walked in the darkness te the
table in the center of the room, nnd,
groping for his hat, made his way te
the deer. He had net expected much
from this vigil nt the window, but
there had always been the pewdblllty
that it would be productive, nnd the
earlier hours of the evening could hnvu
been cmfileyed ln no better wny. It
was aarx
enough new te begin
his
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He wart only sura of one thing-
that out there, somewhere, sotne
ene wns watching
Mght's work in earnest. It must be be
tween half-past i) and 10 o'clock.
There was a dim light in the corri
dor, but, dim though it wns, It did net
htde the ragged, threadbare state of the
carpet en the hallway and stnirs, nor
the lack of paint, or even of soap and
water en doers and woodwork. I'elatt's
Hetel made no pretentious clnims. It
was as shabby as the shabby quarter in
which it was located, und as shabby ns
the shabby patrons te whom It catered.
But there were net many places wlicre
it man with closo-crepped hnlr and
wearing black clothes of blatant prison
rut could go. and he had known I'clntt
in the old days, and IVIntt, in lieu of
hnggnge, hadn't demanded nny rush ln
advance he had even advanced Dave
HenderHeti a little cash himt-clf.
Dave Hendersen reached the ground
fleer, und gained the street through a
small, dingy office that was for the
moment deserted. He' panted here for
un instant, the temptation strong upon
him te cress the street and: plunge into
these shadows at the side of that perch
just opposite te him. His llp$ grew
tight. The temptation was strong, al
most overpewcrlngly strong. He would
much rather fight that way 1
And then he shrugged his shoulders
and started along the street. Since he
had left the penitentiary, he had net
git en the slightert sign that ha had even
a suspicion lie wns being watched j and,
mere than ever, he could net afford te
de se new. There wcre two who could
ploy nt the game of laying "traps! And)
bowel, the chances were n thousand te
one that there wcre nothing hut, shad
ows ever there; and there Were the
same odds that some ene who was net
n shadow would sce him mnke the tell
tnlc investigation. He could net afford
te take a chanc".
He could net afford te fall new. He
had te identify beyond question of
doubt the man, or men, who were en
his trail, if there wcre any; or, with
equal certainty, establish It as n fact
that he was letting what he called his
Intuition run away with him.
There came, a grim smile te his lips
ns he went along. Intuition wasn't all
he had te guide him, was it? Uarjnn
had net minced words in making it
tlcnr that he wbuld be watched; and
Iloeklc Skarvan had made nu even mere
ominous threat! Who wes 't tonight,
then the police, or the underworld, or
both?
He had given no sign that he had
any suspicions. He had gene te I'e
latt's openly; after that, in an ap
parently nlmless way, rm a man almost
childishly Interested in the- most trivinl
things after flve years of Imprisonment,
he had reamed about the streets that
afternoon.
' Hut his wanderings had net been en-
tlrnlv nlmlpfta! Ife hnrl Inc.'itprl Nlpnle
Caprlane's -heuse nnd, strangely
enough, his wanderings had quite inad
vertently tnken him past that house
several times! It wns in a nhabby
quarter of the city, tee. Alse, It was
a curious sort of heuse; thut is, it was
a curious sort of heuse when com
pared with its neighbors. It was one of
a row of frame houses in none tee geed
repair, nnd It was the second house
from the corner the directory had
supplied hlra with the street arid num
ber. The front of the house differed in
no respect from theso en each side of
it; it was the rear that und particu
larly excited his attention. He had net
been able te Investigate it closely, of
course, but it bordered en a lnnc, qnd
by walking down the cress street tfne
could sec it. It hud nn extension built
en that reached almost te the high
fence nt the edge of the lane, nnd the
extension, weather-beaten in nppcar
nncc, looked te be nlmest ns old as the
house itself. Net se very curious, after
all, except that nrt ether heuse bad
that extension nnd except that, in
view of the fnct that one Nicole Cn Cn
priane lived there, it wns at least sug
gestive. Its back entrance wns ex
tremely ensy of access !
Dave Hendersen turned abruptly In
through the deer of a saloon, and, lean
ing against the bnr well down nt the
far end where he could both sec and
be seen every time the deer wns opened
ordered n drink.
He hud thought a geed deal about
Nicole Cnprlane In the two mentha
since old Teny Lemnzzl had ended IiIh
life sentence. He hadn't "gn" It nil
at the moment when the old bomb-
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thrower had died. It hnd been mostly
old Teny hlreeelf who was in ins
thoughts then, and tne reference te a a
prlane hnd seemed no mere than just a
kindly thought en old Teny's- part for
a friend who had no ether friend en
earth. But afterward, and net many
hours afterward, it hed all taken en u
vastly different perspective. The full
significance of Teny's words had come
te him, nnd this in turn had stirred his
memories of earlier days in San Fran Fran
ciseo j and he remembered Nicole,. Caprl Caprl
ane. . ...
The barkeeper slid a bettle and whisky
glass toward him. Dave Hendersen half
turned his back te the street deer, rest
ing his elbow negligently en the bar.
He waited for n moment until the bar
keeper's attention was somewhat di
verted, then his fingers cupped around
the small glass, completely hiding it;
and the bottle, as he raised it in the
ether hnndwns hidden from the deer
by the bread of his back. He poured
out u few drops sufficient te rob the
glass of its cleanness. The barkeeper
looked around. Dave Hendersen hastily
set the bettle down, like n child caught
In n misdemeanor, hastily raised the
glass te his lips, threw back IiIb head
und gulped. The barkeeper scowled.
It was the trick of the saloon vulture
net 'only n full glass, but n little
ever for geed measure, when, through
prnctlce, the forefinger nnd thumb bo be bo
enme a sort of annex te the rim. Dave
Hendersen stared back In sullen do de do
flance, set the glass down en the bar,
drew the back of his hand across his
.lips and went out.
Ile ncsitntea n moment euibiuu mu
saloon, ns though undecided which wny
te go next, while his eyes, under the
hrtm i-.f hla hIempIi hut. which was
pulled forward almost te the brldge of
his nose, scanned .both sides el tne
street nnd in both directions. He moved
en ngnin along the block.
Yes, he remembered Nicole Caprinne.
Cnnrlnnn must be n nretty old man new
as old art Teny Lomazzi. There had
been a great deal of talk about a gang
of Italian black-hnndcrs In 'these days,
when he, Dava Hendersen, wns n boy,
and Cnprlane had been a sort of hcro hcre
bandlt, he remembered: and there had
been a mysterious society, nnd bomb
throwing, nnd a reign of terror carried
en that had paralyzed the police. They
had never been nble te convict Nicole
Cnprlane, though it was common
knowledge that the pollce believed him
te be the brains nnd front of the or
ganization. Always something, or some
ene, had steed between Cnprlane nnd
'prison bars like Teny Lomazzi, for in
stance 1
He did net remember Lomazzi's trial,
nor the details of the particular crime
for which Lomazzi was convicted; but
that, perhaps, had put nn end te the
gang's work. Certainly, Caprlane's ac
tivities were n thing of the par.tf it
wan all a matter of 'years ege. Caprlane
was never heart! of new ; but even if the
man, through force of circumstances,
was obliged te llve a retired existence,
that in no wny robbed him or his clever
ness, nor mnde him less valuuble ns n
prospective ally.
Caprlane vas the one jnnn who could
belt) him. Cnnrinne must still kesscss
underground channels that would be of
incalculable value in aiding him te track
Mlllman down.
His fists, hidden in the side pockets
of his coat, clenched fiercely. That was
it Mlllman ! There wasn't a chan.ee
but that Mlllman hnd taken the money
from the nleeon-cete He would sec, of
course, before many mere heurs: but
there wasn't n chance. It was Mlllman
he wanted new. The possibility that
hed occurred te him In prison of Mill
man belne n steel-pigeon, or even ene of
the police, no longer held wnter, for if
tne money hnd been recovered it would
be publicly known. It hadn't been re
covered. Thcrcferp, it wns Mlllman he
must find, nnd it was Nicole Caprlane's
help he wanted. But he must protect
Caprlane. He would ewe Caprlane that
that" it should net be known there
was anything between Nicole Cnprlnne
nnd Dave Hendcrnen. Well, he was
doing thnt new, wasn't he? Neither '
Square Jehn Kelly nor Nicole Cuprlane
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He went from ene te another, and he
passed nene by. nnd he went nowhere
else and he left n trail of barkeepers'
scowls behind him. One drinK in cncii
place, with five fingers curled around
the glass, hiding the few1 drops the
glnsn actually contained, whlle it pro pre
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fcehlnd the bar was net suggestive
enough, it wns augmented by nn un
compromising request te "beat Jtl"
He appeared te be posiessctT of nn
earnest determination te make n nlglit
of It nnd nla-i of nn equally earnest
determination te get as much liquor for
ns little money as possible. And tne
record he left behind him Iwre unim
peachable testimony te that purpose!
He nppeared te grew a little un
steady en his feet; he was even lurch
ing qulte noticeably when, an hour
later, the llehted windows of Square
Jehn Kelly's Pacific Ceral Saleen, his
first real objective, flung nn inviting
rny across his path. He Heed still here
full in the light, both of the window
nnd n street Inmp, and shook his hi-ad
In well-simulated rrrave and dubious
inebriety. He begnn te fumble in his t
pecKcts. no nsneu out n mine irem
one, nnd n nickel from nnothei a fur
ther and still mere Industrious search
apparently proved nbortlve. Ter a long
time he appeared te be abnerbed in n
lugubrious contemplation of the two
coins thnt lay in the palm of his hand
but under his hat brim his eyes
marked a man in a brown pinked cap
who was approaching th.j deer of the
(n loon. This was the second time in
the courne of the last half hour since
he hnd begun te sheyv plgns that the
whisky was getting the better of him
that he had men the man In the brown
penked cap I
There were swinging wicker doers
te the saloon, nnd the man pushed liicw
open and went in but he did net go
fur. Dave Hendersen's lips thinned J
grimly. The bottom of the swinging ,
be expected te notice the fact that the
man's beets rcmnined visible, and thnt
the man was standing there motion
lets I
Dave Hendersen took the street lamp
Inte lils confidence.
"01' Kelly," said Dave Hendersen
thickly. "Uster knew Kelly Siiunrfl
Jehn. (?elta have money. Whatsit
matter with touching Kelly? Kh
whalsh matter with that?"
He lurched toward the swinging
doers. The beets retreeted suddenly.
He pushed his way through, and utoed
purveying the old-time fnmlllnr sur
rounding' owlishly. Tlie man with the
brown cup was leaning against the bar
close te the deer; a half dozen ethers
were rnnged fnrtiicr down along its
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length i nnd at its lower end, lounging ' face
'"Elle, Kelly!" Dave llmitnte
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h. -.- . K-ellv'a fclde. "Glad tMl..-
you, el beyt" Tie gave Kelly M f,
chnnce te say nnytning. tin cnuB
Kelly's hand, nnd pumped It .up nnd
down. "Sure, you knew me! VuM
Hendersen el' days nt the track, cwl,
Been nway en a vnimtlen. Cemp bnca
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heard everywhere ln the saloon. 'ShtiTj W
could 1 see you n minuiu in j.iuyi.n
A man nt the bnr laughed. Dart
Hendersen wheeled belligerently. Kelly
intervened.
l'errilcxlty, mingling -wiin rariin
end disapproval, stamped Kelly florid
nealnst the wall of the little private
office, wns n wiunt, paunchy mnn with
n bald head, nnd florid face, and keen
gray eyes inder enormously bushy gray
eyebrows. It wns Kelly, just ns Kelly
used te be -even te the mnss-lvi geld
watch chain stretched owns the vest,
with the mnssive geld fniternii) em
blem dnngling .bwn from the cen'er.
"Yet, I knew you well enough; but
I didn't expect te tre you like tius,.,
Dave!" he said shortly. He Jerked iM
bund toward the deer of the private of
fice. "I'll talk te you In there."
Dave Hendersen entered the office.
Kelly shut the deer behind them.
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preserve for future reference.
Make a note en your desk calendar teday:
National Business Review of 1921
January 1, 1922
SUNDAY
PUBLIC PLEDGER
of Philadelphia
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