The Kiel Herald (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909 Page: 3 of 8
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STORY
PICTURES
WEIL
BOWL
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
(Copyright lW7,Tlie Dobtw-Merrlll Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
"Mad" Dan Maitlaml, on reaching his
New York bachelor chill, met an attrac-
tive young woman at the door. Janitor
O'Hagan assured hint no one had been
within that day. Dan discovered a wom-
an's linger prints in dust on his desk,
along with a letter from his attorney.
CHAPTER I.—Continued.
Further antl closer inspection de-
veloped the fact that the Imprint had
been only recently made. Within the
hour—unless Maltland were indeed
mad or dreaming:—a woman had stood
by that desk and rested a hand, palm
down, upon it; not yet had the dust
hail time to settle and blur the sharp
outlines.
Maltland shook his head with be-
wilderment, thinking of the gray girl.
But no. He rejected his half-formed
explanation—the obvious one. Betides,
what had he there worth a thief's
while? Beyond a few articles of
"virtue and bigotry" and his pictures,
there was nothing valuable In the en-
tire Hat. His papers? But he had
nothing; a handful of letters, cheque
book, a pass hook, a japanned tin dis-
patch box containing some business
memoranda and papers destined event-
ually for Bannermau's hands; but
nothing negotiable, nothing worth a
burglar's while.
I It was a flat-topped desk, of mahog
any, with two pedestals of drawers, all
locked. Maitland determined this lat-
ter fact by trying to open them with-
out a key; failing, his key-ring solved
the difficulty in a jiffy. But the draw-
ers seemed undisturbed; nothing had
boon either handled, or removed,
y displaced, so far as he could deter-
mine. And again he wagged Ills head
from side to side in solemn stupefac-
tion.
"This is beyond you, Dan, my boy."
^ And; "Rut I've got to know what it
means."
In the hall O'Hagan was shuffling
impatience. Pondering deeply, Mait-
land relocked the desk and got upon
his feet. A small bowl of beaten brass
which he used as an ash receiver
stood ready to his hand; he took it up
carefully blew it clean of dust, and
inverted it over the print of the hand
On top of the bowl he placed
■weighty afterthought In (he shape of
a book.
"O'Hagan!"
"Waitin', sor."
"Come hither, O'Hagan. You see
that desk?"
"Ylssor."
"Are you sure?"
"Ah, faith—"
"T want you not to touch it, O'Ha-
gan. Under penalty of my extreme (lis
pleasure, don't lay a linger on it till I
give ysu permission. Don't dare to
dust it. Do you understand?"
"Ylssor. Very good, Mr. Maitland."
good, sound cooking is to bo had by
the initiate.
Therefore Bannerman thoughtfully
sucked at his cigar and thought
fondly of a salad that had been to
ordinary salads as his SO-horse-power
car was to an clectric buckbcard.
While Maitland, with all time at his
purchase, idly flicked tho ash from his
cigarette and followed his attorney's
meditative gaze out through the win-
dow.
Because of the heat the curtains
were looped back, and there was noth-
ing to obstruct the view. Madison
square lay just over the sill, a dark
wilderness of foliage here and there
made livid green by arc light?. Its
wulks teemed with humanity, its
benches were crowded. Dimly from
its heart came the cool plashing of the
fountain, in lulls that fell unaccount-
ably in the roaring rustle of restless
feet. Over across, Broadway raised
glittering walls of ^lass and stone;
and thence came the poignant groan
and rumble of surface cars crawling
upon their weary and unvarying
rounds.
And again Maitland thought of tho
City, anil of Destiny, and of the gray
girl the silhouette oi' whose hand was
imprisoned beneath tho brass bowl on
his study desk. For by now he was
quite satisfied that she and none other
had trespassed upon the prhacy of his
coms, obtaining access to them in his
absence by means as unguessable an
her motive. Momentarily he consid
ered taking Bannerman into his con-
fidence; but ho questioned the ad-
visability of this. Bannerman was sc
severely practical in his outlook upon
life, while this adventure had been
madly whimsical, so engagingly
impossible. Bannerman would be sure
to suggest a call at the precinct police
station. ... If she had made way
with anything, it would be different;
but bo far as Maitland had been able
to determine, she had abstracted noth-
ing, disturbed nothing beyond a few
square inches of dust. . . .
Unwillingly Bannerman put the
salad out of inind and turned to the
business whose immediate moment
had brought them together. He
ThfcVd bring his liability down to
about fifty thousand."
' Be cause they won" give up without
a contest in the courts. They deny
your proofs—you have those papers.
haven't you?"
"Safe, under lock and key," asserted
Maitland, sententiously. "When the
time comes I'll produco them."
"And they incriminate Graeme?"
"They make it look as black for him
as for the others. Do you honestly be- ; entered Into mine inheritance and you
liove him innocent, Bannerman?" 1 became my counselor."
"I do, Implicitly. The dread of ex- j "Well, seven, then. But will you
posure, tho fear of notoriety when the | put those jewels in safe deposit?"
caso comes up in court, has aged the 1 "Oh. I suppose so."
man ten years. He begged me with J "But when?"
tears in his eyes to induce you to drop I "Would It suit you if I ran out to-
il and accept his offer of restitution.! night?" Maitland demanded so abrupt-
"You really believe that Mr. Afl? (y
has his bold burglarious eye on nij'
property?"
"It's a hlg enough haul to attract
him." argued the lawyer, earnestly;
"Anist.v always aims high. .
Now. will you do what I have been
begging you to do for the past eight
years?"
"Seven," corrected Maltland. punctil-
iously. "It's just seven years since I
North America supplioi more thau
three-fifths of the world's copper
Don't you think you could do it. Dun?" j
"No, 1 don't." Maitland shook his
head with decision. "If 1 let up. the
scoundrels got off scot free. I have
nothing against Graeme; I am willing:
to make it as light as I can for him: i
but this business has got to be aired j
in the courts; the guilty will have to j
suffer. It will be a lesson to ihe pub
Hi-, a lesson to the scamps, and a les- i
ly that Bannerman was disconcerted.
"I—or—ask nothing better."
"I'll bring them in town to-morrow.
You arrange about the vault and ad-
vise me, will you. like a good fellow?"
"Bless my soul! I never dreamed
that you would be so—so—"
"Amenable to discipline?" Maitland
grinned, boy-like, and, leaning back,
appreciated Bannermau's startled ex-
son to Graeme—not to lead hU name ' preston with keen enjoyment. "Well,
too freely to questionable enterprises." j con; dor that for once you've scared
"And that's your final word, is it?" | nie. I'm off—just time to catch the
"Final,-Bannerman. . . . You go j for Greenfields. Waiter!"
ahead; prepare your case and take it
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A comparatively recent publication
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'The Loss of a Cool Half-Million,
While It's a Drop In the Bucket to
You, Would Cripple Him."
CHAPTER II.
' Post-Prandial.
Bannerman pushed back his chair a
few inches, shifting position the better
to benefit of a faint air that fanned
in through the open window. Malt-
land. twisting the sticky stem of a
liqueur glnss between thumb and fore-
finger, sat in patient waiting for the
lawyer to speak.
But Bannerman was in no hurry;
his mood was rather one contempla-
tive and genial. He was a round and
cherubic little man, with the face of
a guileless child, the acumen of a suc-
cessful counsel for soulless corpora
tions (that is to say, of a high order),
no particular sense of humor, and a
great appreciation of good eating.
And Maitland was famous in his day
as one thoroughly conversant with the
art of ordering a dinner.
That which they had just discussed
had been uncommon in ail respects;
Malt land's scheme of courses and his
specification as to details had roused
the admiration of ilie Primordial's chef
and put htm on his mettle. He had
outdone himself in his efforts to do
justice to Mr. Maltland's genius; and
the Primordial in its deadly conserva-
tism remains to this day one <jf the
vsry Jew places in New YovU ;vherc
hummed softly, calling his client to at-
tention. Maitland came out of his
reverie, vaguely smiling.
"I'm waiting, old man. What's up?"
"The Graeme business. His lawyers
have been after me again. I oven had
a call from the old man himself."
"Yes? The Graeme business?"
Maltland's expression was blank for a
moment; then comprehension informed
his eyes. "Oh, yes; in connection with
the Dougherty investment swindle."
"That's it. Graeme's pleading for
mercy."
Maitland lifted his shoulders sig-
nificantly. "That was to be expected,
wasn't it? What did you tell him?"
"That I'd see you."
"Did you hold out to him any hopes
that I'd be easy on the gang?"
"I told him that I doubted if you
could he induced to let up."
"Then why—?"
"Why, because Graeme himself is as
innocent of wrong doing and wrong in
tent as you are."
"You believe that ?"
"I do," affirmed Bannerman. Ills
fat pink fingers drummed uneasily oil
the cloth for a few moments. "There
isn't any question that the Dougherty
people induced you to sink your money
in their enterprise with intent to de-
fraud you."
"I should think not," Maitland inter-
jected, amused.
"But old man Graeme was honest,
in intention at least. He meant no
hrrm; and in proof of that he offers
Hi shoulder your loss himself, if by so
doing he can induce you to drop furth-
er proceedings. That proves he's in
earnest, Dan. for although Greanie is
comfortably well to do, It's a known
fact that the loss of a cool half million,
while it's a drop in the bucket to you,
would cripple him."
'Then why doesn't he stand to his
associates, and make them each pay
back their fair share of the loot?
to court. When the time comes, as I
sav, I'll produce these papers. I can't
go on this way, letting people that I'm
an easy mark just because I was un-
fortunate enough to inherit more
money than is good for my whole-
some."
Maitland twisted his eyebrows in dep-
recation of Banner man's attitude;
signified the irrevocability of his de-
cision by bringing his list down upon
the table—but not. heavily enough to
disturb tho other diners; and, laugh
ing, changed Ihe subject.
For some moments he gossiped
cheerfully of his new power boat,
Bannerman attending to tho Inconse-
quent details with an air of abstrac-
tion. Once or twice he appeared
about to interrupt, but changed his
mind; but because his features were
so wholly infantile and open and can-
did, the time came when Maitland
could no longer ignore his evident
perturbation.
"Now what's the trouble?" lie de-
manded with a trace of asperity.
"Can't you forget that Graeme busi-
ness ami—"
"Oh, it's not that." Bannerman dis-
missed the troubles of Mr. Graeme
with an airy wave of a pudgy hand.
"Thai's not my funeral, nor yours.
. . . Only I've been worried, of late,
by your utterly careless habits."
Maitland looked his consternation.
"In heaven's name, what now?" And
grinned as ho joined hands before him
in simulated petition. "Please don't
read me a lecture just now, dear boy.
If you've got something dreadful on
your chest wait till another day, when
I'm more in the humor to be found
fault with."
"No lecture." Bannerman laughed
nervously. "I've merely been wonder-
ing what you have done with the Mait-
land heirlooms." •
"What? Oh, those things? They're
safe enough—in the safe out at Green-
fields."
"To be sure! Quite so!" agreed the
lawyer, with ironic heartiness. "Oh.
quite." And proceeded to take all
Madison square imo his confidence,
addressing it from the window. "Here's
a young man, sole proprietor of a
priceless collection of family heir-
looms—diamonds, rubies, sapphires ga-
lore; and he thinks they're safe
enough in a safe at his country resi-
dence, 50 miles from anywhere! What
a simple, trustful soul it is!"
"Why should I bother?" argued
Maitland, sulkily. "It's a good, strong
safe, and—and there are plenty of
servants around," lie concluded,
largely.
"Precisely. Likewise plenty of bur-
glars. You don't suppose a determined
criminal like Anisty, for instance,
would bother himself about a handful
of thick-headed servants, do you?"
"Anisty?"—with a rising inflection
of inquiry.
Bannerman squared himself to face
his host, elbows on table. "You don't
mean to say you've not heard of Anis-
ty, the great Anisty?" he demanded.
"I dare say I have," Maitland con-
ceded, unperturbed. "Name rings fa-
miliar, somehow."
"Anisty"—deliberately—"is said to
be the greatest jewel thief the world
has ever known. He has the police of
America and Europe by the ears to
catch him. They have been hot on Ills
trail for the past three years, and
would have nabbed lilm a dozen times
if only, he'd had the grace to stay In
one place long enough. The man who
made off with the Bracegirdle dia-
monds, smashing a burglar-proof vault
into scrap iron to get 'em-—don't you
remember?"
"Ye-es; 1 seem to recall the affair,
now that you mention it," Maitland ad-
mitted, bored. "Well, and what of Mr.
Anisty?"
"Only what i have told you, taken
in connection with the circumstance
that he is known to be in New York,
and that the Maltland heirlooms are
tolerably famous—as much so as your
careless habits, Dan. Now, a safe de-
posit vault—"
"Uni-m-m," considered Maitlaud.
He scrawled his Initials at the hot x,.j]son stephens' "Tales From Bohe
tom ol the hill presented him, and niia." This comprises two dozen and
rose. ' Sorry, Bannerman, he said, moj-,* Htoryettes, each one capital, rep
resenting the first literary efforts of
evening, nut you snouian r statue me ,hp num who ilftlM.walds wrote many
successful books, among them: "An
Enemy to the King." and "Philip Win-
wood." The stories are all dramatic
chuckling, "to cut short a pleasant
But you shouldn't startle mo
so. you know. Pardon me if 1 run; I
might miss that train."
"But there was something else—"
"it can wait."
"Take a later train, then."
"What! With this grave peril hang
ing over me? Impossible! 'Night."
Bannermaii, discomfited, saw Malt-
land's shoulders disappear through the
dining room doorway, meditated pur-
suit, thought better of it. and reseated
himself, frowning.
"Mad Maitland, indeed!" he com-
mented.
As for the gentleman so charac-
terized, lie emerged, a moment later,
from the portals of the club, still
chuckling mildly to himself as he
struggled into a light evening over-
coat. ills temper, having run the
gamut of boredom, interest, perturba-
tion, mystification, and plain amuse-
ment, was now altogether inconse-
quential—a dangerous mood for Malt-
land Standing on the corner of ,
Twenty-sixth street he thought it over, j
tapping tho sidewalk gently wflh his
cane. Should he or should he not car- 1
ry out his intention as declared to '
Bannerman, and g i to Greenfields that
same night? Or should he keep his be-
lated engagement with C'ressy's party?
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
ASCRIBED VISIT TO PRAYER.
Father Evidently Had Faith in Daugh-
ter's Supplications.
Among my esteemed neighbors there
is a family known for the piety of its
members and their implicit confidence
in the efficacy of prayer. One of the
daughters. Miss Kate B , has al-
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be referred to gallantly as an old maid.
She is Ihe target for many a good-
liatuied quip pertaining to her alleged
hopes and endeavors in the direction
of matrimony.
Not long ago a certain society of
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