The Kiel Herald (Kiel, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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STORY
PICTURES BY A. WEIL
By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
(Copyright iuo7,Tli« Bobb? Merrill Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
"Mint" I'ui Mailluntl, on roarliin^ his
New York l>aclu*tor Will*, tn'-t an attrac-
tive voiins woman at the door. Janitor
O'llaKiiii assured hini no one had been
within that day. !>an diseovered a wom-
an's finger prints in dust on his desk,
along with a letter from his attorney.
Maitiand dined with 15annet'man, Ids at-
tornex Pan set out for Greenfields, to
pet iiis family jewels. Maitiand, on
rpttehlii* home, surprised lady in Bray,
eraeliins II.- safe containing Ids gomn.
Klie, apparently, took him for a well-
known (rook. Daniel Anlsty. Half-hyp-
notized. Maitiand opened ids safe, took
therefrom the jewels, and gave them to
lier. first forming a partnership in crime.
The real Dan Anlsty. sought by police of
the world, appeared. Maitiand overcame
him. lie and I tie girl went to New York
In her auto. He had the jewels. She
was lo meet hini that day. A '"Mr.
Snalth" Introduced himself as a detec-
tive. To shield tlie girl in gny, Maitiand,
about to show him the Jewels, supposedly
lost, was felled by a blow from "Snaith's"
cane. The latter proved to be Anisty
himself and he secured the Reins. Anisty
who was Maitland's double, masqueraded
hs tile latter. The criminal kept Mait-
land's engagement with tile girl in gray.
He gave her the gems. The girl In gray
visited Maitland's apartments during his
absence and returned gems. Maitiand.
without cash, calif d up ills home and
heard a woman's voice expostulating.
Anisty, disguised as Maitiand. tried to
wring from her the location of the gemi.
A eva.-h was heard at the front door.
Maitiand overwhelmed the crook, allow-
ing him to escape to shield the young
woman. Tin- girl in gray made her es-
cape. Jumping into a cab. An instant
later, by working a ruse, Anlsty was at
her side, i ie took her to Attorney Han-
nerman's office. There, lis- torture, lie
tried Mn vain to wring from her tile loca-
tion of tiie g -nis. lie left her a moment
and s'ie 'plioni il o'Hagan. only getting in
the words "Tell Mr. Maitiand under Hie
brass howl," tin hiding place in the let-
ter's rooms, when Anlsty heard her
words. B'lnm-rmnu also was revealed us
a < rook !!■ and Anisty sol out lo secure
file gems and leave town. The gill was
still I. Maitiand finding the girl
gone. se. i ebed his rooms and unearthed
the Jewels under tin brass howl. lt>
strut k Ani.-ty's trail in a big office build-
ing.
CHAPTER XV.—Continued.
Maitiand, yielding the initiative to
the other's superior generalship, stood
sentinel, revolver in hand, until tho
detective returned, overheated and
sweating, from liis tour, to report
"nothin" doin'," with characteristic
brevity, lie had the same report to
make on both thiMwentieth and twen-
ty-first iioors. where lite same pro- j
ceilure was observed; but as the latter |
was reached unexpected and very wel-1
come reinforcements were gained by j
the arrival of a third car, containing
three patrolmen and one roundsman. j
Yet numbers created delay; Hickey
was seized and compelled to pant ex-
planations, to ids supreme disgust.
And, suddenly impatient beyond en-
durance, Marland lei'l them and alone
sprang up the stairs.
That this was simple foolhardiness
may be granted without dispute. Hut
it must be borne in mind that he was
very young and ardent, very greatly
perturbed on behalf of an actor in
the tragedy in whom the police, to
their then knowledge, had no interest
whatsoever. And if in the heat of
chase he had for an instant forgotten
her. now lie remembered; and at once
the capture of Anisty was relegated
to tlie status of a matter of secondary
importance. The real matter at stake
was the safety of the girl whom
Anlsty, by exercise of an infernal in-
genuity that passed Maitland's com-
prehension. had managed to spirit into
this place of death and darkness and
whispering halls. Where she might i
be, in what degree of suffering anil 1
danger—these were the considerations I
that sent htu in search of her without
a thought of personal peril, but with a
sick heart and overwhelmed with a
stifling sense of anxiety.
More active than the paunch-bur-
dened detective, he had sprinted down
and back through the hallway of the
twenty-second floor, without discover-
ing anything, ere the police contingent
had reached an agreement and the
stuirhead.
There remained two more floors, two
final flights. A little hopelessly he
swung up the first. And as he did so
the blackness above him was riven by
a tongue of fire, and a bullet, singing
past, his head, flattened itself with a
yicions spat against the marble dado
of the walls, instinctively he pulled j
up, finger closing upon the trigger of i
his revolver; flash and report fol- I
lowthe motion, and a panel of j
ribbed glass in a door overhea 1 was
splintered and fell in clashing frag-
ments, all but drowning the sound of
feet in flight upon the-upper staircase.
A clamor of caution, warning, en-
couragement, and a ivice broke out
from the police below. But Maitiand
hardly heard. Already he was again
in pursuit, taking the steps two at a
leap. With a hand upon the newel-
post lie swung round on the twenty-
third floor, and hurled himself toward
the foot of the last flight. A crash
like a rifle-shot rang out above, and
for a second he fancied that Anisty
had fired again and with a heavier
weapon. Hut immediately he realized
that the noise had been only the slam-
ming of the door at the head of the
stairs—the door whose glazed panel
loomed above him, shedding a diffused
light to guide his footsteps, its opales-
cent surface lettered with the name of
HENRY M. HANNEUMAN,
Attorney & Counselor at-Law,
the door of the office whose threshold
he had so often crossed to meet a
friend and adviser. It was with a
shock that he comprehended this, a
thrill of wonder. He had all but for
gotten that Hanuerman owned an of-
fice in the building, in the rush, the
urge of this wild adventure. Strange
that Anisty should have chosen it for
the scene of his last stand—strange,
and strangely fatal for the criminal!
For Maitiand knew that from this
eyrie there was 110 means of escape,
other than by the stairs.
Well and good! Then they had the
man, and—-
The thought was flashing in his
mind, illumining the darkness of his
despair with the hope that he would
be able to force a word as to the girl's
whereabouts from the burglar ere the
police arrived: Maitland's foot was
on the upper step, when a scream of
mortal terror—her voice!—-broke from
within. Half maddened, ho threw him-
self bodily against the door, twisting
the knob with frantic lingers that
slipped upon its immovable polished
surface.
The bolt had been shot, ho was
burn d out, and, with only the width of
a man's hand between tliem, the girl
was in deathly peril and terror
A sob that was at the same time an
oath rose to his lips. Baffled, h Tpless.
lie fell back, tears of rage starting to
his eyes, her accents ringing in his
ears as terribly pitiful as the cry of a
lost and wandering soul.
"God!" he mumbled incoherently,
and in desperation sent the pistol-butt
crashing against the glass. it was
tough, stubborn; the first blow scarce-
ly flawed it. As he redoubled his ef-
forts to shatter it, Mickey's hand shot
hero? firing a chair, please, and a
glass of water."
The detective stumbled over his \
feet and brought the chair at the risk i
of his nock. Then he went away and
returned with the water. In the
meantime the girl, silently enough for
all that her eyes were speaking, with
Maitland's assistance arose and seated
herself.
"You will have to stay here a few
minutes," he told her, "until—er—"
"I understand," she told hini in a
choking tone.
dow. As Anisty, with a tremendous
strain upon his failing powers, strug-
gled to his feet, Maitiand. catching the
murderous gleam in the man's eye,
pulled trigger. The burglar's answer-
ing shot expended itself as harmlessly
as Maitland's, Both went wide of their
marks.
And of a sudden llickej had drawn
the bolt, and the body of police be
hind forced Maitiand pell nn!! into the
room. As lie recovered he saw liickev
hurling himself at the criminal's throat
—one second too late. True to his
pledge never to be taken alive. Anisty
had sent his last bullet crashing
through his own skull.
A cry of horror and consternation
forced itself from Maitland's threat.
The police halted, each where lie
stood, transfixed. Anisty drew him-
self lip, with a trace of pr'de in his
pose; smiled horribly; put- a hand
mechanically to iiis lips .
And died.
Hickey caught him as ho fell, lint
Maitiand, unheeding, leaped over the
body that had in life resembled him
so fatally, and entered llaanerman';;
private oflice.
The gray girl lay at lengih in a
corner of the room, shielded from ob-
servation by one of the desks. Her
eyes were closed, her cheeks wore the
hue of death; the fair young head was
pillowed on one white and rounded
forearm, in an attitude of natural rest,
and the burnished hair, its heavy coils
slipping from their fastenings, tum-
bled over her head and shoulders in
shimmering glory, like a splash of liv-
ing flame.
With a low and bitter cry the young
men dropped to his knees by her side.
In the outer oflice the police were as-
sembled in excited conclave, blind to
all save the momentous fact of
Anisty's last, supremely consistent act.
For the time Maitiand was utterly
alone with.his great and aching lone-
liness.
After a little whiV timidly he
touched her hand, it lay upturned, j
white slender fingers like exotic petals
curling in upon the rosy hollow of her 1
palm. And it was soft and warm
He lifted it tenderly in both his |
own, and so held it for a space, brood-
ing, marveling at its perfection. And
inevitably he bent and touched it with
his lips, as if their ardent contact
would warm it to sentience. . . .
The fingers tightened upon his own,
slowly, surely; and in the blinding joy
of that moment lie was made con
scions of the ineffable sweetness of
opening, wondering eyes.
CHAPTER XVI.
Recessional.
Hm, hrumm!" Thus Hickey, the
inopportunely ubiquitous, lumbering
hastily in from the other oflice and
checking, in an extreme of embarrass-
ment, in the middle of the floor.
Maitiand glanced over his shoulder,
and, subduing a desire to flay the
man alive, released the girl's hand.
"I say, Hickey," lie observed, care-
Hickey awkwardly hanile ? r 'he
glass. She sipped mechanically.
"I have a cab below, ' continued
Maitiand. "And I'll try to anaiigo it
so that we can got out of the bnild
Ing without having to foreu a way
through the crowd."
She thanked him with a glance
"There's til" freight elevator," sug
gested Hickey, helpfully.
"Thank you ... Is there any-
thing I can do for you, anything you
wish?" conttilled Maitiand to the girl,
standing betvi en her and the detec-
tive.
Silo lifted V.e- vee to his and shook
her head, very gently. "No, she
breathed through 'svmbling lips Von
—you've been—" Hut there was a
sob in In r throat, and she hdtig her
head again.
"Not a word," ordered Muitl.md
"Sit here for a few minutes, it' you
can, dink the water ami all -fix up
youi hat, you know," (damn Hickey'
Why the devil did the fellow iasis; on
hanging round . o!) I I will go •: !
make arrantemeiits."
Tli thank you," whisper .1 the small
voice shakily.
Maitiand hesitated a moment, then
turned upon Hickey in sudden exas-
peration. His mainer was enough;
even the obtu :i detective could not
ignore it. Maitiand had no need to
speak.
"I'm sorry, sir," he raid, standing
his ground manfully but with a trace
mere of respect in his manner than
had theretofore characterized it, "but
there's uli gentleman— uh year 1 a'
Hannerman's oulslde n 1 wants tuh
"peak tuh yell."
"Toil iiitu to—"
'Excuse me. He says, lie's s; 1:t; tjh
see yeli. If yell don't come oni. he ll
come after yeh. I thought ych 'd
ruther
"That's kindly thought of," Y:ait-
land relented. "I'll he there in a min-
ute," he added, meaningly.
Hickey took an impassive faco to
the doorway, where, whether or not
with design, be stood precisely upon
the threshold, tilling It *-ith his burly
shoulders. Maitiand bent again over
the girl, and 1 ■ k tier hand.
"Dearest," he said, gently, "please
don't run away firm 1110 again."
Her eyes were brimming, and lie
read his answer in them. Q11I1 kly- -it
was no time lo harry her emotions
further; but so much he had fell ho
must say—he brushed her hand with
his lips and joined Hickey. Thrust-
ing the detective gently into tin miter
room, with a not unfriendly hand
upon bis shoulder, Maitiand closed the
door.
"Now. see here," he said quiet!* and
firmly, "you must help me arran- to
get this lady away without her becom-
ing identified with the case. Hickev,
I'm in a position to say a good word
for you in the right place; she had
positively nothing to do with Anisty,"
(this, so far as he could tell, was as
black a lio as lie had ever manufac-
tured under the lash of necessity),
"and—there's a wad in it for the boys
who help mo out."
"Well. . . ." The detective shift
ed from one foot to the other, eying
him intently. "1 guess :.e can fix it-
freight elevator 'nil side entrance.
Yeh have the cab wait 1 ti', 'ml "
"I'll go with the lady, you under-
stand, and assume all responsibility.
You can come round at your con-
venience and arrange the details with
me, at my rooms, since you wiil be so
kind."
(TO BU CONTINUED.;
STARTLING NEWS.
Old Skinflint—Here, boys, what's
I this you were shouting? "Great
j swindle—60 victims!" 1 can see notli-
1 ing about it in the paper.
Sharp Sam—That's the swindle;
j you are the sixty-first.
HUMOR BURNED AND ITCHED.
Eczema on Hand, Arms, Legs ar.d
Face—It Was Something Terrible.
Complete Cure by Cuticura.
"About fifteen or eigh'.een years
ago eczema developed on top of my
hand It burned and itched so much
that I was compelled to show it to a
doctor. He pronounced it ringworm.
After trying his different remedied the
disease increased and went up my
j arms and to my legs and finally on my
j face. The burning was something
i terrible. 1 went to another doctor who
had tlie reputation of being the best
j in town. He told me it was eczema.
His medicine checked the advance of
| the disease, but no further. I finally
1 concluded to try the C'uticura llcitio'
dies and found relief in the first trial.
I continued until I was completely
cured from the disease, and I have
not. been troubled since v!. Burkhart,
2!!li \V. Market St., Chambersb'.irg, Pa.,
Sept. 19, 1008."
I'oltcr Drug A Chem. Corp., Bo'.o Pivps, Boston.
The devil likes to hear the preach-
ing that would make it appear that
God hates a smile.
-
ir Yor i si: H \ 1.1. 111,in.
. Oct lied Cross Hall 111 lie. the best Hall
i Ulue. Large '2 oz. package only 5 cents.
Do God's will as he makes it k.iown
I to-day, and to-morrow will take care
' of itself.
Use Autos for Tiger Hunting
"Dearest," He Said Gently, "Please
Don't Run Away from Me Again."
over his shoulder to aid him.
And with startling abruptness the
barrier seemed to dissolve before their
eyes, the glass falling inward with
a shrill clatter.
Quaintly, with the effect of a pic-
ture cast by a cinematograph in a
darkened auditorium, there leaped
upon Maitland's field of vision the pic-
ture of Anisty standing at bay, face
drawn and tense, lips curled back,
eyes lurid with defiance and despair.
He stood, poised upon the balls of
his feet, like a cat ready to spring,
in 1 he doorway between the inner and
outer offices. He raised his hand with
ttn indescribably swift and vicious
gesture, and a flame seemed to hlaze
out from his finger-tips.
At the same instant Hickey's weapon
spat by Maitland's cheek; the young
man felt the hot furnace breath of it.
The burglar reeled as 1 hough from
a tremendous blow. His inflamed fea-
tures were suddenly whitened, and his
right arm dropped limply from the
shoulder, revolver falling from fingers
Involuntarily relaxing.
Hickey covered him. "Surrender!"
he roared. And tired again. For
Anisty had gone to his knees, reach-
ing for the revolver with his ttniu-
jured arm.
The detective's second bullet winged
through the doorway, over Anisty's
head, and bit through the outer win-
fully suppressing every vestige of
emotion, "will you lend me U liaarf
Supplanting the Elephant and Howdah
with Princes of India.
No preparations have now to be
made when the news of a tiger roam-
ing in a jungle is brought. Petrol,
I anil not a howdah, is the thing to be
cared for. A few minutes' drive
brings tlie hunter and the tiger face
to face with each other.
News came in the other day of a
tiger roaming on the hanks of the
Sindh near 1'char, a village some 14
miles from Datia City. The mahara-
jah accordingly motored out to the
village with his staff 011 the thirteenth.
That day was devoted simply to ob
serving the movements of the tiger.
A goat was tied up and was duly slain
by the tiger, who, making for the
river bed and placing his prey on the
sand close to the water, entered the
cool pool and bathed and gamboled for
some time. Having thoroughly en-
joyed himself, he came out, and after
feasting in the clear moonlight took
his way back to the jungle.
Next day the maharajah sat up for
the tiger. The beast returned to his
feed, and had just caught the goat
by the right ear when the maharajah
fired, hitting the tiger in the head, the
first bullet proving fatal. The tiger
rolled over on the ground, with the
goat held fast in his jaws.
Early in the morning the maharajah
ret tu ned in his motor car with the
dead tiger placed in the rear seat the
goat still hanging in the tiger's mouth.
So fast, was the grip that the goat did
not fall down, though the motor was
run at full speed. It was a very
strange sight to see the slayer and the
slain driving and driven together and
the gnat hanging in Ihe jaws of the
dead tiger.—Calcutta Statesman.
The Lacks of Analogy.
"Papa, what do they call a man who
plays a pipe?"
"A piper."
"And a man wiio plays a drum?"
"A drummer."
"And a man who plays a fife?"
"A fifer."
"Then is a man who plays a lute
a l«oter?"
The Great Pacificator.
The uncle of Europe, who is also
the ruler of 400,000,000 of the human
race, has been the great pacificator of
our ago. He, more than anyone, has
helped to clear the world's sky. He
may even act as a bridge of true
fri« idliness between France and Ger
many, the only nations that cannot
yet he quite friends without reserve.—
Sheffield Daily Independent.
The Continent of Lemuria.
There was also supposed to fc« a
prehistoric continent that occupied
the greater portion of what is now
the Indian ocean. Madagascar is said
to 0.3 a remnant of it. Sclater, ail
Englishman, has called this continent
Lemuria, after monkey like animals
said to have inhabited it.
His Decisions Were All Accepted.
"Uncle Jim Hastings umpired the
game between the Stan and the
Comets." "What! Say, how did ha
look when he got through?" "Ha
looked all right. Uncle Jim stairla *ii
feet two and weighs 210."
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They also relieve Dis-
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Send for book giving full information.
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Cheap Homes for the Million
Along the
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