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(Continued from page 6, column 4.) "Played it safe and sure. I'm too old a bird to be caught napping. I put in most of that night holding wet cloths to Horner's head, and thinking out some plan of action. Before morning: he thought I was the best fellow he ever knew, an 1 I had the guy where I wanted him. For one of his breed, he was rather a friendly cuss. This was how I mapped it out. That letter of credit had to be turned into | currency before it could do me any | good, and the only way that might be I done was through this guy Alva. I ; must get to him somehow in a way j that would put me next his scheme, so I'd know when he had the cash. Once I got these details attended to in little old New York, the swag was as good as my own. I knew a dozen guys that would bump Horner off for a hundred if it come to that?so the price wasn't high. A million! Oh, man; and it had dropped right into my lap. But to do this it was neces- j sary that I should be Horner. That was as plain as the nose on my fac^; as Horner, coming with credentials, and a letter of credit Alva would be bound to receive me with open arms? see! After that I figured it -would be easy enough. But how was I to become Horner?" "You couldn't diwy with him?" "I should say not; he was a square guy. It didn't, take me five days to ! find that out. So there wasn't but one I way out of it?I had to put Horner out of commission, and cop his belt. It was either that, or lose a million." I looked at him, with a sickening feeling of horror I found hard to suppress, but he went on Indifferently in the same cool, calm voice. "There's no use going into details, Daly. We landed good friends, and Horner was in a strange land. You know New York pretty well, and I lost him the first afternoon down on the | East side. I never did know just what 1 became of the fellow, but the next morning I was alone in a back room in Greenwich, and had his belt with me." He chuckled grimly. "There wasn't much in it. except the letter ! of credit and a notation as to where and when Krantz could be seen privately. It was the next night Harris was to call on the banker up in Le Compte street" "Le Compte? What number?" "247 Le Compte. Do you know any body tnere?" "No; only Le Compte is an Did stamping ground of mine. Go on; you went there, of coilrse." "Sure. Krantz didn't know me from / Adam, not even my name. I was just 4108' to him, but he was mighty nervous, just the same, and anxious to get away. I could see that. I don't think it was his house either; just an ordinary-looking shack, brick, three stories and a basement "That banker was business all right, and he put me through the whole bundle of tricks before he'd even let me sit down. I had to lie some, but mostly I was posted well enough so as to give him what he was looking for. Anyhow, I passed, and after that he was 'rather decent. Took me into a room and gave me a drink, besides asking me about affairs in Europe. EE?5, I didn't know only what I'd I seen in the papers?but I gave him an earful, and on the strength of his name I cussed England for all I ! was worth?which at that time was | about a million bucks. Then I handed I over ' the letter of credit, and' he I jammed it into his pocket like it was a scrap of paper. I don't remember that he even looked at it. After that he was for getting rid of me, the sooner the better. But I needed to know where Alva was, so I hung on, telling the old guy I had a private message that I had to deliver personally? straight from them financiers in London. So, after skirmishing a while, he jotted down an address on a bit 11 /?\ Vq fJ$P "He Jotted Down an Address on a Bit of Paper." of paper, and the next thing I knew I was out in the street, with that gripped in my mitt." "And then, of course, you hunted up Alva?" "The.next morning, before any bank opened. I thought over it all night and got up a peach of a story. I needed it, too, for this Alva was a smooth guy. It took some nerve to get him, but I knew, through Horner's memorandum, some things about him he never supposed was known up in this country; so when I sprung them, natural-like, he uuit being offish, and gave iue tlie glad hand." "Who is lie? A crank?" "N??t by a d?d sight. Re's a captain in the Chilean army, military attache to the embassy at Washington, intrusted with certain work. But he's I realJy working to overthrow the present Chilean government?gettin' up a revolution down there. I lied until I was black in the face, but I must have kept within bounds, for he got to liking me real well. He was a high-roller, and I put him onto some things in New York he had never been steered against before. That made a hit with him. There wasn't nothing said about cashing up all day long, and early the next morning we breezed into a downtown hotel, and went to bed." I "What hotel?" "Search me. We'd been tanking up I ~ a! nnn IB j UI1 Uimilll'Ugllf <11111 w cir vii uuivvi in I the morning than when we turned in. That's the honest truth. All either of I us wanted for breakfast was a cup of coffee. We got that at a little dump on some side street, so as to brace up a little." He paused to laugh at the recollection, helping himself to a third cigar. "And you actually retain no knowledge of where you spent the night?" "Not the faintest glimmer. Can you beat it? Alva lost part of a letter somewhere, and a curious sort of box he had picked up in Chinatown. He put them both in his pocket, so he says, but that was the last he ever saw of either. Queer looking box that was; nothing I cared about, but it j cost the guy a hundred bucks, and he was daffy over it Anyhow, that night j put me solid with Alva." "But the money? He's never drawn ! it?" j "Not a dinky red. He claims the time hasn't come yet, and that it's i safer with Krantz. But I've stuck to him like a brother and he's took me in ! with his gang, so now I know every i move that's going on. I'm on the in! side, all right, and now it's beginning 1 to get hot." "They are ready to act?" "Sure; that's what the meeting was about tonight" "What are they after?ships?" "Well, they've got to have some, but mostly arms; then there is a guy down there who's got to be croaked. I don't care what it is; when the time comes they won't find a handful of change to act with. Tm some patriot, I am, and I'll put a bigger crimp in their sails than the whole United States PCWH?ot COT-V1PD " gUVClllUiCUl ocvict "But see here, Harris," soberly, l "how do you know you are going to get this? Of course, I see the game I the way you've mapped it out, but j suppose Krantz pays in check, or draft. That spikes your gun." "H?1, yes; but he won't I've sized up this man Krantz. He's in the game for money. He don't care who wins the d?n revolution, for he gets his share out of the pot right away. He's playing the game secretly on his own account. Got that? He expects it | may be a year, or perhaps two, before he can cash in on the deal, but when ! it does come his share of profit will | be likely a hundred thousand. That beats bank interest, and the old bird I is willing to take the chance." j "Quit? likely that's true; no bank would finance such a project." "Of course not?the directors weuld * j ihrow a fit. Well, now. that kind of a guy, in op a raw deal like this, is ! going to play safe, isn't he? He isn't going to leave any evidence lying around to hang himself with?any drafts, or checks to pass through the clearing house? Not on your life; he is too wily a fox for that. Krantz knew this was coming, and he's been cashing in for six months or more to be ready for it. And now he's got the currency stored away, nobody knows where bur himself. When Alva comes for it, it will be handed out secretly, and that old bird will crumple up the receipt in his pocket and wait till he can cash in through those guys in London. So now it's up to us to locate the dough; we've got to separate it from either Krantz, or Alva? I'm for Alva." "Why?" "Because the job looks easier. He's human and no money grubber. He's just as liable as not to carry the whole wad around with him; d?n it. * ' ' ' ' J 1 ?>Viol Via tit?!! /Irk l rniriK tnai s jum >v Aide lie TTilft u.vj for he won't dare deposit such a sum anywhere. That's why I have laid back so long, without attempting to strike?I'm banking on the army captain to offer me a soft thing. What ido you say?" I had the whole story now in a nutshell and it was one to think over. That Harris had played his cards well was sufficiently evident. Now I must be fully as cautious in playing mine. I felt the fellow had given me his full I confidence; actually believing me to be Daly, and on the same trail with him; desiring to use me in what was probably the biggest job of his life, he had been led into the indiscretion of confiding to me the full truth of his scheme. If I kept my head and nerve. I had it in ray power to block everything and thus bring the whole gang to swift justice. I realized the danger of such an attempt, the immei diate peril of endeavoring to accomj plish this alone, yet at the moment ! perceived no other way. I must reI main Daly and appear eager to obtain j mv share of the spoils. ?? ? | "A slick piece of work, Hams," j i admitted admiringly, "and so far as I can judge you have figured out the chances about right. They look good. I'm with you, old man?shake!" Our hands clasped. "That is what I thought you would say, Harry," more familiarly. "Come on now and drink with me." I put the stuff down, rather feeling the need of it. and desiring to estab iish (?nr intimacy more closely. "Then that's settled, George?yes, I'll have another cigar. By the way/' as I lit tip, "there was another thing I wanted to ask you about. You said there was a woman here from Washington. What's, tlie idoa?" "D?n if I know, hut I gtj^ss it's all right. Still I don't quite cotton to the dame. This is how I get it frwn Alva. Those junta fellows?the big ones, you know?think this New York bunch is pretty slow: they want some action for their money. So Senor Meiidez. who seems to be engineering the deal, decides to send somebody over here to stir up the criminals. But he's watched every minute; secret service men are as thick as flies, and if one of his underlings was to leave for New York, he'd never get,ten feet without being spotted. Mendez is wise to this^ so he gathers in privately a skirt he believes is all, right, and sends her. - - - 3 It's not a decent joo for a woman, ami that's what makes it safe. ' He made a good guess, too; that female is as smart as a steel trap. She gave me the coJd shivers." "You don't think she suspects you?" "No, I don't; there ain't no reason why she should; but she gave me the once over, all right, and I am perfectly willing to' know she is on her way back to Washington. I never did play in any luck with a woman in the game ?perhaps that's what makes me afraid of 'em." "What's her name?" ' "Gessler, so Alva said?Marie Gessler; South American, I suppose; anyhow, she talked that language like a native. I steered clear of her most of the time. Somehow she got my goat. However, that's nothing to worry over." He glanced at his watch. "The dame's safely off by this time. What do you say?let's go home." I signified my willingness. As we passed out together through the narrow passage, extinguishing the lights behind us, the one overpowering desire in my mind was to be once more alone, so as to think over, and piece together as best I might this fabric of villainy with which I was confronted. The situation was fairly clear, yet there were strange lights and shadows in it I found hard to reconcile. Moreover, what should I do? How could I serve best?by immediately telling my story to the of ficers of the law, ana tnus wasmng my hands clean? or by continuing to enact the role of Harry Daly, and in this way entrapping these fellows redhanded? I had had fully enough of Harris for the present. His boastfulness and pride of crime disgusted me. I kad no desire to be associated with the fellow, or pretend, even for a worthy purpose, to be his companion. Yet^ ail this had happened so suddenly and unexpectedly I could not determine the best course to pursue. I remained dazed and confused, the only clear decision b$ing an eagerness to bring him, and these others also, to justice. We were the last to leave the place, and emerged from the building into the deserted yard, leaving all in silence and darkness behind us. The 1 door closed tightly, secured by a nightlatch, and we stood motionless in the drizzle. T3y that time I was ready with a cuggeation, but by good fortune he took the initiative. "We better slip out of here alone. I reckon," he whispered. "I'll go up this way, and then you take a sneak through the lumber yard. Likely we'll catch the same car going down. If we don't, look me up at Costigan's place ?you know where that is?" "Sixth avenue, isn't it?" "Sure. Ask for Parker, and it will be all right. If I ain't in, leave a note where I can hunt you up. I got to keep my eye on Alva tomorrow, so he don't, get away with the stuff." / w "You expect him to draw?" "Not before night; but, just the same, I want to know for sure. You wait here five minutes, for I've got the longest trip to make. You'll shoW up all right?" "You can't lose me; it looks too good." He chuckled and patted me on the shoulder in an excess of friendliness, evidently feeling to some extent the whisky he had been imbibing so freely. "That's the talk, Daly. Well? so long." He slipped out through the gate into the dark of the alley, leaving it slightly ajar for me to follow. I sheltered myself behind the high board fence and listened to the soft slush of his feet in the mud. The sound vanished, and all about was silence and darkness. I waited only long enough to be sure he was safely out of the way, and then followed, eager to be off. One thing was certain, I would make no effort to. join him on the car; I would use the remainder of the night to decide the future, working out the problem alone. To make certain that I avoided any possibility of encountering the fellow again, I passed directly through the deserted lumber yard before emerging upon Gans street. This thoroughfare was at this hour desolate enough, not n h>hf showina in the houses, or a moving figure visible as far as I could see in the dimness of the street lamps. The rain was steady, the pavement shimmering with moisture, the only sound the pattering of the drops as they fell. If any policemen were abroad I saw no signs, and, with collar turned up to my ears. I chose to walk rather than seek the "block to the east and the possibility of a street car. The factory district ended in a row of houses, dark and silent at this hour, but the walking was good, and I pushed forward briskly, so buried in thought as to become practically insensible to the unpleasant surroundings. The night had been a full one, far exceeding my expectations, yet i ieit !">e more puzzled than ever ps to uiy own duty." "FTo far I "knew o? no act of crime with which these men could he connected; they were merely proposing a future attack on a neutral government. If. however I con * sentefl to play my part with Harris, I would not only he in ample time to circumvent any danger Alva and his gang might contemplate, hut also gain ample evidence for their conviction and expulsion from this country. In addition to this I would he in position to hloek the daring plans of this international thief. Altogether it seemed to me that the wiser course for me to ! pursue was to wait, and watch, ready ! to act at any moment, but keeping my ! own council until certain that the : specific moment had arrived. Nor was I oblivious to the strange i impression left upon me by my. enj counter with Marie Gessler. She had interested me oddly, and I could not : I drive her memory from my thoughts, j Our moment of conversation had been ! peculiar, and her words and actions i nn <-? /inncf?n!nt Whl* Utlft it*muxiitru tis a " "j xuu she stood there, her hand on the door, and talked to me in that mocking way? Had she a purpose, an aim? Did she believe my explanation? or was her suspicion aroused into a determination to verify it in some way? Although I coifld not decide, yet doubtless the latter theory was the most probable. That was why I had been pledged to call at "247 Le Compte street," and ask for "MflSs Conrad." This was the same place where Harris had secretly met Krantz. Evidently it was another headquarters for these precious, villains. Once there, and safely in their power, the truth of my identity could easily be established. Was that her idea? If so, who then was "Miss Conrad?" Not Marie Gessler, certainly, under another name, for she would have returned to Washington. There was no doubt as to that, for Alva had agreed to take her direct to the depot in his own car, and would scarcely leave until she was safely on the train. Probably the other woman was a confederate with whom she would communis cate by telephone. My clearer judgment told me all this, made me fully conscious of the danger of keeping r,r,rvninfmAnf T'df n?>T7?Vr ttTCPT V?*d 1X115 appuiia iiiiciu, rue from an intention to do so. Marie Gessler's eyes were frank and honest; they had looked directly into my own, pleadingly I imagined, and I retained a blind faith in her no ordinary circumstances would overcome, She was involved in this criminal conspiracy? there could be no doubt as to that? but why? under what conditions? What could ever have driven so womanly a woman to such an association? Was her appeal to me an effort at assistance? Was she blindly endeavoring to learn in this wgy if I was worthy of trust, and confidence? This hope would not down; it remained insistent, persistent. I would keep my word; I would go to the place designated, at the hour set; I would go armed, prepared for whatever might occur of treachery?but I would go. Perhaps here was the key to the whole mystery; and once I solved her connection with the plot, particularly if it absolved her from blame, and the necessity of exposure. I could go forward with clear conscience, and land these others where they justly be? longed. (To be continued next week.) ^ PORTABLE AND STATIONARY AND BOILERS flaw, Lath and Shingle Mills, tors, Pumpe and Fittings .Voor Saws, Splitters, Shafta, Parleys Belting, Gasoline Engir <s LARCiESTOCK LOMBARD Foundry, Machine, Supply Store. AUGUSTA, G/-?. CLEMIJ South Carolina's 1 1571 acres op land. val ope: DEGREE COURSES. Agriculture, (Seven Majors.) Architecture. Chemistry. Chemical Engineering. Civil Engineering. Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Textile Industry. ^ Industrial Education. General Science. SHORT COURSES. Agricultural. Textile Industry. 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