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"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
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"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
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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.
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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."
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"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.
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