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r ? i ? (Continued from page 6, column 4.) j It? " " j ; "Who says so?the police? Gott! i it could not kill a man. Why you tell ' me this?why ?" "Oh, only because I thought you : might be interested. However, let's j not talk about it any more. You will settle that account before the close j of banking hours tomorrow?" "I? Yes, I will settle." i There was the sound of a foot on the cement tloor of the corridor without, and, almost at the same instant the electric light, which had been turned on, revealed a man's shadow on the glass of the closed door. He seemed to stand there hesitatingly; then he rapped with his knuckles on the glass. \ I flattened myself out against the inner wall of the closet, aware that the two in the second office were com[ ing forward together, Wine giving I vent to a startled oath in his excitement. He strode straight to the door, and opened it with a jerk. "You, hey! What the devil do you want here?" "A word with you, and d?n quick?" It was Waldron's voice, but his speech ended abruptly, as his eyes caught sight of the woman. She wasted no time. "I was just going," she said* calmly, ignoring him, but speaking directly to Wine. "I will see you tomorrow then." She passed between the two, without so much as favoring the Russian with a glance, and he stared after her with^open mouth, then stepped back to watch her progress down the corridor. Wine drew him* hastily aside, closing the door tightly ana shooting the night-latch. "The d?n girl never locks this door when she goes out," he muttered angrily, wheeling about to face the other. "Now, speak up, will you! what sends you butting in here?" "Well, first you tell me," thundered f Waldron, gripping the other angrily with one hand, "what 'business that female has with you? By God, Wine, if you are trying to double-cross, you'll find me no easy mark. Answer, you cur?what was she here for?" "Nothing, only private business." "You promised to see her tomorrow?" "Yes, it was to pay a note. Come In here, and m explain all. There's nothing to frighten you, Waldron." The two disappeared Into the inner room, Waldron's voice sjill rumbling, with Wine interjecting a word now and then. I ventured to stand erect again in the confines of the closet, and press my ear to the crack of tne tinner door. Both men were confident ot being alone, and so deeply immersed in their own affair as to speak with little restraint. Waldron, really affrightened at this discovery of Miss JGessler, adopted the method of a bully |to carry his point, more eager than ;ever to escape the city. "Well," he began, thumping the idesk with a fist, "now"you begin to spill. Don't try to work any game jon me.' What do you mean by paying a note? You owe her something?" ? "No; now listen, and don't get mad. I tell you just how it was," and Wine endeavored to be smooth and plausible, his voice pitched so low I had difficulty in hearing the words. "She said I was to succeed Alva, and be the revolutionary agent; partly she came to tell me this, but some way she learning of my indebtedness, that !I have an overdue note at the bank? " "How the h?1 did she know that?" ; "I could not tell," apparently suriprised himself. "I never asked, but 'maybe Krantz he told her. When they talked over my being given charge of the fund?yes, that must be 'the way, for she insisted I must straighten that matter up quick, bejfore other money was given me." \ "What other money?" ( "That which is sent from across the ;water for the cause." "Oh, I see; there is more coming ithen." j "Coming, yes; maybe some Is here |already." 1 "How much did you owe the bank, Wine?" ; "Between eiight and nine thousand; jit is overdue three months; now I ipromise to pay it all up tomorrow." f "Oh, you did, hey! out of that stuff, I suppose?" "Were else I get it, you think? Mein Gott, I have no more." , "Say," burst out Waldron suspiciously, "that's all right, but what bothers me is why this girl should hit you for it at just this particular time, irantz must have sent her, but what made them think you had money now? It ain't very likely they was just takin' a chance, is it?, I believe !that is all a d?n lie; they haven't got any more coming. Only I do Jthink they imagined you might have some on hand." | "How they imagine that?" | "Search me. Wine; only I happen to know there is a h?1 of a lot go1 "1/Iqi. thci cnrfQ/%fl Tt (ion't iUg SJL1 UlJUtl _ look good to me, they jumping you just at this time." "What you mean? You have not spilled nothing?" i "Me!" he laughed roughly. "D?n it, I'm not the spilling kind. There's been plenty o' fellers after the dope, let rae tell you. but I've let 'em hunt. Say, I've had to laugh sometimes the way they've been fooled. You know that guy who called himself Horner?" ! "Sure?a smart fellow." "You bet he is; a d?n sight smart!er than you think. He ain't Horner at all, if you ask me; his right name was Harris, as slick a crook as ever 'lived." i "Harris? a crook? What was It I jsaw_ in the paper? Wasn't he J&e \ same guy whal was croaked last Light?" "You bet he was; that's what I'm telling you about; that's why I come up here to get this off my chest He biffed this fellow Borner coming over, blew in with all his papers, an' started negotiatin' with Krantz and Alva. He an' Alva got awful thick." "I know; what was the gamer "To get that check into cash, Of course. He hung around for that purpose for weeks, an' then miseed out." "An' you knew him, an' never said a word?" "Sure I knew him, first time I got eyes on the bloater; but what was it to me? I'm not in this business for my health, Wine. I never gave a d?n who got hands on that stuff, so I had my grab at it. Harris an' I had it framed; that's why I was out there, waitin' for a signal from him. But when you beat him to it, I'd Just as soon be your running mate as his." "Hush! don't talk so loud! And now you say Harris is dead?" "As a mackerel; he coyldn't be no deader. But that was my house where he was croaked, an' so I got to get out o' town. The police ain't wise so far, but they might tumble if I hang around." "That why you come here?" - -4 j "Hu?hl Dont Talk So Loud!" "Exactly; I've got to have some rino right away, and it's up to you t? see that I'm heeled. You know where the stuff is, and how to get it quick." "I wouldn't dare use that money yet; I haven't even opened the bag." "The h?1 you wouldn't! You are goln' to cop off enough to pay that note tomorrow, ain't you? That's what you promised the girl. Well, I'm just as important as she is, I reckon, and I'm goin' to have my share, you bet, or else HI make it hot for you? Fll say that." "You haven't nothing but your own (word." "Ain't I! Say, Wine, don't be a fool; there are others beside us that's got a nose in this affair. There's a saloonkeeper down on Sixth avenue, named Costigan, who's got all o' Harris' dope, an' he's goin' to keep on the trail. Then there's another fellow who's liable to raise h?1. I ain't got him exactly placed yet, but he's the guy that led up to Harris being killed. I'm the only one what knows that, an' I ain't talked before." "Who is he?a detective?" "Maybe; Harris called him Severn. They got the guy down into Costigan's and the three of us slugged him. They patched him up, and then locked him Into a back room over in my place. The next morning they was goln' to give him the third degree. Then with him safe, Harris went after this girl, thinking she would be made to talk. I didn't want to' trouble with Harris, ner Coetigan either for the matter of that?they're both of 'em bad actors." "Well, then, what happened T' "That's mostly guess-work. They had this guy Severn locked in upstairs. He was unconscious,when we dumped him there, and later, when my wife got this girl to come oveiv-they was raised In the same town?Harris he turned the key on her. They was aiming to bring them together the next morning, but somehow Severn must have woke up, an' got out o' the room, for the next thing I know'd he was flghtin' Harris out In the hall, an' after that I found the girl had skipped out durin' the fracas." "They both got away?" "Clean, leaving Harris behind with his skull busted; deader than a doornail when I got to him." "And you don't know who this Severn Is or what he is up to?" "No, I don't, Wine, but he's sure got some game on, an' he's got my goat He's in with the girl all right, and knows too d?n much. That's what makes me leery about her being here pumpin' you." "She didn't pump me." "You mean to say the two of you didn't talk about Alva?" "We talked about him, of course; we couldn't help it. but she never hinted at nothing, and she didn't ask no questions. Only it seems they've found out one thing that hain't been rpnortofi hv thp nolice?she knew - vrv? ?? r what he was killed with." "What's that I She told you what stuck himr "You bet she did; she had one of 'em herself, an' took it out of her hat, and put _it right down here op the desk. 1 thought Tor a second I was going to keel over, but she didn't notice, just went on talkin'. How do yer suppose she ever found that out?" "Severn told her. that's how. It was dropped there in the dark. That feller got it some way. and hid it in his valise. That was what made Harris so sure he was in on the Job. because he raided the room at some hotel and found the thing." "You don't imagine the girl is playin' us?" "I don't imaeine nuthin'. but I'm I playin' safe. I don't know what the I h?1 either of them are up to, but I figure they know too d?n much, an' I. ain't goin' to take any dhances hangin' round till tliey nose out the rest. That's my idea, to skip out while there's some chance to get away. So pony up my share. Wine, an' then you can do whatever you darn please with what's comin' to you. What do you say?" I could hear the other tramping nervously back and forth across the room. His failure to answer must have angered the Russian, for, after a minute, he burst out with an oath: "D?n it, why don't yet say something? Part o' this boodle's mine, ain't it?" "Y-yes?of course." "Well, then, cough it up! Where did you plant the stuff?" "It's put away in a safety vault," Wine explained, his voice almost failing hifn. "Honest, Waldron, I can't get it tonight, it's too late. The bank Is locked, and I haven't opened tt" "You're a liar! You never dared to lug the thing around! You wouldn't be seen with it in your hand in daylight. I know you, you sneaking cur. You brought the stuff straight to this office that night, and, by GOd, I believe it is here yet. What do you want me to do?kill you. and then hunt? That is what's goin' to happen. unless you come across, too. I'll shake the gizzard out of you, you little sneak, if you try any trick on me." He must have gripped the other, for there was a struggle. Wine whimpering as though half choked. "Speak up, you cur! This thing dirirtps fiftv-fiftv. Where is it now? What's that?behind those books? H?1, I wouldn't believe you under oath. Go get it out from there; let's have a look at the stuff." He must have flung the other clear across the room, for he came down sprawling, his body striking against the doty of the closet, behind which I crouched. The catch broke under the impact, and, before I could draw back, I was in full view of both men. (To be continued next week.) LARGE CHANGES IX CROPS Heavy Reduction in Acreage of Cotton, Rice and Tobacco. The cotton belt has this year recorded an unprecedented change in the ratios of the acreage devoted to leading crops. A change of 5 per cent, in the country-wide acreage of a major crop is unusual, 10 per cent is rare, and 15 per cent, is unknown except under extraordinary conditions, such as arose during the war, or in the case of fall-sown grains when severe winter killing may result in extreme changes. The 10 leading cotton states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, .Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma "* * ?* unAttnn ana ArKansas uavc vm mcn wsLbvu. 10,194,000 acres, or 28 per cent, from last year, according to figures compiled by the Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture. In addition they reduced rice 4 50,000 acres, or 39 per cent., and tobacco 262,000 acres, or 32 per cent., a total reduction of these three crops of 10,900, 000 acres. These reductions which were due to the unsatisfactory prices for last year's crops resulting from financial deflation, coupled with heavy stocks and lessened buying, are partly offset by increases in the acreages of staple food and feed crops in these states. Corn shows a gain of 4,521,000 acres, or 13 per cent.; wheat 607,000 acres or ten per cent.; oats 740,000 acres, or 13 per cent.; hay 413,000 | acres, or 5 per cent.; sorghum and j cane, 79,000 acres, or 10 per cent.; and potatoes 123,000 acres, or 10 j per cent.; a total increase in these six crops of 6,483,000 acres. Further offsets to the remaining difference of 4,423,000 acres exist in increased | plantings of cowpeas, soy beans, vel-j vet beans and other less important crops. Alabama alone reported increased plantings of 834,000 acres of the three crops named, but these are largely planted in with corn and are, - * ~ r therefore, included in tne acreage ui that crop. 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