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Chicago Ledger, v. XLVII, no. 47, Saturday, November 22, 1919.
Contributor
Ward, Harold. Pearce, John Irving, Jr.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1919-11-22
Publisher
Chicago, Ill. : W. D. Boyce Company
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
The Daughter of Dance Hall Kate / by Harold Ward and John Irving Pearce, Jr.
Topic
Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens.
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his
released hold,. dropping straight
down.
Sam struck the rear of the top of the
automobile, bounced’ up and down and
slid over the back, groping. vainly for
a staying hold. e
his presence was known and that quick
action only would mean victory and
safety for himself and the. girl.
Still clinging to his precarious hold,
Sam reached about, drew his automatic
and jammed a hole thru the glass oval
at the rear even as a bullet tore thru the
cover in front of him.
“Drop it,” he shouted, and
weapon rested squarely against the “pie
shortlegged man.
Ht the driver to stop,”
enly
the seat beside Whistler
the young man could see Nina, boun
and gagged, but with courage still high,
for she om filed encouragement as
car slowe
Invotuntarily Sam leaned toward her,
and the deformed man, with a snakelike
Movement, snatched at the weapon. As
he did so Sam pulled the -trigger and
saw the vindictive, snarling face whiten
as its owner slid slowly from.the seat
to the floor.
The car stopped with a jar and Sam,
dropping to the street, ran to the door
and extended his. arms to the girl.
“I hope he is not dead,” she said, avert-
ding her eyes from the still fo *
“Badly creased is all,” said "Northman,
“This time, tho, he
will go to a place where he will have
quiet for a long time. Sit still,” he or-
, dered the driver, who was showing sign:
of restlessness. ‘You may be innocent™
and you may not, The police will settle
“that.”
“That awful man has my noteboook in
his inside pocket,” cried Nina, “Don’t
neglect that.”
Northman’s fingers, began a quick
search of the unconscious man’s pockets‘
and unearthed a small, brown notebook. -
He extended it to her.
ju can read shorthand, I know you
can,” she said. “Keep that and read it
sometime,”
A lovely flush rose in her face, ana
Sam turned with eager questions in his
éyes and on his tongue, and slipped the
book into his pocket. However, he re-
sisted an impulse to gather the girl into
his arms then and there, for the chauf-
feur and o motorcycle policeman” were
coming up. He turned to make a formal
compiaint against the short-legged man
and dri
“rl will "aes to all this for you, Sam,”
said Robinson, appearing guddenly and
much out of breath. “Your way of get-
ting down beats mine. I,slipped and fell,
Some clever helper I. am—if you had
needed anything like that.”
taxi without fares had drawn up,
withle the driver inspected the group cu-
riously.. Sam signaled. him and assisted
Nina to @ seat.
“{ shall see you clear to the door of
your friend’s home and even then I am
afraid I shall not feel safe about you,”
he declared tenderly.
“I must tell you how this all happened,”
she said hurriedly. “Mr, Hadore had ar+
authority, and asked to see my old note-
books. Town one seemed to, in-
terest him, and we were studying the
page: when Mr. Whistler appeared,
struck the old man down and, smother-
ing me with a drug-soaked cloth, cafried
me to the automobile.
’ “IT had telephoned your friend of Mr.
Hadore’s arrival—it seems he went across
and must have seen part of the kidnap-
ing.” -
“He did and was breaking several va-
rieties of speed laws when he passed the
was sure that the hand on his arm gave
a little added pressure.
brown notebook,” Nina said shy-
ly, as they went’ up the stairs. “I care
very much for that—that is, it must not
be lost.”
There was emphasis engugh in Sam's
quick promise, for she flushed again and
turned hastily to the door, leaving Sam
with the sense of delightful mystery
connected with the book, He determined
to read it over at once. His first visit
was to be to the hospital where Mr, Ha-
except to show the scope of the business
of Alvah Northman at a date two years
previous.
E WAS not thru the book when the
hospital was reached and there he
found Mr, Hadore quite comfortable, his
head, however, decorated with a huge
bandage,
“You will think Tam a poor helper,”
‘ oy
CHICAGO LEDGER
said the old man, smiling ruefully.
“Whistler surely followed me to Niss
Harris’ abi e was quite mad with
baffled hopes and passion and planned
@ revenge on both yourself and Rodney,
72
Sam slapped his leg violently, “I did
not, I was so overjoyed at the escape of
ina—Miss Harris, I mean—that
“No consequence in comparison at all,”
said the old man, with a dry smile, “only
two millions.”
“Two millions or twenty millions would
e all the same if put in thé opposite side
a scale with that girl,” stated Sam
hotly, and then: wi that he had
been baited, for the black eyes of the
old man twinkled like those of a boy.
“I have been rummaging about,” said
Mr, Hadore, a moment later, “and I-fi
that I could not help you if I woulh
Certain memoranda has been: mislaid or
tolen. Very possibly your uncle or
Whistler are guilty.”
“It’s up to me as a fighting proposi-
tion.. In fact, it is the second most im-
portant thing in my life; to make good
on that—fortune or no fortune.’
“I wish you success. I ask only that
you notify me when you are ready to
show the code to Lamb & Lamb. I am
sure that time will come, even as your
wedding to certain splendid young
lady, which should follow your rainbow
trail.”
‘My real rainbow search came to an
end and I had my reward when I met
Nina and I am pretty sure—well, I am
going to know soon whether——”"” He
broke. off as the old man chuckled.
“I have talked but Httle to Miss Har-
ris, but I have reason to believe that
you represent to her something absurdly
mportant, vastly more so than codes or
Yontunes""
pare Robinson was waiting anxiously
the hotel when Sam returned.
sipented that the chauffeur had quite
cleared himself, but that Whistler had
been held and was safely lodged in the
found the end
prison hospital. He, also,
about the old gentleman.
ut Sam waved him to silence for he
had once more returned to his study of
the Httle brown book, He had promised
Nina to read it and he was going to do
so whether there was rhyme or reason
in the pages
Suddenly he leapea to his feet and
started for the door. “Back in
ment,” he called to his startled friend.
the offices below a polite clerk
promptly delivered a sealed envelope to
him, and Sam hurried back, darting up
the stairs when the eleva failed to
come quickly enough to
Before his friend, he “Aung the book
and a two foot length of very dirty cord,
knotted and looped crazily. It fell again
in the form of a rainbow, and Robinson
exclaimed as he grasped it. “This is the
original that Uncle Rodney thought he
had safely cornered, Where were you
keeping it old sly foot, and why the ex-
treme excitement?”
‘Put it in the sate below the first
mornin, f my visit.. Been feeding our
friends substitute cords ever since. Why
am I excited? Because, old pa al, I have
of the rainbow.
Then while Robinson gas ‘pea Sam
thumbed the pages of the little book.
“I have the pot of gold, Dave. Listen,
here’s a letter dictated by grandfather
two years ago:
Messrs. Bunnel & Co. New Yor
N. ¥.; Mail me a copy of the Mores
code, Remittance inclosed,
“That's signed by Grandfather Alvah.”
“But I don’t see——” began Dave.
“You will ina moment! See that knot!
am betting that’s a dot in’the Morse,
and there’s four more in the bunch; then
there is a loop, Bet that’s a dash. Now
do you see?”
“The foxy
“Right in
never fen.
“And n
was curious
me
old guy,” said Robinson.
your ov own line and you never,
yh, boy!”
wit haa. to be helped and shall
have to inquire if that violates the pro-
visions,” admitted Sam. nyway, I am
going to decipher this message.”
t by knot and loop by loop, they
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went over the length of the cord, Dave.
a. pecueny
He quickly, rewrote the paper into
English words and letters. so it’ now”
-7, L and’L vault. Grand-
Sam Northman drew a long breath...
“The rainbow ends in Lamb & Lamb's
office, but, ave, I am afraid I am
barred.” :
“My conscience says no,” declared his
friend, “but.if yours says yes, now 1s
the time to chase.right around there
the umpire,
understand the matter,. Sam."
seemed a good suggestion, for Sam
felt it would be no pleasure then or
afterward to win the fortune unfairly.
If Mr. Lamb, his grandfather's repre-
sentative approved, however, there could ~
eno que
“Fully fentitied, {f you have the right
message,” sa. that gentleman briefl
on being questioned. “My instructions
were that all records were to be open,
and the notebook constitutes a récord.
When do yo h to open the safe, for
he evidenily means the old safe in our
nt?”
as
Robinson, Misg
s old friend, Mr
Hadore, to be present.” tald Sam, rather
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