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easily enlisted on the German side, part-
ly from sheer obstinacy, also Irom a love
of danger and adventure, and Irovn his
‘ I-le talteslup the
To his in n
side. Ilere-in America. everybody is safe,
have a chance to
of the conditions.
tell it. (or it might pain Eliggs to con-
fess what an ass he has been, while
refreshes me. '
Keeneyes paused to look nt the night
clerk. but Bliggs, whose eyes were nred
on the ceiling. neither spoke nor moved.
'eeneyes resumed, smiling at the as-
. -tonlsned Llndenwait:
"In this way. quite gradually, and all-
s up one
to keep their secrets is to live in per-
petual danger. The thing begins to prey
that Jack Daws is to tak
‘ Bliggs says to himself that if
on this notebook
reinstate himself with
icans. Even if he confesses to his past
association with the scoundreis, the yield-
nnd waits for a
chance to give it to Llndenwsit-, I s
ceed in giving him the chance, in tact.
I almost force the chance upon him, and
-here is the notebook. and here is Biiggs.
is in the right place, and h
Fourth of July and the Stars and Stripes."
was silence. Lindenwait felt
that the detective spoke too tlippantly
to be in perfect good taste. but Bilggs
did not seem to notice it. V
Keeneyes said, “Have I read your riddle
right. Zilr. Bilggs'.'" 7
“All that is Just as it happened. B
u little hard on me.
she talked
to me by the hour, and got
agree to join their plot against the In-
ventor." ‘ A . .
Lindenwalt groaned, "But I can't think
Barley is a spy!" He turned to
- Keeneyes abruptly-"Is she a spy '
'“)‘ou have Just heard Bliggs make the
charge.“
"A spy?" cried Bliggs violently. “Why.
she is the heart of the whole villainous
complication! Her sister’ Lucile was Joe
‘Dow - pa n and she Vwss Ormsby's.
They played it two and two. But Orrnsby
v W another woman, back
,Thlnk 01 thatekilling a helpless friend
’ like that! oh. Margaret Bar-
ley is awful-awful-awful!"
Keeneyes groaned out, "What‘is the
world coming to!"
Bllggs looked at him suspiciously.
Lindenwait persisted, "Margaret Bar-
ley hasn't the countenance of A criminal."
“You -can‘t always tell by counte-
nances." Keeneyes remarked. “To look at
our friend Biiggs. you would simply con-
clude that he is a fool. But you would
fore he could tell it himself. You must
admit it is a reasonable explanation. or
course he has agreed that I have rep-
resented him truthfully. In other words.
the confession I have made for him is,
the confession he would have made. And
yet most 0! it is false." .
Bliggs started violently,
white.
"I don't understand," Llndenwait fai-
and grew
him. Therefore he resolved upon
a“bold lie. I have anticipated his lie,
that is all"
"Then he dill not come here to restore
me my notebook?‘
‘While Llntlenwait
was nslting this
bring one of his hands to the region of
his hip pocket. i e
udrlenly the detective made n sprln
toward him, and threw hlmsel upon tile
to bring in
. thought,
CHICAGO LEDGER
arln, Lindenwuit Sllulclloil tile pistol iron.
the impotent lialld.
“.Vow," cried Lirldenvihnit triumphantly,
"I don't believe one word that he has
uttered againrt the good name of Mar-
garet Barley!"
CHAPTER XIV. er
A Fl-ZARI’L'L VLEAP.
LIGGS. the night clerk. slumped
his
detective, then <
dcnwait. still holding the night clerk’s
pistol, stood over him threat:-nlngly, re-
conviction that Margaret
Barley was not a spy. Keeneyes had re-
turned to his chair, and had resumed his
uiet manner.
It was the night clerk that broke the
strained silence.
id‘ "What are you going to do
in
Peplied Keeneyes. "no longer
depends upon you, air. You had the op-
portunity to make a full confession and
throw yourself upon our mercy’. Instead
of that. you invented a story to mislead
renounced the
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you," the night clerk cried out
,i‘lercely, "any fellow with spirit would
try to protect himself. All you vc got
against me is that I tried to draw to
gun Just now. And why did I try to
I The Eyes of ‘War
Likc a gdltsy speck in,llle
peurling duzlw, ,
We drift Him the silent
kies,
On‘? No .’iIan’s Land '.'i']lt'7E
the xmoktballs rpatt-n
(ind illr tlcadly gal-ex rise.
We mark lllr spa! :l-Ilcrc Hie
. battery stalld.i'-
7Vllerc rapper: fail on the
trenrll-srarrcd In-iglli,
We map earl: mile of llzmilr
an ,
lVIlcre millions nlrilllc in
" Hi! battle blight.
No Sil‘l‘t'?' bllgil‘ to S[‘(‘(‘d our
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Norllxc [him-r of lrannerx
90)’-'
No! a 'warstced'.i stamping ‘
for the figlif,
As we‘ rise at brmk of day.
Only the song of the mind in
the lam‘:-w
. A fllrill that lire‘: in
, daydattvl’: glint‘-7
A shifting 1‘l.ii0)i of country
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unrx,
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-Cunt PITT in E1'('ry<
body’;
draw my gun? Was it to hurt eitier
of you fellows? Of course not. You
ought to know I'd not shoot here in the
hotel to bring everybody in the house
running to ut me under arrest. No, sir.
I had returned your notebook to you, I
had told you all h d to tell. nml I
by putting up a bluff, that I
could get away and have an end of the
whole miserable connection."
“Y e a guilty marl. Mr. Bllggu,"
Keeneyes said quietly. ‘
"l d ‘ see why you say that." wlllned
suddenly Kreatly depressed.
ll guilty man, I'd have
notebook was-hing.
Bliggs.
I'd
on Bernstorir.
instead or reaping this reward I turned
‘ll? DFODETEY 0“'lll:l‘
shows that I‘m a good American. I'll
admit I went wrong for a time, but my
better nature was aroused. And when
my better nature asserted itself, I came
straight to you."
’et>nel’es did not answer, and Linden-
walt. llndlng the nirzht clerk altogether
subdued. returned to the side or the
ed After an uneasy pause, the night
clerk exclaimed querulously:
"Why don't you say smnelliing? “'h3'
don't you do something?"
-'1 "ii say something," Kseneyes re-
sponded. “if you will not annoy me by
your useless denials, I resent your at-
tempting lo pull the‘u'i>ol over my eyes.
I am Keeneyes. I resent the idea in
your poor. muddled head that you ran
deceive me. I resent your sell-s.1llsfac-
lion in telling me n pzlrlrlng Ialschood.
etpeciing me o swallow it. In short,
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resent every‘ word that falls from your
lips. It you will keep quiet, I will cer-
tainly say something.”
' ead." the other growled mo-
rosely. “I'll not interrupt. Fm I can't
stand this suspense. and I want to know
what to expect.
"Jack Daws was
carry the notebook
commissioned to
to Washin;'ton,"
scrutinize the book before he set out
with it. and that you had been detailed
to take the book to Brernmer. Lucile
Barley was present at the interview.
' sur-
rendered to you the
solved on breaking lroln the gang, and
acting on your own hook. You would
take that notebook to Washington your
reward. K
stored to him, but of course he waited
in vain. e grew suspicious. He
searched for you and discovered you on
eve of running away with the note-
You had already done
were in
to extort a confession from
Knowing that if you were in his
place you would tell everything to save
your neck. ' naturally supposed he
would reveal the fact that you belonged
to the band of spies. 'e we were
gone in the yard to bury the evidences
of the Great Invention, you slipped into
the room an n e the defenseless
prisoner as he lay with bound legs and
arms. That is what you could do, then
return to the hotel and manufacture
clews to make it appear that Margaret
Barley Was the murderer! -
cours " .
Keeneyes shrugged his shoulders. “Of
course you wouldn't hesitate to murder
known only to the conspirators. b
d to make it appear that
aghast at these
charges preferred against
Bllggs appeared almost in-
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dreadful
Bllggs. but
r was crouched
, s eyes on the
opposite wall, pdllld but not trembling.
-At last he said in 2 low voice. "It would
be rather hard for you to produce proofs
Keene)'es'returned. “It should be a
simple matter to prove that the dagger
that slew Ormsby
place and rapped on the
Ormshy out. I heard your conversa-
him as he stood by the
important news that Keeneyes had come
to town. and that it must not be sus-
pected that you and rmsby were
friends. No. it shouldn‘t be very hard
w r to convict you. t, 1 am
willing to tackle the job."
B‘ had drawn his legs up under
IIS attitude had beh
definite purpose. Suddenly he made a
tremendous leap that landed him full
upon his feet and two-thirds of the way
across the Floor. ' Llndenwait whipped
up the pistol. Keeneyes shouted to
Llndenualt. “Don't lire!"
Even while he spoke. without a pause,
nllzpzs made another gigantic spring,
crashed thru the window. carrying the
will “Rh him. and ell outward and
from sllrht. Lindenwalt and the detec-
tlve, wl . had risen involuntarily, heard
from the pavement a (lull thud At the
some time the voices of several men in
the street were raised In horror.
Kceneyes led the way from the room
at the top of his speed. dashed down the
stairs followed by Llndenwait, and burst
from the lobby 0! the hotel.
ltroim had begun to rorm about the mo-
tionless ngure of a man lying upon the
sidrwal .
The night clerk was dead,
CHAPTER XV.
' IIOMANCE.
TIIE crowd that had collected around
‘he 1""‘3' 0‘ BUSES was crazed with
excitement. As the Inventor and Keen-
mime was passin from ii
that brought thegtwo me: id lllipstznltaitxig
tention. ' - r
"Gee whiz!" exclaimed Sammy Cook
the small son of the country sheriff. “My
“BITS 5"“? got ’is hands full now. Two
W0mt’" Ebies nnd,a whole lot oi men in
the Jail. I been in to see them already
And now hel-e’s another mystery. 1 ex:
Dec! ii Pa keeps on urrestin’ spies and
murderers on’ things, lila'il have to 1,;
'im lock some at ‘em in the cellar-the
.Iail.'s l:etiln' so crowded," '
ltoeheyes listened sharply to the nu],
fellows excited comment, and [hpn he
met the anxious gaze oi the Inventor's
horrified eyes.‘
"Good God. Zeliers." Llnderlwait rnut.
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