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seared‘ iiesh. an agonizing scream, and
then darkness.
DARING ROBBERY FRUSTRATED
BY WATCllll1AN‘S BRAVERY.
One at the most daring robberies
ever attempted in this part of the
who received paintul inju-
ries in his light with the burglar,
was found unconscious along with
the cracksman at the ' d of a tun-
el which had been dug from the
Burdicls Block to a point almost di-
rectly under the vault or the Pru-
dential Trust Company, in the next
building. ’
Jenks was hardly coherent when
seen this morning- From the frag‘
convinced tha
down to Ex his h.res at an early hour
and discovered a tunnel. dug from
his boiler-room, probably by the
burglar after Jenks hsd banked his
en recognized
atthews. one of the most
.daring burglars of recent years.
CHICAGO LEDGER
Jenks evidently followed the bur-
Elar at the risk of hls‘own lilo into
the tunnel, and there discovered
hand right in the darkness. and were
discovered about 4 o'clock by the
night patrolman on the beat. who
suspected that something was wrong
by the absence of the light in tho
Prudential.
If successful. the haul would have
been an unusually heavy one, as
the bank had a large amount in its
vaults, specie for the payment on a
Government contract.
‘In recognition of his services, the
heroic old man was the talk of the
town today.
Old lllark Jenks, swatl-led in ban-
dages. dropped the copy or the Herald
rolled slowly down his wrink face.
"Lord-be merciful-to me-a sinner!”
he muttered thickly.
land your only male offspring. in particu-
a
ow whad” Mac asked. relighting his
which had gone out from neglect.
ell, I'm no cia List when it
comes to literature. The 'i'rainmen's
Magazine is about as tar as I get in my
reading. with an occasional squint at
one of .lilacnamee's editorials in The
EnEinernen's Journal. and I'll whisper it
pi Eye
there was such 3 thing as The National
Engineering Review. Hardin J. sent me
3-‘ couple or copies and I looked at the
pictures and let them lay round‘ here
“l1lll‘:h'e maid put them away. Do you
I I.
“You cknow I don't. I'm too busy to
read much."
“That's the trouble with you: you're
so busy you don't have time to live.
not Yet graduated Irom a
university. was held to be one of the ht-st
authorities in the. land sbutments
‘ “'hy. Mac. when
a. cantilever was-sounded as
it it might be something like a centipede
-and then I sent him money enough to
buy another bulldog.“ r , ‘
"But tbere’s :1 lot of rliflerence between
lnarn
or set a flshplnte by reading in a book!"
“And Hardin J. isn't going (0 drive
spikes: he's going to use his brain, not
manager
kept up with all that sort. of junl-t and,
CURES ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER.
‘ Any reader who suffers irom Asthma
and Hay Fever can be quickly cured
without risking a penny through the re-
markable discovery of C. Leavengood,
1558 S. W. Blvd. Rosedale, Kansas.
Don't send a penny-just write Mr.
Lesveugood and he will send you a big
bottle of his prescription on 10 days‘
Free trial. It it cures pay $1.25. Other-
wise you owe nothing.-Adv.
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Dr. E. E. Paddock. Specialist. Knnsls City.
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besides. you were so husy I didn't want
"That's enough!" Mac interrupted.
“That tuoy‘s got to make good on that
job if We have to help him."
“He’ll make good it we just no on
minding our own- business
“Maybe sol" Mac exclaimed as he
knocked the ashes Irom his pipe. "It's
a. whale of a. Job. It's up to you to watch
him. 'i‘hat‘s your big job, now. Just
watch him aud it he hits a snag we'll
see him thru ii’ we have to hire all the
engineers on both sides of the big pond.
Iiishoifs never going to have a chance
‘to fire 2. son ot mine because he fell down
on a . . I
“How can I watch him when he‘: go-
n to be out in the Frisco Valley and
I have to be here to take careiof the
general manager of the Continental?
can " - -
l
t lac interrupted.
“That's Barbers country and maybe you
D you Dusted."
reminds me. have you seen Bar-
her in the last twenty-four hours?”
w s in the office this afternoon
looking for you. Said he’d be in again
tomorrow mornin ."
"Tomorrow morning or this morning?"
I asked as I shuffled over to the bed.
lilac looked at his watch as he moved
toward the door '
“Great balls of red lire!" he exclaimed.
"I didn’t know it was that late. This
morning‘. Good night."
"Good night this morning." I repeated
and as lilac closed the door I switched
off the lights and prepared for a last run
on the sleep special and (or once I didn't
care how soon I arrived at daybreak be-
cause two people. Billy Barber and Bura.
leen. evidently wanted to see ine and. to
use a phrase to which Pat seems partial.
t was a case of reciprocal aflectiorh
. CHAPTER. XI.
HE general manager and I went to
. work. perhaps. in the interest of ac-
curacy I should say we went to the omce
together. that mornlnit. Mac drove the
roadster and we lasted along trying to
get a reserve supply oi’ fresh air for the
arduous vicissitudes of the immediate
future. as Pat might express it. We
rode in silence because conversation is
almost fatal to liIac's driving. he is so
prone to let go at the Wheel in order to
gestlculate. -
I improved the opportunity to go over
my switch list and get a line on what I
wanted to do during the day. 1-‘irst out
on that mental list I put an interview
with Mac‘: private secretaryu Miss Mar-
n.
Besides being an expert stenographer.
Miss Martin was an exceptionally eihclent
She wasted no energy on chew-
She was fat and 41) and
didn't care who knew it and when you
get one like that you've got a Jewel, as
every business man knows.
It the clock said 8:30 and llllss lilartin
wasn't in the cities and on the Job you
could gamble that the clock was wrong.
e wasn't the last person to leave the
sh owed me an analogy.
idolized lilac and she tolerated me and.
taken all in all, she wasn't a. bad sort
to have near when you wanted something
e and done right.
She was on the job when I went in
and knowing that her time was valuable
if mine wusn’t. I didn't waste any or it
nnecessary introductions to the real
d her run lhru her note-
persons to whomjllac had written let-
: We reviewed his correspondence
(or a week back. including the one to
Mr. llornbeck. Mac's personal attorney
of jail but to take care of his Continental
holdings, our mine investment and three
or (our minor gamble: we had taken.
including a real estate development in
which we hoped to pick up some oi that
unearned increment.
It was the letter to Ilornbeck, sending
holdings. which led lilac to discover he
had no stock certiilcate to send.
The last letter Miss Martin had
her book for that day was one addressed
to Mrs. Laura Thompson.
“That is lust in personal note Mrs. Mc-
Kearney dictated to me, Miss Martin
expla ne .
"Sending railroad tickets and asking
Laura to come East for I vislt'."' I asked
Just to show Miss Martin that I was
Pretty well advised on what the family
was doing. “Did you mail that letter?"
“No, Mrs. Mcitearney waited while I
wrote and sigilhd it with Mr‘
Mcxearners her stamps
and she said she would drop the letter
the mail chute as she went o the
elevator. as she wanted to be sure the
le er’ got out on the evening train.”
“Any chance that Mrs ac put that
stock certlilcate in that letter instead or
the tickets?"
Miss liiartin chuckled in a fashion
that left me no conclusion other than
that she didn't think well 0! my ability
as a detective.
‘No chance in this world!“
"Or course not." I agreed. "Kate
doesn't do such things. She's one woman
who knows just what she's doing all the
time." .
I permitted liisslilartln to get back
and I went
and fancy thinking. 0! the letters lillss
Martin read. to me. but two called for
check inclosures: one of them was to
the grocer and it made me wonder how
Mac could eat so much and not be nutter-
ing from indigestion every day o his
The other letter was to a publish-
compsny; probably 3 printing bill
‘(or some of at’: literature for the Peo-
ple's Forum.
Mac was going thru a die of corre-
pondence in which our division superin-
tendents were trying to explain why the
tonnage record for the lirst six months
of the year showed a. decrease in the
average per train. when I intruded:
"Got your checkbook handy?‘ I asked.
Ho wung around in his chair and
wanted to know how much I wanted and
why and, it not, why not.
‘Tm not broke." I hastened to assure
“lily bank balance. two we
FE
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But Just take a squint at your stubs."
"You sent the Acme Grocery Company
check the hrs: of the Week. didn't
lii' , thumbed over the stubs and then
. What was wrong with it?"
"Nothing. at .ali, as tar .
What other checks did you write that
day’
2:.
'. on
“The day before?" I asked.
deposit
Swetzer’s just to hurry them up on the
two suits they are making for me."
"And the day alter the day you paid
the Izrocer?"
‘- "None," he replied after turning sev-
eral stubs. "What's the matter with
you, Jackson: think I'm running an-
other establishment some place.“
“ ' t you pay a printini hill the day
you paid the grocer?" ‘
"Printing bill?" he questioned.
I haven't had any printing done."
"But you wrote a letter to the Shirley
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