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TAGK TWO OtniT-OAPITAI. . JQl'KXAL,-. BAJL&I. . ORE GO 5, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1911. fAlias Jimmy I Valentine" f Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play by PAUL ARMSTRONG X Copyright 1910. by American Preu X Allocution A SYNOPSIS. Warden Handler of Sin; Bint? prlaon and Detective George Doyle emivavor to prevail on Bill Avery, a released prisoner, to search out Information against a for mer "pal," a young convict known ia Jimmy Valentine. Avery refuses, and Doyle and Handler threaten to attacK him. Valentine had a trlcK of opening safes solely by the sense of touch. Avery goes. Lieutenant Governor Fay, bis beautiful niece. Rose Lane, and two women workers In a rescue mission visa the prison. Warden Handler hears Rose Lane tell how she was rescued from a thief on a train, and he Is amazed at a coincidence. Convict Jimmy Valentine. No. vast. Is brought Into the warden's office to open a safe as an object lesson to the visitors, and Rose recognizes him as the man who saved her from the thief Cotton. Valentine says he can't open the safe, enraging Handler. The lieutenant gover nor and Rose talk with Valentine. Rose pleads with Fay to aid the young prison er, who Is handsome even in Sing tilng garb. Fay promises for Rose's sake to ask the governor to pardon Valentine. A stormy Interview occurs between Handler and Valentine. Valentine waits patiently In prison for news. Finally he 1b pardoned and goes to Albany to thank the governor, Lieutenant Governor Fay and Rose. Valentine refuses positions offered by the rescue mission workers. To his amaze ment, he meets BUI Avery and a former coworker, Red Flanagan. Red and Avery try to dissuade Jimmy from "going square." Detective Doyle ap pears, and Red and Avery hide. Doyle wants Valentine to tell him where Avery Is, for he wants to rearrest him. Valen tine refuse, Doyle departs, threatening to send Val entine back to Sing Sing prison. Avery now tries to kill Valentine. Valentine finally agrees to "go It crook ed" again, but a note from Rose brings him back to his former determination to be honest "In spite of the coppers." Rose persuades her father to give Val entine a position In his bank In Spring field, 111. He and Red go to work In the bank. For several years Valentine works ex cellently and rises to be assistant cashier. He and Rose love each other, but Valen tine knows Doyle Is on his track and dares not tell her of his affection for her. A mysterious Mr. Cronln turns out to be eld Bill Avery, now reformed and a man of business. TaleHtlne receives a telegram from Doyle. He tells Red how he has planned to outwit the detective by means of a cleverly concocted alibi. Rose Lane tells Valentine she loves him and that they are going to marry. Val entine reveals to her his love for her. Doyle appears on the scene to arrest Val entine on a charge of robbing a Massa chusetts bank many years before. Doyle Is astounded when Valentine an nounces that he was never In Sing Sing or In Massachusetts In his life and that his name Is Lee Randall. Doyle Is finally convinced by a sensa tional ruse employed , by Valentine that Valentine la not Valentine after all. "I'll land him if it takes a lifetime," he says, "Tfltty," Rose's little slateTTTiecomea' acci dentally locked In a new vault In the bank. Red Flanagan rushes In to "Ran dall's" office, crying, "Jimmy. Jimmy!" Doyle recognizes Red and realizes that Randall Is really Jimmy Valentine. CHAPTEH XVII. 11 FTEIt a few moments Valentine shook bis boud mijrrtly and drew back a xtep from thf snfe. "Red. K"t a handkerchief?" he flip ped. "Yes." "Well, pet movtr.jr. Come on lillnc) fold me no that 1 rnn't see. s; t'mi every nerre v.lll he centered mi !r In: the tnmlilers click ymi Uinnv -t!:. old Clip " "Sure thine lied xcramlilrd to Ills I ret nnd his tlly lied H lmiKl!;erchl;-f llplnly nrm:m: Vnleniliie's Ismd. clli'letcly cuverlliu Ills eyes. Valentine stepped luick to ttip vault, und Hed crouched npaln at his feet. Deftlj. Intently, the ex-ceiivlct mn nlp;i!iited the liitrlente mechanism of the vnult. ' "Hurry, .llinmy. thul I; Id." urped Red. to whom the suspense wux be romlnir iiulicnralile. "D 11 you. he quiet: If you kiiv another wind I'll knock your head o!T my hands are llkp lentliei." n aptln s::nrtinperd Ills ftn?ers. "You're Needinsr!" exclaimed Pert. "Wlint of It?" returning to his tnsk. "Don't talk. I tell you. I heard It click I missed It acaln" tjrilnc the rotnlilnuatiuii slowly "but I fell It thnt time I felt the dc lift"-Valen-tiue was Intensely excited, "lied, there It is: Hurry with a mutch:" lied, well acquainted with the du ties required of blm, by reason of tin- thoroupb education he hud receiv ed from Valentine In the pnst. bud been waiting expectantly with a mutch ready for the 'striking. At the word bo illuminated the combination's dial with u tiny flame. "What is It?" cried Valentine. The other stretched himself upward and peered tit the numbers on the metal mrticer "It points to twenty-one!" he ex claimed. Valentine again drew away from the" vault. "Sandpaper!" he cried. lied handed him another sheet. He rubbed bis Bugers softly across it. His raw. bleed ing flesh could not stand more than the slightest contact with the rasping surface. "I'll feel every Jar clean to my eyeballs now," he added. He turn ed the dial back and then forward nnd then four complete reverse revolu tions. "That's the way to get them. Hed" two more forwurd revolutions "bare, bleeding nerves" a half turn back "raw, throbbing nerves a tooth ache In every finfier end eh. Red there match!" After a moment: "Fifty-two!" "How ninny bolts did this door have?" asked Valentine. "Did you notice?" He went on turning the dial. "Twelve." "Thought so," Jubilantly. "Can you hear her uny more. Red?" Red's ear wns pressed against the crack of the vault door. "No. And God knows I don't want to. Honest. Jimmy, I don't believe r- "Ou. yeB. you do. So long as she calls we know she's alive" turning the dial slowly back "here we are agnln. If this Is eleven I know this old rotation match!" Eleven!" shrieked Red Joyously after a moment of racking suspense. "I've got It! I've got It!" cried Val entine. "If this Is It. Red" reversing the dial ngain "she's ours in another minute. Mutch!" Red struck another match. "Tcu!" he cried. A half turn of the dial forward. Valentine's sharp ear detected the ound as though another bolt had drawn back. "Her we are again I Match!" 'Forty-two," exclaimed Red. "That's it-forty-two that's what It should be. Do yon hear Kitty nowT- "Ko. Good God, Jimmy., suppose, after all. she's dead?" Two more turns of the dial. "Keep your nerve, old pal there match" To George Doyle, standing In the doorway, the scene was one of grip ping interest. The consummate, al most uhcunny. skill of Jimmy Valen tine was something to cause In the de- thelr task. - - As Red struck the match at tb latest eomniund of Valentine Doyi. saw the girl beud forwurd ti bette. gain a view of the proceeding. Tli side of her face was ilUiuiiuetl b.v tb light In the assistant (ashler's oCU-i and could It be true?-yes. Doyle ivn positive that the form f the wltu.-s la the opposite doorway was noneotli er than that of the young girl nti. had seen Jimmy Valentine In Wanlei. Handler's office at Sing Sing and win had prevailed on the lleuteuuut gov ernor to obtain his release. Doyle's memory bad not betrayed tectlve. experienced even as he wns j him. It was Rose Lane. who. return Ing to her lover's otUce lu quest ol him. had opened the door of the vault room and had. Just us Doyle bad done, caught him "red handed." She moved forward a step, as though to speak, but her attention was attracted b.v Doyle, who moved slightly. She miw him put his fingers to his Hps. coun sellng silence. The girl therefore stood-mute, watching the muu sue fondly loved 'cop the gopher" In the bank that between them she and her father owned. "One." announced Red as the match flared Into a blue bright sulphurous gleam. "That's It! That's the old rotation!" cried Valentine enthusiastically. "Ten with resourceful and Intelligent cracksmen, n thrill of genuine adtnlra tlon. No wonder Valentine had proved the despair of the safe makers, the banking officials and the sleuths of half a dozen states. And a lieutenant governor bud pardoned blm As Doyle sun-eyed intently the op erations of Red Flanagan and Jimmy Vulentlne In Ihelr superhuman effort to rescue their beloved little playmate. Kitty Lane, from the stifling clutches of the steel vault he became aware ot a sudden though very slight change In the darkened room, the windows of which, opening Into a shuft. gave al most no aid at all to iuquisitive eyes. He glanced across the room to the point from which the light seemed to A (IIUMSH FIOl'IIEt APTEAUKD. come and saw that the door lendlnu from the asslslnnt cashier's nflice had been partly opened. Next, to his utter amazement, lie saw n plumed bai tlinisi fnrwnrd into the opening, anil then a girlish figure nppeiired. The figure Ii.mPkI mid turned Its face to ward the vault where Red Flanagan ind Jimmy Valentine were at work. In practically the same position a himself, though at the upHwlte, sli of the room. Doyle recognized tliaf 'iln girl could watch the operations of the two expert cracksmen without de tection unless either of them should neglect his work and glance In her direction, and. as he thoroughly ap preciated, both Valentine and Flnnn gan were too intent on their mission of rescue to turn for an Instunt from If I I MIR F And Building Special Prices M aterials Fruit and Packing iL-yvU'-VC Boxes of all ICir,H .Plaster Empire Brand Manufactured in Utah Pioe ewer Vitrified Salt Glazed Pipe the most sanitary and the most substantial on the market. Call at our office and let us vvpicwii me apcuai uncr wc are malting on tniS pipe. Estimates Furnished The Chas. fL Spaulding Logging Co. Office Front and Ferry - . . r Phone 1830 Is-1 i i p -J ' "BHB'S DEAD," HE CHOKED. off the first" turning the combina tion "then oue two and three' turning the dial on the reverse "then back. Match!" "Twenty-one!" was Ked's frenzied response. Valentine tossed his head back, tri umphantly. "Twenty-one. that's It!" he almost shrieked. "That's it. I've doue the trick!" Valentine tore the bnudnge from his eyes and, groping forward, gripped the handles of the vault doors iu bis bunds. He threw his weight back and tugged mightily. At Hrst the eight inch steel barrier refused to move. Ited. who had lunged to one side out of the way of bis superior, gnzed apprehensively, nt Valentine, fearing that after all there had been some mistake. Then, of a sudden, the crack In the black, sheer, forbidding face of the great safe widened.' and Valentine's body, tensely set. fell back as the pon derous door swung open. And os It did so a wee. white clud body, crouching' ngalnsr the heuvy door, rolled out on to the vuult room floor and lay limp und apparently life less before Ued Flanagan und Jimmy Valentine. "(let that kid." cried Valentine to Red. "She's out. but I think she'll live. She needs air and u doctor, quick!" With these words the ex convict, almost overcome by the ex citement and the nervous strain tin der which he had been laboring, lean ed exhausted!- ngulhst the cold steel waifs tif the vault. lied lurched forward, seized the mo tionless form of Kitty In his arms and clutched it to his breast. "She's dead." he chi'.;efl, looking down Itlto her white, drawn (ace. her closed eyes and the lips from which the blood had tied. "No: she'll be all rlgln in live min utes." Instructed Valentine wlih c much force as lie could muster. "T;;l;e lier to the doctor on tie corner." Red straightened and with his help less burden dashed through the door of the assistant cashier's room only to come face to face with Rose Lane, who. in an agonized Impulse, had drawn back Into the office, hardly knowing what to do. (Continued on Page 7, First Section) Home Manufactured . J1 How Our New Process Glazed CEMENT Sewer Pipe Is Made. J a Better Pipe Than Anything on the Market." 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