La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 13, 1915, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1915. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PAGE TWO 1 EJPhlps SHowh'at the Arcade theatre on 5 Wednesdays' . CHAPTER IV. - There seemed to be nothing at all original In the methods pursued by the great criminologist when con fronted with this tableau of death and robbery. His remarks to the inspec tor were few and perfunctory. ' He ashed only a few languid questions of Macdougal and Lenora, who were summoned to his presence. Macdougal then turned to leave the room. , Lenora was about to follow, but Quest signed to her to remain. "I should like to have a little con versation with you about your mis tress." he said to her pleasantly. "If you don't mind. I will ask you to a company me in my car., I will send the man back with you." They descended in the lift together - and Quest handed the girl into his car. They drove quickly through the silent streets. In a few minutes Lenora was In stalled In an easy chair in Quest's sitting-room. "Lean back arid mako yourself com fortable," Quest Invited, as he took a chair opposite to her. "I must just look through these papers." The girl did as she was told. She opened her coat. The room was de IlKhtfullv warm, almost overheated. A sense of rest crept over her. She was conscious that Quest had laid down the letters which he had been pre tending to read. His eyes were fixed upon her. Them was a queer new look In them, 'a strange new feeling creeping through her veins. Quest's voice broke an unnatural Hence. ' "You are anxious to telephone some one," he said. "You looked at both the booths as we came through the hotel. Then you remembered, I think, that he would not be there yet. Tele phone now. The telephone is at your right hand. . You know the number." She obeyed almost at once. "Number 700, New York, city." "You will ask," Quest continued, "whether he Is all right whether the jewels are safe." There was a brief silence then the girl's voice. j "Are you there, James? . . . Yes, I am Lenora. Are you sate? Have you the jewels? ... Where? . . . You are sure that you- aro safe? . . . No, nothing fresh has happened." . "You are at the hotel," Quest snld softly. "You are going to him." - "I cannot sleep," she continued. "I am coming to you." She set down the receiver. . Quest leaned a little more closely over her. . "You know where the jewels are hidden," he said. "Tell me where?" Her Hps quivered. She made no an swer. "Verji good," Quest concluded. "You need not tell me. Only remember this: At nine o'clock tomorrow morning you will bring those Jewels to this apart ment. . . . Rest quietly now. I want you to go to sleep." . She obeyed without hesitation. Quest watched, for a moment, her regular breathing. Then he touched a bell by his Bide. Laura entered al most at once. , Together Ihey carried the slopping Kir' out of the room into a larger apartment. A single electric light was burning on the 'op of a square'mirro, fixed upon an easel. Towards tW they carried tho girl and loid her In at easy chair almost opposite to It. . "The battery is Just on the icft,''' Laura whispered. ' Quest nodded. , . "Give me the bond." She turned away for a moment and disappeared In the shadows. When she returned, sho carried a curved band of flexible steel. Quest took It from her, attached It by means of a coll ol wire to the battery, and with firm, soft fingers slipped It on to Lenora's forehead. Then he Btcpped ' back. "She's a ' subject, Laura I'm sure of it! Now for our great experiment!" i GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY Retail Dept. Phone Main 8 JUKM. and Thursdays They watched Lenora Intently. "Lenora," Quest said, slowly and firmly, "your mind is full of one sub ject. You see your mistress in her chair by the fireside. She is toying with her diamonds. Look again. She lies there dead! Who was it entered the room, Lenora? Look! Look! Gaze Into that mirror. What do you see there?" . . The girl's eyes bad opened. They were fixed now upon the mirror dis tended, full of unholy things. "Try harder, Lenora," he muttered, his own breath laboring. "It is there in your brain! Look!" . ' . For a single second the smooth sur face of the mirror was obscured. A room crept dimly like a picture into being, a fire upon the hearth, a girl leaning back in her chair. A door in the background opened. A man stole out. He crept nearer to tho girl his eyes fixed upon the diamonds, a thin, silken cord twisted round his wrist. Suddenly she saw him too late! His hand was upon her lips, his face seemed to stmt almost from the mirror then blackness! -. . . j Lenora opened her eyes. She was - still In the easy-chair before the fire, . "Mr. Quest!" she faltered. . He looked up from some letters which he had been studying. "I am so sorry," he said politely. "1 really had forgotten that you were here: But you know that you have been to sleep?" "Can I go now?" she asked. "Certainly," Quest replied. "To tell you the truth, I find that I shall not need to ask you those questions, after all. A messenger from the police sta tion has been here. He says they have come to the conclusion- that a very well-known gang of New York criminals are in this thing. We know how to track them down all right." - "I may go now, then?" she repeated, with immense relief. Quest escorted the girl downstairs, opened the front door, blew his whis tle and his car pulled up at the door'. . "Take this young lady," he ordered, "wherever she wishes. Good-night!" The girl drove off. Quest watched the car disappear around the corner. Then he turned slowly and made prep arations for his adventure. ... "Number 700, New York," he mut tered, hulf an hour later, as he left his house. "Heyond Fourteenth street a lough neighborhood." He hesitated for a moment, feeling the articles In his overcoat pocket a revolver in one, a Bmall piece of hard substance In the other. Then he stepped into his car, which bad just returned. I ' "Where did you leave the young j lady?" he' asked the chauffeur. "In Broadway, Blr. She left me and ' boarded a cross-town car." Quest nodded approvingly. "No finesse," he sighed. CHAPTER V. Sanford Quest was naturally a per son unaffected by presentiments or nervous fears of any sort, yet, having advanced a couple of yards along the hallway of the house which .he hafl just entered without difficulty, he came to a standstill, oppressed with the sense of impending danger, - "Anyono here?" he asked, raising his voice. There was no direct response, yet from somewhere upstairs he heard the half-smothered cry of a woman. He gripped his revolver in his fingers. He took a quick step forward. The floor gave wav beneath him. Ho was full ing into blackness. . . , The fall Itself was scarcely a dozen foot. He picked himself up, his shoul der bruised, his head swimming a lit tle. Suddenly n gleam ol light shone down. A trap-door above his head was slid a few inches back. The flare ol an electric torch shone upon his face, a man's voice addressed him. "Not the great Sanford Quest? This rurely cannot be the greatest detec- THE VERY BEST PLANS will not result in a good house it the quality of the needed lum ber is neglected. - Flooring for ' instance should be selected with special care. If we have the or der you'll get flooring that will , match perfectly, iwll not warp or shrink and will wear for years. tlve In the world walking to easily 1- to the splder'a web!" '-- "Any chance ot getting out?" Quest asked laconically. r. . A "None!";, waa the bitter reply. "You've done enough mischief. You're there to rot!" - a "Why this animus against me, my friend Macdougal?" Quest demanded. "You and I have never - come up against one another before. 1 didn't like the life -you led in New York ten yearB ago, or your friends, but you've suffered nothing through me." ' .; "If 1 let you .go,", once more came tire man's voice, "I know very well In what chair I shall be sitting before , a mouth has passed, t am James Mac-1 dougal, Mr. Sanford Quest, and I have j got the Ashlelgh diamonds, and I have settled an old grudge, If riot of my own, of one greater than you. .That's all. A pleasant night to you!" The door went down with a bang. . ."A perfect oubliette," he remarked to himself, as he held a match over his head a moment or two later, "built for.the purpose. It must be the house we failed to find which BUI Taylor used to keep before he was shot Smooth brick walls, smooth brick floor, only exit twelve feet above one's head. Human means, apparently, are useless.. Science, you have been my mistress all my days. You must save my life now or lose an earnest disciple." Quest felt In hfs overcoat pocket and drew out the small, hard pellet. j He gripped it In his fingers, stood I as nearly as possible underneath the I spot from which he bad been project ed, coolly swung his arm back, and flung the ' black pebble against the . sliding door. The explosion which fol lowed shook the very ground under his feet. For minutes afterwards everything around him seemed to reck. Then Sanford Quest emerged, dusty but unhurt, and touched a con stable on his arm. "Arrest me," he ordered. "Iam San ford Quest. I must be taken at once to headquarters." They found a cab without much dif ficulty. It was five o'clock when they reached the . central police station. Inspector French happened to be just going off duty. He recognized Quest with a little exclamation. "Got your man to bring me here," Quest explained "so as to get away from the mob." "Say, you've been in trouble!" the Inspector remarked, leading the way into his room. "Bit of an explosion, that's all," Quest replied. "I shall be all right when you've lent me a clothesbrush." "The Ashlelgh diamonds, eh?", the inspector asked eagerly. "I shall have them at nine o'clock this morning," Sanford Quest prom ised, "and hand you over the mur derer somewhere around midnight." --".- -. -. ' i Quest slept for a couple of hours, had a bath and made a leisurely toilet. At a quarter to nine he sat down to breakfast in his rooms. - "At nine o'clock," he told his serv ant, "a young lady will call. Bring her up." . The door was suddenly opened. Le nora walked in. Quest glanced In sur prise at. the clock. "My fault!" he exclaimed. "We are slow. Good-morning, Miss Lenora!" Sho came straight to the table. She laid a little packet upon the table. Quest opened it coolly.. The Ashlelgh diamonds flashed up at him. He led Lenora to a chair and rang a bell. Prepare a bedroom upstairs," he ordered. "Ask Miss Roche to come here. ... Laura," he added, as his secretary entered, "will you look after this young lady?" A few minutes later Inspector French was -announced. Quest nodded In a friendly manner. "Some coffee. Inspector?" "I'd rather have those diamonds!" Quest threw them lightly across the table. The Inspector whistled. "And now, French, will you be here, please, at midnight, with three men, armed?" - "Here?" the Inspector repeated. Quest nodded. "Our friend." he said, "la going to be mad enough to walk into hell, even, when he finds out what . he thinks has happened." "It wasn't any ot. Jimmy's lot?" Sanford Quest shook his head. "French," he snld. "keep mum, but It was the elderly family letainer, Mac dougal, l reit . restless about him. He has loBt the girl he was married to hei, by the bye and the jewels. No fear of his slipping away. 1 shall have him here at the time I told you." : ; V "You've a way of your own of doing these things, Mr. Quest," the Inspec tor admitted grudgingly. '. ' . "Mostly lucky," Quest replied. "Take a cigar, and so long, Inspector. They want me to talk to Chicago on an other little piece of business." .... It was a few minutes before mid night when Quest parted the curtains of a room on the ground floor of his house in Georgia square and looked out into the snow-white street Then he turned around and addressed the figure lying as though asleep upon the sofa by the fire. "Lenora," he said, "I am going out. Stay here, If you please, until I re turn." 5 i He left the room. For a few mo ments there was a profound silence. Then a white face was pressed against the window. There was a crash of glass. A man covered with snow sprang Into the apartment. He moved swiftly to the sofa, and something black and ugly swayed in his hand. "So vou've deceived me, have you?" he panted. "Handed over the Jewels, chucked me, and given me the double cross!- Anything to aayT" .-; . Macdougal leaned forward, his white face distorted with passion. The life-preserver bent and quivered be hind him, out the air with a swish and crashed full upon the head. The man staggered back. The weapon fell from his fingers. For a moment he was paralysed. There was no blood upon his , hand, no cry silence Inhuman, unnatural! He looked again. Then the lights flashed out all around him. There were two detectives In the doorway, their re volvers covering him Sanford Quest, with Lenora In the background. In the sudden Illumination Macdougal's horror turned almost to hysterical rage. He had wasted his fury upon a dummy! - "Take him, men," Quest ordered. "Hands up, Macdougal. Your number's UP." . ;' . ..- J:.., ';V' - The handcuffs were upon him. be fore he could move. "What about the young woman?" . the Inspector asked. V Lenora stood In an attitude of de spair, her head downcast. She bad turned a little away from Macdougal. Her bands were outstretched. It was as. though she were expecting the handcuffs; . . - "You can let her alone," Sanford Quest said quietly. "A wife cannot give evidence against her husband, and besides, J need her, She is going to worn ror me."; . Macdougal was already at the door, between the two detectives. He swung around. His voice was calm, almost clear calm with concentration of hatred. "You are a wonderful man, Mr. Sanford Quest," he said. "Make the most of your triumph. Your time is nearly up, there Is one coming whose wit and cunning, science and skill are all-conquering. He will brush you omiiuiu vuesi, use a ny. wait a few weeks." "You . interest me," Quest mur mured. "Tell me some more about this great master?" "I shall tell you nothing,' Macdoug al replied. "You will hear nothinir. you will know nothing. Suddenly you will find yourself opposed. You will struggle and then the end. It Is cer tain." . ..." . They led him away. Only Lenora remained, sobbing. Quest went up to her. 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