AEEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MKDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1910.
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Through the Wall
By CLEVELAND MOFFETT
Copyright, 1905, by D. Appleton & Co.
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CUAPTEU XXI.
THE LOST DOLLT.
VB been bo frightened," Alico
Bald to him. "The man said
you wanted mo, and 1 came
at once, but In tbo nutoaio-
bllc.T I felt oomcthlng was wrons, and
you'know ho la outside?"
"Docs Pougeot know about this?"
She shook her head. "The man camo
for M. Pougeot flrst They went off
together. I'm afraid It was a trick.
Then about twenty minutes later the
same man camo back and said M. Pou
geot was with you and that ho had
been sent to bring mo to you. no
showed me your ring and"
"Yes. yes, I understand," Interrupted
Coquenll. "My poor child V ho mut
tered: Taking the candle. Coquenll
Went through the arched opening Into
the larger chamber and made a bur
rlcd Inspection. The room was about
fifteen feet square and ten feet high,
iritu everything of stone walls, floor
and arched celling. Save for tbo pas
sage into tho smaller room there was
bo sign of an opening anywhere ex
cept two small square holes near the
celling, probably ventilating shafts.
Around tho four walls were logs
piled evenly to the height of nearly
lz feet, and at the archway the pile
ran straight through Into the smaller
room. The logs were In two foot
lengths, and as the archway was about
four feet wide tho passage between
"tae two rooms was half blocked with
wood.
Coquenll walked slowly around tho
chamber, peering carefully Into cracks
between the logs, as if searching for
something. As bo went on be held tbo
candle lower and lower and presently
cot down npon his hands and knees
ad crept along the base of the pile.
"What are you doing?" asked Alice,
watching him In wonder from the arch
way. Without replying, the detective rose
to his feet and. holding the cnndlo high
above his head, examined the walls
abovo the wood pile. Then he reached
op and scraped the stones with bis
finger nails in several places and then
held his Angers close to the candle
light and looked at them and smelled
them. His fingers were black with
soot
"if. Paul, won't you speak to me?"
begged the girl.
"Just a minute, just a minute." he
answered absently. Then he spoke
with quick decision, "I'm going to set
you to work." he said. "By the way,
have you any Idea where we are?"
She looked at him in surprise. "Why,
on't you know?"
"I think wo are on the Rue de Va
rennes a big hotel back of the high
wall."
"That's right," she said.
"Ah. he didn't take me nwayl" re
flected M. Paul. "That Is something.
Pougeot will scent danger and will
move heaven and earth to save us.
lie will get Tlguol, aud Tignol knows
I was here. But can they find us 7"
Suddenly he said to the girl: "1 may
s well tell you our lives aro In dan
cer. He's going to set firo to this
wood and"
"Oh!" she cried, her eyes starting
with terror.
"See here," ho said sharply. "You've
sot to help mo. Wo havo a chance
yet Tho Are will start in this big
chamber, and I want to cut It oft by
blocking the passageway. Let's Bee!"
Be searched through bis pockets. "Ho
has taken my knife. Ah, this will do!"
And, lifting n plato from the table,
he broke it against tho wall. "There!
Take one of these pieces and see if
you can saw through the rope. Use
the Jagged edge like this. That cuts
it Try over there."
Alico fell to work eagerly, and in a
few moments they bad freed a section
of tho wood piled In tbo smaller cham
ber from the restraining ropes and
stakes.
"Sow, then." directed Coquenll, "you
carry tho log's to me, and I'll make a
barricade In the passageway."
Tho word passageway Is somowhat
misleading. There was really a dis
tance of only three feet between tho
two chambers, this being tbo thickness
of tho massive stono wall that sep
arated them, naif of this opening
was already filled by tho wood pile, und
Coquenll proceeded to fill up the other
half, laying logs on tho floor length,
wlso in 'the open part of the passage
from chamber to chamber and then
laying other logs on top of these, and
so on as rapidly as the girl brought
Wood.
They worked with all speed. Soon
the passageway was solidly walled
with closely fitted logs to tho height of
six feet Abovo this, In tbo arched
part, Coquenll worked more slowly,
selecting logs of such sbapo and size
as would fill tbo curve with tho fewest
number of cracks between them.
Thcro was danger In cracks between
tho obstructing logs, for cracks meant
a draft, and u draft meant the spread
ing of the flro.
"Now," said M. Paul, surveying the
blockod passageway, "that Is tho best
wo can do with wood. Wo raustBtop
these cracks with something else.
What did you wear?" Ho glanced at
fiat with a white veil aud a black vel
vet ribbon. Tear off tho rlbbou and
wo can't statul on ceremony. Hero aro
my coat and vest. Rip them Into strips
and Groat Godl There's tho smoko
now!"
As he spoke n thin grayish feather
curled out between two of tho upper
logs nud floated nway; another came
below it. Somewhere Do Ueldclmaun
Brack had pressed an electric button,
and under the logs deadly 6parks had
jumped In the waiting tinder. They
were prisoners in a huge, slowly heat
ing oven stacked with tons of dry
wood.
"We must stop this," he cried, and,
tearing the shirt from his shoulders,
ho ripped It into fragments and wedg
ed theso tight between tho logs.
"Wo must have more cloth," he said
gravely. "It's our only chance, llttlo
friend. I'll put out the candle! There!
Let mo have whatever you can and
bo quick!"
Again ho worked with frantic baste,
stuUlng in the last shreds and rags
that could bo spared from their bodies
whenever a dull glow from the other
Bide revealed a crock in the barricade.
"There," bo panted; "that's tho best
wo can do! Now it's up to Godl I be
lieve wo havo stopped tho draft," ho
said after a moment
Suddenly a faint sound broke, tho
Btlllness, and the detective started vio
lently. It was a low, humming sound
that presently grew stronger and then
Bang on steadily like n buzzing wheel.
Ho moved about in perplexity. It
seemed to him that be felt a current
of air.
"Alice, come here!" ho called. "Stand
where I am. That's right Now put
out your hand. Do you feel anything?"
"I feel a draft," she said.
As she spoke tho bumming sound
strengthened, and with it tho draft
blew stronger.
"Merciful God." cried Coquenll in a
flash of understanding, "It's a blower!"
M. Paul turned his face upward and
listened attentively. "No doubt of it!
It's sucking through an air shaft up
there in the celling."
"I I don't understand."
"He's forcing a draft from that room
to this one. He has started a blower,
I tell you, and"
"What Is a blower?" put In Alice.
At her frightened tone Coquenll
calmed himself and answered gently:
"It's like a big electric fan. It's draw
ing nir out of this room very fast with
a suction, and I'm afraid unless"
Just then there camo a sharp pop.
followed by a hissing noise, as If some
one were breathing In nlr through shut
teeth. "The blower has sucked out
one of our cloth plugs. There goes an
other!" bo said as the popping sound
was repeated. "And another! It's all
off with our barricade, little girl."
"The Are may come through a lit
tle," he told her comfortingly, "but I
-I'll fix it so you will be all right
Come! Wo'll build another barricade.
You know wood Is a bad conductor
of heat and If you have wood all
about you and over you, why, tho
Are can't burn you."
"Oh!" said Alice.
"We'll go over to this door as far
from the passageway as we can get
Now bring me logs from that side
pile. That's right"
Most of the smoko at flrst was
borne upward by tho blower's suction,
and Alico was able to help Coquenll
with tho new barricade. They built
this directly in front of the Iron door
with only space enough between it
and tho door to allow them to crouch
behind it They made it nbout Ave feet
long and three feet high.
"LIo down there." ho directed.
"Stretch right out behind the logs and
keep your mouth closo to the floor and
as near as you can to the crack under
tho door. You'll havo plenty of cool,
sweet air. Now I'll flx a roof over
this thing. Just shut your eyes and
rest Understand, llttlo friend?"
"Ye-cs," faintly.
HOOD RIVER WOMAN
WOULDN'T TELL AGE
Coy Maiden Refused to Answer Con
sus Enumerator, So Warrant Is
Sworn Out for Her Arrest.
PORTLAND, Or., Miiy 20. Hiss
Mnbcl Lnko of Hood Itfvor, Or., was
brought to Portland today for ire
Htmnnry examination on i warrant
issued last night on complaint of C.
E. Mnrkhnm, n census enumerator,
who alleged that Miss Lnko refused
to tell her ago to tho census enumer
ators. The warrant wns issued by United
States ConmrisMoncr Marsh only af
ter ho had received strongest assur
ances that tho census officials had
exhausted every other possible means
to persuade the woman to tell her
age.
Tho official counter reported tlitit
ho had tried flattery, cnjollory and
other different menus of persuasion
before he nsked for a wnrrant.
Miss Lnko is the first woman in
Oregon for whom n wnrrant has been
sworn out by the census officials.
Not a house, nor nn apartment, in
this city ought to bo tonnntless un
less It's a poor placo to livo! Then,
oven a want ad-campaign ought not
to succeed In ronting it.
CRAP BONES, RAZORS
AND CHICKENS STOLEN
Ncoroes Rob General Store, Taklnn
Gaudy Shirts, Banjoes and Water
melon Seeds.
Raskins for Health.
KUGBY, Colo., May 20. One or
111010 negroes robbed tbo gcnorul
store here in tho night, if tho deduc
tions today of local emulators of
Sherlock Holmes provo correct, Tho
burglnrs loft no telltale footprints,
no fingermarks in fact, thoy left
nothing. That thoy aro negroes is
suspected from the things that thoy
stole.
A dorou of chickens, probnbly with
nocks duly wrung; several gundy
shirts nud neckties: nnontiro tray of
"crap bones"; all the razors? in stock,
n dozen packages of wntoruiolon
seeds ntul two banjoes.
This nrrny of missing articles put
tho country dotootives on tho scent,
but their deductions woro clinched
when they enmu upon n mutilated und
torn picture of James J. Jeffries,
while besido it wns a bnro space of
wall where formerly hung a picture
of Jack Johnson.
An employo with only lnH a mind
for your work should bo n constant
-omluder of want advo-tlslng's use
fulness to employers.
Canton
RESTAURANT
SAM LOCK, Prop.
The former famous eliuf at the
Nash Grill, Mr, Sam Lock, has
opened n first-olnHB restaurant
abovo Kennedy's saloon, No. i'i
South Front street. Kutrauco at
both hUIos. Only firt-t-olnHH meals
served, nud just tho' iiamo of tho
proprietor is tho host guarautoo.
OPEN EVERY DAY AND NIGHT.
NOODLES, CHOP SUEY.
This is tho only place whoro will
bo served chop suoy and China nood
lou. Como mid boo mo nud you and
I nro both auro you will uomo bnuk.
lloniombor, I ntu willing nud I preach
what I promise You in truly,
HAM LOCK.
DRIVERS that know the country
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
Notice is horoby given that tho
annual meeting of stockholders of tbo
Pacific and Eastern Railway will bo
held at the office of tho company,
In Medford, Oregon, on Monday, Juno
G, 1910, at 10 o'clock a. m.
By order of tho President.
O. P. HUMPHREY,
Secretary.
J. E. ENYART, President
JOHN S. ORTH, Cashier.
J. A. PERRY, Vico-Prcsident.
W. B. JACKSON, Ass't Cashier.
The Medford National Bank
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Surplus, $10,000
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the chair whoro Alice had thrown her
Ihlnira... "A whlto cloak and a straw ling May 30.
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MEET.
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for round trip, points Roseburg to
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