CHAPTER II. (oovt'hobd.]

•TTo'd mftk* « good deUctlr*,’* r#--plied the officer. "Well, I’ll tell yer whftt. I'll go up and »ort o' iize up Um koufte ftud keep wmteb, while you go end see the cap's. H the oftp'n think* there'* anything iu it, he'll

s man. Anyhow, y’u’d

hat I round

our name

give you some men. better tell him where

won't get fired (or not bei when Round* aome* along." "I'll *x that. What'* yo

and number?"

"Jim Sykes, Number 422." "All right. Look out (or the bent tree and tape," I aaid, a* I turned to

leare him.

I had not gone many step* when I heard the rattle ot a carriage. I called Sykes, and he oame plodding back to meet me. "Vftmt do you went .now!" "See if that carriage i* empty, will yon, I prefer riding to walking ju*t . “Yer right, yonng fellcr.'-^Teint no fun walking from here to headquarter* thi* time of night Hey there! Hey there, I tell yer!" "What yer want? I ain't no fief.” Thi* from the drirer o( the carriage, which by thi* time got opposite u*. "Hare yer got a passenger ?" “Naw. Don't want none. Goin' to

the stable."

"Not yet, Pete. Come here and drive this gentlemen to headquarter*.

See?”

"Sykesy, you make me tired!” grumbled "Pete,"a* he alowly turned the head* of his horse* toward the

curb.

I stepped into the carriage, and the tired horse* plodded away with me on my errand. Officer Sykes tramped up Bank street and waa soon lost in the

darkness.

By the aid of a match I looked at my watch. It was half-past two. In twenty minutes I was at pc headquarter*. A trarly doorman

mitted

I told h with th

A liurly i d demanded

anted to talk pri' r highest in come

Watson is in the office. Captain Watson was old veteran. He i

an ideal

imandf

"Captain

• a grim, gray

He seemed to me to be to hold watch and sway e of a great city in the

mysterious hour* of night. He greeted me cordially, and told me to sit down and tell him my story. I told him everything. I did not omit any of th* minor detail*. I talked rapidly, so ba would not get impatient, but I was determined he should see the importance of the occasion. I even

it She Chinaman flni

’*, an

The eaptian sat with half-shut eyes during this portion of my narrative, and seemed to take very little interest —if, indeed, he took any—in what I was telling him. I began to feel dis-

couraged.

.But when I began to describe the girl—which I did with a. minuteness of detail that surprised even myself— his manner changed perceptibly. His keen, cold eyes scrutinised my face as I talked, and aeemed to be rendering hie ears valuable assistance in in all I said. Whan I had finished and had told what I had dona to make it possible to identify the boose, and had told of my meeting with Officer Sykeft, the captain relapsed into his old attitude of apparent listlesaness.

ied to drop down into

d attitude of His head seemi

his i

1 to drop

shoulders, and his eyes, now nearly

him the appearance

of being very drowsy. I was Blunged into momentary despair. Surely. I thought, this kind of tragedy was not so common in San Francisco that the police shat their

eyes to it

' I had about made up my mind to say something, when the gnirlsd head began to separate iUelf from the cellar of the ooet into which it had sank. The keen eyes looked st me, through me, far past me. I saw that the paptain, instead of being indifferent, was in a deep study. He slewly unfolded bia six feet of length, and, going to a cabinet of drawers in one corner of the room, he took from s small closet a

photograph.

“We have showed this to so many w in Ike last twenty-four hours, ” he said, "and always without result, that I do not even hope foranceeea now. Still, your description cornea dangerously

near.”

He handed me the picture. My first glance at it sent a tmil of terroi through me. In my blihdnsaa I had stumbled upon a poUek mystery! A feeling of nausea cube over me. My braia, usually eoog seemed now to real. There was no doubt of it I bald in my baud the likeness of the

bom

a fool! Fool! To

laava that girl lb the mercy of that whelp of BatattI I could not speak for a moment. Recovering myself, with an effort, I handed beck the pic

tore and -calmly said:

"Captain, that is th* girl." If then had b**» occasion to find

1 in my baud the likeneaa of the I had just left in th* Chinaman's **. ' Oh, bow I cursed myself for •oil Fool! To com* away and

r«

fault with Captain Watson I tuition before, then tally to do so ci i if on. the m< endous battle. Ho touched

n his d

at of i 1 Ho t

batten in his desk that no doubt rang a bell in some other room. He rang

superintendent. A dozen policeman, armed with night-clubs, filed in, no donbt

>ons* to th*

rlectrie summons.

bint he*'

in response to

In a moment the reply ring the telephone. A harried eon took place between the cap

his chief.

find him yet * ice'll find him yet, or

•else I'm no prophet!" I had tuy suspicions Sykes, Bnt it is not alu plan to air yonr opinion!

that of th

looking any

The sergeant gave sundry orders to his men, under which they scattered themselves through the neighborhood. All patrolmen were to be asked if they had seen any one answering to the description of th* girl or the Chinaman. Bnt I had no hope in all the plane he projected. I felt a sense of Insecurity in the help of some of the police. I ( on knew that wa war* defeated,

consultation I accompanied the sergeant back to captain and | headquarters. In our absence the

Captain Watson, in as few enperinter dent bad arrived. He words a* possible, told my story againr beard the report of the sergeant in I did not hear the reply, bnt it waa amazement. Ha hastily wrote out s evidently decisive. The captain called message, rang a bell, and handed

i v- an officer who

Officer

Iways a good

n to air yonr opinions of certain >pla in certain places, so I held peace. Buttotlnsday the escape

" * Chinaman i« the greatest mystery

hole a flair. There was no use any further. The bouse waa

message, rang a bell, what he had written to a

responded.

"Send that dispatch to every port

on the coast," ha said.

“No. I made safe there. If you ; Then>* told me the pitiful story of

are going to stud thsre, I will go along the girl.

and lead the way." Her name wa* AnniejBaleton. Her

| (ether was one of th* wealthiest and most prominent men of California. His power and influence was felt in i politics, State and national. T .. I social position of th* family was . I the very highest. The homestead J was a fine large place at Oakland.

, tv., belle of her

sergeant aside and spoke in a low ! one. Then turning to me, he said: |

"There will be no diffl,oulty about udine the house, will there?''

“That will be better, pern*pa, a! though the location, ot course, ia a well known to the police as this coi

police

ner ia.”

"Of oomrse. But the houses look alike, and have no numbers,

will go." V

“Very well. Then, sergeant,

NEW

JERSEY STATE

NEWi

Latest Happealap Oleaaed From AH

Over the Stale.

Emil Batne. 14 .year', is in jail at boy i* charged with rifling a mail pooch which wa* *tolcn Iropi in front of the po»i office on Thursday last. The boy watched the conductor of a trolley cat place the mail *ack in front of the post office and then stole it before the post office clerk came oitt alter it He took it to a vacant lot on Throop avenue and rifled it of it* content* after cutting ••pen the sack. He took all Uu money hr^euld find in registered letter*. hut lef^ check* to the amount o' home in Ccdarvillc to seek his fortune in the West. The years went by and no tiding* came from him. and hi* lather and mother both suppo*ed him tc be dead. Monday they were overjoyed at receiving a letter front him. saying he was alive and well. The lettc'-! k c had previously sent came back to him. and he believed hi* parents to be He is now a prosperous farmer

■Ron.

Lower Alloway. rat a day or so

?Jo re ,

Farmer Johnson, of 1 who threshed hi* whe:

The anpenutendent will be here and , ^ ar f , tw , h VM t J (

. Annie was the — l oa . friends, which waa vary largs. was talented and brilliant. She

- “ "" ! “Lte .... o, I promised to retarn, and we went ; gome one was alwayi Near the. curb stood a patrol- J tinned there. He had drawn by a team of aplendid , a tor, and his stately hour The driver of my carriage ington had been noted fc

T , ! ago. eleven weeks after putting it in • 0 j ] the-barn, came across an old hen alive, that had been imprisoned all the time between the wheat and hay. There wa* little of the fowl but life, skin and a few feather*. The hen became a prisoner when the wheat wa' put in the

rle of

.She

out,

»»gon, horses.

bad.

. _ ington had b

ider my orders, waited for me. handed hospitality, iffleers had been chosen to sc- i n tU this Annie si

into it? rit. bi

rho barn, but is gainim

1M WM the I With proper t realm cm.

del festivity. • The Lebanon township poor home being enter- J?cated ?'» r ' he . >'*' . scl ' c,ed for * hc ace been Sec- St* 1 ' tnbcrculosi* sanitarium, wa' di-

6,0 '"''.SS'S'S'S

» w..i, j : lr "- , r , br

j household effects | loss :s ‘ partially c

c destroyed, ■ed by inf'

resplendent, J Temporary quarter' were secured for nplishmentr. the inmates until the bdilding can be onahad been rebuilt. A defsftive tile cau»ed the

company the sergeant. These got into ; fey -rit. beauty and accomplishment!, th# patrol-wagon. The sergeant and , Potentates of foreign nation*had been ! rebtt 1 seated ourselves in the carriage. glad to ait at her feet and worship j bla/.. "Drive first to the place where yon j her. Proposals of msrrisge bad been ] picked me up." I said to the driver. ma de to her by representatives

"I can direct you better from there." ; 0 f European nations, snd even ' 0 „„ We were soon clattering over the by titled noblemen of wealth. But to ! taking pan in the fight a: Snow Hill, pavements to the rescue. all thee* she turned s deaf ear. She Howard Bell U in the Pennsylvania Reaching Bank street, under my was an American. She loved America Hospual. Morn* admitted » ^ i tri? w | “ a *

H>iajl« Thu. »«. „ , hc p „ dic ,i„ n , „i ,h. Trenton *"<1 not the least doubt aa to its absolute Bristol Traction Company <h> not go truth. " ^ ' ! amis- The company has Koo men at Suddenly she was missed from her j work completing the inter-city line. Oakland home. She left no word— The roacMs pt " ""

no sign. There waa no reason tor her going. No whim of hers had ever been opposed. Bnt she was gone— utterly and completely. Her father snd her brother had visited the police it Oakland and San Francisco. It aed been discovered by the Oakland

police that

"Policeman

here.” I said,

walk.. —

Sykes must be right gazing along the aide-

rS^B^MT^dd^the sergeant. "Have ydfc teen anything!

"Not - *»»«—"

"ttttfc I Have y«t

'"'at a thing

this the

leant, poi rhich we

"Yea,"

house?" aaid the serto the one in front of

stood.

said Bykes. "There's the

id that trae.”

1 that

"Bing the bell." The officers had :

The offioers had followed ns, and we af unknown nationality—with a went np the stoop in a body. Sykes sicked pair of eyes and a livid soar on gave a tremendous pull at the bell, lb* right side of hit faoe had been There was no reply. seen is Oakland, had spent money "That fellow that brought me here freely, had been in the company of didn't ring; he rapped. Let me see if tevernl of the most worthies* charlean imitate it.” seters of the p)aoe and had disapI gave three quick raps and two alow peered again. It was further learned one*. We waited. Not a sound that a person answering somewhat to broke th* sUllnes* save the heavy 'he description of him, 1 ‘ : — *

ibst s person answering somewl he description of him, but weaz beard, boarded a train for Sgn Fransisqo th* night 'Annie Balaton was missing, with a woman who wasclose-

their strength in a I *7 T « iled *» d seemingly totally help-

the door, and the | !*** and vary iU.

Mora them. There the clew ended. No person

bad scan, them leave the train at Ban Francisco, nor at any other place.

Bvkes. ' Yhe polios of all cities had been noti- • i ded of this, and a watch was being

The same dingy light was in the ke P t Her ““^er, so the superin ten-

ball that had been there before. But dent , »“£•

breaths ot the men around me. "Breakdown Hie door," si

grand assault <

hinges gave way before them.

tew!" ejaculated

•Whew!

as the hot air

"What a smell: “They're beasts, thi

ted the sergeant, into his face. . 11!" said Sykes. :

no peering eyes s

> there to gaze

We poured th* bed.

room.

The door waa not locked, in, and I mad* straight fo:

It waa empty.

"She's gone!'!.! said, with my heart

almost in my moulji.

“Search the bouse!" commanded the sergeant. "Break down every door and look into every corner. If any one offers resistance, shoot him.” With drswa revolvers the officer* charged through the bouse. .1 looked at my watch. It was four o'clock. Not more than an hour and a half had elspsedwince I hadleft an unconscious patient in the room, bnt she

keepers had vi ' '

jh they

sick. I was

of thing.

1 M complete!; had exiatedT 1

thing. My mind began tc

bonible visions, it

fate stood

as thongl

felt. '

this

fill with vagn* but

which the girl's probable out with awful distinctnec

ling of the idity help* added a s thoughts.

"Where has that imp taken her,' growled the sergeant, aa he prowle. through .'room after room, prying ini

stupidity helped to dismay added a sting to th* bitterni

Imy o me a

prostrated with

grief. Her father waa wall-nigh distracted. Her brother, a man of about thirty, who was mors of s student than a mau of the world, followed helplessly in his father's wake, unable to assist* by even a suggestion, the unraveling of the awful mystery. It was not to be wondered at, then, that my recital of what I had seen and

' identifle

hi I had ai the niett

appointment was plain! faoe, at our failure t Chinaman and hia victim. His. white, set lipe, left no doubt of his determination to do his utmost. Thera waa no donbt of his sincerity. I left him with a aad heart. I felt iu some way responsible for all thi* failure. It was daylight My driver, disgusted at my long delay, had departed. I boarded a car and stood moodily on the platform, stolidly smoking and ruminating over the events of the night Never before had I seamed so email in my owr. estimation. [to u costtisczd. ]

X had never realized before how many dark corners a bouse really had, The longer we searched the more eager w* became and the more weird thi situation became. Every creak in thi old floor startled me, and the voioer of th* offlers as they spoke io each other in gruff tones made me look staalthily around. Mystery saemaA

to be in ovary nook and closet.

Officer Syke* waa apparently thi moot dumbfounded policeman to br found in California. He knew the! no on# had left th* house—for wasnl ba right in front of ill Was ha blind, that a yonng woman could ba carried

fcy several Chinaman and hi

Aacort

great An (

ding to n i inglo-Indian

recent

empi

past b

not know it

"Bnt you don’t know i ing on n> the rear," said

“This fallow, no doubt, has t way out tha back-door and is

ia soma

go-

sergeant, mad* hii

saf«

neighbor's boos*. Bat vaU

it writer the pire is oom-

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■tnssH. Taylor, the popular

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doing

elven y

, thorough lly

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Pennsvflle is in the throes oi a milk j famine. Both the milkmen who have j served the community for years have been compelled to quit bn'ine** on accent of the scarcity. John M. Pancoast. J r . of Lower Atloway. shot a golden eagle that mei--rred six feet six inches from tip to tip. It is the second one oi these birds killed around there in a decade. George H. Leeds, foren: pair gang of the Bridgeti ville Traction Company, from a car as it rounded a curve. His nose was crrjhcd and his shoulder

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At a wood-sawing bee at the W town Methodist Church eight ci were sawed and-piled up for the pas-

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I to Henrik Abel,

was the author of the text

of th* cantata, which was irang at Christiania the other day by way of c*lebrating the hundredth birthday of Norway's famous mathematician, Henrik AbeL About 800 guests from for-

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