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"This one's the goods, eh?" the de tective went Ranscome, with marked fastidioysness, took the Jewel from his band and examined it as if bis reputation ds an expert deperded on his test. Réluctantly, he returned the gem to Donnelly and.said, gently, with a pitying glance at Elinor: "It is a diamond." A sweeping gesture from. Sands as he sprang to his feet flung (he tele phone from the desk. He reached Donnelly in two strides and app ared on the point of gripping him by the throki. But the big detective, for all his bulk avd mental slowness, could be quic® enough on his feet when he must, and he readily sacrificed dignity to safety. With a single backward spring, he clutched a light chair and confronted Sands. "It will pay you to remember I'm an officer!" he shouted. "You ain't deal ing with club stewards here, Mr Sands. I know you and I know how much you think your money cian do. But you can't put anything like that across with me." Sands, breathing hard, took another step towards him. Dounelly gripp d the chalr for a defensive swing. "I don't care if you know a million Mannings," said the sleuth huski Y. "I' you can't behave like one gentle man to another, it'll be the worse for you. If you don't want to be run in keep away." Mrs. Missioner's annovance and Dorcthy's fright, no less than Elinor's distress, restrained Sands again. "What does all this mean?" he sad to Carson, ignoring the other. Put Donnelly was not to be ignored. Hg successful defiance of a millionaire had heightened his desire for the cen- tre of the stage, "It means," he rasped, "that we know who took Mrs. Misstoner's dia monds, and all we've got~to do now is to find the rest of 'em, And 1 guess that won't be bard. Where there's one bird, the flock won't be far away, Come, Miss Holcomb, wa and you'i] be getting downtown. The Chief wants to see you." Exclusively in Canada by the & Colonial Press, Limited, Toronto. CHAPTER V. The Brownstone House. While Elinor, helpless in tha action from her grief, was speeding to Mulberry Street in a taxicab with Donnelly and Carson, a swart, slim man glided out by the servants' door of the Missloner home. H's modern garments, Orfental only hy faint gestion in the English their cut, caught the eve contrast with the snowy covered his head. He the cat tread of one long to walking on his own soles hoes. were conventional enough i pearance, hut of soft that of ordinary Ame 2 was evident that he relied on gllence of his footgear and, from the cautlon with which himself out of the hous up and down the stroet peting his deg gre, § In the block, he wall ward Fifth Avenue corner so sharply bowled over a district messenger. A few words in a foreign tongue were his response to the select vernacula rising youngster hurled at him----= words so mysterious that a final Ah, re ! { fug- looseness of mere'y by turban that moved with accustomed Fis the gan!" was the" utmost of which the astonished hoy was capable by way of reply. To be flung to th- walk by a personage .in a Brit tourists' suit with a headgear out the Arabian nights well n concerting, even to No. 47 ADT The dark man hailed a hansm, muttered "The park" to the driver, and sat well back in the -ehicle, clos Ing the apron doors and lowering the upper curtain until he left only a nar- row space for observation, In 'le interior™gloom, laced by chance lin: os of light from arc lamps, he sprinkle himself freely with many drops i: a silver vial that smelled of the ast He readjusted the folds of his turtan, settled his collar and scarf, and } himself more closely {nto his cl 3, which, despite their loose cut, see. ingly were tighter than he liked North of the Casino, in the Yast Drive of the Central Park, the Iino pulled the check strap and gave new directions to the cabman. The lan. som turnad out of the park at Seventy- second Street and rolled on rubler tires In an easterly direction, cross ing several avenues before it stopped in front of a brownstone house exa-:- ly like several dozen others in t.e block. The Oriental pafd the cabmagp and stood on the sidewalk until tha hansom turned the corner. Then he walked east a few yards, crossed the al . < X Street, tumied west, and darted into the vestibule of a house that was the twin of the vae at which the cab had stopped, He not ring the bell, £ from a gas A voloe in the & question in a language the Hindoo had oulder at the 'visitor answered rd, and a sunburs: from a cluster above his head. are false, turn back," seid one of Lhe higher gues lowly tollower Sot the e Hindoo replied, with salaam towaza fuk black Hise! j Portidres at the far end of the nau. | He moved slowly toward the curtains and stretched forth his hand. Agein the voice spoke. If there is aught of doubting in your heart, turn back ere it be too late," it said. "There Is no repent | ance this side of the screen. Beware! | Turn back!" ; But the Hindoo, with adother deep bow, parted the heavy curtairs and stepped through the opening. With out a single glance at the sumptuous Eastern furnishing of the room. he bent his body forward with touching outstretched hands until his fingers well-nigh reached the floor. In tha posture 'he rerained until, in th tones of the volce that had sounded through the outer darkness, a ma: | sitting cross-legged on a divan at tre other end of the room murmured a acknowledgment of the salutati n Slowly the visitor straightened hin- self and looked at the divan. withqu raising his eyes to the face of ith: man upon it. "The peace of the Immuiable On~ be upon" you." he said in his harsher dialect. "Your servant Ali comes {0 report upon his mission." "Peace be to, you, faithful one" an swered the other. Not until' Shen dil All look his master In the face. The master seemingly did not weer the evening dress of the Occident ia Which he had appeared in the ope a boxy adjoining Mrs. Missioner's. Hiz slender, well-knit figure was swathed in the clinging garments of the Kast ~-garments of silken stuff that fin - tered and rippled with every move ment, that seemed to rustle in echo of his thoughts. "What are your tidings, Ali?" asked the man on the divan. He gave lit le thoughtful tugs at a punkahstring ard the resultant breeze stirred the smoke: wreaths from his narghileh. "The jewel, O Swami!" The other's eyes glistened. "What of it?" he inquired. "Gone!" returned the humbler Hin- doo. "Vanished!" ' "And you did not get 1t7" "Bwami, I did not. © Your s-rvant is a dog and the son of a dog, but he has done his best." The man on the divan watched his servant through slitted eyos. "Where is the jewel?" . he sternly. "Who knows, holy man?' replied the visitor. "It has taken unto itself wings and in its place a false stone was left. The wit of your servant is completely at fault. I know no: where the diamond is." : The Swami did not tell him he had seen the destruction of the false Maharanee by Griswold's heel in the Metropolitan Opera House. He smoked thoughtfully, his fingers knot ting and raveling the punkahstring in an absent way. "And you have come with the news? he asked. "Asg the hawk files, master," said the servant. There wes trepidation in his eyes, but he answered unhesi tatingly. "It is well," the Swami said, be tween rings of blue smoke. "Wall without, Ali, and I will have speech with you in a little while." The visitor, with another low ra laam, withdrew as he had eniered, Packing across the threshold. Tn the Ball, his figure shot to its full height and he flashed a glance of uncertain meaning at the outer side of the por tieres. He passed silently up the stairs and slipped into a room above that in which the Swami sat. His cat ike tread carried him to a closet, into Which he crept. Flattening himself on the floor, he applied his ear to a hole #0 small it scarcely widened the cra k between two boards. He could no: gee, but he could hear the creak of the Punkah as, after a vioient tug by the man on the divan, it continued swinging to and fro. Hardly bad the Hindoo left the room when the Swami, like a mummer throwing off a mask, arcse briskly from the divan and cast aside the silk robe that enveloped him. The silken turban remained on his head, but in all other respects he was dressed like 8 Wall Street man. His feet, drawn beneath his robe as he sat on the broad couch, had not shown the patent leather shoes In which they wera on cased, He lighted a Buropesn cigar ette and puffed as if he enjoyed ithe change from the pungent Hastern to bacco. asked straightway Up and down the room he walked sprightly, pausing from time to ti with juckered forehead apd. thu resting on the edges of his coat pock- ots. Then he walked softly to a door at one side of the room, and opening it a little way, called softly: "Kananda." A man of mature years came in uletly and looked inquirin ly at the waml. He was of portly build, but his vigor siill showed traces of the athletic training he had followed in English schools and colleges, 1lis Wwektern " manner and excellent Eng- Hsh were not in surprising contrast to his Indian swarthiness among those who remembered the vogue a British education had among India's petty Queen and Empress. Prince Kanan da had been one of the best batsmen thls Afppancy---comes from tryin, graft a Hindoo sprig on a British oak, you know." . "We are of the Orient" ssid the Swami, still rebukingiy. ° "We should not copy the barbarisins of the Occi dent." Nandy's eyes twinkled as the humor of such an observation fn the heart of Manhattan flashed upon him. In » moment, he was grave again, how ever. He swung himself to a table lightly for one of his bulk, and sa! kicking bis heels as he awaited the | Hindoo priest's narrative, "There's little to tell" tsh Swam' went on, himself dropping into th: casler speech of the West as his com panion stopped smiling. "The grea | diamond is gone and Ali has no idea © its whereabouts. Night and day o: the watch #r~the woman's home, he has nothing to tell further than tha: the jewel has disippeared and ar arrest has been made." "So they've caught the thie'?" "Perhaps. The bunglers of this un couth country may have stumblec upon her by chance. She's !n custody anyway." Nandy sid from the table and ba' anced himself on his toes. - "A woman, eh? (oodlooking? Not without influence on his ideals had he taken a post-graduate course among.london's Galety girls. He wa: a connoisseur fn the femininity of the "'alla" Serious women bored him But gurely a young person cleve enough to get away with a liamond the size of the Maharanee couldn't be stupid? "Mrs. Missioner's secretary," the Swami {old him, "A close friend o! hers, too, says All" Kanandafs whistle was expressive "Is there evidence to .conviet?" he asked interestedly. "A paste necklace was substitutec for the one containing the Mabara nee," replied the Swami. "One of the real diamonds was found in the pri soner's room." "Now, that's funny," sald the Prince. "Devilish funny! And the) took 'her in tow for that?" The priest nodded. > "What rotters these American policemen are!" snapped Kananda i the slang hs had used as Nandy of Cambridge. "Fancy any self-respect Ing Oriental doing thet! Why, the bulldogiest liitle terrier in the Mika do's gecret gervice wouldn't make such a break!" The Bwa:ml nodded ags'n. "All searched her room, of course before the. detectives got there," he continued. "Soon after Mrs. Mission er's return from thé opera, he wen: straight from the hall outside the library to Miss Holcomh's apartment and Investigated thoroughly." "i00k here, old man," jerked Kar anda. "If Al has 'he stone, it's 'al well enough to put it over on n "He hasn't it," the Swami swered. "Tte thing for us to do no is to find out who hes." "Good oid guesser!" grinned Prince. "Well, Ali knows his ness." The Swa divan and 'av pillowing @ rings at the "I'm not torted. "I. keep bette Nandy table "How asked . "I tell you nobody knows sence was discovered to-ni "You've just learned of it° "No and yes I know about thre Maharanee before Ali He sketched the incident of opera house in crisp. sentences. listened eagerly "So there's nothing left gus Maharanee," he observed "Nothing but this splinter IT palm ed," returned the p "It was easy elementary legerdemain." Both laughed. The facility of Ocel dentals was & gtanding joke, "Well, wn need niore 'ielp on this ao." sald the Prince, "Alf will have io go back to the house "Ves, Mra. Missioner can't spare her Oriental curio just yet" the Swam! sfsonted, kananda reached for a sigarette "i guess we'll have to put Ramset jee on the men," he mused, "Pont {ke to do it, for Ram isn't exactly what we'd call an adept. Now, would we?" "Hardly." "But All can't be spared from the Migsioner place. Sands and Griswold can be watched by one nan." "Oh, yes, wish the man were a i"tle brighter than Ramasetjes, though." "Can't be halped--wha'? angliclzed Nandy. "I'll have an eye to them in the clube fram time to time. You leok after the social end." "Yes." Ph. Swami smiled. "They hardly get away from me in soofety." "My word, bunt you're coming on!" chaffed the Prince. "Right in the so clal swim, Bee what {t is '6 be a Swami. Dare say the Duchess af Dry goods and tha Countess de Hrewe:y an busi- strolled back to the at full length, his hand head. He blew smoke ptinkah. soisure of that" he re- on't. like his failure watch on ihe stone.' ' wung; himself back to the beer he long's . it gone?" its alr came." the Kananda of the bo on the Cambridge eleven. His popu- larity among the democratic young aristocrats of the period had sprung from the day when he remarked it was not his fault his father was a Mpa rajaly, and that it shouidn't be frea sured against him, 'even .theugh he couldn't ty it down, Nandy; as they Galled him on the banks of {hs Cam, was voted a good sort. The classifica tion had stick fo Lim wherever man foregathered, from (ha Strangers' Club of the Strai's Settlement to White's and the "nlon League "What's the row, your reverenta?" he asked. On the surfaces, he took the faith of his fathers lightly. Oriental though he "es in the marrow, "The Ma*arane: has disappeared" sald tha Swam! "Wheeee'" ratiir-ed Tananda. "1? that blessed stone n't the Wander ing Jew of jewels' * long has ft been missing this time" "Nobedy knows, unless it ba its pre- Sent poaset:or. Morsover, prince you are. viler You may be. hut 1 eanaot overlook your levity In commection with 80 sacred a gem, Pestdes, my friend, remember the breihren," . Nandy's face became serious imme- diately. : "I wasn't exactly poking fun at the Maharanee" he npologized, "and they who suffer are never | ng ahseny from my though's. Its a Westsyn- habit, are head over heels in leave with tia newest Eastern mystic, Teo bad they're not in Delhi" The Swami! frowned. He refused to laugh at jests bordering on lack o respect for faith, Even the Maha ranee's son feared to try him too far in that direction. "Omitting personaly 'or the motm- ent," sald tne priest ps'ftedly, "T will rarticipate in the greghrious mum: ning of these barbariang for the sake f our purpose. It {a no{ well to con- 'arn ourselves with the \frivolous af- fairs of life. Wo may have tg do.muot more serious things thas we are do: ng now to get the Maharsnee. If it should come to the )ast resort, we would not hesitate, you and I. Re: member the brethren!" "1 shall remember,'{ ssid Kananda. bravely. The Swami sounded a gong. As ita muffled, Music came to hm 'hrough hole. in the floor above, Alf rose cauffougly from tis crouching position and Wastened downstairs. Next minute he was entering the pre Bence of tha higher caste Fasterners with another profound Salam. Tn measured tones, the Swami, who had resumed his Oriental robes, gave Kim instructions to which the Hindoo ser yant listened with inten: respect, th~ Prince from time to tims emphasizing the' priest's orders with- 3 "You way go, All," sad he Swami acingly. he replied tke priest. "i ! Welt. w¥oskidtusion. \ *I go, master," the Hindeo Papa: Backing through the porilered: Ju maintained his respectful bearing al the way along the hall. out the doo: and down the brownstone steps. The: when he had walked quickly to a poiut several houses on and his face wa well out of the angia of vision of ti conventionally curtsined windows the front cf the strange dwell peculiar expression spread over features. Once round t! wheeled and gazed the house he had quitt eyes could penetrate walls, "Is thy servant a dog a dog?" he rald under his breath ni CHAPTER VI, The Third Denree Police Headquarters {is oll he quarters of Mulberry Stree! was o of the architectural monstiosities New York. Fronting Mu'berry Str. its faded brick walls presented a ! bidding aspect to the anc'ent, tun lb down rookeries across the wav. ' rear walls faced Mott S.reet, arm nizing with the squal'd enew that narrow, {ll-smelling thor aught ; It was a type of public building nc happily obsolete, which an a ale artistic sense is rapidly releg-ti the scrap heap. Its rigid lim & monotony of ugliness, unrel! column or capital. One vi: Ndeous bulk with a shudderin< «in of apprehension, almost expec ing sve it crumble on the uhforiura penned within, Visitors to the Detective Burean «» tered a dingy room, approached by aarrow hall. on the Mott © iret sid of the bulldiug. Its most ¢ :spic furnishings were several brass r which crossed one anotner in bew dering fashion. Half open doors I boldly into sther offices as if to d pel the atmosphere of secrecy > t1 hovered perpetually over th: plac Two uniformed lieutenants of poll were constantly on puard at cas desks backed against opposite wal On the morning following the M sr diamond robbery, the two By dians were busy sorting piles of do u ments scattered on their desks "Guess it's time for the line-up," re marked one of the lieutenants "He entered the adjoin ng room, a large, square chamber, in which rays from clusters of electric } mingled with the pale, shivery light of | the sun. "Here's the list," desk lieutenant, at throwing a bundle him. Massed against the opposite wa'l in {Istless attitudes were fifty or sixty detectives, their faces covered masks. They shifted about uneasily while waiting for the hapless priscn ers captured the night before to he lined up for inspection This daiy spectacle, terrifying to tha inngcent suspects, amusing to the old-time law breakers .marks the beginning of the morning's routine of the men detailed to prevent érime and hunt down crimi nals. Not a pleasing exhibition, bat a necessary one. For the opportunity must be provided for the detectives to become familiar with the counte- nances of the lawbreakers And by the simple device of the masks, the hunters are shielded from becoming equally familiar to the hunted. The wpening of the door at the rear of the room brought the waiting de tectives to attention Their forms stiffened to military erecinesgs, manner became watchfully al "Good-morning," greeted Chief of Detectives. Manning. The men saluted in return, With quick, nervous strides the Chief made his way behind the lon desk that ran half the lenzth of room, and took up a pos vey His eyes, of hawk tion, swept the room v lieutenant called the roll tees having been entered ter, the process of | soners bezan with mony he called to the same ut of documents tie | y | | t The absen bln the - humidified, i N HY GIENIC--Pure warm air, Jortant to health. Location in SU Farnace properly of water. -pan above feed door ensures it. See the McClary dealer or write for booklet, BOLD BY J. B. BUNT & 00. : A line of bedrasc! men and women from a night of we row, fill-veurilated the room "Michael tenant An emaciated, aced man, the wretchedness of his | hasized by the frayed clothing that huang in loose broken lines from bis form, stepped forward, A look of dull misery was stamped on hig countenance, a hope- -ess disregard of the fate in store for him showed in his manner, "Take a goed look at commanded the Chief. pinched halmre Caught goods on, however, by Swipin' lead pipe from finished houge" The eves of the human wreck as he si ito Tinie, * Fru = "Philly Pratt" d the Ieutenant, A Jong Man, fiot more than thirty, whose misn and restless eyss betrayed his occupation even before the Chief announced i, faced the masked battery of eves. His thin lips curled into a' distainful smile as She Chief read his record from a slip | er, | "Another old friend back," the -hesd | of the detective force commented. "Phillp Pratt, alias Morse, ailas| Charlie Dodge, alias Toledo Phil ce gent. Did a turn in H)- mira, two short stretches up the river, and a leg in Jollet." : The particular offense for which the prisoger was in the roils again was de scribed, and he, too, retired to tem: porary obscurity in the lines of the unfortunates. a "Carrie Chase," from the Heutenant. Member of that frail sisterhood whose shame is no deeper then tha: of the civilization from which it springs, sha carried herself with an easy dignitv born o! familiarity with her surrouadings. The heavy lips of her face were drawn into an ex presaion of srim deiance, hut her eyes, dulled Sv long dissipation, could not hide the dumb foar that lurked in har sou! Noonan,' weak with - the Wigging' and a half he detec' ives 8 oR rank bac came (To be continued) No, Alonzo, a girl isn't neesssarily Automobile Articles of proven worth. 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