The Safe Breakers' Gang — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Had he such unerring power to read the characters of criminals of his own sex, and yet was he forever to be hoodwinked by beauty and seeming inno- _ scence in the other? | ~~ “A woman hired you, then?” he asked, his voice husky in spite of himself. “Yes, and she’s a beauty, too.” “Her name ?”’ “Must ye have that?” “T must !” “Tt ought to be enough, if I tell ye that she’s the one _ that ye come here to see.” a An hour after the successful pursuit of the Dalton car- riage by Kirk Hyde, the “tail-ender” of the “three H’s,” the entire outfit returned to the residence of the bank president, Olive Winthrop, pale yet resolute, entered her father’s dwelling, followed by the detective. The latter had induced her to disclose nothing concarn- ing her meeting with the safe-breaker in the bank upon the previous night, nor aught of the strange compact which the reader knows was there entered into. Satisfied that other measures than physical fear would be more successful in unsealing the woman’s lips, if he were only patient, the dwarf-detective bade her good- night at the door, and then repaired to the railway sta- tion, where he was confident that Tad Silsby was waiting “Lena Jepworth?” for him. : { But before going to the station, he privately instructed “Tena Jepworth.” Quimby felt certain that this would be the answer when John, the coachman, to see that Olive Winthrop did not again attempt flight that night. it came. Yet the shock was hardly less keen than it would : have been if it were wholly a surprise. She had, indeed, promised the detective that she would Under a dian: sweep of feeling, he turned upon the not do so. But he deemed it safest to have something ruffian who stood so imperturbably, with his manacled |‘ ?"° than her pledge to depend upon. hands and snaky orbs. He found the station nearly deserted. “Tell me!” he cried, seizing the man fiercely by the A night operator was dozing in the telegraph office; but shoulder, ‘‘what is Lena Jepworth to Jules Jepworth, the cng eng rooms Were deserted. Inquiry disclosed the fact that a youth answering to safe-breaker? Mind, I want the truth !” a : The man grinned in his repulsive way Tad Silsby’s descrpition had arrived on an earlier train, “Pears to me you take a mighty ae Sa Ae etn cv taes and that he had remained in the waiting-room until the station agent inquired his business, when he abruptly left. Jepworth,” he returned. “That is not an answer to my question.” phe pts ie git a Hee ei res a “Well, boss, you'll have to ask the girl herself, for I OL LS A LN achat ie cacti st don’t know what they be to each other. But I’m nirghty uP sure that she stands up for him as strong as she could, if | Ae: station was located a hittle off the; central PORE: OF the city, and a short walk in the rear of the building sh his wife.” Byers D8 (wile ‘brought Kirk Hyde tio the edge of a natural grove of oak uimbv was prepared for this answer. He realized that. @ “ Sti 2 and chestnut trees. what was a matter of such vital moment to him was some- : . . | A new street skirted the grove, and laborers had here h bly tl oa which these ruffians had probably thought little | and there begun the work of clearing off the trees, while If oe Jepworth, the date breaker: should c havea | several building-lots were staked off, and it was evidently young and beautiful wife, what mattered that to the Ce vege which was being opened up for ° ° . ° abl "pDOoOSeS. oo. crooks who might be for a time connected with Half a dozen shanties, from which crooked pieces of . . 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Weould say he was.” tela Hence it seemed likely that he would go in the direc- : tion of the laborers’ shanties, rather than run the risk of ec 7 99 ake niagara showing himself on the street contrary to Kirk’s instruc- tions. | Quimby had already unlocked the door. He now in Kirk Hyde had work for Tad Silsby to a eta tae out, closed and locked it after him, and descended to the_ 2 iF ; ; ives to go to New York and consult with Rexford Hunt; and street, leaving the ruffians to regain their liberty as they 2 Wade k that th might ‘during his absence he must make sure tha e move- ¥ ments of Olive Winthrop be watched constantly. “Silsby will be faithful, and what is more, he is a hard boy to bluff,” thought the detective. But there was no sign of the youth near the shanties; of silos sy - , 4. ~_" - Sites comicbooks.com