The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 137: what you’re looking at

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Fj lei - 128 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. When matters are going on in this way it does not do to let the iron get cold—strike while it is hot has always been our method. We discuss the case in all its bearings and then decide on the next move. An interview must be had with the people against whom we are arranging our batteries. I seek Bill- ines, and find him on guard, as usual, watching — the stairs and the elevator. His manner makes me think of the typical dios bull-dog, a faithful servant. When he learns that I am about to represent him above, and make an effort to have the swindlers disgorge, his joy is great. Eagerly, he tells me exactly the nature of the papers which the Reilly woman and her aristocratic-looking pa have car- ried off. With his best wishes for my success I post off to beard the lion in his den. , lt has been an easy matter for me to find out the number of the suite Larz Andrews and his lovely daughter occupy, and presently I find myself before the door. Listening, I think-I hear voices beyond, but it would be utterly out of the questicn to distinguish any words, so I do not.try. I knock. The voices cease. Some one comes to the door, and as it opens, I find myself face to face with Evangeline, Those lustrous eyes meet my own and I experi- ence a trifle of the tremor that comes upon one when under fire. Asa soldier, I have felt thatsame ~ sensation in battle. Bravely I bear up under it, -comicbooks.cor