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- I i ssj s,s s 1 h ; p - TSSC- VV QBB5-7VZ?J3IZ wzzcozt . Jiffy v AMMMMMMMMMMMWMMWMWMMWWWMWWVMMMtftfVWtfVWVMWVWWMWWMAAAAMAAMAMAAMAAAAMMM SYNOPSIS. Giles Dudley arrived in San Francisco. in join ins rrjena ana distant relative Henry Wilton, whom lie was to assist In an Important and mysterious task, and who accompanied Dudley on the rerry boat trip into the city. The re markable resemblance of the two men Is noted and commented on by passen KT.T3 on the ferry. They see a man with .nake eyes, which sends a thrill through Dudley. Wilton postpones an explanation of the strange errand Dudley is to per form, but occurrences cause him to know It is one of no ordinary meaning. Wilton leaves GiIps in their room, with Instruction to await his return and shoot any one who tries to enter. Outside there Is heard houts and curses and the noise rt a quarrel. IInry rushes in and at Ins request the roommates quickly ex cliange clothes, and he hurries out again. Hardly has he Rone than Giles is startled by a cry of "Help," and he runs out to find some one beinj; assaulted by a half dozen men. He summons a police man but UtfV are unable to find any trace of a trime. Giles returns to his room and hunts for some evidence tljsit mlsht explain his strange miss'on. He finds si map which he pnde.ivors to de cipher. Dudley is summoaeJ to the morgue and there finds the dead body of his friend. Iimry Wilton. And thus Wilt on dies without ever explaining to pud ley the puzzling v,uk he was to perform in San l'ram ib. o. In order to discover the secret uiismioii his friend had entrust ed to h.m, Dudi y continues his disguise nnd permits himself to be known as Henry Wilton. Dudley, m'stukeii for Wilton, is employed by Knupp to assist In a stock brokei.ige deal. "D..ky" takes the supposed Wilton to Mother liorton's. Mother Ut.rton discovers that he is not Wilton. Tiie lights are turned out and a free for all fight follows. Giles Dudley finds himself closeted in a room with Mother linrion who makes a confidant of him. He can learn nothing about the mysterious bov furiiier than that it is Tim Ternll and Darby Meeker who are after him. He is told that "Dicky' Nahl Is a traitor, playing both hands In tl.e came. Giles finds himself locked in a mom. He es anes thr.iuuh a window. The supposed Wilton rami's out his dead friend's work with Doddridge Knapp. He lias his first experience as a capitalist in the Hoard Ilooin of the Stock Kxchange. CHAPTER X. A Tangle of Schemes. Doddridge Knapp was seated calmly In my ofiice when I opened the door. There was a grim smile about the firm Ja.ws, and a satisfied glitter in the keen eyes. The Wolf had found his prey, and the dismay of the sheep at the sight of his fangs gave him satis faction instead of distress. The King of the Street honored me with a royal nod. "There seems to have been a little surprise for somebody on the Board this morning." he suggested. "1 heard something about it on the street," I admitted. "It was a good plan and worked well. Let me see your memoranda of purchases." I gave him my slips. He looked over them with growing perplexity in his face. "Here's twelve thousand five hun dred shares of Omega." "Yes." "You paid too much for that first lot." He was still poring over the list. "It's easier to see that now than then," I suggested dryly. "Humph! yes. liut there's some thing wrong here." He was compar ing my list with another in his baud. "There!" I thought: "my confound ed ignorance has made a mess of it." But 1 spoke with all the confidence I could assume: "What's the matter, now?" "Eleven thousand and twelve thou sand five hundred make twenty-three thousand five hundred; and here are sales of Omega this morning of thirty three thousand eight hundred and thirty." He seemed to be talking more to himself than to me, and to be far from pleased. "How's that? I don't understand." I was all in the dark over his musings. "1 picked up eleven thousand shares in the other Boards this morning, and twelve thousand five hundred through you. but somebody has taken in the other ten thousand." The King of the Street seemed puzzled and, I thought, a little worried. "Well, you got over twenty-three thousand shares," I suggested consol ingly. "That's a pretty good morning's work." The King of the Street gave me a contemptuous glance. "Dnn't be a fool. Wilton. I sold ten thousand of those shares to myself." A new light broke upon me. I was getting lessons of one of the many ways in which the market was manipu lated. "Then you think that somebody else" The King of the Street broke in with a grim smile. "Never mind what I think. I've got the contract for doing the thinking for this job. and I reckon I can 'tend to it." The creat speculator was silent for a few moments. "1 nr.ght as well be frank with you." he said at last. "You'll have to know something to work inteHigently. 1 must get control of the Omega Com pany, and to do it I've get to l:a-e mure sWck. I've been afraid of a com lunatic n 2ga:nst me, and I guess I've struck it. I can't be sure yet. but when those ten thousand shares were gobbled up on a panicky market. I'll bet there's something up." "Who is in it?'" I asked politely. "They've kept themselves covered." said the King of the Street, "but I'll have them cut in the open before the end. And then, my bcr, you'll see the fur. fly." "I've got a few men staked out." he continued slowly, "and I recken I'll know something about it by this time to-morrow." There was the growl of the Wolf in his voice. "Now fo- this afternoon." he con tinned. "There's got to be some sharp work dene. I reckon the falling move ment is over. We've got to par for what we get from now on. I've got a man lock'ng after the between-Board tradinr. With the scare that's on ia the chipper crowd out there. I lock to pick up a thousand shares or so at about forty." "Well, what's the programme?" I asked cheerfully. "Buy," he said briefly. "Take every thing that's offered this side of seventy-five." "Urn there's a half-million wanted already to settle for what I bought this morning." The bushy brows drew down, but the the King of the Street answered lightly: "Your check is good for a million, my boj as long as it goes to settle for what you're ordered to buy." Then he added grimly: "I don't think you'd find it worth much for anything else." There was a knock at the door be yond and he hastily rose. "Re here after the two-thirty ses sion," he said. And the Wolf, huge and masterful, disappeared with a stealthy tread, and the door closed softly behind him. I wondered idly who Doddridge Knapp's visitor might be, but as I could see no way of finding out, and felt no special concern over his identi ty or purposes, I rose and left the of fice. As I stepped into the hall I dis covered that somebody had a deeper curiosity than I. A man was stoop ing to the keyhole of Doddridge Knapp's room in the endeavor to see cr hear. As he heard the sound of my opening the door he started up, and with a bound, was around the turn of the hall and pattering down the stairs. lu another bound I was after him. I .fkymi ' M '2s5G3E3Hrv had seen his form for but a second, and his face not at all. But in that second I knew him for Tim Terrill of the snake-eyes and the murderous pur; pose. When I reached the head of the stairs he was nowhete to be seen, but I heard the patter of his feet below and plunged down three steps at a time and into Clay street, nearly up setting a stout gentleman in my haste. The street was busy with people, but no sign of the snake-eyed man greeted me. Much disturbed in mind at this ap parition of my enemy, 1 sought in vain for some explanation of his presence. Was he spying on Doddridge Knapp? What treachery was he shaping in his designs on the man whose bread he was eating and whose plans of crime he was the chief agent to assist or execute? I was roused by a man bumping into me roughly. I suspected that he had done it on purpose, and started by him briskly, when he spoke ia a low tone: ' "You'd better go to your room, Mr. Wilton." He said something more that f I did not catch, and, reeling on, disap peared in the crowd before I could turn to mark or question him. I thought at first that he meant the room I had just left. Then It occurred to me that it was the room Henry had occupied the room in which I had spent my first dreadful night in San Francisco, and had not revisited in the thirty hours since I had left it The advice suited by inclination, and in a few minutes I was entering the dingy building and climbing the worn and creaking stairs. The place lost Its air of mystery in the broad sunshine and penetrating daylight, and though its interior was as gloomy as ever, it lacked the haunting sug gestions it had borrowed from dark ness and the night. Slipped under the door I found two uctes. One was from Detective Coo gan, and read: "Inquest this afternoon. Don't want you. Have another story. Do you want the body?" The other was in a women's hand, and the faint perfume of the first note I had received rose from the sheet It read: "I do not understand your silence. The money Is ready. What is the matter?" The officer's note was easy enough to answer. I found paper, and, assur ing Detective Coogan of my gratitude at escaping the inquest, I asked him to turn the body over to the under taker to be buried at my order. The other note was more perplexing. I could make nothing of it. It was evidently from my unknown employer, and her anxiety was plain to see. But I was no nearer to finding her than before, and if I knew how to reach her I knew not what to say. As I was contemplating this state of affairs with some dejection, and sealing my melancholy note to Detective Coogan, there was a quick step in the hall and a rap at the panel. It was a single person, so I had no hesitation in open ing the door, but it gave me a passing satisfaction to have my hand on the revolver in my pocket as I turned the knob. It was a boy, who thrust a letter in to my hand. "Yer name Wilton?" he inquired, still holding on to the envelope. "Yes." "That's yourn, then." And he was prepared to make a bolt. "Hold on," I said. "Maybe there's an answer. "No, there ain't. The bloke as gave it to me said there weren't." "Well, here's something I want you to deliver." said 1, taking up my note to Detective Coogan. "Do you know where the City Hall is?" "Does I know--what are yer givin' us?" said the boy with infinite scorn in his voice. "A quarter." I returned with .a laugh, tossing him the coin. "Wait a minute." "Yer ain't bad stuff." said the boy with a grin. I tore open the envelope and read on the sheet that came from it: "Sell everything you bought never mind the price. Other orders off. D. K." I gasped with amazement. Had Doddridge Knapp gone mad? To sell twelve thousand five hundred shares 'JHZzSSr7?52? EEJ2S CFK J.ET.'" of Omega was sure to smash the mar ket, and the half-million dollars that had been put into them would prob ably shrink by two hundred thousand or more if the order was carried out I read the note again. Then a suspicion large enough to overshadow the universe grew up in my mind. I recalled that Doddridge Knapp had given me a cipher with which he would communicate with me, and I believed, moreover, that he had no idea where I might be at the pres ent moment. "It's all right, sonny," I said. '"Trot along." "Where's yer letter?" asked the boy, loyally anxious to earn his 'quarter. "It won't have to go now,' I said coolly. I believed that the boy meant no harm to me. but I was not taking any risks. The boy sauntered down the hall. TELEPHONY WITHOUT WIRES. Wireless telegraphy is at last an established fact, both scientifically I and commercially. A director of the Amalgamated radio-telegraphy company told a re porter that his company is ready to take osiers for the Installation of a wireless telephony system to cover a distance up to 25 miles, over fairly flat land or over, water. "Recently," he said. "I spoke in our laboratory at Berlin to a temporary laboratory which we have erected some seven miles away from that city, and that was not under the best conditions, because the aerial (or wire) at the temporary station was suspended between two factory shafts instead of the usual masts. "From experiments which we have been conducting in Berlin we are able to guarantee perfect communication by wireless telephony over 25 miles of not too hilly country. "The Inventor of the continuous undamped wave, by which means only is wireless telephony made possible. "Well, I must look like a sucker if they think I can be taken in by a trick like that," was my mental comment. I charged the scheme up to my snake eyed friend and had a poorer opinion of his intelligence than I had hitherto entertained. Yet I was astonished that he should, even with the most hearty wish to bring about my down fall, contrive a plan that would inflict a heavy loss on his employer and pos sibly ruin him altogether. There was more beneath than I could fathom. My brain refused to work in the maze of contradictions and mysteries, plots and counterplots, in which I was in volved. I took my way at last toward the market, and, hailing a boy to whom I intrusted my letter to Detective Coo gan, walked briskly to Pine street. CHAPTER XI. The Den of the Wolf. The street had changed its appear ance in the two or three hours since I had made my way from the Ex change through the pallid, panic stricken mob. There were still thou sands of people between the corner of Montgomery Street and Leidesdorff, and the little alley itself was packed full of shouting, struggling traders. But there was an air of confidence, al most of buoyancy, in place of the gloom and terror that had lowered over the street at noon. Plainly the panic was over, and men were in spired by a belief that "stocks were going up." I made a few dispositions according ly. Taking Doddridse Knapp's hint I engaged another broker as a relief to Eppner, a short fat man, with the baldest head I ever saw, a black beard and a hook-nose, whose remarkable activity and scattering charges had attracted my attention in the morning session. Wallbridge was his name, I found, and he proved to be as intelligent as I could wish a merry little man, with a joke for all things, and a flow of words that was almost overwhelming. "Omega? Yes," chuckled the stout little broker, after he had assured him self of my financial standing. "But you ought to have bought this morn ing, if that's what you want It was hell popping and the roof giving 'way all at once." The little man had an abundant stock of profanity which he used unconsciously and with such original variations that one almost for got the blasphemy of it while listen ing to him. "You ought to have been there," he continued, "and watched the boys shell 'em out!" "Yes, I heard you had lively times." "Boiling," he said with coruscating additions in the way of speech and ' gesture. "If it hadn't been for Deck er and some fellow we havn't had a i chance to make out yet the bottom of the market would have been resting on the roof of the lower regions." The little man's remark was sllghtly more direct and forcible, but this will do for a revised version. "Decker!" I exclaimed, pricking up my ears. "I thought he had quit the market." As I had never heard of Mr. Decker before that moment this was not ex actly the truth, but I thought, it would serve me better. "Decker out of it I" gasped "Wall bridge, his bald head positively glist ening at the absurdity of the idea. "He'll be out of it when he's carried out." "I meant out of Omega. Is he get ting up a deal?" The little broker looked vexed, as though it crossed his mind that he had said too much. "Oh, no. Guess not. Don't think he is," he said rapidly. "Just wanted to save the market, I guess. If Omega had gone five points lower there would ' have been the sickest times in the Street that we've seen since the Bank of California closed and the shop . across the way" pointing his thumb at the Exchange "had to be shut up. But maybe it wasn't Decker, you know. That's just what was rumored on the Street, you know." I suspected that my little broker knew more than he was willing to tell, but I forbore to press him further, and gave him the order to buy all the Omega stock he could pick up under fifty. In the Exchange all was excitement, and the first call brought a roar of struggling brokers. I could make nothing of the clamor, but my nearest neighbor shouted in my ear: "A strong market!" "It looks that way," I shouted back. It certainly was strong in noise. I made out at last that prices were being held to the figures of the morn ing's session, and in some cases were forced above them. Forty-five forty-seven fifty-five Omega was going up by leaps. I blessed the forethought that had sug gested to me to put a limit on Wall bridge at fifty. The contest grew wanner. I could follow with difllculty the course of the proceedings, but I knew that Omega was bounding up ward. (TO BE CONTINUED.) was M. Valdemar Poul-fen, a noted electrical engineer. 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