Guy Garrick

tently. Here was an entirely unexpected development in

ge to explain it and get

head in evident dis

he was in a rather jovial mood. He said that he had run into a cow a few miles back on the

ieved it?" pr

There was some blood on the radiator and hood, but the strange part was tha

he expl

get much for the carcass, for it had been pretty well cu

n believed

ge later in the day, they found that cartridge where the car had been washed down and swept out. We had already advertised a reward for information about the stolen car, and, when he heard of the reward, for there are

an who drove it?

sight. Of course they could describe how the fellow was dressed, even the make of goggles he wore. But, when it came to telling one featur

. "I suppose they'd consider a fingerprint, or the

tever his own limitations might be, had a w

r?" asked Garrick of Warrin

an seemed t

th a sort of resigned smile, "I'll

" encouraged Garrick dryly. "Besides, you can de

nothing at all in particular, beginning with dinner at the Mephistopheles Restaurant, with a friend o

ck, "near what ought to

ere yo

several fellows who used to belong to the same upperclass club with us at Princeton.

ck sm

it out if they got hold of it, anyhow. I may as well admit, I suppose, that Angus has been going the pace pretty lively since we graduated. I don't object

mpted Garr

cabaret there-and by and by the fellows began to drop in to join us. When I

" asked McBirney, as if

restaurant. A chauffeur standing near the c

ective," cut in McBi

eemed to do so, had spun the engine, c

asked Garrick. "Did yo

. I was all upset about the loss of the car, got in touch with the insurance company, w

e car in the city?" asked

osts up there, and one of them has told me that he noticed a car, which might or might not have been Mr. Warrington's, pull up, ab

s eyebrows the fr

ar gone and even the air didn't revive her-that is, assuming that she had been celebrating not wisely but too well. Of course, the whole thing is pu

" asked Garrick, watchi

he admitted, I thoug

rusade against society gambling and that that perhaps account

ridge, and even to play the races," went on Warrington carefully. "I've never been there myself, but

n't put a stop to the stealing, and the stealing has gone quite far enough. We have got to do something about it. It struck me that here was a case on which to begin and that you, Garrick, are the one to begin it for us, while I ca

as you call it, ope

ch embraces also not a small portion of the new Tenderloin and the theatre district. Actually, Garri

istening, wit

shed. And it is those stolen cars, I believe, that are used in the wave of taxicab and motor car robberies, hold-ups, and other crimes that is swee

he police?" I inquired cautiousl

her it has seldom worked. They don't seem to be able to help us much. If anything is done, we must do i

n fact, I don't care whether I ever get it back. I have others. But I can't stand the thought that my c

ded shell between his fingers during most of the

shall get a conviction on that empty shell, too. If there is a gunman back of it all, he is no ordinary fellow, but a scientific gun