Guy Garrick

ning over and over in his

he remarked meditatively, looking at his wa

le affair so far as a hopeless mystery from which I could

he bull by the horns, to play the game without any further attempt at finessin

be struck it must be just a little bit ahead of any that the gamblers anticipated, and this was a

pointment to meet him early in the even

. "I want to work here at the office for a little while, first, testing a n

on the Star, one of the most enterprising papers in the city. Fortunately I found my friend, Davenpo

n and began to wonder how he ever conducted his work i

tory and when it breaks I'll promise that the Star has the first chance at

with a lot of queer ideas. I remember. We had an interview with him when he left

l much about it now, but-well, the reason I came in was to find out what you could

young Warrington?" he repeated. "The gossip i

one so, for on such things, particularly the fortunes in finance and lo

y, "that's the Miss Winslo

to have come down to Mortimer Warrington and Angus Forbes. Of course, as far as we newspapermen are concerned, the big story for us would be in the engagement of young Warrington. The eyes of people are fixed on him just now-the richest young man in the country, and all that sort of th

tilted handwriting of a

e or righteousness in this great city close up those gambling hells that are sending to ruin scores of our finest young men-and women. You have taken up other fights against gambling and vice. Take up this one that appeals to women of wealth and social position. I know them and they are as human as mothers in any other station in life. Oh, if there is any way, close up these gilded

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out it?" I asked casuall

of the losses there. And so beastly aristocratic, too. They tell me young Forbes has lost a small fortune there-but I don'

ngus Forbes

he fellow that they say has been tryin

ned, was deeply in debt. Was it part of his plan to get co

. de Lancey?" pu

"I was just wondering wh

hey say she's pretty straight-laced-that cards and

there might be wors

at such a puritanical atmosphere is-er-just the pl

ps the girl was not as well versed in some of the ways of the world as others of her set. Still, I felt that her own natural common s

conversation and I saw that as the time advanced he was gett

wondered how much she really knew about Angus Forbes. Undoubtedly he had not hesitated to express his own feelings toward her. Had she penetrated beneath the honeyed words he must have spoken to

a glance at my watch told me that it was n

ing for me in the lower hall. As we ascended the broad staircase to the second

w much she really does know of that place. I hope it isn't enough to set her against Warrington. You know people like that ar

ursue the subject furt

and were admit

asked Dillon gree

hastily sketching over what had tr

tended to do when I could see from the commissio

is not only to raid those places, but first to watch them, trace out some of the regular habitues, and then to be able to rope them in i

e of the wildest scions of wealth that you will eve

are you going to pull it off, down throug

Garrick reproachfully,

sledgehammers would make no impression there. Why, that place has been proved bomb-proof-bomb-proof, sir. You remember recently the so-call 'gamblers' war' in which some rivals exploded a bomb on the s

use to try it at all unless you can pass that door with reasonable quickness. All the evidence you will get will be of an innocent social club room

ot to go over Herman's head this time. I'll gu

ck faced each ot

me test of Dil

die were cast and Garrick had carried his point, "but how are you

ternoon for just such a case. It's a rather cumbersome arrangement and I've brought it along stowed away in a taxicab outside. I don't want anyone else to kno

greed Dillon,

d at the outset to play fair and he had no disposition t

'll have to drop in on a judge

to do and I started uptown immediately, wh

ng joint that we were to raid. I had a keen sense of wickedness as I stood there with ot

were full of people, all bent on their own pleasure and not likely to

lance at the house down the street

who was going into the gambling joint. In fact, several times the street was so blocked that I could n

was now food and drink. I watched him narrowly as he turned the corner, but there was no use in being too inquisitive. He was bound as cer

curb near where I was standing and a hand becko

indow. It was Garrick with Dillon sunk back into

e door. "We have the warrant all right.

k while the cab started on a

. I surmised that it must have been the thing which Garrick had brought from his office,

ck, as we passed a drug st

t and disappeare

do that to cover the place, but we'll have to work quickly now, for I don't know how fast a tip

s, his face perspiring from the

orty-eighth Street, and

ver, mentioning th

n that a raid was about to be pulled off. We could see that,

e got us in peacefully, until we had become known in the place. Yet though there had been no t

the inside, heavy door-perhaps even had

e flimsy outside door, in quick staccato. There was a noise and scur

melee I leaped through the wreckage with Garrick. The "ice-box" door barred all f

aid!" cried

ers, brought a crowd swarming around from Bro