Guy Garrick

failure both to get in peaceably and to pass the ice-box door by force. This time Dillon e

a short stubby piece of iron, about eighteen inches high. It must have weighed fifty or sixty pound

e between the sill and the bottom of the ice-box door. Then he began

calling on them for aid, but the call was met with laughter. A Tenderloin crowd has no use for r

lamations of surprise. The door seemed to be lifted up, literally, until some of its bolts and hinges act

ng forced. There was such straining and stress of materials that I

he door bulged more and more and seemed alm

had wedged it horizontally between the ice-box door and the outer stonework of the building itself. The

we at the titanic power of the app

a hydraulic ram. There is no swinging of axes or wielding of crow-bars necessary any more, Dillon, in breaking down a door like th

ng literally wrenched off its hinges by the ir

What was left of the door swung back on its loosened hinges, seemed to tremble a moment, and then,

f trouble the lights had been switched out downstairs. It was deser

in time, full of reserves, at Dillon's order. They swarmed up the steps, for there was nothing

p to the roof. Four more men go through to the rear of this house. The rest stay here and await o

ther houses the steps were full of spectators. Thousands of

hich we had just broken it

mmering where it would have shattered, otherwise

ight, all was black mystery. The robbers' cave yawned before us. I think we were all prepared for some sort of gunplay, for we k

n the shadows, found the switch, and one after a

nd floor, where the greater part of the gambling was done. Furniture was overturned and broken, and there had been no time to remove the heavier gambling appa

e roofs, or even by the back yard, according to the report of the police who had been sent in that direction, there was not a living soul in the house from roof

ad had an official photographer summoned and he was proceeding from room to room, snapping pictures o

de the roulette wheel at which so

sked of one of Dillon

ected blow he s

d, "this is what th

es of minute wires and electro-magnets in the delicate mechanism now b

ng down through the leg of the table to the floor and under

t mean?" I a

hers are mechanically controlled by what are called the 'mule's ear,' and other devices. You CAN'T win. These wires and magnets can be made to attract the little ball into any pocket the operator desires. Each one of the pockets contains an

an electro-magnet. Whichever set of magnets is energized attracts the ball and by this simple method it is in the power of the operator to let the ball go to red or black as he may wish. Other similar arrangeme

ver had a chance?

ce," emphas

the buttons and switches. He did not need to say a

n on me as the fact that it was deserted. It seemed as if the gamblers had disappeared as though i

ho ran the joint. It was scantily furnished, as though its purpose might have been merely a place where they could divid

papers, the desk had been rifled, and even from the safe practically everything of any value had been removed. It was all part of the general scheme of things in the gambling joint. Practical

documents that spilled out from some letter files on the floor, but as far as I

ff when the other paraphernalia was removed so that it cou

n by a back way and we followed it, l

d had bent down to pick it up. An electric pocket flashlight which one of the men had picked up disclosed und

urriedly. "I. O. U.'s for various amounts and all initialed-for several hundred thousand

r with a slip in order to separat

ing them up and they seeme

amazed as the sum crept on upwar

're cancelled?" interjec

as I now bent over to do so I saw t

d settled the gamblin

quent. Forbes, his own fortune gone, had gambled until rescued by his friend. Even that had not been sufficient to curb his mania. He had kept right on, hoping in

to pay his losses by marrying a girl with a fortune? Forbes wa

t had ended so disastrously for him. The more I learned of what had been taking place, the more I saw that Warrington stood out as a gentleman. Undoubtedly Violet Winslow had heard, had been informed by some kind unknown of

a train of pure speculation to the

after a momentary excursion from which he returned still blinking from the effects of the flashlight powders which his photographer had been using freely. "After we

rs into his pocket and now w

t doesn't shed any light on the one remaining prob

ttered back yard under the guidance of Dillon's men who had been sent around that way netted us nothing in the way of information. T

erplexed, and he remark

a look at

depths we quickly discovered, at the rear, a sheet-iron door. Battering it down was the work of but a moment for the little ram. Beyond

a small dynamite cartridge, and the walls had been caved in. It was impossible to foll

New York, but the gamblers had managed to sl