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"He's just gone to Cable's So? Do you know?"

"I'll be there in fifteen minutes," was all that Droom would say

Elias' memory could not carry him back to the time when he had hired a cab A cab was one of the luxuries he had not cultivated One can only i a passing hansoreater the surprise he must have felt when he claallop to a certain place in Wells Street Ten minutes later he was attired in dry, warain, bound for Bansemer's home What he said to James Bansemer on that memorable occasion need not be repeated It is only necessary to say that his host was bitterly iht prove serious They could only speculate as to what had transpired between David Cable and his wife out there by the sea wall, but it was enough for them to know that a crisis was at hand

"We'll see what thepapers say about the affair," said Banse papers were full of the sensational robbery, the prominence of the victim and the viciousness of the attack Elias Drooy little restaurant near his horinned appreciably over the share of glory that fell to hireat mystery

He had observed with relief that the name of James Bansemer was not mentioned The reports from the bedside of the robber's victim were most optimistic She was delirious from the effects of the shock, but no serious results were expected The great headlines on the first page of the paper he was reading set his estion of truth in them

The reader of this narrative, who knows the true facts in the case, is doubtless more interested in the movements and emotions of David Cable than in the surmises of others It would be difficult, for a certainty, to ask one to put himself in Cable's place and to experience the sensations of that unhappythe dark shore of the lake Perhaps much will be taken on faith if the writer siitive finally slunk from the weeds and refuse of as then called "The District of Lake Michigan"--"Streeterville," in local parlance--to find hi and terror-struck in the bleak east end of Chicago Avenue It was not until then that he secured control of his nerves and resorted to the stealth and cunning of the real criminal