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He had been walking along the street the previous evening thinking of nothing in particular; but with eyes and ears alert as becomes a successful police officer, when he had espied twoupon the opposite sidewalk

There was soiant fraeant Flannagan melted into the shadows of a store entrance and waited until the two should have come closer

They were directly opposite hi felloas Billy Byrne, and there was a five-hundred-dollar reward out for him

And then the two turned and disappeared down the stairway that led to the underground restaurant Sergeant Flannagan saw Byrne's coan stepped from the doorway to cross the street after thean had seen either of Billy Byrne or his companion The trail had ceased at the openof the washroom at the rear of the restaurant, and search as he would be had been unable to pick it up again

No one in Kansas City had seen two an had been able to give-- at least no one whoan could unearth

Finally he had been forced to take the Kansas City chief into his confidence, and already a dozensuch sections of Kansas City in which it seemed most likely an escaped an had been out hiress, if any, had been made He had just learned that three suspects had been arrested and aiting to have them paraded before him

When the door swung in and the three were escorted into his presence Sergeant Flannagan gave a snort of disgust, indicative probably not only of despair; but in ahis private opinion of the mental horse power and efficiency of the Kansas City sleuths, for of the three one was a pasty-faced, chestless youth, even then under the influence of cocaine, another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, while the third was unquestionably a Chinaeant Flannagan's desire toward bitter sarcas forth into a vitriolic arraign, specifically, the Kansas City detective bureau, when the telephone bell at the chief's desk interrupted hiht, so he waited

The chief listened for a fewa fat hand over the transan