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WITHIN THELAW By MARVIN DANA FROM THE PLAY OF BAYARD VEILLER Copyright, 1913, by the H. K. Ply company. SYNOPSIS Mary Turner, a department store dark. Is sentenced to prison for three years for a theft she did not commit Edward Gilder, owner of the department store, consents to see Mary before she goes to prison, expecting her to confess. Mary protests her Innocence to Gilder and begs hin to pay better wages to his clerks to save them from temptation. ÄTter thre3 ~years~Tn prison^Miry is freed, but the police prevent her holding positions. She jumps Into the river to end her life, but Is rescued by Joe Garson, a forger. Mary forms a partnership with Garson and his gan g, by which they mulct rich victims In a legal manner, keeping "with* In the law." Mary Is warr\ed by the police to leave town after s he has formed the acquaint ance of Richard Gilder, her former em ployer's son. Helen Morris, the girl who had commit ted the theft for which Mary was Impris oned, sees Mary and confesses her guilt. Mary marries Dick Glider without ,hls father's knowledge and then refuses ts sail for Europe with him. Joe Garson, against Mary's protest, agrees with Eddie Griggs, another crook, to help commit a burglary in Glider's home. Edward Gilder sees his son's bride and tries to induce her to give up her hus band. Dick refuses to leave her even when she tells him she is an ex-convict. Inspector Burke calls on Gilder and tells him that a burglary at his home that night has been arranged through Griggs, a stool pigeon, to trap Mary Turner and her gang. CHAPTER XIII. The Burglary at Gilder's. T HE entrance of the butler brought the inspector's thoughts back to the matter In hand. "My man," he said authorita tively, "I want you to go up to the root and open the scuttle. You'll find some men waiting up there. Bring 'em down here. «.They're police offi cers. You get 'em down here, and then you go to bed and stay there till morning. Understand?" The butler looked at his master for guidance. Receiving a nod, he said: "Very well, sir." "How do you know they're going to break into the house tonight"" Gilder demanded of Burke, "or do you only think they're going to break into the bouse?" "I know they are. I fixed it" "You did?" "Sure; did it through a stool pigeon." "Ob, an Informer!" Glider interrupt ed, a little doubtfully. "Yes," Burke agreed; "stool pigeon is the police name for him. Really, he's the vilest thing that crawls." "But if you think that" Gilder ex postulated, "why do you have any thing to do with that sort of person?" "Because it's good business," the in spector replied. "We know he's a spy tnd a traitor and that every time be comes near us we ought to use a dis infectant But we deal with him just the same because we have to. Now, the stool pigeon in this trick is a swell English crook. He went to Garson yesterday with a scheme to rob your house. He tried out Mary Turner, too, but she told Garson to leave it alone. But be met Griggs afterward and agreed to pull it off. Griggs got word to me that it's coming off tonight, and so, you see, Mr. Gilder, that's how I know." "I see," Gilder admitted without any enthusiasm. "But why do you have your men come down over the roof?" "It wasn't safe to bring them in the front way. it's a cinch the house le being watched. I wish you would let me have your latch key. I want to come back and make this collar my self." "Bat why not stay, now that you are here?" "Suppose some of them saw me come in? There wouldn't be anything doing until after they saw me go out again." The hall door opened, and the butler re-entered the room. Behind him came Cassidy and two other detectives in plain clothes. At a word from his master the disturbed Thomas with drew. "Now," Burke went on briskly as the door closed behind the servant, "where could these men stay out of sight until they're needed?" There followed a little discussion which ended in the selection of a storeroom at the end of the passage on the ground floor. "And now, Mr. Gild«'," the inspec tor said energetically, "I'm going to give you the same tip I gave your man. Go to bed and stay there." "But the boy," Gilder protested. "What about him? He's the *m«h of Importance to me." "If he says anything more about go ing to Chicago just you let him go. that's all! It's the best place tor him tor the next few days." "You're in charge here," Burke calf to Cassidy, "and I bold you T"wi a Na. I'm coming back to gs| this f. and ru call ■ storeroom out there and don't make a move till you hear from me, unless by any chance things go wrong and you get a call from Griggs. He's got a whistle, and he'll use it if necessary. Got that straight?" Cassidy declared an entire understanding of the direc tions. As the -men left the room Burke turned again io Gilder. "Just one thing more," he said. "Aft er I've gone I want you to stay up for a half hour anyhow, with the lights burning. Do yon see? I want to be sure to give the Turner woman time to get here while that gang is at work." Gilder scrupulously followed the di rections of the police inspector. Un easily he had remained in the library until the allotted time was elapsed. He fidgeted from place to place, his mind heavy with distress under the shadow that threatened to blight the life of his cherished son. Finally, with a sense of relief he put out the lights and went to his chamber. His thoughts were most with his son. and ever as he thought of Dick his fury waxed against the woman who had enmeshed the boy in her plotting « m Mary Was Utterly Wretched. for vengeance on himself. And into his thoughts now crept a doubt, one that alarmed his sense of justice. A horrible suspicion that be had misjudg ed Mary Turner crept into his brain and would not out He fought it with all the strentgth of him, and that was much, but ever it abode there. Mary Turner herself, too, was in a condition utterly wretched, and for the same cause—Dick Gilder. That source of the father's suffering was hers as well. She had won her ambition of years—revenge on the man who had sent her to prison. And now the joy of It was a torture, for the puppet of her plans, the son. bad suddenly be come the chief thing In her life. She had taken it for granted that he would leave her after he came to know that her marriage to him was only a device to bring shame on his father. Instead he loved her. That fact seem ed the secret of her distress. He loved her. More, he dared believe, and to assert boldly, that she loved him. Had he acted otherwise the matter w*ould have been simple enough. But be loved heo-loved her still, though he knew the shame that had clouded her life, knew the motive that had led her to accept him as a husband. More—by a sublime audacity he declared that she loved him. There came a thrill in her heart each time she thought of that—that she loved him. The idea was monstrous, of course, and yet— Here, as always, she broke off, a hot flush blazing in her cheeks. Mary Turner was Just ready for bed when a note came by a messenger who waited for no answer, as he told the yawning maid. As Mary read the roughly scrawled message, she was caught in the grip of terror. The man who had saved her from death had yielded to temptation. As he had saved her so she must save him. She hurried into the gown she had just pnt off. Then she went to the tele phone book and searched for the num ber of Gilder's house. • •**••• A few moments before Maty Turner received the note from the hands of the sleepy maid one of the leaves a tfsnat Pa ! üite of the octagonal window to the library of Richard Gilder's town house swung open under the persuasive influence of a thin rod of steel, cunningly need, and Joe Garson stepped confidently into the dark room. For a apace he rested motionless, listening intently. Reassured, he drew out an electric torch end set it glow ing. a Utile disk of light touched hero and there about the room, traveling very swiftly and in methodical cir cles. Satisfied by the survey, Garson crossed to the hall door, where he lis tened for any sound of life without and found none. The door into the passage that led to the storeroom where the detectives waited next en gaged his businessUke attention. And here again there was naught to pro voke his suspicion. It seemed to him that everything was in readiness for the coining of his associates. There remained only to give them the signal In the room around the corner where they waited at a telephone. He seated himself in Gilder's chair at the desk and drew the telephone to him. "Give me 999 Bryant," he said. There was a little wait Then fin an swer in a voice he knew came over the wire. Garson picked up a penholder from the desk and began tapplfig lightly on the rim of the transmitter. It was a code message in Morse. In the room around the corner the tapping sounded clearly, ticking out the message that the way was free for the thieves' com lng. For a final safeguard Garson search ed for and found the telephone bell box and unscrewed the bells, which he placed on the desk. Ho then took his pistol from his hip pocket and thrust it Into the right side pocket of his coat Once again, now, he produced the elec trie torch and lighted it aa he extin guished the lamp on the table. He then went to the door into the hall, opened It and, leaving it ajar, made his way in silence to the outer doorway. The doors there were freed of their bolts, and one of them awnng wide. So nicely had the affair been timed that hardly was the door open before the three men slipped in and stood mute and motionless in the hall while Garson refastened the doors. Then Garson walked quickly back to the library. Behind him, with steps as noiseless as his own, came the three men. When all were gathered to the U brary Garson abut the hall door, touched the button in the wall beside it and the chandelier threw its radiant light on the group. Griggs was in evening clothes, seem ing a very elegant yonng gentleman Indeed, but hia two companions were of grosser type aa far as appearances went—one. Dacey, thin and wiry, with a ferret face; the other, Chicago Red, a brawny ruffian, whose stolid features nevertheless exhibited something of half sullen good nature. "Everything all right so far," Garson said rapidly. Hs tamed to Griggs and pointed toward the heavy hangings that shrouded the octagonal window. "Are those-the things ws want?" he demanded. (To be continued.) Commissioners' Proceedings (Continued from last week.) Beginning at a point In the center of the main channel of the Missouri River where it is intersected by the Montana-Dakota State line thence run ning south along the said state line to the north boundary line of town ship (18) north, thence westerly along the south boundary line of town ship nineteen (19N£orth, to the south west corner of township nineteen (19) north, range fifty seven (57) east of the Montana Principal Meridian, thence north to the northwest corner of township twenty (20) north, range fifty seven (57) east, thence west along the south boundary line of town ship twenty one (21) north, range fifty six (56) east, to the southwest corner of said township twenty one (21) north, range fifty six (56) east, thence north along the west bound ary line of said township twenty one (21) to the northwest comer of said township, thence west along the south boundary line of townships twenty two (22) north, ranges fifty five (55), fifty four (54) and fifty three (53) east of the Montana Principal Mer idian to the southwest comer of town ship twenty two (22) north, range fifty three (53) east, thence north along the west boundary line of said township twenty two <22) north, range fifty three (63) east to the northwest comer of the said town ship, thence westerly along the south boundary line of township twenty three (23) north, ranges fifty two (52) and (51) east to the southwest cor ner of said township twenty three (23) north, range fifty one (51) east, thence north along the west bound ary of said township to the northwest comer of said township, thence west erly along the south boundary Une of townships twenty tour (24) north, ranges fifty (50), forty ntoe ( 49 ), forty eight (48),forty seven (47) for ty six (40) and forty five (46) east of the Montana Principal Meridian to the aonthwest corner of township twenty four (24) north, range forty five (46) east, thence northerly along the west boundary line of said township to the northwest corner of of L. A. 26 of range forty five (46) east, where the same intersects with the Sixth Stan dard Parallel North, thence easterly along the line of the Sixth Standard Parallel North to the southwest cor ner of township twenty five (25) north, range forty five (46) east of the Montana Principal Meridian, thence northerly along the west bound ary line of townships twenty five (25) and twenty six (26) north, range for ty five (45) east of the Montana Prin cipal Meridian to its intersection with the center line of the main channel of the Missouri River, thence north easterly along the ceater of the main channel of the Missouri River to the point of beginning. Be and the same is hereby formed, created and organized into a new county of the state of Montana; that the said new county shall be a county of the seventh class; and that the name of said county shall be "RICH LAND COUNTY". Be it further Resolved, that the town of Sidney, in said Richland County shall be and is hereby designated as the county seat of said county; Be it further Resolved, that the fol lowing named persons are duly elect ed officers of said county: For State Senator, John P. Mead ors. For State Representative, W. S. South wick. For Sheriff, George W v Arkle. For County Treasurer, M. J. Rooney. For County Clerk and Recorder, Ed mund Bronson. For County Assessor, M. L. Hof stat. For Clerk of District Court, Guy L. Rood. For County Attorney, Herbert H. Hoar. For County Superintendent of Schools, Miss Bell Hoyt. For County Surveyor, Orlando J. Lacy. For County Coroner, George E. Am our. For Public Administrator, J. A. Starner. For County Commissioner., John Bawden, W. B. Gibbs and C. P. Collins. That the County Clerk be, and he is hereby instructed to issue to the above named persons the proper cer tificates of election; Be it further Rqçolved, that the County Clerk be, and he is hereby authorized to file with the secretary of the state of Montana, a certified copy of this resolution. Resolution passed and approved this 26th day of May, A. D. 1914. ANDREW LARSON, Chairman of the Board of County Com missioners of Dawson County, Mon tana. W. K. ADAMS, L. C: FALTERMEYER, County Commissioners of Dawson County, Montana. Attest: R. L. WYMAN, Clerk. Whereas, the returns of the elec tion for the incorporation of the town of Fairview, had been duly filed with the County Clerk as required by law, and the Board at this time having completed the canvassing of the re turns made by the judges of elec tion held May the 12th, 1914, to de termine the question "Shall the town of Fairview be Incorporated?", find as follows: For incorporation as a town, 57 votes, Against incorporation, one vote, total votes cast, 58. It is therefore ordered and declared that Fairview is incorporated as a Town, and the Clerk is instructed to publish for thirty days in a news paper published within the limits of Fairview, a notice that an election will be held for the purpose of elect ing the following officers: One Mayor. Two Aldermen for each Ward. The polls of which election will be open at 8 o'clock in the morning and continue open until 6 o'clock to the afternoon of Saturday, July the 26th, A. D. 1914, at the old town hall to Ward one; Sshool House, Ward two; and the Midland Lumber Company to Ward three by the qualified electors of the respective Wards. Oo motion the following Judges were appointed: For Ward one, William Newell, W. W. Newlon, Byron Yates. Clerks, W. W. Knickeberg, Joseph Pisor. For Ward two, Judges, R. J, Cowles, L. E. Richardson, F. K. Escher. For Clerks, George Berry, and C. A. Robinson. For Ward three, Judges, F. R. Whaley, Frank Blauchett, Andy Holt Clerks, A. M. Gardner, F. M. Shafer. The minutes of the present «»w Itmi having been read and approved the Board adjourned sine die. STATE OF MONTANA j I SB. County of Dawson | I, R. L. Wyman, County Clerk and Clerk of the Board of County Com missioners do hereby certify tha t the foregoing is a ftUi, true and cor rect report of the proceedings of the 'Board of County Commissioners to special session May he 25h and 26 th, 1914. Witness my hand and seal of Dawson County, this 2fth day of May, A. D. 1214. R. 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