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•" 7; ' -V / : r '1- ^S"> ^ :'vrr\ *s / ' * iV •- '*v*:V- ^:v^rN\ : M*HENRY PLAINDEALER, JTHENRY. ' • > ' • ' " s y * " » • , - r. ; j*r> i fc?V &y *k:. •IT The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama | By ARTHUR R REEVE II The Well-Knotcn Novelist ani tht II Creator of ih* "Craig Kennedy" Stories || Presented in Collaboration With the Pathe Pliyers and the Eclcctic Film Company Copyright, 1914. by the Star Company All Foreign Rights Reserved SYNOPSIS. After the finding of Wu Fang's body and Kennedy's disappearance a submarine appears trie following morningr on the bay A man plunges overboard from it and swims ashore. It is the entrance of Mar- cius Del Mar into America. At the Dodge home one of Wu Fang s men is trying to obtain information of Kennedy and the lost torpedo. His plan is blocked by Del Mar's arrival, who also succeeds in win­ ning Els ine's confidence. I^ater she 1s warned by a little ol.l man to be careful. Del Mar's mission at the Dodge house was to locate and recover the torpedo. He would have been successful had it not been for Elaine? dog. Rusty, who dug it from the flower pot, while. Del Mar and Elaine were talking only a few feet away. Rustv carried the torpedo to the attic. The little oSd man meets Del Mar at the Dodge home. They draw guns together, gases from the exploded shells of the old man's revolver overcome Del Mar and Elaine, and the old man of mystery escapes. TWENTY-SIXTH EPISODE THE MASQUERADE BALL. So confident was Elaine that Ken­ nedy was still alive that she would not admit to herself what to the rest of us seemed obvious. She even refused to accept Aunt Jo­ sephine's hints and decided to give a masquerade ball which she had planned as the last event of the sea­ son before she closed the Dodge town house and opened her country house on the shore of Connecticut. It was shortly after the strange ap­ pearance of the fussy old gentleman that I dropped in one afternoon to find Elaine addressing invitations, while Aunt Josephine helped her. As we chatted, 1 picked up one of the pile and mechanically contemplated the address: "M. Del Mar, Hotel La Costa, New York City." aI don't like that fellow," I re­ marked, shaking my head dubiously. "Oh, you're -- jealous, Walter," laughed Elaine, taking the envelope away from me and piling it again with the others. Thus it was that in the morning's mail, Del Mar, along with the rest of us, received a neatly engraved little Invitation: Miss Elaine Dodge Requests the Pleasure of Your Presence at the Masquerade Bali to Be Given at Her Residence on Friday Evening, June 1st. "Good!" he exclaimed, reaching for the telephone, "I'll go." • * • • • • * In a restaurant in the white light district two of those who had been en­ gaged in the preliminary plot to steal Kennedy's wireless torpedo model, the young woman stenographer who had betrayed her trust and the man to whom she had passed the model out of the window in Washington, were seated at a table. So secret had been the relations of all those in the plot that one group did not know the othei^ and the strangest -methods of communication had been adopted. The man removed a cover from a dish. Underneath, perhaps withouf even the waiter's knowledge, was a Mte. "Here are the orders at last," he whispered to the girl, unfolding and reading the note. "Look. 'The model of the torpedo is somewhere in her house. Go tonight to the ball as a masquerader and search for it.'" "Oh, splendid!" exclaimed the girl. "I'm crazy for a little society after this grind. Pay the check and let's get out and choose our costumes." The man paid the check and they left hurriedly. Half an hour later they were at a costumer's shop choos­ ing their disguises, Loth careful to get the fullest masks that would not ex­ cite suspicion. * * * * * * * It was the night of the masque­ rade. During the afternoon Elaine had been thinking more than ever of Ken­ nedy. It all seemed unreal to her. More th^n once she stopped to look at his photograph. Several times she checked herself on the point of tears. "No," she said to herself with a sort of grim determination. "No--he 4s alive. He will come back to me-- he will." And yet she had a feeling of ter­ rific loneliness which even her most powerful efforts could not throw off. She was determined to go through with the ball, now that she had start­ ed It, but she was really glad when it came time to dress, for even that took her mind from her brooding. As Marie finished helping her put on a very effective and conspicuous costume, Aunt Josephine entered her dressing room. "Are you ready, my dear?" she asked, adjusting the mask which she carried so that no one would recognize her as Martha Wanhington. "In Just a minute, auntie," answered Elaine, trying hard to put out of her mind how Craig would have liked her dress. Somewhat earlier, in my own apart­ ment, I had been arraying myself as Boum-Boum and modestly admiring the imitation 1 made of a circus clown as I did a couple of comedy steps be­ fore the mirror. But I was not really so light-heart­ ed. I could not help thinking of what this night might have been if Ken­ nedy had been alive, indeed, I was glad to take up my white mask, throw a long coat over my outlandish cos­ tume and hurry off in my waiting car in order to forget everything that re? minded me of him in the apartment. Already a continuous stream of guests was trickling in from carriages at the curb to the Dodge door, ^hile a gap­ ing crowd surrounded the canopy on the sidewalk. As I entered the ballroom it was really a brilliant and picturesque as­ semblage. Of course I recognized Elaine in spite of her mask, almost immediately. Characteristically, she was talking to the one most striking figure on the floor, a tall man in red--a veritable Mephistopheles. As the music started. Elaine and his Satanic majesty laugh­ ingly fox-trotted off, but were not lost to me in the throng. I soon found myself talking to a young lady in spotted domino. She seemed to have a peculiar fascination for me yet she did not monopolize all my attention. As we trotted past the door. 1 could see down the hall. Jen­ nings was still admitting late arrivals, and I caught a glimpse of one cos­ tumed as a gray friar, his cowl over his head and his eyes masked. Chatting, we had circled about to the conservatory. A number of cou­ ples were there and, through the palms, I 8aw Elaine and Mephisto laughingly make their way. As my spotted domino partner and I swung around agajfje, I happened to catch another glj^pse of the gray friar. He was vm. dancing, but walk­ ing, or rather stalking, about the edge of the room, gazing about as if search­ ing for someone. In the conservatory, Elaine and Me­ phisto had seated themselves in the breeze of an open window, somewhat in the shjtdow. "You are Miss Dodge," he said ear­ nestly. "You knew me?" she laughed, "And you?" He raised his mask, disclosing the handsome face and fascinating eyes of Del Mar. "I hope you don't think I'm here in character," he laughed easily, as she started a bit. "I--I--well, I didn't think it was you." she blurted out. "Ah--then there is someone else you care more to dance with?" "No--no one--no." "I may hope, then?" He bad*moved closer and almost touched her hand. The pointed hood of the gray friar in the palms showed that at last he saw what he sought. "No--no. Please--excuse me," she murmured rising and hurrying back to the ballroom. A subtle smile spread over the gray friar's masked face. Of course I had known Elaine. Whether she knew me at once I don't know or whether it was an accident, but she approached me as I paused in the dance a moment with my domino girl. "From the--sublime--to the ridicu­ lous," she cried excitedly. My partner .gave her a sbarp glance. "You will excuse me?" she said, and, aB I bowed, almost ran off to the con­ servatory, leaving Elaine to dance off with me. * * • • • * • Del Mar. quite surprised at the sud­ den flight of Elaine from his side, fol­ lowed more slowly through the palms. As he did PO he passed a Mexican attired in brilliant native costume. At a sign from Del Mar he paused arid received a small package which Del Mar slipped to him, then passed on as though nothing had happened. The keen eyes of the gray friar, however, had caught the little action and he nuietly slipped out after the Mexican bolero Just then the domino girl hurried into the conservatory. "What's do­ ing?" she asked eagerly. "Keep close to me," whispered Del Mar, as she nodded and they left the conservatory, not apparently in com­ pany. Upstairs, away from the gayety of the ballroom, the bolero made his way until he came to Elaine's room, dimlyfc lighted. With a quick glance about, he entered cautiously, closed the door, and approached a closet which he opened. There was a safe built into the wall. As he stooped over, thfe man un­ wrapped the package Del Mar had handed him and took out a curious lit­ tle instrument. Inside was a dry bat­ tery and a most peculiar instrument, something like a little flat telephone transmitter, yet attached by wires to ear pieces that fitted over the head after the manner of those of a wire­ less detector. He adjusted the headpiece and held the flat instrument against the safe close to the combination which he be­ gan to turn slowly. It was a, bur glar's microphone, used for picking combination locks. As the combina­ tion turned, a slight sound was made when the proper number cam* oppo­ site the working point. Imperceptible ordinarily to even the most sensitive oar, to an ear trained it was com­ paratively easy to recognize the fall of the, tumblers over,this sensitive lit­ tle instrument. As he worked, the door behind him opened softly and the gray friar en­ tered, closing.it and moving noiseless­ ly over back of the shelter of a big mahogany highboy, around which he could watch. At last the safe was opened. Rapid­ ly the man went through its contents. "Confound it!" he muttered. "She didn't put it here--anyhow." The bolero started to close the Bafe when he heard a noise in the room and looked curiously back of him. Del Mar himself, followed by the domino girl, entered. "I've opened it," whispered the em­ issary stepping out of the closet and meeting them, "but I can't find the--" "Hands up--all of you!" They turned in time to see the gray friar's gun yawning at them. Most politely he lined them up. Still holding his gun ready, he lifted up the mask of the domino girl. "So--It's you?" he grunted. He was about to lift the mask of the Mexican, when the bolero leaped at him. Del Mar piled in. But sounds downstairs alarmed them and the emissary, released, fled quickly with the girl. The gray friar, however, kept his hold on Mephistopheles, as if he had been wrestling with a veritable devil. * • * * * • • Down in the hall, I had again met my domino girl, a few minutes after I had resigned Elaine to another of her numerous admirers. "I thought you deserted me," I said, somewhat piqued. "You deserted me," she parried, nervously. "However, 1*11 forgive you if you'll get me an ice." I hastened to do so. But no sooner had I gone than Del Mar stalked through the hall and went upstairs. My domino girl was watching for him and followed. When I returned with the Ice, I looked about, but she was gone. It was scarcely a moment later, how­ ever, that I saw her hurry downstairs, accompanied by the Mexican bolero. I stepped forward to speak to her, but she almost ran past me without a word. "A nut," I remarked under my breath, pushing back my mask. I started to eat the ice myself, when, a moment later Elaine passed through the hall with a Spanish cavalier. 1 "Oh, Walter, here you are," she laughed. "I've been looking all over for you. Thank you very much, sire," she bowed with mock civility to the cavalier. "It was only one dance, you "Oh--then that is what the--" Elaine checked herself. She had been about to hand the note to Del Mar when an idea seemed to oome to her. Instead, she crumpled It up and thru81 it iilto her bosom. On the street the bolero And the domino girl were hurrying away as fast as they could. Meanwhile, the gray friar had over­ come Del Mar, had bound and gagged him and thrust him into the closet Then he wrote the note and! laid it, with a rose from a vase, on Elaine's dressing table before he, too, left the place. More than evqr J. was at a loss to make it out. " s v " * * • • . • » - * $ It was the day aft€r the masquerade ball that a taxicab drove up to the Dodge house and a very trim but not overdressed young lady was an­ nounced as "Miss Bertnoldi." "Miss Dodge?" she inquired as Jen­ nings held open the portieres and she entered the library where Elaine and Aunt Josephine were. If Elaine had only known, it was the domino girl of the night before who handed her a note and sat down, looking about so demurely, while Elaine read: * - * ; • . My Dear Mlsa Dodge; •; * The bearer. Miss Bertholdl, Is an oper­ ative of mine. I would appreciate It if you would employ her in some capacity in your house, as I have reason to believe that certain foreign agents will soon make another attempt to find Kennedy's lost torpedo model. Sincerely. M. DEL, MAR. Elaine looked up from reading the note. Miss Bertholdl was good to look at, and Elaine liked pretty girls about her. "Jennings," she ordered, "call Marie." To the butler and her maid, Elaine gave the most careful instructions re­ garding Mies Bertholdl. "She cata help you finish the packing, first," she con­ cluded. The girl thanked her and went out with Jennings and Marie, asking Jen­ nings to pay her taxicab driver with money she gave him, which he did, bringing her grip into the house. Later in the day, Elaine had both Marie and Bertholdl carrying armfuls of hsr dresses from the closets In her room up to the attic, where the last of her trunks were being packed. On one of the many trips, Bertholdl came alone into the attic, her arms full as usual. Before her were two trunks, very much alike, open and nearly packed. She laid her armful of clothes on a chair near by and pulled one of the trunks forward. On the door lay the trays of both trunks already packed. Bertholdl began packing her burden in one trunk which was marked in big white letters, "E. Dodge." Down in Elaine's room at the time Jennings entered. "The expressman m Del Mar Was Lying on the Floor, Bound and*Qagged, Before the Open 8afe. know. Please let me talk to Boum- Boum." The cavalier bowed reluctantly and left us. f "What are you doing here alone?" she asked, taking off her own mask. "How warm it is." Before I could reply, I heard some­ one coming downstairs back of me, but not in time to turn. "Elaine's dressing table," a voice whispered in my ear. I turned suddenly. It was the gray friar. Before I could even reach out to grasp his robe, he was gone. "Another nut!" I exclaimed, invol­ untarily. 'Why, what did he say?" asked Elaine. 'Something about your dressing table." "My dressing table?" she repeated. We ran quickly up the steps. Elaine's room Bhowed every evidence of having been the scene of a struggle, as she went over to the table. There she picked up a rose and under it a piece of paper on which were some words printed with pencil roughly. "Look!" she cried, as 1 read with her: "Do honest assistants search safes? Let no one see this but Jameson." "What does it mean?" I asked. "My safe!" she cried, moving to a closet. As she opened the door. Ima­ gine our surprise at seeing Del Mar lying on the floor, bound and gagged before the open safe. "Get my scis­ sors on the dresser." cried Elaine. I did so, hastily cutting the cords that bound Del Mar. "What does it all mean?" asked Elaine as he rose and stretched him­ self. Still clutching his throat, as if it hurt. Del Mar choked, "I found a man a foreign kgent, searching vthe safe. But he overcame me and escaped." TAKE TOWELS AS SOUVENIRS to Treasury Department at Washington Carry Them Away by the Dozens. It is quite a comedown from mat- ..: .tens of state to the domestic, not to * Ibay intimate, matter of towel service r !t*' • -In the departments of Washington. Tet the «ubject is not without its in­ terest from the light which it sheds «pon what we may style the minor t of the public, the San Fran- >• • . . . cisco Argonaut remarks. The towel er building. It is now believed that bill of the big treasury department they are taking the towels--consplcu- has been running into awful figures. The towels do not stay put. Dozens are swiped every day. The clerks, many of whom are women, were sus­ pected at first, but they indignantly protested innocence, and the charge could not be proved. Then visitors were detected pocketing the towels. Tourists, by reason of the central lo­ cation of, the treasury and of the interest to sightseers, visit the treas­ ury in larger number* than any oth- ously marked as belonging to the de­ partment--for souvenirs. By way of meeting this drain upon the public purse the treasury department con­ templates installing a system of hot- air drying. The device is at once sim­ ple and efficient. The hand drying machine is covered by a hood into which the washed and still damp hand is placed, while the owner of the hand places his foot upon a small pedal near the float?.. • soft whirring for the trunks is here, Miss Elaine," he announced. "Is he? I wonder whether they are all ready?" Elaine replied hurrying out of the room. "Tell him to wait." In the attic, Bertholdl ( was still at work, keeping her eyes open to exe­ cute the mission on which Del Mar had sent her. Rusty, forgotten in the excitement by Jennings, had roamed at will through the house "and seemed quite interested. For this was the trunk be­ hind which he had his cache of treas­ ures. As Bertholdl started to move behind the trunk, Rusty could stand it no longer. He darted ahead of her j.nto his hiding place. Among the dog bis­ cuit and bones was the torpedo model which he had dug up from the palm pot in the conservatory. He seized it in his mouth and turned to carry it off. There, in his path, was his enemy, the new girl. Quick as a flash, she saw what it was Rusty had, and grabbed at it. "Get out!" she ordered, looking at her prize in triumph and turning it over and over in her hands. At that moment she heard Elaine on the stairs. What should she do? She must hide it. She looked about. There was the tray, packed? and lying on the floor near the trunk marked "E. Dodge." She thrust it hastily Into the tray, pulling a garment over it. '.'Nearly through?" panted Elaine. "Yes, Miss Dodge." "Then please tell the expressman to come up." Bertholdl hesitated, chagrined. Yet there was nothing to do but obey. She looked at the trunk by the tray to fix it in her'mind, then went down­ stairs. As she left the room, Elaine lifted the tray into the trunk and tried to sound follows and the experimenter's fingers, palms and wrists undergo the sensation of having been caught in a Kansas zephyr. The hand dryer stance like a clergyman pronouncing a benediction, for the space of ten sec­ onds. Then he withdraws his bands, and after rubbing-them together, fiads them perfectly dry. close the lid. But the tray was too high. She looked puzzled. On the floor waa another tray almost identi­ cal. "The wrong trunk," she smiled to herself, liftlng-the tray out and put­ ting the other one in, while she placed -the first tray with the torpedo con­ cealed in the other, unmarked,, trunk where it belonged.. Then she closed the first trunk. A moment later the expressman en­ tered, with Bertholdl. • "You may take that one," indicated Elaine. "Miss Dodge, here's something else to go in," said Bertholdl in despera­ tion, picking up her dress. it "Never mind. Put it in tft® othe* trunk." Bertholdl was baffled, but she man­ aged to control herself. She must get word to Del Mar about that trunk marked "E. Dodge." Late that afternoon, before a cheap restaurant, might have been seen old old friend who had posed as Bailey and as the Mexican. He entered the restaurant and made his way to the first of a row of booths on one side. "Hello," h\e nodded to a girl In the booth. Bertholdl nodded back and he took his seat. She had begged an hour or two off on some pretext. Outside the restaurant, a heavily bearded man had been standing look­ ing intently at nothing in particular when Bartholdi entered. As Bailey came along, he followed and took the next booth, his hat pulled over his eyes. In a moment he was listening, his ear close up to the partition. ' "Well, what luck?" asked Bailey. "Did you get a clue?" "I had the torpedo model in my hands," she replied excitedly telling t;he story. "It is in a trunk marked "E. Dodge." All this and more the bearded stranger drank in eagerly. A moment later Bailey and Bar­ tholdi left the booth and went out of the restaurant, followed cautiously by the stranger. On the street the two emissaries of Del Mar stopped a mo­ ment to talk. "All right, I'll telephone him," she said as they parted in opposite direc­ tions. The stranger took an instant -to make up his mind, then followed the girl. She continued down the street until she came to a store with tele­ phone booths. The bearded stranger followed still, into the next booth, but did not call a number. He had his ear to the wall. He could hear her call Del Mar, and although he could not hear Del Mar's answers, she repeated enough, for him to catch the drift. Finally, she came out, and the stranger, instead of following her further, took the oth­ er direction hurriedly. * « * * * • • Del Mar himself received the news with keen excitement. Quickly he gave instructions and prepared to leave his rooms. A short time later his car pulled up before the La Costa and, in a long duster and cap, Del Mar jumped in and was off. Scarcely had his car swung up the avenue when, from an alleyway down the street from the hotel, the chug- chug of a motorcycl 3 sounded. A bearded man, his face further hidden by a pair of goggles, ran out with his machine, climbed on and followed. On out into the country Del Mar's car sped. At every turn the motorcy­ cle dropped back a bit, observed the turn, then crept up and took it, too. So they went for some time. * * * • • • * On: the level of the Grand Central where the trains left for the Connecti­ cut Bhora where Elaine's summer home was located, Bailey was now edging his way through the late crowd down the platform. He paused before the baggage car just as one of the bag­ gage motor trucks rolled up loaded high with trunks and bags. He stepped back as the men loaded the baggage on the car, watching carefully. As they tossed on one trunk marked *'E. Dodge," he turned with a stlbtle look and walked away. Finally he squirmed around to the other plat­ form. No one was looking and he mounted the rear of the baggage car and opened the door. There was the baggage man sitting by the side door, his back to Bailey. Bailey closed the door softly and squeezed behind a pile of trunks and bags. * * * * * * • Finally Del Mar reached a spot on the railroad where there were both a curve and a grade ahead. He stopped his car and got out. Down the road the bearded and gog­ gled motorcyclist stopped just in time to avoid observation. To make sure, he drew a pocket field glass and lev­ eled it ahead. "Wait here," ordered Del Mar. "I'll call when I want you." Back on the road the bearded cy­ clist could see Del Mar move down the track though he could not hear the directions. It was not necessary, how­ ever. He dragged his machine into the bushes, hid it, and hurried down the road on foot. Del Mar's chauffeur was waiting idly at the wheel when suddenly the cold nose of a revolver was stuck under his chin. "Ifot a word--and hands up--or I'll let the moonlight through you," growled out a harsh voice. Nevertheless the chauffeur man­ aged to lurch out of the car and the bearded stranger, whose revolver it was, found that be would not dare to shoot. Del Mar was not far enough away to risk it The chauffeur flung himself on him and they struggled fiercely, rolling over and over in the dust of the road. But the bearded stranger had a grlp^ phrenetic races as that at the Indianap­ olis speedway, it Is not to be denied that to travel. BOO miles in a motorcar at 90 miles an hour is a supreme test of human endurance and the tensile strength of materials as well. Spec­ tacular featB may be decried by those interested in the sober scientific de­ velopment of aviation. Yet even from the pyrotechnic melodrama of the "Bfrdman, with his startling glides and spirals, the mystery of blind vortices Cyclonic Humanity. Whether one approves of the auto­ mobile hippodrome or not, in view of ! and maelstroms, baffling currents and the personal hasard incident U|l Bach j eddies in the empyrean^ U more clear; of steel and managed to get his lin­ gers about the chauffeur's throat as an added insurance against a cry for help. He choked him literally into insensi­ bility. Then, with a strength that he did not seem to possess, he picked up the limp, blue-faced body and carried it off the rpad and ground the car. * • • * • • * In the baggage car, the baggage man was smoking a surreptitious pipe of powerful tobacco between stations and contemplating the scenery thoughtfully through the open door. As the engine slowed up to take a curve and a grade, Bailey, who had now and then taken a peep out of a little grated window above him, crept out from his hiding place. Already he had slipped a dark silk mask over his face. As he made his way among the trunks and boxes, the train lurched and the baggage man, who had his back to Bailey, heard him catch himself. He turned ahd leaped to his feet. Bailey closed with him instantly. Over and over they rolled. Bailey had already drawn his revolver before he left his hiding place. A shot, how­ ever, would have been .fatal to his part in the p)ans and was only a last resort, for It ^ould have brought the train­ men. Finally Bailey rolled hiB man over and getting his right arm free, dealt the baggage man a fierce blow wltfr the butt of the gun. The train was now pulling slowly up the grade. More'time had been spent in overcoming the baggage man than he expected and Bailey had to work quickly. He dragged the trunk marked E. Dodge" from the pile to the door and glanced out. , * * * * • • • • Just around the curve in the rail­ road Del Mar was waiting, straining his eyes down the track. There was the train, puffing up the grade. As it approached he rose and waved his arms. It was the signal and he waited anxiously. Had his plans been carried out? The train passed. From the baggage car came a trunk catapulted out by a strong arm. It hurtled through the air and landed with its own and the train's momentum. Over it rolled in the bushes, then stopped--unbroken, for Elaine had had it designed to resist even the most violent baggage smasher. Del Mar ran to it. As the tail light of the train disappeared he turned around in the direction from which he had come, placed his two hands to his mouth and shouted. From the side of the road by Del Mar'B car the bearded motorcyclist had just emerged, buttoning the chauf­ feur's clothes and adjusting his gog­ gles to his own face. As he approached the car, he heard a shout. Quickly he tore off the black beard which had been his disguise and tossed it into the grass. Then he drew the coat high up about his neck. All right!" he shouted back, start­ ing along the road. Together vhe and Del Mar managed to scramble up the embankment to the road and, one at each handle of the trunk, they carried it back to the car, piling it in the back. The improvised chauffeur started to take his place at the wheel and Del Mar had his foot on the running board to get beside him, when the now un­ bearded stranger suddenly swung about and struck Del Mar full in the face. It sent him reeling back into j the dust. The engine of the car had been run­ ning and before Del Mar could recover consciousness the stranger had shot the car ahead, leaving Del Mar prone In the roadway. * * » • • * * The train, with Bailey on It, had not gained much speed. y©t it waa a peril­ ous undertaking to leap. Still, it was more so now to remain. The baggage man stirred. It was now a case of murder Or a getaway. Bailey jumped. Scratched and bruised and shaken, he scrambled to his feet in the briers along the track. He staggered up the road, pulled himself together, then hurried back as fast as his barked shins would let him. He came to the spot which he recog­ nized as that where he had thrown off the trunk. He saw the tramped and broken bushes and made for the road. He had not gone far when he saw, far down, Del Mar suddenly attacked and thrown down, apparently by his own chauffeur. Bailey ran forward, but it was too late. The car was gone. As he came up to Del Mar lying out­ stretched in the road, Del |Iar was just recovering consciousness. "What was the matter?" he asked. "Was he a traitor?" He caught Bight of the real chauf­ feur on the ground, stripped. Del Mar was furious. "No," he swore, "It was that confounded gray frirr again, I think. And he has the trunk, too!" * * • * * • • Speeding up the road the former masquerader and motorcyclist stopped at last. Eagerly he leaped put of Del Mar's car and dragged the trunk over the side regardless of the enamel. It was the work of only a moment for him to break the lock with a pocket jimmy. One after another he pulled out and shook the clothes until frocks and gowns and. lingerie lay strewn all about. But there was not a thing in the trunk that even remotely resembled the torpedo model. The stranger scowled. Where was it? (TO BE CONTINUED.) ly understood. Such men as De Pal- ma<£md Resta, Gil Anderson and Coop­ er. are not thinking of the advance­ ment of applied science while they "burn up" lap after lap in a roar of wir.d and dust and hot machinery, but Improvements and developments in t&e motorcar have been one result of their recklessness. Paraguay has valuable forest re­ sources. the most imporjt^nt of which is quebracho, particularly rich in tnn- nin. * DUMBA'S RECALL ASKED BY U. S. FOR STRIKE PLOT;, Lansing Tells American Ambas» to Inform Vienna \ Government. W SOUGHT TO TIE UP U. S. PUNTS Austrian Envoy Told - Secretary State That He Acted on Ordeft Prom His Government--Archi--.^$>£j bald 8ays He Is Innocent. . ' Washington, Sept. 11.--Ambassador Penfield at Vienna was instructed by cable to inform the Austro-Hungarian government that Dr. Constantin Dum- ba no longer is acceptable as an en­ voy to the United States, and to ask for his recall. Secretary Lansing formally an­ nounced the action on Thursday. U. 8, Note to Vienna. Secretary of State Lahsing gave out the following statement: "The department has instructed Am­ bassador Penfield at Vienna to de­ liver to the minister for "foreign af­ fairs the following note: " 'Mr. Constantin Dumba, the Aus­ tro-Hungarian ambassador at Wash­ ington, has admitted that he proposed to his government plans to instigate strikes in American manufacturing plants engaged in the production of munitions of war. The information reached this government through a copy of a letter of the ambassador to his government. The bearer was an American citizen named Archibald, who was traveling under an American passport The ambassador has admit­ ted that he employed Archibald to bear official dispatches from him to his government. " 'By reason of t^e ^dmltted -pur- pose and intent of Mr. Dumba to con­ spire to cripple industries of the peo­ ple of the United States and to inter­ rupt their legitimate trade, and by reason of the flagrant violation of dip­ lomatic propriety in employing an American citizen protected by an American passport as a secret bearer of official dispatches through the lines of an enemy of Austria-Hun­ gary, the president directs me to in­ form your excellency that Mr. Dumba is no longer acceptable to the govern­ ment of the United States as the am­ bassador of his imperial majesty at Washington. " 'Believing that the Imperial and royal government will realize that the government of the United States has no alternative but to request the re­ call of Mr. Dumba on account of his improper conduct, the government of the United States expresses its deep­ est regret that this course has be­ come necessary and assures the Im­ perial and royal government that it sincerely desires to continue the cor­ dial and friendly relations which exist between the United States and Aus­ tria-Hungary.' " "LANSING." ENVOYS SENT HOME IN PAST M Washington, Sept. 13.--The requests ror recall of foreign diplomatic repre­ sentatives made by the United States follow: QOUNT DE MOUSTIER, minister of France. Charge: "Politically and mor­ ally offerisi*e." Transferred to the Court of Prussia, 1788. M. EDMOND C. GENET, minister of France. Charge: "Proceeding's and criminal maneuvers,' In fitting out privateers against Great Britain and violating neutrality. Recalled, 1793. MR. MARCOLETA, minister of Nica­ ragua, Charge: "Efforts to defeat negotiations between United Statea and Costa Rica and Nicaragua." Official relations suspended, but new creden­ tials presented and accepted In suc­ ceeding administration, 1853. HENRY SEGITR, minister of Salvador. Charge: "Violation of neutrality of United States in respect of a conflict between Salvador and Guatemala and Nicaragua." Recalled, 1863. MR. CATACAZY. mlrjlster of Russia. Charge: "Abuse of the president and personally unacceptable," 1871. / SENOn DU PUY DE UDME, minister of Spain. Charge: "Attack on Presi­ dent McKinley as weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, be­ side ;>eing a would-be politician, who tried to leave a door open behind him­ self while keeping on good terms with the .lingoes of his party." Resigned. MARQUIS OF CASA YRUGO. minister of Spain. Charge: "Attempt to tam­ per with the press" to advocate Span­ ish interests, 1905. F. J. JACKSON, minister of Great Brit­ ain. Charge: "Gross insinuation" against the word and good faith of the United States government and adop­ tion of a "hostile policy." 1809. M. POUSSIN, minister of France. Charge: "Disrespect to the United State government," 1849. MR. CRAMPTON, minister of Great Britain. Charge: "Violation of Unltefl States neutrality laws" In securing en­ listments in this country for Crimean war, 1S55. LORD S ACKVILXE-WEST, minister of Great Britain. Charge: "Interference In domestic politics." 1888. Balkans Reach Agreement. Geneva., Sept. 11.--The Tribune an­ nounces that Premier Venizeloa of (Jreece succeeded in effecting an ac­ cord between Greek, Servian, Rou­ manian and Bulgarian governments and, their agreement will be ratified. Bids Grand Duke Farewell. Petrograd, Sept. 11.--Grand Duke Nicholas is on his way to Tifiis, where he will assume the leadership of the Caucasus troops. The grand duke left here Wednesday nigbt. Emperor Nich­ olas bid his cousin farewell. Saya Dardanelles Near Fa!). Paris. Sept. 11.--The Dardanelles cannot hold out much longer, accord­ ing to the Athens correspondent of the Petit Parlsien, who told his paper that the sultan ha,s sent an urgent de­ mand for re-enforcements. Forty Germans Killed by Shell*. ̂ Amsterdam, Sept. 11.--Advices re­ ceived from Bruges, saying that 40 Hermans were killed and hundreds employed in military works were wounded when a British bombarded rf'"' Jo i-f. ,'v • ;:>Jf LXi • t 'Mi