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WJ-u v.:,* , % • • • . St-*'*/, {•J}"' fe$' S'\- ~-ii mmmmmmmmimmtmmm The Exploits of Elaine A IMwIftt Ho ft and a Motion JHcttum Aiiirn# By ARTHUR B. REEVE f TWWsI-Knowa Novelist and the Creator of the "GaigKeane<]ynSlN|M ; !*'1 r*>. Pi mauled la Collaborate* With tlna Path* Players ud , the Eclectic Film Company Cuwrtfht. 1914. br the tor Cflopm All Forwjn (U(bt» IWIM The New York police are mystified by a Miles of murders and other crimes. The principal clue to the criminal Is the warn­ ing letter which is sent the victims, signed •with a "clutching hand. The latest vic­ tim of the mysterious assassin Is Taylor Dodge, the insurance president. His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken­ nedy, the famous scientific detective, to unravel the mystery. What Kennedy ac­ complishes is told by his friend Jameson, a newspaper man. Enraged at the deter­ mined effort which Elaine and Craig Ken­ nedy are making to put an end to his crimes, the Clutching Hand, as this strange criminal is known, resorts to all eorts of the most diabolical schemes to put them out of the way. Each chapter of the story tells of a new plot against their Uvea and of the way the jrreat detective uses all his skill to save this pretty girl and himself from death. NINTH EPISODE 'jy.tVf Y THE DEATH RAY. Kennedy was reading a scientific treatise one morning, while I was bagging on the typewriter, when a knock at the laboratory door disturbed ns. ^ By some intuition Craig seemed to know who it was. He sprang to open the door, and there stood Elaine Dodge and her lawyer, Perry Bennett. Instantly Craig read from the startled look on Elaine's face that something dreadful had happened. "Why -- what's the matter?" he asked, solicitously. "A--another letter--from the Cutch- |ng Hand!" she exclaimed breath­ lessly. Craig took the letter and we both read, yrith amazement: Are you an enemy of society? If not rrder Craig Kennedy to leave the country y nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Oth­ erwise a pedestrian will drop dead outside bis laboratory every hour until he leaves. The note was signed by the now fa­ miliar sinister hand, and had added to It a postscript which read: Aa a token of his leaving, have Wm Mace a vase of flpwers in his laboratory window today. "What shall «• do?" queried Ben­ nett, evidently very much alarmed at the letter. "Do?" replied Kennedy, laughing <• contemptuously at the apparently fa- i tile threat, "Why, nothing. Just • wait" ; We got up as usual the next day, $ and quite early went over to the labo­ ratory. Kennedy, as was his custom, : plunged straightway into his work and appeared absorbed by it, while I f wrote. "There is something queer going ; an, Walter," he remarked. "This thing registers some "kind of wireless . rays--infra-red, I , think--something like those that they say that Italian scientist, TJlivi, claims he has discov­ ered and called the 'F-rayB.'" "How do you know?" I asked, look- !. tag up from my work. "What's that i Instrument you are using?" "A bolometer, invented by the late Professor Langley," he replied, his / attention riveted on it. Some time previously Kennedy had had installed on the window ledge one of those mirrorlike arrangements, > known as a "busybody," which show those in a room what is going on. in s the street. As I moved over to look at the bolometer I happened to glance into the "busybodys and saw that a crowd , was rapidly collecting on the side* , walk. "Look, Craig!" I called hastily. ^ He hurtled over to me and looked. \ We could both see in the busybody mirror a group of excited passers-by bending over a man lying prostrate on the sidewalk. !» The excited crowd lifted him up and : bore him away, and I turned in sur­ prise to Craig. He was looking at his Watch. i It was now only a few moments past ftine o'clock! Some time later our door was ex­ citedly flung open and Elaine and Perry Bennett arrived. 'Tve just heard of the accident!" •he cried, fearfully. "Isn't it terrible! What had we better do?" For a few moments ho one said a word. Then Kennedy began carefully examining the bolometer and some other recording instruments he had, while the rest of us watched, fasci­ nated. Somehow that "busybody" seemed to attract me. I could not resist look­ ing into it from time to time as Ken­ nedy worked. I was scarcely able to control my : excitement when again I saw the same scene enacted on the sidewalk before the laboratory. Hurriedly I looked at my watch. It was ten o'clock! "Craig!" I cried. "Another!" Instantly he was at my side, gazing eagerly. There was a second innocent pedestrian lying on the sidewalk while a crowd, almost panic-stricken, gath­ ered about Mm. "It's no use," he muttered, as we i gathered about him. "We're beaten. I can't stand this sort of thing. I will leave tomorrow for South America." I thought Elaine Dodge would faint at'the uhock of his words coming so SOOti after the terrible occurrence out­ side. She looked at him speechless. .SIMPLICITY OF MODERN HOME ;';.«pnerai Trend !• to Retain Only * - .•* Those Things That Are Simple ^ and Comfortable. In place of the restless, over-fur- •Mbed, over-decorated rooms that were in vogue a few decades ago. our j homes are growing more gracious with the beauty of simplicity. Elim­ ination, blowing like a refreshing / breeze through open doors and win- Ji sweeping KMwg that which SYNOPSIS. It happened that Kennedy had some artificial flowers on a stand, which he had been using long before in the study of synthetic coloring materials. Before Elaine could recover her tongue he seized them and stuck them into a tall beaker, like a vase. Then he deliberately walked to the window and placed the beaker on the ledge in a most prominent position. Elaine and Bennett, to say nothing of myself, gazed at him, awe-struck. "Is--is there no other way but to surrender?" she asked. Kennedy mournfully shook his head. "I'm afraid not," he answered slow­ ly. There'a IIQ, telling how far a fel­ low who has this marvelous power might go. I think I'd better leave, to save you. He may not content him­ self with Innocent outsiders always." Nothing that any of us could say, not even the pleadings of Elaine her­ self, could move him. The thought that at eleven o'clock a third Innocent passer-by might lie stricken on the street seemed to move him powerfully. "I'm so sorry--Craig," murmured Elaine, Choking back her emotion and finding it impossible to go on. "So am I, Elaine," he answered, tensely. "But--perhaps--when this trouble blows over"-- He paused, unable to go on, turned and shook his head. Then with a forced gayety he bade Elaine and Perry Bennett adieu, saying that per­ haps a trip might do him good. They had scarcely gone out, and Kennedy closed the door carefully, when he turned and went directly to the Instrument which I had seen him observing so interestedly. Plainly I could see that it wil reg­ istering something. He walked fairly close to the win­ dow this time, keeping well out of the direct' line or it, however, and there stood gazing out into the street. "We are being watched," he said slowly, turning and looking at me fix­ edly, "but I don't dare investigate lest it cost the lives of more unfortunates." He stood for a moment In deep thought. Then he pulled out a suit case and began silently to pack it. Although we had not dared to in­ vestigate, we knew that from a build­ ing across the street emissaries of the Clutching Hand were watching for our signal of surrender. The fact was, as we found out later, that in a poorly furnished room, much after the fashion of that which, with the help of the authorities, we had once raided in the suburbs, there were at that moment two crooks. One of them was the famous, or rather infamous, Professor LeCroix. The other was the young secretary of the Clutching Hand. This was the new headquarters of the master criminal, very carefully guarded. "Look!" cried LeCroix, very much excited by the effect that had been produced by his infra-red rays. "There is the sign--the vase of flowers. We have got him this time!" LeCroix gleefully patted a peculiar instrument beside him. Apparently it was a combination of powerful elec­ tric arcs, the rays of which were shot through a funnel-like arrangement into a converted or, rather, a sort of concentration apparatus from which the dread power could be released through a tubelike affair at the end. It was his infra-red heat wave, F ray, engine. "I tpld you it woulf work!" ij^ied LeCroix. ; *• • • • ' • « ;, • I did not argue any further with Craig about his sudden resolution to go away. But it is a very solemn pro­ ceeding to pack up and admit defeat after such a brilliant succession of cases as had been his until we met this master criminal. He was unshakable, however, and the next morning we closed the laboratory and loaded our baggage into a taxicab. Neither of us said much, but I saw a quick look of appreciation on Craig's face as we pulled up at the wharf and saw that Elaine's car was already there. He seemed deeply moved that Elaine should come at such an early hour to have a last .word. Our car stopped, and Kennedy moved over toward her car, direct­ ing two porters, whom I noticed that he chose with care, to waft at on6 side. One of them was an Irishman with a slight limp; the other a wiry Frenchman with a pointed beard. In spite of her pleadings, however, Kennedy held to his purpose, and as we shook hands for the laBt time I thought that Elaine would almost break down. We finally tore ourselves away, followed by the porters carrying as much as they could. 'Bon voyage!" called Elaine, brave­ ly keeping back a choke in her voice. Near the gangplank, in the crowd, I noticed a couple of sinister faces watching the ship's officers and the passengers going aboard. Kennedy's quick eye spotted them, too, but he did not show in any way that he no­ ticed anything as, followed by our two potters, *e quickly ctlmbed the gang plank. "In there," pointed Kennedy, quick­ ly to the porters, indicating our state* room, wtiich was an outer room. "Come, Walter." •.>*.<; : I followed him tft with a heavy heart. - Outside could be seen the two sln< Ister faces in the crowd watching in­ tently, with eyes fixed on the state­ room. Finally one of the crooks boarded the ship hastily, while the other watched the two porters come out of the stateroom and pause at the window, speaking back into the room as though answering commands. Then the porters quickly ran along the deck ant down the plank to set the rest of the luggage. They took a small, but very heavy box and, lugging and tugging, hastened toward the boat with it. But they were too late. The gangplank was be­ ing hauled in. They shouted, but the ship's officers waved them back. The porters argupd. But It was no use. All they could do was to carry the box back to the Dodge car. Miss Dodge was just getting In as they returned. "What shall we do-with this and the other stuff?" asked the Irish por­ ter. She looked at the rest of the tagged luggage and the box which was marked: ^ Scientific Inetrujnenta Valuable Handle With Carei "Here--pile them in there," she said, Indicating the taxicab. "Ill take care of them." Meanwhile one of our sinister-faced friends had just had time to regain the shore after following us aboard ehip and strolling past the window of our stateroom. He paused long enough to observe one of the occu­ pants studying a map, while the other was opening a bag. They're gone!" he said to the other Craig denuea the rouglf clothes of the porter and added a limp and a wig. The same sort of exchange of clothes was made by me, and Craig clapped a Vandyke beard on my chin." "Mum's the word," cautioned Ken* nedy. "Ton must smuggle us oat of the house some way." Kennedy lost no time in confirm­ ing the suspicions at his bolometer as to the cause of the death of the in­ nocent victims of the machinations of the Clutching Hand. Both of them, he had learned, had been removed to a nearby undertak­ ing shop, awaiting the verdict of the coroner. We sought'out the shop and prevailed on the undertaker to let us see the bodies. As Kennedy pulled down the shroud from the face of the first victim he disclosed on his forehead a round, dark spot about the size of a small coin. Quickly he moy$£ to the next coffin and, uncovering the face, dis­ closed a similar mark. "What is It?" I asked, awe-totrnck. "Why," he said, 'Tve heard of a cer­ tain Viennese, one LeCroix, I believe, who has discovered, or perfected, aa infra-red ray instrument which shoots its power a great distance with ex­ treme accuracy and leaven a mark like these." We thanked the undertaker for hi* courtesy and went o»it. Meanwhile Blaine had called up Per- Bennett. "Mr. Bennett," she exclaimed over the wire, "just guess who called on me!" "Who?" he answered; "I give it up." "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jameson," she called back. "Is that so?" he returned. "Isn't that fine? I didn't think he was the kind to run away like that How did It happen?" Elaine quickly told the story as I had told her. Had she known it, however, Bennett's valet, Thomas, was at that very mo- <>>>>>* />><•»* "Bon Voyage," Cried Elaine, Bravely Keeping Back a Choke In Her Voice. as he rejpined him on the dock, giv­ ing a nod of his head and a jerk of was needless or ugly, leaving the use­ ful, the comfortable and the beautiful behind. That this is the general trend today, and that permanence, simplicity and individuality are becoming more and more widely the American home- maker's ideal, we know not only from observation but from practical experi­ ence. . . . We have found that those who come to us for advice about their home problems are seeking not for the novel or the unusual or the fashionable, for the thing that Is his thumb at the ship. "Yes," added the other crook, "and lost most of their baggage, too." Slowly the car proceeded through the streets up from the river front, followed by the taxicab, until at last the Dodge mansion was reached. Elaine sighed moodily as she walked slowly in. "Here, Marie," she cried petu­ lantly to her majd, "take these wraps of mine." A moment later Aunt Josephine left her and Elaine went Into the library and over to a table. She stood there an instant, then sank down into a chair, taking up Kennedy's picture and gazing at it with eyes filled with tears. Just then Jennings came into the room, ushering the two porters laden with the boxes and bags. "Where shall I have them put these things, Miss Elaine?" he inquired. "Oh--anywhere," she answered hur­ riedly, replacing the picture. Jennings paused. As he did so, one of the porters limped forward. "I've a message for you, miss," he said in a rich Irish brogue, with a look at Jennings, "to be delivered in pri­ vate." Elaine glanced at him surprised. Then she nodded to Jennings, who disappeared. As he did so, the Irish­ man limped to the door and drew to­ gether the portieres. Then he came back closer to Elaine. A moment she looked at bim, not quite knowing from his strange ac­ tions whether to call for help or not. At a motion from Kennedy, as he pulled off his wig, I pulled off the little false beard. Elaine looked at us, transformed, startled. "Wh--what"--she stammered. "Oh-- I'm--so--glad. How--" Kennedy said nothing. He was thoroughly enjoying her face. "Don't you understand?" I ex­ plained, laughing merrily. "I admit that I didn't, until that last minute in the stateroom on the boat when we didn't come back to wave a last good-by. But all the care that Craig took in selecting the porters was the result of work he did yesterday, and the insistence with which he chose our traveling clothes had a deep-laid purpose. "The change was made quickly in the stateroom. Kennedy's man threw on the coat and hat he wore, while appropriate for their special needs, that expresses their personal taste in design and color, that w ill brinK com­ fort as well as beauty into the home, and--above all--that will last. They have had enough of temporary fur­ nishings, of objects that were made to endure only as long as the fad or fashion that devised them. And today they are seeking wall and1 floor cov­ erings, finishes, furniture and fittings that, once Installed, will become satis­ fying and rermanent elements of the home.-fc-The Craftsman. ' . I-"»- ;7T ment listening at the portieres, in­ tensely interested. As Bennett hung up the receiver Thomas entered the room. "If anyone calls me," ordered Ben­ nett, "take the message, particularly if it is frotn Miss Dodge." "Yes, sir," nodded the valet with a covert glance at his master. It was not long afterward that a knock sounded at the door of the new headquarters of the Clutching Hand. LeCroix and the secretary were there, as well as a couple of others. "The Chief!" exclaimed one. The secretary opened the door, and, sure enough, the Clutching Hand entered. There came another knock. This time, as the door opened, It was Thomas, Bennett's faithless valet, who entered. "Say," blurted out the informer, "do you know Kennedy and Jameson are back?" "Back?" cried the crooks. "Yes -- they didn't go. Changed clothes with the porters. I just heard Miss Dodge telling Mr. Bennett." Clutching Hand eyed him keenly, then seemed to burst into an ungov­ ernable fury. Quickly he began volleying orders at the valet and the others. Then, with the secretary and two of tho other crooks he left by another door from that by which he had sent the valet • • • • • • * Leaving the undertakers, Kennedy and I made our way, keeping off thoroughfares, to police headquarters, where, after making ourselves known, Ctaig made arrangements for a raid on the house across the street from t>e laboratory where he had seen the opera glass reflection. Then, as Becretly as we had come, we went out again, letting ourselves into/ the laboratory, stealthily looking up and down the street. We entered by a basement door, which Kennedy carefully locked again. No sooner had we disappeared than one of the Clutching iflmd's spies, who had been watching behind a bar­ rel of rubbish, gave the Bignal of the hand down the street to a confeder­ ate, and, going to the door,, entered by means of a skeleton key. We entered our laboratory which Kennedy had closed the day before. With shades drawn it now looked do- serted enough. Kennedy went over to* a cabinet and from It took out a notebook and Fierce Battle With Eagle. In a three-hour battle, covering a quarter of a mile, Andrew Stauffer, well-known middle-aged farmer of Hereford township. Berks county, Pennsylvania, subdued an American eagle that suddenly pounced upon him while he was cutting timber in the woods near his home. He brought his prize home alive, but It died shortly from wounds received in the terrific battle. Mr. Stauffer was severely scratched o$ arms and face. The bird measured a small bee Opening the notebook on the laboratory table, >» rapidly turned the pages. "kere, Walter," h« remarked. 'This will answer your question about the mysterious deadly ray." I moved over t> the table, eager to satisfy my curiosity and read the notes which he Indicated with his linger. •» .i INFRA-RED RAY NOTE8. The pure infra-red ray which has been developed by I.iCrolx from the expert* ments of the Italian scientist, Ulivi, causes, when concentrated by an apparatus per­ fected by LeCroix, an Instantaneous com­ bustion of non-reflecting surfaces. It is particularly deadly In Its effect on the brain centers. It can be diverted, It Is said, however, by a shield composed of platinum backed by asbestos. Next Kennedy opened the case which he had taken out of the cab­ inet, and from" it he took out a plat­ inum-asbestos mirror, which was something of his own invention. He held it up, and in pantomime showed me just how it would cut off jthe dead­ ly rays. He had not finished even that, when a peculiar noise in the laboratory it­ self disturbed him, and he hastily thrust the asbestOB-platinum shield into his pocket. "Though we had not realized It* our return had been anticipated. Suddenly from a closet projected a magazine gun, and before we could move Clutching Hand himself slowly appeared behind us. We started to our feet hut In an instant found ourselves sprawling on the floor. In the cabinet, beneath the labora­ tory table, another crook had been hidden, and he tackled us with all the skill of an old football player, againat whom we had no defense. Four of them were upon us in­ stantly. At the same time Thomas, the faith­ less valet of Bennett, had been dis­ patched by the Clutching Hand to commandeer his master's roadster in his absence, and, carrying out the in­ structions, he had driven up before Elaine's house at the very moment when she was going out for a walk Thomas jumped out of the car and touched his hat deferentially. "A message from Mr. Bennett, ma'am,V he explained. "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Bennett have sent me to ask you to come over to the laboratory." Unsuspectingly, Elaine stepped Into the car and drove off. Instead, however, of turning and pulling up on the laboratory side of the street, Thomas stopped opposite it. He got out and Elaine, thinking that perhaps it was to save time that he had not turned the car around, followed. The door was opened quickly by a lookout of the Clutching Hand and the valet asked if Craig and Elaine's law­ yer were in. Of course, the lookout replied that they were, and before Elaine knew it sbO was jostled into the dark hallway. And as the door slammed she caught sight of the fearsome Clutching Hand himself. She drew back, but was top fright­ ened even to scream. With a harsh, cruel laugh, the super- criminal beckoned to her to follow him and look down through a small trapdoor. Unable now to resist, she did so. There she saw us. To that extent the valet had told the truth. Ken­ nedy was standing in deep thought, while I sat on an old box, smoking a cigarette--very miserable. Watching his chance, when the street was deserted, the Clutching Hand and his followers had hustled us over to the new hangout from the laboratory. There they had met more crooks and had thrust us into this vile hole. As the various ineffectual schemes for escape surged through my head, I happened to look up and caught a glance of horror on Craig's face. I followed his eyes. There, above us, was Elaine! I saw her look from us to the Clutch­ ing Hand in terror. But nonq, of us uttered a word. "I will now show you, my dear young lady," almost hissed the Clutch­ ing Hand at length, "as pretty a game of hide and seek as you have ever seen." As he said It another trapdeor near the infra-red ray machine was opened and a beam of light burst through. I knew it was not that which we had to fear, but the invisible rays that ac­ companied it, the rays that had af­ fected the bolometer. Just then a spot of light showed near my foot, moving about the ce­ ment floor until it fell on my shoe. In­ stantly the leather charred, even be­ fore I could move. Kennedy and I leaped to our, feet and drew back. The beam followed us. We reteated further. Still it fol­ lowed, Inexorably. Clutching Hand was now holding Elaine near the door where she could not help seeing, laughing diabolically while he directed LeCroix and the rest to work the infra-red ray apparatus through the trap. As we dodged from corner to corner, endeavoring to keep the red ray from touching us, the crooks seemed in no hurry, but rather .to enjoy prolonging the torture, as does, a. cat with a mouse. "Please--oh, please--stop!" begged Elaine. Clutching Hand only laughed with fiendish delight and urged his men on. The thing was getting closer and closer. Suddenly we heard a strange voice ring out above us. "Police!" "Where?'* growled the Clutching Hand in fury. "Outsfde-m raid! Rn»i He's told them!" Already we could hear the ham­ mers and axes of the police whom Kennedy > had called upon before, as they battered at this outside door. At that door a moment before the lookout suddenly had given a startled stare and a suppressed cry. Glancing down the street he had seen a police patrol in which were a score or more of the strong-arm squad. They had jumped out, some carrying sledge­ hammers, others axes. Almost before he could cry ont and retreat to give a warning they had reached the door and the first re­ sounding blows had been struck. The lookout quickly had fled and drawn the bolts of a strong inner door, and the police began battering that impediment Instantly Clutching Hand turned to LeCroix at the F-ray machine. "Finish them!" he shouted. We were now backed up against a small ell in the wall of the cellar. K was barely large enough to hold us, but by crowding we were able to keep out of the reach of the ray. The ray shot past the ell and struck the wall a couple of inches from us. I looked. The cement began to crumble under the Intense heat . Meanwhile the police were having great difficulty with the steel bolt- studded door. Still it was yielding a bit "Hurry!" shouted Clutching Hand to LeCroix. 4 Kennedy had voluntarily placed him­ self in front of me in the ell. Carefully, to avoid the ray, he took the asbestos- platinum shield from his pocket and slid it forward as best he could over the wall to the spot where die ray struck. It reflected the ray. But so powerful was it that even that part of the ray which was deflect­ ed could be seen to strike the ceiling in the corner, which was of wood. In­ stantly, before Kennedy could even move the shield, the wood burst into flames. Above us now smoke was pouring into the room where the deflected ray struck the floor and flames broke out "Confound him!" ground out Clutch­ ing Hand, as they saw it. The other crooks backed away and stood hesitating, not - knowing quite what to do. * The police had by this time finished battering in the door and had rushed into the outer passage. While the flames leaped up, the crooks closed the last door into the room. "Run!" shouted Clutching Hand, as they opened a secret gate, disclosing a spiral flight of iron steps. * . A moment later all had disappeared except Clutching Hand himself. The last ^door would hold only a few sec­ onds, but Clutching Hand was waiting to take advantage of even that. With a last frantic effort he sought to di­ rect the terrible ray at us. Elaine acted instantly. With all her strength she rushed forward, overturning the machine. Clutching Hand uttered a growl and • slowly raised his gun, taking aim with the butt for a well-directed blow at her head. Just then the door yielded and a policeman stuck his head and shoul­ ders through. 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Dodd's Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medi­ cine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.--Adv. Prof. Schmltz. IS Uses of "Dutcn courage." "Dutch courage" is likely to be a subject of considerable controversy before the war is over, and In Eng­ land some opposition has been stirred up by the forwarding of rum for the use of the troops in France, says the Springfield Republican. How far the czar's prohibition ukase extends is not yet quite clear; the Russian offi­ cers are said to be abstaining from wine as a good example to the troops, but whether no alcoholic drinks at all are allowed does not yet appear. That Germany is not going so far Is shown by the report, if it is correct that among the daily supplies requisi-' tlon from Antwerp are 2,000 bottles of wine. And if the cellars of cham­ pagne have been spared, things have Indeed changed mightily since 1870. In his Sudan campaign Lord Kitch­ ener allowed his men no spirits; if a ration of rum is now to be served it may be on account of the supposed exigency of the climate. Even la this respect the weight of scientific opinion is against alcohol, and the views of polar explorers, which should carry some weight, are divided. Bttt English veterans of the Boer war oeem to favor the ration of rum, per­ haps as a creature comfort rather than on scientific grounds. She Looked at Him Speechless. five feet across the wings. It had be­ come entangled in some underbrush near where Mr. Stauffer was working and this evidently caused it to attack the farmer. When Chest Thumping Began. Per 15 years Dr. Jean Nicolas de Corvisart practiced chest tapping in diagnosing disease, getting little but abuse from his fellow practitioners. Along cams Napoleon and made Doc­ tor Corvisart his physician. Doctor Corvisart somewhat surprised Napo- enough time to dodge through and slam the secret door in the faces of the squad as they rushed in. Back of the house Clutching Hand and the other crooks were now pass­ ing through a bricked passage. The fire .had got so far beyond oontrol by this time that it drove the police back from their efforts to open the secret door. Thus the Clutching Hand had made good "his escape through the passage which led out, as we later dis­ covered, to the railroad tracks along the riyer. Down there--Mr. Kennedy--and Mr. Jameson," cried Elaine, pointing at the trap which was bidden in the Btrife. The fire had gained terMflc head­ way, but the police seized a ladder and stuck it down into the basement Choking and sputtering, hvlf-suffo- cated, we staggered up. "Are you hurt?" asked Elaine, anx­ iously, taking Craig's arm. "Not a bit--thanks to you!" he re­ plied, forgetting all in meeting the eager questioning of her wonderful eyes. (TO BB CONTINUED.) leon when he thumped his. chest by way of examination. Napoleon with his characteristic shrewdness, recog­ nized the advantage of a scientific test over guesswork and engaged Corvisart to be his regular adviser. The method of chest tapping now came into diate vogue. Exercise and Music Together. "Myrtle is in a quandary." "What's the matter with her?" "She loves music, but she need#1 physical culture." "Yes?" "But 6he hasn't time for both." "I can tell her a way out of -the difficulty." "Indeed?" "Yes; just tell her to buy an ao- cordion." IN8q|INIA Leads to Madness, If Not Remedied. Unnecessary Effort. "My daughter ia an unusually bright girl.*' "Why, In that case, do you want tg •end her to a school to polish her oitl* "Experiments satisfied me, some 5 years ago," writes a Topeka woman, "that coffee was the direct cause of the insomnia from which I suffered ter­ ribly, as well as extreme nervousness and acute dyspepsia. "I had been a coffee drinker sinoe childhood, and did not like to think that the beverage was doing me all this harm. But it was, and the time came when I had to face the fact, and protect myself. I therefore gave up coffee abruptly and absolutely, and - adopted Postum for my hot drink at meals. "I began to, note improvement la my condition very soon after I took on Postum. The change proceeded gradually, but surely, and it was a matter of only a few weeks before I found myself entirely relieved--the nervousness passed away, my diges­ tive apparatus was restored to normal, efficiency, and I began to sleep rest- fully and peacefully. "These happy conditions have con­ tinued during all of the 6 years, and 1 am safe in saying that I owe them entirely to Postum, for "when I bega%" to drink it I ceased to use medicines.r Name given by Postum Co., Battiil Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Postum comes in two forma: Postum Cereal--the original form- must be well boiled, 15c and 25c pack­ ages. Instant Poatum--a soluble powder- dissolves quickly in a cup of hot ws ter, and, with cream and sugar, makeA' t delicious beverage Instantly. 30c 50c tins. a * Both kinds are equally delicious soet about the same per cup. t „ •* Reason" for Postum. Z/t ; ' • . -- s o l d by Grocer^,' •I.'