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\isp-ixmmv- mmw WP-^T'* ji'HENRY FLAINDEA3LES, Bf'HENRy. 1IX. £-?*:3& j*imm ll^gpg ^••4.^' '.;t ;(t v •• <r. V- ,\ >.r, '-;•>- > K *-* k /v- afefr': i^-},,"i/fl It' 4-W* ?"•* Sj$jSjk.ty &* The Exploits of Elaine JiDmtmctiv Novel and a Motion Picture Auuf ̂ By ARTHUR B. REEVE ^ The Wei-Known Novebt and the Creator of the "Craig K«a»edy**Storie« , 3 j]n«nitii1 in Collaboration With the Patfca Flayete Ml , \ "§"' the Eclectic Film Compujr Copyright. 1914. by the Star Company AH Foreign Ritbtt Rcttrea jW*$8|4 Lv %&>•• • <&x .-• ' ; 8YN0P3I8. The New York police are mystified by aeries of murders and other crimes. The principal clue to the criminal is the warning letter which Is sent the victims, •lirned with a "clutching hand." Th® latest victim of the mysterious assassin Is Taj U>r • Duuije, the insurance president. His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy, the famous scientific detective, to try to unravel the mystery. What Kennedy accomplishes is told by his friend, Jameson, a newspaper man. Af­ ter many fruitless attempts to put Elaine «uid Craig Kennedy out of the way the Clutching Hand is at iast found to be nope other than Perry Bentiett, Elaine's lawyer and the man she is engaged to marry. Bennett flees to the den of one of his Chinese criminals. The Chinaman t'orres from Bennett the secret of the Trhereabouts of $7,000,000. Then he gives the lawyer a potion which will suspend animation for months. Kennedy reaches Bennett's side just after he baa lost con­ sciousness. NINETEENTH EPISODE THE SAVING CIRCLES. In an opium den down in a cellar In the h£art of Chinatown, Long Sin lay in a bunk, contemplating what form of revenge he might suggest to bis master, Wu Fang. About him were many Chinese and awfen white men, all dreaming of the great things they would do, dreams which were dissipated into ashes, even as the drug in the fcipes which gave them their shadowy forms. Hop Ling, the proprietor, was Just about to hand Long Sin a pipe with a half-cooked pill, when a well-dressed white man entered and gazed about "See--a white devil," he muttered to Hop under his breath, calling his attention to the stranger.- Hop Ling moved forward and ac­ costed the newcomer. "Why does the white man visit us?" he asked suave- If, though coldly. *1 am Jack Spragae, the aviator," ' replied the visitor, still looking about. *1 smoke the stuff for my nerves. Gotme across with a pipe, boss." 'Hop considered a moment, then tit a Had from Long Sin, whose opinion he •alued highly, led Sprague over to an empty bunk near by. Long Sin continued to eye the •tranger critically. Finally as Sprague settled himself, the Chinaman pulled bilznself out of his bunk and moved titer to the airman. "How are you?" greeted Long Sin In' English. It was S Prague's turn now to be sus­ picious of Long Sin with his sinister face. "Are you an aviator?" pursued the Chinaman. : Sprague nodded. "You said It," he Replied in laconic slang. Long Sin squatted down and they talked and smoked. Half an hour later, •Jack Sprague, his nerve festered and his cupidity aroused by the promises of Long Sin, accompanied his new Wend out of the hop joint. *They passed through the narrow Streets of the Chinese quarter and finally entered what looked like a squalid tenement. There Long Sin sodded and whispered to a servant, and a moment later they were admit­ ted to an anteroom of Wu Fang, the Berpent. "Master," bowed Long Sin as Wu s Mceived hina, "I have here a man : P>om we may use." ' Wu nodded graciously to Sprague, While his slave bent down and whis­ pered in his ear in deep gutturals, Bloving his hands in expressive cir­ cles through the air. Wu's brow cloud­ ed, but at last he seemed to catch the I4ea. "You mean, then, that he flies?" he Miked. Long Sin nodded. "Not only does fee fly, master," he said, "but from Ms aeroplane he can drop anything m& hit a mark." "Come with me," beckoned Wu to Sfrague, as he put on his street •lothes to go out • * • e • • e £ Somewhat earlier in the day Lieu­ tenant Waters of the army, who had already interested Kennedy in a new explosive of his own Invention, trod- Ite, had invited Craig to visit the fort on Staten Island at which' he was •tationed, and Craig had taken Elaine down on a visit. . They saw about everything there %ras to be seen, but the thing that In­ terested Kennedy most was, of course, the explosive and the handling of It In a storeroom of the fort Elaine picked up from a table a peculiar pointed instrument with a weighted fcead. L* "That is one of the new aeroplane jjHTows that are being used in the Eu- xlfopean., war," explained the lieutenant. " "How interesting," remarked Elaiue. They stood for a moment chatting,. • P ^en Pa8se<* °n until at last they came £ .•§&" *gain to the entrance to the grounds f the fort where a sentry, pacing back ' ' and forth, saluted. vi' JV* "Thank you BO much," said Elaine 8he <£ve Lieutenant Waters her ^^.p3:liand. :!r "Yes» Indeed," agreed Craig, ; have had a most interesting visit. By " ^ ̂ v way* Lieutenant' come to my <•*£< .f |t t'*. laboratory tomorrow morning. 1 would '^£, mlike to show you one or two very novel effects that I have been able to get , from your invention." "I shall be delighted," returned Lieu­ tenant Waters, as they parted. Just below the gate, on the slope, was a pile of pipe. None of the party noticed, but in one of the pipes, lying flat on his stomach, was a short, un­ dersized Chinaman, one e! the emis­ saries of Wu Fang, Sing Lee by name. With a keen air he was listening to all that Kennedy said. No sooner had Craig arid Elaine dis­ appeared than Sing I<ee, watching his chance while the sentry's back was turned, crept out of his hiding place and darted behind another shelter farther along. He kept it up until at last, he was out of eight of the sentry, shadowing Elaine a^d Craig. • • * • • • e I was busy poinding out a story for the Star when Craig, having left Elaine at the Dodge house after their visit to the fort, returned to the laboratory. Hard at it, I see, Walter," he greet­ ed as he entered, ruffling up my hair playfully. I rose and lighted a cigarette. As I struck the match I happened to glance out of the open window. There in the sunlight I could see what looked like the reflection of a mirror across the street in an empty loft. "Look out of the window, Craig!" I cried excitedly, moving closer to him and taking his arm. "I believe some­ one is watching us from that empty loft across the street." Wait a minute." he cautioned, now thoroughly alive to the situation. Stoop down. We'd better not be seen looking over." As we dodged out of the line of vision Kennedy seized the periscope which he had used often before and put its jointed sections together. Craig raised the periscope slowly and gazed through it. There, sure enough, as I had guessed, in the loft of the old warehouse down the street could be Been the reflection of the lenses of a pair of glasses in the sun­ light. In surprise we crept back and stood up. The fact was that no sooner had Craig entered the laboratory than the same spying Sing Lee who had fol­ lowed his every movement at the fort, came cautiously down the street. He stopped before the laboratory, paused moment, then went on. A moment later the young Chinaman had entered the empty loft diagonally across the street from us. Locking the door carefully, he went to the window and cautiously peered out. Then he went to a cupboard near by and opened it. From a shelf he took a pair of opera glasses and returned to the window, leveling them at our laboratory and searching intently. Sing Lee was still gazing through the glasses out of the window when he heard someone approaching his out­ side door. Lee jumped to the door and flung it open. Wu Fang, followed by Long Sin, and Sprague, entered. "Where is Kennedy--is he there?" demanded Wu. Yes--see--master," returned the young Chinaman, turning toward the window. They all moved over and took np the field glasses In turn. '"Where has he been today?" queried Wu. At the fort on Staten Isand with the white girl and a man, Lieutenant Waters. They are coming to the work­ shop across the street tomorrow morning to see some western magic with a thing named trodite that ex­ plodes." At the word "explodes" Wu glanced quickly at Sprague. "I have a plan," he remarked subtly, gathering them all about him and as­ signing separate parts to each as he outlined It. • • • • e • • That night at the fort all was quiet. In the railroad yards near by stood a freight train on a siding where it had been drilled late, loaded with a fresh consignment of the new explosive, trodite, from the mills. A sentry was pacing up anijj down the cinders beside the train when a very pretty girl made her way along the tracks. "Can you tell me the way to the trol­ ley?" she asked. It was a perfectly simple question. But there was no mistaking the look she gave him. It was Flirty Florrie. She did not want the trolley. She wanted to flirt, and she used her eyes effectively. "Two blocks to the left, madam," the sentry returned, setting his face sternly, for he had a sweetheart quite the equal of Flirty. "Are you a man?" Flirty taunted, .piqued at her failure. He hesitated not knowing just what to do,„ then taking discretion to be the better part of valor, shouldered his musket and resumed his measured tread back and forth, while Flirty, with a grimace at him, disappeared toward the trolley. But while Flirty had engaged his attention Sing Lee had come out of a hiding place near the yards and had managed to sneak back of the Bhadow of the cars. Between two of the cars sat a de­ tective of the secret service smoking and bating his job. The Chinaman had passed the first line of defense. He now managed to sneak up behind the second. He raised a Chinese club and brought it down on the head of the unsuspecting detective, knocking him out The sentry paced, by- on the other side of the train. Quickly, after he had passed, the Chinaman went through the detective's pockets until Anally he found a bunch of keys. He detached one from the ring, still keep­ ing in the shadow as the sentry paced up and down, looked stealthily about until he saw a chance, then unlocked the door of the oar and entered, clos­ ing it safely. A few minutes later, laden with as much of the trodite as he could well carry and aJiundie of heavy aero ar­ rows he stofe away as silently as he had come. , • • e e • • * It was well after midnight when Kennedy and I were preparing to leave the laboratory. I was just about to switch off the lights when Kennedy ^raised his hand to stop me. The far-away look on his face fold me that he had beard a peculiar noise. He looked quickly at the celling. "Listen, Walter," he continued. I did. There was a noise above us on the roof, apparently as though someone had sjid off. Craig switched out the light himself and went quickly over to the table where he had left the periscope. Carefully putting it together again, he tiptoed over to the window, put the periscope out and slowly raised it to the roof. We gazed through the eyepiece. A large white circle had been painted on our roof. "What does it mean?" I queried. Kennedy was in a brown study. Suddenly he clapped his hands. • "I think I have it," he exclaimed. "Walter, take this turpentine. Go up and scrub the circle out If you. need "Look!** he exclaimed, pointing. We crowded about the window. There was an aeroplane passing over the city. "Just watch that warehouse over there." r We riveted our eyes on it It was an anxious moment. Already, bad we known it Slug Lee had quietly let himself into the loft, taken the glasses from the cupboard and leveled them at us in the labora­ tory. ' '; Meanwhile, Sprague,' of whom We learned later; had started his aero­ plane flying from his hangar in the suburbs, and was now speeding over the city. As he passed he peered down, looking eagerly for the target-- the white circle. With expert precision he let go the bomb, and the deadly engine of de­ struction swooped down. Straight to its mark it went 'The old warehouse across from ns rocked with the detonation. It seemed as if the whole top of It 1were blown to pieces. The bomb that had been meant to destroy the laboratory hadr by the quick change of the white circle, de­ stroyed the hangout and the emissary of the Serpent! Half an hour later, Jiong Sin was nervously reporting to Wu Fang in the secret den in Chinatown. "That White devil, Kenhedy, has de­ feated us again, master," he said dep- recatingly. "Again?" demahded Wu, his face livid with anger. "Yes, master. He saw the circle-- wiped it out--and painted a new one on the warehouse. The bomb fell on that--and Sing was killed." "Someone shall pay for that" hissed Wu. Far uptown, on the East side, Sprague led Wu and Long Sin to a little machine shop kept by a for­ eigner, Anton Schmidt. "What can I do for you, gentlemen?" asked Schmidt. "I wish you'd show us your new gyroscope stabilizer," asked Sprague. "Now," Ground Out Wu, Releasing the Bunch of Deadly Arrows. more, get it Only remove every trace of the circle." While I was scrubbing away for dear life at the fresh paint on our roof Kennedy secured a large can of white paint and a brush and stealth­ ily made his way to the rear of the old warehouse across the Btreet. Kennedy found a Bhed from which It was easy to get to the roof. There he set to work, too, immediately, paint­ ing a large circle on the warehouse exactly like that on our own roof which I was erasing. We went home, and I, at least thought little more* about the matter. Quite early the next morning, how­ ever, we got around to the laboratory again to prepare for the visit of Lieutenant Waters in response to Kennedy's cordial invitation to wit­ ness the experiments with trodite. Our speaking tubs sounded finally, and I answered, it. It was Elaine, Aunt Josephine and Lieutenant Wa­ ters, who had all arrived at the same time. "Most peculiar thing, Kennedy," re­ marked the lieutenant after the greet­ ings were over. "We had a robbery at the fort last night--or rather, not exactly at the fort, for that would be impossible, but from a freight car in the yards." "What did they get?" asked Craig. "Some trodite--enough to blow up a house, and some of those aeroplane arrows." "Hm," considered Kennedy, gazing Involuntarily at the ceiling and think­ ing doubtless of the white circle that had been on the roof. "Listen!" cautioned Craig. Outside we could hear a bast, though a gigantic cicada were predict­ ing warm weather. It was a peculiar sound, and Kennedy seemed to recog nize it Instantly. He sprang to the window and strained his eyes up at the sky. Schmidt proudly led them to a cor­ ner. In an aluminum case was a pe­ culiar little fly wheel set on gimbals so that it could rotate in any plane. The inventor started it revolving. "Press down on it" suggested Schmidt. Wu did so. The uncanny little wheel seemed actually to resent being forced to move out of the plane in which it had been started rotating. "You know," explained Schmidt to Wu, "that when the gyroscope Is start­ ed rotating in one plane, it tends al­ ways to keep in that plans." "With that steadying my airship," put in Sprague, "there will be no chance for a mistake the next time. We can aim perfectly." "I'll buy It, then," agreed Wu, quick­ ly producing the money. e • * * • e • After the explosion in the ware­ house, Kennedy, thoroughly alarmed for the safety of Elaine, had ordered me to accompany her on another visit to her cousin, Mary Brown, at their estate, Rockledge, near Lakewood, while he stayed in the city to help Lieutenant Waters trace down the rob­ bery at the fort, if possible. Elaine was easily reconciled to the banishment now that the weather was fine, and decided to do a little sketch­ ing in the country. She had loaded me down with the pleasant burden of her painting kit--sketch box, folding easel, camp chair and a large and gaudy Bun umbrella. Jennings fol­ lowed us to the car with the luggage. 4* we entered the car we were all too happy at the idea of a holiday to notice that down the street was an­ other young Chinaman of the same tong as £ing Lee. We had ail seated ourselves and Jennings had gone back into the house when Sam skulked around back of the car and, serpentlike, as was his mas­ ter, Wu, wriggled pver, crouching down ia the war of the topi, wtlch was down and overhung the back of the car. "Go over the Forty-second street ferry, Francois," directed Elaine to the chauffeur. "Then we'll tell you just how to strike the- best roads to Lake- wood." The spying Sam waited to hear no more, but glided quietly up the street as we shot down along the ave­ nue to the ferry. ^ . Rockledge was a handsome estate,' and the house was one of the show places of Lakewood. Accordingly, Elaine lost no time in taking advan­ tage of the recreation In the country which she had promised herself, I had scarcely set down the art paraphernalia when she announced that she was going to use it right away. For several minutes I stood on the veranda overlooking the bright green terraces, holding the sketching kit and the umbrella and admiring the view. Elaine came tripping gayly out on the porch in the neatest of little sketching costumes. "Some parasol," I bantered, opening the gay green and white striped shade. I shouldered it and paraded off with it, while Elaine followed, laughing. "Here," she cried -at last "I'm go­ ing to do a landscape. Isn't that bit of hill beautiful? I want you over there--like that." X took a pose where she directed* Bind she started to sketch. < • • * * • > Outside bis hangar, a rough shed with a runway before it Sprague was standing, talking to Wu and Long Sin. "Master!" interrupted a low voice, deferentially. It was Sam, who had hurried to the hangar after p atching Blaine and the rest of us ride off. "Well?" demanded Wu. "The girl with another, her cousin, has gone with that slave of Kennedy to a place they call Lakewood across the river.' Though they did not know it, Kennedy had not been idle. With the aid of an agency of private detective?, which he had often employed for routine jobs, as well as the police and some secret service men, he had located and set a watch, with his characteristic thor­ oughness, on every aeroplane hangar in and about New York. Even as the three plotters moved over to the aeroplane one of Craig's detectives lay hidden directly under the runway. Out on the aviation field. In front of the hangar, Sprague had dragged the aeroplane down the runway, and there he stopped to explain to Wu and Long Sin the workings of the gyroscope sta­ bilizer. "I'll make the flight to Lakewood easily," he remarked, then tapping the bundle of arrows confidently, add­ ed, "and it won't be lonjf before Elaine and that fellow Jameson are settled, you bet." "I shall go with you," he said at length laconically to the aviator.' "Very well," Sprague agreed. "Two of us will make it twice as certain." "He climbed into the machine, and Wu followed. Kennedy's detective, from his hid­ ing place, had not missed a motion. As the aeroplane disappeared he crawled out and quickly made his way down the road. Meanwhile, high over the country, Sprague and Wu were flying, easily picking out the general direction of Lakewood. People at Lakewood may still re­ call the aeroplane that circled again and again over the town and the beau­ tiful estates. Sprague finally located Wellington Brown's, but Elaine was not there, and there was no use wast­ ing the precious arrows on anyone else. Wu peered about eagerly through a field glass. , "There they are--over on that hill­ side," he muttered with a low, guttu­ ral exclamation. Sure enough, they could see Elaine under the umbrella, quite conspicu­ ously, with .myself posed some feet away. "Hurry--speed it up," Wu urged Sprague, indicating the exact spot • e e • • e • Kennedy had hastened out to the fort even before our departure, and there he had met Lieutenant Waters. As they were examining the freight car, an orderly came running to them- "Is there a Professor Kennedy here?" he asked. "Yes," spoke up Craig. "I am Mr. Kennedy." "Someone on the telephone, air. Ton can take it at the guardhouse. He says it's urgent" Craig hastened Across with the or­ derly. "I've located our man," shouted his detective over the wire, "an aviator named Sprague--a crook and a dope fiend. Somehow they have found out that Miss Dodge has gone to Lake- wood with Mr. Jameson. Sprague has just gone in the aeroplane, carrying a bundle of aero arrows, with that Chinaman, Wu Fang." "The deuce!" muttered back Craig. "Well, you get the local police In force and surround the hangar. Ar­ rest them if they return. I must get to Lakewood myself." He' hung up the reoelver and was about to dash out, when another idea occurred to him. "Lakewood, 626," he almost shout­ ed at long distance. "Hello--oh, Is that Mr. Brown? Is Elaine there? This is Kennedy. Gone sketching with Jameson? Welt, for heaven's sake, find Jameson at once and tell him to keep Elaine under cover until I get there. Good-by! Waters!" he called, as he hung up the receiver. "Have you got a car here--a fast one?" PUTS END TO ART SWINDLES By Means of 4he X-Ray Bogus Palnt- c-V:i?tys May Be Detected Without Possibility of Failure. -a w ti­ lt has now been found possible to determine by means of X-rays whether a picture is an original, a restoration, or a fraud. Thus the dodges of swin­ dlers who touch up canvases to give them the appearance of "old masters" can be found out. When a doubtful pointing is photographed with the X-rays every layer of color Is revealed, for just as a bone appears distinctly in an X-ray photograph, despite its covering of flesh, so heavy pigment can be seen beneath a light surface color. The painting-out of a white drapery and the substitution of a dark form, the correction of a badly- drawn hand, the addition of a new fig-! forger who endeavors to pass a n^od- ered by am Edinburgh professor. He has devised a method of analyzing paint so that he can tell by removing from a canvas a speck of pigment whether it is of modern production or dates from an early period. The pro­ fessor knows exactly what paints were available for 11 centuries, and the ure to enhanc^ the effect of a picture are all disclosfed by the X-rays and the swindler's tricks clearly revealed. Another scientific method of rout­ ine the art swindler .has been discov- ern painting after aging It by arti­ ficial means Is quickly discovered when the professor gets to work with his re- toHs and test-tubes. By this means many so-called sixteen th century pr>r- traits have been found -to contain Prussian blue, daubed on tne canvas by careless forgers. , Robbery Poor Business. Aggregate loss in 100' reported robberies during the last three monthB will reach little more than |3,500," says the head of a New York detec­ tive bureau. That Is $35 a robbery, which Is scant pay, considering the nan tno iiOuocbrcakcrs runs of going to prison for a term of years. Rob- berv. Indeed, is the poorest of all busi- hesfl, and its votaries the most pover­ ty-stricken. They look the part. It is so rare to find one decently dressed that the term "gentleman burglar" is conceded to every one who has clean linen and a presentable uppear- ance. "As a matter of fact," said thp detective, "the man who enters an oc­ cupied flat at night cannot expect to get away with much more than $35. The most he can expect is to secure the wife's watch (her husband usu­ ally carries a cheap timepiece), a lit­ tle jewelry and some pocket change. * ' - ' • "Yes, I'll get you one--in a minute," returned the lieutenant, hurrying out, followed nervously by Kennedy. Standing by the fort entrance was an automobile in which Waters had mounted an aeroplane gun for scout­ ing about the country after aero spies. He leaped into the car and Craig fol­ lowed. "Take the Tottenville Ferry. We're going to Lakewood," cried Kennedy. "And let her out!" • * • e « • '< e < Down at Lakewood, Mr. Brown, whose placid life was not accustomed to the high pressure under which we had been living, repeated the message to Mary. "I'm not quite sure what he is talk­ ing about," he said doubtfully, still looking at the telephone and rubbing his head. "Where do you think Elaine and Mr. Jameson are?" "I don't know, but they started that way," pointed eat Mary anxiously. "Father, we must find them. Mr. Ken­ nedy would never have telephoned If it hadn't been Important." Wellington Brown, at last spurred iito action by his daughter, hastily ran out of the house. Elaine had been sketching only a few minutes when we heard a rhout behind us. There was Mr. Brown, hat* lesB, hta hair fly'ng, running toward us, waving his arms wildly. "Mr. Kennedy has Just called up," he panted breathlessly, "and asked me to tell you, Mr. Jameaon, to get Elaine under cover and keep her there till he comes." The nearest shelter I could see was a bridge over a small creek, and I made for it as rapidly as I could. We were not a moment too soon. There was the aeroplane with two men in It. "Hurry--hurry!" Wu was urging Sprague as he saw us moving across the hillside. Fly lower--so I drop these arrows better." On toward us swept the machine, as Wu urged its driver. But we had been warned In time. "Make the turn and get away be­ hind those trees," Wu shouted angrily above the deafening noise of the pro­ peller. "Perhaps if they don't see us they'll come out again." Gradually the drone of the aero en­ gine grew more ?.fd more indistinct, and we cautiously came out from our shelter. Through the trees Wu Fang was now straining his eyes at the field glasses, staring back to see us. Apparently to him we had gone back, and Elaine was under the um­ brella, while I was speaking to her and leaving her there, although the umbrella hid her from him. "Turn back now," cried Wu. In a huge, wide circle, like a hawk, Sprague turned while Wu eagerly ftot the heavy round package of arrows ready to release. Meanwhile I man­ aged to get behing a big tree, where I could see, but could not be seen. "Now," ground out Wu, releasing the bunch of deadly arrows. Down they came, hurtling from the sky, piercing the gaudy umbrella In a dozen places. Wu's exclamation of satisfaction at hitting the mark quickly turned to rage, as he peered back through his glasses. The umbrella was smashed, but un­ der it, transfixed by the arrows, was a scarecrow which I had arranged, e • • e e • e Kennedy and Waters were literally eating up the miles of good Jersey roads on their way to us. As they neared Lakewood, Kennedy heard, above the noise of the car, a familiar sound. "Stop," he cried, "there's an aero­ plane about. Hear it?" As this terror in the air made off from us, Craig caught a glimpse of it heaving in sight "Fire!" Craig dlreQtod as tap­ proached close. <* The aero gun barked hoarsely. Again and again it sent out shots. "The devils!" growled Sprague, looking over uneasily at the gyroscope stabilizer. "They have an aero gun-- they've hit us!" One shot had Indeed penetrated the vacuum case of the gyroscope and stopped the little flywheel inside. In­ stead of being an aid to safety, now the stabilizer was a positive menace. The machine swayed tand acted crazlly as Sprague tried to catch it Suddenly, to the surprise of Elaine, Mr. Brown and myself, who had no Idea Kennedy was so close, we saw the aeroplane swoop down. "Something wrong with-it," I cried excitedly. "Come!" Perhaps half a mile up the creek, it had fallen with a splash, a tan­ gled mass of wires and scrap, in the water. 8prague, enmeshed in the debris, did not move. But Wu, though ter­ ribly shaken, had fallen on him, and with a superhuman eiiort, he pulled himself together and managed pain­ fully to crawl up the bank into the hiding rocks aud underbrush, before any of us arrived in either direction "Here it is," cried Craig, bursting through the brush. "Dead," muttered Waters, examin­ ing Sprague. "The other's gone." With a flash of unspeakable hate* Wu crawled off farther in the shelter. Just then I arrived, with Elaine close beside me. "Oh, I'm so glad you're safe!" gasped Craig. Elaine looked at Sprague's broken and bruised body and shuddered. "Sure--yes," she tried to smile at Craig. "An inch Is as good as a mile." "Yes, but a lot more uncomfort­ able," he returned, drawing her into his in sight of us all. (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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