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MHEJTRY PliAINDEALEtt, Bt*H~ENRY« HLX; wjmmmimmm. s»fr •sgmwsmm '""" ^ v •'•^ y..-- 4!'- "./ --'.-^'"'"."y.'~i.r~ $ l~i'\ •'Jf\:±- .^JAf^'.\ '-!*>^^"W?.» ••• ~ ' ' ^ »-*--* •• •V Wt *V ,fV" !^< >•?, -A-V \«V W»mm .<KW':~ :w-: ~X*s) ••;>., **AA, $*.1 ft W,' SR.' • The Exploits of Elaine :%yy * v. '.j*': |>i A. Dmtectiv Naomi and a Motion Picture Drama " By ARTHUR B. REEVE HeWd*Koown Novelist a ad the Creator of the "CraigKetmwferStotki n Mint nil in Collaboration With (1m Path# Players mmd the Eclectic Film Company /j' Copyright. 1414. by the St»r Company All Foreign Ritto Ratred * ?, Vv: s|& $: •:•*:-. i. $>y. :M • i'v^' • dwfc *. & V."*jMjj*U': SYNOPSIS. Tbe New York police are mystified by a gin ini of murders and other crimes. The Diincipal clue to the criminal Is the warn­ ing letter which is "sent ihe victims, signed with a "clutching hand." The latest vic­ tim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Dodge, tft^ insurance president. His daughter, Elaine, employs Craig Ken­ nedy. the famous scientific detective, to try to unravel the mystery. What Ken­ nedy accomplishes Is told by his friend, Jameson, a newspaper man. After many fruitless attempts to put Eli-ine and Craif? Kennedy out of the way t*ie Clutch­ ing Hand is at last found to b« none other than Perry Bennett. Klaine's lawyer and the man she is engaged to marry. Ben­ nett flees to the den of one of his Chi­ nese criminals. The Chinaman forces from Bennett the secret of the whereabouts of 17.000.000. Then he gives the lawyer a po­ tion which, will susp«nd animation for months. Kennedy re*xhes Bennett's side just after he has lost consciousness. TWENTY-FIRST EPISODE THE EAR IN THE WALL. Blaine sat in the library reading on® morning when her maid Marie entered, carrying a long pasteboard box, dain­ tily tied with ribbon. "Some flowers for you. Miss Elaine, I think," she said handing the box to her mistress. Marie left the room, and Elaine, af­ ter contemplating for a moment in keen anticipation what she thought at ftrst was a gift from Craig Kennedy, opened the bt*. There lay a splendid bunch of lonjt-eiemmed red and wh?'9 rosea. Nestling ir the green leaves was a j little white tote. She picked it up expectantly End tore it open. Instantly, however, her face blanched. Instead of a billet doux, it •was the most fearsome threat yet which the savage Chinese master crim­ inal, Wu F. -ig, had sent in the venge­ ful vendetta which he had sworn on account of the loss of the Clutching Hand's millions. ' TSlaine had scarcely time to exclaim At its dire meaning when Kennedy himself entered. "Good morning," he greeted cheer- fly, then cut the greeting short as he caught the horrified expression on her pretty face. "Why, what's the mat- tor?" Elaine was too terrified even yet to •peak. All she could do was tot hand Jti|n the note: ^ The first victim shall be Craig - Kennedy or your aunt. You may ™ ijehoose. Place the red rosea in & ' ^ . -•«? jjthe window for your lover, the ' r'tWhlte for the silver-haired one. "'"' v At the end appeared the mysterious «i§n of the serpent, darting from his flings a death more than figurative. "Wh--what Bhall I do?" she ap­ pealed. t Craig did not answer directly. He eomld not. Thoughtfully he walked to the window and gazed out. There was only a dirty, bent cripple standing by the corner selling papers to pedes­ trians. « Kennedy's forehead wrinkled in thought. He turned and walked back from the window. Mechanically he picked up his hat and cane, then laid Midown the cane again. ' "I njust look into this at once," he f^.^v laid, lifting the flowers and putting ••ffiu'r' them back into the box carefully, as If he expected trouble to come of the affair. "You--you'll be very careful, fi<{ ' Craig?" pleaded Elaine, as they left . > the library and went into the hall. "I will be--for you," he repeated, With a reassuring smile. "Oh--I for- j&i'i* ' got my cane." Quickly be returned to the library, .. leaving her standing in the hallway, ft There he had purposely left his Btick Ob the table beBide the flowers. He 4 Selected some from the bunch of red tbses and hastily stuck them in a vase Mid placed the vase on the window SfU- Then he picked up the cane and " fejolned Elaine in the halL SV # . fe , Outside the Dodge house the dirty, bent cripple looked about cautiously ®Ut of the corner of his eye. • Suddenly he paused as if he had caught sight of a mendicancy officer • bearing down on him. There on the Window sill of the library was -a vase of red roses. Hastily he shuffled off on his way. As faBt as his supposedly bent„body Oould straighten itself safely out he r hurried downtown with one idea--to «reach the secret apartment of Wu Fang, the serpent. Wu, Long Sin and several other Chi- V,. : Bam en were gathered about a table on j Which was a long oblong oak box. In ^;i .. v* 4he cover, which was open, were fas­ tened on the inside two flat spools of ; -j *ilken-covered wire. At each end of -^e k°x was placed an ordinary stor­ age battery, and in a compartment be­ tween, besides switches and connec- t "7 were what looked like six sets ifj" of headgear much resembling those 'worn wireless operators. "This," said Wu, holding up a little . $•*]$•&•>" ahout as large as a watch. K with a dozen or so little perforations t,J * In the face, "is the white devil's little j£.;V\ ..mechanical eavesdropper--the detec- I taphone--the ear in the wall. By its aid we shall learn all about our ene­ mies, where to strike, when to--" Ha stopped short aB a servant en- ®RPtl h% m tered. Almost automatically, at a mere sign from Wu, all the rest pf the group disappeared behind screens. "Bring him in," ordered Wu as the servant announced that a visitor was outside. Then, as the cripple entered, spryly enough now, he added: "Oh--it is you. Well--anything to report?" "Red roses," was all that the ex- beggar in his awe at the fierce China­ man could find words to blurt out. Wu nodded. "It is well. I will call you again when I need you. You us,ay go," he instructed. No sooner had he gone than the others reappeared from behind their screens and other hiding places as si­ lently as they had gone. 1 "You will all follow me," directed Wu, gathering together the parapher­ nalia and shutting the box. "|lere, Tom Ling, carry that box for me-- carefully, too." A moment later Wu left the secret apartment, followed by his henchmen, splitting up inconspicuously as they made their way uptown. I had come into the laboratory and, not finding Kennedy, had decided to wait there for him. Perhaps half an hour later he came rushing in. his face clouded with thought and beads of perspiration standing out on his forehead. "What's the trouble?" I asked anx­ iously. "Trouble enough," he replied, fling­ ing off his hat and coat and throwing on his smock, as be related disjointed- ly between whiles what had happened. "And now I'm going to prepare for the attack, whatever it may be," he went on, going Over briskly to the lab­ oratory table. "Where's that nitrate-- oh, here it is." For the next few minutes he was busily mixing several chemicals while I watched him curiously in silent ad­ miration. When he had finished he poured one liquid from a tube into an atomiser, then another of the liquids which he had made into a fiesk. "Walter," he asked, getting ready to go out and indicating to me to do the same, "I wish you'd bring along that rug over there by my sink." I placed the rug before our door and he emptied almost half of the contents of the flask on it. Then he entered the laboratory again, taking care not to step on the rug, but over it. Meanwhile Wu Fang and his lieu­ tenants had proceeded to the base­ ment of our apartment house. First Wu entered the dark cellar carftiously and beckoned to Long Sin and the other Chinamen to follow. One of his followers carried the Big Six detectaphone, which he placed on an old rickety table which the janitor, Jensen, sometimes used. We opened the o^k case and began to look about for a place to install the little listening ear by wires that would run up from this cellar hiding place to our apartment above. "Ugh! Look!" cried one of the Chinamen, pointing toward a corner of the cellar wall. Wu turned. There was a rat which had run out of a hole, had seen them and scampered quickly across the floor and away safely. It interested Wu and he walked over td the rathole and examined it. "Wait here," he ordered quickly, leaving his men on guard in the cellar It was not very many minutes later that Wu returned to the cellar with a large cardboard box under his arm. "No one has gone in, master," re­ ported one of the Chinamen. Wu nodded and turned to another wko had been engaged in enlarging the ra*hole in the wall. 'Does it run upstairs?" he asked. 'Yes, master," returned the other. 'Then wait here," ordered Wu, tak­ ing up the detectaphone transmitter, ti e spool of wire and the box. He left the cellar stealthily and a few minutes later reached the upper tall, which at the time happened to be deserted. Somehow he had obtained a ikeleton key which fitted our lock, and with its aid he entered our apartment. Quickly he looked about the room, j Finally his keen judgment told him that the corner by the bookcase was that nearest over the compartment in the cellar in which he had left his lieutenants with the detectaphone. Wu Fang had a method of wiring in the detectaphone that was all his own. He went over to the corner and drew from his capacious blouse a chisel with which he ripped back a section of the baseboard. After he had removed it he made a little hole in the plaster and laths on the wall. Next he drew on a pair of thick gloves and carefully reached into the pasteboard box. From it be drew a ferret. This ferret wore a small leather har­ ness around his shoulders. To this harness Wu attached one end of the wire from the spool, and made sure that the spool would unwind readily Then he reached into his pocket and drew out a rat. As he held them, one in each hand, he let the ferret get a good look and smell of the rat as it squeaked in fright. Finally he pushed the rat into the hole in the plaster which he had made, and an instant later, loosed the ferret after It, as if on a leash of wire. There Wu Btood paying out the wire as the ferret scampered after the scared rat. Wu faithfully paid out the wire, hop­ ing for the resuu he had calculated carefrlly. At last the tugging at the spool of wire ceased. Three sharp jerks told him he had succeeded. Then Wu set the transmitter in the bole in the wall close up to the base boa td, which he had replaced. Perhaps half an hour after our re­ turn into the laboratory after Kennedy had soaked the mat, tfe decided after much deliberation to attempt to carry the war into the enemy's Country. We left the laboratory, he to seek sonde clue, I to go down to the Star, where I had a little work to do. Kennedy had scarcely bidden me good-by and turned out of the campus on the avenue, when he happened to see a face in the crowd which inter­ ested him. It was that of the woman who had posed as Elaine--Innocent Inez. He paused a moment as she went by and gazed after ber She had not seen him- This was tjo good an opportu­ nity to miss. He turned and followed her to the Mandarin, a chop suey joint. "Is the master in?" she whispered to the proprietor. "No," he replied, "but long Sin is in the other place." A short time afterward, fts they still talked, Kennedy after pauning outside the chop suey joint, decided to enter. While Inez and Sam were engaged in earnest conversation be sat down at a table near by with his back to them. As nearly as he could make out, there was a room somewhere which was at least one headquarters of Long Sin, if not Wu himself. But it was too risky to remain. Around on Park row again, he stopped in a drug store where tliere was a telephone booth and called up "Fine work, Cnase," -complimented Craig, seizing the receiver. "Hellc-- police headquarters? Connect me with the Elizabeth street station, please." He waited impatiently. "Sergeant," he shouted, "this is Kennedy, Craig Kennedy. You remember I dropped in there a few minutes ago and told you I was on the trail of something. Well,' I've got it. The place Is over the Mandarin. Have it raided at once and we'll get them. Not the Mandarin --the side entrance, one flight up." He hung up the receiver. "Come, Walter," he cried. "You and Chase /can help me now." While we hurried downtown the po­ lice were being detailed for the raid and the pktrol wagon was still wait­ ing for the squad. We drove up in a taxicab just as the wagon swung around the corner, Al­ most as soon as we, the police were at the side door. Two of them rushed the Mandarin and arrested the taciturn proprietor. The rest battered down the door of the room. It was bare. As we looked about in astounded chagrin, I saw a sign on the wall. "Look--what's that?" I exclaimed. It read mockingly, "FOR RENT." But underneath was that mystic coiled reptile, ready to spring, with fangs extended--the sign of the ser­ pent! • • • • m-'-: Wu Fang had already plugged in the six receivera of the detectaphone and, though we did not know it, was eagerly listening with the others down in the cellar as Kennedy gave his orders for the raid. "Tom," muttered Wu, "you must get down there at once." Inez and Long Sin had scarcely had time to enjoy half a dozen luxurious whiffs before the secret rapping sound­ ed at the door. Long Sin opened it and Tom, usually imperturbable, al­ most rushed in. "The master--has learned--the po­ lice--raid--here," he announced, breathlessly. Wu Fang had outwitted us and saved both Long Sin and Inez by the the agency whose operatives he had frequently employed on loutine mat-'marvelous little eavesdropper. ters like shadowing. ••••••• "Can you send Chase down here im- It was some time after Kennedy mediately?" he asked, giving the ad- left ^ie Dodge house that Elaine re- Caught at Last I dress of the drug store. "I've a little shadowing in Chinatown for him.'" ' It was only a matter of a few min­ utes before Chase joined Kennedy, and together they went back to China­ town, Craig explaining to him in a low voice just what it was he wanted done. - The operative furtively watched Inez and Sam talking until finally she rose and went put by the street door. She turned abruptly on the street and entered a doorway that led up in the same building, only outside. Chase entered the dark, ill-smelling hallway and mounted the steps cau­ tiously, careful not to make them creak. He paused at each door until he was sure that there was no one on the other side. At one, however, he could hear low voices. He listened a moment, th&n tried the knob softly. * The door was locked. Carefully he put bis foot on the knob and raised himself up by gripping the transom. There were Inez and Long Sin talk­ ing earnestly as Inez removed her wraps while Long Sin laid out a couple of opium pipes and cooked two pills of the precious hop with practiced hand. Chase let himself down as softly as he had pulled himself up, and got away without being seen. Kennedy returned to the apartment after dispatching Chase on his mis­ sion. and there I met him as soon as I was through down at the Star office. We were talking over our plans when there came a sudden knock at the door. Craig opened it.- It was Chase. "I've found the hangout," he cried excitedly. "It's over that restaurant. You go In by the side entrance aad upstairs. I got as far as the door of the den, saw Long Sin and that girl { getting ready for an opium jag." turned to the library, still thinking about the note which she had received with the flowers. As she entfere^l she hardly noticed that both Marie and Jennings were there. She had scarcely awakened from her day dream In which she was walk­ ing, as it were, when her quick eye caught sight of the vase of red roses on the window sill. "Who put those flowers there?" she demanded of the astounded butler and maid, as she dashed them to the floor. Neither of them, naturally, knew a thing about it. Nor did Aunt Joseph ine, who happened to pass through the room at the moment. "Oh, I must see him--I must,1 cried Elaine excitedly, as she hurried out for her wraps. "Who knows what may have happened?" We returned to our apartment, cha grined, after out flat failure to cap­ ture either Long Sin or even get evi dence against Wu. As we entered the apartment, Craig dropped into a chair, scowling to him self. I watched him In gloomy sym­ pathy. Suddenly his face brightened. "What do you think they--" He cut me short with his finger on his lips, pantomiming silence. Instead of answering me he wrote on a sljp of ^paper and handed it to me: "There must be a detectaphone in this room. Talk about the weathei anything--while I locate it." Finally Craig went over to his desk and took out a'small piece of appara­ tus. He placed a peculiar telephonelike contrivance attached to one end of it up to his ear. He ""adjusted the magnet and carried the thing carefully about the room. ' Suddenly he paused and his face wrinkled. ' He stooped down and made a tuarf with a pencil on the baseboards It was at that moment that Elaine's car stopped outside the apartment. ^"Oh," she cried with an eager sigh of relief at seeing Kennedy all right, as she almost ran toward him. "I'm so glad you--" She stopped short as Craig motioned to her to be silent. She did not under­ stand, and for the moment stopped nonplused* as he picked up a pencil and began to write on a pad instead of meeting her advance. An instant later her mobile face looked up at him in wonder as she redd: "Every word we s4y is being over­ heard through a detectaphone in the wall. Don't be surprised at anything I say." Then he walked deliberately over to the wall near which the instrument was concealed and leaned down to in* sure his words being heard distinctly by those listening. "I am going over to the laboratory for an hour," he said in a loud, dis­ tinct tone. "Jameson, will you escprt miss Dodge home?" • "Why, certainly," I replied with alacrity. . A moment later we all left the room, chatting in forced tones about a hun­ dred inconsequential things. Craig banged the door. But before we left he reached Into his pocket and took out the flask and atomizer which I had seen him place there. He poured the contents of the flask on the rug. I accompanied Elaine to her car and we drove away while Kennedy left the apartment on foot. * * * * * * * Downstairs, Wu Fang had been lis­ tening at the other end of the detecta­ phone. Their attention -was soon at fever heat when Elaine entered our rooms. Wu, Long Sin and the others listened breathlessly. ^ The Chinamen waited until they boarJ us go out. Wu then handed Long Sin a vial and a key. "You un­ derstand?" "Yes, master," nodded Long Sin with an evil leer. He hastily^ climbed the stairs from the cellar to our apartment. For a few seconds he stood on the rug as he inserted the skeleton key in the lock. Then, swinging the door open cautiotisly he entered. He looked about a minute. The apartment was empty. Slowly Long Sin walked over to the table and began examining the articles on it. Finally he picked up Kennedy's pipe, and again his inscrutable face lighted with diabolical joy. * He took the vial quickly from 4iis pocket, and, with a small, soft brush painted the mouthpiece of the pipe with the liquid from the vial. He laid the pipe down as he found It and beat a hasty retreat * * * * • • • We had scarcely time to drive V> Elaine's house when a message reached us from Kennedy directing us to return and meet him several squares below our apartment. We did so immediately. There was Kennedy with Chase and three or four policeman. 'In ten minutes I want you to irk id the apartment," he said, looking at his watch. "I am going in there now." He entered the building and, as he opened our, own door, drew a gun, kicking the door open and retreating step. No one was there and he went in. Craig looked about a moment. On the surface, nothing had been dis­ turbed. He weut through the bed­ rooms. Nothing was disturbed there. Slowly he went back again to the doorway, all the time careful not to step on the rug. Starting near It, he began spraying the floor with the atomizer. It was one of his own inventions, which he called t. "photo-mat." As the spray fell on the carpet and hardwood it developed Long Sin's foot­ prints exactly. Carefully Kennedy followed them as the chemicals brought them out. Long Sin had not walked around the room much, evidently, as Craig ad­ vanced slowly along the floor, still spraying. As each step came out it was apparent that Long Sin had done little else but go to the table and then leave, » Craig looked at the table a moment. There seemed to be nothing on It that would attract a man of Long Sin's tal­ ents. Mechanically, Craig picked up his pipe lying there and looked at it contemplatively.. He snifTed at the mouthpiece. There was a peachstone smell. "Cyanide/' he muttered to himself under his breath, laying the pipe dtfwn gingerly. For a moment he thought, * then a sudden impulse seemed to seize him. His mind was made up. He moved closer to the marked baseboard. Sud­ denly he uttered a sharp cry- "Hello--central! Help! Help! I'm poisoAed!" At the same time he struck the wall a blow as though he were falling. *' * * * * * • Down in the cellar the six China­ men looked at each other In unfeigned delight as they heard the call for help. Quickly Wu pulled the detectaphone receiver off his head. "Here--take this," he ordered Long Sin, handing him a paper which he drew from under his blouse. Long Sin took It and looked at it with a smile of satisfaction. He un­ derstood. On the paper was drawn Wu's sign of the serpent, with fangs striking viciously and victoriously. Beckoning to another of the China­ men, Long Sin went out and upstairs. Meanwhile Craig, who had been listening at the door expecting some such Incursion, heard Long Sin ap­ proaching. He seated, himself In chair, sprawling out rigidly, clpsed. Without waiting, Long Sin and his servant entered stealthily. The China­ man stood in the doorway and Long- Sin slowly crept over to Kennedy'* chair. As he reached down to pin the sign of the serpent on Kennedy's appar­ ently lifeless body, Craig seemed sud­ denly to come to life. He seized Long Sin and they struggled fiercely, while Craig, freeing one hand, whipped out his automatic and fired sideways at the Chinaman in the doorway. The Chinaman fell, lay there a mo­ ment, then raised himself up and with fast ebbing strength managed to crawl out of the doorway and down the hall. It was a death grapple between Craig and the wily Long Sin. At last they had each other face to face. But it was unequal. Short and a]barp came the moves. Craig had in hia pocket a newly in­ vented pair of handcuffs which snapped automatically over first one and then the other of Long Sin's bony wrists. Then he pressed the bracelets tighter until even Long Sin winced. As Craig stood panting over -his prisoner, the wounded Chinaman stag* gered downstairs until he almost toll- into the cellar. "Master," he gasped. "He is--alive!1' The mere hint of Kennedy's name - a \ vi , W; PORTUGAL '"W mr % the First Ti me in History Film Show Is Submitted as Evidence. COURT GOES TO THE MOVIES leged. The session was adjourned from the courtroom in the federal building to a motion picture house, where Dr. William M. Grosvenor, an expert chemist called as a witness by the English company, explained in de­ tail the process of removing copper from ore as the pictures were thrown upon the screen. After the exhibition the hearing was resumed in the court­ room and Doctor Grosvenor continued his testimony. It was testified that the process For the first time in the history of i the United States district court at Wilmington, Def., motion pictures >•". were submitted as evidence in the suit of the Mineral Separator, Ltd., of Lon- don against the Miami Copper com- -f: ' u /i pany. a Delaware corporation, in whlrtH tafrlngement «f patents la al-1 shown by the pictures bad saved tor users of the patenta more than |50,- 000,000. It was one of the most unlQue bits of evidence and at the same time one of the most novel exhibitions ever seen in that city. Dont Interfere With Left-Handedness. No a|tempt should be made to teach naturally left-handed children to use their right hands, according to P. B. Ballard, London county council inspec­ tor of schools, as It is likely to make them stammerers. Lecturing recent­ ly before tfce Child Study society la •' <r» : London, Mr. Ballard adduced the fol­ lowing statistics: Out of one group of 545 left-handed children 1 per cent of pure left-hand­ ers stammered, against 4.3 per cent of 399 being taught to use the right hand. In another group of 207 the figures werp ^.2 per cent and 21.8 per cent respectively. Six out of. ten left- handed children who had been taught to use the right hand were practically cured of stammering after being al­ lowed to use the left nand exclusively eighteen months. Tteer* were twice as many left-handed boys as left-handed girls, and stammering was twice as prevalent among boya., •- Motorcycle for Mlssionatijfc A new application of the motorcycle to a distant field of endeavor will be watched with interest in the perform­ ance of an Indian motorcycle which was presented to a missionary in China, Rev. W. F. Junkins, who re­ cently returned to his charge after a visit to his home in this country. ; The gift waa from * number of ool- "What Shall I Do?" Elaine Appeals. was as though some word of black magic had been spoken to them. The three other Chinamen fell back as if In fear of an uncanny power. , Wu, white with anger, raised his hand, and they cowered still. "Is anyone else there with him?" demanded Wu. The wounded Chinaman had only strength to shake his head in the neg­ ative. i Then there la time yet,^ ground out Wu furiously. "Follow me." Craig was still bending over Long Sin making sure of his capture when he heard the scurry of footsteps out­ side. It was Wu and his servants. Craig rushed to the door, but not in time to close it. Instantly his gun spat a fatal dab of smoke and fire at the foremost Chinaman, who dropped. Craig seized the next onrushing Oriental and flung him over his head, butting him like a human battering ram directly Into Wu. Craig's onslaught had been fiercer and more unexpected than the China­ men had bargained for. They re­ coiled. Kennedy instantly slammed the door on Wu and the rest. They recovered In a few seconds and returned to the attack, battering against the door. It swayed and creaked with the weight of the Chi­ namen pushing against it, while Ken­ nedy plugged away blindly with his gun through the panels. • • * Down the street I wondered, as the minutes passed, what was happening behind the calm exterior of our apart­ ment. Elaine was anxious; Chase was impatient. But I wished to be exact. As the ten minutes ended I gave the signal to the driver. The police crowd­ ed in with us and we shot around the corner and up the street. In front of the apartment we could see and Inter now that shots were being Area off. Were we in time? We dashed upstairs. As we came down the hall we caught a gllmpBe oi Wu Fang and his underlings at out door. They had almost broken through. They were too late to get Kennedy but we were too late to get them. Wu knocked out the foremost pc liceman and dashed down the hallwaj with another after him. He managed to gain the roof and slamming the door ur> there braced it on the other side. Then, crossing the roofs, he suo ceeded In reaching another apartmen and escaping. "Craig," I shouted, pulling on the battered but still locked door. "This is Walter." The door opened and we piled Into Kennedy's room. There sat Long Sin, at last mat acled and bound, sullen. In a chair. Elaine breathed a sigh of relief as she seised both of Kennedy's hands. "You--you got him at*laitt" she cried. , "Yes," he answered, caressing her hand gently, "but there is still the master criminal." jtTO BE CONTINUED.) lege classmates of Mr. Junkins, vhc wished to have their regard for his consecration to duty take a practical form and decided upon the motor­ cycle. With it they also presented a side car, so that he need not be aloaf on his travels. He Is jut one of the interior sta­ tions, abbut 400 miles from Shanghai* but covers a good deal of territory laf his neighborhood and Will be able greatly to increase the distance ovet the 20 miles or so a day vshich hal been the best he could do» J Writer Describes Splendor of Sceiupi* is WO Entered the Wondrous '_•' %r. ' - Harbor of Lisbon. -J The sun was nearing the horizon as the sea narrowed to a strait, and to the left the old Tower of Belem again awoke memories of Vasco da Gama and his glorious return, writes Ernest Peixotto in Scribner's. Now as we threaded the narrows, the pale houses of Lisbon, clustered thick as eggs, in a basket, pink, blue, ochre and white. pile up _the hills to the Ajuda palace, and we entered the broad bay formed by the ^agus Just as it empties into the -sea--one of the largest harbors in Europe, that, however, with Its sparse shipping, now seems like a frame too large for its picture. oroat Kueflo am) CCIlfUSiOft were landed in a tender at the Al- fandega, took a cab with a pair of rattling ponies, sped through the hilly ... streets of the city, and theo the bropd y Avenida opened before us; sutd w» ':v drew up at our hotel. . > ,}•& j s? V The first impression from Our wttt* dow next morning was a most pleas- !&$ • a.--;' .TV » -ft,.-: v'V!" . .Ml •ft'1 ant one. And, indeed, Lisbon leaves S the definite impression of a say, bright capital, if not of a truly beau­ tiful city. Beautiful it certainly is by nature, seated on its lofty hills over­ looking the Tagus and interspersed everywhere with semitropic gardens and largos, but its newer houses are too rectangular, too lacking In imag­ ination to make anything but rather monotonous streets. Even the Praca do Commercio. though laid out upon i'- a truly magnificent scale, falta *te arouse enthusiasm. ; " This is the city's aspect to the casual visitor who devotes but a day or two to its sights. But to one who . is willing to give it a week or more it holds many attractions. * The seeker for the picturesque will • delight in the water front in the morn­ ing hours and in the fisher folk--the men in black bag-caps and knee breeches; the women, barefoot, set- r' ting out with basket on bead to trot the city streets. These fishvives are he most picturesque of the Lisbon , types and most of them are really beautiful, the fine ovalB of their faces, their smooth complexions and lus­ trous almond-shaped eyes recalling the Mauresques and clearly bespeak-^ Ing their oriental origin. England's Anthem||' The tune of "God Sav<pJ^e_ Kfiijgft* which the Germans always ""wrangle about, can be traced back for centu­ ries and has been credited to many composers and certainly appropriately --if there is anything in a name--to Dr. John Bull. But the honor^of wed­ ding the words and music together and calling them tbe national antbem of England is undoubtedly due to Henry Carey, of "Sally In Our Alley" fame, who boldly published them both as his own in 1742. And later on his son petitioned for a pension on the strength of his father's authorship. For Campers. Chiefly Intended for campers Is a curved table knife tbe end of which Is formed into a four-pronged fork. • Drink Oenison'a CofToe, For your health's sake. 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