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7 7".•'.':',-..V ,» ?•' ' "HBiai* StHENKV PLA«a>EAtBR. JrHEXRT, ILI„ *.» - 4>• ' 1 The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama ^ ' By ARTHUR B. REEVE TlieWeS* Known Novelist and the Creator of the' 'Craig Kennedy**Stcris» Presented in Collaboration With the Pathe Pl%yer» and «li« Eclectic Film Company CopyrWit. 19!4. by the Sar Coaip«ny AM Honam MgMi R«*m» ffev 1. 8YNOP8I8. Tb« New York police are mystified by a scries of murders and other crimes. The f»rlnclpal clue to the criminal is the warn-Off letter which is iwrnt the victims, signed with a "clutching liand." The latest vic­ tim of the mysterious assassin is< Taylor IXxJge, the 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 Elaine and Craig Kennedy out of the way the CJutCh- \ng Hand i? et last found to be none other than Perry Bennett, Elaine's lawyer and the man she is engaged to marry. ®e"" nett flees to th« den of one of his Chlj nese criminals. The Chinamnn forces from Bennett the secret of the whereabouts of $7,000,000. Then he gives the lawyer a po­ tion which will suspend animation for months. Kennedy reaches Bennett's side ^ust after he has lost copsciousness. TWENTY-FIFTH EPISODE THE LOST TORPEDO. Prom the rocks of a promontory that jotted out not far from the wharf where Wu Fang's body was found and Kennedy had disappeared, opened up a beautiful panorama of a bay on one aide and the sound on the other. It was a deserted bit of coast. But anyone who had been standing near the promontory the next day might have seen a thin line, as if the wa­ ter, sparkling in the sunlight, had been cut with a huge knife. Gradual­ ly a thin steel rod seemed to rise from the water itself, still moving ahead, though slowly now as it pushed its way above the surface. After it came a round cylinder of steel, studded with bolts. It was the hatch of a subma­ rine, and the rod was the periscope. As the submarine lay thAre at rest, the waves almost „breaking over it, the hatch slowly opened and a hand appeared groping for a hold. Then appeared a face with a tangle ot curly black hair and keen, forceful eyes. After it the body of a man rose out of the hatch, a tall, slender v striking per­ son. He reached dpwn into the -hqftt of the boat and drew forth & life pre­ server. "All right," he called down in an accent slightly foreign, as he buckled on the belt. "1 shall communicate with yon as soon as I have something to report." Then he deliberately plunged over­ board and struck out for the shore. Hand over hand, he churned his way through the water toward the beach until at last his feet touched bottom, and he waded out, shaking the water from himself like a huge animal. The coming of the stranger had not been entirely Unheralded. Along the shore road by which Kennedy and I had followed the crooks who we thought had the torpedo, on that last chase, was waiting now la powerful limousine with its motor purring. A chauffeur was sitting at the wheel and tD8ide, at-the door,, sat a man peering out along the road to the beach. Sud­ denly the man in the machine signaled to the driver. "He comes!" he cried eagerly. "Drive don^n the road, closer, and meet him." As the swimmer strode shivering up the roadway the car approached him. The assistant swung open the door and ran forward with a thick, warm coat and hat. Neither the master nor the servant spoke as they met, but the man wrapped the coat about him, hurried Into the car, the driver turned and) quickly they sped toward the city. _ JSecretly though the entrance of, the Stranger had been planned, however, it was not unobserved. Along the beach, on a bowlder, gaz­ ing thoughtfully out to sea and smok- an old brier pipe, sat a bent fish- j trman clad in an oilskin hat and 'heavy, ungainly boots. About his neck •'fe'as a long woolen muffler which con- ^ ¥ . ,, celled the lower part of his face quite effectually as his scraggly, grizzled • -fc-iuskers. j. Suddenly he seemed to discover yjumethiag that Interested him, slowly Tose, then turned and almost ran up xtlje shore. Quickly he dropped behind . '.jj, lr-cge rock and waited, peering out. As the limousine bearing the stranger, on whom the fisherman had kept his eyes riveted, turned and drove away, the old salt rose from be- .. hind his rock, gazed after the car as ' Ijlf to fix every line of it in his mem- yfjry, and then he, too, quickly disap- , ipeared up the road. « The stranger's car had scarcely dis­ appeared when the fisherman turned from the shore road into a clump of stunted trees and made his way to a hut Not far away stood a small, un­ pretentious closed car, also with a driver. "I shall be ready in a minute," the fisherman nodded, almost running into the hut, as the driver moved his car «*P closer to the door. ! ^ > The larger motor had disappeared ^par down the bend of the road when :> "-the fisherman reappeared. In an al- 1 1: *xost incredible time he "had changed Ilia oilskins and muffler for a dark coat |js?#nd silk hat. He was no longer a Ai Tt, Isherman, but a rather fussy looking ?Vv' ' "'??•, jV oW gentleman, bewfflskered still, with jps.j ^ tyes looking out keenly from a pair sf&?V w ff.K' t -f* gold-rimmed glasses in#-' -5\ },• >4- . . . . -Jte-VM- i'M i.' y'A'h'" * 'Follow that car--at any cost," he J^rdered simply as he let himself into the little motor, and the driver shot ahead down a bit of side road and out into the main shore road again, urging the car forward to overtake the one ahead. Such was the entrance of.'the strang­ er-- Marcius Del Mar--into America. How I managed to pass the time durihg the first few days after the strange disappearance of Kennedy I don't know. It Was all like a <*ream --the apartment empty, the Iabor**ery empty, my own work on the Star uninteresting, Elaine brokenhearted, life itself a burden. Hoping against hope, the next toy I decide^ to drop around at the Dodge house. As I entered the library un­ announced I saw that Elaine, with a faith for which I envied her, was sit­ ting at a table, her back toward the door. She was gazing sadly at a pho­ tograph. Though I could not see it, I needed not to be told whose It was. She did not hear me come in, so en­ grossed was she in her thoughts. Nor did she notice me at first as I stood just behind her. Finally 1 put my hand on her shoulder as if I had been an elder brother. She looked up into my face. "Have you heard from him yet?" she asked anxiously. I could only shake my head Badly. She sighed. Involuntarily c*he rose and together we moved toward the garden, the last place we had seen him about the house. We had been pacing up and down the garden, talking earnestly, only a short time when a man made his way in from the Fifth avenue gate. "Is this Miss Dodge?" he asked. Neither Elaine nor I knew him at the time, though I think she thought he might be the bearer of some mes­ sage from Craig. As a matter of fact, he was the emissary to whom the ste­ nographer had thrown the torpedo model from the Navy builling in Washington. His visit was only a part of a deep- laid scheme. Only a few minutes be­ fore three crooks--among them our visitor--had stopped just below the house on a side street. To him the others had given final instructions and a note, and he had gone on, leaving the two standing there. "I have a note for you,** he said, bowing and handing an envelope to Elaine, which she tore open and read. Washington, D. C. Miss Elaine Dodge, Fifth avenue, New York. My Dear Miss Dodge:--The bearer, Mr. Bailey of the Secret Service, would like to question you regarding the disappearance of Mr. Kennedy and the n$odel of his torpedo. Morgan Bertrand, United States Secret 8erv!ce. t~ Even as we were talking, the other two crooks had already moved up and had made their way around back of the stone wall that cut off the Dodge garden back of the house. There they stood, whispering eagerly and gaz­ ing furtively over the wall as their man talked to Elaine. * After a moment I stepped aside, while Elaine read the note, and as he asked her a few questions I could not help feeling that the affair had a very suspicious look. The more I thought of it, the less 1 liked it. Finally I could stand it no longer. "I beg your pardon," I excused my­ self to the alleged !SIr. Bailey, "but may I speak to Miss Dodge alone just a minute?" He bowed, rather ungracefully I thought, and Elaine followed me aside while I told her my fears. "I don't like the looks of it my­ self," she agreed. "Yes, I'll be very careful what I say." While we were talking I could see out of the corner of my eye that the ! fellow was looking at us askance and frowning. But if I had had an" X-ray eye I might have seen his two com­ panions on the other side of the wall, peering over as they had done before and showing every evidence of annoy­ ance at my interference. The man resumed his questioning of Elaine regarding the torpedo, and she replied guardedly, as, in fact, she could not do otherwise. Suddenly we heard shouts on the other side of the wall, as though some­ one were attacking someone else. There seemed to be several of them, for a man quickly flung himself over the wall and ran to us. "They're after us," he shouted to Bailey. Instantly our visitor drew a gun and followed the newcomer as he ran to get out of the garden in the opposite direction. Just then a tall, well-dressed, strik­ ing man came over the wall, accom­ panied by another dressed as a police­ man, and rushed toward us. • * * • » The car bearing the mysterious stranger, Del Mar, kept on until it reached New York, then made its way through the city until it came to the Hotel La Copfe. Del Mar Jumped out of the car, his wet clothes covered completely by the long coat. He registered and rode up the elevator to rooms which had al­ ready been engaged for him, In his suite a valet was already unpacking some trunks and laying out clothes when Del Mar and his assistant en­ tered. With an exclamation of satisfaction at his unostentatious entry into tbe city, Del Mar threw off his heavy coat. The valet hastened to assist him in removing the clothes, still wet and wrinkled from his plunge into the sea. Scarcely had Del Mar changed his clothes than he received two visitors. Strangely enough, they were dressed in the uniform of policemen. "First of all we must convince them of our honesty," he said, looking fixed­ ly at the two men. "Orders have been given to the men employed by Wu Fang to be about In half an hour. We must pretend to arrest them on sight. You understand?" "Yes, sir," she nodded. "Very well, come on," Del Mar or­ dered, taking up his hat and preced­ ing them from the room. Outside the X* Coste, Del Mar and his two policemen entered the car which had driven Dei Mar from the seacoast and were quickly whisked away, uptown, uh^il they came near the Dodge house. Del Mar leaped from the" car, fol­ lowed by his two policemen, "There they are, already," he whispered, pointing up tiu» avenue. All three hastened up the avenue now, where, beside a wall, they could see two men looking through intently a-s though very angry at something go­ ing on inside. "Arrest them!" shouted Det> Mar^ as his own men ran forward. The fight was short and sharp, with every evidence of being genuine. One of the men managed to break away and jump the garden wall, with D>el Mar and one of the policemen after him, while the other only reached the wall to be dragged down by the other policeman. Elaine and I had been, as 1 have said, talking with the man named Bailey,,who posed as a secret service man, when the rumpus began. As the man came over the fence, warning Bailey, it was evident that neither of them had time to escape. With his club the policeman struck the new­ comer of the two flat, while the tall, athletic gentleman leaped upon Bailey, and before we knew it had him dis­ armed. In a most clean-cut and pro­ fessional way he snapped the brace­ lets on the man. Elaine was astonished at the ka­ leidoscopic turn of affairs, too aston­ ished even to make an outcry.. As for me, it was all so sudden that I had no chance to take part in it. Be­ sides, I should not have known quite on which side to fight. So I did nothing. As it was over so quickly, I took a step forward to our latest arrival. "Beg pardon, old man," I began, wlih well-manicured finger, scarcely reminiscent of a fisherman, began trac­ ing the names down the list until he stopped before one which read: "Marcus Del Mar and valet, Wash­ ington, D. C., Room 520." With a quick glance about, he made a note of it and turned away, leaving the La Coste to take up quarters of his own in the Prince Henry down the street. Not until Del'Mar had left with his two policemen did the fussy old gen­ tleman reappear in the La Coste. Then he rode up to Del Mar's room and rapped at the door. "Is Mr. Del Mar in?" he Inquired of the valet. i "No, sir," replied that functionary. The little old man appearing to con­ sider, standing a moment dandling his silk hat. Absent-mindedly he dropped it. As the valet stooped to pick it up the old gentleman exhibited an agility and strength scarcctfy to be expected of his years. He seized the valet, while with one foot he kicked the door shut. Before the surprised servant knew what was going on his assailant had whipped from his pocket a handker­ chief in which was concealed a thin tube of anesthetic. Then leaving the valet prone in a corner with the hand­ kerchief over his face, he proceeded to make a systematic search of the rooms, opening all drawers, trunks and bags. He turned pretty nearly everything upside .down, then started on the desk. Suddenly he paused. There was a paper. He read it, then with an air of extreme elation shoved in into his pocket. As he was going out he stopped beside the valet, removed the handker­ chief from his face and bound bim with a cord from the portieres. Then, still immaculate in spite of his en­ counter, he descended in the elevator, re-entered a waiting car and drove off. Quite evidently, however, he wanted to cover his tracks, for he had not gone half a dozen blocks before he stopped, paid and tipped the driver generously, and disappeared into the theater crowd. Back again in the Prince Henry, whither the fussy little old man made his way as quickly as he could through a side street, he went quietly up to his room. His door was now locked. He did not have to deny himself to visitors, for he had none. Still his room was cluttered by a vast amount of para­ phernalia and he was seated before a table deep in work. • First of all he tied a handkerchief over his nose and mouth. Then he took up a cartridge from the table and care­ fully extracted the bullet. Into the space occupied by the bullet he poured a white powder and added a wad of Del Mar and the Old Man Drew Guns Together, lit WAR MAKES MUSICIANS IDLE Instrumentalists Are Said to Have 8uf- . . v,' fered More Than Any Other Class. i* - -- "ThS war'haa injured a great many .^Industries in this country, as it has f",benefited others, but perhaps no line jof business has been so seriously crip­pled as the music profession," said J. Jorss of St. Louis at the Raleigh, according to the Washington Post. "In sveiy big city musicians are idle and • A- those who are fortunate to have work are employed only half time. The big hotels have as few musicians in their orchestras as posnlble. Where a year ago some of the hotels had orchestras of a dozen pieces, they get along with four or five. Society folk are econo­ mizing in the same direction. They used to hire an -orchestra ot half a dozen; now they get along with a pi- anist and drummer. "In no city, however, have the musi­ cians been hit so hard as in Washing­ ton. I met a dozen musicians hers "but don't you think this is just tie raw? What'B it all about?" The newest comer eyed me for a moment, then with quiet dignity drew from his pocket and handed me his card, which read simply: M. DEL MAR, Private Investlgstor. As I looked up, I saw Del Mar's other policeman bringing ia /another manacled man. "These are crooks--foreign agents," replied Del Mar pointing to the pris­ oners. "The government has employed me to run them down." "What of this?" asked Elaine, hold­ ing up the note from Bertrand. "A fake, a forgery," reiterated Del Mar, looking at it a moment critically. Then to the men uniformed as police he ordered: "You can take them to jail. They're the fellows, all right." As the prisoners were led off, Del Mar turned to Elaine. "Would you mind answering a few questions about these men?" "Why--no," she hesitated. "But I think we'd better go into the house, after such a thing as this. It makes me feel nervous." With Del Mar I followed Elaine in through the conservatory. * • • * * • • Del Mar had scarcely registered at the La Coste when the smaller car which had been waiting at the fisher­ men's hut drew up before the hotel entrance. From it alighted the fussy old gentleman who bore such a re­ markable resemblance to the fisher­ man, hastily paid his driver and en> tered the hotel. He went directly to the desk and who have told me they have not had work for a month. Take the Marine band, the most noted musical organiza­ tion in this country. The men of this band are given small salaries. The highest paid man in the band, I think, gets $67.50 a month. The band is at the beck and call of the officials. Some­ times it plays 12, hours on a stretch. It is because the members of this band are privileged to take outside em­ ployment that they continue their membership. Ordinarily,, a member L ot the marine band can make mona o paper, like a blank cartridge, placing the cartridge in the' chamber of a re­ volver and repeating the operation until he had it fully loaded. It was his own invention of an asphyxiating bullet. Perhaps half an hour later the old gentleman, his room cleaned up and his immaculate appearance restored, sauntered forth from the hotel down the street like a veritable TurvejH drop, to show himself. Elaine seemed quite impressed with her new friend, Del Mar, as we made our way to the library, though I am sure that it was a pose on her part. At any rate he seemed quite eager to help us. "What do you suppose has become of Mr. Kennedy?" asked Elaine. Del Mar looked at her earnestly. "I should be glad to search for him," he returned quickly. "He was the great­ est man in our profession. But first I must execute the commission of tbe secret service. We must find his tor­ pedo model before it falls into foreign hands." ^ We talked for a few moments, then Del Mar, with a glance at his watch, excused himself. We accompanied him to the door, for he was indeed a charming man. I felt that if in fact he were assigned to tbe case I ought to know him better, "V you're going downtown," I ven­ tured, "I might accompany you put of the way." "Delighted," agreed Del Mar. As Del Mar and I walked down the avenue, he kept up a running fire of the outside than he gets from the gov­ ernment and for his outside Work he gets paid proportionately much more than the government pays him. Since tho war started, in fact, ever since the Democrats came into power, the mu­ sicians have had little work, and 1 be­ lieve there is no line of endeavor in which there is more suffering than among musicians." Hens Mads to Tske Part la War. An article in a London paper states | that hems, pigeons and crows aire being conversation until at last #1 «aa* near the La Coste. "Charmed * to have met yctvj,- Mr. Jameson," he said, pausing. "We shall see a great deal of each other I hope." I had not yet had timtiNto say good- by myself when a slight exclamation at my side startled me. Turning sud­ denly, I saw a very brisk, fussy old gentleman who had evidently been hur­ rying through the crowd. He had slipped on something on the sidewalk and lost "his balance, falling near us. We"-bent over and assisted him to his feet. As I took hold of his hand, I felt a peculiar pressure from him. He had placed something in my hand. My mind worked quickly. I checked my first impulse to speak, and, more from curiosity than anything else, kept the thing he had passed to me surreptitiously. "Thank you, gentlemen," he puffed, straightening, himself out. "One of the infirmities of age. Thank you, thank you." In a moment be had bistled off quite comically. Again Del Mar said good-by, and I d^i not urge him to stay. He had scarcely gone when I looked at the thing the old man had placed in my hand. It waf a little folded piece of paper. I opened it slowly. Inside was printed in pencil, disguised: . Be Careful. Watch Him. I read it In amazement. What did it mean? At the La Coste, Del Mar was met by two of his men in tbe lobby and tney rode up to his room. Imagine their surprise when they opened the door and found the valet lying bound on the floor. "Who the deuce did this?" demand­ ed Dei-Mar as they loosened him. The valet nose weakly to his feet. "A little old man with gray whiskers," he managed to gat-:p. Del Mar looked at him in surprise. Instantly his active mind recalled the little old man who bad fallen before us on the street. "Who--what was he?" "Come," he said quickly, beckoning his two companions, who had come in with him. Some time later, Del Mar's car stopped just below tbe Dodge house. "You men go around back of the house and watch," ordered Del Mar. As they disappeared he turned and went up the Dodge steps. * * * * * * * I walked back after my strange ex- perience with the fussy little old gen­ tleman, feeling more than ever, now that Craig was gone, that both Elaine and Aunt Josephine needed me. As we sat talking in the library, Rusty, released from the chain on which Jennings kept him, bounded with a rush into the library. 'Good old fellow," encouraged Elaine, patting him. Just then Jennings entered, and a moment later was followed by Del Mar, who bowed as we welcomed him. "Do you know," he began, "1 be­ lieve that the lost torpedo model is somewhere in this house, and I have reason to anticipate another attempt of foreign agents tovfind it. If you'll pardon me, I've taikeikMhe liberty of surrounding the place with some men we can trust." While Del Mar was speaking Elaine picked up a ribbon from the table and started to tie it about Rusty's neck. As Del Mar proceeded she paused, still holding the ribbon, Rusty, who hated ribbons, Baw his chance and quietly sidled out, seeking refugg in the con­ servatory. Alone in fife conservatory, Rusty quickly forgot about the ribbon and began nosing about the palms. At last he came to the pot In which the tor­ pedo model had been buried in the soft earth by the thief the night it had been stolen from the fountain. Quickly felaine recalled herself, and, seeing the ribbon in her hand and Rusty gone, called him. There was no answer, and she excused herself, for it was against the rules for Rusty to wander about. In his haste the thief had left just a corner of the handkerchief sticking out of the dirt. What none of us had noticed, Rusty's keen eyes and nose discovered, and his instinct told him to dig for it. In a moment he uncov­ ered the torpedo and handkerchief and sniffed. Just then he heard his mistress call­ ing him. Rusty had been whipped for digging in the conservatory, and now, with his tail between his legs, he seized the torpedo in his mouth and bolted for the door of the drawing room, for he had heard voices in the library. As he did so he dropped the handkerchief and the little propeller, loosened by his teeth, fell off. Elaine entered the conservatory, still calling. Rusty was not there. He had reached the stairs, scurrying up to the attic, still holding the torpedo model in his mouth. He pushed open the attic door and ran in. Rusty's last refuge in time of trouble was back of a number of trunks, among which were two of almost the same size and appearance. Behind one of them he had hidden a miscellaneous collection of bones, pieces of biscuit and things dear to his heart. He dropped the tor­ pedo among these treasures. Del Mar, meanwhile, had followed Elaine through th$ hall and into the conservatory. As he entered he could see her stooping down to look through the palms for Rusty. She straightened up and went on out. Del Mar followed. Beside the palm pot where Rusty had found the tor­ pedo he happened to see the old handkerchief soiled with dirt. Near­ by lay the little propelleri He picked them up. trained to watch out for the aero­ planes of the enemy, as they h^ve a keener vision than man can obtain, even with a telescope. The method of training is cruel, like everything connected with the war. The birds are confined in a pen and a machine descends near them and a man bela­ bors the fowls with a stick, hurting them badly and scaring them worse. This method is continued until the birds are continually on the watch skyward and if they see a tiny speck in the air thejr set uo such ft fluttering "She has found it!" he exclaimed in wonder, following Elaine. * * * * * * * Outside, on the lawn, Del Mar's men had been looking about, but had die covered nothing. They paused a mo ment to speak. "Look out!" whispered one of them. "There's someone coming." They dropped down in the shadow. There in the light of the street lamps was the fussy old gentleman coming across the lawn. He stole up to the door of the conservatory and looked through. De Mar's men crawled a few feet closer. The little old man en­ tered the conservatory and leoked about again stealthily. The two men followed him in noiselessly and watched as he bent over the palm pot from which the dog had dug up the torpedo. He looked at the hole curi­ ously. Just then he heard sounds be­ hind him and sprang to his feet. "Hands up," ordered one of the men, covering him with a gun. f - . . The little old man threw up his hands, raising his cane still in his right hand. The man with the gun took a step closer. As he did so the little old man brought down his cane with a quick blow and knocked the gun out of his hand. The second man seized the cane. The old man jerked the cane back and was standing there with a thin, tough steel rapier. It was a sword cane. Del Mar's man held the sheath. As the man attacked with the sheath the little old man parried, sent it flying from his grasp and wounded him. The wounded man sank down, while the little old man ran off through the palms, followed by the other of Del Mar's men. Around the hall he ran and back into the conservatory, where he picked up a heavy chair and threw it through the .glass, dropping himself behind a convenient hiding-place near by. Del Mar's man, close after him. mistaking the crash of glass for the escape of the man he was pursuing, went on through the broken exit. Then the little old man doubled on tracks and madejfor the front ot the house. • * .- •• * - • V- • Witji Aunt Josephine I,had remained in the library. "What's that?" I exclaimed at the first sounds. "A fight?" Together we rushed for the con­ servatory. The fight, followed so quickly by the crash of glass, also alarmed Elaine and Del Mar in the hallway and they hurried toward the library, which we had just left, by another door. As they entered they saw a little old gentleman rushing In from the conservatory and locking the door be­ hind him. He whirled about, and he and Del Mar recognized each other at once. They drew guns together, but the little old man fired first. His bullet struck the wall back Of Del Mar and a cloud of vapor was in­ stantly formed, enveloping Del Mar and even Elaine. Del Mar fell, over­ come, while Elaine sank more slowly. The little old man ran forward. In the conservatory Aunt Josephine and I heard the shooting, just as one of Del Mar's men ran in again. With him we ran back toward the library. By this time the whole house was aroused. Jennings and Marie were hurrying downstairs, crying for help and- making their way to the library also. J . In the library the little old man bent over Del Mar and Blaine. But it was only a moment later that he heard the whole*house aroused. Quick­ ly he shut and locked the folding doors to the drawing room as, with Del Mar's man, I was beating at the rear library door. "I'll go around," I suggested, hur­ rying off, while Del Mar's man tried to beat in the door. Inside the little old man, who had been listening, saw that there was no means of escape. He pulled off his coat and vest and turned them inside out. On the inside he had prepared an exact copy of Jenning's livery. It was only a matter of seconds be­ fore he had completed his change. Ft>r a moment he paused and looked at the two prostrate figures before him. Then he took a rose from a vase on the table and placed it in Elaine's hand. Finally, with his whiskers and wig off, he moved to the rear door where Del Mar's man was beating and open­ ed it. "Look," he cried, pohitlng In an agi­ tated way at Del Mar and Elaine. "What shall we do?" Del Mar's man, who had never seen Jennings, ran to his master, and the little old man, in his new disguise, slipped quietly into the hall and out the front door, where he had a taxlcab waiting for him down the street. A moment later I burst open the other library door and Aunt Josephine followed me in, just as Jennings him­ self and Marie entered from the draw­ ing room. It was only a moment before we had Del Mar, who was most in need of care, on the sofa, and Elaine, already regaining consciousness, lay back in » deep easy chair. .« As Del Mar moved I turned again to Elaine, who was now nearly recovered. "How do you feel?" I asked, anx­ iously. Her throat was parched by the as­ phyxiating fumes, but she smiled brightly, though weakly. "Wh-where did I get that?" she man- aged to gasp finally, catching sight of the rose in her hand. "Did you put it there?" M I shook my head and she gassd w the rose, wondering. _ Whoever t^he little man was, he vras gQhe. I longed for Craig. (TO B® CONTINUBIX) and screaming that attention is at tracted to the aeroplane. So biddy has been compelled to take part in the great war as well as horses, dog» and men.--Mertron Star. OF ORANGE HUE Oddly Radiant Beast Is Disco* , in Chicago by ana Giit Cmcago.- 'TQ0 MUCH!' SHE CRIES. i .k 1 -- -- -- . Other Peculiarities ef Animal Canary-Colored Eyes, 8ky-Blus Mane and Green Tall--Carr|,e^,' -./V. • V v -0?.- Cleaver in Feet. « - '•••WE.;;---'* •% M '•i0 •SN&. An orange-colored horse ---absolutely not the scarlet one that, haunted Evanston last February, but orange-colored, vivid, like flame--has been observed lately on the South side of Chicago, especially, if not exclus­ ively, in the neighborhood of Flft^r- thlrd street and Indiana avenue. A riot call brought a wagon load of police to that corner immediately after the first appearance of the oddly radiant beast. The shrill screams of a woman who never had seen a horse like that ^before aroused the whole neighborhood. But the horse disap­ peared as quickly as it had come. Have Only Description. Detectives who have sought to Utah* tify the animal and to question its owner if he should be found, say that they have not themselves seen the horse, but have obtained an eye-witness description from a young lady, as fol­ lows: "The horse iB quite different from the type ordinarily seen in Chicago. The orange-colored body is merely one of the peculiarities. In addition I no­ ticed that the eyes are canary yellow, the mane sky-blue, the tail a tropic shade of green, the tongue jet black and pointed like a fishhook, and the teeth--presumably artificial--are „:*f polished gold." : 5^ Meat Cleaver in Forefoot. Questioned more closely, the young woman remembered that tbe beast limped a little with its right forefoot, and that the left forefoot, oddly shaped like the hand of a gorilla, brandished an ordinary meat cleaver such as may be observed in any butcher shop. This item, the cleaver, is believed to be ;> J the only tangible clue to the identity ^t.' of the beast. At a late hour last night, however, the police had not re­ ceived any >complaint of a missing cleaver. The young lady said also that the « lips of the horse, when she saw it, " were parted in "a sort of leering grin." But this testimony is not taken at par, for authorities are agreed that a horse laugh never is a leer. It is therefore supposed that she is mis­ taken about the lips. J5V Had Late Supper In Loop. ^ It was Monday night that the yoftti# v.; woman saw the horse. It must have ' , % been nearly midnight, too, for she 5 Serves Him Right. A Mississippi bride sued her hus­ band for divorce rather than ride in the dilapidated, mule-drawn surrey which met them at the station after their honeymoon. She W^» award** $40 a month alimony. ^ - Seen Horse Before. says she had a late supper that eve- ning in the loop district, and she did not Bee the horse until some time after she had retired. . The lady's home Is not in Chicago, but in Peru, Ind. She was visiting friends here and enjoying the taste of city life greatly, very greatly, im­ mensely. In fact, it would be difficult to exaggerate the degree of the enjoy­ ment. But ifi Peru, it is said, the oldest inhabitant never has seen a horse like the one she saw here. Some of th^ village residents, It is true, have seen other curious animals, such as centi­ pede-mice. sixteen-ounce spiders and dachshunds longer than the village fire hose, but never an orange-colorsd horse with gold teeth. The appearance of the horse was, indeed, so strange that she screamed hysterically when she saw it, and it was her cries that brought the matter to the attention of the police. ft-! WORKS WHILE SHE SLEEPS .. ^ •y: Massachusetts Judge So Hold*.. ^ "Hello" Girl's Case and Flnes^ 3$ '•ti Manager. _____ £ Marlboro, Mass.--Telephone operat- fT ors whose hours of labor are such ? s:. that they are permitted to rest in the exchange building between their reg­ ular periods at the switchboard, work while they sleep, in the opinion of Judge W. McDonald of the district oourt. He ruled that although Miss Esther Hamblett, a local operator whose ~ hours are from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m.. Is permitted to sleep from midnight un­ til 7 a. m., subject to emergency call, she works twelve hours a day within the meaning of the law and he fined Frank A. Wilson, manager, $50 for violation of the law fixing hours of la­ bor for women. The action was brought by the state board of labor and industries as a test ease, and an appeal was t<U|en half of Wilson. , - &'• U: