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, ?-Tr-rJ* , /1 . ; '•»-»y' * ** •> 'v " ' '*• " '_J- v<"^'» >•/, '. '^" * The Romance of Elaine ^4il Dcftcftoc Novel and a Motion Picture Dram** 1 < By ARTHUR B. REEVE The Wefl-Known NoveiNt and ike Greater of the "Craig Kennedy** Stories hwiuliJ in Collaboration With the Path* Pb|«n «•! tfc« Eclectic Film Company Copyrtfhc. 1414. by the Star Compan* Atl Pom en Rijhn R«*tr*M SYNOPSIS. After th« finding of Wu Fang's body and Kennedy's disappearance a submarine ap­ pears the following morning on thfe bay. A man plunges overboard from /it and •wims asnore. It is the entrance, t>f Mar- oius Del Mar into America. At the Dodge home one of Wu Fang's men is trying to obtain information of Kennedy and the lost torpedo. His plan is blocked by Del Mar's arrival, who also sutx*eeds 1n win­ ning Elaine's confidence. lAter she is warned by a little old man to be careful. Dei Mar's mission at the Dodge house was !o locate and recover the torpedo. He would have been successful had it not been for Elaine's dog. Rusty, who dug it from the flower pot, while Del Mar and Elaine were talking only a.few feet away. Rusty carried the torpedo to the attic. The little old man meets Del Mar at the Dodge home. They draw guns together, tiwa from the exploded shells of. the old man's revolver overcome Del Mar and Klaine. and the old man of mystery es­ capes. Shortly after thi? affair Elaine gives a masquerade ball. Del Mar at­ tends. Neither he nor his domino girl, can locale the torpedo. A gray friar' warns Elaine and Jameson of Del Mar's purpose, and his plans are upset. Del Mar succeeds In getting this girl In Elaine's home as a maid. She finds the torpedo in the attic, places it in a trunk,, which with others is sent to Elaine's country home. A holdup on the train takes place. Del Mar's men carry the trunk away only to rind on opening it tfcat they have the wrong one. -Get gar- TWENTY-SEVENTH EPISODE W. mi: ^ ' i M- K'-'tM:;-:-. THE DESTROYED TORPEDO. Del Mar had evidently, by this time, eome to the conclusion that Elaine was the storm center of the peculiar train of events that followed the dis­ appearance of Kennedy and his wire­ less torpedo. At any rate, as soon as he learned that Elaine was going to her country home for the summer, he took a bun­ galow some distance from Dodge Hall. There, on the day that Elaine de­ cided to motor In from the city, Del Mar arrived with his valet. M/ Evidently he lost no time in getting to work on his own affairs, whatever lit v they might be Inside his study, '/j \ , which was the largest room in the Vl#'1 '* house/a combination of both library tC v /»' . and laboratory, he gave an order or ^ 1 * two to his valet, then immediately tat vC'V down to his new desk. He opened a drawer and took out a long, hollow 'it1" „ cylinder, closed at each end by air- tight caps, on one of which was a "" book. ' l|A Quickly he wrote a note and read it f-f\. * H.';". over: "Install submarine bell in place lyof these clumsy tubes. Am having W*; . iharbor and bridges mined as per in- *tructions from government. D." : He unscrewed the cap at one end of ^ 1; - the tube, inserted the note and closed ft. Then he pushed a button on his desk. A panel tn the wall opened and one of the men who had played po­ liceman once for him stepped out and saluted. "Here's a message to send below," said Del Mar briefly. The man bowed and went back ^ % through the panel, closing it. Del Mar cleaned up his desk and then went out to look his new quar­ ters over, to see whether everything '/bad been prepared according to his in- 7>- structlons. From the concealed entrance to a - cave on a hillside, Del Mar's man who .. .p., , had gone through the panel in the bungalow appeared a few minutes f "> later and hurried down to the shore. •• waa a rocky coast with stretches of fet * • c'^®8 and now and then a ravine and a bit of sandy beach. Gingerly he climbed down the rocks to the water. He took from his pocket the metal ^ ^ tube which Del Mar had given him 'if-'i' 'jj. and to the hook on one end attached a '"^4k weight of lead. A moment he looked ff'Vbout cautiously. Then he threw the •'/ Vv?* -tube Into the water and it sank quick- *7- He did not wait, but hurried back • lnto the cave entrance. • • • • • • • : Elaine, Atfnt Josephine and I mo­ tored down to Dodge Hall from the city. Elaine's country house was on a fV ®ne estate near the Long Island Sound y f e . a n t * a ' t e r t h e l o n g r u n w e w e r e g l a d : j t° pull up before the big house and t l 2 1 ' R e t o u t o f t h e c a r . A s w e a p p r o a c h e d -,'Y' the door 1 happened to look down the road. **Well, that's the country, all right," 1 exclaimed, pointing down the road. "Look." Lumbering along was a huge, heavy hayrack on top of which perched a farmer chewing a straw. Following along after him was a dog of a pecu­ liar shepherd breed which 1 did not recognize. Atop of the hay thd old fellow had piled a trunk and a basket. To our surprise the hayrack •topped before the house. "Miss Dodge?" drawled the farmer nasally. "Why, what do you suppose he can want?" asked Elaine moving out to­ ward the wagon while we followed. "Yes." "Here's a trunk. Miss Dodge, with your name on it," he went on dragging It down. "I found it down by the rail­ road track." It was the trunk marked "E. Dodge" which had been thrown off the train, i &KK-S.- •?» "v.« pi fVi'* • T'.'fV ' ' "J' ' f t -> 'v'-v-Sr V. , * V- - ' ' "Jennings," o&lled Elaine. Patrick and carry the trunk in." Together the butler and the dener dragged It off. "Thank you," said Elaine, endeavor- inn to pay the farmer. "No, no, miss," he demurred as he clucked to his horseB. We waved to the old fellow. As he started to drive away, he reached down Into the basket and drew out some yellow harvest apples. One at a time he tossed them to us as he lum­ bered off. "Truly rural," remarked a voice be­ hind us. It was Del Mar, all togged up and carrying a magazine In his hand. We chfttted a moment, then Eiaine started to go into the house with Aunt Josephine. With Del 'Mar I followed. As* she went Elaine took a bite of the apple. To her surprise it separated neatly into two hollcw halves. She looked inside. There was a note. Carefully she unfolded it and read. Likp the others, it wajr aot written but printed in pencil: Be careful to u/itack' all your trunks yourself. Destroy this note. A Friend. What did these mysterious warnings mean, she asked herself in amazement, domehow so far they had worked out all right. She tore up the note ^and threw the pieces away. Elaine went into the house and we followed. Del Mar, however, dropped just a bit behind and, as he came to the place where Elaine had thrown the piece* of paper, dropped his magazine. He stooped to pick it up and gathered the pieces, then rejoined us. "I hope /ou'll excuse me," said Elaine brightly. "We've just a#Hved and I haven't a thing unpacked." Dt>l Mar bowed and Elaine left us. Aunt Josephine followed shortly. Del Mar and I sat down at a table. As he talked he placed the magazine in his lap beneath the table, on his knees. I could not see, but be was in reality secretly putting together the torn note which the farmer had thrown to Elaine. Finally he managed to fit all the pieces. A glance dcwn was enough. But his face betrayed nothing. Still under the table, he swept the pieces into his pocket, and rose. "I'll drop in when you are more set­ tled," he excused himself, strolling leisurely out again. • • • • * * ». Up in the bedroom Elaine's maid, Marie, had been unpacking. "Well, what do you know about that?" she exclaimed as Jennings and Patrick came dragging in the banged- up trunk. "Very queer." remarked Jennings, detailing the little he had seen, while ^Patrick left. The entrance of Elaine put an end to the interesting gossip and Marie started to open the trunk. "No, Marie," said Elaine. "Ill un­ pack them myself. You can put the things away later. You and Jennings may go." Quickly she took the things out of the battered trunk. Then she started on the other trunk, which was like it but not marked. She threw oat a couple of garments, then paused, star­ tled. There was the lost torpedo--where Bertholdi had stuck it in her haste! Elaine picked it up and looked at it in wonder, as it recalled all those last days before Kennedy was lost. Finally she decided to lock It up in the bureau drawer and tell me. Not only did she lock the drawer, but, as she left her room, she took the key of the door from the lock Inside and locked it outside. Del Mar did not go far from the house, however. He scarcely reached the edge of the grounds where he waa sure he was not observed when he placed his fingers to his lips and whis­ tled. An instant later two of his men appeared from behind a hedge. "You must get into her room," he ordered. "That torpedo is in her lug­ gage somewhere, after all." In the rear of the house the two emissaries of Del Mar stole out of.the shelter of some bushes and stood for a moment looking. Elaine's windows were high above them, too high to reach. "We'll have to use the Dutch house- mac's methods," decided one. Together they went around the house toward the laundry. It was only a few minutes later that they re­ turned. Nc one was about. Quickly one of them took off his coat. Around his waist he had wci^d a coil of rope. Deftly he began to climb a tree whose upper branches fell over the roof. Cat­ like be managed to reach the roof. He made his way along the ridge pole to a chimney which was directly back of and in line with Elaine's windows. Then he uncoiled the rope and made one end fast to the chim- emrthfag that Elaine n«u unpacked. Then he began on the little writing desk, the dresser and the bureau draw­ ers. A subtle smile flashed over his face as hfe came tb one drawer that was locked. He pulled a sectional jimmy from his coat and forced It open. > There lay the precious torpedo. The man clutched at it with a look of exultation. Without another glace at the room he rushed to the window, Beized the rope and pulled himself to the roof, going as he had come. • * * • • • • It did not take me long to unpack the few things I had brought and 1 was Boon back again In the living room, where Aunt Josephine joined me in & few minutes. Just as Elaine came hurriedly down the stairway and started toward me, Del Mar entered from the porch. She stopped. Del Mar watched her close­ ly. Had she found anything? He was sure of It. Her hesitation was only tor a mo­ ment, however. "Walter," she said, "may I speak to you a moment? Ex> cuse us, please?" Aunt Josephine went out toward the back cf the house to see how the servants were getting on, while I fol. lowed Elaine upstairs. Del Mar with a bow seated himself and opened his magazine. No sooner had we gone, however, than he laid it down and cau­ tiously followed us. - Elaine was evidently very much ex­ cited as fel)£ enterd her dainty little tfoom and closed the door. "Walter," she cried, "I've found the torpedo!" We looked about at the geheral dis­ order. "Why," she exclaimed nerv­ ously, "someone has been-here--and I lockcd the door, too." She almost ran over to her bureau drawer. It had been jimmied open in the few minutes while she was down­ stairs. The torpedo was g^ne. We looked at each other, aghast Behind us, however, we did not see the keeh and watchful eyes of Del Mar, opening the door and peering in. * * * * « * • ^ Perhaps half a mile down the road, the farmer abandoned his hayrack aDd new, followed by his peculiar dog, walked back. He stopped at a point in the road where he could see the Dodge house in the distance, sat on the rail fence and lighted a blackened corncob pipe. There he sat for some time appar­ ently engrossed in his own thoughts about the weather, the dog lying at worked tts way half from the mac's pocket. The farmer seised it. Th$ man fell bpek, limp, and the farmer, w^th the torpedo in one hand, grasped at the gun on the ground and straight, ened up. He had no sooner risen than the man was at him again. His uncon­ sciousness had been merely feigned. The struggle was renewed. ' At that point, the hedge down the road parted and Del Mar stepped out. A glance was enough to tell him what was going on. He drew his gun and ran swiftly toward the combatants. As Del Mar approached, his man Succeeded in knocking the torpedo from the farmer's hand. There it lay, several feet a^pay. There seemed t</ be no chance for either man to get it Quickly the farmer bent his wrist, aiming the gun deliberately at the precious torpedo. As fast as he could he pulled the trigger. Five of the six shots penetrated the little model. , So surprised was his antagonist that the farmer wajs able to knock him out with the butt of his gun. He broke away and fled, whistling on a police whistle for the dog just as Del Mar ran up, Del Mar stopped and picked up the model. It had been shot into an un­ recognizable mass of scrap. In a fury, Del Mar dashed it on the ground, curs­ ing his men as he did so. • -• • • • • •. The Btrange disappearance of the torpedo model from Elaine'B rfom worried both of us. Doubtless if Ken­ nedy had been there he would have known just what to do. But we covld not decide. "Really," considered Elain£, "I think we had better take Mr. Det Mar into our confidence. "Still, we've had a great many warn­ ings," I objected. "I know that," she persisted, "but they have all come from very unre­ liable sources." "Very well," I agreed finally, "then let'a drive over to his bungalow." Elaine ordered her little runabout and a few moments later we climbed into It and Elaine shot the car away. As we rode along, the country seemed so quiet that no one would ever have suspected that foreign agents lurked all about. But it was just under such a cover that the ne­ farious bridge and harbor mining work ordered by Del Mar's superiors was going ahead quietly. As our car climbed a hill on the other side of which, in the valley, was a bridge, we could not see one ot Del We Opened the Cylinder. Inside Was a Note. taken by Del Mar and rifled by the | ney. Letting the other end fall free got motorcyclist. "How do you suppose it ever here?" cried Elaine in wonder. • "Must have fallen off the train," I suggested. "You might have collected the insurance under this new.baggage law!" down the roof, he carefully lowered himself over the edge. Thus it was not difficult to get Into Elaine's room by stepping on the window sill and going through the open window. The man began a rapid search of the room, turning up and pawing ev- hls feet. Now and then he looked fixedly toward Dodge Hall. Suddenly his vigilant attention seemed to be riveted on the house. He drew a field glass from his pocket and leveled it. Sure enough, there was a man coming out of a window, pulling himself up to the roof by a rope and going across the rooftree, I He lowered the glasses quickly and climbed off the fence with a hitherto unwonted "energy. "Come, Searchlight," he called to the dog, as together they moved off quick­ ly in the direction he had been look­ ing. Del Mar's men were coming through the hedge that surrounded the Dodge estate just as the farmer and his dog stepped out in front of them from be­ hind a thicket. "Just a minute," he called. "I want to speak to you." He enforced his words with a vi­ cious looking gun. It was two to one and they closed with him. Before he could shoot, they had knocked the gun out of his hand. Then they tried to break away and run. But the farmer seized one of them and held him. Meanwhile the dog de­ veloped traits all bis own. He ran in and out between the legs of the other man until he threw him. There he stood, over him. The man attempted to rise. Again the dog threw him and kept him down. He was a trained Bel­ gian sheep bound, a splendid police dog. "Confound the brute," growled the man, reaching for his gun. As he drew it, the dog seized his wrist and with a cry the man dropped the gun. That, too, was part of the dog's training. While the farmer and the other man struggled on the ground, the torpedo FIRE FIGHTING IN IRKUTSK i' " v§!Js: fill &; •feV' c ; , y : c ; , XNgwrtment Answers Alarm in Goor " Jpld-Fashioned Style, and Accom- 'f\ * pitches Little. ^ ttiey light fires in a peculiar way in Mterfa. First you find the fire. The city is platted int6 districts, each with tts engine house and watch tower. On the watch tower, by day and night, stands a guard who scans the house- tOJNP lor a sign of smoke When the f %*&"'•• fire has got enough headway for him to see the smoke he gives the alarm, and the engines dash out. The specta­ tor is amused, not so much at the dash as at the engines. They are primitive and the use of them is more so. We went to a fire one Sunday after­ noon in Irkutsk, Richard L. Wright says in "Through Siberia." It was close to our hotel, BO that we had an Excellent view. First came a troika | team that dragged a hock and ladder ; carriage. On the carriage clung the • firemen. ho» Un6 Cos sac ks with brass helmets jammed down over their ears, who carried In one hand--how the symbolism would have stirred the heart of Maeterlinck--flaming torches. Itohiud the hook and ladder was the hose cart and then came a hand en­ gine of the type our grandfathers used to drag to fires. After that, for two blocks, filed a queue ef water-filled hogsheads cn wheelB. The cavalcacje passed us in a cloud of dust, accom­ panied by the yells of the torch-bear­ ing firemen. When the supply of wa­ ter rgu* out the oarU dashed down W Mar's men in hiding at the top. He saw us,. however, and Immediately wigwagged with his handkerchief to several others down at the bridge where they were attaching a pair of wires to the planking. "Someone coming," muttered one who was evidently a lookout. The men stopped work immediately and hid in the brush. Our car passed over the bridge and we saw nothing wrong. But no sooner had we gone than the men crept out and resupaed work which had progressed to the point where they were ready to carry the wires of an electric connection through the grass, concealing them as they went. In the study of his bungalow, all the time, Del Mar was striding angrily up and down, while his men waited in silence. Finally he paused and turned to one of them "See that the coast is clear and kept clear," he ordered. "I want to go down." The man saluted and went out through the paneL A moment later Del Mar gave orders to the olher man who also saluted and left the house by the front door, just as our car pulled «M>. ' , ~ ' Dey Mar, the moment the man was gone, put on his hat and moved to­ ward the panel in the wall. He was abput to enter when he heard some­ one coming down the hall to the study and stepped back, closing the panel. It was the butler announcing us. We had entered Del Mar's bunga­ low and now were conducted to his library. There Elaln^ told him the whole story, much to his apparent sur­ prise, for Del Mar was a wonderful actor. "You see," he said as she finished telling of the finding and the losing of the torpedo, "just , what I had the river and were replenished. This crude high pressure service gave rise once to a rather humorous incident that the Irkutskians tell with great glee. During a fire several years kro a string of water wagons went down to the river, wero filled and came rumbling back. When they reached the fire, the water was gone. The enthusiastic captain of hogsheads had neglected to put back the plugs in the barrels ̂ d had spilled his supply for several blocks «long the main •treet. fnared would happen has happened. Doubtless the foreign agents have the deadly weapon now. However, I'll not quit. Perhaps we may run them down yet." * He reassured 'us and we thanked him as we said good-by. Outside, Elaine and I got into the car again and a moment later spun off, making a little detour first through the coun­ try before hitting the shore road back again to Dodge H1IL • • • • • • *<• tm .. On the rocky shore ok the promon­ tory several men were engaged in sinking a peculiar heavy disk which they submerged about ten or twelve feet. It seemed to be held by a cable, and to It wires were attached, appar­ ently so that when a key was pressed a circuit was closed. It^was an "oscillator," a sew system for the employment of sound for imb- marine signaling, using watar instead of air as a medium to transmit sound waves. It was composed of a ring magnet, a copper tube lying in an air gap In a magnetic, field and a sta­ tionary central armature. The tube was attached to a steel diaphragm. Really it %as a submarine bell which could be used for telegraphing or tel­ ephoning both ways through water. The men finished executing the di­ rections of Del Mar aud le^t. carefully concealing the land connections and key of the bell, while we were still a;. Del Mar's. j We had no sooner left, howevtr, than one of the men who had been en­ gaged in installing the submarine hell entered the library. v "Well?" demanded Del sir. "The bell is installed, sir," he-said. "It will be working soon." "Good," nodded Del Mar. He went to a drawer and from It look a peculiar-looking helmet tq which was attached a sort of harness fitting over the shoulders and carry­ ing a tank of oxygen. The headpiece was a most W7$ml contrivance, with what looked like a huge glass eye in front. It was in reality a submarine life-saving apparatus. Del Mar put It on, all except the heljnet, which he carried with him, and then, with his assistant, went out through the panel In the wajl. Through the underground passage the two groped their way, lighted by an elec­ tric torch, until at last they came to the entrance hidden in the under­ brush, tiear the shore. Del Mar went over to the concealed station from which the submarine bell was mounded and pressed the key as a signal. Then he adjusted the subma­ rine helmet to his head and deliber­ ately waded out into the water, far­ ther and farther, up to his head, thfen deeper still. ' As he disappeared into the water, his emissary turned and went back towaid the shore joad. • • • • * Th% ride around through the coun­ try aud back to the shore road from Del Mar's was pleasant. In fact, it was always pleasant to b$ with Elaine, especially in a c*r. We were spinning along at afast clip when we came to a rocky part of the coast. As we made a turn a sharp breeze took off my hat and whirled it far off the road and among the .rocks of the shore. Elaine shut down the engine, with a laugh at me, and we left the car by the road while we climbed down the rocks after the hat. It had been carried into the water, close to shore and, still laughing, we clambered over the rocks. Elaine in­ sisted on getting it herself and in fact did get it. She was just about to hand it to me, when something bobbed up in the water just in front of us. She reached for it and fished it out It was a cylinder with air-tight caps on both ends, in one of which was a hook. "What do you suppose it is?" she asked, looking it over as we made our Way up the reeks again to the car. "Where did it come from?" We did not see a man standing by our car, but he saw us. It was Del Mar's man who had paused on his way to watch us. As we approached he hid on the other side of the road. By this time we had reached the car and opened the cylinder. Inside was a note which read: "Chief arrived safely. Keep watch." "What does it mean?" repeated Elaine, mystified. Neither of us could guess and I doubt whether we would have under­ stood any better, if we had seen a sinister face peering at us from be­ hind a rock near by, although doubt­ less the man knew what was in the tube and what it meant. We climbed into the car and start* ed again. As we disappeared the man came from behind the rocks and ran quickly up to the top of the hill. There, from the bushes, he pulled out a peculiar instrument composed of a strange series of lenses and mirrors set up on a trlpcd. Eagerly he placed the tripod, ad­ justing the lenses and mirrors in the sunlight. Then he began working them, and It was apparent that he was flashing light- beams, using a Morse code. It was a heliograph. Down the shore on the top of the next hill sat the man who had already given the signal with the handker­ chief to those in the valley who were working on the mining of the bridge. As he sat there, his eye caught the flash of the heliograph signal. He sprang up and watched intently. Rap­ idly he jotted down the message that was being flashed in the sunlight: Dodge Girl has mess>8e 'rom he- low. Coming in car. Blew first bridge she crosses. Down the valley the lookout made his way as fast as he could. As be approached the two men who had been mining the bridge, he whistled sharp- Missionary's Good Work. Dr. Frederick Evans, who has final­ ly completed his revision of the Arabic Bible, having toiled at the task since 1908, is an American missionary sta­ tioned at Beirut. He is now oversee­ ing the preparation of the book plates. He was born at Rockdale, Penn., grad­ uated from Princeton in 1883, and from Union Theological Seminary five years later. That same year he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He became a touring missionary, and Iy. They answered and hurried to meal him. "Just got a heliograph," he panted. "The Dodge girl must hare picked up one of the messages that came from below. She's coming over the hill now in a car. We've got to* blow up the bridge as she crosses." The men were hurrying now toward the bridge which they had mined. Not a moment wtfs to be lost, for already thtey could see us coming over the crest of the hill. In a few seconds they reached the hfdden plunger firing box which had been arranged to explode the charge under the bridge. There they croucL."»d in the brush ready to press the plung­ er the moment our car touched tnc planking. One ef the men crept out a little nearer the road. "They're coming!" he called back, dropping down *1**1 "Get ready!" • D«1 Mar's emissaries had not reck­ oned, however, that anyone else might about to whom the heliograph was open-book. yut, farther up the hill, hiding suiong the trees, the old farmer and his dog were sitting quietly. The old ^tan was sweeping the Sound with his glasses, es if he expected to see some­ thing any moment. To his surprise, however/ he caught a flash of the heliograph from the land. Quickly he turned and jotted down the signals. As he did so, he seemed greatly excited, for the mes­ sage read: " "Dodge girl has message from he- low. Coming in cqr. Blow first bridge she crosses." Quickly he turned his glasses down the road. There he could see our car approaching. He put up his glasses and hurried down the hill toward the bridge. Then he broke into a run, the dog scouting ahead. We were going along the road nice­ ly, now, coasting down the hill. As we approached the bridge Elaine slowed up a bit to cros^, for the plank­ ing was loose. Just then the farmer who had been running down the hill saw us. "Stop!" he shouted. But we did not hear. He ran after us, but the chase was hopeless. He stopped, in despair. With a gesture of vexation he took a step or two mechanically off the road. Elaine and I were cooking fast to the bridge now. In their hiding place IX*1 Mar's men were watching breathlessly. The lead­ er was just about to press the plunger when all of a sudden a branch in the thicket beside him crackled. There stood the farmer and his dog. Instantly the farmer seemed to take in the situation. With a cry he threw himself at the man who had the plunger. Another man leaped at the farmer. The dog settled him. The others piled in, and a terrific struggle followed. It was all BO rapid that, to all, seconds seemed like hours. We were just starting to cross the bridge. One of the men broke away and crawled toward the plunger box. Our car was now in the middle of the bridge. Over and over rolled the men, the Sog doing his best to help his master. The man who had broken away reached toward the plunger. With a shout he pushed it down. * » • • 0 * • • Our car had just cleared the bridge when we were startled by a terrific, roar behind us. It was as though a thousand tires had blown out atoncfe Elaine shut off the engine automatical- ly and we looked back. „ The whole bridge had been blowu up. A second before We had been in the middle of it. As the explosion came,* the men who had been struggling In the thicket, paused, startled, and stared out. At that instant the old farmer saw his chance. " It was all over and he bolted, calling the dog. Along the road to the bridge he ran, two of the men after him. "Come back*" growled the leader. "Let him go. Do you want us all to get caught?" As the farmer ran up to the "bridge he saw it in ruins. But down the road he could see Elaine and myself, sitting in the car, staring back at the peril which we had so narrowly es­ caped. His face lighted up in as great joy as a few momenta before it had shown despair. "What can that have been?" asked Elaine, starting to get out of the Oar. "What caused it?" "I don't know," I returned, taking her arm firmly. "But enough has hap­ pened today. It was intended for us, we'd better hasten. Someone might take a shot at us. Come, we have the car. We can get out before anyone does anything more. Let's ao it. Things are going on about us of which we know nothing. The safest thing is to get away." Elaine looked at the bridge in ruins and shuddered. It was the closest we could have been to death and have escaped. Then she turned to the wheel quickly and the little car fairly jumped ahead. "Oh, If Craig were only here," she murmured. "He would know what to do." As we disappeared over the crest of the next hill, safe, the old farmer and his dog looked hard at us. The silence after the explosion waa ominouB. He glanced about. No one waa pur­ suing him. That seemed ominous, too. But if they did pursue he was pre­ pared to elude then. They must nev­ er recognize the old farmer. As he turned, he deliberately pulled of his beard, then plunged again into th© woods and was lost. (TO BB CONTINUED.) trans-Jordan country and Arabia for two years. Since 1900 he has virtual­ ly made his* home at Beirut, and has issued many books and pamphlets in Arabic. With Prot. William Libbey he is the co!-author of the work, "Jor­ dan Valley and Petra." His latest book is "From the Nile to Nebo, a Discussion of the Problem and Routs of the Exodus." x -n • i The weight of the dome of ai.^rau?; is 45,000 tons, according to Mervln lift !-e£t0r6t&£ ..vv V ' * ' - 1 ^ ' j ' WAS NOT A SERPEN! American Museum Gets Picture |v;^«am(Heas Shark, Mlatakiip for a Monster. iiviv'- Stoifes of persons having sighted * sea serpents and other monsters of the deep reach the officials of the American Museum of Natural History frequently, most of them coming ill the form of letters during "the susih . mer months, when persons more fifr miliar with business offices or their homes than with the inhabitants the sea are attracted to the resorts. Most of the letters are based <& hearsay evidence, and so it was with some surprise that Dr. F. A. Lucas, the director of the museum, read In one of the letters that an actual pho> tograph of the sea serpent whose ao- tions were described was being for> warded under separate cover, awaited the arrival of the photograph eagerly. The letter which,preceded It said that the sea serpent had made its appearance at the eastern end of i Long island and that It had whipped and churned the water near the spot . at which it appieared for nearly 4jpr. hour. j Occasionally !ts huge tall could lis1 , seen above the water: at other times | two or three sections of its writhing, dark body could be seen at once. Onto of the spectators who had fled to the - ! shore from a small boat procured a kodak and Snapped the monster a> conclusive evidence that sea serpenfis did exist. i - - The photograph arrived in the ne|t , day's mail, however, and Doctor Ljif cas found it to be not a sea serpent but what is known as a "thrashed" shark, a species which. It is satd,. I§, more afraid of man than man is of tt. Its name is derived from the manner in which it thrashes about in the wa­ ter with its huge tail. MARK GRAVES WITH MACLE8 Plan Proposed to Honor Canada's Dead Who Have Fallenln Flanders. How to mark permanently the rest­ ing places of the thousands of Cana­ dian soldiers who have fallen in Flan­ ders and in France is a matter tpJ which the people of the dominion have given considerable thought. From a member of the Over-Seas club comes the happy suggestion that> since the maple leaf Is the emblem of Canada, maple trees be planted Qver the isolated graves and along the roads leading to the cemeteries. He has already sent millions of seeds to France, and is to send more. The species chosen is the sugar maple, and so France in time will have a beautiful memorial of the aliens who gave their lives for her.-- Youth's Companion. A Useful HeacL A Washington man has in his em­ ploy a faithful but, at times, stupid servant in the person of an old darky named Zeke. Recently, when the employer had/ vainly endeavored to get something done in a certain way, he gave up in despair, exclainrng: "Zeke! Zeke! Whatever do you think your head is for?" Zeke, who evidently tnought that this was another of the troubleiome questions that his employer was al­ ways asking, pondered It deeply. Fi­ nally he replied: "Well, boss, l guess it's to keep my collar on." The Pace., The rhinoceros surveyed the world complacently. "After all, I set the pace, in a manner of speaking!" quoth be. Whereat the other beasts burst out laughing. "Well, it's a fact." the rhinoceros. Insisted. "Tell me. please, where would civilisation be if it were not for men with hides like mine?"--Ham­ burg Patriot Rare Case^ "There are exceptions to all rules." ' *1 had a striking illustration of ,that fact offered me only yesterday." "How so?" "I traveled with an actor two hours before he told me what his profession was." Natural Process. "What will they do with the fence the police caught?" "I guess they'll whitewash him." Building Master Men Potash, sodium, lime and iron are eome of the vital mineral salts necessary to proper nourishment of roue- ©le, brain and nerves, but are not found in proper abund­ ance in white bread and many other foods. • Grape-Nuts ---made from whole wheat and malted barley -- richly supplies these needed min­ eral elements and is a deli­ cious dish served with cream Ot rich milk. Grape-Nuts food is splen­ did for brain workers, and ideal for school children. Being partially pre-digested, it is quickly absorbed by the system--going directly to the up-bu*lding of smew, bram and nerves without overload­ ing the stomach. "There's a Reason" madf journeys oC exploration Utfo J.'." ^ ^' :,4""r " ' - + in Y'v* ^ 'y%\ y-:v" WW***} 13. $old by Gro^« t-f: "•£ • -r ¥fk-