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Ik.' ;/ >C ^ <* * ,-js^ h\>'">' * "* ' '1 ' tSllfPiiltiPiffll^ ' Mvi^sv raAiNDKAXEtt, -'A--'~LL- ' yJPS The Romance of Elaine Sequel to The Exploits of Elaine A Detective Novel By ARTHUR B. REEVE and a Motion Pio The Weii-Known Novelist and the Cre- ture Rr£lT1i£l ^ ator of the " Craig Kennedy " Stocjea. TriwiUi fa Collabor ation Wkk (k Patk Players m4 tl» Ecl«tk Fila CuapHgr Copyright, 1914. by the S.mr Company. All Foreign Ri»bt) Rcmiul. SYNOPSIS. The morning: after the finding of Wu Fang's bodv and Kennedy's disappear­ ance. Marcus Del Mar appears from a subn.". tne. Elaine Is warned by a little old man to be careful of Del Mar, who gets the torpedo, only to have it destroyed by the little old man. Jameson is cap­ tured by Del Mar's men. Elaine rescues lilm. Lieutenant Woodward and his friend. Professor Arnold, attend a party given at the Dodfre home, where unknowingly, Del Mar gives Elaine a clue. In her at­ tempt to prevent his cutting the Atlantic cable she is made a prisoner. Jameson, in a hydro-aeroplane, saves her from drowning. Disguished as a man she dis­ covers the entrance of Del Mar's wire­ less cave. She is saved by Jameson. Ar­ nold and Woodward destroy the wireless station, but Del Mar escapes. In & de­ serted hQtel in the woods Elaine discov­ ers Del Mar's men at work, is captured, but escapes When the hotel is attacked the men retreat to the woods, where they explode gas bombs, defeating Lieu­ tenant Woodward and his attacking par­ ty. Elaine receives a new searchlight gun from an unknown friend. Elaine discov­ ers a bomb hidden by one of Del Mar's men. They take it to Professor Arnold's yacht. They are attacked by Del Mar and his men. The searchlight gun saves Elaine and Johnson who reach the yacht eafelv. Del Mar appears with a subma­ rine and destroys the yacht with a tor­ pedo. Professor Arnold and his party escape. Lured by a woman posing as a modiste Elaine is again captured by Del Mar and rescued by an old naturalist and Jameson as she is about to drift over a waterfall in a boat. Professor Arnold, in a desperate attempt to prevent Del Mar from stealing the harbor defense plans, makes Elaine the unconscious instrument to save them. Arnold discovers Del Mar 's Identity. Elaine is trapped in Del Mar 's cottage and taken to the under sea ren­ dezvous. THIRTY-SIXTH EPISODE THE KENNEDY WIRELESS TOR­ PEDO. M;;: Half carrying, half forcing Elaine down into the water, Del Mar and his two men, all four of the party clad In the outlandish submarine suits, bore the poor girl literally.along the bottom of the bay until they reached a point which they knew to be directly under the entrance to the secret submarine harbor. v.?. - Del Mar's mind was working fe- - i. verishly. Though he now had in his 5>*r>S jf Power the girl he both loved and also " ̂ feared as the stumbling block in the *•«: • '•Si > •/ . execution of his nefarious plans S«|. against America, he realised that in getting her he had been forced to be- .'tray the precious secret of the har- .^Vr-'-^bor itself. v At the point where he knew that harbor was above him, hidden safely beneath the promontory, he ;.V i took from under his arm a float which 7^ he released. Upward it shot through the water. Above, in the harbor, a number of *his men were either on guard or loung- t ing about ¥ "A signal from the chief," cried a ^sentry, pointing to the float as it bobbed up. "Kick off the lead shoes," signaled Del Mar to the others, under the water. They did so and rose slowly to the . surface, carrying Elaine up with them. T^e men at the surface were waiting 'or an<* helped to pull Del Mar $•: |Ft - And his companions out of the water. "Come iulo the office, right away," -'\ <• |;4"' beckoned Del Mar anxiously, removing • kis helmet and leading the way. "P* In the office, the others removed 'fe ' ii? '; theIr helmets, while Del Mar took the j 'headgear off Elaine. She stared about * her bewildered. "Where am I?" 6he demanded. "a x* "A woman!" exclaimed the men in p ' ,. .the harbor in surprise. & b ^ "Never mind where you are," f p j growled Del Mar, plainly worried. |C f r |a Then t9 the men, he added. "We can't $ 8tay a*y longer. The harbor is dis- 's' covered. Get ready to leave imme- fV- diately". M V Immediately there was a general # : 1^. c.* scramble to make ready for the es- jf%-' cape. In the corner of the office, Elaine, V-f-'- • again - in her skirt and shirtwaist which the diving suit had protected, sat open-eyed watching the prepara­ tions of the men for the hasty depar­ ture. Borne had been detailed to get the rifles which they handed around to those as yet unarmed. Del Mar took one as well as a cartridge belt. "Guard her," he shouted to one man indicating Elaine, "and if she gets away this'time, I'll Bhoot you." Then he led the others down the ledgs until he came to a submarine boat. The rest followed, still making preparations for a hasty flight. -HI - •itiMfe--4' • i Woodward along with Professor Ar­ nold, In his disguise as a hermit, stood for a moment surrounded by the soldiers* after the disappearance, of Blaine and Del Mar in the water. "I see it all, now," cried the her­ mit, "the submarine, the strange dis­ appearances, the messages in the wa­ ter, They have a secret harbor un­ der those cliffs, with an entrance be­ neath the water line." Hastily he wrote a note on a piece of paper. "8end one of your men to my head­ quarters with that," he said, handing it to Woodward to read: Rodgers-- Send new submarine telescope by bearer. You will find it in ckse No. 17, closet No. 3. Arnold. On a wharf along-the shore Wood- BUTTERMILK AS A BEVERAGE •aid to Have Merits That Are Above Any Other Known Form of Food For Human Beings. writer la "The Dairy" has the fol­ lowing testimonial of buttermilk as a beverage: "A friend of mine has returned to America after a long residence abroad. I asked him what he appreciated most la *Ould Ii cland.' And to my wonder Ml surprise, he aasw«red immediate- ward, Arnold and the soldiers gath- ered, waiting for the telescope. Al­ ready Woodward had had a fast launch brought up, ready for UBe. When Woodward, Arnold and the at­ tacking party had discovered me un­ conscious in Del Mar's study, there had been no time to wait for me to re­ gain full consciousness,. Now, however, I slowly regained my senses and, looking about, vaguely be­ gan to realize what had happened. My first impulse wa^ to search the study, looking in all the closets and table drawers. In a corner was a large chest. I opened it Inside were sev­ eral of the queer helmets and suits which I had seen Del Mar use and one of which he had placed on Elaine. For some moments I examined them curiously, wondering what their use could be. Then my eye fell on the broken panel. I entered it and groped cau­ tiously down the passageway. At the end I gazed about, trying to discover which way they had all gone. At last, down on the shore, before a wharf I could see Woodward, tlte strange old hermit, and the rest. I ran toward them, calling. • • • • • • • By this time the soldier who had been sent for the submarine tele­ scope arrived at last, with the tele­ scope in sections in several long cases. "Good!" exclaimed the old hermit, al­ most seizing the package which the soldier handed him. He unwrapped it and joined the va­ rious sections together. It was, as I have said, a submarine telescope, but after a design entirely new, differing from the ordinary submarine tele­ scope. It had an arm bent at right angles, with prismatic mirrors so that it was not only possible to see the bottom of the sea, but by an ad­ justment also to see at right angles, or, as it were, around a corner. It was while he was joining this con­ trivance together that I came up from the end of the secret passage down to the wharf. "Why, here's Jameson," greeted Woodward. . "I'm glad you're so much better." "Where's Elaine?" I interrupted breathlessly. 1 They began to tell me. ; "Aren't you going to follo^rWu I cried. "Follow? How can we follow?* Excitedly I told of my discovery of the helmets. "Just the thing!" exclaimed the her­ mit.- "Send someone back to get them." It was only a few minutes later that, in Del Mar's own oar, I drove up to the wharf aga.*n and we unloaded the curious submarine helmets and suits. Quickly Woodward posted several of his men to act art sentries on the beach, then with the rest we climbed into the launch and slipped oft down the shore. The launch which Woodward had commandeered moving along in the general direction which they had seen Del Mar and his men take with Elaine. With the telescope over the side, we cruised about slowly in a circle, Ar­ nold gazing through the eye-piece. All of us were by this time in the diving suits which I had brought from Del Mar's, except that we had not yet strapped on the helmets. Suddenly Arnold raised his hand and signaled to stop the launch. "Look!" he cried, indicating the eye­ piece of the submarine telescope which he had let down over the side. Woodward gazed into the eye-piece and then I did, also. There we could see the side of a submerged subma­ rine a short distance away, through the cavelike entrance of what ap peared to be a great underwater har­ bor. / "What shall we do?" queried Wood­ ward. "Attack it now before they are pre­ pared," replied the hermit decisively. "Put on the helmets." ' As soon as we had finished, one after another we let ourselves over the side of the boat and sank to the bot­ tom. On the bottom we gathered and •lowly, in the heavy unaccustomed ele­ ment and cumbersome suits, we made our way in a body through the en­ trance of the harbor. Upward through the archway we went, clinging to rocks, anything, but always upward. As we emerged a shot rang out. One of our men threw up his arms and fell back into the water. On we pressed. yon see anybody come up Uirough the water, these hand grenades ought to settle thorn." Along the ledge the men were sta­ tioned, each with a pile of the gren­ ades before him. "See!" cried one of theni from the ledge as he caught sight oC one of our helmets appearing. The others crouched and stared. 'Del Mar hijwlf hurried forward and gazed in the direction the man indicated. There they could see Woodward, Ar­ nold and the rest of us just beginning to climb up out of the water. Del Mar aimed and fired. One of the men had thrown up his arms with a cry and fallen back into the water. Invaders seemed to swarm up now in every direction from the water. On the semi-circular ledge about one side of the harbor, Del Mar's men were now ranged in close Order near a sub­ marine, whose hatch was open to re­ ceive them, ready to repel the attack and if necessary retreat into the under­ sea boat. They fired sharply at the figures that rose from the water. Many of the men fell back, hit, but, in turn, a large number managed to gain a foothold on the ledge. Led by Arnold and Woodward, they formed quickly and stripped off the waterproof coverings of their weap­ ons, returning the fire sharply. Things were more equal now. Several of Del Mar's men had fallen. The smoke of battle filled the narrow harbor. In the office Elaine listened keenly to the shots. What did it all mean? Clearly it could be nothing less than assistance coming. The man on guard heard also and his Uncontrollable curiosity took him to the door. As he gazed out Elaine Baw her chance. She made a rush at him and seized him, wresting the rifle from his hands before he knew it. She sprang back just as he drew his revolver and fired at her. The shot just narrowly missed her, but she did not lose her presence of mind. She fired the rifle in turn and the man fell. A little shudder ran over her. She had killed a man! But the firing out­ side grew fiercer. She had no time to think. She stepped over the body, her face averted, and ran out. There she could see Del Mar and his men. "We can t beat them; they are too many for us," muttered Del Mar. "We'll have to get away if we can. Into the submarine!" re ordered^ Hastily they began to pile Into .the op«n hatch. Just as Del Mar started to follow them, he caught sight of Elaine run­ ning out of the office. Almost in one leap he was at her side. Before she could raised her rifle and fire he had seised it She managed, however, by the hermit and Wood war dj contln ued to batter at the door. "Now--go down that *tairw~ ahead of me," ordered Del Mar. Elaine obeyed tensely,- and he fol­ lowed into his emergency exit, clos­ ing the trap. "Beat harder, men," urged the her­ mit, as the soldiers battered at the door. They redoubled their efforts and the door bent and swayed. •; At last it fell in under tlMft sheer weight of the blows. "By George -- he's < gone -- with Elaine," cried the hermit, "lobbing 'sit the empty office. "Pound the floor and walls with the butts of your guns," ordered Ar­ nold. "There must be some place that is hollow." Meanwhile, through the passage, along a rocky stairway, Del Mar con­ tinued to drive Elaine before him, up and ever up to the lerel of the land. At last Elaine, followed by Del Mar, emerged from the rocky pas­ sage In a cleft in the cliffs, far ^bove the promontory. "Go on!" he ordered, forcing her to go ahead of him. They came finally to a Bmall hut on a cliff overlooking the real har­ bor. "Enter!" commanded Del Mar. Still meekly, she obeyed. -«Del Mar seized .her, and before she knew it he had her bound and gagged. Down in the little office our men continued to search for the secret exit. "Here's a place that gives aa echo," shouted one of them. As he found the secret trap and threw it open, the hermit stripped off the cumbersome diving suit and jumped in, followed by Woodward, myself and the soldiers. Upward we climbed until at last we came to the opening. There we paused and looked about. Where was Del Mar? Where was Elaine ? We could see no trace of them. Finally, however, Arnold discovered the trail in the grass and we fol­ lowed him slowly picking up the tracks. t Knowing that the submarine would cruise about and wait for him, Del Mar decided to leave Elaine in the hut while he went out and searched for a boat in which to look for the sub­ marine. Coming out of the hut, ho gazed about and moved off cautiously. Stealthily he went down, to the shore and< there looked up and down in­ tently. A short distance away from him was a pier in the process of construc- They Watched. Fascinated, While Del Mar Madtf Hla Escape. Elaine sat in a corner of the office, mute, while the man who was guard­ ing her, heavily armed, paced up and down. Suddenly an overwhelming desire came over her to attempt^ an escape But no sooner had she made a motion as though to run through the door, than the man seized her and drove her back to her corner. "Take your positions here," ordered Del Mar to several of the men. "If | ly, 'buttermilk.' I laughed, but in all seriousness he went on to enlarge on the merits of this homely far? in a manner that aroused my interest in what had been to me an unthought of matter until then, and if by this letter I can interest your readers in any­ thing like the same way I shall be greatly pleased, and will have my re­ ward in the knowledge and assurance that the health and happiness of the community have been benefited there­ by. " Do you know,* ".isaid my friend, to push hjm off and get away from him. She looked about for some weapon. There on the ledge lay one of the hand grenades. She picked it up and hurled it at him, but he dodged and it missed him. On it flew, landing close to the submarine. As it exploded, another of Del Mar's men toppled over into the water. Between volleys, Woodward, Arnold and the rest pulled off their helmets. "Elaine!" cried Arnold, catching sight of her in the hands of Del Mar. Quickly, at the head of such men as he could muster, the hermit led a charge. In the submarine the last man was waiting for Del Mar. As the her­ mit ran forward with several soldiers between Del Mar and the submarine, it was evident that Del Mar would be cut off. The man at the hatch climbed down into tho boat. It was useless to wait. Slowly the submarine began to sink. Del Mar by this time had overcome Elaine and started to run toward the submarine with her. But then he stopped short. There was a queer figure of a her­ mit leading some soldiers. He was cut off. "Back into the offleel" he growled, dragging Elaine. He banged shut the door just as the hermit and the soldiers made a rush at him. On the door they bat­ tered. But it was in vain. The door was locked. In the office Del Mar hastily went to a corner after barring the door, and lifted a trap door in the floor, known only to himself. Elaine did not move or make any atte~ ?• to escape, for Del Mar in ad­ dition to having a vicious looking au­ tomatic in his hand kept a watchful eye on her. Outside the office, the soldiers, led tion. Men were unloading spiles from a cable car that ran out on the pier on a little construction railway, as well as other material with which to fill in the pier. At the end of the dock lay a power boat, moored evi­ dently belonging to someone interest­ ed in the work on the pier. The workmen had Just finished un­ loading a earful and were climbing back on the empty car, which looked as if it had once been a trolley. As Del Mar looked over the scene of ac­ tivity, he caught sight of the power boat. "Just what I want," he muttered to himself. "I must get Elaine. I can get away in that." The workmen signaled to the en­ gineer above and the car ran up the wharf and up an incline at the shore end. The moment the car disappeared Del Mar hurried away in the direction he had come. At the top of the grade; he noticed, was a donkey engine which operated the cable that drew the car up from the dock, and at the top of the in­ cline was a huge pile of material. The car had been drawn up to the top of the grade by this time. There the engineer who operated the engine stopped It. Just then the whistle blew for the noon hour. The men quit work and went to get their dinner palls, while the engineer started to draw the fire. Beside the engine, he began, to chop some wood, while the car was held at the top of the grade by the cable. • • * • • • • In our pursuit we came at last In sight of a lonely hut. Evidently that must be 4. rendezvous of Del Mar. But was he ^here? Was Elaine there? We must Bee first. While we were looking about and debating what was the best thing to do, who should appear hurrying up the hill but Del Mar himself, going to­ ward the hut. enthusiastically, " 'that the health and longevity the rural population of Ire­ land enjoy are largely attributable to their liberal use of buttermilk?' I had not known this, but he soon con­ vinced me that there were good grounds for bis statement, and among others he quoted the great continental scientist Metchnikoff that the greatest i enemy of old age and senile decay was buttermilk. This he proved by quot­ ing Kellogg, who holds that about 75 percent of all digestive troubles can be benefited or cured by tbe use of this health giving drink and much to the same effect. I am thoroughly con­ vinced that if people realized the val­ ue of this wholesome product of our farms it would at least once a day find an honored place on our tables, to the exclusion of more expensive and lesa healthful drinks. r . ^ J 4' As we caught tight of him, Arnold sprang forward. Woodward and I, followed by the soldiers also jumped out. Del Mar turned and ran down the hill again with us after him, full cry. While we had been waiting, soms of the soldiers had deployed down the hill and now hearing our shouts, turned, and canUe up again. Beside his engine, we could see an engineer chopping wood. He paused now in his chopping and was gazing out over the bay. Suddenly he had seen something out in the water that had attracted his attention and was staring at it. There it moved, noth­ ing less than a half-submerged sub­ marine. As the engineer gazed off at it, Del. Mar came up, unseen, behind him and stood there, also watching the sub­ marine, fascinated. Ju£t then behind him Del Mar heard us pursuing. He looked about as we ran toward him and saw that we had formed a wide circle, with the men down the hill, that almost completely surrounded him. There was no chance for escape. It was hopeless. ' But it was not Del Mar's nature tie give up. He gave one last' glance about. There was the trolley car that had been converted into a cable way. It offered just one chance in a thou­ sand. Suddenly his face assumed an air of desperate determination. He sprang toward the engineer and grappled with him, seeking to wrest the ax from his hand. Every second counted. Our circle was now narrow­ ing down and closing in on him. Del Mar managed to knock out the engineer, taken by surprise, just as our men fired a volley. In the strug­ gle, Del Mar was unharmed. Instead he just managed to get the ax. An instant later a leap landed him on the cable car. With a blow of the ax he cut the cable. The car began to move slowly down the hill on the grade. Some of the men were down below in its path. But the onrushing cable car was too much for them. They could only leap aside to save them­ selves. On down the incline, gathering mo­ mentum every second, the car dashed, Del Mar swaying crazily but keeping his footing. We followed as fast as we could, but it was useless. Out on the wharf it sped at a ter­ rific pace. At the end it literally cat­ apulted itself into the water, crash­ ing from the end of the pier. As it did so, Del Mar gave a flying leap out into the harbor struck the water with a clean dive and disappeared. On down the hill we hurried. There in the w^ter was Del Mar swimming rapidly. Almost before he knew it, we flow him MlfiA Ha jiowj on<J olgnoj^ shouting. There only a few yards away was the periscope of a submarine. As we watched, we could see that it had seen him, had turned in his direction. Would they, get him? . We watched, fascinated. Some of our men fired, as accurately as they could at a figure bobbing so uncertain­ ly on the water. Meanwhile the submarine ap­ proached closer and rose a bit so that the hatchway cleared the waves. It opened. One of the foreign agents assisted Del Mar in. He had escaped at last! It was most heartbreaking to have had Del Mar so nearly in our grasp and then to have lost him. We looked from one to another, in despair. Only Arnold, in his disguise as a hermit, seemed undiscouraged. Sud­ denly he turned to Woodward. "What time is it?" he asked eagerly. "A little past noon." "The Kennedy wireless torpedo!" he exclaimed. "It arrived today. Burn- side is trying it out." Suddenly there flashed over me the recollection of the marvelous invention that Kennedy had made for the gov­ ernment just before his disappearance, as well as the memory of the experi­ ences I had had once with the in­ trepid Burnside. Woodward's face showed a ray of interest and hope in the overwhelming gloom that had settled on us all. "You and Jameson go to Fort Dale, quick," directed Arnold eagerly. "I'm not fit. Get Burnside. Have him bring the torpedo In the air boat." We needed no further urging. It was a slender chance. But I re­ flected that the submarine could not run through the bay totally sub­ merged. It must have Its periscope in view. We hurried away, leaving Arnold, who slowly mounted the hill again. How we did it, I don't know, but we managed to get to the fort in rec­ ord time. There, near the aeroplane hangar, sure enough, was Burnside with Bome other men adjusting the first real wireless Kennedy torpedo, the last word in scientific warfare, making an aerial torpedo boat. We ran up to the hangar calling to Burnside excitedly. It was only a moment later that he began to Issue orders in his sharp staccato. His men swarmed forward and took the tor­ pedo from the spot where they had been examining it, adjusting it now beneath, the hydro-aeroplane. , "Jameson, you come with me?" he asked. "You went before." We rose quickly from the surface and planed along out over the harbor. Far off we could see the ripple from the periscope of the submarine that was bearing Del Mar away. Would Kennedy's invention, for which Del Mar had dared so much In the first place, prove his final undoing? We sped ahead. Down below in the submersible Del Mar was giving hasty orders to his men, to dip down as soon as all the Not Even Stead Know*. The spirit of William T. Stead, the great British newspaper editor, who loat his life on the T^mnic, having been summoned by hla daughter. Miss Estelle Stead, and asked as to the duration of the war has answered with the usual ambiguity for which spirits have become somewhat noted. Miss Stead in a lecture to the Spiritualist Society of Cardiff, Wales, said she had been in touch with the spirit of her father practically since the war began 1 and that it had been a wonderful com­ fort to her to be able to talk with him.: She had asked him, she said, about the duration of the war but he could not say. He did say, however, that It was difficult to gauge timi shipping and the sand bars wwre cleared. I strained my eyes through the glasses reporting feverishly to Burn­ side what I saw- so that he could steer his course, c -Vv Y • "There it is,"' I' nrgid. *Ke©i> on --Just to the. left." v 5 "I see it," returned Burnside a mo­ ment later catching with his naked eye the thin line of foam on-the water left by the periscope. "Would you mind getting that torpedo ready?" he continued. "I'll tell you Just what to do. They'll try to duck as soon as they see us, but it won't toe any use. "Craigl" Cried Elaine, <in Eager 8ur* prise. They can't get totally submerged fast* enough."' Following Burnside's directions I ad- Justed the firing apparatus of the tor­ pedo. "Let it go!" shouted Burnside. I did so, as he volplaned down al­ most to the water. The torpedo fell, sank, bobbed up, then ran along just under the surface. Already I was somewhat familiar with the wireless device that controlled it, so that while Burnside steadied the aircraft I could direct it, as he coached me. The submarine saw it coming now. But it was too late. It could not turn; it could not submerge In time. < A terrific explosion followed as the torpedo came in contact with the boat, throwing a column of water high in the air. A yawning hole was blown -1 the very side of the submarine. One could see the water rush in. Inside, Del Mar and his men were now panic-stricken. Some of them desperately tried to .plug the hole. But it was hopeless. Others fell, faint­ ing, from the poisonous gases that were developed. Of them all, Del Mar's Was the only cool head. He realized that all was over. There was nothing left to do but what other submarine heroes had done In better causes. He seized a piece of paper and hastily wrote: Tell my emperor I failed only be­ cause Craig Kennedy was against me. Del Mar. He had barely time to place the message in a metal float nearby. Down the submarine, now full of water, sank. With his last strength he flung the message clear of the wreckage as It settled on the mud on the bottom of the bay. Burnside and I could but stare Ilk grim satisfaction at the end of the enemy of ourselves and our country. • • • • • • • Up, the hillside plodded Professor Arnold still in his wild disguise as the hermit. Now and then he turned and cast an anxious glance out over the bay at the fast disappearing periscope of the submarine. Once he paused. That was when he saw the hydro-aeroplane with Burn­ side and myself carrying the wireless torpedo. Again he paused as he plodded np, this time with a gasp of extreme sat­ isfaction. He had seen the water spout and heard the explosion that marked the debacle of Del Mar. The torpedo had worked. The most dangerous foreign agent of the coali­ tion of America's enemies was dead, and his secrets had gone with him to the bottom of the sea. Perhaps no one would ever know what the nation had been spared. He did not pause long, now. More eagerly he plodded up the hill, until he came to the hut. He pushed open the door. There lay Elaine, still bound. Quickly he cut the cords and tore the gag from her mouth. As he did so, his own beard fell off. He was no longer the hermit. Nor was he what I myself bad thought him, Arnold. "Craig!" cried Elaine In eager sur­ prise. Kennedy said not a word as ^e grasped her two hands. "And you were always around us, protecting Walter and me," she half laughed, half cried hysterically. "I knew it--I knew It!" * Kennedy said nothing His heart was too happy. 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The pair 1 had before were threes, and they never gave oja' any trouble. "Perhaps the . threes were, mark' down." suggested the salesman* Only Once. "Do you see the man?" "Yes. I see the man," "What Is he doing?" "He is blowing his fingers, jumping up and down and acting in such a way that his wife looked, at him in astoft* ishment and (ear. t There, he ha* kicked over two chairs, torn down the lace curtains and made A rush fOf ̂ J .' the kitchen." ^ "But has the man gone crazy all of a sudden?" "Oh, no; he was hunting for a col» lar button and picked up his wife' red-hot curling tongs in an absent' way. Lots of husbands do that-**; once. He won't speak to her for tbd next three days, but he will not di« of his Injuries, and the experienoa may do hiro good " A Powerful Physique Is a valuable, asset, but-- U ' y . V«, Strength of body must be combined with a healthy, active mind* success. : f:• ,v 1 / • - » ; • • • 4 • - . . • ' It is well established that both body and brain are nourished and rebuilt daily from food--each taking up the particular elements required. FOOD made of wheat ^nd malted barley, supplies all the rich nutriment of the grains, in­ cluding the vital mineral elements necessary for build- ing stout bodies, and active brains. Grape-Nuts food not only supplies rich, well-balanced nourishment, but is delicious and easy to digest " "Tkwe'j a Season? . j I fit