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Show r THE CITIZEN 14 NEW BOOKS they and many of their friends had been betrayed by Colonel Itoblns to the bolshevik!. I J the intervening ones, except that & few of the main characters appear in all of them, might well be presented alone. advenColonel In the first of the stories the young Kalpaschnikoffs tures in prison were interesting, detective, Jim Garth, in love with though not particularly terrifying. He Nora, daughter of his chief, is set to g encountered man's humanity to man in unravel a mystery in one br two of his gaolers, and he was which a faceless man named Simable, it seems, to indulge in exciting mons is involved. He impersonates exploration among the mysterious re- Simmons by wearing a gray mask, and cesses of that evil and historic peni- discovers with horror that Nora is aptentiary, discovering long forgotten parently one of the gang he is trail subterranean passages builtby refer-- ing. That mystery is cleared up when The incriminating correspondence the Great There were the usual plots he learns that a detective formerly concerned to escape, frustrated,- as usual, and beloved by Nora had been killed in merely Kalpaschnikoffs anxiety to get the American motors to messages written on cigaret papers an encounter with these crooks, and ltoumania before they were seized by and hidden in the prison bread. Among that Nora, daughter of an Italian the bolsheviki. There were two cop- Kalpaschnikoffs fellow prisoners were mother, is planning through seeming ies of it, one in the hands of Colonel all the ministers of the provisional complicity to gain opportunity to exto used at listen He Robins; the other was locked in Kalgovernment. night tract an eye for an eye, a tooth for a box court tooth. The crooks are arrested, conto and weak was1 the the Sukhomlinov, paschnikoffs dispatch I conseen by no one save himself. martialed secretary of war, shriving victed of murder, and placed in jail clude, therefore, observes the ambas: his guilty soul, wailing, I am a sin- to await execution. sador, "that if Kalpaschnikoff was not ner; I am a sinner, and calling for There follow several chapters in atMme. or one Robins of wife. handsome Jewish his his young mistaken, which Nora and Garth go through taches must have given to Trotzky Virubova, the sweetheart of Rasputin, thrilling adventures together in the the verbatim copy which he read in was there, the gem of the institution, solving of various mysteries. There his speech, charging the American operating almost as smoothly as she is the mystery of the phantom army ambassador with being in a plot to did in the Romanoff court. German spies plotting the destrucoverthrow the soviet government. Purishkevish, who slew the nefari- tion of a great American munitions Colonel Kalpaschnikoff was convinced, ous monk, wras a comrade. He told factory. There are divers ghosts who later, that all the American motors Kalpaschnikoff first how Rasputin died demonstrate after the dogged investidestined for Red Cross service in and was buried; how, after the amogations of the two friends a perfectly did not achieve the purpose of rous charlatan had been lured to sup corporeal quality. There are insane their generous donors. One night in with the beautiful Grand Duchess murderers, and dope fiends, and plots the yard of the commission of the Irene, and had eaten with impunity and counterplots, to make the readers Gurokhovaia he saw an ambulance in the poisonous pastry, her husband, as creepy as his heart use as a tumbril for the victims of Prince Yousoupov-Sumarakoshot can deliciously wish. Through it all runs the the bolsheviki.. On the side of it in him in the face and did not kill him; love of Garth for Nora, and howr Rasputin fell with a crash, but steady red letters was inscribed: her constant troubled Miss Anne Thomson of Philadelphia. w'as game enough to rise and stagger about her feeling for him, which the from the room, saying to Purishkevich, of her former lover prevents You have made a great mistake; I memory Evidences of Colonel Robins cloven from attaining to a full vigor. hoof w'ere at hand everywhere. Colonel have not finished with you. PurishkeThe final chapters record the escape Kalpaschnikoff says. Major Perkins vich followed him into the courtyard of the crooks of the early ones from of the Roumanian mission, as he deand killed him, and then shot the jail on the eve of their execution. parted for America, said to him: Im princes watchdog, so that the pool of Nora within They get both Garth-ansorry to leave you at such a moment, blood might be explained. The czar their power in a hidden cellar. With danced a jig when he learned of Rasbecause 1 am afraid that Robins is tryGarth trussed like a fowl, they stand Kalpasing to get you into trouble. putins assassination, Purishkevich above him holding a bottle of vitriol chnikoffs chauffeur, Kuznetzov, whom said, and at the burial only the dea calm declaration of inhe had loaned to Colonel Robins, came bauched Virubova and some policemen and uttering to put out his eyes and destroy Beware of this were present. The czarina was not tent io him and said: his face, Nora standing helplessly by. American. He has been motoring too there. This part is really very well done, often to the bolshevist headquarters. e inThe writer declares Kerensky was with something of the The splendid expedition of Colonel vocation of writhing suspense in the Charles (sic) Billings of Chicago was insincere and profoundly dishonest. which interfered writh; and Dr. Billings pre- a weak scoundrel, and Kalpaschni- nerves of the reader, like that koff was nauseated one day wrhen he attends perusal of The Pit and the mature return to America, KalpaschniPendulum. koff is certain, was because things appeared at the prison in the czars How Nora tricks the villains, and with an imperial were going on in the American misflashy Rolls-Roychow in the moment of Garths danger sion which were far from being agreeentourage of twenty attendants. is revealed to her the real depth of able to him. Kalpaschnikoff suggests another reaher feeling for him, and how it is What do you think of Robins? son, besides that of Colonel Robins ever machinations, for his imprisonment by intimated that they live happily Kalpaschnikoff inquired of Tereschenbook to a close. ko, a prison mate in the fortress of Trotzky. He was a passenger aboard after, bring the the Christianiafjord when Trotzky St. Peter and St. Paul and the minister of foreign affairs in the provision- bound from New York to Rus- LIVES DAY WITHOUT BREATHING. I consider, replied sia, was put off the boat at Halifax, al government. Tereschenko, that this man has done kicking and cursing; and he, as interA case in which a woman lived more an avowed was the for more harm than anybody to the AmBritish, preter hours without berath-inthan twenty-fou- r erican cause in Russia. I knew long instrument. and blood circulation is described was extreme an he that radical, ago by Dr. E. Rautenberg in the Deutsche that his sympathies were with the enTHE GRAY MASK. By Wadsworft. Medizinische Woohenschrift (Berlin). emies of the provisional government, Published Doubleday by Camp. She was a nurse, aged twenty-threand that he ought to be watched. & Co. Page who took in one dose 1.7 grains of Tereschenko complained to Ambassamorphine and 5 grains of barbital. She dor Francis that Colonel Robins was Though Wadsworth Camp has es- was found the next day almost dead and was taking too actablished a faint thread of unity in in a park and was thought to have extive a part in Russian politics. NichoIlls volume, The Gfray Mask, it is pired in the ambulance. All the tests Mr. and las Lanskoy Golivov, prisoners really rather a collection of short for death were applied; the muscles St. of St. and Peter in the; fortress stories than a single long one. The wrere rigid, the skin intensely pale, Paul, told Colonel Kalpaschnikoff that first and the last stories are related, there were no reflexes, three was no (Continued from Page 9.) is not an ambassador, but an adventurer, and the heavy hand of the revolution must deal with him. lie has worked in the dark, giving money and rapid-firguns to the counter revolutionists in the south. If I do not get satisfaction from him I shall not hesitate to wipe out all the Americans and foreigners who dare to plot against our liberties. e safe-blowin- - Rou-man- ia v, self-questioni- ng pulse, respiration or heart beati; they sent the body to the mori.V Fourteen hours later a phj sii A gcot come to identify the body, heard E fled heart beats, but there was net ba pulse nor respiration. After an treatment, in which camphor a.idl At fein were injected, a hot bath t orous application of a flesh brusbjj given, and artificial respiration yJLn oxygen was tried, teh pulse begj n beat and respiration slowly retyier The following day the woman Aaiu consciousness and was able to Dr Rautenberg says the nawfrmh poison and the cold, acting togeLT r had paralyzecT the ne?5jPB and thus reduced the needs of the 3 to a minimum, the narcotic paralygu the central nervous system andreitSig cold palayzing the organs. gests that the cold may also have' vented rapid absorption of the poYpa and that a condition similar to thi8? c ike hibernation may have tided the woouteh i over till past the danger of fcijjtice . 5F vaso-inoto- 1- eetng ie Gar aid Ai Aunt Lizas former mistress c talking to her one morning, when? denly she discovered a little picirjr! at inny standing shly behind his motltj?tui 6 skirts. Is this your little boy, Liza? she asked. to! Yes, miss, dats Prescription." 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