| Show POLICE BELIEVE THAT I I SECRET ORDER EXISTED 1 hila the fact has bu not beeD JK We WeI tJ I it Is believed the Uie of f fI I who ho have worked on the ease case I that a secret order exists among th the boys who are all sll tS Tory and I I bound bouRd to each other by para I Ible bit ble t i let fall I Iby it red ved that by the youngsters fOUnt y the or e t there I Iare are bf between eight alil dosen doRR morn mem hers hers all ranging from 12 to 1 years t I of agE fhe fb others who are t to be members of the setret will be betaken takeR taken b bolero tM time ef chief ot of Police arid other this and aM put a severe re case or of sweating I I It is hOped b by this to learn the and andI facts of the e the order ot t he be members member to get t the na Being Belue b brought bt face to with each cach I other it is t t tile the will ill unloose of tk the secret ret and reveal the th workings and plans of the o c According to the that has reached the ea ears of 01 the the or order ordee dee der it is profoundly secret and aDd each Jf f fits to on worn sworn its members is worded I the pain of death A ritual after the manner of those found In the I Brady series eri 8 of nickel 1 novels forms forma the chief tie of cementing the lads lac teUl I or fl ud and relates Iata ip the boldest and t ghastly fashion the horrible tortures that a wait await him who proves unfaithful to his bia fellows and reveals eals any of the I of the order By ue the blood of the bold old king WM wits has baa formed fanned the character for the series aeries of novels DOel which of i the youngsters have devoured auy an I the mt members who f fails IlL in his hla trust In 18 Input put through the torture and is lest led away to a place from which he HV never r returns Bound by ties indissoluble the boys boss awe said aid to have implicit confidence in each Mch other and it If one is Ia unfortunate the tails taUs enough to become involved in ref refuses to di e the law la be of his companiOns or orto orto the names to reveal renal their complicity in die tte crime I tot for which be ha h been apprehended The object ct of the supposed It is isI Hon tion h has not beeR been who have worked on 01 thought by those tho I the case cale that i it w was simply in I ad adventure emulation of ue the deeds of thrilling venture and aM experiences i which the related in ia the with boys have been saturated and by the numerical bravery cons quent to to deeds strength to excite each other bordering on and out of the Ordinal C adatha the fabulous Blinded by their tion of the feats of the heroes barO of the to have attempted j novels the boys of folly fony f each other r In their deeds In web wrapped rapped a aD and to have become becom ef cf evidence from which it may be isa iM iMpossible possible to extricate themselves Six or of the youngsters who are of the order wilt ViIi O t to be H be b lat to at atI h I I thi this PUt t of que stion h Set avers t it itt t 1 Bl It Is v vC i et of C the offie rs and doe cler exists and that the secret of its Ita 1 existence wUl wIlI b rev reveal th this nt |
