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Show Presented by The Salt Lake Tribune in Collaboration With the Famous Pathe Players and the Eclectic Film Co. WRITTEN BY ARTHUR B. REEVE, the Yell-Knowr, Novelist and the Creator of the "CRAIG: KENNEDY" Stories. Dramatized Into a Photo-Play by CHARLES GODDARD, Author of "The Perils of Pauline." ' Introducing MISS PEARL WHITE, MR. ARNOLD DALY and "CRAIG- KENNEDY," The Famous Scientific Detective of Fiction. ! Cast of leading characters in the motion picture reproduction "by the popular ! Pathe Players. ELAINE BODGE Miss peari White CRAIG KENNEDY Mr. Arnold Daly HARRY BENNETT Mr. Sheldon Lewis Everything you read here today you can see in fascinating Patho motion 1 pictures at the Rex theater this week. Next Sunday another chapter of ''The Exploits of Elaine'-' and.uevr Pathe reels. Synopsis of Previous Chapters. The Nen- York police are mystified by V-" a series of murders of prominent men. The latest virtirn of the mysterious assassin as-sassin is Taylor Dodge, the insurance president. Hid daughter, Elaine, employs em-ploys Craig Kennedy, the famous scientific scien-tific detective, to try to unravel the mystery. One of the criminals steals Into Elaine's room at night, puts her under the influence of the twilight sleep drug and forces her to wrlt a letter dismissing Kennedy. This trick fails. Later Kennedy learns of a daring robbery rob-bery planned by the conspirators. In an effort to trap them Elaine Is captured cap-tured and sealed up In a tank, and is at the point of death when Kennedy pcci-dentally pcci-dentally discovers her plight and saves her. In retaliation the t-riminals make a desperate attempt to kill Kennedy by erecting an ingenious death-trap in his apartment. They then administer h peculiar pe-culiar poison to Elaine, accomplishing this by a remarkable utilization of the wa'.l paper in her room. The poison plot miscarries. mis-carries. But the criminals are persistent. One of them is seriously wounded by Elaine, and she is forced to submit to the transfusion of blood operation to save the scoundrel's life. Help reaches her before this experiment becomes dangerous. danger-ous. Enraged at their constant defeats, the conspirators employ two notorious women of the underworld to lure Kennedv Ken-nedv and Elaine to their destruction. Ken-nedv's Ken-nedv's scientific knowledge proves too much for the assassins. Ke employs a vocoDhone in a queer manner, its un-cannv un-cannv work at a critical moment up- 1 setting a carefully laid plan to abduct , Elaine. CHAPTER IX. The Death Ray. J- t EXNEDY was reading a scientific treatise one morning, while I was banging on the typewriter, when a knock at the laboratory door ilir-turbed us. By some intuition Craig seemed to know who it was. He sprang to open the door, and there stood Elaine Dodge aijcl her lawyer, Perry Bennett. 11 Why what s the matter?'' he aked, felicitously. 1 A another letter from the Clutching Clutch-ing Hand:" she exclaimed breathlessly. 'Mr. Bennett was calling ou me when ibis note was brought in. We both thought we'd better see you at once about it. and he was kind enough to drive me here right away in his car." Craig took the letter and we both re.id, with amazement: "Are you an enemy to society? If not, order Craig Kennedy to leave the f-ountry by 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. morn-ing. Otherwise a pedestrian will drop dead outside his laboratory ever- hour until he leaves." The note was signed by tho now familiar fa-miliar sinister hand, and had added a postscript which read: "As a token of his leaving, have him place a vase of dowers on bis labora-torv labora-torv window today." '"What shall we do!" queried Bennett, Ben-nett, evidently very much alarmed at the letter. ''Do?" replied Kennedy, laugh ing contemptuously at the ai'iiarent r utile threat. "Why, nothing. J;rst wait." The day proved uneventful and I paid no iurtner attention to the warning warn-ing letter. It seamed too preposterous to amount to anything. We got up as usual the next day, and quite earlv went over to the labora-tory. labora-tory. Kennedy, as was his custom, plunged straigntway into his work and appear'.' absorbed by it. while I wrote. ' There is something queer going on. Walter, ' J he remarked. ' 1 This thing registers some kind ot wireless rays infra-red, I think pomething Jiko those that they say that Italian scientist, "Tlivi, claims he has discovered and called the 'i'-raya.' '' ' "How do you know?" I asked, looking look-ing up from my work. "What's the instrument you are using?" "A bolometer, invented by tbe late Professor Langley," he replied, his attention at-tention rivitcd on it. Aa I moved over to look at the bolometer bo-lometer I happened to glanct; into thh busvbody and saw that a rowil was rapid 1 v "collecting ou the sMewall;. "Look, Craig," I called hastily. He hu rried over to me and looked. W roijld both s'-y in the busybody mirror a gi ou p o f - xci trd pn sse rsby bendnig over a man lying prostrate on tbe sidewalk. Ho had evidently bvsn fit-jndiug on fhe curbstonu outM'I' of the laboratory and had suddenly put his hand to his forehead. Then ho had fib-rally crumpled crum-pled up into a heap, as ho sank to tho gronnd. The excited crowd lifted him up and bore him away, and I turned in surprise sur-prise to Craig. He was looking at his wath. t was only a few moments past 0 o'clock. Fome time latr nmr door wm pxcited-y pxcited-y flung opnn and Elaine and ferry Ben-n'-tt arrived. "I've just hnrd of tho accident!" he c.ri'd, fearfully. "J-n't It terrible! What had we better do." For a few morn'-nN no one Mtid a word. Then Kennedy bgan carefully t- x u m i n t n fef the hoi o rn r. . r a n d how e ot.ii.-r irntrnrnTif n he Jjad, while the n,u.t of in watc h'-d, fa'U'inaf.ed, Foffjehow that "bn-rbody" kv(-u-' : io ;i(act. nf. J foiild not reri-t looking look-ing into it, from time to time fM Kn-jffd Kn-jffd v v, or !:"'.. f va n'rr(-y fihle to control in ft-c.m:i ft-c.m:i r, wh'-n wg;t -n I '-a w t lie km run p'-Vj or- t "id'-vnlk rufon- fho laboratory. I f u rri'-'j i v f lool:'-d al ,r,7 rnh. M. .; I' rYlo1. "rrfJ1"' .71' ' I. ' ' A i.'-t h-r' ' ru'I'lenr'-q of ' h" rhinc until finnllr, vrhnnt 'A r;t.T'l, K"f.ri'-d7 turned uv.ny, gathered about him. "We're beaten. I can't stand this sort of thing. . I will leave tomorrow for South America." I thought Elaine Dodge' would faint at the shock of his words coming so soon after the terrible occurrence outside. out-side. She looked at him, speechless. It happened that Kennedv had some artificial flowers on the btand, which he had been using long before in the study of synthetic coloring materials. Before Elaine could recover her tongue he seized them and stuck them into a tall beaker, like a vase. Then he deliberately deliber-ately walked to tho window and placed the header en the ledge in a most prominent prom-inent position. Elaine and Bennett, to sav nothing of myself, gazed at him, awe-struck. "Is is there no other wav but to surrender?" she asked. Kennedy mournfullv shook his head. Nothing that any or us could say, not even the pleadings of Elaine herself, cou!d move him. The thought that at II o'clock a third innocent passerby might lie strickeu on the street seemed to move him powerfully. Whn, at 11, nothing happened, as it hau at the other two hours, he was even more confirmed in his purpose. Entreaties had no effect, and lute, in the morning he succeeded in convincing us all that his purpose was irrevocable. As we stood at the door, mournfully bidding our visitors farewell until the morrow, when he had decided to sail, I could see that he was eager to be j alone. He had been looking now and J then at the peculiar instrument which j he had been studying earlier in the J day, and I could see on his face a sort t of subtle intentness. J "I'm so sorry Craig." murmured j Elaine, choking back her emotion and i finding it impossible to go on. "So am 1. Elaine,'-' he answered, j tensely. ' ' But perhaps when this ; trouble blows over " j He paused, unable to co on, turned ! ami shook his head. Then w ith a 'forced gaiety he bade Elaine and Perry j Bennett adieu, saying that perhaps a j trin might do him rood. I They had scarcely gone out, and Ken-! Ken-! neuy closed tbe door carefully, when he turned and went directly to the instrument in-strument which I had seen him observ-j observ-j ing so interestedly. j Plainly I could see that it was regis-j regis-j terin.2 something. j "What's the matter?" I asked, nonplussed. non-plussed. "Just a moment. Walter." he replied, re-plied, evasively, as if not quite sure of himself. He walked fairly close to the window this time, keeping well out of the direct line of it, however, and there stood gazing gaz-ing out into the ,-rreet. A glint, as if of the sun shining 'u a pair of or. era Vlaces, could be seen 1 from a window across the street. 1 We arc beinc wa hcd, " he said, slowly turning and looking at mr fixedly, fixed-ly, "but 1 don't dare investigate lest it cost the lives of more unfortunates." He stood for a moment in deep thought. Then he pulled out a suitcase and began silently to park it. Although we had not dared to inves-tignte, inves-tignte, we knew that from a building across the street emissaries of the Clutching Hand were watching for our signal of surrender. j The fact was. as we found out later. ; that in a poorly furnished room, much 'after the fashion of t h ;t t which, w ; t U the help of the authorities, we had onee raided in the suburbs, there were at that moment two crooks. I One of them was the famous. or rather infamous, Professor Le Croix, with whom, in a disguise as a doctor, j wh hail already had pohip experience j when he stole, from the Hillside San-; San-; i'arium the twilight sleep drugs. The j other was f he vourig se.-rrta ry of the Clutching Hand who had given the warning at the suburban headquarters at the time when thev vnre endenvor-1 endenvor-1 ing to transfuse Elaine Dodge's blood to save tho life of the crook whom she had shot. Le Croix gleefully patted a peculiar instrument beside him. A ppa rent ly it was a eombinntion of powerful electric, arcq, 1h; rays ot' which wei shot through a funn'd like arrangement into a converter or, rather, a sort of concent con-cent ra t ion a pparn rus from w h i'h the dread power eould b Tr-lcavM t h rough a 1 1 1 1' e 1 i It e a f t 'f fl f nin: cud. It was ItM iufra-rcd heat, wave, E-rav, engine "1 told yon it would work!'' erb'd j Le Croix. I did not argue ;uiv further with Craig about his sudden resolution to go away. I in t it is a very polernn proceed pro-ceed i n g to pack u n fi n '1 a d m i t, de r eat after hwh a brilliant succession of cases as had bc-ri his until we met this master mas-ter criminal. Ho was nnbal.able, however, and the nt in o mi n g we closed tho bt bora tory and loa i k-d our ha gga ge, v; h i c ii w;j h considerable, on a t axjefjb. Neither of tut said much, but I 5 aw a qniek look of appreciation on Craig's fu'-c m we pue up at the wharf and saw that Elaine's cut was already there. 1 fi vecincd deeply moved that Klai ne should come at such an ea rly hour to ha vij a I .'i t word. Our cab tdopped and Kennedv moved over toward her ear, directing t v, o porters, por-ters, whom I noti'-ed that ho rho.MC with care, to wait at one side. Ijno 0f th'Mii was an old Irishman with a nlight, limp; the other a. jffiry Frenchman with a poi n fed beard. I ii ? pile a f her jr-n ings, howc. er, Kennedy held to his purpnie, jirnl at' -ac shook lmndM for the lat. time I thought that. Elaine would abrupt break down. i .ea r the (a Mgidan I., in the crowd, f not ifi'd a con lc of hi ri bil t face watching the phip's ofliccrs and the .a-m-ni.-crn ning aboard. Kennedy' quick eve f.p'dted them, too, hut, he rhd not hn-.v in u ii v wav thai, he notb-ed anv- thing :i" I ul lowed b v our two port ern, -,ve quiclTv 'limbed fl"' ga n :pl a u I: . A moment, rale paire-d br the i :i 1 1 m, wivfl to I'Jain" and I'.cnnelt,, u lm r, it, rn d the -alutn feelingly. I pau-ed i at the rail, too, speculating how we 1 were to get the rest of our baggage! aboard in time, for we had taken sev-, oral minutes saying good-by. "In there," pointed Kennedy quickly, io the porters, indicating our stateroom, state-room, which was an outside room. "Come, Walter." J followed him with a heavy heart Outside we could see the two sinister faces in the crowd watching intently, with eyes fixed on tho stateroom. Finallv one of the crooks boarded the ship hastily, while the other watched the two porters come out of the stateroom state-room and pause at the window, . speaking speak-ing back into the room as though answering commands. Then tne porters quickly ran along the deck and down the plank to got tho rest of the luggage. As they approached tho Dodge car Elaine, Aunt Josephine and Perry Bennett were straining their eyes to catch a last glimpse of us. " The porters took a small, but very heavy box, and, lugging and tugging, hasteued toward the boat with it. But they were too late. The gangplank was being hauled in. Thev shouted, but the ship's officers waved- them back. ' ' Too late! ' ' one of the deckhands shouted, a little pleased to t sec that some one would be inconvenienced for tardiness. The porters argued. But it was no use. All they could do was to carry the box back'to the Dodge car. Miss Dodge was just getting in as they returned. "What shall we do with this and the other stuff I" asked the Irish porter. She looked at the rest of the tagged luggage and the box which was marked: SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS VALUABLE HANDLE WITH CARE! "Here pile them in there," she said, indicating the taxicab. "I'll take care of them. ' ' Meanwhile one of our sinister-faced friends had just had time to regain the shore, after following us abroad ship and strolling past the window of our stateroom. Ho paused long enough to observe one of the occupants studying a map, while the other was opening a bag. "They're gone!" he said to the other as he rejoined him on deck, giving giv-ing a nod to his head aud a jerk of his tnumb at the ship. "Yes," added the other crook, "and lost most of their baggage, too. Slowly the car proceeded through the streets up from the river trout, followed fol-lowed by the taxicab, until at labt the Dodge mansion wag reat hod. There Elaine and Aunt Josephine got out, and Bennett stood talking with tbem a moment. Finally he excused himself, reluctantly, for it was late, even for a lawyer, "to get. to his of lice. As he hurried over to the subway, Elaine nodded to the porters in tne taxi-jab: Take that sTutf into the hoic. "We'll have to scud it bv the next boat." Then she followed Aunt Josephine, while the porters unloaded the boxes and bags. A moment later Aunt Josephine left her and Elaine went into the library an.l over to a table. She stood there an in-tant, then sank . dow n into a chair, taking no Kennedy's picture 'and gazing at it with ey?H filled with tears. .lust then Jennings came into the room ushering the two porters laden with the boxes and hag. "Where shall I hnv them put thee th'niL's, Mif Elaine.'" he inquired. " i -h. ar; ;v here, " nh answered h ur-riedly. ur-riedly. replacing the picture. Jennin'y paused. As he did so one of tho porfrs limped forward. "I've a message fur you, m !, ' he said in a ri'-h Jrih brogue, with a look at Jennings, "to be delivered in private. pri-vate. ' ' Elaine c!anced at him surprised. Then ?he nodded to Jennings, who disappeared. disap-peared. As he did so the Irishman limped to the door and drew together th" port icre. Then he carno back closer tn Elaine. A moment, sd-e longed at him, not quit" knowing from his strange actions whether to call for help or not. A t. a motion from Kenned- n he pulicd oft his wig I pulled off the little falne beard. Elaine looked at us transformed --startled. --startled. " Wh what" she stammered. "Oh I'm so glad. How" Kennedy said nothing. Ho was thoroughly thor-oughly enjoying her face. "Don't you understand?" f plained, laughing nierrilv. "I admit that 1 didn't, until that lat minute in t lie Ma tc room ou t hn boat, when we didn't come back Io wave a laM good bv. But. all the care that 'raig took in selee ting t he, port ers was the resu It of work he did vcMerda v, and the insistence in-sistence with which he chnn our traveling trav-eling clothes hail a depdaid purpose." She said nothing, and I continued. ' ' The c ha ago u as made qui r 1:1 v in the stateroom. Kennedy 'h man t h rew on the coat, and hat he wore, while Craiu donned the rough clothe of the port er and added a limp a ud a wig. The yit me port of riTcha nge of idol he was made by me, and Craig Happed ;i Van I ' vck liea rd ou my chin." "I - I'm mj glad." she, repeated. " didn t think you 'd ' ' .she ent, the senl.eiuwj short, remembering remem-bering her cp'.H and the photograph ni we entered aud a deep blush crimsoned her facc. "Mum's the word," cautioned Kennedy. Ken-nedy. "Von miiHt, HUinggln us nut of t h e hounn wornc way. ' ' Kennedy lost, no time in confirming the suspicions of his holnmoter us to the caiifi! of the death of the two innocent victims of the nia h i nat ioiiH of the Clutching Hand. Both of thern, he had learned, hnd been removed ,o a near-by undertaking -hop, awaiting 1 hn verdict of the coroner. cor-oner. Wo sought out the shop and prevailed pre-vailed on tho undertaker to let uh nee tho bodies. As Kennedy pulled down the f-hrnud from the fa.cn nf tho firnfc victim hn din-cio-;cd on Ins fond end a round da rk spot, a bout tho size of a wtnall coin, tuicklv he moved Io the next, collin and. uncovering the face, disc loned a similar mark. "What, is ill" 1 anhnd, awestruck. , "Why.'' he said, " I 'v heard of n cert a in Vien fiepie, one Le Cruir, I be i linve, who hai discovered, or perfeeted, an i n f'ra,-rei J ra y i nst rutuent, which 'dioota iti power n. great, dinlanco with extreme acniracy and leaves a marl: lihe the. e." " Ih he in N'ew York ? " I inipiirnd a n : iou.d v. ' ' y e-i," I believe he ii. " Kennedv seemed iudcopri'ie,! to nicmcr more until he knew morn, and I saw thai, he would prefer mil, being omen-turned omen-turned for the preenl. We, thanked the u ti d " 1 1 a I. er for hi," courier and went "ut. Meauwhilo Elaine had called up Perry Bennett. 'Mr. Bennett," she exclaimed over the wire, "just guess who called on me! " ' ' Who ? ' he answered; "I give it up. " "Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Jameson," she called back. "Is that sot" ho returned. "Isn't that fine? I didn't think he was the kind to run away like that. How did it happen? " Elaine quickly told the story as I had told her. Had she known it, however, Bennett's valet, Thomas, was at that very moment listening at the portieres intensely interested. in-terested. It was not long afterward that a knock sounded at the door of the new headquarters of the Clutching Hand. Le Croix and the secretary were there, as well as a couple of others. "The chief!" exclaimed one. Tho secretary opened the dnor. and, sure enough, the Clutching Hand entered. en-tered. "Well, how did your infra-red ravs work?" he asked Le Croix. ' Fine. ' ' ' 1 A ud they 're gone? ' ' "Yes. The flowers were in the window win-dow yesterday. Two of our men saw j them ou the boat." I There came another knock. This time, as the door opened, it was Thomas. Thom-as. Bennett "s faithless valet, who catered. ca-tered. "Say," blurted out the informer, "do vuu know Kennedv and Jameson arc back?" "Back?" cried the crooks. "Yes they didn't go. Changed clothes with the porters. I just heard Miss Dodge telling Mr. Bennett." Clutching Hand eyed him keenly, then he seemed to burst into an ungovernable ungovern-able furv. Quickly he began volleying orders at the valet and the others. Then, with the secretary and two of the other crooks, he left bv another d?or from that bv which he had sent the valet forth. ' |