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Show THE ROMANCE OF ELAINE j A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama, Presented by This Newspaper in Collaboration With the Famous Pathe Players, j thought he held her hand perhaps a lit tie longer and a little tighter than usual. At any rate Elaine seemed to think so. "'Wny. what a curious ring, Mr. Del Mar," she said, finally releasing her own hand from his grasp. Then she looked quickly at. the wnra-aD, wnra-aD, half joking, as it" the ring; had something- to do with the strange woman. She looked back at the ring;. Del Mar smiled, shook his bead and laughed easily. Then Elaine picked up her .bag and we went out. A moment later we had climbed back into the car and were off again. Having left us at the door, Del Mar hurried back to the library. He went, straight to the desk and picked up the book, eager now to make sure of the safety of the plan. It was gone! "Did you, .Smith ' he bega.n hastily, hasti-ly, then checked hiroFeif, knowing that the clerk had not taken the plan. Del Mar walked over to the couch and stood a moment looking at - the chauffeur. "I wonder who he is, he said to himself. "I don't recall ever seeing him at the station or in the village." vil-lage." He leaned over closer. "The deuce! " he exclaimed, "that's a fake beard the fellow has on." Del Mar made a lunge for it. As be did so, the chauffeur leaped to his feet and drew a gnn. ' ' tTards npl ' ' he shouted. "And the first man that moves is a dead one! Before the secret service agent knew it. both he and Smith were covered. The chauffeur took a step toward Smith and unceremoniously jerked olf the widow's weeds, as well as the wig. At that very moment one of Del Mar's men came up to the secret panel that opened from the underground passageway pas-sageway into his library. He was about to open it when ho heard a sound on the other side that startled him. He listened a moment, then slid it just a short distance and looked in. There he saw a chauffeur holding up Del Mar and Smith. Having polled thfi disguise from Smith, he went next around Del Mar and took his gun from i his pockets, then passed his hands over ! the folds of Smith's dress, but found no weapon. He stepped back away from them. At that point the man quietly slid the pBDel all the way opn and silently 'stepped into the room, behind the chaul ! feur. Cautiously he began sneaking up on him. As he did ho Del Mar and Smith watched, fascinated. Somehow their faced must ha, a betra ed that some : thing ffM wrong. Kor. as the new I comer leaped at him. the chauffeur I turned suddenly sod fired. The &hot wounded the man. It was a signal for a free for all fight. Del Mar and Smith leaped at the intruder. Over and over the v rolled, breaking furniture, overturning and mashing bric-a-brac. Del Mar's revolver was knocked out of the chauffeur's hand. With a blow ot a chair, the chauffeur laid out Smith, entangled in h: - unfamiliar garments, shook bini-telf luose from the two oth ens. and made a rush at the door. Featuring Miss Pearl White as Elaine podge, Lionel Barrvmore as Marcius Del Afar. Written by Arthur B. Reeve, the well-known well-known novelist, and the creator of the "Craig-Kennedy" Btories; dramatized Into a photoplay by Charles W. Goddard. author au-thor of "The Perils of Pauline," "The Expl ol ts of El al n e. " (CopyrigTit. 191S. by the Star Co. AH foreign rights reserved.) CHAPTER X. ALONE in the doorway before his rude, shack on the shoTe of the promontory sat an old fisher-, fisher-, man, gazing out fixedly at the harbor, as though deeply concerned over the weather, which, as usual, was unseasonable. Suddenly he started and would have disappeared into his hut but for the fact that, although he could not. himself him-self be seen, he had already seen the intruder. It was a trooper from Fort Dale. He galloped up and, as though obeying to the letter his instructions, deliberately dropped an envelope at the feet of the fisherman. Then, without a word, he galloped away again. The fisherman picked up the envelope and opened it quickly. Inside was a photograph and a note. He read: FORT DALE. Professor Arnold. J. Smith, cl erk 1 n the war depart-raent, depart-raent, has disappeared. We are not sure, but fear that he has a copy of the new Sandy Hook defense plans". It is believed ne is headed your way. He walks with a slight limp. Look out for him. LI E UT EN A NT WOODWARD. For a long time the fisherman ap-jpeared ap-jpeared to study the face on the photograph photo-graph until he had it indeliibly implanted im-planted in his memory, as if by some system such as that of the immortal Bert il Ion and his clever "portrait parle." or spoken picture, for scientific scien-tific identification and apprehension. It was not a pleasant face and there were features that trere not easily forgotten. forgot-ten. Finally he turned and entered his hut. Hastily he took off his stained reefer. From a wooden chest he drew soother outfit of clothes. The transformation trans-formation was complete. When he issued is-sued forth from his hut again it was no longer the aged disciple of Izaak Walton. He was now a trim chauffeur, bearded and goggled. In the library of his bungalow Del Mar was pacing up and down, now and then scowling to himself, as though there flashed over his mind stray recollections recol-lections of how some of his most cherished cher-ished plans were miscarrying. Still, on the whole, he had nothing to complain of. For a moment later the valet entered with a telegram for which he had evidently been waiting. Del Mar seized it eagerlv and tore open the yellow envelope. On the blank was printed in the usual way the following noncommittal message: Washington. D. C. August 12, 1915. Mr. Del Mar. What you request is coming. Answer An-swer to sign of the ring. SMTTH. "Good." muttered Del Mar as he finished fin-ished reading. " Strange, what a little gold will do when you know how tto dispose of it." He smiled cynically to himself at the Bentiraent. At the little railroad station they were quite proud of the fact that at least two of the four hacks had been replaced already by taiicabs. It was. then, with some surprise and not a little opeo jealousy that they saw a new taxi cab drive up and take it tand bv the platform If the chauffeur, transformed from the lonely fisherman, had expected a cordial reception, he might better ha, c staved before his but, for the glanees th e o th er dri v ers jmrp h i rn were a a black and lowering as the clouds he had been looking at. The new chauffeur got off his seat. Instead of trying to brazen it out, he walked over to the others who were standing in a group waiting tor the approaching tram, whose whistle had already sounded. "I'm not going to locate here permanently' per-manently' he said, pulling out a roll of bills as he spoke. "Leave any fare I claim to me,'" he added, parsing a bill of good denomination to each of the four jeEus. They looked at him curiously. But what business of theirs was it? The money felt good. "All right, bo," they agreed. Thundering down the platform camo the afternoon train, a great event in the town life. As the baggage was bring tossed off the passengers alighted and the five hackmen swarmed at them. "Keb. sir, kerridge. Taxi, lady." From the Pullman alighted a widow, in deep mourning. As she got off and moved down the platform it was apparent ap-parent that she walked with a pronounced pro-nounced limp. At the end of the platform the chauffeurs chauf-feurs were still calling, while the newcomer new-comer looked over the crowd hastily. Suddenly he caught sight of the face of the widow. He stepped forward as she approached. The others held back t as they had agreed and paid no attention. Tt was like forcing a card. He held the door open and she entered en-tered the cab. unsuspecting. "Mr. Del Mar's" she directed, simply. As the new taxi cab driver cranked his engine and climbed Into the seat . he was careful to let no action of his, however small, betrav the intense satisfaction sat-isfaction he felt at the working of his Bcheme. He pulled away from the station. On through the pretty country roads the chauffeur drove the heavilv-veiled widow wid-ow until at la3t they oame to Del Mar's bungalow. At the gate he stopped and ran around to open the door to assist his fare to alight. Wait for me. ' ' she said, without paying him yet. "I shall not be long and I want to be driven back to the station sta-tion to catch i the four twenty-nine to New York. T ' As she limped up the irravel walk, he watched her closely. She went to the door and rang the bell, and the vale admitted her. Del Mar was still sitting, thinking, in the librarv. "Mr. Del Marl" she inquired. The voice was not exactly soft, and Del Mar eyed her suspiciously. Was this the person he expected, or a" plant "f "Yes." he answered, guardedly, "I am Del Mar. And youf " The widow, too. evidently wished to make no mistake. As she spoke, she raised her hand. By that simple action ac-tion she displayed a curious and conspicuous con-spicuous seal ring on her finger. It was the sign of the ring for which De! Mar had been waiting. He extended his own left hand. On the ring finger was another ring, but not similar. As he did so, the widow toi; the ring from her own finger and nlaced it on the little finger of Del Mar. "Good!" he exclaimed. Every action of the sign of the ring had been carried out. The woman raised her thick veil, disclosing dis-closing the face of a man! It was the same face, also, that had appeared in the photograph sent to the old fisherman by Woodward. Awkwardlv. the man searched in th" front of his" shirtwaist, and drew forth a paper which Del Mar almost seized in his eagerness. It was a pen and ink copy of a government map. showing a huge spit of sand in the sea before a harbor, Sandy Hook and New York. On it were indicated all the defenses, the positions of guns, everything. Together Del Mar and Smith bent over it, while the renegade clerk explained ex-plained each mark on the traitoroun map. Thev were too occupied to se a face flattened against the pane of a window near by. The chauffeur bad no intention of remaining re-maining inactive outside while h knew that something that interested him was transpiring inside. He had crept up by the side of tho house to tho window. win-dow. But ho could see little and hear nothing. A moment he strained every sense. It was no use. Ho must devise some other way. How could he get into that room? Slowly he returned to his car, thinking it over. Then he stood for a moment revolving in his mind what to do. He looked up the road. An idea came to him. There he saw a little ruuabout approaching rapidly. Quickly ue went around to the front of his car and lifted up the hood. Then he bent over and pretended to be tinkering tink-ering with his engine. As the car was about to paFS he deliberately de-liberately stepped back, apparently not seeing the runabout, ami was struck and knocked down. The runabout stopped, the emergency brakes biting hard. Elaine had asked me to go shopping in the village with her that afternoon. While 1 waited for her in her little 'ar, she came down at last, carrying a little lit-tle handbag. We drove off a moment, later. It was a delightful ride, not too warm, but sunny. Without realizing it, we found ourselves on the road that led past Del Mar's, As we approached. I saw that there was a taxicab standing in front of the gate. The hood was lifted and the driver driv-er was apparently tinkering with his engine. Let's not stop." said Elaine, who had by this time a peculiar aversion to the man. As we passed the driver, apparently not seeing us, stepped out and. before we could turn out, we had knocked him down. We stopped and ran .back. There he lay on the road, seemingly unconscious. We lifted him up and 1 looked toward Del Mar's house. "Help! " 1 shouted at the top of my voice. The ralet came to the door. Hearing me, the valet ran out down the walk. "All right. '' he cried. "I'll be there in a minute. With his help I picked up the taxi-cab taxi-cab chauffeur and we carried him into the house. Del Mar was talking with a person who looked like a widow, when they heard our approach up the walk carrying carry-ing the injured man. So engrossed had they been in discerning dis-cerning what the stolen document con tained that, as we finally entered, the widow had only time to drop her veil and conceal her identity as the renegade rene-gade Smith. Del Mar still held the plan in his hand. The valet and I entered with Klaine and we placed the chauffeur on a couch near Del Mar's desk. I remember that there was this strange woman all in black, heavily veiled, in the room at the time. "T think we ought to telephone for a doctor," said Elaiue, placing her handbag hand-bag on the desk and ext itedlv telling Del Mar how we had aeciden tally knocked the man down. 1 Call up mv doctor, Henry. ' ' said Del Mar, hastily thrusting the plan into a book lving on thp dwk, We gathered about the man. trying to revive him. ' ' Have you a lit le stimulant f ' 1 asked, turning from bim. Del Mar moved toward a cellarette built into the wall. M were all wntch ing him, our backs to the chauffeur, when suddenly he must have regained consciousness very much. Like a fhub his hand shot out. He isired the plan from between the leaves of the book. He had not time to get awav with it himself. Perhaps he might be neanhed. He opened Elaine bag and thrust it in. The valet by this time had finished telephoning and apoke to Del Mar. ' ' The doctor will be here short I v. Mis Dodge. ' ' said Dp! Mar. You need not wait, if you don t care to. I'll take care of him." "Ob, thank vou ever o much." he murmured. "Of coutsa it wasn't our fault, but I Pool sorry for tho poor f"l low Tell the doctor to send m the bill." She and Del Mar shook hands. I gaxfna- about th room, tryiiii :: the thing. j Suddenly he heard foois;;:: I through the window that at, Hi . 5: a; sonaeone ran in ar.: tmm t:ie lights J Half daeep. I beard a c-ft:!l alon. as if of a fiaahiigir.. I flaa 'and listened. Surely someone 'Ing about downstairs. I polled ayj from my pocket and ran oin of t-'il : 'r. ::e slepa I flung ie;-r.:. rcl time. In the Lining room. I imltcted aj lights in time to see someoaf ; ihrougrh an open window. J " J -arlndow and looked out. Tfeen man. half floubled up. rur.ni rf I the aide of the house and i of ouahes. then apparently X. -I i out of the window and caBei J My only answer was as Banal 1 and a return volley that riarflra c a5 abova my head. I dacfat1 is ; and fell flat on the floor. Bm ! ' streaming out I must haw tas'l mark. I s not the only one wtc fj noise. The shots quickly in" Elaine arvi she leaped oj- a put on her kimono. He ees Bfr Mghis and run downstairs. The Intruder had disappears: tfi time and 1 had got up and mj out of the window as abe caw" lesslr Into the living room. What, the matter, we asked. , Someone broke into the -ibose Nans." I replied. " hut I got his picture. I Uuw device of Kennedy's. ? dsrk room and develop It , Thei-e wae. no use trying I! ',. man further T FVilne'! W'V I meant, t repllfd by roatel to the sr-M lier I hc camera and disconnecting ' .jj We went upstairs, where i aaj up an itrpromptu dark room ?3 t.ur photographic work SOP", fore Flalne watched last 1 found that I bad dTeWj thing " 1 drew the ft:n hyp t-sv and ricked It up I -to the red light. .., . icsrefl ever and K film with me There wai it r"! a mtaked man. his cap dewr . tied attitude, hit hands orr l face, completely hiding " and cap did not hide- . ell HI be Ncwei ... chsit in at the outcome of worn had been my devereet coap , .J v little exclamation ' C , "- 1 '-'-' '" Is It" 1 asked. "The ring ! ' she cried. 1 looked gavln more little finger of the left "?.."", , lla- rli'S Once seen. 1 not readllc forgotten. ,A "The ring!' she ropes Tvon't vou remember Cltv It on Mr Del Mar's band-" this afternoon'" I could onlv stare , a I last wo had a "",, In his bungalow. TX JJJ'i a ment thretv down his Mi bis mask furiously. v list had he done ' V-ov a long time he sat I on his hand, gaging lt , planning to protect WW"1 "" ,ro bejeei he waj not only able to drive, but waa fighting off a roan clinging on the running run-ning board. On runbed the far. 4irecUy at u. Jusl an It parsed ui the ciiauffeur seemeo to oiimmon all Ms strength. He struck a powerful blow at the man. recoiled and stralghte-ned out his car Just In time. The man fell, literally at our feet. It as Pel Mar himself! On sped the tjrtrab. Bruised though h must have been by the fall. Del Mar neverthelesn raised himself by the elbow tnd fired every rhamber of his revolver a faet as he rould pump the bullets. I must say thai I admired the min i plurk. Klains and I humed over to him. I still had In mv hand the queer paper whtrh she had fownd so atranaelv in her hand hag. "Wliv. what all this aSout?" I asked -agerly. Befoie I rould rals him up Dei Mar had rea-atnro' his feet. "Just a plain crook, who attacked me," he muttered, brushing off his clothes to rover up the quirk recognition of what It was that I wa holdtns In my hanl. for he he1 seen (lie plan Immediately. "ran't e drive you hack?" aaked Klalne. quite forgettlnc r fears of Del Mar In t h ugly predicament 1n whVh he just bad been. "We've l ad trouble, but 1 pu-ss we can get you bark." "Thank yOUsf BSJ said, furring a smile. "I think anything would be an improc-nient improc-nient on nr ride hero, and I'm sure you can do more than you claim." He climbed up and aat on the floor of the roadster, his feet outside, und we drove off A ' last we pulled up at Dodge Kail aYftin. Wont vou MUM Inf asked Batftt) a we ant out . "Thank vou. t believe T will for a few-minutes." few-minutes." consented Pel Mar. emcemJtnfl hj rei)l ena-mefe to follow me. "I'm all shaken up." Alp we entered the living room, 1 was thinking about the map. t opened s table drawer,' hastH took the PUKB from my pocket HiH locked tt In the drawer F.laine. meauu hlle. was standing with Del afar, who was tslklng. but In reality wa t chlng m rloaelv. A smlJr nf satisfaction eeeined to flit over Ids Race as hS MkV What T Mad done and now knew where ibe paper was ! turned to him "How ar you now?" I nuked "h. T'm much better -all rlclit." he answered. Then lie looked at his wn t-'h "I've a verv important appointment If on' II rxritMe me. I'll walk over to my place. Tbnnk vou nwln. Mitt Dodge. v er so U ndl He hnwed low and wns gone. Down tfie road past where we had turned., be fore a prt t v lit tie shl nitlc house, tho tsxlrnh hsuffrtir stopped. Otv of th bullets had taken effect on Mm and hts shoulder ws bleeding Rut the womt, a he teemed to think It. was that another shot had (riven him a flat tire. He lumped out and looked up th road w he ure he had mme. No one was fol -low i u if, Bt HI. he was worried He vrenf around to look at ihe tire. Rut he was too weak now from the loss of Mood. It had bee n nr'v a nd reserve force that hHd carried him through. Now thai the sttnln wns off. he Trtt the inaction to the full. .lust then the doctor and his driver, w ho ni the valet had already summoned to Del Mar's, came speeding down the road. The doctor saw the chauffeur fn In n half faint, stopped his car and rnn to him. Th" chauffeur had kp? up A Oil, nf he could. He had nOKf r-iink down baeide his machine In the road, moment latrr they picked him up ami ratried him Into the house. There was no net lug about ids hurts now. In the ROUM they laid the man down on n conch and the doctor made n hasty examination. examina-tion. "How Is he?" askd one rf the kind Santa t Itans. "'The (round la not dangerous." replied the physician, "but he's loat a lot of blOOd, He cannot be move! for aome tltli vet " We talked about nothing else nt Dodge hall after dressing for dinner but the st ph n ge events ill Del Mar's and wha I had followed The mope I thought about It. the more II eeemed tp me that we would never he left overnight In peaceful I poeaesslon of the plan which both Elaine and I decided ought on the following day to he sent to Washington. Accordingly I cudgeled my brain for some method of protecting both ourselves our-selves and It. Tho only thing I could think of wea a scheme once adopted by Kennedy in anotner case. How I longed for him. Bui 1 had to do my beat alone. I had a email, qui, k-ehutter camera that liad belonged to Craig, and jus; ss we were about to retire I brought tt into the living room with a package I had had eent up from the village. '-What ere you going to do'" asked Elaine curiously. I assumed an air of mvatery. but did not say. for T was not sjre but that even now someone was eavesdropping. It was uoi late, but the country air made us al' sleepy, and Aunt Josephine, looking at the dock, soon announced that she was going go-ing to retire. She had no sooner said good -right than fcjaine began again to question me. But 1 had determined not to teU her what 1 was doing, for if my Imitation of Kennedy rafted, I knew that she would laugh at me "Oh, very well." she said finally in plcjne. "then. If you're going to be H e rret about It. vou can alt up atones there:" phe flounced r.ff to bed Pure as I rouM he at last that T was alone. T opened the package There -e-e the tools that T ha ordered, a coil of wire end some dry cells. Thaw I went to the taNe. unlock un-lock ed t he drawer and ou t t he pie n In tin pocket T had determined thet whether the idea worked or not. no one was to gat that plan except by overcoming over-coming me. Although 1 ws no expert at wiring. I st art ed to "neka the connections under the table with the drawer, opt a difficult thing to do a long ss It was to he only temporary a nd for the night. From the t Me T ran the wrp along the edge of the .-arpet until 1 came to the bookcase. There, masked by the books, 1 placed the tittle qnick-shntter camera, and at a dla-tan. dla-tan. e also concealed the flashlight pan. Veu T aimed the camera carefull and focuaaed It on a point above the drawer In the writing table where anyone would be I Ikel) to rtsnd If he attempted to open It Then T connected ihe shutter of the camera and a little spark coll In the flash pan with the wires, using an apparatus to w.rk the shutter auch ss 1 recalled having eeen i"ralc use. Finally T covered the sparking device with the flashlight powder, gave a last look about and snapped off the light. 1" p In ni bed room. 1 mit at say 1 felt like "soma ' deter i tve and I could not help slapping myself on the chest for the inaenultv with which T had duplicated Craig. Then I lav down on the hed wlih mv lot lies on and picked up a book, determined de-termined to keep awake to see If anything happened. It wa a good h-vk. but l was tired, and In spite of myaeJtf 1 nodded over It. and then dropped it e In hie bungalow, now thai Smith had gone bark ftRHln to New York and Washington, Wash-ington, Del Mar was preparing to keep I he Important engagement he had told us about, another of hts nefarious nor -lurnal expedition. He drrw e rap on his head, well over Ms eahl and forehead. His exes and face he concealed aa well as he could with s mask to be put on later. To his eoulp ntent he ndded a gnn Then with a hasty word or two to his alet. he went out. By back WN so that even In the glare if automobile headlights he would not be recogrnlsed he made his wa to iodge Hall. As he saw the house looming up In the moonlight, he put on hla mask and apptonrhed rautlously. Gaining the hOUSk he opened a window , noiselessly turning ihe ouch as deftu- as a housebreaker, and Dumbed Into the living room. A moment he looked around, then tiptoed tip-toed oxer to the table. He looked at It to he sure that It was the right one and the right drawer. Then he bent down to force the drawer open 'Tonf'" a blinding flash came end a little metallic click of the shutter followed fol-lowed b n cloud of smoke. As QUlcs a It hap p mid, there went through Del Mar's head the explanation Tt wH concealed camera Hc sprang hack, clapping his hands orer bis face Out of range fo. a moment, he stood Del Mar paused only long enough to nick up the revolver from tho floor. ' loat&ntlv he fiicd at the retreating form, fiat the chauffeur had passed out jand banned shut the door. Down the j walk he sped and out to the gate, into I his car, the engine of which lie had left running. Hard after him came Del Mar and the rest, joined now by Henrv. the valet. (One snot was left in the chauffeur's re vnlver and he blazed away as he leaped into the car. He a got roe, ' ' groaned Smith, as hs stumbled and fell forward. On kept Del Mar and the others. They caught up with the car just as it was' starting. But the ehanfTeur knocked the gun from Del Mar's hand before he could get a good aim and fire, at the same time bowling over the man who hud come, through the panel. Off the car went, now rapidly gaining speed. Del Mar had just time to awing no the rear of it. Around the rapidlv driven car he climbed, hanging on for dear life, oyer the mud guard and toward the running board. n sped the car. swawng craxilv hark and forth. Del Mar crouched on the running board and working bis war slowlv and eriloird v to the fro tit eat . The chauffeur fell the weight of someone on that ide. Just an be turned to pee what it was Del Mar leaped nt him. Still hrildmg the wheel, the chauf feur fomjhl him off with bis free han.1, Del Mar holding on to some spare tires with one hand, nlso Handicapped bv hax ing the steering whol to ninnage, nerrrllieles the .hniiffeitr seemed quite well whir to give a good account, of hi mself. Somehow. Rlnine anH 1 must have been hon-looed thn t day. tve had not been gone five minutes from Del Mar's after the aendent In the chauffeur, when we heard a ni ysterious Inork in the engine. ' ' More engine trouble. ' ' T lgbeH. "Pull up along the roan" and I'll ee if T .-an fin It." We stopped and both got out. There s no fakq about this trouble nr about Hie dirt and grease T srqui red on m v bands and face, tinkering frith Dial nm tor. T'or, rrgnrdle of inv immncnlnle flnnnel. I had to set to -work, A huge spot of g re gas gptftttered n me. brains Igttffbad outright. "Here, let me powder vnur n"e. VTa.l ter." she cried, undismayed at our trou-hle, trou-hle, gariv opening her bag "Well of all thlnas' whet's this, and where did 11 eOtpe from?" 1 turned from the engine and looked Phe was h-ddlng "ome kind of pis n or document In her hand. In hlnnk surprise sur-prise she examined It Tl looked Mite a Tort or a series of forts. Rut 1 was tUTS at a glance that It was not fort Dsln. "lYhai do you think It Is, Walter?" she anked. handing It to me i took it and examined u carefully. Tn .red I hie as It seemed. T figured nut qillokly that II must he nothing short of a plan Oi the new defense at Handy Hook "I don t know what It all means. I snld "Put I do know that we won't get any dinner till 1 get this engine running strain. I fell to work ngnln. eater tn gel away with our dangerous pliSS, Mlnlne now and then advising me. Finally I turned the engine over. For a wonder It ran smoothly. "Weii. that's ail rifht, m laat," I sighed, wiping the amase off my hunds on n pier of waste. "WlyiO the matter now?" eiclalnied Klalne. turning quickly and looking up tho road along which wo had .lust come. There, lurching along at full speed, wns a car. Two men were actually fighting on 'he front of It. regn rdlesa of speed and safety. As H neared "n I saw thai I I was the tn th-a h I hfi t hud been standing stand-ing before Del Mar's. 1 looked cloiier a' ii To my utter amassment, who should tif driving but the verv chauffeur whom we had left Del Mar's only a few min before, apparently unconscious He I could not have been hui I arj bsdlj , for |
