Show Ar A BAY BAYA A A. A Thrilling Story of Society Blackmailers I. I NOVE NOVELIZED D- D DBY BY A. A AA A. A Waterbury From the play by presented George ge Scarbor- Scarbor S al althe at the cugh which was theatre A. A w V-w New York Street Thu Thirty ninth Serial Seria rightS held beld and copyrighted by International News Service One iOn Oit n f Lid id he quietly By what authority C 14 Mine k said ead Granam rushing t to his ms doom Holbrook bit his lips at the grim irony of of it t all aU c Your demaude demanded 3 the with a forlorn hope I am the warrant said Eaid Holbrook half closed his keen leen gray ra f for shortened view vie as as if to get got a a. ey eJ eyes picture Then Theu iii h K most o of this D amusing and ana und opened them wide in n amazement placed h a. a a human barricade barricade- Before the thecia I citadel of safety where Alino Aline cowered c Agal Agabi the 12 be captain e essayed ayed the hered light tone of the eons sons of Erin Enn Louis XIV said ald I am the state 1 That misleads you In America even evena thor the a district attorney must mut conform to laws aws Mr Graham I mean meau to get into that room f faid saId Mid Chief Dempster It was quite guite evid evi evident evi dent d that fh he hedia did ai T mean to do just lust what h he hsai 7 said Could Holbrook stop The I End of or the Struggle eAt e. e At all event he meant to try Ie You You cant eart ea t said he I asked Demp Demp- Will Will you stop me MerU ster Mer U I 1 am an you explained Larry Larry Lar patiently ry T The rhe e smiled in tie grim amusement C Do C Do you think vou on can stop both bothof bothof bothof of us Tho captains captain's hand was WM on the chiefs chief's s wrist now A A. steel vise viso gripped the arm rm of the chief d of the se secret ret ret- service service erv- erv ice of the United States A steel teel voice answered him and steel steal eyes glinted at him while taut mu muscles es rippled rippled rippled rip rip- pled and hardened to steel too and Larry Holbrook held th the citadel of ot his lady ady safe Safo from marauding chiefs and hi high b officials J I I kno bow I c eL stop both of you you you- his hi and end both of you ou u know it was wag stern declaration We C We didn't ome come here for any rough and tumble Holbrook be began n Chief Dempster in a tone r reserved served for or criminals criminals crim crim- mabi who are cornered and must soon acknowledge it it Thank C you u interrupted Holbrook with ith th curtly irony But we we didn't come hero here without men no I I 7 He If flA A W went nt n over o t to fn the tho entrance door and o opening ening it called down the Corridor Donnelly Donnely Hagan Ha- Ha gan gaul Yes sir Bit ll floated back his bis answer In that moment Lawrence Holbrook tasted ted the grim im salt flavor of possible failure But he still sun meant to find a away way though what that way was wa to beh behoc be behe h he hoc t himself scarcely know knew but in the tho hack back backof n k of or his hiB mind a a. plan pIan was tin t- t in One OnD moment chief chief dont don't dont call caB them Tb chief hief allowed himself another smile mile H hail had fought ou ht well Wen but defeat d lefe f t t. t was w s near He could ouM not guess quess for whom whew th that t defeat would spell dis i Wait Vait there be ho called to his men Close Clo 6 t f door if you oU said Holbrook Tie lie his shoulders T aut oR t tot top nil AU four of you you you- OU And t then thE he ho c opened th th door a and d called Alin my m dear dear dear-a a moment t. t Your fathers father's here hele Slowly almost ll t a if she were walk ine it tI sr in i a a sleep troubled by b dreams of horror Mine Aline G 01 ramo ranio trembling liht S the lic l room With ith P fathomless s Question ones Ques ti tion n in hi their s her eves fixed on nia mai aT i t to fh hc bed riv n ll her le for foJ the word of comM com com- M h nd l i o her captain who held her li if in IMS IN bands Jih TI Ji h that t the district attorney of oV th the Tinted berame ar an a old ff j i pan an Lift turned turner him around with ith an nn command t ri ht about S. S J Jio fes' io and t b be look looked cl a at Rt the law fr from i t tho the side of t f those whom he had been forced for ed to drive to doom if it they thoy could be proven guilty His daughter His little Aline hero heh here in Lawrence Holbrooks Holbrook's Hoi Hoi- brooks brook's room in in hiding hiding i. a fugitive His aching brain could scarcely compass com coin pass it allAine all aU Ie Aline Aine AHn he cried at Sot last when si silence si si- lence lenco had sapped all li oxygen from front the tho heavy air t Alino Alin 1 why t tIn In hi Gods God's name Why The girl rl looked at her ber father in pain jain that is ia world old So innocent Virginia must have bave looked at her father when he lifted the knife that saved her from worse than death And so 50 every overy girl wh who is pure in heart heart though circumstance circumstance circum stance o has has- cruelly sullied t her life must chafe in sorrow at her woman womans woman's a heritage herit hrit age when she sees seca how another man has forced f her to hurt huTt pier per er loving lo ni father fa a. a ther thor who scarcely knows she sho is HI a woman woman the the father who still dreams hi his girl is is- isan an ini innocent cent child But she did not sneak speak speak she she he W waited her command from the captain of ot her life ilia Tell Ten him what you heard in your library said Holbrook ok calmly The chief watching Kline Aline He was WIlS looking beyond her words Word words words-ho ho was striving to fin find the motive moti power for lor all aU her possible deeds deeda That he was to be arrested cried the girl irl to the district attorn And c hop he he meant the man she loved love Another Confession cY You t frightened ii tene the gir girt girl you two sensational gentlemen with mth your talk of murder and my arrest for fOl it said Mid Holbrook with seeming leemin probity How How did you get here herel herel asked the father With With Father Shannon c What s 's your interest in this Father Fa Pa- Father ther Shannon f Questioned Questioned- the chief with ready suspicion III I I sympathized with the young ladys lady's fears I chare are her belief in Captain s 9 innocence The church was militant now now fight fighting ing lug for the maid and her gallant de de- de fender Graham still centered all his sorrow whom he and dismay on the daughter felt was disgracing him but he be me measured meas ui in-ed in d disgrace oy by the pennyweight c Im Im I'm sworn a a sworn officer of tho the govern govern- ment For my daughter to betray secrets se so crets heard beard in my my house Jlou e is as heinous hemous as mv mv- m own disloyalty would be fm sorry father fathe father awfully awfully sorry It said aid the tho gix J ally I 11 cant can't express mr any rny indignation indignation- my sense of outrage exclaimed umed the father never guessing grossing that he was tilting at straws The The rhe girl loves him sir explained the priest gently She does dues not DOt C Yes Yes T I love him Her Her first first actual confession of the love she had been showing so eo plainly through all the tense moments moments' in his hi room came at la last t Not in the sanctity sane sanc of their own devotion not devotion not alonen alone n not not t in the hope of the joy and perfection perfection per- per of her love Jove came Aline's AUnes acknowledgment acknowledgment ac ac- ac- ac ent but before the cold machinery ma maw chinery of the law With down downcast st head with averted eyes but with the therora rora royal radiance of the tho truth troth of her ber hearts heart's message Aline Aino spoke her newfound new newfound found creed Yes Yes ye I love loe him I G God d' d bless bles YO you j said eaid Capt La Law rence ren e Holbrook reverently re But henad he made nad no move to go and take the woman ho l loved ed in his arms and arias and so 80 defy the tho this was wa V. V M no Q hour for emotion emotion brink of ot the grave grae was yawning between Aline Graham Granam and h her lir r love And Amid I blush bluel for you cried her father in cold displeasure q I leave I Captain Holbrook to you yow and y your ur of of- officers chief Shannon my aau daughter will win answer r to m- m me ne Come Como Aline Alino nel He seized the girl girls girl's s 's almost beless wrist in hi his firm nn grasp and so leadin leading her by the hand as if ir she eba were were a a disobedient dis s obedient child who must be 00 taught die dis discipline Graham prepared to take his errant daughter home nome One moment Mr Graham spoke Chief Dempster tet in a tone ton preg pregnant ant with meaning I have hao an official duty here We both regard Captain Holbrook as s an accessory to this murder murder mur mur der We both believed just now that he was sheltering the principal principal prine-i- prine pal pal pal- It Chief Dempster found it difficult togo too to togo go o on to on to express in in words the tha mean mean- meaning JD ing ingbo ho felt must be hatefully evident eident to tn all an Well rW ell t asked ed Graham impatiently I r see no reason to change chango that Chief Robert opinion said Dempster You You mean mann 1 cried Graham Your Your d daughter Aline Mine impulsively crie cried aloud Oh Ohno no no no no she screamed med as sho tore herself h rs lf from her fathers father's hold and fled to th the captains captain's waiting arms She hid her head bend on his bis breast au and for one Bo of sanctuary buried burica from eyes and aud mind the t torturing hours bours' that hadl had passed l the passed the the that Then she faced bout about and in in deep emo emotion i wo- wo o- o tion cried cried a again again Oh ain ain- Oh no noMine noc no c Mine Aline commanded her captain Silence was her only weapon now I I J MUST INSIST UPON Po YOUR REVOKING RE BE- YOKING VOWING CAPTAIN HOLBROOK HOLBROOKS JS P PAROLE AND UPON THE ARREST OF BOTH nOTH HI HIM r AND MISS MIS GRAHAM FOR TH THE MURDER OF OP JUDSON I said Dempster inexorably inex inex- Mine Aline slipped from om the shelter of Holbrooks Holbrook's arms and came camo bravely forward forward for for- ward ard in answer r to the impulse for self sacrifice however hOT vain that urges woman to her ber fate 1 HIM HIM ehe she NOT N T HIM NOT HIM NOT cried in a 3 voice that threatened to tob tob betray b tra trav all RH AlANE T ATINE T COMMAND YOUAt YOU YOUAt YOU At the tho sound of her hex captain captains e s voice the girl grew rew silent ilent In a vague apprehension ensi n as to what tl this authority could mean Graham turned to the commander of or his daughters daughters daughter's daugh dau h. h ter's frail fran bark You daro daro he began becan bc an Holbrook did not mark mark- him at all He turned to Chief Dempster r. r What an outrageous thing thin to do ho he cried erl d What s have you ou to I suspect this lady Chief Chier Dempster At Bay Their arrest t demanded the chief of Graham p No o Robert interposed Father Shannon 11 I I see no bO evidence on which to arTest arTest arrest ar ar- ar- ar Test rest Mid her father c You'd see it if it she was somebody a assert asserted else else's daughter Dempster stubbornly J I c Somebody 4 else's else e daughter wouldn't have bave overheard you and me inc in my li 11 That explanation tion of her comin coming hero h ro would be lacking lacking So Bo would ouM their mutual interest which hi h hs h's is s n ii subject t of general comment c 1 1 have b been becu n tricked ked once t it tonight it wont won't work orK again Shell She'll have to go Mr r. r Graham r S I ci am her hert father fathe Chief Chier Dempster and I am district attorney J said Eaid Graham Graham Gra Gra- ham barn fi fighting f as m n will ever do for I his own But the lr unanswered question was how far this proud father would fi fight ht wh when n he learned tho full fun measure of guilt that ho he would never believe until it was as confessed a as the black truth A man who will ill defend his bis woman against tho the world until sho is 16 driven to confess confess' tho the truth truth truth-a a man who must believe that what ho he loves Ilon s sis is pure and inno innocent until she convicts herself out of her own mouth mouth may may find truth has truth has the that guilt confessed power to quench the flame flamo ame of love 10 that I I Ithe the worlds world's 8 suspicion ion has only fanned I higher Justice and duty were Gordon Grahams Graham's fetish his oath t to his country country country coun coun- try bound him what would ho he what must he c do whoa when he ho found how his far da daughter had bad brought herself under the tho displeasure of the laws of his land t That wont won't stop me inc now Ill I'll take this case over your tour head to the tho attorney attorney attorney ney general I arrest them both said Baid Dempster with cold allegiance ance to duty as ho saw it What can you von pain gain by her arrest tonight 1 asked Graham Bv By a proper examination Ill I'll ll 11 got ot something from him or her hor While Whilo the father r and th the Jaw law fou fought ht for the girl Holbrook had ha stood passively pas pas pas- by by watching wat watching hiu keenly for a ray Tay of or light ht through h somo omo chink chinkin in in the tho armor of the la law Now he threw up his head bead with a motion of strength he might ht have learned from some sonic stag in tho the forest when that cre creature ture its head in animal supplication to the tho I power of some cod fod of tho tb wild I Aline he said in iii a n tone tone tone-oC of quiet convi conviction tion and power that sent a wave I of new newl strength th to the girl irl who rho had been cowering against the hea heavy table where her he father fought fou ht for her against a tho the merciless enemy she he had evoked II Aline Alina thero there is a ma- ma mathat that will pro pro- protect tent us Ct us The Way Out Us how Us how that word carried comfort com corn fort to the girl Ho was offering oftering her hor heran heran horan an absolute partnership to to to which ho he brought brou ht everything thin of or faith and anti loyalty lo loy alty and clover determination Ho ifo was quietly sharing her burden hurden here bore ef fo them all And in in another moment she hc would know how absolutely hp lie was wan sharing what might IDi ht befall heY lir for weal or woo Let Let me ask Father Vather Shannon 01 au question on- on gentlemen Only one on oi more more you you you-no OU DO no |