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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH The Romance of to The Elaine Sequel of ElaineExploits ' A Detective Novel and a Motion Pic- ttire Drama PreMBted ia CoIIborlio Coprrlfht. B. REEVE By ARTHUR. Novelist tos length after the finding of Wu body and Cennedy'a diauppearancft, a euhmurlne appears the following morning on the bay. man plungea overboard from It and iwlim ashore. It la the entrance of Mur-4u- s Mur Into America. Ilia mlaalon lel to obtain Information of Kennedy and recover. If poadlule, the loat torpedo. At Dodtca dome he soon wlna tlin confl-enr- e of Klalne. tater ahe la warned by little old mun to be careful of Del Mar.tririe warning renie Juat In time to prefont lel Mar from carrying out hla Diana. a Clulne gives maaquerude ball. iel MarI he nor hi domino air attend. Neither Sun locate Dim torpedo. A gray friar warm Ulatne and Jameson of Del Mar'a purpose, and hla plana are upaet. The girl entora the Uodao home a a iftalri; tlmla the torIt In a trunk, which with oth-tr- a pedo, piucea to the limine country home. la sent In a holdup Del Mar'a men fall to get the trunk containing the torpedo. Klalne Blues the torpedo, which later la stolen by I'M Mar'a men, who In eacuplng meet the in man or myati ry. A desperate battle tullowa. In wiilch the old man deatroya ilie torpedo. Jiimeaon la captured by Del iUr'a men while on hla wuy to mull a letter to the II. S. secret service. Klalne reaouea him. Lieutenant Woodward and rila friend attelid a party given at the ih.iig,. nome, at which I ml Mar la prvs-tn- t. Unknowingly Del Mar riropa a note which gives Klnlne a clue. In her to prevent hla rutting the Atlanticattempt cable he la discovered and made a sn ma iMiai, wnnn arterwartla la prlaoner wreikeil y Womlward and the old mun of mystery. Jaminun arrives In a itne Juet la time to aave Elaine from S rownliiK. hydo-aero- I EPISODE BEHIND THE WATER DOOR. Del Mar matlo bin way cautiously bank of a little river at the uouth of which he left the boat, after escaping from the little steamer. Quite evidently be was worried by the failure to cut the great Aliunde cable, and lie waa eager to see whether any leak had occurred in the organization which, aa aecret foreign pent, be had so carefully built up in America. As he skirted the shore of the river, be came to a falls. Here be moved even more cautiously than before, looking about to make certain that no one had followed him. It was a beautiful sheet of water that tumbled with a roar over the ledge of rock, then raced away swiftly to tbe sea in a cloud of spray. Assured that be was alone, he approached a crovice In the rocks, near tbe falls. With another haaty look about, be reached in and pulled a lLg the , moat marvelous change iook place, incredible almo.st beyond telicf. The volume of water that came over tbe fulls actually and rapidly decreased until it almost slopped, dripping slow ly In a thin veil. There was the entrance of a cave literally hidden behind tbe falls! Del Mar walked In. Inside was the entrance to another. Inner cave, higher up In the sheer stone of the wall taat the waters had eroded. From the floor to this entrance led a ladder. IX'l Mar climbed It, then stopped Juat Inside the entrance to the Inner cave. For a moment he paused. Then be pressed another lever. Almost Immediately tbe thin trickle of water grew until at last tbe roaring falls completely covered the cave entrance. It waa A clever concealment, contrived by slamming tbe river above and arranging a new outlet controlled by flood gates. There Del Mar stood. In the Inner cave. A man sat at a table, a curloua bis bead and cover(ear fastened over ing bis ears He (ore bira was a huge Apparatus from which flared a big Mulsh green spark, snapping and crackling above the thunder of the waters. From tbe apparatus ran wires apparently up through cables that penetrated the rocky roof of tbe cavern and the river above. It was Del star's secret wireless Station, close to the bidden submarine harbor which bad been eatabllahed beneath the Innocent rocks of the promontory up the coast. Far overhead, on the cliff over the falls, were the antennae of the wireless. "How Is ahe working?" asked Del Mar. "Pretty well," answered the man. "No Interference V queried Del Mar, adjusting tbe apparatus. Tbe man shook bis bead In the negative. "We must get a quenched spark apparatus," went on Del Mar, pleased that nothing waa wrong bers. "This rotary gap affair Is oat of date. By tbe way, I want yea to bo ready to end a message, to be relayed across to our people. I've got to consult the board below In the harbor first, however. I'll send a messenger to yea." sir," returned the man, 'Vry saluting as Del Mar went out Out at Fort Lieutenant Woodward was still entertaining bis new friend, Professor Arnold, and bad Introduced him to Colanel Swift, tbe commanding officer at the ffrt. Tbey were d!runing the at ranee events cf the Hy morning, when an orderly er.tereJ, saluted Colonel Swift and handed him a tlpfiram. The colonel tore It oprn ar.d read It, his face pricing grave. Thfn he banded It t. Woodwad, hr read: I1, "Jla3; Cr- " Craig Kennedy " Stories. Wile las Path Flayers end Ibe Eclectic Film Ceaipaay t tlr Cniwnr. All forrlm ltlbaj Rmree4. Fang' a lever. Instantly a and th. n 1914. by 8YNOP8IS. THIRTIETH Weii-Know- ator of th "Washington, D. C. station uaing Hiea! wave In your vicinity. and report. i Investigate BRANDON, "Radio Bureau." Professor Arnold shook hla bead slowly, as be banded tbe telegram back. "There's a wireless apparatus of my own on my yacht," be remarked slowly. "I have an instrument there which I think can help yon greatly. Let's see what we can do." "All right," nodded Colonel Swift to Woodward. "Try." Tbe two went out and a few minutes later, on the shore, Jumped Into Arnold's fast little motor boat and sped out acrosa the water until tbey swung around alougslde the trim yacbt which Arnold was using. It was a compact and comfortable little craft with lines that Indicated both gracefulness and speed. On one of the masts, as they approached. Woodward noticed the wireless aerial. They climbed up the ladder over the aide and made their way directly to the wireless room, where Arnold sat down and at once began to adjust tbe apparatus. Woodward seemed keenly Intererted In Inspecting tbe plant, which was of a curious type and not exactly like any that be bad seen before. "Thla Is a very compact system." explained Arnold, "with facilities for a quick change from one wave length to another. It has a spark gap, quenched type, break system relay operator can hear any interference You might call It while transmitting. a radio detective." I succeeded In getting Elaine safely home after Ilurnslde and I rescued her In the hydroaeroplane, but no sooner had she changed her clothes for dry ones than she disappeared herself. At least I could not And her, though, later, I found that she had stolon away to town and there had purchased a complete outfit of men's clothes from a second hand dealer. Cautiously, with the large bundle under her arm, she returned to Dodge hall and almost sneaked Into her own home and upstairs to her room. She locked the door and hastily unwrapped the bundle, taking out a tattered suit and the other things, holding them up and laughing gleefully as she took off her cwn pretty clothes and donned these hideous garments. Quickly she completed ber change of costume and outward character. Deftly she arranged her hair so that her bat would cover It. She picked a Mack mustache from the table and stuck It on her soft upper Hp. It tickled and she made a wry face over it Then she bunted up a cigarette from the bundle which she bad brought In. lighted it and stuck It In the corner of her mouth, letting It droop Jauntily. It made ber cough tremendously and she threw It away. Finally with a bold front she went out and passed down to the gate of the grounds, pulling her hat down over ber eyes and assuming a tough swagger. Only a few minutes before, down In tbe submarine harbor, the officers of tbe board of foreign agents had been grouped about Del Mar. who had entered and taken hla place at their bead, very angry over the failure to cut the cable. As tbey concluded their hasty conference, he wrote a message on a slip of paper. "Take this to our wireless station." be ordered, banding It to one of the men. A few minutes later the messenger In tbe submarine suit bobbed up out of tbe water, near the promontory, ajid climbed slawly over the rocks toward a crevice, where be took off tbe diving out.1t and then went along to the little river, carefully skirting Its banks Into the ravine In which were the falls and the wireless cave. In her disguise, Elaine bad made ber way by a sort of Instinct along the shore to the rocky promontory when he bad discovered tbe messsge In tbe tin tube In tbe water. Something, she knew not what, was going on about there, and she reasoned that It was not all over yet She was right As she looked about keenly sbe did see something, and sbe bid among the rocks. It was a man. all dripping. In an outlandish helmet and suit Sbe saw him slink Into a crevice and take off tbe suit, then, as be moved toward the river ravine, she stole up after him. Suddenly she stopped stark atrfl. surprised, and stared. The man had actually gone up to the very waterfall. He bad pressed what looked like a lever and the wa ter over the falls seemed to stop. Then he walked directly through Into a cave. In the greatest wonder, Elaine crept along toward) the falls. Inside the cave 11 Mar's emissary started to climb a ladder to sa inner cave. As he reached the t' p. be glanced out and saw Klalne With an oath he by the entrance. Jumped Into the lnnr entrance, in hand roarhd farrly f r a lever In the rrrks srd m he 1 nurd and hf!d it, he peered out carefully. Elaine cautiously came from behind Meanwhile, back of that wan of wa his way to Fort Dale and was directed a rock where ahe had hidden herself ter, the wireless operator in the cave by the sentry to Colonel Swift, who and seeing no one apparently watch- was sending the messages which Del was standing before the headquarters ing, now, advanced until she stood di- Mar'a emissary dictated to him, one with several officers. rectly under the trickle of water which after another. "A message from Lieutenant Woodhad once been tbe fails. She gazed ward and Professor Arnold," he anInto the cave, curiously uncertain With the high resistance receiving nounced, approaching the commandwhether she dared to go In alone or officer and. handing him the note. apparatus over his head, Arnold was ing not. Colonel Swift tore it open and read: The emissary Jerked fiercely at the listening to the wireless signals that "Have located radio aerial in the over came bis on "radio the detective" lever as he saw Elaine. woods along shore. Please send squad Above the falls a dam had been yacht, moving tbe slider back and ARNOLD." of men with bearer. built and by a system of levers the forth on a sort of tuning coil, as be listened. Woodward atood close be left "You them?" queried the could tist so be the that gates operated colonel. water could be thrown over the falls side him. "Aa you know," Arnold remarked, "Yes. sir," replied the sailor. "We or diverted away, at will. As the man came ashore in hla boat. I don't know pressed the lever the flood gates "by the use of an aerial, messages may be easily received from any num- exactly where tbey went, but I know worked quickly. Elaine stood gazing eagerly Into the ber of atatlons. In other words, thla the direction, and we can catch up blackness of the cave. Just then a Is eavesdropping by a wireless wire with them easily if we hurry, sir." Tbe colonel banded the note quickgreat volume of water from above tapper." "Are you getting anything now?" ly to a cavalry officer beside him who crashed down on ber, with almost asked Woodward. read it, saluted at the ordera that folcrushing weight Arnold nodded, aa he seized a pencil lowed, turned and strode off, hastily How she lived through It ahe never knew. But, fortunately, she had not and started to write. The lieutenant stuffing the paper In his belt, aa the gone quite far enough to get tbe full bent forward In tense interest. Finally sailor went force of the water. Still, the terrific Arnold read what he had written and Meanwhile, Del Mar's valet was with a peculiar quiet smile handed It leaving tbe bungalow and walking flood easily overcame her. She was swept, screaming, down the over. down the road on an errand for hla stream. Woodward read. It was a senseless master. Up the road he beard the Jumble of dots and dashes of the Morse clatter of hoofs. He stepped back off Rather alarmed at the strange dis- code but, although he waa familiar tbe road and from bis covert he could appearance of Elaine after I brought with the code, he could make nothing see a squad of cavalry beaded by the captain and a aallor canter past her home, I bad atarted out along the out of It. The captain turned In the saddle "It's the Morse code all right," he road to the shore to look for her, thinking that she might perhaps have said, handing it back with a puzzled to apeak to the sailor, wbe rode like look, "but it doesn't make any sense." a horse marine, and aa h' did ao, the returned there. Arnold smiled again, took the paper, turning of bis body loosened a paper As I walked along a young tough at least at the time I thought it waa a and without a word wrote on it aome which be had stuffed quickly into hla In their young tough, so good was the disguise b.ore. Then he banded it back to belt. It fell to the ground. she had assumed, and so well did she Woodward. "An old trick." he said. hurry the troop, close behind, rode "Reverse tbe dots and dashes and sea over it But it did not escape the carry It olj slouched past me. what you get" quick eye of Del Mar'a valet "Great Caesar," I muttered to disappeared Woodward looked at It, as Arnold They had scarcely "that's a roughneck. This place la sure getting to be a hangout for had reversed it and hia face lighted around a bend In the road when be Btepped out and pounced on the up. gunmen." reading it eagerly. Every line "Harbor successfully mined," he I shrugged my shoulders and conof his face showed fear aa be turned tinued my walk. It was no business quoted in surprise. "I'll show you another thing about and ran back to the bungalow. of mine. Finding no trace of Elaine. "See what I found," he cried breathI returned to the house. Aunt Josethis radio detective of mine," went on Arnold energetically. "It's not only a lessly bursting in on Del Mar who waa phine was In the library, alone. "Where's Elaine?" I asked anxiously. wave length measurer, but by a seated at hia desk, having returned "I don't know," she replied. "I don't process of my own I can determine from tbe harbor. Del Mar read It with a scowl of fury. think she's at home." approximately the distance between Then he seized hla bat and a short hunter'a ax and disappeared through the panel Into the subterranean passage which took him by the shortest cut through the very bill to the shore. my-ael- r, Slowly Arnold and Woodward made their way along the ahore, carefully searching for the spot where tbey bad seen the house with the aerial. At last they came to a place where they could see the deserted house far up on tbe aide of a ravine above the river and a waterfall. Tbey dived into the r If'. ,,,R,,' i.T''. m ' ' ..".Ft- - .. ? BJT "k .. r " -' I Elaine Olscevera the Cave Behind the Water Deer. Somehow, I felt. I didn't seem to get on well aa a detective without Kennedy. Tet, so far, a kind providence seemed to have watched over us. Waa It because we were children or I rejected that alternative. the sending and tbe receiving points of a message." He attached another, smaller machine to tbe wireless detector. In tbe face waa a moving finger which swung over a dial marked off la miles from one Upward. As Arnold adjusted the new detector, tbe hand began to move slowly. Woodward looked eagerly. It did not move far, but came to rest above the figure "2." "Not so very far away, you see, lieutenant," remarked Arnold, pointing to the dial face. He seized hla glass and berried to the deck, leveling It at the shore and leaning far over the rail In bis eagerness. As he swept the shore, he stopped suddenly. There was a house roof among the trees with a wireless serial fastened to the chimney, but not quite concealed by tbe dense foliage. ' lok. he cried to Woodward, with aa exclamation of satlsfsciton, banding over the glass. Woodward looked. "A secret wlrw less station, all right" be agreed, low erinc the glass after a long look.. "Wed better get over there right away." planned Arnold, leading the way to the ladder over the aide of the yacht and calling to tbe sailor who had managed tbe little motor boat to follow him. Quickly they skimmed across to the shore. "I think we'd better aend to the fort for some men," considered Arnold aa they landed. "We may need we before get through." Woodward nodded and Arnold hastily wrote a bote on a rather large scrap of paper which be happened to have In bis pocket. 'Take this lo Colonel Swift at Fort lsle," he directed the sailor. "And Walking along leisurely I made my way down to tbe ahore. At a bridge that crossed a rather turbulent stream aa it tumbled Its way toward the sea, I paused and looked at tbe water reflectively. Suddenly my vagrant Interest waa aroused, t'p tbe stream I saw someone struggling In tbe water and shouting for help aa the current carried her along, screaming. It wss Elaine. Tbe bat and mustache of her disguise were gone and her beautiful Titian hair was spread out on the water as It carried ber now this way, now that, while ahe struck out with all her strength to keep afloat I did not stop to think how or wby she was there. I swung over the bridge rail, stripping off my coat ready to dive. On she came with tbe swift current to tbe bridge. Aa sbe approached I dived. It was not a minute too soon. In ber struggles she had become thoroughly exhausted. She waa a good swimmer, but tbe fight with nature was unequal. I reached ber In a second'or two and took her band. Half pulling, half shoving her, I struck out for the shore. We managed to make It together where the current was not quite so strong, snd climbed safely up a rock. Elaine sank down, choking and gasping, not unconscious, but pretty much all In and exhausted. I looked at ber lo amazement. "Why, where In the world did you get thse tnps V I queried. "Never mind my clothes, Walter," she gapped. "Take me home for some lurry'" dry ones. 1 hare a clu." The. sailor loped oT, half en a Sh rose. determ1red to shake off the efforts of her ref"nt planre and as Arnold and Wc.ndward lft down ent loaard the. ho'te As I helped the ebore, proceeding carefully. hT she related brf a'h!ely what she If ad j'ist seen. At Icip spewl, Arnoid s sailor made thick underbrush for cover and went up tbe hill. Some distance off from the house they parted tbe bushes and gazed off across an oiea apace at the ramshackle building. Aa they looked they could see a man hurry across from tbe opposite direction and Into the house. "A I live. I think that's Del Mar," muttered Arnold. Woodward nodded, doubtfully, though. In the house Del Mar hurried to a wall where he found and pressed a concealed spring.. A small cabinet In tbe plaster opened and he took out a little telephone which be rang and through which be spoke hastily. "Pull In tbe wires." be shouted. "We're discovered, I think." Down In the wireless station in the cave tbe operator at hla Instrument beard the algnal of the telephone and quickly, answered it "All right air," he returned with a look of great excitement and anxiety. "Cut tbe wires and I'll pull tbe in In." 'letting back the telephone, Del Mar raa to tbe window and looked out between the broken alats of tbe closed Uinds. "Confound them!" he muttered angrily. He could see Arnold and Woodward A moment cautiously . approaching. later be stepped back and pulled a silk mask over bis upper face, leaving raly bia eyes visible. Then be seized his hunter's ax and daubed up tbe stairs. Through tbe scuttle of the roof be came, making bis way over to the chimney to which the wireless antennae were fastened. Hastily be cut tbe wires which ran through the roof from the aerial. As be did ao be saw tbem disappear through the roof. Below, In tbe rave, down In the ravine back of the falls, the operator was hastily hauling In the wire Del Mar bad cut Viciously next Del Mar fell upon the wooden aerial Itself, chopping It right and left with powerful blows. He broke It off and threw It over tbe roof. Del Mar made bis way back quickly over the roof, back through tbe scuttle and down the stairs again. Should be go out? He looked out of tbe window. Then he went to the door. An Instant be paused thinking and listening, hia at raised, ready for a-- blow. Arnold and Woodward, by this time, had reached the door, which swung open on Its rusty hinges. Woodward was about to go In wben he felt a band on bis arm. "Walt." cautioned Arnold. He took off bis hat and Jammed It on the end cf a stick. Slowly be shoved the door t.pen, then thrust the bat and atick Just a fraction of a foot forward. Del Mar, waiting, alert, saw the door open and a bat He struck st It hard with the ax and merely the hat and stick fell to the fioor. "Now, come on," shouted Arnold to Woodward. In the other hand I I Mar held a chair. As Woodward dahd in with Arnold bpide him. In-- Mar shied the chair at their Woodward fell over it in a bap, and a b did so Am ild firrl, but even that was not 'Plr-enough. The deltir a all that il Mar had hopd to gdin. Without 1 a second's hesitation be dived Through an open window. Just aa Arnold ran forward, avoiding Woodward and the chair. It waa spectacular, but it worked. He turned, and with Woodward, who had picked himself up in spite of his barked shins, they ran back through the door by which they bad entered. Recovering himself Del Mar dashod for the woods Just as Arnold and' Woodward ran around the side of the house, still blazing away after him, aa they followed, rapidly gaining. e Elaine changed her clothes quickly. Meanwhile she had ordered horses for both of us, and a gr6om brought tbem around from the stables. It took me only a short time to Jump Into some dry things and I waited Impatiently. She was ready very sooa, however, and we mounted and cantered off. again In the direction of the shore where she had aeen tbe remarkable waterfall, of which she bad told me. We had not gone far when he heard sounds, as if an army were bearing down on ua. "What's that?" I asked. Elaine turned and looked. It was a squad of cavalry. "Why, it's JJeutenant Woodward's friend. Captain Price," she exclaimed, waving to the captain at the head of the squad. A moment later Captain Price pulled up and bowed. Quickly we told him of what Elaine had Just discovered. "Thla "That's strange." he said. man " Indicating the sailor, "has Just told me that Lieutenant Woodward and Professor Arnold are Investigating a wireless outfit over near there. Perhaps there's some connection." "May we Join you?" ahe asked. "By al! means," he returned. "I was about to suggest It myself." We fell In behind with the rest and were off again. Under the direction of the sailor we came at last to the ravine where we looked about searchlngly for soma trace of Arnold and, Woodward. "What's that noise?" exclaimed one of the cavalrymen. We could hear shots, above us. "They may need us," cried Elaine, Impatiently. It was impossible to ride up the sheer heights above. "Dismount," ordered Captain Price. Hia men Jumped down and we followed hire. Elaine atruggled up now, helped by me, now helping me. Farther down the bill from the deserted house which we could see above us at the top was an underground passage which had been built to divert part of the water above the falls for power. Through It the water surged and over this boiling stream ran a boardwalk, tbe length of the tunnel. Into this tunnel we could see that a masked man had made bis way. Aa he did ao, he turned for Just a moment and fired a volley of shots. Elaine screamed. There were Arnold and Woodward, his targets, coming on boldly, as yet unhit They rushed In after him. In spite of his running fire, returning his shots ant darting toward the tur.nel entrance through which he still blazed back at tbem. From our end of tbe ravine, wa could aee precisely what was going on. "Come the other end of tbe tunnel." shouted Price, who had evidently been over the ground and knew it We made our way quickly to It and It seemed as If we bad our man trapped, like a rat In a hole. In the tunnel the man was firing back at bis pursuers as ha ran along tbe boardwalk for our end. He looked up Just In time aa he approached ua. He dropped down and let himself, without even a splash, into the water. Arnold and Woodward took a step Into the darkness, scarcely knowing what to expect, their eyes a bit better accustomed to the dusk. But If tbey bad been there an hour. In all probability they could not bava seen what was at their very feet Del Mar bad sunk and was swimming under water In the swiftlblsck current sweeping under tbem. As they entered, he passed out, nerved up to desperation. Down the stream. Just before It took Its final plunge to tbe power wheel, Del Mar managed by a superhuman effort to reach out and grapa a wooden support of the flooring again and pull himself out of the stream. Smiling grimly to himself, he hurried up the bank. "Someone's coming," whispered Price. "Get resdy." We leveled our guns. I was about to Are. "Look out! Don't ahoot!" warned a voice sharply. It waa Elaine. Her keen eyes and quirk perception bad recognized Arnold, leading Woodward. We lowered our guns. "Did yott see a man. masked, corns out Jere?" cried Woodward. "No ha must have gone your way," wa called. "No. he couldn't" Arnold was eagerly questioning the captain as Klalne and I approached. "Dropped Into tbe water risked aa most certain death," he muttered, bait turning snd aeelng us. "I want to congratulate yotj on your nerve for going In there," began Elaine, advancing toward tbe professor. Apparently he neither beard nor saw us, for he turned as soon as be had finished with Price and went Into th case as though he were too busy t9 pay any attention to anything else. Elaine looked up at me In blank aa tonlshment. "What an impolite man," ahe mar mured, gazing at the figure all tnopel over as It disappeared In the dark newt of the tunnel, (TO BE CONTINUED.) 4 |