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Show THE VAIn: IIY HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1916. N, r" HIM. ASI) K. jo imwirr. Xoveltwcd From the Motion I'lc-tu- r- ' ' 1 " it rar by of thr ?ne Film .MJtniifnrtur-In- j; I'onipnn). the Authors. 191 6. Vlny the I itlYfi-Mfi- l by Coyrimit, synopsis. Belle Le Sieur, animal queen, eecretly married to Doctor LInd, owner of the circus, is injured by her tigers, and finally dies, leaving her little baby, whom Dr. Lund refuses to recognize, in care of Flip, the clown. La Belle gives Flip a letter that certifies the parentage of little Peg. When the girl gro3 up she 13 afflicted by etrange attacks every midnight, when Li her nature changes to resemble the tigers which caused the death of her mother. Dr. Lund has married a second time. He gives a garden party ; ) I , I 1 to the circus performers, where Peg meets Dr. Lund, Jr., who falls in love with her. Young Lund follows the circus, determined to win Peg as his wife, if possible. Mrs. Lund sends her Hindoo servant to follow the circus and put Peg out of the way, that Lund, Jr., may inherit all the Lund millions. Doctor Lund sends his son's tthletic trainer to follow the circus until he can secure from Flip the letter that tells the secret of Peg's birth The Hindoo kidnaps Peg and carries her to the storehouse of a dealer in wild animals. Toung Lund pursues. and la thrown, with Peg, into a dark cellar, where lions are turned loose upon them. Flip and a party of circus performers also trail Peg to the ani mat house, bent on rescuing the cir- cus girl. THIRD EPISODE. "This looks like a hot trail," cried nip, the clown, when with his party erf circus performers he dashed up to I the storehouse of the East India Anl-- ( ma! company and stopped, on a ven- ture. upon seeing the automobile Ftanding by the roadside, where Chockro and his fellow kidnapers had I deserted it. "Everybody out, quick, and we'll make a search," was Flip's order i when the circus machine had stopped. And Just as they began tumbling from the tonneau there was the smash of broken glass to attract their attention Ito a window set In the front wall close the ground. Flip aped with, all haste to the brok-ic- n window and, stooping down, was jfible to discern In the moonlight that I roared into the cellar the pale faces woman. man a and of "Come on, boys," he sang out as he ) ! ( -- 1 tunnel and soon had the room clear of the beasts. Lund and Peg knew that rescuers were at hand. The' strain had told on Peg, and, womanlike, she began to weaken after the greatest danger had passed. When she started to sway, as If from falntness, young Lund jumped to her side and caught her in his arms. He bent his face to kiss her upturned mouth when, with a wild shriek. Peg began to claw and scratch, kicking out with her feet and snapping w ith her teeth, while she ran her fingers into Lund's hair and shook him with the strength and ferocity of a tiger. Lund fought back as best he could. He was experiencing his second attack, through Peg's strange malady. The excitement of the night had caused a recurrence of her affliction. The turmoil created by Peg's shrieks and the struggles of the pair directed Flip and his party of rescuers to the door that led from the main cellar to the smaller room. Jerking open the door Flip and his companions rushed In and separated Peg from young Lund, hurrying them both Into the lighted cellar. Flip held Peg In his arms for an Instant and, as usual, her attack ended as quickly as it began. She stood dazed for a second and then, pointing an accusing finger at young Lund half shrieked: "That man overpowered me and brought me here." Young Lund had no time to protest or speak even a word in denial. The circus gang was upon him in a twinkling, pummeling him unmercifully and leaving him dazed and almost senseless prone upon the floor. Flip had not waited to see the out come of the attack upon Lund, but had picked up Peg and carried her in hl3 arms upstairs and out of the building. Looking around for the circus automobile Flip was perplexed to find It was nowhere to be seen. "It's all right. Flip," said one of the men who had come with him in the rescue party. "When the rest of the gang was Inside with you I sent the chauffeur back to the show to say we would meet them out here at the junction. It's Just a short cut across to the tracks and while you've been Inside here one section of the train has already passed." When the circus party reached the tracks there was no sign of the circus train, and inquiry from the railroad watchman disclosed the fact that only one section had passed. Just at daylight, the second and third sections of the show train arThe sleepers were on the last section and there was some delay waiting for the earlier division of the train to get well clear of the junction yards. And eo It was broad daylight when the show train was ready again get under way. : - " 1 ' ' '' s : v its- . : 1 1 j? ! . '.; : . " - ;;:ap vx - ; i I , ' , "Turn these lions loose into the sleepers!" made a dive for the nearby door. "She's in here. I'm dead .ure I Just raw her face down there in the cellar." One of the men ran to the broken window and looked to mako sure for himself that the excited Flip was not mistaken. When he heard the snarls and growls of the lion.s his mind worked with speed that, no doub, paved young Lund and Peg from being", at least badly clawed and Injured. The circus man pulled from his pocket a revolver he always carried for emergencies around the show and, his aim in the genblindly addrcs-sin- ; eral direction from whence came the prowls of the wild beans he emptied every chamber, holding the gun at arm's length inside the cellar. The loud report made by the revolver being discharged in clo?e confines had a magical effect upon the bea?ts. They ceased their growls and started to slink back through the low tunnel which had let them into the cellar. Toung Lund, cool and steady nerved, despite the intense strain, took quick advantage of the frightened animals and with loud fhouis he banged the hind quarheavy iron bar against the UoUH last tu siink into the tern of te in L3 L-J- rived. 1 IB" Meanwhileevents of an unexpected nature had kept matters iively on the trail of Flip aod his rescue party and their adventures for that night were a long way from ended when they helped Peg on the sleeper and her old daddy had seen her safely seated on her berth. With the arrival of the circus party at the East India Animal house Chock-r- o and his gang had taken care to retreat to cover and keep themselves well out of sight. One of them dodged around the cor ner and keeping his body well out of view managed to overhear the conversation between Flip and the other cir cus men and. consequently, learned that the show party expected to meet the train at the nearby Junction. Chockro observed when Flip and his party left the animal house, escorting Peg, that young Lund was not among the crowd. While Chockro and his fellows were debating the likelihood of Lund soon appearing, the young doctor was grad ually recovering from the beating by the circus men. Gradually his strength returned, his thoughts took continuity and he decid ed that he had best make his way from there as soon as possible. Chockro heard Lund stumbling up the stairs and on the Instant that he emerged from the door the Hindoo was prepared with a short piece of wood to deal the young doctor a blow that dropped him Insensible. Directed by the Hindoo the other thugs lifted young Lund bodily ana carried him to the automobile that had brought them from the show grounds. "Run us down to the railroad, then I am through with you," said Chockro to the driver of the machine. Chockro ordered the car stopped W fore it reached the tracks and hi3 men lifted the still insensible doctor from the machine. When they had de posited the limp form on the ground near the roadside, Chockro handed a big roll of money to the driver and the automobile, soon disappeared In the Shown at the, REX THEATRE i Thursday, Friday and Saturday mHHAtUIMHtM JL Chockro was busy with his own Chockro found his advantage. He had gang carrying a struggling woman' ing to each one of them a bulky rol plans at the other end of the train. sneaked into the car, immediately be- across the tracks and young Lund in- of bills. "Don't weaken," said Chockro. "You With his men he entered one of the hind young Lund, and now his three stinctively knew that Peg was again will be we'll paid for what you do. I in the and of at for the lifted mercy forward cars and sneaked through the worthies danger Peg and started train until he came to the first car the door through which they had just men he, saw ahead. of him, bearing her am now going back to report at headentered. quarters the progress we have made. ahead of the sleepers. struggling body across the track. lumChockro cord With the girl bound tightly as she is Lund dodged behind a pile of pulled the emergency This car contained cages of small animals and one big den of lions that and the train began slowing down. Be- ber and peeked around the corner to and practically fed to the lions, it were safely secured in strong "shift- fore it had fully stopped, and taking watch the movements of the kidnap- looks to me as though we would soon ing cages," behind iron bars with doors a desperate chance, the Hindoo gath- ers. He was trying to formulate a collect. f "I'll play fair with you, boys," that slip up and down when properly ered Peg in his arms, as his pals trans- plan whereby he could thwart the ferred their burden to him, and gang and release Peg from her cap"Throw him It," ordered the Hin- manipulated. continued, "and we will all tivity. As he watched the men carry have enough money to keep us the doo, and the command being obeyed The keeper were all stowed com- jumped with her to the ground. was The young Lund kidnapers dashed into the thick their burden along the tracks, Lund rest of our lives, when this job is well quickly heaved into fortably away on top of the cages and the car and. the door closed upon him. dens, sound asleep, except one man, woods beside the track, and disap- decided to follow and await the proper done. You men stay here for a while and watch, then meet me this after"Now we lay low," said Chockro, who drowsily kept watch. peared, bearing the struggling Peg opportunity. d was noon at the show grounds. Today's Thus it that despite, their "until the train comes. Then we climb The Hindoo introduced himself to with only the. greatest effort. In the on when these circus people get the animal man by pressing the cold brief time that had elapsed the men security Chockro and his gang town Is not far from here, and you were not as free from observation as have plenty of time to get there. I'm aboard. My plans are made. You will steel of his revolver against his head, of the circus had rushed forward from their sleeper to the now deserted car they thought. Lund followed them going back and report." And Chockro started off to walk from whence its shrieking occupants at a distance, keeping them in sight without risking the danger of being back to the little station by the lunil had lately fled. was ber yard where he hoped to soon catch in the lead and just as himself discovered. Flip bea train. His three hired thugs disapWhen they suddenly turned from the circus men entered the car from one end, young Lund dashed back into side the tracks and into the wood peared behind the house, and to all the woman's sleeper in search of Peg. Lund for the first time, lost sight of! outward appearance the storehouse of Flip ran straight to theNberth he knew them. He was afraid to take, the the East India Animal company was Peg would occupy and found it reckless chance of being discovered, deserted. The terror-stricke- n by making a crosscut to intercept empty. girl crouching "You hound!" cried Flip, pointing them. And so he made haste with all in the corner of the cellar, found some to young Lund, "what have you done speed, following the tracks, and turn- relief in believing that Chockro had with my little girl? Grab him, boys, ing into the woods behind Peg and gone. Although she knew not why there seemed some faint hope when and bind him!" her captors. were her human enemies had removed to lost far his to They Responding gladly sight, Flip's comtrees and young Lund themselves from the scene. mand the circus men attacked young ahead among the Lund for the purpose of overpowering blamed himself for hot having tackled Although she was alone and bound him. But the' athletic young doctor the crowd when he had a chance at helpless, at the mercy of the wil was too quick and too agile, to be eas- them in the open. But he hurried on, beasts, she rescigned herself to fat&V to overtake them. with a greater satisfaction, believing hoping ily subdued. s When Lund dashed out of the woods the hated Hindoo and his gang were Young Lund struck out, right and Chockro and his gang were just disap- not there to taunt her. left with both fists. Through the open trapdoor she Watching his chance he bowled over pearing around the corner of the anione husky who had gotten between mal house with Peg struggling in their could faintly hear young Lund splash him and his way of escape, and like grasp. The young athlete put on more ing in the waters below. ! 1 a flash Lund sped down the aisle, speed, running as fast as he could The lions sneaking slowly around across to the the of door car the room, close, to the wall, had thus the and leaped open space through arriveat the 7 to the ground. door of the animal house after Chock- far seemed to pay little attention to i Lund ran with the agility of a ro and his gang had disappeared with- the poor girl as she crouched in the is. ml corner. The moments that seemed as frightened deer into the woods and was in. lost among the trees before the circus "The brutes think they have her hours to the 'helpless circus girl crowd had recovered from the surprise alone to feed to the lions," Lund half dragged slowly along. of his escape sufficiently to follow him growled to himself, "but they have got Only an occasional shout from me to deal with, little as they know young Lund and the faint splashing. down the aisle and ofr the platform. of his arm3 and legs in the water' When the train was brought to a it." sudden stop by Chockro's pull of the Young Lund threw himself against broke the silence. Peg crouched as emergency cord, everybody from one the outside door and forced it open. far into the corner as she could. "That man overpowered me and brought me here!". She fixed her frightened eyes star- end of the train to the. other was The inner door, shattered when Lund roused by the sudden application of had knocked Chockro through it early make a good haul for this night's after he had sneaked up behind the the that same morning, was easijy negotiwork." surprised watchman. In the sleepers there was already ated, and with a wild shout Lund "Do what I want and you'll make excitement enough to keep the circus bounded downstairs and was instantly And when the circus train finally got In motion, Chockro and his gang more money than you'll earn with a people rushing aimlessly to and fro. set upon by Chockro and his gang In to climbed five years. Keep still, be sensithe roofs of the forward Job Over In the corner of the room Peg Flip managed to get some order out cars, or hung on between them as the ble and listen to reason," said the of chaos and directed a search of the knelt, bound hand and foot. Young engine began to move the outfit, with Hindoo. woods on one side of the tracks, while Lund caught a flash of her beautiful The Hindoo displayed a big roll of others descended to the ground on the big eyes, beaming their welcoming gathering headway, out of the yard ; fx ; K'- M bills before the' covetous eyes of the opposite side of the cars. and .onto the main line. thanks upon him. But the fight was The time that had intervened served animal man. ' g too brisk for him to think of much save Chockro had made good his "Turn these lions loose into the the prostrate young Lund to good purwith Peg, entirely unobserved, the business immediately in hand. the from this and I'll bunch and waited, deep in the woods, while pose. Gradually recovering sleepers, give you Lund fought Chockro and his thugs blow that stunned him, he sat up and of bills," Chockro continued. "I have the train halted and the showmen with all the skill his knowledge of looked about him in a dazed fashion. a good reason to create a little excite- searched. boxing and athletics could bring to The early rays of dawn, breaking ment among the performers, and you bear. It was wild, rough and tumble Eventually the necessity for getting through the cracks in the box car, can say that the brutes escaped from under way compelled the circus men fighting, four men against one. ' n quickly made clear to him where he their cages while you were asleep." to abandon their quest, and, when was more Lund Nvertheless, than they was. Chockro stuffed the roll of bills into had all clambered aboard the show holding his own. The madly fighting He found short pieces of board on the man's hand and said: men swayed back and forth across the train pulled away from the. scene. "All you've got to do is release them the floor of the car, and little by litfloor, until at an instant Lund Poor Flip was inconsolable. tle managed to pry open the door un- from their cage and drive them back Chockro and his thugs began to was right in the center of the room, til he made room to squeeze his body into the next sleeper. I only want' to move immedately after the circus Chockro shouted: tracks a down the is start little and there excitement, Glancing through. "He's too much for us; quick, stand train had disappeared in the distance. he saw coming toward him the cir- no real chance of anything serious The Hindoo left the woods, crossed back!" and Lund stood alone facing his cus train, its engine puffing hard and happening so go to it." the track, and climbed to the top of a opponents. Then Chockro, waiting until the gradually getting the long string of Dodging under the stairs Chockro pile of lumber to make observalions were released and driven back high gayly painted cars under way. pulled a lever. tions. Lund's mind worked like a flash. toward the sleeper, left by the front The floor beneath young Lund sank "Come on, bring her along, quick," The train had evidently 'stopped in door of the car and, leading his gang, the Hindoo called his feet. beneath to his henchman. She was helpless in the strong grasp these yards. The last time he saw climbed to the top of the cars and ran "The animal house is A door fell, heavy trap over here precipitating of her rugged captors. right Peg was in a place that could not be along until they reached the space be- a little way. These tracks make a Lund into the waters of an old mill-rac- e very far distant.. It was taking a long tween the two sleepers, then they circle from the junction, and we can that flowed under the building. chance, but he decided to do a des- dropped to the platform. to Peg crouching in the corner, saw ingly upon the foremost of the Hons the lion house in short her back The lions entered the long aisle of get perate thing and board the train if he Chockro and his men run quickly up- as they slunk along the wall crouchthe sleeper with the animal man driv- order." could make it. ' Peg wa3 unable to cry out, for the stairs. Bound, helpless, she realized ing close to the floor and steadily While these conclusions were flash- ing them ahead of him. Disturbed Hindoo had silenced her by tying a Lund's danger and her brain whirled moving nearer. ing through his mind, the engine from their sleep, the animals were not handkerchief She watched them intently, as they over her mouth. with the madness of despair. passed him. As he stood in the dor especially active, but moved drowsily With another securely to return her frightened gazeJ seemed a For moment was there stillness handkerchief he had It was a distance of a short desper- along, at command, snooping into the bound her hands behind her. She was about her. Bhe struggled to free her- with eyes that glinted fiendishly; ate, leap to the platforms of the cars lower berths, or crouching down upon nearer they crept toward the terrified helpless in the strong grasp of her self from the bonds that made her a In the circus train. The box car stood the floor as if bewildered. helpless prisoner. She had seen Lund girl and then all was darkness benear the end of a switch where it The wild shrieks of a circus girl rugged captors. Chockro and his gang wasted little disappear from sight, but had no way fore her. joined the main line, thus narrowing started the sleeping performers, and breath in conversation. (End of Episode Three.) They silently of finding out what had actually bethe dstance from the car door In which in an instant pandemonium reigned. come of him. JAPANESE IJEATISTRV, Lund stood to the platform of the Evidently frightened by the outburst dragged or carried the. girl with all of The the the Although edge open Japanese dentist, like the heathtrap trees. made They of noise and the clamor of the shrieking-w- speed through the moving train. en Chinee, is peculiar. He refuses to was a few feet her brain away, only Men In ordinary circumstances do omen, the lions turned back and a still more rapid dash when they had palsied by the suddenness of the har- use anything except his fingers in pullwild, foolish things on the spur of the huddled together in the end of the neared the animal house, this spurt rowing experience could not devise a ing teeth. He first acquires strength by pulling out, with the finger and carrying them across an open space moment, with even less motive than car where they had entered. in her helplessness, she that, thumb of his right hand, a number of ramplan to of door the and the right Lund had for risking his life on the The women, sole occupants of the wooden to execute. even could pegs which have been inserted hope chance of catching a handhold at the sleeper, ran shrieking the other way, shackle old building. in a plank. Then a tougher holes into And as she crouched there in the When young Lund had run well into with pegs is tried, and he end of his flying leap. As the cars their cries rousing the men who oclog tougher corner she gradually began to realize is was he considered woods and that at a the this for After that kept fasto moved past him they seemed cupied the car behind. Peg 'slept free from likelihood of Immediate pur- that a new danger was at hand. he operates on a slab year. of marble, which cinate the young athlete; he' half heavier than the rest, fatigued by the Through a door that had been opened contains pegs of the hardest wood crouched watching with almost animal strain and excitement of the eventful suit, he turned in the direction that by some unseen force, there appeared deeply driven in. Then he is qualified-tthe circus train was headed and, progo into business. A good workman cunning, for the right opportunity to night, and she was standing bewilhe made a wide de- in stealthy, catlike procession, four will seize a patient with his left hand," ceeding ltisurely, dered and alone, her leap. leaning against lions perhaps the very ones that had out five or six teeth with his He stood, swaying on tiptoes, watch- berth and gazing in perplexity ' at the tour and crossed the tracks at a con- menaced the life of herself and young and draw without stopping to rest. right siderable distance beyond where the ing; and so hi3 last chance hove in lions huddled together at the end of before! a Lund hours few circus train was still standing. MISSION' OF SETVTIMEXT. sight the hind end of the last car was the aisle when young Lund rushed The hateful face of the Hindoo French Jules showmen Bois, distinguished would the that Knowing in view. Lund sprang into the air, past her. dramatist and journalist, has come hef from poet, the at leered of as the well top sure to the be search vicinity to this country on a mission of sentiGrabbing a blanket from one of the as calculating the distance at a hazard. they could, Lund sat down to rest stairs. He. watched her struggles to ment, as he describes it, to distinguish g His muscles withstood the berths as he ran, Lund waved it in free her bonds. He saw the lions it from the missions of many comand think things over. strain, and in another instant his feet front of him as he dashed toward the Lund was resting easily, with his stealthily enter the room and then patriots who have preceded him. Hea had found a secure hold on the plat- now thoroughly frightened animals. with a jeeripg laugh, he called out to comes to offer the privilege of The waving blanket seemed to carry back against a tree, when the show form and he was aboard. month's season of the full company of her: the Theater Francais next October. He stood on the platform for a mo- just enough terror to the hearts of the train started to move. He sat where safe there, young Never before has his government conbe "You'll was watched the quite and he brilliantly as one to decide with lions them, and ment, regaining his composure,sented to permit the institution to leave lads-,and he was gone. they turned and fled back to- painted cars rush past him. Then lit-he trying to formulate a plan of proceed-urFrance. M. Bois also comes to arChockro assembled his gang in front range for the education He .was not long undecided. The ward the car from which they had arose and started back toward the in this countle station, wondering what had be- of the building. They were the after door of the car opened, after he had been driven into the sleeper. of try, war, many yoi'fig Is Frenchmen. It 'desired that come of and their Peg. unnerved by experience, turned the knob, and he found himself serve apprenticeships Peg. half dazed, watched Lund as he in the great establishments of the country, in a sleeper, its long aisle deserted disappeared from the car, following Suddenly, as he approached the were about ready to desert, but the banking in its steel mills, on its farms, and in saw Hindoo his Chockro renewed one their moment lumber piles, he and courage by pass its agricultural colleges. and everyone apparently fast aslep. the animals. And in that distance. The Hindoo looked about him as though aimlessly, but with a clear purpose in mind. The breaking dawn disclosed to his view a box car standing on a siding not far away, and motioning hs men to pick up their burden and follow him. Chockro ran ahead and made a hurried inspection. The door was open, and the big furniture car was empty. 1 the-Hindo- fan-cie- : 1:7 1 -- 5 air-brak- es. - . leave-takin- - . , ; . - iron-stron- im-pul- se " e. . gr.-atl- tly |