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Show -- THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH. had unpacked. the little writing and the bureau draw-erA subtle smile flashed over his f .h came to one drawer that He ,,ull?d 0C.ked' sectional 11mm fr0m hU COat and forced 11 open7 v&t esan on L. " ,e dreaser The Romance of Elaine tll A Detoctioo Novtl and a Motion Piduro Drama By ARTHUR B. REEVE There lay the precious The man clutched at It torpedo. with a look of exultation. Without another glace at the room be rushed to the window, seized the rope and himself to the root, going as he pulled had come. JleWeD Known Novelk and the Geator of the'GalgKennedy-Storie- a Presented la Collaboration With the Path PUrars and tho Edoctic Film Company r ' Caarrtftx. Ivt. r b tow Cemimt SYNOPSIS. of Wu Fanga body and dlHappearanca a aubmarlne morning on the bay. from it and plunges overboard tiliore. It la the entrance of Mar At America. the Dodge r,.BDel Mar into SiL one of Wu Fang's men la trying to hUon Information of Kennedy and the tordo. Hie plan la blocked by Del KVa arrival, who alao aucceeda in win-i- n Elaine's confidence. Later aha la iirned by a little old; man to be careful. n!i Uura mission at the Dodge houae we and recover the torpedo, lie Jm have been successful had It not tor Klalne'a dog, Kuaty. who dug it U, SJS Uie flower pot. while Del Mar and inline were talking only a few feet away. Ruity carried the torpedo to the attic. The little old man meeta Del Mar at the Codm home. They draw guna together, nwa from the exploded ahella of the old revolver overcomes Del Mar and mlina and the old man of mystery Shortly after thla affair Elaine nvea a masquerade ball. Del Mar at ttade. Neither he nor hla domino girl A gray friar locate the torpedo. waraa Elaine and Jameeon of Del Mar'a are upeet. Del ournoee, and hla plane liar eucceeda In getting thla girl In llalne'a homa aa a maid. Bha find the torpedo In the attic, plaeea It In a trunk, which with othara la aent to Elaine's A holdup on the train country home. Del Mara men carry the takee piece. trunk away only to find on opening It that they have the wrong one. (he finding TWENTY-SEVENT- H ' Del Mar had evidently, come to the conclusion was the atorm center of EPISODE by thla time, that Elaine the peculiar train of events that followed the disappearance of Kennedy and hla wire leu torpedo. At any rate, aa soon that Elaine was going as he learned to her country home for the summer, ho took a bungalow aome distance from Dodge Hall. There, on the day that Elaine decided to motor In from the city, Del Mar arrived with hla valet Evidently he lost no time In getting to work on hla own affairs, whatever Inside his study, they might be. which was the largest room In the house, a combination of both library and laboratory, he gave an order or two to his valet then Immediately sat down to his new desk. .He opened a drawer and took out a long, hollow cylinder, closed at each end by airtight caps, on one of which was a hook. Quickly he wrote a note and read It over: "Install submarine bell In place of these clumsy tubes. Am having harbor and bridges mined as per Instructions from government. D." He unscrewed the cap at one end of the tube, Inserted the note and closed All a. Sow,. lttm Pa7nlns" and ed Elaine. "Get carry the trunk In Together the butler and the dragged It off. Thank you," said Elaine, endeavoring to pay the farmer. .i1?0-.11demurred aa he to hla horses. We waved to the old fellow. As he tarted to drive away, he reached down in o the basket and drew out some yellow harvest One at a time be tossed them apples. to us as he lumbered off. Truly rural," remarked a voice d us. It waa Del Mar, all togged up and carrying a magazine in hla hand. We chatted a moment, then Elaine started to go Into the house with Aunt Josephine. With Del Mar I followed. As she went Elaine took a bite of tho apple. To her surprise It separated neatly Into two hollow halvea. 6be looked Inside. There was a note. Carefully she unfolded It and read. Like the others, It was not written but printed In pencil: Be careful to unpack all your trunks yourself. Destroy this note. A Friend. What did these mysterious warnings mean, she asked herself In amazement. Somehow so far they had worked out all right. She tore up the note and threw the pieces away. Elaine went Into the house end we followed. Del Mar, however, dropped Just a bit behind and, as he came to the place where Elaine had thrown the pieces of paper, dropped hla magazine. He stooped to pick It up and gathered the pieces, then rejoined ue. "I hope you'll excuse me, said Elaine brightly. Weve just arrived and I havent a thing unpacked. Del Mar bowed and Elaine left ue. Aunt Josephine followed shortly. Del Mar and I eat down at a table. As be talked he placed the magazine In his lap beneath the table, on hie knees. I could not see, but he was In reality secretly putting together the torn note which the farmer bad thrown to Elaine. Finally he managed to fit all the pieces. A glance down was enough. But his face betrayed nothing. Still under the table, he swept the pieces Into hie pocket and rose. "Ill drop In when you are more settled, he excused himself, strolling . leisurely out again. gar-den- he-bin- It did not take me long to unpack the few things I had brought and I was soon back again in the living room, where Aunt Josephine Joined me In a few minutes. Just as Elaine came hurriedly down he stairway and started toward me, Del Mar entered from the porch. She stopped. Del Mar watched her closely. Had she found anything? He was ure of it. Her hesitation was only for a moment, however. "Walter," she said, may 1 speak to you a moment? Ex. cuse us, please?" Aunt Josephine went out toward the back of the house to see how the servants were getting on, while I fol. lowed Elaine upstairs. Del Mar with a bow seated himself and opened hla magazine. No aooner had we gone, however, than he laid It down and cautiously followed ui. Elaine was evidently very much excited as she enterd her dainty little room and closed the door. Walter,", she cried, I've found the torpedo!". We looked about at the general Why," she exclaimed nervously, "someone has been here and I locked the door, too. She almost ran over to her bureau drawer. It had been jimmied open In the few mlnutee while ahe waa downstairs. The torpedo, was gone. We looked at each other, aghast. Behind us, however, we did not see the keen and watchful eyes of Del Mar, opening the door and peering In. e Perhaps half a mile down the road, the farmer abandoned hla hayrack and now, followed by hla peculiar dog, walked back. He stopped at a point In the road where he could see the Dodge house in the distance, eat on the rail fence and lighted a blackened corncob pipe. There he aat for some time apparently engrossed in hie own thoughts about the weather, the dog lying at , dls-orde-r. worked Its way half from the mans pocket The farmer seized It The man fell back, limp, and the farmer, with the torpedo in one hand, grasped at the gun on the ground and straightened up. He had no sooner risen than the man waa at him agalu. Hla unconsciousness had been merely feigned. The struggle waa renewed. At that point, the hedge down the road parted and Del Mar stepped out. A glance was enough to tell him what waa going on. He drew hla gun and ran awlftly toward the combatants. Aa Del Mar approached, hla man succeeded In knocking the torpedo from the farmers hand. There It lay, several feet. away. There seemed to be no chance for either man to get it Quickly the farmer bent hla .wrist, aiming the gun deliberately at the precious torpedo. As fast as he could he pulled the trigger. Five of the six ahots penetrated the little model. So surprised was his antagonist that the farmer was able to knock him out with the butt of his gun. He broke sway and fled, whistling on a police whistle for the dog Just as Del Mar ran up, Del Mar stopped and picked up the model. It had been shot into an unrecognizable masa of acrap. In a fury, Del Mar dashed It on the ground, cursing hla men as he did so. e e e The strange disappearance of the torpedo model from Elaines room worried both of us. Doubtlesa If Kennedy had been there he would have known Just what to do. But we could not decide. considered Elaine, "I Really, think wa had better take Mr. Del Mar into our confidence, "Still, weve had a great many warnings," I objected. I know that, ahe persisted, but they have all come from very unreliable sources." "Very well," I agreed finally, "then lets drive over to hla bungalow." Elaine ordered her little runabout and a few moments later we climbed Into It and Elaine shot the car away. Aa we rode along, the country seemed so quiet that no one would ever have suspected that foreign agents lurked all about But It waa Just under such a cover that the nefarious bridge and harbor mining work ordered by Del Mars superiors waa going ahead quietly. As our car climbed a hill on the other aide of which, In the valley, waa a bridge, we could not see one of Del e.e ' Jf I" "fu t J, ' g apparatus. Mar' put it on, all except the helmet, which he carried with him, and then, with his assistant, went out through the panel In the wall. Through the underground passage the two groped their way, lighted by an electric torch, until at last they came to the entrance hidden In the underbrush, near the shore. Del Mar went over to the concealed station from which the submarine bell was sounded and pressed the key as a signal. Then be adjusted the submarine helmet to his head and deliberately waded out into the water, farther and farther, up to his head, then life-savin- g Del e p ' On the rocky shore of the promontory several men were engaged In sinking a peculiar heavy disk which they submerged about ten or twelve feet. It seemed to be held by a cable, and to It wlrea were attached, apparently so that when a key was pressed a circuit was closed. It ws an "oscillator," a new system tor the employment of sound for submarine signaling, using water Instead of air as a medium to transmit sound waves. It was composed of a ring magnet, a copper tube lying In an air gap In a magnetic field and a stationary central armature. The tube was attached to a steel dlaphrigm. Really It was a submarine hell which could be used for telegraphing or telephoning both ways through water. The men finished executing the directions of Del Mar and left, carefully concealing the land connections and key of the bell, while we were atlll at Del Mars. We had no sooner left, however, than one of the men who had been en gaged In installing the submarine bell entered the library. "Well?" demanded Del Mar. "The hell Is Installed, air, he sold. "It will be working soon." "Good," nodded Del Mar. He went to a drawer and from It took a peculiar-lookinhelmet to which was attached a sort of harness fitting over the shoulders and carry Ing a tank of oxygen. The headpiece was a most weird contrivance, with what looked like a huge glass eye In front. It was in reality a submarine deeper still. As he disappeared into the water, back bis emissary turned and toward the shore road. , Cp In the bedroom Elalnea maid, Marie, bad been unpacking. Well, what do you know about It ' Then he pushed a button on his desk. A panel In the wall opened and that? abe exclaimed as Jennings and one of the men who had played po- Patrick came dragging in the banged-utrunk. liceman once for him stepped out and laluted. "Very queer," remarked Jennings, . "Here's a message to send below," detailing the little be had seen, while Patrick left laid Del Mar briefly. ' The entrance of Elaine put an end The man bowed and went hack to the interesting gossip and Marie ' through the panel, closing it. Del Mar cleaned up his desk and started to open the trunk. "No, Marie," said Elaine. 'Til unthen went out to look his new quarters over, to see whether everything pack them myself. You can put the later. You and Jennings had been prepared according to his in- things away go. may structions. Quickly she took the things out of entrance to a . From the concealed cave on a hillside, Del Mar's man who the battered trunk. Then she started had gone through the panel In the on the other trunk, which was like It She threw out a bungalow appeared a few mtnutea but not marked. starlater and hurried down to the shore. couple of garments, then paused, It was a rocky coast with stretches of tled. There was the lost torpedo where dills and now and then a ravine and a had stuck It In her haste! Bertholdi Mt of sandy beach. Gingerly he Elaine picked it up and looked at it In dlmbed down the rocks to the water. last He took from hla pocket the metal wonder, as It recalled all those lost. was tube which Del Mar had given him days before Kennedy 4 to the hook on one end attached a Finally she decided to lock It up tell me. Not dght of lead. A moment he looked In the bureau drawer and about cautiously. Then he threw the only did she lock the drawer, but, as tube Into the water and It sank quick-If- . she left her room, she took the key of and He did not wait, hut hurried back the door from the lock Inside Into the cave entrance. locked It outside. e e Del Mar did not go far from the Elaine, Aunt Josephine and 1 mohowever. He scarcely reached tored down to Dodge Hell from the house, of the grounds where he was the edge dty. Elaine's country house was on a observed when be estate near the Long Island Sound sure he was not his lips and whisto his Ungers placed u4 after the long run we were glad two of his men later Instant An to pull up before the big house and tled. a t out of the car. As we approached appeared from behind hedge. "You must get Into her room, he the door I happened to look down the That torpedo Is In her lugordered. road. all Well, that's the country, all right," gage somewhere, after bouse the two the of rear I In the exclaimed, pointing down the road. tho emissaries of Del Mar stole out of Took." for stood and soma bushes Lumbering along was a huge, heavy shelter of ! Elalne'a moment looking. Track ou top of which perched a a too high to Ter chewing a straw. Following were high above them, tooug after him was a housedog of a pecu-- r "We'll have to use the Dutch shepherd breed which I did not one. decided methods," eonIie. Atop of the hay the old man's around the r'low had piled a trunk and a basket. Together they went It laundry. the ' toward To our surprise the hayrack house rethey that later toPPed before the houae. "Mias only a few minuteswas shout. Quickly No one drawlod th farmer nasally. turned. took off his coat. Around them of one by, what do you suppose he can had wound a coll of rope. he his wslst it?" asked Elaine moving out wh1 he began to climb a tree Catwagon while we followed. Deftly over the roof. fell branches upper to reach the a trunk,. Mias Dodge, with like he managed the rldae pole along way hla Tour name on made It," he went on dragging lie direct y back waa which down. "I found It down o a chimney by tho raiElaine's window led track." of and In line with the rope an uncoiled the trunk marked "E. Dodge" Then be end fat to leh had been thrown off the train, made I one end fall reB fttlng the other jaken by Del Mar and rifled, by the sir.. ttotorcydtit. . edge. Thus it a."11.0 do Tou suppose It ever got himself over the Into to get difficult not crld Elaine In wonder. window sll! and Must have fallen off the train," 1 by stepping on ths window. tolnc through ths open might have collected a rapid mb began Insurance under this new hsggsge and pawing ( tbs room, turning up ' ' I , feared would happen has happened. Doubtlesa the foreign agentg have the deadly weapon now. However, Ill not quit. Ferhapa we may run them down yet." He reassured us and we thanked Outside, him,, as we said good-by- . Elaine and I got Into the car again and a moment later spun off, making a little detour first through the country before hitting the ehore road hack again to Dodge Hill. Inelde Wae a Note. We Opened the Cylinder. Now and then he looked Mar's men In hiding at the top. He hla feet. saw us, however, and Immediately toward Dodge Hall. fixedly attention wigwagged with his handkerchief to Suddenly hla vigilant seemed to be riveted on the house. several others down at the bridge were attaching a pair of He drew a field glasa from hla pocket where they Sura enough, there wires to the planking. and leveled It. Someone coming," muttered one waa a man coming out of a window, who waa evidently a lookout a roof to the by himself up pulling The men stopped work Immediately rope and going across the rooftree. and hid in the brush. Our car passed He lowered the glasses quickly and saw nothing over we and the bridge a hitherto with climbed off the fence wrong. But no aooner bad we gone unwonted energy. than the men crept out and resumed tba to called "Come, Searchlight, be work which had progressed to the dog, aa together they moved off quick- point where they were ready to carry lookbeen ly In the direction be had the wlrea of an electric connection ing. the grass, concealing them as through w Del Mar'a men ere coming through they went. the hedge that surrounded tho Dodge In the study of hla bungalow, all estate Just as the farmer and hla dog the time, Del Mar waa striding angrily bestepped out In front of them from up and down, while hla men waited In hind a thicket. silence. I want "JuBt a minute," he called. Finally he paused and turned to one to speak to you. of them. See that the coaat la clear lie enforced bis words with a vi- and kept clear," he ordered. "I want cious looking gun. It was two to one to go down." The man saluted and went out and they closed with him. Before he could shoot, they had knocked the gun through the panel. A moment later out of hla hand. Then they tried to Del Mar gave orders to the other man who also saluted and left the house by break away and run. But the farmer seized one of them the front door, Just as our car pulled and held him. Meanwhile the dog de- UPran in Del Mar, the moment the man was veloped traits all hla own. He and out between the legs of the other gone, put on his hat and moved toman until he threw him. There he ward the paneljn the wall. He waa stood, over him. The man attempted about to, enter when he heard someto rise. Again the dog threw him and one coming down the ball to the study waa a trained Bel- and stepped back, closing the panel. kept him down. He a splendid police It w as the butler announcing ua. gian sheep hound, We had entered Del Mar's bungad"Confound the brute." growled the low and now were conducted to his library. There Elaine 'told him the man, reaching for his gun. his whole story, much to his apparent surseized the dog drew it, As he Del Mar waa a wonderful wrist and with a cry the mao dropped prise, for actor. the of waa part too, the gun. That, You see," he said as she finished ,, .. dog's training. man telling of the finding and the losing other ths and farmer the While of the torpedo; "Juat what I bad struggled on tba ground, the torpedo - e. - a a The ride around through the country and back to the shore road from Del Mars was pleasant. In fact, it was always pleasant to be with Elaine, especially in a car. We were spinning along at a fast clip when we came to a rocky part of the coast. As we made a turn a sharp breeze took-of- f my hat and whirled it far off the road and among the rocks of the shore. Elaine shut down the engine, with a laugh at' me, and we left the car by the road while we climbed down the rocks after the hat, It had been carried Into the water, close to shore and, still laughing, we clambered over the rocks. Elaine Insisted on getting It herself and in fact did get It. She was Just about to hand it to me, when something bobbed up In the water just in front of us, She reached for it and fished it out It was a cylinder with air-tigcaps on both ends, in one of which was a book. "What do you suppose it is?" she asked, looking It over as we made our way up the rocks again to the car, "Where did it come from?" We did not see a man standing by our car, but he saw ua. It was Del Maxs man who bad paused on his way to watch ua. Aa we approached he hid on the other aide of the road. By thla time we bad reached the car and opened the cylinder. Inside was a note which read: "Chief arrived safely. Keep watch." "What does it mean?" repeated Elaine, mystified. Neither of us could guess and I doubt whether we would have understood any better. If we had seen a sinister face peering at ua from behind a rock near by, although doubtless the inan knew what waa in the tube and what it meant. We climbed Into the car and started again. As we disappeared the man came from behind the rocks and ran quickly up to the top of the hill, There, from the bushes, be pulled out a peculiar Instrument composed of a strange series of lenses snd mirrors set up on a tripod. Eagerly he placed the tripod, ad juatlng the lenses and mirrors in the Then he began working sunlight. them, and it w as apparent that he was flashing light beams, using a Morse code. It was a heliograph. Down thep shore on the top of the next hill aat the man who had already given the signal with the handkerchief to those In the valley who were working on the mining of the bridge, Aa he aat there, his eye caught the flash of the heliograph signal. He eprang up and watched intently. Rapidly he Jotted down the message that was being flashed In the sunlight Dodge Girl hae message from be low. Blow first Coming In car. brldgo sho crosses. Down the valley the lookout made his way aa fast as he could. Aa he approached the two men who had been mining the bridge, he whistled sharp ly. They answered and hurried to meet him. Just got a heliograph, he panted. "The Dodge girl must have picked up one of the messages that came from below. Shes coming over the bill now In a car. Wava got to blow up the bridge aa ahe croasea." The men were hurrying now toward the bridge which they had mined. Not a moment waa to be loat, for already they could see ua coming over the crest of the hill In a few seconds they reached the hidden plunger-- firing box which had been arranged to explode the charge under the bridge. There they crouched in the brush ready to press the plunger the moment our car touched the planking. One of the men crept out a little nearer the road. '.Theyre coming!" he called hack, dropping down again. "Get ready!" ' Del Mar'a emissaries had not reckoned, however, that anyone else might be about to whom the heliograph was an open book. But, farther up the hill, hiding among the trees, the old farmer and Ills dog were sitting quietly. The old man was sweeping the Sound with hie glasses, as If ha expected to see somei thing any moment. To his surprise, however, he caught a flash of ths heliograph from the land. Quickly he turned and Jotted down the signals, Aa he did eo, he seemed greatly excited, for the mes- sage read: : "Dodge girl has message from he- - ' low. Coming In car. Blow first bridge she crosses." Quickly he turned hie glasses down the road. There he could see our car He put up his glasses approaching. and hurried down the hill toward the Then he broke Into a run, bridge. the dog scouting ahead. We were going along the road nicely, now, coasting down the hill. As we approached the bridge Elaine' slowed up a bit to cross, for the plank-.- . Ing was loose. Just then the farmer who had been running down the hill saw us. "Stop!" he shouted. t But we did not hear. He ran after was ua, but the chase hopeless, lie stopped. In despair, With a gesture of vexation be took a step or two mechanically off tba road. Elaine and I were coming fast to tbeAbridge now. In their biding place Del Mara men were watching breathlessly. The leader was Just about to press the plunger when all of a sudden a branch in the thicket beside him crackled. There stood the farmer and his dog. Instantly the farmer seemed to take in the situation. With a cry he threw himself at the man who had the plunger. Another man leaped at the farmer. The dog settled him. The others piled In, and a terrific struggle followed. It waa all so rapid that, to , all, aeconds seemed like hours. We were Just starting to cross the bridge. One of the men broke away and ' -- crawled toward the plunger box. Our car was now In the middle of the bridge. Over and over rolled the men, the dog doing hla best to help his master. The man who had broken away i reached toward the plunger. With a shout he pushed It down. y . Our car had just cleared the bridge when we were startled by a terrlflo roar behind us. It waa aa though a thousand tires had blown out at once. Elaine abut off the engine automatically and we looked back. The whole bridge had been blown up. A second before we had been In the middle of It. As the explosion came, the men who had been struggling In the thicket, paused, startled, and stared out. At that Instant the old farmer saw his chance. It w as all over and he bolted, calling the dog. Along the road to the bridge he ran, two of the men after him. "Come back," growled the leader. "Let him go. Do you want ue ell to -- : get caught?" As the farmer ran up to the bridge be sew It In rulne. But down the road he could see Elaine end myaelf, sitting in the car, staring back at. the peril which we had so narrowly esIlls face lighted up in aa caped. great Joy aa a few moments before It had shown despair. "What can that have been?" asked Elaine, starting to get out of the car. "What caused It?" I don't know, I returned, taking her arm firmly. But enough has happened today. It waa Intended for us, we'd better hasten. Someone might take a shot at us. Come, we have the car. We can get out before anyone does anything more. Lets do It. Thlnga are going on about us of which we know nothing. The safest thing Is to get away." Elaine looked at the bridge in ruins and shuddered. It was the closest we could have been to death and have escaped. Then ahe turned to the w heel quickly and ths little car fuirly jumped, . ahead. "Oh, If Craig were only here." she murmured, "lie would know what . . , . , , , ,t , As we disappeared over the crest of the next lilll, safe, the old farroir and hla dog looked hard at us.. The alienee after the explosion. was ominous. , No one was pur, He glanced about. suing him. That seemed ominous, too. But if they, did punut be wa prepared to elude then. They must never recognize the old farmer. Aa he turned, he deliberately pulled off hla heard, then plunged agalu Into-tliwoods nod. was lost.. to ua: CONU ' . |