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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH The Romance of Elaine SequelofEixp,oltJ A motive Novel and a Motion Fic By ARTHUR B. REEVE she came down at last carrying a little handbag. W drove off a moment later. It was a delightful ride, not too Warm, but sunny. Without realizing It, we found ourselves on ths road ' that led past Del Mars. As we approached, I saw that there was a taxicab standing In front of the gate. The hood was lifted and the driver was apparently tinkering with .. mm m-- m ''f I S 'ft1 f i- ; - " V " - i V 5 felt like "some detective and I could not help slapping myself on the chest for the Ingenuity with which I had duplicated Craig. V In his bungalow, now that Smith New York and Washington, Del Mar was preparing to keep the Important engagement he had told us about, another ot his nefarious nocturnal expeditions. He drew a cap on his head, well over his ears and forehead. Ills eyes and face he concealed as well as he could with a mask to be put on later. To his equipment he added a gun. Then with a hasty word or two to his valet, he went out. By back ways so that even In the glare of automobile headlights he would not he recognized, he made his way to Dodge Hall. As he saw the house looming up In the moonlight be put on his mask and approached cautiously. Gaining the house, he opened a window noiselessly, turning the catch as deftly as a housebreaker, and climbed into the living room. A moment he looked around, then tiptoed over to the table. He looked at it to he sure that it was the right one and the right drawer. Then he beut down to force the drawer open. Pouf!" a blinding flash came and a little metallic click of the shutter, followed by a cloud of smoke. As quickly as it happened there went through Del Mar's head the exIt waa a concealed camplanation. era. He sprang hack, clapping his hands over his face. Out of range tor a moment, he stood gazing about the room, trying to locate the thing. lie Suddenly he heard footsteps, dived through the window that he had opened, just as someone ran In aud switched on the lights. ' had gone back again to his engine. Lets not stop," said Elaine, who th , had by this time a peculiar aversion to With the Paths Players sad iba Eclectic Film Compaay fraMsUd hCtDilontioa man. the 'Copyrtshl. !914. bjr lb Star Cod piny. Air foreixn Ri,hu RncmC. As we passed the driver, apparently not seeing us, stepped out and, before we could turn out, we had knocked SYNOPSIS. "All right, bo," they agreed. him down. We stopped and ran back. There he lay on the road, seemingly Thundering down the platform came Ttie morning after the finding 'of Wtie the afternoon train, a great event in unconscious. We lifted him up and I and Kennedy's disappear-Inc- the town life. Fans' body Del looked toward Del Mars bouse. Mar. swims ashore from Marcus In mission is From the Pullman alighted a widow, a submarinethe lostthe bay. His "Help!" I shouted at the top of my v torpedo. He soon wins in deep to recover mourning. Ag ahe got oft and voice. Elaine. Hater she is iha confidence of old to man be careful moved down little the a The came door. valet to the warned by platform It was ap Del Mar. Del Mar at last succeeds parent that ahe walked with a proHearing me, the valet ran out down & In getting the torpedo, only to have It Jameson nounced limp. All right," be cried, "HI the walk. destroyed by the little old man. Elaine Is captured by Del Mars men. At the end of the platform the chauf- be there in a minute." rescues him. Lieutenant Woodward and With his help I picked up the taxibis friend, Professor Arnold, attend a feurs were still calling, while the newthe Dodge home, where comer looked over the crowd -party given at cab chauffeur and we carried him Into hastily. unknowingly, Del Mar drops a note which clue. In to her house. he a the of Elaine Suddenly face the attempt caught sight gives prevent his cutting the Atlantic cable she of the widow. He stepped forward as Del MaT was talking with a person Is discovered and made a prisoner. Jamesaves Elaine she approached. The others held bark who looked like a widow, when they son, In a Al from drowning. Elaine, disguised as a as they had agreed and paid no attenheard our approach up the walk carryman, discovers the entrance of Del Mar's tion. It was like forcing a card. ing the injured maa. wireless cave. Arnold, by a "radio da tective, has discovered the wireless staHe held So engrossed had they been in dls- the endoor and she open ? V s ts saved by Jameson, both tion. Elaine Jr , contered In what the Woodward stolen "Mr. and the Del document cab, Arnold cerning unsuspecting. aid destroying the wireless station, but Del Mar escapes. Mars," she directed, simply. the we tained as that, entered, finally hotel In woods Elaine the In a deserted He pulled away from the Btation. On widow had only time te drop her veil discovers Del Mars men at work. Is captured, but escapes. When the hotel is through the pretty country roads the and conceal her identity as the renemen retreat to the later attacked the Del Mar still held the woods, where they explode gas bombs, chauffeur drove the heavily veiled gade Smith. the death of Lieutenant widow until at last they came to Del plan in his hand. nearly causing - and his attacking party. Woodward The valet and 1 entered with Elaine Elaine receives a new searchlight gun Mar's bungalow. from an unknown friend. While motorAt the gate he stopped and ran and we placed the chauffeur on a Elaine a discovers ing with Jameson, bomb hidden by one of Del Mars men. around to open the door to assist his couch near Del Mars desk. 1 remem-- 1 fare to alight her that there was this strange womThey take It to Lieutenant Woodward in Reality Watching Me Closely, who sends them 'to Professor Arnolds "Wait for an all in In she without the me," veiled. are Del said, black, Mar attacked heavily by They yacht. and his men. The searchlight gun saves paying him yet. "1 shall not be long room at .the time. For as the new we drove off. At last we pulled up thing was wrong. Elaine and Jameson who reach the yacht Half asleep.I heard a muffled exploI want to be driven back to tfte "I think we ought to telephone for a comer leaped at him, the chauffeur at the Dodge hall again. safely. Del Mar appears with a subma- and I started Elaine as If of a flashlight. In? asked come Wont rine and destroys the yacht with a tor- station to catch the four twenty-nin- e sion, handThe shot you fired. said and turned doctor, her Elaine, placing suddenly Professor Arnold and his party to New York." pedo. someone waa listened. and we as out. up Surely on got the desk and excitedly telling wounded the man. bag escape. Lured by a woman posing as a I pulled Thank you, I believe I will for a moving about downstairs. modiste Elaine Is again captured by Del As she limped up the gravel walk Del Mar how we had accidentally was a signal for a It Mar and rescued by an old naturalist and few minutes, consented Del Mar, con- my gun from my pocket and ran out fight. Jameson as. she Is about to drift over a he watched her closely. She went to knocked the man down. waterfall in a boat. the door and rang the bell and the Del Mar knocked the revolver out cealing his real eagerness to follow of the room. Down the ateps I flung Call up my doctor, Henry," said myself, two at a time. valet admitted her. Del Mar, hastily thrusting the plan j of the chauffeurs hand. With a blow me. "I'm all shaken up. THIRTY-FOURTH As we entered the living room I 'EPISODE In the living room I switched on tha of a chair, the chauffeur laid out Smith, Del Mar was still sitting, thinking, Into a book lying on the desk. I the was about opened map. in time to see someone disapIn in the library. thinking unfamiliar his garments, lights We gathered about the man, trying entangled Mr. Del Mar?" she inquired. THE HARBOR. DEFENSE PLANS. shook himself loose from the two oth a table drawer, hastily took the plan pear through an open window. I raa to revive him. from my pocket and locked it in the to the window and looked out. Thera The voice was not exactly soft, afed "Have you a little stimulant?" 1 ers, and made a rush for the door. drawer. and Del Mar Elaine, meanwhile, waa was a man, half doubled up, running came him Alone In the doorway before his Del Mar eyed her suspiciously. Was asked, turning from him. Hard after with Del Mar, who was talk- around the side of the house and Into now the standing the rude shack on the shore of the prom- this the .person he expected, or a Joined rest. Henry by Del Mar moved toward a cellarette chauf-feuring, but In reality watching me a clump of bushes, then apparently ontory Bat an old fisherman, gazing plant? built into the wall. We were all watch- valet. One shot was left in the lost. 1 shot out of the window and out fixedly at the harbor as 'though revolver, and he blazed away closely. Yes," 'he answered, guardedly, "I ing him, our hacks to. the chauffeur, I called. car. into and over And the concerned am Del Mar. the leaped weather, deeply you?" when suddenly he must have regained Down the road past where we had "He got me," groaned Smith as he I was not the only one who heard The widow, too, evidently wished to consciousness very much. Like a flash which, as usual, was unseasonable. before a pretty little shingle the noise. The Bhots quickly awakforward. turned, stumbled and fell would no and make he mistake. As started have she she Suddenly spoke, his hand shot out. He seized the plan On came Del Mar and the others. house, the taxicab chauffeur stopped. ened ElaID,nd she leaped out of bed disappeared into hla 'hut but for the raised her hand. By that simple ac from between the leaves of the hook. fact that, although he could not him- tlon she displayed a curious and con- He had not time to get away with It They caught up with the car Just as It One of the bullets had taken effect on and put on her kimono. Then she was starting. But the chauffeur him, and his shoulder was bleeding. lighted the lights and came downself be seen, he had already seen the spicuous seal ring on her finger. It himself. Perhaps he be searched. hand But the worst, as he seemed to think stairs. fro D I the was the sign of the ring for which Del I intruder. knockedw Etatort bagandThriIsTit I I and It, was that another shot bad given could aim a good The intruder had disappeared by get It was a trooper from Fort Dale. He Mar had been waiting. same time bowling over him a flat tire. the at fire, this time and I had got up and waa He extended his own left hand. On galloped up and, as though obeying to The valet toy this time had finished He jumped out and looked up the the man who had come through the out of the window as she cam the letter his Instructions, handed an the ring finger was another ring, but telephoning and spoke to Del Mar. peering road whence he had come. No one Into the living room. panel. breathlessly envelope to the fisherman. Then, with- not similar. As he did so, the widow "The doctor will he here shortly, Off the car went, now rapidly gain- was following him. Still, he was wor"Whats took the ring from her own finger Mias the out a word, he galloped away again. matter, Walter? ah need You Del Mar. Dodge, said Del Mar had just time to ried. He went around to look at the asked. ing speed.' The fisherman opened it quickly. In and placed lton the little finger of Del not wait. If you dont care to. XT! take swing on the rear of it. tire. But he was too weak now from Someone broke into the house aftside was a photograph and a note. lie Mar. care of him." loss of blood. It had been nerve and er those car driven he Around the rapidly "Good!" he exclaimed. read: plans, I replied.-- - He esOh, thank you over so climbed hanging on for dear life, reserve force that had carried him caped, but I got his picture, I think, -- r The woman raised her thick veir, - FORT .DALE.- - - Of course it wasn't our over the mud guard and toward the through. Now that the strain wae off, by this device of Kennedy's. Let's go Professor Arnold: disclosing the face of a man! feel sorry for the poor fel hut i fault, On sped' the car, be felt the reaction to the full. Into a dark room and develop It" It was the same face, also, that had low. Tell the doctor to send me the running board. J. Smith, clerk In ithe war depart-ment, Just then the doctor and his driver, swaying crazily back and forth. Del There was no use trying to follow has disappeared. We are not appeared In the photograph sent to the bill." Mar crouched on the running board whom the valet had already sum- the man farther. To Elaines inthe has a copy of old fisherman by Woodward. sure, but fear-thaShe and Del Mar shook hands. I and worked hla way slowly and peril- moned to Del Mars, came speeding of I replied by what I the new Sandy Hook defense plans. It meant, Awkwardly, the man searched in the quiry down the road. The doctor saw the he held her hand perhaps a ously to the front seat. over to the Is believed he le headed your way. Hs front of his shirtwaist and drew forth thought going merely spot wher xnd a little tighter than little The chauffeur felt the weight of chauffeur fall In a half faint, stopped I had hidden the camera and disconwalks with a slight limp. .Look out a paper which Del Mar almost seized uaual. longer chauffeur At any rate Elaine seemed to someone on that side. Just as he his car and ran to him. The 1L in his eagerness. It was a pen and for him. necting so. turned to see what it was Del Msr had kept up as long as be could. He We went upstairs where I had ink copy of a government map, show- think LIEUTENANT WOODWARD. had now sunk down beside his maMr. curious what a pel ring leaped at him. Why, For a long time the fisherman ap- ing a huge spit of sand in the eea beup an improvised dark room rigged chine In the road. Mar, ahe said, finally releasing her for my amateur photographic work peared to study, the face on the photoA moment him later they plckod hand from his grasp. , up some Somehow Elaine and I must have days before. Elaine watched ma graph until be had It Indelibly implantand carried him Into the house. There Then she looked quickly at the worn been hoodooed that day. ed in his memory closely. At last I found that I bad now. In his no was hurt about acting an, half Joking, as If the ring had We had not been gone five minutes As I drew the developed something. Finally he turned and entered his something to do with the strange from Del Mars after the accident to the house they laid the man down on film through the hypo tray and picked hut Hastily he took off his stained woman. She looked back at the ring. the chauffeur, when we heard a mys- a couch and the doctor made a hasty it up I held It to the red reefer. From a wooden chest he drew light. examination. Del Mar smiled, shook his head and terious knock in the engine. Elaine leaned over and looked at another outfit of clothes. The trans kind one of asked How the is be?" More engine trouble," I sighed. laughed eaaily. the film with me. Thore was a plo formation was complete. When be IsThen Elaine picked up her hag and Pull up along the road and Ill see If Samaritans. sued forth from his hut again,- it was The wound is not dangerous," rewe went out. A moment later we had I can fix it." no longer the aged disciple of Izaak the physician, but hes lost a plied off were car into and climbed back We the both out. and There got stoppod Walton. He was now a trim chaufot lot blood, lie cannot be moved was no fake about this trouble .or again. feur, bearded and goggled. about the dirt and grease I acquired for some time yet." Having left us at the door, Del Mar on my hands and face tinkering with In the library of bis bunghlow, .Del We talked about nothing else at back to the library. He went that motor. hurried Mar was.paclng up and down, now and Hall after dressing for dinner Dodge me and let Here, picked up powder your nose, but the straight to the desk then scowling to himself, as though strange events over at Del the book, eager now to make sure of Walter," she said, undismayed at our there flashed over his mind stray recoland what had followed. The Mar's, Well her of his plan. trouble, gayly opening the safety bag. lections of how some of bis most chermore about It, the more It I thought of all things, what's this, and where It was gone! ished plans were miscarrying. seemed to me that we would never be has-tllcome did from?" he it Did Smith began you, Still, on the whole, he had nothing I turned from the engine and left over night In peaceful possession then checked himself, knowing to complain of. For, a moment later the looked. She was holJlng some kind of the plan which both Elaine and I had not taken clerk the that the valet entered with a telegram for of plan or document in her hand. In decided ought on flie following day plan. which he had evidently been waiting to he sent to Washington. blank surprise she examined it. couch over walked to Del tho Mar Del Mar seized It eagerly and tore Accordingly I cudgeled my brain for the What da you think It Is, Walter?" and stood a moment looking at open the, yellow envelope. On the some method of protecting both ourI wonder who he Is," he she asked, handing It to me. chauffeur. blank was printed In the usual way selves and It. The only thing I could 1 took it and examined It carefully. I don't recall ever said to himself. the following noncommittal message think of was a schema once adopted In the I or station out as Incredible It at him the seemed, figured seeing Washington, D. C August 12, 1915. Kennedy In another case. by It must be short nothing quickly that village." Mr. Del Mat: r camera I had a small he new deuce!" The defenses closer. leaned of of at He a the plan What you rsquest is pomlng. Anhad to and Just that belonged Craig, fake beard the a "that's Hook. He Shouted. Hands Up!" exclaimed, Sandy swer to sign of the ring. SMITH. as we were about to retire, 1 brought 1 fell to work again, eager to get on." has fellow Ylood, muttered Del Mar as he fin- fore a harbor, Sandy Hook and New Del Msr made a lunge for It. As away with our dangerous prize, Elaine It into the living room with a packished reading. "Strange, what a little York. .On it were Indicated all the dedid so the chauffeur leaped to his now and then advising me. Finally I age I had sent up from the village. he gold win do when you .know bow to fenses, the position of guns, every feet I Almsd tha Camera As soon ae Elaine had gone to bed Hands up!" he shouted turned the engine over. For a wonCarefully. dispose of It" I waa I a Is and moves the thing. evened man that package. And the first alone, der it ran smoothly, He smiled cynically to himself at the The chauffeur had no Intention of dead one!" What's the matter now? ex- There were the tools that I had or- ture of a masked man, his cap down, sentiment remaining Inactive outside while he Before the secret agent knew It claimed Elaine, turning quickly and dered, a coll of wire and some dry in a startled attitude, his hands knew that something that interested both he and Smith were covered. The looking up the road along which we cell. Then I went to tha table, un- clapped to his face, completely hiding At ths little railroad station they him was transpiring Inside. He had chauffeur took a locked the drawer and put the plan what the mask did not hide. step toward Smith had Juet come. ere quits proud of ths fact that at crept up by the side of the house to and Well, Ill be blowed! I cried In at full speed In my pocket unceremoniously Jerked off the lurching There, along least two of ths four backs bad been the window. But he could eee little widow's weeds, as well as the wig. at the outcome ot what 1 no chagrin I wae at was a car. Two men were actually Although expert wiring, replaced already by taxicabs. and hear nothing. At that very moment one of Del fighting on the front of It, regardlese I started to make the connections un- thought had been my cleverest coupw It was, then, with some surprise and A moment he strained every sense. Mar's men came up to the secret pan ot speed and safety. A little exclamation of astonishment der the table with the drawer, not a tot a little open jealousy that they It was no use. He must devise some ol that opened from the underground On rushed the car, directly at us. very difficult thjng to do ae long ae It escaped Elaine. I turned to her. What aw s new taxicab drive np and take other way. llow could he get Into lie was Just as It passed us, the chauffeur wae to be only temporary and for the le It?" I asked, passageway Into the library, Jta stand by the platform.. that room? Slowly he returned to his shout to open It when he heard a eemed to summon all hie strength, night From the table I ran the wires The ring!" the cried, If ths chauffeur, transformed from car, thinking It over. There he stood sound on the other side that startled lie struck a powerful blow at the man, along the edge of the carpet until 1 1 looked more closely. On the litthe lonely fisherman, had expected a for a moment revolving In his mind him. He listened a moment then slid recoded and straightened out his car came to the bookcase. Thore, masked tle finger of the left hand was a pecordial reception, he might better have what to do. He looked up the road. it Just a short distance and looked in. Just In time. The man full, literally at by the books, 1 placed the little quick culiar ring. Once seen, I think It wss ehutter camera, and at a distance also not readily forgotten. stayed before hie hut, for the glancee An Idea came to him. There he saw a There he saw a chauffeur holding our feet the other driven gave him were as little runabout approaching rapidly. concealed the flashlight pan. Mar himself! Del The ring! the repeated excitedly. was Smith. Del Msr and It pulled Having up black and lowering as the clouds he Next I aimed the camera carefully Don't you remember that ring? 1 Why, whats all this about? Quickly he went around to the front the disguise from Smith, he went bad been looking at and focused It on a point above the aw It on Mr. Del Mar's hand at hla of bis car and lifted up the hood. Theu next around Del Mar and tok hla gun asked eagerly. The new chauffeur got off his Beat. he boot over and pretended to be tink- from his pocket, then passed his . Before I could ralso him up Del Mar drawer In the writing table where any- house this afternoon! one would be likely to stand If he atI ould only stare. Instead ot trying to hrasen It out, he ering with hie engine. hands over the folJs cf Smith's dress, had regained hie feet attacked who deAt last we had a real clue! tempted to open It. Then I connected walked over to the othen who were no He stepped Juat a plain crook, but found As the car was about to pass he weapon. In hie bungalow, Del Mar at that me," he muttered, bruahing off his the ehutter of the camera and a little standing In a group waiting for the ap- liberately stepped back, apparently back away from them. alAt that point the man quietly slid clothe to cover up the quick recog- spark coll In the flash pan with the moment threw down hla hat and tor not seeing the runabout, and was proaching train whose whistle bd the panel all the way open and silent- nition of what It was that I was hold- wires, using an apparatus to work the off hit mask furloualy, ready aounded. struck and knocked down. What had he done? having seen "Im not going to locate hers per Tha runabout stopped, the emer- ly stepped Into the room, behind the ing In my hand, for he had seen the ehutter euch as I recalled I covered the use. a long time he sat there, hla For Craig Finally sneakbe Immediately, chauffeur. a roll bard. out plan he brakes began Cautiously biting gency said, pulling manently," of bills as hs spoke. Cant w drive you back?" asked parking device with the flashlight chin on his hands, gating fixedly e Leave any fare ing up on blm. 1 powder, gave a last look around, and him, planning to protect himself Ae he did eo, Del Mar and Smith Elatne, claim to me," he added, passing a Elaine had asked me to go shopping and for revenge. lie climbed up and eat on the floor napped off the light bill of a good denomination t9 fcJ P f In the village with her that afternoon. watched, fascinated. 8omchqw, their (TO HE CONTINTkD Cp In my bedroom, I must sty I lie four jehus While I waited for her In her little car facet must bare betrayed that neat' ot the roadster, bta feet outside, and Dramas Tb. W.U-Know- ator-o- f n Nov.li.t and tba Crt-tu- re Craig Kennedy" Storiea. I Or zZrhj ra hydro-aeroplan- e, .. I I free-for-a- ll t v - quick-shutte- - he-for- , M A |