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Show THF ! ECUET OF Author of The End of the Trait 44 Fighting in Flanders," The Road to Glory Vive ta France " etc. 44 Novelized from the Motion Picture Play of the Seme Name American F3m Manufacturing Compary. frwe. tU, b a. Akmm, ty the ra. there Is no use in trytfig to reach Sandsboro tonight. I think that we TJent. Jartls Hope is detailed by the had bettermake straight for San Fran.tinned States naval board to investigate cisco and run down to Sand boro toand report ills findings on the invention & f of Dr. Kalph Hurks, which serves to bring the submarine to a state of perfection. The lieutenant arrives In YaJdavte and is welcomed by the Inventor and his daughter, Cleo. On tbe trial trip of tha inventor's boat, a Japanese helper la aarprtsed In the art of examining the mechanism of tlie ventilating device. Hope reports favorably on the new device but there are ethers interested in it. An attempt to burglunte Doctor Hurke'a laboratory fails, but later Cleo finds him murvered in his bedroom. Cleo then sells her father's ben its to get monsy; later she finds a note from which she learns that they contain the secret formula. With Hope ahe races to the auctioneer's store only to find It in flames. Olga Ivanotr and tier-ai- d Morton, two spies In search of the formula, attempt to capture Cleo when she calls at the house of Stephanskl. the anarchist. ' Hope rushes to her aid, Morten shoots at him but tbe bullet hits a bomb . In the cellar, which explodes. Htephanskl rtlaa in the wreck of his house: the ethers escape. H pe and Cleo attend a ball at Mrs. Delmars. whose nephew has two of the missing hooka Mahlln, a spv, attempts to steal the books, but is discovered by Hope; In the excitement that follows tha books disappear. Mahlln escapes Hope and Cleo take a boat foran Island out In the bey. The consplra-tor follow in other boats,. Mah lin and the out the island light. Morton's Jap turn boat with the countesg strikes a stray wine in the bay. After a violent storm Hope and Cleo arriva on n strange laland and discover that the man they hunt is there, But Mahlln and the Japanese also reach the Island and put up a fight for the books. They escape from Hope but return and dynamite the shack. i EIGHTH INSTALLMENT . Owing to a delay in obtaining tbe gasoline, darkness bad fallen before Moflftsey and Hook again reached tbe Island where Hope and Cleo were awaiting them. Just as they boached their skilf on the shore of the little eove. flipy were startle JTohearTTroln somewhere on the cliff above them, the roar of an explosion. Thoroughly alarmed, they raced up the steep and winding path which led to the plateau. MorlBitey. reaching the jtop ahead of bis ponderous companion, dashed toward the shack In which they had left nope and Cleo. Suddenly he stopped. An exclamation of horror, amazement, utter Incredulity, escaped him. The ahack was gone! Bare for a few splintered timbers, the rock on which it had stood was absolutely hare." "Mr. Hope!" hailed Motlssey, with sinking heart, "Mr. Hopei Where are you? "That you, Morissey? came Hopes voice from the darkness. "Aye, aye. sir," In a tone of profound v ' - rrelief. "What's Wheres tbs shack?" happened, sir? hardly know myself what has happened, said Hope, appearing out of the darkness with Cleo, "hut I strongly uspect that someone has tried to mur- der us. I We were sitting in the shack examining the books," explained Hope. "We were wondering what had delayed you. AU at once Miss Burke Mid that she heard a noise under the house. She stepped to the door to see what it was and a ' moment later I beard her scream. I ran out to see what the trouble was, but I had scarcely set foot outside the door when there was an explosion that threw" ns both to the ground and the shack toppled over the cliff into the sea." "But what was it you heard under the house. Miss Cleo? asked Hook, hla eyes bulging with excitement. "It sounded as though someone was moving about just underneath us," ahe replied. At first I thought it was an animal, hut, as I opened the door, I heard eomeone running away. I atep-ped down ao that I could look under neath the house and 1 saw a spark run n ing along, the ground in the darkness. 1 called to Jarvis Mr. Hope, I mean to come quickly, for I felt sure that there was danger threatening us, and, just as lie reached me, came the explosion. When ,1 Hooked for the shack it 1 i i had disappeared." "Have you any idea who did it, sir? asked Morissey. "Do you think it Icoiild have been the Jap?" "Yes," said ,IIope, thoughtfully, "it may have been Satsuma. He's the only one who could have any object in dothing. We know that he ing such and the man who was With him are after the books, and they're the kind that would stick at nothing in order to get them." By the way, Morissey," be added. did yoff TemembertOf send gram from Middle island? T Aid, slr, was ' the answer, . What ' w ah' 'the telegram," Jams? asked Cleo. 'Y o u . re m e mber that Fitzmaurice told us that he had bought three of -your fathers boeke-a- t -that be had lent one of them to a friend, a Doctor Owen, who .lives at Sandsboro? It struck me that it was Just as well not to take any chances of someone else getting there ahead of tts!) I had Morissey send a wire from Middle island to the doctor that we wee leaving for Sandsboro aud asking him not to let the book out of his possession until we arrived. . . . Now, If you have gasoline, we had better get dovra to the launch and get started. Hs turned to Cleo. Tt is so late that I t I KTSWaUll r that-tele"- " ut. Mor-iese- y. ttuCe, for the a cut. .v.i-.-- ., h08tn Tied, down tbe walk. Don't know the singsong who she Is, observed tbe dvt.T as domestics. tlon peculiar to the Oriental to tbe maid w ho opened the door, and he entered the houe. "but th..re' the something about her that remln.N me wh., he noted, was dressed for note of that ! girl that He sent roe to get the street. to be leave here a little while back Say sell me tbe encyclopedia this mrn. to tell doctor he has changed mind ing." . and will telephone him. His manner servant and By eight oclock every tab, in fia was that of a the unsuspecting maid handed him the Palm room of the Hotel Arbor card without demur. Not until he was taken, for it was a Saturday night t out of sight of the house, however, the height of the season. Morton, by a liberal tip to the head did Satsuma venture to examine it It and had succeeded In obtaining & cards waiter, was one of Hopes visiting table close to the door, but screened on It be had scrawled in pencil ; nid. speaking in atti- - imOiga listened with of his account Morton's to patience1 interview with Doctor Owen. "Stupid!" shk cried, stamping, her "You have bungled foot angrily. You should have abominably. things sense than to offer him mon had morj You cant treat a man of that ward type the same way you would s Is to done have All you politician. make him angry and suspicious." "Lets hear, what you have to sugshingled bungalows finding ready tenants during the summer gest, then, said Morton morosely. I think that I will call on Doctor months, while its great tourist hosremarked Owen myself, Hotel is the Emerson crowded with Arbor, telry, should "I on hat. her pleasure-seekerfrom early June to Olga, pinning late September. The less affluent of! like to know a littleTaore about the the town's summer visitors are pro- - arrangement of his house. Tided for by several less pretentious! Tbs neatly gowned maid who ' and it was to one of these that swered the bell told Olga that Doctor Morton and Olga made their way after Owen was occupied with a patient, but the panting local had deposited them ' that if she would take a seal in the on the station platform in the dim waiting room he would be at liberty minutes. No sooner bad the in light of early morning. "We mustnt be seen by Hope and maid left, however, than she began to the Burke girl," Morton explained, take stock of her surroundings. The "and we surely will be If .we stay at door st her left, from behind which the big hotel, because thats where came the muffled souffd of voices, led, theyll go. So we 'had better choose shs had no doubt. Into the consultation one of the quieter places. room. But there were two other doors from the Ascertaining telephone and It was necessary to the perfection book Doctor Owens office hours, Mor- of her plans that she should know ton entered the physician's office into what rooms they opened. Softly promptly on the strike of ten. turning the knob of one of the doors, "Well, sir, said the doctor, a keen-eye- she pushed it far enough ajar to catch man in the middle a glimpse of a room that was evidently thirties, "what can I do for you? Is it a doctor's study, and, beyond, a dinblllousneis or boils?" The other door, through ing' room. "Its neither, doctor, answered Mor- which the maid had disappeared, she ton, laughing. "It's books. opened boldly. It led, as she suspect"Books the physician repeated, ed, into a hallway communicating with evidently puzzled. "Im afraid I don't the service portion of the house. At understand." that moment the maid appeared, comI should hook instead ing evidently from the kitchen. ' say Perhaps of books. replied Morton. Ive run "I feel a .little faint." said Olga. down to see you about a book which "May I trouble you for a glass of wa, your, friend, Mr, Fitzmaurice, tells me ter? anthat he loaned you. Its a work on was the Certainly, madam," swer. "Ml bring you a glass st once. hydrography. If Im not. mistaken." Oh, yes, said Owen, his manner Olga's simple little maneuver had Immediately chilling. "Fitzmaurice did given her the information that she lend me such a book. wanted; she was now acquainted with I am very anxious to consult that the interior arrangement of the house, I A few minutes later the door of the book, doctor," Morton continued. wonder if you would be willing to lend consultation, room was thrown open it to me for a few days or even a few and Doctor Owen motioned her to hours?" come in. Im afraid not, was the answer. Ton dont look as though yon were good-lookin- well-traine- morrow," The Sea Hawk was barely a mile ofT Middle Island, toward which it was heading, when It struck- - the Coating mine, so that only a few minutes elapsed before the sailors attached to the radio station, attracted by the flash and roar of tbe explosion, had launched a boat and were pulling toward the scene of the disaster. Of tbe Sea Hawk all that remained were a few liven timbers. Clinging to one of these timbers the rescuing party found a man and a woman, both in the last stages of exhaustion. They were Gerald Morton and Olga Ivanoff. There was no sign of the captain and the two sailors. All three had evidently perished. Olga and Morton, though badly bruised and suffering from shock, were otherwise uninjured but not until the following morning were they sufficiently recovered to give a coherent account of themselves. Even then they were unable to throw any light on the mystery which enveloped the explosion. All they could tell their rescuers was that they had engaged the Sea Hawk for tbe trip to Middle Island, where they had important business with a man named Fitzmaurice, and that, when only a short distance off the Island, there had come a terrific explosion. Further than that they knew nothing. "By the way," asked Morton, as he 40 M r. conci uded - hir-sto- ryr s, ! g tri-x- d by palms, so that he and Oiga were enabled to watch all who entered or left the room without themselves to. ing seen. Though Olga had discarded her but she had draped about her Dear Doctor Owen: Am sorry to have missed you. Should you return In time will you give md the pleasure of dining with Mlee Burke end myself st the Hotel Arbor st eight thie evening? And may I trouble you to bring along Fitzmaurice, book,-regarding which I wired you yesterday.. We will wait for you in '.the Palm room. JARVIS HOPE. s SYNOPSIS. . Olga.' That wilt give you time to go to your apartment and change your clothes and pack a bag. Ill go to my hotel and do ,tha earn and meet you at the station." The little coast town of S&ndsboro owet Its name, and. Indeed, its very existence, to the great crescent of sandy beach on which it stands. Its almost perfect summer climate. Us splendid seabathing, and its proximity to San Francisco, have long made it one of the most popular resorts on the California coast, its hundreds of KAVSVTTXF, UTAH low-roofe- d, 44 Yy WF.F.KT.V FFFTRV dust-co- at When Satsuma, hastening back to) the little hotel where he and Mahlln had taken rooms, reported to his employer that- - Hope and Cleo had, ,ln some unaccountable fashion, escaped death on the Island and that they were at that very moment In Sandsboro, Mahlin burst Into a fit of profanity which impressed even the stolid Japanese. The Japanese silently handed him the note which Hope had left for Doctor Owen. Mahlin read it and then reread it. Owen had better take the book to the hotel tonight, he said, after a mof ments reflection. "It will be dark by -, eight and perhaps we will have an opportunlty to knock him on the head Were Enabled to Watch Without Be- when he is on the way there. ing Been, "What are you going to do with this note? Inquired Satsuma. hat a heavy veil which could instantly You had better hustle right back be dropped over her' face in case of ' and leave it at the doctors office, necessity. From their place of concealmen. said Mahlln. "Tell the maid that this Is another note that Hope has written. the palms Morton and Olga, who Shell never know the difference." had purposely gone to the restaurant Did the maid say anything? asked early, saw Hope and Cleo enter, and Mahlin when, half an hour later, Sat- saw them conducted by the head suma returned, waiter to a table which he had ev"No. She just took the note and idently reserved for them. And, at a shut the door.- - She had on her hat; I small table behind a column, watchguess she was Just going out. ing all four of them, sat Mahlin. Are there any other .servants in All at once Olga, who had never the house?" . taken her eyes from, the door, grasped ..... T dont thlnk so. Mortons arm. said That so, Mahlin, rising Look! she whispered. There he being here?" and putting on his hat, I think Hi is!" "No," was the answer. "He left yes.take advantage of the households abIn the doorway, a parcel under his terday morning in bis .sailboat for one sence to take a look through the place arm, stood Doctor Owen. A boy was of the North Farallons and he hasnt myself. If the doctor keeps the book helping him off with his coat. Even returned. He has probably been deIn the house I ought to be able to as Olga spoke he signaled to the head layed by the storm, but he ought to be find It waiter. They were so close that they hack at any moment." e could hear his. words. said "I think "In that case," Morton, It was late in the afternoon when Where la Lieutenant Hope sitting?" that we will wait for him." Olga, for the second time that day, he asked. He is expecting me. When Fitzmaurice returned a few of ascended Doctor Owens the steps surwas hours later be Tes, sir said the man, preceding considerably residence. There was nothing about him down the room toward . Hopes prised to learn that two visitors were her to suggest the book canvasser who table. This way, if you please, sir waiting for him at the cottage occuhad called a few hours before, for she Owen had started to follow the head pied by the officer in command of the now wore a long dustcoat which cov- waiter radio station. when Morton, realizing that to ered her from neck to ankle and a obtain The Countess Ivanoff and I have of the book be must possession motor veil which completely hid her been given to understand," said Moradopt desperate measures, stepped features. She rang the bell, but there from ton. after Fitzmaurice bad introduced behind the palms. was no answer. The maid, as Olga himself, "that you recently purchased This is Doctor Owen, isn't it? he hlkd anticipated, had taken advantage at auction three scientific works from eald cordially, I am Lieutenant Hope. of her employers absence to do some the library of the late Doctor Burke. It I heard yon asking for me. It was shopping In the town. Glancing up in we are interested happens that here. and down the street to make sore that mighty kind of you to meet me and these hooks and, if they are for sale, bar we out to the Suppose step she was unobserved, she quietly we would be glad to make you an offer have a drink before ordering dinner? room the of door the opened tbedL" waiting for But the doctor instinctively hesand walked in. The most likely place You are not the only ones who are itated. to find the book, she felt, was in the interested in those .books," said FitzHe had a vague feeling that, there doctors desk in his consultation maurice. was sometMng familiar about the felroom. Stepping softly across the floor, What do you mean?" asked Morton low. And he seemed overaervous in her footsteps deadened by the heavy quickly. his manner; overeager. And naval ofrugs, she opened the door of the conI mean that I have just left two He Slipped the Book to Olga. be sultation room and stopped on the ficers do not usually appear to of the books In the possession of Docnervous In situations. such ordinary tor Burkes daughter and Lieutenant "For the present, at least, I dont care in need of my aervices, madam, said threshold with an ejaculation of alarm, Meanwhile the head waiter, supposHops on North Farallon. And they to let the book go out of my posses- tha doctor, noting with approval Olgas for, bending over the doctors desk, that Doctor Owen was following engaged in rifling its drawers, was a ing only got them by chance, after a Japa- sion." superb coloring and fine physique. down the room to the him, nese named Satsuma had stolen them T do not wish to appear Insistent, It isnt your professional services strange man. His back was toward table proceeded Cleo where and Hope were from my cabin." doctor," argued Morton, "but may I fbat I want, doctor," ahe replied, with her and he was so intent on his search s But you bought three hooks, per- aak ycur reason for refusing to let an alluring smile. "All I want is a few that he failed to hear the door open, Here is the gentleman you were exsisted Morton. "What has become of me borrow the book? minutes of your time. I have here," but, aroused by her stifled exclama- pecting, air," he said, and pulled out he whirled about and his hand the other one?" Thie is my reason, replied the and ahe opened a which she tion, went Instinctively to his coat pocket. the extra chair. To be quite frank, Mr, Morton," physician, taking a telegram from hla had brought with parcel"a her, specimen For a brief moment pardon, sir," he added, but said Fitzmaurice, who was becoming pocket and handing it to Morton, who volume of a new edition of the tbe two stared at he"Beg Encyseems to have stopped to talk with each other appraisingly. Olga was the suspicious, "I dont see how it con- read: clopedia of Medicine. Now I am " another .Thats him, there gentleman. cerns you. Lieutenant Hope tells me first to break the silence., Madam," interrupted Doctor Owen 1 the by door, sir" Dr. Emerson recover that Miss Burke is anxious to Owen, Sandsboro, I beg your pardon," she said. "I rising, "I must ask you to excuse me. As looked he saw Doctor Owen Cal. the hooks because a legacy from her the bell, but no one answered, hand Hope rang 1 dont care to an d a encyclopurchase parcel to the Am informed by Mr. Fitzmaurice father is believed to he hidden In one and I am extremely busy this so I walked In. I wanted to see the man with whom he was talking. pedia, underof them. If that is so I tail to that he hew leaned you a volume doctor." morning." Springing to his feet so suddenly that of Ryereon, work on hydrogra- stand why you are so anxious to obMahlin, for it was he, had been do- he hopeful-ly,?T0sprinted his chair he Perhaps, Olga suggested tain possession of them." phy. As there ie a possibility that ing some rapid thinking. He decided the upset of the room. fairly wculd me on lei call this you length a form uts ef this an instant did to praya bofTgame. Only for a fractlon-oafternoon, when you have more Is this Doctor Owen?" inestimable value to the govern- Morton hesitate. am I Doctor he Owen," said. "What leisure." Yes." said the doctor. Thats mT ment, would earnestly beg you not My interest in tbe matter ie easily can I do for you? x I shall be out name." town of all the afterto permit book to ieave your pes--1 I km explained, he said glibly.' "! am a troubled with having, my " said.. the offleer J noon "replied the physician.-- "' My name aeaelon until I have toon you. lawyer representing the Countess throat," Bed Olga glibly, hut he saw wired rapidly. T yesterday about you Shalt arrive Sandsboro tomorrow. Ivanoff here, who Is one of Doctor suspicion In her eyes. Fltxmaurices book. Did you bring it JARVIS HOPE, Burkes heirs." Hope and Cleo reached Sandsboro I have been doing a little with on the noon train and, after a leisureyou? Lieutenant United State Navy. Thats different again," eald said Mahlin, with a profesBut this man says his name i ly lunch on the terrace of the Hotel sional manner which his suspicions allayed. "In ought to have Hope," cried the bewildered physician. Returning the telegram to Doctor Arbor, started up the principal thor- carried conviction. that case I dont mind telling you that lf you will ex- Indicating Morton, who, having obMorton from took a hla Owen, pocket I have loaned the 'other book to a oughfare of the little town to call on cuse me, madam, until I wash my tained the book; was slowly edging toroll of bills. .. Doctor Owen. YTiui it chanced that hands, I shall be friend of mine named Owen, a phy- large to 1 glad for ward the door. as prescribe well be frank with you. Satsuma, coming out of a might, Theres the book sician, who lives in Sandstone cigar store, you. said he. T.want book that Do Miss Burke and Lieutenant doctor., suddenlywtopped aghast, for, atrctling -- - Scarcely had the door closed behind hes got it in his hand. I just gave and to lm for Come willing pay it"' along the opposite aide of the street, him before Olga was herself ransack- It to him Hope know where the other book ia? T whats now, your price Hope whirled on Morton. asked Hope. pausing now' and then to look Into the ing the drawers of the desk. But the ' But he had Give me that book," he demanded, his man. misjudged was windows, the did Fitzmaurice. said He shop he book was not there. It must be in the They do," couple advancing not add, however, that Hope had sent Stepping to the door, the physician supposed had perished in the dyna- other part of the house. threateningly. "Not on your life, Mister Lieutenmited shack on the Island. Keeping leaving the consultation As she was a telegram to Doctor Owen asking him threw it open. room to conr.Get . out. of...here as Hop saidlhe. or ju far enough behind them so that there tftld thO books tmtiY hir arrival; tinue her search elsewhere her eye ant." sneered the other, and, slipped kick out and you at turned he was no danger of hissing recognfiddr sprang him, In that case,? said Morton, our Card which Was ' Vascaughf by i minute after Morton Twenty had Sstpur.i iQlloweilinEfejLpdjasftidosg. H A? $ iKO QtaC-business bei finished an here seems-it tMj 'tojv of "the doctors ?nagemeii t toward ton dashed business street had bet ter be getting back to tbe ma5ehislgno'mfnibui'rxiti)Maitiiin, the of the town and so book. She Olga picked it up. It was tbe door;grappled, was ringing the doorbell of Doctor out into the residential Cleo, was, she but. quick though city. district, past card bearing Hope's message, the card who had seen everything, was quicker block after block of vine-claJ ujtth enthejo fficer in command of Owen's office. cottages .which, Satsuma had. obtained lb '' he J,,tocto'rOwen;' began, when he fsetTar bsck'on 'velTet iawns. until at and. by another ruse, had arsMilt"''Fnnging'herelf.-w!tb'an- the radio statjon entered. returned. strength of her lithe young bodyvupoThe-rea govef nroeet tender lesv-- had,, been... U6hereLln.ta..the-,jnauU4.1aB- t the Ixtapped belQre: the bungsknr- - sod- Ing for the city in half an hour, Mr. tion room, I have learned in a round-- ! of Doctor Owen. Peering cautiously doctor would see it You and the about way that you have in your pos-- 1 from behind a tree on the opposite As Olga was Morton," he announced. precious volume from her hand. A the reading she message book which a session she did so she felt the floor of the of side the to can over in street. countess belonged her if you the Satsuma saw Hope beard the sound of a motor go restaurant heave sickenlngly beneath wish." library of a Doctor Burke of Valdavia. ring the bel saw him exchange a few before the door. Doctor words with the maid, and. upon receiv- - turned sooner than she Owen had rf her feet. The building rocked, ard Though it was late in' the evening 1 should like"' But the physician, how thoroughly, when the tender put them ashore at reeled; the chandeliers swung the government wharf, Olga and Mor- exasperated, let him proceed no farpendulums gone pad; glassware snd floor; the ion, tired as they were, did not spend ther. 1 aoor of the waiting room dishes wen, crashing to theand dtnsrs. ine borrow "You the cant book. he depart. the night in San Francisco. With Hope and stepped onto the veranda lust as music stopped abruptly; You cant buy it. You cant t and Cleo knowing that one of the cried. waiters and musicians Jolnedia a Waite Unt11 HP 4 i the fw89gone 20 minutes then tv ascending, the sterx stimpede for tbe door. books was in Sandsboro, they realized see it You cant even discuss the Cleo , matter with me. All you can do is to Vs an earthquake!" that quick action was imperative. th doctor, someone. Run for your Theres a train for S&ndsboro at j go." And Mahlin. quite unable to ac at three in the morning," Morton told that moment ihe relllrg ?!. Hope, valet, he (TO BIT COXTLWEIk, -- Fits-maur- d, alert-lookin- g ! - ice I , j sit-tln- g. paper-wrappe- u -- f book-contai- ns- 1 - is-Ho- house-cleani- ng Fltx-mauric- e, i " - ly-4B- g' ft Vj - o 'A A - e . rrT!!dfitrrYEFRi5rwJ5inTibr?aTerthe ! . w i I 4?Pr0ICt? lnant ! t - 1 |