Show 1 h the exploits of elaine A detective novel and a motion ure drama by ARTHUR B REEVE t the well known novelist and the A creator vf rf the ifil craig kennedy stories presented la in collaboration with the pathe players and the eclectic film company by the star company an borei n rights order ie to got another ano 1111 ill have bave to 8 go 0 SYNOPSIS ill get story gay f fro in you craig the new york pollee police are mystified by a series cries of murders and other crimes crimea the principal clue to the criminal to Is the tha warning letter which Is sent bent the victims signed with a clutching hand the latest victim ot of the mysterious assassin Is taylor dodge the insurance president his daughter elaine employs craig kennedy the famous amous scientific detective to try to unravel the mystery what xen ken l nedy accomplishes Is told by his friend jameson Jam caon a newspaper man enraged at the determined effort which elaine and craig kennedy i are making to put an end to Ms his crimes the clutching hand as this i strange criminal Is in known resorts to all sorts boris of the most diabolical schemes to put nut them out of the way each chapter of the story tells of a new plot against their lives and of the way the groat great do da uses all hla his skill to save gave this pretty girl and himself from death TENTH EPISODE THE LIFE CURRENT assignments were being given out on the star one afternoon and I 1 was standing talking with several other reporters in the busy hum ot of typewriters and clicking telegraphs what do you think of that asked one of the fellows fel lowa youre something of a scientific detective arent you without laying claim to such a distinction I 1 took the paper and road read THE POISONED KISS AGAIN three more new york women report being kissed by mysterious stranger later fell into deep unconscious ness ne what to it I 1 had scarcely finished when one of the copy boys dashing past me called out youre wanted on the wire mr jameson I 1 hurried over to the telephone and answered A musical voice responded to my hurried hello and I 1 hastened to adopt my most polite tone Is this mr jameson asked the voice yes I 1 replied not recognizing it well mr jameson ive heard of you on the star and ive lust just had a very strange experience ive had the poisoned kiss the woman did not pause to catch my exclamation of 0 astonishment b but ut went on it was like this A Ms mam tan ran up to me on tart streets street and kissed me and I 1 dont know how it was i i but I 1 became unconscious and I 1 come to tor for an hour in a hospital fortunately I 1 dont know what would have happened it if it been that someone came to my assistance and the man fled I 1 thought the star would be interested we are I 1 hastened to reply will VIII you give me your name why I 1 am mrs florence leigh ot of no 20 prospect avenue returned the voice say I 1 exclaimed hurrying over to the editors desk heres another woman on an the wire who says she bho has received the poisoned kiss suppose you take that assign assignment assignee me t the editor answered sensing a possible story I 1 took it with alacrity figuring out the quickest way by elevated and surface to reach the address I 1 must say that I 1 could scarcely criticize the poisoned kissers taste for the woman who opened the door certainly was extraordinarily attractive and you really were put out by a kiss I 1 queried as she led me into a neat sitting room absolutely as aa much as it if it had bad been by one ot of these poisoned needles you read about she replied confidently hastening on to describe the affair volubly it was beyond me may iday I 1 use your telephone I 1 asked surely she answered I 1 called the laboratory Is that you craig I 1 inquired yes walter lie he answered recognizing my voice say bay craig I 1 asked breathlessly what sort ot of kiss would suffocate a 0 person my only answer was an uproarious laugh from him at the idea 1 I know I 1 persisted but ive got the assignment from the star and im out here interviewing a woman about it its all right to laugh laug h but here I 1 am ive found a case names dates and places I 1 wish ex explain plain the thing then oh all right walter he replied indulgently ill meet you as soon as I 1 can and help you out we waited patiently the bell rang and the woman hastened to the door admitting kennedy hello walter he greeted this la is certainly r most remarkable case craig I 1 said introducing him and telling briefly what I 1 had bad learned and you actually mean to say that a kiss had the effect just then the tele telephone interrupted yes she reasserted quickly excuse me a second she answered the call oh why yes hes here do you want to speak to him mr jameson its lt the star confound tt it I 1 exclaimed that like the old man me off aft AU story before if half bait finished la the day before in the suburban house the clutching hand had been talking to two of his emissaries an ar attractive young woman and a man they were flirty florrie and dan dan the dude now I 1 want you to get kennedy he said bald the way to do it Is to separate kennedy and elaine see all right chief well do it they replied clutching hand had bad scarcely lett left when flirty morris began by getting gettin I 1 published in the papers the story which I 1 had seen the next day she called me up fro from 9 the suburban house having got na mek to promise to see her she had bad scared ly turned from the telephone ahei whee dan the dude walked in from t the e next room hes coming she said dan was carrying a huge stag head 0 with a beautifully branched pair of antlers anglers ant lers under his bis arm was a coll coil of ol 01 wire which he had bad connected to the inside of the head elnel ho he exclaimed then pointing to the head he added its all ready see how I 1 fixed it iff that ought to please the chief dan moved quickly to the mantel and mounted a stepladder there by which he had taken down the head and started to replace the head above the mantel he hooked the head on a nail there he said unscrewing one ot of the beautiful brown glass eyes of the stag back of it could be seen a camera shutter one ot of those new quick shutter cameras he explained then he ran a couple of wires along the molding around the room and into a closet where he be made the connection with a sort of switchboard on which a button was marked SHUTTER and the switch WIND FILM now flirty he said coming out of the closet and pulling up the shade which let a flood ot of sunlight into the room you see bee I 1 want you to stand here then do your little t trick rick just then the bell rang 4 That must be jameson she cried now get to your corner with a last look dan went into the closet and shut the door perhaps halt half an hour later clutching hand himself called me up on the telephone it was he not the star as I 1 learned only too late 0 0 0 0 I 1 had scarcely got out of the house as craig told me afterwards when flirty florrie told all over again the embroidered tale that had caught my ear kennedy said nothing but listens listened d intently perhaps betraying in his face the skepticism he felt you see bee she said still voluble and eager to convince him 1 I was only walking on the street here let me show you it was just like this she took his arm and before he know knew it led him to the spot on the floor near the window which dan had indicated meanwhile dan was listening attentively in his closet now stand there you are just as I 1 was only I 1 expect anything she was pantomiming panto miming some one approaching pro aching stealthily while kennedy watched her with interest tinged with ditl doubt behind craig in his closet dan was reaching tor for the switchboard button you see 1 she said eald advancing quickly and acting her words he placed his hands on my shoulders so then threw his bis arms about my neck so she said no more but imprinted a deep passionate kiss on kennedys Kenn edys mouth clinging closely to him before kennedy could draw away dan in the closet had pressed the button and the switch several times in rapid succession th very realistic gasped craig cragg a good deal taken aback by the sudden assault he frowned 1 I ill look into the case he said backing away there there may be some scientific explanation but or er he was plainly embarrassed and hastened to make his adieux 0 0 0 4 how little impression the thing made on kennedy can be easily seen from the tact fact that on the way downtown that afternoon he be stopped at martins on oa fifth avenue and sought bought a ring a very handsome solitaire the finest martin had in the shop it must have been about the time that he is decided to stop at martins that the dodge butler jennings admitted a young lady who presented a card on which was engraved the name miss MI florence leigh 20 prospect avenue As he handed elaine the card she ehe looked up from the book she was reading ma and took it all right show hov lim her la in jennings ru IM a ht bar baino elarno moved into the drawing room jennings springing forward to part the port leres for or her and passing through the room quickly where flirty florrie sat eat waiting flirty morrie florrie rose and stood gazing at elaine apparently very much embarrassed even after jennings had gone it Is embarras embar embarrassing raa sing she said bald finally but miss dodge I 1 have come to you to beg tor for my love elaine looked at her nonplused nonplus ed yes sho she continued you do not know it but crada kennedy Is ineat abed with you she paused again then added dut but he Is engaged to me elaine stared at the woman she was dazed she could not believe it there Is the ring I 1 lirty flirty morris florrie added indicating a very impressive paste diamond quickly she reached into her bag and drew out two photographs without out a word handing them to elaine theres the proof florrie said gald simply choking a sob cob elaine looked with a start sure enough there was the neat living room in in the house on prospect avenue in one picture florrie had bad her arms over kennedys Kenn edys shoulders in the other apparently they were passionately kissing elaine slowly laid the photographs photograph a on the table please please eliase miss dodge dode give me back backay tiny my lost love you we are rich and beautiful I 1 am poor I 1 have only my 9 good looks but I 1 I 1 love him i and be loves me and has promised to marry me florrie had bad broken down comple completely tel y and was weeping softly into ft lace handkerchief she moved toward the door elaine followed her jennings please see the lady to the door back in the drawing room elaine seized the photographs and hurried into the library where she could be alone just then she heard the bell and kennedys Kenn edys voice in the hall ball how are you this afternoon kennedy kenedy n greeted elaine gayly elaine had been too overcome by w what at had lust just happened to throw it off so easily and received him with studied coolness still craig manlike did not notice it at once in fact he was too busy gazing about to see that neither jennings marie nor the duenna aunt josephine were visible they were not and he be quickly took the ring from froin his pocket without waiting he showed it to elaine elaine very coolly admired the ring as craig cragg might have eyed a specimen on a microscope slide still he be did not notice he took the ring about to put it on her finger elaine drew away concealment was not in her frank nature ture I 1 she picked up the awot aya la f achs Z what have you to sa say about those she asked cuttingly kennedy quite surprised took them and looked at them then he let them fall carelessly on the table and dropped into a chair his head back in a burst of laughter why that was what they put over on walter he be said he called me up early this afternoon told me he had discovered one of these poisoned kiss cases you have read about in the papers think of it all that to pull a concealed camera such an elaborate business just to get me where they could take fake this thing I 1 suppose put someone up to saying ashes engaged elaine was not so lightly affected but she said severely repressing her emotion 1 I dont understand mr kennedy how scientific inquiry into the poisoned klas kiss could necessitate this sort of thing she pointed at the photographs accusingly cu but he began trying to explain no buts she interrupted then you believe that I 1 how can you as a scientist ask me to doubt the camera she insinuated very coldly turning away kennedy rapidly began to see that it was far more serious than he had bad at first thought very well he said with a touch of impatience it if my word Is not to be taken I 1 ill P he had seized his bis hat and stick X elaine did not deign to answer then without a word he stalked out of the door kennedy was moping in the laboratory the next day when I 1 came in say craig I 1 began trying to overcome his fit of 0 blues kennedy filled with his own thoughts paid no attention to me then he jumped up by george I 1 will he muttered I 1 poked my head bead out of the door in time to see him grab up his hat a and nd coat and dash from the room putting his coat on as he went hes a nut today I 1 exclaimed med to myself though I 1 did not know yet of the quarrel kennedy had really struggled with himself until he was willing to put his pride in his pocket and had bad made up his bis mind to call on elaine again As he entered he saw that it was really of no use tor for only aunt josephine was in the library oh mr kennedy she said innocently enough im so sorry she here theres been something troubling her and she wont tell me what it Is but ashes gone to call on oil a young woman a florence leigh I 1 think florence leigh exclaimed craig with ft a start and a frown let lat me use your telephone I 1 had turned my attention in the aba laboratory to a tory story I 1 WM was writ lai ilk As A craig kennedy turns on the current El alnes aines chest cheat slowly begins begin to t rise and fall when I 1 heard beard the telephone ring it was craig without a word of apology for his rudeness which I 1 knew had been purely absentminded absent minded I 1 heard I 1 him say walter meet me in halt an hour outside that florence leighs house 0 0 0 0 0 halt half an hour later I 1 was waiting near the house in the suburbs to which I 1 had been directed by the strange telephone call the day before I 1 noticed that it was apparently deserted the blinds were closed anda and a to let sign was on tho the side of the house hello waiter cried craig at last bustling along he led the way around the side bide of the house to a window and with a powerful grasp wrenched open the closed shutters he had just smashed the window when a policeman appeared hey you fellows what are you doing there he shouted craig paused a second then pulled his card from his pocket just the man I 1 want he parried much to the emans surprise theres something crooked going on here follow us in we climbed into the window there was the same living room we had seen the day before but it was now bare and deserted come on cried kennedy beckoning us on quickly he rushed through the house there was not a thing in it to change the deserted appearance or of the first floor at last it occurred to craig to grope his way down cellar there was nothing there kennedy had been carefully going over the place and was at the other side of the cellar from ourselves when I 1 saw him stop and gaze at the floor hide he whispered suddenly to us we waited a moment nothing happened had he been seeing things or hearing things I 1 wondered from our hidden vantage we could now see a square piece in the floor perhaps five feet in diameter slowly open up as though on a pivot the weird and sinister figure of a man appeared over his head he wore a peculiar helmet with hideous glass pieces over the eyes and tubes that connected with a tank which he carried buckled to his back quickly he 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