Show TDV IKLI O' j I INSTALLMENT NINTH the point on the ' The corresponding photo-drama the to but Co 0’ Hearts" in of each installment also io see picture theaters AS maneuver then fixed by the face of a man who was following in the hollowof the V— an evil white face that seemed somehow vaguely familiar-' audible cry was “irebug! him! the at paper moving kidnaped a JAILBIRD The period of restraint in durance vile suffered by one Thomas Barcus in consequence of' conduct riotous unseemly and in general prejudicial sto the public the New Bedford waterfront at peace of the half-past four in morning proved in the upshot had been fondly far more brief than hoped not ohly by his just judge but singularlyenough by the misdemeanant himself ineverything gravely into consideration Taking eluding a person anything but prepossessing the judge reckoned that in default of a fine of one hundred dollars a ten-day layup for repairs and repentance was not too much to mete out to the short of 10 disturbed door by the rattle to his cell Mr up Sitting combed his and his biplane ’ She held begged rom the daybreak rehabilitate own esteem his rooms from soundly for three and be to have hours— thought earned at may least that much rest through having been for four hoursa passengerin a hydroaeroplanelost in fogs that the adjacent wrapped Long Island and all territory in an impenetrable shroud Nor had this been all Leaving aside all that after bathing he dined alone in tray- after dining he slept a -day -a the oil-stained had led landing up bay Alan’s to of taken place the oh search a found to mainland and followed that hangars and rescue by the Coast: forced hydroaeroplanefor lack of fuel had the South shore of the Great South of hours had followed before a boat aviator to the convey Alan and the several a hours had motor run-of conveying Coast to his Hempstead was Alan on to his hotel I York New’ in one the lock in of X ” catch to way — and crept up with your father got one waiting” by the front door I’ve police out of The entered the area by Is aeroplane as the two window -windows I I ! But upper-story he w’as not be AIR LINE allovred Between whiles cutting a direct the courseof times Alan with permitting himselfin negative evidence:he explored the dwelling minutely room by room story by story He negotiatedthat last flight of steps which led to the topmost floor with extraordinary stealth I the VIA Judith’s Insistenceand wild aerial cross-country such to-wit: I it-asostentatiously in thousand a readily satisfied writh be to Ill— NoLonce but the line as next sixteen Dioufs will questioned (and all excuse) his it sanity being influencedto make her a party in humor this to dash plane flew fast and fifes the crow high thwartthe eastern and western states Chicago they raised as a smudge on the northern the horizon about one o’clock in afternoon It was hours later though still daylight when some they repose key “Listen!” she hand ” At midnight he committed an act of burglary calmly and with determination breaking his way into the house of Seneca Trine through the area and basement this nefarious In business nothing hindered and him But for a single lighted window none opposed in the upper tier (but not ha noted the window Rose’s to bedchamber) and one or two lights which he found burning dim In the kitchen offices and other servants’ quarters on the lower floor he would have thoughtthe house empty The silence of an abandoned place informedit all — below the I arresting an street rattle flight same Monolith up below came the unmistakable of a policeman’slocust on the sidewalk “That damned maid” Alan divined thoughtfully “The same” Judith agreed with ominous calm “Has it struck you that you may have some trCC ble getting away without my permission?" “I’m not so stupid as not to have thought of he that” countered reproachfully “Then be advised — and take me’ with you” “In what capacity please? As enemy or — ally?” “As ally — you’re right: we can’t be friends — until we After that overtake that special train by j'our leave I'll shift for myself” “It’s not such a bad notion” he reflected: "with you under my eye you can’t do much to interfere — “If she promise— suggested “I'll take your word” he agreed simply “But you’re In for a lot of hardship Tm afraid The transcontinental was" post-prandial a with midnight till undertake a from be to Law’ proceeded-to Thereafter Mr decent clothing and his the concealed little was it for Alan iiiii the picked up the special train thing across the levels flying like hunted a scant was room for doubt but that it was the train they sought Specials are not common Moreover Alan contrived with considerabledifficulty There Barcus rubbed hair with his his eyes and fingers you?” he observed resignedly to focus binoculars upon the rear platformof “It the car and begins again already caught a fugitive glimpseof a white-coated f ? figure with a black face that was watching Conducted with every evidenceof disesteemon the part of his jailors to the office of the warden the biplane in the with same manner that is he was glasses acquainted with the fact that his fine had K been paid by no one less than the judge himself: The man in the white coat Alan assuredhimself solicitous then presentin portly and positively person was Barcus had told “If only you me you were a friend of And hardly had be comforted himself with this Mr Digby’S” the judge hastened to say as soon assurance when his sardonic destiny struck the two as the were ensconsed in the privacyof the dumb motor judicial limousine “I would have known better how Tn responseto his look of dashed inquiry tha to guide myselfin this unfortunateaffair aviator merely shook a weary head and muttered the “And if you will be good enough to indicate hpw words: "Engine trouble” else ?” may serve you Swiftly the earth rose to receive the volplaning "Digby didn’t offer any suggestionsin his wire Under Coast’s admirable handling It mechanism gather?” settled down almost withouta jar on the outskirts have It here” “One moment: of city whose a name Alan never learned I'd like bath and of “Naturally a a change or the biplane was barely at a standstill before clothes” Barcus pursued while the judicial breastpocket he was out and reeling with the giddiness that could do with was being explored “and affects after long flights making his £he first train out men way as transportationto New York-by best he might toward the manager’s office of this hole and ” — with a trainyard immediately adjacentto “This is what Mr Digby says” the judge inter-rupted the spot where they had come to earth laboriouslydecipheringthe message by the light of a ‘Please see to Immediate Lavish disbursementof money won him his way match: official that what he against protests demanded of one Thomas Barcus probablyin jail in jurisdiction for rioting on was an impossibility Within twenty minutes leaving your waterfront this Coastto follow on when and as best he might morning Pay his fine and instruct him to report earliest feasible hour Alan and Judith were spinning through open country to in York at Give me New in the cab of an all the engine running light with him money he wants and look to me for only clear track between it and the special remuneration’ — The several hours that ensued before the rear “Eh?” Barcus interruptedsitting up smartly lights of the special were brought to view were “what’sthat last again?” too none Patiently the judge repeated the sentence from many for the task imposed upon Alan 7 of the message overcoming the scruples of the engineer and L “ : don’t read farther You fireman “Thanks Please might Another minute and less than fifty feet separated come to something that vrould spoil it It’s almost the two— the special train and the light engine too beautiful as it stands” Barcus observed “Law Alan Is Saved by a Hydroaeroplane both hurtling through the night at top speed owes me five thousand or so liquidateddamages — but I’ll be reasonable risk this burg for a fifth bn his part was by a sound or rather a series of word to the boat in midstream— a boat bearing back to New far than he busy being a thereto With a engineer Alan crept out more advised train time and of that sum before promise to York not only the touring car of bold bad kidnaper Rose along the side of the boiler with only a greasy White ace but was in his power as we sustained sounds which had theretoforebeen — ask nothing more!” till then and foothold the cab of Mr His to him Possibly they had not handrail a between himself Barcus— the latter gentleman say in such cases intentionshowever were narrow death “I’ve suspectedthat existed possibly the and or something closely His private comment was: formed one of a small but interestedaudience nothing more blameworthy than to return her to what meant man servant whom he found all it should he be shaken off by the tearing this was a fairy-tale along Now know it is!” the arms of her doting parent an incident of character know because snoringin a chair outside a closed door had not uncommon wind and the swayingof the locomotive And this phase of incredulitypersisted in colorHe sav’ a young man hatless coatless almost sleuthed after ’em even to the house of Seneca fallen asleep and begun to snore until the moment shirtless tear the It Ing the complexion of his mirid until the moment down to the edge of one of Trine Later sleuthed when Alan set foot upon the lower step of that some more following a seemed an hour before he worked himself up final ascent the some hours later when the train connecting at Jersey wharves his heels snappedat by arevening furtive young man from the house of Trine to the to cowcatcher— now within four feet of the with the for vessel the Providence Midnight Express New rabble which office of the general manager of jump aboard a square-rigged New York No sound warned him of the door that opened rear platformof the special lay moored there and Central York pulled out of New Bedford bearinga transformed executea maneuver of where he made arrangements for a special at his back as ho stood watching the sleeping On this last he could see a woman’s figure by to Barcus— almost Impenetrably disguised in climbing up the rigging in a hopeless guard A piercing shriek was the first intimation against the light through the convey the said Trine and retinue to Chicago silhouetted bath a shave and a haircut an outfit of clothing and points West It leaves at three this he received that his a attemptto escapehis persecutors They were too discovered door and beside her a man in a white coat clinging presence had been into originally tailored for a him and what they to ascertain not It action: gentleman of discriminating for was were was unable whether or served as well to him instantly many worse move for dear life to the knob of the door — holding taste but no whit less disguised in the sense of by of police grimly Rose is to in this hegira but single glance him the headed a squad apparently as participate know a overshoulder showed the frantic efforts of it against some persons of shall affluence that goes with the possessionof one thousand bent on compassing the destruction their quarry On the of have of in being useful a maid-servant cap and gown her mouth to tear it open dollars in cash the mob bribed the traincrew to let me still wide and full of as was impersonate the sound— and Alan fell upon out Another hour of dragged or such suspense — should porter So you be moved to follow and the guard like a thunderbolt The Not until a sound night’s sleep had topped off And they swarmed up the rigging after him the effect while the light engine with intolerable man had barely was the beginning of his rest in jail did Barcus — withouta moment’s hesitation succeedin catching up with us and observeanybody time to come jump up and recognizethe alarm: then slowness bridgedthose four scant feet in the fist the point of his jaw and he down to earth Hotly pressed the fugitive climbed higher and who looks rather party— a him on caught by At length it was feasible to attempt the thing still don’t shoot: the said party will be me He demonstrated his return to common-sense higher until at length he gained the topmost returned promptly to deep unconsciousness Rose (he could see her strained white face quite yard with three making a round breakfastIn Grand Central station policemennot half a dozen feet “Yours for the quiet life Backing off Alan took a short run cleared the half over the rail of the car plainly now) was body of the guard with a leap and flung before looking up the residenceof Digby in the below him and popping away for dear life “TOM BARCUS” prostrate ahead ready to jump None the less there was no telling when some himself' full force against the door his shoulder telephone directory The second note yielded a communication written heart failed him It too His was hazardous a The informationhe garnered from the voice that accidentmight wing a bullet into the young man striking a point nearest the lock With splintering on notepaper of the simplest elegancein a risk He dared not let her take it answered the name of Mr Digby over the telephone and it was evident that he so decided crash it woman’s hand — a hurried scrawl: broke inward Without dignity or Something very like a shot sounded from the shook only momentarily Barcus innate or inchingout to the end of the yard he waved decorum he sprawled on all fours into the presence “They are taking me West by special train — train and that intimateacquaintancewith battle murder his hand something very like a bullet whistled toward his persecutorswith a gesture of don't know "where or why A servanthas promised of Judith Trine the inevitable past his and sudden death was cheek and proved the signal for several reward of lightheartedderision that unmistakably identified to see that this reaches you Save me!" “Poor Mr Law!” she cried with a mocking nod him more as Alan Law to Mr Barcus and forthwith Over this Alan associationwith this friend of his heart wrinkled an incredulousnose I’m so sorry truly am!” "always disappointed! — Someone had opened one of the-side windows “Alan being married to Rose Trine in Jersey dropped to the water feetforemost The hand the hand of Rose but the phraseology was “Oh spare me your sarcasm” he begged resentfully and was City at this very minute!” he breathed skeptically emptying a revolver at him Alan took the water neatly came up uninjured not in her spirit He was examined it more "It’s ridiculous enough this whole mad the booth memorizing the and Strangely that knowledge steadied h!s nerves as he emerged from clearheaded and without an instant’s hesitation closely and thoughtto detect beneathits semblance business Straining and bar so hot of the alleged officiating clergyman “I don’t struck the of the — forward holding onto a middle Hudson cf haste a away toward deliberateand carefully guided pen she insisted with such “But am not sarcastic” that it he offered a hand to believe it it’s too sudden” scorched his palm As this happened the police ran to the stern of He picked up the envelopeto compare the handwriting sincerity-that he opened his eyes in wonder “Be-lieve the girl on the rail the square-rigger the' orthwith he engaged a taxicab to convey him unmoored a dory that was riding of w’ith that of the enclosure is and not address sorry for once it me am fell She hand confidentlyinto it jumped to exorbitant there and threw themselves into it out a Trey of Her Jersey City at toj speed for an Hearts locked here! you find up or you see His arm wound round her as she landed on the reward During the (to Barcus at least) breathless1 suspense face' with a This' last was covered as to its by am locked up of that chase the way of punishment— thanks to He ferryboat drew stolidly plain ywritten platformof the heard her breathe And when from the forward deck of a ferryboat message: my having had pity on you once too often — while his he farther and still farther Barbeheld a dense volume of smoke advertising name then hurriedly passed her between himself away from the scene “With’thc compliments of Seneca Trine to Alan parts unmy father' decamps mysteriously for shore and the boiler to the footwayat the side on the Jersey not far The a conflagration cus could not tell whether as it seemed the policeat Law We are due in Chicago eleven tomorrow known— laden dory was really Alan from the waterfront he shook a moodily sagacious Alan or whether fireman was waiting there to help her overhauling leave'immediately for the Pacific morning and “You don’t know’ where he’s gone-then?” head the illusion Of perspectivedeceived him1' coAst via Santa e route’-turnedhis attention to Barcus he “Do you?” she asked sharply his he that the “If Alan isn't mixed up in At all events it seemed a frightfully near thing To dismay found engine was Comparison-between this and the By special train to the message general way I'm a could losing declared “he’s missinga bet for once-r-and when the interruptionbefell which to be from-Rose distilled the ground The space was widening rapidly conviction “In a failure as a prophetof’ woe and disaster!” have saved Alan West — Barcus released the knob and threw himself sorry that the hand was responsiblefor both same Rose?’’ of the the rail Out very sky “Taking over There was as much intuitive apprehension as droppeda hydroaeroplane Alan shrugged So lie was to be lured away 5 “So I’m told”-’ dutting the water with a long graceful witness the from by By a miraculous flying leap the man accomplished humor responsiblefor this remark curve that New York and Rose this transparent v quickly The brought it almost pt a standstill directly to thez that incrediblefeat and fact that on landing he risked the delay required trick was he? No fear! woman choked upon her anger but gained the plathave a look1 at the fire head of the swimmer and at the time forced form to turn aside and plenty of masteredit same With time on his hands he :gave the “He shall nay for this!” she asseverated the police boat-to sheer J It proved to be situated in the heart of a squalid widely off in order to serious and An instant later ten feet separated the engine matter consideration concludedto take wish him of the poorest class collision father? more nor from the special the the a wretched tenement “Your nothing as engineer applied no chances: it was just possible that Trine 'and less than your enmity” Alan assured her civilly whose roof had alreadyfallen whose walls Immediately the swimmer caught the pontoonof trip after brakes taken Rose with him on his the momentarily threateningto go by the time all And this he did none too soon: for at the same were hydroaeroplane pulled himself up out of the In such case the only possible way of overtaking “But since it seems that he has gone and I’llRose be with him if you’ll forgive me think time Marrophat and scene water and clamberedto the seat beside the aviator the special would be by air line another appeared oh the rear Barcus arrived on the distance from him small considerable a going platform and At a Before he was fairly seated the plane was swing-ing Promptly Alan called up 'the aviation fields at opened a hot but thanks to the — back into its fastest pace “Alone?” widening distance' ineffectual fire disturbancehad broken out — a 'clamorof protesting Hempstead Plains and’ got into communication voices lifting about the rumor of the mob the cf wild-goose it left the yes” With ease a with a “Why— The engine ground slowly to a halt as the rear — as water gentleman answering to the surname of roughs one and of the special train swept from sight a number of men mounted the long grade of an air lane described Coast the' same birdman who had come to Alan’s “You wouldn’tcare for a companion du voyage?” round vide circle above the bluffs of bend all wedge and with his hydroaeroplane she a began to force their way in a Weehawken rescue suggested heart through the throng making toward its swept away southwards Their arrangements were quickly consummated (To be continued) “Oh — really’’ he protested “What did of m LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE himself-in of him—someone bar a a B D agreeingto wait Cortlandt park prepared if need that day of BIRDMAN o’clock in the evening deposited at the Hotel -to I— the brilliance II— Van in -“hunch” a sentencedat 10 m p when his pristine Coat the haze and - violent at to - a was lost -to "death-sign” of He presently Lynch motorcar — firebug!’’ and at this the and mob turned gentleman whose weather-beaten — and duster motoring-cap covered little clothing man and streamed away in pursuit of an and trousers and assorted- oddly quarry who chose to attempt his escape more than shirt the with the 'rather by a route directly opposite that which would in the eyes of desk-clerk have led him within view of Mr guest meticulouslyturned-out known to 'him as Barcus Mr Startled and of a sudden persuaded that there Arthur Lawrence and to the management of than: was the hotel' as Mr Alan Law’ incognito might have been more in his sanely to be credited- Barcus started up and was Eventually persuaded the clerk yielded up the key to Mr on the point of steppingout of his cab if with a Lawrence's suite of rooms together rather with two notes superscribedwith the same nom aimless purpose when he was stayed by sight of that evil white face returningthe de way it guerre had V which Alan’s impatiencew as so great that he could come — still in the hollowof theto flying the disorganization hardly wait to these communications until" faster examine now made progress thanks of the he was quit of the public eye mob by the chase of the alleged v The first proved be a characteristic com incendiary And now Barcus saw the man of the white face munication: was not alone “Dear Ulysses— Thanks for the jail delivery There was someone with got in this morning just in time to whose head was bended and face motor over to but who seemed to be feminine Jerseyin hopesof seeing your finish as a bachelor instead was favored by' being made an involuntary And so Barcus argued why might it not be Rose Trine suffering new persecutionat the hands of witnessto your spectacularascent following her unnatural father’s creatures? almost equally spectacularhigh-dive your “But to business: my time is limited in half He was too far away to nake sure and attempt "but he pointed for any White ace but an hour interference more am due to doublein black-face to his chauffeuras the V reacheda touring car on the purposes of the author of this melodramatic farce the edge of the mob and the woman was lifted in which you no doubt call the history of and (unresisting apparentlyin a dead faint) and yourgrande passion well' several things “I say when the touring car swung round and picked up mean to — its heels the taxicab of Mr When saw you snatched out of the North river Barcus trailed villain In a as if it was a pertinacious shadow was engaged in trailing a pale-faced later from the rear deck of a ferry concerning whom you probably know Ten minutes motorcar Lyngh by prisoner was as one invisible Vance) of Hearts Is the employed SYNOPSISTrine — The in Secena the private war of vengeance which through the agency of hla daughter Judith woman of son passions like his own ha wages against Alan Law the man (now dead) who was unintentionally responsible for'the accident which rendered Trine helpless cripple Alan is in Jove with and is in- turn loved by Bose Judith’s Judith vows twin and double but in all else her opposite to compass Alan’s death but under dramatic circumstances he saves her life and so unwillingly wins her love Thereafter Judith Is by turns actuated by the old hatred the new love and Jealousy of her sister Rose The latter is by her father’s orders and conveyed to low dive In the slums of Jersey City from which Alan rescues her after accidentally setting the tenement on flre 3 it ARI IL BarCus engulfedin light folds of creepingin from seawards to dim eight About A ' LIES CROW A it Joseph by Louis (Copyright 1914 this quarter D1X A 1 the not it is that in sight of Mr that were tarnish the ‘ this meant Mr Barcus had not the slight-est idea But his attention first distracted by was ““The Trey O'Hearts" may novo be seen at the leading arrangement moving picture theaters By this unique therefore only ilm Mfg vrfh the Universal possible to read "The Trey nearestthe burningbuilding fite-lines What of installment H U t I tell ” I I ” I I I I connected God-forsaken “ release ” rpr — I I inaudible witnessing resembling I I I I ' despair indistinctly afternoon I I I figure inside off-chance I off-color - f a conviction I I address ” I Rosewhom I I -—andshook I cow-catcher - ? 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