Show Se BL1ON EOLLAP 1 a MYSTERY A tz Harold Mac Gith fr ft! r $10000 OR HUNDRED ONE toward the ships riding at anchor lorencefelt her heart sink in spite of her abundant courage Were they going to take WORDS ‘ “ The Million Dollar Mystery” story will run for twenty-two consecutive weeks this By an paper arrangementwith the Thanhouser ilm company it has been made possible notonly to read the story I literary nature will be a considered in the decision nor given any preference in the selection of the winnerof the $10000 prize The last two reels which will give the most acceptable solution to the my$will be presented in the theaters having this feature as soon as it is possible to produce the Tle story corresame ‘spending to these motion pictures will of in ! her s but-Olio this paper id see it each week the various moving picture theaters this or the solution of mystery story $10OOQ will be given by the Thanhotlser ' in ilm wit mystery front which the last two reels of motion picture and the last two drama will be made chapters of the story written by Harold I Nol — What — What — Whom — What loyd Lonergan and The judgmentof this absolute and final Nothing Somethingwhite seemedto be At first water far behind discern ! a - - - - from wSW'S'jiji-: - Z ' f r M s r i s s $ ' s a 4 f ' V J" ' s - 4'y ' ' ' ' - X- ' t ' ' g -t ' ! ' ' ' V r s w '' ’ 'y ’ j " ?-c-' ’aX4 - '--s' After falling in their first attempt the lorence They Black Hundred trap nsk for money but she escapes again them Norton and the countess call on lorence the next day once more safe at home The visitors having gone Jones removes a section of flooring nnd front cavity- takes a box a Pursued by members of the Black Hundred he rushes to the water front and succeeds In dropping the box into the sen 1914: (Copyright: am the truth deeply is Harold MacGrath) be to woman But turning the point had side and slept the of been the had hij admiring goal Interviewing reached Black He had fact this “ swing in over Jones Hundred always about to opening his work playing reiterated his warnings the ground Black Hundred Ha keep deserted their former agent of knew nothing H® years no more So will received Th the would seen that Jones the had ourteen few reality in ward to than all this would it confidence renewed menace than deeper went to this giving no which he that they the end him telephone building secret service wanted to him find trying over was stronghold He by man could lead him to he ATKat he has ‘Who Norton hotel the freighter had going he man Vroon the saloons for He peace a It it?" asked is of a in that ‘a it success wa low lay serious the policy of month & relaxed He game his vigilance did not care to that part in lose sight of The ’’sir” the at ’ ran to Jones and seized him she cried he as Norton love: and a thing as the paths Ygu “ ‘ sir!” would forget all Black Hundred by with Jones’ about “Yes -such So the the lilacs and the summer days the Hargreavehome But roses embowering the fact that lorence Norton- took note of schoolgirl he was no longer the light hearted had first met Her trials had made a serious eyes widened and ft’s the by - Shall - first and I ever heard Jcres you lt use over the telephone were talking to my father!" lorence do not ask me any “ Please Miss questions cannot any dare not” should “But if command upon the' pain you I I -answer I - of dismissal?" coldly ft? 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' ' e that asked the you?” to know that Jones Mr till love die?” I in tha stepped into They off and to In tor the back mask his bones found of which With and in there million will save her hour or an - matter of empty of the CON EW took and Can differ the two be its waste a be le3 to when she happened struck at personal he present knew Our agent will separated But plad to time' by an him ride but mercy permitted launch Always somethinglike this Jones time this' they had and her heart all safety became as knew that she of ' As a hysterical matter was wait call for once When 'deductions wrong deposited Susan on chauffeur peremptorily “ they their It shouted her? had--got enemy’s strike? would Corey They They A half an lonely country road several miles from home tho raftrficrra annnnQ nnn aiJV AUU 1XW4WVV LU MV home sent Susan very concise message' to thia strange becoming acclimated c IV w But Susan! put lorence in Coreystreet'- He of riorence out ner desire popular story of the day — from the net The letter had ex-citirg was existence - S “ not to her was with “WeR when the next z direction was perhaps She stared these father’s questions but scoundrels daughter she time pretended make you speak We’ve got you There wonlt be any we’ll comes ' trip money is what danger nothing to face lorence this possibility now that he knew arrived Norton Just The Queen hotel meant would not be taken there Jones were in due mapping out a message came “Good girl!” said Jones time and plan when he and Susan’s “ put “She’slearning our - i aud we’re going Let her be” all to keep said me you the questions destination”And you” Vroon The ” weeks We don’t lie any better ork over You’ll have to trust no use for Hie girl once we get money first do We have cash” the “ And you’ll never touch a pennyof it you cried Nortonfrom the doorway blackguard!" The agent turned to behold the reporter and but He girl - bolted however And “ I if money I’d did not stop He "never got “We’ll when we’re at we wish he noddedsignificantly " But Jones to atk questions beyond the door ' “Always doesn’t morosely Har-greave’e aea voyage jump overboard We are tired of fighting" really was The strain had yours Jones Indeed than you -this where we want you jumping overboard this session believe We’ve got We’ve wasted enough time or another not will Iset at no more nonsense” fifteen minutesto decide”begged been terrific for the bird she agent Jauntfly you money tha?t takes th® was if As motor boat a It Hoemlled cornered hoping against hope teen secondfe!” can’t do business What!’ Give we you a million knowing you all to be a pack of liars? Bring Miss lorence back and the hear- pretty want the could have small have do any good they told me shrugged TO BE fry” put given it - been written against Jones became cool times “Then ns plied' her They many and Give me hour behind that she we've I time this million “ and The been- her lorencenever opened her lips ahead proudlyl She would show j flown Jones could vigilance slacked street— that had had at the foot the tho and policemen we? -- Hundred" wantedJones had daughter he saw Susan he was going to take her his arms and kiss her It nii’ght be a new sensation to kiss Suran always so prim and lorence’s happily were Norton lart old fox haven’t in - fact "Well was a wild after him So offish conduct si Half time tho actual no lorence as the swim J one heard tha bell from' the Black Hundred I well on till then her of or in Norton? They house again for believe as unmindful They could take number a hundredtimes for all h Several he-went cared cunningly thought nothing thrills of this alone the of out his license waiting a me were after me hour gone!” ‘‘Trust me!” cried Norton And he ran out to his auto the man for She an water a dle J:' ' answer The Bjlack were of to disobeyed she lorence the She was merely to be held physicaldanger Would Susan have mentality as a hostage' enough to tell Jones jvhere the taxicab had She’ doubted stopped? In an emergency bunSusan had proved herself a nonentity It fact they had containing lorence recognized that handle you want a camel a submarines python run Xf engines a vrari able to fight think go without and live without water machines four years At the moment lorence to jump he dropped he called out to th® to water with all the skill of an old timer he coaid not nso a and took her aboard And they madly toward knew railroad run to walk food Ilk® StJ ' the butler’s all required seven taxicab spun Here herself gone less returned with house able shoot ft- locate the reporter to effective threat Vroon would MWI ' Sf 'ftftz a saved " during Norton It however as It calls front almost as oauiy as for a book— some had ‘X'-'AkAWV? ' ’ called up' "Meantime Susan the contents: "lorence power Only the surrender of an a ‘JL Ilka and’ read our A IN patience ent what was was a letter on waa drawn the fatal black shaking fingers he tore open the be' envelope i'Ais now JMSA J?- vX'vWmK’X'J THE MACHINE THE RETURN HOME BUT A MINUTES He had' been the find it” of ! - SAE vehemently the taxicab man!" pommel the to that?" have I of showed his card flying maid two Jones -minutes-when be to K5NA: ? maid The proof later the returns? bushes balance priorto with demanded this the It was a dumfounded aviator who his caw hydroplane skim the water and a moment sail into the air These swift moving days a reporter of the first caliber is supposed -s & VYlini hiding driven five 'c c H something go not listen longinj i S3 running come struck will Norton yards away Norton had not served twelve years as a He metropolitan newspaper man for nothing approachedthe mechanicswho were puttering about the machine “ How about twentyapiece?” hs began “or what?” the men asked “ or sending that paddl® around a fi?w times” “ Get up into that seat but don’t touch those levers” any of one of them warned “ Twenty is twenty Jack and the boss a sorehead today anyhow Give her a shove for : '-ft the fun me to dreading feller that Norton and badge “ O I ieP’ jeered the aviator “A little am to be the newspaper stunt In which It can’t be done Mr goat Norton it can’t be done” “A hundred dollars!” “Not for five hundreS” and the aviator callously turned away towardthe youngwom-an with whom he had been conversing Norton’s approach The two walked a ''Mr V if Susan the man “What -WT ” S P a I most valuable asset- He was furious not only the maid who be realised was virtually helpless but nt his negligence own In the midst of his violent haranguethe bell '-As I stubborn Ji &' 7 expostulated '' '' w Queen tvn-r-i ” did?!’ time Thanks!” But tho aviator would “ A life may hang fax :J lorence lorence?” the man let sounded the turned ft: ’ - wait “ I t ' ' patiently ' “ ? littleabove hydroplane a Interest “ 1 $ at in said r ' 1 ftp Injury been I've did not not And going “Why?" - of 4 U I : x:$ I wants wraps What is 'his purchase ' th’f! the primrose sometimeshe went I to I f come at once serious the asked He long" youngwomen : ' that?” mJ livHB hurt might W- "fe' " i' ! - back minutes the at there’s a Yoxt v S badly to But here 1'1 Z had five the receiver on the hook hurt How “Aly who Why were than ! i- was S I taxjcab conveniently There happenedto be near (as Vroon took care there should be) lorence at once engaged it and She did not ? 7? attention - Who ” t'' M I a stepping for lorence’s ' -1 V f ’ ' " caught I- feel her duty ' She arm the flight if whom he was positive was ready for offered itself the slightest opportunity went I’d “At least you will leave word where you lorence” are going Miss The Queen hotel And if you ray another word I’ll discharge you Come Susan" Jones of da’ suggested “ been? J word M -s hurt Susan O se’ the man careful” So Hargreave menage had thirty days of Braine always watched however or never ' detective a “ she' - for character am lorence?” it badly Where? was to all r such of without is lorence ’ Hundred to raid the water 3 V Susan” Where Miss “ have lorence W '-Sk ' A years runs it” I ' £$ immediately?" come bell alive to knew you S - ' f is once had 5 week did not know the Black the out the search Jim me moment Where happened?" &A ' ! all the same She stopped You? 31 k to' He was wanted to fly fly where? Susan Susan!" she called maid’s route at ?v s M Mr ' ’-iM the is before just conscious is a go down ons man strike to rang r into the room at of I has been and Alt Jones tell just now how will “What '-new was he began 'A rf V - going into ring came the bouse Morse Norton lie you “ Jones held up lorence warning hand and paused hear perfectly O “Yes yes You’va been working out their quarters? Good But be very careful sir good One never They have1 been knows what may happen! quiet for some time now Ahl You can’t xork the celling this Wintime?' Very good sir But be dow over the way lie lie haunted so But the day as the left Yes yes !” lorence snapped when ! front after bit Braine a plan for the present for ! been preconceived a reach it for them Jones you cannot She ’ not wait Hargrcaveplace?" lorence “Who is it?” Hargreavetalking?" Dr Mr him I the But Miss is wants We ward wild luck and of toM be to 'Af rung again at that moment probable that the day would close a said This is a shadowinghim to “Yes” ‘ no half way no draw ba the piano left “Hello! the futilityof saw was OfA - get quite is the ha threshold the to one This man made be trap Braine to this There — Vroon lorence corner he found a in one turned men find should the new to and He die wonder the telephone “Yes” “This is a or start mt I and Sb® see but the other boat has half an hour’s I’d never catch her fri and a thousand 5 purpose at if should as struggle?” Yes “ for his hat this those thunderbolts of they were The battered that Norton We hve universal" replied come Is “ defensive win we unending this set truth must after Jones 'had Hundred always all a vith waiting I monotonous! been on the fighter may last wins and the butler must There where gutted hall ago always there could reminded state to the if That’s have an begun the Black have there any “Struggle? None that T could make no fuss about going” “ Have you a launch?" didn’t S I playing and and -8UMED bitter defeat had him of needless is had defensive a did not It all viewed had a “Was sorry" am “ Get me anything you phase better with a little sunshine” Chopin incarceration or but he seldom knew hint turmoil this accomplishedhe He long while by so abruptly the river I more on Black lorence he ’-Is 1 to you something new read? am going down to the drug store and they have a: circulating library" “ Jones nocturne warfare the death off and a cloudy could hear ago had was ene-'mles was But face to usual mental weeks the counterfeit story But scoop his rivals on he set to work exploring the cellar of the : : th® of one possession cared he his affairs as about any give his and He vA rw wx - the of ov‘a’ajixv ant K9fiK3MI!0eSnCt — himself perhaps I does just seem sometimes vistas for are once her for anil it that secrecy it with me strike Shall Sunday edition move down depressed by seri-ous few years really began inconsequentmembersof Always they struck arid check a More i rather cheerless a he all with him agent chess the is comfort to laid realize Jones I And “ “ sky wearily and who an attorney his clients than It had gloomy today little same but that has nothing : recall thk -M a He me ing" the like not was place AU this came about somethingafter this fashion When Nortonarrived at the foot of Corey street a boatman Informed hhn that a young woman of his description had gotten into fast motor boat and had gone down I made the desire very a mad go ' The and rather rent had been paid a eight has been these last it as of be board Hundred The day was the building have to leased that he only his cry softly very sorry” said the butler that he is all O history this Already then the had The had dealt through knew it had except place advance In year they whom the do with to able absolutely quarters was have tapped cannot dismiss control here in to sorry mysterj' and back Only to had his new the to who his desk mate chapter of novel first a would no longer be th® organization They tabs on are the same as of old fattening his had been redouble! Indeed he went ever as he conceded point to the over repair am “It detective by specials that chap Alanders began j a to who mind It taken man-rilrd changedthe course of the launch The hydroplaneveered its courts to salt lorence heard her name called faintly One of th® men drew revolver but Vroon knocked it out of his hand “ There’s the police boat you fool I” “Jump!" ® voice called to lorence She flung herself into the water withoutth® lev'’’-iar- yw -vitfA - “ phase was this him that you the law and some of the lighter magazines Sometimes ha had vague dreams of writing a play a novel and making a tremendousfortune like than less proven am tord between gaze went pay envelope dis-11 that and luck might his cautions the signify that the might future the good the and Jones and perhaps Italian garden as the organization time this even with the butler was reach to her of young Jones told as was signally failed sought turbed I Had the more enchanting to side also Her of over the outcome They Braine chagrined both however and Jones that you legally v but before Its contents the box mysteriously rendezvous which be barren of results lorence” forget I you” to Violence it by counterfeit deal broken sorry fact The timely discovery of the plot by Nor-' ton sets the police at the heels of the pack and results in a raid on the gang’s CHAPTER XV ANOTHER TRAP SET I Miss “ you me: by word connivance foiling wr a’--? s his palm slightest hesitation Ah “ are examined disappears Owing to the falllsig off of contributions to the parent in Russia organization nn agent arrives and assumes the leadershipof the American branch of the Black Hundred- Through the of the countess and Braine the new head is thoroughlyhumiliated inding himself checkmated at every turn Braine endeavors to enmesh the in lhe law in Hnrgreave household' order to gain free access to the house her x--vv SiOii secured police v- - ft pocket return hands w for us!” under pursuit had test yonder -his g-us Orient’s that To quickly 'SHE LUNG HBfiSeL' INTO THE WATER recovery Norton lays a trap for Braine and his Knng CountessOlga also visits the captain and she easily falls' into the reporter’s The plan snare proves abortive through Braine’s good luck and only hirelings fnll Into the of the stared credible j £ 3 thing’s heading Vroon kA 1SB § band The “ 'xA - -above the hydroplane not to tak® was Impossible for th® men notice of the barking of th® engines at last ' - s by the came It ? -'£ Vs ' fish-ernien hug® on and evident' that that was her prison—bound for nearer for her? it ortunately XI s I ' PREVIOUS CHAPTERS be line towarda n C ' ' S StanleyHargreave inLIMonntre after n Accomplices o£ Braine kidnap lorence miraculous escape from the den o£ the while she is shopping and hurry her off grans of brilliant thieves to She lenps known as the sea overboard and is picked Black Hundred Ilves the life of a up In a dazed condition by cluse for eighteenyears The Hargreavenc Black Hundred locate her cldeutallymeets Braine leader of the and Braine disgruised as hexfather takes HincJc Hundred Knowing Bralue will her back to iortnce reefs ea with him try to set him he escapes from his fire to the boat and is rescuedby a Sliifj own home by n balloon Beforeescaping- he on which Norton has been shanghaied writes a letter to the Kiris’ school where lorence safely ashore Norton and eighteen years before he mysteriously take the train for home The train Is left on the doorstep his baby daughter wrecked Norton who tries to rescue lorence Gray Yhat day Hargreave lorence her is tied to the railroad tracks also draws pl000000 from the bank bnt him nnd finally Jones saves it Is comes reported that this droppedinto to the rescue of both when the balloon be escapedin was the rendenvonsof the Concealed punctured Black Hundred a man learns of the lorence arrives from the girls’ school from the sea of the box of jewels Countess Olga Braine’s companion visits by n sailor and of its subsequent her nnd claim her as a relative Two to the bottom of the sea and he bo detectives call but their plot Is quickly the fact to Jones foiled by communicates Norton a newspaper man A duplicate in planted and later bribing the captain of the Orient it to -deviate the mile farther a ” X 'A- ' -s- S indirectly talk Wm z X e A v By their from gave coming did not it looking of where? Nearerand ? I 4 K § bird into the actuality were quarter a freighter was : f & over she could not watched it it emerged from th® towardthe launch the men “ theca grew gigantic a of freighter s spinning she finally It hair’s breadth a i ' As was heart an everyday hydroplane Her great bound This flying machinewas of i it directly connected cither directly or with The Million- Dollar Mys-iery” will be considered as a contestant Nobody what grew illusion g - MI Oil gone about four miles down when back longingly' toward shore looked the i ' I s SYNOPSIS 10® I countess? Harold MacGrath Mae Tinee O she i I and becomes of the millionaire? becomes of the $1jOOOOQ docs lorence marry? becomes of the Russian' No 2 No 3 Noi?i " be ? I power Theyhad 'v- ' ’ s-as fgr as- practicable in printing the last two chapters of the story by Harold MacGrath will also shoto a picture of the successful contestant Solutions to the mystery must not be inord than 10Q words long Here are tome questions to be kept in mind in connection with the mystery as an aid to a solutions be sent to the Thanhouser ilm corporation either at Chicago or New York Jan any time up to midnight This allows several weeks after the last chapter has been published board of three judges will determine A which of the received is the many solutions acceptable The most judges arc to be will r so MacGrath Solutionsmay boUrd P " ' a pictures soon The prize of $10900 will be won by the writes the most man tvoman or child who acceptable solution of the r ' ' the or newspaperscoincidentally after the of the appearance practicable 'With the last as two reels will be shoicn the pictures'of the winz: his err her home and other interesting ncrfeatures It is that the newspapers understood in ' s v appear corporation H ' ! " CONDITIONS GOVERNING- THE CONTEST ' - r - in to She had acquired a horror sea again? the sea eo big so terrible so strong She had had an experience with its sullen of fi to to talk ha was sighed my himt to Jones hands on Ah girl does you dying!” CONTINUED th( fi it? |