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Some day when that the box her an idle glance which Later Braine came in beside Olga 'was re and sat kind like plain sailing” between the Perk second acts Servan took the rear chair of his box Braine near the curtain watching with the eyes of lynx suddenly observed up the Be that hand seeming reachedback Be get you stirring In With pers shan’t messages curtains through to them away in’ Braine rose hand A was was a packet and 'took the papers thrust of paindifference lorence " immediately at of in the city to- any phone need of previous at ’ written or Shoot 'We’H' make any far-tonight you time! the And more shall I message You strange inquiries after” “If “It know “ “ you going?” asked Olga nerv- To see Otto” bold attempt was made to rob Servau wlpleNn the box but the timely arrival of Jim frustrated this plan So Braine was forced to rely the chauffeur of the Hmon - ousine As Braine out and last Olga thrilling note died rose it away is ” card mean you said ” ! finger at Otto a “ Lift Sure it’s ountain up well an’ we’ve been lookin’ You’ll th’ be here mornin’ sir” necessary” be may forgery ’em be-to th make he added a tc against ’ Otto’s pal don’t I ' Jones the last cheap - V and Nortonand station Jones Servan trooped ’ and the reporter entered a lunchroomand ordered coffee and toast a wonderful man Jones even if are an Englishman” said Jim as he You’re you called for the check “ English? What ” English? asked makes Jones -with ter in his eyes “I’ll tell you on under Braine and :the-night Jones ' arrar’s and I it him” well” of “ “ Where are “ Enteredthis him” you? badge Very stowing V“A rob to who’re Servan And the second in into the captain months on the Hast Norton my thanks Take sargeant to said Jim you for ten Mr complaint At the beginning said' jim leveling that hat lift Pen Otto! Well Servan pocket a outside the captain out goes shoulderedthem there up box a the captain’s desk tried Hey ! you hundred demanded showedhis Oho for first and f “ I’ll present Partegas of with you” He to An’ ! Jim case low Olga shrugged slightly During the intermission car and Uh-huh buy I’ll Oul we are prisoners man’s next a attention to In whispered in Norton I twenties for the box a you I’m rich But That ! “What’s this?” “ Holdup men” handsomelygownedj’oung woman Everythinglooks “ the sleeves yet phone down without quick in Here “ threw paid confering certain no He his box entered a “ pocket tLe police station he curled police hundred” chuckled his to want?” outlined his needs in his sat that of “ What ive Drive the very nearest hire you for my chauffeur shall expect at least my own charity” Listen” finally the chauffeur nodded were pressed into his hand and his seat again happen chaps I “The voice interested do you ride ride would this you ” ! on I like morning ” the conspirator shaking Norton aimiably To what my lord particular shall head this omnibus?” “Yes would you ! mo the any door” said Servan it” perfectly quiet chauffeur on out joy n Servan to be I the strike to business have revolver" thought We “ owner make his captors mention of good the confiscated shouldn’t I friend” from free Don’t “ Jones joy Briefly will had ' your And huddled ously will “Thanks my voice a the chauffeur of and in out by Give “ beat it” said cold sinister looking a And “ One documents we’ll ” 1 ” 1 papers slip Keep regulations The the side at be the to getting coco and reached to going in backedby war himself traffic ' important enemies automatic attempt what gentlemen those sir” night and hundred!” Now you’ve got “No Andit no circumstancesleave shall probably be followed I not send to exchanged “ seat take of Servan cried the victor the on minute the to knew pocket ” ! station said Braine night Good kind- I’ve to Under than are Twenty” Good up Up Remember approached after dinner I’ll " are going by chauffeur boy my due that he succeeded the voice spoils for him the chauffeur all Servan’s a the I’ll of slowly act Jones asked documents? who from of for exploit was this crack a Just “ “ of men from Done him wait in treachery valiantly the easily you wish” the limousine he was forcibly Geized by two who men if Servanentered end of apartments declared dismissed the limousine to The money?” much?” listlessly “ calmly needed With Jdnes our Pay wartyof any trap like Nowr I’m off” deal Moujik to some “ luck-stones' when covered that Tin us of opera at S:30 wait for die one house these papers betweenthis him got I’ve the any write He Paris Servan this drove wheeled demanded “A - he has ‘ Ah with get the num had no difficulty fixed calls registers from have But It to Braine - know I to shoot to could formation 'about that paper going to Washington and will have arranged not We -difficulty there” papers T He good that our friend Jones not Jones then Norton the least at the opera they have If fool a Chance ' ’ T “ nothing possible later Come succeeded” said Braine’ ” go to Doubtless box a the would predecessor I will his With Perhapsthis its have “ liver than CEKVAN? entered a drug store and telephoned Jim' waited outside When the man came but he strolled up the street and entered the near est saloon Jim’s work was done It Braine’s lieutenant was however who took the news to Braine presently beep totally destroyed successful QT HLNRI spy withdrew a in trap had be more a It the infinite patience take care At from also wjithdrajrn papers was again’locked and lowered and the cunning spider hud the quaint stained water salt quietly it was place to badly still the in its A box immersion its busy trap across the handle The CAPTURE was undisturbed A peace goodclay America Surely” “ ' has in wovena lock time accomplished once the Black to lay THE LAN she asked will go to the box before do spend' some time at the curb that this Servan chap arrives sure quite those were out his seat man” and is by but bis limousine which hurried round save My “ with mad I got 4? 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That !s to menaced by Siberia becomes poisoner a feather pursue Hargreave “Enough of this learn to before pit a “If we thinking “ Jim?” He “ of futureis bound interview undesirable papers and United States I plenty I is his head danger?’’ be considered white rom formerly failed still So “And folded our itents 7tell fee! it you you force if U3 Be “ smile “Well?” kink?” “ What I altogether is And “ familiar are most quietly shall never I going Wash to we house for come have have time that there and TJhe white “ be off We We is caution” Y ’ “ lor near the end” shall see my father?” I Jones bent “There is “There is ’ means” this whispered end?” just “And into it” laws” man Olga bones fall the Mt all the time has you It stole away A ’’ “A said left money “There have but pack to I new that warned diffi-him “ I who out just what It the are near Very “ was seen coming out of the Rusfrom the secretaries of state and a dozen other offices I’ve got war find “ The documentsto “We embassy and to watch The spy left by one entrance and Jim by another Jim ha-d learned what he desired: that the Russianagent would be followed to “ ' - out — & ence He sian to somewhere “ — - ALL THEME Norton in ' HANIM I ' that see some wait” “ It can” “Because want you ington” Washington? “ Yes want you to “ a Vi I ' cigarette y That these papers or his agents concern us vitally am certain That is why am going toget them if there Lasto be a murder at the opera tonight has been to Washington himself thousand a inscribed had he the two be happy since and have proved it in long a for the Jim till he affairs after human N v on ways” butler o t that flyer” watched him subway the love each other - T ? 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Z M i -Z v-y- VKyXjX ” laughed invisible smoked it” chuckled Jones L -w a ' ’ Anything up eyed keen I the letter and had a V’ — ' ' W MV? 7 ’A- 8 mussed Wi '' ' L’ v-vx 8 bit a " ' ' ‘A all look S'Sh- ' n v- ” ! : xa done be Z Nyy : " butler down vz ' w cL v y -y :’ :z: : a?5WI4Viy5ik't ' “ way The ' ' ’’wvm’v iX: xy venue ad-to ' ' s would It ® KA again” over of would have every ’Importanceto her safety Braine loses hope of the $1 000 000 and turns to re father’s a all at begin to fear Norton and plan to dispose of him Again the unnoticedbutler shows his hand by rescuingNorton and defeating Braine Hight for the Black mean long Hundred or time under cover if our friend Braine learned that Russia was taking an active interest now in the doings of the Black Hundred And eventually checkmated Black Hundred angel Jones J Braine endeavors to enmesh the Hargreave household in the law In order to gain free access to the house The timely discovery of the plot by sets the police Norton at the heels of the pack and results in a raid on the STans’a rendezvous which however provesto be barrenof results a answered himself turn our affairs a serious fallen into alien hands?” had it : r § lears half an that te duplicate in “ indirectly recovery No” said Jones Would it have given “ turn connected either directly or with “The Million Dollar Mystery be considered as a contestant Concealed at the rendezvous of the Black Hundred a man learns of the of the box from the sea by a sailor and of its subsequent return to the bottom of the sea and he quickly communicates the fact' to Jones A box is planted and later secured by the baud but before its contents are examined the box mysteriouslydisap pose” his keep 8 marry? Russian the of PREVIOUS CHAPTERS O He to becomes will The about he met necessary asked he — 4— What Nobody niy first Svliwv 1-— No her as a then sec target a after the whom at or countess? XXI PAPERS O Jones venture hour later I newspapers last No By Harold MacGrath 1814: ft ! Solutions to the mystery must not be long Here more than 100 words are some questions to be kept in mind in connection with the mysteryas an aid to a solution: What becomes of the millionaire? No 2 What becomes of the $1000000? No 8 — Whom does lorence Ilar-greave CHAPTER -— understood Diack Hundred lorence a means of making for their attacks They are $1000000 and Braine their leader sets traps for lorence The Black Hundred after a number of attempts fail due to the the wisdom of Jones butler and Norton a newspaper man Copyright: - far as practicable in printing two chapters 'of the story by Harold will also show a picture of the successful contestant any time up This allows The - so after Stanley Hargreave millionaire miraculous escape from the den of gang of brilliant thieves known ns the Ilves the life of a Black Hundred recluse for eighteen years Hargreave accidentally meets Braine leader of the Brainwill Black Hundred Knowing try to get him he escapes from his own home by a balloon Before escaping' he letter to the girls’ school writes n where eighteen years before he mystcrlously left on the doorstep his bahy lorence Gray That day daughter Hargreave also draws $1000000 from the bank bat It is reported that this dropped Into the sa when the balloon he escapedIn was punctured from the girls lorence arrives school Braine’s companion Countess Olga relative! - MacGrath Thanhouser claims - pictures the the and - I be presented in the theaters feature as soon it is as possible produce the same The story corresponding these motion pictures will to the coincidentally in a her mil soon after the of the' appearance practicable With the last' two as reels will be shown the pictures of the winner his or her home and other interesting features It is that the newspapers -man several weeks after the last chapter has been published A board of three judges will determine which of the many solutions received is the most acceptable The judges are to be Harold MacGrath Lloyd Lonergan and Miss Mae Tinee The judgment of this visits - — Illi' appear Twenty-third SYNOPSIS — i mystery the ThanSouth Wabash to Chicago III avenue or corporation 71 West Y stiect New York City N midnight 1915 to Jan Ilf ilm nn this to as $10000 will of m Ill e : will having THE be by the won most woman or child who writes the from acceptable solution of the mystery which the last reels of motion picture two he mads and the last two will drama chapters of the stoYy written by Harold The m i board will and "final Nothing cf a literary nature will be considered in the decision nor given any preference in"’ the selection of the winner of the $10000 prize 'The last two reels which will give the most acceptable solution to the this the l absolute be will run in WORDS HUNDRED ONE Dollar partner did BE we 1 curious a pvtt the am glit- rollers company” stared' long and What TO think you he intently really CONTINUED! at his know’ young fijr |