| Show I 1 1 1 y the eipl exploits oits of elaine A detective novel and a motion picture drama ka 4 by ARTHUR B REEVE 1 known and the creator ot of the biag kennedy stones j presented in collaboration Coll borton with the pethe pathe player players and 0 the eclectic film company 4 catick 1914 lirtie by abe ilat o 0 all elih lamma SYNOPSIS the he new york police are in mi titled stifled by a series eg of murders mur lre and other crime crimes ilia ahe cipal clue to the criminal la Is the warn gin n letter which Is lent sent the victim vIctIms signed will li a I 1 hand the latest vico tin of the ni nl triou 1 is 1 taylor 1 ge the insurance an ills daughter ahter tr alaine employ employs craig ken nedy the tho famous dentine scientific detective d to unravel aal the mystery what kennedy ac comp lishes Is I 1 told by his friend jameson Jame eon a paper man at the deter mined aed effort which delaini and craig ken ady a dy are making to put an end to his crimes nee the clutching Clutch inc hand iland aa an tl is I 1 inge criminal Is known resorts to all sorts Is ot of the most diabolical schemes to put them in out of the way each chapter of the story ry tells of a Is new plot against their live and of the way the ins preat great detective uses all its skill to save this pretty girl and I 1 himself from death NINTH EPISODE MODE THE DEATH RAY nay kennedy was reading a scientific treatise ailse one morning while I 1 was banging aging on the typewriter when a knock ck at the laboratory door disturbed as by y some intuition craig so seemed emed to know W okho ho it was he ile sprang to open the i door and there blood stood elaine dodge ige and her lawyer perry dennett instantly craig read from the startled look on blaino a face that mat nettling something dreadful had happened why the matter be asked ed solicitously A another letter from the cutch ing hand she exclaimed breath essly ely craig took the letter and ve e both read d with ath amazement are re ou an elemi of society eo clety if not ader er cral cragg g lC kenned enned to leave the country y nine 0 ca clock ock morning oth fwise rise a pedestrian vill drop dead outside is laboratory every hour until he leaves rho the note nas lias signed b bi the now fa itar illar sinister hand and had added 0 it a which read As n a ii token of his leatna have film 1 lace a asu axe of flowers in his labora laboratory toOr aindow dow taday what shall we do queried ben ett 1 evidently very much alarmed t the lette letter do replied Nin kennedy nedy laughing ilir it ibe the apparently fu ile threat inay hy nothing just alt it ve we got up as usual the next day nd 1 quite arly went over to tho the fabo atory ory kennedy as wae was his custom lunged straightway into hia his work nd 1 appeared absorbed by it while I 1 ote rote there Is something quer going n walter be he remarked this ing ng registers some kind of Iv wireless ireless ya s infra a red I 1 think something ke e those that they gay say that italian ullyn claims he has dincov dis cov red d and called the F W rays how do you know I 1 asked look took g up from my ork what a that mint you are using A invented by the late ro fessor langley La agley he replied his entson riveted on it some time previously X kennedy had 1 d installed on the window ledge one those arrangements on oan as a busybody busy bod which enow ose se in a room what Is going on oft in a streel As I 1 moved over to look at t the comete I 1 happened to glince into e i busybody and saw that a crowd as s rapidly collecting on the sido side ik look cragg I 1 I 1 called hastily ile ie hunted over to me end and looked e could both see in the busybody aror a group of excited passers by anding ading over a man lying pro prostrate strato on e sidewalk rhe he excited crowd lifted him up and re him away and I 1 turned in sure oure surse ourse se to craig he lie wae wait losing at his ten t was now only a few moments past ie e korloch I 1 ome time later our door wae 0 ex edly flung open and elaine and rry dennett bennett arrived ive just heard of tte file accidental cried tearfully fearfully isil lt it ter terrible riblet dat at had we better ec c for or a few moments no one said a rd then kennedy began carefully mining ning the and some ter er recording instruments Instrument a he had alle le the rest of us watched fasci ed somehow that I 1 busybody seemed attract me I 1 could not resist look into it from time to time ai a keny heny IN irked w was as scarcely able to control my bement when again I 1 saw the same ie e enacted on the sidewalk before laboratory hurriedly I 1 loot looked looted ed at atch it was ten ocl rats I 1 cried another scantly he waa was at my side gating gazing HY there wae was a second innocent ethlan lying on the sidewalk while FOU almost panic stricken gath about art ln t A no ito use he muttered nutt ered as we eard about him were beaten h t stand this eort sort of thing I 1 will e tomorrow to south america thought elaine dodge would faint BIC e hock of his words cocaine coming so 80 f after the terri terrible blo occurrence out mr looked at him Dach Jc it happened that kennedy had some artificial flowers on a stand atch he had been using long before before in the study of synthetic coloring materials before elaine could recover her tongue he be seized them and stuck them into a tall beaker like a vase then he deliberately walked to the window and placed the beaker on an the ledge in a most prominent position elaine and bennett to say nothing of myself gazed at him awestruck Is isis to there no other way but to surrender she asked kennedy mournfully shook hie his head I 1 m afraid not he answered slowly there a no telling how bow far a tel fel low who has his this marvelous power might go I 1 think I 1 d better leave to save you he lie may not content him self with innocent outsiders always nothing that any of 0 us could say ray not even the pleadings of elaine her self could move him the thought that at eleven 0 clock a third innocent passer by might lie stricken on the street seemed to move him powerfully lea lim so sorry craig murmured murmur fd td elaine choking back her emotion and finding it impossible to go on so am 1 I elaine he kin answered tensely ten soly but perhaps when this trouble blows blown over he lie paused unable to go on turned and shook his head then with ith a forced gayety he bade bode elaine and perry dennett bennett adieu saving that per hap haps a trip might do him good they had scarcely scar coly gone out ah slid kennedy closed the door carefully when he turned and went eat directly to the instrument which I 1 had seen him observing so interestedly edly plainly I 1 could sea see that it vas as reg letzring let cring something om ething he lie walked fairly clore to the win dow this time keeping well out of the direct lino line of it however hoever and there stood gazing out into the street wo we are being watched he said slowly turning and looking at me fix edly I 1 but I 1 don t dare im investigate esti gate le lest t it cost the lives ot of more unfortunates he ile stood for a momert in deep thought then he be pulled out a suit case and began silently to pack it although we ve had not dared to in te de we knew that from a build ing across the street emissaries of the clutching hand were watching for our signal of surrender the fact was as we found out later that in a poorly furnished room much after the fashion of that which with the help of the authorities we had bad anc raided in the suburbs there were at that moment two to crooks on one of them was the famous or rather infamous professor sor the other was as the young secretary ot of the clutching hand this was the new headquarters of the master criminal very carefully guarded look I 1 cried lecroix very much excited by the effect that had bad been produced by his infrared infra red rays there Is the sign the vase 0 floers flo ers we have got him this aimel lecroix gleefully patted a peculiar instrument beside him apparently it was a combination ot of powerful electric arcs area the raya rare ot of which were shot through a funnel liko arrangement into a converted cr rather a sort of concentrator raton apparatus from which the dread power could b 3 released through a affair at the erd I 1 wae was his infrared heat wave fray F air engine 1 I told you it would work cried Le lecroix Croli 0 4 0 4 0 I 1 did BOI not argue any further with craig about his sudden resolution to g away but it Is a ery solemn proceeding to pack up did slid admit defeat after such a brilliant succession eucce eln of cases as an had been his until we met this master criminal he ile was wa unshakable however cr and the next doming we C closed the laboratory and loaded our baggage into a taxicab neither ot of us said much but I 1 saw a quick look of appreciation on craigs face as an wo we pulled up at the wharf and saw that alnee El car was already there ho ito seemed deeply moved that elaine should come at aurli an early hour to have 9 lat last word our car f rt dipped aad and kenned kennedy moved coytr imura her car directing two I 1 notice I 1 that he chose with care to wait ut one side one if toul an irishman ith a slight limp the other a wiry frenchman with a pointed beard in reite of her pleadings however kennedy held 10 lo his purpose and as we shook hands for the last foe VMS I 1 thought that elaine would almost break down we finally final lir tere ourselves away followed by the porter porters carrying ca a rig they their could bon called elaine bravely ke alne bs bk k a choke in her voice near ear the gangplank in th the e crowd I 1 noticed Z couple of sinister lot ter face faces watching the ship offic officer arif fasi the passenger passengers going ab abard dx y then them too but be hv quick eye potted did not etow in any anil vu way thu be he I 1 11 M followed by bt eer our tw porters port cre we quickly climbed the gang plank in there pointed kennedy quick ly to the porters indicating our stateroom which aich as an outer room come NN alter I 1 followed him in with nith a hevy bevy heart outside could be seen the two to sin gin later faces in the crowd matching watching in with ith eyes fixed on the state room finally one ot of the crooks boarded the ship hastily while the other watched the ifko portera porters come out of the stateroom and pause ai ac the window speaking back into the room ax a though answering command commands then the porters quickly ran along the ack dack and down the plank to get the reel rest of the luggage they took a small but very heavy box and lugging and tugging hastened toward the boat with it dut but they were ere too late the gangplank was as being beins hauled la in they shouted but the ship a officers waved them back the porters argued but it was no use all they could do m as an to carry the box back to the dodge car miss dodge was just getting in as they returned what shall we do with ith this and the other stuff asked the gritu porter she looked at the rest of the tagged luggage and the box which was as marked scientific instruments valuable handle with caret carol here pile them in there ehe she said indicating the taxicab 1 I it take care of them meanwhile one of our sinister ein lster faced friends had just had time to regain the shore after following us aboard ship and strolling past the winder of our stateroom he ile paused long enough to observe one of the occupants studying a map while the other was opening a bag they re gone gonel I 1 he bald said to the other as he be rejoined him oa on the dock gir sir ins s amod nod of bis his head and a jerk ot of his thumb at the ship ties added the other crook and losy lost meet of their baggage too slowly the car Hed through the streets up froin from the front followed by the taxicab until at last the dodge mansion was reached elaine sighed moodily aa as she walked lowly slowly in I 1 here marle marto ehe she cried fetu bantly to he maid take these wraps ot of mine A moment later aunt josephine left her and elarno went vent into the library and over to a table she stood there an instant then thea sank down into a chair taking up kennedys picture and gating gazing at it with eyes filled with tears just then jennings came into the room ushering the two porter porters laden i with the boxes and bags bass where hall I 1 bare have them put these theta things misa Ln lealue tsia alue ineT he be inquired oh anywhere here the answered hurriedly re relating Mt lacing the picture jennings paused ae As he did go 10 one of the porters limped forward 1 I a message for you miss he be bild ltd in a rich irish brogue with a I 1 00 ook it at jennine Jenn to bo be delivered in irate tate elaine glanced at him surprised eur pried then ehe nodded to jennings who disappeared appeared die ai As he be did no 10 the irith irish man limped to the door and drew to gether the purt port leres then he ile came back closer to Elal elaine tio A moment sh eha looked at him not lot quite knowing from his strange aop lions whether to call for bel help or not at a it matzoll from kennedy as he palled pa 11 ed of oft f h bli is wig w is I 1 pulled off the little falie false baard elaine looked at in us trAns tomed startled IN 1 h what she ehe d oh imo I m so glad how kennedy did maid nothing ho lie waa was th thoroughly orough ly enjoying her face understand I 1 exi dont you planned pla plat ined ned taught anz mr merrily rily 1 I dm that I 1 IS until that last minute la in the stateroom on the boat when we come back to wave a lat last good by dot but all 11 II the care that craig t took ook in electing selecting the Porter pr was wa the he be bid yesterday and work re ree S dt of the insolence with which he be chose our Irs clothes bat a deep laid the chang change was wa mad made quickly in ther Kf man idrew oa oil the tb coat cost and aa sa were while craig cragg donned the rough c clothes of the he porter and added a 11 limp mp and a m wig Is the mine eort sort of exchange ot of clothes nas made by me and craig clapped a vandyke beard board on my chin mums the word cautioned ken nedy you mint must smuggle us out ol 01 the house some way any kennedy loit lost no time in confirming the suspicion suspicions ot of his as a to the cause of the death of the in victims of 0 the machinations ot of the clutching hand iland roth both of them bo be had learned had been removed to a nearby undertaking shop awaiting the verdict of the coroner we bought sought out the bop shop and prevailed on the unde undertaker otaker to let ua us see the bodies As an kennedy pulled down ti tu shroud from the face of the first victim he be disclosed on hi his forehead a round dark spot about the size of a small coin quickly ho he moved to the next coffin and uncovering the face disclosed a similar mark ahat hat Is to it itt I 1 aked asked struck awo etrick I 1 V N by he said I 1 I 1 ve heard beard of a certain one LeC lecroix rolt I 1 believe who has discovered or perfected an infra red ray instrument which shoot its power a great distance with extreme accuracy and leave leaves a mft ingah like these we thanked the undertaker for hill hi courtesy and went out meanwhile elaine had called up per ry bennett mr bennett the she exclaimed over the wire just guess who called on me met who he be answered I 1 give it up mr kennedy and mr wr jameson Jn meson she called back I 1 Is that so he returned I 1 that fine alnet I 1 dlan didn it think he was the kind to run away asay like that how ilow did it happen 1 elaine quickly told the story ai I 1 bad told her I 1 had ad she the known it however bennetts Bon va et thomas as at that very mo it it e JP s Y ts atto 4 as voyage cried elaine 0 ravely keeping back a choke in her voice ment listening at the port leres rc in tensely 11 interested ai As bennett bung hung up the receiver thomas citte entered red the room it anyone calik 1 ine me ordered ben nett take the demge mIs saie 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