Show the exploits of ra edaine w A detective novel and a motion picture drama LAY by ARTHURS ARTHUR B REEVE known No novelist aad and the creator Gea toro of the storia presented in collaboration with the tb path pathe players and tha the film C 4 br UK ff u 1 all atac if he rear xam awk 4 iw abc LAV L AV V 0 0 SYNOPSIS the new now york tork police are mystified by A aeries of murders and other crime th the a principal clue to the criminal Is the wa rn ac letter which is I 1 ent sent the victim victims signed with a clutching hand the lat eat victim of 0 the mysterious assassin 81 la in taylor dodge the insurance ine urance president ahli IN daughter elaine employ mp loys craig ken neily the famous sc nuno detective to try to unravel the mystery what kennedy accomplishes Is I 1 toj told by his friend jameson Jarn raon a newspaper roan man tt at the determined effort which plain an I 1 craise kennedy are making tit to put an 0 end nj n tn to his hi crime crimes the ClUtch clutching inc hand aa as thia this strange criminal Is I 1 known resorts t to 0 all sorts of the mot most diabolical diabolic at schemes t to 0 pot them out of the way L lach a ch chap t ter er of the atory story tell tells of a n new ew plot their live lives and of the way the areat real d detective e uses all his kill skill to ave this pretty sir cirl and himself hline ett from death i fourteenth EPISODE THE RECKONING pacing up and down his den in the heart of chinatown long sin was thinking over his bargain with kennedy to betray the infamous clutch ing hand iland at length he seated himself on a teakwood table astill deliberating over tho the promise he had been forced to make to kennedy suddenly an idea seemed to strike him lifting a little hammer be truck struck a chinese gong on the table at hie his fide side at the came tame time he le irined ined over and turned the knob at tho elde side of a large roll top desk A few seconds latr latar I 1 eort sort of hatchway covered by a rug on the door floor in one corner of the room wae was slowly lifted and long sins secretary a pale pate cadaverous chinaman appeared from below he lie topped stepped into ft the room and shuf fied across to long bin sin and handed him a letter v lang en lila scowled as something had hid interfered with his own plans but tore open the envelope without a word spreading out on his hl I lp tp the sheet of at paper it contained tho the letter was is type typewritten ritten message massage vl ill in capitals which read DE DEC AT AT 12 9 immediately 40 at the bottom of the liate appeared appear eJ tha the sinister sin liter signature of the clutching hand doaine do ing low agin the secretary across and down again through the hatchway closing the door as he lie dele de ended long sin bin read the note once more while his inscrutable face assumed an expression of mallau mallcu mall cu cunning alth alth an air of deliberation h reached for a match and struck 14 it he lie had placed the paper in the name flame when suddenly be he seemed to change bis his mind he ile hastily blow out the natch which had destroyed only a corner of the raper per hen folded the note carefully and faced placed it in his pocket A for moments later with a it malignant chuckle long tang sin rose slowly and left the room meanwhile the master criminal was busily engaged in putting the tou touches clies to a enal scheme of fiendish ingenuity for the absolute destruction of craig Kenne kennedy itly ho ile bad been at work in a small rc room oin fitting up a sor sort of laboratory in the mysterious hou which now served as ills lits clutching hand iland at bench botich in one corner had just complete comple tel aa an internal machino of diabolical cunning and was wits wrapping it carefully in paper to make aa an innocent package tie ile was interrupted by a knock at tho the door laying la ina down the bomb he went vent ti answer the summons with a healthy t moy movement ement there stood long sin slit mho ho had dispi leed himself as a chinese laundr jan on timo growled clutching hand as hn ha closed tho the door pith equal cara no INO time waa was wasted in useless for malit leo 1 this Is a bok 1 6 0 he went on pointing tt td the package pad kage carry it care fall on to aunt kt lt it slip blip or you are a daud ban man it rouil must be la in kennedys labom laboratory tory before night Un dentandt can you arrange long bin il lanced at the tho dangerous package then with ra a look replied have ilae no fear I 1 can call do it it will be in the laboratory within an art hour trust ine me 4 e 0 0 e 0 e 0 e 0 e 0 in Xann edys laboratory I 1 ws watching craig make come some esperi experiments ments laith a new xray cray apparatus appa ratu we were oblivious to uie me of ot r tm iv js yd j ay 1 a call over our speak it i x lube our attention Ite nUon lon I 1 opened the door and a few tow seconds ahter long loong bin sin entered kennely kenne ly looked up inquiringly as an the approached holding out package which he carried A bomb ha he said in the most mrk mr ter tar way 1 I promised to hae have it placed in your laboratory before night kennedy took the bomb and carefully placed it under the wonderful mys dpn lif n with the fluoroscope over his las eye eyes studied the shadow cast by the 19 sc retti ite its a bomb sure enough cral exclaimed looking up from it at tasi last ia EDO mo lies it timed by an Inge ingenious nicus and noiseless little piece of clocks clock 0 ork rk la in there too and if its powerful enough to blow us all the labo laboratory included to kingdom come As A he poke spoke and before I 1 could re ro moD strato with him be took tho the in femal fernal machine and placed it ft on a table where be he act ct to work w ork on the moat most delicate and dangerous piece of dissection of which I 1 have ever heard carefully unwrapping the bomb and u icer ewing one part while le held another firm he finally took out ot of it t a bottle bottlo of 0 liquid and some then he placed a few grains of the powder on a dish and dropped on it a drop or two of the liquid there waa was a bright fasah as the poder ignited instantly jut just what I 1 expected commented kennedy with a noil aa an he examined the clever workmanship of the bomb one thing that interested him was that part of the contents bad been wrapped in paper to keep them in place this paper he be was now carefully ria examining mining with a microscope aa an nearly as an I 1 could make it out the pa paper per contained part of a typewritten cro mical formula which read TINCTURE OF IODINE THREE PARTS OF lie looked up from his study odthe of the microscope to long sin tell me just how it happ cred that you got this bomb he asked without hesitation the chinaman recited the beginning with the note by which be he had been sum summoned monod A notel note repeated kennedy eagerly wa was it typewritten lw alfing bin sin reached into his pocket and produced the note itself which he be bad had not burned an crate craig studied the message from the clutching hand iland I 1 could see that he was growing more and more excited at last he be has given us something typewritten he exclaimed to most people I 1 suppose it acorn seems that typewriting la Is the beet best way ny to conceal identity dut but there are A thousand and one ways of identifying typewriting look walter he remarked at length taking a fine tipped pencil and pointing nt at the distinguishing marks as be he talked you will notice that nil kit the Ts te lo 10 this note are bat ted and faint as well as just a trifle out of alignment now I 1 will place the paper from the bomb under the microscope and you will fee see that the Ts in the scrap of formula have exactly the same appearance I 1 strained my eyes to look sure eatough kennedy was right rifi ht there aa as that unmistakable identity between the T a in the formula and the note iota kennedy had been garing at it the floor his lice ce puckered in thought as I 1 looked suddenly he clapped his hands bands together aa as if it ho be had made a great discovery ivo 1 struck ill he exclaimed jumping up I 1 was wondering where I 1 had seen typewriting that reminds me of this walter get et on your coat and bt list we are on the right trail trall at last bilth long sin we hurried out of the laboratory leaving allm at the nearest taxicab stand where we jumped into a waiting car it Is in the clue of the battered va craig ao 10 muttered aunt josephina Josepht nn was in the library nitting when the butler jennings announced us where ln itt hio dodge kennedy with suppressed excitement as we entered 1 I think ines out shopping and I 1 dont know just ehe she will be back answered aunt josephine with some surprise awby la Is it anything important any news very important returned kennedy excitedly 1 I I think I 1 have bave the best clue yet will be necessary to look through some of the household correspondence I 1 r mediately ned lately to see whether there are certain letters I 1 be surprised it if she he had some Per perhaps hips not very personal but I 1 must see sea them kennedy lost no timo time lie went to a desk where maine keneally cene rolly sat mat and quickly took out several typewritten letters one after enother another he examined them clis closely ily rejecting reject inc one after another until finally he to one that teemed to interest Inter cit him he ito sera separated rated it from the th rest and fell to studying it lt comparing it with tho the paper raper from abo bomb and the note which long sin bad had received from tho the clutching hand iland then he be folded tho the letter so that the signature and the addrel address could cot tot be read by us A portion of the letter I 1 will read something cometh lne like this this la Is his contention content loal t whereas TRUTH la Is the only coal goal and matten Is noi man existent 11 look at this walter remarked remar keC CIL C IL with difficulty himself what dj da ro boj 1 aaice SIC cf 1011 it A stance glance at sit the typewriting was out af to abow me that kennedy had indeed made an important discovery we swatted at each other al acet icat too dazed to speak at that moment we were startled by the sudden appearance ot of elaine she entered the room carrying in her ber anna arms a huge bunch of roses which she be had bad evidently just rec received rece ired elved the moment abe he aw saw craig however che she topped stopped abort short with look of great surprise her ifer keen eye bad not missed the fact that several of her lettera letters lay scattered over the top of the desk what mat are you doing with my let ten mr Kenne kennedy dyr she he asked in an astonished tone evidently resenting the with which he had bad apparently been bailing her correspondence an ae guardedly as possible kennedy net met her inquiry which I 1 could not myself blame her for making 1 I beg your pardon mis miss dodge he be said but a matter has bas just come up atch necessitated merely a cursory examination of romo ramo purely for mal mat letters which might hare have an important bearing on the discovery of tf tle clutching hand iland tour your aunt had no idea where you were nor when you might return and the absolute necessity for haste baste in such aa an important matter la is my only excuse tor for examining i n few minor lettera letters without first obtaining your permission she eald said nothing at another time such an explanation would bare have been instantly accepted now however it was different kennedy read the look on her face and an instant later turned to aunt josephine and myself 11 I 1 would very much appreciate a chance to say a few words to miss suppressing a momentary flash of an ger that ba had d reddened hie his face and controlled haselt rus if U by a saper human effort 1 I believe 11 you really love 1 that man kennedy be he exclaimed la to a tone that wae was almost a hies dut but I 1 tell you elaine be he Is all bluff why he ha has been alter after that clutching hand now for three month months and what has he accomplished no nothing I 1 lie paused through blaines e mind the there bashed flashed the contrast w with ith ken gedys even temper and deferential manner bennett by nuil ther effort seemed to grip his temper again I 1 he to paced up and down the room then he changed the subject abruptly an and d the conversation was resumed w with ith some constraint NN hele elaida and dennett bennett w were ere talk ing kennedy and I 1 bad had entered the of flee craig topped stopped the boy who was about to anno announce us and asked for dennett dennetta secretary dinst instead ead much to my the boy merely indicated the door of one of the other private offices and we entered we found the secretary bard hard at work at the type typewriter riter copying a 9 legal document without a word ken nedy at once locked the door the secretary ecret ary rose in surprise but craig paid no attention to him in stead be he calmly walked over to the machine and began to examine it might I 1 ask began the secretary you keep islet ordered kennedy with ith a nod to me to watch the fellow 4 ak x aa ak I 1 ly A ok 11 0 kennedt Is about to shoot when he Cl covers that it Is jameson and not the clutching hand who lies there before him dodge alone hi ill intimated 1 I bare have had bad no buch such opportunity for some time if it you would bo be to kind aa as to leave us la in the library for a few minutes he ile did not finish the lenience sentence aunt josephine Joeeph lne bad had already begun to withdraw and I 1 followed for a moment or two craig and eliane looked at erth ert h other neither baying ealing a word each wondering just what waa was in the others mind craig cleared his throat the obvious manner of covering up hie his emotion elaine El alne he eald said at length dropping the recent return to misa biles dode for the moment elaine El alne la in therit any troth truth in la this morning mornings newspaper report of of you she had dropped her oree ores but ho he persisted perel eted taking a IL newspaper clipping from his pocket and handing it to her her iler hand band trembled its he be glanced over the item SOCIETY hotes dame rumor li Is connecting the name of miss ml elaine dodge the heir helry tail with that of perry ben nett the famous young lawyer the announcement of an engagement between them st t any time would not surprise elaine read no fr ther she handed back the clipping to kennedy As A her eyes met hie his aha she noticed his expression of deep concern find rad he stated with the reply ebe she had evident evidently been bean juet just about to make still ae as the she lowered her head bead it seemed to giro sire silent confirmation to tho truth of the newspaper paper report kennedy dald nothing bat his eyes continued to study hr face he ito suppressed hie his feeling feelings with a grel gres effort then without a word bowed and left tho the room walter valter ho he aa as he rejoined us to a tho the drawing room where I 1 isis aaa chatting with aunt josephine wo we must be off oft again the trail follow still farther an hour or io vo later elaine whose whoso mind waa was now in a a whirl from what hat had bad bapp happened ened decided to make a call on her lawyer and the confidant of her father perry bennett As elaine entered his hi private office dennett bennett roea rose to greet her effusively and find they exchanged a few fe worda words 1 I mr rient forget forgot to thank you for those 11 lovely roses you zent 1 me ebe the at length they were beautiful and I 1 appreciated tham ever so buch A corp morp ant later bennett 1 id d too the conversation 11 until ba be found aa an opportunity to make a tactful allusion to a the report of their engagement in the doming paper papers he ile had leaned over anil and aw new at tempted to take her hand she ith tb deerr it however there was tame thing ito atoil it hie his touch which try aa an bhe she might ahe sha could not like wa was 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