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Show 8YNOPSIS. At the expense of a soiled list Robert Orme saves from arrest a girl In a black touring cur who Iota caused n traffic Jim nn Klate street, lln buys a new hat and Is given In change, a Ave dollar bill with: "Remember the person you piiy this to." written on it. A second tlnm he. helps the lady In the bluck car. and learns that In Tom Htni Resale Waltihghum they have mutual friends, but gains no further hint of her Identity. Honor I'orltol of Bouth America and Senor Aliatrunte, minister from the same country, anil some Jnps try to get possession pos-session of the hill. Two of the latter overpower over-power Orme. ami effect a forcible exchange, ex-change, of the marked bill for another. Orme finds the girl of tin- black car waiting for him. Him also wants the bill. Orme tella Ills story. She, reeoKnlzes one of the Japs as her father's butler, Maku. A aeconil Inscription on the bill l tin-key tin-key to the hlilitiK place of Important papers pa-pers stolen from her father. trine ami the "(llrl" start out In the black cur In quest of the papers. In the university (froumls In Kvnnston the hhluiK place is located. Maku 11 mi another Jap "re there. Orme fell Maku anil th" other Jap escapes. es-capes. Orme llmls In Maku'n pocket a fuhled slip of paper. He takes the Klrl. whose mime Is still unknown tu him. to th home of a friend In Kvanston. lte-ttirninn lte-ttirninn to Hie university grounds Ormo gets In conversation with a guanl at the ilfo-savlnit station. Thev hear a motor boat In trouble In the darkness on the lake. Thev find tho crippled bnnt. In It itrn the Jap with the papers and ' fiirl." 8he Jumps Into Orme's Imat; but the Jap dudes pursuit. Orme dnils on the paper be took from Maku the address. "341 N. Parker street." Me goes there and finds Arlma. teacher of llJ-IUsu. Is on the third floor. He calls on Alia, rlalrvovant. on the fourth floor, descends by the fire-eecnpe fire-eecnpe nnd conceals himself under a table In Arima's room. Alcntrante. l-oritol and the Jap minister enter, orme finds the papers In a drawer, tinder the table Bud substitutes mining prospect used for them, lie b-arns that the papers are of International Interna-tional Importance with a time limit for ienntures of that sight midnight. The substitution Is discovered The girl ar-penrs ar-penrs and leaves ngaln after being told that the American lias Die papers. Orme attempts to get awn v. Is discovered ami set upon bv Arlmu nnd Maku. lie eludes them and Is bidden In a closet bv the clttlrvnvnnt. Orme escapes during a seance' given bv Alia. On the sidewalk lie encounters Atcntr.inte Orme goes to fine' Tom Walllnghnin. Alcntrsnte hangs on and tries to get the papers. During the excitement caused bv one of Alen-trunte's Alen-trunte's trhj's to deltiv Orme. the latter sees the rirl and follows tier back to Wnlllngham's office, lie and the girl are locked In a giant specimen refrigerator bv Alcatrsnte. Thev confess their love and when thev bad almost abandoned hope of escape Orme hrenks the thermometer colls and attracts the attention of m late-going clerk. Thev are liberated. Alcatrsnte Is on watch. Thev get iwnv In a hired motor car to Kvanston. The chnuffeur turns ou to be Maku. Ha runs them to a quiet spot where they meet another motor. Ormn pretends to conceal the pspers under tho seat, but drops them In tne road. Orme fights Arlma, Maku nd two other Japa. CHAPTER XVI. Continued. ' The Japanese who had brought the prospectuses from the tonneau now stopped to Maku's assistance, for Orme had made a motion of the body which showed that be was rapidly losing hla patience. "Queek!" Still no answer. "Ha!" The exclamation had a ring of triumph. "Mees have um!" He nodded toward the car where the girl still sat. "No," exclaimed Orme vehemently. "She has not." "Mees have urn," repeated Arlma. "We hunt. We see." "I tell you she has not," said Orme. "No believe you." Arlma chuckled. "Come, mees." As Orme twisted himself around, he was enraged to see the Japanese In the car ssize the girl by the arm and drag her to the ground. Once on her feet, she did not resist, but permitted permit-ted herself to bo led toward the little lit-tle group. Arlma advanced a step to meet her. "Give me papers," he said. "I have ? j papers," she protested despairingly. "We search you." said Arlma. tiklng another step toward her and extending extend-ing his hands. It may be that Arlma did not Intend actually to lay hands on her. His thought may have been that the threat would Induce Ormo to tell where the papers really were. Hut the effect on Orme was to set him ablaze with anger. His swift, indignant purpose seemed to multiply his strength until the little lit-tle men who held him were like children chil-dren In his hands. A sudden Jerk, und he had pulled both his arms free. Maku and the man at his other side were taken completely com-pletely by surprise, and before they had time to recover themselves. Orme bad thrown his arms around them and crushed ihelr heads together with such lorce that they dropped limp nnd nnconsiinu to the ground. They were out of the light. At the brut sounds of struggle, Arlma turned. Now. as Orme charged toward to-ward him, he boT.t slightly forward, every lnu-'ie tense, ready to stride or trip or twist. Ills framework was overlaid by irtus-i!es irtus-i!es th.it erc l:ko supple stei I. Liht nnd quh k. he had a sir. ng'h that could hardly have been Inf rrd from h'.a build And though Orme's out-tireak out-tireak had le n sudden, tfte Japan.-so was apparently not In the least dis concert' d. He knew how to turn the rush of .he American Into a disastrous fall lie knew bow to prod with I.is bony Vnurkle the angry man's solar plexus! how to step swiftly aside and bring the horny edge of tls band againM ecnsltlve vertebrae. He could seize orme by the arm and. dropping back ward to the ground, land Orme where he wished him. Yes, Arlma had every ev-ery reason to feel confident Many a time had he got the better of American Amer-ican fist fighters. Hut a system of offenso and defense which Is based upon the turning of an opponent's strength against himself him-self absolutely depends for Its success upon an accurate estimate of the opponent's op-ponent's Intentions. A sudden shift of physical purpose may put your Jiu-Jltsu Jiu-Jltsu adept at a loss. Arlma, from his know ledge of American Amer-ican lighting methods, had reason to think that Orme would continue his charge und strike out with his lists when he came near enough. That, however, Is something that Orme did not do. For, In bis two previous encounters en-counters with the Japanese, ho had learned much. He had learned, among other things, the value of the unexpected. unex-pected. And though his anger was almost blinding, he cooled, during those few short strides, to bla usuul caution. Within two paces of Arlma. he stopped short. For one tense moment Orme opened his senses to all impressions. He could hear, with almost puinful distinctness, dis-tinctness, the moans of the two men he had stunned and the rustling sounds made by their wrlthlngs. He caught a glimpse of the girl. The searchlight of one of tho cars struck full on the side of her face, and drew there a distinct shadow of the network net-work of her disarranged hair. He saw the strained, excited look In her eyes. Her captor still held her arm. He was watching Orme and Arlma Indifferently, Indif-ferently, as though quite confident of Japanese skill. All this Orme observed In nn Instant. In-stant. Then his eyes were uguln on Arlma. He knew Hint he would have to attack. at-tack. To await the trick holds of the Jn panne- would be 10 Invite defeat. Hut If he attacked, he must use un unexpected un-expected method. Suddenly he raised his left arm above his head and clenched his fist His right arm remained by his side. A step forwnrd. The upraised arm descended. Swiftly Arlma reached upward up-ward to seize It. Hut even as the one arm descended, Orme swung his other, oth-er, with terrific force, up from the waist, and caught Arlma on the mouth. The blow missed the chin, but It waa hard enough to fell any man of ordinary strength. Arlma staggered back, past the girl, and brought up against the side of one of the can. Hut with hardly an Instant for recovery, re-covery, he leaped forward again and the man who was holding the girl also al-so sprang at Orme. It would be folly to meet the two. Orme turned and run quickly In among the trees of the little grove. The darkness was his friend, for the pursuers halted in their quick run and separated, proceeding more cautiously. cau-tiously. As for Orme, once In shelter, he stopped for breath. He could see the two men coming toward him. They were outlined against the radiance from the motor cars. Cautiously he stepped toward the south, hoping that they would puss him in the darkness, but he dared not move rapidly, lest a stumble or the breaking of a twig betray htm. All this time the engines of the two cars had continued to work, and their muffled chug-chug-c'iug helped to cover cov-er the noise of footsteps. What pleased him most was to see, out of the corner of his eye, that the girl hud taken advantage of her release re-lease to c;imb to the chauffeur's seat of the car In which Maku had brought them from Chicago. That meant that, If he could reach the car, they might get away. Hut the papers Hy thlB time Orme was' between his pursuers nnd the road. He stopped and groped about till be found a fair-sized fair-sized stone, then worked toward the edge of the grove. The moment waa at hand to make a dash. Ten steps would take him to the car; then a leap into the tonneau, and off to the northward he and the girl would speed. I'ursuit would be delayed de-layed for a few precious moments, for the Japanese would have to turn the other car around. Those few moments mo-ments would determine the margin of success or failure. Hut there were the papers. At all coft they must be secured. The plan that Uatiied into Orme's mind was to draw the Japanese from the spot and then, jumping from the car let the glii lead the pursuets on while he leturned. Just as he was about to rush for the ! i.ir he heard a sound among the tieis lie wheeled and saw the dim outline of one of his en-mies timing toward I. mi. In h s cxtitemetit he bad lor g(.t:-D that J ust h they could be seen by him when tlify were b twecn him and the road, so he Could now be seen by tl.em. I'ridoubtcdly be was outlined, out-lined, as th y bad be. 11, iiguint the background of the light. The Japanese was only a few feet nsy. Orme threw the stone; by good luck it struck the man In the stomal b, and be diuj J to thegroud and roiled in siUni soi.y. Hut at the same mou.eat Orme was seized from behind, and hij In a grip be could not break. Indeed, wben he tried to break it, there was a sudden, kilir strain on L.s spine. |