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Show JULIUS SLEUTHS SYNOPSIS. Realizing that she has a possible chance of being saved, as the Lusltanla Ls sink Ing, a stranger gives a young American girl a package which he asks her to deliver to the American ambassador In Ens-land. Ens-land. She is saved. In London, former Lieut "Tommy" Beres-ford Beres-ford and Miss Prudence Cowley "Tuppence" discharged army nurse, form an organization, "The Toung Adventurers, Ltd." They are both broke and consequently conse-quently ready for unorthodox methods. They write out an advertisement. ad-vertisement. Tuppence makes a business appointment with a man, Edward Whittington, who offers her easy employment, but on giving giv-ing her name as "Jane Finn," which Bhe had heard on the street, Whittlngton disappears. In answer to an advertisement signed "Jane Finn" the two receive re-ceive notes from "Mr. Carter" and "Julius P. Hershelmmer." Carter, a high government official, speaks of a mysterious "Mr. Brown" as head of the Bolshsvikt In England, Eng-land, and engages the pair to find Jane Finn, whom he Is seeking for important reasons of state. Next day the pair visits Hershelmmer, Hers-helmmer, American mM'Llonaire. He ls looking for his cousin, Jane Finn, who kad disappeared after landing from the Lusitania's boats, and employs them to search for her. They discover a Mrs. Vandemeyer is a Lusltanla survivor. Tuppence recognizes Whittington in a caller on Mrs. Vandemeyer. Tommy trails him. Whittington leaves for France. Hersheimmer follows him. Tommy Tom-my trails Boris, Whittington's companion, to a house In Soho. He overhears details of a Bolshevik Bol-shevik and labor plot to overturn the government. Success apparently appar-ently depends on finding a secret treaty made between the allies during the war. Tommy is caught listening, and knocked senseless. Sensing sinister relations between Whittington and Mrs. Vandemeyer, Vandemey-er, Tuppence disguises herself and becomes a parlor maid. During Dur-ing a conversation between a visitor. vis-itor. "Boris," and Mrs. Vandemeyer, Vande-meyer, in which the name of Sir James Peel Edgerton, famous criminal lawyer, ia mentioned. Tuppence hears talk of an "organization." "or-ganization." Next day Edgerton visits Mrs. Vandemeyer. and on leaving advises Tuppence to give up her position, but refuses to give a reason. |