Show GREAT LOUIS josepfa JOL cepil VANCE odthe of the motion picture play of the fie S same ome name produced lor for the international film service inc under the Di direction clion of lP epharion harion tl harton inc ani st siw ct ny THE CAST MRS VERNON CASTLE as batrla charming channing MILTON SILLS as donald P parr irr WARNER OLAND as baron aan hurski DOROTHY GREEN as fanny aly adair SYNOPSIS on the lie eve eo ot of inheriting sole control ot of Chatin ings inc americas largest arms and ammunition industry datria channin 9 Is mysteriously summoned froin newport to new york by peter trustee trusted tor for her estate baron durold chief of 0 the japanese secret service ben ice busies himself to hinder tier lier response to tilts hits summons but patria ld ht his C imposition opposition with the aid of 0 capt donald barr arr united states secret service who sus suspects japan rif of intriguing trim tri guing ing to embroil the united d states w alth th mexico co EPISODE TWO treasure so young soung wits was the juno june morning that though cross town streets already glowed globed with sunlight well nigh its 03 bright it if not FO warm as that of noonday wide arens of shadow lingered athwart fifth avenues silent like still broad banners of translucent violet tit the wasi waa na as lifeless ns main street in fix tiny any village at church hour houi of a sunday a few policemen blinked indifference nt at tho the taxicab flying filing southward mouths ard ut at such lucli lawless speed A few blocks south of fourteenth street the vehicle driven with a cvek 1 arguing the prospect pio of fit a sit sub stantini tip lip us its for haste took f it corner on two wheels and came to t nn all abrupt pause before it a residence of cf the vintage caste fr the moment it t stopped out of the f cab hopped it brisk young man and on oil y ills heels oil an anxious young ft W ran impatiently up tip tha steps to white front door anor while lier hoi tabled nt at tile ibo curb to settle with tile the chauffeur chaulT cur by theotime the time lie ho was ns free to join the young woman on oil the doorstop doorstep site eni the bell with ith a sort of sent semi persistence 1 I cant understand stand why no one tin nn slie site mitered faltered with it little shiver of apprehension ive io rung and rung j i you dont really think anything rutn ifie have halip happened pried do you sou captain T parr v 1 I liopo hope not miss channing but I 1 mean to find out pretty pronto she stepped anric and purr parr planted a hi firm in thumb on the bell push puh from the interior of tile the house ennio camo it rc ic mote nothing more at a venture the young voting roan man released the button ird ard laid hold of the doorknob door knob to the 11 sl lulio and oil somewhat to the consternation of both it read for a moment neither moved only te ie eyes of each sought the alie others ot liers 4 mutely eloquent with apprehensive liti ini inquiry then with a quick gesture which might have been interpreted ns as i bidding tho the girl to wait outside the young oung man crossed the threshold quietly the girl followed to be greeted li by her name spoken lit in accents of wonder miss patty to fo the inna ians i sakel sake ill an aged riep nepo 7 0 servant sen ant clothed simply F lit pajamas stood transfixed in a nillon half halfway way down the flight of stalls to the upper stories that hint you martin where Is 13 mr ripley nl pley tuli ripley ali ah reckon lie ho mus be into ills its avd miss patty he gunrly V e 1 I P they gained tho the open air sleep late into when lie ho dono done work late the night bafo did lie work lato late last night martin ile ho sho eho did bliss patty leastways least waa lie ho done ahny lie he golno tub full when lie send me lue olt off to bed bout levan ocl ocL Is that tho library itry parr asked with a nod indicating a door toward tow aid it V f V the rear of tho the hull hall and receiving an affirmative response motioned tho the sery tint ant to it with nn imperative hand theres a light burning in there still lie he wd sold you idu can see it beneath the door better see it if perhaps mr alp hipley fallen asleep over ills his work martin no go ahead ill answer this the doorbell had just rung As tho the aged negro scuffled off toward tho the it 14 biary arary parr barr turned turne cl of 01 I 1 the front door and admitted tin nn in n wearing scaring tle me livery or of a well know a telegraph company tills this last delivered an envelope addressed to miss patria Cli anning pocketed ix tip and returned to the street captain parr cocked on an a ear car toward tile library NN the girl hastily scanned her telegram aliat ahat liat non rion anso captain parr will you imi please look at tins tills ile he took the telegram fro from in her quivering hand and knitted annoe annoyed d brows over it newport june 10 1316 1916 miss datria channing Chann lne 3 rast east tenth street N Y city distracted why hy did you iou run way tway tonight without explanation bodney fol fl by first morning train pleasa elre ire prompt denial humors current here atu eloped with captain parr AMI AMELIA IJA WRENN A smile half rueful i half of amusement rop le laceA parrs frown ile ho returned the message the girl impatiently tore it up and committed its offensive fragments to the boor site ho was ai startled i by a cry throaty 1 with lilt terror martin tottered out of the library door ins ills trembling ills his face ashen beneath its bronze miss patty I 1 0 bawd my TANNA I 1 purrs parrs fingers closed imperatively upon the lie servants nants so wrist illint IN hat lint Is it happened sto stop that howling and tell its list I 1 its ripley illsley dald in there 1 ai common ninon impulse move macd the two young people toward the rear of the hallway but half way to the library door parr checked the girl spare yourself miss channing let tile me go first and have c a look around please p case I 1 it wits was a n sp spacious nelous chamber coberl soberly y it if richly furnished in tin nn outraged agod mode and dominated by a massive chimney piece of marble elaborately carve caned I 1 parr however only subconsciously registered nn an impression of its character ills interest centered cuiter cd upon the body or of it a gentleman of advanced years that tin an arin chair tit nt one end of the table and it needed no more than a glatice glance to assure him that the man inan was lead dead beyond dispute ills licad lend and arms rested upon the table one hand blind still gripped on all automatic matic pistol near ills his head rested on fill overturned ei turned telephone instrument thu the receiver dislodged dislodge lie ile had bad been murdered shot down while telephoning but lie ho had not died so BO quickly as to let ills his a assin escape he had lived long enough to discharge ills his own weapon fill deadly effect half it 11 dozen feet asido the corpse ot or the assassin law in the cast ot of those lend features parr rend irrefutable ft its his grimmeit grimmest grim grini niest suspicions the assassin was had been a japanese turning on the servant sharply parr stilled ills his lamentations with a brusque command astop stop that horrible noise martini martin I 1 do you hesh miss channing to hoar hear you now tell me where can we no put those these bodies out of her sight the negro designated the drawing room which communicated C with the library by sliding doors thither they bore and there left the bodies then r turning returning parr ordered tile the com communicating munt doors closed and for a moment hesitated dubiously examining a fat sealed envelope which lie had frind in tile pocket ot of tho the dressing gown worn by the ill starred sir mr ripley it wits was a in tho the ferin writing of a strong old hand for miss batrla anning Cli private con lie ile returned to tile tho li hallway allway at sight of ills his gravely troubled countenance patria rose quickly from a chair and camo came to him with an imploring gesture prepare yourself lie ho said your guardian Buan llan has been assassinated by a japanese aillia nese he left you tills this perhaps it explains PRIVATE AND confidential my dear ward tomorrow your twenty first birthday will find you the last of the fighting Chann ings 11 on 01 that tiny you will legally become your own insteness ani I 1 will be relieved of tile of yourself and ur nir fortuno fortune one ot of the greatest fot for raea ilea la in the iho united states it not in all tile tho world I 1 write rather than walt wait to communicate mun muni cate what I 1 have to say I 1 live in tho shadow of death I 1 may not live to seo r ea you personally to account ta you for my stewardship I 1 may not live to so tomorrows dawn my life la strangely menaced oven even as your our life may bo be wi v en cl you have taken over solo control ot your inheritance i your our lands and estates Chr innings inc I 1 that greatest of 0 arms and ammunition industries outside Ger ninny and tho channing secret defense fund you do not know what lat that hint last moans means it la is to enlighten iou lest I 1 perish with my secret that I 1 im am writing tonight I 1 have to inform you concerning that sacred trust that bequest of oc adur patriotic forefathers one Ond hundred years ago almost to a day the first john Cli anning died lie ile was mag a virginian a friend of 0 a soldier ii 0 patriot a gentleman of fortune character intelligence and of almost prophetic foresight lie ile had served through the alia war of independence when tile tho war of 1812 broke out ho he resigned ills his cose case mid and took tho the field ns as a colonel of militia in his military capacity john channing lie first was an intimate observer of tho the lack of organization military spirit tri training ability to fight that characterized tho american forces what he be had experienced made a profound impression upon him lie he never ceased to plan pinn to protect ills his country against its greatest weakness aud and its greatest enemy itself in ili the fatuous blindness of a people who then as today believed a sacred and just cause the equivalent of resistless weapon of defense who thought they had no ned to train iraln themselves for war mar so long xv AS they warred only fur for the right the drat john foresaw an intrinsic inbred weakness of the people prolific of perils which lie CO conceded 0 ived it to be ills his duty to combat zine S somo time prior to ills death therefore fo re lie ho consulted with mi tho the first peter willey Ill pley my forebear and the founder of that line of legal advisers to the he channing family which must polish perish when I 1 perish between them tho the two sc schemed heined out a scheme for a fund for national defense in time of danger through what we luno have lately learned to term ono half of the even then very considerable channing fortune wag hal set aside to be the lie nucleus of tit the Cli anning secret defense fund to ile Q drawn dran upon or expended wholly only in gravest national ciner gency the secret and the custody of the fund wits was handed down don from father to RF V f WA V wa wn 1144 44 ZA 1101 11 u oil a igo im 01 I 1 0 I 1 i kar 1 1 iz MIX 4 awa 04 WN it was a richly framed oil portrait of her ancestor sort son is as long as the and tile the Ill pleys had male children that stint Is now low passed my boy died before attaining maturity you tire your fathers only child the fund today has grown through careful investment and unremitting vigilance Igl lance to the appreciable total stina of approximately the whole la Is stored in the secret vault beneath tills this room to which the password Is your nomo name three fourths of it Is comprehended in ili gilt edged securities immediately negotiable the balance of la Is in gold thus accumulated for immediate resource la in emergency wisely employed tills treasure may provo prove the salvation of your country la in tilts this ns as it seems its hour of dibert need europe Is aflame with war when peace Is declared E Eu ropes fore ordained way to recoup hlll be by menris means of preying upon some great and wealthy but defenseless country such its as the united of 0 america on oil the other hand to tl tho the west of us we have a great nation without boorn to grow japan its natural courso course of growth following tho the line of least resistance si must be in and through our western states to tho the south of us lies mexico it a hotbed of revolution in and racial hatred I 1 evidence vI dence in ili support of japans designs against our pence la Is not lacking inching tho the presence of her ter it armies tittles in mexico tile tho fact that japanese officers liae have be been oil detailed to drill drift mexican troops Is known to tile administration at washington if not to the peo people lile that japan maintains naval bases mexican consent at magdalena bay and elsewhere jk Is a inviter of common knowledge in my onal fil experience it Is truo true that following my refusal ns as a loyal and patriotic citizen to make contracts tn in the namo of inc for delivery of anus and ammunition in mexico japan lias has left no stono itono unturned to induce nio me to revoke my and even now threatens my life because became I 1 abide by it for myself my dear ward I 1 do not fear when a man has passed a certain age death haa ban few terrors for him I tt it t for you I 1 do fear when you shall ibave set your hand to the task which mine must yield lold I 1 know your breed well ft ell enough to know you will not falter in the ill of tilts tills sacred trust I 1 know japan well all enough to know she will stop tit lit nothing to discourage you ou I 1 charge you ou above till nil things to beware the man who culls calls himself naron baron who ho poleg ti an n toino cosino polite of japanese birth who Is in reality secret thief chief of tile the japanese secret service sen ice tit in this country more linn tills ahta I 1 loope 1 copo to tell you ou in detail if I 1 llo live to senyou sif sou again otherwise I 1 shall tile die content in tile the knowledge that I 1 him have nt lit least done dolle my best to warn you sou against the dangers you ou must iiii it apprehend its ita executrix of tile tho Chu channing nning secret defense fund your affectionate guardian RIPLEY PLEY GOLDI GOLD wion when parr had finished rending reading lie lost dinst page of peter ieter Ill Ri pleys letter he hc looked down don to encounter Pa patrict trint ill dl reit uncompromising gaze to lier her unuttered inquiry lie nodded slightly ile ho was na unc fatic imald parr lie feared japart and a n assails striated him alint enuch confirmation of what lie in wrote roto wo we possess beyond refutation there remains only to bo be determined tile lie actual existence of tills fund in it secret vault bei tills room loom to willett tile password Is your name ii aniol 11 what do you ou make of that patria shook her liend head its till nil too strange I 1 never had any suspicion of anything of the sort im afraid I 1 dont quite grasp it yet I 1 it was aa who mho stumbled upon tile tho solution haphazard or as woman would chilen intuitively alip tile password my iny name batrla that sounds its as though there niusia be b it a safo safe door with a letter combination or else or else I 1 Y parr prompted us as site hesitated look there I 1 tier Herout nung hand indicated indicate the massive inas sh marble chamney alece parr knitted his brows brown staring star lag the thing was interesting if only us its a relic of tho the curious artistic enste of n 1 I bygone day none but a told mid victorian intelligence could have tolerated tile the thought of such a monstrous monument to homeliness and yet the carving caning was exquisitely ly done lie ile crossed to it with patria by ills his side for it closer inspection in ili whatever brain tho the design lind had originated it was a patr patriots lots the american eagle screamed in 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