Show I 1 f 0 JAMES OPPENHEIM s each episode suggested by a prominent author serialization by HUGH WEIR and JOE BRANDT produced by the universal film filin manufacturing company copyright 1915 by the universal film allm company SYNOPSIS dudley Lai lannigan Lain lenn district attorney because of his file light on the vice and liquor trusts trusta Is killed lill leil by un an agent ol of a secret society the committee of fifteen the figh continued by lits file son bon bruce who ft ho la Is elected district attorney several vt ef lorta forts to frame up the intrepid young oung dle dla erict attorney fall all when Lat lannigan saves nave the children of one of the conspirators this man gretis to expose the trust and Is 13 murdered dorothy maxwell whose fa father ther in IH head of tho the insurance trust over oter the dictaphone hears of a plot to kill with whom she die to la jn in love she warns warm him lie ho escapes and two mor anor ol 01 the conspirators are killed when li 11 ce c jarnican Larn Lar nican lan good to chicago to light the kha i train grain trust truit ho Is I 1 assaulted wid thrown overboard ltd lie Is in rescued by tits biochi tom who take up tho the right light dodson head of 0 the grain trust touring fearing exposure kill boin opens a light or an the th textile tr r ayr ayrue s the lierd hend of the th trust in au r k to kill ron kills hla his own mon ion dorotny doramy Doru tny gagged and bound linued is 1 taken by the conspirators tl a roads house SIXTH EPISODE the railroad monopoly 11 by JAMES OPPENHEIM author of the beloved mj send for far the th NOW mew age ada OM victory the textile trust and the trap trag tv lc defeat of the plans ayers had bad wade fur for tits lila encouraged him Yat itly but not laore matt did the discovery flint 1 lie I not after all frieu and ationo tit in his fight lie hen tracers tits old friend of thip he Alu alian mining cumps butt bud come litick into his bb life and lien had bud mid and tile the will an am well nell a an tho the power to lu help tom harry Steve iii too the coulig mati who had bal in III braces war the hie gr drafters grafters lind find sough TOTI out nud and promised hla his ald tutu tom gripped tir tbt hands of hta friends it lit turu turn after het atud ben travene dis did cussed the latent fatt warning tu to drop lu in ventI guting the I 1 monopoly well veil I 1 cant mae lunt you bult ho he said and lid I 1 dont ilind saying that I 1 am mighty kind glad because I 1 cnut caul there are no two men I 1 would rather have ahne with uie file in a fight and it looks no ag though wo we have A real fight ahead of us in now bruce seems aecha to think thit that we vie ought to look luto into the rall ruil rond monopoly that auarles rockford has faa created cren ted stevens nodded ill ri drop down to wall street and nee BOB what I 1 can flod on oil the financial ent end I 1 know that any reporter on the street would do anything I 1 alsved him thou theu you and bon enn can follow up tip rockford personally have you looked tuto into hlf movements nt at all yes aclid tom ile arieh golna going to dourou froni from new hartford abl utter lioon hoon just juat hta his private var tar and tin nn pa a alne it if I 1 could only get on that lall c echoed ilea ben ill go with you tom scouted around now afraid to ask ak quest loun too openly until he found out which engineer aras to ix be in fit charr of president Preal dent cial that afternoon on the run to box bo ton up ile loft left ban to watch him and went to call on rockford As he ex ci elected lec ted he wits was unable to see sec the hond head of the rall rond mad but he managed to drop it a note nite addressed to rockford and a warning ant that he had giai lct bet ter mend his ways ile ho told den ben of this that will prepare him blui 1 lie he said isaid nell hell know who I 1 am when ho he see me ive ire been talking a little with our roan man said ald ben 1 I think wo we can land him all right ris he says nay hed rather work tn in a slue glue factory factor r than here ile iio seems to be sore on the ahola from rockford nock ford down and tom when he be in turn talked to the engi engineer nr found that ben had not exaggerated lie ile listened to the mans mails for it time and then decia ed to make a proposition to him look here ho bo said ald 1 I can show you I 1 know how to run nn an engine aud and my friend here knows till all about ferlus its ita worth to ine to be in conr cat cab thin aftem afternoon oon when that special goes go es how about iff vie the enzinger cne enz liwer incer agreed d somehow tt it did not occur to elther of them to dI distrust the engineer or to sui him and yet no sooner were they out of eight bight than be made his bl way as a fast fait nit na he could to president Rock forda fords office told of the like bribe and of what he had done stanford stone was waa with rockford Koc kford when the tai engineer made hla his report ile he leaned over and spoke con to rockford who grew a little while am a he likened wit tint nod bod ded finally all right he said gald ill do it ill stay lay back here but think im aboard wll well it will serto them you can trust dunn I 1 1 I so yi stone grimly he kiowa aws he must make good this time 0 01 got get into trouble lies iles fallen down hard twice tivice lately why even yesterday bo be was waa to send two men to lyard hagn with a woman to got get something on tom Lar carnigan ills ilia two men mea have disappeared and they never took the woman nt at all they watt wait for her but went oft with tome some other w woman a manon man on a joy ride I 1 suppose neither stone nor rockford of 0 course knew the truth as to this which was that dorothy maxwell Max wall learning of the plot had taken the place of the woman who was to betray tom nor that the two thugs with whom she ahe had bad gone had become eua aus niclous and tied her hand and foot fool in the bottom of the car while the went into a roadhouse to acquire courage for the task before them yot yet even at that moment doroth was nun in flight from the two thu thua v they had not meant to stay long la the liy roadhouse but one drink had bad sugg suggested estad another and their resist unco ance badat been strong As a result dorothy had been ablo able to loosen hoi hei bonds and got get out ol of tho car she rude off oct lu in the car just as a the two thugs emerged and as soon AS aa the recovered covered ro from aiom their astonishment they gave chase stealing a motor cycle that had buen been standing by th car dorothy had bud a good start but illy tho the gaso litie tank of the car ar witt empty and ami she aoun iiii thill thai the ibi was sure to be overhauled and gain tunde lunde it prisoner tier her experience with them nindo her dread 1104 and aco tier her to lie he willing to lake any atik to avold avoid the tie fate tide she felt MB in ia store tot foi lier ut tit their bands anil and M to at a turn burn inthe in the rond road she nbc d the car and ILI ild down to ard the water which was MI tiena by as the roud road ul at this point wound in aind out near the sound at a dock a motorboat wag it 11 seemed to be empty and dorothy sprang aboard anil and rot got tile the will bollig jut ju t as her pursuers pursue is tore down to the water edge she felt that in the bout boat ahe was safe and that rile mile would lie be able to explain her desperate need to its owner nut but to her consternation she ahr heard sounds bounds within the h tiny cabin and the next moment the owner emerged Kit kittel tyl cried dorothy kitty rock lord I 1 it was not a man but a girl of dorothys own age who owned the tb boat boal and kitty rockford Roc ltford was her best friend chance had leaned heavily in dorothys direction nt at bastl there were exclamations or of amazement from both of them and explanations followed id never have anred cried kitty dorothy youre the bravest girl I 1 ever knew hut but youre ante now well RO go right alt ht home and ill have them send you to new york in A special train 9 41 tom and ben travers discussed the th lateia warning to drop the rail road probe 1 I 1 doert want to go BO to new york said dorothy dolothy its I 1 must musi ret get W u ut us soon us I 1 cany can all right said kitty ou on the theany myny to filomon W we ton can get you her ill hurry burry to now new hartford its a as I 1 ahn cnn lafit lint what on earth brought brount tt you just iusi berer 1 I 1 was out for an early aln spin and went with the en klue glue I 1 fixed it up and then I 1 went trent tutu it the he cuben to clenn up why I 1 wits hidden bidden when you ou came caine alward aboard kt but ii elther rockford our nor TOM I 1 kiin gun knew ct ce time of the movements imeida ian of dorothy maxwell rockford nt at stone s dictation arne trally vally tl tt ally 1 ti himself lintl tind nn nit en different plan had n trap nip for Lar carnigan and lien hen trav erit en ehni exceeded in diabolical ty tyant tiK g the graft syndicate had yet 1 toro tom and hen ben were to tale take the he JAI out mit but the private car gaii to ha be empt empty and at a drawbridge nut tar yew new bartford ford duan was waa to be stationed with instructions to open the draw and dash the special to destruction in the rocky stream lelow below tom anil and uen lien suspected nothing they wen delighted when they found that hut the engineer and his fireman werl were ready to let them take their places la in return for too the tom bad offered ott ered the engineer led the way to au an obscure spot and changed clotho clothes with tom while his fireman gave tip his own wor working IzIng togs toga to den just five minutes before the special wua was scheduled to pull out tom and uen ben took their places in the cub cab of the engine walting for the signal to pull out and just before that hint signal was given kitty rockford nock foitl and dorothy dashed up Tt ints ands car she sold said where Is that special going she ahe naked asked the nearest official who smiled at her boston silsa miss kitty he said bald gooda Goot ll cried kitty come on dorothy its ita just what we want there wai no reason for stopping flopping tier her none of the station clah knew anything af Rock fords plan and so kitty and dorothy climbed aboard and a moment later tho the signal to start wap given rockford ockford It nna and stone titling Ait ting in t Rock fords office chuckled us its they saly saw it pull out hut but avci minutes later Rock forda fords chuckling was stopped abruptly for a nutt note tha kitty had find hastily scribbled wits brought to him it informed him that his daughter was on the train that wa 4 doomed by his own act As A 11 tan can help you and I 1 willell will I 1 said cald rockford he ren read ait it his has face turned a aba ghastly fly color und and he slumped forward III hn hl chair fur for n ino moment ment then he turned furlo on stone thi 3 la Is your doing you murder murderers erl he cried uc he flung the noto note at stone stolle ill try to save he cried hut whatever happens via ini done with you ill fill hare no more dealings with you or nay any of the grafters drafters gr who are arc lu in with youl ill bean be an honest man luau again lie ile how few tr to send orders ordera stopping the and ordered out another ape tat lal to follow but he be had no hope chere was waa no way he was sure of topping the doomed train the only hance via was for dunn to fall fail and that bance as rockford knew only too yell well was of the slightest dunn was not the sort to fall when success depended ended upon his hi own efforts and whet when tie he know knew na as lie he did now the price of failure what rockford Koc kford however had bad not allowed till owed for was waa that tom larugue Larn Laru lipin guu iad aad a plan of his own anil and A nil very soon after the he special had pulled out and while it wis was still a mile from the ze where daun waited tom stop atop tied ped the come on oil he be said to ben this Is na as good a time as any for our little talk with Pre president Adent rockford hut in the private car when they the went back they bey found nat not tint but the two girls two astonished moreover are arc we all a lone alone on iraln ive neen deen ringing and and thore there reems coins to he be no porter itald kitty in 4 but dorothy at that moment mccog tom so youre fafel she aho cried 1 I was 40 0 o afraid they had hurt you as they lid bruce and then there were explanations com coin felted me led epou the main fact 1 I believe this bis wits wait a he be cried get off the train while travers and i look to see w if anything is 1 wrong ft rent kitty resented m what w emed to be a reflection ce ou on her father but there was ioni ething compelling about tom and ho ahe obeyed and then while tom and lien hen looked for evidences of af a plot dor athy explained many things to kitty cintli she wait wain ty by a abuam ry of triumph got you bibla time cried one or of the thugs from whom tier her timely meeting with kitty bad enabled her to co escape cape the two thugs had bad been obliged to walk the ties and had come just at this moment dut but they reckoned reckon pd without torn roro mid benthey hest heard d dorothys Dorot bya scream and the next instant they III ap geared and attacked attack eil the two thugs rho rhe sur primp helped bellied dorothys resau ers era and the fight that followed was waa brief soon nil all the he thugs wanted was to escape nud one of them wriggled tree free and sprang to the engine tie ile called to the other and they went oo off tit in the anrine hut but blie did not go far for dunn wits waiting ue he ald hla work well the special crashed through the open draw ona the chuga met the fate they deferred des erred lvin U wen ns as the crash of the wreck sound pd in their earm another engine appear exl w iruin from I ruin it sprang blockford whose relief when he saw aw kitty know knew no ito bounds lie turned tit in A moment to tom 1 I con can help bell yon bud I 1 will he sald aid earnestly 1 I have sworn to reform myself and ana I 1 will work r ork with you to compel others tu to do so BO no 7 next week I 1 |