Show isa T the h e bromsen rr k n go gon coin N i n by HOUGH 1 from the scenario by grace cunard A story of mystery and adventure advento re IL 11 copyright 1915 1911 by A Patter patterson sou no he lazed from tho the motion picture Ilc wants drama of 0 the same name produced by the universal allm company SYNOPSIS kitt katt gray cray newspaper woman finds and in 10 cur r i nop halt half 0 t a broken coin th alio muti mutilator lato i inscription on which arouses oher her curiosity ind and leads lead her nt at the order of her managing editor to BO ad to the me principality ci of to t place out the atory suggested by the inscription she blia Is in followed and on arrival in Gretz hoffen her adventures adventure s while chasing the secret 0 of o tho the broken coin begin eighteenth installment CHAPTER sachio and michael the two rival capitals of those mooted land lamia still till faced ono one another in a conflict abet as yet undecided which were wera deeper in duplicity it had boon been difficult to gay say but as to which surpassed in active measures no doubt at all remained count sachio rest rast loss losa and energetic already was taking further steps to enforce his own will and that of his sovereign upon the weaker mind which purported to govern at Gretz hoffen it was as sachio had prophesied the sloth bloth of michael left him open to any proposition which came couched in fair words and which offered no changes in hla his own por per monal bonal plans ile ho acceded readily enough to the proposals of tho the ora gra hoffen courtier to lengthen the armistice between the two warring coun arios with a view to a formal and final flea readily dily enough also he admitted into his own household tho the of the forces of his herf datary enemy unopposed indeed invited anade ills his way much as lie he liked throughout tho the palace with whose interior ho he already was anore or less familiar it was ills his plan la in case of any challenge to rotor refer to the royal roia ruler who was his bis host ile he paid special attention to that ij i apartment where he had found the impartially destroyed original script whose missing halt ho he sought hero here minutely patiently like LL a hound bound running u difficult trail ho he wont went over tho the place inch by inch seeking to find some mome trace which would load lead him to liis fila quarry but success did not attend his ct at though these ho he prosecuted oven even tin i those portions of the palace whore whom tsu tso recently he be and his troops had traced death when the levels were hooded by waters turned in from the castle moats ile ho was willing to despair and in fact had turned away with the intention of riving giving up tho the search when the 0 met a of tho the guard who proved difficult to handlo handle in his bis usual ansy bonsy fashion halt who goes there chat chal longed this guard as ho he saw baw sachio emerge from one of the lower chum chain bers A fri friend endl rejoined sachio promptly in military formula advance friend and give tho the countersign ter sign gril came tho the gruff command tho the countersign said bald sachio ah well wall my friend now that I 1 think of it I 1 have not had it given M t me rny my own neglect but I 1 am a friend alond of the king ho be who gave mo me permission to explore those por alons of the palace I 1 was curious to tape isee tho the operations of this system of defenso by water it was bething Xe thing now new to me that Is all very well rejoined tho the soldier but explanations of that sort are scarcely good enough tako take me then than to the king himself said sachio why should I 1 rejoined the other what business la Is it of yours to know about the lower levels of our palace these are arc ticklish times and there kave aavo been such things as spies saleal Sp les leal exclaimed sachio virtuously L a spy Is that what you mean tellow fellow it if so I 1 command you to carry me forthwith to tho the presence of the king himself ito he knows me well and you should have a care not to offend one who Is under the kings crotee tion the sheer aud audacity netty of this intruder tad had its effect even upon the blunt soldier who had accosted him sachio was indeed taken to the presence prea of Mich michael acl and there his bold prediction proved true michael reprimanded publicly the officer who had done his duty and showed his public favor to the man who was indeed a spy nl at though not suspected of being one what ellow stellow exclaimed the king 10 tto lo the tha soldier when sachio had made ibis his explanations what do you mean iby offering indignity to our friend and V ally in this fashion away with you and do you report at the guardhouse under arrest your trial ishall come later aty anty dear sachio resumed michael you see how prompt we aro are with our protection of our nur friends do not take tt lit ill of ab that one of our underlings bas done what hla his superior officers cora or hla his sovereign would never think of countenancing we trust you will accept this disclaimer it was nothing your majesty replied the wily statesman and I 1 assure your majesty tho incident shall 4 not linger in my memory may wo we perhaps venture to drown in a bumper to your maje good health all thought of this misunderstanding I 1 will drink to the health of michael and the prosperity of 0 his kingdom quito quite exclaimed ml hit chael cheol and let us follow that with anthor another 0 to the final and peaceful conclusion of that unhappy misunderstanding which has heretofore herc divided two kingdoms they drank the befuddled friends of bl michael ichael joined them in hilarity it not intelligent at least vociferous but my good sachio resumed michael after a time lot me ask you a 0 question yours was ever a keen eye for beauty and a good scent on oil tho the trill of beauty itself tell me then what became of that beautiful young american who so lately was with us and who it you will allow mo me to say it had so much to do with the late repulse of your forces I 1 have not seen her since that time nor now that I 1 recall it have I 1 seen her frie friend tid count Tre frederick derick they have boon gone some days or hours I 1 cannot tell which measures their absence whether clock or calendar but I 1 know she eho is not here tor for every room of the palace has been searched for her and she to is not found your majesty rejoined sachio it 11 is astonishing bow a keen brain like your own can guests guess an another others s so secrets cretal I 1 also make a claim to humble intelli gance enough to have guessed your wishes in this matter but alas I 1 can be of no service to your majesty I 1 grieve to add neither can anyone else be of service what sho Is dead oh not po so bad as that dut but she to Is gone gono cono where to her own country back to that america of which chic it your dour majesty has haa hoard heard her bar boast a so 0 freely how haw do you know this my friend demanded michael sachio smiled who ifould know better said ho he let no me r confess we took yonder young lady a prisoner and carried her away with us but we could not hold bold her as such indeed wo vo no longer hold any quarrel with Gretz hoffon hoffen and there was no longer a question of prisoners as between tho the two kingdoms this young oung lady was seen to take ship at what port at ours your majesty hor her aston aslon ashing ingenuity enabled her to escape from our guards like Catill cariline Ca tiline ne of old site she has escaped she has evaded she has broken forth arid and a good riddance of her so say we aill all my good sachio I 1 am not act so sure sum how shall I 1 rid my memory of 0 her eyes so BO beautiful her hair so BO lovable her figure her bar so BO charming charmin gand and delicate figure fortune does not often repeat such favors we may not expect to see her like again at any early dato data that Is ns as it Is said sachio pretending to heave a vast sigh of sympathy hut but what can we do she took it all into her own hands and by this time Is well on her way to america there Is not the slightest doubt regarding either her departure or her destination sho she was rather bold about it in fact and made no secret of her plans was she a spy think you sachio without doubt your majesty and I 1 well rue it that she did not receive the punishment fit alt tor for a spy true she was beautiful yes yec yes assented michael such eyes such buth a figure think you that she will return I 1 truly hope not your majesty returned sachio fervently and for once ho he spoke the truth even on tho the chance of offending this amorous king kin CHAPTER I 1 the unknown countries Countr lei what now of those to whom count sachio had so BO lightly given carto carte blanche to oblivion certainly there th cre was loft left behind them no trace or clue which could give a hint of the ey ej tra ordinary circumstances now BOW on en meshing them they might lit all of them kitty count frederick rolean as an well have been dead indeed and sunk at sea eca so far as any hint of their fate was concerned they had van dished from the earth the ship that bore alem had vanished from tho the wa ter as well it was a strange and unreal coun try which faced count frederick when he found solid land under toot onge once more tic ho turned to life and its happiness only with a dull apathy a lag ging interest frederick did not note that the faithful had become separated from mm him in me contusion confusion following the landing of the boat in truth troth exhausted eta as he be was himself had noted hut but little of what had gone on finding himself finally left practically alone ho he made off down tha boach in search of food and water while meantime frederick was accorn panted by a party of natives up the bench and into the village which served as aa headquarters for that portion of the island hero here he was brought before the chief from the look of him and ills his subjects count frederick fancied himself to be ba on an island somewhere off the african coast whether these people were friends or r foes he could not tell at first tor for co ho understood neither their language nor their gesticulations but it occurred to him that whichever they might bo be it would not be amiss for him to impress them with a fooling feeling of his own power lie ho could not tell whether or not they were familiar with the effect of firearms nr earms but recalled all he had read of the terror inspired in savage minds by the use 0 of f such weapons ile he drew draw from his pocket the pistol which ho he had carried and looked about him for some object at which to aim A wild duck was floating in tho the lagoon go on not tar far away and at this count frederick took careful aim and fired with ith the iho extraordinary good luck to kill 1111 it outright this feat brought out u most ludicrous activity amongst the natives in consternation they flung themselves before him clasped his knece and laid their foreheads upon the earth even as man friday had in the presence of crusoe of old obviously they were not disposed to curry favor with him nw now and not to attack him As for himself possessed only of such ammunition as remained in his single cartridge clip ho he assumed such an it attitude attl tule as he fancied would best display him as a conqueror although in truth he felt himself tar far from such they led him through the village to a place where he be was offered food and water vater both now imperatively craved by life hla starved body unable to understand what was tic do sired elred of him and indifferent as to the meaning of the colloquy going on about him for some time his hio interest in life and its affairs was so lax that he paid no attention 0 o anything that was happening at length however he noticed something which caused him to take a sudden and eager interest in his surroundings two men came running evidently from a distant part of the island and evidently bearers of news of sofij importance as could bo be proved by the reception recaption given their hurried story etory but what was that story there is a certain virtue in necessity itself there is it a certain common denominator in human emotions there Is perhaps a certain unrecognized 11 t z ad common denominator in human expression of human emotion some universal language whether of word or gesture or ot of the unspoken tolo to quality 0 of the mind itself count frederick understood not one word of this language which he heard yet ho he know because ho he must know something somo thing of the subject object which these persons person were discussing the men had come bome farone far one could tell that their looks proved it they had seen something strange something extraordinary had happened some acme event of interest or importance had occurred else they would not have come coma so RO fast and so far this was easy enough to reason out what was that event T what mat could happen out of the ordinary on this desert island it were borne thing coming from beyond the tha narrow horizon of at that island say a shipwreck or the landing on those these 8 bor ea ot of some survivor such as aa he himself had been that would explain these hurriel hurr lel messengers nut but it if that were true who or what was waa the survivor or adventurer discovered in a distant part of this rame land was it a matt man or men man was it a woman or women what was the meaning of these ex cited ejaculations these gestures these contortions contor tlona guessing lather than knowing count frederick fancied that these men wore telling about a woman who like himself had bad been cast up IT by the waves the keen intentness of tho the white mans brain for countless generation trained in logic and analysis infinitely superior to the mentality of those these ball brutes about him served to force itself into some comprehension of what might almost as aa will wall have bave been an unspoken thought on tho the part of these lucac others the eye of tho the white walto man kindled the figure of the white man straightened lie ho knew they were trying to tell that they had found a woman shipwrecked arid and cast upon this island it so BO who was it who could it le iet was it she whom he sought was fate merely jesting with him once more or mercifully intending to teach him the one truth he craved the chief himself somewhat confirmed count fredericks surmises lie ile came now and pointed to one of the women of his own tribe then approaching pro aching frederick he ha pulled up his sleeve and ran his bis hand band over the white mans skin akin pointing again to the woman plainly a white woman had been discovered discover edl 1 that itself was an extraordinary occurrence here admiration mi ration wonder in part tion existed among these simple mind ed ad natives but obviously they intended them salees to go to see this stra creature tho the chief called about i 1 ome of his men count frederick sq s his opportunity in this ile he placed himself at the head of the little band and patting his pistol hold held it up as showing that he himself owner of this powerful weapon was the one leader fit for this errand of discovery of this athla strange white woman CHAPTER the caverns cavern when kitty gray awakened to consciousness ness upon the bench beach of a strange land whither she had been carried by no purpose of her own she looked once more into tho the face of peril the savages who surrounded her showed no sign of pity or kindness upon the contrary whooping and yelling tuey they tell fell upon her bar and dragged her lit in spite of herself toward their own village this village had a ruler of its own no doubt chief for that part of the country ile he was a savage of peculiarly fierce and forbidding visage and kitty felt her blood run cold as she faced his evil gaze the natives yelling in glee practically cast her at hla his feet evidently they were giving to caesar tho the things which |