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Show IDE GREATER WRONG James Cannon, a young engineer, anxious to better himself, finally marries mar-ries Helen Maitland, an heiress. Grace Andrews, a stenographer in the era-ploy era-ploy of Cannon, secretly loves him, but ho Is unmindful of the fact. After their marriage, Helen's Ideals regarding regard-ing Cannon are shattered, for she realizes that he married her for her money and they begin to draw apart. Later when her child is born they partly resume their Intimacy. When Cannon suggests to Helen that she let him manager her entire fortune the previous quarrel is resumed with the result that Cannon disappears and Helen then takes up society, leaving her child in the nurse's care. Return- ing homo one evening, Helen finds the child is dead, and that day sho receives a letter from Cannon telling of his lovo for his child and that ho will soon return. Helen, fearful of the consequence of her act, learns from the doctor that ho has In his keeping a little child whose mothor died at its birth. Ilolen, not knowing that this Is Grace's child, decides to substitute It for her own and' so Helen's child is bulled with Grace. On his leturn Cannon finds that the child turns away from him and he is broken-hearted. With the passing years the substituted child never shows affection for Cannon and she causes him many a heartache. Helen, not knowing of the child's parentage, par-entage, is Vearful of tho outcome. Later, whon the daughter is grown sho and Cannon quarrel and she tells him that sho never loved him as there Is something In him that always prevented pre-vented It. Helen, seeing that Cannon's Can-non's heart Is broken, confides the secret. Cannon turns on her In anger, but the doctor, who has been summoned, sum-moned, takes Cannon to ono side and tells him that, the child Is reallv his own and of the terrible agony In which Grace died because of his neglect neg-lect of her. Cannon seeks Helen and confesses his guilt. REX "Tho Laughing Mask" hero of Patho's "Iron Claw" serial, 1b the champion enigma of the twentieth century, for in tho last few episodes, jus tas we thought we had our eyes on his identity, he has pulled the wool over them, and we have had to sigh and wait for the next episode. In the last chapter, called "Tho Unmasking of Davy" and shown at the Rex theater thea-ter Saturday, we got the greatost setback set-back of our amateur detectlvo career. ca-reer. This Is how it happened: Julius Legar. the Iron Claw, sends emissaries emissar-ies to get the fortune which ho has recovered and which Is secreted In a woods some distance off. But when they arrive there, they are confronted by a revolver In the hands of the Laughing Mask, and are ordered to hand oer tho Instructions for finding find-ing tho hiding place. A battle ensues and the paper flies from the hands of tho man who holds it. As one of his companions jumps for it. Margery appears on horseback and dashing past makes a daring pick-up. In the mix-up the Mask is shot in the left hand. Margery returns home and there meets the detectives in search of tho Laughing Mask. Davy appears with his left hand swathed' in bandages band-ages and Is arrested. But just as tho handcuffs are slipped on his wrists the Mask appears in the doorway, announces an-nounces the Innocence of the prisoner, prison-er, and fools us (and you) to a fare-you-well. oo |
