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Show Novelized From the Motion Picture Ply of the Same Name by the Universal Fikn Manufacturing Manu-facturing Company z f tm Mi Wl w mv SYNOPSIS, Patnola Montz has resumed In America, Amer-ica, the battle of wit she began In Europe, Eu-rope, to baffle Phtl Kelly, a detective, known as ' Th Sphinx " Made Queen of Apachea, In Paris, she retain the title and leadership of the Amerlcai branch. Her adventures are alas directed to rellave the oppressed or In performance of come public benefit. In the preceding episode "Pat," as the girl Is known to her Intimates, undertook to frustrate the plans of come crooked politicians who had collected col-lected money for the purpose of advajic-Ing advajic-Ing their unlawful purposes. The money waj temporarily held In two safes, located In different buildings, and Pa.t with her Apache assistants, succeeded In robbing both nafes with the lntont of returning; iho money to the people In one lnstancs Pat devlBed a fake wall behind which she worked in opening the safe In ths other case with her men she entered ths office where th safe was kept, by working work-ing down from the roof. As she was escaping es-caping Ith the bctoty. Phil Kelly discovered discov-ered her purpose and following her machine ma-chine In another automobllo. overtook her and as the eplsodo ends she Is looking Into In-to the barrel of Kelly's revolver ELF.VENTH EPISODE "You had best surrender." said Phil Kelly as he kept the gun pointed at the Purple Mask, as she sat In the driver's seat of her stalled machine. "All right, for this time," said Patricia Pa-tricia Montez, "hut you would never have caught me if my gasoline had held out." Dressed In her purple tights and cape, Pat descended to the ground and removed her mask. Kelly stripped off his overcoat and helped her Into It, for the air was chill and Pat was not quite dressed for the circumstances in which 6he found herself. "Let's seek shelter In this cottage," Kelly suggested, pointing to a small shack that stood back from the road a few rods. "Whatever yon say is law, until I can get a chance to escape," said the girl, as Kelly led the way toward the cottage. Repeated knocks upon the door hrought no response. Kelly turned the knob and stepped Into a large living room that occupied most of the ground floor of the shark. Further Investigation developed the fart that tenants of the cottage had gone away. "There will be someone driving along the road shortly." said Kelly. ":ind I'll send a note to the rhlf of police. po-lice. He'll send for us and save the long walk back to town It must be a Kelly searched thft table that stood In the center of tbe room, and In one of Its drawers found stationery upon whleh he wrote a note. Upon the envelope en-velope he hurriedly crawled the address ad-dress of police headquarters and left the message lying on the table. When the Sphinx heard an automobile automo-bile approaching, hp ran Into the road to head It off. Whtye he was out of the room Pat's brain was working fast. Tearing open the original note Kelly had carelessly left upon the table. Pat substituted another envelope on which she hed written an Altogether different address. She had barely time to complete com-plete the substitution and to seal the envelope when Kelly returned with the chauffeur of a machine he had stopped as It wa 8 passing the house. "Rush thll envelope to the place It Is addressed," said the Sphinx. And the Btranger took the note, pocketing It along with the crisp bill Kelly gave him as his pay. Every time an automobile whizzed down the road, after sufficient time on his message, Kelly looked for a load of police to appear on the scene. Pat, however, feigned little interest In anything that was going on around hor. She would occasionally look out of the window, and made several feints, i as If she would try to escape. Finally Pat discovered, as she looked expectantly from the window, ; a machine loaded with mem rapidly ap-I ap-I proachlng from the direction of the J city. They were gowned In purple cloaks with ma-king hoods drawn over their heads. Kelly heard the machine stop In ' front of tbe cottage and rushed to the door, expecting, of course, to see the police coming In response to his summons. sum-mons. Almost before be could realize, i In his surprise, the unexpected pres- ence of Pat's Apaches, they had sur-( sur-( rounded hlra In the room. Pat slipped out of Kelly's coat and , tossed It to him with a gay taunting j laugh. "Thenk for taking good car of me," she said. To sorry I can't taks j you back to town with me, but I have an Important engagement at the Gar- i den tonight, and you might be a hind- ranee to my plans." In another Instant she had fled te i the waiting automobile, followed by , her men, and Kelly was left alone, to make his way back to towu as best h : (Could. I L Arriving at the House of Mysterj Pat called an Immediate meeting of the Apaches to discuss plans for their evening at the Garden. Word had come to ber that a fake htmevolent society so-ciety had hen preying upon the poor forsome time, collecting money that was squandered in hilarious sessions that the notorious resort held. "They have Just made an extra heavy haul, and will squander the funds tonight," was the concluding paragraph in the rpport that came to the queen of the Apaches Pat's plans were carefully outlined at the meeting in the House of Mystery. Mys-tery. The Garden cafe was a notorious j place where all sorts of people mingled under the hright lights. "It can do no harm to trive the place a good cleaning out, for once," i eaiu rui. The Garden was having a big night when Pat's men hegan to assemble, J Just after eleven o'clock. The "henev- j olent" society was out In force to en- j Joy the pleasures their ill-gotten money was to provide. Shortly after Pat arrived In her au- tomobile. she saw Phil Kelly enter, with one of his men. and take a seat not far from the entrance. Pat's ranti had arrived by twos and J fours, distributing themselves at vurl- I ous tables throughout the restaurant. More of them had climbed to the roof, I hy the fire-escapes, and were ready to descend upon the crowd at the appointed ap-pointed moment Kelly was chatting with his assistant, assist-ant, and enjoying the fun the dancers were furnishing, when a waiter handed hand-ed him a card. The Sphinx eyed the pasteboard curiously and then read : 'Tf you are wise, you will not lnter-fere. At that Instant every light in the place was extinguished. Women screamed with fright, and thp men at the tables shoved back their chairs, instinctively rising to their feet When the lights went up, as suddenly sudden-ly as they had gone out, men In purple t fVaBBaHasBwlL- - i Pafa Men Rescue Her From The Sphinx. capes and hoods that masked their faces formed a circle around the crowd at the tables. Each man held two revolvers re-volvers pointed threateningly at the assemblage. There was a girlish figure in purple tights and cape, with a purple mask across the face, that moved rapidly 1 among the tables. Two men who at- tended her placed their guns threat ! enlngly under the noses of the guests i as Pat held out a purple sack and commanded com-manded : "Drop your money In here. Give up what you have collected." And In i the surprise of the threat, nnd under ; the menace of Pat's Apaches, the mem-I mem-I bers of the "benevolent society" sur-' sur-' rendered their spoils. "This all goes to the poor," said Pat when It came Kelly's tnrn to contribute. contrib-ute. And the Sphinx emptied the con-I con-I tents of his pockets into the bag. There was the sudden call of a shrill wblatie. The lights again went out. ' 1 .. . V. . mm.m. ,.f mon nrnnf nt. UUU i. lit u iiii- - . luu ioiutuiui m . teudants reached the switchboard and flashed them up agHln, Pat and her Apaches were retreating from the cafe, BtlU covering the crowd with their revolvers. re-volvers. j Tbe members of the "benevolent society" so-ciety" with their ladles undertook to follow, but were held at bay while Pat and her men gained automobiles that stood ready, with engines running, to hurry them away. Kelly and his men rushed away In pursuit of the Apaches, but they soon realized that they were foolish to attempt, at-tempt, on foot, to catch the speeding machines. Glancing upward, by merest chance, Kolly saw a half-dozon men descend- ' lng from the roof by the fire-escape. The detective halted and watched the direction the Apaches took In running ! away from the scene of their advon-ture. advon-ture. They saw tho first man as he darted from an alley Into the main road and sped away, Kelly made a dash for the ; entrance to the alley and intercepted ! three of Pat's men before they could I escape. The Apaches put up a stiff fight, but ! Kelly und his men subdued two of i them and marched them off to police ' headquarters. Tbe Sphinx had some-! some-! thing at last to show for his conte6t ' of wits with the Purple Mask. When Kelly, tho next morning, reported re-ported to the police as complainant against the men ho had captured, the chief of detectives had orders for thet . flST1' Sphinx to go at oncp to the chief's of-i flw.,; fice. "Bull" McQuall. tho best head Hv ; the detective force bad ever boasted,1 was on his metal. Hr ' "I'm going to show you how easy It (HL Is to catch this Purple Mask girl," said Bf-' McQuall with an air of superior self- Bt assurance, when Kelly had been ! H -brought before him. "One of 'vi men you caught last night has squealed, M?', and I'm going after her myself." W "Go to It. boss," said Kelly with Wt, feigned self-reslgnatlon. "I'll wait W- here, If It's not going to take you too lF? -long." And McQuall, taking four of his men, departed for the House of Ba:., Mystery. Kk. As they entered the grounds S5UT- MpT-rounding MpT-rounding Pat's headquarters, her KjJ-, watchman reported their presence over tne telephone system with which the a B&y place was equipped. Thus McQuall's W K.V men found the "runway" that led KV through a door In the side of the hous " let down to decoy them into the place McQuall walked cautiously Into the P trap. Leading his men up the run- li way. he walked along the darkened hall that led directly into a large room. The detective and his men. with re-I re-I volvers drawn, moved stealthily Into fe the room, looking cautiously about ar them as they proceeded. When they f P. wero all Inside, the door through igv I whieh they had entered was suddenly j0 6 1 barred behind them by an Iron grat- n- 1 lng that fell from above and complete- V ly covered the opening. or r Hastily glancing around, McQuall j f discovered the room had no windows, .. f but was. dimly lighted by artificial ff f means. The celling was high and the 1 walls were hung with numerous pic- w I tores, their frames set In the plaster. 't H ' Suddenly one of the pictures on the r, I ' wall slid back and created an opening D-. through which a head and shoulders, t- masked by a purple hood, appeared, I and a voice commanded attention: . f e "You'll find paper and pencil on the E table, Mr. McQuall. Write an order q to release the two men you hold prls- it I oners at headquarters. When It is t. written and signed, take It to the f: barred door, and band It to our rues- senger." I McQuall looked toward the grating ' thnt barred his passage and saw three I figures standing In the hallway. One ! of the men said r "I am the messen- r i ger. Give It to me." The detective consulted with his men. They moved to the table and seated themselves. For a long time j McQuall talked with his men In low I tones, but made no move to write the ; note, as he had been commanded. "The longer you delay, the longer you stay," said the voice from the wall above McQuall's head. "Write the I note and you will be out of here as soon as our man can go to headquarters headquar-ters and bring back our comrades." j McQuall evidently decided It was the better part of discretion to do as he was ! told. He took the pencil and wrote upou a pad of paper that was lying on the table. Taking the note to the grating, he H handed It to the masked messencer. The Apache read the note aloud: 'Send the two men Kelly grabbed last "Just add to that." said the voice that had been speaking from the wall: H I "Say In the note: 'Let them come nacs wun inis messenger. .uevuuu compiled. I I "Go back to the table and put your I guns on the cloth," was the command I that now came In the voice from the I wall. With the guns of the Apaches J I pointed at them, the detectives con- i I eluded that compliance with the order j I was the most discreet thing to be I done. j I When they hsd again seated them- I selves at the table and their guns wer I placed on the cloth, the voice from the I wall counted them aloud, one by one. j I Then an entirely unexpected thing H happened. j I While the detectives were In the end I of the room, near the door, a trap bad I been silently opened In the celling. In , I the dimly lighted room the policemen I had failed to notice that four strong w ires had been let down and the loose I I ends hooked Into each of the four cor- ners of tbe tablecloth. H When a piercing whistle rang through the room, the cloth on the ta- I ble before them was suddenly lifted, I and before the detectives realized It, I their jruns had been Jerked up to the I celling and through the trapdoor. I The time dragged slowly enough for ; I the policemen. They cursed and ar- I gued, bemoaned their tough luck and ! I amused themselves as best they could I I for quite a time. Suddenly the room j I ! wns brightly lighted, and the grating ! I at the door was raised. i I "This woy out" commanded one of I I a dozen Apaches who stood at the I ' door. I And between lines of masked and I long-cloaked men, the detectives were I i ushered from the House of Mystery. I "It win be best to keep on going," I one of the Apaches said to McQuall. I Aud, followed by his men, the chief I of detectives accepted the advice. I On their way back to headquarters I i McQuall was sullen and crestfallen. A I He entered his office In a quite dlf- I ferent frame of mind than when he I left. Kelly was there to greet him. I "What luck?" said tho smiling I Sphinx. I "Quit your Joshing." said McQuall. I I ! Tm going to leave this girl for you jj I to get yourself," the chief declared. ' I And Phil Kelly, his face wreathed I In smiles of satisfaction, started from j I police headquarters, determined to I put an end to the Purple Mask's acttvi- I I ties. I "She has made me ridiculous long I I enough." Kelly said to his man as they I started for another adventure in the H ' House of Mystery. H j (END OF ELEVENTH EPISODE.) |