| Show THE SECRET OF ay ay THE SUBMARINE 5 INE ay y author of the ne end of the trac ti all EH fighting in flanders ne The road to glory swela vive france etc T y N novelized novelised Nov lined elised fth from the not motion picture afy of the JV ty bv the ay ay fd film C Comp p imy j rier w be h s uw afta SYNOPSIS a aleut of jarvis it hope do la 11 dd detailed 1 by th the united bt states B naval board to 1 iset aid na report h hla findings s on the be I 1 intention 0 or of K pr amr ralph burke ui which b a berve 6 to b bring 1 I 1 9 in ine in I 1 to a state 0 O of f P perfection the arrive in I 1 ano and I 1 IB welcomed led l b I 1 tha a II I 1 arsea ana ila hla dabeh h ter cleo on too the t trial 1 trip I 1 of the in n tor rr boat dpn japanese P helper or on r in the act of examining A in in the h an of the ventilating d device hope P favorably on the or new w device be but there are other te I 1 led II in it an attempt P to doctor burke s laboratory ne tails but later cleo finds him in s 0 his be bedroom r sa cleo 1 ce bella 1 I I 1 her father t h in r to net money on lat later he ande boano do ano a note from which h ahe be arn that her the re rei books c contain the erret t formula ii W it ath hope she b role races to t th h auctioneer a storo only ly to find d it I 1 in flame FOURTH installment O overcome orra by despondency cleo hope and hook stood attiring at the heap ol of smoking debri e which a few minutes minute B before had been dan auction y rooms in that blazing pyre had ad P perished perie dished hed all their hopes of 0 art erang III the lost at formula cleo her or rai derres shattered it by the long strain they had been under we wan bobbing al I 1 bently fly 0 on hope hop a shoulder do dont I 1 or cry y dear it its a going to turn lure out of all 11 right he chip whispered d with me an attempt at xe reassurance assurance he was far jim irom feeling there that got goes old dawson now hope HOP A heard board an someone a remark ark Is this mr bir D dawson mcl he asked top tap ping the rian man on the shoulder it la is was waa the curt answer but ate DO time to bother with reporters reporter cow ow you can say eay that I 1 am fully no COT xu ered by y insurance I 1 in glad to hear that you were in bur it said laid hope hop but I 1 m not mit a re porter I 1 am lieutenant hope of the navy and I 1 want only a few minute ot of your time I 1 wish to inquire about a matter 1 in which the government is ia deeply interested well we wa c can 1 I talk in this c crowd wd aid dow none binom too cordially sup poss pose we step over to that cigar store atom me ca the corner comer now int let s have bar your go questions nation 8 quickly floor lieutenant t tor for afir I 1 ve lot lots of things waiting to be been to td 1 I bell believe e beg began hope that hot you vold old etc at auction tod today by some books which were sent you last beat week walk by miss it burke of odein Vald I 1 avla can you give me but lie be got no futh further merciful heaven shouted down dawson bow many any more times must I 1 be pestered ate ed about those cursed books how do I 1 know that you re naval officer anyway T 1 I lou on nean I 1 get excited mr dow daw a son on said eald hope soothingly this will prove to in you that I 1 am neither a crook nor a taker faker and be drew draw from bi his pocketbook hm but letter of instructions I 1 the navy department I 1 beg y your u r pardon pardo lor for having ap ken A so ha bast til ll mr bir hope hop bald aid the auctioneer ill apologetically As aa he be saw the coltof tf arma arm on the letterhead but iou on must rai remember nambe that my place of business h has A 8 just burned barred down and hd that ou on a are T the fourth porm person the last hour who has asked nie me tor for the names name of th those a who pur chased h it the durk burke books book I 1 who what t ra you say ay astounds me hops hope replied th this la is miss burke who ent ant you the books he added am aa cie cleo and ad hook joined them this 1 Is a matter mr dawson in which both M miss ism burke and the government of the tha united states are vitally con A named now tell ms me who were thus these people who asked you tor for the list ot of the those 6 who bought the books what did they look like 1 I cant t tell e Y boil their 1 names was cou the answer er it never 0 occurred to rom me to ask 1 I wilt will be quite frank with you mr n bat said if hope in one A of thus those books which you sold today I 1 ta bidden conold a certain fo formula roul which our govern anent out 1 ia extremely amil anxious to obtain cotal it Is no DO exaggeration to flay that were it to fall all into the hands hand of another government it might metho methe moan differ ence between peace and war the I ial formula al was tha invention of doctor burke burka miss burke a father and for her ita I 1 in loss means meana tho the difference b between betwee poverty and comfort now new that you understand how important it 1 la mr dow dawhon are amt ou able abis to recall tie the names named of any of those there who bought tha bk taij 1 I can do better than that was the tha astounding to answer 1 I ran can give you all the names am 11 he I 1 hopa H pe almost shouted in hla his joy Is I 1 P p d your records were lost 1 in the fire so they were said damaon dol track frank ly enjoying the effect which his bia recital was producing but after three pon peo pie ale had bad asked for that list I 1 concluded that there was we aaroe me hocuk becu alms go ing on so BO just before I 1 locked up for the night I 1 detached the sheet heat run con tabling the list of names from the loo oleaf ledger and slipped 1 it plied it in my ad pocket intending to a spend pend the evening making a few inquiries laz her here it la in th thank k old god hope hop diroll exclaimed d ter or vently fairly snatching the sheet beet from dawson dalbon B hand baud cleo did not say any thing hut but the look of g gratitude she flashed the auctioneer ct loer with her b beau eyes caused him to redden with gratification and amb emb embarrassment ashment hook let out a yell that could be heard a block whoop wow he bellowed wb e A a it s B all right now miss bliss cleo well oft git the secret error A 0 the submarine after all 11 hope wasting no time in words word was wag hen hastily tIll copying the list of nameon the back of an afi envelope the first name me we was I 1 Stop Stephans hanski kl 1485 Ed edgarr gerr road seen san francisco Frat but be was waa suddenly interrupted by a shout bout from dawson there that he 11 Is there he Is that a the a fellow who called on me last I 1 he be cried excitedly n pointing through ua ah the B lie cigar store ta wild window bee across the street thera or the th fellow just getting felting on motorcycle a by ill the living jingo jig it it aln 1 t bat suma in mare roared d hook just let me get t inott a aholt of f the skunk and ad ha be rushed had for tha door followed by hops hop and cleo the former a aa he be ran me thrusting lot into him bis pocket decker the sheet heat from dow daw sons ledger dodging through I 1 the a crowd with 1 amazing I I 1 agility considering meting his him bulk hook would ld have caught S satsuma a team bad he be not tripped on OB a length of fi firehouse fire rho hose and gone sprawling satsuma him hia at portion attracted tt ted by the jeers rod and laughter of the onlookers turned ree rec the prostrate trat end and nursing cursing sea man and ad ge getting I 1 ting his in motor for cy cycle Z la start t ed ad at that moment shut shot do down w the rho street and disappeared around a cor cut nor ner quick called called hope jump into my car and we 11 try to overtake him no hi but by the time they r rounded clod the tha cor nor ner th the j japanese opera taa lost last to sight light a amid rol d the press of traffic there theme a no 0 use J n trying to catch him in this crowd said add hope HOP slow alow ing down the car or it ita or evident act the that that story of I 1 his having ing shipped on a boat for south america we waa all 11 a take fake we A had bad better inform the police that he bo 1 is in the city but the first aud and most I 1 important thing tor for us to do I 1 Is I 1 to make at straight r eight tor for 1485 edgemere Ed gemere road and have a look at the book bought by this man Steph anekt A lion hen olga Iva ivanoff left the dawson auction rooms with the list which by her simple ruse she had obtained so a easily she directed the driver drive of her text taxicab cab to take her to the portola parini arms where she bad an apartment thirty minutes to later having removed INN v f 4 ej A ctr abhat the girl tie asyle tha h traces of her bar hurried trip from an V I 1 ahe ret reentered td the no car and ordered th tha man to drive her to 2485 edgemoore edgemere Ed gemore gemere road mad had bad it not been tor for her woman oman a vanity the entire course of t athla to story etory might have been offered altered tor for in the halt half hour which had elapsed gerald ai 1 morton led had called find upon DW daw son had Is obtained a copy of alk wow the I 1 let hat and ad now like olga 01 was we on hla him way to the tha edgemere Ed gemere road mad ad dress d than it happened that flat as 11 the touring car which ha be had engaged wag we spending out california street olga a taxicab recklessly driven by a client flux who he had had several a eral drink dranka more or than wora were good go tor r him b tin iM came whirl mine amstea ing down one of f t the steep up grades from nub nob hill and swung into the tha main thoroughfare squarely in th the path of 0 M morton mno no B machine T there her ii I i was a shout of warning the tha quell of 1 broke suddenly applied and with A I 1 crash of splintering wood sort and break ing glass the hea heavy touring car struck 1 th the taxicab squarely Q ir amidships so rapidly w was morton efort hf ort a 0 car traveling that th the ig lighter t or machine was wag hurled the th width of the street I 1 by the tha violent violence of the tha collision and collapsed lisp an against again ll 11 the up P sit curb our b shattered all atte red almott almost beyond be end recognition A crowd collected it edan aa though by magic the th driver of tho the taxicab blood streaming from an 4 ugly A g ly gash gaab in him bia head bead and groaning horribly he I 1 fly waa we lifted from at amid the bifro wreckage ago and carrin carried tire into R nearby dr drug 9 store while olga very white and shaken he k but quite uninjured was waa helped from the shattered marble machine by a acom of willing bands band morton hur bur ried to her profusely profuse y a apologetic po 1 0 get 1 W when h en he be saw her striking b beauty m u t y he e bee became a m more lore joa I 1 m terribly sorry entry ha be said offer ing her or Is a arm ir for it we was evident ba that mho bhe was till still suffering buffering from the shock but your year car appeared so a sud mud denly delly that we dian didn I 1 have time to turn aside wont won t you at least permit me to make amends amed by taking you home here my car seems to bo be still in running order thank ahk you replied olga where do you wish w job to go he in quiren taking the seat beside her in the t conneau to Ed edgemere Edg emera gemere road she ehe answered ami consulting alt g a apty pty paper wh which 1 ch she bhe took fr from her pr purse no 14 1485 9 5 wort mor on A stared at her bar to in sheer hear magot amazement at va W hy by that is where I 1 waw was he bo be ba san gan and then checked chanke d h himself I 1 of all the extraordinary coincidences of which he be had ever heard surely this was vs the me strangest at that tb t be trying hurrying ho to an obscure house in I 1 a remote suburb of the city should collide with a test tail cab carrying a beautiful woman w am to the same dome destination what was we taking her to the house bouse in edgemere Ed Edgen gemere cere road real he wondered suddenly he recalled cawson g description of of this the woman who had in called tied at the auction rooms room and obtained a copy of the th list A tall dark foreign 10 looking k too woman the auctioneer had bad said there them was waa no room mom for doubt the woman of the auction room episode mud and the in woman of the taxicab accident must be ba one st and the same burns 1 by one of if those A n coin 14 ciden cu which or are elwanger el or ranger laager than fiction tie the mysterious we woma who whom he ng titi so a anxious to meet had bad been thrown throw almost literally literal into in a his arms arm morton s mind worked ark ed r rapidly ap idly I 1 take it that you yen must mu be acquaint ed ad with mr Steph anekt kl he be began beg feeling his fis way cautiously c it coal Y or a are arc you too on the trail of I 1 tha he burke bulk books I 1 NN hat do you know about the burke books book 7 she he demanded incredulously 1 1 I know all about them replied morton now low bonvin d fr from her aal 91 ration I 1 that at him bla an Bunn isea were 0 correct arm t and I 1 happen to know knew he con tin tinned u ed th that 11 I 1 you are after them too let us bea be quite alto frank with each ota orb er ar dear lady it to la RN a a more sat at is factorY and save eaves much pil dar standing I 1 am going to Stephans it kl a to in get at a look at 1 that book which he bought at dawson 8 auction sale ale a this morning you are 1 going there th for far the tha samo a purpose pulp it if we tried va 11 could probably make things Us t ag very or Y on na comfortable tor for each other but b or what a the th UBO one suppose so price we join amm instead if we succeed in get ting ties what we re after there will be b enough gh 1 in it t to I 1 sty va b both th V hat do you say my while he we was speaking olga mind had bad been working ilk like ligh lightning very well she he assented acted I 1 no can an 0 no A her harm 1 in our or working together As you say bay the secret I 1 it t we discover it I 1 is his big enough gh to satiety all fy us no both A As a matter W of tact fact she he bad not at the slightest intention Intent lou of hag the a be aret et with anyone for that matter neither either had morton good I 1 he exclaimed claimed heartily hear 7 now that hat we are to be partners per mft it me to introduce ca self 11 my name am is I 1 gerald G laid morton mort n and I 1 she he replied top fi ed gravely ao the introduction itro am in the th e countess coll Coun t tesa ass ivanoff 1 orion morton 1 l was obviously Impre Bied by her title her distio distinction ttO A of manner an and nd her undeniable been beauty but his reflections fi act 1 ons were interrupted by I 1 the h car 1 topping in front of a tumbled tumble tumbledown down 0 bound louse which stood back fr from the road read in n a lot overgrown with grass and weeds I 1 it t was a peculiarly lonely and it forbidding neighbors neighborhood orb and 1 in the extreme western erts outskirts of the 0 city in with ith houses few and far apart this must be the place said old mr mor ton knocking its it the only house ban 1 n the block they heard board from fr within the sound ad ol of someone moving boat about hurriedly but it was not lot until unit I 1 morton t knocked again 91 that the door was am opened the man who stood too told framed in 1 the doorway was A very tall 1 very emaciated listed and it one was wai to judge by the 4 dirty it ty gray white whit board beard gray which reached albov to his water berr 1 I 1 s 4 I 1 ii put on until or sd H adt Is 1 this thia mr Stepha halki nahl morton morion ii inquired r od politely lt it laa was th the none too U gracious 6 u ano abaner vot tot J afsa it do dot t you elsh I 1 id have Is learned ad from mr dawson old lid morton that lou rm bought a work ork on a chemist chemistry at the tha auction this morning I 1 am a c collector r of of lato lifto b books 0 and if thia h book k la be what think ke I 1 think it 1 Is I 1 would ilk like 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