The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 8

= 1¢ Million Dollar Mystery W By HAROLD MAC GRATH Wtustrated from Scenes in the Photo Drama of the Same Name ty the Thanhouser Film Company RE . (Copyright, Toa by Harold rash) m Bu “I thought I did. It’s.all a jumble | movements. ‘ to me. But beware of the man who! Suddenly, not being devoid of a dreught you here. He is the head of | sense of dry humor, Jones stepped &'l our troubles; and if he knew I was, over to the telephone and called up on board he'd kill me out of hand. | her highness the Princess Perigoff. y He'd have to.” “Who is it?” - or¢ Braine offered Bannock $1,000 to| He was forced to admit, however off turn back as far as’ Boston; and as | reluctantly, that the woman had a ma Bannock had all the time in the world, | marvelously fine speaking voice. wa carrying no perishable goods, he con-; “It is Jones, madam.” Ge senied. But he never could quite un- “Jones?” enc derstand what followed. He had put “Mr, Hargreave's butler, madam.” pos Florence and Braine in the boat and “O! You have news of Florence?” a landed them; but when he went down’ “Yes.” It will be an embarrassing Mr to see ff Braine had left anything be- day for humanity when some one in- ‘at hind, he found that indiyidual bound | vents a photographic apparatus by the and gagged in his bunk. which two persons at the two ends of ly, / oo the telephone may observe the facial “3 CHAPTER Xi. expressicns of each other. the Ce icoet “What is it? Tell me quickly.” aD When Jones received the telegram “Florence has been found, and she ee that Florence was safe, the iron nerve {gs on her way back to New York. She R Th of the man broke down. The suspense was found by Mr: Norton, the .report- lin had been so keenly terrible that the er,” not sudden reaction left him almost hys- “Iam so glad! Shall I come up at pos terically weak. Three weeks of wait- once and have you tell me the whole 2 ing, waiting. Not even the scoundrel “amazing story?” Ton and his wife who had been the princi- “It, would be useless, madam, for I ‘del pal actors in the abduction had been, know nothing except what I learned a found. F rom a great ship in-midocean | ile) they had disappeared. Doubtless they , fn had hidden among the immigrants, | wa who, for little money, would have : fooled ill the oficers on board. There at was no doubt in Jones’ mind that the ie pair had landed safely at Madrid. | Co 5 Susan, she did have hyster- | sid 1e went about the room, wailing 1 hing and wringing her hands. ! ne You would have thought by her actions nce had just died. The sight no) } aM into-a smile. But he did not e ate with her. In fact, he at rather envied her freedom in emotion, | a Man cannot let go in that fashion; it! : is as of weakness; and he dared|/ ay not let even Susan see any sign of | ce weakness in him. | we So the reporter had found her, and| : she was safe and sound and on her | ual way to New York? Knowing by this} aa time something of the reporter's cour- ‘age, he was eager to learn how the| Ct event had come about. When he had | not had a telephone message from| Re Norton in 48 hours, he had decided that the Black Hundred had finally | succeeded in getting hold of him. It! had been something of a blow; for 4 while he looked with disfavor upon! a the reporter's frank regard for his) mus charge, he appreciated the fact that! of Norton was a staff to lean on, and had! Surrounded by Strange and Ominous . behind him all the power of the press, | Faces. a which included the privilege of going | ir everywhere even if one could not al- from a telegram I have just received. ol ways get back, | But no doubt some time this evening ! As he folded the telegram and put, YOU might risk a call.” 2 Le it into his pocket, he observed the) ‘Ring up the instant she returns. ord man with the opera glasses over the| Did she say what train? Ch way. He shrugged. Well, let him) “No, madam,” lied Jones, smiling. BS watch till his eyes dropped out of his | He hung up the regeiver and stared me head; he would see only that which! 8t the telephone as if he would force Sut ‘was intended for his eyes. Still, it| bis saze in and through it to the slay was irksome to feel that no matter| WOmar at the other end, Flesh and ae when or where you moved, watehing | blood! Well, greed was stronger than a eyes observed and chronicled these | that. Treacherous cat! Let her play; Za ‘acc be - ia gal am 6 H H f j 4 6 Million Dollar Myster cor . ee af 3 T . Uri has ed The seventh installment of which y vhe ton appears in The Times this week La can” : in e 8 ry rhe i Will be shown in Motion Pictures we by pre ; : : ane rS r the 5 wil at the = Star Theater Every Tuesday afternoon and night Clement Click to C B Click 40 let her weave her nets, dig her pits. The day would come, and it was not far distant, when she would find that the mild eyed mongoose was just as deadly as. the cobra, and far more cunning, The heads of the Black Hundred must be destroyed. Those were the orders. _What good to denounce theni, “to send them to a prison from which, with the aid of money and a tremen- dows secret political pull, they might readily find their way out? They must poisonous plague rats of the Orient. |. A woman? there was no sex. she received a wire from Braine, which announced the fact that Florence and New York on train No, 25, and ad- vised her to meet the train en route. She had to fly about to do it. When Captain Bannock released Braine, he had been in no enviable frame of mind. Tricked, fooled by the girl, whose mind was as unclouded as his‘own! She had succeeded in bribing a coal stoker, and had taken him un- awares. The man had donned the dis- guise he had laid out for shore ap- | proach, and the blockhead Bannock | had never suspected. He had not rec- | ognized Norton at all. It was only | when Bannock explained the history of the shanghaied stoker that he real- ized his real danger. Norton! He must be pushed off the board. After this episode he could no longer keep up | the pretense of being friendly. Nor- | ton, by a rare stroke of luck, had forced him out into the open. So be it. Self-preservation fs in no wise | looked upon as criminal. The law may | have its ideas about it, but the in- dividual recognizes no law but its own. It was Braine whom he loved and ad- mired, or Norton whom he hated as a dog with rabies hates water. With Norton free, he would never again dare return to New York openly. This | meddling reporter aimed at his ease | ' and elegance. He left the freighter as soon as a | boat could carry him ashore. The | | } turned her back to him. Then she sat fugitives would make directly for the railroad, and thither he went at top speed, to arrive ten minutes too late. “Free!” said Florence, as the train began to increase its speed, Nortom reached over and patted. her hand. Then he sat back with a sudden shock of dismay. He dived a hand into a pocket, into another and another. The price of the telegram he had sent to Jones was all“he had had in the world; and he had borrowed that from a friendly stoker. In the excitement he had forgotten all about such a. contingency as the absolute need of money. “Florence, I’m afrald we're going to have trouble with the conductor when |-8aw that all three he was interested he toe : He pulled out his pockets sugges- tively, “Not a postage stamp. They'It put us off at the next station. And,” with a glance in the little mirror be- tween the two windows, “I shouldn't blame them a bit.” He was unshaven, he was wearing the suit substituted for his own; and Florence, sartorially, ‘was not much better off. ‘ ‘She smiled, blushed, stood up, and be exterminated, as one kills off the In the law of reprisal Shortly after the telephone episode -| (which rather puzzled -the princess) five had escaped and were coming to Fell Into an Ambush. that something very unusual had hap- pened to these two. The Pullman conductor was not es- pecially polite; but money was maney, and the stockholders, waiting for their dividends, made it impossible for him to reject it. The regular conductor paid them no more attention than to grumble over changing a $20 bill. So, while these two were hurrying on: to New York, the plotters were hurrying east to meet them. The two trains tet and stopped at the’ same station about eighty miles from New .| York. The princess, accompanied by Vroon, who kept well in the back- ground, entered the car occupied by the two castaways. In the mirror at the rear of the car Norton happened to cast an idle glance, and he saw the princess. Yroon, however, escaped his eye. “Be careful, Florence,” he said. “The princess is in the car. The game be- gins again. Pretend that you suspect nothing. Pretty quick work on their part. And that's all the more reason why ‘we should play the comedy well. Here she comes. She will recognize you, throw her arms around you, and show all manner of effusiveness. Just keep your head and play the game.” “She lied about you to me.” “No matter.” ialen bout 100,000, ern frontier, “O!” cried the princess, She seized Florence in a wild embrace. She wes an inimitable actress, and Norton could not help admiring’ her. butler telephoned me! I ran to the first train out. And here you are, back safe and sound! It is wonderful. Tell me all about it. What an adven- ture! And, good heavens, Mr Nor- ton, where did you get those clothes? Did you find her and rescue her? What a newspaper story you'll be able to make out of it all! Now, tell me just what happened.” She sat down on} the arm of Florence's chair. The girl had steeled her nerves against the touch of her. And yet che was beauti- ful! How.could any one so beautiful be wicked? “Well, it began like this,” said Flor- | ence; and she described her adven- tures, omitting, to, be sure, Braine’s part in it. they had been rescued by Captain Ban- nock when a thundering, grinding crash struck the words from her lips. The three of them were flung violent- ly to one side of the car amid splinter. ing wood,tinkling glass, and the shriek of steel against steel, A low wail of horror rose and died away as the car careened over on its side, The three ‘were rendered unconscious and were huddled together on the floor, under the uprooted chairs, ‘Vroon had escaped with only a slight cut on the hand from flying glass. He climbed over the chairs and. passen- gers with a single object in view..__He in were insensible. He quickly exam- ined them and saw that they had not received serious injuries: He had but little time. The princess and Norton would have to take their chance with the other passengers. Resolutely he ‘atooped and. lifted Florence in his arnis and ‘crawled out of the:car with her, It was a difficult task, but he Kis stouder end staanered on tard - Polish “Your | is M To j:revent an invasion by the Rus- sh their encmy at the city-and their cam- FIGHTING LEGIONS ARE SNUFFED OUT ON BATTLEFIELDS |" ‘ench Dead List 150,000; the Ge.man Loss is 189,000; Slavs, 62,€0 ; and Britain, 20,000. RUSS'ANS LOSE LODZ Kaiser’s Army Takes Important City In Poland After Hard Battle— Italy Sends More: Men to African Ports. (Summary of Events.) Reports from the French war office state that the losses of the french army in killed, seriously wounded aid captured up to No- veaber 10, were slightly” more than £90,000, Of this number aearly 100,000 have been killed in vi title, Press dispatches from Ber- 1 ied, published irom time to time, samounts to. about 180,000. ritish of Nove DO; the tats “wow rie than either of sof Aus eivign casualties are. unavailable. I culess to say they are very heavy Ausina has put a million and a hai. veo in ihe ficid and they have been siting constantly and desperately it eastern and southern ttle army, origi- western, 1 almest constantly. Servia ried to Fetrograd, Londen ana oss of about one-third of They were originally Germans Capture Lodz. ns have taken the city of n Poland. This town y half a million people is an it railroad center on a direct rin Warsaw to the German east- The German staff an- ces that Lodz will be made the 2 base of operations against the s this winter, and asserts that capiure of th.s poiat will prevent Lussians, , lirportance of Capture.” Vor weeks military critics have piled Lodz “ihe vital point of the campaign.” To the Germans meent everything, according to -jor Moreht, a German war expert. 38 the kaiser’s troops had to check zn in doing so undoubtedly brought out the greatest generalship the war | occurred has seen. Ledz lcng has been: an objective pe'nt of the German army. It has grown in recent years from an insig- rificegt place to be one of the most opulous cities in the Russian Empire. 1910 its population numbered 4135,- The campaign began several. weeks ‘co when the Russian edvance beg: She had reached that part where | ‘c treated from before Warsaw and the Russian effensive was a hreat. 3eldru, where the ‘uss inveded threaten, The Germans hed re- towering The czar's line extended fram r rn treops lia to Cracow Evst Prive GEN. L. VON SANDARS y the German official list of list of dead to the ber is: reported an list, 60,000. e hes had more men in the her aliies, and ‘ uimy suffered the earliest losses. rian, Belgian and there vanes em froat to atop the ep, my’s advance, A battle line Thorn to Cracow: was formed, but Germans struck at the-Russian center,” which began to fall. back. ; Then came a master stroke of gen. eralship, The Teutons were almogt surrounded: by an “fron ring” -near Lodz. The annihilation Of at leagt ’ three army corps seemed inevitable, ut by a marvelous feat accomplished 4 by Genera: Mackenzen, the ring was troken before Russian reinforcements” arrived, and the Germans, although 7 suffering heavy losses, saved them. selves, For his failure to complete the “tron 4 ring” plans General Rennenkampf, a famous Russian leader, was supersed- ed, according to an unconfirmed re- port. Italian Troops to Africa. Eight battalions of Italian troops have been ordered to Libya to rein- force the troops there, and, according}, to the announcement, “to be ready fost? any emergency.” Libya-is the Itali neme for Tripoli and Cyrenaica, thes part of Africa over Which it has con- 3 trol. Tripcli is in Northern Africa, directly opposite Italy. - Italy Near War? Since the extraordinary meeting of the Italian parliament late last week, followed by a special conference of the ministry, in which Italy was shown to be overwhelmingly favorable to the Allies, it is announced that the South- ern Europe kingdom may go to war within two weeks, “Italy's sympathies and her sense of obligation draw her to the side of the members of the Triple Entente,” says a semi-official dispatch from Rome. “The nation has been unable to enter the war heretofore because ~ of lack of military equipment and 1aval feadiness. Wuring the last four ‘onths these deficiences have been emedied, however, and the country vil. be well able to look after her est interests from this time forward,” A dispatch from Bucharegt says Ru- mania has definitely decided. to enter the war on the side of the Allies. This decision is in accordance with the wish of the entire country, ingluding King Ferdinand and all the Rumanian . statesmen with the exception of the minister of finance, M. Marghiloman. The question of when Rumania will make it8 entry into the conflict is still being discussed, however, one side de- siring to avoid a winter campaign, but the. military authorities express the fear that Servia may be defeated soon if Rumania does ‘not help at once. Servia’s Finish Seen. ; The end of Servia is in sight. Re- ports from war headquarters in south- en invesicn of East Prussia by the | eastern Europe indicate that the lit- tle mountain kingdom which started the present conflict fs about to be wiped out, Servia has fought Austria, her big northern neighbor for cen- turies, trying to preserve her racial and national independence—but the end,fs in sight. Austrians Take Belgrade. Belgrade, capital of Servia until -the beginning of the war, the city where the first heavy fizhting of the war , has been occupied by the Austrians. The Serbs. held out four months, then evacuated the place. Heavy Fighting in Alsace. Heavy fighting is reported in Alsace. In the Argonne the German trenches are being assailed vigorously by 195 and with this important place 45 | French artillery and through mining 1 base it {s expected that the Germans will make a strong effort to reach the Polish capital of Warsaw. operations. All new positions taken by the allied troops along the Yser have been held and the advantage is being followed with determination, ac- cording to London reports. ~ Evacuate a French Town. The evacuation by the Germans of Vernelles, southeast of Bethune, was officially announced in a statement issued in Berlin. Bethune is near the Belgian border. Germans Renew the Attack. The German artillery is still ham- mering .at the allied lines between Ypres and Arras. Reports reaching Paris.say re-enforcements continued to come up for the Germans in this sec- tion and the full quota of 100,000 ad- ditional men is expected to.be on the firing line within the next few days. The Germans have evacuated sev- eral villages north of the Yser— They are believed to be concentrating 12 forces south of Ostend for a dects! battle. More Activity tn ‘West. While there is every indication that another big battle is imminent in the West, there is no evidence that it ac-