Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 23, 1913, Page 7

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The house has long been unoccupled and is spoken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER II—Several lar intervals enter No. CHAPTER IIT-Van Vechten expresses concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whereabouts of his cousin and flancee, Paige Carew. A fashionably attired woman s seen to enter the House of Mysterg. A man is forcibly ejected from the house. Van Vechten and Tom :::2: the man and find him dead in the CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- ed by the face of a girl in the crowd of onlookers surrounding the body. Later he discovers the girl gazing at him with & look of scorn from the windows of the mysterious house. JCHAPTER V—Detective Flint calls on Van Vechten to get his version of the tragedy. CHAPTER VI—Tom Phinney goes alone on a yachting trip. He recognizes amo some persons in a passing motor boad two men whom he had seen enter the House of Mystery. He sees one of them, & Mr. Callls, on shore later and follows him. Tom is seized, blindfolded and taken to a house. He hears a girl named Jessie, evidently the daughter of the man in authority, question his captors. A sweet- volced girl later protests agains roughness of his captors. o Book Il rsons at regu- CHAPTER I-Van Vechten calls on his uncle, Theodore Vit Vechten, big man in Wall street atid known as the “Man of Iron,” in search of information regarding the whereabouts of Paige Carew, CHAPTER II-Detective Flint shows Van Vechten a gold mesh purse found in the House of Mystery. Van recognizes it as belonging to Paige Carew, CHAPTER III-The sweet-volced girl helps Tom Phinney escape, but refuses to disclose her {dentity, Tom dgclares he will meet her again. CHAPTER 1V—Detective Flint tells Van Vechten he has a theory that Paige has been kidnaped. Van goes to lay the case before his uncle. CHAPTER V—Mess are ‘sent to Furope in an effort to trace Palge. Tom tells Van Vechten he is in love and re- lates his adventure, CHAPTER VI—A message from London reports that two ladles resembling Miss Carew and her eompanion, Mrs. Devereaux, sailed for New York some ;h::fl previously. A reward of $2,500 is of- ered. CHAPTER VII-It develops that the tadies visited the English home of Tem- ple Bonner, owner of the House of Mys- tery. Flint has a theory that they are connected with the mystery of No, 1813. CHAPTER VITI-It s recalled that Temple Bonner was in love s dnughter of Compton Schuyler, who mar- ried Max Willard. The other daughter married & man named Devereaux. Bone ner and Willard were intimate friends, A gearch Is started for Willard. CHAPTER TX—Van Vechten enters the House of Mystery by the back door in time to hear John Callls threaten a girl. He interferes and helps the girl escape, but is rendered unconscious in the strug- gle with Callig, Book 111 CHAPTER T-Tom Phinney gets a job as master of Brownlow’s yacht Kohinur which has been chartered for some mys- terlous mission. Thie owner, after @ final outburst of gratitude and satisfaction at having been, as he expressed it, “saved” at the last moment, took his departure; and it was not until he had gone that it occurred to Tom that the charterer's name had mnot been once mentioned il he expressed ge of At this neglected detd his wonder in the classic languag one of New York ci y'e former police chiefs: aNow wouldn't thet blow yoir hil iu the river!” He then pervision of the cloun 1 to such good purpbs . that by the yacht was as s] battleship. It was perhaps cloc )it —or four bells of the first watch— when Tom, arrayed to his satisfaction, heard the officer of the watch respond | e ma— % e i 7 S : / o e invisible Tn the shadow of the super structure. All at once the now very alert skip- ‘per directed his attention to & murmur of feminine voices in the launch. The ladies, manifestly, were finding con- steps was accompanied by little terri- fied shrieks and much subdued laugh- | ter. In a moment one came quickly | and agilely up to the deck, halted and | turned around. Her outline presented only the vaguest sort of blur. “Welcome to the Kohinur!” she, called back gayly to whoever remained | below. And if Tom had started at sound of the man’s veice, what words are ade- | quate to describe his sensations now? None, it is to be regretted. Reeling backward until he stayed himself by a mechanical clutch at the rail, he clung there, electrified with amaze- ment—stupid with incredulity. If the sun had suddenly burst into view over- head he could have been no more com- pletely overcome, I Next instant, however, conviction ‘was hammered home. Two other laugh- ing figures had joined the first, the three blending in one faint outline, when he again heard the volce, ! “Dear me!” it complained, dark it is! lights?” “How Aren’t we to have any ity might try to make it appear, never- theless there was no gainsaying the; fact that the fresh, sweet girlish voice l which had just fallen upon his hearing was the same that, only a few nights i previously at Rocky Cove, had set his pulses to leaping and his imagination to reveling in an ideal, ridiculous, rose- colored dream of the future. CHAPTER IIl. The Kohinur's Charterer. Is it to be wondered at that for the rest of the night Tom remained in a state of such feverish excitement that he forgot to sleep? Here, in the most amazing manner imaginable, he and the Girl once more were thrown to- gether—and, too, under circumstances that not only promised the most de- lightful sort of intimacy, but were not likely soon to be terminated. An un- wonted light shone in his eyes, and his tanned jaw settled into lines of deter- mination that were not without a de- gree of grimness. “What's the wuse!” he morosely growled. “She’ll have nothing to do with me. I made seventeen different kinds of fool of myself Monday night when she got me out of that dark room. . . . Unless she realizes ! that a scrape like that i8 enough to turn any fellow’s head.” And this led him to ruminating on the strangeness of his adventure, and | to a consideration of the rest of the party, which he iddulged briefly only becauge he remembered how inexplic- ably their doings had become identi- fied with Miss Carew's disappearance —for undoubtedly they were the same people who had inhabited Number 1313 —and how greatly Ruddy was inter- ested in their movements. This reflec- tion sobered him completely. Should he not at once notify Mr. Tlint? Did the allegiance he had only today assumed outweigh the obliga- tions of a life-long friendship? Here was a problem that was a lit- tle too much for Tom to decide oft- F QEOFOPAFOFQPOTOTOR to the launch’s hail. He hurried on deck and stationed himself at the head of the accommodation-teps, men- tally deploring the absence of lights. A etir came up from the river, but the launch was invisible. In & mo- ment a man's head and shoulders Joomed dimly in the gangway. He stepped upon the deck and, leaning to- ward Tom, peered into his face in a vain attempt to make out his features. To Tom, the man’s face was quite in- distinguishable—merely & denser blot against the blackness. “Is thie the captain?” inquired & volce strangely familiar. Tom started with surprise. ‘Where bad he heard that voice before? He could not recoHect on the spur of the moment, but for some inexplicable rea gon it seemed 80 necessary that he should, and he tried so hard to d¢ 80, that the man was obliged to repeat his uestion. . “I beg your pu-tloni;"l ‘Tom _'mm- ered. “Iam Captain nney. mlt was only natural that he should ex] to hear his questioner’s name mmm. or to be handed the note of {ntroduction mentioned by Brownlow; put the man walked away without an- other word. The others were following one s other rapldly, untli five dim shapes were. wholly hand, and he began to be conscious of a vague, growing sense of doubt and misgiving. He began to perceive the possibility of future complications that would keep him floundering helplessly in all sorts of predicaments; either in- terference or non-interference by him might be the occasion for any amount of future regret and lasting remorse and mental suffering, but he had ar rived at the decision before turning in, that, considering everything, he should be filled with a sense of grati- tude for the fortuitous chance that had moved him to call on Brownlow. Captain Phinney was again astir long before eunrise. He took it upon himself to see that the decks had such a scrubbing down, the brasswork and glass such a polishing, as, in all prob- adility, they bad never before received. He had himself well in hand now, ari every man-jack aboard recognized in the calm, forceful individual who di- rected so concisely what was to be done, a skipper who thoroughly under- stood his business and whose orders were to be obeyed with prompt thor- oughness. 8o, at four bells of the morning watch—or six o’clock by land time— when he and the Girl came unexpect edly face to face, outwardly Tom was perfectly composed, though his heart (Continued on Page 8.)] G 2 —— siderable amusement in pretending a ! hazardous embarkation, for their transfer from the smaller craft to the Thell, in the mulatto stewardess’ mellow accents: “This way, please, follow me. I'll show you the way to the saloon.” And by the time Tom had collectedl his scattered wits sufficiently to curse his awkward tardiness and ineptness, he was alone. Incredible as every law of probabil- C andy! Candy! CandY WE HAVE IT From Stick Candy to the Finest Box Candy Have you tried any of our HOME-MADE CANDY ? 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