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10—-B She Ald not, however. Nervously, her hand gripped the table and moved along toward the secret knob. Kennedy noticed it. But he had not moved his chair from the position in which it had been placed for me. At | that moment, though, his eye fell on my glove which I had inadvertently dropped on the floor. He reached down and picked it up. As he 4ld so, the bar in the wall flew out just missing his head as he bent over. Secing that her scheme had falled, Inez made a dash for the door. Instantly Ken- nedy took in the situation. He sprang to his feot, followed and seized her. “Not so fast, young lady,” he muttered as he grasped her arm. Then he stood there a minute examin- ing my glove. £ Hlaine, on her return from the labera- tory, had gone to the conservatory of Eypsy and Elaine with an air of amuse- ment. Then, suddenly, he recollected. “Oh, by the way,” he exclaimed, “I've “Will you answer it, auntie?’ asked [had Walter take a woman over to the Elaine. ““Tell him I'll call him up in & few | jaboratory. He. must bo there by this minutes.” time. 1 wish that you would get your Aunt Josephine followed Jennings out and went down the hall to the library, where she picked up the receiver which Jennings had jeft lying on the desk. “Oh, Mrs. Dodge, Is that you?" asked anxiously. “Where's Elaine “She's in the conservatory. There's a gypsy here. They're sitting there like a couple of ninnies waiting for a vision of “Good heavens," Interrupted Cralg, “not with a handkerchief over her eyes, is she? Yes? Quick—tell her to—rip it off yourself—quick—quick!” Aunt Josephine knew Craig too well to| stop to ask why. In great excitement she dropped the telephone and almost ran fiom the library. Without a word, Aunt Josephino tore Sraig the Dodge house and there was busying herself pruning the rose bushes, now and then picking a flower. Omce she happened to glance up at the end nearest the street. She could see a strolling gypsy going by, and the gypey, apparenily, had spied her through the open window. 'Good afternoon, mistress,” greeted the #ypuy coming up to the fenca. “Wouldn't you like to have me read your for- tune? ] “Yes,” she sald, "I don't belleve a word you fortune tellers say. But I would Hke to have you try,” she added, as she led the fortune teller through the greens. Aunt Josephine happened to enter the conservatory just then and looked in- quiringly at Elaine she saw her Copyright, 1915, by the Star Company. All forelgn rights reserved. Featuring Mr. Arnold “Craig Kennedy” The x;an Sclentific Detective of Fiction. | Mr. Edwin en..................Wu-Fang The Chinese Master Criminal WRITTEN BY ARTHUR B. REEVE The Woell-Enown Novelist and the Oreator of the ‘‘Oraig Kennedy'' Stories Dramatised Into a Photo-Play by Chas. W. Goddard, Author of ‘“The Pfl"l of Pauline.” E you read here today |know thé uddress.” ,.’ ey L the fascinating Pathe | Not knowing about the dastardly design Plctures. at the Motion Plo- |of Wu, I foliowed his messenger, never- tire Theaters this week. Next Sune | tholess another chapter of “The Kx-| On uptown ke went until he came to a ploits of Elaine” and new Pathe |rather ordiniry looking apartment house. He went in without dlscevering that I was following. I glancedt about. No one was watching me. Then to be sure_that I would recos- nize the house, | od it by marking SYNOPSIS PREVIOUS CHAPTERS|®Usll croms with a pencii en the stone The New York 56 are: mystified by work of tho steps. seres’ o murders and other erimes 1 aldm:ot know at the time, but I found incipal clue minals 1s a | out T that, upstairs the messe lotter, mfi""‘"‘“"‘"’wu-dmvhkhmm::’; 2547 8ypay caste of features. ;l;t him: come in, then,” returned Ines. ”, maid opened the door into the hall- R s vwz—‘hl: way and admitted the messenger. Ines his friend Jumeson a newspaper | took the note and the lead case, waving to the maid to leave her. Then she tore open the note and read: “Huve her bind the enclomed over her oty dlacotets ths [mass wil) tae b ¢ noss will result in & fow days.” nd" to be Elaine's trusted | o) the master I shall have it done and Kon- | 88 he directs,” she sald to the Chinaman to the door. Ines turmed and went fnte the back room, her boudolr, where the matd was rn Y. u. Fang ph walting. Adnaping of Blaine to revenge the loss | ‘‘Here, He accomplishes this by | closet. the chauffeur. At] .. g, d & schooner | "° 0 ng to China r un- ‘Now. I want you to put this on,” she of oplum. A carrier | continued, giving the maid instructions. clie _for. locating “Here in this box I have a handkerchiet B um, and e 18 saved by & United | opy0p * Btates revenue outter means of a oh I want you to use. Tile it over her - ‘wireless_telephone invented by Kennedy. | *¥es, and keep it there—three minutes at i least; longer, if you can." As I looked st the house outsite, it im- mediately cocurred to me to let Cralg know what had happened and I sought the noarest telephone booth and cailed the laboratory. Elaine had just gone when I called up told my story of having seen and tralled the messenger and marking the % i Bolng to mave my fortune read, " laughted her niece. “Don't you want yours?” “You silly girl,” smiled Aunt Josephine, induigently, The gypsy seated Elaine at a table and then started in various ways to tell her fortune—not a very difficult thing for her to do with all the iInformation she had. - Bitting opposite Elaine, she took iaine's hand a looked at, it carofully. “You are in danger from a powerful Oriental criminal,” announced the Eypsy at last. . Elaino was, to say the least, improssed. “He 18 a very dangerous man,” went on the gypsy, pretending to read it in Elaine's hand. “And that s net all,” the gypsy hinted, “In darkness I could make you sece the vision of your persecutor and his den.” She nodded knowngly at Elaine and at the same time, from a fold in her dress, drew out the lead case, managed to open #t and took out the handkerehief, Above the table she twisted it into a flat band. “Let me show you,” she sald, handing the handkerchief to Elsine. “Tie that over your eyes.' Blaine was sitting with her own hand- kerchief in her hand, but. she turned Quickly, When she faced the gypsy again she had a bandage flat over her eyes. “Now, mistre: try -let yourself go," urged the gypsy. ‘‘Let me guide your mind. I will show you. Elalne did try to put herself in the frame of mind the gypsy wanted. There they sat in the conmservatory, the gypsy with her own eyes bond, though tn such @& way that she could manage to catch a glimpse of Eiaine undor her own band- a Clssy,” she sald, opening o L hiave your gypsy costume all on CHAPTER XXIIL there. ' be it been in her boudeir examin- ot |18 the gypsy costume and telling Clasy ohalr ‘how to put it on when I rang the bell, “"See who it is, Cissy," she ordered. As the mald went out inte the next room Inex moved over to the portiores and stood there where she covld ses and Bhe gazed through into the Mving room. There, to Do you see anything?' she asked. Not yet,” returned Elaine, ‘Try—let yourself go-forget this room, forget time,” urged the gypsy. Cralg looked up from my glove to the fuce of Inez. “Where is Mr. Jameson?' he demanded sternly, ' 1 don’t know," she replied, facing hima deflantly. As they entered her boudoir, Kennedy saw my foot protruding from the bianket she had thrown over me. He pulled it off, “'Well!” he exclaimed, starting back, I be—" His exclamation was cut short by the r'nging of the telephone bell. Inez took a step toward it, “None of th . Interrupted Kennedy, stopping her. “You keep quiet. I'll an- awer it. Hello!" It seemed that, perhaps halt an hour after he had dlspatched the messenger to Ines, Wu decided to call her vp to see whether everything was going as he had planned. He had asked for her num- ber. As the operator gave him tho call he heard a man's volce answering. Instantly he was all suspicion. walted to hear no more, but quickly hung up the recelver. answ “‘Hello—hel he repeatad. Sull there was no answer. at length. any rate I am going to try to find out." At last Craig succeeded in getting back the operator. call?™ he asked, “No, 1 can't locate it exactly, 4 slovea of the bell. | street, I think." perhaps three- nearest cover,| Kennedy thanked her, hung up the not over an over me. Then |ceiver and faced Ines. H-m]u-trl.;: in @lameter. Niving room and | time to catch her about to destroy Wu's & minute, but almost message. Selsing her hand he bent it of this strange element, mm':z took the v:z back until her fingers unclasped. There / chalr in which I been sitting ‘was the crumpled note. He took ‘Wu regarded it, then|sat dowr nonchalantly, as Ines motioned b that lay before | o 1t ‘“Have her bind the enclosed over her ¥ippod & stitoh or| As Craig watched her keenly, however, | eyes. It in place three minutes, biindness .h:fl &:—.Mb s that, underneath | will result within a few days." ‘tube ‘hem calm exterior, Was very nervous| Cralg seized the telephone and called he tapped & |and excited. “Well™ demandeq Kennedy with T et D By o enigmatioal smile. “You aidn't expect me again—so soon, 414 you™ over her eyes. Ines seemed to be overcome for the mo- pay, but, try as ment. She rose and moved over to the conjure up. “Mr. Kennedy on the telephone," nounced Jennings. : l, i _E i £ i ] ! - . : He So it happened that Kennedy gst no For a moment he looked at Inez. ““You have a remarkable face,” he remarked “Your composure is wonder- ful. But, young lady, I belleve that that Was your Chinese friend, Wu Fang. Ac “Do you think you can locate that As he held the wire he glanced mean- ingly at Inez. She did not méve a muscle, came back the reply a minute later from the #irl at the telephone exchange. “But it came from Chinatown—somewhere on Pell Aunt Josephtue had been watching the the bandage from Elaine The gypsy was on her feet in an in- stant with an air of sneering triumph. “You—you criminal!” ecried Aunt Jose- phine. “Help! Jennings, help!” Was it too late? Had the bandage been on FElaine's beautiful eyes iong? Burely it was more than the fatal three minutes, . In the apartment of Inez, Kennedy was now endeavoring to get Aunt Josephine on the telephone again. But neither he nor the central could seem to get any answer from the Dodge house. Meanwhile I was slowly recovering con- sclousness and had managed to get on my feet. Daszed though I was still, I could see that Kennedy had discovered some- thing terrible, in order to have had te neglect me so long. He was working the receiver up and down frantically now. Finally he hung it up. By the expression on his face I gathered that, whatever it was, he feared the werst. His face wrinkled in thought, he gazed, perplexed, first at Inez, cold and defiant, then toward me. He seemed greatly surprised to see that I was my- self again so soon, after being lald out tlat. “How do you feel, old man?’ he asked. “Pretty—good,” I managed to stammer. “Walter,” he asked earnestly, ““do you think you could watch this girl now?" “Then take this gun he dirccted. “Don't let her touch a thing—and keep your eye peeled all the time. She's a tough customer. I want you, as soon as you feel able, to take her over to the laboratory and wait." 1 nodded scarcely waiting to say a word more, he dashed out, ‘“Why, Auntle, what's the matter?" asked Elaine, wondering at the sudden- ness with which the bandage had been torn from her eyes. “What dees It all| mean?"* “You—you criminal!" repeated Aunt Josephine accusingly at the gypsy, then | turning to Elaire, “why, Craig called up | and warned me not to let her put any-| thing over your eyes. I dldm't wait to hear any more. \ “Jennings,” cried Aunt Josephine, “seize that woman!" ’ As Jennings approacher her, the gypsy suddenly developed a remarkable strength. She gave him a shove that sent him | reeling. Hia foot caught on the edge of | the fountain and he stagwered a minute, unable to recover his balance, then, with & great splash, fell in. The gypsy turned | and fleq through the palms, Elalne and| Aunt Jesephine following her. ! She ran as far as she could, coming up | to the glass wall that formed the inner| end of the comservatory. Further retreat was impossible. She selzed a little rustio chalr and dashed it through the ¥lass. Cautiously, but quickly she managed to make her way through the opeming she had broken. Jennings had, by this time, picked him- self out of the fountain and, dripping. Joined Elaine and Aunt Josephine in the chase. It was at that moment that a cab pulled up furiously before the house and Kennedy leaped out and rushed in. The gypsy had gained just time enough. If she nad gone on, Kennedy might have | seen her outside ‘The others were apparently looking for ! {her In every direction except the right one. Bhe saw her chance. Stealthily she | managed to shp out of the garden by the | back way. As Kennedy dashed down the hall and into the library, he met Elaine’s maid, Marle, running, and as pale as a ghost. “For heaven's sake, “where are they all?" Marle," he panted, | “Glass?" he repeated, running ahead of her now. Kennedy came upon Josephine and Jennings still vainly searching about, just as they lost track of the gypay. “Where did she go—that way?" asked Jennings. “Hang the gypsy," Interrupted Craig “Let her go—you missed her anyway. But, Elalne—tell me—what happened?” Aunt Josephine reached down and things on and go over with me. Elaine, Aunt| 1 think that you can help me get something out of her. She's as cool, calm and calcw lating as a sphinx. But I have a scheme that may lead us at last up to this devilish Chinaman." Left alone with Ines, 1 began to fol- low out Kennedy's instructions I did not know it at the time, but just as we were about to start and were moving toward the door the Rypsy, | breathless and fagged, reached the hall- {way of the apartment. She was about to g0 in when she heard Inez and myself going out. She dropped back into the convenient shelter which Kennedy had used before and when we came out we did not see anyone in the hall. As we disappeared she emerged and cautiously followed us. In spite of my fears, Inez went with- out a scene to the laboratory ‘We on- tered, T at least mot knowing that a pair of black eyes watched every move- ment. The fake Eypsy saw us go In, then hastily came out of a doorway Into which she had slipped and hurried down- town. “git down—there,” T directed, pointing to a chalr, Tnez obeyed coolly. I watched her mi- nutely. It was not long after.1 arrived, how- ever, that Kennedy and Elaine joined me at the laboratory. Kennedy had evidently carefully pre- pared just what he intended to do. Quickly he forced Inez into the chair which he had already shown Elaine and tastened the strips about her arms. “walter, will you and Elaine go Int> the next room?" he asked as he finished securing the woman. A moment later he followed, carrying the dlal of the sphymograph. He fastened it to the concealed wires that connected with the arms eof the chalr, describing to us in & whisper the action of the strange little Instrument which by blood pressure read not only the diseases of the heart, but even the secret emotions. He had purposely left the door between the front and back rooms ajar, but he did not intend that Inez should hear this explanation: “We know that Wu Fang's headquarters are on Pell street,’” he con- cluded to us in a mutfled tone. “The sphyomograph will tell us the number if we ask her the right questions. She may keep silent, but she cannot conceal her feelings from this instrument.” Already, although we did not know fit, the gypsy had gone stralght to Wu Fang's apartment. 'Wu had been getting anxious about his scheme when his ser- vant announced that Inez's mald was outside. “Bring her in Immediately,” Wu thun- dered. The maid came in, frightened, blurting out what had happened to her and what she had seen at the apartment of her mistress. Wu listened, 'his face scarcely repressing the raging fury he telt, It was only & few minutes after he had been warned by the gypsy that Wu himself gilded into the hall leading to the main room of the laboratory. He listened & moment, then, hearing noth- ing, was about to open the door with his keleton key. As he started to do so his eye fell on the fire escape outside. He reconsidered. Perhaps it would be best to reconnolter. Snake-like, he wormed Lis way up the fire escape which led to the back room. There, as we grouped ourselves about the sphygmo- graph while Kennedy explained his plan, Wu's sinister face gazed in at us for a moment, then withdrew. Silently he made his way down again to the ground. In the back room Kennedy took his place near the doorway, while Elaine and I bent over the dial. “Now, Walter,” he began in an as- sumed rhetorical tone, *you remember we traced that fellow Wu Fang to Pell street, Let me see, what was that num- ber? One? He paused. I saw the meedle jump slightly at the mention of Pell street, then fall back at the number “one. “Two?" went on Kennedy. The heedle scarcely oscillated. “Three—four—five,”” came slowly. Inez's face, though we could not see it, was tense and set. She seemed de- “In the conservatory, sir,” she p-nualx “Didn’'t you hear the glass break?” | picked up the handkerchief she had torn from Elaine's eyes. “She bound it over her eyes." she explained to Cralg. Kennedy examined the handkerchief closely. Evidently he was looking for something concealed In it and did not find it Perplexed, he looked first from Elaine, then to Aunt Jesophine “Are you looking for the gypsy's hand- kerchlef?' Elaine asked finally, seeing his astonishment. ploked up another handkerchief from the floor. *“Here it is. It dldn't look very clean, s0 when she wasn't looking I dropped it and used my own." Kennedy was speechless with relief. He took the other handkerchief and rap- idly rgu his hand over it. At last he came to & little hard lump in the hem. He ripped it open. There was the little tube of radium. “You're lucky,” he exclaimed. “If you had had that tube over your eyes it would have done itsa work in a few minutes. You might not feel it for some time, but you would have been blinded at least in a few days, iIf not hours'™ For the moment he forgot about Imes. Then she stooped and | Episode No. 23 ! Episode No. 22 2410 Lake St. Bvery Tuesday. LOTHROP T Besse Theatre SOUTH OMAHA Every Wednesday 16th and Binney Every Thursday DIAMOND THEATRE Episods No. 81, June 8. 8212 N. 24th Street Episode Wo. %1, June 10. ALAMO THEATRE coaiho™s "o %Y e No. 10 AND READ It Here Now---Then SEE It All in Moving Pictures s Elain MOTION PICTURE DRAMA Presented by This Newspaper in Collaboration With the Famous Pathe Players, termined not to betray a thing. Yet the | harder she tried to control the outward expression of her feelings the more she betrayed herself by the iaward blood pressure which the uncanny little in- strument before us recorded. | As Kennedy kept on counting the in- | dicator slowly but steadily rose, regis- | tering her suppressed emotion. FElaine | and [ watched the dial, bending over it with intense interest Outside in the hall Wu had again come {to the laboratory door. This time he |drew out his key and softly opened it |4nd entered. For a moment he stood, confronting Inez, alone in the chair. Quickly he raised his fingers to his lips, indicating silence. ! Kennedy kept on counting. As he neared the right number Wu drew a re- | volver and raised it high over his head Twice he shot into the air. Suddenly, just before the shots, |atal had unaccountably jumped ten or a dozen points. What did it mean? held it up and Kennedy looked at it in wonder. He was about to take a step toward the laboratory when the piatol shots rang out. The dlal hand fell back | | Tnez | the to zero. We rushed into the laforatofy i lay back in the chalr, apparently dead. | Not & soul was in sight, but the hall| door was open. “Come on,” shoutea Kennedy, hurry- ing out into the hall, as I was about to stop before Tnez. 1 followed and Elaine came along after | me, pavsing at the Aoor to watch us ruv.i down the hall. ! Slowly a cabipet under the latoratory | table, back of her, swung over and the evil, murderous face of the Chinest mas- ter criminal appeared from the refuga | to which he had dropped after the shots whick. he had fired to frighten Inez. Silently he crept toward laine, standing with her back to him. With ore powerful movement, he swept Elaine back into the laboratory and to the floor and slammed the door, locking it. Another instant and he ran to Inez and unfastened her. She had merely fainted and was now coming to. Down tho hall we had discovered no| one, when suddenly we heard ithe stifled | scream of Elaine. Back we rushed to the door. But it was lockeq and fammed. Wu had finished réleasing Inez by this time end, with her, rushed into the back room. As he did so, Elaine managed to get to her feet and follow In time to ses | Wu smash the window to the fire escape with a chair and half shove Inez through to safety. He was about to follow when he spled the sphygmograph and seized it. That brought him face to face with Elaine. She snatched the record from him. With an oath he struggled with her for it. By this time Kennedy and I had forced the door and were in the outer laboratory. ‘Wu had bent Elaine back over the table and haa drawn a long knife. As he Polsed it over her, he heard us coming. Our shouts secmed to give Elalne re- doubled strength. She broke away just point was deflected by the syphgmograph. There was not an instant to be lost, and Wu fairly dove out of the window. As we rusted In, jennedy paused to reas- sure himself of Elaine's safety, but I plunged after Wu, my revolver drawn. Wildly T shot down from the window at his retreating form. He had almost reached the ground when I saw him stagger and fall the rest of the way. One of my shots had taken effect, but I had used them all, I started after him. But as he sld the last two or three sheps into a heap on the gronund, Incz caught him in her arms. Half supporting, half pulling, she managed to. assist the dazed and wounded criminal along. At the curb was a closed car with a driver, walting. She shoved hm in and .tumbled in after Him herself, &s the car moved swiftly away. By this time I had reached the ground and reicaded my gun as T ran along. 1 fired several shots. But, though I struck the car, I don't think I did any The chase was hopeless and I stopped, disgusted. Back In the laboratory, as I returned through the window, 1 saw that the strain had been too much for Flaine. Now that it was over, she had fainted and Kennedy was just bringing her around. “Confound him,” I exclaimed. *“I | \ | | as Wu stabbed furiously, and the knife |jg damuge, for it centinued to gain speed, | from us ‘Oh, ' murmured Elaine, faintly catch- ing my words. “I heard the shots. I | was hoping you had ended it all, this time." For the moment, in his relief at seeing Elaine still safe, Kennedy scemed to have forgotten all about Wu. My words recalled him. ‘Never mind,” he reassured, as he tap- ped the little sphygmograph. ‘“Not count- ing the great jump of the indicator when Inez discovered Wu before her, it regis- tered the highest tension when I men- tioned number fourteen Pell street. We shall find his den not far from that.” We gathered about Cralg while Blaine looked at him, elated “Then you have forgea the last link," she cried, seizing both his hands in her own, Kennedy merely head gravely (To be Continued.) 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