Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1915, Page 20

: \ ; oty ‘ 'A}Detective Novel and a \ f . @ .- . __Motion Picture Drama Featuring ; ‘ : 2 A . Mim Peat Wikt ... suos Doigs~ READ IT HERE NOW-THEN SEE IT ALL IN-MovING PICTURES, Mir. Lionel Barrymore .. ...... Marcius Del Mar ' De 3o low: ": i WRITTEN BY ARTHUR B. REEVE oo o U “That's the The Well-Known Novelist and the el i Creator of the “Craig Kennedy” Stories like the looks of that fellow, Oramatized Into a Photo-Play by Chas. W. Goddard, cive her mors jsome 190 miles, was drawn & big eegment of a circle, with Peekskill, New York, as a center, “That is the heart of America,” sald {Del Mar, earnestly. “It embraces New | York, Boston, Philadeiphia. But that is inot the point. Here are the great ma- jority of the gun and armor factories, the powder and cartridge works, to- " speed.” fether wath the principal coal fields of Author of “The Perils of Pauline,” “The Exploits of Elaine.’ Dol Mar had Pennsylvania.” not baen gone long before | He brought his fist down decisively ‘4 Bverythi you read here today| Already & saddle horse had been| miaine decided to take a on the table. “If we hold this section,” can see in the fascinating Pathe | brought around for me. ride herself. She ordered he declared, ‘‘we practically hold ' “Perhaps yow'd better put a speclal | her horse arctnd from | America!" Eagerly the other cmissaries listenad as Del Mar lald befors them the de- ., tailed facts which he was collecting, the delivery stamp on it, too, Walter,” she| the stables, while she added, walking along with me. “And be | donned her neat little rid- very careful.” | ing habit. A few min- e “I wiil,” T promised, as I rode off. | utes later, as the groom Rrv‘nyl'r mlslnlrm than the mere capture s ol Del Mar, alons, seized the opportunity | held the horss, she of Kennedy's wireless torpedo which hn;: opyright, 1915, by the G.TWIN to go over quietly to the telephone, It mounted and rode away, brought him into the country. Detaf A1 worelgn Righte Sfin . was the work of only a moment to call | choosing the road by after detail of their plans they discussed | as they worked out the gigantic scheme. It was a war council of a secret ad- vance guard of the enemies of America!l - Meanwhile, Del Mar's man in his boat, {cutting a wide circla and avolding the | Dodge beat carrying the naturalist, made his way across the barbor until he came tc the shore. There he landea and prooceeded up the | { beach to the foot of & rocky clitf, where ‘ he turned and followed a treil up it to the top. It was the same path already traveled by my captors with me. and later followed by Elaina, As he came steathily out from under cover, Del Mar's man gazed down the | stairway"Tle drew back at what he saw. Slowly he pulled a gun from his pocket, watching down the steps with tense in- terest. There he coull see Elaine and myselt wearlly climbing toward the top, | cur backs toward him., as we covered |the men In the cave. | So surprisea was he at/'Wwhat he saw | that he forgot his boat below had been EEBPING 2 . ’ followed by the mysterious naturalist, G THEM COVERED, WE MADE OUR WAY UP THE DANGEROUS FLIGHT OF STEPS. g who, the moment Del Mar's man had landed, put on the iast burst of speed and ran the Dotge boat close to tne spot | where the aide had lett Del Mar's. A glance into the boat sufficed to: tell the naturalist that the figure in it was only & dummy. He did not pause, but followed the trail up the hill until ha was close after the emissary ahead, going ‘more slowly. Only & few feet further along the Synopsis of Previous Obapters | up his bungalow where the emissary who | Which 1 had gome, ex- After the finding of Wu Fang’s body | had piaced the subfarine bell was wait. | pecting to meet me on na lmnudy'-u. - & subma- | ing for orders. Quickly Del Mar whis- 'I:hr‘l""\ :\;;ln'r- ne appears & Was alon = A man plunges w‘ M,t«n pered instructions which the man took, L ing 5 o switna aahore. " It ia the entrance | and hung up the recetver. at & good clip, when sud- t Marcius Del Mar into Americe, I hope you'll pardon me,” sald Elaine ""“;;u horse shied at mission obtain entering Just as Del Mar left the tele- | "Omething. and recover, if possible, the loet “Mr, 3 n was going. into w:;,:mm. pact- town and I had & number of little things ¥ o it it was of no use. ln:udhl-udo. 'ntm-n‘_“m“ d up. ““Why, what is the mat- They chatted for a few moments, Ut | .. on b0 asked, '"What Del Mar aid not stay very long. He ex- 60 you sest” oused himeelf shortly and Wialne bade | g jooked down at the him goodbye at the door as he walked ground. ‘There was a off, apparently, down the road I had|gpot of blood in the dust. taken, Buster was one of those o horses to whom the sight Del Mar's emissary hurried from the | of blood is terrifying. bungalow and almost ran down the road | Eilaine pulled up beside until he came to & spot where two men | the road. There was a were hiding. revolver lying In the “Jameson s coming with a letter | Evass. Bhe dismounted which the Dodge girl has written to the | &nd picked it up No Becret Service,” he orled pointing excited- | Sooner had she looked at ty u the road. “You've got to get it |it than she discovered [ 1 was oantering along nicely down the , from rocks and bushes, three men Ome of them selxed R g5ss. 2 Hietine " she exclaimed, rea- lising suddenly that it was mine. “It's been fired, tool" Her eye fell again on the blood spots. “Blool and—footprints—into the brush!" #he gasped in horror, following the trail. “What could have happened to Walter?"” With the revolver, Elaine followed ‘whers the ,bushes wore trampled down until she came to the place where I had been bound. There she spled some pleces of paper lying on the ground and picked them up. her. BSome of them hit her and she|stjil ocoupying Dél Mar's seat. As the] This was the reason for -Del! Mars looked up quickly, boat swung out: afid riade, a wide sweep- | presence in the neighborhood. -It. was ‘There she could see me being led along | ing curve away from the point at which | the secrét submarine harbor. of the for- by my captors. She hid in the brush | Del Mar had gone overboard, the nat-{ eign, agents who were opérating in and watched. During all the operations [ufalist in the Dodge boat came around | Americal of the descent of the rock stairway and |the promontory 'and #aw it, changing | Already a sentry, pacing up and down. the resetting of the alarm she continued [ his ~course = accordingly, “and gaining |bad seéen the bubbles in the wafer that to watch, straining her eyes to see what | somewhat, indicated that someone had come through n:y were d:-tn.d. 5 3 ,m Lol the archway and, was down “below,” as 8 we entere e cave, she Pped | Del Mar sank,' upright and rapidly, | Del Mar and his men. called it " out from her concealment and looked|down in the .shallow ‘water to the bot-| ‘Gasing down the sentry saw the ‘queer m"‘: m: :‘::::f“got.:;:d' m‘?’w::::‘: uu-um vy “bo:.'m“ e dlu»wlr‘d; tom. Once having Wis fest;on something h:lf&:“:o:lmra float up from the bottom ;f-: ‘head of him. He looked fixedly ’ 4 »l mbed the patch up the cliff | approaching firm grourid, he. gazed about | © . He reachéd aut and helped down the fl:::t:!. :hu::d-m mm Sne ::“‘ m: Lseflty we m'"" of starie | throush the windowslike’ sve of ' the hel- ::'"2'"" e‘ml’e;l N SHFOE i pabtes :xtu;.“mrn::d w :n: h:un‘::wly draw & We had declded to send to Washington. | "oPe lea I;‘. ownward again. met until he got his bearings. Then he g M"‘?': roeciens ?"t".""‘." 9"““" sun. “Which way 4id they take him?" she | AIT®80Y sbe had seen the man behind|began to walk heavily alog the bottom R S ey "a‘“:“" the secret | T s, | sould be below? Quickly the mate aked, 1bining all ‘about ‘but dlecovériig ;nc doing something with the atone that of the harbor, over sahd and rocks. ;‘d“ o oh d’l"!" {m, remove the drIUPIng | = ist's mind seemed to. work. ' He % .:T.‘ the top & She Wtooped down| Tt was a strange walk that he took, A’“ e !"“ ~ 8 ¥. | crouched down, as if ready %o spring. et 2P Bt (e S s i’ ababins minéd the stone. Carefully she | half stumbling, slowly and cumbersomply | A moment later in the queer little sut- | TNCACC Ll owiy ™ ratmed bis, re- Wiy TAlsed it and looked underneath before | groping his way lks ‘s queer under-|MaTne effice Del Mar. had evidently | JU8 TURICL coretul atm at the backs “What would Oralg 467" she asked her< | *'®PPINE on it. There she could see the |water animal. . b Y °h" R Sad the nefarlous secret | o Elaine and myself, as we came up patt, ) |flectric connection. She set the stone| 1f anyons -could haye sesn him, he "or< of Which.e was engaged. Several O TS Findink no answer, she stood thinking | 9°10° and looked again down the dan-|would have noted that Del Mar was go-[Deh °F 8 navel and miliary bedring | U0 FUl o oouia pul the trigger, the & moment, slowly tearing the envelope ty | K°ToOUs stairway, 108 toward the base: of . huge jrocky [uif? HHISC RUCHE & (AT Miready, study- | ralist, more like one of the wild ani- pleces. If ahe were to 4o anything at all, | It made her shudder. “I must get | clitf that jutted far out into:the RRrbor, [gur it e Miew g oy it of A1l | als which he studied than like a human it must be done quickiy. Suddenly an|BiM.” she murmured to herself. ‘‘Yes, | where the water was deep, a dangerous fone to say Batio y{ Y r":| f”"‘r” be being, sprang from his concealment in the idea. seemed o 0ocUr to her. Sho threw |I must. Even now it may be too late.” | point, avolded by cfRft. of all, kinds. et unitorme. 1t such tho mione o | bushes and pounced on the man from bes ool o S0 the pleces of paper into the air ahd iét | They had just decided to make away | Far over his head the waves beat on the [maijed, were of 'a charactes to diccaleg |Bind, seizing him firmly. through the underbrush, | (DM Dlow away. It was unsclentific de- | With me immediately and the leader had | rocks angrily. But” down there, con-|ineir nafiomallty. = B ¢’ that thi i Over and over they rolled, strugsgling s | tection, perhaps, but the wind actually | turned toward me with the threat still! cealed beneath the surtace :of the har- e ) 2 1. Bretered hostile to the' count. almost to the brink of the precipice. took them And carried them in the direc- |OR his ips. It was now or never, Reso- | bor, was & sort of -huge arch.of stone, |iterally hed! thels bider rerrees ot oo - tion In which the men had forced ma to |lutely she took a step forward and into thnough which a-comparatively,rapid cur- | there could, be m; prrvy X { ! hi i HE i 2.1 ?Eg it i i g 3 H sF Blaine and I had, got almost to the top f i i walk. the cave. rent ran as the tide ebbed and'flo ' of the flight of steps, when suddenly we’ ing stifl over Hlatne s It!" cried Blaine to hereelt. “T'll| “Hands up!™ she den-and i b wed. | | How high Del Mar stood i thelr coun- 73 " covary of the o s e W et pb she, daprantad firwly. Del Mar lot himsel be carrled alons'|sels could,have, been seen at a glance | Neard & shout above us and sounds of & 80 unexpected in the | with the current, which was now run-|from. the Inatant deference exhi Scetfle: Bngiie . W tpued WAt ww 3 ; : bited at Security of thelr secret hiding place pro-| ning in, and thus with; comparative eass |the mere. mention of his name by the |tWO men: tected hy the vock alarm that, befora | made his way, still groping,”through the (sentry who.entered with the submarine | Vearer and nearer the edge of the clift they knew it. Hiaine had them all lined | aroh, Once under it and a,few feet be-|sult while' Del Mar ot himselt fogether | theY Tolled. We crouched closer to the “'K"l‘“‘:' e £ yond, . he, deliberately, kicked ' off the |after his remarkable trip. ; s £y g il LA et 5o | weping them carefully covered, she | leaden-soled shoes and, thus I od, men o ¥ t moved over toward me. She picked up a | ross rapidly to'the ‘sufface of m’:'::or. u'::ll.ed as B::'::.:"::mf:‘:ln'u'?a' T; S1G ey Ky "‘.:: |°m g n‘::nu: #un {knite that lay near by and #arted to| ‘A Ne bobbed-up; :a ‘strarige sight met|returned the salute and quietly made his :::d,',;a.::' e o ol cut the ropes which held me. « | s eyes—not strange,” however, to Del,| way tothe head:of the table, where he | viclous of the two seemed to As she did 0, one of the men, with an | Mar, Above, the. rocks férmed s huse |took, a seat, b farcing the maturslist stowly baak, | Oath, leaped forward to rush her, But:dome over the water which the tides *“This 18 An area in which we must work | wh, : ":f,. .. superhuman .n:n. the Elaine was not to be caught off her|forced in' and “out ‘throukh the mecret|fifst of all, . maturalist braced himselt. Hip foxt was’ :uud. lmunuvl;:ol:ll‘reflu The man entrance through which' he came, No |lim: a:book 'and openingit.. “And we |getually on & small ledge of rook directly taggered back 3 olher entrante, “apparéritly, excépt that |must strike quletly, for If they heed the at the edge of the cliff. ‘That cooled the ardor of the oth.r‘ from the watets of «the harbor, led to |advice of this;book, /it may he too late | He swung around quickly and struck i ¢ Meanwhile, the men had hurried me oft along a trall that led to the foot of a P i i i i 3k StH F be | nock three eonn_imh'ly. especlally, now as I thig peculiar den. , [for us to take advantage of their foolish | the other man. The viclous looking mam engrossed 1n | tors ‘Waa free, too. While she held them up | Lying. quieily moored to the rotky | unpreparedness.” pltched headiong over the cliff. he' was not | 414 89, still, with their hands in the air, I went | jlers 1ay three submarine bosts. Wur-| It' Wds 'a ‘book entitied “Defenseless | We ghrank back closer to the rock as "0 engrossed fall to hear | foot. through their, pockets, tuking out their | ther back, ‘on' a ‘ledge of rock, blasted | America,' ' written'by a great American |the man hurtled through the air only. & th | the approach of footsteps down the | A l&h weapons. * ouf, #t0od ‘ a ‘Ifttle / Bulldiig, ‘a sort of |iventor,’ Hudson Maxim. . few feet from us. Down below, we could eravel walk from Dodge hall to the |the rock Then, atill keeping them ocovered, we | Ofice ‘or (headquarters. ¢ Neatby! was'a | el Marjtumed the pages unt/l he came | hear him land with & sickening thud. | dock, He looked up in time to ees D | Whio backed out of the cave. Backward we shed, where were (kept: gas and oft, sup- |t0:and pointed out a map. The others | Far over the edge Elaine leaned in & Mar coming, and quletly slipped into made our way up the dangerous fiight | Plies and ammunitiop; in, fact, ,every.|§ethered aliout him, leaning forward eag- |sort of fascination at the awful sighty the ah: Up oh the shorg. men, on guard tnstantly, of steps again with guns levelled at the | thing that a submarine might need. érly ‘83 ke talked” to them. 2 [Continued on Page Twelve—Column 81 On Del Mar stood It was & somewhat precarious fooling | cave entrance, Elatne going up first TR LA L ST oR! the Tuidp, Witk ¢ sxagiie of min waiting. Finally, * as we descended and for the momemt I| Once a head stuck itself out of the cave 4 > another was more concerned for my safety from |entrance. I fired Instantly and it jerked S whom a fall n anything else. Once my foot | itself back in again just in time. That |’ i [ 't " . aal Of pebbles apd | was the only trouble we had, sppar- ¥ small started down ently. | f o i way toward the top of the cliff. { 1 . Featuring LIONEL BARRYMORE Besse Theatre | GRAND Theatre SOUTH OMAHA 16th and Binney Romance of Elaine With Lions) Barrymore | Episode No. 3 July 15 'Episode No. 4 ‘July 14 | Romancs of Elaine with Lione! Barrymore Gem Theatre 1528 So. 13th St. ¥ e One look backward from his motorboat was enough for Del Mar. Ho must evade that inquisitive naturalist. He turned to his man. ' “‘Get out that apparatus,” he ordered. | g i i T : g x H 7l I i i : isf i s ; : e & i i p H i 3 bd 0 g, < 3 H @ e Stor S e Episode Na.3 ' July 13| Biedele? Tl iy Fear made my senses hyperven- ‘ i EH i i ¥ i i ] DIAMOND..THEATRE | Nicholas Theatre ‘now i 5 the emissary to Det| Finally the leader roge. “It's three to u’ Fang had : i | dwy is. f M I heard him ) A Yanty sty e turned and took & menacing step s L foa “'. R NEW EXPLOITS OF ELAINE° 3 Burssing boat, But the | Hands upr aaded » patr , s 1 | Episode No. 21 July 13 wite of his .amoked nwgmmmm& to Wa outfit {i AR e R th and Fort Sts 0t 20 Bk imialied hia ::‘.‘N‘m"zx prondea bo g Seah Wit ‘ “BCE= ' NEW EXPLOITS OF ELAINE the lens at Dol Mar's - : . disappaared D, . : £ ] z l ? ; 2 thhwunbn.‘ Suddenly a shower of pebbies bis boat were not. | came falling down frem & cliff above ‘ b y ¥ (3 " - =