Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1915, Page 20

o4 Miss Pearl White. ... ....... Elaine Dodge Mr. Lionel Barrymore . . Featuring Marcius Del WRITTEN BY ARTHUR B. REEVE The Well- Creator of the Dramatized Into a Photo-Play by Chas. W. Goddard, “T'he Perils of Pauline,”’ ‘“The Exploits of Elaine *’ Author of * m you read here today you can see in the fascinating Patae | Motion Pictures at the Motion Pic- ture Theaters this week. Next Sun- day another chapter of “The Kx- ploits of Elaine" and new Pathe reels. { | Copyright. 1015, by Ihe Btar Co. Al | Forelyn highs Resurved. Synopsis of FPrevious Chapters Aler LnGlg WU baug s vuuy Kou B GleappuRArRi, G B e BYvvais Li® Aon il vk il O e by, A el Piets UVEELGRIG st v SWaus wauviw, AU I8 LW Suiiauve Ul | Coul wbi MAE B Alerce. | - SRUIL LO UvMA sueus RLOD 0L Rsiiouy Wi FUOUVEE, I pussivie, L AL e AOuge COULIUOI® UL L od LY & uile Olu 10 Pievent el Mas Livi CasiYouis | pians. witers the Dodge home as a . LiDUS e Lurpedo, piwces AL L , WHICh WILL ULueis 18 sout (O the © Counry howe. in & huwa-up Lei Nar'e men ta to #ot the trunk coutsin- lug the (Orpedo. hialne hides tue tur- pedo, which later is stolen by el aurs svil, WOO M1 ssoainng ineet the old man OF NIYSWOEY. A Qusperule uilie 1010ws, in which the oid man destroys the tor-| pedo, | Jumeson is captured by Del Mars men | wh.ie on his way to mall a lettor to the | United States 'secret service. Liaine juscues him. Licutenant Wodward aud Lis friend attend & party given at the Dodgo home, at which Lel Mar is pres- ent. Unknowingly Del Mar drops a note which gives Elaine a clue. In Ler atto.] 1o prevent his cutting the Atlantic #he is discovered and e a pri on uu boat, wh.ch afterwards s wr. Ly Woodward and the old man of riystery, Jameson arrives in a hydro- plane in time to save Klal dl.uh.l A8 A man, discovers | the onun-n of Del Mar's wireless cavo | at almost li. same time Prof, Arnold by - n" has discovered the | vlnl-. l! ne dl-oov-r]v nearly w nvod by Jameson, | fastiostee o wiass st | ing the wirel sla- Mar osc \um. but escapes. way to a deserted hotel in the wi directa the making of a M &as boinba Elaine discovers Mar's man at work, s captured, but When the hotei s lator at- mn- the men retreat to the woods, vmn Q&u lode the gar bombs, neary ith of Lieutenant Wood- his attacki A new scarcilight gun 3!:07- friend. Followed by unt .Yonpmn- “Lav go 1n ne proves the mc-| a4 ewv:y of -wn. Thut after- flmu. wno motoring . with | JAieson, ne discovers & bomb placed among the rocks by one of ‘Del Mar's men for| ml:l:nl oolnn!. ‘wh 0, A : Mu over, alnm them to Prof. Arnold's | bafore his hut, for the glances the other ching the yaoht they are -uu-ol by Del Mar and his men. Tha Known Novelist and the “‘Craig Kenedy” Stories In the usual way the following non-com- mittal message. ‘Washington, D, C. August’ 12, 1915, My, Del Mar, What you request s coming. sign o the ring “Good,” muttered ished reading. Answer SMITH Dol Mar as he fin- “Strange, what a little | ®old will do—when you know how to dis- pose of It Jlo smiled cynically to himselt at tho | harbor, Bandy Hook and New York. sentiment At the little raliroad station, they wers quite proud of the fact that at least two of the four hacks had been replaced al- ready by taxicabs not a little open jealousy that they saw a now taxicab drive up and take its stand by the platform. It the chauffeur, transformed from the They decide to take It to|lotely fisherman, had expected a cordial reception, ho might better have stayed drivers gave him were as black and lowering us the clouds ho had been look- #osrchli'ght gun spves Fia'ne and Jm reach the wneht aafely, ter Del Mar appears on the bay with a destrova the | ‘ull‘ 3 W v“m find ‘i Vg o s Sarty have oncaped; N dirocts Madame tavanz o # m agents, 1o virft the home - : fl-'m. T'nder (he pretans. ~f Voo ifnshionable wowna to nffar st o L perstades Blatna fa visit fes Yot 3 menta Here Del Mar fa fn * ' 0ine W Arvine on one of the mawne Faina 1 ouh\flv overpowared. placed In an auto, 4 Artven to m tut fn the woods, where ‘\a is made a orisoner. The Iittle on arrives and ontw'ts her eadtore Ine. mow fren swcanes (n a canos Tl ar #nlite the paddis with g shasas ehnt “t Flaine tn saved fram tho falls by Jamesnn and tha Witla ald m-n The Stolen Plans CHAPTER X. Alone tn the doorway before his rude shack on the shore of the promontory sat on old fisherman gasing out fixedly at the harbor as thoukh deeply concerned over the weather, which, as usual, was uinseasonable. Suddenly he atarted and would bave 1 disappeared into his hut but for the faot ¢ that, although he could not himself be #een, he had already seen the intruder. #alloped up and, as thought obeying to ° not hes & mw‘(hb'l ved he is ulU‘l'KNAN’! WOODWARD, For & long time the fisherman it as if by easily forgotten. stained reefer. | he drew another transformation was 900r and (ang the bail, forth from his Sdmitted her, - Del Mar was still sitting, thinking, in He was now It was & trooper from Fort Dale. He ly | small, youe w Ho nlh it ay. with & nlmht some system such as that Bertillon and his clever or spoken ploture, for | slight. apprebenston. and there were Ing lim yet. it was no longer the aged dis. Ing at. 1he new chauffeur got off his seat. In- stond of trying to brazen it out, he walked over to the others, who were standing in & group walting for the approashing traln 'iuhm whistle had aiready sounded. “I'm not going to locite here per lmmnntl)," he said, pulling out & roll of bills as he spoke. ‘Leave any fare 1 claim to me,” he ad- Idod_ passing a bill of & good denomination te each of the four jebus. They looked at him curiously, But whut business of theirs was it? The money felt good. “All right, bo," they agreed. Thundering down the platform ocame the afternoon train, & great event in the town life. As the baggege was belng tossed off, the pasbengers alighted and the five backmen swarmed at them. “Keb, sir, kerrid, Taxi, ladyt" From the Puliman alighted a widow, tn deep mourning. As she got oif and moved down the platform it was appar- ent that she wulked with & pronounced Ump. fours wero still calling, comer looked over the crowd hastily. | approached. they had agreed and paid no attention. It was like forcing a card. the cab, unsuspecting. she directed, stmply. felt at the working of his scheme, | bungalow, watched her closely. and the valel « . the library. ‘Mr. el Th Mar?™ she inquired. consple #she dlsplayed a curfous and r a th “What are you golng to do?” ashed Elalne. It was, then, with some surprise and | At the end of the platform, the chauf- while the new- Suddenly he caught sight of the face of the widow. He stepped forward, as she The others held back as He held the door open and she entered “Mr, Del Mar's," As the new tuxicab driver cranked his engine and olimbed into the seat, he was careful to let no action of hia, however betray the intense satisfaction he He pulled away from the station. Om| through the pretty country roads the|ing village with her that afterncon. While appeared | chautfour drove the heavily velled widow | the face on the photograph untfl | untll &t last they came to Del MArS came down at last, indelibly implanted in his mem- AL the gate he stopped and ran around to open the door to assist his fare to “Walt for me she sald, without pay- 1 shall uot be long and I| want (0 be driven back to the station to | entered his hut. | €atch the 42 to New York." As she limped up the gravel walk, he She went to the volce was not exactly soft, and of the ring for which Del Mar had I'H I e hand, extended his own On the ring finger was but not simflar. | Am he did so the widow took | Mar another ring, the ring from her own finger | and placed it on the littls fin ger of Del Mar. Good!” he exclaimed Every action of the sign of the ring had been carried out The woman raised her thick disclosing the face of—a man It was the same faoce, also, that had | appeared In the photograph sent to the | old fisherman by Woodward. | Awkwardly, the man searched in the front of his shirtwaist, and drew forth a | paper Del Mar almost setzed in | his eagerness. It was a pen and ink | copy of a government map, showing a | huge epit of mand in the sea before on | (ne‘ | veil, which it were indicated all the defenses, positions of guns, everything. Together, Del Mar and Smith bent over it, while the renegade clerk explained each mark on the traltrous map. They were too ocoupled to see a face flat- tened aguinst the pane of a window nearby. The chatfeur had no intention of re- malning inactive outside while he knew that something that Interested him was transpiring inside. He had crept up | by the side of the house to the window. But he could see little and hear nothing. A moment he strained every sense It was no use. He must devise some other way. How could he get at that room? BSlowly he returned to his car, thinking it over. There he stood for a moment revolving in his mind what to do. He looked up the road. An idea came to him. There he saw a lttle run- about approaching rapidly. Quickly he went around to the front of Tis car and lifted up the hood. ‘Then {he bent over and pretended to be tin- kering with his engine. As the car was about to pass he de- lberately stepped back, apparently not seelng the runabout, and was struck and knocked down The runabout stopped, the emergency brakes biting hard. case Elaine had asked me to go shopping In waited for her in her little car, she carrying a lttle handbag. We drove off a moment later. It was a delightful ride, not too warm, but sunny, Without realizing it, we | found ourselves on the road that led past Del Mar's. As we approached, I saw that there & taxivab standing in front of the gale. The hood was lifted and the driver was apparently tinkering with his en- gine. “Let's not stop,” sald Elaine, who had by this time a pecliar aversion to the man. t 1 OMAITA left | ¢ | the Injured man. S0 engrossed had they been in dais- erning what the stolen document ocon- tained t as we finally entered, the widow had only time to drop her vefl and conceal her identity as the Renegade Smith. Del Mar still held the plan In his hand |and we placed the chauffeur on a couch ST DAY BEFE qg,m A A READ IT HERE NOW-THEN SEE auffeur and we carried him Into the house, Del Mar was talking with a person 1o looked like a widow, when they ard our approach up the walk carrying The valet and I entered with Elaine near there black, Del Mar's desk. I remember that was (his strange woman all In heavily vefled, in the room at the I 'think we ought to telephone for a doctor said Elaine, placing her handbag on the desk, and’bxcitedly teliing De. how we had man down. Mar accidentally knooked the “Call up my doctor, Henry,” sald Del | ceremoniously jerked off Mar, hastily thrusting the plan into a book lying on the desk, A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama FRECOORE Presented by This Nespaper in Collaboration With the Famous Pathe Players. IT ALL IN MoVING PICTURES. and drew a gun. “Hands upt” he shouted. 'a chalr. the chauffeur laid Smith, en_l “Here, let meé powder your noss, Wal- “And the first man that moves is a dead tangled in his unfamiliar garments, shook 'ter,” she orfed, undismayed at our et himeelf loose from the two others, and | trouble, gayly opening her bag. “Well— Before the secret agent knew it, both made a rush at the door. of all things—what's this, and where did he and Bmith were covered. The chauf-' Del Mar paused long enough to pick up it come from?" teur took a step toward Smith and un- the revolver from the floor. Instantly I turned from the engine and looked the widow's he fired at the retreating form. But the She was holding some kind of plan or chauffeur had passed out and banged shut document in her hand. In blank eurprise the door. Down the walk he sped and she examined ft. It looked like a fort out to the gate, Into his car, the englne or a series of forts. But I was sure at a of which he had left running. | @lance that it was not Fort Dale. Hard after him came el Mar and the weeds, as well as the wig. At that very moment one of Del Mar's men came up to the secret pansl that opensd from the underground passage- way Into the library. He was about to “What do you think it is, Walter?" open it when he heard a sound on the Test, jolned now by Henry, tne Vllel-’!he asked, handing it to me. other side that startied him. He listened One shot was left in the chauffeurs re-| | ook ft and examined it carefully. & moment, then slid it just a short dis-| volver and he blazed away as he leaped tance and looked in. | into the car, quickly that it must be nothing short of There he saw a chauffeur holding up| “He's got me” groaned Bmith a8 he . 1., of the new defenses at Sandy Del Mar and Smith. Having pulled the stumbled and fell forward, | Hook, disguise from Smith, he went next around On kept Del Mar and the others. TheY | « gon't know what it all means” I Del Mar and took his gun from his caught up with the car just as It Was|,,;q “But I do know that we won't get pocket, then paseed his hand over the starting. But the chauffeur knocked the | 4y ainnor 411 I get this engine runntns folds of Emith's drees, but found no gun from Del Mar's hand before he could | gy v = weapon. He stepped back away from|get a good aim and fire, at the same time | 1 ¢ ¢ wory again, eager to get away them, /|bowling over the man who had cOm® | wity our dangerous prise, Elaine now and At that point the man quietly slid the|through the panel. then advising me. Finally I turned th panel all the way open and silently | Off the car went, now rapldly gaining 4 2 Incredible as It seemed, I figured out ‘ engine over. For & won stepped Into the Foom, behind the chaut-|speed. Dol Mar had Just time to sWINE | mmoothly. “Well, that's all sieis, at last four. Cautiously he began sneaking up|on the rear of it MG, Wptag s 00 Y hass, on him. Around the rapidly driven oar he v s % on a plece of waste “What's the matter now? exolaimed, Haine, turning Quickly and looking up the road along which we had just come. There, lurching along at full speed was & car. Two men were actually fighting on the front of it, regardless of apeed and safety. As it neared us, I saw that tt was, the taxicab that had been standing before Del Mar's. I looked sloser at it. To my utter amasement, who should be driving but the very chauffeur whom we had/ left at Dej Mars only a few minutes be fore, apparently unconscious, He ocould, not have been hurt very badly, for he Was not only able to drive, but was fight- ing off a man clinging on the romning board. On rushed the car, directly at us. Just &s it passed us, the chauffeur ssemed to summon all his strength. He struck a powerful blow at the man, recolled and straightened out his car just in time. The man fell, literally at our feet. It was Del Mar himself! On sped the taxicab. Bruised though he must have been by the fall, Del Mar nevertheloss raised himeelf by the elbow and fired every chamber of his revolver as fost as he could pump the bullets. I must say that I admired the man's pluck. Elaine and I hurried over to him. I still had in my hand the queer paper which she had found so strangely in her handbag. ‘“Why, what's all this about?™ I asked eagerly. Before I could ralse him up, Del Mar had regained his feet. “Just a plain crook, who attacked me," he muttered, brush'ng off his clothes to | cover up the quick recogmition of what oo i cens (b sl it st ol (Continued on Page * olimbed, hanging on for dear life, over the mud guard and toward the running board. On sped the car, swaying orasily bgek and forth, Del Mar crouched on the running board and working his way slowly and perilously to the front seat. The chauffeur felt the welght of some one on that sids. Just as hs turned to wee what it was, Del Mar leaped at him. 8till holding the wheel, the chauffeur fought him off with his free hand, Del Mar holding on to some spare tires with one hand, Handicapped by having the steering wheel to manage, neverthe- less the chauffeur seemed quite well able to give a good account of himself. - Bomehow, Maine and I must have been hoodooed that day, We had not been gone five mintutes from Del Mar's after the aocident to the chauffeur, when we heard a mys- terfous knock in the engine. 4 1e~Column Four) Hasits Jamesen foched the shaas n the table draw. We gathered about the man, trying t revive him. “Have you a little stimulant? I asked, urning from him. Del Mar moved toward a cellarette built into the wall. We were all watching him, our backs to the chauffeur, when sud- denly he must have regained conacious- ness very much. Iike a flash his hand shot out. He selzed the plan from be- tween the leaves of the book. He had not time to away with it himself. Perhaps he might be searched. He opened | Elaine’s bag and thrust it . The valet by this time had finished tele- phoning and spoke to Del Mar. “The doctor will be here shortly, Miss Dodge,” sald Del Mar, “You need not walt, If you don't care to, I'll take care of him.” “Oh, thank you—ever so much, she murmured. “Of course it wasn't our tault, but I feel sorry for the poor fel- low. Tell the doctor to send me the bill." She and Del Mar shook hands. I thought he held her hand perhaps a little longer and a little tighter than usual. At oy rate Blaine seemed to think so. Why, what a curious ring, Mr Del Mar, she sald, finally releasing her own hand from his grasp. Then she looked quickly at the woman, half joking, as If the ring had something to do with the strange woman. She looked back at the ring. Del Mar smiled, shook his head and laughed easily. Then Elaine plcked up her bag and w went out. A moment later we had climbe back into the car and were off again. “er Having left us at the door, Del Ma hurried back to the library. He wen straight to the desk and picked up the | book, eager mow to make sure of the As we passed the driver, apparently not secing us, stepped out and, before we could turn out, we had knocked him el Mar eved her susplclously. Waslg,y, e stopped and ren back. this the person hegexpected, or & “PIANL™ | " org 1o gy on the rond, seemingly he answered, guardedly, “I am|yneonscious. We lited him up and I | And yoyr looked toward Del Mar's house. widow, (00, evidently wished to| “felp!" 1 shouted at the top of my make no mistake. As she spoke. #he|yoice, ralsed her hand. By that simple action| The valet came to the doon | Hearing me, the valet ran out down he e {walk. “All right" he cried, there In & minute™ Wi his help I picked up the taxicad “I'N be ! safety of the plan. It was gone | “Dia you, Smith—" he began hastily | then checked himself, knowing that the | elerk had not taken the plan. | Del Mar walked over to the couch and stood & moment looking &t the ehauf- feur. “I wonder who he 1, he sald |to himself. “I don't recall ever seeing {him at the station or in the village" | Ho leancd over closer. “The deuce!” he exclaimed, “that's & fake beard the fellow has of | Del Mar made a lunge for it. As he 1‘“‘ #0, the chauffeur leaped to his feet As he did 0, Del Mar and Emith watched, fascinated. Somehow thelr faces must have betrayed that something'|and I'll see If I can fix it." was wrong. For, as the newcomer leaped | We stopped and both got out. L] at him, the chauffeur turned suddenly |There was no fake about this and fired. The shot wounded the man. |trouble o rabout the dirt and It was a signal for a free-for-all fight. [ grease I acquired on my hands Del Mar and Smith leaped at the Intruder. |and face, tinkering with that Over and over they rolled, breaking fur- | motor, For, regardless of my niture, overturning and smashing brio- | immaculate flannels. I had to a-brac, set to work. A huge spot of “More engine trouble,” I sighed. *Pull up along the roady Del Mar's revolver was knocked out of | grease spattered on me. Elaine g the chauffeurs hand. With a blow of |laughed outright. ROMANCE of ELAINE With LIONEL BARRYMORE Besse Theatre | GRAND Theatre SOUTH OMAHA 16th and Binney Romance of Elaine With Lionel Barrymore | Episode No. 9 Aug. 26 Episode No. 10 Aug. 25| Romance of Elaine with Lione! Barrymore FAVORITE Theatre | Gem Theatre 17th and Vinton St. 1523 So. 13{h St. Bomance of Elaine with Lionel Barrymore. 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