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wee nee ene tee THE se we WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1916. DOOOGOOOOOOM AE OOOO OOC OOO OOO OOOO CDHDADOUPAADRDGHOEDADIOP 80804 Plot by George Bronson Howard Novelization by Hugh C. Wei r The Newest Kaiem Picture Now Being Presented at the Leading Motion Pic- ture Theatres in Greater New York ‘1 | { ———— A SEN te Story No. 3 THE PARASITE Two American girls, Mona Hartley and Mary Burnett, set about punishing the “Wolves of Society’? through their check books. This is the story of their third adventure. “T know there’s some way of outwitting an old villain like Reynolds,” said Mona, ‘‘and wouldn't, I love ty do it! . . . I know how we can handle him! A man like that is bound to have a weakness, and that’s the one we can play on,”’ OE, ARY BURNETT watched the pretty hotel maid as she finished per- forming the trifling service for which Mona Hartley, Mary's chum, had summoned her. Thank you,” said Mona, “Here"— “Oh, thank you, Miss,” said the girl flushing with pleasure as @he received her tip. reat Inasitude, Ching came, welcomed her, He began to arti Mona remembered—It was the sig- ‘oll A nal. She hoped that Mary had al- ve tor he ready carried out r plan. And P Merce htt anid Mary. “You now she picked t phone, as me a if to eall the police. Suddeniy she baid Yes," said Ching, who, save for am It down Inability to get his tongue around am = "I d n't know that T want to have Hapoke almost perfect English. | you sent fo primon,” she sald. Ke th The maid went out, and Mary, sitting back in the deep chair that was 80 “Then Co ote bes? Here 4 \my house. I'll let you go lf pou oem BMaced that she could look out, without moving, and see the park, with its Foe aeatat to know if there {# a man open it-but work quietly and don't ever changing panorama, laughed hére who knows how to blow eae. VrmasylY said ‘seal confident “Mona!” she said, “Will you tell me why you sent for that pirl to doa acrt he ae tae ane ip In Why, it's nothing but a cigar box!” lot of silly things for you, which would have made you indignant had any Filsco—-now he te hiding here, Corme, |) hn ine oe pare atthe cate wan oon one even offered to do them for you a few w ? Dahow nie te aoe tie ed worked’ combination ® d f ou a fe ecks ago He guided her to one of the little ~ we bad work ination I did it just because I Ike to be luxurious!” said Mona. She stretched —e private rooms. And there she found a/ene, hia practiced wars catebing the out her arms, and took a step or two, her feet si ave run. ‘ . . ~~, Stallin ‘a young, keen faced man. Click of the tumbler refi . step o 0 her feet sinking into the heavy rug. . Ta had heen amoking, but Mary saw — ‘?Well!” aaid Mona. “I'm surprised! lary—don't you love it, too? Doesn't it affect you Just the same way? ~~ Mt once that he was an old timer TH have to take that stuff upstairs to Here we are, you and I! Some people would say we ought to be hunted 5 i t that the drug had no perceptible ef- myt room—empty the safe, ane,” Stallings obeyed and his eyes fugitives, flying around the country under assumed names—ond feet upon him. hallin y 1 lighted ” pat the sight of a dozen or more “Want company?” she sald. “Td Ue \ hy bh my pipe here with you.” Packages of letters. He bad given up welcome,” he sald foph of tho Jewels, and he piled eveiee He wasn't at ill the sort one would thing: neatly tox And then, as . i rackaman, He was She Watched him, tensely, Mona heard only his eyes betrayed him, He looked “Watened—he was coming down! She 1 4 ny young fellow with plenty of wheeted around, and Stallings seized ul Wovens his cance to pocket the letters. He money—a_ successful: young business Wouid keep faith with Mary! instead, we're living here, right within sight of the scene of our exploits in the most expensive hotel in town!" “Speaking of that.” said Mona, Mwe've rot to keep our eyes open, BM here—the AiWnies they lowe, and Mary mine! We're living in the very taining, Come on downetit intros Jap of luxury just now, but it duce you to him. don't watch out ve'll slide off on the So, in a few minutes, they went floor, We've got to be forehanded, (own to the lux ious lobby of the man, perhaps. Mary studied him and “ang mext moment Reynolds came in 4 é hotel, But Mary had to wait for he decided on a bold play, “LE know all to ind his housekeeper cove 7 and i we can't “walt till the introduction. ee about you," ahe sald, “You're a #8f9 Hirgiap with rere ne wolf is at the door—we want to turn “phere he is." sald Mona. “But he Dlowe ‘ 4 7 jot up!" said Mona, sharply, to him away before he remembers to busy. Mary, [don't beliey thac wen as Deygotoe SF, OK Ee de pinch?" he said, not very curl- statins, She had aven him take the PSHE nLiE. Pant an's just lost a ting or something! E ously lett but pretended that she had Ly eas grat id ry. “Pm She iooks as if she were in deadly AND MONA HAD HARD WORK$ = sNothing like that,” she told him. pot ” trouble!" TO REPRESS THE SHUDDERS «fe just happens that | need someone As ha got up he mad® a sudden keen enough when we've once started, It was true. A woman whone face THAT RAN THROUGH HER}$ jy your) is badly as Vil ever need Junge for her, and seized the hand {Mfona—you'll admit I did my part in bore signs of a atorm of emotion was EROMs, anything that dela the revolver, Raynelds, & Ais oiler inatters! fluc ita 4 pleading with the man. “Tell me," he said, Interested coward revealed now, cried out (m tor er ‘ : A WH Neva. to Wad’ cub: why,” eatd “Why not?” said Mary, “I'm pretty ror, agd crouched against the wall, thing I've got a partner like you, OF yoy, rrible attentions. His “clients,” desperate.” And while t struggled, Mona mat I never would get started.” Mona and Mary had not lone to of all sorts and conditions, | And she recounted, with changes to aged ty whisper to Stallings “We're not started yet, you know,” wait before the wonun, greatly de- eaid Mona, dryly, “I've not the slight- Jected, left the detective and went to est idea of what to do next. Have ‘he elevator. Her manner made it 1 oe, e story Clyde “I'm with you-—I'll let you make all appeared to be grist that fit her appearance, the came to his evil mill, began to ar) had told of the woman In the hotel your getaway rive n after breakfast, and came and the letters Reynolds held she He Mielded at once plain that he had not been able to Ul day long in a steady ‘stream, It told her story well, and she could see ¢phone tho police!” cried Mona, Lag Ware ANVAE TB iat hs the oon. | Ld ni eee yes Oeeine was easy to understand that his bust. the appeal was striking home to to Reynolds. He made for the instru- A bask in the M. brigt dali i anid hat h f pp rand bask { ona, brightened a little, and came ness was & profitable one, Mona Stallings ment and then stopped. As Mona had ' over to: rr. 4 ft 4. “Say—T'm wed, he dared not, with his record, luxury of this place ver toward her, meanwhile had affairs of her own “The hound!" he sald m . “On, something will turn up,” sald q/"Miaw, Hurnett—Mr Clyde." raid that demanded her attention, ‘The no saint, you know, but he—well, he's call in the police. And the next mo- Mona, “Miss Burnett lives with me, Mary, confidently. “But—I lke the Mr. Clyde. Now, you're going to be luxury of all this just as much as nice to us, aren't you? We're dying you do, Mona, Still—I wish we had With curiosity! What was the mat- te CL ter with that poor soul you were talk- Clyde, then, “And 4 some frien ing with just now? I'm sure she's in The plain truth of it ‘Friend said Mona, in mock some sort of real ble.” lady has a hush: first was a meetin viously arranged fe with Mary—pre- past all mits! Sure I'll get your | nt, at a ginal from Mona, Stall- and held at a ters for you! Just give me the layout, ings slipped through the window and nearby roadhouse. sney and jewels, too, you say? a on vies + “lverything looks fine, my dear,’ ‘They'd help, of course!" ‘Oh, Jet him go!” cried Mona, “He ‘ didn't get anything—see, all the jew id Mona. “But you've got to find a Curiously enough, Mary was Sure ois are there! I auved them for yout” , and that’s the truth! one, too. private detective agencies must alt hussy, my de t yu the place, That : nf poet koow about him, We'll get @ report 1 Care ve you a place to stay wherg real burglar for me—some one who that she could trust him, that he, con- . “You're the bravest woman | ever " t guid can crack a safe, T can't do that— fopsed thief though he had a cer- ee - alarm, “We can’t afford that ane iid say she was!” ejaculated a npg any Fog l well wien Os tee and ma AG ser) who tends {2 me you'd be comfort bie, And { could Son tree S sare that contains what ietnvcode of nis own winch she could basil Bins mee Raznolds. 7 "s about the Clyde, angrily, “Of course, it's her 1 know enough of the case to be sure did it, , without letting the bay you something"— AeA deaahided Re ey ( Pera ae M ot me nee ey're all here, el Tapas het M seta Ait] own fault, ina way-and yet, when T it's his faul ney suspect’ that either she or Mona pretended to hesit werre after, Do you think you cin?’ te sure that he would live up to.ab- He. Geamined the. jewels?” then we can't tod! Not until we've think of a man who Is scoundrel “rust a man to take the woman's Mona was concerned in the matter in Was overjoyed, He had pome awfully disreputable people, you SclUtely: Shel pro eee ede nim, sementensd Up, “Yee—all here,” as and saved enough to give us a enough to take advantage of a wom- \id Mona, But she didn't say any way, And Mary, with a sober In his office and w some a , of some sort that would guide ald “Herestake Atesecae esac some, and I think we've qu an's mistake!""— it nastily; Mona had a good d nore face, stud i the report among the burglar alarm wires they Waray d tp travel before that j $l, its vital to my plan to have rere Bare run eyn- “You've simply got to tell us more Charity for her sex than some woinen He lends money—as well as getti consented Ce OR EM pte Ie OR eave DOL WATS ur mua wusrd Reyn- “Ho held up the necklace he had than that 1 Mona, determination WHO have never had two withstand it by blackmail,” she said. “He's v Ne ae ene ee eo eee ee eual) the eaally tard pian a scrane. Dox b Mary knew. shown her before, and a tara of equal Yes—because, after all, we have pain in her voice and in every line tmptation can muster rich—and, oh! He keeps a lot of money f ervanty at onee and that to ye al, she would he able to obtain from value, Mona hesitated, Dut finally ac= got some scruples! We don't break or hor features, ; “Well, be that as ip may,” sald and Jewels as well at his plice—he's Wtroduced her as thelr new mistress. work tm for you to No oly Mona, Mona. Indeed, Mona had it for her cepted them. And then, with a cry the uw. We'll stick to that agree- “wert don't know," sald Clyde, Clyde, “she was foollfi enough, a afraid of banks. 1 don't wonder, [ Mona shivered ass pene ny ty ide vg ane had told Monge Wien they met again, and Mary was o¢ dismay, Reynolds saw’ that the let ment, J think.” doubtfully, “IT get lots of information Year or two to have sc Ire- suppose he knows t ne of his vies them iid ato,” And on the night of her enik avle to report the success a ga, {ehs Were gone! He was like a man “Yea—we'll only bend it he in confidence that I'm not at Hberty Sbendence with another man. It never tims may turn on him minute . Mf went toa place ahe fort, to secure the services of @ de- heride himself, and. tn the confusion big corporations, It's t K to pass on" came to anything there were and that Ave make a | Mor fact, had an- 9 heat or a tone time=n Pendable cracksma of his dismay Mona slippe ay, pr the law—it's so easy to get a t! Oh, please—please!" ead Mary, the letters. What ¢ people are ak for h ! ticipated the bil y or visited: for a long time a Mary and Mona met almont daily tending that she was going to her For us—all we have to do is to select wwhywhat harm. cot do, to ke rs! They get, lost—and seoms ver ma \ Is would 4 cha ) : . to compare notes. And at last Mona room, Five minutes later Mary was our victims from B thune WhO Ciesed Wie dee en it atone people won't believe’ they're ha on Ba oot OUP paniat W t nd she entrar V drag her down ait urged Mary to send her cracksman at speeding back to the city, with Mona are breaking the Jaw themselves. and we would never tell on you! as’ —— handle’ h was Bad warned Mary htt ahSiat ne penetra aac y the onc at her side in a s ia which Then we're safe, By the way, talking nd, besides, it might be a warn- ‘Oh said na, 4 ) bound t weaknc th return, and 1} ‘ rents Ae erGundea: Oe the 1 getting: nervous, Mary" she had thoughtf n provided by about the law, consider me and my tous." said Mona. “T think it's [ost the letter 1 sont her © can play on." f bi ' H Pa Ate eS CATA Wan FERLK aH Old Reynolds is a little bit Mona doings! I've made a—well, not a r duty to tell us, so that. we Lost then hey were stolen t's rixky work, Mona." » 4 We hy eu fet appeal to inany who ffaid, but T think he'll soon come to In Mary's apartments they talked HHend, but an deniuintance here,’ rever by any chance make the same WhIGKE. he Reine Bote mane Mil take the ris tm f ne nAeN ‘ © forming it wialntince for the the polot where he'll feel that he'd over {he wild aifalr of the night, well . n the hotel mistake she did!" ch, ‘The point ey've turned ;), 1 are, though @& man wh ‘ Noh, Ore ford just ns Koon get rid of meas have me satintes he Jewels Reynolds had RB "The house detect no less!" said No fear of that!" sald Civde, UP. In th and t man who ahah We t hes 1 he ud od t 1 he . Shee ekartnt Chinatown, stay given Mona Mitcy, with ugh Why—and warmly, “Well—if you'll promt ih fanaa TT seed ' does, ¢ B you, #0 TI ' But ae Ww N Yaa | TELLS PRAY Nan ceL ae olla seminar baat ‘it was arranged. And that “Hut 1 had to let your burglar get how?" to let on that you know anything She'd have j iny reasonable sum f his sixty-year-old charm: y bility to cope with I Shi ; The house was DEKE as soon as all was quiet the letters—and I'm afraid he'll eome Mak, dents know=4t suet wepined fovee by ony tance tokens @ any mum she could have managed. to it : ' knew, from the way ut her tm: of eon een had’ Mona disconnected the burglar alarm here.” said Mona te inet Ne he usat Hela an cowl thet Cinle coats get together. But he figures on her ieerdtatyau/aci he too tha had a pow A 1Osirions aeeee eran where. if system so far as sho could, cut- Her fears were justified. She had interestin erson, really—and he “Oh, we will! said Mary, “Honestly, busband's n hot on what she “Don't know yet—t eg: Fae nena te rk Ce eee ee A the matrone might (NK some wires, disarranging oth- scarcely spoken when there was a likes me ever so He tolls me you noedn't be afrat can command elf, He won't be- him first, One thing I've learne ble extent thoy: ao ues ating if Ors. She also, on a sudden impulse, ring at the door. Mona hid he about all the trouble women make for ~ “It's a common enough story,” said “eve she can't . that it doesn't do to map ou igh fter she 1 Se ae ae St out the telephone — wire Then Mary admitted Stallings. He tossed “Oh~and what dor e intend plans ahead, b I gone t om and as F heed Mal. where they “he went upstatr As she passed her the letters to do?” i Ourva an 1 herself could lock WE f Reynolds's door she saw that it was “I took an awful chance for sons people you've Micht have privacy. Many customers Lo you, Turn them over ne of the won't work, and y ae) ately Ven Camo to this resort because they know Oper that he himself, fully Mary," he suid her husband, i¢ ene nt Tra Hes acy OCenIR: TUS 1 into. the eae ee eeeen by none of thelp dressed, was dozing in a chair, She — Just then Mona appeared. Stallings good in the time he's ADLRRACK A EMIBE. Ke th ally pea wont Spey need. be star at this sicht; then smiled. started in amazement at the sight come to me, half mad with pen mind, if you can 1 t down to th \ evnold Phere had heen a time when Mary And, in her own room, she listened of her fow he could help be sorry. for it, It seems to me I've w > used a 1 He wa had ne fallen a vietiin. to. the breathlessly, She heard an auto come — “Don't you We're all in the her, or believing she can't t the outfit somewhere in ¢ unk t I Opa had amokin ibit, But she had shaken Up in the road and stop a little dis- same if ne?” sald Mona honey, I don't see, But I've heard n find it. f think t's re | t her ho ow the deadly spell of the drug, and tanee away. And then, taking a re tallings was a to smile a min- things nearly as bad about him thing for my call on Ik ed up, plainly 4 but Mone fig hesitated. even with a fixed pure Volver, she crept downstairs, Reyn- Ute later before! They moved away from the G back H 1-1 took oth ier Ininay to renew hernes olde still dosed; he had not heard her I've got to hand it to you girls!” What a dreadful thing!” said Hotel that day. Much as liber f nt Ponintance with it, ft had to be, come up! he said. “You certainly strung ma Mary Is there nothing that can be girls liked It, they re 1 that it row a book . 1k ead howeve ince here, she felt, she was — Downstairs Mona waited tensely, *ong Well-I got the ters for Jone to help her waa not the beat place to use ns myself to sleep, fairly sure to find A man_of the sort pistol in hand. he heard a window You! Maybe we'll meet again!” Not without the very thin he's headquarters during wr 1 She we 4, and afte he needed, Here would be no com- raised, and a minute later she shippe A good sport,” said Mona, as he Most afraid of-—publicity. 1f [ tried as they now plannc execute, And she had 1 i made f0F jhon eriminals, but only the very pick into the library. ‘There was a kneel. Went out. “1 like him better than to m L move, the first thing this it was from a small furnished at the door, , I cholce of the profession. ing fixyure before the safe, and with a SMe honest men I've met man ynolds would do would be to ment, in a house and a quarter where Sit down,” he wn and The proprietor of this resort was a low laugh Mona called to him They were back in the Grand Hotel expose her. It's his only weapon— no questions were 1, that M k ton You ¥ GhIRaRe ehiae evan planted “HaGaR aol! a few days later. And Clyde, the but it's a terr ne, It's in. widow's weeds, f © company f vy, tke me covetously at the sight of Mary Stallings swung around in dismay, House detective, came Up to them with kept him out of the clutches of the suburban home of Vou Rut—t'm not ! Sf You allec sume come back ona At the sight of Mona and her pistol # beaming face ae law for years. The police and half Thomas B. Reynold y On, no," # Tam stay ' he said, glowtingly, his faw dropped: his hands went. up. temember that T told you » big private detective agencies in had d ed his full a Henn I that she, whe You're a fool! said Mona, holding be asked. “We ur frtend got her country have d t ext to When she saw him it w ‘ Hr, Rey 4 Woabout to f her tol stea My safe's burglar letters ba n the mail—no sign of something on him-and he defles Ido to force herself " 1 into elute onee mort proof you'd have wasted your time Where they ef What do you n." with her plat f , © swt knew that t W irned did not even if fT hadn't eaught you! know about that y "Tt se Incredible!" aid Mona, pulsive Cy ' 4 ! ‘ t Stallings said nothing. But suddenty hey knew « good deal—but they with shining eyes bad led to expect. His Mdn't on Y un Ching to cook he dropped one hand and sounded a “idn’t tell him True enoug but these facts, ¢ Hane with regard Wie wil 1 ‘ f ei « 1, She affect A shrill whistle (Bad of I 1 Episode > He's got more money t can Son ma im more fright i Peis v8 i : believe the thing's con port Youn man about town des; " for him-—that akes a_vicidins, de. YORrH 1 tthe ! prayed ft 1 Kk his And what may Ml \ 1 victims squirm, He aa W j Qt colng tor you, tm y Ugh!" said Mona, "Wh boast! sab ate ae \ He's an old man, you } ie retu ‘He must be “ahout said © hat i: n Clyde ulsive and ; cauhien H M an el vd find long f q an j y and Mona j more than that. H vt str in ve money ar I know his ways All the W Hack in thelr owr M I. appra Kut 1 4 de I j a M u \ rd ! sl vid M M nanog I 1 “Oh-oh! 7 t Mary. “But, Mona—a man like that ssstiotin “ - is no Tomlinson Gerry! We might "Then, we'll ser ver 4 CELT ead CP e Fate PTE boo rs INSTRUMENT AND He HE THEN ER LETTERS TURNED UP—IN THE HANDS OF A MAN WHOS Moullnt t love to doit justi T know STOPPED. AS MONA HAD KNOWS THEIR VALUE, OR THINAS HE DOES.” ahout him the better ourenaace-wiit | WILL BE PUBLISHED SATURDAY, APRIL 15 | 3 QREPSoP rut oPAREP NO y be, You heard what Clyde sald—the