The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1916, Page 16

NN SSS eS ae ee i} } bt POOANAGDH ODODE: FODBIDIDEDONS NINTH EPISODE THE HAUNTING SPECTRE (Coprright by Consolidated Film Corporation SYNOPSIS OF PREC 1916) @ EDING EPISODES: Harold Staniey, cub reporter for a New York daily omned by his father is intersted in Uke Hague of De" Mnrone, "oho. Ban net fe reclerting #108 to fejurenete humanity, “Miane oy uae been. working om the tnmesn, ot memanliy, Bee the tame Way the, Hictime foi tet sed re comapstteg, ie baa Joied AOA tel Theit echine. Buse einay, Tater fet noticnd [unat iey dereioral sh ial ow al ieee a ie ont Venye Tosca, Jarold's father te manterel while ve in ‘don wrderer, He takes over bm la hae ote ae ‘whet moe a then shifts to Claston's, winio, where the’ bead nny carmen Giegaioed to Took line ‘Le itue, “‘ianley arrives, and’ the criminal escapes over HEN Clayton returned to the studio, the roof-top rope, he found Vanya Tos after Pierre's escape over As well as Florence, busily explaining the whole affair to Stanley. “It—it was horrible!” he heard Vanya stammer, as Clayton's eyes rested questioningly on her troubled face. “I was waiting here for you. And I saw Pierre La Rue come in. Then, all at once, a second Pierre La Rue sprang into the room, behind the first, knocked him senselcas and pessed his hands across my face. I felt myself falling asleep. The next thing I knew, I was sitting in the dreasing room. I jumped up and ran in here—to find Miss Montrose leaning over you! What does it all mean? Are there two Pierre La Rues? And where have they gone?” Stanley stood eyeing her with covert suspicion. But as sho looked toward him hia face became expressioniess. He gave brief answer, “Mr Clayton made up as Pierre La Rue-—Bust for a joke. The real Pierre La Rue must have followed him here and knocked him senseless. That is ail I know except that La Rue has escaped.” He frowned he noticed that Clay- ton evidently believed Vanya's version of the affair, and that Vanya, just evidently, did not believe Stanle: Presently the model took her leav: Promising to come to the studio the following day for tho postponed ait- un “Kiy head's buzzing too much for mo to paint to-day,” he told her. “But I'll be all right by to-morrow, Shall we say at 3 in the afternoon?” And promptly at 3 next day Van- ya was on hand. As she stepped forth from the dressing room Into the studio clad in “Deli draperies her beauty was so alluring that Rob- ert Clayton stared spelibound at her. Nover before had she been so lovely. Never before had her sinuous charm fo mounted to the artist's brain. as Samson of old forgot Delilah’s treachery in the fascination of her presenco so now did Clayton forget for the moment his suspicions of this woman who stood smiling at him. She threw the light shaw! from her shoulders and stepped toward the model throne to take her pose. But Clayton as she passed clone beside the easel sprang up from his chair and impulsively caught her in his arms. “1 love you!”* he exclaimed madly, “Oh, I LOVE you, Vanya! ‘Tell mo you'll marry me, ‘Tell me you will!” a8 Chee 88 Dr. Montrose’s after-lunch nap that day was troubled by gruesome dreams. As he lay back in a bug leather chair in his laboratory le aeomed to see the secret panel in front of him slide open and the fave of Pierre La Rue @ppear tn the black aperture The face grinned malevolently dow. upon him, the Crimson Stain glowing in the half-shut eyes. Dr. Montross shuddered and sought to awaken. But, even as he strove to banish the vision, the form and features of Lu Rue melted into those of a friend, a friend who seemed to beckon his vio- tim toward a pit of flame, Montrose shouted aloud in terror and leaped to his feet, wide awake. But even though the dream was ban- ished he saw that the secret panel in the wal! stood wide open and that @ figure was gliding through tt into the laboratory He Mied aloud once more—this time in si relief-at seeing the figure was Tanner's and not that of a depon. Tanner had come for treat- mé@ht, and for once Dr. Montrose made no objection to giving it to him But even as he pushed forward the Mysterious apparatus a pounding at the laboratory's outer door interrupted him. He thrust the apparatus back into its nic! Tanner disappeared through the secret panelway, Shutting the panel behind Tanner, the doctor hurried to the laboratory's outer door and flung it wide, Flor- ence was waiting, anxious-eyed, in the h Beside her was Harold Stanley, who had arrived at the Mont- rose house a few minutes earlier and who, like Florence, had been alarmed queried Florence father appeared, out as if you were suffering. heard it all the way downstairs, you 111?" “No,” the doctor managed to reply with « fair semblance of carclessn “T Just snoozed and had a nightmare. I'm worry I scared you two childre: Shutting the laboratory door be- hind him as he spoke, he accompanied them down the stairway and out onto the veranda, chatting as he went, Tanner, emerging from a side en- trance of the house, was about to cross the lawn toward the streot when he saw the three come out upon the veranda. Not wishing to be seen, he crouched among the porch vinas until they should go Indoors gain. As he did so he caught glimpse of Mra. Clayton, who was coming up the walk toward the Mont- rose house, and he shrank closer in among the vines. Mrs. Clayton, seo- Ing the three people on the veranda, quickened her pace “Doctor, I'm so glad to find you!" sho greeted her host. “I'm in such trouble. And you have advised ma s0 wisely at other times when things went wrong.” “You look tired,” maid Florence, “Till ring for tea. Felix can serve it out here where It's co Sho went tndoors to summon the man servant. Mrs, Clayton turned again to the doctor. “It's about Robert.” sheaald, “He is in love with a woman, @ horrible woman. “Who is the woman?” asked Dr. Montrose sympathetically. “Any one we know?” “No one we could possibly know,” returned Mrs, Clayton, “A model. Her name, I believe, {s Vanya Tosca, She Is posing for Bob.” Stanley, furtively watching Mont- rose, saw the doctor's face blanch and stiffen at the model's name. “The tea will be out here In a mo- ment.” reported Florence, coming back from the house, Felix, carrying a wicker table, fol- lowed her. He set down the ‘table and began to arrange the tea-things on it. Mrs. Clayton, full of her grievance, prattled on, regardiesa of the servant's presence nd {t's all the worse, coming as it does at a time when I'm 90 wor- ried and unhappy about my beautify reathiessly as her “We heard you ery We Are necklace, It isn't #0 much It4 vali that I mofrn, though it c $50.00 and it's worth much more m™ But it was my dear husband's last pres- ent to me, And I love ft on that ac- count more than"-— “Mrs. Clayton,” “broke tn Harold Stanley, “I did not mean to tell you Just yet for a reason I'll explain later. But I can't see you suffer when T ca uble Your necklace 1 have tt." ou?" gasped Mra, ( Yes. yton, Tt came into@ny hands In an odd way. T'll explain that part of it later, too, But the necklace ts recov- ered. It is locked in the safe in my library at home, 1 was afraid to turn it over to you sooner be 1 knew the Crimson Stain gang would prob- ubly make another effort to st vy TH bring It to you to-night « prow.” rs. Clayton was effusively grate. ful. And in listening to her thanks falled to notice Felix's interest in the conversa- Stanley quit breathless Nor did he hear the faint rustle of the vines just beneath him as Tan- tion at the sound of the doctor's frantle ner wriggled away from his hiding shouts, place. There was work afoot, and WV on earth is the matter v time t The ever-present identifying mark Duffy’s Pure Mal "Whiskey MSO —=ad _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 N STAIN There was scant hope thay a taxicab The Iibrary door opencd and the goes! Lock it.” @ clump of wayside bushes. Florence Montrose, leaning far out of the pursuing car, saw the trunk hurled into the river. At her com- mand her chauffeur slowed up for an instant just as he reached the bridge, while she and the policemen sprang to the ground. Florence, running to the bridge rail ahead of the policemen, saw the al- tnost submergod trunk. As the air in it was noarly expolled by inrusbing water the trunk steadily sank Without a moment's hesitation Florence dived from the bridge, struck out toward the sinking trunk and, seizing it, held it party above the surface until Clayton and the po- jiceman could reach out to draw it up om the bank. They burst open the iid\and lifted out the gasping, half crowned Stanley. "She saved your life, this young jady did,” the policeman told him, “She held up the trunk till we could get to it. It was touch-and-go. Another second and we'd have had to drag the river for your body. “Florence!” pi His lips could say no more. But his Uptown Store 3rd Ave. & 121st St. Florence Montrose, at the other end of the wire slammed the receiver on the hook, breaking the connection. Then she called up the nearest police station and afterward rang for her chauffeur. minutes later, the Montrose automobile, «. ning Flor- “WE CAN'T KILL HIM HERE; HE'S TOO PROMINENT,” MUSED I A es eg a8 Li PIERRE. SO STANLEY WAS BUNDLED INTO THE TRUNK, Mie ee ee enna could be found In that vicinity. So he butler shuffled in. His drowslly as- Meantime, sending Cla ahe decided to walk north to the nearest tonished gaze grasped the fact that Start the ts 5 Rue and crosstown car line. As le went he Tanner shoved the trunk through the light was burning, a window was glanced about him for any stray taxi nand that there were two masked Wide lib y window, and with much cab he could hat, And within a few men in the room. effort lowered It to the ground. blocks he found one Then a pair of hands shot forth Thence, between them, they carried it It was not on the street itself, but from him and d with t) the chugging taxicab and propped was backed into # sort of alleyway Viselike force about his throat In Kt endwise be the driver's seat coyrt, at the rear of a r hackle less than a minute his feeble strug- Where now?" questioned Tanner. apartment house. The courtyard was gles ceased and he flour, “Ho fell to the dark. By the light from one of the La Rue looked qu wbout him, 0," said La ‘Rue, “out into house's windows, Clayton could barely then strode to a closet door and threw open" country somewhere, distinguish the ‘outlines of cab. it open. A large einpty trunk filied wrong?” he broke off, as He entered the alleyway and advanced the closet’s narrow floor apoce, With suddenly ceased wiirring. rd the vehicle, T nit was that a single tug he hauled the trunk out ton jun d down to crank it noticed there Was no chauffeur on inty the room. A second yank, ard “Stalled my engine,” mattered | the seat he slung the thin old body of the Clayton, his votce muffled as he “The catyby It ere," he thought butler into the empty cloxet and shut heaved at the crank. to himself, “and he's gone inside for door on it. -La Rue then joinel — Thero was but one hope, and Bob his supper. I'll rout him out." Passing around the side of the taxi he made for the dimly seen rear goor way in front of which it sto then th masked man at the sa standing In the shadows r the window, began to realize for ne first time bis own folly in ventur Clayton knew tt rose had If Florence Mont- heard and understood she undoubtedly would notify the police. If he could delay the car until the rant Featuring Maurice Costello and Ethel Grandin Novelized by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Being Presented by the Consolidated Film Corporation TWO WOMEN SUE ESTATE OF J. W, BOOKWALTER One Says She Gave Up Sweetheart | also a sweetheart to whoin she # 00081 PCOMMMTETETITIITETIGMAOOO SS OTECOOOOEOMOOVOGOOOSTOEOOOGTWOGBOIOVIOO DIOGO TOOIOOITICTN ADIGE 1HHWEOOONTTOOTITS DIDGOHSSTGUIGOTSCESSLOCOOOON NS % a That evoming Robert Ciayton set ‘The olf man's footsteps were au- Ta Rue's pocket and dropped {t Into Clayton still struggling to escap®. even spoke volumes “goon or late,” gasped i forth from the studio on his promised dible for only a moment before he his own, . In the tussle the mask fell off. La “They got clean away,” reported | “I'll—I'll ret them, I know tt! All at Vanya Tosca's Jat. Clayton's came puttering into the library. But “Trunk’s empty, Chief!” reported Rue started back in amaze at sight the chauffeur of the returning car. (To Be Continued old-fashioned studio etood tn an ob- that moment was enough for Pierre Tanner. of his face. Clayton took advantage Koure east wide street, well uptown. La. Rue iood!” replied La Rue, “In he of the momentary respite to dive into The Tenth Episode of THE CREMSON STAIN MYSTERY Will Be Published Thursday, Nov. 9 for Millionaire and Asks $100,000, SPRINGFIELD, 0., Nov. Johnstone York, a former actress, and her sister- in-law, Mrs. Belle Johnstone, widow M. Johnstone, has filed sults against the $3,000,C)0 John W, Bookwalter, ited Stanley, feebly. | globe trotter and art collector. Miss Johnstone, whose father, Capt. Katherine M. of Paul estate of the Perhaps you have said that very thing,to one of fet dn neo cranen, EC ‘ ing hither. These men were robbing police arrived, then Stanley might { { , of ight from a “OY his beat friend. And, unarmed, he was be saved and Rue cap cur friends as you edmired her pretty furniture. lamp. Three men were coming from powerless to prevent the deed, We “ y Ladititd isa . knew tha he would stand no chanca Clayton stepped forward toward the against two such foes: He felt curi- Ught. But at almost th ume in= ously helpless. stant he halted and sii hastily “An ready!” he heard La Rue say. husband earned only a moderate salary. into un angle of the wail, For he had “grand back. It will explode in thirty But she ognized the foremost of the thre n. It was Pierre La Rue, seconds rt Come out of the way over here, Hebind La Hue was aman ina black "yn" Ve the fo others into the i mask. And behind the latter was a furthest. ctremity of the long room, stores and selected exactly the things she wante tall, lender man with the cout, put- Ay he did ao the library door opened and arranged to make a small payment each month. tere ore ne Re s erg ene again, Harold Stanjey sauntered in. nan Went around to ront FRG home De i of the thxi and began to crank it. geanley had stepped nt the Open Saturday Evenings Tho «masked, inan deferentlally held his way upstairs for open the cab Goor for La Rue to enter. wanted to read again. He note 5 . The cab door shut. ‘The chauffeur upturned ght and the appearance of A full two minutes were || Special Quartered Oak Diner made a short turn of his machine and the safe, Striding across to the safe, Consumed in readjusting the earbure This {# an exceptionally Well bulit chair and will and the harde! ear, The full fs real leather: made it started toward court, Robert Clayton, as it sped by him, darted out of the wall embrasure, chught the edge of the cab's top, and with one toe gained a foothold on the rear axle, the mouth of the etor, Im Rue swearing furiously. When the taxicab was at last under way, with Tan Clayton and La Rue fnstde put on all possible speed. whizzed out Into the he bent over it. Clayton took an {m- pulsive step forward. But he was too late, Even a him, and before either the black mask or La Rue hoticed his impulsive Weeling like a small boy stealing @ movemer # was a dull, muffled Wheels. As it settled ride he clung there, Then, bit by bit, detonation that shook the whole room, ® Shout behind he lifted himself to the tuxl's The safe door clashed to the soft glare back through the window, ured But the ruse gained for him little | of the time he desired. After a mo- ment or two of fuming impatience, | La Rue thrust him roughly aside, ex- | ming: | You'v lost your nerve. man! You ought to be playing pingpong or learning sew, Tanner, get busy re, Start her and then take the wheel, This idiot has gone all to pPleces.” Promptly Tanner jumped forward. Clayton, slinking away, managed to wrench the carburetor, go that a series of deafening gas explosions companied the turning on of the shamelied rov rug. Harold Stanley was sent aprawl- An automobile that seemed fairly Forgotten was the peril of his situa- ing and senseless by the concussion. to bristle with policemen waa in hot rat the wheel and Tanner The taxi on two Ss pace. caused La Ry Robert started tow to ng jal at t bargain pr Eh tee tion, Forgotten even was his pro- With a laugh—that drowned Robert and close pursuit. La Rue bellowed Clayton's horrified gasp—Plerre La to Tanner for more speed Rue ran forward, At the same in- country the ri stant the telephone on the table be. miles beyond © river Ban to ring. view in the starlight Instinctively Robert Clayton picked “Stop when we get to the bank up the instrument. Stemdying his eave the trunk over!" y shaky tones as best he could, he said: “They're gaining on us. gle cane to a second’s halt H@i Over went the trunk with a splash posed visit to Vanya a. Every- thing was forgotten except the thrill of the man-hunt, La Rue had bested him again and again, and had even sought his life. La Rue was the chief of the Crimson Stain gang. If La Rue could be captured or killed, the Crimson Stain menace would be Mftedfrom the city, La Rue had some mysterious in fuence Vanya Tosca. Robert Out into ‘Three into continued. flashed came the reply in Florence Montrose's clear y over “Is that you, Into the deep stream. Clayton sought hated him fr that Harold? 1 called up to ask tf you" to spring out after 't, but Le hus ugs an arpets The cab had reached the southern. "Put that thing down, you fool!" seized him. The taxi dashed on, ||...) Rag Rug (Dut + Most extremity of Riverdale and was *PArled Plerre La Rue, = - - Bante Na eee ute halting ina dark rear driveway be- ot Allee fs Wl lomered the in ae ee Aamiaete hind @ house, Clayton had Known *tUument to the table, He was about Foe Verne he, that house all his life. It was Harold {9 Put the receiver back on the hoo! Bie Valvar hon iho: Stanley's home, And again tho thrill When ah of Inspiration came 34 in, Coron Matting. yard of the man hunt possessed the young vole Qiifed tho position of £6 Jn. Rubber Matuing Fiat oak te pated y book on the table o that the Moc elvet Carnet Ar t. The taxi halted. tw mouthpiece of the telephone recely Inlaid Linoleum, yard latter er rested upon tt, without bending dow i i Lap ith BY the hook and shutting off the con- Special Axningter Carpet Sple nectio ‘0 Ward uppearance c os ine ow 1 “In five minutes join us," he ‘ To outward uppearance th | | doze patte You know which” window. rument was out of use. Actually, ' ; Among BA eo , ea was connected, and any sounds | Aff if ki 0 | 0 B heat patterhe and the watch here till then to make certain soar ite tranemiticn would ke soatute er takin! Ni ne BOX Brice in ut’ ik bewiauons we. haw ower at the far end of the wire | farser oT eH man u nished tito the da asin the Bh te . van f i H ti ” Oto 1b yard wake bf the masked m The chaut. ua, | laren A Mont rae, in her 0 ruit-a- ves m. Whi vlan feur sat tand watehful Ligh gon yew} Lt A bd . ‘ fra Atos cht by { Regulurly oT SIUP HARBOUR, R250 the yard— Robert Clayton counted slowly up the tabi to nee m KHOWIng tho Other the Was iistentig: foe pent KGEW: | ty is with great ple quure that I write Now $1.55 a Yard mi now be,seut of earshot, he old's reply to her greeting. to tell you of the wonderful benefits 1 All sewing. ta) and lining ete. free. Md Taunthor Hime? umiact | Pierre La Rue looked down tn grim |have received from “Fruita and launchod himself upon the contentment at the face of his sense taking specting chauffeur tives.” I atthe two erashed to th grass of the lawn. The chaufteur landed underneath, The breath wa knocked out of lim by the fall. De. vuld recover enough of it to blow on the a at him suddenly into dreamland. In less than three minutes Robert Clayton Down fu he said cheerfully, “at sufferer from Constipation and Mead jast we've i 2 He) 1 St aches, 1 was mil ble in every way i i Rivaceit \n another fow mine | Nothing in the way of medicines seemed utes, And the explosion may attract to help me. Then I finally tried “Fruit- havent got overmuch Ce to noah actives and the effect was splendid ‘ b Have yo he Clayton neck. After taking box, I feel like a | " ens Jace, Tann new person, to have relief from those and had The om an who had been . | m. Keeling ID gambling in the diemanthed cate, one? | sickening Headaches | Jara Tme ry Raeket of the ehautteur's grew out his hand triumphantly MRS, MARTHA DEWOLI a aga At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- tof his cuat,|@tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N again over Sta Advt i} | ' from r yeors, | was a d ft less enemy. “Well hout, a 5-Piece Bathroom Outfit ly Nickel Plated had divested the sensele man } 7 SPECIAL Stove Outfit Hue tehed th | Lightly h ran toward the house tet trom him and and began mowly to circle it lessly Into the side pc This ta Overy pepyler: sie58 ently hi und the newly opened nen he bent outfit. because of « Window he sought. It led into the Wa pant Kil him and heat giving power end seme Stanley library, Clayton crawled over here” mused Tiere au pactners, Th idee | tho alll and into the room, One shaded prominente and ie wecel anit! {22 inch Biove F electric light was turned on Mh RVRan teeihctin allan iat na ae Pine, 1. Pamper $3 75 glow he saw La 1 vd the masked Nisa py That's simplest The Good Old 8 . Just His wander! man knee ‘Siw inany gin front of the library safes Robert eye tell slew in Gas Stoves, the trunk are art Wa de Re he hid hauled trom the clos Remedy For ren o! s s he Open th be said to Tanner, “If i [porated lite the room ‘one of Mis itm full, dump out the contents and, {Coughs and Colds Cowperthwaii oping feet str agains! § help are m into tt We can ’ . upsetting it ’ rey Tt to the tax, and Where it wilt) (fy, Ask Your mother about q Liberal Credit Terms | La Rue turned and swore flercely to finish wim, Look lively! §Dt Bull's Cough Syrup, ill iT he bent once more to his task id She will tell you that it is the " best- Bhe weekly on @®15 worth, of boring a large enough hole in the — He motioned Tanner to lift Stanley's gyer” for coughs, colds, sore throat, The weekly om #50 worth, [safe to hold the nitroglycerine with shoulders, while himself bent to| ete. And why Because it is athe which he intended to open it. But the raise the pr man’s legs and feet | [doctor's prescription, compounded 81,50 weekly on #100 wor I sound of the upset chair bad other As Pierre leaned forward to lift the | fof nothing but the purest drugs and worth. |results, The old Stanley | butler, who weight, Clayton chanced to be left alone in the house jewels shining f had heard it ands he ja from his pantry to in Baw the amounts im proportion, Othe: Pay by the month if you wis! 10% OFF FOR CASH, gleam of om a bit of the neck- | that protruded from his pocket | ives relief in a few hours, 25¢ al ttle at all druggists, FREE TEST Wits to A.C. Me Mention Paper, t evening 1 ale te. aCe. Md With a deft agility that surprised him- Balt Robert lifted the ni cklace from - «€ a 4 come in Maho; Mf desired. Bia Mahogany lour, flowered or will always loc Other st struments, them. 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