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n February 15 there was
dedicated In the National Cem
etery at Arlington here, a simple
memorial in the form of a "flgrht.
ing mast" to thex officers and men
who lost their lives aboard the
U. & S. Maine, in Havana Harbor, Feb
ruary 15. 1898." In the panels of the
turret at the base of the monument
are engraved the names of the men
und officers who lost their lives.
A German submarine running on the
surface at full epeed. It is with these
submarines that the Germans say they
propose to sink all the merchant ves
sels of the allies and cut off the com
merce of Great Britain as Great
Britain has cut off Germany from the
rest of the world.
The Bank of Entrland is regarded as
one of the possible objects of attack
by the Zeppelins which Condon is fear
ing. All the streets near it are kept
in darkness so that the men on the
Zeppelin cannot identify it.
The V. S. P. Kansas left New York
last month for the Pacific Coast. When
she passed under Manhattan Bridge
she attracted the attention of thou
sands. She will take part in the cele
bration at the official opening: of the
Panama Canal and the Exposition at
fan Francisco.
An interesting picture of lower
Broadway. New York, as it looks to
day is here shown. The immense white
building is the new Bnultable Life As
surance Society building, which was
erected on the site of the old Equit
able structure, which was destroyed by
fire in 1912. The new giant office
building is 40 stories high, has l."00.
00 square feet floor space, 50.000
square feet ground space, and was
erected In record time one year. The
Kquitable's new home has quite a few
interesting neighbors. In the immedi
ate foreground, at the left. Is the his
toric steeple of Trinity Church. Right
opposite is the beginning of Wail
street, the "financial heart of America."
In the background, at the extreme left,
is the tower of the 49-story Singer
building. Lower Broadway of 10 years
asro could not recognize the Broadway
THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE
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and the driver drew out a battered pair
of opera glasses, levelling them at our
windows.
Having completed fixing the. batteries
and wires. Clutching Hand ran the
wires along the moulding on the wall
overhead, from the fireplace until he
was directly over Elaine's picture.
Skillfully he managed to fix the wires,
using them in place of the picture wires
to support the framed photograph. Then
he carefully moved the protograph un
til it hung very noticeably askew on
the wall.
The last wire Joined, he looked about
the room, then noiselessly moved to the
window and raised the shade.
Quickly he raised his hand and
brought the Angers slowly together.
It was the sign.
Off in the alley, the express driver
and his helper were still gazing up
through the opera glass.
"What d'ye see. Bill?" he asked,
handing over the glass.
The other took it and looked. "It's
him the Hand, Jack." whispered the
helper, handing the glasses back.
Quickly they jumped into the wagon
and away It rattled.
Jensen was smoking placidly as the
viton pulled up the second time.
"Sorry," said the 'driver, sheepishly.
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of today, so changed has it become by
the constant erection of skyscraplng
office structures.
"but we delivered the cabinet to the
wrong Mr. Kennedy."
He pulled out the inevitable book to
prove It.
"Wall, you bane fine fallers,"
growled Jensen, puffing like a furnace,
in his fury. "You cannot go up agane."
"We'll get fired for the mistake,"
pleaded the helper.
"Just this once," urged the driver,
as he rattled some loose change In his
pocket. "Here there goes a whole
day's tips."
He banded Jens a dollar in small
change.
Still grumpy, but mollified by the sil
ver, Jens let them go up and opened
the door to our rooms again. There
stood the cabinet, as' outwardly inno
cent as when it came in.
Lugging and tugging they managed
to get the heavy piece of furniture out
and downstairs again, loading It on
the wagon. Then they drove off with
it. accompanied by a parting volley
from Jensen.
In an unfrequented street, perhaps
half a mile away, the wagon stopped.
With a keen glance around, the driver
and his helper made sure that no one
was about.
"Such a shaking up as you've given
roe!" growled a voice as the cabinet
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door opened. "But I've got him this
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It was the Clutching Hand!
"There, men, you can leave me here,"
he ordered.
H motioned to them to drive oft,
andaa they did so, pulled off Ills mask
and dived into a narrow street lead
ing up to a thoroughfare.
Craig gazed Into our living-room
cautiously.
"I can't seen anythfng wrong." he
said to me as I stood just beside him.
"Miss Dodge," he added, "will you and
the rest excuse me If I ask you to
wait just a moment longer?"
Elaine watched him, fascinated. He
crossed the room, then went into each
of our other rooms. Apparently noth
ing was wrong and a minute later he
reappeared at the doorway.
"I guess it'B all right." he said. "Per
haps it was only Jensen, the janitor."
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Martin entered. Craig placed chairs
for them, but still I could see that he
was uneasy. From time to time, while
they were admiring one of our treas
ures after another, he glanced about
suspiciously. Finally he moved over
to a closet and flung the door open,
ready for anything. No one was in
the closet and he closed It hastily.
"What is the troble, do you think?"
asked Elaine wonderingly, noticing his
manner.
"I I can't just say," answered Craig,
trying to appear easy.
She had risen and with keen in
terest was looking at the books, the
pictures, the queer collection of weap
ons and odds and ends from the un
derworld that Craig has amassed in
his adventures.
'At last her eye wandered across the
room. ' She caught sight of her own
picture, occupying a place of honor
but hanging askew.
"Isn't that Just like a man?" she
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exclaimed. "Such housekeepers as you
are such carelessness!" ?
She had taken a step or tw across
the room to straighten the picture.
"Miss Dodge!" almost shouted Ken
nedy, his face fairly blanched. "Stop!"
She turned, her stunning eyes filled
with amazement at his suddenness.
Nevertheless she moved quickly to one
side, as he waved his arms, unable
to speak quickly enough.
Kennedy stood quite still, gazing at
the picture, askew, with suspicion.
"That wasn't that way when we
left, was it, Walter?" he asked.
"It certainly . was not," I answered
positively. "There was more time spent
in getting that picture just right than
I ever saw you spend on all the rest
of the room."
Craig frowned.
As for myself I did not know what
to make of it.
"I'm afraid I shall have to ask you
to step Into this back room," said J
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sorry but we ran't be too curcful
with this intruder, whoever he wns."
They rose, surprised, but, as he con
tinued to urge them, they moved into
my room.
Elaine, however, stopped at the door.
For a moment Kennedy appeured to
be considering. Then his eye fell on
a fishing rod that stood In a corner.
He took it and moved toward the pic
ture. ' On his hands and knees, to one sid
down as close as he could get to the
floor, with the rod extended at arm's
length, he motioned to me to d the
same, behind him.
Elaine, unable to repress her Inter
est, took a step forward, breathless,
from the doorway, while Susie Mnrtln
and Aunt Josephine stood close behind
her.
Carefully Kennedy reaihod out with
the pole and straightened the pic
ture. As he did so there was a flash,
loud, deafening report, and a great
puft of smoke from the fireplace.
The fire screen was riddled and
overturned. A charge of buckshot
shattered the precious photograph ot
Elaine.
We had dropped flat on the floor at
the report. I looked about. Kennedy
was unharmed ami so were the rest
With a bound he was at the fire
place, followed by Elaine and the rest
of us. There, in what remained of a
package done up roughly In newspaper,
was a shotgun with Its barrel sawed
off about six Inches from the lock,
fastened to & block of wood and con
nected to a series of springs on the
trigger, released by a little electro
magnetic arrangement, actuated by
two batteries and leading by wires up
along the moulding to the picture
where the slightest touch would com
plete the circuit.
The newspapers which were wrapped
about the deadly thing were burning
and Kennedy quickly tore them up.
throwing them into the fireplace.
A startled cry from Elaine caused
us to turn.
She was standing directly before her
shattered picture, where It bung awiyi
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m the wall. The heavy clmrun of
buckshot had knocked Hnav Isrte
ilcres of psper anil plaster under It.
"Cm Ik!" she unsped
Tl wns ut her sltli- In a second.
Sln laid one hand on his Htm,
Kho fated Mm. With the other sh
traced an IlimKliwiry lint- In the sir
from the level of the biuKshot In hi"
head und (hen straight to the tiilernal
thing that hurt lain In the fireplace.
"And lo think." she shuddered. tht
it wss throiiKh me that he tried t"
kill you!''
".Never mind." laughed t'rnlir rMl
as they SJire.l Into e. h rifhei s eves,
drawn toKether by their tnultial peril.
"CluteMiiK Hand will Imf to
cleverer thn this to K I either i f ll -Elaine!"
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lntn's t'oMviimlnK nittllnn.
An Atchihon nvin aimed to hme se.
eunnilated illAuvh piopi-rM' t.v the Itni'4
he was f." vesrs olil to let re. Me Ii
not far from f0 now and his eonsanilm.
ambition Is l have n week's silati i
his picket when he i elici ts his w.'..
for the next week.
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