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10 XHE EXPLOITS OF TyT zzzz , m&j ... fWT zrv - 71 ? ( y ; J f' if- -M Jill '-..::.'-'"' ' - . . . , : .. ' ;: - ir. :: i ,v.,....-..4 ui - " s' x " J li t Ki.h v v v-.-. . : . . . , v - t- . : r 5 - :iiiisi- l H f 1 : ' - ;V';X . " -1 - - r ' , . . ft I ' :.tvr . . , 7 - - v . . tsSSskjSisMk. y ' 1 J " . . "j 7'' I iSy- as&& "EXPLOITS OH" ELAINE.1 "The Exploits of Elaine" was written by Arthur B. Reeve and dramatized into a motion-picture play by Charles Goddard. Miss Pearl White. Arnold Daly and Sheldon Lewis take the principal parts in the play as produced by the Pathe Flayers. One install ment of the story is appearing in The Oregonian each Sunday. SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. The Mew York police are mystified by a ccrles of murders of prominent men. The lutest victim of the mysterious assassin is Taylor Iloile, the insurance president. Ilia fia.uhter, Elaine, employs Craig Kennedy, tlie famous scientific detective, to try to unravel the myetery. One of the criminals steals into Kiaines room at night, puts her under the influence of the twilight sleep drus and forces her to write a letter dis miHsiriff Kennedy. This trick falls. Later Kennedy learns of a daring robbery planned by the conspirators. In an effort to trap them Elaine is captured and sealed up in a tank, and is at the point of death when Kennedy accidentally discovers her plight ami saves her. In retalliution the criminals make a desperate attempt to kill Kennedy by erecting an ingenious death-trap in his apartment. They then ndminster a peculiar jiolson to Elaine, accomplishing this by a remurkablo utilization of the wallpaper in her room. The poison plot miscarries. But the criminals are persistent. One of them is seriously wounded by Elaine and she is forced to submit to the transfusion of blood operation to save the scoundrel's life. Help reaches her before this experiment becomes dangerous. Knraged at their constant de feats, the conspirators employ two notorious women of the underworld to lure Kennedy and Elaine to their destruction. Kennedy's scientific knowledge proves too much for the assassins. He employs a vocophone in a queer manner, its uncanny work at a critical moment upsetting a carefully laid plan to abduct Elaine. The criminals in troduce the death ray and puzzle Kennedy, but he soon counteracts its destructive in fluence. Elaine Is trapped and left to die In a ewer chamber, where Kennedy finds her and with the aid of his electrle marvel he revives her, after medical science had failed. A. wrist watch, with a poisoned needle, is the next lnRtrumrnt employed by the crimi nals to destroy Elaine; the quick wit of the detective baffles the plot. CHAPTER XII. rN your right is the residence ot O Miss Elaine Dodge, who Is pur. suing the famous master crim inal known as the Clutching Hand." The barker had been grandiloquent ly pointing out the residences of noted New Yorkers as the big sight-seeing far lumbered along through the streets. The car was filled with people, and he plied his megaphone as though he were on intimate terms with all the city's notables. No one had paid any attention to the unobtrusive Chinaman who sat incon spicuously in the middle of the car. He was Mr. .Wong Long Sin. but no one eaw anything particularly mysterious about an Oriental visitor, more or less, yiewing New York City. Any one, however, who had been watching Long Sin would have seen that he showed much interest whenever any of the wealthy residents of the city were montiond. The name of Elaine Dodge seemed particularly to strike him. He listened with subtle interest to what the barker said and looked keenly at the Dodge house. This remarkable criminal had es tablished himself in a hired apartment downtown. It was furnished in rather elegant American style, but he had added to it some most valuable Oriental curios which gave it a. fascinating ap pearance. Wong Sin, now in rich Oriental costume, was reclining on a divan emoking a strange-looking pipe and playing with two pet white rats. Each white vat had a gold band around his leg, to which was connected a gold chain about a foot in length, and the chains ended in rings which were clipped over Wong's little Angers. Ordinarily he carried the pets up the capacious sleeve of each arm. A little Chinese girl, also in native costume, entered and bowed deferen tially. "A Miss Mary Carson," she lisped in eoft English. It would be difficult to analyze just what the fascination was that Long Sin exercised over Mary Carson. But as the servant left the room Mary bowed almost as deferentially a3 the little Chinese girl. Wong merely nodded in reply. "Now," he began at last, breaking the silence, "I'll show you just what I want you to do." He went over to the wall and took down a curious long Chinese knife from a scabbard which hung there con spicuously. "See that?" he asked, holding it up. Before she could say a word he had plunged the knife, apparently, into his own breast. "Oh!" cried Mary startled. She expected to see him fall. But nothing happened. Wong laughed. It was an Oriental trick knife, in which the blade telescoped into the handle. "Look at it," he added, handing it to her. Long Sin took' a bladder of water from a table near by and concealed it under, his coat. "Now, you stab me," lie directed. Mary hesitated. But he repeated the command, and she plunged the knife gingerly at him: It telescoped. He made her try it over, and she stabbed Ihim more resolutely. The water from the bladder poured out. "Good!" cried Long Sin, much pleased. "Now," he added, seating himself . be side ber, "I want you to lure Elaine here." I had been amusing myself by rig ging up a contrivance by which I could make it possible to see through, or, rather, over, a door. The idea had been suggested to me by the cytoscope m t 1 i which physicians use in order to look down one's throat, and I had calcu lated that by using three mirrors placed at proper angles I could easily reflect rays down to the level of my eye. Kennedy, who had been busy at the other end of the laboratory, happened to look over in my direction. "What's the big idea, Walter?" he asked. "Well, you see, Craig," I explained, "you put the top mirror through the transom of a door and " Kennedy interrupted with a hearty burst -of laughter. "But suppose the door has no transom?" he asked, point ing to our own door. I scratched my head, thoughtfully. I had assumed that the door would have a transom. A moment later Craig went to the cabinet .and drew out a tube about as big around as a putty blower and as long. "Now, here's what I call my detecta scope." he remarked. "None of your mirrors for me." "That," he explained, "is what is known as a fish-eye lens a lens that looks through an angle of some 180 degrees, almost twice that of the widest angle lens I know -of." Elaine was playing with Rusty when Jennings brought in a card on which was engraved the name, "Miss Mary Carson," and underneath in pencil was written, "Belgian Relief Committee." "How interesting," commented Elaine, rising and accompanying Jennings back into the drawing room. "I wonder what she wants.' "Very pleased to meet you, Miss Carson," she greeted her visitor. "You see. Miss Dodge," began Mary, "we're getting up this movement to help the Belgians, and we have1 splen did backing. Just let me show you some of the names on our committee." She handed Elaine a list, which read: Belgian Relief Committee. Mrs. Warburton Fish. Mrs. Hamilton Beekman. Mrs. C. August Iselin. Mrs. Belmont Rivingtoi. Mrs. Rupert Solvay. "I've just been sent to see if I cannot persuade you to join the committee and attend a meeting at Mrs. Riving ton's," she went on. - "Why er," considered Miss Elaine thoughtfully, "er yes. It must be all right with such people in it." "Can you go down with me now?" "Just as well as later," agreed Elaine. Elaine and Mary had gone downtown, talking animatedly walked down the avenue toward Mrs. Rivington's apart ment. Entering the hallway of the apart ment. Mary rang the bell. The servant opened the door and Elaine and Mary entered. He closed the door, and almost before they knew it was gone into the back room. Elaine gazed about in trepidation. But before she could say anything, Mary,- with a great show of surprise, exclaimed: "Why, I must have made a mistake. This isn't Mrs. Rivington's apartment. How stupid of me." Then they went to the windows. Be hind the curtains they were barred and looked out on a blank brick wall in a little court. "Oh!" cried Mary, wringing her hands, stricken in mock panic. "Oh, I'm so frightened. This may be the den of Chinese white slavers!" Just then the Chinaman entered and stood a moment, gazing at them. They turned and Elaine recoiled from him. Wong bowed. "Oh, sir," cried Mars', "we've made a mistake. Won't you tell us how to get out?" "No speke Englis," he said, gliding out again from the room and closing the door. Elaine and Mary looked about in de spair. "What shall we do?" asked Elaine. Mary said nothing, but with a hasty glance discovered on the wall the knife which Wong had already told her about. She took it from its scabbard. As she did so the Chinaman returned with a tray on which were queer drinks and glasses. At the sight of Mary with the knife he scowled blackly, laid the tray down and took a few steps in her direction. She brandished the knife threateningly; then, as if her nerve failed her, faint ed, letting the knife fall carefully on the floor so that it struck on the han dle and not on the blade. Wong quickly caught her as she fainted and carried her out of the room, banging shut the door. Elaine followed in a moment, loyally, to protect her supposed friend, but found that the door had a snap lock on the other side. She looked about wildly, and in a moment Wong reappeared. As he ad vanced slowly and insinuatingly she drew back, pleading. But her words fell on seemingly deaf ears. She had picked up the knife which Mary had dropped, and when at last Wong maneuvered to get her cornered and was about to seize her, she nerved herself up and stabbed at him reso lutely. Wong staggered back and fell. As he did so he pressed the bladder which he had already placed under his coat. - A dark red fluid, like blood, oozed out all over him and ran in a pool on the floor. Elaine, too horror-stricken at what had happened even to scream, dropped the knife and bent over him. He did not move. She rose quickly and ran through the now open door. As she did so Wong seemed suddenly to come to life. He raised himself and looked after her. then with a smile sank back into his former assumed posture on the floor. I .When Elaine reached the other room! TIIE SUNDAY sne found Mary there with the Chinese servant, who was giving her a glass or water. At the sight of her the servant paused, then withdrew into another room further back. Mary, now appar ently recovering from her faintness, smiled wanly at Elaine. "It's all right," she murmured. "He is a Chinese Prince who thought we were callers." At the reassuring nod of Mary to ward the front room, Elaine was over come. "I I killed him!" she managed to gasp. "What?" cried Mary, starting up and trembling violently. "You killed him " "Yes," sobbed Elaine. "He came at me I had the knife I struck at him The two girls ran into the other room. There Mary looked at the motionless body on the floor and recoiled, horri fied. "Ugh!! exclaimed a guttural voice be hind. It was the servant, who had come in. Even his ordinarily impassive Oriental face could not conceal the horror and fear at the sight of his master lying on the floor in a pool of gore. Elaine was now more frightened than ever, if that were possible. They quickly ran out into the hall. "Go quick!" he urged again, "and hide the handkerchief in the bag. Let no one see it!" He shut the door. As they hurried away Elaine breathed a sigh of relief. mm Meanwhile, in the front room Long Sing was on his feet again, brushing himself oft and mopping up the blood. "It worked very well. Sam," he said to the servant. They were conversing eagerly and laughing, and did not hear a noise in the back room. A sinister figure had made its way by means of a lire escape to a rear win dow that was not barred, and silently he had stolen in on them. They turned at a slight noise and saw him. Genuine fright was now on their faces as they looked at him, open, mouthed. "What'3 all this?" he growled. "I am known as the Clutching Hand. 1 allow no interference with my affairs. Tell me what you are doing- here with Elaine Dodge." With a low bow, Wong spread out his hands in surrender and submission. "I will tell you, honorable sir," he said at length. "Go on!" growled the criminal. Quickly Wong rehearsed what had happened from the moment the idea ot blackmail entered his head. Adventuress Mary had hurried back to see that all was right. This time Mary was genuinely scared at the for bidding figure of which she had heard. "It is all right" pacified Wong. "Henceforth we work with the honor, able Clutching Hand." - Kennedy and I were still in the labo ratory when a knock sounded at the door. I went to the door and opened It. There stood Elaine Dodge. It was a complete surprise to Craig. There was silence between them for a moment and they merely looked at each other. Elaino was pale and woe-be-gone. At last Kennedy took a quick step to ward her and led her to a chair. Still he felt a sort of constraint, "What is the matter," he asked at length. She hesitated, out: "Craig I- I have never Craig's face. I then suddenly burst -I am a murdress!" seen such a look on knew he wanted to "You a murdress?" vet laugh and say, he would not have offended even her self-accusation for the world. He man aged to do the right thing, and say nothing. Then she poured forth the story sub stantially as I have set it down, but without the explanation, which at that time was not known to any of us. "Oh," expostulated Craig, "there must be some mistake. It's impossible im possible." "No," she asserted. "Look here's my handkerchief all spotted with blood." She opened the bag and displayed the blood-spotted handkerchief. He took it and examined it carefully. "Elaine," he said earnestly, not at all displeased, I could see. that something had come up that might blot out the past unfortunate misunderstanding, "there simply must be something wrong here. Leave this handkerchief with me I'll do my best." There was still a little restraint be tween them. She was almost ready to beg his pardon for all the coolness there had been between them, yet still hesi tated. "Thank you," she said simply as she left the laboratory. ' Craig went to work abruptly without a word. On the laboratory table he placed his splendid microscope and several cases of slides, as well as innumerable micro photographs. He had been working for some time when he looked up. "Ever hear of. Dr. Edward Reichert, ot the University of Pennsylvania, and his wonderful discoveries of how blood crystals vary in different species?" he asked. I had not, but did not admit it. "Well, he went on. "there is a blood test so delicate that one might almost say that he could identify a criminal by the finger prints, so to speak, of his blood crystals. The hemoglobin, or red coloring matter, forms crystals, and the variations of these crystals, both in form and molecular construction, are such that they aet apart each species of animal from every other, and even the races of men perhaps may even set apart individuals. Here, Walter, we OEEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUSfT A detective novel have tals." I looked through the microscope as he directed. There I could see the crystals sharply defined. "And here," he added, "are the crys tals of the blood on Elaine's handker chief." I looked again as he changed the slides. There was a marked difference, and I looked up at him quickly. "It is dog's blood not human blood." he said simply. I looked again at the two sets of slides. There could be no doubt that there was a plain difference. "Wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Yes, wonderful," he agreed, "but what is the game back of all this that's the main question now." Long after Clutching Hand had left. Wong was giving instructions to his servant and Adventuress Mary just how he had had to change his plans as a result of the unexpected visit. "Very well," nodded Mary, as she left him, "I will do as you say trust me." It was not much later, then, that Elaine received a second visit from Mary. "Show her in, Jennings," she said 'to the butler, nervously. Indeed, she felt sorry that every eye must be upon her. Even Jennings would know of her guilt soon. Anxiously, therefore, Elaine looked at her visitor. "Do you know why the servant al lowed us to leave the apartment?" whispered Mary with ' a glance about fearfully, as if the walls had ears. "No why?" inquired Elaine anx iously. . "He's a tong man who has been cho sen to do away with the Prince. He followed me. and says you have done his work for him. If you will give him $10,000 for expenses he will attend to hiding the body." t Here, at least, was a way out. "But do you think that is all right? Can he do it?" asked Elaine eagerly. "Do it! Why, those tong men can do anything for money. Only one must be careful not to offend them." Mary was very convincing. - "Yes, I suppose you are right," agreed Elaine, -finally. "I had better do as you say. It is the safest way out of the trouble. Yes, I'll do it. I'll stop at the bank now and get the money." They rose and Mary preceded her. eager to get away from the house. At the door, however, Elaine asked her to wait while she ran back on some pretext-In the library she took off the re ceiver of the telephone and quickly called a number. Our telephone rang in the middle of our conversation on blood crystals, and Kennedy himself answered it. It was Elaine asking Craig's advice. "They have offered to hush the thing up for $10,000." she said in a muffled voice. She seemed bent on doing it, and no amount of argument from him could stop her. She simply refused to accept the evidence of the blood crystals as better than what her own eyes told her she had seen and done. "Then wait for half an hour," he an swered, without arguing further. "You can do that without exciting suspicion. Then go with her to her hotel and hand her over the money." "All right I'll do it." she agreed. "What is the hotel T' Craig wrote on a slip of paper what she told him "Room 509. Hotel La Coste." "Come on hurry" he urged. We must have made record time in getting to the Coste. It was an ornate place, where merely to breathe was ex pensive. We entered, and by some ex cuse Kennedy contrived to get past the vigilant bell-hops. We passed the tele phone switchboard and entered the ele vator," getting off at the fifth floor. With a hasty glance up and down the corridor to make sure no one was about Kennedy came to room 509. then passed to the next. 511. opening the door with a skeleton key. We entered and Craig locked the door behind us. It was an ordinary hotel room, but well f ir nished. Fortunately it was unoccupied. Quietly Craig went to the door which led to the next room. It was, of course, locked also. He listened a moment carefully. Not a sound. Quickly, with an exclamation of satisfaction, he opened that door also and went into 509. "Watch here, Walter," he directed. "Let me know at the slightest alarm." Crair had already taken the brace fand bit from the bag and started to bore through the wall in room 511. se lecting a spot behind a picture of a Spanish dancer a spot directly back of her snapping black eyes. He finished quickly and inserted the detectascope so that the lens fitted as an eye in the picture. The eyepiece was in room 511. Then he started to brush up the pieces of plaster on the floor. "Craig." I whispered hastily, as I heard an elevator door, "some one's coming!" He hurried to the door and looked. "There they are." he said, as he saw Elaine and Mary rounding the corner of the hall. Across the hall, although we did not know it at the time, in room 540, al ready Wong Sin had taken up his sta tion, just to be handy. There he had been with his servant, playing with his two trained rats. Wong placed them up his capacious sleeves and carefully opened the door to look out. Unfortunately he was just in time to see the door of 509 open and disclose us. Kennedy mounted a chair and applied his eye to the detectascope. Just then APH7L 18, 1915. Mary and Elaine entered the next room, Mary opening the door with a regular key. "Won't you step in?" she asked. Elaine did so and Mary hesitated in the hall. Wong had slipped out on noiseless feet and taken refuge behind some curtains. As he saw her alone he beckoned to Alary. "There's a stranger in the next room," he whispered. "I don't like him. Take the money and as quickly as pos sible get out and go to my apartment." At the news that there was a suspi cious stranger about Mary showed great alarm. Everything was so rapid now that the slightest hesitation meant disaster. Perhaps by quickness even a suspicious stranger could be fooled, she reasoned. At any rate. Wong Sin was resourceful. She had better trust him. Mary followed Elaine into the room, where she nad seated herself already, and locked the door. "Have you the money there?" she "Yes," nodded Elaine, taking out the package of bills which she had got from the bank during the half-hour delay. All this we could see by gazing al ternately through the detectascope. Elaine handed Mary the money. Mary counted it slowly. At last she looked up. "It's all right." she said. "Now. I'll take this to that tong leader. He's in a. room just across the hall." She went out. Kennedy, at the detectascope. was very excited as this went on. He now jumped on the chair on which he had been standing and rushed to the door to head her on. To our surprise, in spite of the fact that we could turn the key In the lock, it was impossible to open it! It was only a moment that Craig paused at the door. The next moment he burst into 509, followed closely by me. With a scream. Elaine was on her feet in an instant. There was no time for explanations, however. He rushed to the door to go out, but it was locked somehow on the outside. The skeleton key would not work, at any rate. ' He shot the lock and dashed out, call ing back, "Walter, stay there with Elaine." Mary had just succeeded in getting on the elevator as Kennedy hurried down the hall. The door was closed and the car descended. He rang the push button furiously, but there was no answer. Had he got so far in the chase only1 to be outwitted? He dashed back to the room with us and jerked down the telephone re ceiver. "Hello hello hello!" he called. No answer. There seemed to be no way to get a connection. What was the matter? He hurried down ' the- hall again. No sooner had Elaine and Mary ac tually gone into the room than Wong and his servant stole out of 540, across the hall. Somewhere they had ob tained a strong but thin rope. Quickly and silently Wong tied the handle of the door of 511. in which we were, to the handle of 540. which he was vacating. As both doors opened inward and were opposite, they were virtually locked. Then Wong and his servant hurried down the hallway to the elevator. Down in the hotel lobby, with his follower, the Chinaman paused before the telephone switchboard. He was listening eagerly and also watching an indicator that told the numbers of the rooms which called as they flashed into view. Just as a call from 509 flashed up Wong slipped the rings off his little lingers and loosened the white rats on the telephone switchboard itself. With a shriek the telephone system of the Coste went temporarily out of business. The operators fled to the nearest chairs, drawing their skirts about them. There was the greatest excitement among all the women in the corridor; Such a display of hosiery was never contemplated by even the most daring costumer. Kennedy had succeeded in finding the alcove of the floor clerk in charge of the fifth floor. There on his desk was an instrument having a stylus on the end of two arms, connected to a sys tem of magnates. It was a telauto graph. Unceremoniously Craig pushed the clerk out of his seat and sat down him self. It was a last -chance, now that the telephone was out of commission. Downstairs In the hotel office, where the excitement hid not spread to every one, was the other end of the electric long-ciistance writer. It started to write, as Kennedy wrote, upstairs: "House detective quick hold wom an with blue chatelaine bag getting out of elevator." The clerks downstairs saw it and shouted above the din of the rat-baiting: "McCann McCann!" The clerk had torn off the message from the telautograph register and handed it to the house man, who pushed his way to the desk. In the meantime Wong Sin had re covered his precious and useful pets. Life in the Coste had assumed some thing of its normal aspect and Craig had succeeded in getting an elevator. It was just as Mary was led in, threatening and pleading in turns, that he stepped off in the lobby. . There was, however, still just enough and a motion excitement to cover a little pantomime. Wong Bin had been about to slip out of a side door, thinking all was well, when he caught sight of Mary being led back. She had also seen him and bt-tran to struggle again. Quickly he shook his head, indicating for her to stop. Then slowly he se cretly made the sign of the Clutching Hand at her. It meant that she must not snitch. She obeyed instantly and he quietly disappeared. "Here." cried Kennedy, "take her up in the elevator. I'll prove the case." With the house detective and Ken nedy. Mary was hustled Into the eleva tor and whisked back as she bad es caped. In the meantime I had gathered up what stuff we had in the room we had entered. "Wh-what's it all about?" inquired Elaine excitedly. Just then, out in the hall, we could hear loud voices, and that of Mary above the rest. Kennedy, a man who looked like a detective and some bell boys were leading her toward us. "Now not a word of who stie is in BLAME FOR DELINQUENTS IS PLACED ON PARENTS Peter Mcintosh, Juvenile Court Probation Officer, Declares That Majority of Offenders Are for Pranks Many Good Citizens of Today Have Done. By PETFR MINTOSH, Chief Probation Officer of Juvenile Court. T no doubt will be surprising to know that at least TO per cent of all cases reported to the Juvenile Court are settled out of court as informal cases and no record made against the child to be brought out at some future occasion. Why is this done? Children reported as delinquents in most cas!s are only unfortunates. Supposing, for instance, they weri1 never found , out. as the majority of cases are not, I believe they would make as good citizens as the average, providing, of course, they are being brought up under the proper parental care. Nearly every man can look back on his boyhood days and remem ber many things that would have in volved him in serious trouble, but back in those days there was no Juvenile Court, motion picture theater, automo bile, paved street, or. In fact, hundreds of other things which seem to me now cause a boy a great deal of trouble. The telephone is the handiest noti fying instrument to call the police whenever a bunch of boys congregate on the streets and become too noisy or start a game of baseball either in the street or on some empty lot and knock the ball over some fence and, in their excitement to return it quick ly, probably to prevent a home run, run over someone's lawn or garden. Or when they accidentally break a win dow, after a few minutes have elapsed, who appears but an officer making a report of the matter, names and ad dresses, and then the matter - is re ferred to the Juvenile Court. Officer Often Peace MMsenver, For these reasons and many others we try t ) settle as many cases as pos sible out of court. The probation of fleer calls on those who have been com- plained against and makes a careful investigation, then, drawing all parties concerned together, a settlement is made, damages paid for. neighborhood quarrels settled, stolen articles re turned or paid for and boys watched carefully until they give up the use of tobacco or some such habit. ' Five years' experience has taught me that the boys that make good are the ones whose troubles have been settled outside the influences of the court. The boy or girl given this chance usually appreciates it and es pecially so when you tell them no of ficial record will be held against them. The neighbors or their children will not even know their names were men tioned and should an) one Infer that they were before the court on an In formal charge, we will personally no tify such parties that we consider only cases that are brought before the court as ones where names and rec ords ara held against children, and then only as long as the court sees tit to keep such a record as Judge Ga lena, Juvenile Judge, had a law passed two years ago which gave him the power to destroy all court records against minors, when, in his opinion, these minors ceased to be delinquent, and up to the present time he has de stroyed hundreds of records, which no longer will stand as a blot on their characters. I can point out the origin of nearly every gang organized by boys in this city in the past five years. And the whole thing in a nutsnell is. if they were given a chance outside of the court on their . first, second or even third offense, conditions might have been different. Kane Kept Fron Public. When we find it absolutely neces sary to bring a boy before the court. we do all in our power to keep the boy's or girl's name from becoming public, so that the neighbors in the immediate vicinity will not become fa miliar with the trouble or even know the child has been taken before the court. We publish no names of chil dren who have erred. When children find out that theii names have been heralded throughout the neighborhood that they are wards picture drama the papers, McCann," Kenndy was say ing, evidently about Elaine. "You know it wouldn't sound well for La Coste. As for that woman well. I've got the money back. You can take hiT off make the charge." As the house man left with Mary I handed Craig his bag. We moved to ward the door and as we stood there a moment with Elaine he quietly handed over U her the big roll of money. She took It, with surprise Ft ill writ ten In her bis blue t-yec. "O thank you I might have known It was only a blackmail scheme." she cried eagerly. Craig held out his bund and Hlie took it quickly, gazing into Ills eye. Craig bowed politely, not quite know ing w hat to do under the circumstances. If he had been less of a scientist lie might huve understood the look on her face, but. with a nod to me, lie turned and went. As she looked first nt. him, then it the paltry ten thousand In her hand, Elaine stamped her little foot In vexa tion. "I'm Clad 1 didn't say unytliing more," she critd. "No no he shall beg my pardon first there !" (To Be Continued.) of the Juvenile Court, they soon find that they are not allowed to associate with the neighbors' children and nat urally they make the acquaintance of boys who have court records. ThU is where the police and Juvenile Court officials find where the gangs become organized. If anything goes amips in the neigh borhood tlie blame is given to the boy r boys who Is a ward of the Juvenile Court. If every police officer in the City of Portland would study Juvenilo Court methods and make it his busi ness to settle as many cases as poKt ble out of court, reporting the matter to the parents, and to show he is per sonally Interested in each und every child in his district, it would do more to stop juvenile delinquency than any thing 1 know of. MajurHy Indinereat o Children. But as It is now, three different of ficers change places each day In each district, and the majority of them do not interest themselves in the welfare of children and take only an uclive part in their troubles, then usually take steps to make them more troublo by writing reports to their captains, giving names and addresses along with the complaint. Often one will seo these matters published, for the reason that the newspaper reporters have free access to these reports. Naturally everyone in the neighborhood is then Informed. But where the boys are habitually on the streets after curfew hours the po lice officer should file complaint against the parent for allowing hi.i boy this privilege. There is a clty ordinance which Is aimed directly nt the parent, after he has been warned once for its inlraction. Personally I believe the parent Is responsible for the existing condition of many of this county's delinquent children. As it is impossible to pun ish the parent for the acts committed by their children, the only solution I know of Is to educate the child, with the assistance of the public and trade schools and special influence brought to bear by social workers, whenever a child becomes delinquent, and, when dependent, to work directly In the home, to Improve Its condition, with the object in view to teach the chil dren so that when they be'oine parents they will have every advanta;o to make them fit properly to bring uj their children. SONS LEFT HALF MILLION S. Weir Mitchell, Author und lMiy-l-clan, Had Stocks and Komi. PHILADELPHIA, April 7. The es tate of Dr, S. Weir Mitchell. noted physician and writer, who died January 4, 1914. has been appraised at 44,bti2.U3 by the executing John K. and Langdon E. Mitchell, sons of the de cedent. The first accounting of the r-K-tate has been filed with the KejriKter of Wills for adjudication by the Orphans' Court. The executors set fortli in the ac count that $5312.25 has been expended In settling the estate and that the bal ance of $478,749.78 is in their posac-n-clon for distribution among the heirs. The bulk of the estate was devised by the will to the two sons who are ex ecutors. Included among the investments of Doctor Mitchell are the following se curities: 03 shra. Penna. Co. for Inaurances on I i . -. anH r n V annlilllb. C ' T. U, ill 374 ahra. United (las Improvement Co. :im,!'4? V i thra. Hankera l runt Co 4l.3i. ahra. Keal Katate Truat Co. (com mon) m.n.-. loo ahrs. Phlla. Rubber Works m.r 210 ahra. penna. K. K. Co J l,f--0 BONDS. Citizens' Street Railway. Indlnnapnlls 24,8"J3 Iteadluir Co.. Phlla., and liuudiug Coal Iron Co irt.!12 T-ehlsli Valley It. K. Co 'Jil.-.vi Phlla.. Hallo. A Wellington R. It. Co, l.:ir. Bvracuae ltupid Trunult Ky. t'o j JO.M1HI POiilaUelphia, itapld Transit Ce , li.feS'J