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Thursday, March 4, 191 S ASHLAND TIDINGS PACE .SEVEft A Great Mystic Story by Harold McGrath Copyright, 1914, by Harold McGratb. SYNOPSIS. Zudora Is left an orphan at an early age. Her father is killed In a gold mine. Zudora and the fortune from the mine, which growi to be worth 120,000,000, are left in the guardianship of Frank Keeno, Zudora'B mother's brother, who has set himself up as a Hindu mystic and is known as llassam All. He decides that Zudora must die before Bhe can have a chance to come Into possession of her money, so that it may be left to him, the next of kin. llassam All sees an obstacle to his scheme in the person of John Storm, a- young lawyer, for whom Zu dora has taken a fancy, and he com mands the girl to put the man out of her mind. Zudora insists that if she cannot marry Storm she will marry no one. "Well, well," says Hnnsam All. "solve j my next twenty cases and you can marry him; fail in a single case and you must renounce him." Zudora unravels a mystery and wins her first case a case In which John Storm is saved from being convicted of a murder Instigated by llassam All himself. Zudora and Hassarn All visit Nabok Shan's house, where sleep overcomes ev ery one whenever Nabok attempts to mar ry a princess. Storm, seeking Zudora. is made a prisoner. Zudora foils Nabok Shan, restores the princess to her original lover and saves Storm from death. A maker of diamonds tells llassam All his secret Storm informs Zudora that bis life Is being attempted frequently. Storm suspects llassam All. Storm is arrested for stealing the diamond maker's gems, but - Zudora discovers the real thieves a pair of mice. The nogro help employed on Storm's father's farm ura fleeing because a great skeleton hand appears at night upon a hill near by. Storm is battled In his in vestigation, but Zudora learns that her uncle has employed Jimmy Bolton, a half wltted man, thus to annoy Storm's par ents. Zudora finds Bolton operating a big magic lantern and is attacked by him. Storm appears and saves her. . llassam All asks Zudora to find a gem lost by two mysterious old men. Zudora gets a photograph of the gem and it burns In her hand. An old house is mined by Hassam All and the old men. Storm and Zudora are lured there and narrowly es cape destruction when the house blows up. John McWlnter, endeavoring to trap and kill George Smith, is killed himself, and Smith is charged with murder. Hassam All conspires to have John Storm meet the same fate as McWlnter, and he and Storm are overcome by powerful fumes. Zudora saves them, proves that McWln ter's own dog trapped and killed him and saves Smith from a band of lynchers. An inventor blows up a submarine with a powerful heat ray which - he sendr through water, llassam All rends Zudora to a photographer directly beneath the in ventor's laboratory and orders the In ventor to kill her. Zudora gets a warning, and her life is saved. The heat ray ma chine is destroyed, and the photographer, after a quarrel with Hassam All, is tound dead In tho river. Wu Chang prevents Zudora's elopement with John btorm by hypnotizing her, and he and Hassam All attempt to smuggle her out of the country. This plot Is frus trated by Storm. liaird, llassam All's double, falls In love with Zudora. fiaird and Mine. Du Val kidnap Zudora and the Van Wick child. Storm rescues them, and llassam All dies. With Hassam All dead Zudora Is releas ed of her pledge to solve twenty cases. She confronts, however, the greatest mys tery ot all, which Is the mystery of her own life, and the ambition to secure the vast fortune of CU.OUO.OGO left to her. This great photo serial is being shown In the leading moving picture theaters by the TliHiihouser Kllm Corporation. Among those participating are Marguerite Snow. Mary Elizabeth Forbes, James Cruze, In the new role of reporter-hero, Sidney Bracey and Frank Farrington. On looking through her uncle's papers Eudora tlnds that her father left her an Interest in a diamond mine, and Storm and Balrd both lend assistance in trying to regain for her possession of this es tate which is being appropriated by rogues under the leadership of Mme. Du Val. They plan to frighten Zudora so that sho wifl run away. Falling, they kidnap Zudora and Howard, the mine superintendent, and put them In a private Insane asylum. Howard dies, but Zu dora, nearly famished. Is rescued by Storm and his friends. tbe gold. They've got all the docu ments in the case. All right For awhile we'll chuck the dininopd end of It and see what cau be done with the gold. Zudora cau turn over ber Interests to Storm, and he can start the bombardment. Suppose I telephone I him' to meet us up there at her home at once? We enn't lose anything by going to It at the drop of tbe hat." Balrd called at once on Storm and explained bis Idea. "So you think these crooks are try ing to put that deal over us also? The information came to Zudora unsolicit ed. Some clerk sent the Information." "A frameup, no doubt Mr. "Storm. we've all got to move mighty smooth ly to beat the crowd we're up against. Up to date we have no legal hold. If we go to court with half rights It Is quite likely the litigation will run on for years. I don't think you could en join an African diamond mine from producing. We might lie able to hold up the gold mine for a time, but these people have money, barrels of It, and they'll use It to fight. Now, we want to get the upper hand In this game without having to go to tbe courts Suppose you write a letter to the Zu dora mine to see where we stand. Ask for information about Tralnor. Zudora's father; ask if there are any papers relating to the will, and so forth and so on. Feel them out If they are crooks out there It's better to know it as soon as possible. Here's Miss Tralnor now," wound up Balrd as Zudora entered. She approved of- the letter, but It was always money, money, money. She was beginning to hate the sound of It Why not let the scoundrels have It? "That Isn't thddefl, my girl," said Storm. "It Isn't the money so much; er Iloward, good night to Zudora and company. Brown will make an effort to get to Vllllera' safe, where doubt less some good documents are In ex istence .relative, to the mine. Once we can destioy these Europe, Monte Car lo or the inner palace at Teklng if you say so." ' , "It's not the money with me. Rad- cllffe; It's the sport of tbe game. I like to beat tbe law, to confuse It, to make it Impotent It twisted me once. CHAPTER XIV. The Missing Millions. TT took u fortnight for Zudora to be come herself again. The treat- I ment she hud received in the saul tariuni would have driven insane any woman with less mental balance and physical stamina. She hud been ill fed, ill clothed, roughly handled. threatened. She bad shut ber teeth together and endured. Tbe death of tbe mine superintend ent did not clear nway any clouds. The diamond mine was as far away from Zudora us ever. Storm and Hunt agreed that some one hud got Into Has sum All's papers, and these papers made tbe ownership of tbe diamond mines unassailable. Hunt questioned Balrd In private, but tlie latter swore on bis oath that he hod never been utile to put his hand ii HusHam All's money or on hlsprl vnte papers. The Hindu servant had known where those things were, and there was no doubt In Balrd's mind that the brown man had taken both gold and pnpers. the latter being turn ed over to those who now possessed them. "There's one thing I'm curious about." said Balrd. "And what's that?" "That gold mine. Zudora had quite n few thousands at the start. I know she received Ihpm. I know she was legally entitled to them. Oold mines do not vanish olf the earth In the fashion this ono Is said to have vnnlshed. Ilns it occurred to you that tho report might hove been faked by those roost interested In cheating Zudora?" "We ran soon find, out Your idea Is a good one. and. more than that. It's my opinion that those who nro milk ing the diamond mine are digging Into -A A V'' , i V 1 ' - I ' 1 W ' jf -!"' -- '-' a -t s , --, - f v. I - 1 - f - . ry,. j "So you think these crooks are trying to put that deal over us also?" It's the principle. I know you've Just gone through u terrible ordeal, and it has put fear Into you, but we can't let these people go scot free. l)o you thiuk I'll ever let up hunting them when I think what tbey did to you? No, (banks! This bunch of rogues Is golug to pay the piper for their fox trot." They all laughed, and thcu Storm made out his letter to Marcus Villlcrs. chairman of the board of trustees. And Mine. Du Val made up her mind to have a little masquerade for tbe benefit of this same Marcus Vllllers. Tho chairman was coming east to see the real Zudora, supposing, of course, that the fortuuc was still under her control. Thcro had been an unusually Que vein struck, and he was going east to suggest that she Bell outright her holdings. Balrd's idea that there might be an unfaithful clerk at the mines was a keen one. The superintendent of the mine was of a dllTerent caliber from the man who had token charge of the diamond mine. Brown of the Zudora gold mine was not above doubling bis Income, and be was not particular bow that doubling wus brought about. Tbe moment the new find wus made he promptly wired Cuptulu Hadellffe that Vllllers was arranging to come cast and that Detective Hunt whom Kud cllffe had warned him nbout, would be lured west and put out of business. When Storm's letter arrived Brown was first to read it It is needless to say that it did not reach Vllllers. Upon receipt of the wire from Brown Captain Kadcllffe at once sought Mme. t)u Val. "This Brown can be trusted?" "So long as we pay him well. My dear woman, with a little close sailing we'll have riches beyond our wildest dreams. Millions, and not a soul to step between! Howard Is out of the way, and that diamond mine Is prac- tlcally ours, to do with as we please. With this man Vllllers sent along aft- I t f it-. ,c ': . Bill 'U j.; '"fjxf ' X 7 i V , u . 1 k, h Mf t - - ' , ! r- ' -A - ' ) ! I I This bunch of rogues is going to pay the pipor for their fox trot." But for an old man's folly they would have me still. I was pretty. Du Val bad influence, and here I am, mis tress of bis fortune. It's tbe game with me." "And it's tbe cold lucre, if you want my side of it. I like good things to wear, to eat. I like to spend money for the mere sake of spending it I'd like to sit in a game of poker without feeling the necessity of el.'pping an ace from my sleeve." Kadcllffe laughed. "And because I fumbled an ace once upon a time oh, well, tbe past Is the past, and a hand once played can't be played again. I suppose we'll have to put Vllllers out of the woy. Storm has written blm, but Brown Intercepted the letter. On my side, as Storm. I've requested him to bring east all his documents. And there's the real game to get our hands'upon those. But I would like to know where our pretty Zudora hid those diamonds. The loot was worth at least fifty thousand." "Who Is this man Balrd?" "Why, I thought you knew all about blm." "I thought I did. Either he has turned over lor keeps or he is playing a deeper game than we are." Madame mused for u moment "I never could tell when It was Balrd or the real Hassam. He was the cleverest make up man I ever saw." "And you were just a little bit smit ten with him. eh?" "Well, maybe I was. But I've gol over It." "There's ono thin? we may be sure be didn't get Into Hassam All's trunks. That Hindu wa n godsend to us. I suppose- by this time he Is hack In In dia, with trained elephants to fight for him and slave girls to wait upon blm. He got Hassam's hoarded gold, nil right The old boy was tbe shrewdest "What Is Itr "Munn committed suicide In the Tombs this morning, and the Iloward case goes off the calendar with him. Sooner or later he'd have blown the game, and we'd have had to bike." "Munn dead! What a weight off my shoulders: I've been waltlnir for the poJice. every day since he went to the Tombs. He overdid the Howard busi ness. Of course he had only verbal evidence against us. But If he had broken down under the third degree It would have put us into hot woter. More, it would have started the hawks looking me up. And then by-by. We must play a Oner hand. No rough stuff from our side except In the case of Hunt We'll ship Vllllers to a spot he can't get tack from. If we give him no chance to see the real Zudora It will be plain sailing. Once we have his papers in our possession we can laugh at him." "You're a wonder. Are you ever go ing to marry me?" "Marry you? Not the best man that ever lived! We'd tire of each other In a week. You know It. and I know it. Let us keep to the platonlc scheme if you please, captain." Now, when Detective Hunt received the wire which was to lure him west he had an Idea that It was a lure, but If he pretended to play Into the hands of the enemy he would be likely at least to locate tho exact spot the mine lay In. lie had found the diamond mine under circumstances far more difficult With the exact locations of the two properties, he would have gained half tho light. He was all ready to leave his olllee when Balrd came In. "Where now?" - nunt showed him the wire. "Do yon put ony faith in it?" nunt shrugged. "I wont to find where that mliie Is. I don't core a hong whether this wire is a plant or not' "Would yon like company?" suggest ed Balrd. "I should say yes! Will you go?" "What kind of a yarn will I tell the office?" "Tell them you've got the mate to the South African story. Add, your expenses will be taken care of by the Tralnor estate." Balrd sat down to the telephone. Two minutes later he Jumped up with a whoop. "All O. K.! I'll meet you at the Grand Central In one hour. I'm aching for a shindy." "You'll get it. I'm thinking. If you come with me," said Hunt grimly. Marcus Vllliers was the son of John I "and" see how near you can come to dumping us over the cliff without los ing thecar." The chauffeur bent suddenly to his magneto to hitl tbe surprise on bis face. Oue of these men was Hunt all right but this other chap might force them to rearrange plans. How ever, he was under orders to take4 Hunt post a' certain break in the moun tain road, and so he forged ahead at a good clip. "What do you think?" whlspefed Balrd. "In 'a game like this you've got to wait for the other man to move," re turned nunt, with his eye on the chauffeur's neck. The chauffeur turned. "See that ledge around the bend there? That's the mine." In their interest nunt and Balrd for got the chauffeur, ns he trusted they s A H ml 7k 1 "TV t -,i r mv-i A. X "This Brown can bo trusted?" miser in tho business. By tho way, would you mind letting mo have a couple of hundreds?" "Cards?" "Surely! I've got to hove, a little recreation for the risks I'm taking and about to take. But I'm going to give you sorao flue news fo.r the money. It Is worth ten tbousnnd instead of two hundred." V v". f it . 7 - V I -r . . ;w it" t-r sr i i rvflr,t e -5 V 4 1 Radcliffe and Brown Dashed Around the Break In the Road. Vllliers, the banker to whom Tralnor had intrusted his iXne originally. He was a lively individual, a shrewd busi ness man, but something of n fop. He possessed the only valet In that part of tli" country, end be kept that valet, no! because he needed help, but be came It took courage to do so In face of tlit old timers who held all nicu servants in contempt Brown, the superintendent, after having read Storm's letter, doctored It so us to lure Vllllers east, then re nin lied It. And Vllllers was glad to get a good excuse to go east and show the effete metropolitans that ho knew how to handle valets with the best of them The day previous to Hunt am) Buli'd's departure It wasagrccd that Caplalu Itadcllffc himself should go west to see that Hunt was properly taken care of. He was three days lat er met at the little mining town sta tion by two trusted men of Brown's. The trio weut directly to the mine, and In i lie office, together with Brown, they uniipi'd out the campaigu against De tective Hunt who wus duo to arrive on I lie morrow. When Hunt and Balrd arrived It was mi I nial that they should select the one nutoniobllo In sight. The chauffeur, who was the snnio man who had driv en ICndcllffe to tho mine office tho day before, asked the new arrivals where they wanted to go. "To the Zudora mine." said Hunt studying the nuui closely. But tho chauffeur knew that he would have to stand slinrp scrutiny. So his bland countenance partly re assured the detective. . "To the Zudora mine It Is, sir. It's a bit rough going and about half an hour's ride." "Hit ber up," said Bulid jovially, Brown Arrived, but at the Point of Baird's Gun. would. Instantly be stopped the car und whirled In his seat When Hunt and Baird looked at him agaiu they found themselves also looking Into the barrels of two ugly, serviceable auto matics. At the same time Kadcllffe and Brown, both made up for the oc casion, dashed around the break In the roiid. Quick as light Huut's cane flashed through the air, striking the chauffeur on the wrist and sending one of the guns whirling down the ravine. Be fore the chauffeur recovered Hunt was upon him for the possession of the re maining weapon. But things did not go very well with Balrd. Badcllffc und Brown got blin foul, and lie had his hands full. Hunt fought furiously and nucVoided In getting the chauffeur at a disad vantage. He snapped the gun from his grasp and cracked liiin over the head with the butt. and. like the min er In Bret Ilarte's poem, "the subse quent proceedings Interested dim no more!" The detective threw on tho power and sent the car whizzing ahead with out realizing what li.nl dappeued t Balrd. They had succeeded in pulling dim out of the car and knocking him senseless. The moment the cor start ed Kadcllffe Jumped and caught hold of the side, managing with no small difficulty to crawl Into the tonneaii. And then Hunt's brave dash come to un abrupt end. Balrd saved half 1 lie day by keeping still until be dad recovered his breath. Then be readied for Brown's leg and threw him neatly. And that .was the end of Brown's part for the present Meantime Kadcllffe got Hunt to a deserted wayside Inn. The detective was not in an amiable frame of mind. Here he was nicely caught and Balrd no one knew where, lint all tills while the reporter was forcing Brown ahead of dim along the tire tracks. Within a quarter of an hour he came within sight of the Inn. Kadcllffe and the chauffeur were taking things easy. Tu"ey evidently don't care to see n 9Ut here." said Hunt dryly as ho work-' ed his hands out of the handcuffs which Kudcllffe had snapped on his wrists. "No; our room Is better than onr company, and jut now the more room the better. I'm not dead sure, but I've seen one of those chaps back in New York." "I've the same idea. Suppose we look around for n bite to eat und for some habitation where they wou't take pot shots ut us. Balrd, this Is going to be Interesting." "Uhuh." When Vllllers arrived In New York he went straight to n hotel Instead of notifying Storm of his arrival. He had received on the traiu a wire from Zu dora Tralnor suying where to come for dinner that night. She was giving an Informal dinner, and it would not bo complete without the son of ber fa ther's old friend. Vllliers stuffed his copied documents lnti his pocket and sallied forth. Mme. Du Val as Zudora proved en trancing to the westerner; but when, eventually, he missed his documents, he smiled a little. It seems Hint Mine. Du Val bad play ed two ends-of the game. At the mo ment she received Vllliers, Zudora was the recipient of a message purporting to come from Vllliers in which he de clared that he hud the documents sho required, but that he was a prisoner at 121 Kiggs street. A street urchin had brought the message. So Zudora and Storm set out for 121 Rlggs street, and they were followed by two old friends. Hunt and Balrd, who bad returned upon the heels of Vllllers. No. 121 Kiggs street appeared rather familiar to Zudora's eyes. Storm remarked that he hud seen this placo before. The door was locked. As they turned a coiner to seek a window two men sprung out upon them. And but for the timely urrivul of Hunt and Balrd, Mme. Du Val would have won at least one trick. It was a cusu ot Blulemate all n round. iTO 1IE CONTINUED. "What a Partner He Was!" A mnn died the other day, and about the slucerest mourner wus bis part ner, who sold: "He was a great fellow, no was my partner. He stood by me In all my business deals. He helped me get tho money. He shared the risks. He was a great man to talk things over und help with a word or two of timely nd vice. He wos partner and 1 was busi ness manager, and so he never dic tated to me, but It was a great help Just to have him around und get tiN opinions on things. Sometimes we made money, and then he was glad ns well as I, and sometimes we lost in n deal, and then what a partner be was! He never put on a sour face or sug gested that I ought to have done dif ferently. He took his share of the loss and his share of the blame as well, even though the fault was nil mine. We made money, be and I lo get her. A man could net help it with sued a partner as lie." There how would you like to have I hat salil aboiil you when you ui'c dead? It sounds heller than any ser mon, does It not? Breeder's (iazette. few , 'V : 1 W AiftS m-tiMkc .-i Mme. Du Val as Zudora Proved En trancing to the Westerner. doubtless waiting for the arrival of Brown. Ho arrived, but at tho point of Balrd's gun. There was another set-to. In .which Hunt and Balrd succeeded in getting free and In the open. Nzpoleon and Vanity. Before Napoleon's coronation tho marshals lie hud newly created a few months before came to pay dim a visit, all gorgeously arrayed. The splendor of their costume in contrast with his simple uniform made dim smile. I was standing at a liltle dlslauee from him, and as he saw thai I smiled also he said to me in a low tone: "It Is not every one who has tho right to be plainly dressed." I'rcschlly Hie marshals of the army began disputing among theinselws . about the great question of precedence. Their preleiislons were very well founded, and each enumerated his vic tories. Bonaparte, while listening to them, again glanced at me. "I tdink," said I, "you must huvo stamped your foot on France ami said, 'Let all the vanities arise from the soil.' " "That Is true." be replied, "but it In fortunate that Hie French are to bo ruled through their vanity." "Memoirs of Mine, de Kcmusat" Watches Aboard Ship. What Is a watch on a vessel? now long does n watch last? How many are there In a day? These are ques tions often asked by those not familiar with procedure aboard a vessel. A. watch Is that part of n ship's company which works her for an allotted time. Tbe crew Is generally divided Into star board and port watches, though on large vessels there Is also a third, or Bremen's watch. Watches are "set" ut 8 o'clock each evening, tho "tlrst watch" lusting from 8 o'clock until midnight, the "middle watch" from midnight until 4 a. nt.. the "morning: watch" from 4 till 8, the "forenoon watch" from 8 till 12, the "afternoon watch" from 12 to 4, tho "tirst dog watch" from 4 till 0, and the "second dog" from 0 till H. Tho "dogwatches" uro necessary for shifting the two watches In order to give each eight hours below ut night The Welland Canal. The Welland canal, the history of which dates back to tho early years of the nineteenth century, is one of the oldest and most linportnnt of the arti ficial waterways of Cunada. it da been of great service ns a channel oC communication between Lakes Kilo and Ontario and In the regulation of railway freight rotes. It Is west of the Niagara river. In Ontario, und fol lows a lino from the village of Tort Colborne, on Lake Frio, to i'urt Dal housle. on Lake Ontario, a tl 1st mice at twenty Ave miles.