The DESTROYING ANGEL
By Louis Joseph Vanes
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F ate plays strange tricks. Do you ever stop to consider th a t seemingly tr iv ia l Incidents sometimes change
the whole course of a person’s life?— missing a train at a Junction point; suffering a slight Injury th at be
comes infected and necessitates amputation of a lim b; a few words of back-fence gossip; a stolen kiss; a mis
understood le tter, etc. Fate continues to play strange tricks on W h itaker.
Previous installm ents of “ The Destroying Angel” told how Hugh W h itaker, th inking he faced death, m ar
ried an innocent girl to save her honor and le ft the country im m ediately.
Five years la te r he reappeared
In N ew York, robust and w ealthy, and found an old friend, Drummond, engaged to m arry his supposed widow,
now a famous actress known as Sara Law . She disappeared. Drummond is thought to have committed sui
cide, as her previous lovers had done. W h ita k e r learned he was endangered by mysterious agents and went
to the country place of M a rtin Ember, his friend. Drummond turned up, a raving morphomanlac, and tried
to k ill W h ita k e r, who was helped by a beautiful Miss Fiske.
They were precisely ns they hnd
been, within a certain dlstunce of one
another, tolling on nnd ever on like
Slitti and Kraratt Sto.. Portland. Ora.
strange misshapen spirits doomed to
Four blocka frulli Union ItouuL T w o bloc In
run an endless race. The harsh, shape
frutti N ew l ‘ucturtle«. Mularii amt Aropruuf
less light of Imminent day alone manu
Ovar UM ou tabla room.. lu is e 7te lo n.UO.
factured a color of difference: Whit
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aker now was able to see as two dark
-
shapes the men In the body of the lead
ing boat. Now suddenly the mnn nt
the wheel cried out something In a ter
rible voice of fright, so high nnd vehe
One burnirmi ami a irty -flv« linoni«. all Moilcrn
ment that It even carried buck ngslnst Impruvvnwnta: frac phonon on «va ry Hour
the txxmilng gale for Whitaker to hear. K si««: 78c to $1.80 par day: $2.80 to
$8.00 por wook.
Simultaneously he put the wheel over,
with all his might. The other Jumped O p in ait« Courthouc«. I blocke from l ’aalurttr«.
Klm Proof. H. P anil Oregon Klee trie paaa dour.
from his seat, only to be thrown hark
ns the little vessel swung hroudslde to
the sea. heeling until she lay almost on
her bourn ends. The next Instuut she
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ceased, incredibly, to move— hung mo
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tionless In that resistless surge, an
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seemed minutes before Whitaker could
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force his wits to comprehend that sho 1
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hud struck ami lay transfixed upon <
some submerged rock or reef.
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A long, gray roller swept upon nnd ;
train«*! votine
t»«*>i»l«i
ThounmJa o í trained
young p
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over her, brimming her cockpit with j H#hnk« Walker B w ÍM M Cfetttm.
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foaming water. As It passed he saw ; al intenta ln puailion«. Bntttll muy Um*. r>M
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ing nhend, ho could distinguish dimly toward the shore, then shot Into the
shapes about the dock and upon it that mouth of a narrow indentation. For
“ The most amiable person l know I1 seemed to bear out his most cruel two or three minutes he could see noth
fears. The power boat was passably ing o f the other. Then he emerged
he cried, elated. “ Greetings!”
She paused by the steps, looking up, distinct, her white side showing plainly from a tortuous ami constricted chan
through the tempered darkness. Mld- nel Info a deep cut. perhaps fifty feet
a fascinating vision.
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“ You’re able to stand without assist wny down the dock he made out strug In width and spunnod by a drawbridge
gling figures— two o f them, he Judged: nnd a railroad trestle. At the farther
a nee?”
W e s t e r n IhucK A t t a c h m e n t
“ As a matter of fact. I can move a man nt close grips with a frantic end o f this tldegate canal connecting
woman. And where the structure tli' Great West bay with the Great
only at the cost of excruciating agony,
She considered him with a sober face Joined the land, u second pair, agnln a I econlc, the leading power boat was
nnd smiling eyes. “ I don't believe you. man and a woman, strove und swayed. visible, heading out nt full speed, the
For all his haste, he was too slow; half-mile lead fully re-established.
You’re a fraud.
Besides, I didn't
he was still a fair thirty yards away
Empty o f ull other craft, weird nnd
come to see you at a i l ; I came to And
when the struggle on the dock ended desolate lu moonlight, the Little Be
out why Mr. Ember dares so to neg
abruptly with the collapse of the wom come waters widened and theu nar
Washington and Oregon.
lecf me. Did you deliver my invita
an ; it was as If, he thought, her rowed about the flying vessels. Shore
The most vital point o f n truck attach
tion?”
strength had fulled all In an Instant— lights watched them, now dim nnd far,
ment in the boaringa. The Western 1»
"I did. unwillingly. He was deso
as if she had fainted. He saw the man
the only truck attachment made with a
now bright and near nt hand. Shelter
lated. but he couldn’t accept— had to
catch her up In his arms, where she lay
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Island sound received them, slupped
run back to town immediately after
eifleationa in portion.
limp and unresisting, nnd with this
their flunks encouragingly with its rac
dinner."
Why Buy an Inferior make?
burden step from the stage to the boat ing M M
“ I l r ’s as great a fraud ns you are.
and disappear from sight beneath the I ,ld"e thu! tow i e l w «
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A.
J. LORMOR, Facisr? Dulntasr.
But since he isn’t here. I shall go.”
coaming. An Instant later he reap- strfctTshnrax
0 3 3 i Utm SSwt,
Portland, O f . f o .
“ Please— I’ m famished for human so poured, standing at full height In the
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,n,° ,h*
'vaste»
ciety. Have pity. Sit down. Tell me cockpit. Without warning Ids nrm o f Gardiner’s hay. Their relative po
sitions were unchanged: still the Trou
where you’ve been with the boat.” *
straightened out and a tongue of flame
"Merely to the head of the buy to jetted from his hand ; there was a re ble retained her position.
When the chase rounded the buoy.
have the gasoline tanks filled. A most port ; in the same breath a bullet burled
boresome errand, if 1 promise to come Itself in the low earth bank on Whit Instead of standing, as any reasonable
>t*lngs might have been expected to,
over this evening nnd play you a rub aker’s right. Heedless, he pelted on.
on
to I isher's Islaud or at u tangent
ber or two— will you permit me to go
The shot seemed to signal the end of
home now?”
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the other struggle nt the landing stage. north toward the Connecticut littoral,
“ On such terms I'll do anything you Scarcely had it rung out ere Whitaker they swung off something south of east
onn possibly suggest.” he declared, en saw the man lift a fist and dash It —a course that could lead them no
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chanted. "But . . . how will you brutally into the woman's face. With where but to the Immensities of the
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sea itself.
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get here?
Not alone, through the out a sound audible at that distance
Hhltuker's breath caught In his
woods! I can't permit that."
she reeled and fell away; while the
“ Elsie shall row me down the shore man turned, ran swiftly out to the end throut us he examined this startling
q c C
and then go back to keep cook com of the dock, cast off the hendwarp nnd prosjiect. He shook a dubious, vastly
troubled head. But he held on grimly
my á n m ¡Jiro“
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pany. Sum Fat can see me home— if jumped nbonrd the boat.
Fa*
rises.
Aboard the Moving Boat an Automatlo
She began to sheer off as Whitaker in the face of dire forebodings.
you find it still necessary to keep up
‘ Aren't you sometimes a little
Fluttered.
Once out from under the lee of
set foot upon the stage. She was twen
the Invalid pose.”
afraid of your w ife?”
“ I'm afraid.” he laughed. “ 1 shuil call ty feet distant when he found himself Gardiner s Island, a heavier run of the half-drowned men r«»U*ase the
“ Certainly not,” replied Mr. Meek-
my own bluff. . . . Must you really both at Its end and at the end of his waves beset them, catching the boats coamings, to which they had clung on ton. “ I do exactly as Henrietta says
resource.
Frantic with despair, he almost squarely ou the beam: fortu Involuntary Impulse to escape being in every particular. Therefore, what
go so soon?"
“ Good afternoon.” she returned de thrashed the air with impotent arms; nately a sea o f long, smooth, slow swept away, scramble upon the cabin reason have I to fear her?” — Washing-
murely; and ran down the steps and a fair mark, his white garments shining shouldering rollers, as yet not ungry rtx)f, ami with one uccord abandon ! *on Btar.
bright against the dark background of Now and again, for all that, one would themselves to the will o f the next wave
oflf to her boat.
the
land. Aboard the moving boat an favor the Trouble with a quartering to follow. As It broke ov«*r the boat j
Smiling quietly to himself. Whitaker
automatic
fluttered, spitting ten shots slup ,hat " ent a "hower of spray aboard and passed, he cuught an Instantaneous
watched her cast the boat off, get un
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der way, and swing it out of sight be In as many seconds. The thud and : ,ier to t,n‘ n<’h Whitaker and swash glimpse of their bends nnd arms bob- j
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hind the trees. Then his smile wavered splash of bullets all round him brought j aoi*lly r,,u,llJ the cockpit ere the self- bing nnd hentlng frantically us they
him
to
his
senses.
Choking
with
rage.
|
,alliug
channels
could
carry
It
off.
lie
tyhirled
off
through
the
yeasty
welter.
and faded and gave place to a look of
was flulckly wet to the skin and shlv-
But he saw this without pity or com
acute discontent. Three mortal hours he stumbled back to the land.
On the narrow beach, near the dock, j
The hour was past midnight, passion. If he had been uble to have
to fritter away in profitless anticipa
a small flat-bottomed rowboat lay. Its i a.n'1 ,fle 8,ronR " lr "hipping in from bis will with them, he would have sunk
tion . . .
the open sea had a bitter edge. They both ten fathoms deep without an In
At seven Whitaker was merely nerv stern afloat, its bows aground— ns It
Cali a t 206 A l<lrr »Lr*et or mail •ampi«'«.
W a buy all tha tim * and par tha h »*h «»t
hnd been left by the women surprised *tlll had moonlight, but the wind was stant's result«». Ills throat was choked
ous.
market lirica. Dun't fall t«» y«*t In touch
in the act o f launching It. Jumping blowing with an Insistent, unintermit- with curses that welled up from a
By eight he was unable to sit stllL
with un l»cfor« «ellinir
ATM t h è
tent
force
It
had
not
before
developed.
Oniy
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heart wrenched und raging ut this dis
Half un hour later the house was too down. Whitaker put his shoulder to the
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flto
n
.
W
e
want
m
n
«irr-nt»
at
A haze. vaguely opalescent, encircled covery of cowardice unparalleled.
,
small to contain him. He found him stem.
country point*.
C V anrr* and dealer«
tiie
horizon
like
n
ghost
o
f
absinthe.
plaaar wrtu» for our a c m U ' Lrrrn*.
As he did so. the other woman
They had done what they eould for
seif at the end of the dock, tingling
with impatience, but finding some little rouse«!, got unsteadily to her feet, By four-thirty, when the twilight was themselves without even hesitntlng to
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consolation in the restless sweep of screamed, then catching sight of him moderately bright. Whitaker was bare release the woman Imprisoned In the
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ly able to distinguish the leading boat. cabin.
tiie wind against his face and body. He staggered to his side, ft was—as ne had
I’he
two
seemed
as
if
suspended,
strug
could see little— a mere suggestion of assumed—the tnnld. Ellse.
“ M’sietir!” she shrieked, thrusting a gling like Impaled Insects, the one In
the shore line picked out with the dim
the midst, the other near the edge, of
Do you think th at Miss Fiske
semi phosphorescent glow of breaking tragic face with bruised and blood
a watery pit walled in by vapors.
la the raault o f ualng Peta
Is In any w ay connected w ith
stained
mouth
close
to
his.
“
Ah.
wavelets. Some minutes elapse«L The
luma In ru la to r* ami llrond-
The end came just before dawn,
the Drummond - Law - Em ber -
pallor of the east grew more marked. m’sieur— madame— res cannilles-la— I”
T h a t', th « kind you
want.
W r it« fo r our big
W h ita k e r affair? If so, in w hat
“ Yes, I know,” he said brusquely. with a swiftness that stunned the fac
Whitaker fancied he could detect a
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manner?
“ Get out of the way—don't hinder ulties— as though one snw the naked
ligure moving on the Fiske dock.
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wrath o f God leap like lightning from
Then, startled, he grew conscious of m e!”
1’ atalumm. California
The boat was now all afloat. He the sky.
the thick drone of a heavily-powered
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Jumped
in.
dropped
upon
the
mhblle
motor boat near inshore. Turning
quickly, he discovered a black, vague thwart, and fitted the oars in the row-
The Lacquer Crop.
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w. «aol >n t f ton. Wrto (»< fnm uU " n l T«n
shape not twenty yards from where he locks.
It la a popular notion tliut the val
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“ But. m’sieur, what mean you to
stood, showing neither bow nor side
H eretofore Messages Could Not Be Re uable varnishes known as lucquers are Partland. Ora.. HrottUv Wn.. Rellingham. W ».
lights: a stealthy and mysterious ap do?”
vegetable products that exude from
ceived on Account of Noise—
“ Don’t know yet,” he panted— “ fol
parition creeping toward the dock with
vurlous .rees o f India and the East
Difficulty Overcome.
something o f the effect o f an animal low— keep them In sight— ”
»'Tien thtir twigs are punctured by a
V ea l, Pork, B eef,
The bludes dipped; he bent his back
about to spring.
Pou ltry, Butter, Egga
Upon his return to London from cochineal Insect.
And immediately he heard a man’s to them ; the rowboat shot away.
and Farm Produce,
One l.lnd o f gum Is, howev-u, actual
A glance over his shoulder showed Itnly, Guglieltno Marconi, in an Inter
voice from the boat, abrupt with anger:
to the Old Reliable Kverding H ouh «* with a
liiin the boat of the marauders already view with British Journalists, gave the ly produced by the lns«»c« itself. The
“ Not this place, you ass— the next.”
record o f 46 yearn o f Square Itaalmgn, and
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She now wore running following information : “ New develop minute larvae begin to secrete the gum
“ Shut up,” another voice replied. well away.
F. M. CRONKH1TE,
lights; tiie red lamp swung into view ments will not only muke wireless as srxin ax they puncture the tender
"There's somebody on that dock."
46-47 Front Straat,
Portland, O regon
At the same time the bows of the as he glanced, like an obscene and sar communication in this war more «‘in bark and begin to xuck the plant Juices.
boat swung off and the shadow slipped donic eye. T h e y were, then, making dent than ever before, but will make It In favorable circumstances the red se-
away to westward— toward the Fiske eastwards. He wrought only the more more difficult for tiie enemy to Inter cretlfin gradually envelops the larvn in
cept messages.
These Improvements a hard lump, which protects It from
lustily with the oars.
place.
will
apply
to
instruments
In aeroplanes attack.
Frequently, however, the
A wondering apprehension of some
Happily the Fiske motor boat swung
nameless and desperate enterprise, at a mooring not a great distance from nnd airships. Hitherto aeroplanes hnve larvae nre so crowded that a mass of
somehow involving the w om an'who the shore. Surprisingly soon he had been nt a disadvantage with airships gmn Is formed, and then the unpro
obsessed his thoughts, crawled In Whit the small boat alongside. Hastily he In wireless work, for nlthough they tected larvae gradually die o f starva W ill guarantee you top market p rie«« at all tlmea
for your Veal, H og., Poultry, Kg*». Hutter, Hldea,
tion «ir exposure.
aker’s mind. Automatically lie turned disengaged the mooring hook, located were able to transmit messages, they
Kte. I f you have not ahlpped to ua, try ua.
hnve
not
been
able
to
receive
them.
Experiments
hnve
shown
thnt
If
the
back, let himself down to the beach, the switch and started the motor. H alf
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Front,
PORTLAND, OR.
and began to pick his way toward the a mile away the red light was slipping This was because the receiving signal Inrvne were transferred nt the proper
was
too
faint
to
he
distinguished,
be
season
to
bunches
of
straw
fnstened
to
\
Fiske dock, half running despite his sw iftly eastward over slivered waters.
stiff ankle. But he had not gone half The Trouble leaped out like a live ing drowned by the noise of the nero twigs In favorable situations, the
the way before he pulled up with a thing, settling to its course with the plane engine. Now we hnve been able larvae would migrate to the tender
thumping heart, startled beyond ex fleet precision of an arrow truly loosed. to strengthen the receiving signal suffi branches under the best conditions.
pression by a cry in the night—a cry
Probably no more severe critic o f his ciently to enable messages to be The discovery hns greatly Increased
the production of Inequer In India.
o f wild appeal and protest ringing own chivalrlc foolishness ever set him taken.”
clear down the wind, a voice whose self to succor a damsel in distress.
B etter Thsn H e Hoped.
His Job.
timbre was unmistakably that of a Withal he entertained not the shadow
“ I ’m afraid you went to sleep dur
By buying direct from ua at wholroale pHeaa
“ Please, mister, have you got any
wom an: “ Aux secours! Aux secours!” o f a thought o f drawing back. As long
and oava th« plumber'a proflta. W rit« ua to
Tw ice It cried out, and then was as the other boat remained in sight; as work for a poor man what ain’t had ing that learned discourse,” suld the
day your need.
We will giro you our rock-
woman with a strong sense of duty.
hushed as grim ly as the first inco long as the gasoline and his strength nuthln’ to eat for three <Jnys?”
bottom "dlrnct-to-you” price«. f. o. b. rail or
“Yes,” replied her husband, “ when It
boat. W « actually «arc you from 10 to SS par
“ What kind of work can you do?”
herent screams. No need now to guess held out; as long as the Trouble held
eent. All rood, guaranteed.
’“ I ’m a demonstrator, mister,”
started I was afraid I wouldn’t ” —
at what was towards: Whitaker was together and he retained the wit to
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“ A demonstrator? And what do you Dallas News.
running, heedless o f his Injured f o o t - guide her— so long Whitaker deter
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demonstrate?”
pitching, slipping, stumbling, leaping— mined to stick to the wake of the kid
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8elf Denial.
“ My best hold is demonstratin’ the
somehow making progress.
napers.
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Par«lend. O r . r o «
superiority
of
teeth
over
victuals.
Just
Great
Is
self
denial.
L
ife
goes
all
By now the moon had lifted above
A little more than halfway between
the beach high enough to aid him some their starting point and the head o f the lead me to a square menl nnd I’ll show to ravels and tatters where that enters
not.— Carlyle.
what with Its waxing light; and, look bay, the lending bont swung sharply In you a sample o f iny work.”
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