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CLOVERDALE COURIER.
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NO. 51
CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COUNTY, OREGON. JULY 19,1917
VOL. j 2.
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¿4 Story of “Simeric a First,” Un
masking America s Secret Foes
Novelized From the Motion Picture Serial o f the Same
Name Released by Pathe
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the attem pt of the foreign alliance to
embroil the United States and Gra
nada
in a war for the purpose of ex
Capt. R alph Payne, IT. s. A., is given se posing onr unprepared position to de
cret plans of defense to deliver to P a n a
ma. H e atten d s a ball a t the G ran ada em fend a counter-attack at our weakest
bassy w ith Colonel D ares' daughter. place: the Canal. ‘T he government
Pearl. As a clim ax to a series of m ys
terious incidents he is arreited for tre a took the death of Boi ro as an indi
son. T he am bassador of G ranada is found cation of the failure of the plot.
dead and the plans m issing from P ay n e's
:oat. M ajor P rent, T ayne's rival, en ters
If only to settle public unrest, some
Into suspicious negotiations w ith B erth a 50,000 experienced soldiers were now
Bonn. P earl D are follows a burglar from
tier hom e; is drugged and left in a field, added to the military garrison on our
and later overhears plotters, who alm ost 40-mile strip on the isthmus ; negotia
capture her. Payne is sentenced to life
im prisonm ent. A train carryin g P earl, tions to purchase the Panisi» W est In
B ertha Bonn and P ay ne on his w ay to-,
prison is w recked and P earl sees P ay n e's dies were started for the purpose of
IifeU ss body a t her feet. She m eets a making a new naval base in the Car-
m ystenous stra n g er w ho offers her his ribean : a more watchful gunboat pa
services to trace the traitors. She learns
th a t he has th e plans. P earl finds A dam s trol was maintained on both the At
In W ashington and iearns of his peculiar
actions. A dam s w arns Senator W arfield lantic and Pacific sides of thè big
th a t he is in danger from a ring of spies. ditch ; and with th at the incident be-
W hile they talk the sen ato r's office Is
attacked* by conspirators. B ertha Bonn j came a closed one, so far as the public
asks P earl to hand A dam s a package knew.
w hich proves to be the plans. A dam s is
But the incident was by no means
m ade Colonel D are's orderly. T hey are
ordered South. The G ranadians capture closed in inner government circles.
P earl and A dam s to get the plans. P earl First was the unsolved mystery In the
begs Adams to let her tak e his belt w hich
contains the defense plans. They escape Payne case. It was now admitted by
and Adams steals th e belt from her. everyone connected therewith that
B rent confronts A dam s com m unicating
w ith the enem y. B erth a Bonn w arns there was more than reasonable as
P earl against her professed friends. sumption of doubt of Payne’s guilt,
P earl is captured again by the G ran a
dians. She is rescued by Adams. D is which made lits untimely death all the
guised as Ids b rother she accom panies
SYNOPSIS.
him into th e cam p of the conspirators,
and poses as a chem ist. They are rec
ognized; in th e fight A dam s saves P earl
from harm . Colonel D a te arrives w ith
A m erican troops. T he black scarf appears.
EIGHTH EPISODE
International Diplomacy.
The dram atic end of Bolero in his
stronghold at Eagltta on the western
boundary of Granada and the recovery
of the Canal defense plans, proved
several im portant things to the United
States government.
It established absolutely the exis
tence of a foreign alliance; it cleared
the Granadian government of respon
sibility in the Payne case, it being
provfjp that Bolero and the murdered
Granadian am bassador, De Mira, were
traitors to their own country, secretly
and independently in lencue with the
foreign alliance in the furtherance of
their personal am bitions; it welded
the two natious more closely together
than they ever had been. This marked
the birth of a united American spirit
to defend the Monroe Doctrine against
Invasion from overseas.
Perhaps no more startling Interna
tional plot ever had been woven than
Pearl in the Power of the Silent
Menace.
more regrettable. Tet, there was the
testimony of Colonel Dare’s orderly—
T. O. Adams—who claimed to have
found the Canal defens" plans in Cap
tain I’ayne’s m ilitary belt, or at len^t
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in a belt which he swore on his oath
came from Payne’s body.
Adams had so firmly re-estnhlislied
his position that his word was ac
cepted ns the truth. Careful Investi
gation of n man answering his descrip
tion, hailing from Monk’s Corner,
Nebraska, and in the various kind9
and places of employment represented
by Adams was made, verifying his
claims.
Between Toko and Adams quite a
Jealousy sprang up, and between one
other person and the colonel's cele
brated orderly a hostile feeling ex
isted. This was Major Brent. The
major, who had satisfactorily ex
plained the mu ill or affair, could not
get over the fact that Adams had
come back a heap in the estimation
of the government and the Dares.
It was Major Brent who, while
Adams was being examined by the*
g< r.oral army staff, tried to pierce lit-»
testimony full of holes and make him
out anything but a well-meuning and
patriotic fellow.
“You knew that the Canal defense
plans were In Captain Riyuc's belt
from the very beginning, didn’t you?’’
queried the major at that time.
“I d-didn’t,” answered Adams to the
point.
“When did you discover them to be
concealed there?” interposed the chief
of staff.
“On the day Major Brent t-took
them from me.”
“In the hut of the old woman in
Granada?”
Adams nodded.
“Why then did you resist arrest and
conceal the Information you now
vouch?”
"I had n notion that I could k-kete'n
that there Sileut Menace. I wanted
to c-cop the credit. Alu’t that natural?
I jest let Major Brent think t-that I
was a Granadian spy.”
“But who other than you could have
given the Canal defense plans to Bo
lero?” Interjected Brent, sarcastically.
“Why, the Silent Menace, him self!"
anxtf cred Adams in surprise at such a
ques'tion.
“it was not you then?”
“I told you before it w-wasn't me,”
maintained Adams, his features flush
ing in anger. “The Silent Menace
ain't been about i-lately—ever since
I shot Bolero.”
To th at suggestion there could be
only vague comment.
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Major Brent fell silent and bided
Ills time.
“You’ll pH me yet, w-won’t you, mn-
Jor?” ironically inquired Adams one
day when the two were for a moment
alone in Colonel Dare's library.
The major eyed him ferociously.
"Y'ou may depend upon it, I will.”
“I'm terribly scared of you,” laughed
the orderly. “M-tne and Miss Bonn—
we’re afeared t-lo open our mouths.
Have you seen the lady l-lately? And
¡hat reminds me, m ajor—you’d give n
hull h-hcap to have Hint photygraph
back, wouldn't you? I ain’t n-no
blackmailer, bu t—”
Brent held up a protesting hand, f<xr
Miss D are was approaching.
Adams withdrew Into the hall. lie
cli urk led when he overheard Miss
Dare’s greeting.
“Thanks for the flowers. Thornton.”
She wore a beautiful and becoming
corsage. "It was as usual thoughtful
of you.” Then she changed the sub
ject.
“I wonder» what has become of Miss
Bertha Bonn?" she asked, innorently.
“Miss Bertlm Bonn?” repeated Ma
jor Brent, blankly.
“The girl we saved from Bolero.
I haven’t seen or beard of her since
we left the Grnnadian border.”
Adams lingered in the hailway, lis
tening.
“I know nothing about her,” lied
Major Brent in the m anner of one dis
missing an uninteresting subject.
“Will yon look her up?” persisted
Pearl, clinging to her theme.
“If you ask me to, yes.”
“Ohtatn her address, please. I’ll ask
her to call. I want to set her straight
about—”
“About what?" Brent faltered.
“Don’t pry troo women's secrets,
Thon.ton.” she warned In an arch
manner. “I may po> Ibly want to dis
cuss—yon.”
“Good L ord!” exciulmed Brent, try-
'ag to he comleal. hut failing utterly.
He was tn hot wafer and showed It
by m uttering something about Adams.
"Did you call me. ?,!!ss Dare?” In-
ferrnnf« 1 Adam*-, atidd^dy appearing
in th» doorway. IPs laughing eyes
were fastened upon the disconcerted
major.
“I don't see hew you esn stand that
cy fcrprd gink aroood.” growled Brent
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as Pearl dismissed tin* orderly with a Adams wine« <1 at tfi* ugly word.
“I wasn't tile t thief,” he denied. "1
kindly motion.
Pearl’s eyes opened wide, “He’s not kin explain n-nll that If l want to."
awkward. He’s handsome,"
“Tell It to the marines, Adam s!”
“You’ll rue It,” warned Brent, sigh she derided.
ing ns one who knows.
“W-why haven't you squealed on me.
Subsequently Adams, obtaining If you’re s-so sm art?”
l«*ave from Colonel Dare, went up “T hat’s what I call coming straight
town and paid nn unexpected call on to the point 1 told you u moment ago
Miss Bertha Bonn tn her apartm ent that 1 think wo can get on well togeth
In the Hotel Wilton.
er. I’ll forgive you everything and
“On»h!" he exclaimed, feeling n Mt keep your secret forever, if you give
awkward in her luxurious sitting me back tny locket and Major Brent’s
room. "It m-must cost you n heap of photograph."
money to live here.”
After an uncertain pause; Adams
Bertha laughed and offered him a carelessly inquired: “What If t told
cigarette from tier gold ease, lighting you t-that I never seen that locket or
one herself.
photy? W would you believe me and
They sat.down.
still keep my—secret?"
“I knew- that you would come some “I don't see how I could do the
time. I’m not afraid of you any more, former, at least,” she retorted, in
T. O. Adams. In fact, I believe that specting him curiously. “The latter,
we can g^t along well together,” site possibly—If only for, well let us call
began, eordlnlly.
* it a diplomatic reason,"
“What do you think I c-enme for?" . ‘ Let's git down to n b-bnsls," he
Inquired he, looking ot her steadily. I proposed after another silence. “You
"To talk with me nbotit M ajo r1
Brent's photograph and my locket," 1
Surrounded by
was her .frank and quick response.
“That's about It,” he admitted, show
ing that he was a little surprised.
“I’d like f-to have that p h n ty .”
She did not seem to understand him.
“You would like to have It? H aven't
you got It?”
He ignored her question with a
stare.
“Didn’t you steal it from me and
then decoy Hie to the Granadian fron
tier with a promise to return it If I
helped you out of that scrape when
they nearly had you caught at the
senate building?”
“I didn't,” he replied emphatically.
“Didn’t your messenger send me to
Senator Warfield's office with the
packet and note when everybody
thought that you had stolen the pre
paredness budget?” the girl Insisted.
“Me w-wnsn’t my messenger. Did
you know the c-contents of that fgicket
and note before they were opened?'*
lie r reply gave hirn a start. “The
note, no. The packet—tt contained the
Canal defense plana. I recognized the
wrapper. m od naturally.”
His eye« narrowed. "And yet you
Met roe g et away with them plans —
yon saw me stuff them i-tn my po< ket
and hand over the budget Instead?”
The girl merely Dodded. “I knew
all the time that you were the thief
they were after."
Masked Figures.
think that I g got the locket and photy
•—that I'm t-the trouble maker, that
there Silent Menace what do you
think about M-tnnJor Brent?”
“You've bought hfm, body, mind and
soul—that’s why I'm your friend.”
Adams had difficulty In restraining
a desire to Inugii In he» face, for this
was not true. “YSu got it In f-for
him hard, ain't you? You’re Jealous
of someone, ett*?"
The abrupt question startled Rertha.
“Of Miss Dare, yes,” she admitted,
her eyes flashing. Then, with a catch
In her voice, “I’m afraid to analyze»
my real feelings for Thornton. To do
so might lend me into ra.-h behavior."
“You don't tn-mean to say you love
him?"
,“I hate him !” she began, Impetu
ously; adding with doubt, “I think.”
“There Is something b-between yon
—something big?”
“There was something—big," she re
sponded, her eyes fixed upon the floor.
“You know ail about that.”
Then ns the hush of twilight fell
upon them, Bertha told Adams of her
girlhood romance ns though »he were
repeating to him a familiar story; of
her fnnle attem pt to regain Brent's
affections; her threat to expos* him
to Captain I’nvne or Miss Dim*
through the medium of the locket
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