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- PAILT CAPITAL JOCRSAL, IALEM. OREKQS. THCHSPAY', APRIL 27, 1811. fridB fflftti' 4 I torn of the vault, where she enirvri I flnepr ThaA n.?Tl..rrnr- T.. -.v- - I STs kt fyf 1 Itanrv In tha ihi .,t wu. I . "Alias Jimmy Valentine"! Novelized by FREDERICK R. TOOMBS From the Great Play by PAUL ARMSTRONG Copyright. 1910, by Americn Prett Association SYNOPSIS. TVafden Handler of 8ing 8lng prison irii Detective Ueortce Doyle endeavor to prevail on Bill Avery, a released prisoner, to search out Information against a for mer "pal," a young convict known as Jimmy Valentine. Avery refuses, and Doyle and Handler threaten to attack him. Valentine Had a trick of opening safes solely by the sense of touch. Avery goes. Lieutenant Governor Fay, bis beautiful niece. Rose Lane, and two women workers in a rescue mission visit the prison. Warden Handler hears Rose Lane tell ho she was rescued from a thief on a trtln, and he Is amased at a coincidence. Convict Jimmy Valentine, No. im, la brought into the warden's office to open a safe as an object lesson to the visitors, and Hose recognizes him as the man who saved her from the thief Cotton. Valentine says he can't open the safe, enraging Handler. The lieutenant gover nor and Rose talk with Valentine. Rote pleads with Fay to aid the young prison er, who Is handsome even in Sing Sing garb. Fay promises for Rose's sake to ask the governor to pardon Valentine. A stormy Interview occurs between Handler and Valentine. Valentine waits patiently In prison for news. Finally he Is pardoned and goes to Albany to ihank the governor. Lieutenant Coventor Fay and Rose. Valintine refuses positions offered by the rescue mission workers. To his amaze iu"M. lie meclB Bill Avery and a former coworker. Hod Flanngan. Rid and Avery try to dissuade Jimmy from "KOlnn square." Detective Doyle ap l?ars, anil Red and Avery hide. Doyle vanis Valimtine to tell him where Avery It. for he wants to rearrest him. Valen tine refuse . Pnyhi departs, threatening to send Val entine bnck to Sing Sing prison, very n -w tries to kill Valentine. Valentine finally agrees to "go It crook ed" aaln, but a note from Rose brings him buck to his former determination to be- honest "In spite of the coppers." Rose persuail'BS her father to give Val enilne a position In his bank In Spring field. III. He and Red go to work In the bank. For severnl years Valentine works ex cellently and rises to be assistant cashier, lie and Roue love each other, but Valen tine knows Doyle is on his track and dan s not t l I her of his affection for her. A mysterious Mr. Cronln turns out to be old Bill Avery, now reformed ajid a man of bus'nens. Valentine receives a telegram from Doyle. He tells Red how he has planned (o outwit the detective by means of a cleverly' concocted alibi. Rose I.ane tells Valentine she loves him and that they are going to marry. Val entine reveals to her his love for her. Doyle nppenrs on the scene to arrest Val entine on a charsre of robbing a Massa chusetts bank many years before. Doyle Is astounded when Valentine an. bounces that he was never In Sing Sing or In Mnssnchuaetts In his life and that his name Is Lee Rnndiill. Doyle Is tlnnllv convinced by a sensa tional ru.e employed by Valentine that Valentine Is not Valentine after all. "I'll land him if it takes a lifetime," he says. cMArra: xvi. ' i TTH i'iiimii In t lit- Fourth Xutlonn j hunk if Spiinu'llrld. III., in I which ii, w vii it It tmd bi'en inslni. led, wax n large, Soul ier in. Insure, with n dour at one side, t'piiiinir from Hie nsslstiint cashier's e.lii e, n ml (me directly opposite, which I'd to a narrow hulhviiy opening Into I tie train bull. Aiong r Ills narrow hallway were (loots opening Into the offices of vu ricuis olllciiiU of I he limb. The vaults In which were kept the currency and lieporlnble impers, bonds, stocks, notes, etc. were on the floor below, and the new vault built npilnst the wall at the rear of the room was designed us a receptacle for the bunk's books of account. Therefore it bud a larger In terior than an ordinary vault, and as the shelves bad not yet been built I there were several feet of free spn' Inside, which would be occupied I hooks and records Inter on. The hiijre steel ribbed door had been left invitingly open by the workmen enjr:ie(l fn lidding the finishing touch es, iinti consequently It afforded an un etmled source of delight to Bobby mid Kilty, whose active imaginations readily converted the Interior of the fii'ilt Into the cave of daring smug (.'lei's wlio, presumably pone on a des Iierale enterprise. bud left deserted their secret cavern mid the precious rtm trn Im ml articles which. Bobby nssured Kitty, were surely to lie found there-. hi. So what was there; for a high spir ited liltle plrl to do. when her brother, who never failed at asserting his su Iieriority over a mere girl and the fiperiorlty of the "men folk" In gen eral. Insisted that she go first into the yawning- blackness of the big safe? Surely she must maintain the tradi tions of t(. fearlessness of her sex as xbe knew them and "take the dare" wliHi Bobby forced upon her. Slowly Into the sti-el bound shadows she went, her waxen faced dolly lutclied tightly against her throbbing hnsom---pt in she went. Suddenly tut uige door si raped shut. All was black- TICS', As slip screamed in bor fright "he heard the click of the metal bars "s lioliliy playfully turned the ban tiles. Then nil was silent, save fot lie moans of the little girl as she lurch ed blindly toward the door of the saft nd scratched the metal thicknesses 'iih her tiny nails. The dolly fell to the floor, the endE of the soft little Angers began to bleed from frenzied contact with the bars ttwt ribbed the interior of the safe door, and after a few moments the ee uiri'j form, sank limply .to the. but- torn of the vault, where she gasped wu.u.wveiy to oreatne in the air that was gradually losing it iif .... log qualities. Not many minutes uuiu eiapse ere she had consumed all the precious oxygen In the suffocating Interior of the necessarily air tight vault. As Jimmy Valentine dasher! into the Tault room he cried to Red Flanagan. wuo was at nig heels: "Go get one of the clerks to run for some sandpaper. Tumice atone is too on ior mis jod. My fingers are not In shape for a trick like this. Go! itun . Red turned and darted away on his urgent errand. Well he knew Just how necessary It was for Jimmy Valentine io nave sandpaper to rescue Kitty If it were true that the skin on his fingers naa grown calloused or had reached even its natural thickness. Jimmy Valentine pulled manfully at the handles of the vault door. Per haps, after all. the combination had not been turned and only the door's weignt held it In place. But the metal barrier would not move. He Dressed his ear to .the halrllke crack. He heard, the sound us at n littin hvtv failing jo (he floor and the faint moans ii.. i . . . ... . . vi ine prisoner calling. "Bobby, Bobby Bobby!" , .Valentine bent over -the combination. peered sharply at It.Vtben began to iwin . inaooyjinaers gently. Around and their 'Back be turned the knoh No; It wttof .no,-use. Nothing could be done until the sandpaper arrived. His fingers had lost their sensitiveness and hence tteir cunning, and in the meantime . Valentine- well knew the prisoner was consuming whatever of the priceless air that remained. The door leading from his office swung open, and again Red Flanagan darted In. He flung himself on the vault room floor directly below Val entine's knees and held his ear close to the crack of the safe door. "Think you can make it, Jimmyr be gasped. "Guess so: never failed on a lock like this. Why, in God's name, don't that fool come with that sandpaper!" Valentine was desperate at the delay. "He's gone to a here he Is!" cried Bed as he heard hurrying footsteps in the assistant cashier's office. Red jumped to his feet and out into Val entine's room. He seized the roll of sandpaper from the messenger's hands. "What are you going to do with it?" isked the Inquisitive clerk. Red shoved him away and darted bark toward the vault room. "None of your business," he cried, "and keep out of here." "Give It here. What is It?" exclaim ed Valentine as Red run to him. "No. 4." "That's best, is the bank empty?" "Yes. thank Ood. Mr. I.ane has gone. There's no P3 (its to pipe what we're doln' end even if tber" was we'd Just tmterclly have to go through with it -for ib.-it girl Kitty"- "Slml up!" cried Valentine nervous ly, lie bent over and rubbed his flu pers briskly across the gritty surface of one of the sheets of sandpuper which Red hud liaiid-d him-rubbed until the white flesh showed pink. Red stood and watched hlni hretitb lessly. The sound of Valentine's tin pers scraping back and forth across the face of the sandpaper seemed to bis feverish 1 .4-11 it; the physical demon stration of 1111 evil being, appalled him as a sinister onieu of Impending doom. He had beard a story of bis old grand rHB face ok oroiigk dovle appeaued IN TUB UOOKWAY. mother's, when a young lad. that of ten when a person was going to die 11 mysterious tick. tick. tick, tick would be heard in the fated bouse, the sound coming as though from a mysterious watch concealed in the wall th. "death lick." As the sound of the scraping fingers continued the zip. zip. zip, zip echoed from the walls and smote into Ked's ears and into Red's brain an uncanny reminder of that long forgotten tale. And. strangely enough.. Red's pre monition of the presence of uu unseen menace was not without foundation in fact. It may be that this active career in the underworld had devel oped in him that sixth sense of the habitual thief which sometimes gives him warning of approaching dangers. As Red stood there fascinatingly watching the rapid play of Valentine; KM " 1 1 I fingers The door leading into "the nar row nauway noiselessly opened-open-ed just enough to allow the sound of the scraping fingers to reach the ear pressed against the crack between the door and the Jam. a few inches more oi space aud tbe face of George Doyle appesj-ed In the doorway. As the door on opeuiug- swung to ward the rear of the chamber 'toward the vault. Doyle, shielded by it. was enubled to put one font over the sill and stand half within the vault room. Tressing himself close against the door, he could watch in the darkened, shadowy room the operations of Red Flanagan and Mr. Lee Randall, alias Jimmy Valentine. He saw the sheet of sandpaper flut ter to the floor; be saw Valeutlne lick his fingers with bis tongue to ease the burning pain that tbroblied through them; he suw Red Flanagan drop 011 his knees and crouch ngalust the door of the giant safe; he saw Valentine step forward, seize the combination with tbe tips of his Augers, press his ear against the vault and gently, ca ressingly, ever so gently, twirl the shining nickeled knob of the combina tion. George Doyle bad bis dearest wish gratified. At last he saw the great Jl mmy Valentine at work. (To be continued.) " Notice of Intention to Improve Court Street. Notice is hereby given that the common council of the city of Salem; Oregon, deems It expedient .and pro poses to lmDrove Court, street In tha city of Salem, Oregon, with concrete pavement, from the east line of Twelfth street to the west line of Eighteenth street, at the expense of the adjacent and abuttiag property within said limits, and according to the plans and specifications adopted for said improvement and on file In the office of the city recorder, which said plans and specifications are hereby referred to for a more spe cific and detailed description of said improvements, and afe hereby made a part of this notice. This notice is published for ten (10) days pursuant to the order of the common council, and the date of the first publication thereof is the 25th day of April, 1911. Rempnstrances may be filed against said improvement within ten (10) days from the last publication of this notice, and In the manner pro vided by the city charter. CHAS F. 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ACTOR WHO HAS DEVOTED A LIFE TO .THE ,STUDr OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS, TO INTERPRET JULIUS CAESAR SATURDAY NIGHT. Gazing into the distant theatrical horizon, no new starslare to be dis covered that, is, stars, belonging to the bright galaxy of Shakespeare. It Is necessary, therefore, to welcome j the old ones. They deserve the bril liance that continual shining has made possible. One of the brightest of these Is Frederick Warde, who pre sented a splendid revival of "Julius Ceasar'' at the Lyceum theatre last night. . Frederick Warde left the stage for a brief while, not to abandon his career nor the classic drama, but to bring before the people fnam the lec ture rostrum the wonderful charac ters he has so admirably portrayed. Today Ellen Terry, in New York Is living among her Shakespearean heroines. Each an actual breathing personage, stepping from the pages of the play to receive life and blood and breath from her magnetic per sonality. So it was with' Frederick Warde. He talked with the heroes of the poet, talked of them and gave voice to their mighty utterances. But the theatre needed him. One by one the great players have been gathered to that final world beyond the curtain. It seems that the class ical Inspiration has departed from them. It rests with such scholars as Warde to keep burning the spark of genius to tell us that in the pas-t there was a better and brighter day. Frederick has played many parts. He has given life to many of the heroes of Shakespeare. When last seen in "Julius Ceasar" here, -he played Hare Antony. Last night he was the noble Brutus and revived all of the past, Its memories, its tradi tions, its histrionic associations. He Is the one hope of the stage In the futur.e. Frederick Warde has always been a scholar. Perhaps he Is too Intense, but to those who last night followed the heroic reading of the masterful lines which fall to Brutus thetre was nothing lacking to make the imper sonation perfect. In this day, when people cheaply pleased are being lured from real merit in the drama to pernicious and perverted plays, It Is a merciful god send to the real lovers of the drama to find a player with the 011 rage of his convictions, who faces the on sweeping wave of tawdry inconsis x t r ' -.,J tency in the theatre and upholds high standards and high Ideals be cause they are noble and beautiful and beneficent. It is to Frederick Warda we must look in tbe theatrical horizon. 1 for he is a star whoso brightness Is undlmmed, whose brilliancy gTew clearer and more luminous as the j years advanced. Brutus with him is but a reproduction of a man in his mind. So close in touch is hA with the hero of Shakespeare that one and all become with him an intimate friend and associate. He ceases to be Frederick Warde. He becomes the role he plays, a breathing pul sating, passionate man, to tell his story as he might tell it In actual life. This is why the acting of Fred erick Warde appeals to every lover of Shakespeare. Familiar quotations come back to us as if they were read but yesterday. There Is lacking that plethora ( gestures which so many of our younger players have. There is in what he does an intense dignity, a mighty feeling, a sympathy that penetrates even the scenes of dispute. It was a pleasure to greet Mr. Warde last night, and it is no won der that the audience, tpontaneous in Its expression of delight and approv al, called for a Bpeech from the ac tor. Nor was It possible for Mr. Warde to deny the demand. In a few selected sentences he thanked the people present, for it carried to his heart the grateful knowledge that there still remain men and women who love art for art's sake, andi not for ulterior motives. Memphis Com mercial Appeal. Grand opera house, Saturday, April 29. Swat sale Friday, April 28, at 9 a. m. Prices, $1.50, $1.00, 75c and BOc. Tbe Sound Sleep of Good Health. 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