Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 228, 11 August 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUNrTELEGRAM, FRIDAY, AUG. 11, 1916

The Iron Claw

Read tho 8tory In the Palladium and See It at the Coliseum. ". . 'The heavy (lass lamp, hurled true, tent man and match against the case elde in a shower of oil and broken Slass. But Manley did not wait to witness the result of that second assault. He leaped for the door, caught up the blue-barreled revolver from the hand of the stunned man on the threshold, and drove for the heavier door at the end of the outer chamber. But this door he found to be locked, lie was on the point of starting back In search of a timber heavy enough to batter down that barrier when all movement was arrested by an uproar of Bound that fairly drove the breath from his body. For the shower of oil that fell about the lighted match at the vaulted end of the side chamber had sunk into the litter of rubbish beside the powder cases, had burst Into flames and had crept closer about those wooden cases until the licking tongues of heat had reached the explosive. Yet even as Manley stood there, fighting for breath, a second surprise both confronted and engulfed him. Following close on that telltale roar of sound came an even more bewildering rush of water, tearing through the low-roofed cellar like a thousand hounds let loose. And he knew then that the explosion had broken down the walls between him and the East river at high tide. He leaped in the direction of the door, In the hope of getting It closed. He was still struggling frantically at this door when a heard a voice, and at first he thought it was a human Toice, crying shrilly through the gloom. "Let me out!" was the frantic cry close above him. "Let me out!" Groping and pawing along the wall, his hand came in contact with the rung of a narrow iron ladder. He caught at this ladder and drew himself up, for ho now stood shoulder high in the ever-mounting flood. On the topmost rung, as he mounted, he found a shading and feathered ody clinging stubbornly to the rusting Iron, beating 'with its beak on the hollow sounding boards above his head. In a flash Manley himself was shouldering up against these boards. There was the sound of a rending staple, and in another moment he was swarming up through the ruptured trap door, catching at the parrot as he went. The Figures of Fate. Margory Golden, alone in her father's library stared apprehensively about that massively furnished room as though dreading that some new terror might leap out at her from Its shadowy corners. She was unnerved not only by the disquieting disappearance of David Manley but also by the thought that she was still so surrounded by the tides of evil. As Bhe sat there, deep In thought, she was depressed by the sudden suspicion that some one of the many servants in that house was a traitor to his master. Yet as she checked them over, one bygone, she found nothing on which to 'ground this ghostly suspicion. She remembered that she had once been suspicious even of Manley himself, of this serious-minded friend who hid his true feelings behind a mask of light-hearted lrrelevancles. And there were things in which she herself had not been altogether candid with him. There was, for instance the matter of Tito, the Amazon parrot She had not confided to Manley the fact that in that bird, stumbled across in a fancier's shop, she had found an old friend, a friend dating back to her unhappy days in the Owl's Nest. And she sighed aloud as she gathered up the papers on the rosewood desk and turned to the vault to which she had forgotten to restore them. "Twenty-one, thirty, forty-two, sixty," she repeated, recalling her father's instructions over the wire. "Forward and back and forward and back again, for it's a four movement dial, whatever that may mean!" The vault door opened, obedient to the combination, and seeking out the inner compartment marked "J" she restored the papers to their place. Her hand was still on the open vault door when the shrill call of the telephone bell sounded through the quiet room. She crossed to the desk and took up the receiver. "Do you know who Is speaking T" demanded a voice which sent a thrill of apprehension through her forwardstooping body. And the question was repeated as she sat silent, staring before her. "Yes," she finally answered, trying to steady her voice. "It's Legar." The wire brought his answering laugh close into her ear. "You know the voice, I see. And I think you know the man. So listen to what I have to say. I've got your friend Manley, and he'll stay where I've cot htm. And unless, you want

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him . turned out, of here with about half of that pretty face of his burned to a crisp, you'll do what I tell you to do. Do you understand? I'll scar him worse than I was scarred. If you try any tricks with me in this!" "In in what?" demanded the whitefaced girl. "In exactly one-half hour I want you to walk past the Soldiers' monument and hand me a paper. That paper Is somewhere In your father's vault It is one half of a code list and chart, on a square of yellow manilla. Do you understand?" "But how am I to know this paper?" asked the terrified girl, fencing for time. . "It's a chart, a map, one half of the map of Windward island. For old Golden wasn't such a fool as he seemed" and again the . venomous laugh sounded low over the wire. "If your father had got hold of my half of that map a little earlier in the game he wouldn't have needed to dig for ten years through that sand, looking for his precious treasure! Now it's my chance, and I want that paper. And unless you want your secretary to come home a rather unpleasant thing to look at, you're going to have that map in my hands in half an hour. So tell me quick, what your answer is. Do I get It?" .For one moment the girl sat silent, breathing quick through parted lips. "Yes, I'll bring it," she at last said over the wire. Then she sat motionless, with her hands gripping the desk edge for several minutes. When she moved It was with the quickness of a sudden and clear-cut decision. "Give me police headquarters," she called out as she caught up the receiver. The next minute she was explaining to the desk official at Center street the news of Legar's latest threat and the need of forestalling it. Then, after another Interval of studious thought, she crossed to the vault and began a hurried search for the document which Legar had described as being stored away there. She found It at last, In a package of faded deeds and papers to do with Windward Island, and while one glance at It persuaded her that it was Indeed a chart of the island, the fact that it represented only one-half of this island tended to convince her that Legar had spoken the truth. But she had no time to deliberate over that discovery, for her next move, she felt, should be to call the servants and warn them against any midnight intrusions. She crossed to the rosewood desk to carry out this plan, and her finger was even extended to press the bell button when a sudden soft movement at her shoulder caused her to swing sharply about. Confronting her, with a slightly triumphant smile on his deep-scarred face, stood Legar himself. "I am intruding, I know," he began1 in his suavely acidulated tones, "but there was a possibility, you see, of your friends in uniform interrupting our meeting beside the Soldiers' monument!". (To be Continued.)

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"Oh, Caryl!" protested Julia. "I can't do that!" , "Well, I'll write it for you then," the younger girl declared, carried out of herself by wrathful excitement. Hurrying to the table she seized a pen and began to write. In a moment she tossed a sheet of paper over to her sister. . "There," she exclaimed, "can't you copy that and sign your name to it?" Julia read the unsteady words slowly. "My Dear Mr. Delaine," they ran, "May I ask you to tell me if you know of a man named John Redfield, a friend of Mr. Somerdyke's, and if you consider him a trustworthy, respectable person?" "Now," commanded Caryl, "copy that and send it, and then, perhaps when you get that man's answer, you will believe your own sister!" Her manner, her look of outraged innocence, had a powerful effect upon the older girl.

"Oh," Caryl," she begged In an outburst of penitence and of magnanimity, the tears rushing to her eyes "forgive me! I Bee now that everything's all right! There's no need of my writing this letter, darling. Forgive me! I do trust you!" "I think it's about time that you did," said Caryl coldly. "But if you care so much for Delaine that you have more faith in him than in me just write to him at once. If you don't, please try to treat me a little more fairly in the future." -.'. A letter came for Julia Marvin by the early morning mail. She read it as she ate her frugal breakfast of rolls and coffee. Its contents brought a glow to her cheeks, and 'made the dull routine of the working day before her seem bright. Caryl was still asleep, or she might have guessed

from her sister's happy look who was the author of the epistle. "Dear Miss" Marvin." Delaine wrote, "ages and aeons have dragged by since I saw you last Personally, when I have a friend, I feel that I have a right to see him or her every few days, and I dare to hope that you will sympathize with my attitude sufficiently to grant me a half-hour's chat this afternoon. Won't you change the grubby yark into an oasis, by meeting me there by the same old bench at the same old hour? I shall pray to Allah for clear weather, but, if it rains, prepare to be kidnapped again. "Faithfully, "KELLEY DELAINE." He was waiting for her when she entered the park late that afternoon, and the girl forgot her aching and tired back as he took her hand in his firm grasp. (To Be Continued.)

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SADIE'S VISIT TO SHADOWLAND. Sadie sat on the low stone fence. At her back was the trunk of the old apple tree, its drooping boughs heavy with red fruit. Over all hung the golden haie of autumn. It was a soothing afternoon, the mist made the distant mountains purple and the drowsy humming of the bees dwindled into a song. . Sadie was hiding out there on the wall because she was in a grumbling mood. . Her mother kept a boardinghouse which this summer had been full of fashionable folks, many of them girls of Sadie's age. They had fine clothes, rode about in autos and seemed generally to have no care in life. This made the girl envious. "I don't think it fair," she pouted at the tree. "I have to live here in a small village and help mother about the housework, while Laura, Louise and Bessie have a fine time in their fine homes in the city. I am tired of this life I wish I were out of it." The sun was throwing a strong red light against the wall and the girl suddenly noticed its strange appearance. It did not look like it usually did, but seemed to glow and quiver with a weird look. On the grass her shadow waved to and fro as the girl moved restlessly in her discontented mood. Then a wonderful thing happened. The shadow rose from the grass and came over to the astonished Sadie. It was no, longer an image that reflected her motions, but It stood upright and in its dim, gray outline she could see her own features. "I am your shadow," it said, peering into her face; "I have followed you through life into good and ' evil. Now take your turn and follow me a bit. I will show you that all is not

Newspaper Syndicate, New York. sunshine; that into every life there falls a shadow, that into yours the shadow of your own making the Shadow of Discontent." .The thin gray fingers grasped Sadies' hand in their cold clasp and she found herself in the red glow on a boat of silver clouds. Up it sped, then it seemed to stand still and let the world revolve beneath. Country after country, with their rivers and mountains, swam below before her eyes. Dimly she could see the battlefields with the hundreds of dying and the moaning wounded, the horses struggling to rise, the long piles of the dead. Across her vision came long processions of weeping women and children, half-starved and fatherless, their homes in, flames, their crops destroyed. In rags they tramped the paths, stumbling, blinded by tears. "That is war," whispered the shadow. "That is what the people of nations must suffer that kings may glory in their fame." Then the boat swept down close to

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earth and the girl saw she was over a city of gay throngs and flashing lights. There were hundreds of rich homes jpd fine carriages but in every face there was a shadow. In every heart there was an ache. "You see, child," said the shadow, pointing to the hurrying throng, "none in this life are free of some sorrow. Every life has some shadow to flit across its brightness. But there are many like yourself, you have the simple happiness, the best the world can

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give, yet fall to know it Those whom you- envied have their trials of sickness, of 111 temper, of selfishness, of a hundred different kinds." Then In the softening glow of the dying sun the pair floated off to a strain of - sweetest music. All about the fleecy clouds swam In the glowing tints - and from afar the girl could catch a glimpse of her own home, the yard with its familiar flowers, the mother hen calling to her chicks, the cow lowing in the barnyard, the lights from the dining room window lighting a path down the lawn. Lower and lower the boat rocked till Sadie stepped right out on her own back porch. The shadow pointed to the window and the girl looked. In the bright kitchen was her mother bustling about the stove. The room was full of the sweet odor of new bread and frying ham. On the mother's face was a sweet smile. "Thank you, Shadow," said Sadie. "I envy no one. now. I have seen enough this evening. But hereafter, when I catch a sight of you by my side, I will ever think of this trip, which has taught me to rightly value my home." As Sadie spoke a ripe apple fell on her head and the girl awoke to find the shadows really gathering, while down the streets the lights were beginning to gleam. "Dear old shadow mine," cried the

girl, "rood-bye! You took me on a nice trip which will make me a better ant a happier girl for life." -

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