Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 269, 28 September 1916 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1916

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Read this story In the Palladium and see it at the Palace. 8YNOP8IS. On Windward Island ralldort Intrigue Mrs. Golden Into an appearance of evil which cauaes Golden to capture and torture the Italian by branding: his face and crushing- his hand. Palldorl floods the Island and kidnaps Golden's little daughter Margery. Twelve years later In New York a Masked One rescues Margery from Legar and takes her to her father's home, whence she Is recaptured. Margery's mother fruitlessly Implores Golden to find their daughter. , The Laughing Mask again takes Margery away from Legar. Legar sends to Golden a warning and a demand for a portion of the chart of 'Windward Island. Margery meets her nether. The chart Is lost In a fight between Manley and one of Legates henchmen, but is recovered by the Laughing Mask. Count Da Espares figures In a dubious attempt to entrap Legar and claims to have killed him. Golden's house Is dynamited during a masked ball. Legar scapes but Da Espares is crushed in the ruins. Margery rescues the Laughing Mask from the police. Manley finds Margery not Indifferent to his love. He saves tier from Maukl's poisoned arrows. Manley plans a mock funeral which falls to accomplish the desired purpose, the capture of the Iron Claw and his gang. Margery Is saved from death at the hands of the Iron Claw by the Laughing Mask. An attempt by the Iron Claw to blow up the O'Mara cottage Is frustrated In the nick of time. THIRTEENTH EPISODE The Hidden Face. Enoch Golden looked at the hear shadows about his daughter's eyes. Then be seated himself heavily in the arm-chair 'which she had so abstractedly turned about for him. "Margery," he said with an effort at sternness, "are you still worrying about that young Manley?" For a moment or two the girl remained silent "I can't help It, father," she finally acknowledged. And she further discomfited her frowning parent by a suspicion of tears in her downcast eyes. "But I don't believe David Manley is any more dead than I am!" the old millionaire finally and stoutly asseverated. "Then why has there been no word of him, no trace of him, since the night of that awful explosion?" This question, apparently, was not an easy one to answer. But Enoch Golden was not to be lightly dissuaded from his task of consolation. "I'll toll you what I believe, my girl. I bolieve everything's all right, no matter what you think. Everything's going to come out all right. Before the week Is out, if what the police tell me Is true, we're going to have this man Legar safe behind the prison bars where he belongs. What's troubling me more than David Manley, Just now. Is the problem of this Laughing Mask person. I had nothing loss than a deputy commissioner call me up this morning, for the authorities down in Center street are convi red of the fact this Laughing Mask would bo a better haul than even Legar himself. They claim to havo a clear record against him, and in ten minutes I've got to face a delegation from the detective bureau and tell them for the twentieth time just how .v.v !yv.(yv Beside the Door Was the Figure of a Young Woman. much, or rather, how little, I know about that mysterious stranger!" Later in her room Margery Golden, looking up, saw a figure in a yellow mask silently and pensively regarding her. "You are unhappy?" he quietly Inquired. "You seem to appear only on those occasions when I am," she slowly and thoughtfully replied. "You are wondering at this very moment if young Manley will ever come back to you." She colored a little as she stared up into the masked face. "Yes," she finally acknowledged, "that is something I must know." "Why?" She remained silent. "Is it because you care for him?" "Yes, It Is because I care for him a great deal," she found the courage to reply. He turned about and tip-toed to the door. There, carefully nursing the knob in the palm of his hand, he re leased the catch and swung the door suddenly inward. And crouched low In the hallway, close beside the door frame, was the figure of a young woman wearing i housemaid's apron. The startled young woman, on discovering that she had been detected in the act of listening at a keyhole, sprang to her feet and fled like a shadow down the long hallway. "Why, that was one of our maids!" cried the astonished girl. "And also a secret agent of the Iron Claw's," announced the man in the mask. "But what are you going to do?'demanded the puzzled girl. "I'm going to show that I'm still your friend, and at the same time Drove that tbia particular J s your

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enemy," called hack the iCan'TO the mask. But that particular maid, realizing apparently that events were shaping themselves Into some final issue, lost no time In loitering along the hallway of that shadowy house. She ran straight to the heavy folding doors which shut off the library wherein, she knew, Enoch Golden was already conferring with his circle of officers from the detective bureau. Opening these doors, she confronted those startled officials. "If you're after that man you call the Laughing Mask," she announced in her shrill soprano, "you'll find him here in this house, at this very moment." "In this house?" echoed the astounded old millionaire. "You'll find him," shrilled the whitefaced maid, "in Margery Golden's room. And the 80oner you get there the better!" They rose as one man and moved towards the door. But they did not pass through that door. They came to a pause, for the very material reason that a man in a yellow mask, holding a revolver in his hand, confronted them from the hallway. "Just a moment, gentlemen," this masked stranger suavely announced, although the suavity of his voice was somewhat discounted by the obviously menacing position of his firearm. "Since denunciations seem to be in order, will you permit me to point out to you that the young lady who has Just addressed you Is Betsy LeMarsh, alias Williamsburg Sadi not only one of the most adroit woman crooks in the city, but also an emissary and agent of Jules Legar himself!" Having made that speech, the Laughing Mask promptly swung the heavy folding doors shut. He did so before one of the astonished onlookers could interfere. Then he turned the key in the snaplock, and ran headlong along the quiet hall. He all but collided with Margery Golden herself. "Hero's where I take time by the forelock," he grimly announced, as he darted across the room to a huge oldfashioned grandfather's clock which stood against the farther wall. The astonished girl saw him swing open the door and step inside the clock. Then she turned quickly about, for the men from the central office were already In the room. And she had no desire to make their task easier for them. "That man came into this room!" declared one of the older men, challenging the half-smiling girl with an Indignant forefinger. "Where is he?" "How should I know?" asked the calm-eyed young woman. "Well, he's here, and we'll get him," declared the man who seemed to be the leader of the others. Then Margery Golden's heart suddenly came up into her mouth, for she could seo that he was hurrying across the room in the direction of the clock. She could see his right hand go into "his pocket and whip out a revolver as his left hand threw open the 'little black-walnut door along the face of the clock. Then sho breathed again, for the clock was empty. But the man with the revolver had dropped to his knees and was patting interrogatively about the clock base. "I thought so !" he suddenly called out. "There's a spring trap here that opens through the floor. Quick, some of you men, get down to the basement!" Margery Golden was even able to smile again. "Wilson," Bhe said, "be so good as td show these gentlemen the way to the basement. And then be so good as to have Miss Betsy LeMarsh come here." But Miss Betsy LeMarsh had commandeered a hat and coat belonging to her mistress, possessed herself of a Jeweled ring or two and a small morocco case, which she discreetly stowed away as she stole quietly down the servants' stairs, and slipped out through the shrubbery. So preoccupied was she, however, In putting distance between her and the house which she had Just left that she failed to observe a figure simultaneously and quite as eagerly emerging from a basement window. Yet as she hurriedly rounded the block, in eager quest of a taxicab, this figure showed an unmistakable interest in her movements. And when she had finally hailed a taxicab and climbed into it, the stranger in a yellow mask so cautiously shadowing her made a signal to the driver of a mysterious limousine, which seemed to be casually engaged in following his own movements. "Follow that taxicab," he commanded his driver as he leaped Into the still-moving car. The man in the limousine sat tense and silent, watching the flight for mile after mile. 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lace a Japairneff tin dot, remarkably similar to an actor's make-up box. Balancing this on his knees, he first removed his mask of yellow cloth, adjusted a small folding mirror to the box lid, and busied himself with the assortment of pigments and cosmetics of the make-up putty therein contained. The clear-lined face which first gazed Into the folding mirror slowly but unmistakably became converted into something repellant to the eye. The next moment the limousine came to a stop at the roadside. "That taxicab has Just turned in at the Bellaire inn," the well-trained driver called back to his master. "So I notice. And that's the place, I'll wager, where Legar himself is trying to keep under cover." "There's the woman herself, running up the steps," announced the driver. "So I also observe. And under the circumstances, I think it would be best for you to slip after her, as quietly and quickly as you can." "Yes, sir!" "Then come back to the car and report to me the number of the room she asks for. Find out the number, whatever happens. For in that room," I imagine, we're going to encounter our old friend of the Iron Claw."

The Flash for Help. Jules Legar was in anything but an amiable frame of mind, and when Williamsburg Sadie was quietly ushered into room 307 of the Bellaire inn, he greeted her with a malignant scowl which she promptly and openly resented. " "You don't seem exactly crazy to see me," she announced as she watched Legar lock the door through which she had Just entered. His right arm, she noticed, was carried in a voluminous white cotton sling. "Didn't I tell you to keep away from this dump?" he wrathfully reminded her. "Well, I didn't come because I wanted to!" was the other's retort "What's wrong?" "Everything's wrong! Old Golden had a bunch of flatties in his house, and that Laughing Mask boob squealed on me to the bunch. So I had to beat it." Legar swung about on her. "And you beat it straight here, in open daylight, leaving a paper-chase trail at your heels!" There was rage in his voice. "I tell you I left no trail. , I've got my own scalp to take care of. And if I've taken a, chance to beat JJ. y j here Get Rid of That Miserable Feeling There are few diseases that make one feel more miserable than a disorreder stomach. Mrs. A. Wingale, Gorham, N. Y., writes: "I began using Chamberlain's Tablets about five years ago. At that time I was having a great deal of trouble with my stomach. I suffered great distress due to indigestion and constipation. Nothing did me much good until I got Chamberlain's Tablets." Obtainable everywhere. Adv. Q . Q 04 "Just What I Want!" "Give me cake made with Calumet I know what I'm getting I know it's pure, wholesome, nourishing, tempting and tasty. "It's all in Calumet's wonderful leavening and raising power its absolute purity. Use Calumet for uniform results and economy." Received Highest Awards Krw Cut Btk frtr tu Slip In Pnrnd Ca. w CHICAGO

and put yCu w&e, ft seems Fo me there's more than this grouch-talk comin' to me!" "Then, for the love of heaven, woman, don't holler so the whole house will hear you! Speak quietly." A one-sided smile played about the hardened face of that worldly wise young woman. "I guess you're kind o' losin' your nerve," she contemptuously announced. "Listen to me, my girl. I've been at this game longer than you have, and I've learned there are times when even walls have ears." - The woman laughed. "Then you'd better get earmuffs on that window sill, for I've got a hunch it's r Her voice died away at the same moment that the smile vanished from her face. "Dont turn around," she said in a sudden startled whisper as she looked down at her feet "For there's a man's face starin' in at that window now." Legar remained motionless. "What face?" he quietly asked. "Its the man in the Laughing Mask!" was the whispered response. Legar continued to stare at her, still motionless. "That means he came up by the fireescape," meditated the fugitive. "And that means Red Egan must surely have seen him." The next moment the man with his arm in a sling had thrown the bandage aside and was running towards the window that opened on the fireescape landing. To Be Continued.

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ECONOMY, InL, Sept ,28.Auut Mary Ann Williams, 87, who has lived in Economy ever since her husband, Jesse Williams, died, which has been 30 years ago, will leave the house In town and live with her son, Rufus Williams the remainder of her life on the old home farm, one and one-half miles east of town. URGES EVERYONE TO QUICKLY GET ON WATER WAGON Drink Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast to Wash Out Poisons. . To see the tinge of healthy bloom in your face, to see your skin get clearer and clearer, to wake up without a headache, backache, coated tongue or a nasty breath, In fact to feel your best, day in and day out, just try inside-bathing every morning for one week. Before breakfast each day, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it as a harmless means of washing from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day's Indigestible waste, sour bile and toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast A quarter pound of limestone phos phate will cost very little at the drug store but is sufficient to demonstrate that just as soap and hot water cleanses, sweetens and freshens the skin, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the blood and internal organs. Those who are subject to constipation, bilious attacks, acid stomach, rheumatic twinges, also those whose skin is sallow and complexion pallid, are assured that one week of inside bathing will have them both looking and feeling better in every way. Adv. USE COOPER'S BLEND Coffee COOPER'S GROCERY 33l

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