Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 283, 14 October 1916 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, OCT. 14,1916

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JRON (PLAW"

BY ARTHUR STRINGER

f fRead this etory In the palladium ind mi It at tha Palaea. - Ttiea ITT abut the vault door. And tha aoonar we get out to your ear tha battar!" He toed watching bar u aha crossed to the heavv safe door and

twnnf It shut Ha saw her gloved fhand go op to tha nickeled handle, to throw on tha lock. Than aba did a ,'ttartllng and unexpected thins. With ; an oddly hlrdllka movement of the I hand aha stopped and stared Intently ; at his figure, clearly outlined against tha dark folds ot the portiere behind him. ' Then, instead of Rocking the vault door, she took four quick steps to the heaTlly car?ed teakwood table on bar right. Prom this she caught up a Roman lamp of heavy bronze, hurling

it with all her force at tha swaying portiere behind him at the same moment that aha uttered her sudden scream of warning. For from the folda of that nortlere

its uu cauiii mbi ui mil iron cibw ai the end of a preternaturally long arm. And as this Iron claw was lifted high in 'the air iba caught the glint of a naked steel knife-blade, pointed and Slender, held, In some inexplicable manner, tn the clutch of that circle of iron. ! , 'Xegar, was all aha had time to cry but as the bronze lamp went swinging against that upraised tentacle of wood and iron. But the warning was suf

, flclent , The Laughing Mask, leaping to one side, escaped before the knife could be recovered. Then he ran towarda the girl in tha center of the room, standing between her and the door, as though to shield her body with bis own, for by this time Legar was in the room Itself. And as he advanced on them ha tossed tha knife away and drew a revolver from his pocket But the man In tha mask, moving even more quickly than his enemy, swung the girl about and half carried and half dragged her back to the vault, J''ra with one tug of his free hand . sprung the heavy steel door half cpon. Legar fired, aa he did so, but the shot ricocheted harmlessly against the safe-front of Japanned steel. 'Father keeps a navy revolver In the coin drawer of the vault hare," called out the girl as the man in the mask pushed her deeper into the shad, ow of the protecting door. '' At the same moment that the Laughing Mask swung about and tugged open the coin drawer, JVilson and a round-eyed footman, having heard the sound of the shot, came running to the library door. But before that door could be opened, Legar, realizing that his time was short, had taken matters in ' his own band. Charging bodily against the half-closed vault door, he swung it shut before the meaning of his maneuver could be - understood. Then he threw on the lock, spun the dial, and wheeled about to cover the two white-faced and gaping-mouthed servants with bis revolver. "Stir one foot, either of yon, and ltH be your last move on this earth!" he cried aa he edged guardedly towards the door, still covermg them as he went. ' Ha would hsva reached. ths door and passed out through It without interruption, had not tha antaranoa door of the house bean thrown open tmA tha noise of many feat sounded through the wide hallway. And tha next s3o ment the Indignant votes of Enoch Golden could ba beard celling 1st his

vanished servants. Legar, with a movement of his weapon, motioned Wilson and tha shaking-kneed footman out through the door. Then, staring frantically about the room, he ran to a Peruglan panel screen of faded tapestry and crouched behind It, with bis revolver WW In his hand. j,', The next moment tha room was Slled with a clatter of hurrying feet and a babel of voices. Wilson, almost inarticulate with excitement, attempted for the third time to explain the situation to Enoch Golden and the officials from the central office who followed at his heels. ("My daughter, you say, shut up In tiat vault!" I "Yes, sir, shut up with the man In me yellow mask!" ; Golden was breathing hard aa ha stooped over the lock-dial and worked with shaking fingers on the combination.

""Stand ready. Captain Brackets, for yon know what this Laughing Mask is!" tha old capitalist warned tha officer beside him. Then Golden, throwing back the lock-bars, swung open tha vault door. But Instead of encountering a criminal with a drawn gun, they found only a somewhst droopfng-shouldered young man, in a yellow mask, supporting the body of a half-fainting girl. "Get aome water, somebody, quick! said the preoccupied young man in tha mask, as be stepped slowly and somewhat shakily out to the light But no one moved to obey that command. "So we've got you at last!" It was Enoch Golden who spoke, confronting the abstracted youth In the mask as the latter lifted away the girl's veil end stared half-emflingly down Into her white face at tha same time that she slowly opened her eyes. Then he looked up at the girl's father. "Yes, you've got me st last" ha quietly announced. "Then well Just see who It Is we've got!" declared the russet-faced officer as he stepped closer to the youth tn the yellow domino. With a quick move? ment of his hand he Jerked the mask from its wearer's face. Golden was not the only person In that circle who stood for a silent moment or two staring at the face so suddenly disclosed to them. "My God," gasped the old millionaire, dropping weakly Into a chair, "It's David Mauley! Ifs it's our own Davy!" "Well, whoever ha Is, and whatever ha Is, we've got him!" triumphantly announced tha russet-faced captain. And the watching circle could see the glint of the handcuffs which he so promptly and so pregnantly produced. "Yes, you've got me," acquieeeed their prisoner. "But there Is one person, remember, that yon have still failed to get And when yon get him, gentlemen, I'm afraid there's a chance of voar losisc me!" j . .

What"d' you mean by thai? demanded Golden. "And what d' yon mean by breaking Into my vault and carrying off my papersT" "The only thing I Intended to carry off, sir, was your daughter. And all your papers youll find quite Intact In your vault If I bid one of them, as I hid my own Identity, it was only to protect you and your house from tha Iron Claw!" "That sounds well,'' sneered the russet-faced captain. "But I want to see that chart with my own eyes." "Then supposing you look In tha safe for ft," suggested Manley. There waa a general movement towards the vault door. But at the same moment there was a mora abrupt movement from another part of the room. For Legar, realizing that the eyea of his enemies were directed towarda another quarter, stole from his hiding place and ran, crouching low, along the library wall towards the door. He had almost reached that door when Margery Golden, glancing up, caught sight ot the sinister and all too familiar figure. "The Iron Claw!" she cried. In a voice with alarm, aa Legar dove through the heavy portieres, swung out into the wide hallway. He darted through' a second room, sprang through still another door, and found himself in the conservatory. He sprang through the glass wall as unhesitatingly as a circus-rider springs through his paper-hoop, carrying leaded panes and the tendrils of climbing vines with him as he went He waa on his feet again, even before his pursuers bad awakened to the fact that he bad broken from the house. And before they came tumbling out of the house-door the fugitive had ducked under a hedge, vaulted a wall, and rounded the street corner. He was a desperate man now, ready to face a desperate chance. And that chance presented Itself to him as a trolley car came to a stop at the .avenue corner ahead, .of bim.

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and a SonductW, leaping tfoai its platform, crossed to a signal box at the roadside. The conductor had not yet returned to his oar when Legar sprang to the steps of the front platform and swung aboard. When the motorman standing there turned to expostulate at this overprecipitate invasion he found a revolver thrust against his ribs and an iron claw attempting to drag bim away from his controlling-lever. Being Celtic &nd a man of spirit be naturally resented such coercion. Disregarding the firearm, he snatched the controller handle of brass from Its standard and knocked aside his assailant's left hand at the same moment that he struck at the one-armed stranger's hatless head. But the one-armed stranger, fighting with a ferocity that knew no bounds, clawed and struck and kicked the wielder of the controller handle from the car platform, snatching his Improvised weapon from his fingers as he fell The next moment, realizing that a band of shouting pursuers had already debouched into the avenue behind him, the captor of the car slammed and locked shut the platform doors, threw on the power, and went careening off up the empty street The fugitive looked back for a moment, only to discover that the police captain at the head of his band of pursuers had already commandeered a passing automobile and piled his men into it So Legar. Jrni2iJjasJco.j!ij controller, threw on the" last Volt Of power and sent his car bounding along the rails as that car had never before bounded. As It careened northward, block by blocX a high-jpowr motor

3ar" crowded with srmca men exsw slowly down on It The trolley car thundered on, with its wheel-flange, screaming against thf switch curve as It swung down the approach to Viaduct bridge. It pounded on as the predating tracks, smiting "talletlike on their overtaxed metal guides, refused to conform to so flimsy a g-ardlan. It pounded across the footpati. of the high-arched bridge, and leaped Ilka " hunter through (he wrought-lron guard rails along the bridge side, catapulted out Into space, and turned one complete somersault aa it fell into tha valley below. There it crashed head-down on a macadam road as hard as stone, crashing under its weight ot splintering wood and twisted, steel the body ot tha onearmed man who had ventured to tamper with a power which he had been unable to control. It was an hour later that the still shaken yet lmpersonal-vlsaged Wilson ushered Into the presence of David Manley and Enoch Golden and his daughter Margery, a certain russetfaced police captain. That official, as he seated himself before tha rosewood desk and took a number of papers from his pockets, looked about with a smile that was neither altogether apologetic nor altogether triumphant

"Well, we've rounded up the last!

man of that Iron Claw band." he announced, with a passing touch ot animosity in his eyes as he looked about at young Manley. "And Legar?" 'asked the anxiouseyed girl on the other side ot the desk. "Legar, young lady,' waa stone dead before we could get him out from under that smashed trolley. But we found enough data on his body to gather in every crook that hung out in Owl's Nest, besides Red Egan's turned state's evidence, and, I migM

a&dVconf 2needas tactthM young

who was fool enough to parade around In a yellow mask wasnt as closely connected with that series of crimes as we ones supposed. And I call this day's work, sir, a round-up that tha polios may well ba proud of! "Bat the most remarkable haul of an, I think; is this portion of a map and coda chart which we found sewed np in Lager's clothing. Now, can yon explain to me the precise meaning of these hieroglyphlos, and tha reason why Legar should have been so anxious to obtain possession ot what I take to be the other half ot this chart?" Golden gased down at tha scrap of timewom paper aa it lay on tha polished rosewood desk, tha scrap of paper about which seemed to have revolved so many of his sorrows, so much of his life. Then he dropped back Into his chair, with a sigh, and looked wistfully np at the fair-haired girl who had crossed to his side. That's something, I'm afraid well have to go Into at soma future date," announced the grim-Jawed old millionaire, with a twitch of tha mouth that most unmistakably broadened Into a smile. "But why not now?" Inquired the offlosr, puzzled by tha older man's altogether undignified grimace. "Well, to tell the truth, captain, we've got to talk over the arrangements for a wedding to which these two young folks here seem to attach a ridiculous importance! And this girl of mine's got to find out what kind of flowers she's going to carry, or the whole solar, system's going to stop, and atop rlgfct nam," -.v -v -v .-. THE END, - -

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PURDUE EXPERIMENT ORCHARD YIELDS 250 BUSIES OF APPLES

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Oct 14. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Allison entertained at dinner a few days since, having aa their guests the Misses Ida and Elizabeth Williams, Grace Zeigler. Dublin; Miss Mary Adams, Centervtlle, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Allison, residing south of town.... The carpenters in this vicinity state that while they are not putting up many new. buildings at the present' time, yet all are busy remodeling property and repairing. Mrs. Mary Mask entertained at at o'clock dinner Thursday evening la honor of her guest Mrs. Emma Dills, Mammoth Springs, Ark. Pisces were arranged for Mrs. Dills, Mrs. Lydla Soles, Noblesville, Mrs. Hattle Heist. Milton, Mrs. Harriet Palmer. Miss Ruth Palmer, Mrs. Kate Reisor, Germantown, Mrs. J. L. McDanlel and Miss Amy McDanlel. L. J. Toms of St Louis, Is spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Toms Howard Whiteley reports that from the Purdue Experiment Orchard he has gathered, sorted and delivered two hundred and fifty bushels of first grade Grimes' Golden apples Mr. and Mrs. E. O. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Krahl and Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wright spent Thursday in Indianapolis. SETS "APPLE DAY.-

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