SERIAL
STORY
By
JACQUES FUTRELLE
3e
IMustrations by M. KETTNER
Copyriat t, 1908 by The Associated Sunday Magazines
Jopyright 19, uy The Bobbe Merrill Company.
SYNOPSIS.
Count Al Rosini, the
sador, is at dinner with
& messenger summons
bassy, where a beautiful
asks for a ticket to the
The ticket is made out in
Miss Isabel Thorne. Chief
the secret service, and Mr
head detective, are
brewing in Washington,
to the state ball for Information
tention is calle to Miss Isabel
who with her companion
shot is heard and Senor Alvarez of the
Mexican legation, is found wounded.
Grimm Is assured Miss Thorne did it, h
visits her, demanding knowledge
affair, and arrests Pletro Petrozinnl
Thorne visits an old bomb-maker and they
discuss a wqnderful experiment
thousand dollars is stolen from
of Sermr Ro the minister from
Venezuela, ar p detectives are In-
vestigating th Mise Thorne ap-
pears as a guest of the legation
accuses her of the theft an
her with deportation.
a
Italian
him to the em-
YOUng woman
embassy ball
the
Campbell
Grimm,
of
his
and Grimm goes
His at-
Thorne,
' shbary
CHAPTER Xl.—~—(Continued.)
“But innocent?
tested
“You must prove it”
Grimm mercilessly. “Personally, | am
convinced, and Count di Rosin
practically assured me that—"
“It's unjust!” she interrupted
sionately “It's — it's you
proved nothing. It's unheard of!
beyond—!!’
Suddenly she became silent
ute, two minutes, three
passed; Mr. Grimm
“Will you give me time and oppor
tunity to prove my Innocence?”
demanded finally. “And if 1
vince you—17
“1 should be delighted believe
that I have made a mistake Mr.
Grimm assured her. “How much time?
One day? Two days?”
if 1 am she pro
continued Mr
pas
have
It's
A min
do con
to
at your office,” she told him
Mr. Grimm rose
“And meanwhile, in case of accident,
i shall look to Count di Rosin! for ad-
justment,” he added pointedly. “Good-
morning.”
One hour and ten minutes later he
received this note, unsigned:
“Closed carriage will stop for you
at southeast corner of Pennsylvania
Avenue and Fourteenth Street tonight
at one.”
He waa there; the carriage was on
time; and my lady of mystery was in-
side. He stepped Ia and they swung
“But If | Am Innocent?”
lessly over the asphalt,
hands now, within the hour,”
~-the thief?”
“It would,” Mr.
without hesitation.
“Even if it destroyed a reputation?”
she pleaded.
Grimm responded |
dare say in thls case there would be
no arrest or prosecution, because of--
of reasons which appear to be good.”
“There wouldn't?” and there was a
note of eagerness in her volce. “The
fdentity of the gullty person would
never aptgar?’
“It wg:ad become a matter of record
in our JfMce, but beyond that I think
not-- at least in this one instance.”
Mass Thorne sat silent for a block
or more.
“You'll admit, Mr. Grimm, that you
have forced me Into a most remark.
eble position. You seemed convinced
of my gullt, and, if you'll pardon me,
without reason; them you made it
compulsory upon me to establish my
fnnocence. The only way for me to
do that was to find the gullty one. !
have done it, and I'm sorry, because
it's a little tragedy.”
Mr. Grimm waited,
“It's a girl high in diplomatic so
Her father’s position is an hon-
a lucrative one;
he has no fortune.
in a certain set devoted to bridge, and
stakes are high. She played and won,
until
thousand
her winnings were about elght
dollars. Then
Her money went,
some old family jewels were
without her father's knowl
and ultimately they were lost
day she awoke to the fact that
owed some nine or ten thousand
in bridge debts. They were
and there was no way to
This meant exposure and
and women do strange
Grimm, to postpone such
ending to social aspirations. 1
this much is true, for she re
it all to me herself.
last, in some way-——a misplaced
perhaps, or a word overheard
thousand dollars
would be in the legation bank over:
night, and evidently she learned the
precise night.” She paused a moment
“Here is the address of a man in Bal
timore, Thomas Q. Griswold,” and she
passed a card to Mr. Grimm, who sat
motionless, listening “About four
pawned
One
she
pressing
utter
things,
an
ruin,
Mr.
“At
letter,
This man was
there
tion safe was changed.
to make the change,
the combination. I have
this man today,
for I saw the possibility of just such
a thing as this instead of your steth-
By a trick and a forged let
ter this girl obtained the combination
does know
OScope
Mr. Grimm drew a long breath
“She intended to take, perhaps, only
needed—but
sight of it all—do you see what
been the temptation then?
here.”
We
many unanswered ques
Grimm's mind He
for the time, stepped out
and assisted Miss Thorne ight.
The carriage had turned out of Penn.
sylvania Avenue, and at the moment
There
tions in
were
Mr
them
re-
to al
the rear entrance
bly in the next street
unhesitatingly,
and to
evidently
house poss
Thorne led
yusly
the way
unlocked
gether entered a
there was a short flight of stairs
ped into a
She closed the door
lights
bags of gold are in the next
the utmost com
the door
1
they hall
they ste room
and
on the
“The
ashe sald with
posure
Mr them
there
dragged out
dark opened one
ten-——and allowed the coins
through his fingers. Finally he turned
and stared at Miss Thorne, who, pal
lid and weary, stood looking on
"Where he asked. “What
this?
Grimm
closet, were
Aare w ar
is
she an
than
“The Venezuelan legation™
swered “We are standing less
forty feet from the safe that
robbed You see how easy ™
“And whose room? inquired
slowly
I answer?”
Mr
“Must she asked appeal
ingly
“You must!”
“Senorita Rodriguez-—my hostess!
Don't you see what you've made me
do?! She and Mr. Cadwallader made
the trip to Baltimore in his automo
bile, and—and—!" She stopped. "He
knows nothing of It.” she added
“Yes. 1 know,” sald Mr. Grimm
He stood looking at her In silence
for a moment, staring deeply into the
pleading eyes; and a certain tense ex
pression about his lips passed For
her hand trembled on his
arm, and he caught the fragrance of
he asked
replied
“Where is she now?”
“Playing bridge” Mins
“It is
She im-
Mr
extended both hands
“Please be generous,
Grimm. You have the gold;
her.”
Senor Rodriguez,
the minister from
Mr. Grimm, in which there
found And
CHAPTER xi.
The Vanishing Diplomatist.
It was three days after the ambas
sador's disappearance that Monsieur
| bassy and temporary charge-d'affaires,
i reported the matter to Chief Camp
{ bell In the Secret Service Bureau, add.
several singular incidents following
close upon it. He told it in order,
concisely and to the point, while
Grimm and his chief listened.
“Monsieur Bolssegur, the ambassa
dor, you understand, is a man whose
habits are remarkably regular,” he be
gan. “He has made it a rule to be
at his desk every morning at ten
o'clock, and between that time and
one o'clock he dictates his corre
spondence, and clears up whatever
routine work there is before him. 1
have known him for many years,
and have been secretary of the em.
bassy under him in Germany and
Japan and In this country. I have
never known him to vary this general
order of work unless because of {ll
ness, or necessary absence.
“Well, Monsieur, last Tuesday--this
is Friday--the ambassador was at his
desk as usual. He dictated a dozen
or more letters, apd had begun anoth-
era private letter to his sister In
Paris. He was well along in this les
ter when, without any apparent rea.
son, he ruse from his desk and left
room, closing the door behind
His stenographer's impression
was that some detail of business had
occurred to him, and he
the general office to
may say, Monsleur, that
that he left a fresh cigarette burning
in his ash
hind his ear. It
merely stepped
turn immediately
Monsieur,
done.
“It go happened that when he went
nut he left a sentence of his Intter
incomplete. 1 tell you this to show
that the impulse to go must have been
a sudden one, yet there was nothing
in his manner, so his stenographer
says, to Indicate excitement, or any
other than his usual frame of mind. It
was about flve minutes of twelve
o'clock—high noon-—when he went
out. When he didn't return immed!
ately the stenographer began tran
scribing the letters. At one o'clock
Monsieur Bolssegur still had not re.
turned and his stenographer went to
luncheon.”
As he talked, some inbred
ment seemed to be growing upon him,
due, perhaps, to his recital of facts
and he paused at last to regain con-
trol of himself. Incidentally he won
dered if Mr. Grimm was taking the
slightest interest in what he was say-
ing Certainly there was nothing in
his Impassive face to indicate it
“Understand, Monsieur,” the
tary continued after a moment, “that
I knew nothing whatever of ail this
until late that afternoon—that is,
Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock
was all as if he had
out, Intending to re-
the sort of thing,
that any man might have
excite
secre
“Now, Monsieur, There Are Only Twe
Entrances to the Embassy.”
fm
and bad
r Boils
upon some
portant office
had no
work In my
occasion to see Monsieu
word or so when he
ten o'clock. My attention
affair finally by his
Monsieur Netterville,
jctions. He
in at
to the
stenographer,
who came to me for instr
finished the letters and the am
had not returned to sign
this point I began an in
Monsieur, and the further
the more uneasy 1 grew
“Now, Monsiet
sador
At
vestigation,
em
, there are only two
bassy the front
door, where a servant is in constant
attendance from nine in the morning
ten at night, and rear door,
which can only be vagh
the kitchen. Neither of the men
who had been stationed at front
door had seen the
breakfast therefore
gone that way. C«
seemed ridiculous Monsieur,
t to the kitchen. The chef had
been there all day, and had not
seen the ambassador at all I inquired
further No one in the embassy, not
a clerk, nor a servant, nor a member
of the ambassador's family had seen
him since he left his office.”
Again he paused and ran
across his troubled brow
(TO BE CONTINU
How He Timed His Talk.
A successful salesman for a hard
ware line of goods had a novel way
last season of exciting at least a
momentary interest in his prospective
customers in the new territory he had
been given. On entering the office of
his prospect his first remark was
“Mr. Smith, we are both business
men With whom time Is money i
a. em
the
reached thro
two
the
aseador since
iid not have
ymprenez? It
but
amt
he eon
out
then
he
one hand
ED.)
of mine.
Umit.”
et quickly and placed on the desk of
known hour glass, dut containing only
lower compartment.
overtalk the limit."--System.
Morgan, Sentimentalist.
The sentimentalist of the world of
finance Is J. Plerpont Morgan.
gives money widely and recklessly to
help men who think they have some
wonderful Invention or other thing
that will be a sensational benefit to
the human race. A few years ago an
electrical experimenter got some
friends to obtain a hearing for him
with Morgan. He had plans for the
greatest of all Inventions. He had no
money himself; he had no backing.
He went away with a fat check, but
returned for more again and again.
In the course of time he received
$150,000 to perfect his wonder, but i
was not perfected even then. He
made a final appeal for $560,000 more.
Morgan wanted to send it to him, but
some of the other members of the
firm induced the banker to shut down
on the supplies until there should be
more signs of making good.
————————_
THE NEWS OF
PENNSYLVAXIA
————
The
Company,
lL.ehigh Coal
which
Nesquehoning
& Navigation
all the land throughout the Panther
Creek Valley, through which
of anthracite
in the entire world
nounced that it will construct one
the largest
world a
owns
runs
one the richest coal
veins has an-
of
the
this
breakers In
from
place, one that will cost several
lions of dollars and having
nual output of a million tone of coal.
The plan of the company is to drive
a tunnel from the top of Nesquehon-
ing Mountain down to a level of sev-
eral hundred feet below the surface
of the main valley, where another
shaft will be erected at the breaker
and the two shafts will be connected
by which coal will
be conveyed great distances
I'he breaker erected midway
between this and Lansford,
where for a of five miles
and a width miles no coal
has yet mined, but where {it
axists in exhaustless quantities All
plans and arrangements have been
completed by the company, which ex-
ve this mammoth
in VOars
coal
short distance
mil-
an an-
a tunnel through
from
will be
place
distance
of several
been
pects to ha
in
colliery
operation two
to
Monday in
mend-
of
for
the
who
McKeesport City officials be
deprived of offi first
by
the
ce the
December, reason of an a
governing
try again
hold, with
Arthur
vilege
ment to law cities
the
the
excep! fon of
third-class, will
they n«
Mayor H. 8
d that
that the an
by
places )W
nitte
signed by Governor
without cting general
tax
Pennsylvani;
were injured
between
NO
with Er
ductor H
lided near the d
Hazleton
and the
1 OXpPress:
ir th
1e provision
ie Mayor, City Treasurer and
cted
expire
‘ity C here were old
1 their tern
omptiroller
in 1910, an
in 1813, the
sg will
the next mu-
1811
vear of
yn after that of
icipal elect
South Bethlehem More than two
hundred n Clauss fam-
ily attended the ninth annual reunion
at Waldheim Park The Clausses,
who from the Bethlehems
Phi yhia, Limeport, Saegeravilie,
Fast Raubsville and vari
ous towne, are de-
scendants Nathan and Dan
Clauss
an
embers of the
cam 0
ladely
Greenville,
Lehigh county
of
fel
I.ebanon - Grant, seven-year-old
gon of Grant Wagner, of Palmyra,
was perhaps fatally injured, and Mrs
John Lettich, near Palmyra, seri-
ously hurt,
by them was struck by
Valley Street Railway
gardner's Lane, two
Palmyra.
of
a Lebanon
car at Bom-
miles east of
Mrs
of a prominent
Lancaster
a member
House
husband
{ll health for some time.
Hazleton.
in the woods,
ning during a short thunderstorm
and instantly killed. Andrew Kow-
a boy with him, was knocked
down by the same bolt,
injury,
Marietta. —A mad dog was killed
on the Duffy farm, just north of
town, after it had bitten several dogs,
and gave several men a chase.
Temple — While Edwin M. Becker,
an employee at the Muhlenberg
Brewing plant, at Hyde Park, near
here, was working on the third floor
he was stricken with paralysis and
fell a distance of twenty feet from a
window to the roof of the boller
house, sustaining a compound frac-
ture of the skull, resulting in death.
Carlisle, — Contention among the
directors of the Shippensburg Table
& Manufacturing Company caused
application to be made for a receiver.
The hearing is to be held on August
5. The capital stock is $25,000.
porter are one 40) lar per you: in sdvsn o
piny edvert sing occupying less space than ten
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DEMOCRATIC.
FOR BHERIFF,
Weare authorized Ww aunounos thet Acthar B,
[re of Potter township. is a candidate fir the
office of Sheriff, subject to the rules aud reguls-
tions of the Dem cratic primaries 0 bs held
Beptemver 4, paid
We are suthorised t» sunounce tbat D, J
Gilugery, of Huston township, lx as candidate 0°
the office of Khe If subject Lo the decls gn of the
Democratic prima: ies 10 be held on Bept-mber 50
FOR COUNTY OOMMISSIONER
We are anthorised 0 announce that John R
i#mon ot Ferguson townsh'p is a candidaee 1.8
the office of Commissioner, sublect WW the Usage
of the Democratic party
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Runkle, of Poiter wownship, is a candidates for
the office of County Comm isstoner subject to the
rules and reguistions of the Demo atic Barty.
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voles of the onunty ss expressed al the 117i
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the « foe of County Commissioner, sublegl 10 the
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candidate tor the offices of County Commissioner,
subject to the decks otis of 1} Dewaocratic pris
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Treasurer of Centre county, subject to the dsl
sion of the Democratic primaries 10 be held 5 pe
ten ber 50 J. MITCHEL CUNNINGHAM
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3
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W. Grebe, of Phlilpeburg Borough,
date for the office of County Tressurer
to the dechhion the Democratic primar
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f« & candi
sutject
jos Ww De
paid
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Rew l ter, sutfect 10 the ushgos «
party
the Frank
is 8 canuidate for
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re authoriz+d 15 sanocun
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office of Keocorder of Cet *
the decivdon of the Democratic voters
! rou iy as expressed at the general pt
iaries Ww be held mslurday, September 30. paid
that D. A
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tre oo
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office of District Allorney, subject 10 Lhe
¢! the Democratic party.
Paal
the
Ee ]
pasd
We are authorized (0 aunsounce that J. Kenne.
dy Jobopsion, of Bellefonte, is a candidate for the
oftos of District Attorney, subject Ww the sotion
of the Democratic volers al Lhe primary election
t 0 be held Seplember 8, paid
FOR PROTHONOTARY
We are authorised © sanounos that D, R
Foreman, of the Borough of Beli -fonte, is 8 can
didate for the office of Prothonotary, subject, to
the ueng es of the Democratic party Pad.
REPUBLICAN.
FOR COUNTY COMMIS
TO EDITOR RRPORTER I thereby announce
myse'f as & candidate for County Commissioner,
subject 10 the decision of the Republican voters
at Lhe primaries 1 be held Sept 30, 1911
JAOGE WOODRING,
Port Matilda. Pa
eo EDITOR REPORTER--1 hereby announes
wel f a8 a candidate for County Commissioner
po Jeot to the decisin of ihe Re ab oan voles
al the primaries to be bed Sept. 30, vil,
HARRY E. ZIMMERMAN,
Springtownship
Formerly of Benner township
INER
FOR REBGI
TO EDITOR REPORTER
myself! ass candidate for Register of Centre
county, subject to the decison of the a De
jean voters al the primaries io be held Seps
0, 19
FDWARD J. WILLIAMS,
Uunlonvilie, Pa
TER
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