The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30
{ BROKEN
MARCONIGRAM
BY FRANK LOWELL NELSON.

Telegram for you. Clarke" I said.
US took the message which the boy
nehvered at the door of our Oak street
apartments one morning in midsum-
ner. A shade OF anxiety passed over
the race OF my housemate. Strange, l
.noogN, that Carlton Clarke, the great
teiepathic detective. should be dis
iurped by so ordinary an event as the
receipt OF a telegram.
clarke took the yellow envelope and
heid 1t thoughtfully in his hand as
woman studies "A telegram before sum-
moning the courage to open it.
DO you remember Thaida - he asked
suddenly, still holding the envelope as
signed the. messengers book.
Did l remember Thaida? AS if / could
forget that glorious vision of young
Nonanhood that had flashed into our
presence in the ghetto district of New
York, and whose psychometric mind
had aided us in the solution of the puz-
ziing mystery of the BLUE Bokhara."
Il see you do" continued Clarke
well, my mind has been filled with
forebodings concerning her all morning
i have no word from her for several
weeks. Something tells me that this
message concerns her and that the
news is not good. We will see," and he
tore open the envelope and read it
hastily. A look of distress, passing
quickly to black frown of anger.
overspread his face. Without a word
he passed the message to me- l read:
"On board S. S. Magellan, off Pensa-
cola, Fla, Marconi station. The VOLTS
fangs-"
No signature. A cipher? None that
/ was familiar with. yet it must have
a meaning and a deep and terrible one
for as / looked at Clarke his eyes
biazed with anger and beneath it he
wore look of deepest concern.
1T is from her. The wolf! 1 must
save her. but how? Sexton, can /
count on you?"
You know that without asking" I
replied; but | haven't tie slightest
idea what il all means"
'Of course not. Come into the library
and j will tell you while we plan some
method of action, l do not yet know
what.
81 first met Thaida." continued
Clarke, when we were seated in the Ii
brary, when l was an inferno at Belle
vue. She was a student. delving deeper
than the mind of woman ordinarily
goes into subjects philosophical and
psychological. She was a true friend,
a jovial companion. and these traits
allied with the beauty of which you can
testify, had the effect of gathering
about her an ever charging court But
with an admirable reserve she held
them all at length.
Il alone came the nearest to her con-
fidence, and the life we lived was ideal,
Doth too busy for our chosen work TO
mar II by thoughts of anything closer.
both protected. she by her wOmanly re-
serve, L by my sincere. respect for her
Then Compile Armand de Loup
came into our lives. He was a young
French nobleman, very rich. living
where and how he pleased We were
attracted TO him by his love of the oc-
cult which he had studied in India. i'm
Tibet, wherever the minds of thinkers
run in the direction of the unknowable
He was suave. handsome and, at first
charming in every way. 1t was not
long, however, until his advances to
Thaida became so pronounced as TO
cause her to fear him and me TO hate
him with all my heart. When it be-
came necessary for her definitely to re-
pei his offers he went out of our sphere
a : suddenly as he had entered it, but
leaving behind him his curses and his
VOWS of the most terrible vengeance
his fiery Gallo spirit could invent
Nine years have passed since then
and no blow has fallen, unless this is it.
After he left, translating his name lit
orally. we called him the wolf We
often talked jOkingly of the time when
the threatened fangs of the wolf would
close upon us. The fangs of the wolf
1t must be Thaida."
AS Clarke was speaking the bell
rang again and a second messenger ar
rived. Clarke feverishly tore open the
cover and reading it passed it TO me. 1t
was:
have struck. Save me-"
Like the first ii was sent by Marconi
system from the steamship Magellan.
Wait" exclaimed Clarke. I'VE can
do nothing. There will be a third She
is sending me word despite some terri
bic obstacle"
He had hardly finished when the