The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-02
SYNOPSIS.

Giles Dudley arrived in San Francisco
TO join his friend and distant relative
Henry Wilton. whom he was to assist
ma IN an important and mysterious task and and
ferry boat trip into the city. The re-
Inarkable resemblance of the two men
Is noted and commented on by passen-
gers on the ferry They see man with
snake eyes. which sends a thrill through
Dudley. Wilton postpOnes an explanation
OF the strange errand Dudley Is to per-
form. but occurrences cause him TO
know 1t is one of no ordinary meaning
Dudley Is summoned to the mOrSue and
there finds the dead body Of his friend
Henry Wilton. And thus Wilton dies
puzzling work he was to perform in San
Francisco. In order to discover the Sc
cret mission his friend had entrusted to
him. Dudley continues his disguise and
permits himself to be known as Henry
Wilton. He learns that there is a boy
whom he is charged with secreting and
protecting Dudley. mistaken for Will
ton. is employed by Knapp to assist
in a stock brokerage deal. Giles Dudley
finds himself closeted in a room with
Mother Borton who makes confidant
mysterious boy further than that it is
Tim Terrill and Darby Meeker who are
after him. Dudley visits the home of
Knapp aE and nd; is stricken by the beauty Of
through Chinatown is planned. The trip
TO Chinatown. Giles Dudley learns that
the party is being Swallowed by Terrill.
Lucia and Dudley are cut off from
the rest of the party and imprison-
ed in a hallway behind an iron-bOund
door. Three Chinese ruffians approach the
imprisoned couple. A battle ensueS. One
is knocked down. Giles begins firing. Tim
Terr:ll is seen in the mob. newly form
ed mob is checked by shots from Giles
revolver. Policeman CorsOn breaks down
the door with an AK and the couple Is
rescued. Lucia thanks Giles Dudley for
saving her life. Knapp appears at the
Office with no traces Of the previous
nights debauch. Following his instruc-
tions Dudley has a notable day in the
Stock Exchange. selling Crown Diamond
and buying Omega, the object being to
crush Decker. knapp,s hated rival; Dud-
ley discovers that he loves Luella Knapp.
Mother Borton tells Giles Dudley that
they've discovered where the boy is.
The mysterious unknown woman employ
er of Dudley meets him by appointment
with the boy who is turned over to
Dudley with his guards and they drive
with him to the ferry boat to take n train
guards convey the boy by train to the
village of LivermOre. AS per the written
Instructions. The party is followed. Soon
after the party is quartered in the hotel
gang including Darby Meeker and Tim
Terrill. lay siege to the hotel and en-
ieavor to capture the boy who comes
the youngsters face Its the wrong
boy" Dudley and Terrill meet in battle
of man to man. Dudley is knocked I'M
conscious by Terrill's assistant and
awakes to find himself in a hotel room
under care of his guards. The hotel Is
guarded by Terrill's men wrO are IN
structed to kill the first man who tries to
escape. Dudley gives the note to the one
eyed man. The boy Is left behind and
Dudley and his remaining guards make
their escape by horseback and by steal
ing a locomotive DOddridge Knapp and
Decker meet face to face on the stock
exchange. Decker is defeated. Dudley
and Knapp prevent "A coup to control the
directors and declare knapp'S stock in
valid. Mother BortOn is mortally wound
ed and dies before she can tell Dudley
the secret of his strange mission. The
Davis street den is visited to rescue
Farmhouse diagram that partially eX-
plains Dudley'S mission is found. Bark
house released. Dudley goes with mes
Senper TO meet the unknown woman
his mysterious employer. He is amazed
TO find that she is Mrs. Knapp. The boy
is rescued after a thrilling chase by
land and water Dudley learns that the
Wolf is not DOddridge Knapp. as he
had supposed. but is Elijah Lane. the
father Of the boy. and that Lane Killed
the boys mother. Mr.. and Mrs. Knapp
had been left trustees of the boy, who
inherits a vast fortune from his mother.
Mrs. knapp is trying to save the boy
from Lane who would probably do away
with him If he could get hold of him, IN
order to possess the fortune