Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-02-11

A&S telepathic detective, should
be disturbed by so ordin-
airy an event as the receipt Of a tele-
gram. Clarke took the yellow en-
velope and held it thoughtfully in
his hand as q woman studies a tele-
gram before summoning the courage
to open 1t,
DO you remember Thaida?" he
asked suddenly, still holding the en-
velope as I signed the messengers
book.
Did ] remember Thaida? As If /
could forget that glorious vision OF
young ~womanhood that had flashed
into our presence in the ghetto dis
trict of New York and whose psy-
chometric mind had aided us In the
solution Of the puzzling mystery of the
blue Bokhara."
Il see you do" continued Clarke.
We'll, my mind has been filled with
f~orebodings concerning her all morn.
ing. ! 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 1t hastily. A look Of distress,
passing quickly to a black frown Of
anger, overspread his face. Without
a word he passed the message to me.
/ read:
"On board s. s. Magellan, off Pen
Sacola, Fla, Marconi Station. The
VOLTS ~fangs--"
No signature. A cipher? None that
I was familiar with, yet 1t must have
a meaning and a deep and terrible
one, for as ] looked at Clarke his eyes
blazed with anger and beneath it he
wore a look of the deepest concern
1T is from her. The wolff l must
SAY her, but how? Sexton, can /
count on your"
"You know that without asking" I
replied; but ! haven't the slightest
idea what it all means"
"Of course not. Come into the IL
brary and | will tell you while we
plan some method of action, l do not
yet know what.
Il first met Thaida," continued
Clarke, when we were seated in the
library, when I was an inferno at
Bellevue. She was a student, delving
deeper than the mind of woman or.
dinarily goes into subjects phil
osophical and psychological, She
was a true friend, a jovial com.
panion, ana 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.
! alone came tne nearest to her-confi-
dence, and the life we lived was ideal,
both too busy for our chosen work to
mar it by thoughts of anything closer,
both protected, she by her womanly
reserve, ! 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 we're
attracted to him by his love of the
occult which he had studied in India,
In Tibet, wherever the minds Of think.
ers U In the direction of the unknow-
able. He was suave, handsome and,
at first, cherming In every way. It
was not long however until his ad-
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.nounced as to cause her to fear him
and me to hate him with all my heart.
When 1t became necessary for her
definitely to repel his offers he went
out of u sphere as suddenly as he
had entered 1t, but leaving behind him
HIS curses and his VOWS of the most
terrible vengeance his fiery Gallo
spirit could invent.
Mine years have passed since then
and no blow has fallen, unless this is
1t. After he left. translating his name
literally, 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
arrived. Clarke feyerishly tore open
the cover and reading it passed 1t to
me. 1t was:
g. have struck. Save me-"
Like the first it was sent by Marconi
system from the steamship Magellan.
wait" exclaimed Clarke. 1--WE can
do nothing. There will be a third. She
is sending me word despite some ter
rible obstacle"
He had hardly finished when the
third message arrived. Sent from the
same station, it read:
-" come to ~"
Would there be a fourth that would
give US the final clue? All the day we
waited with all the patience we could
summon, but 1t came not. Clarke
spent the time porting over the time
tables Of the North and South lines. AT
last he gave up and throwing the time
tables from him he exclaimed: Some
thing has happened. She cannot fin.
ish. But there 10 another means If
only she will try 1t"
Then he lay back in his chair and
closed his eyes. For more than an
hour be did not stir. | began to think
he slept. Then he jumped up SO sud.
denly that he startled me.
Quick! ! have 1t. We are going.
Pack. Don't forget the arms and
plenty Of ammunition, and put In those
four autQmatics we gos the other day,