The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-02-12

Igx$y \ anxiety passed over The
tHfRlE face of my house mate
INIIBIhb Strange. thought, that
lllllIIU 4 Carlton Clarke. the great
hsdshsiszstas tclepathic detective, should
be disturbed by so ordIn
airy an event as the receipt Of tcle
gram. Clarke took the yellow en-
yelop" and held It thouGhtfully in
his hand as a woman studies q telc
gram before summoning the courage
20 open IT.
do you remember Thaida?" he
nSked suddenly, still holding the en-.
yclope as | signed the messengers
book
Did ] remember Thaida2 As II |
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 pu2zling mystery Of the
blue Bokhara."
i see You do" continued Clarke.
We'll, my mind has been filled with
torebodings 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 It hastily. a look of distress.
passing quickly to a black frown Of
anger, oyrrsprcad his face Without
word he passed the message TO me
read.
"On board S, S. Magellan. of Pen.
sacoln, Fla. MarcOni Station The
VOLTS fangs-"
No signature, cipher? None that
was familiar with yet II must have
a meaning and deep and terrible
one, for as | looked at Clarke his eyes
blazed with anger and beneath It he
wore look of the deepest concern.
1T is from her The wolff must
save her but how? Sexton. can /
count on your"
You know that without asking"
replied, but | haven't the slightest
idea what 1t all means"
"Of course not Come into the II.
brary and will tell you while we
plan some method of action. do not
yet knows what
Il first met Thaida." continued
Clarke, when we were seated In the
library, when | was an inferno at
BELLEVUE. She was studcat, delying
deeper than the mind OF woman or.
dinarily goes into subjects phil.
osophical and psychological. She
was true friend, n jovlal com.
panion, and these traits, allied with
the beauty of which you can testify,
had the effect Of gathering about her
an ever enlarging court. But with an
admirable reserve she held them all
at length.
! alone came the nearest to her.confl.
dence. and the life we lived was Ideal,
both too busy for our chosen work to
mar II 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 were
attracted to him by his love of the
occult which he had studied In India,
In Tibet, wherever the minds OF think
ers run In the direction OF the unknow.
able. He was suave, handsome and,
at first charming In every way. II
was not long however until his ad.
vances to Thaida became 80 pro-
nounced as to cause her to fear him
and me to hate him with all my heart.
When 1t became necessary for her
definitely 10 repel his offers he went
out of our sphere as suddenly as he
had entered II, 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
H. After he left. translating his name
literally, we called him the wolf.
We often talked lokingly OF the time
when the threatened fangs of the
wolf would close upon u.s. The fangs
OF the wolf II must be Thaida."
As Clarke was speaking the bell
rang again and a second messenger
arrived. Clarke feverishly tore open
the cover and reading IT passed It to
me. II was:
- have struck. Save me-"
Like the first 1t was sent by Marconl
system from the steamship Magellan.
Wait" exclaimed Clarke. I'VE can
do nothing. There will be q 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. II read: i
- come to -
Would there be q fourth that would
give ~ the final clue? All the day we ]