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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30
FASHIONABLE HOME
RAIDED BY OFFICERS
(National News Association

MEMPHIS, Aug. 30.-Secret service
operatives today raided the fashiona-
BILE home of John G. Payne near the
suburb Of Buntyn and seized $4,000
in counterfeit silver dollars and a
complete counterfeiting plant. Payne
and his wife were arrested. They had
leased the house two months ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30
Mo Romance.

Mr.. Farwest-I met my old school
mate Lakeside today for the first time
in an age. and thought from the way
he acted when mentioned you that
nance or other before We met. Mrs.
Farwest-No romance about IL We
were married for few years, that's
an-New York weekly.
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A Good Deal Of q Change.

4 man who sent us poem begin
ming when twilight dews are falling
fast upon the rosy lea" has since mar
ried Rosa Lee. and now the weekly
dues are falling faster upon him.
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A test for the purity of sugar is to
burn small quantity. If it is pure it
will leave no ash. If it is adulterated
ashes will be left
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30
MISSING VESSELS
ARE IN DISTRESS
Government Orders Cutters
to Rescue Steamers
Crew Mutinied,
(National News Association

SAVANNAH. Aug. 30.-The steam
er, City of Memphis of the Ocean
Steamship line, crippled by the south
ern hurricane, is aground near the
quarantine. An incoming craft re-
ported her in trouble today, but eff
forts to communicate with her failed
because the storm had put the wire
less station out of commission. Tugs
were Immediately sent to her assist
ance. The steamer was bound from
Savannah to Boston.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30

Among the appliances in up-to-date
whaling vessels is harpoon gun at
the bow.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30

A wise man never loses anything II
he has himseR.-Montaign0.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30
VETERANS or THE rSxTY NINTH HOLD A REUNION TO-DAY

Fighting Which Organized Camp Ben
Meet Richmond and Fight War Over Again His
of the Regiment Written by Allen Grave, of This City
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-08-30

CHARLESTON, S. c., Aug. 3O.-Ful.
ly month will elapse before the full
havoc wrought by the hurricane along
the South Carolina and Georgia coasts
is completely known. The seashore
is strewn with wreckage and it is be.
lieved that beneath the debris are
more bodies not reckoned now in the
deathlist that has reached 25.
Communication with the isolated
points inland was still crippled today
and it was with the greatest difficulty
that this city Kept in touch with the
balance of the world.
Some sections in the ravaged area
were still cut off and it will be at least
a week before conditions are back to
normal.
Work Of clearing away wreckage
left in the wake Of the tornado il
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CREW MUTINIED.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-The re-
venue cutter Yamacraw was ordered
at full speed today from Savannah in
search of the steamer Bessie Whiting
which is thought to have been wreck
ed during the hurricane. 1t was re-
ported by Lieut.. Bunady of the New
York Cutter Station that the crew of
the Whiting had mutined and aban-
doned the captain and his wife, who
refused to leave the vessel.
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Or. Vincent Lectures.
DR.. Leon Vincent again delighted hss
hearers this morning with the begin.
ming Of q lecture on Lowell" which
was concluded at the afternoon ses-
sion, DR.. Vincent talking in the morn.
ing OF Lowell rs q critic.
That one OF the greatest American
writer's OF contemporaneous verse,
who. in DR.. .vincent's opinion. would
be 80 regarded In the future, had not
received over five dollars year for
ten years as an income from his poet
ic writings. was cited as an instance
that . poet could not live on the re-
turns from poetry alone. Lowell was
poet.
The age Of thirty-six. however.
found Lowell occupying the chair OF
modern languages and literature in
Harvard. Of which he was graduate.
gratifying appointment. since Lo-
well had been ''rusticated" in his SEN
jor year for his reprehensible laxness
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-16
CHAPTER XVIII.
An Attack.

The fact that their enemy was
alone and that he was Roscoe himself
was responsible for the conviction
that Cayley's wings were all that
stood between them and an attack.
No terror attributable to human
causes would have held back that
solitary and altogether desperate out
cast
The thing in the situation which
caused Cayley the most uneasiness
was the fear that some time or other
Roscoe would solve the mystery,
would see him in the very act OF
taking to the air. This fear suggested
an expedient to him one day as he
was flying along near the snow-crest-
ed edge Of the cliff
II don't know why never thought
of it before" he said to Jeanne as he
alighted beside her a moment or two
afterward; but I've got 1t now-the
way 10 prevent Roscoe from every
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-16

'CrS dead. She was alive; warm. He
VAS mar enough now to make out the
scft curve of her throat, the retreat.
ing and returning color which bathed
cheeks and forehead. He could see
the faint rise and fall of her breast
when she breathed He laid the throw
ing-stick upon the ice, drew nerves
and muscles taut for his rush
Then, just then, he saw the thing
that made Jeanne close her eyes, the
flashing sword-cut of that great gold
en- wing, as the thing it bore turned
upon the other.
Roscoe dropped down, as If he had
been blasted by the sight of a sword
ed archangel, in the shelter of his
rock. He lay there, prone, hugging
his head in his arms He did not
rouse himself, did not succeed in fore
ing his treacherous nerves and mus
cles to obey his will until it was quite
dark Then, without a glance behind
him, he arose and began scrambling
madly up the broken face of the talus,
and. reaching the top of 1t, went on
and scaled the cliff itself. 1t was a
feat which even he could hardly have
accomplished except under the ex-
tremity of terror.
For only so long as was necessary
to regain his breath, he lay painting
upon the cliff-head. In the dark, rush
ing along as If the precipitous trail he
followed had been a well-worn thor
oughfare, he retraced his way down
the landward side of the mountain
and across the valley. He did not
pause until he found himself safe in
the cave again beside the glacier.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-16
CHAPTER XVII.
A State of Sieue.

Cayleys discovery of the tracks fur
nished the last element of the drama
which was to play itself out that win
ter upon this stage which had been
so strangely set for it. 1t was just
three days since, flying slowly north
ward before a mild southerly breeze.
the ice pack below him, he caught his
first glimpse of the unknown land
where Captain Fielding had met his
tragic fate so many years before. Three
days since he had witnessed, from
aloft, the murder of a man he might
have saved, the man to whom. had
he saved him, he might have turned
for exoneration from a stain upon his
name which was now ineradicable
Three days ago he had thought his
world was empty. swept clean OF hui
man concern and human affection.
Three days ago he had not known that
Jeanne Fielding existed.
AS for the identity of the monster
who had left the proof of his existence
IN those tracks which Philip had dis
covered in the snow, they Of course
had no certain knowledge; neverthe-
less, they entertained but little doubt
that he was Roscoe himself. The foot
prints were immense. Cayley said, and
their distance apart bespoke the stride
OF a giant.
Ii it were Roscoe who had been
crouching there behind the boulder
then it seemed to them unlikely that
be was here alone; unlikely that he
had not at least two or three of his
crew with him.
That idea, when it first occurred to
them, brought little added terror with
it, The person Of the monstrous muir
derous ruffian, who was the chief,
dwarfed his subordinates to pygmies.
Yet when they came to think over the
situation. reasonably, this uncertainty
as to the number of their enemy
proved a vital element in it, 1t put
an unequivocal veto upon Cayley's
first plan, which was to start out at
once and take the aggressive against
their enemy. before he should have
time to move against them.
This bit of beach where the hut
stood was practically fortified. The
cliff behind it was absolutely sheer,
and was capped with deep, perpetual
snow Half a mile to the westward
was the promontory, and about half
a mile up the beach from the hut, 20
the eastward, the glacier projected
its ice masses in a long foe out to
I'd o
only practicable means of entrance to
the interior valley and the ledge
where the gold was.
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SYNOPSIS.

rhIiI -&y.ey, accused of a crime of
which ie is not guilty, resigns from the
army in disgrace and his affection for
his friend; Lieut.. Perry Hunter, turns to
hatred. Cayley seeks solitude, where he
perfects flying machine. While soaring
over the Arctic regions, he picks up
curiously shaped stick he had seen in the
assassln's hand. Mounting again. he dis
covers yacht anchored In the bay. De-
scending near the steamer he meets
girl on an Ice foe. He learns that the
glrfS name is Jeanne Fielding and that
the yacht has come north TO seek signs
OF her father, Captain Fielding, an arctic
explorer. A party from the yacht is ma
king search ashore After Cayley departs
Jeanne finds that he had dropped a Gu
riously-shaped stick. Captain Planck and
the surviving crew Of his wrecked whaler
nan named Roscoe. had murdered Field
ing and his two companions, after the ex-
plorer had revealed the location of an
enormous ledge Of pure gold. Roscoe then
that the ruffian had committed the muir
der &c witnessed by Cayley; Roscoe plans
big load of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw.
owner OF the yacht. about the visit of the
sky-man and shows him the stick left by
Gayley. Fanshaw declares that it is an
ESKIMO throwing stick, used to shoot
carts; Tom Fanshaw returns from the
searching party with a sprained ankle.
Perry Hunter is found murdered and
ayley is accused Of the crime but Jeanne
beHeVes him innocent. relief party goes
to lind the searchers. Tom processes his
love for Jeanne She rows ashore and
enters an abandoned hut, and there finds
her fathers diary which discloses the eX
ploTer's suspicion Of Roscoe. The ruff
nan returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
lie IS intent on murder, when the sky
man sWoopS down and the ruffian fees.
Jeanne gives Caylcy her fathers diary
To read; The yacht disappears and Ros-
I,oe's plans to capture 1t are revealed.
Jeanne's only hope is in Cayley. The
seriousness Of their situation becomes APP
parent TO Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay
ley Kills a polar bear. Next he finds
clue to the hiding place OF the stores.
A cellar in the hut has a chimney-like
hole leading up through the ice to an OBJ
;scrvatory where Captain Fielding had
hidden supplies.
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solving the mystery of your guardian
angel | thought of it when | saw the
mound up on the cliff-head that is
formed by the observatory. 1t can't
be buried so very deep in the snow
because the mound isn't so very big.
I'm going up there now to dig it out.
enough, at least, so that | can take
wing from there"
You never can dig out enough snow
to get a running start up there" she
objected.
q sha'n't have to. I'll just G'v" of
the cliff
philip, you shan't!"
why not?"
You know what you told me your
self That none OF the big birds can
take TO the air without a running
start; and about taking pellcans and
birds like that up into high buildings
and throwing them out of windows.
and how they were always killed.
That's because they've only got
instinct instead of intelligence. None
Of their family had ever been thrown
out of windows before, and they didn't
know what to do. But | can get my
start quite as safely that way as any
other. Oh, yes, I've done 1t. Do you
imagine, Jeanne dear, that I'd take an
unnecessary risk so long as my life
is the only possible protection there
is for yours?'
He spent the rest of the day tun-
nelling out from the observatory. He
did not dig in the snow; he simply
packed it, gradually enlarging the
space from a section the size OF the
pilot house door to space at the
cliffs edge wide enough for the full
spread of his wings.
Jeanne was watching on the beach
when he made his first flight from
this aerie, and, in spite OF her con-
fidence In his powers. she endured a
horrible moment or two. For he came
hurting down, head first, at an angle
Of so degrees; and he had traversed
two-thirds of the distance to the beach
before his line DETECTED outward and
began curving up toward the hori-
zontal.
When she saw that he was safe.
that he had really done the thing he
had said he could, she dropped down
upon a bear-skin, which was spread
before the hut, and shut her eyes, for
what she had seen had turned her
bit giddy.
That feeling passed In a moment.
She opened her eyes and lay, stretch
ed at full length, upon the bear-skin.
watching him as he wheeled and
dipped, then lowered aloft again in
that fading violet sky, supremely
masterful, Enthusiastically dominant OF
the unstable element he had con-
quered.
She sat up suddenly, erect, upon
the bear skin, with the realization that
it was nearly dark Their hours OF
daylight were getting very scanty
now. Today's allowance was gone al
though it was not yet three in the aft
ernoon.
She looked aloft for Cayley, but
could not see him. Then, the next
moment, she heard the whine Of the
air through his rigging, and he sailed
down on a long slant and alighted be-
side her.
He got clear of his planes with an
unaccountable air of haste, and held
out both hands to help her rise.
What do we do with sentinels who
go to sleep on duty?" he questioned
with a laugh.
81 wasn't asleep" she said contrite-
ly, but it was Just about as bad. 1
was thinking" She paused there,
then added, about you. What's the
sentence of the court?"
Already he had his wings folded up
and was handing them to her.
CTO BE CONTINUED :.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-06-16
CHAPTER XVI.-Continued.

about, and-JGanne, it was no base
less terror. no product of the twilight
and the fact that you were far from
home. There was something there
slipping along from the shelter of one
boulder to that of another. | found
the tracks in the snow. They weren't
more than ten PAGES away from you
when | came down out of the sky"
Was it the bear?" she asked. That
was what you thought it might have
been, at the time" But he could see
in her eyes that this was not the an
swer she expected.
He shook his head; that told her
enough.
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the weapon back 20 him. but she spoke
quietly enough:
TITS good to know she said. al
most q relief"
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AS Roscoe fed along the beach on
The night Cayley descended upon him
through the fog, there was no doubt
N his mind that he had seen the ghost
of the man he had murdered and
the shadow of a black avenging spirit
hovering over his head.
When he found that his boat had
gone adrift and that his only means
of getting back to the Aurora had
gone with 1t, he dropped down upon
beach. crawled up into the lee of a
great rock and had spent the night
there. his mind completely torpid with
fear
When the numbness of this terror
passed away, IS gradually it did. he
bent all this thoughts upon the Aurora
and upon the possibility, not quite in
conceivable, that his crew had sue
ceeded in overpowering her people
and were now in possession of the
yacht He tried to persuade himself
that this was so and that with the
coming of the dawn they would send
a boat ashore for him.
Of the strange figure he had seen
there in the hut, so like and yet so
terribly unlike the victim of his muir
derous lust four years ago-of that,
and of the more terrible apparition he
had seen coming down out of the sky
he thought, or tried to think nothing
at ALL 1t was only a nightmare, only
a delusion, natural enough when one
considered all the circumstances.
When the fog lifted with the ap-
proach of dawn, he discovered what
Philip and Jeanne did not become
aware of until several hours later, that
the Aurora had drifted out to sea in
the gale. The clean line of the hori-
ION was broken by nothing but the
plunging masses of the ice. There was
lust one chance, he thought, that she
might still be comparatively near at
hand. Southwark and eastward the
horizon was unbroken, bpt the jutting
mass of the promoptIxy to the west
cut off his view II Ihat direction. il
was possible tb&e the gale which had
DESTROYED the doe that formed the
harbor. ha6 also broken up the pack
ice at th:, other side of the peninsula.
the s.ae from which Cayley, on the
w;ne, had first approached this I'M
;5nown land The yacht might be
there, riding sSfely in practically open
water.
He got up from the snow nest ne
had made for himself in the lee of the
rock. and cautiously fexed his stinen-
ed muscles, with the idea of setting
out at once down the beach and
around the headland to learn whether
this last hope of his was groundless,
Really. in his heart, he had no hope
at all. but that fact made 1t easy TO
postpone for a little longer the putting
of this delusion of hope ne hao to
the test of reality.
The excuse he made to himself was,
that he was ravenously hungry, and
that his most sensible course would be
to go ND the glacier to the cave and
cook himself a breakfast before ne ala
anything else.
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or nervousness or hurry, tremendously
dismissed his guest In the very face of
policeman.
"Goodby and au revoir." said Pay
ton. wringing Mr. Grayman's unwilling
hand. you'll hear from me I'm a few
days. Don't forget your promise or
the need that your daughter has of
the aid which you alone can give her"
Without replying Mr.. Grayman turn
ed on his heel and walked rapidly
away. Payton remained on the ground
regarding his retreating form with a
dtsdainful smile The policeman was
rapidly approaching. but Payton made
| no move.
Here. You!' said the officer, Selling
Payton by the arm. II arrest you
What are you doing with an aero in
the park?"
Looking for squirrels" said Payton.
Looking for See here. young fel-
low, come with me-"
"Aren't you going to arrest the
aeroY asked Payton.
The question upset the policeman for
n moment. Then. thinking Of no bet
ter answer. he raised his club. In
the fraction of second he was sprawl
ing on the grass and Payton had leap
ed aboard the aero. AS the policeman
jumped to his feet and blew his whis
tie the Chameleon whirled up into the
darkness and disappeared.
The reader will perhaps remember
that when Payton carried of Miss
Grayman he re-entered her room on
the pretense OF extinguishing the light
What he really did was to tumble in
her writing desk and take possession
of bundle of letters. which he thrust
into his pocket. Among the letters
was one written to Helen by her ia
Their during one OF his infrequent alb
sences. How he employed this will
appear presently.
Payton had no sooner performed his
characteristic exploit of landing MIR.
Grayman In the heart of New York
with the Chameleon than he set out
with full speed for his lodge In the
wilderness.
We left Miss Grayman weeping In
her room at the lodge over her veXa
tion at Mrs. Williams conduct. EN-
(Continuee on page ~
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ger and anxiety lost his self com
mand. Then the thought Of the com.
missioner and the aeros at hand fash
ed across his mind and restored his
confidence. He must carry out the
plan now. He was in for II.
II did not he began. but Payton
interrupted him, laundering:
''Who is your friend under the tree
there? What is he waving his hand
kerchief forY'
Mr.. Grayman glanced toward the
place where the commissioner stood
and saw fash of white. All, the sig
nal at last. All his habitual GOODNESS
in minute! He must simply detain
Payton little longer
well. out with it. Mr.. Grayman--
who is your friend?" sneered the pi-
rate.
Without replying. Grayman turned
round on his heel. expecting to see the
police aeros swiftly approaching. But
he saw nothing except the commits
sioner frantically waving his handker-
chief.
They're not coming" said Payton
derisively. 1.-The commissioner may
his aeros. l fixed them all four this
morning. and now ! guess shall have
to fix your
AS he spoke he lifted his hand.
Immediately the Chameleon wore
round and swept down toward them in
a beautiful curve. AS she grazed the
ground. two men sprang off. and. be-
fore he could have offered a show of
resistance, Mr.. Grayman was seized.
lifted from his feet and carried aboard.
Payton followed at his heels, and
moment later they were circling up
ward.
That which Mr.. Grayman's good
sense had all the while been telling
him would happen had happened. 1t
may or may not appear strange that
his first impression was not of fear.
but Of shame because he had made an
ass Of himself.
When the unhappy commissioner
from his post Of observation saw this
maneuver, which belied all his predic-
tons and promises to Mr. Grayman,
he nearly went crazy. 1t was utterly
beyond his comprehension why the
aeros did not move. Then he cursed
the marksmen, who also had done
nothing.
Shoot, curse you. shoot! Pepper
that aero" he now yelled. "Come out
Of cover and shoot!'
The men came running from various
directions and began to fire wildly. If
they had been specially trained to
shoot birds on the wing with rifle bull
lets they might have stood q chance
Of hitting the Chameleon. Paytop
laughed loudly at them. and. to show
his contempt. circled around without
trying to get away.
Take your time, boysv he shouted.
You'll improve with practice. Mean
while I'll show you how"
AS he spoke thin blue fame leaped
from the Chameleon and one of the
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THE CHIEFS REPLY WAS TWO MORE SHOTS.
men dropped in his tracks. Another
| fash with the same result. The sharp
| shooters ran for cover. Then the aero
turned and swoOped down toward the
commissioner. Suddenly pausing a
few yards above his head, Payton lean
| ed over the side and said: my best
respects to you, Mr.. Commissioner Bra
man. When you lay another trap for
Alfonso Payton just fetch the rest of
your metropolitan police to see the fun.
Goodbye
The enraged commissioned drew his
pistol and fred point blank at Payton.
The bullet whistled close by the lat.
ter's head, but he only laughed and
shouted back. "a pretty good shot,
commissioner Then he added more
severely. IT could lay you in your
tracks, but you are a brave man,
though no fox hunter. and I'll let you
off this time"
The chiefs reply was two more shots,
which also missed their mark. Payton
laughed again. and the Chameleon,
making q sudden turn. scared high
nloft and then darted of westward
with her Millionaire prisoner.
CHAPTER VII.
THE BILLIoSAIRE's PREDIcAMKyr.
HE EANwHILE what was hap.
IWW pening to William Grayman?
x'A The Chameleon. as l have
said, speeded westward upon
leaving Tribes Hill. and Payton took
good care to rise so high and to dis
.,uise the aero so well with appropriate
tUior that probably not an eye caught
sight Of her after she Quilted the
Gene of the encounter with the police.
As soon as Mr.. Grayman had been
arried aboard be was put into the Lit.