Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-04-12
SYNOPSIS.

At the expense of soiled hat Robert
OrTne saves from arrest a girl in a black
touring car who has caused a traffic jam
on State street. He buys a new hat and
is given in change a i've dollar bill with !:
Remember the person you pay this to-
written on it. A second time he helps the
lady in the black car, and learns that in
Tom and Bessie Wallingham they have
mutual friends, but gains no further hint
of her identity.
Senior PoritoI of South America and
5Senor Alcatrante minister from the same
country, and some JapS try to get pos
session of the bill Two of the latter over
power Crme and effect a forcib,e eX-
change of the marked bill for another.
Orme finds the girl of the black car
waiting for him. She also wants the bill.
aOrme tells his story. She recognizes one
of the JapS as hsF fathers butler MakG.
a second inscription on the bill is the
key to the hiding place Of important pa
pers stolen from her father Orme
and the Girl start out in the black car
in quest of the papers In tho university
grounds in Evanston the hiding place is
located. Maku and another Jap are there.
capes. Orme finds in Makus pocket a
folded slip of paper. He takes the girl,
whose name is still unknown to him, 10
the home of a friend in Evanston. Re
turning to the university grounds Orme
gets in conversation with a guard at the
1fe-saving station. They hear a motor
boat in trouble in :he darkness on the
lake. They find the crippled boat. IN IL
are the Jap with the papers and Girl
She Jumps into Orme's boat; but the Jap
eludes pursuit. Orme finds on the paper
he took from Maku the address. 34l ~
Parker street" He goes there and mas
Arima teacher of jiu-jitsu, is on the third
floor. He calls on Ala. clairVoyant, on
the fourth floor, deScendS by the IRE
escape and cOnceals himself under a table
in Arima's room. Alcatrante, PorltOl ana
the Jap minister enter. Orme mas the
papers in a drawer, under the table ana
substitutes mining prospectuses for them
He learns that the papers are or lnterna-
-tional Importance with a time limit Tor
sigma lures of that night midnight me
substitution Is discovered. The girl APP
pears and leaves again after being told
that the American has the papers. Orme
set upon by Arima and Maku. He eludes
them and is hidden in closet ny the
clairvoyant. Orme escapes during a
sseance given by Ala. On the sidewalk
ne encounters Aicatrante. Orme goes to
find Tom Wallingham. Alcatrante hangs
on and tries to get the papers. During
the excitement caused by one of Alca-
trante's tricks to DELAY Orme the latter
sees the girl and follows her back to
Wallinghams office. He and the girl are
locked in a giant specimen refrigerator
They confess their love and when they
had almost abandoned hope of escape
-Orme breaks the thermometer coils ana
attracts the attention of a late-golng
clerk They are liberated.
Alcatrante is on watch. They get away
in a hired motor car to Evanston the
chauffeur turns out to be Maku. He runs
them to a quiet spot where they meet
another motor. Orme pretends to conceal
the papers under the seat. but drops them
In the road. Orme fights Arima, Maku
and two other Japs.
A policeman intervenes The girl drives
away in one car with what Orme deceiVes
her into thinking are the real papers
Arima finds the real papers, eludes the
policeman and drives away in another
car. Orme. unnOticed. climbs in behind
throttles the jap. RECEIVERS the stolen
papers and goes to Arradale. Bessie Wal
1ingham introduces him to the club mem
bers and the Japanese minister.