The Washington times., 1912-12-22

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CHAPTER XIII.
A Battle for Sight.
~ " the street clifford encountered
Norry Blake. . yonnG reporter.
Y who hailed him With the CANA
raderie Of Fleet street Bohe.
mian Blake was abrim with news OF
the recent studio tragedy. see here.
0if," he began, with profeeei0nal aiert-
ys rsjs .ss .s:y az yrass ss:. fI 4:
highness 10 hopeiessly blind"
oifford shrussed In e noneomm,ittaii s,N ai
way: There are phy.icisn; cepMHc,e MDS q
Twsfsar r.cSus ,sSip ss
Blake shook his head despondsntly.
there. but has scarcely recovered from
sas the Asss ss.ms sSS:s 's:a Zee: .a: :a:
"Fiye thousand sviness down or no
ton 10 rising in fashionable circles.
nothing like q Aimsiayan fee to eie:
w,t ysts one u the public estimation"
And the spotted baron!" clifford In.
''Hes gone to the Messonier." the
Journalist laughed. For 5000 guineas
she has promised to eradicate his spot.
BY . new process Of radio. o.magnetism."
Rs as..oaisa Gs a%srsssida sidn @le"sTs' sss sS H.
left here for Paris last night. Reckots
he can get the purple out OF his hair
and whiskers for half the money in
cans" S Blake vouoSssf:d. "Theya 20
to the North Pole TO save their hair.
Have q drink. Renwick?"
si.ss $ l.Su,% rSi ,'t 1:scns feSE G
ford rstorted innocensly. "GoodSys.
Huntingdon street. ainord's spirits
.snk to .ero at the thought Of meeting
He could not think Of her 40 q heart
less practitioner. bent on extracting the
last guinea from her despairing pa
uents. He was aware that many West
when whe ' The occasion iss warTanted. but ne
could not bring to mind the name Of an
Engiish physician who closed his oper.
atinE rooms to the sick and desperate.
because . few German art patrons had
indisnity. The wealthy Duchess Of
Marister could take care. 0f herself.
Il was the spectacle Of the partially partially
The two Thousand guinea. demanded BY
Beatrice Messonter would ruin Mrs.
cranstone and her daughter. While
ferinss Of pride wounded. German
baron and princelling. no one had come
forward TO- offer the slightest sympa-
thy or advice to the friendless mother
IN ne innocent, boyish way clifford
faced daughter Of the Japanese nerve
spesi:ii'ti tseci:a i, A. another time he had sa
briiiiant.iaced Beatrice Messionier. the
woman whose skill had lifted him from
darkness and despair. Both these
woman had exhibited mercy and tender
ns.: ns:: ,S.. sSSwa,d a,h him at 2 time when mad.
torment. Yet che strove to crush the
thought as one crushes q weed of
polsonous Erowthl his clear brain al
ready perceived the links In the chain
0f an Infamous conspiracy which bound
6eAtrice Messonier to Teroni Tsarka,
pepis With the hendish boy artist, Soto
di6ord had not vet suffered that
ally results from a life of incessant in
tercourse with the criminal classes. He
could not bring himself to the point Of
interrogating Huatrice Messonier upon
plictty IN the most dastardly outrage OF
the century. He could. however. In.
vestigate. the business orga nisation OF
the Radium institute; could scrutinise
and sift out the names Of its founders
Beatrice Messonier was the one WON'T
an In England or America who had.
more than any other, OWNED the cura-
Tive properties Of radium. DIR. Teroni
the new and wonderful element as u
nerve poison. a weapon. to be used
against humanity to SUIT his own nefa-
ltous ends BY creating = corner In
= &c. certain curative agent he mi.ht with
special ailment among certain rich pep
pie that would necessitate instant treat
msnt at the Messonier Institute.
The scheme would have appeared wild
tor than Girord Renwick. He had
suffered from the deadly radiurn mack.
In Tearka's laboratory. and he had
lived to experiences the miraculous heal.
Surely. ne argued. Il wks not accident
which had sent him 70 the institute. 1t
came upon him now like a thunderclap
that the willy Jap specialist had used
iIm for his newiound deviitries. The
check for 200 gaineas had partially in
voived him, for he was. now certain
that Tsarka had prevailed upon ,lls
to Silence with the much .needed casi,.
II was his check which had led Gif-
ford astray. Nine. Messonier had taken
u from him. and had. no doubt re.
turned It to DR.. Tsarka without pre-
senting II to the bank. II had been
given to him to emphasize the Illusion
that Tsarka was In no way connected
with the institute.
No one could prevent Beatrice Mes
sonisr demanding a colossal fee II she
chose. When rich patients went to her
suffering from an apparently incurablc
complaint, she was at liberty to name
any tee II her system Of treatment
proved eiiicscioEs; There we're men and
paid huge sums to medical practitioners
whenever they provided remedy for
their chronic ailments.
The gang Of Japanese specialists had
seised upon radium, the newly discov-
erod element, 40 Q means to their me-
,fnriot,a Nndn Ita curntive nerSIss