The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-03-14
SYNOPSIS.

Robert Cameron. capitalist, consults
Philip Clyde. newspaper publisher. re-
garding anonymous threatening letters ne
has received The first promises sample
OF the writer's power on a certain day
On That day the head Is mysteriousiE cut
from portrait or Cameron white the ial-
ter is in the room. Clyde has a theory
that the portrait was mutilated while tlle
room was unocCupied and the head late,
removed by means of string. lnnotctu
by Cameron. Evelyn Grayson. cameron
niece, with whom clyde is I'm love. nnds
the head of Csmeron's portrait nailed 10
q tree, where II had been used as
target Clyde pledges Evelyn to secfery
clyde learns that a Chinese boy emploNHd
by Philatus Murphy. an artist living
nearby, had borrowed rifle from Cam
eron's lodgekeepeT. Clyde makes an tN-
clise 90 call on Murphy and y repnlsra
lie pretends 80 be INVESTIGATING aliesrd
attractions of the game laws ana sp"aNs
Of finding the bowl Of an opium pipe uh-
der the tree where Camerons portra'i
was found. TIE Chinese boy ~ louhd
dead next morning While visiting cam
ernp I'm his dressing room Nell GwNnne
mirror Is mysterlousiy shattered. Cameron
becomes seriously III IA result ot tlle
shock. The third letter appears mNStPN-
ously on Cameron's sick bed. II intakes
direct threats against the life OF cameron
CLYDE tells Cameron the envelope VIZ
empty He tells Evelyn everything ana
plans - take Cameron on yacht trlp
Til, yacht picks up "a fsherman tounu
drifting heipiessiy IN n boat. IL" gives
Johnson.
pears from yacht while Clyd"'s back Is
turned A fruitleSs search is made Tor "A
motor boat seem by the captain tuSt he
fore Cameron Disappeared Johnson " AZ
lowed 10 60 after being closely oueStioped.
Evelyn takes the letters to an expert IN
Chinese literature. who pronounc"s thrm
e. Ghnese 9.ig iyde S Sefs as sjdent
who recommends h'r To yup Sing. most
nromipent Ch!naman w New York. The
latter promises ~ seek Information Or
Cameron among bis ounrynen Among
CainerGn's letters II found one from one
Addison who speaks ~ seeing Cameron
IN Pekin. Cameron had frequently de-
ciared TO CLYDE that he had never been IN
China clyde calls on Ut Addlson re
learns that Addison and Cameron wrr" 2
one time intimate friends. hut had fa'-
inr out over Cameron's denial or having
hecn seen In Pekin by Addison CIyhe
goes 20 meet Yum Sing, secs Johnson. al
tempts to follow him falls into base
ment sprains his antle and becomes nm
conscious. clyi'e Is. found by Miss Clenleat
missionary among the Chtnese. TIE Is
sick several days as result or inhaltng
charcoal fumes. EVELYN tells Clyde ot
peculiarly acting anesthetic which renters
n person temporarily UNCONSCIOUS Mlr-
phV iR discovered tn have mysterious re-
latinns with the Chinese. Miss Clement
promises TO get Information about cam
erou slump ia CRYSTAL Consolidated. OF
which Cameron is the head. rs caused hv
y rlifnOr OF CemPron's Illness. clyde htds
Csme ron on Fiftll avenue IN daZed and
Cn1AcfAfe0 COnutilOn H0C tdNFS MN utiu'
Cameron awokps FROM long sleep and
rr,,caRs in n strange tongue. lie gives or
kctts 10 an imaginary crew In Chinese
<b,rson Then IN terror cries: 81 didn't
KIN them" t,yalvn declares the man is
not her uncle. F.yelvn and CLYDE call on
Miss Clement for promised Information
and end that the chinaman who was TO
give 81 has lust been murdered. Miss
Clement gives clyde 4 not" asking him 10
re,a u after he ipavas the mission and
then destroy H. II tolls or the abduction
~ q white man nv Chinese who shipped
him back TO China. The man Ia accused
OF the crime AZ the sable f.orcha' In
which 100 chira;ner were killed. The an
pearapce IN New Yort ~ tho man they
Suppressed they had shipped to CHINA
throws CONSERVATION into the Chinese
The hrougharn IN which CLYDE ana Eve
lvn are riding t. held MP hv an armed
man Clvde Is Sc Zed hv Mnrphy AMI
fight ensres. rVrlvn 9nd clyde are res
cued by the police AMI return home. Th"v
lind yup Sing and the Chinese consul
awaiting them Yu0 tcis clyde the story
~ The crime 90 the "Sah" f.nrcha. IN
which ~ Chinoipen we're anljbarate'v Sent
20 their death bv ore Dnnald MNls".
whom they dcriare "a Cameron They de-
clare that M'Nieh can be identified hv
tattoo mprk on his srm Clyde declares
that Cameron has no sucf marx. W"
nurse 81 called in md Describes tattoo
rrlnrh on Ills patients arm. flvde goes
"a investigate and hndS the patent NJ
tempting a. h'de letter II Is addressed
10 Donald M Nish.