The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-03-13
SYNOPSIS.

). CHAPTER l.-Robert Cameron, CAPITAL
ut. %consults Philip Clyde, newspaper pub
Usher Ht1er.s regarding anonymous threatening
2 sample Of the writer's power. on a GER
IAN day. On that day the head is mys-
teri9usly cut from a portrait Of Cameron
CHAPTER-I1.-Clyde has a theory that
5me portrait was mutilated while the room
moved by means Of a string. unnot,ced
by Cameron.
sr CHAPTER III-Eyelyn Grayson, Cam
fnds the head Of Cameron's portrait
palled to q tree, wnere !. hat been used
hs q TARGET. Clyde pledges Evelyn to Sc
SHAPTER Iv.-Clyde learns that a
Ehinese boy employed by Philetus MUIR
Pny, an artist living nearby. had borrowed
, rifle from Cameron's lodgekeeper.
. CHAPTER V.-Clyde makes an excuse
To- can on Murphy and is epulsed. He
FRACTIONS of the game laws and speaks Of
Enoing the bowl of an opium oipe under
Eo9 5ree r% %he rh,o came ron portrait was
next morning.
- CHATTER HI v1.-While visiting cameron
fA ~S AANS5sAAS d 1Nell dWyHuG ullT
FOR Is mysteriou ly shattered.
CHAPTER VII.-Cameron becomes Sc
Clously ~ as a result of the shock. The
MIRO letter appears mysteriously on Cam
eron.s sick bed. It makes direct threats
against the life Of Cameron. Clyde tells
E ta,'s e l,o the envelope was empty. He
Cameron on a yacht trip.
CHAPTER vIII.-The yacht picks up a
nQhnrmQn found 1~}fkS~- T. -
Cameron disappears from yacht while
Clyde's back is turned.
CHAPTER 1x-A f~ruitless search is
made for q motor boa seen by the cap
tain just before Cameron disappeared.
CHAPTER X.-Johnson Is allowed to go
bitter being closely questioned. Evelyn
takes the letters to an expert in Chinese
literature: who p~ronounces them OF Chi
hese origin.
CHAPTER xI.-Clyde seeks assistance
from q Chinese fellow college student.
p m1@ Gsinam nim IT to N Xyp S SIM, m nest
latter promises to seek information of
Cameron AMONG his countrymen.
CHAPTER xII.-Among Cameron'r let
ters is f9Ynd one from one Addison. who
speaks OF seeing Cameron In Pekin. Cam
S1A0S IL Aau ueVcE UG0Il IN CNlNa.
CHAPTER xIII.-Clyde calls on DR..
Addison. He learns that Addison and
cameron were at one time intimate
eron's denial of having been seen In Pc
kin by Addison.
CHAPTER x1v.-Clyde goes to meet
!Yup Sing. sees Johnson. attempts to fol-
low him. falls into a basement. sprains
his ankle and becomes unconscious.
CHAPTER xv.-Clyde is found by
Miss Clement. a missionary among the
Chinese. He is sick several days as g, re-
suit Of inhaling charcoal fumes. Evelyn
thetic which renders a person Temporal
rily unconscious. Murphy is discovered
to have mysterious relations with the Chi
nese.
CHAPTER xvI.-Miss Clement prom
lses to get information about Cameron.
Slump in Crystal Consolidated. of which
Cameron is the head. is caused by a ru1
NOR of Cameron's illness.
CHAPTER xv1I.-Clyde finds Cameron
on Fifth avenue in a dazed and emaciat-
ed condition and takes him home.
CHAPTER x~v111.-cameron awakes
tongue.
CHAPTER xIx.-He gives orders to an
4A1A6ll0Ay SlcW 1A III JdlSOL. LIE
In terror cries: IT didn't kill them"
Evelyn declares the man is not her uncle.
CHAPTER xx.-Evelyn and Clyde call
on Miss Clement for promised Informal
ton n find that the Chinaman who
was t. give 1t has Just been murdered.
him to read it after he leaves the mission
and then destroy 1t. 1t tells of the abb
duction of a white man by Chinese. who
shipped him back to China. The man is
accused Of the crime Of the ''sable Lor-
cha in which 100 Cinnamon were killed.
The appearance in New York of the man
they supposed they had shipped to China
throws CONSERVATION into the Chinese.
The brougham In which Clyde and Eve
lyn are riding Is held up by an armed
man.
CHAPTER xXI.-Clyde is seized nv
Murphy n a fight ensues. Evelyn and
Clyde are rescued by the police and re-
turn home.
CHAPTER xxII.-They find Yup Sing
and the Chinese consul awaiting them.
Yup tells Clyde the story Of the crime Of
the 'sable Lorcha." in which 81 China
men were deliberately sent to their death
by one Donald M'Nish, whom they de-
STARE is Cameron.