The Forrest City times., 1913-06-06
SYNOPSIS.

Robert Cameron. capitalist. eonsults PhaAp Clyde. newspaper publisher. re- ear1sng arony nous threatening letters ne has received. The first promises a sample Ss th- writer's poTs-s on a certain day o- that day the head IS uystsT4ously cut From portrait Of Cameron while the lat Sr ts In th. room Clyde has theory fnat the portrait vas nutiiatec while me rooTu was unoccupsed and the head later fsraoTsd by means Of string. unnoticee ef Cameron Evelyn GTaYson. Cameron as>c@. with whom Clyde is ir love nr-os he head Of Car1erons portrait nailed ta 2 Tree. where it had been used as z1rxst Ciyce pledges Evelyn 70 secrecy Siyo9 learns that q Chinese boy employed sy Pniisfus Murphy an artist hflnz eearoy. had borrowed rife from Cam sronis iodgekeep~r. Clyde makes an en- guse to call or Murphy and Is repulsed. Se prefends to o= iBFestIg gstins alleged MIrac,1oras of The game laws and sps@af fs ef hnding rbs howl Of ar opium pipe 2n- Ser the tree where Caraes0us portrait yss found The Chinese boy is found aead next morning While sis5t4ng Cam eaiFror Is nysterfously shattered. Cameron e>cones seriously II s result Of the shock The third letter appears rnysier1- su#iy on Csu1erons sick bed II makes 1rect threats against the life Of Cameron Clyde tell. Cameron the envelope was empty. He tells Fyelyn everything and pans to take Cameron on yacht trip Ihe yacht picks Up fisherman found drifting heIplessly in boat. He gives Ns name Of Johnson Cameron disap- PeArs from yacht while Clydss back is surned 4 fr1sitiess search .s made for 2 motor boat seen by the captain just be- aors Cameron disappeared. Johnson is al 1ovec to go after being closely questioned Evelyn takes the letters 10 an expert in Sf Chinese origin. Clyde seeks assistance from a Chines@ fellow college student. who recommends him to Yup Sing. most prpminen, Chinsmsn in New York The kn EKss~ FEr.ra rSs Cameron among his countrynen. Among Carneron's letters is found one from one Addison. who speaks Of seeing Cameron An Pexin. Cameron had frequently de elarsd to Clyde that he had never been in China Clyde calls on Dr Addison He barns that Addison and Cameron were at Ing out over camerons denial of having been seen in Pekin by Addison Clyde goes to meet Yup Sing. gees Johnson. at terupts to follow him. falls Into base nent, sprains his ankle and becomes un- conscious Clyde is found by Miss Clement a missionary among the Chinese. He is sick several days as result of inhaling charcoal fumes. Evelyn tells Clyde of 2 peculiarly acting snesthetic which renders . person temporarily unconscious. Mur- phy is discovered 10 have mysterious re- promises 10 get information about Cam eron. Slump in Crystal Consolidated. of which Cameron is the head Is caused by rImor of Camerons Illness Clyde finds
 
 ~maciated condition and takes him home Cameron swakes from q long sleep and speaks Tn "A strange tongue. He gives or 6ers to imaginary crew in Chinese tzrgon- Then in terror cries. T didn't Eli them Evelyn declares the man i4 yrot her uncle Evelyn and Clyde call on Mss Clement for promised information and find that the Chinaman who was tc give Y has just been murdered Miss Clement givek Clyde a. note asking him tc read IL after he leaves the mission and tell NF HG p of white man by Chinese who shipped hir back to China. The man is accused bf tha crime Of the Sable f1orcha" in which 100 Chinamen were killed. The ap- pearance in New York of the man they supposed they had shipped 10 China throws consternetion into the Chinese The brougham fin which Clyde and Eve fyn are riding is held up by an armed man.