Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-04-10
SYNOPSIS.

,,hohert Cameron. capitalist. consult'
-hlIp clyde. newspaper publisher, re-
SatHlhg anonymous threatening letters ne
asS received The first promises "a sample
Or the writer's power on certain day.
IN that day the hcud is my~tpriuusly cut
ION portrait Of Cameron while the lat
~ Is IN the room. clyde has theory
saI inc portrait was mutilHtc1 while the
.O1Ih was unoccupicd and the head intoT
sSu19Ncd by means Of a string, uuuotccd
w cameron Evelyn Gr3ysou, Cameron $
niece, with whom clyde Is In love ends
INC mead OF Cnmeron's portrait nailed TO
tree' where H. had been used az
NaIset. Clyde pledges Evelyn To secrecy.
hyde learns that a Chinese boy employed
pE Philatus Murphy. an artist living
nearby, bad borrowed rinH from Cam
Nioh lodCekocper clyde makes an cN-
Suse to call on Murphy aud Is rcpulsod
re pretends TO be investigating alleged
Llirhctlons OF the game laws and speaks
nndlng the bowl OF an opium pipe un.
Ger the tree whore CamCron's portrait
was. found. The Chinese boy is found
Head next morning. While visiting Cam
Ston IN his dressing room Nell Gwynne
mirror Is mysteriously shattered. Cameron
Ssecoines seriously III as a result or the
shock. The third letter appears mysteri-
9usly on Camercns sick bed II makes
direct threats against the life OF Cameron.
Clyde tells Cameron the envelope was
empty. He tells Evelyn everything and
rIahs 20 take Cameron on yacht trip:
me yacht picks up a fisherman found
drifting helplessly In a boat He gives
tne name OF Johnson. Cameron disap-
pears from yacht while Clydes back Is
turned. A fruitless search Is made for
motor boat seen by the captain just be-
TORE Cameron disappeared. Johnson Is al
lowed 10 so after being closely questioned.
Evelyn takes the letters To an expert In
Chinese literature, who pronounces them
OF Chinese origin. Clyde seeks assistance
from a Chinese fellow college student.
who recommends him To Yup Sing, most
prominent Chinaman in New York. The
latter promises to seek information Of
cameron among his countrymen. Among
: smIeron's letters Is found one from one
ADDISON. who speaks OF seeing Cameron
hn Pekin. Cameron had frequently de-
ciaTed TO CLYDE that he had never been IN
China CLYDE calls on Or Addison. He
learns that Addison and Cameron we're at
one time Intimate friends. but had a fall
frg out over CRmeron's denial OF having
been seen in Pekin by Addison. Clyde
goes to meet Yup Sing. sees Johnson at
tempts 70 follow him falls into a base
uent, sprains his ankle and becomes un-
conscious. Clyde r. found by Miss Clement,
4 missionary among the Chinese He IS
sick several days a result ~ inhallnE
charcoal fumes Evelyn tells CLYDE ot
peculiarly acting anesthetic which renders
a person temporarily unconscious. Muir
nhy IS discovered 70 have mysterious re
lations with the Chinese Niles Clement
promises 10 get Information about Cam
ercn. Slump in Crystal Consolidated. of
which Cameron is the head Is caused by
a rumor Of Cameron's Illness. Clvde hnds
Cameron on FIFTH avenue IN a dazed and
crnsciated condition and takes him home
Cameron awakes from = long sleep and
speaks N a strange tongue. He gives or
tiers TO an lima ginary crew IN Chinese
3arEon. Then in terror cries: IT didn't
KIN them" Evelyn declares the man IL
not her uncle. Evelyn and CLYDE call on
Miss Clement for promised Information
and find that the ChinamBn who was 20
Eive Il has Just been murdered. Miss
Clement gives Clyde L note asking him to
read q after he leaves the mission and
then destroy st. II tells of the abduction
OF white man by Chinese who shipped
hitn back 80 China. The man is accused
of the crime OF the sable Tyorcha" In
which 100 Cinnamon were killed The ap-
aearance In New York ~ the man they
supposed they had shipped 20 China
throws CONSERVATION into the Chinese.
The brougham in which CLYDE and Eve
tyn are riding IL held up by an armed
man clyde Is seized bv Murphy and a
NEht ensues Evelyn and Clyde are res
rued bv the police and return home. They
fiud Yup Sing and the Chinese consul
awaiting them. Yup tells Clyde the story
OF the crime Of the sable Lorcha." In
which 81 Cinnamon were deliberately sent
to their death by one Donald MNiEh.
whom they declare - cameron. They de-
clare that M'Nish can be Identified by a
tattoo mark on his arm CLYDE declares
that Cameron has No such mark. The
nurse - called In and describes a tattoo
marx on his patients arm. CLYDE goes
90 Investigate and hnds the patient at
tempting to hide a letter. II Is addressed
80 Donald M'Nish