The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-05-17
HORACE
.HAZELTINE
SYNOPSIS.

Philip Clyde. newspaper publisher. re-
EardinS anonymous threatening letters he
mas az re received The 1rlt promises a sample
On that day the head Is mysteriously cut
from portrait of Cameron while the lat
sron in his dressing room a Nell dwynne
mirror 10 mysteriously shattered. Cameron
becomes seriously Ill a. = result OF the
ously on Cameron's sick bed. 1t makes
1rect threats against the life OF Cameron.
Clyde tells Cameron the envelope vas was
empty He tells Evelyn everything and
RIans to take Cameron on yacht Trip;
h. sene:.S p JoSSn.on o He d..e
pears from yacht while Clyde's back II
turned fruitless search is made for .
fore Cameron disappeared. johnson 10 al
lowed to 90 after being closely questioned.
Evelyn takes the letters to an expert In
Of Chinese origin. Clyde seeks assistance
from a Chinese fellow college student.
whS him .o Yup Sins cvss ros
tempts to follow him. fails into a base
con.c,ons. Clyde i. found BY Miss clem-
ent. a missionary among the Chinese. He
10 sick several days as result Of inhai-
of peculiarly acting anesthetic which
renders person temporarily unconecious
Murphy is d,sceve1sd to have mystsr,ou:
promise. to get information about Cam
eron. Slump in Crystal Consolidated. OF
rnor on Is shs nes. csas
Cameron on Fifth avenue in a dazed and
emaciated condition and takes him home:
speaks in a strange tongue. Evelyn de-
clares the man is not her uncle Evelyn
and Clyde call on Miss Clement for prom
ised Information and fnd that the China
man who was to give II has 1ust been
murdered. Miss Clement gives Clyde a
note. asking him to read It after he he
It tells of the abduction Of a white man
nv Chinese who shipped him back to
Of Sable Lorcha" in which 100 Cinnamon
werc killed. The appearance In New York
OF the man they supposed they had ship
the Chinese. The broueham in, which
clyde and Evelyn are riding in held up
hv an armed man CLYDE is seized BY by
clyde are rescued BY the police and re
turn home. They md Yup Sing and the
Chinese eonsu! awa,tnE I'm them 4Sp tS ssl,.
bic Lorcha" in which 81 Cinnamon were
deliberately sent to their death by one
Cameron, e.oraln " They declare that M'Nish can
hA Identified hv a tattoo mark on his arm.
Clyde declares that Cameron has no such
scribes tattoo mark on his patients
arm. Clyde goes to investigate and
finds the patient attempting 10 moe let-
TER. II Is addressed to Donald M'Nish.
The letter is from the mans mother in
Scotland and Identifies the patient as
M'Nish. Confronted by the sole survivor
OF TIE Sable Lorcha"-who. 1t develops.
is Sow a halfbreed Chinaman recogniz-
ed by Clyde as Johnson, the fsherman-
M,Nish shoots him and kills ..imself. Miss
clement gets the whole story from Soy
before he dies. Murphy. whose right
nar,n is Moran. had been partner OF
M,Nish in the nefarious Chinese trade and
later became his most relentless pursuer.
He was the author Of the threatening let
ters Sow was responsible for the myste-
rtous happenings at Cameron,s home by
the aid Of the ether Of invisihility. Cam
eron was drugged and shipped as mem.
her Of the crew of a tramp steamer boun
for Hongkong. Clvde. Evelyn and DR..
Addison who has discovered his error In
rnistakjng MNish for Cameron. overtake
the tramp steamer at Port Said and res
cue Cameron.