Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-05-08

"a about the travels OF the mysteri-
,aOnerado who had affixed a gyro-
- ~ an invalid's chair and, run
sVF mon a single wheel at the rate of
we Snndred miles an hour, was pill
~ ond numbering. He was report
w, Ann Philadelphia, from Baltimore.
y ~ pittsburgh. Every strange rob-
av every unsolved murder mystery
y" re- eastern portion of the United
...tos was laid to his charge. In every
w. the police were searching for
Nv, ~ cripples were arrested; ropes
~,,s stretched at night across high
Nv. to the detriment of many thou
Nd dollars' worth of automobiles and
,',ca flesh. But no sign of the des-
's,,ao was evident, no clue was OBJ
unable.
Had the truth been known, public
.,inon would have veered as strongly
award John Haynes as it now directed
s,.N against him.. For it was upon
@o satisfaction Of private feuds that
!. had bent all the energies of a mind
.,rred by Imprisonment and embit-
t,red by wrongs. Robbed of vast lands
!, a western state through the machi-
r,tfuns of a gang of scoundrels, rail-
nsded to the penitentiary at Nokomis
Mills and paralyzed by treacherous
INLET he had made a gyroscope in the
rdsOn machine shop, had effected his
scsue, had entered New York and OBJ
aimed five thousand dollars from one
a those who had betrayed him, had
scsued the police, and now, bent upon
clue which should bring back to him
be missing wife and daughter whom
he had never seen since the dramatic
climax of the conspiracy against him
fve years before, he was hiding in the
Adirondack wilderness, far from trails
and human habitations, in a deserted
cabin. waiting for the hue and cry to
die down before proceeding to Grand
Valley. where he had reason to be-
HeVe his daughter was to be found.
He had made his marvellous vehicle
out Of an old invalid's chair which he
4 had found in an abandoned barn, and
now. in the solitude of the wilderness,
be planned his movements with pre-
dson worthy of the man who had es-
Gped from the penitentiary in so dar-
Ing way. Grand Valley lay only
twenty-five miles distant from where
4 he lurked, but to reach it he must pass
through a populous farming territory,
which, crippled and paralyZed as he
vas. he could not hope to traverse in
that vehicle for which the entire coun-
Try was searching. So day by day he
ate his heart out in loneliness, long
Ing for the daughter whom he had not
seen since she grew to womanhood. In
he end he wheeled the chair to the
edge of the forest land, hid it in a
clump of trees not far from the high
rOad and crawled on his clutches by
night toward his destination. Once in
Grand Valley, he might pass unno-
uced; but on the roadside cripple
would be an object of suspicious atten-
ton The journey occupied him three
nights; he lay all day in hedges and
svamps.
He had but one clue by which to find
Eleanor; the name of Jack Poole, one
d the least of his enemies-a treach-
eFous friend who had urged him to the
duel in which, with an empty pistol, ne
confronted the assassin whose bullet,
entering his spine, left him helpless
and paralyzed below the waist. Poole,
Uneasy Of conscience, and growing old,
lad sold out his interest in the plum
aefed property to the land gang, and
aad retired to play the part of village
aagnate in his native town.
IN his real estate Office Jack Poole
vas staring, terror stricken. at two
Hegrams in front of him. A weak
anu corpulent old man, with heavy
salte cheek-beard and snug, apoplecuc
usage, the shock of these messages
lad temporarily benumbed his facul-
usS They had arrived five days be-
lore, and never since their arrival had
Ie dared face the world; sleepless, I'M
SusVen, he had crept from room to
'OOm Of his mansion, fighting with
Imaginary enemies and terrors that
ae could not down. On the fifth morn
us ne shaved and dressed himself,
'aa' with strong effort of will, went
" MS Office again. Now, shut up In
,1s large room with its glass partition,
,sAiad which his stenographers worked
s Justly he read those kilograms for the
ntieth times.
Une was from Frank Staples,
y Brooklyn lawyer from whom
s sSyhes had obtained the five thousand
sUllars. In yelled and guarded Ian
sSsse 1t recounted the episode and
lued with a personal warning.
:, Inc other was from Ricardo. an Ital-
! 80 SPY who had served with Haynes
: ue penitentiary. 1t told of the mans
, ~. and of the terrible machine to
-. -'c1 haynes owed his liberty. See
%:SsSpapers!" he ended.
. Ano on his desk the newspapers OF
H. H. past five days were spread before
:, eyes; in the black headlines Poole
'9 ~. MS own approaching disaster.
~ as first plan was to fly; but under
No. sumulus of strong rotations y.
s.s Auy his courage revived. At the
@au OF an hour he had AIMED ont his