The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-12-22

distinguished playwright, co-author
with Paul Dickey, of The Misleading
Lady," "The Ghost Breaker" THE Man
from the Sea-" Etc
CAST OF CHARACTERS
These are the five leading charac-
ters in Mr.. Goddard's new novel, "The
Perils of Pauline
Stanford Marvin. Edward Jose
Aged and wealthy manufacturer
Pauline Marvin. $50. Miss Pearl White
His adopted daughter
Harry Marvin. Mr. Crane Wilbur
His son
Raymond Owen -. Mr.. Paul Panzer
His confidential secretary
Montgomery Hicks Mr. Francis Carlyle
CHAPTER /.
COPYRIGHT, 1914, by the Star Company
All foreign rights reserved.
In one of the stateliest mansions on
the Lower Hudson, near New York,
cid Stanford Marvin, president of the
Marvin Motors Company, dozed over
his papers, while Owen, his rascally
confidential secretary, eyed him across
the mahogany flattopped desk. A soft
purring sound flaoted in the open win
dow and half-roused the aged manu-
facturer. 1t came from one of his
own cars-siX cylinders chanting in
unison litany of power to the great
modern god of gasoline.
These things had been in his mind
since the motor industry started. He
had lived with them, wrestled with
them during his meals and taken them
to his dreams at night. Now they
formed a rythm, and he heard them in
his brain just before the fainting spells
which had come SO frequently of late
What are you thinking about, Ray
mond?" he queried, with his custo-
mary directness.
"Your health sir" replied Owen
who. like all intelligent rascals, never
lied when the truth would do equally
{. we'll. AS matter of fact, Owen won
dered whether his employer would
last year or a month. He much pre-
ferred a month, for there was reason
to believe that the Marvin will would
contain handsome bequest to my
< faithful secretary"
"Oh, bosh," said the old man. You
and DR.. Stevens would make a num-
my of me before I'm dead"
THAT reminds me, SIR" said Owen
s'ouOOtuIy, tudl Tic 1uI0IhlAIlOudl Elk
press Company has delivered a large
crate addressed to you from Cairo,
Egypt l presume it is the mummy
you bought on your last trip. Where
shall place it?"
The Mummy Arrives
Mr. Marvin's eye coursed around the
walls of the handsome library, which
had been his office since the doctor
f1~ ~ ri
mible works and steel-stamping mills.
take out that bust of Pallas
Athene,' he ordered, "and stand the
mummy up in it's place"
Owen nodded, poised his pencil and
prompted:
"You were just debating about the
new piston rings"
Mr.. Marvin drew his hand across his
eyes and looked out the window With
in the range of his vision was one OF
the most charming sights in the world
"a handsome youth and pretty girl,
arrayed in white flannels, playing ten
mis-.
Never mind the letters. Tell Harry
and Pauline wish to see them"
Alone, the old man opened drawer
and took dose of medicine, then he
its final paragraph, which prescribed
a change of climate, together with
complete and permanent rest, or Il
will not answer for the consequences "
There was little doubt that no prime
mover in great industry was better
able to leave it's helm than Marvin
His lieutenants were able, efficient
and contented. The factories would
go of their own momentum for year
or two at least, and then his son. Har-
sry, JUS, out Of college. should be able,
perhaps, to help. His 1eutenants had
proved Marvin's unerring instinct in
Judging character Not one single
case came to the old employers mind
of man who had failed to turn out
exactly as he expected. Yet the most
trusted man of them all. Raymond
Owen, the secretary, was disloyal and
dishonest.
This one exception was easily
enough explained When Owen came
to Marvin's attention, fifteen years be-
fore, he was fine. honest. faithful
man. 1t was born and bred in him to
be straight During the first five or
six years in the Marvin household
the older man took pains to keen
watch ON this quiet tactful youth until
he knew all his ways and even his
doubt that Owens was as upright and
! clean as the old man himself
At the age of forty, the devil enter
ed into Owen. 1t came in the form
of insomnia LOSS of sleep will make
any man irritable and unreasonable,
but hardly dishonest. With the sleep
1essness. however, came the tempta-
ff0n to take drugs Owen shifted from
one narcotic to another and finally
settled upon morphine. Five years OF
the opiate had made him its slave.
Every physician knows that morphine
fiends become dishonest.
The secretary had speculated with
his modest savings and lost them. He
had borrowed and lost again, and now
Tor some time. had been betting on
horse races This last had made him
acquainted with a certain Montgomery
Hicks, who lived we'll without any Wis
ible source Of income. Through Hicks.
Owen had betrayed one of his employ