The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-10-16
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w yStery 4
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS

Stanley Hargreave, millionaire, af-
ter a miraculous escape from the den
Of the gang of brilliant thieves known
as the Black Hundred, lives the life of
a recluse for eighteen years. Har-
greave accidentally meets Braine the
leader of the Black Hundred. Know
ing Braine will try to get him, he es-
capes from his own home by a balloon
Before escaping he writes a letter to
the girls school where eighteen years
before he mysteriously left on the
doorstep his baby daughter, Florence
Gray. That day Hargreave also draws
81, 100000 from the bank, but it is re-
ported that this dropped into the sea
when the balloon he escaped in was
punctured.
Florence arrives from the girls
school. Countess Olga, Braine's COM
panion, visits her and claims to be a
relative. Two bogus detectives call
but their plot is foiled by Norton, a
newspaper man.
After failing in their first attempt,
the Black Hundred trap Florence. They
ask her for money, but she escapes,
again foiling them.
Norton lays trap for Braine and his
gang. Countess Olga also visits the
! Orient's captain, and she easily falls
into the reporters snare. The plum
| proves abortive through Braines good
luck and only hirelings fall into the
hands of the police.
Norton and the countess call on
Florence the next day, once more safe
at home. The visitors having gone
| Jones removes a section of the floor
| ing and from cavity takes a box
| Pursued by members of the Black
! Hundred he rushes to the water front
and succeeds in dropping the box into
| the sea.
Countess Olga succeeds in breaking
the engagement existing between Flor
ence Hargreave and Norton.
Accomplices of Braine succeed in
kidnapping Florence while she is shop
ping and hurry her off to sea. She
leaps into the sea and is picked up in
a dazed condition by party of fisher
men. The Black Hundred locate her
and Braine disguised as her father sue
ceeds in taking her back to sea with
him. Florence sets fire to the boat and
is rescued by a ship on which Norton
has been shanghaied.
Norton and Florence safely on shore
and with no longer any misunderstood
ing between them, take the train fol-
home. The train is wrecked and wait
ing members of the Black Hundred
carry the injured Florence to de,
serted hut. Norton, who tries to res
cue her. is tied to tbs railroad tracks
Florence saves him and finally Jones
comes to the rescue of BOTH
Concealed above the rendezvous o.
the Black Hundred, man learns o.
the recovery from the sea of the boz
of jewels by sailor and of its subse
quent return to the bottom of the sea
and he quickly communicates the fac
to Jones. A duplicate box is planted
and later secured by the band, but be
fore its contents are examined thu
box mysteriously disappears.
Owing to the falling off of contribu
tons to the parent organization il
Russia, an agent arrives and assumes
the leadership of the American brancl
of the Black Hundred Through TIL
connivance of the countess and Brain,
the new head is thoroughly humili
ated.
Finding himself checkmated at ev
cry turn, Braine endeavors to en-
mesh the Hargreave household in tn
law in order to gain free access to tn
house. The timely discovery of tn
plot by Norton sets the police at th
heels of the pack and results in
raid on the gangs rendezvous, which
however, proves to be barren of re
suits.