Las Vegas optic., 1914-08-18
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4 SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER 1.-THE open road. Pedro |
md the dancing bear. Mr; Jones. pre-
6ent a tramp from stealing young
Dhdy's purse. Pedro's ambition TO become
= painter spurs him to quit Old Nita and
she str6lling bear dancers
| CHAPTER II-Pedro. Old Nita and the
bear trainers start for New York. Pedro /
paints a portrait for a lunch-wagon man
Rnd so earns a meal for the company
The lady of the purse adventure sees re
tfro painting as she passes
CHAPTER III-New York. Miss Iris
Kanderpool quarrels with her artist low
Bowers in her fathers desk a portrait
(which she recognizes as that OF Pedro
who rescued her from the purse-snatcher'
CHAPTER Iv-Htn, the despondent
hover. meets Pedro and Mr.. Jones IN
washington square. They dine together
hill discovers talent In Pedros drawings
land in a mad desire to lose himself gives
Ihis studio and all In II 10 Feoro III e~-
Ichange for Mr.. Jones.
CHAPTER v-Pedro occupies Hilrs
Istudio and calls on Leigh, the sculptor,
with letter from Hill. Leigh. calllng IN
return in the alley bumps into two men
lone Of whom Is Reginald Vanderpooi'
Iris father. In disguise.
CHAPTER vI-vanderpoors compan-
Hon goes into the basement OF Hills STUDIO
land talks with Ricardo, or Rowe, the
basement tenant, of conspiracy against
a foreign government. NanaerpoVL
lPver whom Rowe mas secueI S nv notJ Wild
supposedly dead In an uprising, Rowe
Knows to be alive
Ito an artists meeting at Milligan's, meets
Iris again, makes many friends ana pc
lcomes unconsciously a subject for news
lpaper copy.
CHAPTER vIII-Senora Daussa Is driv-
len by Ricardo uptown to resort where
1.-THE consptrators meet her ana profess
loyalty. Sam HILL soi-disant bear trainer,
ieees Rowe Unexpectedly attacked pV Oiu
INita, and rescues her.
CHAPTER IX-Pedro takes luncheon
with Iris in her home. meeting Wander
pool who is disturbed by Pedro's pres
lence Iri. remembers the miniature ana
wonders. She tells Pedro her suspicion
THAT her father is being blackmailed ana
lenlists his help to discover Vanderpools 5
secret trouble.
CHAPTER Kris poses for Pedro;
Pedro sees Rowe with Vanderpool ana
lpeeping through Rowe's basement WIN
dow Is astonished at sight OF woman
whose face. feature for feature. is like
his own
CHAPTER XI-HiH hears from the
bear dancers that Pedro is Venezuelan.
Hln and Mr.. Jones wander about, and
Ictumb~ upon Rowe, loading steamer
with contraband of war. Hill Is seized
ss a spy. vanderpool. asphalt king ap-
pears as "Senor Chief"
CHAPTER XII-Iris again poses for
her portrait Pedro tells her he cannot
help her father, whom he knows TO 1.I ne
;sociating with shady characters. Iris
Infatuated with Pedro, signs an agree
mt 10 marry whoever gets her father
< of trouble.
so this is the latest news of Hill
/, id Pedro 81 suppose you write t
each other frequently"
well. mol" said she. you see, In
engaged. told Mr. Sam 1t was use
less, but he's so persistent"
She giggled again.
"Poor Sam!" said Pedro. you are
very cruell'
do you happen to know his Jersey
address?" she asked, thereby giving
Pedro the information he wanted, to
wit: that she was unaware of Hills
present whereabouts.
"Ohl he was only there for a day."
said Pedro, putting the coin which she
Indicated out of his handful, upon the
counter. HE might drop in here any
time. If he does, tell him Pedro was
asking for him, will you? And now
lgood-by; must be off"
AS Pedro joined his waiting com.
lpanion outside he was met with a
string of reproaches.
Never before have l seen you
Itarry so long with woman, oh,
waster of precious moments!" said
IBeau-Jean. How shall it benefit
Ithee?"
1T has already done sol" declared
Pedro. Come, hasten with me. We
ARE going to Jersey City. I shall ex-
plain on the way"
So off they went to the ferry, Mr..
Jones, the inadvertent detective, shut
fling after.
To discover where the picture post
card had been purchased would have
been almost impossible; but to locate
the district in which 1t had been
mailed was easy enough. and that,
combined with the hour which had
been stamped upon it, was sufficient
evidence to show that Sam had been
near the waterfront at some time be-
tween eight and ten o'clock on the
evening of the previous Monday. Con
sequentiy, the next problem that con.
fronted them was what Hill had done
after dropping this exquisite chrome
into a district tx" pillar-box? Pedro
at once tried to picture his own prob
able actions were he to find himself
in such a district at such an hour
with, presumably. no company but Mr.
Jonesl Ahi of coursss the cabarets
the saloons of the dance! That
seemed the obvious answer, but he
consulted with Beau-Jean, to be Ger
tain. Yes. Beau-Jean would
make straight for the cafes, and Hill
had probably done the same.