The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-12-20
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EPISODE FOUR.
The Mystery of the Haunt.
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TIME baneful influence of Hassam
Ali reaches out directly against
John Storm in the fourth episode
Of the 'Zudora' series Storms
parents, good country people. live in a
! village surrounded by hills that seem
veritably to stand guard over the small
towns security. However, on those
, very hills and i'm the very homes of the
people. themselves, the wrath Of a
monstrous, fieshless, bullet thridded
hand has recently appeared without ex-
PLANTATION. The people are wild with a
fright occasioned by something. they
cannot explain, and Storm receives an
urgent letter from his parents to come
to them.
Sending note to Zudora, he PUSHES
nome 10 MS parents and is welcomed,
not only by them but by the maid serv-
ant and half witted boy, whom, by
mistake. he once had shot through the
hand during his boyhood. Zudora, too,
comes TO see his parents and is well
coined by them as a future daughter-in-
law. AS they are all rejoicing together.
suddenly on the wall of a further room
the specter hand appears. Storms
father rushes for his shot gun. and rires
AT the uncanny hand. The lead hurtles
through the wall and strikes the serv-
Ing maid in the arm. Suspecting that
her uncle. Hassam Ali, is at the bottom
of all this. Zudora and John Storm
hasten back to town. Zudora sees the
famous mystic first. and is met. OF
course, with a battling denial. Then
Storm comes and after "A painfully
heated exchange of words the older
man tries TO shoot the young lawyer
In the struggle that ensues Hassam Ali
is gradually overcome and bent back
across q table top only TO be rescued by
Zudora just as Storm is about TO be-
stabbed In the back by the mystic 81
Hindu servant
Going back to the excited towns
people who have gathered at the sta
ton to meet him. Storm comforts them |
by saying that the wonderfully clever |
I.udora Is coming to their rescue and |
that she will solve the mystery. After |
several adventures Zudora and Storm |
finally decide that the source OF the |
mysterious apparition is in the upper |
room of one of the FARMS outbuildings. |
cations Zudora runs to this place and
is caught in the garnet by the IDIOT I,
boy. tied, gagged, and a rope wound |
round her neck. She closes her eyes
h0pelessly as a bandage Is tied about :
her head. Then the scene shifts and (
John Storm is seen walking across the |
fields in the direction Zudora has taken |
He has finally decided that she has hit |
upon the right idea and that he went .
off on 4 false scent. As he walks slowlr !
tbDHH VI q ouuuth Nv AttiS n SENSE ID /
evil He begins to run As
II directed by some unseen guide, Storm |
rushes up the stairs Of the outbuilding
ana grapples with the idiot boy. subdues /
him. and rushes to Zudora. Swiftly he
unties the ropes. They climb to an
upper room and discover the stereopti-
con machine which has thrown on the
landscape the X-ray photograph Of the /
skeleton hand
Copyright. 1914. by Harold MacGrathO
"a synopsis of the Fifth Episode Of.
Zudora, 1.-THE Case of the Perpetual
Glare" will be published in The Times
next Sunday.)