The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-03-11

the trunk and locked in. A few mo-
ments later Wrentz pays for his room
and has his trunk sent out the back
way to where an auto is waiting.
Placing the trunk in the car, the whole
gang is whirled out of the city into the
country.
1t so happens that at this time a cage
containing a huge gorilla is being un-
loaded from circus car on railroad
siding a few miles out, and in the unss
loading falls and is broken open. The
gorilla escapes from his prison and
when the men try to recapure him he
kills one of them and rushes to free
dom.
Wrentz, when in the country, frees
Pauline from the trunk and drives his
car at such furious pace that he soon
finds himself pursued by two motorcy-
Gle policemen. Finding them gaining
on him he turns the car loose at the
highest speed of which it is capable.
Gong around curve on two wheels
the car skids and is overturned. Out
Of the dust and confusion only two per-
sons live to rise aud extricate them
selves from the Wreckage-Pauline and
Wrentz. Seeing that Wrent2 still fee
bly, persues her, Pauline runs from him
and seeing an empty freight car stand
ing on the railroad siding near by, en-
ters it to hide. TO her horror she finds
that she has escaped from one danger
only to rush into worse. The huge
form of the escaped gorilla looms up in
the semidarkess of the car. The great
beast seizes her in his powerful arms
and drags her away.
In the meantime the motorcycle po-
licemen have reached the wreck and
having seen two persons leave it, sep
arate and set off in pursuit of them.
The gorilla and his fainting burden are
spied by one of them and bravely the
policeman rushes to the girls assist
ance. The gorilla is cornered at the
edge of rocky precipie and furious
fight ensues. which ends in the gorilla
being severely wounded by numerous
revolver shots fired by the policeman.
and plunging to his death far below.
Pauline bends over her heroic rescuer
and finds to her delight that though
badly injured. he will live.
Having seen the futility of his plans,
the wreck of one villainous scheme sf-
ter another, and his utter failure fto
secure the result he is looking for
through the aid of various INSCRIPTIONS
assistants, Over finally decides to get
rid of Pauline by his own efforts.
While the three are taking a pleasure
trip on the Marvin yacht, Pauline begs
Harry to teach her to run the motor
boat, which is taken along as a tender.
He consents and before long the girl
considers herself competent to run the
boat unattended.
1t happens that at this time the u.
S. Naval Department purchases an old
barge to be used as a target in gun
practice. This barge is towed out to
sea and then anchored barely out of
sight of the Marvin yacht.
That night Pauline, very proud of her
newly acquired knowledge of running a
motor boat. determines to take trip
in it on the morrow herself. Harry
protests against her folly. but as usual
she insists upon having her own way.
Owen overhears the conversation and
determines to profit by it. Favored by
the darkness he goes down the compan-
ion way to the motor boat and proceeds
to bore a hole in the bottom, which he
partially stops up with cotton waste in
order to make slow leak. But Mem
esis in the person of an old sailor is at