Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-20
CHAPTER I.
Elaine Begins Her Task

Elaine Begins Her Task
From the rocks Of promontory that
iutted out not far from the wharf where
WI Fangs body was found and Ken
needy had disappeared. opened up a beau
tfful panorama OF a bay on one side and
the sound on the other.
II was a deserted bit OF coast But
anyone who had been standing near the
promonotory the next day might have
seen thin line a. ~ the water. sparkling
in the sunlight. had been cut by a huge
knife. Gradually n thin steel rod seemed
10 rise from the water itself still NOV
ing ahead. though slowly now as II
pushed its way above the surface. After
81 came a round cylinder OF steel, studded
with bolts. II was n hatch Of "A sub
marine and the rod was the periscope.
As the submarine lay there at rest. the
waves almost breaking over it. the hatch
slowly opened and hand appeared
cropping for hold Then appeared a
face with tangle OF curly black hair
and keen foroeful eyes. After II the body
of a man rose out OF the hatch a tall,
slender. striking person. He reached
down into the hold Of the boat and drew
forth a life preserver.
AN right" no called down In an nc
cent slightly foreign. as he buckled on
the belt. u shall communicate with
you az soon as have something to re-
port"
Then he deliberately lunged overheard
and struck out for the shore. Hand over
hand. he churned his way through the
water toward the beach until at last his
feet touched bottom and he waded out
shaking the water from himself like a
huge animal
The coming OF the stranger had moi
been entirely unheralded. Along tho
shore road by which Kennedy and had
followed the crooks which we thought
had the torpedo, on that last chase, was
waiting now powerful limousine Will
Its motor purring. A chauffeur was sit.
ting at the wheel. and inside. at tbs
door. sat man peering out along the
road TO the beach. Suddenly the mar
in the machine slgnaled 20 tho driver.
He comes" he cried eagerly. "Drlv,
down the road. closer. and meet him.
The chauffeur shot his car ahead Al
the swimmer strobe shivering up IN,
roadway. the car approached him. Tn,
assistant swung open the door and rar
forward with a thick. warm coat an,
hat.
Neither the master nor the servant
spoke as they met. but the man wrappet
the coat about him. hurried into the car
the driver turned and quickly they spet
toward the city
secret though the entrance Of tn
stranger had been planned. however.
was not unobserved.
Along the beach. on a boulder. gaze,
thoughtfully out 10 sea and smoking al
old brier pipe sat bent fisherman ella,
in an oilsldn coat and hat and heavy. un
calmly boots About his reck was lon
WOODEN muffler which concealed In
lower part OF his face quite as effectuall
as his scraggiy grizzled whiskers.
suddenly he seemed 10 discover some
thing that interested him. slowly ros,
then turned and almost ran up the shor,
Quickly he dropped behind a large roc
ana waited. peering cut
As the limousine hearing the stranger
on whom the fisherman had kept HI
eyes rivited. turned and drove away, IN
old salt rose from behind the rock, gaze
after the car as II TO fix every line {
81 in his memory ana then he. To,
quickly disappeared up the road.
The strangers car had scarcely disaI
peared when the fisherman turned frol
the shore road into clump OF stuntt
trees and made his way 20 hut N,
far away stood small. unpretentiol
closed car. also with a driver.
Il shall be ready N RFminute.' n
fisherman nodded, almost running I'M
the hut. as the driver moved his car
closer 10 the door.
The larger motor had disappeared Il
down the bend of the road when Il
fisherman reappeared. In an almost /
credible time he had changed his o
skins and muffler for large coat al
silk hat lie was no longer fisherma
but rather fussy looking old gent
man. bewhiskened stiu with eyes iooki
out keeuly from pair Of gold rlmm
glasses.
Follow that carat any cost"
ordered simply. us he let himself into I
little motor. and the driver shot abe
down a bit OF side road and out into I
main shore road again. urging the {
forward 10 overtake the one ahead.
Such was the entrance of the strange
Marcus Del Mar-lnto America.
How ! managed 10 pass the time d
Ing the first days after the strange d
appearance Of Kennedy. l don't knc
II was all like a dresm-the apartm'
empty. the laboratory empty, my o
work ON the Star uninterestins, Ella
fFoken-hearted, life itself a burden.
Hoping against hope. the next day
decided TO drop around az the Dod
house. AS ] entered the library una
nounoed, l saw thar Elaine. with IA
Cor which / envied her. was sitting a
table. her back toward the door. :
vas gazing sadly at a photogTs
Though I could not sec H. needed
o be told whose II was
she did not hear me come In. 80
siossoa Was she in her thoughts