Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-08-13
THE BROKEN COIN A GREAT STORY
Synopsis of First Episode in Thrill
ling Serial To Be Run Weekly at
Unique Commencing Aug IS

Kitty Gray, an American newspaper
reporter leaves the office for lunch
On her way to the restaurant she
sees in an old curiosity shop, half
of broken coin, inscribed in Lat
in. The name "GretZhOffen," at
tracts her attention, and she buys
the coin. On her way out of the
shop she drops the papers she is
carrying, Which are picked up and
handed to her by a foreign-lOoklng
man, who had been watching the
coin before Kitty came along.
Kitty goes on her way and the
man enters the shop to buy the
coin Kitty has just bought, and is
told by the proprietor that the
young lady that just left the shop
bought it, and the foreigner, cover
ing his disappointment, leaves the
shop.
Kitty, thinking she has material
for a good story, fOrgets about lunch
and goes TO her room for an old ar
ticle she has written regarding the
poverty stricken Kingdom Of Gretz-
hOffen, and with the aid Of the Lat
in grammar, translates the inscrIp-
ton on the coin, which reads: I'm
i Of
torture cham be found treasures
valuables the King Gretzhoffen Mi
This arouses her imagination to such
an extent that she hurries back to
her office and asks the editor to
give her three months to go TO
Gretzhoffen and locate the other half
Of the coin.
The editor and other reporters
laugh at the coin, saying it is only
a fake made by some curio dealer,
to make money for them. But Kit
ty is staunch in her request for the
time to go to Gretzhoffen and the
editor, realizing it win make a good
story, even if it is fake coin, con
sents to let Kitty go, wagering her
"a years salary that she will not
find the other half OF the coin.
In the meantime the mysterious
looking foreigner has followed Kitty
to her home, entered her room While
she was at the office and ransacked
everything in general, looking for
the coin which Kitty, at that mo
ment, had in chamois bag around
her neck. CurSin@ his bad luck the
intruder leaves the room, going IN
further search of Kitty and the
broken coin. Everything ready for
her departure, Kitty bids goodbye
to her many friends at the office and
goes aboard the boat. as she is way
ing goodbye to her friends on the
dock after the boat has started on
it's way, she feels a strange presence
near her and, turning, she comes
face to face with the leering face
of the foreigner who had handed
her the package she dropped when
she left the curio shop the day she
bought the coin Passing the strange
creature she goes to her statero0m,
trying to throw off the feeling Of
impending danger,
After dinner. feeling tired from
the excitement of the last few days
Kitty falls asleep in her stateroom,
after making sure that the little
cham0is bag containing the half coin
is safely tied about her neck. She
aWakes suddenly to find the profile
of a man at the portfolio of her
compartment, which disappears as
she sits up; realizing that something
is wrong; Kitty. after making sure
no one is watching her, takes the
coin, her passport and other yalu-
ables from the bag and hiding them
in her stocking, and after another
cautious survey, returns to bed.
Sometime later she is awakened to
find a hand holding her chamois
bag, vanish through the portfolio;