Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-03-25
SYNOPSIS.

Zudora is left an orphan at an early
age Her father IL killed In gold mine
Zudora and the fortune from the mime
which grows 10 be worth to0.0O0OO0 are
left IN the guardianship OF Frank Keene.
Zudora's mothers brother. who mas SET
himself up as a Hindu mystic ana ID
known as Hassam Ali. He decides that
zudora must die before she can have
chance TO come into possession OF ner
money, 80 that Il may be left to him. tne
next OF kin. Hassam ALI sees an obstacle
10 his scheme In the person OF Jonh
Storm. a young lawyer, for whom Lu-
dora has taken a fancy, ana ne COM
mands the girl to put the man out OF ner
mind. zudora insists that II she cannot
marry Storm she will marry no one.
swell, WELL" says Hassam All, solve
INV next twenty cases and you can marry
him: fail In Q single case and you must
renounce him."
Zudora unravels q mystery and wins her
0rst case-a case In which John Storm IL
aaved from being convicted OF murder
instigated by Hassam All himself.
Zudora and Hassam Ali visit Nabok
ehans house, where sleep overcomes ev-
cry one whenever Nabok attempts to mar
nv a princess. Storm, seeking Zudora, u
made a prisoner. Zudora foils Nabok
Shan. restores the princess to her original
lover and saves Storm from death.
A maker OF diamonds tells Hassam All
his secret Storm informs Zudora that
his life IL being attempted frequently.
Storm suspects Hassam All. Storm 10
arrested for stealing the diamond makers
gems. but Zudora discovers the real
thieves-a pair Of mice.
The negro help employed on Storms
fathers farm are fleeing because great
skeleton hand appears at night upon a
hill near by. Storm Is bafhed In his In
vestiRation, but Zudora learns that her
uncle has employed Jimmy Bolton, half
witted man, thus TO annoy Storms par
ents. Zudora finds Bolton operating q
big magic lantern and 10 attacked by
him. Storm appears and saves her.
Hassam Ali asks Zudora to find gem
lost by two mysterious old men. Zudora
gets a photograph of the gem and 1t burns
in her hand. An old house Is mined by
Hassam Ali and the old men. Storm and
Zudora are lured there and narrowly es-
cape destruction when the house blows up.
John McWinter, endeavorlng to trap and
kill George Smith, Is killed himself, and
Smith is charged with murder. Hassam
Ali conspires to have John Storm meet
the same fate as McWinter, and he and
Storm are overcome by powerful fumes.
Zudora saves them, proves that McWin-
ter's own dog trapped and killed him and
saves Smith from band Of lynchers.
An inventor blows up a submarine with
q powerful heat ray which he sends
through water Hassam Ali sends Zudora
to a photographer directly beneath the In
ventor's laboratory and orders the in
ventor to kill her. Zudora gets a warning,
and her life is saved. The heat ray ma
chine Is destroyed, and the photographer,
after a quarrel with Hassam Ali, is found
dead in the river.
WI Chang prevents Zudoras elopement
with John Storm by hypnotizing her, and
he and Hassam Ali attempt to smuggle |
her out Of the country. This plot is frus-
trated by Storm,
Baird, Hassam Airs double, falls in
love with Zudora. Baird and Nine. Du
Val kidnap Zudora and the Van Wick
child. Storm rescues them, and Hassam
Ali dies.
With Hassam Ali dead Zudora is releas-
ed of her pledge to solve twenty cases.
She confronts, however, the greatest mys- |
terry Of ALL which is the mystery Of her
own life, and the ambition to secure the
vast fortune of $20,000,000 left to her. This |
great photo serial is being shown in |
the leading moving picture theaters by |
the Thanhouser Film Corporation. Among |
those participating are Marguerite Snow |
Mary Elizabeth Forbes, James Cruze, In |
the new role Of reporter-hero, Sidney |
Bracey and Frank harrington.
On looking through her uncles papers |
Zudora finds that her father left her an |
interest in a diamond mine, and Storm |
and Baird both lend assistance in trying |
to regain for her possession Of this es-
tate which is being appropriated by
rogues under the leadership of Nine. Du
Val. They plan to frighten Zudora SO
that she will run away. Failing, they
kidnap Zudora and Howard, the mine
superintendent, and put them in private
insane asylum.