The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-03

daughter with the famous Ashleigh dia-
mond necklace. AS Lord and Lady
Ashleigh cannot leave England at the
present time thev send Lenora. Ella s
personal attendant, and the maids hus.
band, Ian MaeDougal, butler at Ham,
bin House, to accompany the girl to
New York. Six months. pass delightful
ly for the young Englishwoman. At
last she is having her fill of music.
Next morning the hotel at which they
are staying is aroused by Lenora s wild
shrieks of alarm. The hallmen. rush.
ing in, find Elias body upon the floor
and the famous diamonds missing. The
maid is hysterical. Inspector French. pf
the police detectives, is called but can
make nothing of the affair. He calls
in the services of Sanford Quest. The
criminologist traps the maid into an
expression of terror and informs her
that she must go to his office. She
tries to communicate with MacDougal,
but Quest interferes.
By means of hypnotism Quest draws
from the girl confession that the
crime was committed by MacDougal,
that he took the jewels and that she
TO South America. Satisfied Sby her
story and manner that she is merely a
tool of the stronger-minded MacDougal,
Quest turns the girl loose, after com
manding her to return to his study
with the jewels at Z p. m.
She joins Mae cDougal in their rem
devious. Quest has tracked her and, by
means of a trap, is thrown by Mae
Dougal into the cellar. Then the vii
lain turns on poisonous gas to stiffe
the eriminoIogist. The power of Quest s
suggestion comes over the receptive
mind of Lenora. She mechanically obeys
his order, takes up the Jewels and
leaves the rendezvous, going straight
to his study. MaeDougal has discovered
her absence and that of the jewels. He
suspects that he has been double-cross-
ed and swears he will get her yet, since
Quest is done for. But Quest is not
done for. He has little instrument in
his hand attached by wires to capsules
of Anishidyte. Anishidyte's s most val.
liable quality is that it exerts tre.
mendous force only in the direction to.
wards which it is pointed. BY the aid
of this explosive Quest escapes and re,
turns to his Office to find Lenora al
ready there. Seeing she is an excel.
lent subject, he ventures another ex.
pertinent; that of electro-thought trans.
ference.
Before a highly sensitized mirror he
seats the girl and gently puts her in q
state of hypnosis. A paper-thin steel
band is fitted around her temples. This
band is connected through series of
coils with the mirror by a fine wire,
through which runs high charge of
electricity. The hypnosis induces per.
feet mental concentration. The crimi.
nologist then commands the girl to OBJ
serve by means of telepathy what Mac.
Dougal is doing. Anxiously, Quest
watches the mirror. For a moment
nothing happens. Then its surface
seems ruffied and slowly there emerges
from the grayness scene showing the
interior of a low groggery. MacDougal
enters, confers with the proprietor and
is directed to a room where, for a little
while, he can be safe from the police
In the little attic MacDougal throws
down his hat and swears by all the
gods he knows to get even with lie.
nora. The experiment is finished. Quest
quickly brings the girl back to full
consciousness and turns her over to his
assistant, Laura.
A week passes. MacDougal threat.
ems Lenora in note-and Quest decides
to- draw him at once into the trap
Hypnotizing the girl he bids her lay
her head upon her arms on his table
From the window he has seen MacDou.
gal approach stealthily. Quest and his
men apparently leave the house. Mac.
Dougal creeps in. He sees the bowed
figure in the half-light bringing a
heavy blackjack down upon the head OF
the figure. The next instant the lights
flash up. MacDougal is handcuffed and
Lenora, frightened and trembling, is
led in from another room.
MacDougal stares at her, his throat
contracting. Then he looks toward the
table. A detective is picking up the
dummy figure. The black wig drops to
the floor. A steel rod shows above
the dummy hand. Mac Dougal, the clev,
er criminal, has been caught by trick
Lord Ashleigh arrives to find his
daughter slayer in the laws hands
He demands also the arrest of Lenora
as an aceOmphee of MacDougal, but
Quest, knowing well the American law
that wife cannot testify against her
husband, and wishing to keep the girl
as an assistant, persuades Lord Ash
leigh that she was only a tool of the
real criminal.
And down in South America Profes.
sor Edgar Ashleigh, anthropologist, a