Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-29
Copyright. star Company. 1916.
Foreign Rights ReScrred.)
EPISODES l:LENES.

Dit. It's members leave this part OF the
country: Were the, DESTROYED: las
the great cataclysm in Europe called
the various units OF this anarchist
band to wipe out in heroic deeds and
martyr blood, perhaps. the blood they
have ehod?
Where arc III. relentless anarchisis
whom Bethure Sverdrup captaiued?
THIS story will tel, YOU. Amos; ii
dozen Of US know. but in fairness to
revealed. But Jimmy. the fearless.
says. Tell il now" So here is the
story.
Il began when this letter came TO
me one morning:
Dear Miss t'airf;,s,----i am bctwixt
love and duty. Please come and tell
me Whist 20 40, ps.rac,cdly yours.
Janc iamiin, No. "+5o Madison Ave-
nut.
tossed tho letter aside ana con-
tirIed reading my mail. Eut some
thing forced me To return to Jan.
Hamlin's le.tcr--it is the :somethin:: |!
suppose. which makes !, possible FOR
me to understand and help al the
troubled Icor!" vino apply TO me fol
aid.
determined to 20 AZ once. ANA then
I remembers" tha; mad promised TO
lunch with Jimmy Barton So sen,
him !i.tic note saying:
'Ecar Jimmy, Cart lunch with YOU
to-day am calinc OH Il rirl ~ No
:45c Madison Avenue. Testify. Hea.
triec.'
Af,crv ards. When ! was hu.r,inY
out 10 Jane Hamlins home. wondered
vii! had troubled 10 give jimmy hcr
address .iut tHat. suppose was
fate.
When arrived ut the house |
round jimmy sitting on the STEPS ia
nhnchalhat pose. With his cigarette
dropping from the corner OF his lirs
"srarer nam. returning from nr
ali-niRht assignment. is likely To- con.
nn"t himself very much like the mid
night son" o. the Old song jimmy
Was rec!!nine o., the doorstep lie
Was The ono cheerful note about IN,
place.
Jimmy ronsed himself sufficiently 20
INSIST that my previous enlightenment
had Boon with him and hat he ra~
coming alcnE on the one FOR which |
mao deserted him. SO took him with
me- TIC maid showed us into :, grin,
ora room dhitc in Keeping with tho
nocse. hHi not az all in Keeping with
IN" lovely !ounS creature who cam,
toward us
lane Han'i,n was an cyauie,,ol.
beautiful! girl. Her face ros.. viii
Ho"cr-lifo loveliness from creme hand
ca hanilincn,s OF woe which ;raurJ
Hhhr her as she came toward Us Shc
looked like Il mermaid in :nouruiI,,.
me cHec: she produced was nlmc.t
hncannE. Shn seemed to glide r,,hc,
than TO walk. and as she moved ,rrn.s
NE uoor to"arG Ms noticed thai no,
heSd )erkcu tacE n.el one sho,,Id.
IN manner thar WAS almost fur;iyc
'fhe grim. dark house, Tie ncurn;ns
garments, III" nervous terror -. tho
SFi herseif. ali gave p cer,ai,, nothoy
l o
.nEl: lovely.
am Rea,ricr Fairfa%." SAID 81,
tHHie at once N answer. to your let,...
'-Hd UT. Barton came with ms. l,n,.uu.
sometimes Girls nced helm which only
nam can Sivc-and wiratcyc, hnIr
Soe hred' my dear YOU mus, e, ~;
give Tou--will you"
No n?" can hclp mo .,i.i ~.
Elr!, in Wild excitemcnt-"un nnc
When Jane Iumlim Talked. r.l,
n,!SeIr entering in.r her lif.-Iiv:rp
through H"' cmo.io"s, seeing as ah.
W" and feeling IS she felt. I socmc,,
,oE the tim" being to become nar, or
Jan. ''a,ni!n and to live hcr life.
., 'HS f"!rfaN. she began, my ia
.'' vas cyrus tlamlin. the inventor.
Last night when was going over hia
effects came across a letter which
seems 10 have been forcdoomed TO
Please read =. and t.,en will he ahlc
20 explain i;n!' siory more clearly"
sead the letter. and one sentence
stood out OF il. Miss Hamlin had mark :
"a II with red ink. hut Il scared itself
across my brain ia letters OF fire.
When read it. some premon,ion tod
ne that had embarked upon the
StrsnEesi adventure OF ali my career.
This is how The sentence read:
open the safe and drop its con
tents Into the ocean. Let nobody see
ana DO not press the third button,
or death and destruction Viii follow
III its wake"
IF only had been able 1" obey
hi'n Al once" sighed Jane IIaml:n
"rear!.!. Sh. uoducd toward a s,,r,
set INT" The wall back Of - screen which
was folded AVA from IT,
inside the SAT-. Miss Fairies. liner.
- an Internal machine loaded vIth the
mos' Hradi% poison gas. know that
10 touch that fatal thiid button would
hlow hundreds al people into eternity
IL tNeE "er" aMywh"rt within tn. ra.
aus or thai invention az my fathers
Rno"--anG know my fathc. lonrcd
10 Keep his secret but now ann he.
finn'nR I" wondcr II must tell tho
man love In order 10 protect hin,
rom Some u;t"ser guess al bu, 10 not
understand"
Jimmy walked over to the safe an,
Sto"n. looking AT IL respectfully.
Poison Gas' Miss Ha,ulin ! thjuL
'here are few countries iu Europ,
where knowledge Of that little inycu
mon woul0 be very welcome"
Tell me your story ana win tr,
10 help yon said.
Bur Jane liSu,!us story was -,
strange and SO pu@zliu- that won
dered IL any human being could hcl,
her
"if only mad thrown thar nteruu
machine INTO tho ocenu Yesterday even
inE. sishcd Jane Hamlim again .Bc
fore could decioc OF - course Of ac
ton some one came. however. IL WA
my nance Clayton Boyd.
had closed til" SAT-. bu, m
screen was not III place again. and O
course. Clayton DIDN'T want me TO ha
any secrets from him. showed hin
fathers letter, hu, couI,in', open m
SAFE and let him see tho machine
felt that would bc against the wish.
OF my dead father
II meant 10 do the right thing. q,
meant TO do the right thing. Ru,
angtrcd Clayton. think now thai Ia
changed toward inc then ana there. II
has been different ever since
We sat down together 20 discus
thf plans for our marriage Clav,o