The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-18
1.-THE IRON CLAW"

Tread the Story In the Palladium
and See 1t at the PaIaee]
Manley, promptly crossing to the
door, was startled to find the figure OF
the new footman standing close beside
It as it was swung open.
Ten minutes later, when Manley re-
turned to the library with Train at his
heels. he found Enoch Golden staring
down at q sheet Of paper lying on his
desk. At the center of this paper
stood a large black blot.
ITS the Spotted Warning" said
Golden, his heavy face furrowed with
q trouble deeper than he was willing
to admit. But how. in Gods name.
did 1t get here?"
Manley. after staring at the strange
ly.spotted sheet. stared even more in.
tently at the ceiling directly above tho
point where the paper lay on the desk
top. A momentary look Of satisfac-
ton fitted across his face as Golden
turned to him with . crisp command
to precede Margery to Cedarton and
there explain both the reasons for her
visit and the precautions to be exer-
cised during that visit.
And as for you. Train" continued
the grim.eyed old millionaire, turning
to his chauffeur. Il want you to take
my daughter out to Cedarton as quick
ly as your car and tho speed laws will
let you carry her. There are special
reasons for this, remember. And from
the moment you leave this house, don't
let anything or anybody stop YOU"
Thirty minutes later Margery Cold
en-. surrounded by her bags. sat back
in tho swaying automobile. puzzled
over this new and unexpected turn
in the tide Of events. And as mile by
mile swan by beneath the hurrying
wheels, the keen.eyed man in the driv.
ing seat found q load lifted from his
own shoulders.
Yet at the next turn in the road his
light.heartednes suddenly departed
from that keen.eyed driver. For as he
took this turn and speeded up along
@ dustless stretch OF open highway,
he saw q figure run out to the middle
of the road. 1t was not the fact that
this figure stood directly in his path
that most disturbed him. It was the
discovery, as he drew down on 1t.
that this figure wore yellow band OF
cloth across the eyes. with moon
shaped apron falling almost to the end
of the nose, that brought the redoubt-
able Trains heart suddenly up in his
mouth. But even while that figure
remained stubbornly and directly in
his path, motioning for him to stop,
he remembered his orders. Instead Of
slackening his speed, in fact. he in
creased it, increased it to the limit
Of the engines power. And he would
surely nave ridden down that would
be lnterceptor had not the latter, at
the last moment. leaped quickly aside.
Marsery Golden, as he did so, half
rose in her seat, for she, too, had
caught sight of that mysteriously-
Swallowed face.
DuL ludb was tllc l<duSuluS
she cried aloud, in wonder, as they
swept on.
A little later she was startled by a
quick cry Of warning bursting from the
drivers throat. Staring ahead, she
saw that still another effort was being
made to intercept them. This time it
was man with red flag. Instead of
stopping. the car swept past the man
80 close that its fender-end slapped
against the iagstick itself as he re.
peated his lusty shout of command.
But that command was more or less
lost on Train, q little dizzy now with
the sheer drunkenness Of speed.
Stop" Knocked the driver as he
raced on. I'm going to stop for moth.
Ing this side Of hell'"