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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-02-17
turned to an iron gate in high se0As
wall crowned with spikes.

turned to an iron gate in high seo@s
wall crowned with spikes.
The grillework of that gate afforded
glimpses of a small, dark garden and a
little house of two stories. Blank
walls Of beetling tenements shouldered
both house and garden on either side.
Unlocking the gate with ready key,
Lanyard refastened it very carefully,
repeated the business at the front door
of the house, and when they were Sc
curely locked and bolted within dark
reception room, turned on the electric
light.
But he granted the girl little more
than time for a fugitive survey of this
anteroom to an establishment of
unique artistic character.
"Solon's living quarters are down
stairs here" he explained hurriedly.
Hes unmarried. and lives quite
alone-his studio devil and the woman
who cares for things come in by the
day only-and so he avoids that pest
of Partisan life, the concierge. With
your permission, I'll assign you to the
studio-up here"
And leading the way up a narrow
flight of steps, he had made a light In
the huge room by the time the. girl
joined him.
ST believe you'll be comfortable" he
said. THAT divan yonder is as easy
a couch as one could wish-and there's
this door you can lock at the head of
the staircase; while l, of course, will
be on guard below. And now, Miss
Bannon-unless there's something else
I can do"
The girl answered with wan smile
and a little broken sigh. Almost in
voluntarily, In the heaviness of her
fatigue, she had surrendered to the
hospitable arms of huge lounge chair.
Her weary glance ranged the luxurt-
ously appointed studio and returned
to Lanyards face, and while he waited
he fancied he caught something NOV
ing and wistful in those eyes so deeply
Swallowed with distress, perplexity and
fatigue.
I'm very tired indeed" she con-
fesse6-"more than / knew. But I'm
sure l shall be comfortable. And l
count myself very fortunate, Mr.. Lam
yard. You've been more kind that
deserve. Without you, l don't like to
think what might have become of me"
please dont!" he pleaded. And sud-
denly discountenanced by conscious
ness Of his duplicity, he turned to the
stairs. Good night, Miss Bannon," he
mumbled, and was half way down be-
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After a little pause he commented:
THAT does complicate matters, doesn't
it?"
What am to do? can't go back
| won't! Anything rather. You may
Judge how desperate l am when I pre-
fer to throw myself on your gener-
osity-and already I've strained your
patience"
mot much" he interrupted pleas
antly, in a soothing voice "But-half
moment-we1I have to talk this
over"
Directing the cocher to drive to the
Place Pigalle, he re-entered &he cab,
suspicion more than ever rife in his
mind. But as far as he could see
with that COMPOUNDED sergent de vile
staring-there was nothing else for it.
He couldn't stand there in the rain for
ever, gossiping with girl half hyster-
ical or pretending to be.
"You see," she explained when the
facre was again under way, ct thought
/ had hundred-franc note in my peck
etbook, and so have-but the pocket
books back there In my room at
Troyon's."
"A hundred francs wouldn't see you
far toward New York." he observed
thoughtfully.
"Oh, hope you don't think"
She drew back into her corner with
little shudder of humiliation.
AS if he hadn't, Lanyard turned to
the window, leaned out, and redirected
the driver sharply: "Impasse Stanis-
last"
Immediately the vehicle swerved,
rounded a corner, and made back
toward the Seine with a celebrity which
suggested that the stables lay on the
Rive Gauche.
"Where?" the girl demanded as Lam
yard sat back. Where are you taking
me?"
I'm sorry" Lanyard said, with every
appearance of sudden contrition; Il
acted impulsively-on the assumption
of your complete confidence. Which,
OF course, was objectionable. But,
believe me, you have only to say no,
and 1t shall be as you wish"
But" she persisted impatiently-
you haven't answered me: what Is
this Impasse Stanislas?"
"The address of an artist I know
Scion, the painter. We're going to take
possession of his studio-residence in
his absence. Don't worry; he won't
mind. He Is under heavy obligation to
me-I've sold several canvases for
him, and when he's away, as now, in
the States, he leaves me the keys. It's
a soberminded, steady-paced neigh
borhood, where we can rest without
misgivings and take our time to think
things out"
But" the girl began in an odd
tone.
Permit me-" he interposed hastily,
Ito urge the facts Of the case upon
your consideration"
"Well?" she said in the same tone,
as he paused.
"To begin With don't doubt you've
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-02-17
SYNOPSIS.

After stealing the Omber Jewels and the
Huysman war plans in London Michael
Lanyard returns to Troyon's, Paris Inn,
for the first time in many years because
he thinks Roddy, a Scotland Yard man,
ts on his trail. On arrival he finds Roddy
already installed guest At dinner
q conversation between COmte de Morbi-
han NJ Bannon and Mile. Bannon about
the Lone Wolf a celebrated craftsman
who works alone alarms him Lanyard
dresses and goes out, leaving Roddy snOr-
ing in the next room, then comes back
Bteathily, TO find in his room Mile. Ban
that she was sleep-walking. In his apart
n:art near the TrOcadero he finds written
on the back Of q 2G-pound note, part Of his
concealed emergency hoard, an invitation
from The Pack to the Lone Wolf to join
them. Lanyard attempts to dispose of
the Omber Jewels, but finds that The
Pack has forbidden the buyers TO deal
with him. He decides to meet The Pack.
De MOrbihan meets him and takes him
before three masked members OF The
Pack. He recognizes Popinot, apache,
and Wertheimer, English mobsman, but
the third, an American. is unknown to
him. He refuses alliance with them. On
his return to his room he Is attacked in
the dark. but knocks out his assailant.
He gives the unconscious man, who proves
% be the mysterious American, a hypo-
dermic to keep him quiet, discovers that
Roddy has been murdered in his bed with
the evident intention Of fastening the
crime on him, and changing the appear
ance OF the unconscious American to re-
gemble his own, starts to leave the house
IN the corridor he encounters lucia Ban
non. who insists on leaving with him.
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CHAPTER XIII.
COMPANIONS,

SOHipdHIOHSs
The enigma of the girl so deeply in
trigued his imagination that it was
only with difficulty that he concocted
a noncOmmittal telegram to Roddy's
acquaintance in the prefecture de po-
lice-that imposing parsonage who had
watched with the man from Scotland
Yard at the platform gates in the Care
du Nord.
It was couched in English when
eventually composed and submitted to
the telegraph clerk with fervent, If
inaudible, prayer that he might be
ignorant of the tongue.
Come at once to my room at Troy
on's. Enter via adjoining room pre-
pared for immediate action on impor-
tant development. Urgent.
"RODDY."
Whether or not this were Greek to
the man behind the wicket in the tele-
graph bureau, 1t was accepted with
complete indifference-or rather, with
an interest that apparently evaporated
upon receipt Of the fees. Lanyard
couldn't see that the clerk favored him
with as much as a curious glance be-
fore he turned away to lose himself,
to bury his identity finally and forever
under the incognito of the Lone Wolf
He couldn't have rested without TAX
ing that one step to compass the arrest
of the American assassin; now, with
luck and prompt action on the part of
the prefecture, he felt sure that Roddy
would be avenged by M. de Paris. But
1t was quite as well that there should
be no clue whereby the author of the
mysterious telegram might be traced.
1t was, then, not an ill-pleased Lam
yard who slipped off into the night and
the rain; but his evaporation was
elaborate when the first object that
met his gaze was that wretched fiacre,
back in place before the door, Lucia
Bannon leaning from it's lowered win
dow, the cocher on his box brandish-
ing an importunate whip at the ad-
venturer.
He barely escaped choking on sup
pressed profanity, and for two sous
would have swung on his heel and
ignored the girl deliberately. But he
didn't dare-close at hand stood a SER
geant de vile, inquisitive eyes bright
beneath the dripping vizor of his cap
keenly welcoming this diversion of a
cherries hour.
With at least outward semblance Of
resignation Lanyard approaches the
window.
81 have been guilty of some stupid
ity, perhaps?" he inquired with lip
civility that knew no echo in his heart
But am sorry"
1.-THE stupidity is mine" the girl In
terrupted in accents tense with agi-
tation. Mr.. Lanyard, IL"
Her voice faltered and broke in a
short, dry sob, and she drew back with
an effort of instructive distaste for
public emotion. Lanyard smothered
an impulse to demand roughly: well,
what now?" and came closer to the
window.
There is something else 1 can do,
Miss Bannon?"
II don't know. I've Just found it
out came away so hurriedly l never
thought to make sure; but I've no
money-only few francss"
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CHAPTER XIV.
Awakening.


It was late afternoon when Lanyard
wakened from sleep so deep and
dreamless that nothing could have in
duced it less potent than sheer sys-
temic exhaustion, at once nervous,
muscular and mental
A profound and sitting lethargy be-
numbed his senses. There was stu
por in his brain and all his limbs ached
duly. He opened dazed eyes upon
blank darkness. In his ears sounded
vast silence.
And in that strange moment of awak-
ening he was conscious Of no individ-
uality-it was, for the time, as If he
had passed in slumber from one exist
ence to another, sloughing in the
transition all his threefold existence
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CHAPTER XIl-contInued.

Her hands moved toward him in a
6utter OF entreaty: IT, too, must leave
unseen-I must! Take me with you
and promise you no one shall ever
know"
He lacked time to weigh the disad-
vantages inherent In her proposition;
though she offered him a heavy handi-
cap, he had no choice but to accept
ii without protest.
Come, then" he told her-"and not
q sound"
She signified assent with another
nod, and promptly he turned to an ad-
Jacent door, opened it gently, whipped
out his fiash-lamp and passed through.
Without sign Of hesitancy she fol-
lowed, and like two shadows they
dogged that dancing spotlight through
@ linen closet and service room, down
a shallow we'll threaded by a spiral of
iron steps and, by way of a long cor
ridor that linked the kitchen offices.
on to a stout door of oak secured only
by huge. old-style bolts of iron.
In two minutes from the moment of
their encounter they stood outside
TrOyOn's, that door at their back fac
ing a cramped, malodorous alleyway-
q dark and noisome souvenir of that
wild medieval Paris whose effacement
IS an enduring monument to the fame
of the good Baron Haussmann.
For all its might and its omniscience
Lanyard doubted If the Pack had as
Nyof {Jar@SHoa I'd 4,
that ill-starred Marcel who once had
been as intimate with this secret way
as any skulking Tom of its feline
hordes
But with this one confidence was
never akin to foolhardiness; and If,
before leaving Troyon's back door, he
had paused to take the girls hand
and had drawn it through his arm-it
was his left arm that he thus dedi-
Gated to gallantry-his right hand
remained unhampered and was never
far from the grip Of his automatic.
Nor was he altogether trustful Of his
companion. Momentarily he grew more
jealousy heedful of her, of every nu-
ance in her bearing. The least trace
of added pressure on his arm, the most
subtle suggestion that she wasn't alto
gether Indifferent to him or regarded
him in any way other than as the
chance-found comrade of an hour of
trouble would have proved enough to
fix his suspicious. For such, he told
himself, would be the first thought of
one bent on beguiling, to lead him on
by some intimation-the more tenuous
and elusive the more provoking-that
she found him in person not altogether
Objectionable.
But he failed to find anything of this
in her manner
So what was he to think? That she
was alert enough to appreciate how
ruincus to her design would be any
such advances?
In such perpleXity he brought her
TO the mouth of the alley and there
pulled up for reconnaissance before
venturing forth into the narrow, dark
and utterly deserted side street that
presented ITSELF
At this the girl gently disengaged
her hand and drew away a pace or
two, and when Lanyard had satisfied
himself that there were no Apaches
in the offing he turned to see her
standing there, just within the en-
trance to the alley, in pose of blank
indecision.
Conscious of his regard, she turned
to his inspection face touched with a
fugitive. uncertain smile.
Where are we now?" she asked in
= guarded tone.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
AT FRONT IN FRANCE
kershaw Surgeon Engaged in
War Zone.

Camden, Feb. 12.--Kershaw
county has a representative at
the French front in the person
OF DIR. Irwin M. Boykin, son of
Capt. B. H. Boykin of Boykins
DR.. Boykin is a graduate of
Chapel Hill N. c., and also of
Jefferson (Pa.) Medical college.
He was employed as an inferno
at the Jefferson Medical college
when the chief of the American
hospital corps cabled him that
his services were needed in
France. Since October he has
been there, DR.. Boykin has writ
ten several letters home telling
OF his experiences which are said
to be interesting. His call to
France was considered a COM
pliment to his ability as a sur
geon and his friends at home are
glad of this recognition.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
FORD WILL LAUNCH
ADVERTISING PLAN

Detroit, Feb. 13.-It was an
nounced that Henry Ford is
preparing to launch country
wide campaign of newspaper and
magazine advertising against
the programme for huge naval
and military expenditures now
before congress.
1t was said Mr.. Ford intends
soon to carry out his announced
intention to devote millions of
dollars to an educational cam
palgn against war and prepared
ness which he declared to be the
first step toward actual war.
None of the details of the
plan could be obtained tonight
except that Mr.. Ford had been
considering the campaign for
'ome time and that "all the peo-
pie of the country would be
rcached by it."
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
Aviator Pierces Sky Dome For
Attitude Record; Goes I'm Mile

San Diego, Cal, Feb. ID
Official announcement that
-Flovd Smith. civilian aviator.
had broken the worlds hydro
aeroplane record for pilot and
two passengers. when he ascend
"d 9,544 feet here Friday, was
a1e TODAY by Can't. Arthur s.
'owan. chief of the signal corps
'Niation school, United States
Hny, who represented the Aero
cub of America at the flight.
Celebration of the official
bayOqraph strapped to Smiths
seaplane showed the machine
climbed 544 feet higher than the
altitude of 5000 feet recorded
in Smiths pocket barograph.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
CORNELL LABORATORY
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Burning of Morse Hall Causes
Loss to Ithaca University of
100000.

Ithaca, n. Y, Feb. 13.-
Morse hall, Cornell universitv's
chemical laboratory, was de.
stroyed by fire early TODAY. The
loss is estimated at $500, 900,
partly covered by insurance
The cause of the fire has not
been determined. No one was in
the building at the time.
Flremen were menaced by
chemical explosions and the lack
or water pressure hampered
their work. Chemicals which, it
was said, can not be replaced
now owing to the European war
were consumed. More than
$500 students will have to re-
arrange their sceudhseslsisrrss
arrange their schedules, as every
course at Cornell except that of
law requires the study of chem
istry.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
HERE'S WHERE FORD
GIVES UP MORE MONEY
VIII Launch Big Newspaper Ad.
vertising Campaign Against
Preparedness Program.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. lat
was announced tonight that
Henry Ford is preparing to
launch countrywide campaign
OF newspaper and magazine ad-
vertising against the program
for huge naval and military ev-
penditures new before CONGRESS-.
1t was said Mr.. Ford intends soon
20 carry out his auuounced in
tention to devote millions of
dollars to an educational cam
paign against war and prepared
ness which he declared to be the
first step toward actual war.
None of the details of the
plan could be obtained tonight
eXcept that Mr.. Ford had been
considering the campaign for
some time and that "all the peo-
pie of the country would be
reached by it."
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
GERMANY SEEKING
LAND FOR CANAL,
Has Made Offer TO Nicaraana


mas Made Offer to Nicaragua.
washington, Feb. l4.-That
Germany had offered Nicaragua
a larger sum than the United
states Tor an option on the Nice
tagu.ah canal route was urged
III me senate TODAY as an arru-
meht Tor early ratification of the
penndlhg treaty.
several senator's said they had
oeen informed in the course Of
.he deoate that Germany had
long sought an option on the
c2t1aI route; that efforts first
were MADE soon after France un-
oSiIooK construction of the can
al ana were renewed more 1e-
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
MARSHALL WILLING.
Vice President in Receptiye
Mood for Nomination.

Portland, Ore, Feb. 10.-Vice
President Marshall is willing to
run for a second term, according
to letter made public here to-
day by Postmaster Frank s.
Myers, of Portland, from Mark
Ihistlewaite, sec"elry to the
vice president.
Mr.. Myers wrote to the vice
president some time ago askinq.
# he would permit the use of
his name on the Oregon prim-
ary ballot. Mr.. Thistlewaite's
letter says:
Replying to your letter. I am
saving that the vice president
will glady accept denomination
If the Democrats want to re-
nominate him, and that he will
gladly retire to private life if
they do not; but The vice presii-
dent is unwilling to seek renomi-
nation and that he does not
think a man holding the office
should be riding or running
around requesting Democrats to
vote for him again.
The vice president could not
bring himself to ask anyone to
file petitions for him, but if pc
titions are filed for him, he GER
tainly will not repudiate the ac.
ton"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
WILSON TO STAND
FOR REELECTION
Entirely Unwilling to Enter
Any Contest" For Renomina
alton.

Washington, Feb. 14.-Presi-
dent Wilson today consented
formally for the first time to the
use OF his name as a presidential
candidate in the coming cam
paign. At the same time he de-
clared he was entirely unwill-
ing to enter into any contest"
for denomination.
This denition of the presi-
dents attitude, in line with the
plans of his political associates,
is expected to bring into the
open the campaign being made
IN his favor throughout the
country.
Mr.. Wilson's declaration was
made in letter to the Ohio
secretary of state, who had
written that candidates for dele
gates from that state to the ma
tional convention must signify
their choices for president before
February %, and that no pre-
sldential candidates could be
named in that convention with
out their consent.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
WON'T GO AS DELEGATE.
Secretary McAdOO States At
titude Toward st. Louis
Convention.

Washington, Feb. 13.-So.~e.
tary McAdoo wrote Chest,
Platt of Batavia, N. Y. to- 4,
that under no circumstance
would he permit the nam
himself a delegate to the r.
cratic National CO.., i
Louis next June. +!
asked the Secretary ~
attitude. Mr.. McAdo
said he felt that DELEGATE eo,l
be chosen fom men wh ave
stood in the trenches and rogght
the battles of the party paai
have not received official posi-
tions."
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
Movie" Men Appeal.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.-THE
right of moving picture manu-
facturers to appeal from decis-
ion of the state board of censors
which may restrict or forbid the
public showing of their products
was upheld today by Judge Bar
rett. The matter has been the
bject of bitter controversy be-
tween movie companies and the
state consors in Pennsylvania
for a long time.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
MOULTR|E J. CLEMENT
DIES BY OWN HAND
Representative From Charles
ton Found Dead i'm Bed i'm
His Plantation Home.

Charleston, Feb. 12. The
death by suicide of Moultrie j.
Clement, member of Charles
ton county's delegation, came as
a shock to this community TODAY.
He had been in ill health for
some time, and the cause of his
self-inflicted death is ascribed to
this fact. He was in Charleston
yesterday, apparently feeling
well, and his sudden demise
found his many friends totally
unprepared for the news today.
Mr.. Clement went to his
plantation at Clementia Springs
last night to attend to some
business affairs, and news of his
death reached Charleston this
morning after the discovery of
the suicide. Coroner Mansfield at
once went to Mr.. Clements
plantation to investigate, and
on inquest resulted of self-des-
truction.
The funeral will be held in st.
Andrews parish tomorrow after
noon.
According to testimony adduc-
ed at the inquest, the remains of
Mr.. Clement were found this
morning by one of his negro
servants. He was lying in bed on
his left side with bullet wound
in his right temple. In front of
him on the bed lay revolver.
Mr.. Clement was we'll known
and generally esteemed in Char
lesion and vicinity. During the
present session of the legisla-
ture he suffered stroke of i'll
ness and had to come home.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
LIABILITY BILL
PASSES HOUSE

Final Passage Given After
Amended to Provide That No
Punitive Damage May be Re-
covered Under Act.
Columbia, Feb. 12.-The
house today gave final passage
to the Padgett bill defining the
liability for injuries to EMPLOYEES
after inserting by unanimous
consent the following amend
ments proposed by Mr.. Searson
Punitive damages shall not be
recoverable in cases arising un-
der this act"
The necessity for some such
amendment was made evident
following a legal argument hv
Jesse w. Boyd, chairman of the
judiciary committee, who main
tained that "all damages. in
Guiding actual punitive and ex-
empIary" may be recovered un-
der the world damages" accord
ing to decisions made by the
South Carolina supreme court
Had the amendment, which
was in accordance with the
wishes of the house. in giving
second reading to the bill Fri
day been rejected, it is probable
that the bill would have been re-
committed.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
-FOUR INCHES OF SNOW
walking Made Difficult in New
York.

New York, Feb. I3.--Four
inches of snow fell here TODAY
and, coupled with rain, sleet and
increasing cold, made walking
difficult and seriously impeded
traffic. Hospitals were busy
treating persons suffering from
broken limbs, sprained ankles
and other injuries. although no
Fatalities were reported. Rail-
road elevated trains and sur
face car schedules were inter
rupted. Many wires are down.
A force of 10000 men was put
to work cleaning the city's
streets of snow and sleet.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-02-15
Roosevelt to West Indies.

New York, Feb. 11.-Colopel
THEODORE Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt sailed today on the
British steamship Guiana for a
pleasure trip through the West
indies. The first port the Guiana
will stop at is the st. Thomas in
the Danish West Indies which
will be reached February II. Af-
ter visiting the British, French
and Dutch colonies, Colonel Ro-
osevelt expects to return to New
York arriving here on March
IT.