Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-04-18

Each episode of this story will be
shown at The Palace Theatre every
Saturday matinee and night.
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Continued from previous issue)
The girl. pusnmg ner cautious way
through the bushes, leaned even closer
over the ledge. Then she held her
breath. for she saw that her move
ments had IoOsened The gravel at her
feet and sent a covey Of powders
careening down the hillside. The
voices below at the same time came
10 sudden step. In another moment
she could hear the crash of hurrying
ieet through the tangled shrubbery.
Before she could turn and fy Le-
gar and his four evil-faced followers
were charging up the slope. They
were upon her, cutting or her retreat
before she could dodge back into the
passageway. Yet she did not surren-
der without a struggle. She fought
them back as best she could. standing
at bay with her back against the rocky
hillside. 1t was not until Legar's hand
clamped like a wise on her arm that
she screamed, and screamed again.
A masked figure picking his eau
tious way along the crest OF the hin
above them heard that cry and seemed
to understand its meaning. For. on
hearing that repeated scream, he no
longer picked his way, but ran fran
tically, and with all his speed. So pre-
cipitately did he scurry down that
rocky hillside, in fact, that he de-
scended in a flying leap in the very
midst OF Legar's followers clustered
about the girl He landed like q
fallen plumb bob, heels down. knock
ing one Of the ccnspirators sprawl
ing over the cliff edge as he came. An
other he sent with a well-aimed blow
IN the same direction The third was
not disposed Of so easily. But an
adept jiu-jitsu twist of the body soon
sent this opponent diving headfore-
most into the loose gravel 1t was
then that Legar, seeing his men going
down about him like ninepins, re-
leased his clutch on the girls arm to
draw his revolver.
at the same moment that he did
so the man in the mask. swinging the
girl sharply about, darted for the tun-
neimOuth. lie was through it before
Legar could level his gun and fire. He
was half,leading, halidraggiug the
painting girl down the narrow passage
before any OF the band could follow.
But before he lodged Tor the hidden
powder house ne threw up his free
hand and caught at tbe loop which
hung there at the end of his line And
he pulled it vigorously as he ran
The result Of that simple movement
was both prompt and appalling The
thunder Of a great detonation shook
the earth. The rocky hillside erupt
cd into a sudden ~oJcano of flying
earth and gravel. mngng lts tons Of
debris into tie echoing valley And
under the debris could be seen the
still struggling limbs oil Leear and his
men.
But the nan iu the mask did not
linger TO witness those struggles. He
darted with the vlitefaceu girl out
81 the broken tunna mouth. dragged
her hurrieGly up the siore and circled
down through rock and underbrush to
where mis- hidden car awaited him.
The Secret Attack.
Enoch Golden was no longer a con.
temptuously indifferent man as he
faced his attorney, John Sibley. hur.
riedly summoned for a conference.
1 tell you, Sibley,' said the man Of
millions, something has to be done.
and done soon. PIn surrounded by enc
mics can't run down, enemies / can't
even understand In the first place,
there's this man in mask stalking
through my house and pinning threats
to my doorpanels. Then"
Wait, cut in the man of law. "Did
anyone actually see this man of the
mask?"
Yes, Wilson, my butler, came face
to face with him as he stepped out OF
passageway. Then, when my secre-
tary, Manley, started in pursuit Of the
intruder, instead OF finding a stranger
III this fool mask, he found his way
blocked by girl, a girl in a cloak.
who seemed to come there out Of thin
air. And that girl, sir turned out
to be my own daughter, my own
daughter in some miraculous way res
cued from Legar."
Brought there by the man in the
mask?"
Yes, brought there by him. So
she asserts. Yet this stranger, who
brings me back the one thing precious
in my life, on the same day assumes
to criticize my conduct and threatens
to rob me of my money"
But that threat, as I've already
pointed out, is foolish. Your money
has all the protection that steel and
civilization can surround it with 1t
lies in the vaults of the Third National
bank"
But tell you ! am surrounded BY
enemies, by unknown enemies of great
skill and daring That has already
been proved. And while they can
never make me cover, they have at
least made me cautious
I guess we'd better all go down TO
the Third National and make sure