Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-14
Author 81 ''rhe EaS d The Trsi
France" etc.
EIGHTH INSTALLMENT.


Lieutenant Jarvis Hope is detailed by the
United States naval board to investigate and
report his findings on the invention Of DR..
marine to a state Of perfection. The lieuts-
nant arrives In Valdavia and 10 welcomed by
the inventor and his daughter, Cleo. On the
helper Is surprised In tbs act Of examining
-the mechanism of the ventilatins device.
Hope reports favorably on the new device,
but there are others Interested In 1t. An
attempt to burglarixe DR.. Burke's laboratory
fails. but later Cleo finds him murdered in
his bedroom CLIO sells her fathers books to
get money; later she finds = note from
secret formula with Hope she races to
the auctionssr's store only to find 1t In
flames, Olga lvanoff and Gerald Morton,
o. Stephsnskt. the anarchist. Hope PUSHES to
her aid Morton shoots at him but the bullet
hits a bomb, in the cellar, which expledes.
Stephanski dies In the wreck Of his house
the others escape, Hope and Cleo attend
q ball at Mrs. Delmars. whose nephew has
two Of the missing books, Mahlin. & spy,
covered by Hope: in the excitement that
follows the books disappear. Mahlin escapes
Hope and Cleo take a boat for an island
other boats, Mhhlln and the Jap turn out
the island light Morton's boat with the
countess strikes stray mine In the bay,
After a violent storm Hope and Cleo arrive
man they hunt Is here, But Mahlin and tho
Japanese also reach the island and put up
fight for the books, They escape from
Hope but return and dynamite the shack,
Continued From Yesterday
Hope and Cleo reached Sandstone
on the noon train, and, after leis.
urel$ lunch on the terrace Of the
| Hotel Arbor. started I'D the princi-
pal thoroughfare OF the little town
to call on Doctor Owen. Thus /,
CHANGED that Satsuma, coming out Of
a cigar store. suddenly stopped
aghast. for, standing along the op-
posite side Of the street, pausing now
and then to look into the shop win.
dows, was the couple that he sup
posed had persisted in the dynamitet
shack on the island. Keeping iar
enough behind them so that there
was no danger Of his being recog'
nized, Satsuma followed Hope ane
Cleo along the business street of The
town and so out into the residential
district. past block after block o.
vine-clad cottages set far back on vel
vet lawns, until at last they stopped
before the bungalow Of Doctor Owen
Peering cautiously from behind a tire,
on the opposite side of the street
Satsurna saw Hope ring the door bell
saw him exchange few words Witf
the maid. and, upon receiving what
was evidently a negative answer, saw
him write 4 few lines upon his card
leave it with the maid and depart.
The Japanese waited until Hop,
and Cleo had been gone twenty min
utes; then he bodily approached TIKI
house and rang the bell
"I'm Lieutenant Hopes valet" h
said, speaking in the sing-song in
donation peculiar to Oriental domes
tics to the maid who opened the door
and who, he noted, was dressed TO
the street. "He sent me to get tn,
note he leave here little while back
Say to tell doctor he has changes
mind and will telephone him" Hi
manner was that of weli-trained ser
want and the unsuspecting mai
handed him the card without demur
Not until he was out of sight of tn
house. however, did Satsuma ventur
to examine it. 1t was one of Hope
visiting cards and on it he ha
scrawled in pencil:
Dear Doctor Owen:
| Am sorry to have missed you.
Should you return In time will
you give me the pleasure Of din
Ing with Miss Burke and myself
at the Hotel Arbor at eight this
evening". And may I trouble
you to bring along Fitzmaurice's
book, regarding which I wired
you yesterday. We will wait for
you In the palm room.
| JARVIS HOPE.
| When Satsuma, fastening back t
the little hotel where he and Mahli
had taken rooms, reported to his EN-
ployer that Hope and Cleo had, i
some unaccountable fashion, escape
death on the island ard that the