The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-03-17
FOURTH EPISODE
THE NAME AND THE GAME

pleased with his mornings work. De-
feated for the time being, in one quar-
ter, he promptly swung about and
struck at another.
His attack, in this instance, was di-
rected at nothing less than Enoch
Golden's own home. There, effecting
an entrance through a neglected coal
chute before even the servants were
astir, he had crept stealthily upward
until he found refuge in trunk room.
Through the door crack Of this trunk
room, however, he soon had the dubi-
GUS pleasure of beholding figure quite
as stealthy as his own, a figure that
wore a laughing mask and made it's
way cautiously downward to the door
of Enoch Goldens study. On that door
the masked figure, before vanishing
as quietly as it had first appeared,
pinned an oblong paper. Stealing up
to it, Legar read:
Enoch Golden: You have proved
disappointment to me. Despite my
warnings, you still Cypress the poor
and abuse your power. Your daueh-
ter has been saved from the clutches
of Leear, and at the proper time will
be produced. But that time will not
come until you have changed your
ways of life. So while still you have
the chance, do some good deed!
THE LAUGHING MASK.
Legar, having thoughtfully perused
this strange warning, promptly added
postscript:
As slight sign of my disapprovaI,
! am appropriating your fifty thousand
dollars from the vaults of the Third
National bank, for which | now take
occasion to thank you.
Ten minutes later Legar had made
his escape from the house and was
speeding southwark in his car, to con-
fer with his own men as to the ap-
preaching assault on Golden's wealth
in the Third National vaults.
The Laughing Mask himself, in the
meantime, was busy with his own en-
terprise. He had rescued Margory
Golden from Legar, it was true, but
her conveyance to place of safety,
in open daylight, was a much more
! difficult problem. In his extremity,
accordingly, he had to resort to those
expedients nearest at hand.
This led him down a secluded by
way, where the powder shack of con-
struction company still stood half way
up a wooden hillside. At the end of
tunnel piercing this hillside was a
timbered chamber for high explosives.
| Guarded as it was with it's double lock,
in the manipulation of such obstacles,
since five minutes work with his
skeleton keys threw open that we'll
| hidden room. Once there, he even ven-
| tured to explore his surroundings and
take from their case certain small cylin-
ders incased in grease-stained paper.
He did not explain to the already over
puzzled girl, however, that these
stance known as nitroglycerin, nor
did he explain to her, at the end of
his quiet yet hurried labors, that the
lcoped line hanging at the tunnel
mouth was in any way connected with
the illuminate caps which he had
placed so pregnantly close to his bur-
led mine. But it was well, he remem-
bered, to be prepared fer such men
as Legar and his followers.
Now" said the masked figure, turn.
ing to the girl, Il want you to stay
here until / get back"
Waiting for. her deliverer's return
however, proved neither a pleasant
nor tranquilizing pastime. The girl
became restless. Then she became
! worried. Then she even ventured to
creep out along the rough-shored pas
sageway, to where the tunnel opened
en- shelf of rock and gravel half way
up the hillside. Screened as it was
with shrubbery she could see little OF
the valley before her. The only point
of life that met her gaze was black
touring car crawling along the valley
road. When that car turned off the
road and twisted and rocked in be
tween the bushes below her she
thought, at first, that it was her un
known guardian returning to her. But
when she saw five men cautiously
emerge from that half-hidden car and
creep still closer through the under
brush, she felt sure that they were
not approaching as friends. For a mo
ment her heart leaped up into hel
mouth. Then she breathed again, fol
she saw that they were not approach
ing her hiding place, but apparently
seeking one of their own. And as they