Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-12
FOURTEENTH EPISODE
The Unmasking.

A strange mood of happiness. as I'M.
reasoning as it was inexplicable,
seemed to have taken possession OF
Margery Golden. A less timorous light
shone from the depths of her pool
brown eyes. At all times of the day,
too, she could be heard singing about
the house.
This hayward blitheness of spirit
was something more than puzzle to
her heavy-browed father, who found
little in the situation Immediately con-
fronting him to cause him any undue
lightness of heart. For that situation
had Unexpectedly taken on the form
of defeat.
After all Jules Legar's campaign for
the possession of that pregnant scrap
of parchment which carried the key
to the secret of the lost treasure of
Windward island, the long-fought-for
document had suddenly disappeared
from the Golden vault. And all evil
dence pointed to the fact that 1t was
the Laughing Mask who had stolen
| the chart and cipher code from the
| safe.
Golden was in the midst of his
| second conference with the russell
faced Captain Bracket of the head
quarters staff, when telephone call
came for that official. The talk over
| the wire was one-sided. Then with
| great deliberation the official hung
up the receiver and swung about to
Enoch Golden.
well, we've got your Laughing
Mask for YOU"
You've got him?" repeated Golden.
Our man Walcott located him by
trailing his chauffeur. And before
nightfall we can have him rounded
up"
Where was he found?'
Just where you'd least expect
man of that character to be found.
He's hiding in a cave in the Hudson
| Palisades, not ten miles from where
we're sitting at the moment, just above
Coleman's village. And the fact he's
| ducked to a Malina like that bears
out what we've always claimed, that
| he's as big crook as this Iron Claw
himself. For honest men don't crawl
into river caves!"
Golden was about to reply in the af-
firmative to this self-obvious statement
when he was interrupted by the en-
trance of his daughter.
But supposing our fugitive" said
| the serene-eyed girl as she smiled
| down on the somewhat startled police
captain, had enemies who seemed at
the moment stronger than he was and
at the same time found himself in pos
session of something which it was es-
sential that he should guard? Wouldn't
it seem natural for him to go where
he'd be least likely to be found?"
The russet-faced captain blinked
,, stolidly up at her.
when an honest man has some
thing it seems dangerous to hold, he
goes to the police for protection When
a crook has made haul, and is shaky
about losing his swag, he beats it to
his Malina, to his fence, the same as
| your friend the Laughing Mask has
done, And the sooner we get the
wheels moving and root that masked
grounding out of his dugout the bet
teri"
I'm ready" announced Enoch Col.
| den.
With a gasp of sudden resolution
| Margery rang the bell, called for her
roadster. and struggled into her hat
and coat, as she ran down the sand.
| stone steps to the street.
She sped off through the city at a
! rate that was an open and obvious
violation of all the speed laws. She
| laughed rebelliously as, once free OF
the congested ferry traffic, she swung
lightly past the car in which she be
held her own astounded father decor.
ously seated, giving him her dust as
| she mounted to the crest of the Jersey
| hills and struck the road leading north
ward along the wide-bosomed river.
Then as she swung past still an
| other hurrying car the smile sudden
| " died from her face. For she felt
| sure that one of the faces In that car
was the face OF Jules Legar himself
She went on, from that moment,
crowding every inch of speed out of
her car, exulting in the fact Of its
power, ignoring the shouts of onlook-
ers as she swept up through Colemans
| village, took the turn In smother of
| dust, and brought the steaming road
ster up sharp against a cedar-hedge
GROWING the topmost ridge Of the
river cliffs. She leaped bodily through
the hedge and ran to the outermost
lip of the Palisades. There, cupping
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