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The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12
poised brick, and let fly with all his

poised brick, and let fly with all his
force.
The STOPPING man went down like a
clouted rabbit, without sound. But
even as he fell the first intruder, at
the far end Of the room, struck a
match. And at that second figure
Manley let drive with the only missile
at hand.
The heavy glass lamp, hurled true,
sent man and match against the case
side in a shower of oil and broken
glass. But Manley did not wait to wit
ness the result of that second assault.
He leaped for the door, caught up the
e-barreled revolver from the hand
of the stunned man on the threshold,
and drove for the heavier door at the
end OF the outer chamber.
But this door he found to be locked.
He wasson the point Of starting back
in search of timber heavy enough to
batter down that barrier when all
movement was arrested by an uproar
OF sound that fairly drove the breath
from his body For the shower of oil
that fell about the lighted match at
the vaulted end of the side chamber
had sunk into the litter of rubbish
beside the powder cases, had burst in
to flames and had crept closer about
those wooden cases until the licking
tongues of heat had reached the explo-
sive.
Yet even as Manley stood there,
fighting for breath. a second surprise
both confronted and engulfed him.
Following close on that telltale roar
OF sound came an even more bewilder-
ing rush of water, tearing through the
low.roofed cellar like thousand
hounds let loose. And he knew then
that the explosion had broken down
the wallis between him and the East
river at high tide.
He leaped in the direction Of the
door. IN the hope Of getting Il closed
He was stu st juggling franucslly
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12
SYNOPSIS.

On windward island Palidori intriguels,
which causes Golden TO capture ana tor
ture the Italian by branding his race ana
crushing his hand. Palidori opens the
dvke gates and floods the island and In
tHa general rush 10 escape the flood kid
mans Golden's six-year-old daughter Mar
gory. Twelve years later In New YORK
Masked one calling himself the Hammer
~ cod" rescues an eighteen-year-old girl
from the cadet Casavanti, 10 whom jules
Iegar- has delivered her, and takes her 10
the home OF Enoch Golden. millionaire,
whence she Is recaptured by Legar. Lesair Lesi
denis secretary, setting fire to Golden 8
buildings, but escape. Margory's mother
fruitiessly implores Enoch Golden 70
And their daughter. The Masked One
again takes Margory away from Legar.
Iegar ioots the Third National bank. but
again the Laughing Mask illustrates his
planA
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

restored the papers to their place.
Her hand was still on the open vault
door when the shrill call of the tele-
phone bell sounded through the quiet
room.
She crossed to the desk and took UP
the receiver.
do you know who is speaking?"
demanded q voice which sent thrill
of apprehension through her forward
STOPPING body. And the question was
repeated as she sat silent, staring be-
fore her.
"Yes," she finally answered, trying
to steady her voice. ITS Legar."
The wire brought his answering
laugh close into her ear.
"You know the voice, 1 see. And /
think you know the man. So listen to
what l have to say. I've got your
friend Manley, and he'll stay where
I've got him. And unless you want
him turned out of here with about
half OF that pretty face Of his burned
to crisp, you'll do what / tell you
to do. Do you understand? I'll scar
him worse than l was SCARED, IL you
try any tricks with me in this!"
"In-in what?" demanded the white
faced girl.
"In exactly one-half hour want you
to walk past the Soldiers monument
and hand me a paper. That paper is
somewhere in your fathers vault. II
is one half OF code list and chart
on a square Of yellow MANILA. Do you
understand"
"But how am to know this paper?'
asked the terrified girl. fencing fol
time.
Its a chart, a map, one half OF thu
map of windward island. For old
Goluen wasn't such o fool as HI
secondhand again the venomcui
laugh sounded low over the wire. II
your father had got hold OF ny half o
that map a little earlier In the gam'
he wouldn't have needed 10 diS 10
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

IN this rar noie. why can't Legar get
back here where he belongs and do his
own stickup work?"
"I tell you the does up TO the Col
den house maxim his haul when the
coasts clear! And IL you wake that
king there you'll have to cut out the
red-eye and keep busy chokin' OF his
holler!"
Manley could hear their shutting
feet as they recrossed the rough floor
ing and then the scrape and rasp OF
the rusty lock as they once more
turned the key in the door. But the
moment they were gone he was once
more busy with the cotton rope about
his wrists, for what he had overheard
increased his passion for liberty
When a man, however, is still youth,
fully blind enough to believe In his
start, to nurse the delusion that some
special genius has singled him out and
watches over him. he is not easily dis
couraged. Yet encouragement came,
and came In a form most unexpected.
even before Manley's hands were free.
1t came. in fact. in the form of a
green-bodied parrot creeping stealthily
through the rusty cross-bars grilling
the transom above the locked door.
He watched the bird slip into the
room, climb along the rusty iron gas
Jet, deliberately turn 1t on.
Manley knew what this meant, and
| II spurred him TO even more frantic
efforts to saw through the cords. still
holding him q prisoner, for already
the fumes of the escaping gas were
reaching his nostrils.
When one strand of il had parted
and he had uncoiled the rest OF 1t from
his ankles, his head was swimming
and his legs were unable to support
him. So he crossed the room on his
hands and knees, caught at the rusty
gas pipe for support and painfully
drew himself upright. His trembling
hand went out, found the gas jet, anC
turned it of. And the next momen
he fell face down on the rough floor
and lay there in a gray daze OF weak
ness.
How long he lay there he could no
tell. But he was aroused by the soun'
of thick voices from the outer cham
Der, punctuated by the shrill cries
an angry and scolding woman. II
pulled himself together and posssesse
himself of the brick bat, as a weapon
He waited, scarcely breathing, a
the door was flung open. So quici
however, was the entrance OF the frs
intruder that Manley could not lift hi
missile before the darkness had swa
lowed up that shifting shadow. Bo
standing in the lighted doorway was
second man, crouched low end leanin
forward with blinking eyes, blue-ba
relied navy revolver in his hand. Maj
, ley, eying that evil face as sharl
: shooter ewes his target, let fly with a
The Yale expositor., 1916-10-12

at this door when q hearut voice,
and at first he thought 1t was a human
voice, crying shrilly through the
gloom.
Let me out!" was the frantic cry
close above him. Let me ont!" Crop
ing and paving along the wall, his
hand came in contact with. the rung
of a narrow iron ladder. He caught at
this ladder and drew himself up, for
he now stood shoulder high In the
ever-mounting flood On the topmost
rung, as he mounted, he found shak-
ing and feathered body clinging stub
bornly to the rusting iron- beating
with its beak on the hollow sounding
boards above his head.
In fash Manley himself was shoul-
dering up against these boards.
There was the sound of q rending
staple, and in another moment he was
swarming up through the ruptured
trap door, catching at the parrot as he
went
Tho Figures Of Fate.
Margory Golden. alone In her IA
theirs library stared apprehensively
about that massively furnished room
as though dreading that some new
terror might leap out at her from It's
shadowy corners. She was unnerved
not only by the. disquieting disappear
ance of David Manley but also by the
thought that she was still so surround
ed by the tides Of evil.
AS she sat there, deep in thought,
she was depressed by the sudden sus-
picion that some one OF the many
servants In that house was a traitor
to his master. Yet as she checked
them over. one by one. she found moth
ing on which to ground this ghostly
suspicion. She remembered that she
had once been suspicious even or Man
ley himself. of this serious-minded
friend who hid his true feelings be-
hind a mask OF light-hearted irrelev-
ancies. And there were things in
which she herself had not been alto
gether candid with him. There was
for instance the matter of Tito, the
Amazon parrot. She had not confided
to Manley the fact that in that bird
stumbled across in a fancier's shop
she had found an old friend. a friend
dating back 70 her unhappy days ir
the Owls Nest. And she sighed aloud
as she gathered up the papers on the
rosewood desk and turned to the vault
to which she had forgotten to restor'
them.
, "TTwenty-one, thirty, forty-two, SIX
. ty." she repeated. recalling her faith
er's instructions over the wire. For
4 ward and back and forward and bacl
2 again, for it's four movement dial
. whatever that may meant"
: The vault door opened. obedient =
= the combination, and seeking out tn
8 inner compartment marked ~ sh
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
TWO HORSES ARE
 BURNED TO DEATH
Fire Destroys Barn on Oak Street Shortly After
 Midnight.

Two horses were burned to death and a barn almost totally destroyed by a fire at 13S Oak street at 12:45 o'clock this morning, The horses and barn were owned by Abraham Dom broski and the damage is estimated to be in the neigh borhood of $500.
 The origin of the fire is unknown and it IS a strange fact that alth ougn the barn is located in the rear of Don- broski's house. the fire was not dis covered until it had burst forth from all the doors and windows in the structure Then it was that Officer Frank Moore, seeing the glare from near box AT, a half mile away, gave the alarm
 Engine companies No. 1, 3 and re- spOnded, but a mixup in the fire alarm system kept the bell ringing and En- zine company Mo- also responded, thinking a second alarm had been sounded.
 The barn was a mass of flames when the firennen arrived and until two lines of hose had been directed into the seething mass it was impossible tol the men to venture near the building The thermometer was lowering around the zero mark while the firemen were working and several of the men SUI fered from the intense cold.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
ACTORS HOTEL BURNS;
 DEATH TOLL IS SIX
Five Men and One Woman Are Known to Be
 Dead.

New York, Feb. Five men and a woman lost their lives today in 9 fire which destroyed a theatrical boarding house above a restaurant in the theater section of this city. Early reports said that a number of the ac- tors and actresses who were stopping in the house had Derished, but the dead were identified later as employees of the boarding house, and Thomas koratsas, one of the proprietors.
 According to the police three Wom- en and two men are known to have been burned to death. They are be- lieved to have been actors and actress es, but the bodies have not yet been identified. There were several sensa- tional escapes as the flames rushed upward through the building from the basement. One man who jumped from a window on the second floor was sc- riously injured. There were twenty persons in the house at the time. all actors.
 The body of another man was dis covered later by the firemen, making a total of six who are known to have perished. The woman whose body was found has been identified as Emile Dobisch, a chambern1aid employed in the house. One of the dead men has been identified as John Meegan, a chauffeur
 The bodies of a man and a woman were found on the top floor at the foot of a ladder leading to the roof. In the hallway on the first floor the bodies of two more men were found and the body of a fourth man, burned beyond recognition, was discovered in a bed on the second floor
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
PERMANENT PEACE
 A POLITICAL ISSUE
League Will Urge All Parties to Adopt Plank Endorsing Its
 Principles.

New York, Feb. 21.-One hundred delegates from all parts of New York state gathered here today to attend a conference called by the executive committee of the temporary state branch of the League to Enforce Peace to effect permanent organi- zation. Permanent officers are to be chosen. William Jay Schieffolin will preside and addresses by James M. Beck, formerly assistant attorney gen. eral of the United Ctates; Samuel J. Elder of Boston, and Talcott Will Hams, dean of the Pulitzer School of Journalism are on the program as speakers.
 It is announced that state conven- tions of the league soon will be held all over the country to pass resolu- tions urging political parties to adopt a plank in their platforms endorsing the principles of the league, which plans to establish an international tribunal for the arbitration of all diff ferences between nations.
 A resolution calling the attention of New York state representatives in congress to the purposes of the league has been prepared for presentat ton to the delegates today.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
COURT DISTURBANCE ENDED WITH ARREST Loquacious Spectator Taken from Gallery and
 Placed in Cell.

vocal uprising in police court to- day was ended only when Steve Ma honey, who had come to court as an interested spectator, was marched out as a prisoner for interfering with the court proceedings, and John Coffey, Sr., and John Coffey, Jr., had been ap- peased by continuation of the case against the latter. Jimmy" Smith an old offender, was not appeased, however, and he W as lead from tho court room vowiug he would take any one of them"
 Smith started proceedings when he was charged by Officer Frank Moore with drunkenness. He pleaded for ''just one more chance" but Judge Meskill said thirty days" "I'lI take
 an appeal on that, howled Smith. Bonds are $100,'' replied the judge For few minutes Smith was non- l plussed. l/ ..
 John Coffey, Jr., was next arraigned on a charge of throwing stone
 through Henry Emmett's window on Elm street on the morning of June last After the alleged offense he
 left town and was not rounded up un-
 til last night when Sergeant Kelly and
 Officer Moore arrested him. Officer Howley testified to having seen Coffey on Elm street shortly after the win dow was broken Cn June and Benny katz declared positively that he had seen COffey throw the stone through the window and furthermore decla yed ne had tried to throw another but was prevented by a friend.
 Taking the stand Coffey at once be- gan to shout his innocence. Do I get a chance to charge Katz with per jury if I squeal on who did it?" he asked. "I didn't do it, but the only way I can get out of it is to sQueal on the fellow who did. If I can charge Katz with perjury I'll squeal," he protested While Coffey was thus ar guing with Prosecutor George w Klett, Coffey's friend Mahoney in the spectators gallery, began to shout ad- vice to the accused and while the court officers were trying to muffle him, Smith again came to life and be- gan to howl from the dock that Judge Meskill would send him up for "thir- ty years if he could" While this four cornered dialogue was in progress John Coffey, Sr., broke into the pro- ceedings and when he had been able to make himself heard he asked that his sons case be continued until tomor- row morning. Thus peace was agaln restored when MahOney was locked up on Judge Meskill's order on charge of violating probation, al- though he may be charged with con tempt and Smith was led back to his cell. ...-..
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
AVIATION PROBE
 IS UP TO SENATE
General Incfficicncy in Service Charg- ed by Senator Robinson May Be
 Taken Up By Congress.

Washington Feb. 22-Action on Senator Robinson's resolution calling for a congressional investigation into the army aviation service rested to- day with the senate.
 An inquiry was recommended by the senate military affairs committee, which reported the resolution fa- vorably late yesterday after Senator Robinson had submitted further evil dence in support of his sensational charges of general inefficiency on the part of the service.
 The resolution provides for an in- vestigation by a special committee composed of two senators and three representatives and appropriatcs $5,000 for that purpose.
 The inquiry would be independent of that already ordered by the war department. The investigators will he furnished with all the data given the committee by Senator Robinson in case congress adopts the resolu- tion.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
DELIVERS WIRELESS MESSAGE
Leroy Seibcrt of Berlin Catches Coun- try Encircling Message and Delivers It To Mayor Quiglcy Today.

The honor of being the first local wireless operator to deliver the wire less message that circled the United States last night from Rock Island ILL, to the mayor of this city, fell to LeRoy Seibert of Berlin, a detailed account of which appears in the Der lin column of this issue.
 The Berlin wireless operator caught the messa ge as it was flashed from the station in Springfield. He received the message at just 1920 a. m. today. He at once tried to communicate with Mayor Quigley over the telephone but His Honor was sleeping too soundly to be aroused and H. S. Tallard who occupies the same house, answered the phone.
 This morning young Seibert deliv- cred the message to Mayor Quigley.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
MATTERS FILE EXCEPTION
Counsel for Loewe ct al.,- Claim h. dividuaI Deposits ill Banks May
 Be Taken in Judgment.

New Haven, Feb. 22.-A bill of ex- captions to the recent decision of Judge Thomas that the savings on bank deposits of Danbury hattrs who were defendants in the suit of D. E. Loewe ct al., against Martin Lawler ct al, belonged to the individual de- fendants and could not be taken by the plaintiffs as a part of their judg- ment, was filed in the United States district court today by counsel for the plaintiffs. This action was taken as preparatory to appealing from the decision of Judge Thomas to the United States circuit court of appeals.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
FUTURE GUARANTEED
Unresisting Liners, Not Armed. Will Not Be Sunk Without Warning. Germany Will Say

Washington, Feb. 22.-Confidential adyices from Berlin today indicate that Germany soon will inform the United States that her previous as- surances, that unresisting liners will not be attacked without warning, hold good for future submarine operations, provided, however that such liners do not carry armament
 The German government will con- tend, the advices state, that what now IsScharacterized as defensive ar1na- ment really is offensive armament when submarines are concerned and will propose discussion with the United States of what defensive armament properly may be.
 As none Of the British and French liners now clearing from American ports carry any guns whatever, such assurances from Germany will be in the nature of reassurances for the Safety for the peutrals they carry, even under the terms of the new sub- marine campaign.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
GARRISON'S PLAN IS
 FAVORED IN HOUSE
Tentative Bill Endorses His Program and Provides for Reserve Mill
 itary Supplies

Washington, Feb. 22.-The armys part in national defence legislation began to take defirite form in con- gressional committees today.
 With the house military committee in practical agreement on the outline of the army bill--with liberalization of the national guard as a compromise for the continental army plan unani- mously favored-Chairman Hay was at work completing the rough draft for detailed consideration by the com mittee tomorrow. He expected that the measure would be whipped into shape for presentation to the house within two weeks.
 Meanwhile the senate military com mittee was framing it's measures for a thorough reorganization of the reg ular army with a peace strength of over 100000 men. It is understood that the house committee will accept the large army plan of the senate pro- vided it's scheme for federalizing the national guard is accepted.
 The tentative house bill not onK vir- tually grants the program mapped out by former Secretary Garrison, but goes farther in providing for reserve military supplies.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
POPULAR GOVERNMENT
 LOST, DECLARES LODGE
Mass. Senator Aims Darts at IcOnclasts of Present
 Day.

Morristown, N. J., Feb. 22-United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, in a speech delivered here today before the Washington as- sociation, paid tribute to the popu- lar government which Washington founded and which. he asserted, has been lost.
 Senator Lodge said that when the opinions of Washington and Lincoln on government by the people were quoted i've were told that Lincoln lived fifty years ago and Washington in period of great antiquity. and although they were undoubtedly re- markable men in their day they could hardly be compared with the master minds engaged in undoig their work, and. moreover that everything had altered since they fourished
 I have said frequently, and I will venture to say again, that while I am far from thinking that all the Wis dom died with out forefathers. l am perfectly certain that all the wis dom was not born yesterday'
 Senator Lodge stated that human nature was the chief element in gov ernment which is as old as humanity itself, and declared that the majority of people who were striving to bet ter conditions did not imbibe enough new ideas.
 Every thinking man, said he, ''of any age is disposed. if not eager. to welcome new ideas, but the condition of his doing so is that the idea shall be really new as well as beneficial"
 The senator soundede warning to the peace at any price, advocates, and in conclusion said: ''The men of Washington's day who were for peace at any price frankly because they were afraid and cared more for money than aught else are forgotten, but the name of Washington is en- shrined and reverenced by all na tions. Let us not depart from his teachings or from his high conception of a mans duty. Let us apply that conception now and put it into ac- ton without fear or favor
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
LEVEE WEAKENING
Flood Workers Hasten Aid As Freshet Threatens to Break Down Barrier.
 Rescue York; Goes on.

New Orleans, Feb. 2S.-Weakening of the levee at Southwood, La, eigh- teen miles below Baton Rouge, and aid for the marooned inhabitants in western Tensas and Concordia Par ishes occupied flood workers today.
 Reports from Southwood stated that action was being taken to pre- vent a break in the levee which has been weakened by a section of cap ping caving.
 Reports from Natchez today said work was continuing in the rescue of inha bitants from the flooded areas of Western Tensas and Concordia par ishes.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
Germans Not Alarmed.

Berlin, Feb. 21, D. n., via London, Feb. 22, 6:35 a. m-No details have been received here regarding the fall of Erzerum other than those con- tained in official Russian reports, but the military authorities of Germany, < 1t is stated, consider that, while the ; loss of the fortress is deeply to be ra- gretted, it will have no influence on the conduct of the campaigns on the Caucasian and Irak fronts; that the mountain barrier westward at Eerze- rum. presents unsurmountable diff culties for the Russians, and that, in B. word, there is no reason for being ,disquieted over the recent turn of .Aevents.
New Britain herald., 1916-02-22
MYSTERY CLEARED UP.
Man Under Arrest Admits Murder
 of Veteran.

Waterbury, Feb. 22.-Michael Gleason, alias Michael Ryan, who is wanted in Monterey Mass, for the murder of an elderly Civil war veteran named Lafayette Battelle, was arrested in a local saloon last night.
 A man named Benson who knew Gleason in Monterey, pointed him out to the police. Gleason admits he Filled Battelle with a piece of stove wood and then took his watch. The watch was recovered in a pawn shop in Hartford soon after. Batelle was killed on the night of December 12 lo st.