Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-08-24
SYNOPSIS.

eust back from Europe. and Mrs; Kate
Lawdon, arrive for visit at Evelyn Evelyn
Evelyn Ge' and am NSHs his wife. Other visitors
are Chas. Lawdon,. husband of Kate;
Alice Rawlins witty dasniiIng, ashiIsSt asssa- ssm-
mon sense; Mrs Nellie Gaynor. an at
tractive young widow with hypnotic
Ro SR thae she
q racing stable left by her husband;
Adele, Mrs. Gaynors maid.
Mrs. Lawdon, parvenue, has brought
with her Jewels of great value. Wend-
ham had loved Mrs. Gaynor before he
went to Europe. He hands her for
livered at another house, the Morti-
mers, where she had previously been
stopping, and from which he had had jpsit hit
foreign correspondent, who in the end
proves to have been a Mrs. wimbledon.
much noted in Europe as a teacher of
hypnotism.
CHAPTER II;-The guests discuss
take in the races next day; Mrs; Gay
ham, who still loves her, advises her to
moderation in her strenuous life
CHAPTER III.-Mrs. Lawdon in her
Ssynor, Miss Rawiins and Mrs. Evelyn.
No one else Ia believed to have seen the
exhibit.
CHAPTER Iv:-Dr. wendham dis
CLOSES lnal MS SpeCldl Stuuy
Europe was hypnotism. which fact
somewhat freightens Mrs. Gaynor. Not
ing Mrs. G's WEAKNESS he advises her
to retire to her room.
CHAPTER v:-Mrs Lawdon hys-
terically announces to the guests In
the parlor the theft of her jewels and
demands no one shall leave the house;
The servants and house searched. but
to no avail.
CHAPTER vI:-John Dawson, second
among the serving, men, accuses Adele.
~,F., a Of hn hnft nf a
Jewels and demands she should share
the proceeds with him. Adele makes
strenuous denial. Her distress succumbs
to DR.. Wendham's minstrations.
CHAPTER VII:-Evelyn and Wend-
ham summon John Dawson to their
presence and he declares he saw Adele
leave Mrs Lawdon's room just before
announcement of the robbery.
CHAPTER VIII:-,John Dawson dis
rush out to search for him.
CHAPTER IX:-Dr. wepdham discov-
ers that Adele has been a hynotic sub
5ect many times.
CHAPTER X:-John Dawson is
shown to have bad reputation. Mrs.
Wendham insists she needs much sleep.
Dawson returns and insists he had
nothing to do with the robbery. The
trail leads again to Adele.
CHAPTER XI:-Wendham hynotses
Adele, who tells him where she had
concealed the stolen jewels in the ivy
on the wall under Mrs. Gaynor'S cham
ber window. She further revealed that
the theft had been committed under
Mrs Gaynor's instructions. Mrs. G.
steals from her room to overhear
Wendham and Adele, and when she
realizes what is happening attempts
her own life with revolver.
CHAPTER XII:-Dr. Wendham denies
to Mr.. Evelyn that Adele is guilty of
any conscious wrong-doing.
CHAPTER XIII:-Dr. .Wendham, vis-
iting Mrs. Gaynor late of a stormy aft
ernoon, seized the opportunity to search
for the bag of stolen jewels in the vines
under her Windowg sill. They are gone
Nor could he find them on the ground.
CHAPTER XIV:-Alice Rawlins con-
fdentially tells Joe Stacy that in pur-
suing Il macaw that had escaped from
its cage ii took refuge in the vines uu-
der Mrs Gaynor's window. She got a
ladder to reach the bird, in finding
which she also found the stolen bag of
diamonds. Now she is anxious to de-
wise some way of getting the valuables
back to Mrs. Lawdon so as to screen
Mrs. Gaynor, and has called Stacy to
her aid.
CHAPTER NV:-Alice and Stacy de-
eide to make up a letter from words
clipped from a newspaper and send It
to Sheriff Collins informing him he will
find the diamonds under the culVert at
the motor entrance.