The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-11
SYNOPSIS

Circle Jim" Borden, named from red birthmark on his hand. has served his third prison term. One in each Bor- den generations always a criminal, has borne the Red Circle mark. Jim and his son Ted are the only known living Of the Bordens. Max Lamar, detective, is detailed to keep an eye on Jim. June Travis and her mother meet Jim as he is released. Jim and Ted are killed. Next day Lamar sees the Red Circle on a woman's hand outside a curtained auto mobile. June marked with the Red Cir cle, robs Grant, a loan shark. Mary. June's nurse, discovers her thefa and tells her she is Circle Jim's'' daughter, though Mrs. Travis does not know. Mary tricks Lamar. June, dressed as a boy, recovers Mary's coat fro mthe police. Lamar visits Smiling Sam Jim's old crime partner. At the seaside, June steals war invention plans from Todd Drew and sinks them iI1 the sea with her boys clothes. Sent to Surfton by Smiling Sam, Alma La Sale paints the Red Circle on her hand and robs the guests at ball. Mary sees her wash off the mark and points her out to La mar who follows her back to town, cap lures her with the jewels and goes after Smiling Sam On the edge of cliff pursuer and pursued engage in deadly combat
 The blazing lamp crashed to the floor at Jacobs feet. There was a flare, an explosion, and the room was thick with binding smoke.
 Jacobs reeled back, gasping; his lungs burstirgly agonized with the kerosene fumes he had swallowed. He fell pros- trated across the wooden flooring which the turning kerosene had already begun to ignite.
 Boyle stopped and groped through tho smoke for the swooning man, found him and dragged him through the chok- ing fumes to the outer door.
 Meanwhile, as soon as she had launch ed the lamp at her antagonists, June had wheeled about and leaped through the bedroom window
 While Boyle was seeking to get Ja- cobs out of the burning shack, she was speeding along the sand toward the rock where she had left Lamara and Mary.
 ! Gordon, too, had profited nightly by her delay. From the rocks he made his way to the high road that led from Surfton to the city. An auto truck, city the road. With a 1.-the spring, he swung himself up to precarious seat at it's tailboard.
 As she ran, June looked backward. The shack was pillar of flame.
 Presently, as she rounded the point, she dropped to sedate walk. Mary and Lamar were coming forward from the rock to meet her. Ske forced her la bored breathing into some sort of regu- larity and answered the eager question in their eyes by calling out to them:
 "I was too late. He had gotten away. But I saw the detectives going toward the shack. It seemed to be on fire-or- or something
 "A fire?' echoed Lamar, Lowing to- ward the smudge of smoke that began to crawl upward over the Jutting shoulder of the point. T should say so And, look how everyone is running! Let's go to see it."
 Lamar reached the scene of the blaze to find crowd already there. The fire shared public attention with two men, one of whom held the others head on his knee.
 Max shouldered his way through the group that hemmed in these two. Boyle looked up and recognized him.
 Ties coming round, all right, MT. Lamar he said. Smoke was too much for him. Gee, but we had one queer time in that shack!'
 .'In the shaclS?' repeated Lamar. You surely never went into that blazing hovel to look for your man?'