The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13
FIFTH INSTALLMENT

June Travis, a Red Circle appearing on her hand, discovers that she is the daughter of Circle Jim Borden, who tried to destroy his family and its Red Circle birthmarll of crime. June, pity" ing the poor robs a loan shark and Is almost caught. by Detective Lamar Mary, the nurse, clears June and the latter, in a mans garb, rescues an in eliminating coat from fthe police. Seen climbing in her boudoir window, June is in danger of having her secret sur prised by Mrs. Travis.
 Allen and Lamar are baffled by the ap- pearance of the Red Circle on the mans hand, which one of the policemen had seen on the man that took the coat.
 Smiling Sam Eagan. former pal of Jim Bordenis but now a reformed cob oler and jewel fence is visited by Lamar, in the hope that he might throw some light on the mystery.
 Lamar pumps old Eagan without learn ing anything to add to his small store of information with regard to the history of the Red Circle.
 June enters the shop to bid old Eagan farewell before going away for the sum mer, in time to save Lamar from a mur derous attack by the old cobbler. Lamar promises to call at their home in Surfton. Plans for the trip absorb him and he for gets Eagan for the present.
 Hagan sends his confederate, Alma La Salle, to operate at the Surfton ho- tel ball with painted Red Circle as blind.
 'Yesr' she cried, her nimble mind grasping to the full the simplicity and cleverness of the scheme. Yes, Sam, you're wonder!''
 Chase home and get ready to catch the o'clock train to Surfton. Come here to- morrow with what you pick up. It's an extra job and I'll pay you extra rates on it. So long, kid"
 There was but one theme of import among the summer idlers at Surfton by-the-Sea. June had not been at the cottage an hour before she had heard the whole story from Mary, who had it from neighbor.
 It seemed that Todd Drew, the dis solute young son of Amos Drew, the great inventor, had just arrived at the Surfton hotel. He had brought thither, so said report, small flat metal case that was more deadly than 50 batteries of siege guns.
 For this case contained the plans for a war engine, infinitely ingenious and
  vised It was a veritable monster of destruction, this engine. By its use whole armies could be destroyed in a single minute
 Amos Drew had invented the thing. Having done so he had been so ap palled by it's possibilities for annihila ton that he had never put it upon the market, but had slowed the plans away among his private papers
 But now Amos Drew was dead, and his only heir Todd Drew, was busy wasting the paternal fortune. He had already made sad inroads upon the parental wealth and was casting about him for some means to get more money.
 Thus it was, seaside gossip ran, that he had brought to Surfton the terrible war engine plans. and he was to meet here one Count Freel, the agent for foreign government, to negotiate with him for their sale.
 That means" Mary finished her re- cital that means Count Freel-or whatever his name is--will pay a whacking big price to the young scoun- drel enough to keep him boozy for the rest of his life. And the count will chase off to Europe, where his country is fighting, and that engine will be made from the plans he's bought. And millions of poor soldiers will be mur- dered in the next few weeks. Lord pity their mothersl There ought to be law to forbid folks to sell such plans, so there ought"
 Whereat she hustled off to finish un- packing. June, left alone, pondered on what the nurse had said. And, as she thought of the havoc this one dissi- pated youth was preparing to set loose upon the world, her right hand began to throb and burn. The Red Circle stood out visibly on it.
 With a shudder June dismissed the story from her head. To occupy her thoughts, she resolved to take the bun <dle of masculine clothing at once to ehhe nearest deserted pier and toss it into the sea.
 s~ She took the awkward package from the trunk, Slipped out of the cottage by side door and made her way down its long flight of steps to the beach. There she hurried along in search of some place desolate enough for her purpose.
 Some distance beyond the smooth beach gave way to rocky point, at whose extreme end was a pier. To- ward this June hastened, bundle in hand. climbing lightly over the slip pery rocks and leaping from one to the