Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-06-30

Synopsis.
Lieutenant Jarvis Hope ia detailed by the
United States naval board to investigate and
report his findings on the invention of DR..
Ralph Burke. which serves to bring the
submarine to a state of perfection. This
lieutenant arrives at VAldavia and Is well
coined by the inventor and his daughter,
Cleo. on the trial trip of the inventors
boat, a Japanese helper IL surprised In the
act Of examining tho mechanism OF tho ven
tilating device. Hope reports favorsbly on
the new device. but there are others inter
ested in II. An attempt to burslariHe DR..
Burke's laboratory fails. but later Cleo finds
him murdered in his bedroom. Cleo sells
her fathers library to get money; later she
finds a note from which she learns that they
contain the secret formula, With Hope she
races to the auctioneer's store only to find
It in flames. Olga Ivanoff and Gerald Nor
ton, two spies In search Of the formula. at
tempt to capture Cleo when she calls at the
house Of Stephanski, the anarchist. Hope
PUSHES to her aid; Morton shoots at him. but
the bullet hits a bomb, IN the cellar, which
explodes. Stephanski dies In the wreck OF
his house; the others escape Hope and
Cleo attend ball at Mrs. Delmar's, whose
nephew has two OF the missing books. Nah
lin. a spy. attempts to steal the books, but
10 discovered by Hope; In the excitement
that follows the book disappears.
Good" said Olga. Telephone Mr.
Morton that | will call for him at his
hotel in ten minutes. Then wait fol
us at the wharf"
Little did either Of the two parties
who were now speeding toward the
islands dream that, from over on the
Oakland side of the harbor third
launch was starting for the same des
tination. In it were three men; Nah
lin, Satsuma and the Japanese.
When Olga learned of the move
ments of Hope and Cleo through the
espionage of Sextus, Mahlin had sur
missed. When, bruised, battered ant
aching in every limb from his en-
counter with Hope, he reached hi,
rooms, almost the first thing he did
was to consult the copy of the lis
which Satsuma had obtained from
Dawson. The next name he fount
was that of Arthur Mitzmaurice anc
his address was given as the Com
mercial hotel. Calling up that hos
telry he learned that Mr.. Fitzmaur
ice had departed. His forwarding ad
dress, so the night clerk informed
him, was in care of the local Office o
the United States coast survey. The
following morning Mahlin called a
the coast survey Offices only to learr
that Fitzmaurise was at work chart
ing the Farallone group and that i
was uncertain when he would return
II was well into the afternoon, there
fore, before he and Satsuma started
for the islands in launch which thu
latter had hired from a fellow coun
tryman living on the Oakland side
Before leaving Mahlin took the pre-
caution of calling up Hopes hotel.
Lieutenant Hope will not be bacl
until tonight" the telephone girl in
formed him. "He has gone to thu
Farallones."
As Mahlin hung up the receiver
grim smile fitted across his saturnin'
face. His surmises had proved cor
rect. Hope had acted as he had an
ticipated.
There were now three craft racing
toward the same goal. Well in thu
lead was the small launch containing
Hope and Cleo. Bearing down on {
more northerly course was the powe
boat hired by Mahlin and Satsuma
while somewhere astern pounded thu
larger craft bearing Morton, dig;
and Sextus. Doubtless all three o
the shippers would have exercised
more caution could they have sect
the notices which were being dis
played that afternoon on the bulletil
boards of the various shipping Of