The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1916-12-16

"Go at once. or you'll be too Ia.oI" she
cried.
left note at Senator Johnston's
house.
"Where is 1t now?" he demanded
sternly.
II gave it to Miss May. sir" said the
butler. 'She put it in book and
took 1t to her room"
Evidently the half fainting girl on
the chair understood the mans words.
"Oh, be quick, be quick" sue
screamed. go at once. or you will
be too Later
Aware only Of some deadly and i'm.
palpable evil that threatened danger
to his sister, Manning raced upstairs.
He was followed by the Bronsons and
the butler, the last named faithful
servant being much more concerned as
to the safeguarding OF his young mis-
tress than the maintenance Of watch
and ward over his prisoner.
May Manning screamed In quick
alarm when her brother tore into the
room and switched on the electric
light,
"Oh, what is it?" she shrieked, lay
ing down the book she was reading
and staring at him and the others In
wide eyed nmaZement.
Bronson was the first to notice
most disagreeable looking spider crawl
ing slowly across the table Oh which
the girl had placed a reading lamp at
the side of her bed. Without mo-
ment's hesitation he seized hand
mirror and battered the noxious life
ment Manning saw that hidden silk
en- thread attached to one Of Its legs
stretched across the room and through
the open window. Willard. knowing
that his friend had given his revolver
to the butler. ran to the window. tore
the blind aside and fred at dark
form which he detected In the act Of
scuttling across the lawn toward q
shrubbery In the rear Of the house.
The man, whoever he might be, STUN.
bled, but uttered no cry and, recover.
ing his feet again, plunged into the
bushes before Willard could fire sec.
ond time.
Manning had now noticed the but.
ler's presence and promptly ordered
him back to his deserted post. In that
respect, however, the mans concern
for, Miss Mays well being proved dis
! astrous. because both Malta and Hong.
king Harry had vanished, and Man.
ming himself. running into the street
An quest Of the escaped prisoners.
heard the hum OF a high power car
dying away in the distance.
BY the time Police Captain Kemp
arrived It was possible to form a fairly
lucid and connected idea Of mon
strous outrage. which began with Sen
ator Johnston's death and might have
ended with the Staying OF a girl wholly
ignorant Of those high questions Of
state policy In which All Singh pro
fessed himself so deeply interested.
Cause and effect now stood revealed
An inhuman wretch. stopping short OF
no means, howsoever maievolent. 10
achieve his aims. had devised some
scent which attracted to Its victim .
| peculiarly deadly species OF taraniula
found only in the deserts Of Manchn
ria. One Of these terrible insects had
stung Senator Johnston. Another
would have bitten May Manning with
in a very few seconds Of the moment
her brother burst into her bedroom.
But the poison was not meant foi
her. It was Intended for the man
whom All Singh recognized as q foe
man worthy of his steel. In word.
It was only the unaccountable hesitnn.
cy to obey brutal will shown by that
unhappy creature. Mile. Malta. which
saved May MannIng's life or perhaps
that Of her brother
And yet the strong arm OF the law
was palsJed. The Menace stili spread
its dark shadow across America. New
York. biithely unconscious Of the doom
decreed by a foul Intelligence. awoks
to new day Of activity and pleasure
seeking. All unaware. the citisAns Of
IN empire city were picknicking on ths
erumbling crust Of volcano.
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