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quick cry OF warning bursting from the
drivers throat. Staring ahead, The
saw that still another effort was being
made to intercept them. This time 1t
was a man with a red flag. Instead of
stopping. the car swept past the man
SO close that its fender-end slapped
against the flagstick itself as he re-
peated his lusty shout of command.
But that command was more or less
lost on Train, q little dizzy now with
the sheer drunkenness of speed.
"Stop?" Knocked the driver as he
raced on. I'm going to stop for moth
ing this side of hell"
Yet that valiant boast was little
more than the articulation of mortal
pride so often preluding mortal disas-
ter. For, bearing down on them along
that lonely stretch of roadway they
could already see a second car. The
point about this car that worried Train
was that 1t was not approaching them
as well-behaved car should approach
a comrade vehicle. but vermiculated
drunkenly from one side Of the road to
the other. Even Margery, as she
leaned forward, puzzling over these
strange movements, realized that peril
was involved in passing vihicle so
uncertain OF its course. At the same
time, too. she could hear from far be-
hind her the prolonged and warning
cry OF an auto horn, wailing disturb
ingly through the quiet air of the late
afternoon.
The next moment the two cars had
met, head-on.
There was crash Of metal and
glass, a rending of honey-comb radia-
tors and coppered tenders.
What happened after that for all
time remained strangely like a dream
to Margory. She remembered seeing
Train lying close beside his wrecked
car, with the blood trickling from his
wrist and staining his whip-cord uni.
form. She remembered seeing other
figures, even more helpless looking.
But most OF all she remembered how
one of these figures, pulling himself
together, had slowly risen to his feet.
AS he did so he turned half-stupidly
about and stared down at her. And the
moment she saw that pallid yet tri.
umphant face she knew that it was Lee
gar. She knew that he was confronting
her, that he was slowly but determin-
eddy making his way towards her. And
she knew that in another moment she
would have been their prisoner again
had not a sudden and unlooked-for in
terruption taken place.
This interruption came in the form
of a flying roadster, with a masked
figure leaning low out from it's run
ming board as it swept down on them.
She remembered the sudden shout of
the men, the sudden clutch of the
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SIXTH EPISODE
THE SPOTTED WARNING

Enoch Golden had never formed III,
habit of taking others into his conf
dence. And when events came int
his life which seemed to leave hin
more and more dependent on his i'm
mediate associates he betrayed an oc
casional tendency to focus his neb
ulous resentment against that situa
ton on the exasperatingly imperturb
able figure Of David Manley.
Young man." he said, fixing his sec
rotary with a steely eye. 81 came tc
this decision twenty long years ago
and nothing is going to change it. That
woman was sent from my home, and
she will never enter it again"
Nanley, looking down at the note
still held in his hand. thought of the
troubled and tear-stained face of the
girl who had so recently chung to his
arm and asked him to plead her cause
And the memory of Margery Golden
brought fresh courage to him.
"But this woman who was once your
own wife is only asking for a glimpse
of her own daughter again. Surely
that is asking little enough"
And repeat that / won't allow it
! have saved my daughter from the
dangers that woman's wrong surrounds
ed her with. have saved her from
Have you?" interrupted Manley, de-
liberately meeting the older mans
stare.
ANY retort the older man was about
to utter remained unspoken, for at
that moment a soft-treading footman
entered the room and crossed to the
desk with salver of mail in his hand.
Marley looking up, eyed that servant
resentfully. and with touch of sus-
piclon. This intruder. he promptly
surmised. was a new figure in the
household retinue.
BE so good as to knock when you
enter this ROOM" was the young secre-
tary's sharp command.
very good, sir" answered the new
footman, scarcely raising his eyes.
"H'h." Golden scoffed, looking up
from the letter which he had Just
opened. Since you're so ready to ask
favors. here's another friend to ask
them for. Here's the captain OF the
circle you're so ready to champion!
But instead Of asking favors you see,
he demands them!"
He tossed the folded sheet angrily
across the desk top. Manley took 1t
up and read it.
"Your happiness hangs on one small
scrap of paper. That paper Is the
portion of the Wlndward island chart
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servants telephone below stairs. Part
OF that guarded conversation was car
ried on by Wrench, the new footman.
and much of IL had to do with the very
situation so disturbing the aged million-
affe In the room above. For 1t was Lee
gar explaining that a masked stranger
at the last moment had snatched the
girl from their hands and had apparent.
ly carried her of to some hiding place
OF his own. This was followed by the
command to deliver still another mes
sage to Enoch Golden, with the final
warning that every wire leading into
the Golden house must be cut as soon
as possible.
The new footman. in obedience to
these orders. quietly traced out the
telephone circuits to the basement and
there severed the wires with a pair of
scissors purloined for the purpose
from Mile. Celestine's workbag. Then,
watching his (chance, he carefully
penned a note, wording 1t as Legar
had duly instructed him to do. Then
he returned to the neighborhood of the
library door. with his ferretlike alert.
ness masked under his customary inn
mobility of face.
1t was not until his restless master
discovered the telephone wires to be
dead. and went storming through the
house to determine the reason for this
misadventure. that Wrench realized
his chance had come. Slipping into
the deserted library on the pretext of
adjusting the rugs, he stopped before
the rosewood table. hesitated a mo-
ment, and then lifted the heavily
chased lid of Golden's cigar case and
dropped the note inside. A moment
later he had left the room, unobserved
and unsupported.
It did not take many minutes of
waiting to confirm the wisdom of
Wrench's movement. For Enoch Gold
en-, striding restlessly back into his
library, sank with sigh of WEAKNESS
into the armchair beside the rosewood
table. For moment or two he stared
abstractedly and unhappily about him.
Then, with still another sigh, he
reached out and lifted the heavily
chased lid of silver. His fingers. in
stead of coming in contact with a per-
fecto corseted in gold, rustled against
sheet of paper. Automatically he
picked It up and hnfolded it.
Written on that mysterious sheet he
found the following:
"To fight me further in this is USE
less. And unless you open your eyes
to this fact it Will soon be worse than
useless. II will be fatal. repeat that
want your half Of that chart. II you
want your daughter to live, want her
sent back to you, take that chart to
the twenty-fourth floor Of the Central
Tower building, within the next hour,
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and hand II to the man In the black
ulster who will be waiting there. Nc
trickery can succeed. And this Is your
last chance! JULES LEGAR."
Silently the beaten man stared down
at this strange missive. Slowly as he
did 80, the last of his once iron will
melted away.
He rose heavily from his chair and
crossed to the vault. From this vault
he took the map, the time-yellowed
square OF MANILA about which so many
Of the sorrows and troubles of all his
life seemed to revolve. Then, calling
for his hat and coat and ordering a
car, he tremblinsly made ready for his
midnight visit of capitulation to the
Central Tower building.
While these events we're taking
place, however, there was one member
Of the Golden household who remained
far from inactive. When David Man.
ley 80 abruptly left tranquil bunga-
low at Cedarton and so stealthily
pushed his way through the shrubbery
surrounding that bungalow, 1t was be
cause he had made the sudden dis
covery that Legar himself was in the
neighborhood. Nor was II hard for
him to guess the reason for that mas
ter-criminal's invasion of those seques
tered grounds. And Manley, promptly
deciding to stalk the stalker himself
was rewarded by overhearing enough
of Legar's plans, as the latter hurried
ly issued his instructions to two Of his
confederates near the roadside, tc
realize the necessity Of at once get
ting In touch with Enoch Golden
Whatever happened, he felt, It was his
duty to warn Margery's father tina,
Legar himself had acknowledged his
ignorance Of the girls Whereabouts
and had expressed his intention Of
trucking the chart out Of its present
owners hands.
Ten minutes Of frantic efforts at q
telephone, booth In the nearby village
however. convinced Manley Of the Inn
possibility Of getting In touch with
Golden By wire.
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SYNOPSIS.

On Windward island PaIidori intrigues
Mrs. Golden into an appearance OF evil
which causes Golden to capture and tor
ture the Italian by branding his face and
crushing his hand Palidor opens the
the general rush 70 escape the flood kid
maps Golden's six-year-old daughter Mar
CORY. Twelve years later in New York a
Masked One calling himself 'fthe Hammer
of God" rescues an eighteen-year-old girl
from the cadet Casavanti. to whom Jules
Legar has delivered her. and takes her to
the home Of Enoch Golden, millionaire.
whence she Is recaptured by Legar Legar
and Stein are discovered by Marley. Col
den's secretary, setting fire to Golden's
buildings. but escape. Margory's mother
fruitlessly implores Enoch Golden to
find their daughter. The Masked One
again takes Margory away from Legar.
Legar loots the Third National bank. but
again the Laughing Mask illustrates his
plans.
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no damage wnIcn nalf-hour's ssrx

no damage which a nalf-hour's ssrx
couldn't patch UP.
But Manley, in truth. was thinking
little OF either Evart or his fiier. All
his thoughts. as he climbed frantically
up through the broken tower window.
were revolving about the problem as
to whether or not he was too late.
And that all-vital question still OBJ
sessed him as he mounted the iron
treads OF the stairway leading to the
tower top, painting up flight after flight
until his lungs seemed bursting for
want OF air, and his over-driven heart
beat drumlike against his rib-cage.
And as he reached the top acd flung
out through the narrow door openrhs
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which you stIll hold. Unless shIs Is
delivered to me, and delivered as
have already directed, the Spotted
Warning will come to your daughter
Margery. And the meaning OF the
Spotted Warning sho already under
stands. JULES LEGAH"
"And what do you intend TO do?"
asked Manley, still staring down at
this strange note.
do you suppose" retorted Golden,
with slightly tremulous Anger al
ready on the bell. that I'm going to
empty my safe to every blackleg who
handles about catch-word that be-
longs to little Italy?"
But what earthly use is this piece
OF chars to your" asked the younger
tman.
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strong hand as It caught at her while
the roadster swept by, the equally sud
den pain through her bruised body as
she was swung safely up into the seat
of the onward swerving car. She re-
membered, too, the arm close about
her as she lay back, weak and pant
ing, as they danced and speeded on
along that lonely road. She remem-
bered turning in through stone gate,
winding along an orderly gravel drive
way, stopping before a vine-bowered
bungalow. She remembered, as the
masked man at her eide helped her in
through an ivory-white door, turning
dazedly to him and asking who he was.
And she remembered the smile that
showed Just beneath the fringe of the
yellow domino as he shook his head
and the sense of deprivation that
swept through her as she found her
self once more alone. Then from the
ing Mask had stepped, she remem-
bered, she had seen quiet-eyed wom-
an come out, quiet-eyed woman who
had crept up to her, with tears we'll
ing from her eyes and smile Of pity
ing tenderness about her lips.
"Margery, don't you know me? Don't
you remember your own mother?"
that quiet-eyed woman had asked as
she had taken her in her arms. And
as she stared up into that motherly
face, bent so close over her own, she
had said, with gasp Of bewilderment,
Are you--you the Laughing Mask? p
But her mother, she remembered, had
smiled, almost sorrowfully, and had
put finger to her lips.
The Tower Of Destiny.
Enoch Golden, anxious and worn
out, sat waiting for some further word
as to the fate of his daughter Margery.
Nothing had come to him since Trains
startling message of the collision and
the even more startling news Of the
girls mysterious disappearance. He
would have got little consolation from
. talk that was taking place over the
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class. He knew that by his personal

class. He knew that by his personal
experience and from walks along near
ly the entire length of Front street
late at night He said there should
not be sweeping condemnation of
the theatre. He spoke Of the recent
performance by Forbes -Roberston at
the Mankato theatre. He said these
presentations Of ''The Passing Of the
Third Floor Back" and Hamlet"
were morally uplifting. He spoke
also Of the disposition on the part of
: some people to make Wholesale crit
icisms of newspapers He knew of
one Minneapolis paper that had the
philanthropy to cut out all of its
liquor advertisements, but that same
paper gave big pictures of the prize
i fighters. The good should be dis
| tinguished from the bad.
Rev. Constant remarked also that
ministers of the need of local lyce-
UNI. This was to provide Wholesome
amusement. He believed in good
music on Sunday afternoon at Wash
ington park. He could not arouse
interest in such propositions.
/ Dr. G. A. Cahoon said the parks
of the city should be properly po-
Iced so that the young people could
play in them, without running into
dangerous influences. He condemned
Sunday movies.
J. r. Brandrup told of his visit
with his family recently to a local
p;n ~,
about a Russian nobleman who
ruined peasant girl. The play was
so shocking that he took his family
from the theatre before the reels had
been run. He believed in censorship
OF the movies. He made the motion
for the appointment Of the COM
mittee.
I Rev. Constant suggested that the
committee interview the city council,
but Mr.. Brandrup remarked that
the council would not take any
interest.
Mr.. Sperry stated that the notice,
thrown on the canvas after various
performances, Passed by the Ma
tional Board of Censors" was a great
joke. There was no such govern
ment board 1t was a board created
by and under the control of the
jmoving picture interests themselves
Love Stories Condemned.
DR.. J. w. Andrews said some of
the moving picture productions were
very good. He thought a great deal
of such plays as Birth of Nation. -
Yet some were very bad. He did not
like the sensational love stories The
good should be carefully discrimin-
ated from the bad.
F. NJ. Currier thought the COM
mittee should give its attention to
the theatres as we'll as to the movies.
! Rev. Cahoon thought it was bet
ter to take up only the movies.
Mr. Currier remarked that the
owners of the theatres and the movies
would be ready to elevate the class
of drama exhibited. if they saw that
the people demanded that elevation
| Judge Lorin Cray spoke of the
censorship of the movies in Mime
Iapolis There was local committee,
entirely unofficial, that did it, and
yet that committee had such good
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STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP,
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC,
REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON-
GRECS AIEGttCT

MANAaEMENT, clRcULATioN, ETC,
aREss OF AueusT "a, 1912,
OF Mankato Weekly Free Press, pub
lished every Friday at Mankato, Minne-
sofa, for April l, 1916.
STATE OF: MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth.--ss.
Before me, a notary public in and for
the state and county aforesaid, PERSONAL
ly appeared f. w. Hunt, who, having
been duly sworn according to law, de-
poses and says that he is the president
that the following is, to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true statement
of the ownership, management (and if
a daily paper, the circulation), etc, of
the aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required by
the Act of August "a, 1912, embodied in
section 443, Postal Laws and Regula-
tiOnS, printed on the reverse of this form,
to-wit:
l. That the names and addresses of
the publisher and editor are:
Name of publisher, Free Press Print
ing company; postotfice address, Man
kato Minn.
Name of editor, j. e. Reynolds; post
office address, Mankato, Mimi.
q. That the owners are: f. w. Hunt,
Mankato, Mimi; |. n. Tompkins, Man
kato, Mimi; M. d. Fritz, Mankato,
Mimi; c.. r. Butler. Mankato, MINI.
gagees and other security holders own
ing or holding per cent or more of to-
tai amount of bonds, mortgages, or 9TH
er securities are: None.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of the owners,
stockholders, and security holders, if
any, contain not only the list of stock
holders and security holders as they ap-
pear upon the books of the company but
also, in cases whore the stockholder or
security holder appears upon the books
of the company as trustee or in any 9TH
er fiduciary relation, the name of the
person or corporation for whom such
trustee is acting, is given; also that the
said two paragraphs contain statements
embracing affiant's full knowledge and
belief as to the circumstances and con-
ditonS under which stockholders and Sc
-curity holders who do not appear upon
the books of the company as trustees,
hold stock and securities in a capacity
other than that of bona fide owner; and
this affiant has no reason to believe that
any other person, association or cor
poration has any interest direct or in
direct in the said stock, bonds, or 9TH
er securities than as SO stated by him.
F. w. HUNT,
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
31st day of March, 1916.
(Seal) a. r. KRAMER,
CMy commission expires Dec. 4, 1920
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backing that the authorities generally
followed it's suggestions.
The motion was carried, referring
to the movies alone.
G. e. Keith declared that the city's
parks, notably Highland and Sibley,
were tCo far out of the main part of
the city. The city he thought should
quit spending money on Sibley park
and spend it for such purposes
closer in
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From Wednesdays Danny.
KNIGHTS at Lake CRYSTAL.

Mankato Lodge No. SO, knights Of
Pythias, was we'll represented at the
joint meeting of the Pythian lodges
of VernonCenter, st. James, Mankato,
and Lake Crystal, held at Lake Crys-
tai last night, about eighteen OF the
local knights availing themselves Of
the invitation extended by Lake Crys-
tai Lodge No. 60, the members of
which left nothing undone that might
prove of pleasure to their guests, but
entertained the large company of Wis
itors in royal and hospitable man.
ner. Owing to the largeness of the
crowd the evening ceremonies were
held in the city hail. Three candidates
were initiated into the rank of knight,
the work being put on by the St.
James team in a highly satisfactory
manner. Among those initiated was
John Anderson, photographer, of this
city. Following the ceremonies the
company went to the basement Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, where
about one hundred knights partook of
an elegant three course banquet,
which the Lake Crystal Lodge had
commissioned the ladies of the church
to prepare The tables were prettily
decorated with rustic baskets filled
with ,smiIaX. and the excellent meal
was enjoyed by all. After the ban
quet the knights proceeded to Castle
Hall where a social time was had,
cards and billiards. Willing away the
hours until train time. The affair
proved one of the most pleasant gath
erings of knights of Pythias ever
held in this part of the state, and the
hospitality and entertainment given
to their guests by the members of
the Lake Crystal lodge were appreci-
h,yo o11
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Suffrage Conference Postooned

The suffrage conference which was
to have been held this week has been
indefinitely postponed on account OF
the Iowa situation and the Mississip-
pi valley conference which Is to De
held soon.
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Entertained Bridal Party.

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Schumacher
of 315 North Broad street entertained
the bridal party and those who will
assist tonight at the wedding Of their
daughter, Miss Alma Schumacher to
Mr. c. F. Siebrecht, at a social even
ing last night following rehearsal at
the German Lutheran church. The
house was beautifully decorated with
a profusion of cut flowers, and the
time was spent socially and with mu-
sic, a nice lunch being served by the
hostess at the close of the affair.
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We have several beautiful parks in
Mankato. but the two principal parks are
SO far out that it is impossible for many
children to avail themselves of them and
we nave not furnished either of them
with suitable playground equipment
These parks should receive more care
ful police supervision than they do. Com
plaint has frequently been made as to
conditions prevalent and / think with
good reason. 1t is the duty of the city au-
pressing evil and making conditions con-
duclve to the wellbeing of the people. I
believe with many of the ladies of the
city, that police woman would be of
great service in this city A wise judi
cious police woman would be able to do
great deal that an ordinary officer can
not do and believe it is well worth Civ
! ing trial. Conditions in Mankato / be-
lieve are better than they have been in
past years but there is still room for
I! improvement We have been shocked as
we have read of vice conditions in Min
neapols ana yet occasionally we hear of
something in Mankato that approaches
in small way what we have read of
be given the women's clubs of Minneapo-
lis for their part in bringing to light the
social conditions that existed there. ]
believe the ladies' clubs of this city could
vision of conditions here and that it
would result in great good.
Hint to the Newspapers.
! L wish our papers took higher stand
on some matters than they do. When
! these papers come into our homes con-
| tanning liquor advertisements. ETC., we
must view them with some concern.
Many of the leading newspapers all over
| the country are "going dry" The latest
have noticed is The New York Tribune.
A newspaper is an educational institu-
tion, possessing side influence and where
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Mskina Plans For Jubilee.

The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the Golden Jubilee
and home coming to be celebrated by
st. Johns Episcopal church on July
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8, which is the fftieth anniversary
of the organization of the local
church, are already busy getting their
plans into shape, and are working
on list of former Mankato resi-
dents, members of the church, who
have moved away, whom they will
invite to the home coming.
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Dancing Party.

Dancing Party.
The Brotherhood of All Railway
employees will give ar exclusive dane
ing party at the Sons of Herman hall
on Saturday evening, April Is.
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this
31st day of March, 1916.
(Seal) a. f. KRAMER,
(My commission expires Dec. 4, 1920