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himself known.

for his new tenant, and the paper
hanger had just come to place his
first roll of paper, when his boss ar
rived. He wore a muffler, long white
blouse and soft white hat, under
which you could see eyes of extreme
stiffness. He discharged his work
man, then took long nail, and drove
it in the partition in a spot he seemed
to know well.
From the nail hole, black liquid
began to run. The man watched the
bleeding wall for a few moments,
when the new tenant came in, and be-
held the stream of blood which was
continuing to flow. The poor woman
was on the point of fainting, but the
man did not give her time.
"Hurry, go get the police" he or
dered.
She rushed away, soon returning,
with two officers and detective.
"What's this story about bleeding
WALL demanded the detective.
He was shown the blood dripping
from the wall, so he commanded the
detectives to make hole, which soon
revealed the corpse of man, who
proved to be the missing collector.
The detective turned to the man who
had driven the nail, demanding to
know who he was, and how he came
to drive the nail in that spot. In
stead of replying, the man handed a
card to the astonished detective.
TOM BOB,
American Detective,
Hotel Terminus, Paris.
The detectives manner changed, he
was gratified to be the first to come
in contact with the American detec-
tive, engaged in his duties
A few days after the discovery of
the corpse of the collector, Lady Belt
ham, who it will be remembered, had
been ensnared by Fantomas, had not
disappeared, but through marriage,
had become the Grand Duchess Alex
andra. She thought herself secure
from pursuit by the adventurer in
whoes crime she had been implicated.
AS she sat one day in her drawing
room a card was brought to her,
reading Tom Bob, American Detective.
No sooner had he appeared in the door
way than she started back with a
shrek.
The so-called American detective,
was no other than Fantomas.
"Good morning." he bowed in irony,
ave have not seen each other for
some time"
He was not long coming to the
point. He wanted money and forced
the Duchess to start huge subscrip-
tion for the purpose of capturing
Fantomas. This she did with fear and
trembling.
Fandor in the meantime had retired
to suburb not far out of town. He
stopped at small hotel, confident that
the examining magistrate was not
really anxious to capture him.
| Fandor arranged custom of black,
said to be the favorite dress of Fan
tomas himself.
The Duchess was giving grand
ball, when she spied familiar and
dreaded figure in black among the
masqueraders-but she felt it was not
really Fantomas. She was scarce over
her surprise when second man in
black stood before her. She knew
too, this was not Fantomas and her
mystification was complete. AS she
turned it was only to see third figure
in black-this time she recognized the
terrible Fantmas, he gazed sternly at
her through his mask, his deep eyes
blazing. AS quickly as he had come
he disappeared after low bow.
"What is he going to do?" asked the
Duchess of herself.
When dancing was at it's heighth
the Duchess found herself forced to
dance with one of the men in black.
AS she danced she was jostled by a
figure in black-it was Fantomas. The
two men accosted each other with
heated words They then left for the
huge gardens surrounding the palace
A scream came from the dark
Fandor in the garden saw Fantomas
appear and go toward the palace
, Then Fandor rushed to a dark figure
on the ground. 1t was a detective
from headquarters with huge dagger
J thrust in his breast.
: Fandor summoned the police, who
after investigation announced that "i1
Fantomas had really done the deed
: then Juve must have been out of his
cell the night before, and as Fanto
mas, or the assassin had been wound
ed in the arm, Juve must bear sucf
: wound at this time"