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/ fors her scheduled sailing date; thas
/ she carried passengers Of some .impor.
tance (but these were not named) anu
q cargo consisting OF arms ana ammu'
milton for the Cnrranzistn forces hna'. !.
ly, that treasure Of vast value hau
heen brought aboard ut the last mo-
ment and stored in strongly guardeu
stateroom In the officers quarters.
As the freIghter drew out to MD
stream and began to drop down the
river the deckhands trotted OF on other
business and left the stowaway to di-
gest. his information and formulate MS
plans.
The last proved no easy matter
What one man could be expected to ac-
complish against n shipload was RID
die that bnffied PARIS wits for the best
part OF long hour. Satisfied that the
Claiming treasure had been brought
aboard the sandal" and quite ready
to believe that Baron Huroki and his
pet Mexican. Senor Juan de Lima, hnu
not been actively concerned in It's thett
but had sailed in charge Of 1t, he still
failed to puzzle out any feasible way TO
inform the authorities and cause the
detention of the freichter and the ar
| rest of the thieves without sacriiic!ng
! the neck of Donald Parr.
Huddled in the shelter of the bales,
the young man commanded view
through the cargo port; and his
thoughtful gaze had long been fixed up
| on that breadth Of harhor water slip
ping past so slowly and steadily be
fore he distilled an inspiration from its
hue.
And even as he began TO take cosni-
zance of the fog. Parr heard the Jingle
of signals in the engineroom below his
hiding place. And Immediately the
pulsings of the engines ceased. For n
little the Sandal" driftcd with stead
lily slackening way. Then the anchor
was dropped, with chain roaring
through hawseholes. and the freighter
settled down to wait the lifting of the
fog.
In this combination Of circumstances
Parr thought to see his chance. The
ship could not be far from land; and
he was a strong swimmer. If he could
slip unseen over the side and win to
the shore, or even to i friendlier ves-
sells decks.
With every precaution. he stole out
to the main deck and-was instantly
espied by barefooted little monkey of
n sailor. whose Shrek Of warning rang
out the instant his vision comprehend
ed the face of a stranger.
Failing in an attempt to gain the side
his way barred by half dozen Japa-
nese who seemed veritably to spring
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EPISODE THREE
'.Winged Millions"

When. some thirty minutes later, Pa
tria Chanting and Captain Parr re-
entered the walled garden they were M
more alone; three men accompanied
them. plain citizens all, of manner and
appearance so little romantic that the
girl found it somewhat difficult TO uc-
cept them for what they really were,
on the word of Captain Parr-highly
efficient operatives Of the United States
secret service.
None but would have been readily
lost in n crowd and he whom Parr pre-
sented as Mr.. Ryley, his most valued
co-worker in the service, possessed q
personality so colorless and unaSSurn-
ing that he might have moved unqucs-
toned in almost any stratum of socie,y.
Yet it was this one who took over tenn
porary charge of the treasure with the
utmost sang froid-for all the world as
though he We're asked to safeguard a
hundred cents instead of a hundred
millions of dollars.
Though by this time the firemen had
extinguished the flames, the first and
second stories of the house We're Il
smoking. steaming mass of wreckage
that precluded utterly any attempt 20
examine the approach to the treasure
vault via the library. Police still
watched in front of the house and
would. Ryley guaranteed, till the last
of the treasure had been removed
through the garden.
ats safe enough" he said. return
ing from exploration of the under
ground way in company with Parr,
almost too safe, If you ask me. That
door down there is shut for keeps !;
we'll want an acetylene torch to cut
through it before we can call this II
moving day. I'll be going after that
now. if you don't mind. Burgess and
Harvey here will stop on the job and
see that nobody makes trouble before l
get back"
Approving this arrangement, Patria
.urned to Captain Parr.
"And now" she said with weary lit
tie smile, you may take me to break
fast for Fin famished And I'll call
Newport on long distance and soothe
Aunt Amelia down and get her TO
send my maid in with something
else for me to wear"
After breakfast they TAXED back to
the walled garden.
Ryley himself had only just returned
With mechanic and the acetylene
torch apparatus.
His fellow workers in the secret
Iervice remained in undisturbed pos
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her well. She cloutsd more than one Z
close c-shavcn. brownish poll with u, ane
planted Its point asainst the chest g
more thnn one who sought to follow
her over the side OF her motorbont, Do
fore she could get the engine going.
And when that happened. she got .
taste Of whit Japan's resentment
might mean. :.
For. MS she sheered on and her small
craft gathered speed. shower OF bui-
let's spattered round It, fired from the
frclghter's decks.
But their aim was Indifferent; Patria
too quickly became lost In the fog.
Sunset and Clearing Skies.
In a pitchy dark compartment OF the
Sandals hold, wrists and ankles In
irons, Donald Parr lay In an extreme
unease little tempered by the fact that
he was but semi conscious.
A blow on the head during the scufne
In the wireless room had proved mer-
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up from between deck seams-Parr
took flight to the bridge deck by way
of most convenient companion-lad-
der; but gaining it only to find his
plight nothing bettered; willing little
assassins made toward him from fore
and aft the moment he appeared.
His next resort was one of despera-
tion. Charging through stateroom
door half open to the deck, he slammed,
bolted 1t, and swung round to find him
self In the wireless room, confronted by
japanese operator who seemed to
lack something of the readiness of his
fellows, since he failed to recover from
his surprise before Parr had him COW
cred with his automatic.
Blows on the panels of the door were
sounding as Parr backed the little
brown man into his chair and with a
significant gesture of the pistol COM
manded:
Take my dictation! And, mind you,
no shenanignn. / can read your send
ing by carr
The operator nodded; his slender,
deft fingers grippcd keys and switches.
His eyes he kept stendfast to the face
of the American while the latter die
tated, and the crash and crackle Of the
spark filled the narrow space with
false thunder.
When shattered port behind PARIS
head was broken in, and u revolver
through the opening stamped cold
ring on his temple, he stopped dictat-
Ing. dropped his pistol, and elevated
both hands.
AT the same time the little wireless
operator lungcd forward from his
chair. clipped PARIS waist with two
sinewy arms, and bore him to the floor.
The Needle in the Haystack.
1t was mid-afternoon when Patria's
maid answered a knock at the door and
brought back to the seml-distracted
girl an envelope Of the Marconi com.
pany.
Tearing 1t open, Patria read hastily
an unfinished message:
Miss Patria Claiming,
"Ritz-carIton, New York:
"Foe bound In lower bay aboard jap
ansss freight steamer Sandal. Treas
urs aboard. Tell Rylsy."
There was no signature; none wa.
needed. Tossing the message to thu
maid, Patria turned II frantic HASTE
TO the clothing Annie had out on ths
fbed preparatory to hansips TIA ar
ments mp. VI sss q
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cifully anonymous. For he had been
severely manhandled before ironed and
imprisoned.
Now he had knowledge neither OF
his whercabouts-snve that he was not
far from bilge-or of how long he had
lain there insensible.
Vaguely he apprehended that the
ship was once more under steam. But
he suffered too mach to reason from
this that the fog must have lifted.
1t was, in fact, only just lifting Mt
that sunset hour. And us the evening
breeze gained strength and swept clear
the face of the sea, it showed those
on the Sandals bridge the slender,
graceful, white shape Of Naval Re-
serve cutter standing between her and
the open sea.
Aboard the cutter Patria Claiming
indicated the freighter with II trem-
bling hand.
A moment later II two-pounder spoke
from the cutters deck, and Its shot
dropped neatly beneath the Sandals
bows.
Now the freighter had drifted almost
dangerously near inshore during that
afternoon Of fog; while the cutter was
still well out. She would need several
minutes in which to lay her boats
alongside the Japanese-mOre minutes
| by several than the Japanese would
require in which to land her own boats
on the nearby, lowlying shore. And
the crew of the freighter, no more than
her passengers, desired to become pris.
oners of the United States government.
There followed, consequently, some
thing of n scramble aboard the Sandal.
But her boats were launched quickly
and In sailorly fashion, and were actu-
ally headed shoreward and pulling fast
by the time the cutters were well
started toward their destination.
| But before the japanese abandoned
the freighter. Donald Parr was briefly
entertained by u fugitive caller.
A manhole above his head was sud
denly opened. An active little officer
slipped down the iron ladder to the
plates whereon the American rested.
Without noticing Parr in any way, the
officer moved Off into the gloom, and
for moment was busy in some mys-
terious fashion. He reappeared, pur-
sued by noise Of gushing wnter,
swarmed briskly up the ladder. re-
closed the manhole.
Parr moved uneasily In his irons.
Cold water was swiftly enveloplng his
body in pool. Then abruptly he un-
derstood, and with desperate effort got
upon his feet. His tongue clave to the
roof of his mouth and his heart was
like mad thing in his brenst.
For the sea-cocks had been opened
to scuttle the shlp-and he was penned
In there to die by drowning in the
dark.
When the Naval Reserve men opened
the manhole, they found Pnrr cllngIng
with his mnnacled hands to the upper
rungs Of the ladder, his head barely
out Of water.
| But he wasn't long about regaininR
his poise, when they bore him up to
Patria on the deck. Under the influ-
cnce Of that surprise he was even able
to muster fickering smile when the
lieutenant In command OF the board
| Ing party laughlngly explained that his
!! life had never been In real danger,
since the Japanese had tried to scrttie
the Sandal at q point 30 shoal that she
could not have sunk or even have
nilsd beyond the point the waters had
/ reached when Parr was rescued.
4 A. for the treasure. tha1
yAs saysd without ~ ioss, wIat
nm ~ 'rIrr,
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SYNOPSIS.

On her twenty-flrst birthday. when she
Is to take over control of her fortune.
Patria Claiming finds her guardian as
sassinated by Japanese in her New York
home letter written by the murdered
man tells OF a secret vault beneath the IL
brary containing Si0O,pa,Oop, boarded by
Patria's patriotic progenitors to combat
the perlls of national "unpreporedness'
of which trust Patria is sole eNecutrtN-
and warns against Baron HuroEI. alleged
head of the Japanese secret service IN
America Japanese invade the house and
set it afire while Patria is inspecting the
treasure vault with Capt. Donald Parr OF
th. United States secret service. The TWO
escape by an underground passage to Il
- den behind the house
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Arts inefficieney.

IA successful marine PAINE. - !,
knowledges that he can't even Nv
boat"
"Well. we'll" nv 4
"Thnt's nothing. There's ma msn, vho
sweet singer of the bucollc hls
doesn't know how to milk eo"'
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esssson of the garden with nothing
IDare TO report than that they had OBJ
nefved no suspicious circumstances of
sany soft.
q wns Burgess who offered this re-
ai1Darancea fubby little man with a
IkeNspttched. pleasant voice. and mild.
01endiy eyes. He had Just finished
\ king when be started violently,
SxIG5 at Ii sharp pain, ciApped hand
II ~ M breant, stood foe moment
/ iS664 w1ile = look oe aeute, ansa4stl
Ii| ens4 - ~ cosntenance-.
- se1 - fnsir fsst hnse
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one Anywhere.

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THE CAST.

MRS. VERNON CASTLE as
Patria Channino..
MILTON S,IlS as Donald Parr.
WARNER GLAND as Baron
Hurcki.
DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny
Adair.
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surely.

"He borrows from Peter
Paul" -, NO.
"well. that's all right 4 you
to be Paul." n
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bruSQue commands In his Japanese,
and Patria was led off to be locked up
in small, neat stateroom overlooking
the upper deck.
If they had counted on any lack of
courage and resource us an infirmity
of her sex, these japanese had reck-
oned without Patrla. She was no soon
er alone than alert to find way of
escape. The door was stout and stout.
ly locked. but the shuttered port
seemed frail barrier to one of the
least determination.
Before attacking 1t, however, she
took the precaution of slipping Off her
sports skirt, for the greater freedom
Of her slender, knickerbockered legs, II
by any chance she should be suffered
to escape the stateroom.
Then waiting till she heard no sound
Of any voice or football on the deck be.
yond the shutter, she shattered this
with two sharp blows Of stool-and
was through the opening In a twin.
Killing.
An instant more and she had leaped
upon the rail and was poised to dive
An officer made for her as she hest
tated there transiently to measure the
distance to the water. But his arms
that would have drawn her back II
their embrace, hugged only air-Patri,
was already under water.
She came MP within two yards d
her motorboat struck out, and wal
climbing its gunwales when severn
other spiashes alones1ds savs warn
ing that the pnrsnlt nd 1ahon - Nxtol
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The Hudson Maru still lies at Perm a' pnco and is used by her German ofiNers as a prison ship. The Japan csc government has entered into ne- gotlatioas with the Brazilian author ities for the release of the ship but it is stated that the Brazilans main tain the right of the Germans to in- tern the Hudson Maru as q prize of war and is following the precedent set by the United States In such cases.
 A controversy has arisen as to the right of the German commander to use his prize as a prison in neutral voters and negotiations are still pending.
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DEWEY'S REMAINS
 LAID AT REST IN
 ARLINGTON GENIE AIRY

A long procession followed the heaisc on the way to the cemetery. Over one thousand marines and blue jackets acted as a body guard to the dep,.rteo hero
 In the cortege were President and Mrs. W iIstn, the members of the lubinet. supreme bench, foreign lip iomats, seua ors and represente !ves arJ "undl eds of afficers of the rhvv and army.
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LEAK INVESTIGATION TO BE HELD IN N. Y.---
 AFTER THE BIG BUGS

cinl magnates who have been sum mOned who declared that 1t was con- trtry to all reason to expect them to move their books to Washington for examinatin which might last for weeks.
 The chief work of investigation will involve New York men, their of flee employees, and their books 30 in order to save time and get at the desired facts the committee deemed it best to hold hearings In New York,
 A member of the committee has stated that they are going after the big bugs" regardless of the results.
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fighters as the big eonhagration in tho heart of the commercial section endangered a rich portion of the city
 Owing to efficient and dare-de efforts on the part of the fire de- partment the fire was confined to the opera house which is a total loss
 During the struggle with the flames Assistant Fire Chief Fillam was kill ed and eight others were injured, some of them seriously.
 The cligina of the fire has not heen
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MUN|T|0N FACTORY EXPL0DES IN LONDON;
 CAUSES BIG FRI

jured were rescued early and remov- ed to hospitals.
 Following the first explosion there were a number of lesser ones which set the shattered building on fire. The tenement houses on two sides of the wrecked factory caught fire and for three hours a connagration ragged which burned over three full blocks ot dwellings before 1t was got under cor trol.
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EXPECT DEuTCHLAND
 WITHIN TWO DAYS
 AT NEW LONDON

water craft somewhere or the east entrance to Long Island sound.
 McGovern did not acknowledge that he had any news of the two other merchant submarines which were re- ported to have left Bremen ten days before the Deutschland. It Is be- lieved that the German announce mont of the sailing of these vessels was incorrect for the purpose of de- ceiving the British patrol.
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SEATTLE PLAYHOUSE BURNED;
 ONE KILLED, EIGHT INJURED

il fintely learned. It Is believed to have been due to defect in the heating plant. Suggestions have also been made that it was of incendiary oI gin.
 The Grand Opera House has played a diversity of roles in the history of Scattle's amusement enterprises. It was once the theater of John Cort atcsrwards of national fame as a thea triacl man. It has been used for per foimances by famous actors and
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International News Ssrvice.

International News Servies.
 BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 20.--It now
 ranspires that the Japanese liner Hudson Maru which put into the port of Pernambuco. Brazil. three days ago with two hundred and thirty seven officers and men from ships
 hat had been sunk by German raid CTS was manned by German officers and men. Tho Hudson Maru was In fact captured as prize of war by the Germans who put a working crew on board and used her to convey the prisoners of this and other ships tc neutral harbor for interment dur .ng the course of the war.
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FUNSTON PLANS RETURN
 OF STATE TROOPS
Pacific News Service.

Pacific News Service.
 SAN ANTONIO. Jan. 2o.-General Funston admitted today that he Is forming plans to send the militia reg iments back to their home states.
 This Is accepted as confirmation of the announcement from Washington that Pershlngs colmn will be with drawn from Mexico as the regulars alone can take care of the border under normal conditions,
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International News Service.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn. Jan. 20.-- The German submersible merchant ship Dutchland is expected to ar- rive at New Haven within forty eight hours, according to a state- mcnt made by James McGowan, eel lcctor of customs who has just finish
 ed a conference with representatives of the Eastern Forwarding Company,
 The tug boat company already have boats on the watch for the under
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Pa cifio News Service.

Pacific News Service.
 SEATTLE. Jan. 20.-The Grand Opera House on Cherry street be- tween Second and Third avenues wa9 destroyed by fire last night shortly after the close of the evenings per- fcrmance.
 The fire was difficult one for the dc apartment to handle owing to the old fashioned construction of the building. A second alarm was rung for additional apparatus and fire
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RUSSIANS ARE PRESSING
 HARD AGAINST GERMANS 6
News Service.

International News Service.
 BERLIN Jan. 20,-The official bull lein today admits that the Russians in Moldavia are making desperate at- tempts to break the German lines hut declares that so far they have been repulsed.
 10 admitted that the Russians have penetrated one German position in the Carpathans by desperate hand to hand fighting and through over towering numbers.
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international News Service.

WASHINGTON. aJn. 2o.-The re. mains C. the late Admiral Dewey were tuJied today at Arlington where are inferred so many of Americas heroes.
 The frneral services in the city were simple and impressive. Honor- ary pail bearers consisting of sixteen distinguished friends of the deceased uct cmpanided the coffin which was in.r dlcd by sailors of the navy.
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FAIRBANKS MAN
 ARRESTED CHARGE 0F
 RATING NATIVE GIRL

officials are said to have sufficient evidence to prove the charge. The offence of rape consists in the fact ttat the Links girl although grown to womanhood is only fourteen years Of ge which is under the age of con- sent according to the territorial sta. tutes.
 The case will be brought before the next grand jury.
 New laid eggs at Prosser's Harness Shop, S O0 per dozen. Phone Black :
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ARMY AvIAT0RS
 FOUND BY AIR-MEN

reart of the desert and hope to find .ht'I way out when their rescuers have made repeirs on their machine i.nc thoy have recovered sufficiently to fgain take to the air. Commun- A. ten was established by means of tire little radio outfit carried on the almy plane.
 Robertson and Bishop were found
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SONS OF THE NORTH SOCIAL

There will be a social danse at the Sens of the North Saturday evening. Everybody Is welcome. Refreshments will be served as usual and & general good time Is assured all those who attend
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THREE PERSONS BURNED
 IN PORTLAND FIRE
Pacific News Service.

TORTLANND, Jan. 20.-Fire de. stIoyed rooming house here last u.sht with loss of three lives. When tfe blaze began all the occupants of the house were in bed. They were aroused and most of them escaped to :ke street In their night clothes.
 Such headway did the fire make that three were penned in and were burned though flremen put forth great efforts to save them.
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PIONEERS ATTENTION.

All members (gloo No. 1. Pioneers of Alaska are requested to assemble at the Igoo at one o'clock tomorrow Sunday to attend the funeral ot our late brother Chris. Prechtel.
 THORULF LEHMANN. President.
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Special to the Nugget.

FAIRBANKS, Jan. 19.-Ano.her white man has beer arrested on 2 charge of rape against the person of native girl under conditions sim liar to those which resulted ia such wholesale arrests late last winter.
 The man who Is thus charged and arrested is C. s. Knutson. He is over fcrty years of age, Is married and has a family.
 The girl said to have been the victim is Lila Links. The federal
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International News Service.

LONDON, Jan. 20.-A munition plant In the suburbs of this city blew up in the night with a great loss ol life and property according to reports first received.
 Subsequent reports show that prob . ably not more than fifty people were killed with possibly one hundred seri- ously injured.
 Already thirty one bodies are recovered from the ruins. The in-
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actresses.
 Of late years 1t had fallen from the grade of first class theater and was put to use as q moving picture house some six years ago by Eugene Levy. He had since converted the old play house into popular vaudeville and photoplay house and as such 1t wal being used last night previous to the fire.
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RIO JANElRO, aJn. 20.-A dispatch from Pernambuco says that late in- formation has been received that the German raider is accompanied by three big submarines which act as scouts. They also assist in prevent ing the escape of vessels abou to be sunk
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international News Servics.

WASHINGTON, Jan 20.-A radical change in plans in the investigation of the leak was announced this noon. The next sittings of the house rules committee to hear testimony as to the leak will not take place at the capital as heretofore but will be held in New York at the customs house. The hearings there will begin on Thursday next at ten o'clock in the morning.
 The committee decid ed to ma , this change of plans after hearing objections from the prominent flnan-