The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-02-22
The
LIGHTNING RAIDER
CAST.
THE MYSTIC BOX.
##(Sixth Episode.)

After their desperate leap into the
water from the train, Tom Norton and
The Lightning Raider swan for the
opposite shore of the river. Lightning
reached a float on her side first and as
a man reached down to help her she
noted a police badge on his vest and
Immediately took to the water again
and swan to the opposite shore and
Joined Tom. They went to a farm
house near by, secured e clothing
and, hiring a machine, proceeded on
their way to Manton. Meanwhile, WI,
on the train has found out from the
conductor that Tom and Lightning
bought tickets for Manton. WI and
his ~sychophant Hop Sing got off the
train at Manton and the first people
they encountered on the village street
were two small town sweethearts,
Amarilly Hopkins and Wingate Cobb.
WI questioned them and found that
they had seer a man and woman who
had questioned them as to the where
abouts of old Michael UgdelPs shack,
WI and Hop Sing, following the direc-
tions of the two sweethearts, came to
the shack where Lightning and Tom,
after a thorough search, had found an
other ebony block, similar to the n
The Wasp had given them. WI fired
through the window, w%ounding Ton
in the arm and, Lightning glancing
around for a weapon, noted a box of
dynamite sticks. She quickly lighted
the fuse of mi of them and holding it
aloft, dared WI to enter. "Pn take
the block" said WI. "If that dyna-
mite explodes we will all die together"
But Lightning stood her ground and
WI did not dare to proceed. Finally
as the fuse burned low she hurled it
from the window and a terrible eXplos-
ion just outside wrecked the shack.
Bruised and battered by the shock and
convinced that both Tom and Light
ming had been killed by the explosion,
WI Fang and Hop Sing started away
from the ruined shack. Meanwhile
Amarilly and her three stalwart broth
ers who lived near by, hurried to the
scene of the explosion. "We must
watch her closely" WI spoke to his
man. "She has that which we desire"
So Amarilly returned to her home, not
knowing that the willy Chinks were
shadowing her every movement. The
next day Amarilly went to a village
fortune teller who told her among 9th
er things that she was to be followed
by a dark man. Later as she sat in
the kitchen of her home curiously eX-
amining the ebony block she discerned
a sinister Chinese face at the window
and jumped at once to the conclusion
that this was the dark man who was
to follow her. Wingate, her sweet
heart, came up just in time to see WI
and Hop Sing leap for the girl and he
gave battle royalty. Amarilly's three
brothers rushed into the kitchen and
the two Cinnamon seeing they were
outnumbered, fled. Then Wingate
grew very valiant and hurled any OBJ
iect he could get hold of at the re-
treating Chinks. Among the objects
he threw was the ebony block and it
struck Hop Sing, who stopped to pick
it up and then ran on c~huckl1ng.
Lightning had only been stunned by
the explosion in the shack and when
she recovered she dragged herself to
an abandoned shack. Soon WI and
Hop Sing entered but did not see her
as she was lying in a bunk on the wall.
They were in great glee over the lucky
recovery of the block but they both
stepped outside to investigate some
noise and Lightning seized the block
and again hid in the bunk. When WI
returned and found the block gone he
accused his mar of stealing it and a
knife fight almost ensued until WI,
long accustomed to reading faces, de-
cided that his man was not guilty.
Suddenly his eyes dilated for he had
noted a dainty woman's powder puff
lying underneath the bunk. He leaped
to the bunk and struck downward
again and again with his long knife.