The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-04-05
The
LIGHTNING RAIDER
CAST.
HURLED INTO SPACE.
Twelfth Episode.l

Lightning and Tom were waiting for
WI to push the last button and release
the steel bar which would end their
suspense when they felt the floor be-
meath them give away and they fell
through a trap to the room beneath,
and safety from the steel bars. There
they found a little Chinese girl who
had released the trap which saved
them. Kept a prisoner by WI Fang,
she had vented her hate on him by
releasing Tom and Lightning. They
try to express their gratitude and
Lightning gives her a ring she has
been wearing and asks her to accept
it as a symbol of their thanks. Then
they run to the front of the house and
all three jump into Wu's roadster and
start to make their escape. WI and
Hop Sing follow them Immediately and
a thrilling chase ends in the roadster
being dashed over a high cliff. Tom
and Lightning have leaped to safety
but the Chinese girl is hurled to death
with the machine. AS WI and Hop
Sing come up they believe that the
boy and girl have been killed and
climbing down the cliff they find an
arm and hand protruding from the
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they note Lightning's ring. 1t is the
hand of the little Chinese girl with the
ring Lightning had given her but WI
and Hop Sing do not know that and
are convinced that both Lightning and
Tom have met their death. The next
morning as WI is working on the
germ culture in his laboratory an es-
capped criminal, Jake Edwards, enters
and hnUc hic ho1n frnpa +Lo l-+o.4.--
who are following him. WI grees to
help him and as the detectiv. \ enter
he blows some of the germ powder
into the air SO that the detectives die
in the horrible manner which affects
all who breathe these germs. WI has
first injected 4e antidote into his
arm and ais" Edwards, so that they
are immune Tom and Lightning have
gone to Toth's house and are hiding in
the garnet as they want WI to T. nix
them dead. Lightning adopts the dis
guise OF a Chinese girl and is known
as Pitt Ling. WI Fang now deter
mines to use the germs for his own
ends and sends a trunk and a message
to the district attorney telling him
that unless he resigns Immediately he
will meet death at his own dinner ia
bic the following evening. The district
attorney puts Riley, his best detective,
on h trail and orders him to find the
writer of the note. Riley goes to the
Wasp who informs him that WI Fang
is the man who kills without leaving
his mark. Thel the Wasp sends Tom
to see Riley and to tell him that he
knows where the police can lay their
hands on WI. Riley informs him of
Wu's threat to kill the district attor-
ney and they leave for the officials
house to try to save him, Tom first
sending a note to Lightning telling her
what they intend to do. Lightning in
her disguise as a Chinese girl has seen
Hop Sing intercept a grocery boy on
his way to the district attorneys office
and learns that the Chinaman has TAX
en- the basket away from the boy and
that it contained a bottle of Worcester
shire so she realizes that the
germs must have been placed in the
bottle of sauce which would undoubt-
eddy be used at dinner that night by
the district attorney. WI and Edwards.
who is now one of his men capture
Ton n Riley on the roof of the dis
tr1ct attorneys home and take them
to Wu's laboratory where they proceed
to torture Tom. Lightning at first
when she receives Toms note is in
clined to allow the plot to go through
for h hates the district attorney, but
finally her better nature prevails and
she hurries to the officials house, and
to the establishment of the dinner