The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-01
THE
LIGHTNING RAIDER
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CAST.
MESHES OF EVIL.
(Seventh Episode.)

When WI Fang thrust his knife into
the bunk in the abandoned hut where
he supposed Lightning to be, it cut
through nothing but an old mattress,
as the girl had jumped through a win
dow and escaped. WI and his valet
rushed outside and seized Lightning
but, just then Amarilly's three broth
ers rushed up and the Cinnamon gave
up and made off without. the block
which the Raider retained. Lightning
is taken to their home by the three
brothers and made comfortable for the
night and the next morning Tom re-
joins her, little the worse for his
wound in the arm and the shaking up
he received in the explosion. They
open the ebony block they found in
Michael Ugdells shack and find a
scrap of parchment reading Go to
Caluchi Cave" They decide that they
must find the location of this cave and
start back to the city in a taxicab.
Meanwhile WI has also fastened back
to the city and from his underground
den spread a net far and wide for the
express purpose of capturing Light
ming, Tom and the ebony block. Thus,
when Tom and Lightning note that
the taxicab is running far over the
speed limit they suspect trouble and
soon a motorcycle cop comes up in his
machine and declares they are under
arrest for speeding. The motorcycle
cop boards the taxi and orders the
driver to go to the nearest station.
But at a lonely part of the road they
stop and the three men turn on the
boy and girl and the supposed cycle
cop demands the ebony block. They
are all Wu's men and Lightning and
Tom give battle royal. They finally
get away from the three men and run
to the nearest house, which happens
to be the one where WI is waiting for
his men to bring him the block. They
have another thrilling fight with WI
and finally lock themselves in one of
the room and Lightning telephones
for the police. They arrived in the
nick of time as WI is battering the
door down and as the Cinnamon leave
Lightning tells the police that the
men who have just left are the fam
u girl thief, Lightning Raider, and
her gang, and begs protection against
them. The police agree to protect
Lightning against herself and set off
after WI and his Cinnamon. Mean
while the girl and boy ponder over the
problem presented by the parchment
in the block. They must find Calucchi
Cave. Toms eyes rest on an old en-
%cyclopedia in the room and he opens
it in the hope that he might find some
information about the cave. They find
at once that Calucchi Cave is in Bra
I'll and, turning to a map of Brazil
soon locate the Cave. 1t is on a tribu-
tory branch of the Amazon River in
the most remote jungles in Brazil.
Tom indents the map over the location
of the cave with his finger nail and
Lightning Immediately rebukes him
for she fears that may furnish a clue
for WI. Then turning to one of the
officers who has remained with them,
Lightning exclaims, And, now, thanks
for your protection; officer, we are off
for Brazil. They return to the city
and prepare at once for the long jour
ney which the scrap of paper has com
PEELED them to take. Lightning's
words to Tom about indenting the
map of Brazil were prophetic, for with
in five minutes after the pair had left
with the officer WI was back examin-
ing the room infinitely. He found the
book with the map and, going over it
carefully, soon found the finger nail in
dentation over the word "Calucchi
Cave" on the map. He shouted aloud
with glee and to his valet exclaimed,
"Hop Sing, we are about to make a
long journey. We leave for Brazil to-
night"