The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-29
The
LIGHTNING RAIDER
CAST.
THE BARS OF DEATH.
eleventh Episode

eleventh Episode.)
AS WI Fang watched the house in
which he had trapped Lightning, Tom
Norton and the detectives, burn fur1-
ously, many people residing in the
neighborhood ran up and started TO
pull a fire alarm box on the corner but
WI Fang told them all he had already
given the alarm for he did mo- want
the fire department to arrive until the
house was beyond control so that he
could be sure that Ton and Lightning
would burn to death. Meanwhile Tom
and Lightning locked in the room
dashed about madly in the smoke try
ing to find a way of escape. HI hre
comes closer and closer and a falling
beam finally knocks Tom unconscious.
Then Lightning discovers a dumbWa1t-
er leading to the basement and man.
age by exerting all her strength to get
Tom into it and lower him to the
basement which the fire has as yet left
intact. Then she starts to climb down
the dumbwaiter rope but when she is
twenty feet from the bottom OF the
chute, 1t burns through and she falls
to the bottom. She is stunned at first
but anages to drag Tom to the open
air and safety. Tom finally comes to
enough to stagger along and they pro-
coed towards the river where they
meet Louis the Leech and Pale Joe,
two gentlemen of the underworld.
Lightning begs them to help Tom and
the two take them into their room
closely. Meantime Wong l. Gong a
henchman of WI Fang's sees all this
and he informs Louis and Joe that he
knows someone who will pay well for
the girl they have in their room. SO
they drug Lightning while Tom is half
unconscious from the blow he has re-
ceived on the head and does not notice
that Lightning has lapsed into uncon-
sc~iouSneSs. Meanwhile Wong l. Gong
speeds to the New York home of his
master who has just preceded him in
a fast roadster. He is uShered into
Wu's presence and asks him would
the Celestial WI Fang be interested in
the person of The Lightning Raider"
WI leaped to his feet in joy n de-
clared that no price would be too great
to pay for the girl. So Louis and Joe
are ordered to bring the unconscious
Lightning to Wu's home. Meanwhile
Tom becomes conscious enough to rea-
lie that Lightning is about to be TAX
en- away and he tries to attack Louis
and Joe but they blackjack him and
drop him through a trap into a sewer
underneath. He struggles in the wa
ter and finally reaches a ladder lead
ing up to the floor of an opium joint.
There he hears Hop Sing, Wu's lieu
tenant, telling a friend of the luck WI
Fang has had in securing Lightning.
He covers Hop Sing with a pistol and
orders him to take him to Wu's home.
Lightning has beer carried to Wu's
place in a taxi and has recovered her
senses so that she realizes that she is
in Wu's power once more.
Hop Sing forced by Toms pistol
goes with him in a taxi to Wu's home
and leads Tom to a certain room in
the house when suddenly he drops
through a trap leaving Tom alone.
Then he hurries to WI Fang and tells
him that they now have both their
enemies in the house. The room in
which Hop Sing has left Tom is Wu's
special torture chamber and now they
bundle Lightning into a chute which
projects her into the room where Tom
is still puZZling over the mystery of
Hop Sings disappearance. Overjoyed
at meeting again they are claSped in
each others arms when a sharp point
ed steel bar shoots across the room in
front of them to a socket in the other
side. Soon another and another bar
shoot out and they note hat the walls
are honeycombed with holes through
which these bars may shoot out and
that they are doomed to a horrible
death for they are fast being hemmed
in by the bars. Meanwhile WI above
is pressing the buttons which control
the bars and looking down on Tom and
Lightning through a window above the
chamber he tells them that the last bar