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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-04

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1919-01-04
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= See, The Iron Test" at the Grand
Monday, -
The Washington times., 1919-02-25
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Monday, Chapter %,

LYMAN F. KEBLER, Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1919-02-25
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
By BEN S. ALLEN

black timber wolves which occupy an
open air den. She could not suppress
a scream Of terror, at the sound OF
which the head was hastily with
drawn.
Should Madeline proceed to the en-
trance, taking the chance that the
timber wolf might be as domestic a,
he looks when he froIics about his
den to the delight OF visiting chit
dren, or should she retreat into the
cavern and again risk the vengeance
Of WI?
Little time was given her for re-
1ection, but that ever present feml-
nine guide, intuition. had already
urged her to go forward when this de-
cision was confirmed by the tapping
behind her becoming more and mora
pronounced. The head did not again
appear in the mouth Of the cavern
and the girl painfully dragged her
way TO the very spot where a stray
sunbeam penetrated the cave
Never for a moment had Madeline
forgotten the Mandarin coat No
matter how narrow the passage
through which she had to crawl she
had pulled the garment carefully after
her, and she now folded il in her lap
as she sat in the mouth OF the cavern.
Perhaps it may be thought that Made
line had carefully preserved this
fimsy piece of silk, because OF the
sentimental feeling, that it had res
cued her from the clutches Of WI, but
a much more feminine reason actuated
her. Never had the sacred Walled City
disgorged a more gOrgeously beauti-
full bit Of loot than Wu's Mandarin
coat. It had been worn by genera
tions Of emperors, and behind il were
the stories OF mystery and intrigue
which made ii more than At company
for its present posseSsor. Saved 70
adorn, the Mandarin coat was once
again to serve a more practical ami
heroic purpose.
Madeline crawled cautiously to the
mouth Of the cavern. and as she
looked out she saw the great black
timber wolf croUchinE in the corner
OF his den. Only a few feet away
was the iron fence with its cruel in
ward projecting spikes Madeline had
only a moment to decide the best
method of escape. She looked toward
the fence. and as she did so threw
the Mandarin coat toward the on
rushing wolf. Probably Madeline
had never seen a bull fight, but she
instinctively adopted the tactics of
the bull fighter. and nothing else
could have saved the weaponIess girl
from the fangs Of the savage ami
NAL She fell exhausted across the
fence on the grass. and when she re-
covered sufficiently to notice her sur
roundings again the feminine instinct
and the first thing she
looked for was the Mandarin coat.
II lay just within the fence, and the
wolf, balked OF his prey. had again
retreated TO the corner Of the den.
Carefully Madeline pulled the coat
toward her. and. taking il in her
arms, she wept at the terrible de-
struction wrought by the teeth Of her
savage assailant. Struggling to her
feet, Madeline shook the coat and
again almost tainted. this time with
Joy, for, lying at her feet, shaken
from the lining Of the Chinese gar
ment, was the long lost triangle.
The sun having served its purpose
in guiding her to the mouth Of the
cavern had now sunk out Of sight.
and as the gates OF the Zoo had been
closed for several minutes not q
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when he knocked at Henderson's door.
The two men arose to greet the
| Chinese as he entered, but their faces
were almost as expressionless as that
of their guest With all the suavity
and breeding which thousands %
years has taught the educated ORR
entail, Wu politely put himself at the
service of Captain Henderson. Did
found? A slow smile, which is the
nearest thing to an emotional ex-
preston which Wu ever permitted
himself, spread over his face. Yes, he
did know, but his life would be for
felt IL he told his American rescuer.
Argument, pleadings. even frantic
prayers had no effect on the obdurats
Wu. He had sworn by the bones OF
his ancestors not to divulge Made
lines hiding place, and even the
gratitude he felt for the men who had
saved his life could not wash out such
an oath.
The argument was suddenly inter-
rupted by the ringing of the tele-
phone. Captain Henderson responded,
and turning, said, This is for you,
Knowles" The major went TO the
telephone, and after listening a mo-
ment also dropped the receiver.
Good heavens, Henderson, what do
you make of this? Some one who de-
clines to give his name says they
have lost their goat. but are willing
to trade Kimball for him IL he will
return the animal" Knowles again
turned to the telephone and seemed to
be listening intently. Yes, yes he
finally said, 81 will promise anything
of that sort If Kimball is delivered
safely to US" He than rang or and
apparently forgetting the presence Of
WI, said to Henderson: Let US step
lively. I have got kimball's address
and he will be turned over to US il
we are there within twenty minutes" Z"
WI followed the mon cut of the
room, with a little ironical smile
which indicated only contempt for
what he considered this abrupt west
ern rudeness. However, an observer
might have noticed that he kept close
enough to the two officers to catch
the address they gave to the chauffeur
as they jumped into car at the door
of the Raleigh.
III a AG" THO Two Officers
were riding through an obscure street
in Georgetown and the car soon
pulled up at a commonplace house in
nondescript block. After what
seemed to them an interminable walt,
they were admitted by a sharp faced
elderly woman who said they were
wanted on the second floor, the hrst
door at the top OF the stairs. Knock
ing at this door they were asked to
come in, and much ito their astoniah.
ment they found KimbalI seated In
the window with Snyder and Fuller
in bed. Henderson laughed and said,
What does this mean, KimbRll? Have
you got a couple Of flu patients?
They don't look i'll enough to have a
nurse" Kimball replied they would
have been seriously i'll had they not
gone to bed when ne ordered them to
do so. "You know" he said, 81 son-
slider them safer IN bed" EimbaII
then told with much Joy how he had
outmGneuVered his captoFs, secured
one OF their guns and had compelled
them not only to pass over their other
The Washington times., 1919-02-25
FOLLOWING The TRAIL
OF "CAMOUFLAGED"
Bv GEORGE H. DONoHUE.

We have had the Brown Low mouse,
but now we have the apex OF situa-
tionS Billy, "the goat" now comes
on the scene and swallows the tTi-
angle Ben S. Allen, Educational Di-
rector o. the United States Food Ad-
ministration, introduced "the goat"
Just why Fuller and Snyler should
send to Madeline, after she had taken
the trouble to rent a house all to her
self, a goat, we do not, OF course,
quite understand. But in Mr.. Aliens
conception of "Camouflaged" he evil
IDENTIFY has a distinct idea that Billy,
"the goat" may prove to be the link
ing element in the chain of mystery
surrounding the mysticism of John
Stanton Connor'S chart. 1t begins to
look as though Wu had in a measure
reformed. As Madeline had evidently
read Edgar Allen Poe's story of the
crouching walls, and had in her pos
session the Mandarin's coat, WI
knows that in order to save his face"
no harm can come TO the girl while
she Is in possession OF the garment
sacred TO his ancestors. Anyhow,
what this IS all about we do not know
AS a matter OF fact the more we
read ''CAmoufiaged" the moro VIC arc
inclined to get higher in the air than
even Mrs. Burleson left Lieutenant
KimbalI and Madeline when they went
through the fog at q height Of 5000
feet, and that was some fog.
Mr.. Allen has injected an element II
Oriental mysticism into his chapter
which brings WILDLY to the imaginl-
ton OF the followers OF "Camou-
flaged" the truth that the writer VI
today's chapter had spent many years
In China, and knows thoroughly ;he
many oddities and angularisms or Tho
Oriental mind The expression "sav"
your face" Is Buddhism. and means
that when a diplomat iH entrusted
with a mission he cannot return toI
his native land without having He-
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Major Knowles receives . letter from
Danver bank advising him TO begin seareh
for Madeline Lucille Connor. who had len
Colorado for Washington, carrying the ae-
tails Of q secret process for the transnn uIs
ton Of bassr metals into gold. Knowles u
held Jlp by tour Chinamen, who secure the
letter. He is rescued By Captain HeneeE
sen. who had just been robbed OF a lettsE
rSOGSed from Miss Conner. FoleI ~ -
SnydN plan to get the chart from Made
upe. Nra Thaysr 10 also trying 70 gam
the confidence OF the Colorado girl. Nhils
va TEangs the Chinese diplomat m VOC. Voc.
ing under a cloak Of mystery. Lieutenant
Kimbau has been kidnaped ana Aaoellne
Lucille Connor, who has been trapped N
the Office Of Fuller. makes ssnsGuonAl -
oaps cut OF eleventh-8tOry window reaches
"a Joining office, falls into meshes OF con
HpiFators again. 10 taken to house OF VIZ
TSang. who locks her in mysterious caoi-
discovers Kimball, both rescued y
Knowles and Henderson. Mrs Th3yer
traps RimbaIl in auto smash; takes him
20 conspiratorB IA cellar after finding
Madeline and Kimball- Fuller throws
lighted match into mysterious powder
there iH an explosion, conspiratoTs escape.
Madeline taken 10 cottage on an island
in the Potomac, discovered by kimo2ll:
taken back in hydroolsne; p2rsosa anq
purguers almost meet in Raleigh WI and
partners make wild dash in auto. followed
BY Madeline and her friencs: both ma
chfnes plunge over sea wall. VIZ and Mrs.
Snyder leap overheard from rescuing
motorboat and return 10 Raleigh. Jrl-
angle cut from chart at Ft. hyer. Wo
ana Mrs Thayer released. Snyder forces
Madeline into deserted house where be
exhibits missing triangle. IL hutters into
furnaSes out the smokestack ana lanos en-
intake At the Capitol where IL is found BY
Chinamen- They are arrested, triangle
recovered by KimbaII. Cinnamon sent 70
occOquan- Madeline visits Capitol. ssized
Nv OrfentaIs and thrown into vault. She
kapSes into aphasia, found and taken TO
HOSPITAL, later falls into clutches ot con-
spirators, speeding machine halted, Made
line taken TO Raleigh. where she regairu
mentality. Again decoyed by forged note
to Wu'a yacht, escapes by leaping over
board picked up by Ktmball in hydro
plane, taken 20 Virginia cottage where
Kimball discovers house IL surrounded at
The Washington times., 1919-02-25

time when the story needs the han8-
ling OF a master mind IN the web e&
mystery now presenting itself toward
the rapidly approaching finale oe
'Camouflaged-" I will again suggest
mat you watch every line OF thts
story from now on until Miss NaAalls
Sumner Lincoln, in Chapter 6kExs
presents the story for your diSsec~
ton. Then get busy and win tia.
$3.50. Think Of that Atlantic City
trip next summer.
The Washington times., 1919-02-25
What Has Happened Up to Date

midnight by strange weird dgures rS'
GembIing camouhaged trees. which prove
TO be hungry hounds sesTenlng 40 MooGs. Us
seTts ad IN personal column calling meet
ing Of conspirators; all attend except W.
Tsang, who has been arrested IN ganonus
joint: KimbaI by means OF pocket wire
less telephone oveFhears plotters schemlnE
to again get Madeline in their possession.
He goes TO rescue and upon reaching mouse
discovers Knowles has LEFT with cnart-
and then hears a pistol shot. Madeline
returns to Raleigh with three othcer
friends. Snyder taken TO Camp Humphiey
wounded in leg. Fuller remains with him
Madeline in triangle OF love with KIM
ball Henderson and Knowles, visits popn-
lar resorts. followed by Kimoall who Is in
trodUced to Mrs. Thayer, by Frencn otncer
he fails to recognize heT-Madeltne rc-
turns 70 Raleigh, discovers WI Tsang slip
ping from beneath her bed. Police rescue
Madeline and arrest WI TsanE. Fuller
and Snyder recognized by Adjutant at Ft
hfyeT and detained at Camp Humphreys
Madeline receives delayed bouquet from
RimbaN, who secures marriage license ana
wedding is in progress when strange voice
exclaims, Il forbid IT," and Madeline faints.
Henderson recognizes voice as that OF WI
through Washington, finally OvertakinE
hfm in store, where WI by superior
strength Overpowers naval officer ana Sc
cures chart and triangle and makes his
escape. Aided by detectives. Henderson
and Kimbau make search Of Wu's temple;
they are later Joined by Madeline and
himbals ana Nnen Bdle u 0lsNONeIeN
Madeline produces key which she had
found in house on her first visit. Opening
safe. discovery is made that papers have
again appeared. Fuller and Snyder tell
WI they have chart and triangle in safe
at hotel. On way TO recover papers. Wa
is drUgged and taken TO railroad tunnel.
where he is bound 20 rails directly In path
Of onrushing train. Henderson makes
daring rescue Of W. Oriental swears
friendship for his deliverer. Madeline and
Kinnbal 20 to Zoo and Madeline again
ErT1 nd nrT1eF
derson and klmbaIl and throw them into
sewer. They are found by what they
think is an old colored man. II was WI
He leads men to safety. Then enEnares
Madeline 20 Temple Of Mystery, demands
secret while walls Of underground cham
Der are closing in.
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e. r = e

Two men sat in a room in the Ra-
leigh Hotel amid a gloom thick
enough to cut with a knife. Allies
in one cause, they were bitter rivals
in another, but for the moment both
Of them were concerned-perhaps for
love. perhaps for ambition-to dis
cover the whereabouts of one dainty
young lady who had recently ac-
quired the habit OF disappearing al
most in sight of their eyes. Plan
after plan had been discussed and re-
jected as hopeless, when finally Hem
derson stated that they must swallow
their pride and seek the aid OF Wu.
Immediately they separated on
the search for the Chinese. but in
none OF his former hAunts could he
be found Again they met at the Ra-
leigh, this time in blackest despair,
but Henderson. who had spent several
years in China, declared he thought
an advertisement worded In a certain
way would produce the desired Chi
nese, so that evening The Washing
ton Times bore the following mys-
terious personal: "a Chinese gentle
man who desires to save his face can
do so by calling on Captain y. Room
40, Raleigh Hotel" The edition OF
the paper which contained this ad-
vertisement had hardly been of the
press long enough for the ink to dry
when the telephone rang furiousIy in
Room 40, and when Captain Hender-
son responded an Oriental voice at
the other end OF the line said he
would be at the hotel IN twenty min
utes.
WI was as good a. bis word, for
barely twenty minutes had elapsed
The Washington times., 1919-02-25

complished in its entirety the project
under which he was started by his
superiors-and they are always Man
darins. and wu has lost the Mandar-
in's coat. he being a Mandarin him
self. However, it is now up to Charles
c. Foster, superintendent Of Occoquan
workhouse, to inject the fundamental
element of criminOlogy into the story,
as Mr.. Foster in his dealings and $3.50
Citations with the denizens Of the IN
derworld, fits in psychologically at q
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in thought she did not hear the soft
patter OF footsteps behind her.
Fortunately for her safety. the
goat at that moment had nothing TO
occupy his massive brain, but he did
possess an instructive aversion to
Chinese, and when the soft padding
Oriental following up the trail be-
hind the girl leaped toward her, he
was met midway by a catapault in
the form Of the enraged white billy
The result was very limp and
breathIess Chmaman stretched out on
the trail when Madeline turned to
see what had happened. Without
waiting TO Identify more definitely
her assailant, the girl fled toward the
cabin as she had left the triangle
there. She rushed into the house,
but found everything undisturbed.
with a great sigh of relief she threw
herself on the couch, and much to
her comfort she heard Bill marching
up and down like n sentinel on the
veranda which encircled the cottage.
II she had remained near the
scene Of battle between the goat and
the Chinaman A few moments longer.
secretly hidden, she might have seen
two faces peer from the thicket. One
Of these faces turned to its mate
and with a rueful smile said, well,
we had our jpourney for nothing.
II seems to me that that Chinaman
has had enough, and will not make
another attempt to seize the girl, so
we might as well go back" The 9TH
er one laughed outright and replied,
"Well, your goat joke is proving no
idle Jest. He may be yours after all"
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opened and she again saw the face
Of WI. The expression on the face
OF the Chinese conveyed no hope OF
ressus TO the imprisoned girl but
nsFertneIess her heart jumped with
JOY AZ aone thing else she saw. Dang
Hiag Fsversl feet below Wu's face was
r raas folded = ~-e Of a
S1a81l ras
Desperately Maoeine jumped, SeiZed
the sleeve and clug to it, despite the
mad efforts Of her captor to release
the garment from her clutch. Sud
denly she felt herself fall, her fceE
again touched the floor, darkness en-
veIoped her as she heard the trap
door snap; but in her hands was tie
gorgeously decorated Mandarin coat
The walls had ceased to move to-
ward her from the side. but appa--
entity the struggle for the possessi n
of the coat had affected a secret
spring controlling the floor, because
= Madeline again felt the uneasy move
ment beneath her feet and soon re-
allied as a cold rush Of air touched
her snk-clad ankles that she must
have passed from the room. From a
position where she could touch any
Of the four walls OF her prison cell
she now found she could not reach
any Of them. Far away she could
hear a faint sound like the tapping
Of steel on stone and she moved caC-
tiously in the direction from where
the noise seemed TO come
Hardly had she moved more than
step before she was stunned by strik-
ing her head against the stone top
Of what was apparently a cavern.
Recovering from the daze she pro-
ceeded very carefully, and as the cav
ern narrowed crawled on hands and
knees toward the faint light which
seemed an interminabIe distance
away. With bleeding hands she pulled
herself painfully over the rocky pro-
sections, which marked the bottom
of the cavern, and crawled steadily
In the direction OF the light.
The tapping now seemed directly
overhead, but much TO Madeline's sur
prise she heard the sound OF barking
IN the direction OF the light. She had
never heard q dog which barked in
exactly this manner before and il was
with a puzzled frown and consider
abIe fear that she crawIed as fast as
possible toward the light Steadily
1he light grew in intensity until she
vas able TO see the walls Of the cav
ern, and thereafter her progress be-
came much easier as she was able to
nick the best path. At times she was
able to stand almost erect, at others
she was compelled to wriggls through |
small apertures which barely en-
abIed her - pass.
At the moment when IL seemed to |
Madeline that she could almost feel |
the sunlight giIstening outside a hor- |
rfble black head with glistening |
fanas and Burning eyes was thrust |
lato the mouth OF the cavern. Made |
line was very fond OF visiting the |
zoo and she had no difficulty in recoE- |
mixing the head as that Of one Of the |
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This story has one
peculiarly. The char
aeters disappear, bot
they never die. Every
character that was n
the FIRST chapter VIII
be n the last, e no
author VIII be allowed
to XII one o. add one
The Washington times., 1919-02-25

This b the Spee6est
serial ever written,
because while you are
reading todayS chap
Ter, tomoT0ws .
beng written. That
makes the author
hustle.
The Washington times., 1919-02-25

To be continued tomorrow in n
chapter written by Charles G.. Foster.
superintendent of OccOquan work
house.
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