The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-05-17
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his bandits after her thrilling fight
with Shotwell and, a giant Tarantula
has started to creep up her bare arm.
Meanwhile, Jack Randall, who had
been bound to a tree by the bandits
has succeeded, by using almost super
human strength in freeing himself and
hurries to aid Belle. Outside the
shack he finds one of the bandits dying
from the bite of the Tarantula. As
Jack peers through the window Belle
RECEIVERS consciousness and Jack, real
izing that the slightest movement on
the part of the girl will cause the
creature to bite, decides to take a
chance with a revolver shot.
He fires and kills the Tarantula
without hurting Belle. Back at the
house, Grim" Gordon and his son,
Casper, have found the note sent to
Belle by Bull Shotwell, asking her to
return the Idol and they think that
Belle and Jack have the Tiger image.
But Sothwell has secured the Idol in
his fight with Belle, and that night he
and his spy, Hilda, the maid in the
Gordon home, proceed to make use of
the little image.
They enter Gordon's laboratory
which is a rather peculiar room since
its walls and all of the furniture are
of stone. Their intent is to use the
property of the Idol which makes its
eyes glow when it comes near Rad
ium, to locate and steal a quantity of
the valuable metal hidden in the labor
atory. Just as they locate the Radium,
Gordon and Casper enter the iabora-
tory and Shotwell hastily hides behind
a stone chair. Gordon reveals to his
son the workings of a turret in the
laboratory which projects Radium
rays. This turret is the reason for all
of the furniture in the room being
made of stone for anything the Radi-
UNI rays touch, bursts into flame, as
Gordon demonstrates to Casper, by ig-
hitting some logs in the fireplace with
the rays.
Gordon is waiting for Belle to meet
him in the laboratory for he has made
up his mind to kill her and thus Sc
cure the Idol and the portion of the
pact of Three" which she has, and
thus his title to the mines will be
clear. Casper Gordon first discovers
that Shotwell is hiding in the room
and in the fight which follows the
younger Gordon is knocked uncon-
scious. Then Grim" Gordon attacks
Shotwell and after a long struggle
Shotwell hurls Gordon into the path
of the rays which are still directed at
the fireplace as Gordon has not had
time to turn them off. This brings to
Grim" Gordon the terrible death he
had intended for Belle as the powerful
rays almost instantly burn him to
ashes.
Young Gordon recovering from the
blow which felled him, manages to
turn off the rays and just at this mo-
ment Belle and Jack enter the labor
atory. Jack, seeing that Shotwell has
the Idol, endeavors to take it from
him and while they are struggling the
Idol drops to the floor so that Belle is
enabled to secure it and get away
from the laboratory. Casper Gordon,
taking advantage of the excitement,
decides to escape from the chamber
of horrors, but Salonga, Tiger Face
and the Hindus are outside the house
and they capture him at once and
take him to the underground temple
where they conduct their Tiger Wor.
ship.
They believe he has the Idol OF
knows where it is and when he can
not tell them anything they vent their
anger by throwing him to the tiger
and he meets a horrible death. In
the meantime Shotwell gives up the
conflict with Jack and escapes by
leaping through a window of the labor
atory. With both Grim" Gordon and
his son, Casper. killed the same day
Randolph Gordon, a brother of the
older Casper arrives on the scene
1t is found that Grim" Gordon's will
provides that unless all portions OF
the pact of Three are found within
three months after his death, his en-
tire fortune will go to Randolph Cor
don. In the event that the pact OF
Three" is pieced together, in the NEAR
time. the estate will be divided be
tween the heirs of the three persons
named in the Pact, Colonel Boyd, Pet
er Strong and Gordon. Even while
the will is being read comes another
warning from Tiger Face and Ran.
dolph. being of a timid nature, decides
to return East and wait till the three
months have elapsed rather than re
main in the neighborhood of the Tiger
HQlSi4ppC1o
Belle. seeking rest and in an effort
to forget the terrible scenes she has
witnessed. takes a train for a nearby
city to visit her sister. She carries
the Tiger Idol with her in her hand
bag and while on the train. she finds
that the bandits are not going to let
up in their efforts to secure the token.
Three of Shotwell's gang leap from an
overhead bridge on the top of the
coach in which Belle is riding and by
forming a sort of human chain from
the top of the coach. down its side to
the window. make a desperate attempt
TO recover the Tiger Idol. But as the
lowest member of the chain reaches
through the coach window for the
handbag. the top man of the chain
loses his hold and all three bandits
are swept from the coach to the
ground. While this is going on the
beg containing the Idol is stolen by an
old man in the adjoining stateroom
who has made q hole in the nartifiOn