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PRESIDENT SETS TUESDAY AS DAY
 FOR. DISCUSSION
 OF PEACE TREATY
tcontinucd from Page One,

session, and in view of this plan tae committee felt that any information in regard to the treaty which came into their possession should not be withheld from the public.
 It was to this paragraph of the let ter that MT. Tumulty referred in stat ing the Presidents desire for publicity
 The proposal to consult the Presi- dent grew out of general discussion whether the committee should continue it's hearings or proceed to act on the facts already before it.
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PROBE PLANS PROCEED

ent except the long and growing list outrages on Americans.
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NO COMMENT ON NOTE

Ns5BCIdtCd FTbss
 Mexico City. August 14.-No com ment was available from official sources today on the United States note of July 22, warning the Carranza government of a radical change in policy if it fails to protect Amer jeans.
 The American note and the Mexican foreign offices reply were printed tH-
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BILLY PARK FIR
Who will speak at Capitol park in
 Birmingham Sunday night

Plans are being made for an inn mense crowd to hear Billy Parker at Capitol park Sunday evening. Mir Parker Is secretary and treasurer of the Free Press Defense league, which publishes the Menace, and is one of the leading orators of the country in his chosen line of work. He advocates maintenance of American ideals as regards public education. freedom of the press, of speech, of religious opin- ion and of all the inherent rights and liberties of man.
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former home in the state of coahuils for convalescence.
 At the American embassy it was said that publication of the notes here by the newspapers was the first knowledge the embassy had that they had been given out.
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Local Data

For the 24 hours ending at p. m.,
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THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington. Ausust 14.-Forecast for Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi-Lo cal showers and thunderstorms proba- ply Friday and Saturday; gentle to moderate variable winds.
 Tennessee-Local showers and thun- dersorms probably Friday and Saturday.
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Major knowles receives . letter from
Denver bank advising him 70 begin search
Tor Madeline Lucille Conner, who had len
Colorado for Warrington, carrying the as-
taila Of q secret process for the transmuta-
ZION OF baser metals into gold. Knowles -
held up By four Cinnamon, who secure the
better. He 10 rescued by Captain Hender-
Goh. who had Just been robbed OF letteT
received from Miss Connor. Fuller and
Snyder plan to get the chart from Mace
Hue. Mrs. Thayer is also trying 70 GGlu
the confidence Of the Colorado girl, while
Wa TBang, the Chinese diplomat, IL work
inG under q cloak Of mystery. Lisutenant
ktmbau haa been kidnapped ana M&dehhe
Lucille Conner, who has been trapped N
the office Of Fuller, makes sensational es-
ape out Of eleventh-gtory WindoS, reaches
dtoining Office, falls into meshes OF con
spiratoru again. IL taken to house OF W
Tsang, who locks her in mysterious caoi-
net, She maEes escape Via secret chute
discovers Kimball, both rescued oy
K Know Snd Hsndsrs2a; Mrs III IhS S,Sr
TO WuS temple. Whowlea displays chart
20 conspirators cellar after finding
dTs Tehe mst Rf ms nyslert p poWSsT.
there n IN exploSitn, conslArhtors escape,
Aaaeline taken 70 Sotizsel 90 an island
taken back IN hydfopiaHes pursued and
purEuers alnest meet IN Raleigh. WI and
partners make wild dash IN auto. followed
chimes plunge over sea walt WI and Mira
ThGyer taken TO TT. Myer. Fuller and
Snyder isSp overheard from -eScuing
motorboat and return 70 Raleigh Tri-
angle cut from chart ~ Fit. Myer. WI
and Mrs Thayer released. Snyder forces
Madeline into deserted house where he
exhibits missing triangle, IL hutters into
<uEnace, out the smokestack and lands en-
intake at the Capitol. where IL Is found by
Tss6TsPsa BY RigHbs are chSsmen sent tS
OccOuuan. Madeline visits Capitol, seized
oy Orientals and thrown into vault. She
iapses into aphasia, found and taken to
IL. NaGeT clutches
r orators, speeding machine halted. Made
line taken 70 Raleigh. where she regaina
mentality. Again decoyed by forged note
20 wu'a yacht, escapes by ieaplng over
Soard picked up by Kimball in hydro
plane, taken 20 Virginia cottage, where
EifabaIl discovers house is surrounded AZ
midnight by strange weird dgures ~.
semblinE camouhaEed trees. which proSs
TO be hungry hounds searching wooda
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ators all IN one group IL looks a.
though Madeline would never be abba
70 pass along the secret seTitft5stsd u
her By her father But, IA al 7roba=
bility, We will have a new Iiak IN
this confusing tangle tomorrow n
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What Has Happened Up to Date

I1rr FuIIsr reaches Washington. Fuller in,
serts ad in personal column calling meet.
inE OF conspirators; all attend except WI
TEanE who has been arrested In gambling
Joint: KimbaIl by means OF pocket wire
less telephone overhears plotters soheminE
TO again get Madeline In their possessioh
He Foea 10 rescue and upon reaching houss
discovers Knowles has left with chart
and then hears a pistol shot. Madeline
friends Snyder taken TO Camp Humphrey
wounded in leg. Fuller remains with MIN
Madeline in triangle Of love with kim
ball, Henderson and Knowles. visits popn'
lar resorts, followed by Kimball who Is in
troduced to Mrs. Thayer, by French officer
he fails to recognize her-Madeline TO-
turns to Raleigh, discovers WI Tsang slip
ping from beneath her bed. Ponce rescue
Madeline and arrest WI Tsang. Fuller
and Snyder recognized by Adjutant at Fit
Hyer and detained at Camp Humphreys
Madeline receives delayed bouquet from
KimbaIl who secures marriage license and
wedding Is in progress when strange voice
eNclaims, Il forbid it," and Madeline rants
Henderson recognizes voice as that OF wv
through Washington. finally overtakinE
him in store. where WI by superior
strength overpowers naval Ofhcer ana Sc
cures chart and triangle and makes his
and Kimbali make search OF Wu's temple;
they are later Joined by Madeline and
Kimball, and when safe is discovered
Madeline produces key which she had
found in house on her first visit. Opening
safe, discovery is made that papers have
again disappeared. Fuller and Snyder tell
WI they have chart and triangle in safe
At hotel. On way to recover papers, WI
is drugged and taken TO railroad tunnel,
where he 10 bound to rails directly in path
Of onrushinE train. Henderson makes
daring rescue Of WI, Oriental swears
friendship for his deliverer. Madeline and
Rimball go to Zoo and Madeline again
disappears. Fuller and Snyder drug Hen
derson and kimball and throw them into
sewer They are found by what thsy
think is an old colored man. 1t was Wa.
He leads men to safety. Then ensnares
Madeline to Temple Of Mystery, demands
secret while wallis Of underground cham
bsr are closing in. Madeline discovers Sc
cret trap, escapes, rents house in suburbs.
gets present from Fuller and Snyder, In
shape Of goat. which later swallows the
triangle Local police chase cOnspiratOrs
up Washington Monument where entire
party disappears.
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took many minutes to open fold in
his coat. With the aid of a tiny
fash he examined a small box that
had an odd crack in the lid. WI
Tsang handled the box with exceed
ing great care.
Once some of the contents spilled
on the steps, and he started back
and moved of quickly, looking over
his shoulder with almost the features
Of fear. The crack in the lid seemed
to bother him. He tried several
ways of holding the box so as not to
disturb the contents, but failed; so
he left the box carefully in one of
the dark inches of the stone.
Then he cut away Z part of his
clothing and examined with a
diminutive microscope a slight flesh
wound just below the lowest rib. 1t
was bleeding slightly until he
pressed about it with his deft
fingers. Hastily covering the
wound he marched satisfied down
the remaining steps and soon board
ed a Georgetown car.
WI got off at Wisconsin avenue
and NJ street and moved swiftly into
O'Donnell's Drug Store, which the
old residenters of Georgetown used
to know as the Potomac Savings
Bank before it moved to its hand
some new quarters across the street.
1t is still one of the local jokes to
buy a postage stamp and remark,
"Just deposit the 2 cents to my &C
count, George"
WI seemed to be known in the
store. The clerks did not look up
nor ask him if they could serve him.
And they let him pass back of the
counter and through a door in the
rear, as if he were a proprietor.
The door led into the department
of paints, oils and glass. 1t closed
on WI, but he did not appear in the
paint department. He had waited
just outside the door for a second or
two, listening intently. Then he
swung aside a whole set of shelves
of paints and varnish, opening a
heavy door thick and ridged like a
safe door, stepped inside and deftly
closed it after him without a sound.
He pressed a wall button lighting a
shaded side lamp.
A room, or rather vault, was dis
closed, absolutely bare of furnishing
and four-square and windowless
straight up thirty feet to the roof,
a raised covering of opaque glass.
Evidently there was some ventila-
ton, but the air had a musty smell
Of uninhabitated places.
On the door, as if carefully ar
ranged in a design, were Madeline
Lucille Connor, Capt. Barry 'Hen-
derson, Major Archie Knowles,
Frank Kimball, American Ace; Full
Ter and Snyder, Mrs. Emery Thayer,
who as Zita Marchand had stabbed
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! Georgetown, they were for the mo-
ment in the power of WI Tsang, and
a WI Tsang who mad mysterious If
not really occult power over the
soul and bodies of human beings.
1T is not foolishness, my friend,
pursued the Chinaman. so said the
red Indians when the great caravcls
of Columbus drew UP to the shores
of the new world. And now today,
what do we thinl: of the little silly
caravels of Columbus? So thought
the world when the great cable was
stretched across the Atlantic, a1d
now we have the wireless. All IS
mystery, my friends-tne sleeping
flower seeds in the SHOWS of winter.
the flight of meteors, the silent swirl
of the old earth, the coursing Of your
blood, the thoughts OF your mind
all is mystery. | spak tn Ian
guage of your country, because for
many months l did live in the body
of a live Englishman. Oh, it is q
good way to go to school-but the
English do drink too much bitter
ale"
"The mans crazy" muttered tee
major, Juggling at his fastenings.
NO." cried Madeline, che is not"
She begged the Major to desist and
try to think. "Mv father knew
about all this. The modern psychol-
ogists, especially the French, know.
My father taught me much, in order
to be able to understand his secret.
Joire, Paul Joire of the Sorbonne,
professor of psychology, has written
the results of twenty-five years of
psychological experimenting. And l
tell you some things are proved,
proved beyond doubt-telepathy, for
instance; and looking back into the
past and making it retell its story;
and" she shuddered. "dematerial-
ization. No. No. Don't interrupt.
1t is important that you believe. WI
Tsang, if he has q mind, can do
good or evil to us. 1t is awful"
She stopped for a moment and then
went on. 81 remember my father"
the memory seemed almost too much
for her, but she went bravely on.
He could make small animals dis
appear and reappear miles away
wherever he wished them to be. But
he was always kind. He often said
what horrible things could be COM
mitted by evil-minded-"
She stopped. They all raised their
heads and looked at WI. He was
smiling kindly at them.
81 am not evil-minded, my lady,"
he remarked, but there lurked in
the soft tones a quality that was.
TO say the least, disquieting. "But
you Americans are so simple mind
ed. Decentralization is no greater
a mystery than changing ice into
the invisible vapor OF steam. And
chemistry is full of even more won
derful dematerializations. If YOU
will be so good as to keep very still
and to regard my friend the goat
there"
They turned stiffly and looked.
The goat was munching an imagi-
nary tuit Of hay. Like q dissolving
view he vanished!
"He Is gone, you see" said WI
simply.
He was indeed gone. To make
assurance douhly sure. WI rose
and walked through the
space that had once been occupied
by the goat.
And even as they stared iAeFedu-
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increasing certainty: Far up in the
gloom they could see the faint out
lines of the glass roof. Before them
sat the silent Chinaman.
So this was death, an unearthIy
! imprisonment, suggestive of earth,
| but touched with unreality.
The awful word seemed to echo in
the vaulted room. MadeIines lips
framed il; she whispered it, but a
sigh sent it forth with sepulchraI
effect.
Dead"
But the goat said simply, "Ba-a-a.''
1t was a touch of earth 1t reused
them out of their stupor of half
belief
The major struggled to get his
bearings. What is that sound?" he
babe them all listen. A faint rumble
drew near and faded off, an unmis-
taxable sound to city bred men.
That" answered WI calmly, is
the Capital Traction Company's ex-
cellently swift cars. And if you vii!
listen even more intentIy-" every
one strained to catch another but
fainter sOund-'that is a Rockville
and Somerville car. Other sounds
you cannot hear" he went on softly,
because you are in an old safe, with
walls of the thickness of safes. You
must know that you are in the vault
of the old Potomac Savings Bank in
Georgetown, now known as ODOn-
n he Il
department and the department Of
paints, oils, and glass, to be precise.
| am the only person who knows OF
this forgotten vault. 1t is my bust
ness to know such matters"
Damn it ALL" shouted the major.
Just as / thought / remembered. the
thing fed from me. This ChinamaI
has put some sort of spell on us. |
recall everything up to the platform
on the Washington Monument
then everything is a blank. If"
BE calm, my friend" advised the
Chinaman. 1T is indeed true that ]
have put a spell on you. At the in
slant on the Monument, when,
through the interference of the po-
lice, all might have been discovered,
used a little of my art. 1t is a
simple thing that has happened to
all of my, my friends; you have been
dematerlalized-that is all, my
friends"
Don't say my friends to us, if.
you please" snorted the major.
fAbsolute tOmmyrot, growIed the
captain.
ooh, no, it is not" cried Madeline.
There was a note of distress in her
voice. BE careful what you
say
"Ah!" WI smiled. "The lady is
wise. She knows
my father
Yes" commented WI. your
father was master of many secrets
that are we'll known in my country
being enc of them.
1t is through dematerialization that
your father began 10 see the light In
his great discovery of how to change
all low metals into the one great
metal of gold
What Is all this damfoollshness
grOwled Henderson i'm
patiently. He seemed to be coming
more and more to himself, as were
the others, and TO a clear realization
that however they had all got to-
gether in this out-of-the way vault !
in the old Potomac Savings Bank in
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FOLLOWING THE TRAIL
OF HCAMOUFLACED"
By GEORGE II. poEoRuE.

:
Capt. William EolT Saith has GER
tCirIy injectoS aew slant cI psys-
tory to "CANOUFLACED" a Cka--
ter Twenty-fOur toGs;-. Here we have
t!isC marvellous old rascal. WI ,TSanE.
9Szhorting % his helpless caotlycS o..
the weird workings Of denete ria.iza-
tion-Ee has them sailing through
the air-JuSt az sasy-and even
BILL the Goat" is given a temporary
role in the fast ChickeEing plot. WI
Is getting ready to take .hC final
count, Gs he seems to be pretty VS.!
satisfied his days OF hours arc rum
bcred-hut she Goat is on the jcc
ard with heroes. -EcrOiPc, and ccn-pi.-
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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
By CAPT. VIM. WOLFF SMITH

Madeline Lucille Connor,. Capt
Barry Henderson, and Major Archie
Knowles had vanished into thin air
from the top of the Washington
Monument. For one brief moment
Snyder and Fuller forgot the bad in
their lives and remembered only that
three fellow Americans had miracu-
Iously disappeared before their very
eyes. In the gloom anything might
have happened, so they rushed up
and forward with an instinct to
help.
Their voices were heard in eX-
cIamation-then silence. They, too,
had gone. Major Pullman, Inspector
Grant and Kelly needed no further
word. They were brave men and
used to mysteries; they darted up
the remaining steps and in a trice
were gone. No sound touched the
beautiful silence of the starry night.
WI Tsang stood rigid against the
wall several steps below the plat
form. Perhaps for five full minutes
ne remained as If carved out Of
granite; then he relaxed suddenly,
6passed a hand Eslowly over his per-
spring forehead, moistened his thin
lips and slowly mounted to the plat
iorm
In the corner, hardly to be dis
eerned at first glance was a solitary
fgure, prone upon the flooring. 1t
stirred, uttered An incoherent word,
then raised worried face and
hooked about It was the Monument
Waterman. Horror seized him as he
realized that he had been asleep on
his job. Never are those high win
dows to be left unguarded.
Not only the dizzy height hypnO-
Ties perfectly sane persons to leap
70 horrid death beneath, but always
the Monument platform is the haunt
Of the mentally unbalanced or Of the
hunted ones of the earth who would
end all in one simple step.
The Waterman tottered to his feet.
Turning he met the calm smile of
WI Tsapg touched in an unearthly
manner by the starlight.
~W-What are We doin' here?" the
Waterman began, trying foolishly to
assume his former attitude OF
guardian Of public property.
observing the sta-s," said WI
'Tsang in a quiet mysterious voice;
sthe stars of God which faint not
neither do they sleep"
Stupehed, the Waterman crossed
himself reverently and had no fur
thsr word to say to the weird visitor,
but let him walk slowly to the exit
and drop evenly down the stairs. In
the ancanny light the Oriental might
have been an angel Of warning or the
devil himself
- sas e. q.
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chapter written by James L. Will
meth, director Of the Bureau Of In.
craving AID Printing.
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This Is the spee6est
serial ever written,
because while you are
reading today'S chap
ter, tomoFToW'S s
being written. That
makes the author
hustle.
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This story has cue
peculiarly. The char
aeteFs disappear, but
they never die. Every
character that was b
the first chapter VIII
Be IN The last, a. no
author win be allowed
to Kill one or add one.
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r r r +

On the way down the many steps
OF the Monument WI Tsang stopped
and felt cautiously along his right
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To be continued tomorrow in q
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