The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-05-20
THE INVISIBLE HAND"

see it in pictures at the Grand
Theatre the following Tuesday.
Chapt Is. Closing the Net
The auto with Sharpe dashed to the
foot rail of the tonneau dashes down
the sand dune and into the ocean.
Anne, knowing the detectives peril,
steals a horse and starts after Iron
Hand and the captive detective. Anne
riding full speed, comes or thu cen
just as the auto with the detective
tied to it is sinking under the waves.
She rides out on the pier and. leaps
overheard from the back of the horse
and diving bravely down into the
water, swims to where Sharpe is MAX
ing a brave attempt in his helpless
position to keep from drowning until
help arrives.
Anne releases him and helps him to
the surface and then ashore. Iron
Hand sees the rescue from the dist
ance. He starts to interfere and force
Sharpe to his death, but the other
members of the gang warn him and
prevent his interference. The chief Of
police, who has trailed Sharpe, arrives
on the scene and the gangsters flee.
Iron Hand selects another of his
mote rendezvous and repairs to it.
There he gathers the remnants of his
band around him. They learn Of
Anne's duplicity by a telegram that
Potsdam receives, informing him Of
her identity as a Secret Service agent
Iron Hand has been badly beaten time
after time by Sharpe; his band has
been decimated by capture and death
but he refused to give up his plans
for robbing the gold shipment of the
Royal Mining Company. This ship
ment contains several millions of dol
lars worth of gold bullion in bars and
is to be shipped by express.
Anne refuses to divulge her identi-
ty to Sharpe after the rescue. He is
attracted by her and appeals to her
to disclose her real self. Anne refuses
to do this laughingly and tells him
that he will learn all in due time.
Much against his will Sharpe allows
her to go and promises not to follow
after. The detective, although he has
a big part of his job remaining on
his hands yet, and even though sue
cess is assured him, cannot help but
take some time for reflection. He
comes to the conclusion that whoever
Anne is he loves her and when he
starts out to make a last attempt to
capture Iron Hand and his gang, he
has also another purpose-to find
Anne and learn who she is. "
Anne makes her way to the rendez-
vous. The outlaws say, nothing to her.
No direct accusation is made but it is
plain to Anne that there is something
wrong. One of the outlaws assumes
guard over her and she is forbidden to
leave the nest. Just as she is schem-
ing a way to escape, the police sur
round the house and Anne, with the
rest of the gang, escape over the
roofs. Sharpe picks up a clue and in
forms him of Iron Hands plans to
rob the gold shipment. They try to
get in touch with the mine on the tele-
phone and by telegraph but Iron Hand
has destroyed all communication with
the mine. Sharpe, West and the Chief
of Police start for it on horseback.
r. The gold is placed in a box car at
tached to the end of a passenger
train. Potsdam rides on the brake
beams under the floor Of the a cor
tanning the gold shipment. Anne es-
capes the watchful eye of her guard
and just before the train pulls out she
hides under the car and daringly takes
the ride on the brake beam. She man
ages to attract the attention of the
guard of the gold shipment and they
cut a hole through the floor to ad-
NIT her. The guards, upon hearing
their danger, prepare to give the
bandits a hot battle. But all their
plans are upset when the gangsters
detach the gold car, while the train
is going up a hill. The q rolls back
lown the hill. The guards put up a
plucky fight against the outlaw odds
and are finally forced to capitulate.
They steal the gold and also make
her a captive. Potsdam is furious
with Anne and loudly demands her
death before anything else. They take
her to a hidden cave and there hold
q trial-in semi-military fashion.
Potsdam proves that Anne is q traitor
and she is condemned to die by the
horrible death Of the water DEATH"
They find a deep pool Of water in the
cave. Anne is placed over this tied to
a rope. The rope goes thru . ring
bolt in the ceiling Of the cave and the
weight Of q barrel Of water at the
other end Of the rope holds Anne Just
above the surface Of the pool. But this
barrel is arranged 50 that the water
viii drip out and gradually submcrge