The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-03-25

they order Amidon bound and gagged
and placed in the room with Sharpe.
In the room they manage to cut each
others bonds but still pretend to be
tied when the gangsters enter to take
them out of the apartment with them.
In the meantime the gangsters have
seized a sailing vessel about to depart.
The detective and Amidon are put
in an automobile with Iron Hand and
Potsdam. Anne takes the wheel and
at Iron Hands direction drives to-
ward the wharf where they are to
meet the stolen steamer and it's gang
ster crew. Anne stops the machine on
the way and pretends that something
is wrong with the engine. This gives
Sharpe an opportunity to hit Iron
Hand over the head with the handle
of the knife that Anne had slipped to
Amidon, and the two men make their
escape.
Iron Hands RECEIVERS from the blow
and continues on toward the wharf
where he boards the stolen boat and
sails away. Anne goes with him and
when the boat is some distance from
bore Anne finds a way to send a
wireless message of warning and tells
the location Of the stolen boat The
word is flashed from the shore station
to the border patrol. Sharpe, Captain
West and troopers and ome police
men trace the boat and securing one
of the police launches they start in
pursuit.
Bad luck is with the gangsters
again and the boat is becalmed. The
launch carrying Sharpe, West the
troopers and the police overtake the
stolen boat and call upon the gang
sters to surrender. BY a clever use
they manage to trick Sharpe and cap
ture the launch after smashing all the
life boats but one, and placing a light
ed bomb in the locker of this boat
they prepare a death scheme for
Sharpe and his men.
The gangsters force the troopers,
police: Sharpe and Captain West to
take to the lifeboat, while they ~ap-
propriate the launch and sail off.
Sharpe orders the boat rowed for the
shore with all haste. All Of them take
turns at the oars. Just when they are
within a half mile of the shore line
the bomb in the locker of the boat
explodes, blowing the craft to pieces,
injuring and killing some of the troop
ers and police and throwing them all
struggling into the water. Sharpe by
strong swimming manages to make
the shore. West stays out in the water
with one of the wounded troopers.
When Sharpe reaches the shore he
sends back help and makes his way to
the nearest police station. Amidon,
the jeweler, who has been carried
away as captive by the gangsters, is
hidden away in their subterranean
chamber that has an entrance from
land and also from the bottom of the
bav at a deserted section of the shore
line. Sharpe pursues but is unable to
find the secret entrance by land and
determines to hunt the entrance under
the water.
With a water glass Sharpe locates
the entrance to the submarine tunnel.
He next hunts up a diving outfit and
hires a crew to take charge of the
boat and pump air to him. With the
diving suit on he goes to the bottom
of the bay and peering thru the glass
cover and the underwater chamber he
sees Amidon, the jeweler, lying bound
and gagged on a rough shelf inside
the cavern. The gangsters who have
Swallowed his movements, get out to
the boat containing the r that is
helping Sharpe, and by a ruse they
overpower the men and capture the
boat and air pumping apparatus that
keeps the detective breathing under
the water.
One of the gangsters, Black Flag.
cuts the ar hose. Half strangling and
fearing that he will be drowned, Sharp
struggles and breaks the heavy glass
front of the submarine chamber and
climbs inside just as the water rises.
He grabs Amidon and holds his head
above the water which continues to
rise and threaten the lives of the two
men. .r. .<>a5 .
Sharpe is hampered by his bulky
diving suit and the heavy helmet but
he holds the jeweler up and away
from the water as it rises. Cropping
his way in the landward direction of
the tunnel, Sharpe gets on higher
ground and away from the danger of
the rising water. The gangsters, in
the meantime, think their devilish plot
has been successful and they ! start
back with the news for Iron Hand.
At the end of the tunnel Sharpe finds
a ladder leading upward.