The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-03-11
THE INVISIBLE HAND

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CHAPTER 5, DODGING DISASTER
Read the chapter every week Of
.sThe Invisible Hand" in The Cour-
ant and then see it in motion pictures
at the Grand Theatre the following
Tuesday.
Sharpe, facing Iron Hand in his den
allows the gas bag trap to be perpe-
trated on him. The bag drops over
him and the gas is turned on. Iron
Hand and Anne, seeing the detective
struggle within the folds thinks he
has been finished. Instead when the
bag drops over his head, Sharpe pulls
a gas mask from his pocket and ad-
justs it and lets them pump away with
the gas. He pretends to become life
less and Iron Hand, thinking that he
has made a sure job Of putting the
great detective out of the way puts
him in trunk to be thrown in the
river. .@s
The apparently lifeless form of
Sharpe is locked in the trunk and re-
moved to another room and an ex-
pressnan is summoned to haul it to
the river. When the drayman arrives
the gangsters overpower him and one
of their number takes the trungk and
drives away with it to the river. In
the meantime, Anne has lured Iron
Hand out of the room by means of a
fake message. While the crook is out
she unlocks the trunk, hoping that
Sharpe has not been asphyxiated and
gives him a chance to escape.
i. Sharpe realizes the lock has been
sprung and makes his exit and before
Iron Hand returnes fills the trunk
with rugs and logs from the fireplace.
He goes into another room and there
confronts Anne. They hear Iron Hand
coming and Anne shoves Sharpe in a
closet. When Iron Hand comes in she
bluffs thru the situation and arranges
to go to dinner with the crook. On the
way to the river with the trunk the
gangsters meet Capt. West on the way
to rescue Sharpe. The gangsters take
roundabout way back to the city and
warn Iron Hand. He and Anne flee to
Nest 4. Anne is reluctant to go but
has to for fear of arousing suspicion.
Just as they have gone Capt. West
and his troopers pull up to the hotel
They enter. Sharpe is still in the
closet but resorts to collapsible tools
and saws off the lock. The troopers
break in the room and Sharpe is
elated to find Capt. West. N
AS they leave the hotel, Hartmann,
one Of the gangsters disguised, hears
the plans of the detective and goes off
to warn Iron Hand. Sharpe and six
of the troopers ride off to intercept
Iron Hand and Sharpe who do not
suspect them. Iron Hand is trying to
make love to Anne she resents it but
of no avail and promises to marry him
if he makes. a big strike and quits
the dangerous game Of being a rob-
ber. She tries to get him to talk about
Sharpe but he only laughs and says
that he is feeding the fishes. In the
meantime they arrive at the ranch
mans home. He tells Iron Hand of
the troops and they get into the car
and start for the main nest Of the
gang.
Everybody is awakened and armed.
Horses are brought up and saddled. A
wagon is filed with TINT. The gang
sters then ride along the road to meet
Sharpe and the troopers. They reach
a lonely place and here prepare an
ambuscade for the troop. The, auto in
which Iron Hand and Sharpe have
been riding in is placed on the road as
a decoy and they thinking they have
come upon Iron Hand speed up. They
surround the auto. and the gangsters
rise up on all sides of them and COM
mence firing at them. They are taken
by surprise and when they see that
to cabin below the cliff. They refuse
to surrender and battle with the gang
sters thru windows and cracks. The
gangsters throw q lasso around the
chimney and slide can of TINT with
a lighted fuse onto the roof. The
troopers are unaware Of this, but Ann
pretending to fall rolls down the hill
and is captured by Sharpe and she
tells him Of the INT. Iron Hand fear
ing for Anne and deceived by her ruse
is about to stop the blowing up of the
cabin. Potsdarn, vindictive and cruel,
and at the same time suspicious Of
Anne perGuades him to go ahead with
their deviltry. The troopers find q trap
door in the cabin and they descend in
to the tunnel into which it opens. Just
as they get inside the explosion oc-
ours.
FORMER TEACHER LANDS
GOOD POSITION
Many teachers are forsaking their
schoolrooms for more lucrative po-
sitions In the business world. where