The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-04-29
THE INVISIBLE HAND"

Read the chapter of "The Invisible
Hand" each week in The Courant and
see it in pictures at the Grand
Theatre the following Tuesday.
Iron Hand and Potsdam, with a
bunch of the gangsters are hot in pur-
suit of Sharpe and the cowboy. They
drive the detective into a blind canyon
pass and only a rickety footbrigde Of
fers them a chance to escape. Sharpe
heads the machine out on this but the
weight of the auto is too much and it
plunges thru down into the gorge,
while the villains watch from the
edge Of the canyon with a jubilant
look on their face. AS the machine
breaks thru the two men leap and
catch the guide ropes Of the broken
bridge. Iron Hand and the gang shoot
at Sharpe and he drops off the bridge.
He lands in the river and swims to
shore. The guide rope to which the
cowboy clings is cut and he falls into
the foliage Of a tree. He later joins
Sharpe.
Believing they have done away with
Sharpe the outlaws go down thru the
canyon to the submerged auto in the
river. One of Their brings ~ a box
from the machine. It contains a fake
casket. Iron Hand finds he has been
tricked, the jewels are not there.
Bledson and his cowboy guard have
escorted Anne to the ranch where she
is made welcome. Alarmed at the
non-apearance of Sharpe, Bledson
sends out a band of cowboys to find
him. The ranchman unwraps the pack
age and shows the jewels to his fam
lily. He then locks them in a cabinet
in a dressing room. In the meantime
Sharpe and the cowboy have been
ploding along on foot in the general
direction of the ranch. Suddenly they
meet the cowboys and there is a hap
py reunion.
Iron Hand and Potsdam have start
ed toward the ranch where thew know
Anne has installed herself. They drive
their machine to a point near the
ranchhouse and alight and wait for
the girls signal. Bledson orders the
ranch guarded by a Gordon of cowboys
before he r~etires. Anne sends her sig
nails to Iron Hand and then manages
to get through the guard of cowboys
and communicates with the chief of
the crooks. She tells him of her plans
which are. that she will take the jewels
from the cabinet in which they have
been placed and run them down a rope
with a sort of trolley arrangement
from the window of her room to the
waiting gangsters in the yard below.
She goes back to the house and to
force open the cabinet. She takes the
jewels and substitutes bric-a-brac in
their place. She shoots an arrow with
a string fastened to it, out into the
yard and in that manner the trolley
arrangement is nade. She slides the
box off into the yard where Iron Hand
and the gang eargerly await it, hidden
in a clump of trees. With the casket
in their possession the crooks make
their escape.
Back to Nest One, Iron Hand opens
the box and finds he has been fooled
With great risk to himself he rescues
her. Unable to disclose her identity
by explaining her motive Anne is sat
isf'ed to bear the stigma and to have
saved the jewels. Anne makes her way
back to Nest One and joins Iron Hand.
In a rage he shows her how he has
been tricked and she pretends aston
ishment.
Sharpe, by this time, is pretty well
aroused by the holiness of the band
and he decided to end it all in a whole
sale capture. He goes to the police
and fires them with a desire to wipe
out the crooks. The police surround
the block where Nest One and Wong
LIS headquarters are located.
They capture several of the gang
sters and one of them tells of the
flooded chamber in Nest One. With
this information Sharpe reaches the
chamber and controls the whole build
ing. The police gradually close in on
the %gangsters and when a number of
them try to escape down the stairs,
Sharpe prevents them by deluging
them with water.
Iron Hand remembers a secret tun-
mel which leads to a deserted shack
and he makes his escape. Potsdam,
who for sometime has suspected Anne
Of being disloyal to the gang, but who
has never been able to. make Iron
Hand believe it, corners the girl and
CHARGES her with duplicity. In his rage
he throws her into a closet where
steel bands close around her arms and
legs. He then locks the door and fills
the closet with deadly blister gas"
Sharpe discovers her and rescues her.
She has hnnn hs1rno1 NTH the roe