The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-22

PROLOGUE-In December, 1918. four men
gathered in a hotel in Berne and heard
one of the quartet outline a plan to paralyze
Great Britain and at the same time seize
| world power. The ether three. Hooking
American, and Steineman and Won Gratz.
Germans, all millionaires, agree to the
scheme, providing another man, Hiram
Potts, an American, is taken in. The in
stigator Of the plot gives his name as
Comte de Guy, but when he leaves coi
England with his daughter he decides to
use the name Carl Peterson.
- Capt. Hugh (Bulldog)
Drummond, a retired officer, advertises for
work that will give him excitement, sign
ing "X10." AS a result he meets Phyllis
Benton, a young woman who answered his
ad. She tells him Of strange murders and
robberies of which she suspects a band
headed by Carl Peterson and Henry Laking-
ton of being the leaders.
II-Drummond decides to go
to The Larches, Miss Benton's home. An
attempt is made on the road to wreck his
machine when another, occupied by Peter
son, Lexington and a strange man, blocks
the road. While dining with Phyllis Benton
and her father umm hears a terrible
Shrek at The Elms. During the night
Drummond leaves The Larches and explores
The Elms. He discovers Lexington and
Peterson using a thumbscrew on an Ameri-
can who signs a paper. rescues
the American after a struggle and takes
him TO his home. The man rs Hiram G.
Potts.
CHAPTER IlI-Peterson visits
the next day, departing with a threat to
return later and recover Potts and also a
torn paper which seized the
night Of the fight. With the aid Of Peter
Darrell, an old army friend, Drummond ar
ranges to hide Potts, and substitute In his
place one Mullings, a demobilized soldier.
who is seized by Peterson and his gang
and taken to The Elms, along with Drum
mond. ;.
the hoax is escorted by Irma to
a room where he is to stay for the night.
During the night is exploring
the house when he gets in a strange room
in which is a cobra. He escapes. but on the
stairs has a fall in the dark.
CHAPTER V.-Drummond enlists the aid
of Algy Longworth. Toby Sinclair. Ted
birmingham and Jerry Seymour, the latter
an aviator. ~mmo after an encounter
with the pseudo Potts, meets lrma talking
to the marquis of Laidley and suspects the
gang is plotting for the Laidley jewels
Drummond and his friends are gassed as
they sit in his apartment. Lexington car
ries off Potts.
CHAPTER vI-when Drummond and his
friends recover they plan to again rescue
Potts. Drummond goes to see Phyllis and
besides learning Potts has been taken to
The EIms also becomes engaged to her.
Drummond is captured by the gang in the
attempted rescue.
CHAPTER VII-Drummond is held pris-
oner in The Elms and he hears Peterson
making plans to attend a conference at the
Ritz. He also hears Peterson and Laking-
ton plotting to make Potts sign an agree
ment. Drummond on the roof watches as
the two ~plotters begin to torture Potts with
a ~thumbscrew. He yells through the sky
light and causes darlington and Peterson
TO rush from the room.
VIII. - Potts follows Drum
mond's advice and escapes to The Larches,
where a waiting machine takes him away.
Drummond is rescued when a crowd gath
ers because Of the commotion he makes
on the roof. He tells Phyllis he must at
tend the Ritz conference. has
learned that the gang is after the jewels
of the duchess of Laidley. He meets Je-
rome Green. an American detective, in
Paris. Green has come to find Potts for
his relatives.
CHAPTER IX-An attempt is made to
kill with poisoned darts shot
through a blow pipe by a queer little man
who is hidden in bedroom.
Among others attracted by the commotion
is Detective Green, Upon their return to
Drummond's quarters in London he receives
a letter purporting to come from Phyllis.
With Green he goes to The Larches and
finds that the place has been entered.
There is evidence that Phyllis and some
Of his friends have been carried off. He
runs toward The Elms, and Green takes his
car, going toward London for help. Drum
mond is aptured and left bound while
Lexington and Irma leave for Laidley
Towers on their mission of stealing the
duchess jewels.