Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-09-29
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER LIN a New York jewelry
store Philip Severn, United States con-
suiar agent, notices a small box which
attracts him. He purchases 1t. Later he
discovers In secret compartment a writ
sng giving q ciew to a revolutionary move
ment In this country seeking to over
throw the Chilean government. The writ
ing mentions a rendezvous, and Severn
decides to investigate.
CHAPTER II.-Ffnding the place men,
toned in the writing apparently deserted,
severn visits saloon in the vicinity.
woman In the place Ia met by man.
seemingly by appointment. and Severn,
his suspicious aroused. follows them.
They 90 to the designated meeting place,
an abandoned iron foundry.
CHAPTER III.-At the rendezvous Sc
vern Is accepted as one of the conspira-
tors and admitted He meets q stranger
who appears to recognize him
CHAPTER Iv.-The stranger addresses
Severn as Harry DAILY. The incident plays
into Severn's hands and he accepts it.
HIS new acquaintance Is a notorious
thief, Gentleman George" Harris. Con-
cealed, Severn hears the girl he had fol-
lowed address the conspirators. She urges
them to hasten the work of revolution.
CHAPTER v.-Leaving the crowd to
discuss the message she had brought, the
girl discovers Severn listening. She ac-
cepts his explanation of his presence and
makes an appointment to meet him next
day. He tells her his name is DAILY. Har-
rfs informs him of a scheme he has to
secure sum amounting to 81 600 900, the
ftind nd off -
with him Severn accepts the proposition.
CHAPTER VI.-Severn learns II was
his new friend and a Captain Alva" who
had lost the box which started him on
the trail. Harris tells him the woman Is
Marie Gessler. He arranges to meet
Severn next day at Tom Costigan's sa-
loon. Leaving the building, Severn notices
stalled automobile a few blocks away
Investigating, he finds the body of Cap.
tain Alva, stabbed to death with hatpin
dagger. Securing 1t, he remembers having
seen it, or one like 1t, in Marie Gessler's
hat
~ CHAPTER VII Relieving Marie left-
the foundry with Alva, Severn is forced
to believe she is the slayer. He takes
the dagger with him. leaving the body
to be discovered later. At the address
Marie had given him he finds she is
unknown. He visits Costigan's and learns
that Harris has disappeared. CoStigan
apparently has no doubt that Severn is
really DAILY" and gives him his full
confidence.
CHAPTER vIII.-At his hotel Severn
finds message asking him to phone the
Hotel McAlpin. He does so and is invited
to call. At the McAlpin he meets Marie
Gessler. She refuses fully to explain her
position, and he is unable to make up
his mind as to whether she is guilty or
innocent of Alva's murder The presump
ton, however, is all against her. and
Severn. on whom she has made a deep
impression, is in a quandary.
CHAPTER Ix.-With Marie, Severn Wis
It's Perond's cafe, an underworld resort
where the girl believes they may meet
Harris and Russian Jew, Ivan Waldron
a leading spirit in the scheme of robbery.
At Peronds, Harris discovers Severn, and
believing the latter has obtained the
money after killing Alva, attacks him.
Severn fights him and Waldron off, and,
with Marie escapes The girl refuses
fully to explain her position in connection
with the conspirators, insisting that Sc
vern must give her his full confidence.
With that he is forced to be content.
CHAPTER X.-After leaving the girl
at the McAlpin Severn finds that his room
has been entered and the dagger stolen.
Bewildered, he about comes to the con-
clusion that Marie has secured II as in
eliminating evidence. On a telephone
call from Harris Severn visits Costigan's.
There Harris, Costigan and Waldron con-
front him. They refuse to believe he has
not got the money stolen from Alva, and
after fight Severn is left unconscious.
CHAPTER XI.-Returning to consci-
BUSINESS Severn escapes from the room
in which he is confined He finds Marie
in another room, and her partial explana-
ton of her part in the tangled affair
almost convinces him of her innocence.
She explains her presence In the house
by the fact that she and Ivan Waldron's
wife had been girlhood friends. She has
been decoyed to the place by Harris in
the hope that, having her In their power,
the conspirators can induce Severn to
share the money which they are con-
WINGED he ard the girl had stolen from
Alva.
CHAPTER xII-Escaping from the
house. Severn has fight with Harris and
waldron. Harris Is accidentally killed by
waldron and Severn and the girl get
away Severn meets cab driver who
gives him information turning his mind
to Casper Wine as the murderer of Alva
Wine was present at the meeting at the
iron foundry.
CHAPTER xIII.-Severn visits the Col
mar building. in which Wine has his Of
fee In hiding he is a witness to a meet
ing between Wine and Waldron and over
hears enough to convince him that those
two were the actual murderers, and that
they have the money Severn is discov-
cred in his hiding place.