The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-29
SYNOPSIS

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
l. Capt Hugh CBulldog)
Drummond, a retired officer. advertises Tor
work that will give him excitement, sign
ing "X10." AS a result he meets Phyllis
Renton. a Young woman who answered his
ad. She tells him of strange murders and
robberies of which she suspects a nand
headed by Carl Peterson and Henry LaKlng-
ton of being the leaders.
CHAPTER u-Drummond decides to go
to The Larches, Miss Benton's home An
attempt is made on the road to wreck MS
machine when another, occupied by Peter
son. Lakington AND a strange man, blocks
the road. While dining with Phyllis Benton
| and her father 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. Drummond rescues
the American after a struggle and takes
| him to his home. The man is Hiram c.
Potts.
| III-Peterson visits
the next day, departing WITH d ihieab "
| return later and recover Potts and also "A
torn paper which rumm seized the
night of the fight. With the aid or 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. -
V.-When Peterson discovers
| the hoax is escorted by 1rma to
a room where he is to stay FOR the nignt.
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 ara
of Algy ~Longworth, Toby Sinclair, TED
birmingham and Jerry Seymour, the latter
an aviator. D~rummond, after an encounter
with the pseudo Potts, meets 1rma taking
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.
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 Elms 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 10 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. mas
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.
kin Drummond with poisoned darts shot
through a blow pipe by a queer little man
who is hidden in bedroom.
| Among others attracted by the coninotlon
is Detective Green. Upon their return to
quarters in London he receives
a letter purporting to come from Phyllis,
With Green he goes to The Larches ana
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 captured and left bound while
darlington and Irma leave for Laidley
Towers on their mission of stealing the
| duchess jewels.
CHAPTER X.-Drummond tricks the Ger
man Bolshevist guarding him, then re-
leases his companions also Potts and
Phyllis. He announces his intention OF
going to Laldley Towers.
CHAPTER XI-In the grounds of Laid
ley Towers kills Lakin3ton's
chauffeur and drives darlington home after
the latter has stolen the Jewels of the
Duchess Of Laidley. Drummond and LAX
i gton battle and darlington is forced into
a bath of chemicals from which he springs
only to be killed by one of his own death