The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-07-28
SYNOPSIS.
/R,GHr BY RANDALL PARRISH

CHAPTER LIN a. new 1Ork JeWon'
store Philip Severn, United States con
sular agent, notices small box Wnlcn
attracts him. He purchases 1t. Later ne
ing giving a clew to revolutionary move
nent in this country seeking to over
throw the Chilean government. The writ
ing mentions a rendezvous, and Severn
decides to investigate.
CHAPTER II.-Finding the place men
toned in the writing apparently deserted,
Severn visits a saloon in the vicinity.
A woman in the place Is met by man,
seemingly by appointment and Severn,
his suspicious aroused, follows them
They go to the designated meeting place,
an abandoned iron foundry.
CHAPTER III-At the rendezvous Sc
vern is accepted as one OF the consplra-
tors and admitted. He meets stranger
who appears to recognize him
CnArTEk IV.-The stranger addresses
Severn as Harry DAILY. The incident plays
into Severns hands and he accepts II.
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.-Leaying 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-
ris informs him of a scheme he has to
secure sum amounting to 100000, the
revolutionary fund and offers to "split"
with him Severn accepts the proposition.
CHAPTER vL-Severn learns it was
his new friend and 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 Costgan's sa-
loon. Leaving the building, Severn notices
q stalled automobile few blocks away.
Investigating, he finds the body Of Cap
tain Alva, stabbed to death with hatpin
dagger. Securing It, he remembers having
seen it, or one like It, in Marie Gessler's
hat
CHAPTER VII--Believing Marie left
the foundry with Alva, Severn is fore
ed 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 disappear
ed. Costigan appearantly 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 lnVlteo
to call. At the McAlpin he meets Marie
Gessler. She refuses fully to explain her
nosition. and he Is unable to make up
his mind as to whether she Is guilty OF
innocent Of Alva's murder. The presump-
tion. however, is all against her, and
severn on whom she has made 9 deep
Impression, is in quandary.
CHAPTER Ix.-With Marie, Severn Wis
its Perond's cafe. an underworld resort,
where the girl believes they may meet
Harris and Russian Jew, Ivan Waldron,
leading spirit in the scheme Of robbery.
At Perond's, Harris discovers Severn, and
believing the latter has obtained the
money after killing Alva, attacks him.
Severn fights him and Waldron of, and.
with Marie, escapes. The girl refuses
fully to explain her position in connection
with the conspirators, insisting that Sc
With that he is forced to be content
CHAPTER X.-After leaving the girl
at the McAlpfn, Severn finds that his room
has been entered and the dagger stolen.
Bewildered, he about comes to the con-
clusion that Marie has secured It 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 q fight Severn is left unconscious.
CHAPTER XI-Returning to consci-
ousness 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
bv the fact that she and Ivan Waldron's 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-
yinced he and the girl had stolen from
Alva-
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enough for the purpose, which COM
pelled me to make the moose CORE
spondingly small. However, with this
improvised lasso gripped in my right
hand, I took position astride the Sill
of the window, in an endeaver to pro-
ject the loosened end over some pro-
tuberance of the blind beyond. BY
holding tight to the frame with my
left hand, the right was left free'
and I was enabled to lean out tar
enough to obtain a clear toss. There
was little the moose could catch on,
and continued failure left me llstleSs
and discouraged. I lost hope, yet
kept at it, and finally, to my surprise
the ring of the cloth settled over an
iron projection Of the hinge, and clung
there, extending straight across from
window to window. l hardly dared
breathe as l drew the thing taut and
tested the frmness with which it was
held at the other end. The moose
closed down tightly about the iron
staple. and resisted every effort at re-
lease. To all seeming it was as safely
anchored as though I had placed 1t
tharo hy hand. Somehow the very