Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-13
SYNOPSIS.

ooSh oIOOhC TEACHES new 1OFk d1LGI
g train wreck. to find that he has acci-
dentally taken a suitcase containing a
: sum Of money, thinking 1t to be
ms own. In the morning Brooke reads
the paper to learn that a dead man sup
posed to be himself has been picked up
IN, the railroad yards. A newspaper man
interviews Brooke.
IN with q crook. Shorty Hanks, who be-
lieves the former has obtained the mon
ey through a big haul: Having taken h
from a woman named Lucille Mumnford,
inviting him to call. While driving in
central park. Brooke assists a beautiful
s snI.. w mo + has been knocked Ike from her
riding: h girl says that she had run
away, to marry her riding master. named
Mumford. who Immediately after h we'd
ding had stolen pearls valued at 100000.
brooke calls on Mrs. Mumford, who
drugs him: He escapes. and goes back
to the hotel n meets the other man
Brooke pursues an automobile contain
ing persons who had taken the suitcase
Dy means of a forged order. He RECEIVERS
the girl in Central park. Moore and
Brooke go on board a yacht where Mum
1ord appears with q woman. evidently
fight, the latter getting a sound thrash
ing, and later Is locked up. The yacht is
wrecked, the passengers being taken on
e eoasd +a a ,co casting ste sm Brooke Bro res
stein are lost, and papers found in their
coats indicate that they are scamps.
One Of the two kidnapped women APP
takenffn mistake, for her sister, Annette.
whom Brooke assisted in the park when
knocked from her riding horse.
Brooke receives a mysterious call from
Moore. who kept an appointment, evil
IDENTIFY meant for Brook
The mysterious telephone call asked
for the suitcase, which Brooke packs
with papers, towels, etc. carefully hid
ing the: money in his trunk. He enlists
the services Of the hotel detective, and
' the detective finding that the call came
from the Albright apartments on West
18th street. When they arrive there,
ing man., whom Brooke can scarcely be.
lieye- lis ~entangled in any crooked AFFAIRS.
Brooke and the detective gain entrance
find Moore. stoughton, the man in the
apartment, claims to deal in stocks, and
says that the money in the suit case be-
prove to some business men with whom
he was involved, that he could give fol
th%oroughly worthless mining stock, .
aaed M market re m ya1ue wo far in ata adyan = e o. 2,
list. He says everything was going beau.
tifully until his right hand man could
7, stand no longer. ant
the money.
In the excitement Of chasing the sui
case. Brooke forgets an appointment
and HI following morning a big storJ
Of the events supposed to have happen
ed aboard the Inflated yacht appears il
Of the yacht is to be made the subjec
Of Investigation. ~
Brooke, in an attempt to get slough
verssHo o. bs M1se; n. steurhton and som e9n
one else, in which It Is learned tina
Kennedy. i'd in the city. Kennedy. Il
dssS 1t To- To- ha Ia,, been the 1s,5 man picked IKE " y,
cali from silas Colby, nnancier, an
father Of Annette and Constance. who Il
to hang on to. the money.
Brooke goes to Philadelphia to searcl
for Kennedy, and meets Constance Col
latter has been absent Tor some hours
and she gets Brooke to go on a searcl
ID Br ssa @ifs c saSy.t n e hot 4a.h our sS'
, wounded man to the field where a frien,
ts about to make an ascension in an air
plane. In this way they hope to escap
CHAPTER KXIV.-Conduued.
II found your father" he answere,
in a tone Of forced merriment. rs.
) your anxiety IL at an end. He had
4 Iall,s DUE 1C6 nOtn1ng to worry about
And the police got mixed up in It II
! some way, 80 we're all going to tn,
!. police station, just as though we ha.
! exceeded the speed limit, you know
. Constance Colby scarcely heard til,
: latter part OF what Brooke told her
THAT her father was soon to be witt
!, her aEain was all she cared for Jus
then. II he had been a little hur
. by a fall she would love nothing bet
Z liter thang1to scoddle and nurse hin
: whole once more.
Brooke had sprung up beside tn
Z chauffeur as he spoke. and now the,
were halted beside the side entranc
Ito aHAggerty's. Az the sImachin
stopped, the saloon belched forth it
crowd Of curious patrons. VIII,
thronged sinteregtedly shout the lit
tle group on the edge OF the stde
"AlI, Of you get back commando,
I the 0f1cio1s oficer, addreasing hi
{ three capttveg. You, too. Mr. Zoe
toF. . I'm sbingFte ut VI here Wit
brooke stepped down ana stood !
the door OF the t0nneau, where he a.
sisted Mr. Colby to mount beside Con
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