Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-01-04
SYNOPSIS.

Jonn Brooke, arriving in New York at
dentally traded his own ownsuit for an.
other containing q large sum of money
10 throw the room porter off the track
ne explains that the money is the stake
in a bet on the color of the eyes of the
trust. "
In the morning Brooke reads the pa.
to be himself has been picked up in the
railroad yards. A newspaper reporter
calls at the hotel and interviews Brooke
o. Brooke 81 n stores the million dollar suit.
shorty Hanks. who thinks that he has
obtained a big haul through robbery.
having taken the name of John Moore
w we receives, nsge 9 mysteri9ns note from
him to call.
While driving in Central Park Brooke
knocked from her horse by the man with
"nom she was riding.
The girl explains that she had rur
away to marry her riding master named
1iumm who Immediately after the wed.
ding had knocked her down and stoler
pearls valued at $4,000. Brooke remem.
eers .he invitation from the mysterious
tains him layishly. She gives him
drugged wine, and on awakening he finds
hlmseif a prisoner in her house.
In an adjacent bed room Brooke finds
pearls from the mans shoe, and finds
sne Key that gives him exit to the
street. He goes back to the hotel and
meets the other man who bears his
name.
Brooke goes in pursuit of an automo'
PIE the occupants of which by a forged
million dollar suit case.
They pursue the cab to a tenement
where a fight ensues.
Brooke RECEIVERS the suit case in thu
battle. He also returns the stolen pearls
to the girl of Central Park.
Moore and Brooke go on board the
woman, evidently the Kidnapped girl
can not be found. Mvmford attacks
Moore. but the latter proves too much
t%hrashing and then orders the captain
OF the yacht to lock him up:
The yacht has a collision with a coast.
ing steamer, the Franklin, in which the
yacht is destroyed and the passengers OF
me latter are taken on board the Frank
lin. Brooke rescues two women. The
staterooms in which Mumford and Ros.
enstein were lodged were completely de.
molished, and the fate of the two is un.
known.
men who lost their lives in the wreck
contains letters, which prove that tn
Simon Ronenstein, shows that the two
planned to kidnap q young woman from
the Holland house-the young woman
being Annette Colby.
One offs the two, mysterious women
1ision. appears. and it is found that she
was kidnapped in mistake, being An.
nette's sister, Constance. whose life
Brooke had previously saved, in a train
wreck.
CHAPTER xVIH-Continued.
II cannot say" she told him. II
remember he wore a light cloth suit
and a Panama hat, but"
1T was Rosenstein," Brooke decid.
ed, voicing his conclusion. "They
must have wrapped hat veil around
your face before Mumford saw you
"Mumford?" she repealed, ques.
tioningly.
Eyes, he answered. "You see It wa.
evidently a mistake. They were at.
tempting to kidnap your sister,"
annette? 2" she cried.
Yes. It was a most highshandeC
proceeding. And Jack Moore anG
Jack Moore" she exclaimed.
you know him? 2"
Il met him once, several years ago
He was a friend Of"
That's he. Well. Jack Moore and
I tried to circumvent them. It's a
long story, and"
"And you were on that YACHT" she
interrupted.
1T wa. you who go us gu,
Brooke nodded. Eyes, it was T." he
said, hurriedly. ""But where is thai
woman who was with your"
1 "She is still sleeping. I awoke, and
finding the cabin door unlocked j
came in search of the captain. I saw
your reflection in the mirror yonder,
and spoke"
This was but the beginning of a
long series Of questions and answers,
continued after a little in the cap
tain's cabin. with Captain Conway as
chief ~interlocutor, and Jack Moore
making a fourth party to the seance.
When the inquisttion was over and
the captain was thoroughly we'll salts
fed that he possessed the truth OF the
whole natter. he sent for the woman
who had posed as a nurse.
Brooke and the others remained to
listen. but, In contrast with their own
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