Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-09-15
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER LIN New York jewelry
store Philip Severn, United States con-
sular agent, notices a small box which
attracts him. He purchases it. Later he
discovers in secret compartment a writ
ing giving clew to a revolutionary move
ment In this country seeking to over
throw the Chilean government The writ
ing mentions rendezvous, and Severn
decides to investigate
CHAPTER II.-Finding the place men,
TONED in the writing apparently deserted,
severn visits saloon in the vicinity.
A woman In the place Is met by q man,
seemingly by appointment and Severn.
mis- 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 conspira-
tors and admitted. He meets a stranger
who appears to recognize him.
CHAPTER Iv.-The stranger addresses
severn as Harry Daily. The incident plays
INTO Severn's hands and he acc,pts it.
Ills 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-
ris informs him of scheme he has to
secure sum amounting to s1,OO0,0OO, the
revolutionary fund, and offers to ''split"
i'm ~
CHAPTER VL-Severn learns II 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 Costigan's sa-
loon. Leaving the building, Severn notices
a stalled automobile few blocks away.
Investigating he finds the body of Cap.
tain Alva, stabbed to death with a hatpin
dagger. Securing it, he remembers having
seen it, or one like it, in Marie Gessler's
hat
CHAPTER vIL-Believing 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
apparently has no doubt that Severn is
really DAILY" and gives him his full
confidence.
CHAPTER vIII.-At his hotel Severn
finds a 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 OF.
innocent of Alva's murder. The presump-
ton, however. is all against her, and
Severn. on whom she has made 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
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 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.
Bewidered, he about comes to the con-
clusion that Marie has secured 1t 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 convnces 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 and the girl had stolen from
Alva.