Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-05
EPISODE TWO
The Ruling Passion

Nobody understood how Jose
Quintana had slipped through
the Secret Service net spread
for Sim at every port.
The United States authorities did
not know why Q~uintana had come
to America. They realized merely
that he arrived for no good purpose:
and they had meant to arrest and
hold him for extradition if requested;
for deportation as an undesirable
alien anyway.
that Quintana had come to the
United States for the purpose of re-
covering the famous "F1aming
Jewel" stolen by him from the
Grand Duchess Theodorica of
Esthonia; and stolen from Quin-
tana, in turn, by a private soldier IL
an American Forestry Regiment, OF
leave in Paris. This soldiers name,
probably, was Michael Clinch.
One of the men who knew why
Quirtana might come to America
was James Darragh, recently of
the Military Intelligence, but now
passing as a hold-up man under the
name of Hal Smith, and actually IN
the employment of Clinch at his
disreputable. "hotel' at Star Pond in
theA North Woods.
The other man who knew why
Quintana had come to America was
Emanuel Sard. a Levantine dia-
mond broker of New York. Quin-
tara's agent in America.
Now, as the October days passed
without any report of Quintana's
detention, Darragh, known as Hal
Smith at Clinch's dump, began to
suspect that Q%uintana had already
slid into America through the
meshes of the police.
If SO, this desperate international
criminal could be expected at
Clinch's under some guise or other,
piloted thither by Emanuel Sard.
So Hal Smith. whose duty was to
wash dishes, do chores, and also to
supply Clinch's with mountain
beef,-or deer taken illegally-made
it convenient to prows every day in
the vicinity of the Ghost Lake road.
He was perfectly familiar with
Emanuel Sard's squat features and
parrot nose, having robbed Mr.. Sard
of Quintana's cipher and of $4,000
at pistol point. And one morning,
while rowing around the guides
quarters at Ghost Lake Inn, Smith
beheld Sard himself on the hotel
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strangers of foreign aspect.
During the midday dinner Smith,
on pretense of inquiring for a
guides license. got a look at the inn
ledger. Sard's signature was on it.
followed by the names of Henri
Picquet. Nicholas Salzar. Victor
Georgiades, Harry Beck, and Jose
Canchez. And Smith went back
through the wilderness to Star
Pond. convinced that one of these
gentlemen was Quintana, and the
remainder, Quintana's gang; and
that they were here to do murder
If necessary in their remorseless
quest of 1.-THE Flaming Jewel" Two
million dollars once had been offered
for the Flaming Jewel; and had been
refused.
CHAPTER II
C1inch's dump was the disposal
plant in which collected the human
sewage of the wilderness.
1t being Saturday, the scum of the
North Woods was gathering at the
Star Pond resort. A venison and
chicken upper was promised-and a
dance If any women appeared
Jake Kloon had run in some Cana
dian hootch; Darragh, alias Hal
Smith. contributed two fat deer and
Clinch cooked them. BY 10 o'clock
that morning many of the men were
growing noisy; some were already
drunk by noon. Shortly after mid
day dinner the first fight started-ex-
tinguished only after Clinch had
beaten several of the backwoods aris-
tocracy insensible.