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BIX . * TkKHeoDi By HAROLD] ? Illustrated from Scenes In Same Name by the Than HMMMMMBBiuHBunMKv-i rj?m wu a%x ? JK (Copyright* lwi-l, by ] i 1 This, thirteenth episode of the in- j 1 f foresting serial story, will be shown j 1 ? in motion pictures at the Casino < Theatre tonight.) t 1 c CHAPTER XIII. c An Agent From Russia. The Black Hundred, not as individu- 1 als but as an organization, began to worry. Powerful, and often reckless * and daring because it was powerful, ' it began to look about for some basic 1 cause for all these failures against I Hargreave's dauglih r and Hargreave's ; ' ghost. They had tried to put the in- I ' f quisitive reporter out of the way; they had laid every trap they could think of to catch the mysterious visitor at 1 the Hargreave home; they had thrown t out a hundred lures to bring Har- 1 greave out of Liis lair, and failed; and ^ they had lost a dozen valuable men and several thousand dollars. This must end somewhere, and quickly. ; c f The one ray of hope for the conspi- ! ' rators lay in the fact that Florence had never seen her father and knew ^ not in the least what he looked like, i 1 They determined to try again in this 1 direction. "Give it all up," said the countess ? to I3raine. "I tell you, whatever is back of all this is stronger than we j are. He knows the organization, and for all we know he may be a ghost." i "I never go back," smiled Bralne. "There's something more than the mil- e lion. There's the sport of the thing, eWo've been bested in a dozen bouts, p 'and nearly always by a lluke. They have the breaks, u.5 they say out at the i, - Polo grounds." "Put the time and expense when we might be getting results elsewhere! .. il tell you, Leo, I'm afraid. It's liko c always hearing some one behind you | ^ and never finding anybody when you I p turn. I have told ^ou my doubts. I have also asked you to trap that but- f( ler, but you've always laughed." p j, "You are seeing ghosts, Olga. A \] new man from holy Russia," shrug- \ ging, "is coming tonight. Evidently t< the head over there thinks our contributions of late have not been up to a the mark, and they are going to stir /us up. 1 am willing to wager my soul, i ^ however, that that box is simply k hoax to befuddle us. Either that or it ^ holds the key. Ilut the rest of them j, insist that tlie box must be recovered. When I leave this room tonight I am ^ going over to Riverdale and stalk all | '{ by^nyself. I'm going to get a glimpse of that mysterious stranger. He car- j ries a scar of mine somewhere, for I a hit him that night.' *? The door opened and the executive I chamber became silent. c "Count Paroff," 1 ^omed the voice of Yvoon. "He v I" present his ere- 1 dentials." ' v" I * V^Tliis formality was executed as pre- i ^ Bcrioed by the rules; and Count Par- j 1 off was given his chair. He spoke for , * a while, rather pompously. I A "The head organization is not satisfled with its offspring in this Harereave affair," he said in conclusion* "You are slow." ! 1 "Then you have oome with some 1 suggestions for the betterment of our , business?" asked Braine ironically. "Sir, this is not the hour for flip- ^ pancy," said the agent coldly. > Braine made a sign with his hand, ^ a sign not observed by every one. : Instantly Paroff bent lowly. He recognized that the speaker was the ac- < tual, not tho nominal, head of the American branch. ( "What are your suggestions?" in- , quired the nominal head from his ohair, anxious to avoid a clash be tween the newcomer and the trucu Count Paroff Press ?D???I???? liar Mystery1; MAC GRATH * ? " ! g , ? I | 6 the Photo Drama of thm I s< houser Film Company (j I r i] ir iwiwvijommi??MWLM?itwmrta , Elcurold MaeGraih) i ent master of them all. : u "I have boMi informed that liar- K( Treave's daughter has never seen her 11 'ather, not even a photograph of him," 11 said Paroff, more amiably. "Wo are absolutely certain that 01 his is the case," said the nominal ^ lead, who was known as the pre si- '1! lent. "Hut we tried one play in that lirection, and it failed miserably." _ "I have the story," replied Paroff. $ 'It was clumsily done. The ruse i\aa p m old one." Praine was frank enough to admit $ lie truth of this statement, however $ nttch ho disliked the admission, lie todded. ? "I have authority to take a hand in ^ his affair. We cannot waste all sum- ? nor. Those government plans of the $ ortiiications of the Panama are waitng. There's your millions. But the act remains that it is the law of the ? Slack Hundred never to step down y ill absolutely defeated. The hidden i ^ * * iiiinun i? uul nan . we must unci anu ireak this renegade Hargreave." "If he lives," said Braine. "Who can say one way or the ither?" brusquely asked Paroff. "The act that all your plans and schemes lave come to naught should prove to ou that you are not lighting a ghost, 'here is but one way to bring out the ruth." "And that is to make a captive of :is daughter," supplemented Braine. And we have worked toward that end easelessly. We are quite ready to isten to your suggestions, count." "And so am I," thought the man vith his ear tcf the little hole in the . kv eiling above. "And some day, my nergetic friend, I'm going to pay you ack for that bullet." rc Count Paroff cleared his voice anil a lid his plans before his audience. sn "To act frankly and in the open, ?0 :> go boldly to the Hargreave home ra nd proclaim myself Hargreave. I ro n n (liccuico rnvonll' III n ?nn., 111,'ocn 111 a ii?aiuit'l nuii, gtj ill at least temporarily fool the butJr." th "Who has been with his master for aii Diirteen years, knows every move, de abit, gesture, inflection," interposed nc Iraine. "But proceed, count, proceed. Gf ou will remember the old adage; n? 20 many cooks."? wi "Ah," flashed back the count, "but in new cook?" wj Olga touched Braine's arm warn- dn lgl\\ ro '\Zu mean, then, that there has th een talk in St. Petersburg of dispos- eq ag of some one?" "A good deal of talk, sir," haughtily, an orgetting that ho had bent humbly se nough but a few moments gone. av ' Very well; go on." an Thought the man at the peephole a hove: "There's another adage. When Pt( hieves fall out, then honest men get bo heir dues. Yes, yes; proceed, pro- ha :eed!" ... ; th Paroff went on. "I shall, then, go ar rankly to tho llargreave house anil daim my own. Meantime I leave to ' ai "on the business of luring the butler til way. Half an hour is all I need to w< >ring that child here, to break tho wi sail that stands between us and what 1 fh ,ve seek." "Is that so?" murmured Brahu^ tu 'Olga, I want you to play a trick on he .his handsome delegate-at-larg??. I'm I fti lot very enthusiastic over his talk. I a want him humiliated All you have a: to do, he says, is to walk into tho tli Llargreavo house unci walk out again. 1 N iVcll, let's you and I see that he does n> that and nothing else. I'll have no ono tc meddling with my own game." Some one sneezed, and everybody t looked at his neighbor. The sneeze U1 was repeated, but mulTled, as if somo n one was desperately anxious to avoid s; sneezing. U "It came from above!" whispered ai Olga. "Don't look up! | n * ; a a ^ ^ iS > ' ' $m ?fc M ? - ": 1 _ - : -<- / -'^ ' . , ' / , > ^ I 1 nta His Credentials. THE HORRY HER t<riii!io was cool. Ho walked idly cross the room to where Yroon sat Very well, Paroff; we give you free ein." To Yroon ho said: "Some one i watching us from the room over ead. I thought that room belou^ec a us." "It does," said Vroon stolidly. "Then how is it that some one is atchlng from up there? No excite lent. I'm going to bid every one ood-night, then I'm going to iuveeti ate. When I leave you will quietly end men to all exits to the building want the man who sneezed, and 1 ant him badly." Oiga departed with limine, only she immediately sought the taxi that rought her and was driven home. It as flhvnVH lliwlorctnrvrl ??.1 ?, ? uvuv/vi uiut W Ut5!l illl^ ?rious exploit was under way hero bouts she was to make her departre at once. Vroon stationed his men at the scv*nl exits and Braine went upstairs, he man who had sneezed, however, id vanished as completely as if he ad worn that invisible cloak one f ; g . -1 ?, 1 ^ >' fc| ."i '{y^f V.. V 1 ; i pi > |B& lii wJ Norton Wanted to Kiss Her. ails about in the Persian tales. As matter of fact, after the second eeze he had gone up to the roof, t out by the trap, and jumped? thcr risky business, too?to the next of and had clambered down the f.re cape of the second building. Ho \s swearing inaudibly. After all ese days of care and planning, after I his cleverness in locating the renzvous of the Black Hundred, and iw to lose his advantage because an uncontrollable sneeze! He would ver dare go back, and *just when he as beginning to pick up fine bits of formation! So Florence Hargreave as going to have a new father in a .v or so? There were some clever gues among this band of theirs; but eir cleverness was well offset by an , . ~ 1 1 -9 ^ - * uui liuiuuer 01 icois. Yes, there were some clever rogues, id to prove this assertion Braine cured a taxicab and drove furiously ray, his destination the home of his icient enemy. lie dropped the cab block or two away and presently owed himself away in the summer use at the left of the lawn. It would ive been a capital idea?that is, if e other man had not thought of and iticipated this very thing. So he ed a r.ub'ic pay station telephone; id Brain a waited in vain, waited i the lights in the Hargreave house : tit out one by one and it became rapped in darkness within and moonine without. Brrlne was a philosopher. He rerned to his waiting taxicab, drove ime, paid the bill, smiling grimly, sd wont to bed. It was going to be wonderful game of blind man's buff, '(1 it was going to bo sport to watcli lis fool Paroff blunder into a pit. The next afternoon Florence and orton sat in tl e summer house talkg of the future. Lovers are prone > talk of that. As if anything else i the world ever equals the present! hey talked of nice little apartments tid vacations in the summer and how inch they would save out of his ilarv, and a thousand and one other lings which would not Interest you I all if I recounted them in detail, ut they did love each other, and they ere going to he married; you may be ertain of that. They did not care snap of the finger what Jones nought. They were going to be marled, and that was all there was to it. If course, Florence couldn't touch a enny of her lather's money. If he, Norton, couldn't take care of her withut help, why, he wouldn't be worth he powder to blow him up with. "But, my dear, you must be ver> aroful," ho said. "Jones and I will lways be about somewhere. If the> rally get bold of you once, God alom mows what will happen. It is no 'Oil, it is your poor father they wan* 0 bring out Into the open. If thej mew where ho was they would no )Other you in the least." "Have 1 really a father? Sometimei doubt. Why couldn't he steal int< he k mie and see me, just once?" "Perhaps he dares not. This houfv a always watched, night and day hough you'll look in vain to discove my one. Your father knows best wha ac is doing, my dear girl. You sec 1 met him years ago in China; am when he stnrtrd to da a eirtui: '1,t- r *..> F.nie?allv did it. lie neve notched any of his plans. So we a' * ALD, CONWAY, S. C. r must wait. Only I'm going to marry J you all the same, whoth r ho likes it j or not. The rogues will try to impose upon you again; but do net pay any attention to notes or personals in ths papers. And it was a lucky thing that I was on the freighter that picked you j up at sea. I shall always wonder how that yacht took Are." ) "So shall I," replied Florence, hoi brows drawing together in puzzlement. "Sometimes I think I must have done it. You know, people out of their heads do strange things. I seem to see myself as in a dream. And this , man Braine Is a scoundrel!" "Yes; and more than that, he is the dear friend of the countess. But understand, you must never let her I dream or suspect that you know By ; lulling her into overconlldence some I day she will naturally grow careless. ; end then we'll have them all. I think l I underotaiul what your father's idea j i: not to have them arrested for [ \ blackmail, but practically to extormin, j ate them, put them In prison for such ? terras of years that they'll die there. When you see a snake, a poisonous ' cr.e, don't ?let it get away. Kill it. ; Well, I must be o f to work." \, 'i I... - ? ? * --- " M i ,i iai u?- i~;j < till, IUO, 1 on arc iii more danger than I am." "Hut I'm a man and can #Iodge quick," lie laughed, picking; up his hat. "What a horrid thing money is! If I hadn't any money, nobody would bother in "I would," ho smiled. He wanted to kiss her. hut the eternal Jonas might be watchir. from the windows; and so he patted her hand instead and walked down the graveled path to the street. It was difficult work for Florence to piay at friendship. She was like her father; she did not bestow it on every one. She had given her friendship to the Russian, the iirst real big friendship in her life, and she had been roughly disillusioned. Hut if tho countess couhl act, so could she; and of the two her acting was the more consummate. She could smile and laugh and jest, all tho while her heart was burning with wrath. One day, a week or so after her meeting with Norton in the summer house, Gl?;a arrived, beautifully gowned, handsome as ever. There was not the least touch of the adventuress in her makeup. Florence had just received some mail, and she had dropped the letters on the library table to greet the countess. She had opened them, but had not yet looked at their ' contents. They were chatting pleasantly about inconsequent things, when the maid came in and asked Florence to come to Miss Susan's room for a moment. Florence excused herself, wondering what Susan could want. She forgot the mail. As soon as she was gone the countess, certain that Jones was not lurking about, picked up the letters and calmly examined their contents; and among them she found this remark1 able document: "Dear daughter I have never seen: I must turn the treasure over to you. Meet nie at eight in the summer house. Tell no one as my life is in danger. Your loving father." The countess could have laughed aloud. She saw this man Paroff's hand; and here was the chance to befool and humiliate him and send him off packing to his cold and miserable country. She had made up once as Florence, and she could easily do so again. The only thing that troubled her was the fact that she did not know whether Florence had read the letter I " " ' ~ . i Thero Was Not the Least Touch o1 , ' the Adventuress in Her Makeup. L or not. Thus, she did not dare destroy it. She first thought of changing r i tho clock; then sho concluded to droj I 1 the letter exactly where she found i r and trust to luck. ^ I When J-loronce returned she ex tj plained that her absence had been dm k i to some trifling household affair. ! Said the Russian: "I come primar k ; ily to ask you to tea tomorrow, when I they dance. If you like, you may asl ' Mr. Norton to go along. I begin t 3 observe that you two are rather fom j of one another." I "O, Mr. Norton is just a valuabl . i friend," returned Florence with ; : .<mth that quite deceived the othe r wom^n. "I ehail bo glad to go to th t tea. Hut 1 shall not promise to dance, b "Not with Mr. Norton?" archly. "Reporters never dance themselves llt they .v.iike others dance instead." "I .,! all have to tell that," dcch.re< . I the countess; and she laughed quite honestly. "Then I have said something wit ; ty r "Indeed you have; and it is not only 1 witty but truthful. I'm afraid you're deeper than the rest ci us have any | idea of." "Perhaps I am," thought Florence; "at least, deeper than you believe." When the countess fluttered down to her limousine?Florence hated the ! sight of it?and drove away, Florence remembered her letters. And when 1 she came to the one ttiirnnrMiijr tn ha from her father, tslio read it carefully, bent her head in thought, and finally destroyed the missive, absolutely confident that It was only a trap, and not very well conceived at that. Norton had given her plenty of reason lor belif vlng all such letters to bo forgeries. Her father, if he really wished to see her, would enter the house; ho i1 i i WM V .. > V,S .* .. V K J V-s C'V- V- > 1 # !$ f ; .. > ,$ ; M |fi \*. ? ? V, I .\W ^VvVWS,. i |:jg ,? i-i s 4$ n*xjva>> t*- t i- / - ' 4s' yv- -:4&k$ m i ,S? mS /'vm:: ' .... : v-; $0& p$ j V i i / , v&jhp& : v -i s IP i f jtlr^* \ "My Child!" Whispered the Man. j would r.ol v.rite. Ah, when would j she see that father of hers, so mysterious, always ho\ering near, always unseen? ii must hixVe been an amusing a?*?ven tro for the countess. To steal U\ t't%. ^ ^ . ? * JL. ^ I l.ki >ik- suiiiiiuT nouse ana wait tin re, ml know in;: if Florence had advised .[< .es cr tlie report' r. If caught, she had her excuses. Paroff, the continent. hov/evc. appeared shortly after. "My child!" whispered the man. And Olga stiiicd a laugh; but to him it sounded like a sob. "1 am vol 11 out," he said. "I am tired of the game of hide and seek." "You will not have to play the game long," thought Olga. "The money is hidden in my ofhco down town. And we must go there at once. When we return we will i?ick up and leave ?or Europe. I've longed to see you so!" "You poor fool! And they sent you to supersede Loo!" she mused. She played out the farce to the very end. 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