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5?keSl\iel( 8 c l&tida AUTHOR OF "BEYOND THE FRO "MY LADY OF T I NOVtUZED FAOM THl mOTO* V oeotot I. HiTZ COTTftlOMT, AI Adventurous Jerry Carson emt>ark? So search of hidden treasure with the promise of I.eoutlne Waloott to be his wife on his return. Her fattier favors Sebastian Navarre. Jerry's ship is burned, he is reported lost. Sebastian presses his attentions. Jerry suddenly turns up to confront charges of the Navarres against him. In a struggle for a forged rE>er Diego Navarre isTkllled and Jerry convicted of the murder. He escapes, and finds the treasure and a wonderful choinlcal pellet. Deontine is forced to marry Sebastian. On the honeymoon, Jba attacks her In a ruirA Ptnridenlv )i? in confronted by a weird apparition. Ravenftr forces a confession from L#oule. Sebastian attempts to get it. An earthquake occurs; in the excitement, Red Kirn the confession and flees. He appears in New York as Romanoff and enlists the aid of Madame Bi&nca. Ijeontine confronts her husband in the rambling house. Tho Shadow battles for her and she escapes with the confession. One-Ump I.oule follows her and takes tlie paper fro,m her. The Shadow saves Navarre from robbery. Romanoff attempts to kidnap Sebastian and Ijeontine, but Ravengar appears to thwart him. Bianca and her thugs are pur.aled by Ravengar's repeated escapes and returns to his cellar prison, l.eontine consents to accompany Hamilton on a balloon ascension. Sebastian drugs Hamilton ar.d arranges to have Leontine set adrift In the balloon. The balloon bursts Into flame and Leontine finds that her companion is Raven gar. They are rescued, but One-I.amp LoUle reports that they perished in a hurricane. Sebastian ar- ] ranges to marry Bianca. Louie prevents it to save himself and is thrown to d*ath , by Sebastian who changes his marriage plans. He sees I/oontine alive and well i Later Sebastian kidnaps Leontine, but the Shadow has promised her protection. Ravengnr delivers l/oontine from the hands of her enemies, hut Bianca's thugs capture; him. Bianca hesitates tc kill him as she is passionately in love with him. By maintaining that Iveontine is insane, Sebastian again gains possession of ber. Ravengar. after a terrific battle, rescues ber. but the mystic mantle which renders ; them invisible, is stolen. Bianca's thugs ! corner Ravengar and Leontine in a shack. Bianca defends Ravengar. He escapes and recovers the invisible mantle. Out of revenge the thugs dynamite the shack and kill Bianca. TWELFTH EPISODE The Stolen Shadow. Sebastian had hurried homeward, overcome with panic at Leontine's (lis-1 appearance. The game was up at last, j and lie reeog ized that fact. For lie ; had 110 hope that Bianca and her gang 1 would succeed in discovering the fu-1 git Ives. He had played his game reinorse'essly, and in every one of Leontine's escapes from imminent death he had seen the finger of fate. lie resolved to fly. There was still . * i time; there was ample time before the police got on his trail. He packed a few essentials into a couple of grips and got ready to leave. : He had drawn several thousand dollars out of his bank ; that would suffice ' him for the present. He closed the, grips and took them down to his ; library. He lit a cigar and sat down 1 for a few moments' thought. The thought of Biunca rushed back : tl rough his mind. He shifted his feet i ii I ii I *r It iu?i! !? .l f.. > J A l IT uo Hill U IW ?IYC 11CL up. Should he stay, then? As he looked across the room there appeared suddenly the luminous hands i and eyes, the apparition that had so' startled and horrified him before. Sebastian screamed and leaped to his feet. In his shaken e edition this1 see ed r. ore than he could hear. But 1 as he stared at the apparition it changed suddenly into the figure of! Itavengnr, his enemy. Sebastian sank hack trembling into his chair, and Ravengar came forward with easy nonchalance and stood before him, smiling gravely at him. "Yes, Sebastian Navarre, the game is up," lie said. "Your wife is at the ! K> N \jfrOi. v>gjj^BBBjjr^^^^^^>:<^'jjjpgf:'-;^;:^!igBP Aivengir Snatch## tbt Mantle of In visibility From Around Sebastian. police station, and shortly yon will bo nested and on the way to paying the penalty for your crimes." Sebastian shook with fear. "Why do you persecute me?" he groaned. "You have one chance of escape, so far as your wife and I are concerned," .Jlavengar continued. "If you will . ... I % bigSkadaw ttfarristv 88 NTIER," "MAID OF THE FOREST," HE NORTH," ETC AY SOUAl or THI SAMl NAM! , tflfASIO IV FATMt write a confession of the crime which ent Jerry Corson to prison, we will coll off the police nncl let you go free. Your other crimes will be on your own head." Sebastian began to recover his equanimity. If the man was willing to bargain with him, he could not be sure of his grouud. lie shook his head. "Then," said Itavengar quietly, "there is no more to be said." At that moment the sound of an approaching automobile was heard. Sebastian, who had risen, looked out of the window, to see a police auto drawing up to the house. In it sat two policemen and Leon tine. "Wait!" yelled Sebastian, a* Havengar was Hearing the door. "If 1 write that confession, do you swear you will call off the police?" Havengar nodded, and Sebastian rushed to Ids writing table and, taking a sheet of notepaper, began to write with trembling fingers. Itavengar wutched lii m for a moment. There eaiue a ring at the door. Raven gar left the library and went to the aper ture in it, wl'.idi Sebastian liad had made in order that he might scrutinize unwelcome visitors before admitting tlieui. Leontlne, upon the doorstep with the policemen, saw Uuvengar's face. "You have got him?" she cried. Sebastian, writing furiously at his desk, saw Leon tine through the window. She was talking to ltuvengnr, and she seemed at a loss to understand why l;e did not open the door. Sebastian threw the pen down, and a crafty look came over his face. lie reflected for a moment; then he deliberately tore up the confession which he had written and threw the scraps away. He crept toward the door. Near this was standing a heavy teak wood chair, which he had brought with him from the Argentine. It was very old, at.d the wood was almost as strong and solid as if it were steel, j Sebastian picked it up and noiselessly opened the door. He civpt into the hall. Ills feet made no sound on the thick carpet. He saw | Itavengar, talking to Leontlne and the policeman through the door. He raised the chair and brought It crashing down on Havengar's head. Huvengar dropped like a log. with- ; out a sound. The fragments of the' broken chair fell all about him. Sebastian turned and fled up the! stairs. He dashed into a room which overlooked a neighboring garden. It ; was his plan to leap from the window, ' thus to avoid the police. In front of It stretched a line of telegraph wires. It was a desperate I spring, almost an Impossible one. He heard the front door splinter, and ( the police rush into the house. They i were searching the library, they were coining up the stairs. A hand was at the door. Sebastian poised himself J upon the window sill, and, rendered desperate, leaped as the police entered the room. Sebastian caught tlie yielding tele-' graph wires with one hand, hung there a moment, reached up ike other hand,' and made his way to the Dole. He climbed down, and had just reached | the bottom when a shout from the window above him indicated that he was discovered. He heard n warning cry. A bullet whizzed past his head; but Sebastian i was running swiftly for the garden, gate. It was unlocked. He darted I through and found himself in the street. Ills versatile brain was working fast. He knew exactly what he was going to do. His garage stood near. In this lie kept, besides his autos, a motorcycle, a hobby of his. Sebastian snatched it, mounted it, and whirled ; away. He rode with all his might, for he was bent on making this supreme effort and shaking ids pursuers off the track. Hut now fortune ceased to favor him. The police auto had been brought- round to the hack of the house; as Sebastian dashed along the road he was seen. The hue and cry i tvnt nt\ In .? ' i?.i u|/. an <t iinMiivm iiiv jmiin; uiiio was after him. Sebastian bended toward the hills, but a glance showed him that there he would be caught. lie could not hope to best an auto on an ascent. He turned and headed toward the harbor. And now he became panicstricken. He headed toward a wharf. It was the last wharf up the river. It was a little private dock once used for sailing ships, but now practically abandoned. In the distance, toward the river mouth, a fisherman sat In a raotorboat. Sebastian saw him and his scheme was formed. He drove straight for the head of the wharf. Without checking himself, he let the motorcycle plunge Into the river, and, disentangling htmself, began to strike out toward the motor boat. The police chauffeur threw on the brakes just In time to prevent the auto from following the motorcycle into the water. - ? a*' THK HOXxT n The police watched the awtmmer.' He was too far away bow for a revolver shot to have any likelihood of reaehfor him. Sebastian was making good progress. The police shouted to the fisherman. He was too far away to hear their cries distinctly. He turned his head and listened. Presently he caught sight of the swimmer in the water. Naturally he came to the conclusion that ttie mei in the auto were calling attention to his predicament. He pulled In his rod. started the motor boat, and began chugging hla way toward Sebastian, who was still swimming strongly In his direction. The watchers saw the motor boat draw up toward him. The fisherman leaned over and grasped Sebastian by the wrists. Sebastian hauled himself up out of the water, clung for a moment to the side of the boat, and managed to scramble In. As Sebastian gained the shelter of the boat the police saw him turn upon the fisherman and deal him a buffet. which sent him sprawling Into the sea. Sebastian, without troubling further about hi in, started the engine again, and the motor boat sped swiftly seaward, while the police watched helplessly from the auto. ***#*# Seimstian and his whereabouts were next to nothing in I^oontitie's mind as she bent over the unconscious Raven- j gar within the hall of her hashand's? house. ! Presently Ravongnr stirred and opened his eyes. They fixed themselves upon I,routine's, and, with a soh of thankfulness, she leaned over him j and kisstsl his forehead. ? He rose weakly, and she assisted htm to a couch in the library. They wore hardly seated before the police! lieutenant came In. Leoutine looked at him in unite inquiry. The lieutenant shook- his head. "He made his getaway in a motor boat, and added murder to his crimes," he said. | Briefly he detailed what had hap- 1 pened and, excusing himself, took 1.1s departure. Leontine remained silent. She knew now that so long us Sebastion lived there could never he any peace for her. And Jerry's name, for which she had ! fought so long, still remained uncleared?the convict's brand was on him. Tears came into her eyes. "He will never return," she sobbed, as Havengar tried to comfort her, I "and I can never clear poor Jerry's nnine of the accusation of forgery." , "Perhaps Jerry will return some day and clear himself," suggested fUntognr. Leontlne shook her head mournfully, "No, there Is no hope," she answered sadly. "But you can never tell," Ravengar persisted. "Be true to your love, for Jerry, and all will be well." They were the words which had been uttered on the first occasion when she saw the mysterious hands and eyes, Leontlne started hack in fear. She looked at Ravengar searchingly. lie smiled. There was something sad and farming in the inscrutable look upon his face. "What do you mean?" she cried. "What do you know about Jerry? Who are you?" Ravengar smiled still. "I? I nra only your shielding shadow," he replied. "But what Is your mysterious power?" asked the girl excitedly. -wnence comes your ability to appear and disappear at will?" "Have you forgotten the Invisible i mantle?" "No, but that only intensifies the mystery. Why is it invisible? And why is it invisible on one side and not on the other?" Ruvengur took her by the hand. "Do you trust me, Leontine?" he inquired. "Do you, who have been surrounded ! by so much evil, trust to my good mo- i tives?" "How can I help but trust you?" re? plied the girl. "Then come with rne," he answered, "and I will show you." ** * ? Leontine and Itavengar got our of a taxicah and entered a house in a quiet part of the town, itavengar opened the door. "I do not live here," lie said. "I rent an upper floor for use as a laboratory. It is necessary that I should not have it in my home, for fear <?f Its discovery by our enemies. You ore the i>nly person who knows the secret." JUivy went up the stairs together. Ravengar unlocked a door and ojxined it. Leontine looked with wonder into the Interior. She saw what seemed to be an ordinary laboratory, aueh as a chemist might have. Hut wliv did it?. vengar want a laboratory? "This is my secret," said Ruvengur, taking up a bottle containing a few black pellets nnd placing it before tho girl. Although they appear black when , seen through the medium of the glass, j if jou held them in your band you: would see nothing. They are absolute i black. Ordinary black, as you know, I Is not reftlly black at nil?that in to say. it is not Invisibility, as black should be. It Is, instead, composed of a blending of hues. Real black Is In* visible. "This Is absolute black. The pellets were found upon a ledge?Revenger's1 ledge?In the South Atlantic. They were the discovery of the scientist, Joseph Dexter." Leontine started. She had heard the name before, but when or where she could not think. "He wrote of his discovery in bis ALD, OOlfWAY, 8 0. journal. Walt. I will pet It for you?** continued Ravengar. Upon the table was the invisible mantle. Leaving It with the pellets In front of the open window, Ravengar turned away and went toward a safe that stood In the corner. Leontine fol* lowed him. "I have his journal here,** Ravengar continued, beginning to open the safe. "Some day It will be published and will make Interesting reading. Here It Is.** He took out a cover containing a number of sheets of waterstained palter, closed the safe, and went back toward the table, to lay the Journal down. Then he started and stared alternately at the table and at Leontine. The cloth and the bottle of pellets were gone. **The pellets!** gssped Ravengar. They were here a moment ago." "I haven't touched them. You must have put theta somewhere,*' answered Leontine. Ravengar began hunting for them hurriedly, but he could find them nowhere. Roth the pellets and the cloth sere gone. "You may have taken them to the safe," Leontine suggested. Ravengar shook his head. Neverthe* less, he went back to the safe and opened it again. The quest was fruitless. The bottle wins nowhere to be found. "That windowV' exclaimed Ravengar. "Was it oj>en when I went to the safe?" "I don't think so," Leontine answered. The window, which was of the French variety, .ami had been closed when they entered, was now slightly A>w.n 'I'lw... 1 . n'i ? w|/vu. iiivj inimi'u OUl. J. lie IIOUSB was set near another of similar urchiteetnre, and between the two there ran a narrow passage. A window in the adjacent house was set opposite the laboratory window. It would have been just possible for an agile man, seated upon the sill, to have stretched out his arm and reached the bottle of pellets. "We must lind out who is in tlie next house," said Raveugar to Leoniine. "if somebody has taken it, we must get him before lie escapes us." He darted from the room, Leontine following him, and they rushed down the stairs and gained the street together. There was an immense crowd, a policeman was standing beside an aato, in which appeared a second policeman. He and the chauffeur were supporting a figure, but whether of a man or woman neither Rnvengar nor Leontine could see above the heads of me crowd which pressed in front of them; As Ravcngar tried to clear a way to (lie auto the first policeman raised his hand, and the auto moved away, carrying the injured person, the second policeman and the chauffeur. Ravengur managed to reach the ofllcial who was now dispersing the crowd. < "Accident?" he asked. "Them joy riders knocked down a fellow that was coming out of the alley here. They've taken him to St. Luke's," answered the policeman. Was he a tall man, dark?strongly fcullt, and smooth face? Looks like That's the fellow. Friend of yours?" "No," said Itavengar decisively. "I know him, that's all. Did you happen to notice whether he was holding anything in his hand?" "I guess not," said the policeman. Wait a bit! Now I come to think of It, I did notice that he hud one of his hands clenched tight, as if he wanted to hold on to It. But I guess there wasn't nothing in It?there couldn't have been, becar.se his Angers wa; so close together be couldn't have had a pea or a penny inside." "It mightn't have been a medicine bottle?" Itavengar persisted. TK/. ,...i: -i 1- t-?_ i > - i m: |)wm vriiiau nnuuH iii? ripiui, ana Ituvengar went back to Leoniine, who had been unable to push toward him. "It was Sebastian," he said, "and they've taken him to St. Luke's. It seems as if he's got rid of the pellets, but they may be in his clothes. We'll have to see hi in." Jtnvengar shouted to a passing taxi, which drew up to the sidewalk. "St. Luke's!" he shouted, and, helping Leontine in, he followed her. m Sebastian, alone in the KKrtorbent,: put on all speed. If e crossed the river, put in at a little private dock, left the boat there, and hurried along the waterfront. He entered a shop where sailors' clothing was sold, and purchased a cap and n long overcoat, which hid his dripping garments. Then, feeling safer from scrutiny, he made his way along the river front, and worked hack toward his home. He was approaching the house when" he saw Leon tine and Ravengar leave and hall a taxlenb. He followed !??? chicle, which went slowly through the traffic until it reached the street on which llavengar's laboratory was situated. Here it quickened Its pace. Sebastian began to run. He panted along, the taxicab drawing farther and farther away from Mm, until, Just as he began to despair *f catching it, it drew up at the house In which the laboratory was situated. Sebastian watched thexn enter. He wondered whose house It was, and why they were going there. He crept up to reconnoiter and perceived that an alley ran between this house and the next. Entering this, he heard Havengar and Leontine enter a room on an upper floor. Sebastian was a good climber. He shinned up a pipe like a monkey, until he was clinging to the window sill opposite Revenger's laboratory, yet a lit- ( tie below the direct line of vision. Hanging there, Sebastian heard Ilavengar begin to expluln his secret to Leontlne. He gathered enough to realise what power lay in his grasp. Ravengar set the bottle down on the table with the cloth and turned awuy. Sebastian could hardly believe his eyes. What a fool the man was! He: stretched his arm out, clluglng with the other hand to the window ledge. The hand stretched oat toward the laboratory window crept quickly for-, ward. It passed through the open win-1 dow, grasped the bottle and the cloth,! and disappeared. Sebastian balanced himself for an Instant upon the window ledge and then swung back Into the room of the house adjoiniug. Sebastian ran through the room, along the passage, down the stairs, and made his escape by the back dbor Into, the street. Still clutching the cloth and the pellets, he ran on blindly, He looked up as he heard an auto, horn. He heard the sliouts of the ( chauffeur. Then the car containing j the joy riders drove down on him, catching him aud flinging him beneath j the wheels, one of which passed over \ his chest. A policeman came up. The body was lifted from under the car. A doctor, who happtmcd to be passing, was summoned. After a >rlof examination,; lie announced that Sebastian was not' badly hurt, hut advised that he be taken to a hospital. The car with the policeman drove j off, at Ids directions, toward St. ! I Imke\s, and Sebastian was put to bed ! lu the ward. There lie ojientMl his eyes n few min-1 utes after his arrival, to find himself j. alone, except for a sick man in the j opposite corner. The nurse had gone ! i out of the ward. Sebastian tried to remember what I had happened. He wondered why his fist was tightly clenched and why ho was conscious of a strong impulse not to open it. Then he knew why. So powerful had been his exercise ef will power that all through the period of his uni consciousness he had clutched hard to Hie tilmy mantle, the entire hulk of which could he held in one hand. i With this at his command, he could ; await developments without fear. lie ! regretted, however, the loss of the hottle of pellets. Suddenly he started. He sat up In his bed and ground his teeth. He hoard voices outside the door of the ward. They were those of Ravengar and Leo 11 tine. i Ravengar leaped out of the taxleab the moment it stopped at the hospital gates and assisted Leontinv down, lie paid the driver and went ir.side. The 1 clerk acknowledged that a patient had just been brought in, su*vwir g from the effects of an automobile accident. I They hurried to Sebastian's bedside. Already Sebastian had seen them; his eyes were tixod in hatred upon his wife's Leontine, unmoved, returned , his stare. And then there happened an ! extraordinary tiling. The fe.ee of the man on the bed went out. The neck and shoulders followed it. Schastiun had disappeared. ? rhe doctor stared n\>ut him In I utmost bewilderment. "Where is he? What has happened?" gasped the doctor. Ravengar spun round. "Don't stand i there talking, but obey me!" lie shouted. "Hold the door fast and don't let : him out even if you don't see him coin-; lng. That man is a dangerous criminal with a secret power of making himself Invisible." I amu ne jumped to tne Ride or the I ~ ~ wP^M Sebastian Wrenched the Cloth Out of His Hand. bed In order to seize Snhastiun before be could make his getaway. Hut Sebastian had been too quick for him. Robed in the mantle, which completely enveloped hiin, Sebastian was i crouching upon one of the empty beds, ' waiting for his opportunity to make a | break for freedom. He saw Ravengar ' hunting for him in the wrong dlrecj Von* I He crept softly from bed to bed. ..-JRavengar was advancing along the 'middle of the room, with arms out1 spread, like a man In hllnd roan's buff. It was casj to elude him. | He crept toward the window, near which, in a rack, rested the fire extinguisher and the fire ax. Raising the ax, he shattered the window glass. The doctor by the door, seeing the x u))purontly pick Itself out of the rack end break tlie pone, uttered loud cry and came ruuniug forward. "Go buck 1" shouted Ravengar, and prlclpltated hhnself toward the window, trying to grasp Sebastian by the legs and bring him down. Sebastian had anticipated thin move. Tie flung the ax Into Ravengur's face. Fortunately for the latter, he happened to move aside at that moment. Sebastian had crawled under the nearest lied as Ituvengar made for hiin. Uavengar was puzzled. Crouching down, he began to beat the room with dds arms. But Sebastian was already traveling from bed to bed. "Look !" cried Leontine. The depressions caused by Sebastian's feet were becoming visible upon the counterpanes. Ravengar rushed to head Sebastian off, but Sebastian had already reached the door. The doctor shddcnly felt a violent blow In the face, which sent sent him stagger- 1 Ing. The next moment Sebastian had opened door and rushed toward the stairs. Fate was with him no longer. An attendant was coming up the middle of the stairway. Sebastian hesitated an Instant, but Ravengar was close hehind him, and the two men were closing in on h!m. The one was conscious of his presence, th* other not. "Stop Trim!" Ituvengar yelled to tieattendant, who stopped In surprise ui .1 looked about hi in. The next instant R:\vengar saw tl * attendant stugger under the impact of the collision. "Now hold him!" he yelled, ntrl dashed down after Sebastian. Hi'v hands caught the surlV.ee of the eloth dragging it from Sebastian's head. The attendant, seeing a head, unsupported by any body, apparently floating in the air. uttered one scream aju> promptly disappeared. Rnvcngnr made a wild leap for Sebastian. The head disappeared again as Sehustian threw the mantle over himself. Hut Ravengar tackled hi; r? and the doctor and the hospital attendants who had been drawn to the spot h.v hearing the sounds of the struggle saw Ravengar apparently fighting with himself upon the stairway. Then, as the struggle grew fiercer, tiny saw first a head, then an. ar:n, then part of a l ody appear and disappear, as if materialized out of thjn air. It was too much for their nerves. Sebastian fought desperately, for it wan a battle for life, lie and Ravengar were very fairly matched. They buffeted each other and struggled, until, with a supreme effort, Ravengar PflllKul V2/?lvi? of * o r* f * * ' * .?<uvu u? .;u,ninn 111 ui? m ilts and inetl to fling him over the bunisters to the hall below. Sebastian, poised time, clung to Raven gar. If he died, ids enemy should die with him. The doctor, standing above, saw the two men full headlong to the mosaic* pavement underneath, where the clerks and other attendants hud already gathered. As the bodies struck the hall floor, there was a hasty scramble for safety. By u miracle neither was seriously Injured. Ravengar, however, was slightly stunned, and, during the few moments of semiconsciousness that followed Sebastian managed to wrench the cloth out of his hands and dlsap- . pear. He vanished as Leon tine came run- * ntng down and knelt beside her friend. (END OF TWELFTH BPISOJJB.I COUNTY LINE HALTS WEDDING Bridt's Home Located Twenty Feet in Next County Makes Issuing of License There Necessary. Muncie, Ind.?Because Cora Edith Sizelove lived 20 feet from the Delaware county line In Madison county, il wuh necessary ror ner to postpone her wedding to Charles Ray Howell of Cammack, Delaware county. The couple applied at the office of the county clerk in Muncie' for a license to marry, when it was found that the bride's home was not in Delaware county by a distance of 20 feet, and that it would be necessary for the couple to go to Anderson to obtain a license, the Indiana law making it compulsory that a marriage license be Issued in the county in which the bride Is a resident. TAXES FATHER'S GIVEN NAME He Mae Wo 8on and Wants Heir With Name of a Man, at Any Rate. \' ? tr Terre Haute, Ind.?Having arrived at the legal age of eighteen, Misa j rjcntii Isabel Teel filed a petition in 'l-Y the circuit court that she may change her name to William Ross Teel, Jr. Sho is the only child of William Ross Teel, a man of wealth, son of a founder of Terre Haute and the last of his name. The daughter has talked about changing her name for several years, and has said that If her father cannot have a son for an heir at least he can have a child with a man's name. The petition must be advertised once a week for four weeks before the court can pass on it. Means Wreck Kitchen. Auburn, N. Y.?The kitchen of William E. Bill's home was wrecked when a can of beans exploded in the oven, hurling pieces of the stove through the walls. Mrs. Bills had for gotten the beans. k