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T* MILI THE MILLION HOI.LA It MYSTERY "The Million Dollur Mystery" will run for twenty-two consecutivo weeks in this pnper. Ry an arrangement with the ThanhouHer Film Campany lt has been made possible not only to read the story in this paper but also to see lt each week' in the various moving picture theatres. For the so lution of this mystery story $10,000 will be given. Conditions Governing the Contest The prize of $10,000 will be won hy the man, woman or ch : 1 who writes thc moBt acceptable solution of thc mystery, from which the laBt two reels of tho motion picture drama will be made and the last two cnapters of ?he story written by Harold Muc Grath. Solutions may b< sent to the Than houser Film corporation, either at Chicago or New York, any tim" up to midnight. Doo. 14. They must bear pontofllee marks not later (linn thal inte. This allows four work? aft^r tho first appearance of thc las' film .*elensjyi and three weeks after the la . ??* ?.....ry published In the paper j. v ' -li t<j ..ubmlt (he solution?. A board of three judges will deter mino winch of the many solutions re ceived ls tho most acceptable. Thc judgment of this board will be abso lute and final. Nothing nf a literary naturn will bo considered In tho dc. clBion, nor given any preference In the selection of the winner of the $10, 000 prise. The last two reels, which will givo tho mont acceptable solution to the mystery, will be presented In the theatres having this feature as soon as it ls possible to produce thc same. The story coresponding to these motion pictures will appear in the newspapers coincidentally, or as soon after the appearance of the pic tures as practicable. With the last, two reels will be shown the picture of the winner, his or her home, and other Interesting features. It is un derstood that thc newspapers, so far . as practicable. In printing the ?as? two chapters at the story by Harold Mac Grath, will' also show a picture of the successful contestant. Solution:? to the'?mystery must not Ix? more than 100 *.vords long. Here are some questions to be kept In mind In connection with thc mystery as an phi tp 'a solution: ?Mo?'. l-*What becomes of the mll , Ilona i re? . ; No. 2-What becomeu of thc $1.000. mu Nb. 3-Whom doe? Florence marry? No. 4-What docs becomos of the Russian countess? Nobody connected either directly or Indirectly with "Tho Million Dollar Mystery" will bc considered as a con testant. Synopsis of Previous Chapters. Stanley Hargreave, millonatre, after e miraculous escape from tho den of tho gang of brilliant thieves known as tho Black Hundred, lives the life of a recluse for eighteen years. Hargreave one night entera a Broadway restau rant and tboro comes faco to face with the gang ? loader. Bruine. >re,ARex tho meeting, during -tlch tl}] nsftherlmad apparently recognizes the other, Hargreave hurries to his mag nificent Riverdale home and lays plans for making his escape from thc country. He write.) a letter to the girls' school In New Jersey where 18 years before he had mysteriously left oh*tho doorstep his baby daughter, Florence Gray. He also pays a visit to the hangar of a daredevil aviator. ^^Bralne and members of his band : round Hargreavo's home at night, but as they enter lu? house the watch ers outsldo soe a balloon lcavo thc roof. The safe ls found empty-the million which Hargreave was known to have drawn that day was gone. Then some one announced tho balloon had been punctured and dropped Into the aea. Florence arrives .from tho girls' school. Princess Olga, Bralno's com panion, visita her and claims to bo a relative. Two bogus detectives call, but their plot is foiled by Norton, a nowspaper man. -, By bribing the captain of the Orient Norton lays a trap for Bralnc and his gang. Princess Olga also visits the orient's captain and sho easily falls Into thc reporter's snare. The plan proves abortive through Bralne's good luck and only hirelings fall into the hands of tho police. Later, Florence ls lured from home by the hand, bat succeeds In freeing herself front their clutches. The next rta? Jones removes a box from UH hld* lay place and, pursued hy Bruine'* asea, rashes la the water front. A rit ce In motor be*?* ensues, .io mes drops the bax lalo the sea and with Wa auto..:.*iiic Are to the pursuing beat. ',?.'tsp;right: 1914 : fi? Herold McGrath > ??w-7 V CHAPTBRTVL"" "Did you get the range?" ar ked the countess, when late that night Braine recounted hts adventure. "Range!" he anar'.sd. "My giri, haven't I just told you that I had to tight for my life. My boat was in flamea. We bad to swim for lt tUl we were picked' op by a Long Island barge tug. I don't know what be. came of the motor man. He must have headed straight for shore. And I'm glad bo did. Otherwise he'd oe new ling for the price of another boat Olga, for the time I've bad to let .one of the boya have a look at* my face. Doesn't know tho name: but ono cf thsse days he'll stumble across lt, and the result will be blackmail, un less I puah him off into the dark It waa accidental." The countess leaned forward, her bands tightly clenched. "But the box!" Iv . Brain J made is gesture of despair. "Lea, are yon using any drug t heue days?" "Don't make run ot me. Olga," Im patiently "D1<* y?u ever see mc drink; LION DO! By Harold moro Utan a pint of wine or ?moko: moro than two cigars in an evening? Poor fool?! What: let my brain go into (ho wastebasket for the salto nf an hour or so of exhilaration? No. and never will I. I'm keen alMint tho gray matter I've got, nnd by thc, I/ml Harry, I'm going to keep lt There's only one doi?e Mend in tho Hundred. and he'? one of the Pest decoys wu have; so let him have lils coke when ever he really needs lt. Hut this man Felton has ?cen "ty fa<f>- Some dn.v he'll Kee it again, ask questions, and then-" "Then what?" "A burial at sea." he laughed. The laughter died swiftly os ll came "Threw it Into eight hundred feet of water, on a bar where the sands are always shifting. He'll never lind it, even If he took the range. Ho could not have got n decent one Thc sun waa dropping and Ibo shadows were long. He threw the cheal Inlo the water and then began pegging away at us. cool us you please, und fired our tank." "It lookB to me as If he lind wasted his time." "That depends. Iletween you and me 'and the gate post. I've a sneaking idea that tills man Jones, whom nobody lins given any particular attention, ls a dcop, clever man. He may have been honestly attempting to find a new hiding place: the advertisement in tho newspaper may have drawn him. Ile may have thrown tho box in pure rage nt seeing himself checkmated. Again, the whole thing may have been work ed up for our benefit, H blind. Out If that's the case. Jones bas us on the hip. for wc can't tell. Hut we can do what In all probability he expects we'll cease to do-watch him just as shrewdly as bofore." Olga caught his hand nnd drew him down beside her. "I wasn't going to bother you tonight, but It may noan something vital." "What?" alertly. For reply she rose and walked over to thc light hutton. She pressed it and the apartment beonmo dark. "Come over to the window, quick!" She drngged him across the room. "Over the way, the house with tho! marble front." A man emerged, lit a clgurotto ?ind walked lolruroly down tho street. \ "No." she cried, us limine turned to make for tho door, doubtless with j tho Intention of Unding out who this man was. "Every night after you leave ho appcers" "Does ho follow me?" "No. And that's what bothered me at first. I believed he was watching some apartment above. Hut regularly when 1 turn out the lights ho comes forth. So there's no doubt that he watches you enter and takes note ot your5 departure." "Hut doesn't follow mc. That's odd. What the devil ls h ir idea? " "I'd give a good deal to loam" The shadow and thc glowing elga, ret disappeared around tho earner, and thc lights In thu apartment were turned on ?gain. "Hes gone. You rea.ly think ho's watching mo?" "He's watching this apartment, tho watcher was watching.from tua van tage behind tho,corner. "Suspicious!" he murmured, tossing tho clgurotto Into the gutter, lt's a watching me for n chango. I'll drop out. I know what I know. It's a great world. It's fine to be alive and kicking on top of it." .He went on without haste and took the subway train foe downtown. "!s there any way 1 could get u?ar him?" asked Draine. "Tomorrow night you might, leave by the janitor's entrance. I'll keep the lights on till you're outside. Then I'll turn them off and you car. follow and learn who he is " mighty important." "Don't scowl. At your age a wrin kle ls apt to remain if you onco get lt started." Ho laughed. "Wrinkles!" She coulo talk of wrinkles! "They aro more Important than you think. Every morning I rc<b out thc wrinkle I go to bed with." "I wish you could rub out the gene ral stupidity which is wrinkling my brain. I've made three movus and failed in each Wh it' -, come ever mer "Perhaps you've had too many suc cesses. The wheel -if chant ? is al ways turning around. ' "May I smoko?" Thanks. At least it pro/es you snr. have some consideration for mo. You would smoke whether it wan,agreea ble or not. Cut 1 like the odor of a good cigar. And it ul way., hems vou to think" Ursine Ut the ni** and began hlu customary pacing. At bnigt.i - e paua "Suppose wa huvo a real obi fash ioned coachinj party out f> the old mansion we know about?" "And what s*iall wo co tb rcY" "Make tito nuni^imi un ?. i naniea castle where sometimes people enter can't get out. Do you think rou mulei get har. to go?" "I can try." "Olga, I roust have that girl; and I must have her roon. Horoetimes I find myself mightily pulled liar the whole thing. If Hargreave ts alive, why doesn't ha tufa u t now that lt's pract'.caly known .bat hi* uaughter presides over hts houiiohold? I inig..t understand it if I didn't kow mat Hargreave ls really afraid of notb , ihg. Where ls the man with the five thousand, picked up HI rea? Vhat was the reason for Jones' carrying that box out tn the broad daylight? Who la the chap .watching across the st rr > ? Sometimes I believe in My soul -if i have one!-that Ha**gi,>av.j is playing with us. playing! Weil," fling ing the half consumed dajar into ino grain, "the Mack Hundred always goes forward, win or lose, < nd never MacGrath fonte*.? " "Wo. nm a line pair!** said the wont.| an hitcrly. "Wo aro exactly what fate intended I UH ?o ho. They wrote you down in the bo')k UH a beautiful body with n\ crooked mind. They wrote me now ftH fhe devil, doomed to roam cart! top till I'm killed." "Killed?" "Why. yo?. I'm not tho hind of chap who dies in bcd, surrounded by the weeping members of ibo fami ly, doctor, nurse,*"and priest I'm a scoundrel*; but lt lias this saying grace. I en joy being a scoundrel Now, I'm going up to ?ie cbJb. There's nothing like a game of billiards ur chess ?o smooth that wrinkle which] seems to worry von." In Hie great newspaper office there j war mighty racket. Midnight al ways means pandemonium in tho city room of a metropolitan dally. Copy boy? are rushing to ?nd fro. messen gers and printers with sticky gallnys in their hands: reporters were bang ing away ut their typewriters, ?nul Int |rni:ngH>A >1>u could hear tho ceaseless ollckoty-click from thc telo. | graph re.om. The managing editor came out of| hip office and approached the ,desk of] the nighi city editor. "Kditorinl page gone down?" "Twenty minutes ago." said the I night city editor "1 wanted n stick on that I'annma; rumpus." "Too late." "Where's Jim Norton?" "At tho chamber cf commet ce ban quet. Tho major IB going to throw a bomb into tho enemy's camp." "Nothing on the ilargrcavo stuff?" | "No. Guess I'd better put that iu the cubby-hole. IIo'p. dead" "No will found yet?" "Not a piece as big as a post a RC . stamp." "That will leave the girl in a tough . place, No will, no birth certificate; : and worst of all, no photograpn or tho] old man himself. I don't see why Jim sidestepped this affair, ile is thc onl> man i.n town who knew anytliing' about Ilargreave." "He hasn't gi von it up; but ho wants' to cover it on his own. turn the yarn" over when" he's got lt. no falnc alarms." I "Ah! So that's Hie game?" "Yen; and Jim ls the sort every paper needs. When thc time comes tho story turns up, if there is one. Hero he is now. Looks like an actor, in tho fourth act of a drama. Good looking chap, though." Norton came In through the outer gatea Ho was in evening clothes, top hat. A dead cigarette dangling be tween his Ups. "How much do you want?" asked the night city editor, "t'oluran and a half." "Off with your glad rags!" "Anything good?" asked thc mauag ing editor. "Tho lid has been Jammed "on tight. No wine in any restaurant after 1 o'clock, ThcJ-c'lI be n roundup of overy gunman in town " "Good work! Go to it." It was 1 o'clock when Norton turn ed In his last sheet cf copy and start ed home. Just outside the entrance to the building a man with a slouch hat drawn down over him eyes step ped forward. J ! "Mr. Norton V "Yes." Norton stepped baca aus piciously. Tho other chuckled, raised land lowered his hat swiftly. "Good Ixjrd! " murmured th& re ! porter. 1 "Will you tuke a ride with mn in a taxi?" ! "All the way tn Syracuse, if von say so. Well. I'll . J tinker damned!" "No names please!" What took place In that taxicab was never generally known. Hut at 10 o'clock the nox' morning Norton surprised the elev'tor hoy by going out. Norton proc dod downtown to th National bank, vlicre he deposited $5,000 In bills of arge denominations. Tho teller had r? mc difficulty in colt ing them. Tbe> stuck together and retained the sodden appearance of money recent'.y submerged in water. Florence v ? j delighted at the Idea of a coachlr.r, party. Ottm during her school girl lays she had aeen the fashionable coaohes go careening ulong the i .?ad. with tho abarp, cl far note ot t -a tugle rising above the. I thunder ut hoofs and rattling nf wheels. J onus was not enthusiastic; ; neither v. an ho a killjoy. "B-u? you are to go ?long, loo," nata I Florence. "I. Miss Florence?" "The countess Invited yon especial ly. You will go with a bvnpar." "Ah. In my capacity ns butler; veiy I?cod. Miss Florence." To her he gave ?no sign of his secret satisfaction The hour arrived, and the gay party bowled away. They wound in and out ?? tuO BI rc*? s toward the couutfjr to the crack of the ' whip ano inc blare .of tho born. . Florence's enjoy ment would have been perfect had it not been for the absente of Norton. Why hadn't he been invited? She did not ask because: she did no- ?are to disclose to the counters her interest In the reporter. They were nearing the limits of the oily, when the coach waa forced to take a ?na rp turn to avoid an automobile tn troubla. Tho man'puttering at. the eugine raised h ia bead. It -r<v? Norton, nod. Florance waved ber hand vigorously. "A coaching party," he murmured; "And your undo.Jauiea waa not in vited! O. very welt." Ile laughed, and suddenly gre? serious. It would not hurt to And out where tho coach w?s going. Ho sat to work savagely. ?oeftted ?the trouble, rig n tod ll. und pet off I for tho Ilargreave horn \ ile found Susan and bombarded her with qvttn L. JU -J._ fSTERY tiona which to Susan cario with tho rapidity of rain upon the roof. "Sb Jones v.cnf along?" "In his capacity of butler only." Norton Untiled. "Deli. I'll Ink?? a Jaunt out there mynelf. You are sure of thc local lour "Yea " "Well, good by. I'll go ai a walier. since they wouldn't in vin mo. Vu one of the best little wait .TH you'ever hoard of; and all things ?onie io flint who waits." What a pleasant .affable voung nan he was! thought Susan a;, HIIC watch ed him jump into thc car and-go fly ing up thc street. Joues was n good deal surpriser wiicn Norien turned -ip at tho old manor. "What innde you como here dressed like thir??" th - butler demanded. "I'm a suspicious duffer; maybe that's thc reason " "Do you know anything?" "Well, no; I can't say that I do. But, bang it. 1 .'usl had to come out hore. "Maybe it's just aa well you4 did." said Jone? moodily. "I know this place. The house keeper used to be my nurse, ano ii she is still on the job she may bc of service to us. You don't think they'll question or recognize mc;' "Hardly. I'M put In a word for you, I'll say 1 sent for you, not knowing If we had enough servants to take caro of the luucheor, " " '? nd now i'll go and hunt up Meg.' :-r.n enough, lils old nurse was still In charge of tho house; and when her "baby'' disclosed hl:i Identity she all bat fell upon his n ck. . "But what are you doing hero, drows ed un as o waiter?" :"It'a a little secret. Meg. I wasn't Invited, and the trutli is I'm v.?rj desperately in Joye wlth^. the young lady In whose honor thlr coaching party is hcing given. And . . . may bo shc'B In danger." "Danger? What about?" "The Lord only knows. But aUo? me .'bout th' hons? l'.e not bf.ei hero In so long I've forgotten ;\e rm of it. I remember anc room witi the cccret panel and anoM.er with i painting tba? tunic,:. Have ? tho; changed th?tn?" "No: it b: Just the same hero as i I used to bc. t onic along and I'll ahov you." Norton Inspected the roo*n careful ly. stowing away In his mind evir detail. He might be worrviug a lion .nothing; but so many r.tracge thing had happened that lt was hotter t j be on the side of can't lon tear, on th side of carelessness. Ha left the hous and ran s'-ross JOBOS curry tug a bas ket of winn. ^ . "Herc. Norton; take thia to tb party- I want to reconnoiter." "AU right. Maud! Say Jone?, hoi much do you think I'd carn nt thl Job?" comically. "Get along with you, Mr. Norton 1 may he tho time to laugh, and the it may not." "I'm geing back Into-the house au hid.? behind a sccrot panel. 1'vo gc my revolver.' You go io tho statte and take a try at my car; nee lt sh work? smoothly. Wo ? muy have to d somo hiking. Whore the counters id this?" 1 "Leave that to mo, M* * Norton. Bald tho butler with his grim -milli "Be off. they are moving back towar tho house." i * So Norton carried thc basket nroun to thc lawn, whore lt wag taken froi H i B bnnfl? iw ?ho rcgulstr. ??Crvun*. * sigher as he saw Florence, langhin and chatting with a mau ?-110 was stranger and whom ho heard- address ed as count. Some friend Of th? enuc tens, no doUbt. Where WUB ?ll thl tangle going to end? He wished li knew. And what a yarn he was goln to write some day! lt would bc tea like one of Gabortau's tales- He turn ed away to wander, ldtf about tb grounds, when beyond a Clump c cedars he saw three or tour mon cot versing lowly. He got as near n possible, for when three or four me put their heads together and whlspi! animatedly, it usually moans a poke game or something worse. Ho caugli a phrase or two as it carno down ch wind, and then he knew that the vsgu suspicions that had brought bim 01 her lind been set in motion by fat' He heard "Florence" and "tho ol drawing room"; amt that was enougi He scurried about for Jones., was pure luck that he- had had el Meg show hun through ..tho hourn otherwise he would have forgotten a about tho secret panel In tho wa and tlie painting. Jones snrugKc resignedly. Wero these men - of th countess party? Norton couldn't aa; ano by he -rould hear the guest men lng about In the room. Then a Bounds ceased for * w????6. ri?iw? strained his car against the panel. , door closed sharply. "No; here you must stay, youn lady," a??u a mas"? volco. "What do you mean, sir?" damant ed the beloved voice. "It meena that' no one wll: relur to this room and that you will not to missed until it la tgp late/' The sound of voices stopped abrupt ly, and something -like scuffling et cued. Later. Norton heard thb, bac of a chair strike the panel and som one sat heavily upon lt Ho walt? perhaps five minutes; then be gentl slid back the panel. Florence sa bound and gagged under hip very eyes It was but the work of a moment t liberate her. -v "lt ls I-Jim. Do not peek c. make the toast no I so Follow me." Greatly astonished, Florence oh*] ad; and the panel slipped back i al place. Tlie room behind the seen panel had barred windows. To Floi nu e-e ta appeared lo be a rrnl priam "How did you got here?" ?he askc breathlessly. B The Rose For Love ?asMaessanssussi i III-IMI WIwama _ MBHBMHBBB BgHnBgnnm 77ie Card For Death '-v \ Sweet Cupid and Grim Death, in the form of a rose and a playing card, play tag with each other around Alan Law, hero of Louis Joseph Yance's new com bination Motion Picture novel If you like to read-If you enjoy seeing some thing really worth while-don't dare miss The ?. .. . .. ( I-.. - - .; y . ?. O'Hearts By Louis Joseph Vance Author ol The Fortune Huiler-The Black Bag-the Loae Wolf-Etc. v. Read the Story in The In ? V* See the Pictures . : y, *?j_i$v*~ '("'^>> - S??;-; rb- ???i i ?i3t i.v iik?Bi * Sf ?4 I j ou UNIVERSAL FILM MFG. CO. * SSSSFB7-' ? :-[-.-. -. . & & -, v rfc. vu . .1 i-?J'T. ' ,-. Anderson Intelllgencer ?J . "Something told me io follow yon..tar whs nwi of eos?m'5?h?n; Jonoa such cor"ulence In these two lnvuntlve And someihlng ls always going to tell J could do nothing with it. Thon S'or-'man tba.. ah? felt a? If she wan hover n me to follow, you. Florence." j ton suggested that l.e make an N?.ffort going to bo afraid any more. ?( She prer.sed his hand lt was to bor j to commandeer t'io limousine of tho. Whan tho ^-ounieav Olga ?aw tK*i aa it one of those book heroes aadfoountes?; but there were mea about, throe horses it Vas a? effort iint to ?" atepped out of a t*dhvan!y BOO* ?e. so tho limousine waa. out of tho r|u*s-' " J??J"?,* ..^!?,J 2* ?: rfei*alwaye>ad t^ftudoua fortunes'tion. \ n> lDtt> ? rage. But aa.-rally che * android not' have to work for a living. I "Horses!" whispered JonesV'Thcre warned her peet la who present ly .gara :? Oddly enough, she was not afraid tare several raddle horses, already sad.*chase in the lltnauslno, while ?ho prat d "who Waa the meat* he asked. . 'died. How about those people tho tied and jested and laughed with h*r J "The Count Norfeldt: Some one na3 ow'ior.i? ' company, who. were uulto unaware 11 imposed upon the countess." I "O, they are beyond reproach. They that a drama vas being enacted right '.i "Do you think so?** with a strange have doubtless been imposed upon under their vcr v noses; The countess. ? look in his eyes. But !et us get abosd first. There .will whi'o che- 'aci<(d superbly, tore her I "What do yon mean *r be time to talk later. I'll have to do handkerchief Into shred?. There wtts .r "Nothing jvat now. The idea is to some explaining, tak'n* these nags off something slnlrter in the way all tholr ; 'get out of. here just as quickly as we like this. We wont have to rfdo oat plans fell through at the very moment t- can See this painting ?" He touch- In front where tb? picnickers are. og consummation; and that night she fi ed_a spot on tba. waU and1 tho pafut- There's-a lana back of the suhle, and determined ic' ask Sralno to with ing slowly swung out Uko a door, a slight detour bringa as baok. Into Ibo draw from thin warfare, whJth r- ?Come; wc.maha our escape to main road." gradually decimated their numbers ? side lawn from here." The three mounted and flattered' without get-?<n> ?hom anywhere to d At thc stable they were confront- away. To Florence.lt had. tito air of ward the "goa'."* ?od witb the knowledge fhat, Norton's a prank, She wai beginning to have Jpnes shoutedthat the limousine