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Th* MILI THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY "The Million Dollar Mystery" will run for twenty-two consecutive week? in this paper. Dy an arrangement with the Thanhouser Klint Campany it hus been made possible not only to read the story in this paper hut also | to see it each week in the various moving picture theatres. For the so lution of this mystery story $10,000 will bc given. Conditions Governing the Contest Tho prize of $10,000 will bc won by the man, woman or cit : 1 who writes the most acceptable solution of the mystery, from which thc last two reels of the motion picture drama will bo made and the laBt two cnaptors of ihe story written by Hr MA Mac Grath. Solutions rany be pent to .?io Than houser Film, corporation, either at Chicago or New York, any tim 3 up tc midnight, Djoc. 14. They mubl bear postolllce murks not later titan tim* I tie. This allows four weeks aft?r tho first appearance of the last him .'eleu .fi ? . Ci: rep weeks after tim lu .i Sub] . . ... published in the paper ii which to cubmlt the solution?. A board of three Judges will deter mine which of the many solutions re ceived is the most acceptable. The judgment of ibis board will bo abso lute and final. Nothing of a literary nature will bc considered In the de. cisi?n, nor given any preference in tho selection of tho winner of the $10, 000 prize. Thc last two reels, which will give the most acceptable' solution tb thc mystery, will bo presented in the thee ?ron having this feature as soon as it 1B possible to produce the some. The story corcspondlng to these motion pictures will appear in the newspapers coincidentally, or as soon after the appearance of the pic tures as practicable. With thc last two reels will bo shown the picture of the winner, his or ber homo, and other interesting features. It is un derstood that the newspapers, so far as practicable, in printing tho last two chapters ot tho story by Harold Mac Grnth, will also show a picture of the successful contestant. Solutions to the mystery must not bo1 more _u.-n lop words long. Here arc nome questions to bc kept in mind ,1 in connection, with the myatory as an ' aid to a eoiution: No. 1-What becomes of the mil lionaire? No. 2-What becomes of th rt $1,000, 000? No. 3-Whom does Florence marry? No. 4-What does becomes of tho Russian., countess? Nobody connected either directly or Indirectly with "Tho Million Dollar Mystery" will be considered as a con testant. Synapsls of Previous diopter*. Stanley Hargtcavc, mill?naire, after a miraculous escape ?rom tue den o? tho gang of brilliant thieves known os tho Black Hundred, lives the life of a recluse for eighteen years. Hargreavc on? night enters a Broadway restau rant and there .comes face to face with tho gang's leader, Bralne. After tho meeting, during which neither man apparently recognizes the other, Hargreave huirles to hts mag nificent Riverdale home and lays plans for making his escape from thc country. He writes a letter to- tho girls' school In New Jersey where IS years before be bad mysteriously left on tho doorstep his baby daughter. Florence Gray. He also pays a visit it? thy hangar of a daredevil aviator. Bralne and members of bis band surround Hargreaves home at night, but as they enter the house tho watch ers outBido see a balloon leave the roof. The safe, ls found empty-the million which Hargreave was known to have drawn that dir waa gone. Then some one announced ino balloon had been punctured and dropped into the ? sela., Florence arrives from the girls' school, Princess Olga, Bralno's com panion, .visits, her. and claims to be a relative. Two bogus detectives call, but their ?lot ls foiled by Norton, a newspaper mau. By bribing the captain of\tho Orient,{ Norton laya a trap for Bruine and bis gang. Princess Olga also visits the Orient's captain and she easily fails Into thc reporter's snare. The planjM proves abortive through Bralne's good]' luck end unly hirelings fail Into Ute hands of the police. Lat r Ssaress* te ?8A?3 ft??a boise hy Ike band, but succeeds ls freeing n*>rseif irom their clutches. The next day Jonen r?noves a box from II s bid. lng pince and, pursued by lint inc's men? rushes to the water frouL A raer, in motor bests' ensues. Jones drops the box Into the sea and with Ms automatic sets fli? to the Bunding boat. Florence gee? horseback ribing ?ind is raptured by one of Bralne's men along the roadside. Norton rescues har? .They are pursued, honorer, and Ibo pair make their cumnlete MMS? oniy ?rter Norton hus explndei a Ure ca the fast approaching machine willi a-anllet. Arter failing In their first attempt, th? Black Hundred trap Florence. They ask her for, money, but she es cames again toting them Toante?* Olga, scheming to break the engagement n?w existime be1 ur en Fwreftce liargreaTo .iud Norton, in vites them both to brr apr'uicut and, pretends te falnl in ike reportera **i!l**,??* -BMpr-ars In Hie door-f .tie planned uioDient. undi a result give* Norton back hi? rhtg) AeeoaiplieeN of limine succeed in | kidnaping Florence while shu Is shop.' plajr sad hurry her off to sen. Norton , receive* a wireless later Informing hin lb?! Ihe ?Irl had leaped Into the j sea and bern drowned. i Florene* kt picked ap In a dared wondit Ian by a part/ of fl he mien. The | Bisel HhwsWd locale 1 er and limine. di?gained as ker tether, succeeds In tpvam ker back lo sea *Hk aim,: LION DO By Harold florence sets lire le Hi?' bout und Is rette ned by u ship OB which Norton has been shanghaied. Norton und florence, safely ashore and with no longer any nilnunderstaiid. lng between thrin, take Hie train for hon:e. The train IH wrecked and woiting members of the Black Hun dred curry the Injured Florence to a deserted hut. N'-rton, ?rho tries to rescue her, is tied to the rail rond tracks, florence saves him und tinnily .loin s comes to the rescue of both. (Copyright, 1014; By Harold Mac Grath.) ~m?--mmmm CHAPTER XII. A dipsy-cbanty, If you please; of saiiormeo in Jerseys and tarry caps, of roiling galts, strong tohacco and di verse profanity; of cutters, and blunt - nose i chooners, und tramps, canvas and stein, some of them honest, some of them shu'iy, and some of them pi rates of th.' first water who did not lind lt ne .essury to hoist aloit tue j . itull and bones. The seas are dotted | with then . They remind you of the j once prosperous merchant, run down at the heel, who slinks along the side streets, ashamed to meet those ho knew tn the pust. You never hear them mentioned In the maritime news, which lu the .-oclcty column of the thipn; you know of their exlsteuce only hy the bleached bones of them, slrown along the coast. You who crave adventures on high aeus, you purchase a ticket, a steamer chair, and a couple of popular novel?, go on board to thc blare of a very in timeront brass band, and believe you are adventuring; whoa, as a matter of fact, you are about lo spend a dull week or fortnight on a water hotel, where the most exciting thing 1B the bugle's call to meals or the discovery of a card sharp in the smoking mom. Take a real ship, go as supercargo, to the South seas; take the Bide streets of tho ocean, and learn what lt can do with hurricanes, typhoons, blistering calms, and men's soul:. There will he adventure enough then. If you are a weakling, either you arc made strong, or you die. An honest ship, but run down at the teal, rode at anchor in the bound, a fourth-rater of the hooker hreed; that a, her principal line of business was hauling barges up and down the ?oc:t. When she could not pick up enough barges to make lt pay, why. she'd go galavanting down to Cuba for fraies of tobacco or over to tho Ber mudas for the beaven smelling onion. Today rho was an onion ship; whlcS precludes any Idea of adventure. Sho was about 4,000 tons, and her engines were eternward and not amid - hip. She carried two mosts and a half dozen hcitt'borniB, and the only visible sign if anything new .on her was her bow i J rlt. This was new doubtless be cause shu had poked ber nuac too (ar Into her last ship. Her crew was orderly and tracta te. There were shore drunks, to bo iure, because they wore sailors; but hoy were a peaceful lot withal. At his moment they were at work. They noved about briskly, for they were on he point of sailing for the Bahamas '. i bu;. for more onions. Presently thc vlndlass creaked' and shrilled, and he blobby links, much in need of ta, saint, *-od as fish gills, clattered down uto the bow. Sometimes they painted he chain ss it came over; but paint .vas costly, and this waa done only n'h'en the anchor threatened to ?tay m the bottom. There was a vu i i or among this crew, ind he wont by the name of Steve Blossom; and he waa one of his kind, fc. grimy dime novel protruded rakish ly, from bia hip pocket, and his right .heck was swollen as with tho tooth iche, due. probably, to a generous 'chaw" of Seaman's Delight. He was i real tobacco chewer, for be rarely ipat. He was' as peaceful as a back water bay In summer; non-argumen tative and passive, he stood his watch m ratr weather and foul. No one gave the anchor any more mention after lt came to rest. Tho rreat city over tho way was fairy-like in it-, haxlness and transparity. It was the poetry of angles, of shafts and spars bf stone; and Steve Blossom, having a moment to himself, leaned ffeainst the'rall and stared regretfully. He had been generously drunk the i night before, and lt was a pleasant | recoliociioa. Chance ?ed his glance to trail down the cutwater. His reek itretched from hl3 collar like a tur tle's from its shell. "Well. I'll be hornewoggledl" be murmured, shifting his cud from star board to port. Caught on the fluke of the anchor w?S8 the trangest looking box be had leer laid eyes on. There waa leather ?nd steel bands and diamond^shaped Ivory and mother of pearl, and It hung jauntily on the point of the rusty fluke. Anbody would be hornswoggled lo eltmno.? ??oj. - ?roil jost ot fate. On tho fluke of the old mudhook. by a hair, you might vny. In nil thc wild sea yarni he had ever road' or heard there waa nothing tn match this. Treasnre! . And Steve was destined never to be passive again. His first Impulse was to call his companion;, his second im pulse was to say nothing at all, and wait Tor an opportunity to get the box to hin bunk without being d?tectait. Tr, rv-ure! " Diamonds and rubios at?* marl.; and old Spanish gold; all bann ing tb the fluke or the anchor. -tlcrnswoggled'" in a kind of awe romp whisper th*.; Urne. "An' we t-headln' for th' Bahamas-" For under ls feet he could hear the rythm ot the eagi' "What'll I do? If I leave'lt. some- mo .elsoU see lt." He scratched his c.iln perplexedly; and the cud we.ni hack to starboard. "1 got lt!" Ho took otf his cost and carefully drohped ?t down over the myaterlov? box. It was growing darkin- and darker all the tuue, and shortly neither coat MacGrath nor anchor would bc visible without close scrutiny. Treasure; greed, cu pidity, crime. Steve saw only the treas ure and not Its crimp followers. What did they call them?- doubloons and pleces-of-eight? He at? his supper with his mess mates, and he atc heartily as usual. It would have taken something more vital than mere treasure to dl-turb Steve Blossom's app?tit?'. He was ono of those enviable individuals whose imagination and gsstric Juices work at the same time. And while he ate he planned. In the first place, he would buy that home at Bedford; then ho would take over the Gilson house and live like a lord. If he wanted a drink, all be would have to do would be to turn the spigot or tip a bottle; and more than that, he'd have a bartender to do it. Onions! He swore he would not have an onion within a mile of the Gilson house. "Onions!" yulte uncon? sciously he .-poke this word aloud. "Huh? Well, if ye don't like onions, find a hooker that packs violets in her hold." was the cheerful advice of thc man at Steve's elbow. "Who's talkin' t' you?" grunted Steve. "Wha' did I sa' ?" "OnlonB, ye lubber! Don't we know what onions I ? Ain't we smelt 'em ?J long that ye could stick yer nose in th' starboard light an' never smell no kerosene? Onions! Puss th' cawffy." Steve helped himself first. The man who f poke bunked over h!m. and they were not on the best of term,i. There was no real reason for this frank an tagonism; simply, they did not splice any more effectually than cotton rope and hemp splice. Sailors are moody ind Fliper1 titious; at least they gen erally are on hookers of the .'Captain Manners" breed. Steve was supersti tious and Jim Dunkers was moodv and had no thumb on his left hand. Steve bated the sight of that red nub bin. He wa quite certain that lt had been a whole thumb once, on the way to gouge out somebody's eye. nnd had Inadvertently connected with some body's teeth. Spanish doubloons and pearls and diamonds and rubles- It was mighty hard not to say the e won!? out loud, too; blare them into the sullen faces grouped about the table. He was off watch till midnight; and he was won dering If he could set the box without attracting the attention of the look-, out. who h>d a devilish keen eye for everything that stirred on deck or on water. Well, he would have to risk lt: hu? he wot'.Id wait till full darkness had fallen over Cv. nea and the lookout would bo componed to keep bb? eyes off the deck. Tho boys wanted him to pinv cards. "Xot for me. Busted. How long d' V" think ?40 'll last in Nsw York, any how?" Ard he stalked out of the fore castle and went down into the waist to enjoy his evening, r'?'n. ail th^ whllo keeping n weather eye forward, at the ratty old pilot house. It was 10 o'clock, land time, when 'te rannnod his cutty into a pocket and rerolutely walked forward. If any one watched him they would think he waa inly looking down the cutwater. The thought bi money and the pleasures it will buy r.ukes cunning the stupidest of dolts; and Steve was ordinarily a dolt. But tonight his brain was keen enough for all purposes. It was a haz ardous job to get the box off the fluke without letting it slip back into the sea. Steve, however, accomplished the '..at. climbed back on the rail and sa-, down, waiting. A quarter of an hour passed. No one had seen him. With his coat securely wrapped about hts nreclous find he made for the forecas tle. His mates, save those who were doing thetr watch, -"re all in their bunks. An oil lamn <*. :nly illuminated the forward partition. Steve's bunk was almo.t in darkness. Very deftly he rolled back tho bedding and se creted the box under 'tis pillows, and then stretched hinr "f out with the pretense of snoozln;, '.lil the bell call ed him to duty. He was rich; am' iie moment a man has rsci.ey he wv troubles-; there is always some one io wants to take H away from you. > . is bunk was on the port side, and tv J was plenty of hid ing space betw . the iron plates and the wooden j>-' i lion. He intended to loo en three < - .'our planks, and then when the tin ame, slip the box be hind them. : aie time during the morning U . forecastle would be empty, and l en would be his time. But he s?', .arad the agonie? ot dam nation dur'ig hts four hours' watch, Supposing i??i? ic ul shoo ki go rum-, triaging about bis bunk and dlrcover the box? Suppose - i . But be dared not suppose. There was nothing to do but walt. If he croate4? any curlostty on the part of bis mates he was lost Ho would have to divide with them ah, from tho cr.ptain down to the cook'* hoy. It wo; a heart-rending thought From being.the most open and frank man aboard, he became the most cun nings From being a man without ene mies, he sow an enemy even In bis shadow. At * o'clock he turned in and slept like a log. In the morning he found his oppor tunity. For half an hour the.forecas tle was -JIU pt y of all savo himself. Fe verishly he pried back the boards, found thp brace neem, and gently laid Tue bux thore. lt waa a mighty curious looking box. Once be had stoked ut> the Chinese coast, from ihe Philip pines, and bo Judged it to be Chinese in origin. He tried to pry p?on the cover and feast bis eye? upon the treasure; but under the loather sad ivory and.mother of pearl was imper I viona steel. It would take an ax or a (i-owbnr to stir that lld. He sighed. He replaced the hoards, and became to all appearances bis stolid soir ?W.n.. ?Bai .-?il the way down to tho Baha kip he was uuiody, and ?hen be an I swrreU any question lt was with words spoken testify and jerkily. ySTERY "I know whut's <ho matter," said Dun'tora. "He's is love." "Shut your mouth!*? ".Didn't 1 tell yuh?" laughed the tantalizer, dam ing toward the com panionway "Steve*;" in love, 'r he didn't git druuk enough on shore f satisfy his whale's belly!" A boot thudded spitefully against the door jamb. "You Mllahs lot me alone, Vr I'll bash in u couple o' heads!" "O. vu!?, will, will yuh?" cried Dun . ker8 from the deck. "If yuh want a I little exercise, yuh can begin on me, 'yuh moonsick wob! Whut's th' mat ter with yuh. anyhow? Where'd yuh , git this grouch? Whut've we done t' ?yuh? Huh?" I "You keep ou! o' my way, that's all. I's mind n' my watches, an' don't ask , no odds oi you duffers. What if I have a grouch? Is n any o' your blame bus iness? All right When we Step axhore at th' Dahams, Mister Jim Dunkers, Til tear thc ropes out c' your pulley blocks, l'.ui lill we git there, you f th' upper hunk an' me t' mine." "Leave th' ol' Krouch alone, Jim. Th' mate won't st a tul for no scrappln' aboard. WV1! have th' thing done right .n th' custom .--hods. We'll have a tln ! h field, Qmcn.--berry rules, an' may th' best man v in." "I'm wiitin' " : aid Jim. "Sc'm I," agreed Steve. Hut his in tentions were not honorable. He pro posed to desert reore any fight took place. Not that bo was physically afraid; no; he wanted lo dig his hand*.; deep into thoa' doubloons and pieces of-elght. So the four day- dovrn passed oth erwise uneven!fully, amid paint pot* and iron ru.;t and three meals a day o pork, onicn soup, potatoes, and strong bitter coffee. The winds became light and balmy and the sea blue and gentle. Tho men went about lr, their under shirts and dungarees, barefooted. O: course the coming fight was the mail topic of conversation. It promised to be a rattling good scrap, for both m. ti were evenly matched, and both had a "kick" In either hand. Even the cap tain took a mihi Interest In the affair. He -was an old rallor. He knew' that there was no such word as arbitration in a sailor's vocabulary; his dispute: could bc settled only In one manner, by his calloused list-. When the old mudhook (and some day Steve was going to buy lt and hang it over the entrance of the Gilson house) slitter? .' down Into the smiling waters of the bay. Steve concluded that discretion was the better part o' valor. He would <toal ashore on the quarantine tug which lay alongside. He was willing to fight under ordinary circumstances, but he must get his treasure in safety first. They could call him a welcher if they wanted to; devil a blt CAA he care. So he pried back the hoards of his bunk wall, took out tho box. eyed lt fondly, and" noted for the first t me the lettering on it: STANLEY Ii ARC REAVE. * He wrinkled bli brow In the effort to recall a pirate by this name, but was unsuccessful. He hugged th:' box under his coat and made for, the gong way, and. inadvertently ran into his enemy. Dunkers caught a blt of ' the box peeping out from under tho coat. "What 'a' yuh got thero?1' he de manded truculently. "None o' your damn businese! You lemme by; hear mc?" "Ain't none o'-m.v business, huh' Where'd yuh git a hex like that? steal it? By cripes. I'm coln't' have a look at that bcx, my.hearty. It don't'smell like honest onions." "You lem mo by-" breathed Steve, with murder in his heart. Suddenly tho two men closed, surg ed back am! forth, one determined to take and the other to hold this my - ter-ous box. Bunkers struggled to up hold hie word; not that - he really wanted the box but to prove that he wa* strom; enough to take it If he wanted to. The name.on tho box flash ed and disappeared. It waa a kind of Shock to him. He and Blossom went battering- agaln? the rail. Doukers' grip slipped and so did Blossom's, The result was that the box l SB catapult cd into the sea. With an ugonixi^g cry. Blossom leaned far over.. He s'>w the box oscillate for a moment, then, sink gracefully in a zigzag course? down through the blue waters. Fainter asd fainter lt grew, and at last vaniched. "I'ai, sorry, Steve; but yuh wouldn't let me look at lt," said Dunker?, con tritely "Daran you; I'm goia* f killy* Tor] that i' ll became a real fight this time, fist j ant? foot, tcoth and nail ; one mad with the lust to kill and the other desper ately intent on living. .It. was.one of' thc ?e. contesta In which honor and fair play have no part. But for the timely arrival of the captain and some of the crew Bunkers would have been htuiK injured, perhaps fatally. They hauled | back Blossom, roaming out. his oaths at the top of hts lunge. It took half an hour's arguing to calm him down. Then the captain demanded *o know what it was all about. And blubbering Steve told him. "Six hundred feet of ?Tratar, if I've I goi my reckoning right, The anchor! V.i-a tn sixty, feet, hut the ?*arboard t s?de drops sheer Rix hundred. Yon j swab! why didn't you bring tho box ? to roc? A man has a Tight to .what he finds. I'd have taken care of lt for yon till .we got back to port. I know; you were greedy; you thought I nrdsht ?-ant to stick my fist into your, tret? ?ire. And you'll never find tt In 600 feet of water and . tangled, porous corni. That'? what you get for being a blamed hog? A? for you." and the cap tain turned to Lunkers, . ."jeet yonr damage and your pay and hunt for another boat back. I won't have no muruer on bonni 'Captain Manners.' Ami the sooner you go, tho better." -i'll go, sir," said Dunker?, readily r Advertise In The Intelligencer The Best Advertising Medium io Upper Carolina The Following is One of the Many Testimonials Received From Advertisers in The Intelligencer: Anderson Real Estate and investirent Company CAPITAL STOCK $50,000.00 Real Estate, Stock, Renting Anderson, S. C., August 27, 1914. Advertising Manager, Anderson Intelligencer, Anderson, S. C. Hear Sir: I think it is only right that I tell you nf two incidents that have occurred recently by our advertising in your paper. Yes terday a man walked into the office and said that he wanted to look at the Chamblee farm that we Were cutting up West of the city. I showed it to him and sold him one of them, before I got back to the office, I asked him where he saw the advertisement and he said in The Intelligencer Recently wc had an inquiry from Columbia about a farm and when the man came up we sold him the..place? He also said he saw the advertisement in The Intelligencer. Yours very truly, L. S. HORTON, First Vice President. MORAL: "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE" enough. Had the misfortune happened your soap-lye. .N'ow, let's hear your o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ? to him and had Blossom been the ag- yarn." ,? ? gressor. he would want his life. He "I don't know yuh," said Dunker?, ** FLAT KOl'K XEW8- t? understood. Like the valet lu "Ol?- with drunken caution. 'How is lt, uooooooo o o o o o o o o o o> e vette," lt was the time for disappear- Bill?" turning to the bartender. _ lng. "He's tho goods, Jim. You've heard . . " ... _. 7.. . , . *n< ?. T . ," : . ,, . ' Anderson. Sort 16.-Hov. W. D. "Aa' keep out o' my way. Ill git y o? Wyant ? Co.?" , llammetl preached a very Interesting* yet,!' growled Blossom.. "Sure I've heard ?* them. Best dldln', sermon Saturday afternoon arter "Keep your mouth shut," said the apn'ratus- they ls." -.noon after which the members of tii? mate, "or I'll have you put in irons, "Well, this gent here ls Mr. Brooks, ! church went into an election for a you pig*!" ? general manager for Wyant & Co. I ffiWJ^J?S? yP'AT and .e,e,t?d ..... . Ti .? T._ ? ? . ~ ^ ., ,, Mr. Hammett. Sunday- morning ho "All right, sir. I've said all I m goin can O. K. him." preached agaain to a iarge crowd. ' eay t'day"; and Blossom .strode off. Vroon threw an appreciative glance The farmers are getting along fine "What was the box like?" asked the at the bartender Ho was not affiliated gathering cotton . . raptaln of Dunker*. With The Black-Hundred, but he had o,.,op4 AinaA ,vm* \n?a "Chinese contraption, slr: leastwise often aided Vroon in minor affairs. Jj? fe8??^ with* Miss it looked that way to me. Didn't look "All right. It yuh say so. Bill. Well. Wrm,? Sunday. as if it'd been in th' water long, sir. here's th' yarn.'' Miss Howard spent Saturday night Sometbin'lost overboard by Porno prl- And when he had don?-, Vroon ?nd Sunday. with rifer prancparents, vate yacht, f my thinkln'. I'll keep out 6moked quietly without speaking. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Keys. o' Steve's way. I'll lay low on shore. "Don't yuh believe Rf demanded "' ??.'.'y:,.,/ ,Mwn """" air.? Dunkers. truculently. Mr. Clarence N.onow^ from near And though Steve made a perfect "But 600 feet or water, In a coral "ebro,n.waa in our neighborhood Sun. range of thc ?pot, he nevor came back bottom, and no way o? tolling Just ?ey srternoon to find tho mysterious .bax. never saw whoro it fell ovorboard. That's a tough Mr. and Mts. W, O. Tate and chil the Gilson bouse back home, nor dbi proposition." dren dined with Mr: and Mrs. Tom he ever sec Dunkers again. On the "O, it is, is lt? I'm a sailor. I can Elrod Sunday. voyage home he brooded continually: lay my hand right over th' spot. Do ._ and one night he skipped his watch yuh think I'd be fool enough f hunt J^,CB 2 1 A- E";nJ,Vs ?? , i and went to Davy Jones' locker. for lt without a perfect rang??" Dun- and Mr. Ho.rman Opp,- of Whitonold Dunkers had not told about the kers tappod his coat pocket suggest- scet.on. spent Sunday -with Misses name he bad seen on the box; utidtlvely. Lona, Myetlo and Lossie Elrod. Blossom had not thought to. The name And Vroon knew that the one thing Mrs' ?salo' Elrod and daushtcr, Hargreave had instantlx brought bnckM bo wanted was there, a pian or a Mlst> Lille, from near Belton, spent to Dunkerr" mind the newspaper ?to-;drawing of tho range. So there was | vhei weekend with her don, Mr. Tlll rles he had recently read..There was .another man shanghaied that night, mRn Elrod. no doubt |n the World that this boa and his destination wo . Capo Town, *L belonged to the missing millionaire, twenty-two days' voyage by the calen- _Mr8;'-*'' C. Watt and Children spent who had drawn a million from his dar. Saturday with her daughter. MM. Till, banks and vanished; and, moreover, Vroon carried his Information to the mrn Mrod. there was no doubt in Dinkers' mind organization that samo night. They Mr. and m??>. Wm McHuyry spent that tbls million lay In. the Bahaman (would start the expedition at our_e. I tne, wa?%t*snd with. V?. McCurt>'2 waters. It bod b?*a draWti up norn .int titi this was accomplished, Har- ' brother and sister near Belon. the bottom of tbs SSsusd, r??der the ' grc^ye'a *a?ghr?r tc be inimrss \ path or the balioou. He proceeded, trom attacks. Beside?, it would give , Tho boys of tho ncighbornooa nave then, to take a mjort minute range. Hargreave (wherever he was) sud the b^cn having sporr catching possums it wouid require money and partners; other? the idea ,that The Black Hun- or ?ale- 'inc;/ caugni-we?vc tn two but half a loaf would be far better dred -bad concluded to give up the nights. than no loaf at all; and he was deter- chase. i umii . / ?? < ? " , 1 i ' '? ? ? mined to ?etinn to iMew York to find Above. With his ear to a small hole, ^_i?MM?^?M?in??MBi backing. Finding Is keeping, on lan-i skilfully bored through the celling ? , ""'??"^a?????? or sea. without permitting the pleater to fall, Now ?I happened that h'.a favorite knelt a man with a bandaged arm. ne '?Trl? Trfiv O' Hi-ari*" grog shop was a cheap taloon across could never ree any faces: no one ever. ' - *~ rwjr J- aaCH&TI* the way from the headquarters of The kook off a mask In thlr sinister cham- AND Blaek Hundred; and Vroon occasion- ber. But there were voices, and bel al tv iipoptycd ?!v fer ht cftz=. ip?c^c? -e... uev'er going ' io- torgei some ol Mftjf !1 I IflM up a valuable bit of maritime newe. their > Aft^r ibo meeting, came *n nn ?* * Lt L-l \J, Fi Dunker- was an old. friend of the bar- end. he waited an hour after, and then fl O I I AP keeper, and ha proceeded to-pour and stole down into the street by the aid KJ JU L. ?\ KS. tussle down his throat a very poor of the fire esr.noc. Irater, be entered- BJJ Y Q TP IF ? \T*> substitute for whisky. He become com- a telephone booth and cslled up Jones. *** a o 1 t? Ix I munieative. He. bragged. He knew Thon, one leathern and steel box. where there wa? a million, and all he dotted with bits of ivory and mother- A/J* THE BIJOU needed was a first cla*s diving bell. A ofroearl. became two; and the. ssc- - veer from now be would not be drink- ond was soaked lu mud and salt TfYiF\AV ?rs cheap wH?key; he'f* be steering e water for two weeks tl'! ypn cmld ! lVJi/AI course up and down . Broadway and 'not mavc told lt rrcm the orlvlnal. And v buying wino when, he waa thirsty. He thnt .is why Jones wss sblc. some . lVla??~?e **f? was no miser. But he had to have a weeks lator. to b'-de once mere the k " . ....... dtving bell; scd wheeo the-blue devil original - bax. As for the snhFtltute, . lU?tyUs ? . i could he could get one with S12 and Just as Brain? -ra? about to use a mal- a^lifflg . . . 9 ana iUC an-Ingersoll watch in bis.pooket? , . let and cbls?l. upon it. thc lights went y.? j , .^.j .L1J _ From bis tablo Vroon made a nign out. There waa. a wild scramble, a BMISSBHGMSfls^^ which the. bartender undnrstood. Then chair or two. wss overturned. ^ 1 J.1 ?> ?' '. i i n nmn. L ..JJ n lie rose and approached .Dunkers. . "The door, the door!" nhoilt*>d ; "jv "I own a pretty good diving apps- Brainy, fi.riou?. BOILERS, 1 ANXSv STACKS, ral us." be SIMM. :tr you've got the lt alammw? the moment tho words * ? ? Kisan? tx& UA/amvcov goods, lil take n clvanco on .a fifty- left his lip-. And ns sudd?>iily Uev W RaMllncKi ntty ba^'B." Vroon did not bolieve bad gone out tho lights sprang up. AND ,REP??R.S there was anything bark of this talk; Tb* box was ^no. There were evl- P?rlt*. ?>4L?APi%?&> ROOFING but lt always p:ild to dis deep euougli de;.Uv t.wUora among Tb" Plac?, Hun- . ? rMUlttADrii in ?-kai ?S^V&V'D to rind out. "Have a drink; and. Bill. dred. ^^^jS^?Er?; WORK^ give P* a rea* whisky and none of * <TO B? CONTINT'ED.) - A*8V*!*f V?. BHB^^Bssssnn