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THfi LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT V ALLEY, GA„ AUGUST 13 , 1920 . *
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Copyright, by Doubleday .Page and. Co.
SYNOPSIS.
</^ T «^ ta th^«lW^^“^ FtoS
jmanager of the famous baseball team,
li?«if? brilliant ia * nt ; twlrler, K . n t lerB 'v but 8e . cures eccentric Ba , rn *y and dissl
pated, and after a nerve-shattering sea
•on the Giant-Killers win the pennant In
apparent reason, bet heavily against the
Giant-Killers, •hip In the world’s champion
games with the "Phillies.” Wlnton
Shute, king of second basemen, and
Ford's main hope at the bat, Is kidnaped
before the first game.
PART II.— Shute, awaking from stupor
on steamer Colonla, miles out from „
York, learns he was brought on board ap¬
parently Intoxicated, under the name of
wlnton James, and Is on his way to
Italy. A wireless to Ford Is answered,
apparently clares by the manager, and de¬
Shute la with the team and play
Ing becomes Shute accepts the Inevitable. He
low acquainted with Miss Riley, fel¬
passenger, and something more than
friendship develops, At Genoa Italian
secret service officers search the ship.
Miss Riley eonfldes to Shute that they
are after her, and that her name is Leon¬
ard.
PART III.—At Naples Shute meets Tris
Ford, there with the Giant-Killers and
the Philadelphia learn for a series of ex¬
hibition games. Shute knows the Phila¬
delphian won the pennant. American
gamblers, counting on the absence of
Shute from the world’s series games, had
made a big “killing.” Shifte Is not as
• gore” over his experience as Ford thinks
he should be. Tris meets Miss Leonard
and understands. Largely through the
wireless operator of the Colonla. one of
the conspirators. Ford gets t e evidence
he wants against the gamblers. Misn
1-eonard, it seems, is wanted only as a
witness against magnates of the powder
trust, In whose offices she was a stenog¬
rapher. in an exhibition game at Rome
the G'ant-ICillers defeat l heir rivals, the
Philadelphia*, mainly through Sbute's
clever working of the 'double squeeze.**
That eve.-d'i'- lie arranges to sign a con¬
tract with 1 ,, : for a life «n
gmgemeni.
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Increased 25 per cent since the movies
became popular.
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Secure In this Y»nelusion, he brought
himself to a sitting posture on the
I?* t,on 5 *®* **e round i‘ le b f that l , h ’ he J n *" was U 1 >,i inclined e l ' t P° si t<>
dizziness. But lie fouglit it off. got to
^ nnd, letting down the wash ,
httsln. soused his head In cold water—
a ' ’ e "ater the tank contained
This revived him wonderfullv.
1 Lie looked about the stateroom more
carefully, There was u Suitcase of
real leather on the bunk under the
porthole. He was positive he hud
never seen It before. Turning It
round, be found on the end, lu black
lettering, the Inscription:
S. W. JAMES
New York.
"S.-W.-J-a-ui-e-s?” be questioned. Hr
recalled all the Jameses be bad ever
heard of—they weren't many—from
“Cyclone,” the Yankee pitcher, who
had struck him ont twice in one game
to Jesse nnd Henry—train rohhei and
author respectively. There was no "S
W.” In the list
Mechanically he tried Hie hnu to see
If ll was locked. It opened displaying
u complele assort mem of linen and
underclothing, There were shirts,
handkerchiefs. stockings, brush and
ruiub—everything necessary with tlie ;
knit he bad on. to enable him to make
I respectable appearance Tlie tiling* i
lud been carefully selected and tiny !
were nil new. Rut there wasn’t a scrap
of writing to identify their owner.
This turned tils attention to his own
means of identification. Puttlng his
hand hi his ......Ins be drew out four
Telopes coma lin'd hills—one an "nol
dressed to S. \V. James, Hotel Long
sere. New York city. Two of the en¬
velopes contained bills—one on "ac¬
count rendered" from a liquor dealer
for ¥117.25; the other a hill for cigars
and cigarettes amounting to $28 50.
The third was a letter from the steam¬
ship agents of the Hiirnhard line, read
ing:
“Dear sir: We have hooked you for
passage from New York to Naples on
tlie S. s. Colonla, sailing: from pier
foot of West Thirteenth street, N. ft.
We have assigned-to you Cabin 0 80,
on the salon deck, and- have arranged
that you are to have It entirely to
yourself.
"We beg to call your attention to
the fact (lint, owing to the tide on the
day of departure, the Colonla will sail
at one o’clock In the morning, Octo
her 7. ,,
The fourth envelope Inclosed n
ticket calling for one flrst-elass pas¬
sage. New York to Naples, on the
steamship Colonla, and made out to S.
W. James. There was nothing else In
the poekels of his coat.
Robbed I was Ids first (bought, and
he searched In his trousers pocket for
the cash which he hnd with him—less
than ten dollars. Ho found many yel¬
low-hacked hills. Five hundred dol¬
lars!
The sight of the live hundred dollars
Immediately brought to mind what
had happened before the long, dream¬
less sleep Just ended on the ship. This
money—or five hundred dollars just
like It—was lying on a table In a suite
of rooms In the Belmont-Stratworth
hotel. He was about to come Into pos¬
session of It—nil for signing a con¬
tract to report the world series on
behalf of the Transcontinental News
paper syndicate, Metropolitan tower,
New York city.
Hb sat down again upon the berth
to puzzle It out, beginning with the let¬
ter from the syndicate—It was on en¬
graved stationery, he remembered
The secretary, Walter Noble, gave him
as references three well-known New
Yorkers. But thp letter had come, spe¬
cial delivery, on Sunday—the day aft¬
er the championship was cinched—and
reply was requested by telegraph on
Monday. Anyhow, what need was there
of references, he had argued, when he
couldn’t lose I For he was to receive
five hundred dollars every day lie
turned in a story. No. lie couldn’t lose,
and lie could make thirteen hundred
dollars at least—nineteen hundred dol¬
lars at most. Yes. he hail looked upon
It as “very easy" money nnd hnd kept
his own counsel, not even confiding In
Tris Ford, because of the reports In
the newspapers that the nnttonal com
mission was to prohibit the players
from writing for the papers; certain¬
ly all those who hadn’t contracts.
He remembered that he had gone to
the Belniont-Stratworfh. and the clerk
at the desk knew him—had seen him
play He could repeal his words: “Mr.
Noble Is expecting you—go right up
to Suile 1142." He hnd gone up. had
been admitted to the parlor of a suite,
and bad inet n nice young fellow, ob¬
viously a gentleman, who greeted him
cordially.
The contract—II hnd the nnme of
the Transcontinental Newspaper syn¬
dicate printed in, he was sure. He
had read it very carefully, and the
terms were precisely what had been
offered him. While lie was rending 11.
lie r-euio -ed Mr. Noble h-d taken
from his i»..i rase without nn\ flourish
five hundred dollars. lie could remem¬
ber seeing the money lying on the
table, the hills folded over once.
The hills In Ills hand now were fold
! ed once I
' But something was going wrong
with his memory. It had been spin¬
ning the tale of events without effort,
; hut suddenly It had begun to flog. He
had to prod It, What was It Mr. Noble
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Blackness! He Could Recall Nothing,
Try His Best, Until He Woke Up on
the Ship.
hart said? Oh. yes—"I’m going to have !
a drink. VVhnt'll you have?" He lintl
declined, of course, byrause he didn't 1
drink. And then? Mr. Noble had
s\ld, walking over to the telephone: ;
“Wise man—-wish I didn’t." and hud
added : Til order you a soil drink.’
The drink—who I was It? For some
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•. Some time ago sent away for
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suspended from roof. Rats got it all
—how beats me, but they did be¬
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morning after trying RAT-SNAP. M
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