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Cxploits” Llaine
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Presented by the Hearst Sunday Newspapers in
Collaboration with the Famous Pathe Players
Written by Arthur B. Reeve
The Well-Known Novelist and the Creator
of the “CRAIG KENNEDY” Stories
Dramatized Into a Photo Play by Charles W. Goddard
Author of **The Perils of Pauline"’
mre Miss Pearl White,
Mr. Arnold Daly and
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“Craig Kennedy
The Famous Scientific Detective of Fiction
Cast of Leading Characters in the Motion Picture
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B DURME- -o o ¢ 5.5 »o o 4.0 Miss Pearl White
IR IR o s s ¢ 5 o v s e e Mr. Arnold Daly
D ENEES » & % 0 4 90 d:-3 Mr. Sheldon Lewis
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Synopsts of Previous Chapters.
ME New York police are mystified by a
T series of murders and other crimes.
The principal clue to the oriminal
Is the warning letter whioh Is sent the victims,
signed with a “clutohing hand.” The latest vic
tim of the mysterious assassin ls Taylor Dodge.
the insurance president. His daughter, Elaine,
smploys Cralg Kennedy, the famous solentific
getective, to try to unravel the mystery. What
Kennedy accomplishes is told by his friend
Jameson, a newspaper man.
Enraged at the determined effort which
Elaine and Craig Kennedy are making to put
an end of his crimes, the Clutching Hand, as
shis strange criminal ls known, resorts to al!
sorte of the most diabolical schemes to put
them out! of the way. Each chapter of the
story tells of a new plot against thelr lives and
of the way the great detective uses all his
skill to save this pretty girl and himself from
death.
Chapter X.
. THE LIFE CURRENT.
Copyright, 1915, by the Star Company.
All Foreign Rights Reserved.
SSIGNMENTS were being given out on
A the Star one afternoon, and 1 was
standing talking with several other re
porters, in the busy kum of typewriters and
clicking telegraphs.
“What do you think of that? asked one of
the fellows. “You're something of a sclentific
detective, aren’'t you?”
Without laying claim to such a distinetion,
1 took the paper and read:
THE POISONED KISB AGAIN
. Three More New York Women Report Be
ing Kissed by Mysterious Stranger—
Later Fell Into Deep Unconsciousness—
What Is It?
| had scarcely finished, when oune of the copy
boys, dashing past me, called: “You're wanted
on the wire, Mr. Jameson.” ¢
I hurried over to the telephone and answered.
A musical voice responded to my hurried
hello, and I hastened to adopt my most polite
tone.
“Is this Mr. Jameson?" asked the voice.
“Yes,” 1 replied, not recoguizing it.
“Well, Mr. Jameson, I've heard of you on the
Star, and I've just had a very strange expe
rience. I've had the polsoned kiss.”
The woman did not pause to catch my ex.
clamation of astonishment, but went on: “It
was like this. A man ran up to me on tie
street and kissed me—and—l don’t know how it
was—but I became unconscious—and I didn’t
come to for an hour—in a hospital—fortunate
-Iy. I don’t know what would have happened it
it hadn’t been that some obe came o my as
‘;‘:(llunco, and the man fled. I thought the Star
:i:lmfld be interested.”
f,”"WQ are,” | hastened to reply. “Will you
%@n me your name?”’
| “Why, I am Mrs. Florence Leigh, of No. 20
é&”"* avenue,” returneq the voice. ‘“Really,
Mr. Jameson, something ought to be done about
these cases.”
_ “It surely had,” I assented, with much inter
_est, writing her name eagerly down on a card.
‘PI be out to interview you, directly.”
. The woman thanked me and 1 hung up the
[ "Bay.” | exclaimed. hurrying over 1o the
L ael 9k Assk “hera's another woman on the
wire who says she has received the poisoned
kiss." i
“Suppose you take that assignment.” the
editor answered, sensing a possible story.
1 took it with alacrity, figuring out the quick
est way by elevated and surface to reach the
address.
The conductor of the trolley Indicated Fros
pect avenue, and 1 hurried up the street until
[ eame to the house, a neat, unpretentious place.
Looking at the address ou the card first to
make sure, | rang the bell.
I must say that I could scarcely criticise the
polsoned kisser's taste, for the woman who had
opened the door certainly was extraordinarily
attractive.
“And you really were-——pul out by a kiss?" 1|
queried, as she led me Into a neat sitting room.
“Absolutely—as much as if it had been by one
of these polsoned needles you read about,” she
replied confldently, nasiening on to describe the
u{hlr volubly
By Sir William Osler, M.D.
In An Address to the Officers and Men in the
Camps at Churn
ORMERLY an army marched on its belly;
F now it marches on its brain. Only by
utilizing existing knowledge, in all grades
from commander-in-chief to private, is the max
imum of success available. To put the largest
number of the enemy out of action with a mini
mum of loss to his own men is the aim of every
general.
While in one way modern war merges the
{ndividual into a great machine, on the other
hand the intelligent action of the unit has never
been so important a factor in making the ma
chine work smoothly and efficiently. After dll,
it is the man behind the gun who wins the vie
tory.
Wkat 1 wish to urge Is a true knowlédge of
vour foes, not simply of the bullets, but of the
much more important enemy, the bacilli. In
the wars of the world they have been as Saul
and David—the one slaying thousands, the oth
er tens of thousands. I can never see a group
of recruits marching to the depot without
mentally asking what percentage of these fine
tellows will die legitimate and honorable deaths
from wounds, what percentage will perish mis
erably from neglect of ordinary sanitary pre
cautions.
It is bitter enough to lose thousands of the
best of our young men in a hideous war, but it
adds terribly to the tragedy to think that more
than one-half of the losses may be due to pre
ventable diseases. Typhus fever, malaria, chol
era, enteric and dysentery have won more vic
tories than powder and shot. Some of the
diseases [ mention need no longer be dreaded.
Typhus and malaria, which one hundred vears
ago routed a great English army in the Walche
ren expedition against Antwerp, are no longer
formidable foes. But enough remain, as we
found by sad experience In South Africa. Of
the 22,000 lives lost in that war—can you be
leve it?—the bullets accounted for only 8,000,
the bacilli for 14,000! In the long, arduous
campaign before us more men will go into the
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It was beyond me
“May I use your telephone? | asked
“Surely,” she answered. .
1 called the laboratory. “ls that you, Creig?”
I inquired.
“Yes, Walter,” he answered, recognizing my
roice.
“Bay, Craig,” | asked breathlessly, “what sort
of kiss would suffocais a person?
My only answer was an uproarious lsugh
from him at the idea.
“lI know.,” | persisted, “but I've got the
assignment from the Star-—and I'm out here in
terviewing a woman about it. It's all right to
laugh—but here | am. I've found a case—
names, dates and places. [ wish you'd explain
the thing. then.”
“Oh, all right, Walter,” he repiied Indulgently.
‘Il meet you as soon as | can and help you
out.”
I bung up the receiver with an air of satis
faction. At least now | would get an explana
tion of the woman's queer story.
“I'll clear this thing up,” | said confidently
“My friend, Craig Kennedy, the sclentific de
teciive, is coming out here.”
“Good! That fellow who attacked me ought
to be shown up. All women may not be as for
tunate as L.”
We walted patiently. Her story certainly
was remarkable. She remembered every de
tall up to a certain point-—and then, as she
said, all was blankness.
The bell rang and the woman hastened to the
door, admitting Kennedy.
Bacilli More Fatal Than Bullets and Bayonets
field than ever before in the history of the
Empire. Before it is too late, let us take every
possible precaution to guard against a repeti
tion of such disasters.
We are not likely to have to fight three of
the greatest of former scourges--typhus, mala
ria and cholera, thongh the possibility of the
last has to be considered. But there remain
dystentery, pneumonia and enteric, against two
of which we should be able to bring to bear
successfully resources of modern science.
Dysentery,’ an inflammation of the large
bowel, has been for centuries one of the most
terrible of camp diseases, killing thousands,
and, in its prolonged damage to health, one of
the most fatal of foes to armies. So far as we
know it is conveyed by water, and only by car
rying out strictly, under all circumstances, the
directions about boiling water can it be pre
vented. It is a disease which, even under the
best of circumstances, can not always be pre
vented, but with care the incidence should be
reduced to a minimum, and there should never
again be widespread outbreaks in the camps
themselves.
Pneumonia is a much more difficult disehse
to prevent. Many of us, unfortunately, carry
the germ with us. In bright days all goes well,
but when the cold and rain come, and the long
marches, the resisting forces of the body are
lowered, the enemy, always on the watch, over
powers the guards, rushes the defenses and
attacks the lungs. Be careful not to neglect
coughs and colds. A man in good condition
should be able to withstand the wettings and
exposures that lower the system, but in a win
ter campaign pneumonia causes a large amount
of sickness and is one of the serious enemies
of the soldier.
Above all others one disease has proved most
fatal in modern warfare—enteric, or typhoid
fever. Over and over again it has killed thou
sands before they ever reached the fighting
line. The United States troops had a terrible
experience in the Spanish-American war. In
six months, between June and November, in
clusive, among 107,973 officers and men in
ninety-two volunteer regiments, 20,738, practi-
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“Hello, Walter,” he greeted.
“This is certainly a most remarkable case,
Craig,” 1 said, introducing him, and telling
briefly what I had learned.
“And you actually mean to say that a kiss
had the effect”——
cally one-fifth of the entire number, had typhoid
tever, and 1,580 died. The danger is chiefly
from persons who have already had the disease
and who carry the germs in their intestines,
harmless messmates in them, but capable of in
fecting barracks or camps.
You can easily understand how flies lighting
on the discharges of such typhoid carriers
could convey the germs far and wide., It was
in this way, probably. and by dust, that the
bacilli were so fatal in South Africa. Take to
heart these figures: There were 57,684 cases
of typhoid fever, of which 19,454 were inval
ided, and 8,022 died. More died from the bacilli
of this disease than from the bullets of the
Boers. Do let this terrible record impress upon
you the importance of carrying out with re
ligious care the sanitary regulations.
One great advance in connection with typhoid
fever has heen made of late years. An attack
of an infectious disease so alters the body that
it is no longer suseeptible to another attack of
the same disease; once a person has had scar
let fever, smallpox, or chickenpox, he is not
likely to have a second attack. He is immune,
or has what is called immunity.
When you expose a solution of sugar to the
air, or if you add to it a pinch of yeast, a
process goes on which we call fermentation, ac
companied by a growth of little germs of the
veast in the fluid, and by an Increase in tem
perature (in fact, the solution has a fever),
and the composition of the fluid alters, so much
so that vou can inoculate it afterward again
and again with the same germ, but no further
change takes place.
Now this is what happens to us when bacilli
make a successful entry into our bodies. They
overcome the forces that naturally protect the
system, and grow just as the yeast does in the
sugar solution, but the body puts up a strong
fight, all sorts of anti-bodfes are formed in the
blood, and, if recovery takes place, the patient
afterwards has immunity, for a time, at least,
from subsequent attacks.
The body has mobilized its forces, and is
safe for a few years, at least, against that
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Kennedy Gazes at Elaine, Overcome. Is This the End?
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BRI se R T STI g R Ll I wonfound t!1” 1 e
Just then the telephone interrupted.
“Yes,” she reasserted quickly. “Excuse me
& second.”
She answered the call. “Oh—why—Vyes, he's
here. Do you want to speak to him? Mr
Jameson, it's the Star.” .
disease. It was an Englishman, Jenner, in
1798, who found that it was possible to confer
this immunity by giving a person a mild at
tack of a disease, or of one very like it. Against
gmallpox all soldiers have been vaccinated—a
harmless, safe and effective measure. Let me
give you a war illustration. General Woed, of
the United States army, told me that, when he
was at Santiago, reports came that in villages
not far distant smallpox was raging and the
people without help of any kind. He called for
volunteers, all men who showed scars of satis
factory vaccination. Groups of these soldiers
went into the village, took care of the smallpox
patients, cleaned up the houses, stayed there
until the epidemic was over, and not one of
them took the disease.
Had not those men been vaccinated, at least
99 per cent of them wonld have taken small
pox. Similarly the human body can be pro
tected by vaccination against typhoid fever.
Discovered through the researches of Sir Alm
roth Wright, this measure has been introduced
successfully into our own: regular army, into
the armies of France, the United States, Japan
and Germany. I mentioned the appalling inci
dents ‘of typhoid fever in the volunteer troops
in America during the Spanish-American war
That resulted largely from the wide preva
lence of the disease In country districts, so
that the .camps became infected, and we did
not then know the importance of the fly as a
carrier, and other points of great moment.
But in the regular army in the United States,
in which inoculation has been practiced now
for several years, the number of cases has
fallen from 3.53 per thousand men to practically
nil. In a strength of 90,646 there were in 1913
only three cases of typhoid fever.
If the lessons of past experience count, any
expeditionary force on the Continent has much
more to fear from the bacillus of typhoid fever
than from bullets and bayonets. Think again
of South Africa with its 57,000 cases of typhoid
fever. With a million men in the field, their
efficiency will be increased one-third if we can
prevent enteric.
“Confound it!” I exclaimed, “isn’t that ks
the old man—dragging me off this story before
it's half finished in order to get another. m
have to go. I'll get this story from you, Craig.”
The day before, in the suburban house, the
Clutching Hand had been talking to two of his
emissaries, an attractive young woman and s
man.
They were Flirty Florrie and Dan the Dude.
“Now. I want you to get Kennedy,” he safd.
“The way to do it is to separate Kennedy and
Elaine—see?”
“All right, Chief, we'll do it,” they replied.
“I've rigged it so that you'll reach him
through Jameson, understand?”
They nodded eagerly as he told them the
subtle plan.
Clutching Hand had scarcely left when Flirty
Plorrie began by getting published in the papers
the story which I had seen.
The next day she called me up from the
suburban house. Having got me to promise to
see her, she had scarcely turned from the tele
phone when Dan the Dude walked in from the
.next room.
“He's coming,” she sald.
Dan was carrying a huge stag head with &
peautifully branched palr of antlers. Under his
arm was a coll of wire which he had conneoted
to the inside of the head.
“pine!” he exclaimed. Then, pointing to the
head, he added, “It's all ready. See how I fixed
{t? That ought to please the Chief.”
Dan moved quickly to the mantel and
mounted a stepladder there by which he had
taken down the head, and started to replace
the head above the mantel.
He hooked the head on a nail.
“There,” he sald, unscrewing one of the beax
titul brown glass eyes of the stag.
Back of it could be seen a camera shutter.
Dan worked the shutter several times to see
whether it was all right.
“One of those new quick shutter cameras,” he
explained. ’
Then he ran & ocouple of wires salong the
moulding, around the room and into a closet,
where he made the connection with a sort of
switchboard on which a button was marked,
“SHUTTER” and the switch, “WIND FILM.”
“Now, Flirty,” he said, coming out of the
ocloset and pulling up the shade which let &
flood of sunlight into the room, “you see, I want
you to stand here—then, do your little trick.
Get me?”
“I get you, Steve,” she Jaughed.
Just then the bell rang.
“That must be Jameson,” she cried. “{ Lo
get to your corner.”
With a last look Dar went into the closet
and shut the door.
Perhaps half an hour later, Clutching Hamé
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