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himself called me up on the telephone. It Was
he—not the Star—as | learned only too late.
! had scarcely got out of the house, as Cralg
wld me afterwards, when Flirty Florrie told
all over again the embroidered tale that had
caught my ear. —
Kennedy sald nothing, but listened Inteatly,
serhaps betraying in his face the scepticlsm
he felt.
“You wee,” she said, still voluble and eager
to convines him, “I was only walking on the
street. Here—lot me show you It was just
like this.” :
She took his arm and, before he knew it, led
him to the spot on the floor near the window
which Dan had indicated. ‘Meanwhile Dan was
listening attentively in his closet. :
“Now-—stand there. You 'are just as I was—
only 1 didn't expect anything.” - :
She was pantomiming some one approaching
stealthily while Kennedy watched her with in
terest. tinged with doubt. Behind Cralg in his
closet, Dan_was reaching for the switchboard
button. ; ' g
“You see,” she said advancing quickly and
acting her words, “he placed his'hands on my
shoulders-—so—then threw his arms about my
neck-—so!" - L =
She sald no more, but imprinted a deep, pas
sionate kiss on Kennedy's “mouth, eclinging
closely ‘to him. Before Kennedy could draw
away, Dan, in the closet, had pressed. the -but
ton and the switeh several.times in rapid suc
cession. ¢ o
“Th—that's very- realistic,” gasped Cralg. a
good- deal taken’ aback by the®sudden_oscula
tory assault
He frownéd o
“I—l'll look- into the:case,” he said, backing
away. “There—there may be some scientific
explanation—but—er" —— . .
He was plainly. embarrassed and hastened to
make his.adieux. q
Kernedy had no more than shut-the door, be
fore Dar, with a-gleeful laugh: burst out of.the
cloget and flung his own arms lPdul F’l&rflo in
an embrace that might have been poisoned. it
is true. but was none the less real for that.
How little impression the thing made on
iKennedy can be easily seen from the fact,that
on the way downtown that afternocon he stopped
at Martin's, on’ th\ny'e?n'ueo. and bought a ring
a very handsome solitaire, the finest Martin
had in the g-hopfi‘ .
it. must have been about the time. that.he
lecided to stop at Martin’s that the - Dodge
butler, Jennings, admitted a ‘yéling lady. who
presented a card on’ which was engraved the
IIRHI(; ; .
Miss- Florence Leigh, .
20 Prospect Avenue.
As he handed Elaine the “card, she looked
up ‘from ‘the book she was readlng and,took it.
“I.don’t know her,” she-said,. puckering-her
pretty brow. “Do you? What does she.look.
like?” '
I never_saw.her before, Miss Elaine,” Jen
nings “shrugged.. “But she “is’ very °well
dressed.” .
“All right, show her in, Jennings. I'll see
her.” .
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Flaine Confronts Kennedy with the *Poisoned Kies'' Photographs.
This is from the Moving Picture Film of “The Exploits of Elai?e" by the Famous Pathe Piayers
Elalpe moved into the drawing roow, Jen
nings springing forward to part the portieres
for her and passing through the room quickly
where Flirty Florrie sat walting. Flirty Florrie
rose and stood gazing at Elaine, apparently
very much embarrassed, even after Jennings
iad gone.
There was a short pause. The woman was
the first to speak.
“It is embarrassing,” she sald finally, “but,
Miss Dodge, I have come to you to beg for my
love.”,
Elaine looked at her nonplussed
“Yes,” she continued, “you do not kmow It
but Craig Kemnedy is_ infatuated with you™
She paused again, then added, “But he Is en
gaged to me.”
Elaine stared at the woman. She was dazed.
She could not believe it.
“There is the ring.” Flirty Florrie added, in
dicating a very {mpressive paste diamond.
" Elaine frowned, but said nothing. -Her head
was In a whirl * She could not_believe. Al
though Florrle was very much embarrassed,
she was quite as evidently very much wrought
up. Quickly she reached into her bag and dréw
out two photographs, without a word, handing
them to Elaine. 'Elaine took them reluctantly.
“There's the proof,” Florrle said simply,
choking a sab. :
Elaine looked with a start. Sure enough,
there was the.neat living room in the house on
Prospect avenue. In one picture Florrie had
her. arms @ver Kennedy's shoulders. In the
other,” ‘apparently, they were - passionately
kissing. o
Elaine ‘slowly laid the photographs on the
table. ;
“Please—please, Miss Dodge—give me back
my lost love. You are rich and beautiful-—I am
poor.” -1 have only my, good looks.” But—l-—1
love him—and he—-loves me-—and has promised
to marry me.” ' e
Filled with’ wonder, and misgivings now, and
quite -as ‘much’ embarrassed. at the: woman's
pleadings as the woman herself ‘had acted a
moment before, Elaine tried .to,wave: her off.
~ “Really—l—l don't know. anything about all
this.- It—it doesn’t concern mie. Please—go.”
Florrie had broken down completely and was
weeping softly lnib,l.}.ce:hilid.figi;ghlef. . 48
She moved toward.the door. * Elaine followed
her. . . . :
“Jennings—please -see the lady to the door.”
Back in the: drawing room, Elaine_ almost
seized “the. photographs -and' hurried into the
Itbrary where ‘she could be alone. .There she
stood -gazing at them —doub!, wonder and fear
battling on her.plastic features. °.
Just -then she heard the bell and Kennedy's
voice in the hall. ;
She shoved the pholograpns away from her
on the table. £
“How "are -you - this _afternooh,” Kennedy
greeted Elaine gaily.
BElaine had been ‘too ‘overcome by what' had
just _happened to throw it off ‘so easily, and
received him ‘with studied -coolness.
“ Still:-Cralg, man-ike, did :not' notice it at
once. “Iu ‘fact, he was:too busy:gazing about
to 'see that.neither Jeunings, Marie por_the
duenna_ Aunt . Josephine were - visible. .They
were not. and he.quickly-took the ring.from
his .pocket. “ Without ‘waiting, he showed. it to
Elaine, ~ln’ fact, so.sure ‘had lie - beén” that
everything ‘was’ ‘plain. sailing, that he .seemed
to take it almost for granted. Under other
circumstances he would have been right. But
not to-night,
Elaine very cooly admired the ring, as Craig
might have eyed a specimen on a microscope
slide. Still, he did not notice,
He took the ring, about to put it on her
flnger. Elaine drew away. Concealment was
not in her frank nature.
She pleked up the two photographs.
“What have you to say about those!” she
asked cuttingly.
Kennedy, quite surprised, took them and
looked at them. Then he let them fall eare
lessly on the table and dropped Into a chalr
his head back in a burst of !sughter.
“Why--that was what they put over on
Walter,” he said. “He called me up early
this afternoon —told me he had discovered one
of these poisoned kiss cases you have read
about in the papers. Think of it—all that to
pull a concealed camera! Such an elaborate
business—just to get me where they could
fake this thing. ‘1 suppose they've put some
one up to saying she's engaged?™
Elaine was not so lightly affected. “But,”
she sald geverely, repressing her emotion, “!
don't understand, Mr. Kennedy, how sclentific
inquiry into ‘the polsoned kiss' could necessi
tate ‘this sort of thing.”
She pointed at the photographs accusingly
“But,” he began, trying to explain.
“No'buts,” she interrupted.
“Then you belleve that I—*"
“How -can -you, as a sclentist, ask me to
doubt the camera?’ she Insinuated, very cold
ly turning away.
Kennedy rapidly began to see that it was
far more serious than he had at first thought
“Very well,” he sald with a touch of Im
patience, “if my word is not to be taken—l—
e - :
He had seized his hat and stick.
Elaine did.not delgn to answer.
Then, without a word, he stalked out of the
door. :
As he did so; Elaine hastily turned and took
a .few steps after him, as it to recall her
words,. then . stopped, ‘and her pride got -the
better of her. 3
She walked slowly_back to the chair by the
table-—the chair. he had been sitting in—sank
down into it and cried.
Kennedy was nopllg in the laboratory the
next day.when I came.in.
Just- what-the trouble was [ did not know,
but I- had-decided “that it was up to me to
try ‘to cheer him . up.’
“Say, «Cralg,” ‘1 began, trying to overcome
his fit .of sblues.
Kennedy, filled with his _own thoughts, paid
no.attention-to me. . Still, I_kept on.
_Finally he got-up and, before I knew it he
took me by the ear and marched me into the
next. room.
I'saw that what.he needed chiefly was to be
let’alone, and he .went back to_nis'chair, drop
ping down’ into it and banging his fists on
the table: Under. his breath he loosed a small
volley ‘of bitter expletives. ~ Then he jumped
up.
“By. George—l will,” .he muttered.
1 poked.my head out of the door in time to
see him’grab up_his .hat-and coat and dash
from'the room, putting his.coat on as-he went.
“He's a"nut to-day,”. 1 exclaimed. to myself.
Though 'l.did not know yet of the quarrel,
Kennedy 'had . really struggled with. himself
until he was willing to put his pride in his
pocket ard” had made up his mind to, call on
Klaine “again.
. ,As he entered:he saw that it was really of
no use,” for only Aunt Josephine was:in the
library.:
“Oh,” Mr. Kennedy,” ‘she sald 'innocently
enough, “I'm so sorry she isn't "here. There's
been something: troubling her "and she won't
fell.me what'it‘is: 'But ghe's gone to call.on a
voung woman, a Florence Leigh, I think.”
“Florence Leigh!” exclaimed’.Craig with a
start and’ a frown. .“Let’ me" use_your tele
phone.” ° . :
]"had turned my_ attention in'the laboratory
to_a story 1 was writing, when [ heard .the
telephone ring. It’was Craig. . Without a word
of ‘apology for his rudeness, which I'knew had
heen _purely absent-minded;l"heard "him“say:
“Walter, meet me.in half an hour outside that
Florence “Leigh’s ‘house.” . -
He was gone in a minute, giving me sancel\'
time’to call back that I would: e
Then,” with a hasty apology for his’abrupt
ness) he cexcused 'himself, leaving Aunt‘ .Jose
hine wondering-at hls strange actions.
. ’At about the same time ,ghaf Craig had left
the laboratory at the DodZe house Elaine and
\unt_Josephine had been in: the hall near the
library. , Elaine was:in her:street dress.” -
© “I'm going out; Auntie,”"she sald with'an,at
tempted gaiety.. “And,'’» she added, “if anyone
should ask for me, I'll be there.” ~ ' -
/She “had showed jher a card on which was
mngraved the name and’ address of°Florence
!eigh. < ARI A e L .
“All right,.dear,” answered Aunt Josephine,
lot quite clear’in her mind what subtle change’
‘here was in Elaine.
Half “an hour later I was waiting near the -
nouse in the suburbs to which I had been
directed by the strange telephone call the day
nefore. I noticed that it was apparently de
serted.- The blinds were closed and a “To
|etdesign was on the side of the house.
“Hello, Walter,” cried Craig at last, bustling
along.
He stopped a moment to look at the house
Then, together, we went up tne steps and rang
the bell, gazing about.
“Strange,” muttered Cralg. ‘“The house
looks deserted.”
He pointed out the sign and the generally
unoecupied look of the place. Nor was there
any answer to our ring. Kennedy paused only
a second, in thought. .
“Come on, Walter,” he said with a sudden
decision. “We've got to get in here some
how.”
Hé led the way around the side of the house
to a window, and, with a powerful grasp.
wrenched open the closed shutters. He had
just smashed the window viclously with his
foot when a policeman appeared.
“Hey, you fellows—what are you doing
there?” he shouted.
Craizg paused a second, then pulled his card
from his pocket.
“Just the man 1 want,” he parried, much to
‘he policeman’s surprise. “There’s something
~rooked going on here. Follow us in.”
We climbed into the window. There was
the same living room we had seen the day
before. But it was now bare and deserted.
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Everything was gone except an old broken
chair. Craig and 1 were frankly amazed at
the complete and sudden change, and 1-think
‘he policeman was a little surprised, - for he
aad thought the place occupied..
“Come on,” cried Kennedy, beckoning us on.
Quickly he rushed through the house. There
was not a thing in it to change the deserted.ap
pearance of the first floor. “At last it occurred
to Craig to grope his way down cellar, There
was nothing there, either, except a bin; as.inno
cent of coal as: Mother -Hubbard's cupboard was
of food. For. several minutes we hunted about
without discovering a thing.
Kennedy had ‘been carefully going over the
place, and.was at the other side ‘of the cellar
from ourselves when I saw him_stop and gaze
at the floor. He was not.looking, apparently,
so much as listening.. 1 strained my ears, but
could make -out nothing. ~Berore 1 could say
anything he-raised his hand for silence. ‘Appar
ently he ‘had: heard something:
‘““Hide,” ne whispered suddenly to us.
Without ‘another word, though for.the life of
me 1 could make nothing out of it, I pulled the
policeman into a little angle.of the wall nearby,
while Craig slipped into a similar angle.
We waited. a 8 ‘moment. . Nothing happened.
‘Had he been seeing things or hearing.things, 1
wondered? 7 . :
‘From our hidden vantage we could now see
4 square piece in the floor, perhaps five feet
in diameter, slowlyopen ‘up as_ though on a
pivot. Beneath it_ we, could make out a tube
like opening, perhaps ‘three . feet across, with a
covered top. It slowly opened. i
The weird and sinister_figure of a man ap
peared. Oyer his head:he wore a peculiar hel
met with hideous'glass pieces over the eyes and
tubes that connected with a tank -whichjhe car
ried buckled:to his back. “As'he slowly dragg:d
himself out I.could.wonder only at the outland
ish headgear. L g b
Quickly he closed downithe cover:of the tube,
but not before a -vile effluvium®seemed to es
cape and penetrate even to us °in’; our : hiding
places. As he moved forward,'Kennedy gave
a flying leap at Qh‘lm..,and we followed with a
‘regular football interference.” + ° o°
It was the work of only /asmomentcfor-us to
subdue and hold:him, while Craig ripped off the
helmet. : g
‘lt was“ Dan the Dude. e
“What's' that thing?” I puffed, as' I belped
Craig-with the/headgear.o .%o ¢ oo@ .S
“An oxygen'helmet” he.replied. “There must
be-air down the/tube.that cannot be breathed.”
He went over ‘to the' tube. Carefully he
opened the top and gazed down,)starting back
a'second later; with‘his face puckered up at-the
‘noxious edor.. o 20 9 G
“Sewer gas,” che,ejaculateq,.as he _slammed
the cover.down. “Then'he added tothe/police
man: o “Where do you cuppose it comes from 2’ -
“Why, replied'the officer,'the St James vii-,
duct“-an oldssewer-—is somewhere.about these
parts:¥ go . o % Q. Dl e B 0 et
Kennedy.puckered his face as'he gazed at our.
prisoner. ~He reached down auickly and lifted
something off the man’s coat.
“Golden Yair,” he muttered. “Elaine’s!”
A moment later he seized the man and shook
him roughly.
“Where is she-—tell me?” he demanded.
The man snarled some kind of reply, refusing
to say a word about her.
“Tell me,” repeated Kennedy.
“Humph!” snorted the prisoner, more close
mouthed than ever.
Kennedy was furions. As he sent the man
recling away from him, he seized the oxygen
helmet and began putting it on. There was only
one thing to do—to follow the clue of the golden
strands of hafr.
Down into the pest hole he went, his head
protected by the oxygen helmet. As he cau
tiously took one step after another down a
gseries of iron rungs inside the hole, he found
that the water was up to his chest. At the bot
tom of the perpendicular pit was a narrow, low
passageway leading off. It was just about big
enough to get through, but he managed to grope
along it. He came at last to the main viaduct,
an old stone-walled sewer, as murky a place as
could well be imagined, filled with the fouleat
sewer gas. He was hardly able to keep his feet
in the swirling, bubbling water that swept past,
almost up to his neck.
The minutes passed as the policeman and |
watehed our prisongr in the cellar by the tube.
| looked anxiously at my watch.
“Craig!” 1 shouted at last, unable to control
my fears for him.
As Craig Kennedy Turns On the Current Elaine's Chest Slowly Begins to Rise and Fall
This Is from the Moving Picture Film of “The Exploits of Elaine™ by the Famous Pathe Players.
No answer. What to do? To go down after
him seemed out of the question.
By.this time Craig had come to a small, open
chamber, into which the viaduct widened. “On
the wall ‘he found another series of iron rungs,
up which he ¢limbed.” The gas was terrible.
As he neared the top of the ladder he came
to a_shelf-like aperture In the sewer chamber,
and gazed about. -It was horribly dark. °‘He
reached out'and felt a piece of cloth. - Anxiously
he pulled on'it. ~Then .he reached further into
the darkness.
There was Elaine, uncouscious, apparently
dead.
He shook her, endeavoring tc wake her up.
But it was no use.
In -desperation Cralg carried’ her down the
ladder.
With our prisoner, we could only look help
lessly around.. “Again and-again.l looked at my
watch as - the minutes lengthened. Suppose tha
oxygen gave‘out?
“By. George, I'm. going down after him,” 1
cried in-desperation.
“Don’t do it,” advised the policeman. “You'll
never ‘get'out.”
One_ whiff of the horrible gas told me that
he was -right. ‘I should not have:been able to
go-fifty feet in it. I°'looked at ‘him in despair.
it .was.impossible. ’
“Listen,” ‘sald the policeman, ‘straining nis
ears. !
There was, indeed, a faint noise from' the
black ‘depths below us.” A rope alongside the
rough ladder began- to.move, as though some
one was pulling it taut. He gazed down.
“Craig! Craig!” I called. -‘“ls that you?" °
No answer. But the'rope still moved. Per
haps the helmet” made it -impossible - for him
tochear. . . J
He' had struggled ‘back -in °the swirling cur
rent almost exhausted ‘by his helpless burden.
Holding Elaine’s "head 'above 'the surface’ of
the water ‘and pulling on' the rope to attract
my attention, for he could' neither ‘hear nor
shout, he had taken a turn°of the rope about
Elaine.” I'tried pulling on‘it."Theré was some
thing “heavy on ‘the other end, and I kept: on
pulling.’ .
At .last I could>make ‘out Kennedy. dimly
mounting the ladder. (The welght was the un
conscious body of Elaine:which he steadied as
he mounted the ladder.” I ‘tugged harder and
he.slowly. came.up. - ;
Together, at last’ the [policeman and 1
reached ‘down and’ pulled them out.
Wel ‘placed Elaine on (jthe' cellar, floor,” as
comfortably .as - was -possible, and:the police
man began “his first-aldomotions for resuscita
tion. ;
“No-—no!? crled Kennedy. “Not here—take
her,up where the air is fresher.”
With: his.revolver still drawn to overawe
the prisoner, the policeman forced-him to ‘aid
ug'in carrying her up the rickety flight of cel
lar steps. Kennedy followed quickly, unscrew
ing-the oxygen helmet as he went.
In the deserted living room we deposited our
senseless burden, while Kennedy, the helmet
off now, bent over her.
“Quick-—quick!” he cried to the officer. “An
ambulance!”
“But the prisoner,” the policeman indicated.
“Hurry—hurry; I'll take care of him,” urged
Craig, seizing the policeman’s pistol and
thrusting it into his poeket. “Walter, help me.”
He was trying the ordinary methods of re
suscitation. Meanwhile the officer had hurried
out, seeking the nearest telephone, while we
worked madly to bring Elaine back.
Again and again Kennedy bent and out
stretched her arms, trying to induce respira
tion again. So busy was I that for the moment
I forgot our prisoner.
But Dan had seen his chance. Noiselessly he
picked up the old chair in the room and with it
raised was approaching Kennedy to knock him
out,
Before I knew it myself Kennedy had heard
him. With a half instinctive motion he drew
the revolver from his pocket and, almost before
1 could see it, had shot the man. Without a
word he returned the gun to his pocket and
again bent over Elaine, without so much as a
look at the crook, who sank to the floor, drop
ping the chair from his nerveless hands.
Already the policeman had got an ambulance,
which was now tearing along to us.
Frantically Kennedy was working.
A moment he paused and looked at me—hope
less.
Just then, outside, we could hear the ambu
lance, and a doctor and two attendants hurries
up to the door. Without a' word the docto!
seemed to appreciate the gravity of the case.
. H: finished his examination and shook hiy
ead, : ;
“There is no_hope—no hope,” he sald slowly
Kennedy merely stared at him." But the res
of ys ‘instinctively removed our hats.
Kennedy gazed at Elaine, overcome. Wat
this the end? .
It was not many minutes later that Kenned)
had Elaine in the little sitting room off the la
boratory, having taken her there in the ambu
lance, with the doctor.and two attendants.
Elaine's body had:-been placed on a couch
covered-. by a.blanket, and’ the: shades were
drawn. The light fell on her pale face
There - was something ’ incongruous abou!
death “and the vast collection of ‘sclentific ap
paratus, a.ghastly’ mocking of jhumanity. How
futile was .it'all in the presence of the greal
destroyer! . . 8
Aunt ‘Josephine had arrived, stunned, and a
momcat later. Perry ‘Bennett. “‘As I .looked al
the ;sorrowful party, Aunt.Josephine’rose slow
ly from" her positioncon her.knees where she
had ‘been weeping silently ‘beside- Elaine, and
pressed. her-hands ;over her. eyes, .with every
indication of faintness. ..
Before.any of us ‘could do anything, she had
staggered “into’ the: laboratory itself, Bennett
and I'following quickly: There I.was busy for
some’time getting restoratives. ° -
Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch, with
an air’of desperate’ determination, turned away
and opened,a cabinet. From it-he took a large
coll and ‘attached.it to a storage gattery, drag
ging the peculiar apparatus” near FElaine's
couch.
Te an-electric light socket Cralg attached
wires.. The doctor watched him in silent won
der. .
“Doctor,” he asked slowly as he worked, “do
vou know of- Professor Leduc of the Nantes
School “of Medicine ?”
“Why-—yes,” > answered the- doctor, “but
what of him?”
“Then you know of his method of electrical
resuscitation.” : £
“Yes—but”~— he paused, looking apprehen
sively at Kennedy.
" Craig pald no attention to-his fears, hut, ap
proaching the -couch.on’ which Elaine lay, ap
plied ‘the electrodes. - “You see,” he explained,
with forced calmness, “I apply the anodé here
—the cathode' there.”
The ambulance surgeon looked on excitedly,
as Cralg turned-on the current, applying it to
the back of the neck_ and to the spine.
For some minutes the machine worked.
Then the young doctor’s eyes began to buige.
* “My heavens!” he ecried under his breath.
“Look!” j "
.Elaine’'s chest had slowly risen and fallen.
Kennedy, .his attention riveted on his work,
applied “himself with redoubled efforts. The
yvoung doctor looked on with increased wonder.
“Look! The color in her face! See her lips!™
he cried.
At last her eyes slowly fluttered open—then
closed.
Would the machine succeed? Or was it just
the galvanic effect of the current? "The doctor
noticed it and quickly placed hls car to hee
heart. His face was a study in astonishment.
The minutes sped fast.
To us outside, who had no idea what was
transpiring in the other room, the minutes
were leaden-footed. Aunt Josephine, weak but
now herself again, was sitting nervously.
Just then the door opened.
I shall never forget the look on the young
ambulance surgeon’s face as he murmured un
der his breath, “Come here—the age of miracles
fs not passed—llook!”
Raising his finger to indicate that we were
to make no noise, he led us into the other
room. -
Kennedy was bending over the couch. ‘
Elaine, her eyes open now, was gazing up
at him, and a wan smile flitted over her beau
tiful face. 23
Kennedy had taken her hand, and as he
heard us enter, turned hal# way to us, while
we stared in blank wonder from Elaine to the .
weird and complicated electrical apparatus. fi
“It is the life-current,” he said simply, pat
ting the Leduc apparatus with his other ;m
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