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THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE A MOTION PICTURE DETECTIVE DRAMA PRE SENTED BY THE HEARST SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS IN COLLABORATION WITH MISS PEARL WHITE AND THE OTHER FAMOUS PATHE PLAYERS Written by Arthur B. Reeve Creator of the “CRAIG KENNEDY” Stories in Collaboration with CHARLES W. GODDARD Author of 4 ‘The Peril* of Pauline.” Everything you read here to-day you can see in fascinating Pathe Motion Pictures this week. The Tell-Tale Heart. copyright, 1918, By the Star Company. All Foreign Rights Reserved. E IjAINE had dropped In one afternoon to see Kennedy at the laboratory Craig was working over a straight-backed chair which etood close to the wall- On the arms were short atraps. apparently to fasten down the arms of the Bitter. As they chatted. Blaine -watched Craig curl- mialy. examining the chair and especially the left arm on which was placed a metal disc In such a way that the wrist of anyone sitting In the chair would be strapped in contact with It Finally Kennedy attached a pair of electric wires from beneath the chair arm, connecting with the disc, and running down one of the legs, thence through a crack In the floor to the hack room of the laboratory. "What 1s It?" asked Blaine. "It looks like a death chair.” "Scarcely as bad as that," laughed Ken uedy. taking up a large clockfaced dial which had a single hand evidently Intended- to be swung around by some force through the graduated scale on its face. "This Is the sphygmograph a scientific ‘third degree.'” he explained. Indicating both the chair and the dial. "It reads a person's thoughts and feel ings through the pressure of the blood. Sit down In the chair. I’ll show you." Before she knew It. Craig had lightly strapped her arms and had picked up the dial now attached to the wires leading to the disc. He sat down on the arm of the chair, still holding the dial in his hand. The pointer which had been at rest at zero began slowly to turn through several degrees. “You have a good, strong, healthy, norma! fceart,” remarked Craig, assuming a medical tone facetiously, then adding seriously, "This dial—well, it registers a current that only that consummate diagnostician, little Dan Cupid, can explain." He held the dial before her with a merry laugh. Elaine did not know quite what to make of It Had her scientific lover stolen a march on her? She blushed and bit her lip. "Please unfasten the straps. Craig," she said in pretty confusion. "Gladly—now." he hinted. I was on my way up from the Star office when I happened to spy a face in the crowd thet seemed familiar. It was of a Chinaman, and. although 1 could not Just place him, I knew that I had seen him somewhere before. I decided to play detective. Not many minutes before, down In that secret den In which the serpent Wu con cocted his villainies, that worthy had been at work again, tireless. With subtle satisfaction, he had held In his hand, which was carefully gloved in rubber, a small glass tube, perhaps three-quarters of an inch tong and not over an eighth of an inch in diameter. He seemed to regard the thing with respect, if not awe. For. Wu had con ceived a new attack to put an end to the sue cess which Craig was having in uncovering his trail. In the tube was a minute but almost price less particle of that strange element, radium. For a moment Wu regarded It, then took up a handkerchief that lay before him. Already he had ripped a stitch or two from the seam In the hem. He slipped the little radium tube into the hem of the handkerchief. Then he tapped a bell on the table and a few seconds later a Chinese servant entered. While he had been waiting, Wu had hastily written a note. Carefully he folded up the handkerchief and laid it in a small leaden case. As the servant bowed. Wu finished and sealed the letter. “Here," he said gruffly. "Take this letter and the other thing to Inez. You know the address." On uptown he went until he came to a rather ordinary looking apartment house. He went In without discovering that 1 was following. I glanced about. No one was watching me. Then, to be sure that I would recognize tne house, I noted it by marking a small cross with a pencil on the stone work of the stepB. t did not know at the time, hut I found out later that upstairs the messenger rapped at a door which was answered by a maid, a mulatto with a marked gypsy caste of features The maid opened the door Into the hallway and admitted the messenger. Inez took the note and the lead case, waving to the maid to leave her. Then she tore open the note and read: "Have her bind the enclosed over her eyes. If In place three minute* bllndneta will reault In a few days.” Gingerly Inez opened the leaden case, saw the handkerchief, and shut it quickly. "Tell the master 1 shall have It done as he directs,’' she said to the Chinaman as she fol lowed him to the door. Inez turned and went into the back room, her boudoir, where the maid was waiting. She brought out from a closet a rather gaudy yellow dress, a tambourine, a headdress and some other materials. "Now, I want you to put this on.” she in structed the maid. “Here in this box I have a handkerchief which I want you to use. Tie it over her eyes and keep it there—three minutes at least; longer if you can." As I looked at the house outside it immedi ately occurred to me to let Craig know what had happened, and 1 sought the nearest tele phone booth and called the laboratory. Elaine had just gone when I called up, and 1 told my atory of having seen and trailed the messenger and marked the house. “Good for you, Walter,” congratulated Craig. “Get inside and see who is there. I’m glad you marked the house. I’ll be there right away.” As I turned away at my end of the line Ken nedy hastened to join me. I returned to the apartment, bent on carrying out Craig’s orders. To my surprise, when I rang the hell, the door was opened by a colored maid. 1 had not ex pected to get In at all, but this seemed easy. Inez had been In her boudoir examining the gypsy costume and telling Cissy how to put It on when I rang the hell. As the maid went out Into the next room Inez moved over to the pc- tteres and stood there where she could see and hear without being seen. She gazed through into the living room There, to her utter sur prise. she must have seen Cissy ushering me in. The maid brought me a ebatr, and I took It. I did not notice, however, that she was careful to place It tn a particular spot with the back to the wall. In fact, it seemed safe to me, for from the chair 1 could see the whole room. I laid my hat and gloves on the table. As 1 did so, one glove must have dropped on the floor In an Inconspicuous place by the .’eg of the table. 1 sat down while the maid left me for a mo ment to call her mistress. In my heel detec tive manner 1 gazed about the room, endeavor ing to extract Borne clue. I was about to ex amine the room more closely when I heard some one coming and restrained my interest in the surroundings. Inez entered, and 1 rose. “Won’t you sit down?" she asked, with ex aggerated politeness. "For what am I Indebted to you for this visit?" Though 1 knew she knew me, there was not a shade of confusion In her voice or manner. T sat down again, my eyes fixed on her hand some though dissipated face, "Well,” I replied, "perhaps you recall the last time we met." Inez stood by the table, listening to me. I thought a bit mockingly. As I spoke her hand moved to the edge of the table. Suddenly, be fore I knew It, the room swam before my eyes and all was blackness. Inez had moved her hand over and had pressed a secret knob. A bar In the wall just beside my head had sprung out, striking me a terrific blow and knocking me out. The maid, who had run In. and Inez lifted me up, unconscious, and carried me Into the hack room. There they dropped me down In a heap in a corner while the maid finished dressing In the gypsy costume. It was scarcely five minutes after that Ken nedy came to the entranoe to the apartment. There he noted the mark which I had made. He had Just decided to go in, when he heard a noise It. was Cissy, arrayed in all-her glory, going out, with a parting word of instruction from Inez. He drew back into an angle of the hall. He saw what was apparently a gypsy woman come out of the apartment. He looked #fter her a moment, then made up his mind to go on In, and rang the bell. I was still unconscious, and Inez was stand- ing over me when she heard the tinkle of the bell. Hastily she seized u blanket, and threw It over me. Then she went boldly Into the living room and opened the door. Craig unconsciously took the very chair In which I had been sitting and sat down non chalantly. As she saw him, she had given a little gasp. She was plainly dismayed, but such was her wonderful control that she scarcely showed It. As Craig watched her keenly, however, he was able to discover that, underneath her calm exterior, she was very nervous and excited. "Well?” demanded Kennedy with an enigmatical smile. "You didn't expect to see me again—so soon, did you?" Inez seemed to be overcome for the moment. She rose and moved over to the table “Wait a minute,” Interrupted Kennedy. "Come back and sit down. I have something to say to you." Nervously her hand gripped the table and moved along toward the secret knob Kennedy noticed it, but he had not moved his chair from the position in which it had been placed for me. At that moment, though, his eye fell on my glove, which I had inadvertently dropped on the floor. He reached down and picked it up. As he did so the bar in the wall flew out, Just missing his head as he bent over. Seeing that her scheme had failed, Inez made a dash for the door. Kennedy sprang to his feet and seized her. Elaine, on her return from the laboratory, had gone to the conservatory of the Dodge house, and there was busying herself pruning the rose bushes Once she happened to glance up at the end nearest the street. She could see a strolling gyps.v going by, and the gypsy, apparently, had spied her through the open window. "Good afternoon, mistress.” greeted the gypsy coming up to the fence. "Wouldn't you like to have me read your fortune?” Elaine whs lonesome. She looked the gypsy over, and the picturesqueness of the woman ap pealed to her. laughingly, she consented, and the gypsy entered. Aunt Josephine happened to enter the con servatory Just then and looked Inquiringly at Elaine as she saw her strange companion "I'm going to have my fortune read, auntie,” laughed her niece. "Don’t you want yours?" "You silly girl,” smiled Aunt Josephine In dulgently. You Can See “Elaine” in fascinating motion pictures at leading theatres everywhere. If “The Exploits of Elaine” is not shown regularly in your neigh borhood, send the name and ad dress of the theatre you attend to this newspaper. . / The gyps.v took Elaine's hand and looked at it carefully. “You are In danger from a power ful Oriental criminal," announced the gypsy at. last. Elaine was, to say the least, impressed. "He Is a very dangerous man," went on the gypsy. She managed to say little that was important, however, yet what true remarks she did inter ject soon quite Interested Elaine and Aunt Josephine. In fact, her first words hinting at Wu were enough to catch their attention. Elaine leaned over the table, listening eagerly. "And that Is not all,” the gypsy hinted. “In darkness 1 could make you see the vision of your persecutor and his den.” She nodded knowingly at Elaine, and at the same time from a fold of her dress drew out the lead case, managed to open it and took out the handkerchief. Above the table she twisted it Into a flat band. “Let me show you,’’ she said, handing the handkerchief to Elaine. "Tie that over your eyes." Elaine was sitting with her own handkerchief in her hand, but she turned quickly. When she faced the gypsy again she had a bandage flat over her eyes. “Now, mistress, try—let yourself go,” urged the gypsy. “Lot me guide your mind. I will show you.” Elaine did try to put herself In the frame of mind the gypsy wanted. There they sat iji the conservatory, the gypsy with her own eyes bound, though in such a way that she could manage to catch a glimpse of Elaine under her This la from the Motion Picture ^ilm of “The own bandage. "Do "you see anything?" she asked. "Not yet," returned Elaine. "Try—let yourself go—forget this room, forget time.” urged the gypsy. Craig looked from my glove to the face of Inez. i “Where is Mr. Jameson?” he demanded sternly. “I don't know," she replied, facing him de fiantly. "You do know.” contradicted Craig.’ forcing her to accompany him and leading her into her back room. As they entered her boudoir. Kennedy saw my foot protruding from the blanket she had thrown over me. He pulled it ofT. “Well!” he exclaimed, starting back, “I’ll be’’-—— His exclamation was cut short by the ringing of the telephone bell. Inez took a step toward It. “None of fhat,", interrupted Kennedy, stopping her. "You keep quiet. I’ll answer It. Hello!" It seemed that, perhaps half an hour after he had dispatched the messenger to Inez, Wu decided to call her up to see whether every thing was going as he had planned. He had asked for her number. As the operator gave him the call, he heard a man's voice answering. Instantly he was all suspicion. He waited to hear no more, but quickly hung up the re ceiver. So tt happened that Kennedy got no answer. "Y’ou have a remarkable face,” Kennedy re marked at length. “Your composure is won derful But. young lady, I believe that was your Chinese •iend. Wu Fang. At any rate’ I am going' to try to find out. Do you think you can locate that call?" he asked when he finally got the operator. “No, I can’t locate It exactly,” came back the reply a minute later from the girl at the telephone exchange. "But it came from China town—somewhere on Pell street. I think.” Kennedy thanked her, hung up the receiver and faced Inez. He was just In time to pre vent her destroying Wu's message There w as the crumpled note. He took it and rewd it. Kennedy looked up quickly from the ominous message to the inscrutable face of Inez. As he considered the note, his mind worked rapidly. Quite apparently tt was Elaine against whom the new peril was directed But what was it that could blind her? He thought a moment. Could it be radium? Craig seized the telephone and called the Dodge house. Some minutes passed after Elaine had bound the handkerchief over her eyes. She sat op posite the gypsy, but. try as she would, she could see no vision that she did not herself conjure up. “Mr. Kennedy on the telephone.” announced Jennings. "Will you answer it. Auntie?" asked Elaine?" "Tell him I’ll call him up in a few minutes.” Aunt Josephine followed Jennings out and went down the hall to the library, where she picked up the receiver which Jennings had left. "Ob, Mrs. Dodge, is that you?” Craig asked anxiously. "Where Is Elaine?” “She’s in the conservatory. There's a gypsy here They’re sitting there like a couple of ninnies waiting for a vision of’ "Good heavens," interrupted Craig, "not with a handkerchief over her eyes, is she? Yes? Quick tell her to—rip it off yourself—quick— quick!” Aunt Josephine knew Craig too well to stop to ask why. In great excitement she dropped the telephone and almost ran from the library. As she entered the conservatory she could hear the low droning voice of the gypsy. She had pulled the bandage from her own eyes and was watching Elaine keenly. Without a word, Aunt Josephine tore the bandage from Elaine. The gypsy was on her feet In an Instant with an air of sneering triumph. Exploits of Elaine" by the Famous Pathe Player*. "You—you criminal!” cried Aunt Josephine. “Help! Jennings, help!” In the apartment of Inez, Kennedy was now endeavoring to get Aunt Josephine on the tele phone again. But neither he nor the central could seem to get any answer from the Dodge house. Meanwhile I was slowly recovering conscious ness and had managed to get on my fpet. Dazed though 1 was still, I could see that Kennedy had discovered something terrible, in order to have had to neglect me so long. He was working the receiver up and down frantically now. Finally he hung it up. By the expression on his face. I gathered that, whatever it was, be feared the worst. His face wrinkled in thought, he gazed, perplexed, first at Inez, cold and defiant, then toward me. He seemed greatly surprised to see that I was myself again so soon, after being laid out flat. “Walter,” he asked earnestly, "do you think you could watch this girl now? “Why—yes—I can do it,” I replied reas suringly. "Then take this gun,” he directed. ‘‘Don’t let her touch a thing—and keeq) your eye peeled all the time. She's a tough customer. I want you, as soon as you feel able, to take her over to the laboratory and wait.” 1 nodded and he dashed out. "Why. auntie, what’s the matter?’’ asked Elaine, wondering at the suddenness with which the bandage .had been torn from hsr eyes. “What does it all mean?” "You—you criminal!" repeated Aunt Jose phine accusingly at the gypsy, then turning to Elaine. "Why, Craig called up and warned me not to let her put anything over your eyes. I didn't wait to hear any more. I just ran in and tore the thing off.” The fake gypsy was looking eagerly about the room, apparently for a means of escape. Just then Jennings hurried in. “Jennings,” cried Aunt Josephine, "seize that woman!” As Jennings approached her the gypsy sud denly developed a remarkable strength. She save him a shove that sent him reeling. His foot caught on the edge of the fountain and he staggered a minute, unable to recover his bal ance, then, with a great splash, fell in The gyps.v turned and fled through the palms, Elaine and Aunt Josephine following her. She ran as far as she could, coming up to the glass wall that formed the inner end of the conservatory. Further retreat was impos stble. She seized a little rustic chair and dashed It through the glass. Cautiously, but quickly, she managed to make her way through the opening she had broken. Jennings had, by this time, picked himself out of the fountain and, dripping, joined Elaine and Aunt Josephine in the chase Out in the garden at last, the gypsy dropped down behind a thick bush. At that moment a cab pulled up furiously before the house, and Kennedy leaped out and rushed in. The gypsy had gained just time enough. If she had gone on Kennedy might have seen her outside. The others were, apparently, looking for her in every direction except the right one. She saw 7 her chance. Stealthily she managed to slip out of the garden by the back way. As Kennedy dashed down the hall and Into the library he met Elaine’s maid, Marie, as pale as a ghost. “For heaven's sake, Marie," he panted, "where are they all?" “In the conservatory, sir,” she pointed. "Didn't you hear the glass break?” “Glass?” he repeated, running ahead of her now, Kennedy came upon Elaine, Aunt Josephine and Jennings still vainly searching about, Just as they lost track of the gypsy. "Where did she go—that way?” asked Jen nings. “Hang the gypsy," interrupted Craig. "Let her go—you missed her anyway. But, Elaine— tell me—w'hat happened?" Aunt Josephine reached down and picked up the handkerchief she had torn from Elaine’s eyes. "She bound it over her eyes,” she ex plained to Craig. Kennedy examined the handkerchief closely. Evidently he was looking for .something con cealed In It and did not find It. Perplexed, he looked first from Elaine then to Aunt Jose phine. Are you looking for the gypsy’s handker chief?” Elaine asked finally, seeing his astonish ment. Then she stooped and picked up another handkerchief from the floor. “Here it is. It didn’t look very clean, so when she wasn't looking I dropped It and used my own.” Kennedy was speechless with relief. He took the other handkerchief and rapidly ran his hand over it. At last he came to a little hard lump in the hem. He ripped it open. There was the little tube of radium! “Y'ou’re lucky,” he exclaimed. “If you had had that tube over your eyes it would have done its work in a few minutes. You might not feel It for some time, but you would have been blinded at least In a few days, if not hours.” Both Elaine and Aunt Josephine were over come as they thought of the peril from which Elaine had been so narrowly rescued. Even Kennedy could not restrain a shudder. For the moment he forgot even about Inez. Then, suddenly, he recollected. “Oh, by the way,” he exclaimed, “I’ve had Walter take a woman over to the laboratory. He must be there by this time. I wish that you would get your things on and go over with me. I think that you can help me get some thing out of her. She’s as cool, calm and. cal culating as a sphinx. But I have a scheme that may lead us at last up to this devilish Chinaman.” Elaine motioned to Marie and, when the maid returned, hurried into her coat and hat. It was only a few minutes after Kennedy had discovered that Elaine was safe that they started from the Dodge house. Left alone with Inez, X began to follow out Kennedy's Instructions. “Come,” I menaced with the gun. “Get your hat on. 1 want you to go with me. One word on the way and I’ll have you arrested on the spot. Otherwise, you may get a chance." I did not know it at the time, but just as we were about to start and were moving toward the door, the gypsy, breathless and fagged, reached the hallway of the apartment. She was about to go in when she heard Inez and myself going out. She dropped back into the convenient shelter which Kennedy had used before, and when we came out we did not see anyone in the hall. As we disappeared, she emerged and cautiously followed us. In spite of my fears, Inez went without a 6cene to the laboratory. We entered, I, at least, not knowing that a pair of black eyes watched every movement. The fake gypsy saw us go in. then hastily came out of a doorway into which she had slipped and hurried down town. It was not long after I arrived, however, that Kennedy and Elaine Joined me at the laboratory, Kennedy had evidently carefully prepared just what he intended to do. Quickly he forced Inez into the chair which he had already shown Elaine, and fastened the straps about her arms. "Walter, will you and Elaine go into the next room?” he asked as he finished securing the woman. A moment later he followed carrying the dial of the sphygmograph. He fastened it to thal concealed wires that connected with the arms of the chair, describing to us in a whisper the action of the strange little instrument which by blood pressure read not only the disease of the heart, but even the secret emotions. He had purposely left the door between the front and back rooms ajar, but he did not In tend that Inez should hear tils explanation. "We know that Wu Fang’s headquarters are on Pell street," he concluded to us in his muffled tone. “The sphymograph will tell us the number, if we ask her the right ques tions. She may keep silent, but she cannot conceal her fellngs from this instrument.” Already, although we did not know it, the gypsy had gone straight to Wu Fang's apart ment. Wu had been getting anxious about his scheme when his servant announced that Inez’s maid was outside. "Bring her in Immediately," Wu thundered. The maid came in. frightened, blurting out what had happened to her and what she had seen at the apartment of her mlBtress. Wu Get the “Elaine” Song <<rt-AINE, My Moving Picture Queen,” is the title of a rollicking new one* step song that is being sung all over the country. It is dedicated to Miss Pearl White and bears her autographed photo- graph in colors. You may purchase It at any music store, or a copy will be mailed postpaid by aendlng six twft-cent stamp* to STAR COMPANY, P. O. Box 1740. NEW YORK. listened, his face scarcely repressing the ragia. fury he felt. ' “Quick—my street clothes," he ordered nf his servant, then, as he threw them on, added to the gypsy, “Walt here until I return.” It was only a few minutes after he had been warned by the gypsy that Wu himself grlideff In to the hall leading to the main room of the laboratory. He listened a moment, then, hear- ing nothing, was about to open the door with his skeleton key. As he started to do so, his eyes fell on the fire-escape outside. He reconsidered. Perhaps It would be heat to reconnoitre. Snake-like he wormed his way up the fire-escape which led to the back room. There, as we grouped ourselves about the sphygmograph while Kennedy explained his* plan, Wu's sinister face gazed in at us for a moment, then withdrew. Silently he made his way down again to the ground. In the back room, Kennedy took his place near the doorway, while Elaine and I bent over the dial. “Now, Walter," he began in an assumed rhetorical tone, “you remember we traced that fellow, Wu Fang, to Pell street. Ivet me see. What was that number? One?" He paused. I saw the needle jump slightly at the mention of Pell street, then fall back at the number, “One.” "Two?" went on Kennedy. The needle scarcely oscillated. “Three—four—five,” came slowly. Inez’s face, though we could not see it, was tense and set. She seemed determined not to betray a thing. Yet the harder she tried to control the outward expression of her feelings the more she betrayed herself by the inward blood pressure which the uncanny little instni-j ment before us recorded. «' As Kennedy kept on counting, the indicator slowly, but steadily, rose, registering her sup pressed emotion. Elaine and I watched the-' dial, bending over it with intense interest. Outside in the hall, Wu had again come io the laboratory door. This time he drew out his key and softly opened it and entered. For s moment he stood, confronting Inez, alone in (he chair. Quickly he raised his finger to his Ups, indicating silence. Kennedy kept on counting. As he neared the right number Wu drew a revolver and raised It high over his head. Twice he shot into the air. Suddenly, just before the shots, the dial had unaccountably jumped ten or a dozen points What did it mean? I held it up and Kennedv looked at it in wonder. He was about to take a step toward the laboratory when the pistol shots rang out. The dial hand fell back to zero! We rushed into the laboratory. Inez lay back In the chair, apparently dead. Not a soul was in sight, but the hall door was open. “Come on,” shouted Kennedy, hurrying out into the hall, a»J was about to stop before Inez. / I followed and Elaine came along after me, pausing at the door to watch us run down th« Slowly a cabinet under the laboratory tabls back of her, swung open and the evil, mur derous face of the Chinese master criminal appeared from the refuge to which he had dropped after the shots which he had fired to frighten Inez. Silently he crept toward Elaine, standing with her back to him. With one powerful movement he swept Elaine back Into the laboratory and to the floor and slammed the door, locking it. Another Instant and he ran to Inez and unfastened her. She had merely fainted and was now coming to. Down tho hall we had discovered no sne when suddenly we heard the stifled scream of Elaine. Back we rushed to the door. But it was locked and jammed. Wu had finished releasing Inez by this tine and, with her, rushed into the back room. As he did so Elaine managed to get to her feet* and follow in time to see Wu smash the window to the fire-escape with a chair and half shove Inez through to safety. He was about to follow when he spied tie sphymograph and seized It. That brought hit face to face with Elaine. She Bnatched tl> record from him. With an oath he struggled with her for It. By this time Kennedy and I had forced the door and were in the outer laboratory. Wu had bent Elaine back over the table an« had drawn a long knife. As he poised it ovet her he heard us coming. Our shouts seemed to give Elaine redoubled strength. She broke away Just as Wu stabbed furiously, and the knife point was deflected by the sphymograph. There was not an instant to lose, and Wu fairly dove out of the window. As we rushed in Kennedy paused to reassure himself of Elaine's safety, but I plunged after Wu, my revolver drawn. Wildly I shot down from the window at his retreating form. He had almost reached the ground when I saw him stagger and fall the rest of the way. One of my shots had taken effect, but I had used them all. I started after him. But as he slid the last* two or three steps Into a heap on the ground, Inez caught him In her arms. Half supporting, half pulling, she managed to assist the dazed and wounded criminal along. At the curb was a closed car, with a driver, waiting. She shoved him in and tumbled in after him herself, as the car moved swiftly away. By this time I had reached the ground and reloaded my gun as I ran along. I fired several shots. But, though I struck the car, I don't think I did any damage, for it continued to gain speed. The chase was hopeless, and I stopped, disgusted. Back in the laboratory, as I returned through the window, I saw that the strain had been too much for Elaine. Now that It was over, she had fainted and Kennedy was just bringing her around. “Confound him,” I exclaimed, “I wounded him, but the girl got him away from us again." “Oh,” murmured Elaine, faintly catching my words. “I heard the shots. I was hoping you had ended It all this time.” For the moment, in his relief at seeing Elaine still safe, Kennedy seemed to have forgotten all about Wu. My words recalled him. * “Never mind.” he reassured, as he tapped the little sphymograph. “Not counting the great jump of the indicator when Inez dis- :overed Wu before her, it registered the highest tension when I mentioned No. 14 Pell street. We shall find his den not far from that." We gathered about Craig while Elaine looked at him, elated. "Then you have forged the last link,” she cried, seizing both his hands in her own. Kennedy merely smiled and shook his head gravely. (To Be Continued Next Sunday.)