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SYNOPSIS. Dudley Lornlgan, dlstrlot attorney. D»mm of his fight on the vice and liquor trusts, la killed by an agent ot a secret society, the committee of fifteen. The fltht Is continued by his son. Bruce, vcho la elected district attorney. Several ef torts to frame up the Intrepid young district attorney fall. When Larnlgan saves the children of one of the conspirators «m- man agrees to expose the trust and is to murdered. Dorothy Maxwell, whose father Is head of the Insurance trust, over the dictaphone hears of a plot to kill with whom she Is In love. She warns him. he escapes, and two more of the conspirators are killed. When Bruce Larnlgan goes to Chicago to fight the grain trust he Is assaulted and thrown overboard. He Is rescued by his brother Tom. who takes up the fight. Dodson. bead of the grain trust, fearing exposure, kills himself. Tom Larnlgan opens a fight on the textile trust. Ayres, the head of the trust. In an effort to kill Tom. kills his own son. Dorothy, gagged and bound, to taken by the conspirators to a roadbouse. Tom. Ben Travers and Stevens go after the railroad monopoly. An attempt to made to wreck the special train on Which Tom and Ben travri. Dorothy esoapes from the conspirators and. with Kitty Rockford. gets on the special. When ! Kitty Is saved by Tom and Ben the railroad president declares he'll help expose lbs grafters America Saved From War By Mrs. WILSON WOODROW Anther of "The Black Pearl." "Sally Salt" and "The Silver Butterfly" BRUCE LABNIGAN. slowly recovering from the effects of the adventure on the wheat schooner that had so nearly cost him hia life, began to take a more active Interest in the war of extermination, against "The Fifteen." the Graft Syndicate that had murdered his father. During his illness his brother Tom, who had been his rescuer, had pursued the work Bruce had sworn to finish, bnt Tom, willing as be was. was limited in his power. "As district attorney here. Tom." he said as he lay in bed. "I was hampered by the limits of my authority My Jurisdiction didn't go beyond my own county, yon see. At the same time I hated to give up my official position, and I would never have done It if I hadn't had something In mind that would take its place." -What was that?" asked Tom. "An authority that has no limits — j that gives me equally great powers in j New York and Seattle, Florida and Dakota! The authority of a state, even, is limited— the authority of the Federal government is not!" "Oh!" said Tom, startled. "You'd been fussing with Washington?" "Decidedly so! It was all arranged and would have gone through long ago if I hadn't been hurt. I was to be made a special Investigator or examiner, with the secret sen-ice fund and the secret service itself at my disposal. You see. I had gone Into the whole business very fully with the President, and he agreed with me that the criminal operations of these great trusts constituted a terrible tneuace to the country. So I have arranged for you to receive the appointment that would have gone to me. You will have the official paper to-morrow — and your first task is to see what is being done by J. Brooks Carney." "The head of the munitions trust?" "Exactly. At Washington they arc convinced tbi. t be is determined to drag this country into the European war. You can imagine what that would mean to his trusts-orders of a tremendous importance." "IH do my best to scuttle him. Bruce! Now that I've got you within reach. I want to hold conversation with you when it's necessary to get your advice, I'm much less afraid of the rotten crew than 1 was!" Bruce and Tom bad hoped to keep Torfs appointment to the Federal service a secret, but they had known, too. that the Graft Syndicate was so well served by spies that there was little chance of success in this. And so it Moved, for- Carney himself, the man Immediately affected, knew of the facts almost as soon as Tom himself. He went at once to Stanford Stone, the real head of the Fifteen— although neither Bruce nor Tom was aware of Stone's connection with the enemy. "Here's bad news!" said Carney. When he had told Stone. "It seems to me it's more imperative than ever that we should get rid of this man Larnlgan. He was bad enough before— you can guess how dangerous he will l>e with the whole power of the Federal go vera meet behind him!" "Yea," said 8 tope, frowning. "And he should be kept out of the way esperiaftly Just now— since U would be a frightful thing If our present plan Were revealed? That would be a Mow from which we'd find It almost lmpos *bto to recover-

I "You mean our jffan to blow up the 1 interned warship?" "Exactly! You know, Carney, how Important it is that we should get into ( tills war." "And war means orders that would j ( Ming us a prosperity such as the • ( world has never seen," said Carney, j "There's only one thing— I don't trust j this man Bean." "Well have Dunn watch him. Dunn has fallen down pretty badly against the Larnlgan brothers, but I have found him useful enough in the past" The conspiracy was widespread. Roger Maxwell, the head of the%>surance trust and the father of Dorothy Maxwell, the girl whom both Bruce Larnlgan and Stanford Stone loved, was concerned in It— not so much because be was likely to be of use as because Stone in order to increase his hold on Dorothy saw to it that Maxwell sbould be involved in every disgraceful undertaking of the syndicate. And it chanced that Dorothy overheard part of the talk of the plan for the destruction of the warship. With Dorothy at the time as her guest was Kitty Rockford, the daughter of the railway magnate, whom Tom and his friend, Ben Travers, had won from his allegiance to Stone. "Kitty." said Dorothy, "we've got to interfere here. Your friend, Tom Larnlgan, is in danger"— "Ota!" said Kitty. "Do you really think there's any danger?" "I do.' And^Vve an idea as to how we can make sure too. I told you about my experience with Dunn? He has an office, you know. I think I can contrive a note that will get you work there as a stenographer. If you find anything out write a note and drop it from the window. I will be ! • watching below and will get it Are you game?" "Yes. i'm a good enough stenographer to pass muster. I took a course 1 once Just for fun." — ... - < There had proved u) be do difficulty about getting Kitty into Dunn's office. And at last Kitty beard something ' that sounde 1 important By listening ■ in she discovered that a certain tele- . phone call for Dunn was from Stan- 1 j ford Stone, and she managed to over- j bear Dunn's end of the conversation, ' 1 though It proved impossible to hear 1 j what Stone said. I "The best chance is 03 Pell street— j hop Joint." was what Dunn said, j Kitty could not guess the meaning of - this. But she wrote down what she j

"The best place is 63 Pell street — hop joint," Dunn said. had heard and dropped the note to Dorothy. Dorothy was also mystified, but she decided to take a chance and 1 sent an unsigned .note to Tom advising j him to sec vrbat there was to be dis- ' covered at the hop Joint at the address given by Dunn. ' What Dunn had actually told Stone was the address of the place where ' Bill Bean, the eccentric and half mad 1 Inventor, was usually to be found, it ' was a hang out of his. It was explained. ' Stone and Carney meanwhile had ' seen Bean and concluded certain arrangements with him. He had invent- • ed a wireless transmitter of extraonll- ' narjapower. so diminutive that it was 1 capable of being carried in a waistcoat pocket | -It looks good . to me," said Stone j when Been at Carney's request had explained the principle of his lnrentioa. "I think It's safe to -try it out to1 Wght, Carney." "You understand?" asked Carney. 1 -We want yon to give us a convincing 1 demonstration. If it is satisfactory ' we stand prepared to pay you $2OQ£0B ' to yearly installments of $50,000 far the rights to your invention."

^•Td do anything for that." said the } "Then gtvc me two of your prepared magnets," said Carney, "and tonight at B o'clock go to a certain dock— I hare { written down the location for you— , and eet your current to wdrk." B "Why nt the dock?" asked Been -I could do it from here." "Because you are to wait for a aig- * -dial; something might go wrong with 1 our plans. From the dock you will j Bee a small boat Three Bashes of an t electric torch will teilTou to gn ahead ' , "All right" said Bean. j Carney believed An doing things himself; he took no chances with helpers who might fail him. Therefore he pre- * pared two packages of explosives with a a good deal of care, attaching to their jj fulminating caps by means of a fine t wire the magnets Bean had given him. j One of these packages he left with Mrs. Larnlgan. Brace's mother. He un- 1 derstood that Tom was to return home ' a little before 8 o'clock and asked her t to give him the package as soon as he t returned. This, entirely unsuspicious, i she promised to do. The other package j Carney meant to fasten to the stern of the interned warship as she lay at her ' anchorage. , 1 Bean had obtained some money in ! I advance upon his promise neither to i 1 drink nor to visit a hop joint until he j c | had completed his work. But he could j , | not resist the temptation, and by thi !

-You mean our plan to blow up the in terned warship?" v merest chance he went to bis favorite j resort, the one to which Tom bad been advised to go. , Once in the Joint. Bean grew boastful and displayed his money. This was 1 too much for the other habitues of the ' place, and in a moment they fell upon e him. meaning to rob bim and if neces- t sary kill him. It was in the midst of , | this struggle that Tom appeared. On : general principles he went to Bean's aid. and it proved easy for him to beat off tbe drag weakened wretches who were attacking Bean, i Filled with gratitude. Bean left the ■ place with Tom. And to show his gratitude Bean took Tom home wit' him uud showed him bis invention. "I'll make you ray assistant" he de clared grandiloquently, and Tom laughing, accepted the offer. "We've got a big Job on tonight said Bean importantly. "You stick b me. Come on. It's time we weiej starting." On the way. despite Tom's protests ] and quite forgetting his promises. 1 Bean insisted on making numerous . 1 stops at saloons. He grew more and | . more exhilarated, and at last lie sent ■ ! by messenger a note to Stanford , ! Stone. Tom did not know of this. He I | would have giveu much, had he done j so, to read the note, which ran: j ] "I'm on my way to the dock. No ! chance of my getting drunk. I've 1 1 hired a new assistant to look after ine. i a bully fellow called Tom I.anilgau." j i Stone was almost frantic when he read this note. Carney was already 1 on his way to do his part of the work. I i There was no way of getting in touch ! ! With him. And so he got Dunn on the j telephone, urging him excitedly to send men to kill Tom I.arnigan at the dock where he was to he with Bean. , "Get Tom Larnlgan!" he cried. "Have him killed. Do whatever l-: i necessary. Take any risk— but get him." Meanwhile Tom and Bean had , reached tbe dock, and now Tom plied j Benn with questions, judging that j Bean would be willing in his drnnkcr ' •fate to tell the truth. This proved to j be the case, and Tom. filled with bar | ror, learned of the dreadful plot Tom thought fast. And he made ■ ' sudden lunge for Bean. In the straggle, with Bean resisting, the crazy in venter's hands were forced together. And at once out in the river there was a blinding flash— a terrific explosion. Carney in his boat, carrying the explosives. ghnd been blown lo pieces. The death be had planned for others had come to him. And Just then, too. the men from Dnnn's office appeared, attacked Tom and flung him into the water. But Dorothy Maxwell had arrived, too. having been warned by Kitty Rockford. find she sprang over to Ms rescue. while Ben Travers held off tbe miscreantr who would have tried to stop her. Bo the situation was saved, and the country was spared from tbe war into 1 which Stone and Cant} would h»ve ' aiMced * j

JAPAN CAPTURING ASIATIC TRADE Washington, Apr. 6. (Special Correspondence)— "Peach blossoms, silk kimonos and Geisha girls are not the chief stock-in-trade of the Land of the Rising Sun," declared a well known American publicist who recently returned afseveral years in the Orient This gentleman published a magazine in Manila, and be has just made a somewhat extended study of conditions in the Isles of the Mikado. "The war is putting Japan to the front' at a rate which takes one's breath away," he continued, "and while she is getting ready for the coronation function whidi.will name her Queen of the restrictive and ill-advised laws passed in this country are putting ns out of the running so far as trade in the Orient is concerned. I refer particularly, of course, to the seamen's law. although our present low duty taris of immense benefit to Japan. The I former has wiped out our shipping on ■ tbe Pacific and Japan controls the sitation. carrying our goods at her own rates and in- her own time, giving first i consideration in regard to cargo space to her own wares. The low duties carried in the Democratie law are helping lapan to get into our domestic market, jfor the wages she pays are ridiculously small. Furthermore, she is rapidly cutj iiig the ground from under our feet in China and the Far East generally. "Another thing which merits our attention: Japan is taking her cue from Germany and is impcrializing her industries as well as becoming militaristic in principle. Every mercantile line • of any importance running out of Japan today is subsidized. She has subsidize several industries as well, and she is taking every precaution which an autocracy may take to insure her commercial leadership when peace is declared. I can not too easnestly. warn the American people of the importance of Japan as a factor to be considered in deciding upon our future commercial policies." How does the warning of this traveler square with official information which comes to us of the saznc nature 1 Some time ago Consul General Anderson wrote from China that Japan was making discriminations in favor of her own oods being carried in Japanese bottoms, and as our ahips were off the routes here was nothing to do but stand for And she is pushing up the tonnage ates for all the traffic will stand. Meanwhile the Administration dallies with miserable ehip purchase folly. Reports from the same official, and from others, state that Japan is taking our Chinese trade in cotton goods, and Japanese shirtmakers are sending employees here to go from door to door, measurements and ordering the goods made up in Toltio and shipped here. It can be done under our low ariff on ootton dress goods. Japanese otton goods are woven on replicas of

' American spindles. Tbe trade reviews I inform as that Japan is importing a ] - large number of sheep from Australia. • - She is going to set herself up in the j f woolen and worsted business and de- t • pend on home-grown wool. She will - find a marget here under tbe present I • tariff. g 9 A cordage manufacturer in this coun- z ■ try, recently requested our Bureau of * I Insular Affairs to investigate the rea- J - son for the shortage of Philippine hemp in the United States. The official cabled o s to tbe Governor of the Philippines, who ® 1 wired back; "present shortage America — » due to great demand Japan for Bame • grades." J^pan is going to compete „ ' with us in cordage manufacture, and ra 9 she can hog-tie us with her hemp under tl 9 Democratic rates. She is buying tbe i raw material where we once got it, and - gfae has the ships to bring it to her PJ Finally, we are informed by the de- ? partment of Commerce that Japan has K i subsidized her dyestuffs industries Con- - sider all these matters, as well as the v, i fact that the Japanese wage scale is a t about one-twelfth that in the United s) i States j,

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