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SIONAL OF. FENDER.* THE WIRETAPPERK" "GUN runners." etc NmtAifnm THE PATHE PHOTO PLAY OF THE SAME NAME

synopsis. On Windward island PaUdori Intrigues Mrs. Golden into an appearance of evU which causes Golden to captor* and tortore the Italian by brandhw hla face and crushing his hud. Ptlldori opens the dyke gates and floods the Island and In the general rush to escape the flood kidnaps Golden" s six-year-old daughter MarCfTvJ^^^TiT^1 hi msel f° "ttTlianwi e r of God" rescues an elghtean-yaar-old girl Bom the cadet Casavantt to whom Jules Eagar has delivered her, aad takee her to the home of Enoch Golden, millionaire, whence she is recaptured byLsgar. Legar and Stein are discovered by Manley. Golden'* secretary, setting Are to Golden's buildings, but escape. Margery's mother fruitlessly Implores Enoch Golden to fad their daughter. Th*;: Masked One „ again takes Margery away from Legar. FOURTH EPISODE THE NAME AND THE GAME Legar bad reason to feel well pleased with his morning's work. Defeated for the time being, in one quarter, he, promptly swung about and ■truck at another. His attack. In this Instance, was directed at nothing less than Enoch Golden's own home. There, effecting an entrance through a neglected coal chute before even the seryants were astir, he had crept stealthily upward until he found refuge In a trunk room. Through the door crack of this trunk room, however, he soon had the dubious pleasure of beholding a figure quite as stealthy as his own, & figure that wore a laughing mask and made Its way cautiously downward to the door of Enoch Golden's study. On that door the masked figure, before vanishing as quietly as It had first appeared, pinned an oblong paper. Stealing up to It, Legar read: Enoch Golden: You have proved a disappointment to me. Despite my warnings, you still oppress the poor and abuse your power. Your daughter haa been saved from the clutches . | of Legar, and at the proper time will ! be produced. But that time will not ' come until you have changed your ways of life. 80 while still you have the chance, do' some good deed! THE LAUGHING MASK. Legar, having thoughtfully perused • this strange warning, promptly added I a postscript: As a slight sign of my disapproval, I am appropriating your fifty thousand dollars from the vaults of the Third National bank, for which I now take occasion to thank you. Ten minutes later Legar had made hla escape from the house and was speeding southward In his car, to confer with his own men as th the approaching assault on Golden's wealth In the Third National vaults. . ]'• The Laughing Mask himself, in the I nuwnMmA wan hnnv with hin own pn

A Figure That Wore a Laughing Mask ■*

terprise. He had rescued Margory 1 Golden from Legar, it was true, but ! her conveyance to a place of safety- ! i in open daylight, was a much more difficult problem. In his extremity * accordingly, "he had to resort to those ; expedients nearest at hand. j| . This led htm down a secluded ™y - way. where the powder shack of a con- . j Btruction company still stood half way j : up a wpoden hillside.. At the end of I i a tunrrel piercing this "hillside was a | timbered chamber for high explosives J I Guarded as it was with its double lock 1 the Laughing Mask seejhed an experi In the manipulation of-'such obstacles, aince five minutes t work with lhi» skeleton keys threw open that' well hidden room. Once there, he even ven tured to explord*his surroundings anc take from their case certain taqallcyUn - ders Incased In grease-stained paper t He dft not explain to the already over i pusaled girl, however, that thee

grease stains were made by a substance known as nitroglycerin, nor did he explain to her, at the end of hla quiet yet hurried labors, that the looped line hanging at the tunnel mouth was in any way connected with the fulminate caps which he had placed, so pregnantly close to his bur led mine. But It was well, he remembered, to be prepared for such men aa Legar and his followers. "Now," said the masked figure, turning to the girl, "I want you to stay here until I get back." Wafting for her deliverer's return, ' however, proved neither a pleasant nor a tranqnlllxlng pastime. The girl became restless. Then she became - worried. Then she even ventured to creep out along the rough-shored passageway, to where the tunnel opened on a shelf of rock and gravel half way up the hillside. Screened as it was with shrubbery she could see little of the valley before her. The only point of life that met her gaxe was a black touring car crawling along the valley road. When that car turned off the road and twisted and rocked in between the bushes below her she thought, at first that it was her unknown guardian returning to her. But when' she saw five men cautiously emerge from that half -hidden car and creep still closer through the underbrush, she felt sure that they were not approaching as friends. For a moment her heart leaped up Into her mouth. Then she breathed again, for , she Baw that they .were not approaching her hiding place, but apparently ; seeking one of their own. And as they foregathered behind a screen of scrub oak not more than thirty feet' below i her she knew both by their guarded tones and their general conspiratorial aspect that they stood intent on their own ends, quite oblivious of her and her hiding place. Her face paled, however, as she heard the clearer and more authoritative tones of one of those speakers For that voice, she knew, belonged to Legar, and only to Legar. The girl, pushing her cautious way through the bushes, leaned even closet over the ledge. Then she held het breath, for she saw that her move ments had loosened the gravel at het feet and sent .a covey of bowlders careening down the hillside. The voices below at the same time came to a sudden stop, in another moment she could hear the crash of hurrying feet through the tangled shrubbery. Before shp could turn and fly Le gar and his- four evil-faced followers were charging up the slope. They were upon her, cutting off her retreal before she could dodge back Into the ' passageway. Yet she did not surren- | der without a struggle. She fought them back as best she could, standing at bay with her back against the rocky j hillside. It was not until Legar's hand clamped like a vise on her arm that she screamed, and screamed again. j A masked figure picking his cau- j tlous way along the crest of the hill ' above them heard that cry and seemed to understand Its meaning. For, on hearing that repeated scream, he no longer picked his way, but ran fran tically. and with all his speed. So precipitately did he scurry down that rocky hillside. In facL that he descended in a flying leap in the very midst of Legar's followers clustered about the girl. He landed like a fallen plumb bob. heels down, knocking one of the conspirators sprawling over the cliff edge as hh came. Another he sent with a well-aimed blow In the sqme direction. The third was not disposed of so easily. Bnt an adept jiu-jitsu twist of the body soon sent thlB opponent diving headforemost Into the loose gravel. It was then that Legar. seeing his men going down about him like ninepins, released his clutch on the girl's arm to 1 draw his revolver. At the same moment that he did j so the man in the mask, swinging the girl sharply about, darted for 'the tun- . nel-mouth. He was through it before ! Legar could level his gun and fire. He j was half^leading, naif-dragging the ! panting girl jiowi the narrow passage 1 before any of .the band could follow. But before he dodged for the hidden powder house he threw up his free hand and caught at the loop which t hung^there at the end of his line. And he pulleqBt vigorously as he ran. . | 'The resfflt of that simple movement , was both prompt and appalling. Th" | thunder of a great ^etonatlon shook . the earth. The rocky hillside erupt- ! ed into a sudden volcano of flying earth and gravel, flinging its tons- of debris''into the echoing galley. And r ! under the debris could be seen the [ stHl struggling limbs of Legar and his 1 men. ,, ®ut the man in the mask did not . ! linger to wltnessAhose struggles. He 1 darted -with the whitoteedd girl out of tne broken' tunnei mouth, dragged > her hurriedly up the slope' and circled down'through -rock and underbrush to where his hidden car awaited him. The Secet Attack. Enoch Golden was no longer a contemptuously indifferent man aa he laced his attorney, John Sibley, hur-

there's this man in a mask .talking i through my hense and pinning threats | -t to my doorpanels. Then—" < < "Walt," cut in the man of law. "Did , anyone actually aea this man of the 1 mask?" ] "Yes, Wilson, my butler, came face I to face with him as he stepped out of >t a passageway. Then, whet. my secre- 1 tary, Manley. started in pursuit of the Intruder, instead of finding a stranger < In this fool mask, he found his way blocked by a girl, a girl in a cloak, , who seemed to 00m e there out of thin \ air. And that girl, sir, turned out , to be my own danghter, my own , daughter in some miraculous way res- , cued from Legar." "Brought there by the man In the mask?" 'Tea, brought there by him. 60 she asserts. Yet this stragger, who brings me back the one thing precious , In my life, on the same day assumes to criticise my- conduct and threatens 1 to rob me of my taoney." 1 "But that threat, as I've already ! pointed out. Is foolish. Your money ' has all the protection that steel and ! civilization can surround it with. It 1 lies in the vaults of the Third National 1 bank." "But I tell you I am surrounded by 1 enemies, by unknown enemies of great 1 skill and daring. That has already 1 been proved. And while they can 1 never make me cower, they have at leaat'made me cautious." I "I guess we'd better all go down to < the Third National and make sure 1 they're not putting tljeir gold and i notes out on the windowsllls for the 1 first crook that comes along to carry 1 off." said the lawyer. 1 President Stonington of the Third 1 ■ National received them in his private 1 office and learned from Sibley the < reason of his visit That official. In 1 fact, was an active sharer in the tncre- ' dulity of the old lawyer. He quietly .1 touched a bell, sent for a uniformed at- a , tendant and instructed that attendant 1

to escort his visitor to the bank . vaults. ! i "Be so good, Mr Wells, as to show I I our clients that our vaults are not made of tissue paper." j This the attendant took much prid« j in doing. ! I The array of defensive measures, j puzzling as it was to the younger mem- . hers of the party, served to bring a t sense of assurance to Enoch Golden himself. A certain one-armed criminal, nevertheless. was at that precise moment very busily engaged In preparing for , his assault on this Gibraltar of gold ! so proudly regarded aa Impregnable. L Two workmen In the uniform of General Electric employees, exploring a section of abandoned cable gallery, were busily engaged In enlarging a , wire conduit which met this gallery at , right angles. There, by means of an ( electric mining drill, they burrowed ( like two moles deep beneath the level _ of the street along which the traffio ! of a great city so ceaselessly ebbed and , flowed. From a manhole opening Into [ this gallery was quietly passed a huge . oyllnder of Iron capped by a drum of zinc having a hinged cover. The two I subterranean workers had been I s warned to handle the cylinder with the utmost care. And this thes^lid, know- ( ing full weH that Its weigBlrwaa due ( to the fact of Its being tightly packed - t with high explosive, j Legar himself. In the meantime, having clothed a number of his henchmen ; * uniforms and caps bearing the In- I , scriptlon "Western National Bank." diL rected his attention to the much more [ critical task of tracing the signature, i Henry H. Stonington. on a typewritten , sheet bearing the embossed Imprint , of the Third NationaL t His next move, once he had received a report that his two gallery workers . had fitted their massive cylinder-rfn the | wire conduit and pushed it gently but I firmly into the uttermost recesses ot , tfyu conduit by means of a Jointed , bamboo pole, was to verify the 'time at which the detonating clock had , been set, advise nis colleagues, and s take* up his position In the window of [ a building commanding a view of the I great granite-bastioned bank ItseM. ! 'He consulted his watch from time j to time, with his eves always going hungrily back to the heavy-pillared back entrance ltaelf. 9 * "In one minute." he announced, "they'll get a dose of the medicine they s gave us this morning." Again he looked at his watch.

pounding over car rails, the shouts ot blue-coated patrolmen already forming J , their oorden around the dust-crowned ruins. "Fire!" was the cry that filled the canyon! "The building's on flrej" And It was then that Legar replaced his watch in his pocket, and tossing aside the field glasses through which he had been viewing the street, ■bowed that he was once more hlmsell "Now's the time, men," he announced to his followers, "to get ready for work!" • •••••. • The Biter Bitten. The news of the Third National outrage soon spread through the city. And aa the resultant fire grew intensity the crowd in the neighbor grew in volume. Police reserves, marshaled by a stalwart and sternfaced captain, had already established their fire lines and still fought back the overt: urious that trampled the long scorpions of black hoae and edging and shouldering ever closer to the scene of the great catastrophe. There was no relaxing of vigilano* fact, when the limousine of Enoch Golden himself came throbbing and crawling through that densely packed mob of -human beings. Golden himself, alighting from that car, pleaded and stormed In vain with the Inexorable officials confronting him. And while still frenxledly argued and demanded a hearing with the officers In charge, a second vehicle made Its way towards the stHl smoldering ruins. This second vehicle was a motor truck on which was mounted not only number of men In the uniform of attendants, but afito a police lieu-

[ "IPe-the Laughing Mask Againl" Said Legar With an Oath.

tenant, who had been requisitioned to clear a way through the crowd. For this was not the Intrusion of mere curiosity seekers. That much the captain la charge of the police lines promptly discovered when he was on the point of ordering both truck and attendants out of the forbidden territory. For the cool-eyed man in command of that truck had come well armed for an? such Emergency. Into the astonished hand of the police official he thrust an authoritative-looking document from the pj-esident of the Third National himself!; This letter ot Introduction read: To the Officials In Charge: Acting on an emergency decision of our directors, I herewith authorize the agents of the Western National Bank to take possession of and remove the contents of Third National Bank vaults to the vaults of the Western National. As this decision was arrived at to ' frustrate any possible interference with our gold and co1 lateral when so obviously exposed, I trust you will do everything possible to expedite th# r» moval of this treasure to a place ef safety. Youre very truly, JOHN ELIOT STONINGTON, President. At the same time that the police captain, acting on this peremptory or~<er. was clearing a path to»the neighborhood of the still smoking vaults, Enoch Golden, with Margory and Mam ley at hla side, was fighting to break through those jealously guarded %re lines. And at the sight of the motor truck and the ^Western National attendants his antics became even more frenzied than before. "I teM you I've got to get in there?" he shouted to the apathetic patrolman holding him back. "Yes," agreed the patrolman, "of course you'd llke^to get^in there." "But I tell you" I'm Enoch Golden," was the financier's frantic cry. "I don't care if yeu're the president o' the United States," was tie retort. "You stay out" It was young Manley -himself, who, watching his chance, suddenly slipped In through the -lines and p» 1— * the side of the busy captain before he could be stopped. 'For already the work of removing the vault contents • was undte way." "You've got to keep this gold from going out." the young maq cried Into the face of the somewhat astounded captain. "Who are yon?" demanded that offi-