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SYN0PS18. On Windward Island Palldorl Intrigues Mrs. Golden Into an appears >n> of «vH which causes Golden to caotSs and torture the Italian by brandlnirSs fane and crush! nr his hand. PalldOTi ' opens the dyke rates aDd floods the Wand and, tn the general rush to escape the flood kidnap* Golden's six-year -old daughter Margery. Twelve year's later In Hew York a Masked One calling himself "the Hammer of God" rescues an eighteen-year-old girl from the cadet Caaavantl. to whom Jules Leger has delivered her, and takes hep to the home of Enoch Golden, millionaire, | whence she Is recaptured by, I, f r. Legar and Btsfn are discovered by. kfenley, Golden's secretary, setting fire to Golden's buildings, but escape. Margery's mother fruitlessly Implores , Enoch Golden ■- to And -their daughter. The Meshed One again takes Margory away from Legar. Legar loots the Third National bank, but again the Laaghlng Mask frustrate* his

SIXTH EPISODE . j. THE SPOTTED WARNING Enoch Golden had never formed the habit of taking others Into his confidence. And when events came Into his Ufe which seemed to lea^e him more and more dependent on bis immediate associates he betrayed an occasional tendency to foens his nebulous resentment against that situation on the exasperatingly Imperturbable figure of David Manley. I 'Young man." he said, fixing his set> retary with a steely eye "I came to a 1 this decision twenty long /eats ago. and nothing is going to change it. That woman was sent from my home, and I ehe will never enter It again." Manley, looking down at the note | still held In bis hand, thought of the ; troubled and tear-stained face of the j girl who had so recently clung to his arm and asked him to plead her cause. And the memory of. "Margery Golden I brought fresh courage ;to him. I "But Gils woman who was once your j own wife is only asking for a glimpse , of her own daughter again. Surely , . | that Is asking little enough!" ~ . "And I repeat that 1 won't allow It, j t I have saved my daughter from the , I dangers that woman's wrong surround- 1 j ed her with. I have saved her fropi — " j jj "Have you?" Interrupted Manley. de- j i liberately meeting the older man's ; r ' stare I ' ^n-; retort the older man was about , • ; to utter remained unspoken, fur at that moment a soft-treading footman ! j en tried the room and crossed to the i desk with a salver of mail in his hasd. ; Manley looking up. eyed tint servant I resentfully, and with a to-ich of sus- 1 : j plclon. This Intruder, he promptly ! j surmised, was a new figure In the | household retinue. I -"Be so good as to knock when you ! enter this room." was the young seere- ; i t&ry's sharp command, j "Very good, sir." answered the new j footman, scarcely raising his eyes. , | "Hf" Golden scoffed, looking up from the letter which he had just. I ojfaned "Since you're so ready to ask 1 j favors, here's another friend to ask j them for. Here's the captain of the i circle you're so ready to champion ! , But instead of asking favors jfeu see, he demands them!" I Be tossed the folded sheet angrily across the desk top. Manley took It " up and read It "Your happiness hangs on one email ■crap of paper. That paper !• the portion of the Windward Island chart

1 Trades the Telephone Circuits.

which you still hold. Unless this Is delivered to me. and delivered I ; have already directed, the Rjjftted Warning will come to your daughter j Margery. And the meaning of the ( Spotted Warning she already under- ! stands. JULES LEGAR." j "And what do you intend to do?" : asked Manley. still staring down at ! this strange note. / "Do you suppose." retorted Golden, with a slightly tremulous finger al- !. ready on the bell, "that I'm going to empty my safe to every blackleg who ; handles about catch-word that be- ; longs to little Italy?" "But what earthly use is this pioca of chart to you?" asked the yonngei

j "Iris use to me Is not the point at Issue," doggedly retorted the older ■ man. t- ' "But one polat at issue is at least d the safety of your daughter," contendIn ed Manley, remembering only too well k the events of the Immediate past "And that, young man, is a responsl- ' it bfUty which still rests on my own [J shoulders." was Golden's curt retort as a the new footman stepped Into the J room In answer to hla summons. "Tell i- Miss Margery to come here at once." • As Margery quietly stepped Into the o room Golden stared/ at her for a mo- • jnent and then sank back Into his [t chair. ■ "What is the Spotted Warning?" ha suddenly demanded. The girl, with her troubled eyes bent on the grim;llned face of her father, did not speak at once. "The Spotted Warning?" she repeated, in a little more than a whis0 per. 1 'Yes. what Is that supposed to 0 mean?" 1 "It is a warning of death." was the i- girl's quietly enunciated reply. Man- !- ley could detect the tremor that sped i through her body. "And it means that you have been hearing from Legar i- again!" "But what does I-egar mean by It?" ' ; asked Manley. "Why should he use j such a phrase?" >, "It Is a warning that comes to the t person who is about to die. II is a 1 message of warning, spotted black. It Is the last word they send. And I have 9 beard them say It has never failed — s never once!" ■> But the Indomitable old fighter at s the desk was once more on his feet. "That Sicilian black-magic stuff l can't intimidate me," he thundered out. r He turned to his daughter. "Until » this Calabrian brigand farce is played r out. I'm going to send you into tne i country." . j "But where are you sending me?" » , asked the girl. "I'm going to send you out to your ' Aunt Agatha's on Long Island!" was - ) his curt response as he swung about i i to his secretary. "And while Margery's getting her things together, I : Manley. you send Train, the chauff feur, here to rae for bis instructions." i Manley. promptly crossing to the > door, was startled to find the figure of • the new footman standing close beside I It as it was swung open. Ten minutes later, when Manley returned to the library with Train at his > heels, he found Enorh Golden staring I down at a sheet of paper lying on his i desk. At the center of this paper stood a large black blot. "It's the Spotted Warning." said Golden, his heavy face furrowed with a trouble deeper than he was willing > to admit. "But how. in God's name, did It get here?" Manley. after staring at the strange-ly-spotted sheet, stared even mare ln- < tently at the ceiling directly above the point where the paper lay on the desktop. A momentary look of satisfaction flitted across his face as Golden turned to him with a crisp command to | "recede Margery to Cedarton and there explain both- the reasons for her risk and the precautions to be exer•lsed during that visit.

"And as for you. Train." continued the grim-eyed old millionaire, turning to his chauffeur. "I want you to take my daughter out to Cedarton as quickly as your car and the speed laws will let you carry her. There are special reasons for this, remember. And from the moment you leave this house, don't let anything or anybody stop yeu." Thirty minutes later Margery Golden. surrounded by her bags, sat back In the swaying automobile, puzzled over this new and unexpected turn in the tide of -events And as mile by mile swam by beneath the hurrying wheels, the keen-eyed man in the driving seat found a load Hfted from his own shoulders. Yet at the next turn In the road his llght-beartedness suddenly departed j from that keen-eyea driver. For as he ; took this turn and speeded up along a dufitless stretch of open highway, he saw a figure run out to the middle of the road. It was not the fact that j this figure stood directly In his path I that most disturbed him. It was the i discovery, as he drew down on It, . that this figure wore a -ellow band of f cloth across the eves, with a moon- ; ] shaped apron fatting almost to the end I j of the nose, that brought the redoubt- : able Train's heart suddenly up in his | ! mouth. But even while that figure | ' remained stubbornly and directly in j his path, motioning for him to stop. I he remembered his orders. Instead of slackening his sneed. in fact, he increased it. increase^ it to the limit of the engine s power. And he would surely have ridden down that woulds be interceptor had i>nt the latter, at \ the last moment. leaped quickly aside. ! Margery Golden, as he did so, half | rose In her seat, for she, too. had | caught eight of that mysteriously-she-lowed face. "But. that was the Laughing Mask!" the cried .qloud, in wonder, as they .«*.=&<>«: J^lgtig. a^er. Bbe was startled by * ■ a .». v. n ipipMW

was a man with a red flag. Instead ofl so close thai tts fender-end slapped But that command was more or leas lost on Train, a little dlxxy now with the sheer drunkenness of speed. "Stop?" mocked the driver as he raced on. "Fm going to stop Cor nothing this side of heH!' Yet that valiant boast was little more than the articulation Ot mortal pride so often preluding mortal disss ter. For. bearing down on them, along that lonely stretch of roadway they - could already see a second car." The ' point about this car that worried Train ' was that it was not approaching ; as a wen-behaved car should SLjforoecb " a comrade vehicle, hut vermlcntaled ' drunkenly from one side of the road to 1 the other. Even yhrgery, as she' leaned forward, puzzling over them 1 strange movements, realised that peri; ' wu Involved, In passing a vihicle M 1 uncertain of Its course. At the sam< time, too. she could he^r from far be 1 hind her _ prolonged and warnlni cry of a* auto horn, wailing distort 1 ingly trough the quiet air of the 1stafternoon. The next moment the two cars ha< met, head-on. There was a crash of metal am glass, a rending of honey-comb radis tore and coppered fenders. What happened after that for al time remained strangely like a drear to Margory. She remembered seelnj Train lying close beside his wreck a* car, with the blood trickling from his wrist and staining his whip-cord uniform. She remembered seeing other figures, even more helpless looking. , But most of all she remembered how one of these figures, pulling himself together, had slowly risen to his feet. As he did so he turned halt-stupidly about and stared down at her. And the moment she saw that pallid yet triumphant face she knew that it was Le- [ gar. She knew that he was confronting i her, that he was slowly but determin- j edly making his way towards her. And < she knew that in another moment she would have been their prisoner again ' had not a sudden and unlooked-for Interruption taken place. This Interruption came in the form of a flying roadster, with a masked figure leaning low out from its run- ! ntng board as it swept down on them. She remembered the sudden shout of the men the sudden clutch of tiie

1 -iron; IihiiiI an it caught at her while t Hi.- ruadatcr *wopt liy. the equally sudden pain through her bruised body as j *'"• HWU"S safely up in to thr'seat »f the .in ward swerving ear. She rel ni*inl»ered. too. the aim close about t her as she lay hark. «eak and panting. »s they danced and speeded on , along thai lonely road. She rememL bi-red turning in through a >tnne gate. 1 winding along an orderly gravel drive1 way. stopping before a vine-bowered r bungalow. She remembered, as the masked man at tu-r side helped lier in , through an ivory-whit.- door, turning dazedly to him, and asking who he was. I And she remembered the smile that I showed jiftt beneath the fringe of the > yellow domino as he shook his heat! . ! and the sense of deprivation that • swept through her as she found her- ' ".-If once more alone. Then from the V»mo door through which the Laugh- ( ing Mask had stepped, she remem- ^ ' bcred, she had seen « quiet-eyed wom- [ an come out. « quiet -eyed" woman who . j had crept up to her. with tears wellI ing from her eyes and a smile of pity- ' ing tenderness about her lips. » J "Margery, don't you know me? Don't you remember your own mother!" j that quiet-eved woman had asked as i she had taken her in her arms. And . as she stared up into that motherly ; face, bent so close over her own, she had 1 said, with a gasp of bewilderment, "Are you the Laughing Mask!" But her mother. she remembered, had smiled, almost \ sorrowfully, and jiut a finger to her lips. The Tower of Destiny Enoch Golden, anxious and worn-out, sat waiting for some further word as to j , th'- fate of his daughter. Nothing had I , come to him since Train's startling message of the collision and the startling j ' news of the girl's disappearance. He [ ^ bouid have got little eon -olation from I " i talk that' ww's -tiling- place over the

"It is ? Warning of Death I" Waa the (Rri's Reply. «n» ncpiy.

- tlrt from their hantla and had appdheet- ' ly carried her off to.aome hiding placo ' 3f hta own. This waa followed by th* ' comtpanfi to deliver fltffi another Bee- » sago to Enoch Golden, with the final warning thai every wire loading Into the Golden bouse must be cat sa soon ' as possible. The new footman. In obedience to these orders, quietly traced out the ! telephone circuits to the basement and ' there severed the wires with a pair of 1 scissors purloined for the purpose 1 from Mile. Celes tine's work bag. Then. 1 watching his chance, he carefully ' penned a note, wording It as Legar 1 Lad duly Instructed him to do. Then \ he returned to the neighborhood of the library door, with his ferretBie alertness masked under his customary immobility of face. It waa not until his restless master discovered the telephone wires to be dead, and went storming through the house to determine the reason fcr this ■misadventure, that Wrench realised his chance had come. Slipping into the deserted library on the pretext of adjusting the rugs, he stopped before the rosewood table, hesitated a moment, and then lifted the beatifychafed lid of Golden's cigar case and dropped the note Inside. A moment later be had left the room, unobserved and unsuspected. It did not take many minutes of waiting to confirm - the wisdom of ' Wrench'd movement For Enoch Golden, striding restlessly back Into his library, sank with a sigh of weariness . • Into the armchair beside the rosewood table. For a moment or two he stared ' abstractedly and unhappily about him. Then, with still another sigh, ha reached out and lifted the heavily1 chased lid of silver. His fingers, la- ' stead of coming In contact with a peri fecto corseted in gold, rustled against j a sheet of papej^ Automatically ha ' : picked it up and unfolded It Written on that mysterious sheet ha found the following: "To fight me further In this la useless. And unless you open your eyas to this fact It will soon be worse thin useless. It will be fatal. I repeat that I want yodr half of that chart. If you want your daughter to live, want her sent back to you, take that chart to the twenty-fourth floor of the Central Tower building, within the next hour.

ana nana It to the man In tn* black ulster who will be waiting there. Na trickery can succeed. "And this Is yaur last chancel JULE8 LEGAR." Silently the beaten man stared down at this strange missive. Slowly as he did so. the last of his once Iron will melted away. He rose heavily from his chair and crossed to the vsult. From 'this vauR he took the map. the time-yellowed square of manilla about which so many of the sorrows and troubles of all his life seemed to revolve. Then, calling for his hat and coat and ordering a car., he tremblingly made ready for his midnight visit of capitulation to the Central Tower building. While these events were taking place, however, there was one member of the Golden household who remained far from inactive. When David Manley so abruptly left a tranquil bung* low at Cedarton and so stealthily pushed his way through the shrubbery surrounding that bungalow, it was because he had made the sudden discovery that Legar himself was In the neighborhood1. Nor was It hard for him to guess the reason for that mas-ter-criminal's Invasion of those sequestered grounds. And Manley. promptly deciding to sulk the sUlker himself, was rewarded by overbearing enough of Legar's plans, as the latter hurriedly issued his Instructions to two of his confederates near the roadside, to realize the necessity of at once getting In touch with Enoch Golden. Whatever happened, he felt, it was hlfl duty to warn Margery's father that Legar himself had acknowledged his Ignorance of the girl's whereabouU and had expressed his Intention of trlckln^the chart out of Its present owner's hands, j Ten minutes of frantic efforts at ■ | telephone booth in the nearby village, • however, convinced Manley of the un- | possibility of getting 1j> toueh wttb | Golden hj wire.