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Further Chapters of
By Crittenden Marriott r
CHAPTER Ill.
FEW reporters can turn out more
,than two ordinary newspaper
columns in less than three hours,
but Hatton wrote more than three
columns before he'ended. Moreover.
“lieiio2" She Cnlied. ““h1Ii‘s Hrt-kt
, , ilntmn
the day had been exhausting. When at
last he rose from his tybewriter he was
both hushed and shivering. racked with
nomethingthat seemed like fever. but,
yet was not fever, and cold with an
ague that was not agile.
This condition was not new to Char-
ley Iiatton. For six months he had
experienced just such “spells;" and he
be free from them.
knew, a consequence of the year he
had spent in Europe, behind the lines
of the Germanic powers lit the break-
ing out of the great war.
when the explosion came lie was in
Vienna, in the course of a three-months’
. .
Mystery Story
Devil’s Pills
CHICAGO LEDGER
a Baming New York
window in the Chimneystack
had been shattered, obviously by.a
small missile projected from without.
Possibly a. bullet had been tired from
n omce in the Elcctrolier building
across the street. on the tloor of the
room in the Chimncystack Apart-
ments lay the body of a man known
to the few who had observed him as
OTTO ‘VEHDER. ll man of i1l&‘S-
tery, evidently of roreign birth, who
had occupied the apartment for sev-
eral months, according to state-
ments made b
JOIIX ARDIOUR. manager of the
building. the latter originally from
globe-trotting trip; and like all other
newspaper men. he welcomed the clash
I arms and went crazy with delight
when he got permission to follow the
armies in the field. His association
' with the Gazette was an old one and he
years, First to discover the lifeless
victim was '
IKIJSSELL (70s“',u'. a real estate
star reporter, entered the room Con-
way was there, much excited and
seemed to be gloating over the for-
. eigner's death. ConvraY had a crum-
pied letter in his hand. The reporter
caught his words as he cried, “The
beast-the foul beast! “'hy didn't
I know sooner?" I
According to the negro elevator
boy. Conway a minute or two before
claimed he was ringing the bell when
he heard a scream and a. heavy fail.
later he and Mr. Armour had forced
This was Told in‘ the Opening Installment
another door and found the body.
appeared to be bits of broken glass
were on the floor of the room.
DR. KVIXDUDI. the coroner. on ex-
amining the body. amazed his hear-
henrt failure.
-the autopsy would probably tell.
Before Writing his story for the Ga-
zette. liatton chanced to meet a
showwoman. nown as
AYESHA, THE SNAKE C'HAll‘.lI’-
En. whom he had previously known
when he was a war correspondent in
Armenia. three years before.’ Ayesha
and an American girl name .
(‘LAHIE GILBERT were (hell en-
gaged in mission work. e re-
porter and Ayesha had each believed
the other dead. as they and the
American girl had been caught in a
Way's office and assured himself that
one of the windows there was in di-
rect line-horizontally-with the
broken one in “’erder’s apartment.
Havin: observed the splinters of "
Elassias V the others in VVerder's
room had called the shiny fragments
-to melt and disappear, the reporter
concluded that an ice bullet. or an
iclbie, could have been fired into the
dead man's apartment.
as he learned little by little the real
meanin f the devils work for which
those magnificent armies had been raised
and to which they had been dedicated.
’At last. when protesting perhaps too
strenuously and certainly too impru-
dentiy against a particular fiendish ex-
of "Kultur," he was shot down
.and left for dead.
1.00.92“ “(‘nn‘t Tell
Replied.
did not need to consult it at all: In fact
he received half a dozen imploring mes-
sages from it before he succeeded in
getting a single one back to America.
Heart and soul he had thrown him-
self into the work. At the beginning
h had no very strong predilection for
either side; but very soon he foun him-
self unconsciously swayed toward
9
and death struggle for world
that it later turned out to he.
umphtlnt rush or the conquering Teutons
roused his enthusiasm,
Later came disiliusion, slow but sure.
Saved at the last gasp by the bart-st
of chances and restored after
months to so-called health he returned
to the United States to recuperate. It
was weeks before he could resume news-
paper work: an even atter he did re-
p sume it. any over-exertion was sure to
bring on a relapse. . ‘
Most other men who were half as ex-