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oklahoma state register
The Exploits of Elaine
A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama
ARTHUR B. REEVE
TbcWdl-Known Novelist and the Creator of the "Craig Kennedy** Stories
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Just "done. Then his second thought
seemed to approve it.
"This is a trap of the Clutching
Hand, Walter," he whispered, adding
tensely, "and we're going to walk right
Into it."
"But. Craig,". 1 demurred, "that's
foolhardy. Have her trailedvany<
thing—but—" 1
He Bhook his head, and with a ftierc
T,tl0!! 0f hlS hand bru6hed aside mJ lean\here be anything'in lt' N
Elaine and (> lg Kennedy are malting to obJe<.tlons ag he wpnt t0 a cabirle, there lsn t."
across the room. j Bennett spoke In a low tone. I
From one shelf he took out a small . have heard a whisper of some scan-
New Tork police are mystified by
* series of murders and other crimes The
principal clue to the criminal la the warn-
ing letter which is sent the victims,
signed with a *'< lutchlng hand." Th# lat-
est victim of the mye-terlous assassin in
Taylor Dodge, the insurance president.
His daughter. Elaine, employs «'uiig
Kennedy, the famou3 scientific detective,
to try to unravt-i the mystery. What
Kennedy accomplishes is told by h!a
friend Jameson, a newspaper man. En-
■ "Who Is that woman?" she asked,
9 still wondering about the identity of
a the niobe outside
S j At first he said notb?ng Rut finally.
| seeing that she l;ad noticed it, he
2 handed Elaine the card, reluctantly.
w Elaine r sd it with a gasp The look
« of surprise that crossed her face was
3 | terrible.
3 j Before she could say anything, how-
•3; ever. Milton had relumed with the
•3 sheet of paper on which 'Weepy
| Mary" had written and handed it to
H Bennett.
Bennett read it with uncontrolled
§; astonishment
"What is it?" demanded Elaine.
He handed it to her. and she read
As the lawful wife and widow
of Taylor Dodge I demand my
son's rights and my own.
MRS. TAYLOR DODGE.
Elaine gasped at it
"She—my father's wife*" she ex-
claimed. "What effrontery! What
| does she mean?"
Bennett hesitated.
"Tell me." Elaine cried "Is there—
resorts to al! sorts of th most diabolical
schemes tc put ther out of the way.
Each chapter of th sto . tell? of a new
plot aeainot their live and of the way
the grea* detective uses all his ."kill to
•ave this pretty girl and himself from
death.
SEVENTH EPISODE
The Double Trap.
Mindful of the sage advice that a
time of peace is best employed in pre-
paring for war. I was busily engaged
in cleaning my automatic gun one
waistcoat pocket and the small box in
his coat pocket with excessive care
Then he turned and motioned to m«
to follow him out into the other room
I did so, stuffing my "gatt" into mj
"Let me introduce my friend. Mr
Jameson," said Craig, presenting m«
to the pretty crook.
The introduction quickly over, w«
morning as K.nnedy and I were seat- three went out to get Craig's car
metal box and from another a test j dal or other connected with your fath-
tube. placing the test tube in hit | er„bm_- He paused
son." had arrived at the Mttle tumble
down station and had taken the only
vehicle In sight, a very ancient car-
riage.
It ambled along until, at last, it
pulled up before'the vestry room door
of the church, just as the bogus min-
ister was finishing his transformation
from a frank crook. Clutching Hand
was giving him his final instructions.
Elaine and the others alighted and
approached the church, while the an-
cient vehicle rattled away.
They're coming!" whispered the
! crook, peering cautiously out of the
window.
Clutching Hand moved silently and
snakelike into the closet and shut the
; door.
"How do you do. Doctor Carton?"
greeted "Weepy Mary." I guess you
don't remember me."
The clerical gentleman looked at
her fixedly a moment.
"Remember you?" he repeated. "Of
course, my dear. I remember every-
one I marry."
"And you remember to whom you
married me?"
"Perfectly. To an older man—a Tay-
I lor Dodge."
Elaine was overcome.
I. toward nun. he waited, ]||
(breaking out on his face.
j "Say. he whined, "you lerWPj||j_
ii It was ineffectual. Kennedy,
Ing connd'-utly. came closer, still hold-;j
' ing the deadly little box. balanced be*! commotion, stir?
; tween two fingera ' ....
t He took the crook's gun and dropped
it into his pocket
"Sit down!" ordered Craig.
Rng farther up into
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Outside, the other six parleyed in revolver lying on the floor
hoarse whispers. One raised a gun,
but the woman and the others re
strained him and fled.
Take me to your master!" d
manded Kennedy.
The crook remained silent
"Where is he?" repeated Craig.
"Tell me!"
Still the man remained silent
covered consciousness
,fily, and, hearing the
" ^ and started to ^ise
and look about. VBhe could hear
rtom the church\^sh<! paused
sounds of the struggl^^^he crooks
just long enough to seize
fvolver lying on the floor. up
She hurried into the church
into the belfry, thence up the laddefc
whence the sounds came.
The crook by this ttme had gained
the outside of the steeple through an
opening. Kennedy was in close pur-
suit
On the top of the steeple was a
great, gilded cross, considerably larger
ed in our living room
Our door buzzer sounded, and Ken
nedy, always alert, jumped up, push-
ing aside a great pile of papers which
had accumulated in the Dodge case
Two steps took him to the hail,
where the day before he had installed
a peculiar box about four by six inches,
connected in some way with a lens-
like box of similar size above our bell
and speaking tube In the hallway be-
low it He opened it. disclosing an ob-
long plate of ground glass.
"I thought the seismograph ar-
rangement was not quite enough after
that spring-gun affair," he remarked,
"so I have put in a sort of teleview
of my own invention—so that I can Ge
down into the vestibule downstairs.
Well—just look who's here!"
"Some new-fangled periscope ar-
rangement, I suppose?" I queried, mov-
ing slowly over toward it.
However, one look was enough to
Interest me. I can express it only
fin slang. There, framed in the little
thing, was a vision of as swell a
'"chlckta" as I have ever seen.
I whistled under my breath.
"Um!" I exclaimed shamelessly, "A
peach! Who's your friend?"
I had never said a truer word than
In my description of her, though I did
,tiot know it at the time. She was in-
ideed known as "Gertie the Peach" in
'the select circle where she belonged.
Kennedy had opened the lower
door and our fair visitor was coming
upstairs.
"Go in there, Walter," he said, seiz-
ing me quickly and pushing me into
my room. "I want ypu to wait there
and watch her carefully."
Kennedy opened the door, disclos-
ing a very excited young woman.
Oh, Professor Kennedy," she cried,
all in one breath, with much emotion.
"I'm so glad 1 found you in. I can't
tell you. Oh—my jewels! They have
been stolen—and my husband must
not know of it Help me to recover
them—please!"
"Just a moment, my dear young
lady," Interrupted Craig, finding at
last a chance to get a word in edge-
ways. "Do you see that table—and all
those papers? Really, 1 can't take your
case. I am too busy, as it is, even
to trke the cases of many of my own
clients."
But please. Professor Kennedy—
please!" she bagged. "Help me. It
'means—oh 1 can't tell you how much
It means to me!"
She had come close to him and had
laid her warm, little soft hand on his,
In ardent entreaty
From my hiding place in my room,
1 could not help seeii ? that she was
using every charm of her sex and per-
sonality to lure him on. as she clung
confidingly to him.
Gertie had thrown her arms about
Kennedy, as if In wildest devotion. 1
wondered what Elaine would have
thought if she had a picture of that!
'Oh," she begged him, 'please—
please help me!"
Still Kennedy seemed utterly unaf-
fected by her passionate embrace.
Carefully he loosened her fingers from
about his neck and removed the
plump, enticing arms.
Gertie sank into a chair, weeping, (hQ wajj
which he kept at a nearby garage.
That forenoon Perry Bennett wai
reading up a case. In the outer of
fice Milton Schofield, his office boy
was industriously chewing gum and
admiring his feet, cocked up on the
desk before him.
The door to the. waiting rooit
opened and an attractive woman o?
perhaps thirty, dressed in extreme
mourning, entered with a boy.
Milton cast a glance of scorn at th<
"little dude." He was tn reality about
fourteen years old, but was dressed t<
look much younger.
"Did you wish to see Mr. BennettV
asked the precocious Milton, politely
on one hand, while on the other h<
made a wry grimace.
"Yes—here is my card," replied th«
woman.
It was deeply bordered in black
Even Milton was startled at readinf
it: "Mrs. Taylor Dodge."
He looked at the woman in opezh
mouthed astonishment Even he knew
that Elaine's mother had been dead
for years.
The woman, however, true to hei
name in the artistic coterie In which
she was leader, had sunk into a chair
and was sobbing convulsively, as only
"Weepy Mary" could.
It was so effective that even Milton
was visibly moved. He took the card
In, excitedly, to Bennett.
"There's a woman outside—says she
is Mrs. Taylor Dodge!" he cried.
If Milton had had an X-ray eye he
could have seen her take a cigarette
from her handbag and light it non
chalantly the moment he was gone.
As for Bennett, Milton, who was
watching him closely, thought he was
about to discharge him on the spot
for bothering him. He took the card,
and his face expressed the most ex-
treme surprise, then anger. lie
thought a moment.
"Tell that woman to state her busi-
ness in writing," he thundered curtly
at Milton.
As the boy turned to go back to
the waiting room, Weepy Mary, hear-
ing him coming, hastily shoved the
cigarette into her "son's" hand.
"Mr. Bennett says for you to write
out what it is you want to see him
about," reported Milton, indicating the
table before which she was sitting.
Mary had automatically taken up
Robbing with the release of the ciga-
rette. She looked at the table on
which were letter paper, pens and ink.
"I may write here?" she asked.
"Surely, ma'am," replied Milton,
still very much overwhelmed by her
sorrow.
"Weepy Mary" sat there, writing
and sobbing.
In the midst of his sympathy, how-
ever. Milton sniffed. There was nn
unmistakable odor of tobacco smoko
about the room. He looked sbarplj
the "son
smoking cigarette
It was too much for Milton's out-
raged dignity. Bennett did not allow
him that coveted privilege. This up-
start could not usurp it.
He reached over and seized the boy
by the arm. and swung him around
till he faced a sign In the corner on
"Won't you step in?" he said
suavely. 'Your friend here doesn't
Elaine was first shocked, then indig- seem well."
nant. j They all entered.
"Why—such a thing is absurd. Show "And you—you say—you married
the woman in!" this—this woman to Taylor Dodger*
"No—please—Miss Dodge. Let me queried Elaine, tensely.
deal with her." j The bogus minister seemed to bo
By this time Elaine was furious. very fatherly. "Yes," he asserted, "I
"Yes—I will see her." certainly did so."
She pressed the button on Bennett's "Have you the record?" asked
desk, and Milton responded. Elaine, fighting to the last
"Milton, show the—the woman in," "Why, yes. I can show you the
she ordered, "and that boy, too." record."
As Milton turned to crook his finger He moved over to the closet "Come
at "Weepy Mary." she nodded surrep- over here," he asked.
titiously and dug her fingers sharply He opened the door. Elaine screamed
Into "son's" ribs. and drew back. There stood her arch
"Yell—you little fool—yell," she enemy, the Clutching Hand himself,
whispered. As he stepped forth, she turned wild-
Obedient to his "mother's" com- ly. to run—anywhere. But strong
mands, and much to Milton's disgust, arms seized her and forced her into
the boy started to cry in close imita- a chair.
tion of his elder. ■ She looked at the woman and the
Elaine was still holding the paper in minister. It was a plot!
her hands when they entered. "A moment Clutching Hand looked
"What does all this mean?" she de- Elaine over. "Put the others out" he
manded.
"Weepy Mary," between sobs, man-
aged to blurt out. "You are Miss
Elaine Dodge, aren't you? Well, it
ordered the other crook.
"Now. my pretty dear," began the
Clutching Hand as the lock turned in
the vestry door, "we shall be joined
There Stood Her Arch Enemy, the Clutching Hand.
while Kennedy stood before her a mo-
mnnt in deep abstraction.
Finally be seemed to make up his
mind to something. His manner
toward her changed. He took a step
to her side.
"1 will help you," he said, laying his an(ly jnto his mouth
band on her shoulder. "If it is pos- There was every element of a gaudy
sible I will recover your Jewels. Where tnlxup, when the outer door of the of-
do you live?" flCe suddenly swung open and Elaine
"At Hazlehurst," she replied, grate- Dodge entered.
fully. "Oh, Mr. Kennedy, how can I Gallantry was Milton's middle name,
ever thank you?' and he sprang forward to hold the
She seemed overcome with gratl* door, and then opened Bennett's door,
tude. and took his hand, pressed it, as he ushered in Elaine.
even kissed It. As she passed "Weepy Mary," who
"Just a minute," he added, carefully was still writing at the table and cry-
extricating his band. Til be ready in ing bitterly, Elaine hesitated and
Just a minute." looked at her curiously. Even after
Kennedy entered the room where 1 Milton had opened Bennett's door, she
was listening could not resist another glance. In-
"What's it all about. Craig?" I whit* stinctlvely, Elaine seemed to scent
pered, mystified trouble.
For a moment he stood thinking, ap- Bennett was still studying the black-
parently reconsidering what be had bordered card when she greeted him.
HEAD IT HEltE ROW—
means that your father married me
when I was only seventeen and this
boy is our son—your half-brother."
"No—never," cried Elaine vehem-
ently, unable to restrain her disgust.
"Weepy Mary" smiled cynically.
"Come with me and I will show you
the church records and the minister
who married us."
"You will?" repeated Elaine defiant-
ly. "Well, I'll Just do as you ask. Mr.
Bennett shall go with me."
"No, no, Miss Dodge—don't go.
Leave the matter to me," urged Ben-
nett. "I will take care of her. Be-
sides, I must be in court in twenty
minutes."
, room. He looked sharply at E!V"e but Bhe Wafl thor-
- and discovered the still OU^'y arI°us,e,f-
Then I will go with her myself,"
she cried defiantly.
In spite of every objection that Ben-
nett made, "Weepy Mary," her son
and Elaine went out to call a taxicab
to take them to the railroad station
where they could catch a train to the
little town where the woman asserted
she had been married.
Meanwhile, before a little country
; church in the town, a closed automo-
bile had drawn up.
I As the door opened a figure, humped
! up and masked, alighted.
I It was the Clutching Hand.
J The car had scarcely pulled away
! when he gave a long rap, followed by
two short taps, at the door of the
' vestry, a secret code, evidently.
I Inside the vestry room a man well
dressed, but with a very sinister face,
heard the knock and a second later
; opened the door.
"What not ready yet?" growled the
Clutching Hand. Quick—now—get on
i those clothes. I heard the train whis-
tle as I came In the car. In which
j closet does the minister keep them?"
I The crook, "vithout a word, went to
! a closet and took out a suit of clothes
| of ministerial cut. Then he hastily
I put them on, adding some 8lde-\\hisk-
| era, which he had brought with him.
At about the name time Elaine, ac-
companied by "Weepy Mary" and her
IN MOVING PICTURES—
"See?" he demanded.
The sign read, courteously:
"No Smoking In Thl Office—Please.
"PERRY BENNETT."
"Leggo my arm," snarled the "son,"
putting the offensive cigarette defl-
T1IKN SEE IT AIX
shortly by your friend. Craig Kennedy,
and," he added with a leer, "I think
your rather insistent search for a
certain person will cease."
Elaine drew back in the chair, horri-
(fied at the implied threat
Clutching Hand laughed diabolically.
While these astounding events were
transpiring in the little church, Ken-
nedy and I had been tearing across
the country in his big car, following
the directions of our fair friend.
We stopped at last before a pros-
perous, attractive-looking house and
entered a very prettily furnished, but
small parlor. Heavy portieres hung
over the doorway into the hall, over
another into a back room and over
the bay windows.
"Won't you sit down a moment?"
coaxed Gertie. "I'm quite blown to
pieces after that ride. My, how you
drive!"
As she pulled aside the hall por-
tieres, three men with guns thrust
their hands out I turned. Two oth-
ers had stepped from the back room
and two more from the bay window.
We were surrounded. Seven guns
were aimed as us with deadly preci-
sion.
"Gentlemen," ho said quietly "I
suspected some such thing. "I have
here a small box of fulminate of mer-
cury. If I drop it, this building and
the entire vicinity will be blown to
atoms. Go ahead—shoot!" he added,
nonchalantly.
The Beven of them drew back rath-
er hurriedly.
Kennedy was a dangerous prisoner.
He calmly sat down in an arm
chair, leaning back as he carefully
balanced the deadly little box of ful-
minate of mercury on his knee.
Gertie ran from the room.
For a moment they looked at each
other, undecided. Then, one by one,
they stepped away from Kennedy to-
ward the door.
The leader was the laBt to go He
had scarcely taken a step.
"Stop!" ordered Kennedy.
The crook did so. As Craig moved
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Craig iooked the fellow over again, than a man \s the crook clambered
Then, still with that confident smile, \ outside, he scaled the steeple, using
he reached into his inside pocket and lightning rod and some projecting
drew forth the tube I had seen him points to pull himsell up, desperately,
place there. j Kennedy followed unhesitatingly.
"No matter how much you accuse There they were, struggling in dead-
me," added Craig casually, "no one, iv con bat, clinging to the gilded cross,
will ever take the word of a crook j The first I knew of it was a horrified
that a reputable scientist like me easp from my own crook. I looked up
would do what I am about to do."
I He had taken out his penknife and
i opened it. Then he beckoned to me.
"Bare his arm and hold his wrist,!
Walter," he said.
j Craig bent down with the knife and
the tube, then paused a moment and
turned to tube so that we could see it
j On the label were the ominous
1 words:
Germ Culture 6248A
Bacillus Leprae (Leprosy)
| Calmly he took the knife and pro-
ceeded to make an incision in the
man's arm. The crook's feelings un-
derwent a terrific struggle.
1 "No—no—no—don't" he implored.
"I will take you to the Clutching
Hand—even if he kills me!"
Kennedy stepped back, replacing
the tube in his pocket.
"Very well, go ahead!" he agreed.
We followed the crook, Craig still
holding the deadly box of fulminate of
mercury carefully balanced so that i
if anyone shot him from a hiding place
it would drop".
No sooner had we gone than Gertie
hurried to the nearest telephone to
inform the Cluching Hand of our i
escape.
Elaine had sunk back into the chair
as the telephone rang. Clutching
Hand answered it.
A moment later, in uncontrollable
fury he hurled the instrument to the
floor.
"Here—we've got to act quickly—
that devil has escaped again," he
hissed. "We must get her away. You
keep her here. I'll be back—right
away—with a car."
He dashed madly from the church,
pulling off his mask as he gained the
street.
Kennedy had forced the crook ahead
of us into the car which was waiting,
and 1 followed, taking the wheel this
time.
| "Which way, now—quick!" demand-
ed Craig. "And if you get me in
wrong—I've got that tube yet—you re-
member."
Our crook started ofT with a whole
burst of directions that rivaled the
motor guide—"through the town, fol-
lowing trolley tracks, jog right. Jog
left under the railroad bridge, leaving
trolley tracks; at the cemetery turn
left, stopping at the old stone church."
"Is this it?" asked Craig incredu-
lously.
"Yes—as I live," swore the crook
in a cowed voice.
He had gone to pieces. Kennedy
Jumped from the machine.
"Here, take this gun, Walter," he
said to me. "Don't take your eyes ofT
the fellow—keep him covered."
1 Craig walked around the church, out
of sight, until he came to a small
j vestry window and looked in.
There was Elaine, sitting in a chair,
and near her stood an elderly-looking
man in clerical garb, which to Craig's
j trained eye was qiilte evidently a dis-
guise.
Elaine happened just then to glance
at the window and her eyes grew
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Just Then I Saw a Woman's Face
Tense With Horror; tt Was Elaine.
carefully, fearing it was a stall to get
me off my guard.
There were Kennedy and the other
crook, struggling, swaying back and
forth, between life and death.
There was nothing 1 could do.
Kennedy was clinging to a light-
ning rod on the cross.
It broke.
1 gasped as Craig reeled back. But
he managed to catch hold of the rod
farther down and cling to it.
The crook began to exult diaboli-
cally. Holding with both hands to the
cross he let himself out to his full
length and stamped on Kennedy's fin-
gers, trying every way to dislodge him.
It was all Kennedy could do to keep
his hold.
I cried out in agony at the sight, for
he had dislodged one of Craig's hands.
The other could not hold much longer.
He was about to fall.
Just then I saw a face at the little
window opening out from the ladder
to the outside of the steeple—a worn- !
an s face, tense with horror.
It was Elaine!
Quickly a hand followed, and In it
was a revolver.
Just as the crook was about to dis-
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wide with astonishment at the sight Kennedy's other hand I saw a
of Craig flnnh nnH miff r f smnlro nnH n n .,nnj
l viaig. flash and puff of smoke, and a second
He made a hasty motion to her to ,ater heard a report—and another—
make a dash for the door. She nodded and another-
quietly. j Horrors!
With a glance at her guardian she crook w^° bad taken refuge
suddenly made a rush. seemed to stagger back, wildly, taking
He was at her in a moment, pounc- a C0UPle of steps in the thin air.
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ing on her, catlike.
Kennedy had seized an Iron bar that
lay beside the window where some
workmen had been repairing the stons
pavement, and with a blow shattered
the glass and the sash.
At the sound of the smashing glass
J the crook turned and with a mighty
effort threw Elaine aside, drawing his
revolver. As he raised it, Elaine
sprang at him and frantically seized ! , every bone in his body must be
his wrist broken. He groaned, and before I
his wrist.
I tterly merciless the man brought
the butt of the gun down with full
force on Elaine's head. Only her hat
and hair saved her, W she sank un-
conscious
Kennedy regained his hold.
With a sickening thud the body of
the crook landed on the ground around
the corner of the church from me.
"Come—you!" I ground out, cover-
ing my own crook with the pistol, "and
if you attempt a getaway I'll kill you,
too!"
Ho followed, trembling, unnerved.
We bent over the man. It seemed
that every bone In his body must be
Then he turned at Craig and fired I ^trer
• ino dow.
twice
could even attempt anything fcr him,
was dead.
As Kennedy let himself slowly and
painfully down the lightning rod,
Elaine eeized him and, with all her
Btrength, pulled him through the win-
One shot grazed Craig'B hat, but the j waB quite weak now from ,08s of
'her ntmiAlr him In th.. i "lOOd.
other struck him in the shoulder and
Kennedy reeled.
With a desperate effort he palled
himself toward her and leaped forward
again, closing with the fellow and
wrenching the gun from him before
he could tire again.
Just then the man broke away and
made a dash for the door leading back
Into the church itself, with Kennedy
after him.
Bp he went into the choir loft and
then into the belfry itself. There they
came to sheer hand-to hand struggle.
Kennedy tripped on a looBe board, and
would have fallen backwards If he had
not been able to recover himself just
In time. The crook, desperate, leaped
EY£BI tYELJL
"Are you—all right?" she gasped, as
they reached the foot of the ladder I
In the belfry.
Craig looked down at his torn and
soiled clothes. Then, in spite of the !
smarting pain of his wounds, he
smiled, "Yes—all rightI"
"Thank Heaven!" she murmured fer- j
vontly, trying to stanch the flow of
blood.
"This time—It was you—saved me!"
lie cried, "Elaine!"
Involuntarily his arms sought hers— |
and he held her a moment, looking
jeep into her W'onderful eyes.
'I hen iheir faces came slowly to- j
felht r |n their first kiss.
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