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TTTK OMAHA SUNDAY REE: MARCH 7, 1915.
A Detective Novel and a Motion Picture Drama
Presented by TL
Jsiaha Bee in Collaboration with the Famous Pathe
Players and the Eclectic Film Co.
Miss Pearl White,
Arnold Daly and "Craig Kennedy
Th Famous Scientific Decretive) of FicUoa.
Written by Arthur B. Reeve
The Well - Known Novelist and the
Creator of the 'Craitf Kennedy" Stories
Dramatized Into a Photo-Play by Charles Goddard
Author of "The Perils of Pauline"
Cart of Leading- Characters la the Motloa Ptotnre produotioa by te
remoue rath Flayers
ELAINE DODGE - - Mi.s Pearl White
CRAIG KENNEDY - - Mr. Arnold Daly
HARRY BENNETT - Mr, Sheldon Lewis
Everything u rfad here today
you ran Roe In the fascinating Pathe
Motion lecture at the Motion Plrt
ufe Theater thla week. Net Hun
day another chapter of "The Exploit
of Elaine' and new Pathe reel".
yaopaia of Prerloaa Chapter.
The New York ponce are mystified hy a
seriea of murders of prominent men. Tlie
latent victim of the mysterious asaasrtn
in Taylor I lodge, the Insurance president.
HI daughter, Klaine, employ Craig Ken
nedy, the famous scientific detective, to
try to unravel the mystery. One of the
criminal el re I Into Klalne'a room at
nltht, puts her under the Influence of the
twllliiht sleep drug and force her to
write a letter dismissing Kennedy. Thla
trti-k falls, loiter Kennedy learna of a
daring robberv planned by the conspira
tor. In an effort to trap them klalne I
captured and aealed up In a tank, and la
at the point of death when Kennedy acci
dentally dlwovera her pltKht and aavea
lier. In retaliation the criminal make a
desperate attempt to Kill Kennedy by
eieithm an InKenlous death-trap In hi
apartment. They then admlnlater a pecu
liar polaon to Klalne. ai'rntnpliahtng tbl
by a remarkable utilisation of tlie wall
paper la her room. The polaon pint tnta
carriea. But the criminal are p-rltent.
One of them In aerlously wounded bt
Klalne. and she la forced to aubmlt to the
tranfualon of blood operation to ave the
acoundrel'a life. Help reaclie her before
thla experlmnt become dangerous. lOn
raKed at thflr contant detests, the ron
ei lrator employ two notorious women of
the underworld to lure Kennedy nml
Klalne to their destruction. Kennedy'a
scientific knowledge provea too much for
the aaaassln. 11 employe a vocophone In
a queer manner. It uncanny work at a
critical moment upxetttiig a carefully laid
plan to abduct Klulne. The criminal In
troduce the death rav anil puxsle Ken
nedy; but he anon counteracts ita de
structive Influence.
CHAPTEn X.
The Kiss of Death
Assignments were given out on tho
Star one afternoon, and I waa standing
talking with aeveral other reporters. In
the buay hum of typewriters and click
tng telegraphs.
"What do you think of that?" asked
one of the fellows. "You're something 'of
a aclentlflc detective, aren't you?"
Without laying claim to auch a dis
tinction, I took the paper and read:
THE POISONED KI88 AGAIN.
Three More New York Women Report
Being Kissed by Mysterious Ktranger
!ter Fell Into Deep Unconsciousness
What la It?
I had acarcely finish, when one of the
copy boya, daahlng past me, called:
"You're wanted on the wire, Mr. Jame
on." I hurried over to the telephone and
answered.
A musical voice responded to my hur
ried hello, and I hastened to adopt my
most polite tone.
"Is this Mr. Jameson?" asked the voice.
"Yes." I replied, not recognising It.
' W 1 1 U T m m a ann ft. Vi-a ,H r f vaii
on the Star, and 'l'v Just had a very
atrange experience. ' I ve had the Pol
Boned klaa."
fhe m n rvi n A I A nnt nauaa tit ralK mv
.. ,
explanation of aetonlahment. but went I
on: "It was k. this: A man ran . -to
me on the street and kissed, me and 1 I
- - - -
don't know how It was but I became un
ronselouas and I didn't come to for an
libur In a hospital fortunately. I don't
:..7r ' : ; .:
.. ..... " "
hadn't been that someone came to my
assistance, and the man fled. I thought
the. Star would be Interested."
."Say," I exclaimed, .hurrying over to
the editor's dek, "here's another woman
on the wire who aaya ahe haa received
the poisoned kiss."
"Suppose you take that assignment.'
the editor answered, sensing a possible
atnry.
I took It with alacrity, figuring out the
quickest way by elevated and surface to
reach the address.
The conductor of the trolley Indicated
I'rospect avenue, and I hurried up the
street until I' came to the house, a neat,
unpretentious place. Looking at the ad
dress on the card first to make sure, 1
rang the bell.
1 must say that I could acarcely criti
cise the poisoned kisser's taate, for the
woman who had opened the door nr.
talnly waa extraordinarily attractive.
"And you really were put out by a
kl?" I queried, as she led me Into a
neat aittlng room. .
"Absolutely as. much aa if It had been
b one of these poisoned needlea yon
read about." ahe replied confidently, has
tening on to describe the affair volubly.
"I'll clear thla thing up." I said con
fidently. "My friend. Craig Kennedy,
the scientific detective, la coming out
here.
"Good! That fellow who attacked me
ought to be shown up. All women may
not be aa fortunate aa I."
"Wo waited patiently. Her Btory cer
tainly waa remarkable. She remembered
every detafl up to a certain point-end
then, as ahe aald, all waa blankneas."
The bell rang and the womaa hastened
to the -door, admitting Kennedy.
"Hello. Walter." he erected.
"Thle Is certainly a most remarkable
telling briefly what I had learned
"And you actually mean to say that
kiss had th effect"
Just then the telephone Interrupted.
"Tea," aha reasserted quickly. "Excuse
we a second."
ha answered th call. "Oh why
yes, he'a here. Da you want to apeak to
him? Mr. Jameson, It's the titer."
"Confound It!" I exclaimed, "isn't that
like the old man-dragging me off thla
atury before 111 half finished U order to
get another. I'll have to go. I ll get thla
story from you. Craig."
The day before. In the auburban house,
tho clutch lag Hand had been talking to
w iuuj a moat remarkable I - - a wnin. Hhe could not be
ase, Craig." I aaid. Introducing him, andJ ,,,v- Although Florrle waa very much
elllng briefly what I h.A 1. r a 1 embarrasaed. aha w . nu.
two of hie emissaries, aa attractive young
woman and a man.
They were Kllrty Florrle and Dan the
Duda. ,
"Now, I want you to get Kennedy," he
said. "The way to do tt Is to separate
Kennedy and Elaine see?"
"All right. Chief, we ll do It." they re
plied. "I've rift-Red It so that you'll reach him
through Jameson, understand?"
They nodded eagerly as he told them
the subtle plan.
Clutching Hand had scarcely left when
f'llrtle Florrle began by fretting: pub
IlKlind In the papers tho Btory I had seen.
The next day she called my up from
the suburban house. Havlnc got me to
promise to aee her, ahe had Scarcely
turned from the telephone when Pan the
TJude walked In from the next room.
"He'a coming," ahe said.
Dan waa carrying a huge stag head
with a beautiful branched pair of antlers.
1'nder his arm waa a coil of wire hink
he had connected to the Inside of tho
head.
"There." he said, unscrewliur one of the
beautiful biawn glass eyes of the stag.
Rack of It could be seen a camera shut
ter. Dan worked the shutter aeveral
times to see whether It waa all right.
"On of Ihnu na n ii I .Lull..
eraa." he explained.
Then he ran a couple of wires along the
moulding, around the room and Into a
closet, where ho made the connection
with a sort of a awltchboard on which
button waa marked. "BHUTTER" and
the awltch. "WIND FlUI."
'Now, Flirty." he said, romlnr nut of
the closet and pulling up the shade which
let a flood or sunlight Into the room,
"Vrill fl mis..! L . . . .
' " i juu iu ia.nu nero men,
do your llttlo trick. Get me?"
I get you. Steve." ahe laughed.
Juat then the bell rang.
"That must be Jameson," ahe cried.
"Now got to your corner."
With a last look, Dan went Into tho
closet and shut the door.
Perhaps half a hour later. Clutching
Hand himself called me up on the tele
phone. It was he not the Star aa I
learned only too late.
I had scarcely o, out of h. ...1
Craig told me afterwards, when Flirty
Florrle told all over again the embroid.
erea tale that had caught my ear.
Kennedy said nothing, but llatened In
tently, perhaps betraying In lila faoo the
akeptlclam he felt.
"You aee." she aald. aUll voluble and
eager to convince him, ' I waa only walk
ing on tne street. Here-let me show you.
It waa Just like thla."
She aald no more, but imprinted a deep,
passionate kts on Kennedy'a mouth,'
clinging cloeoly to him. Before Kennedy
could draw away, Dan. In tho closet, had
pressed the button and tho awltch several
mora in succession.
in succession. 1
Tt, . U . . ... I
i uiBia ery realistic,' gasped Craig i
1 good deal taken aback by the sudden
v-'u.a,-v, uaauu.
ne irowned.
. ....
He frowned.
backing aw.7. KSS
i . " "ome
n-miiio explanation but er
He waa plainly embarrassed and haa-
tened to make his adieus.
,'"' " no mor the
oorr oeioro un, w th a gleeful lauah
burst out of tho closet and flung hla own
" r iorrie in an embrace that
might have been poisoned. It la t-... k.
none the less real for that.
How little Impression the thing made
on Kennedy can be eaallv aeon t... .i.-
fact that on the way downtown that aft
ernoon ne stopped at Martin's on Fifth
avenue, and bought a ring-a very hand
aome solitaire, the flneat Martin had la
the ahop.
It must have been about the tlma ha
decided to stop at Martln'a that the
Dodge butler. Jennings, admitted a young
lady who presented a card on which waa
envraved the name
MISS FLORENCK LEIGH.
10 Prospect Avenue.
As he handed Elaine the card, she
looked up from the book ahe was reading
and took It.
Elaine moved into th.
Jennings springing forward t .,-
portieres for her and passing through the
quicaiy wnere Flirty Florrle aat
waiting. Flirty Florrl. e.
' ' - asuav
gaxlng at Elaine, apparently very much
.o..u, ven after Jennings had
gone.
There was a short pause. The woman
" " ne iirat to speak
it la embarraaslng." she said finally.
ioage, n,T, com, to you
"s tor ray love. "
Elaine looked at her nonpluased.
. I".' con,lnu. "you do not know
It. but Craig Kennedy 1 Infatuated with
you." the paused again, then added, "But
he is engsced to me."
Elaine stared at the woman. She waa
ne oould not believe it
llier is the rinv leu-.i- m ..
.... - iome
added, indicating a very impree.lv, p.,u
. ...... ia
Elaine frowned, hut ..i t.i
. uiuiim. iter
bead waa in a whirl. She could not be-
... 1. 1 j
very much wrought up. Quickly ahe
. .... . - rviacniiy
reached Into her k. . ... .... . .
photographa. without . w
-. .... uivw gui I WO
DhMAtrank. i v. . .
- . iwiuini
taem to Elaine. Elaine took them reluo-
tantly
"There's tlte proof." Florrle said simply
choking a sob.
Elalna looked with a start Sure enough
-.v u rnoun,
there waa the neat levin nww. t. .k.
- -- -
houae oa Proapeot avenue. Ia one pio-
lure riurrte had her arms over Kennedy's
... m .... ourer, apparenuy, mey
were paasionately kissing
Elaine slowly laid tho photographa on
the table.
"Really I don't knew an thing about
all this. Tt It doesn't concern me. Please
-go."
Florrle had broken down completely and
waa weeping softly Into a lace handker
chief. She moved toward the door. Elalnn
followed her.
"Jennings please see the lady to the
door."
Back In the drawing room Elaine al
most seised the photographs and hurried
Into the library where she could be alone.
There she stood gazing at them doubt,
wonder and fear battling on her plastic
features.
Jut then she heard the bell and Jen
nlnga In the hall.
She ahoved the photographs away from
her on the table.
"How are you thla afternoon?" he
greeted Elaine gayly.
Blaine had been too overcome by what
had just happened to throw it off so
easily, and received him with studied
coolness.
She picked up the two photographa.
"What have you to aay about thoeef"
she asked cuttingly.
Kennedy, quite surprised, took them and
looked st them. Then he let them fall
carelessly on the table nnd dropped into
a chair, his head back In a burst nf
laughter.
"Why that waa what they put over on
Walter." he Bald. "He called me up early
this afternoon told me he had discovered
one of thoae poisoned kls cases you have
read about In the papers. Think of It all '
V-
rr
A "
-ft--
Kennedy Rerlves Elaine by
lnat 10 pul1 concealed camera! Such an.pened. Had he been seeing things. 1 won.
,1 . "Zl"'1 t0 rt rae wh ' 1
.7. C0UW faX8 thl" thln' 1 'PI"
may ve nut anm nna ,m a .. I
r ... w..v Hf, , v. mj vile m
engaged.
Elaine waa not ao lightly . affected.
"But." ahe aald aeverely. repressing her
emotion, "I don't understand, Mr. Ken
nedy, how aclentlflc Inquiry Into 'the
poisoned kiss' could necessitate thla aort
of thing." '
She. pointed at the photographa eccue
Ingly. "But," he began, trying to explain.
"No buta," ahe Interrupted.
"Then you bellove that I"
n.jrou, as a scientist, ask me to
rtnnU .h ... . . .
"How can you, aa a scientist, ask me to
.nicr. mi insinuatea, very
oolt,1y turning away.
( iiuijr urgau xo see mat It
waa far more aerloua than . he had at
rirai tnought.
"Very well." he aald with oeh e
Impatience. "If my word is not to be
laxen ii ii -
He had aeised hla hat and atlck.
Elaine did not deign to anawer.
Then, without a word, ha atJkA not
of tho door.
I saw that what he needed rhieflv
to be let alone, and he went hMr i.i.
chair, dropping down Into It and banging
.... on me taoie. Under hla breath
he loosed a small vollev of tittr
pletlvea. Then he jumped up.
TJ n v ...
"i virorge i win, ne muttered.
I poked my head out of the (loot In 4 i ..-I a
to see him grab up hla hat and e.f . .i
dash from the room, putting hla coat on
as ne went.
'He's a nut today!" I exclaim. -
aelf. '"'
Though I did not know vet ne ft, mi..
rel, Kennedy had really struggled with
himself until he waa willlna- to hi.
pride In hla pocket and had made up hla
una io can on Elaine again.
Aa he entered he aaw that It w r..nu
of no use, for only Aunt Josephine was
in me imrary.
'Oh, Mr. ' Kenttedv." ah .m I.-.
-
ontiy enough. "I'm so anrrv .i. i.-'.
nere. There's been something troubling
..r .ng ane won t tell me what It Is.
out ane a gone to call on a young wo
man, a Florence Leigh, I think." .
fiorenue Leigh!" exclaimed r,.i. ni.
a atart and a frown. "Let me uae your
telephone."
I had turned my attention in th.
oratory to a Btory I waa writing, when
uie telephone ring. It waa Craig.
Without a word of apology for hla rudei
neea, whiuh I knew had been purely absent-minded.
I heard him say: "Walter,
meet me In half an hour h.m. ....
iFlorenco Leigh's house."
He was gone In a minute, giving me
scarcely Un to call back that I would.
Half an hour later I waa waiting near
the house in the suburbs to which I had
been directed by the strange telephone
call the day before. I noticed that It
waa InnAMHtlw .4 . ..I -m... . .
. . . - . .11. iHiiioa were
closed and and a "To Let" a!a ... .
I,k- .1. .w. .
1 1 1 - vi um nouM,
I .... ..
"Hello, Walter." cried
' t ' -"
bustling- along
Craig at last.
He led the way around the aid. r
house to a window, and. with a powerful
graap. wrenched open the closed shut-
I " u just smaanea me window
I virion. iv hk hi. .....
1 ' ' wnvai iwioeinaa
appeared.
"Hey. you fellows wnat are yon doing
iinerer ne snouiea.
Craig pauved a second, then null. 4 hi.
card from hla pocket.
"Juat the man 1 want " ha r. ..4
I - " .w,
I much to tho pollconiaa'a auirlse. "Thera
Is something crooked going on here. Fol
low us In."
We climbed Into the window. There
was the same living room we had seen
the day before. Hut t ns now bare
and deserted. Everything was gone ex
cept an old broken ilinlr. Crair? and I
were frankly amazed Ht the complete and
sudden change, and I think the police
man wss a little surprised, for he had
thought the place occupied.
"Come on," cried Kennedy, beckoning
us on.
Quickly he rushed throilgh the house.
There was not a thing In It to change
(he deserted appearance of the first floor.
At last It occurred to Craig to grope his
way down cellar. There was nothing
there, either, except a bin. as Innocent of
coal as Mother Hubbard's cupboard was
of food. For several minutes we hunted
about without discovering a thing.
Kennedy had been carefully going over
the place, and was at the other aide of
the cellar from ourselves when I saw him
stop and gaze at the floor. He was not
looking, apparently, so much as listening.
I strained my ears, but could make out
nothing. Before I could say anything he
raised his hand for silence. Apparently
he had heard something.
"Hide," he wlspered suddenly to us.
Without another word, though for the
life of me I could make nothing out of It.
I pulled the policeman Into a little angle
of the wall nearby, while Craig slipped
Into a similar angle.
We waited a moment. Nothing hap-
His Latest Electric Marvel.
de"a-
From our hidden vantage we could now
.
see a square piece In the floor, perhaps
nve teet in dlametsr, slowly open up as
though on a pivot. Beneath it we could
make out a tube-like opening, perhaps
three feet across, with a covered top. It
slowly opened.
The weird and sinister figure of a man
ai peared. Over his head he wore a pecu
liar helmet with hideous glass pieces over
the eyea and tubea that connected with a
tank which he carried, buckled to hla
back. Aa he alowly dragged himself out
I could wonder only at the outlandish
headgera.
Quickly he closed down the cover of the
tube, but not before a vile effluvium
seemed to escape and penetrate even to us
in our hiding places. Aa he moved tor
ward, Kennedy gave a flying leap at him,
and we followed with a regular foot ball
Interference.
It waa the work of only a moment for
ua to aubdue and hold him, while Craig
ripped off the helmet.
It waa Dan the Dude.
"What's that thing?" I puffed, as I
helped Craig with the headtrear.
An oxygen helmet." ha renlled '"rh..
muat be air down in the tube that cannot
be breathed."
e went over to the tube. Carefullv h.
opened the top and gased down. aUrtlng
nacK a aecond later, with hla far n.iev.
ered up at the noxious odor.
Sewer gas. ' he ejaculated, as he slam
med the cover down. Then he added to
the policeman. "Where do you auppoae It
cornea from?"
"Why," replied the officer, "tho St
Jamea viaduct an old sewer is some
where about these parts."
Kennedy puckered hla face, aa he gazed
at our prisoner. He reached down
quickly and lifted something off the
nian'a coat.
"Golden hair," be muttered. "Elaine's!"
A moment later ho aeised tho man and
ahook him roughly.
"Where la she tell mr he demanded".
Tho man snarled aomo kind of reply,
refusing to say a word about her.
Tell me." repeated Kennedy.
"Humph!" snorted the prisoner more
close-mouthed than ever.
Kennedy waa furious. As he sent tho
man reeling away from him, he seised
the oxygen helmet and began putting it
on. There waa only on thin. a
to follow tho clue of the golden strands
of hair.
Down Into the pest hole he went, hla
head protected by the oxygeu helmet Aa
he cautioualy took one step after another
down a series of Iron rungs inside the
hole, ho found that the water waa up
to hla chest At the bottom of the per
pendicular pit waa a narrow. low passage
way leading ofi.It was Just about big
enough to get through, but he managed
to grope along it He came at last to
the main viaduct, an old stone-walled
sewer, aa murky a place as could well
be Imagined, filled with tho foulest sewer
gas. He waa hardly able to keep hla feet
in the swirling, bubbling water that
swept past, almost up to his neck.
The mlnutea pasaed aa the policeman
and I watched our prisoner In the cellar
by the tube. I looked anxioualy at my
watch.
"Craig-!" I shouted at last, unablo to
eeatrol my feaxs for bun.
No anawer. What to do? To go down
after htm aeemed out of tho question.
By thla time Craig had como to a email,
open chamber, Into which tho viaduct
widened. On the wail ho t oun4 another
&h: TV
aeries of Iron rungs, up which he climbed.
The gas was terrible.
As he nesred the top of the ladder he
came to a shelf -like nnerture In the sewer
chamber, and gazrd about. It was horri
bly dark. He reached out and felt a piece
of cloth. Anxiously he pulled on It. Then
he reached further into tho d.irknra.
There was Klalne, unconscious, appar
ently dead.
He shook her. endeavoring to wake her
up. Hut it was no use.
In desperation Craig carried her down
tha Indder.
With our prisoner, we cotild only look
helplessly around. Again and again I
looked at my watoh aa the minutes
lengthened. Suppose the oxygen gave
out?
"By George. I'm gclng down after him,"
I cried in desperation.
"Don't do it," advised the policeman.
"You'll never get out."
One whiff of tho hoirible gam told mej
that he waa right. I should not have
been able to go fifty feet In it. I looked
at him In despair. It waa Impossible.
"Listen." said the policeman, straining
hi ears.
There waa. Indeed, a faint noise from
the hlnck depths below n.. A rope along
side the rough ladder began to move, aa
though some one was pulling it taut. He
gazed down.
"Craig! Craig!" I called. "Ta that you?'
No anawer. But the rope still moved.
T'erhaps the helmet made It Impossible
for him to hear.
He had struggled back In the swirling
current almost exhausted by his helpless
burden. Holding Elaine's head above the
surface of the water and pulling on the
rope to attract my attention, for he could
neither hear nor shout, he had taken a
turn of the rope about Elaine. I tried
pulling on It. There waa something heavy
on the other end, and I kept on pulling.
At last I could make out Kennedy dimly
mounting tho ladder. Tho weight waa the
unconaclous body of Elaine, which he
ateadled aa he mounted the ladder. I
tugged harder and he alowly came up.
Together, at last, th policeman and I
reached down and pulled them out.
We placed Elaine on the cellar door, as
comfortably aa was pofslble, and the
policeman bean his flrst-ald motions for
resuscitation.
"No no!" cried Kennedy. "Not here
take her up where the air Is fresher."
With his revolver still drawn to over
awe the prisoner, the policeman forced
him to aid us In carrying her up the
rickety flight of cellar steps. Kennedy
followed quickly, unscrewing the oxygen
helmet as he went.
In the deserted living room we deposited
our senseless burden, while Kennedy, the
helmet off now, bent over her.
"Quick quick!' he cried to the officer.
"An ambulance!"
"But the prisoner," the policeman Indi
cated. "Hurry hurry; Til take care of him,"
urged Craig, seizing the policeman's
pistol and thrusting It into hla pocket.
"Walter help me."
1 Ho was trying the ordinary methods of
resuscitation. Meanwhile the officer had
hurried out. seeking the nearest tele
phone, while we worked madly to bring
Elaine back.
Again and again Kennedy bent and
out-stretched her arms, trying to induce
respiration again. So busy was I that
for the moment I forgot our prisoner.
But Dan had seen his chance. Noise
lessly he picked up the old chair in the
room and with it raised was approaching
Kennedy to knock him out.
Before I knew it myself Kennedy had
heard him. With a half Instinctive mo
tion he drew the revolver from his pocket,
and almost before I could see It, had shot
tho man. Without a word he returned
tho gun to his pocket and again -bent
over Elaine, without so much aa a look
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st the crook, who sank to the floor,
dropping the chair from his nerveless
hands.
Already the policeman had got an am
bulance, which was now tearing along
to us.
Frantically Kennedy was working.
A moment he paused and looked at mo
hopeless.
Just then, oulslde, we could hear the
ambulance, and a doctor and two attend
ants hurried up to the door. Without a
word the doctor seemed to appreciate the
gravity of the case.
He finished his examination and shook
his head.
"Them is no hope-no hope," he said
slowly.
Kennedy merely stared at him. But the
rest of us instinctively removed our hats.
Kennedy gazed at Elaine, overcome.
Was this the end?
It was not many minute later that
Kennedy had Elaine in the mte .ittioo-
room off the laboratory, having taken
her there in the ambulance, with the'doo-
tor and two attendants.
Elalne'a body had been placed on a
couch, covered by a blanket, and tho
shades were drawn. The light fell on her
pale face.
Aunt Josephine had arrived, stunned,
and a moment later. Perry Bennett. As
I looked at the sorrowful party Aunt Jo
sephine rose slowly from her position on
her knees, where she had been weeping
silently beside Elaine, and pressed her
hands over her eyes, with every Indica
tion of faintness.
Meanwhile Kennedy, beside the couch,
with an air of desperate determination,
turned away and opened a cabinet. From
It he took a large coll and nttaeh. 1. 1.
a storage battery, dragging fhe peculiar
apparaiua near Elaine's couch.
To an electric socket Craig attached
wires. The doctor watched him In silent
wonder.
"Doctor." he asked slowly, as he
worked, "do you know of Prof. Ledue of
the Nantes Ecole de Medici n?"
"Why yes." answered the doctor, "but
what of him?"
"Then you know of his method of elec
trical resuscitation."
"Tea but " he paused, looking ap
prehensively at Kennedy.
Craig paid no attention to his fears,
but, approaching the couch on which
Elaine lay, applied the electrodes. "You
see," he explained, with forced calmness,
"I apply the anode here the cathode
there."
The ambulance surgeon looked on ex
citedly as Craig turned on the current,
applying It to the back of the neck and
to the spine.
For some minutes the machine worked.
Then the young doctor's eyes began to
bulge.
"My heavens!" he cried under his
breath: "Look!"
Elalne'a chest had alowly risen and
fallen. Kennedy, his attention riveted
on his work, applied himself with re
doubled efforts. The young doctor looked
on with Increased wonder.
"Look! The color In her face! See her
lips!" he cried.
At last her eyes slowly fluttered open
then closed.
Would the machine succeed? Or waa It
Just the galvanic effect of tho current?
The doctor noticed it and quickly placed
his ear to her heart. His face waa a
study in astonishment The minute sped
fast
To us outside, who had no idea what
waa transpiring in the other room, the
minutes were leaden-footed. Aunt Jo
sephine, weak but now herself again, was
sitting nervously.
Just then the door opened.
I shall never forget the look on the
young ambulance aurgeon'a face aa he
murmured under hla breath: "Come here
the age of miraclea la not past look!"
Raising his finger to Indicate that we
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Kennedy had taken her hand, and ai
he heard us cuter, turned half way to us
while we stared in blank wonder from
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pa ratus.
"It Is the life current," he said simply,
pattinir the Iduc apparatus with his
other hand.
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