Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 5

I THURSDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 31 1918 THE DAILY HERALD GULFPORT AND BILOXI MISSISSIPPI PAGE FIVE The Great Secret Classified Adver i gements TH PEO PL Aft KETP AC War Puzzles I A BIT OF HISTORY The Great Secret Novelized From tho Metro Wonderplay Serial of tho Same Name in 'Which Francia Buehman and Beverly Bayna Are Co-Stars and Which Wae Adapted and Directed by Wm Chria-ty Cabanne Classified tdJs-e cent a wqrd a day No order accepted for less than Sc A claaeiSed ad order far five consecutive days accompanied by the cash seenree three additional insertions free Those replying to advertisements In this department are requested to note carefully the heads under under which the sdvsrtieemear misunderstanding MISCELLANEOUS CHRYSANTHEMUM BLOOMS George Mahn Washington and Lee street Biloxi s22 tf GORENFLCKS NEW' GARDEN SEED 422 Reynoir street Bioxi s6tf which lie that you know' Rich young man Factory ran Itself he spent" the moneys Didn't have to pay much attention to it" muttered Sears: do him any harm if he had to perform some real work Weil I Bln going 'to call on him See you Right at the time Sears was learning of business interests The Secret Seven was plotting to shatter that business as another method of ruining Strong whose life had" been zb marvelously saved twice after Dr Zulph had ordered him killed Jim Pearsall member of The Secret Seven who in Wall street was the chief schemer this time -The first thing Pearsall did was to hammer at securities until they began tumbling in the stock market" Next he bred discontent among the laborers In the factory who sent a del jitlon to see Strong and demand- ilgher wages The delegation reach him just after he had received news of tho slump in his securities he said believe in a square deal But you can see for yourself that I have been in the stock market It would be art utter Impossibility to give you an increase at right Mr was the defiant reply like you but liking doesn't get us money We go on strike at onca wreck your Strong roused to instant action by this threat was preparing to burry over to the establishment when Sears entered And as he appeared evil spirit of The Secret the Spider crept alongside a wall of the clnb-man'a home seized tho telephone wire there and It Sears after Introducing himself to Strong took out the treasure belonging to Beverly 1 represents enormous he said The generous-hearted Strong at once forgot his own troubles and telephoned to the Clarke home right over With your'im bo almost shouted for- the girl from her captors" and' faced them angrily hungrily- Tho purchaser flew it hint in htor-rent of rage wad received a crashing blow -oh the Jaw that sent Mm sprawling to the floor He did not get up 'Zulph and JaneWarrfcn'ran forward to demand aa explanation Just as a gray haired woman burst Into' the dance halt nod seized the child cried the girl as she dong to the newcomer must' leave her here" said Znlph he has been hired by must take her away If yon arc her roared her protector is too good a child for this place he added flinging a bag of gold at the man lying on the floor will ransom And thus he met the of the dance fell In love with her and married her The ceremony was in roughly-built chapel and before it was over Zulpb one of the witnesses got np' and strode away from the sacred scene The Great Master took his bride to his hut For many months they lived happily Their joy became more Intense when a baby blessed their union This far had The Great Master gone In his retrospect when It was interrupted by a message which told hiin Strong and Beverly bad escaped from Dragon'r after oue of the weirdest battles in the history of the New York police department It all happened in this manner: The Chinese henchmen" of Dr Git Sin burst into the room where Strong had been' discovered' with Beverly seized the clubman carried him to the basement and there proceeded with a method Ct which only- an Oriental brain could contrive Strong was bound to chair 1 Near him a largo hourglass was placed A Chinaman with a long knife pointed to it and told him that when the sand had run out lie would be killed Like the hero of story of Pit nd the ho sat waiting for the end But while the shifting sand seemed to be momentarily shortening his life Detective Ackerton and the police led by Wee See were racing to the den Wee See knew of a secret passageway an abandoned tunnel which -led to Git Louse This subterranean channel had in it a celestial contrivance which but for the knowledge of Wee See would have balked the police It seemed to end in a wall of rock at the bottom of which was a pool of water But Wee See knew that by crawling along the bottom of the pool he could get to the other side of the wall and thus teach the continuation of the passageway He told the police They floundered through with him and on the other side ran-into a pack of Chinamen They were armed The police drew their revolvers- Fighting took place HI occupants of the den save Git Sin and his wife Joined Jn it Git Sin was busy mixing a potion ha Intended administering to LBy LOUGHBOROUGH -Author of the KoveUzatlon of Clyde I Fitch's Play and other short stories What Has Gone Before The Secret Seven -a band of wealthy and brainy criminals headed by a mysterious Individual known to them only ae The Great Master are plotting to wrest from Beverly Clarke beautiful girl the vast fortune which has been left to her by her who was a member of the powerful band of lawbreakers William Montgomery Strong a wealthy young clubman enters the life of Beverly who lives In moderate circumstances with her Invalid mother when be rescues her from kidnappers sent out by The Secret Seven Strong at first mistakes ths motives of the girl when in fleeing from hirelings of The Secret Seven site is found In a clothes closet In apartment and he Is compromised In the eyes of his fiancee Eunice Merton Afterward he realises that she la an Innocent girl a victim of a vile plot and he becomes her champion She Is sels- ed by the gangsters end carried to their rendezvous Strong goes there In disguise puts up a terrific fight with the thugs and his life is saved only by the timely appearance of the police Beverly is spirited away to the den of a Chinese hypnotist Dr Git Sin Strong disguised as a China man gore there to save her and both are trapped CHAPTER VIII A Clue From the Klondike A reptile In the throes of struggle 1 to the death with a form id able foe sometimes will attack itself and be 1 lie vc it Is maiming the enemy This is what that reptilian band The Secret Seven wns doing Dr Zulph suspecting that there was traitor in camp was determined first to put Strong out of the way aud then to lay hands on the one who was false Tho Great Master brains of the band was balking Zulph Ho knew that the murder of William Montgomery Strong man of wealth md prominence would shock' the entire community and sound the death incll of The Secret Seven Twice Tiie Great Master had saved first when he ordered bit £ast Indian servant to release him when be was kidnaped after the casket of tainted treasure bad been fonsd In his home and again when the sable hood went to his sick bed What was back of this working at cross purposes in the ranks of the hitherto invincible Secret Seven? Therein lay part of the skein of mystery that surrounded the great secret of tho all powerful organization And so The Secret Seven was battling with itself like a frantic reirtile The Great Master represented the brains of this reptile and Znlph the teeth and claws Perhaps one faint clue to this Vi I ft i Novelized From tho Motro Wondorplay Serial of tho' Same Name in Which Francif Birshman and Bevorly Bay no Are Co-Stars and Which Woo Adapted and Directed by Wm Christy Cabanne BV LOUGHBOROUGH Author of tho Kovellzatlon of Clyde Fitch's play Backdoor end other short stories What Has Gone Before William Montgomery Strong a wealthy young clubman meets Beverly' Clarke when he encounters a band of kidnappers who have seized the girt Strong reacues her Re learns that her uncle Thomas Clarke has eni for her The uncle who la dying la a member of Hie Secret Seven a band' of wealthy and brainy New York criminals ruled by a mysterious individual known aa Great Master He has pledged himself to leave hla millions to the Secret Seven but death bed repentance comes to him and he decides to leave it to 'Beverly lie glvce hern casket filled with treasures and straightway hirelings of The Secret Seven pursuo her The girl is the innocent eause of Strong's engagement to Eunice Morton a society girl being broken'eff and afterward alio la seised-by thugs from The Secret Seven and carried to their rendezvous Strong traces her there Is terribly beaten In a terrific fight and tho police carry him to hla home unconscious while the' kidnapers spirit Beverly away to a Chinese den where they try to compel her to reveal the hid-' ing place of the treasure which is In the possession of Chief of Detectives Acker-ton although the glrkdoes not know this Strong disguised ffHXd -Chinaman gains entrance to the den and-is themean of saving Beverly CHAPTER IX Cupid's Puzzle Strong! safe in' bis home with the faithful Wee See at bis elbow" had mneh to he thankful fof but his silent thanksgiving was centered bn one big event He had restored Beverly Clarke to her mot tier Jnst as he had promised to dow As ho thought of this be sighed 8TRONG TELLS BEVERLY mnit smiled Beverly menidC much to him The great grinding gua of strife and turmoil hail brought them together aud then that gentle but pitiless little god Cupid bad singled them out Cupid liad triumphed Str(ig was in love with Beverly: she adored him Perhaps it is because troublo generally accompanies pleasure that Strong sighed as be smiled over the great happiness In his life Certain It was that grim trouble awaited that trouble and tragedy were even then standing on tho threshold of Beverly Clarke's life The enormous wealth left by her uncle was responsible for It alL Chief of Detectives -Ackerton had that wealth locked In a safe in bis office JTe was planning on that day to turn it over to iBeverly A few minutes before Ackerton entered his office a tall slender figure masked and carrying a pistol crept Into tho place and went straight to the safe-which was in the gcaf laboratory i -ic y- All was dark Tho fumbled at the safe-lock with nervous determination Just then Ackerton appeared With drawn pistol he strode into the laboratory There were two flashes and a man fell dead It was Ackerton The masked figure fled without having opened the safe Soon afterward Ack assistant walked Into the Slaee and almost stumbled over the body of his chief ITotrifled he rushed to a telephone and called up Detective Rod-man Sears known as Sherlock Holmes of New Sears after a thorough examination of the laboratory during which he gathered many finger-marks on the safe announced that one of the fingers was missing docs that asked assistant means that we must search for a man with three was the-laconic reply we will get him perhaps we What was In the safe that prompted this attempted robbery The assistant told of Beverly Clarke's treasure and of the tortures through which she had gone -said Sears' search narrows down to a three-fingered member of this band But we must get more evidence I am going to Strong's home with these securities and see what else he knowe 'of the case By the way this young fellow what does be do a "living besides being wealthy "Why until he got Into this Clarke case he looked after a big factory Classified ads a cent a word a day BEDRSHEBA PALESTINE WAS OCCUPIED BY THE BRITISH Under General Allenby one year ago today October 81 1917 Find another soldier answer Right tide down forehead at right el how JOB TAKEN BY GROENER Latter Proceeds to Headquarters After Talk with Kaiser London General Greener the Prussian war minister alter an audience with the emperor ha gone to German headquarters aa the successor of General Ludendorff who resigned several days ago according to a Central News dispatch from Copenhagen HUN PROPAGANDA IS AT WORK IN MEXICO Washington Oct 31 German propaganda still is working in Mexico The state department was advised today that the Germans are publishing in Guadalajara a story that the deaths in New York City from influenza have been so numerous that the victims are lying in heaps in the streets Slanders Walkers for Corns World Has Never Known XtsEqnaL will get rid of my The answer has been made by only one corn-remover that you can bank on that's absolutely certain that makes any corn Corn-Pain the Com Deemedl on earth peel right off like a banana and that's magic Tight shoes and dancing even when you have a corn need not disturb you if you apply a few drops of on tho corn or callus You want a corn-peeler not a corn-- fooler You don't have to fool with corns -you peel them right off with flnL makes cori Vhy use irr a bundle of andages? 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Hewn Bldg Gulfport Phoneai Office C3S Residence 433-f Practice limited to Diseases of tho Eye Ear Ness and Throat Special attention "B-von Si flttln glasses BROWN Attomey-at-Law At' Old Office Over Parlor Drug Store GULFPORT THE GREAT MASTER SHIELDS THE DANCE HALL DOVE OF HIS FINANCIAL RUIN tone awaits you But greatest Joy was not In hcarii these tidings It was hi hearing the voice 'of the man she loved Smilingly she turned and told her mother what William had said and then she and Mrs Clarke went to the Strong home securities are the equivalent of a great Sears announced to them can be converted into cash nt once" they are wbat The Secret Sev-1 en has been explained William one of them knew that the fortune was hero we would be besieged Why Mrs Here he was Interrupted by a shrill cry out in tlie street It was a newsboy announcing an extra edition Wee See scurried out to get one I The shrewd little Americanized Chi- eyes bulged with a great surprise when he reappeared Strong snatched the paper from his hand and read: appointed for William Strong Co Factory closed Employ es demand more money while price of the product falls" Crushed In spirit Strong tottered from the room Beverly- seeing his Intense agitation- and not Realizing what it meant" followed hlfn and demanded an explanation At first refused to tell her bat' when she Snatched the paper from his hand he stood with' bowed head "While she read that he Was a ruined man Finishing the article she held her head up proudly and fafied him 1 1 ends my life of said some force lias ruined me have to 'find something to helped mo obtain the money now suld Beverly" softly and tenderly you let me help yon now? Repay me when you can If you but knew of my why my paltry riches afe as nothing to the wealth of feeling in my protested Strong vigorously: thank you for your kindness But I am man 1 would not accept money from a even as a loan fight my own way It shatters many ambitious plans I had Miss plans affecting you and myself' Fer haps I can build up a fortune If sowed the great secret of life is to bear ills and joys with equal Indifference work at what my hands can find to do and be And thus just as the pitiless little god Cupid thought he had scored another hit did fresh complications spoil his plans (End of Chapter IX) (To Be Continued Tomorrow) Classified ads a cent a word a day I Beverly His wife saw him and realizing what he intended doing went to the basement freed Strong just as the last grains of sand in the hourglass were falling and frenzied by jealousy ran back aud killed her husband while Strong- hurried Into the subterranean passageway and Joined with the police in their battle The Chinamen finally were overpowered and Strong and Beverly were freed After restoring Miss Clarke to her mother lie went to his home followed by Wee See my wily he said can now go on smoothly for us Miss Clarke Is-under the care of her mother I shall reward you handsomely Wee you asked the yellow servant my country when they do that they blmeby chop honorable bead off I get long without great Strong did not reply ne was thinking of Beverly His mind dwelt on their first meeting and of the absolute trust she had shown in him ever since then She was one girl in a million he thought There came upon him a picture of Eunice Morton of her duplicity and the nnfalr manner In which she had written him breaking off their engagement For some reason be experienced a feeling of relief that the engagement was at ah end -It seems to be a part of life that tragic events are nearest when the pathway seems smoothest Strong was destined soon to receive the biggest blow of his existence The Secret Seven was planning that The Secret Seven which was fighting Strong and Beverly Clarke for the wealth and was unwittingly biting Itself as 'does a frantic reptile in the throes of battle (End of Chapter Will) Classified ads a cent's word a -day Classified ads a cent a word a day strange situation in the strangest crim-Itsi band the world ever saw may be found In a reverie in which The Great 31 as ter indulged at the very time Strong aud Beverly were trapped in "the Den" Sitting in his Hudson river mansion be picked up an old album which lay on a table near him aud turned the i4gc which trere filled witl faded photographs The turning of these pages brought a turning back in the pages of a turning to years gone by when he was a prospector in the Klondike a young man full of health and ambition who was seeking gold from the pockets of nature In this retrospection bo saw an Alaskan dance hall He was standing at the lar A girl beautiful and pathetic in her innocence sat on a bench with bowed bead while the other women caroused Near her sat Zulph beside a woman and that woman was Jane Warren owner of the dance hall She was the same Jane Warren who served as honsckcccr for old Thomas Clarke Her heart in those Alaskan wilds belonged to Znlph She gave him all and asked nothing in return save love which was bestowed by Zulph as a hypocrite bestows charity on a beggar Two miners entered the place and halted to gaze in undisguised admiration at the frightened dove of the dance hall The younger of them who wns laden with gold offered to bet the her that he could win her affections fiis companion accepted the wager and then the younger man advanced with confidence and seized the girl Realizing his purpose she struggled desperately but be and his companion only guffawed over her frantic efforts to get free Then the man who afterward became known as The Great Master stopped forward He parted Classified ad- cent a word a day Classified ads cent a word a day.