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EL PASO HERAXD
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Wednesday, July 26, 1911.
Out of Town
Orders
We call attention again to the fact that it is per
fectly easy and very satisfactory for people living
out of town to do the principal part of their buy
ing in the eatable line of ns.
We maintain a special shipping department for
this Mn& 5f business, thereby insuring the very
best of service. The preliminary order for the
summer home is most carefully, attended to and so
securely packed that breakage seldom occurs.
We select your goods "with care and ship very
promptly.
Send Us Your Mail Orders.
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Guaranteed Absolutely Pure.
35c, 65c and $1.00 Bottles.
Manitou Water
Those -who have visited the wonderful Manitou
Springs in Colorado and drank the water will be
glad to know that it is on sale here. We can de
liver in pints and quarts.
Pints $1.50 Dozen; Quarts $2.00 Dozen.
Phone 151.
210-212
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one of the best outfielders in the American league. Hal Chase's garden trio is
scarcely inferior to the outfields of Detroit and the Athletics. In Wolter,
Daniels and Cree, he has three finish ed fielders Tvho are also strong with
the wagon tongue. Moreover he has as substitute gardeners, Charley Hemp
hill and Hoy Hartaell, his third baseman, who is as good in the outer works
as in the infield. Wolter is probably the most consistent hitter of the lot
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(Continued From Yesterday.)
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.
Capt. Alfonso Payton. the sky pirate,
kidnaps Helen Grayman, New York's
richest girl, and carries her away in
his airship, the Chameleon. He poses
as commodore Brown.
She thinks her abduction is a prac
tical joke. Pay ton takes her to his
lodge in a Labrador wilderness. Wil
liam Grayman, her father, secretly
summons the police.
By wireless telephone Payton de
mands $10,000,000 ransom from Gray
man, who agrees to meet him at
Tribes Hill with the money. Grayman
plans to trap the pirate.
Helen and her maid are well cared
for by Payton, but are closely guarded
by indian John. Helen suspects that
they are prisoners.
One after another Payton' captures
four police aeroplanes sent to trap him
and kills several policemen before
Grayman reaches the scene.
Grayman and police commissioner
Braman reach Tribes HIU. Payton
kidnaps Grayman. who again 'promises
to pay the ransom.
Payton takes Grayman home. Helen
receives a forged letter from her
father, which reassures her. She re
plies to her father's letter.
Grayman fears Helen will fall in
love with Payton. Secretary Grantham
offers government aid and assigns
Lieut. Allan the task of locating Pay-
ton s lodge.
CHAPTER X.
A TTAirn TASK.
A S already Indicated, up to this
Wl time there had not been the
slightest clew as to where the
" pirate had established his
headqnarters.
'It is just here," he said, "that: your
Invention ought to prove invaluable.
The first thing to do is to find out
where he harbors. That once known,
I will give you plenty of help to run
him down."
"I'll try it, sir," I replied promptly.
"And you'll not disappoint me," he
returned with a most engaging smile.
"Get your apparatus into shape at
once. Ill see that you are from this
moment detailed for special service.
As soon as you can get ready come to
see me here, and we'll discuss the de
tails." I hurried to my boarding place and
overhauled my all but forgotten ap
paratus. I shall not give-a long description of
it because the majority of readers
would not understand the technical
details. The principle, however; was
quite simple.
The object being to locate the origin
of the electric waves used in ethereal
telegraphy and telephony, the first es
sential was to determine their direc
tion of transmission. This I had ef
fected by means of a most delicate
needle, which had the property of set
ting itself exactly at right angles to
.the axis of the incoming waves. If
the latter radiated in all directions
from a center it was only necessary
to place two of my instruments a long
distance apart and note their indica
tions. I can make this clearer with
the aid of a little diagram thus:
4
V
-JQh -- J
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N
B
A.
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Suppcse that C represents the cen-
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ier rrom which the waves radiate and
that one of my needles is placed at
A and another at B. Then, by ob
serving the direction and the inclina
tion to one another of the radial lines
O A and C B and the direction of
the dotted line joining them and know
ing the distance between A and B, you
have all the elements needed for a sim
ple trigonometrical calculation which
will give the location of the point O.
This, however, applies only to the
case where the waves are sent out
"undirected" on all sides. With "di
rected" waves, which are now almost.
universally employed as they were at
the time of which I am writing, a
variation of the process is required.
It is then necessary that the waves
shall be sent either simultaneously or
at an interval from the point O sepa
rately to A and B. This being done,
the result is the same as before, the
location of O being determined.
In the latter case a single instrument
will suffice, being used first at A and
I thn at R.
I knew that the last described meth
od would have to be employed, since,
as I have already explained. Payton
was sending "directed" messages to
Mr. Grayman although the tetter's re
plies were necessarily "undirected,"
because Payton would not designate
his location, and the waves' had to be
sent out on all sides in order to find
him. The only problem for us I saw
would be to induce Payton to commu
nicate in succession from the same
point with two widely separated sta
tions. As soon as he should'have done that
I knew that I could "spot" him.
Having thought this out and furbish
ed up my apparatus' to make sure that
it was in good working order, I re
turned with it to Mr. Grantham's of
fice. The secretary was delighted with
my explanation of the device.
"We've got him!" he exclaimed glee
fully. "As sure as there is a Great
Chief Justice in the heavens we've got
him, and we'll give him his deserts.
And, young man, your fortune is made.
Do you know what Mr. Grayman will
do to reward you for restoring his
daughter?"
"No, sir; I haven't thought about
that"
"Well, I don't know, either," he re
plied, with a quizzical smile, "but I
have thought about it, and I know
what Td do, anyhow."
Then he looked at me for a moment,
laughing good humoredly. But, sud
denly becoming serious, "Well take
the first train for New York," he said.
"There is no time to be lost. Payton
will communicate tomorrow, and we
must be on the spot with everything
in readiness."
The next- morning Mr. Grantham and
I went together in an auto from our
hotel, where we had arrived .in the
middle of the night, yo Mr. Grayman's
office.
"This is lieutenant Allan," said Mr.
Grantham, presenting me very courte
ausly. "I have already told you about
him and my expectations of him. He
is not going to fail us. He has brought
along a little apparatus which, 1 fancy,
will do the business for Mr. Alfonso
Payton. Lieutenant Allan, please show
Mr. Grayman your machine and tell
him how it works."
The great billionaire was as delight
ed with the explanation as the secre
tary had been.
"But; how," he asked, after a mo
ment's reflection, "are we going to in
duce Payton to send two messages( to
different points? And how do we
know that he will send them from his
hiding place? He may communicate
from his aero."
"I have worked that all out, Gray
man," replied the secretary. "In the
first place, as to his communicating
from his lodge' for I judge by your
daughter's letter that that is what he
calls his lairI believe that there Is
very little question. He will want to
continue to entertain her and to lull
her suspicions; and so, having, prob
ably, no more Important business than
this, he will remain there. You can
make sure by asking for news of your
daughter.
"Then, as for inducing him to send
two messages, that will be easy. Lieu-
tenant Allan tells me that he wishes to
, ,
select a place for the second communi
cation at a considerable distance from
New York, in order to be sure of hav
ing a 'manageable angle.' Assuming
that Payton's place is somewhere in
the Allegheny range, or the Blue Ridge
although, of course, we cannot bank
much on the indication of the post
marks, but It is not likely to be much
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farther away Buffalo would -probably
serve our turn.
"All that you have to do, then, will
be to interrupt Payton after he Has
gone far enough in his communication
today to enable Allan to determine the
direction of the waves and tell him
that a sudden Imperative call has sum
moned you to Buffalo and that you
must go there tonight. TelJ bim that
until yon have seen your man In Buf
falo and arranged the affair that you
have in hand you cannot name a day
when you will be free to meet him, but
that if be will communicate with yon
in Buffalo tomorrow you will be in a
position to settle it
"Of course yon know the wireless
telephone number of some Buffalo cor
respondent Give it to Payton and tell
him to call you np there. Then we
will take the night train for Buffalo
and be ready for him in the morning,
and I guarantee that after that Allan
will not be ten minutes in uncovering
the hawk's nest"
"But" objected Mr. Grayman, "since
I have already put him off on a simi
lar plea, that will only excite his sus
picions."
"Of course it will excite his sus
picions," replied the secretary. "He is
bursting with suspicion now. But what
does that amount to? He will not give
up his game simply because he knows
that you are laying a trap for bim.
He is used to keeping out of traps.
The beauty of our scheme is that let
Mm suspect until doomsday, he can
never hit upon it He will never have
the ghost of an Idea what we are
about Go ahead, Grayman, and do as
I tell you, and 111 be responsible for
the result"
So it was decided, and immediately
I made my arrangements for connect
ing my instrument with the aerial re
ceiver on the roof of the building con
taining Grayman's offices. We rigged
up a temporary telephone from the
sanctum to my station, and Secretary
Grantham remained with Grayman to
give me word the instant that Payton's
"call was recognized. In order that I
might not confuse It with -some other.
Bo I was left alone to wait and I con
fess that the strain made me very nerv
ous. 1 had to deal with many crooks in
the service, but never with one of Pay
ton's caliber. Besides, 1 felt more and
more the importance of this affair to
my future, and the secretary's myste
rious words about a reward which he
thought that Mr. Grayson ought to
offer me had got hold of my Imagina
tion. I certainly think that neither of
the others could have awaited that call
as anxiously as I did.
It seemed to me that I had sat there
for hours with, my eyes glued upon the
telltale needle, when suddenly it jump
ed round and then set itself in a defi
nite position, pointing nearly east and
west but with a slight quivering mo
tion. Almost immediately the secretary
called softly through the telephone:
"Hello, Allan! If s coming! Have yon
got it? If s Payton."
"Yes," I said. "I've got it Donft in
terrupt -me now, please."
I could tell every time that Payton
began or ceased to speak, because in
the first case the needle moved into
?BL:gjE
STJDDENIjY IT JUMPED BOUND.
position, as at a command, and in the
Rpponrl It. lost ttR riodrlirv nnrt wnnrier-
..0 j
ed all around the compass. The con-
versation lasted only two or three
minutes, and Payton spoke perhaps
half, a dozen times. I observed the in
dications of the needle with the ut
most exactness and entered them in
a notebook. They were perfectly defi
nite and accordant every time, and 1
felt an immense exultation over my
success. Presently Mr. Grantham call
ed to me again.
"Hello! If s all over. You can come
down-" f -
You can imagine how eagerly I
descended to Grayman's sanctum,
carrying my precious instrument As
I entered I saw by the expression of
the two men's faces that all had gone
well on their side.
"How is it?' demanded the secretary.
"Did it work?'
"To perfection," I replied.
"Good! Goodl" And Mr. Grantham,
forgetting his dignity, fairly jumped
up and down, while Grayman smiled
patronizingly.
"Have you got the direction sure?"
asked the secretary.
"I've got the axis of progression of
the waves to a nicety. They came
from. the north, but of coarse I &s yet
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know nothing about the distance that
they had traveled in coming here."
"Then we'll get him!" exclaimed Mr.
Grantham. "He's agreed to communi
cate to Buffalo tomorrow."
"But are you sure that he sent his
message from his lodge? I asked.
"Not a doubt of it Mr. Grayman
got that out of him by inquiring about
his daughter's health, and he replied
that she had just goae to her room
with Susah. in excellent spirits."
"But will he communicate from the
same place tomorrow?"
"Have no fear about, that. He told
Mr. Grayman that they were going
fishing In the morning and that he
would call him up at 9 o'clock."
"Then." 1 replied, equally unable to
restrain my delight, "we certainly have
got himt"
(To Be Continued.)
Big Indian Catcher of
Chief Meyers, the big indian catcher- of the New York Giants, whose sen
sational and consistent work this year stamps him as one of the best re.
celvers In the game. The gigantic backstop is not only pegging- to bases aa
Johnny Kling used to in his palmy days, but he is threatening the batting
leaders of the league. Meyers boasts a percentage far above JOO. included in
which are many extra base clouts.
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The Lost and Found.
"I win be ever grateful to tbe
Want Colusniis for the return o an
article of jewelry, an heirloom, that
I lost one evening, and wfeich. was
retorHed to me the next evening."
You have heard such expression
from many who have had praaticsl
experience with the remarkable effi
ciency o the Want Columns in re
coverins: ksfc articles.
One reat convenience of th
Wants in returning lost article is
the fact that they work so- quickly.
A few hours after you send your
Want Ads to The El Paso Herald,
telling of a lost article, thousands
of people are readies the Wants, and
(the losers and finders of lost articles,
naturally enough, are the first to
make a critical examination of the
ket and found classification.
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