Officer 666

A GRAPEFRUIT PRELUDE. Splash! The grapefruit hit her in the eye! Splash! His psychic wave was dashed to smithereens! "Oh! Oh!" the two girls screamed in unison. "D----!" the yo...

MR. HOGG ENTERS THE LISTS. Having arrived in the grill room of the Ritz coincident with a devastating eruption of grapefruit, Mrs. Elvira Burton set out forthwith to demonstrate t...

WHITNEY BARNES UNDER FIRE. Joshua Barnes, sometimes referred to in the daily press as Old Grim Barnes, the mustard millionaire, turned suddenly upon his son and pinioned him: "Wh...

SMILES AND TEARS. "Now there is no use in your arguing, Sadie--I love him and I have given him my promise." The two cousins were alone again speeding up Fifth avenue in an automo...

WHITNEY BARNES TELEPHONES TO THE RITZ. Glancing up into the solemn face of an unusually good-looking young man who wore his silk hat at a jaunty angle and whose every detail of at...

OFFICER 666 ON PATROL. Michael Phelan had been two years on the force and considered himself a very fly young man. He had lost something of his romantic outline during the six mon...

THE LITTLE BROWN JAP. Patrolman Phelan wrapped his sinewy fist about the handle of his club with a vicious grip as he proceeded cautiously up the steps. The heavy bronze door had ...

ART, MYSTERY AND LOVE. The little Jap was still posed in an attitude of bewilderment as the two outside doors slammed and Officer 666 went down the front steps to resume the tread...

THE CURSE OF MILLIONS. As Travers Gladwin's valet filled the tall, slim glasses with the fizzing amber-colored fluid which constitutes the great American highball, the two friends...

THE HEARTBEATS OF MR. HOGG. In a magnificently furnished apartment on Madison avenue, which Mrs. Elvira Burton had rented for New York's winter season, that augustly beautiful or ...

GAINSBOROUGH "BLUE BOY." Having discounted the romantic element of his thrilling rescue at Narragansett Pier, Travers Gladwin fell into a moody silence. The more volatile Barnes f...

APPROACHING A WORLD OF MYSTERY. Gaston Brielle, the strawberry blonde French chauffeur who piloted the big, luxurious motor car Jabez Hogg of Omaha had placed at the service of Mr...

TRAVERS GLADWIN GETS A THRILL. A ring at the door bell should suggest to the ordinary mind that some person or persons clamored for admission, but Whitney Barnes's announcement se...

THRILL BEGETS THRILL. Gladwin's exit from the room served as a signal for the agile-witted Barnes to strike while the iron was hot. His friend had hardly vanished through the port...

HEROISM, LOVE AND SOMETHING ELSE. The embarrassment of both the girls had begun to wear off. The two strange young men, notwithstanding the unaccounted-for absence of the object o...

THE TORMENT OF OFFICER 666. Meantime Officer 666, on his aristocratic beat, four blocks up and four blocks down the Fifth avenue pave, was sticking to the east side of the street ...

TRAVERS GLADWIN IS CONSIDERABLY JARRED. Taking time out to sense the bruised condition of your heart isn't a whole lot different from taking time out to recover from a jolt receiv...

SADIE BECOMES A CONSPIRATOR. "Ah! Be careful! Don't go out there!" was the warning that had stopped Sadie Burton in full flight for the treasure room into which her cousin and Tra...

HELEN LEAVES AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE. Helen Burton and Travers Gladwin were almost at the door leading from the treasure room when the young man stopped and confronted the girl, whos...

MICHAEL PHELAN TO THE RESCUE. The slamming of the front door of the Gladwin mansion struck upon the two young men as a numbing shock. They stood looking at each other with eyes th...

TRAVERS GLADWIN GOES IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF. Policeman Michael Phelan was at first undecided whether to pursue the departing Bateato and arrest him as a suspicious person or to rema...

A MILLIONAIRE POLICEMAN ON PATROL. Travers Gladwin went bounding down the steps of his own pretentious marble dwelling with an airy buoyancy that would have caused Sergt. McGinnis...

OLD GRIM BARNES GETS A THRILL. The precipitate departure of Travers Gladwin left Whitney Barnes and the shirt-sleeved Michael Phelan staring blankly at each other. The unfrocked p...

AUNTIE TAKES THE TRAIL. "Mix a tablespoonful of corn starch with a quarter of a cupful of water. Stir this into a cupful of boiling water, and boil for two minutes; then add the j...

PHELAN MEETS HIS UNIFORM AGAIN. About the time the Gladwin mansion was ringing with the shrill staccato outbursts of Mrs. Elvira Burton, the owner of that luxurious dwelling was l...

GLADWIN MEETS HIMSELF. Standing as stiff and immovable as if he had been turned to stone, Travers Gladwin peered with one eye through the narrow aperture he had slashed in the hea...

MISADVENTURES OF WHITNEY BARNES. Just as it had not occurred to Travers Gladwin to ask Michael Phelan to define the limits of his beat along Fifth avenue so it happened that Whitn...

AN INSTANCE OF EPIC NERVE. Travers Gladwin scaled the great staircase three steps at a time. Stumbling against a divan he threw himself across it and lay for a few moments stretch...

IN WHICH THE HERO IS KEPT ON THE HOP. Travers Gladwin watched the big handsome mis-presentiment of himself disappear into the hallway with every nerve at full strain. As he heard...

GLADWIN COMES OUT OF HIS SHELL. "What the"---- The spurious aristocrat and art collector suppressed his torrid exclamation. The impulse moved him to seize the uniformed butter-in...

A VISIT TO THE EXILED PHELAN. But where, oh, where was the exiled Phelan when the bogus Gladwin went on his backstairs investigation? Puzzled as he was by the fast moving events o...

IN WHICH BLUFF IS TRUMPS. Having disposed of the girl for the moment, Travers Gladwin decided it was time to call Michael Phelan to his assistance. There was no telling what this ...

BATEATO SUMMONS BIG MUCH POLICE. A vitagraph film of Bateato's journey to and from the police station would consist of a series of dark brown blurs. If you have ever noticed a mou...

PHELAN LOSES HIS BRIBE. It was merely a coincidence that Bateato should drag Helen back into the room just as Gladwin had gone on record with the declaration, "There are no women ...

BATEATO KEEPS HIS PROMISE. Although the escaping thief was brushed back into the room rather rudely and Travers Gladwin cried out as he caught sight of the uniformed officer and h...

REPARTEE AND A REVOLVER MUZZLE. The inky blackness fell upon the room with palpable suddenness--like a blinding flash, numbing for a moment the senses of all who had been taken by...

HANDCUFFS AND LOVE. Helen Burton could not have found a cozier place to faint in than that ultra-luxurious den of Travers Gladwin. Every chair and divan in the place invited one t...

KEARNEY MEETS HIS MATCH. There was no turning Whitney Barnes away with a soft answer. His appeals for admission were rising to a strident pitch when his friend opened the door and...

PILING ON PHELAN'S AGONY. Mrs. Burton would have arrived much earlier into the midst of the maelstrom of events at the Gladwin mansion had not Fate in the shape of a tire-blowout ...

STRIKING WHILE THE IRON IS HOT. As Travers Gladwin skimmed up the stairs to warn Helen of the arrival of her aunt, he was thinking on four sides of his brain at the same time and ...

THE ESCAPE. While he had not the slightest notion where the picture expert had managed to conceal himself during his own enforced absence from the scene of the chase, Travers Glad...

MICHAEL PHELAN'S PREDICAMENT. It was as if a great burden had been removed from his shoulders. Leaving the window and stepping back into the room, Travers Gladwin stretched his ar...

THE CIRCUMVENTION OF AUNTIE. Sadie sat up with a start and rubbed her eyes. "All right, Nanette," she said sleepily. "I'm awake." The trim, rosy-cheeked maid smiled and swiftly ...

MISS FEATHERINGTON'S SHATTERED DREAM. Marietta Featherington couldn't seem to concentrate her mind upon that thirteenth chapter of "Lily the Lovely Laundress." The handsome rat-ca...