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MOTION PICTURE
lie had taken and filled with a murderous hate at Powers’ interference, Ned smashed the front of an instrument cabinet, and seizing a scalpel, attacked the chemist. Dissipation had weakened him, and, tho he was the younger man, he was easily thrown out of the window. As the operating-room was on the ground floor, he sustained yond the hurt but this was
lying in wait ers to leave w h e n he happened to see Dr.El1 i s coming
“To see you? No! Do you think he comes here to see you? You had
better keep an eye on him — I ”
Dr. . Ellis angrily flung off his brother’s arm. “Get out,’’ he said shortly, “and dont come back till you are sane.’’ Nevertheless the seed of suspicion had been sown.
With devilish ingenuity Ned continued to foster, by innuendo and insinuation, the suspicion that there was something more than there should be between Norma and Powers. Once Dr. Ellis came upon Ned standing in the parlor, holding a picture of Powers and one of little Roy, and pretending to trace some resemblance in their features. This was too much. Infuriated at this insult to his wife, Dr. Ellis ordered his brother to leave the house, never to return.
When Ned employed jealousy to further his revenge. he little suspected that this same passion would prove his own undoing ; yet such was the case. His daily meetings with Belle had not passed unnoticed in ‘ ‘ Arcadia, ” and one S n o wd r o p, who belied her
name, with whom Ned had been friendly, took h i s defect i o n deeply to heart. Coming up behind him one ni g ht in the dive, she
c u rin g Belle.
of the
young w o in e n who frequented the place, and he off ered some of his “Oublier” to Ned; b u Ned woulc have none it. R o ers then determined to ac
tinued to advance him money, for Dr. Ellis was not penurious, despite his refusal to grant Norma’s request for a check-book.
Ned eventually encountered David Powers at the “Arcadia,” a dive patronized by drug fiends a n d p e 1 1 y criminals, a n d Powers, for the first time, learnt of Ned’s addiction to the habit,
Powers had suceeeded in
complish his end by strategy and induced Belle to substitute the .cure for the drug, meeting Ned daily at the dive for that purpose.
One day, as Ned was stealing cocaine from his brother’s medicine cabinet, he was surprised by Norma, and, altho she promised not to betray him to the doctor, she would probably have fared ill at his hands had it not been for the timely arrival of David Powers. Maddened by the drug which
down the street. In a moment he conceived a scheme of revenge which could only be born in a brain crazed by drugs. Dr. Ellis mounted the steps as Powers passed down the street.
Ned grasped his brother by the arm.
“Do you see who is going down the street?” he asked.
“David Powers, isn’t it? Was he here to see me?”
Ned laughed sardonically.
deliberately poured a vial of vitriol directly in his face.
Ned screamed and writhed in agony. The girl was arrested, and Ned was rushed to his tenement room by an acquaintance, who hurriedly telephoned for Dr. Ellis to come at once.
Having hastily administered first aid, the doctor decided that an immediate operation was necessary. It was accordingly arranged, and Dr. Ellis ( Continued on page 69)
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