Picture-Play Weekly (Apr-Oct 1915)

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PICTURE-PLAY A\'EEKLY 13 cigarettes that morning. Well. I waiKed TO show you what medicine co:dd do for you. And so I watched my chance, and dropped a little laudanum into a glass of wine you were holding during the rvening. The drug, and the fact that you were unaccustomed to going without the other narcotic, tobacco, had its effect on you. Which maj have been to make j"OU walk in j our sleep " '"We'll prove whether it did or not ' " cried Blake, springing to his feet. "I won't smoke another cigarette between * It was he who had stolen the Moonstone. But — where was it now? The day before this happened, Godfrey Abelwhite met in front of a bank, by appointment, Isaac Luker, a money lender. The loan shark handed Abelwhite a roll of bank notes, in return for which the latter stealthih" passed a small package to him. Luker stepped into the bank, to reappear within five minutes. the same small boy was delivering another to Abelwhite. It contained the same message — he was to go to Xo. 688 Xewberry Road immediateh', to learn something of importance. Luker reached the house first. As he stepped inside, the Hindus grappled and threw him. swiftly searching him — in vain. Abelwhite was seized and searched upon entering the house, the same way. But neither on him did the Hindus fi.nd that for which they were seeking. Tommy, watching, had seen the Hindu discover the number of the bearded man's room in the lodging house. A moment later, the urchin had run to inform Detecuve Cufr. now and midnight. Then you give me the exact amount of laudanum, and in a glass of the same kind of wine, as you did before. We'll see what happens then. If I walk in my sleep, it will prove that I stole the diamond, and didn't know it." The test was carried out. And, sure enough, Franklin Blake rose in his sleep and walked into Rachel Verinder's room, to open her jewel case, take out a ring, and walk back into his own room again. Then he and Abelwhite walked awaj in opposite directions. But their transaction had been witnessed. The three Hindus stole aroimd the side of the bank building. One, stopping a small boj who was passing, gave him a note with instructions to run after Luker and deliver it to him. The note which the money lender read ran ' as follows : '"Important. Go to Xo. 688 X'ewberrj' Road at once." While Luker was reading that note, So deftly had the East Indians done their work of throwing, binding, and gagging the two men they had lured to that house, that neither Abelwhite nor Luker had caught a glimpse of whom their assailants were. Escaping from their bonds only after hours of painstaking effort, thej had turned the storj over to the newspapers. And thus Detective Cuft heard of it. The sleuth had in his emploj" a ragged gutter gamin named Tommj-, whom he