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AN Presented by This Newspaper in Collaboration with the Famous Pathe Players CAST Tlup re the five lead ing ohfcrtcters in Sir. God iard1 nc novel. "The I'crHp oX Pauline." OF CHARACTERS. Thefie are the Pathe phrces who play the purta in ; n moving picturt presentation. STANFORD MARVIN, Aged and wealthy manufacturer Edward Jose PAULINE MARVIN. His adopted daughter. . Miss Pearl White HARRY MARVIN, His son. . .Mr. Crane Wilbur RAYMOND OWEN, His confidential secretary.. Mr. Paul Panzer MONTGOMERY HICKS, Race-track man and blackmailer Mr. Francis Carlyle ALSO 6ervants, Pirates, Aviators, Scientists, Ice land Peasants, Lawyers, Apaches, Re incarnated Mummy, Highwaymen, So ciety Leaders, Viking Doctors, Cy clops, Chinamen, Blackhanders, Explorers and Archaeologists, Etc., Etc., as the Plot Develops. eJovvns- by Lady Duff-Gordon, the Famous The Perils CHAPTER I. Copyright. 1914, by the Star Company. : "',11 Foreign Rights Reserved. IN one. of the stateliest mansions on the lower Hudson, near New York, old Stan ford Marvin, president of the Marvin Motors Company, dozed over his papers, while Owen, his rascally conflddttHaJ sec retary, eyed him across the mahogany flat topped desk. A soft purring sound floated in the open window and half-roused the aged manufacturer. It came from one of his own cars six cylinders chanting in unison a litany of power to the great mod ern god of gasoline. Unconsciously the veteran builder of automobiles fitted words to the cadence of the motor: "Carburatlon, lubrication, compres sion, ignition, exhaust; Vanadium steel and phosphor bronze, thrust and balance and cost." These things had been In his mind since the motor industry started. He had lived with them, wrestled with them during his n.eals and taken them to his dreams at night. Now they formed a rhythm, and lie heard them in his brain just before the fainting spells, which had come so fre quently of late. He glanced at the secre tary and noted Owen's gaze with some thing of a start. "What are you thinking about, Ray mond?" he queried, with his customary directness. "Your health, sir," replied Owen, who, like all intelligent rascals, never lied when the truth would do equally well. As a matter of fact, Owen had wondered whether his employer would last a year or a month. He much preferred a month, for there was reason to believe that the Marvin will would contain a handsome lquest to "my raithful secretary." "Oh, bosh!" said the old man. "You and Pr. Stevens would make a mummy of me before I'm dead." "That reminds me, sir," said Owen, smoothly, "that the International ExpresB Company has delivered a large crate ad dressed to you from Cairo, Egypt I pre sume it Is the mummy you bought on your last trip. Where shall I place it?" The Mummy Arrive. Mr. Marvin's eye coursed around the walls of the handsome library, which had been .his office since the doctor had for bidden him to visit his automobile works and steel-stamping mills. "Take out that bust of Pallas Athene," he ordered, "and stand the mummy up in its i'.;i Owen nodded, poised his pencil and prompted: "You were just dictating about the new piston rings." "Piston rings." the words started that baleful rhythm in his head again: "Piston rings and cylinder heads, fric tion vibration and knocks; Crystallisation and carbonization, ex pansion, contraction and shocks." Mr. Marvin drew his hand across his eyes and looked out the window. Within the range of his vision was one of the moat charming sights in the world a handsome youth and a pretty girl, arrayed In white flannels, playing tennis. Never mind the letters. Tell Harry and Pauline I wish to see them." Alone,, the old man opened a drawer and took, a dose of medicine. he un folded Dr. Stevens's letter and read its final paragraph, which prescribed a change of climate, together with complete and permanent rest or "I will not answer for the consequences." There wan little doubt that no prime mover in a great industry was better able to leave Its helm than Stanford Marvin. His lieutenants were able, efficient and contented. The factories would go of their own momentum for a year or two at least, and then bis son. Harry, Just out of college, should be able, perhaps, to help. His lieutenant had proved Marvin's un erring instinct in Judging character. Not one single case came to the old employ er's mind of a man who had failed to turn out exactly a he evicted. Vat l',e most trusted man of all. Itaymond Owen, the Cretan, was disloyal and dishonest. This one exception was easily enough explained. When Oaeu came to Marvin's attention, fifteen years before, he was a flue, honest, faithful man. It was born and brad in him to be straight. During the first five or six years in the Marvin household the older man took palna to keep watch on this quiet, tactful youth until ha know ill bis ways and even bis habits of though.. There waa no doubt that Owen waa a upright and clean as Lb aM man himself At the age of forty th devil entered Into Own. It came In the form of in of sleep will mak an ENTHRALLING MOTION PICTURE NOVEL the Distinguished Playwright, SWEU5 "The Misleading Lady' "The Ghost Breaker," "The Man from the Sea,"Etc. 'Luclle." of Pauline man irritable and unreasonable, but hardly dishonest. With the sleeplessness, how ever, came the temptation to take drugs Owen shifted from one narcotic to' an other, finally settling down upon mor phine. Five years of the opiate had made him its slave. Every physician knows that morphine fiends become dishonest. It is a symptom more certain than tlu sallow complexion and the dilated pupil. The secretary had speculated with his modest savings and lost them. He had borrowed and lost again, and now, for some time, had been betting on horse races. This last had made him acquainted With a certain Montgomery Hicks, who lived well without visible source of in come. Through Hicks. Owen had betrayed one of his employer's guarded secrets. Hicks, armed with this secret, promptly changed from a friendly creditor to a blackmailer. Owen, on his way to summon Pauline and Harry, descended to the basement, where the butler, gardener and a eolored man were uncrating the Egyptian mummy. He told them to stand it in place 01 the bust of I'allas Athene in the library, and then went out, crossing the splendid lawns and gravelled roads to the tennis court. There was no design in Owen's mind against the two players, but of late the instinct of both the hunter and t lie hunted were showing in him. and it prompted him to approach quietly and under cover. So he passed along the edge of a hedge and stood a moment within earshot. Harry Proposes. Pauline was about to "serve," but paused to look down at the loosened laces of her small white shoe. She heard Harry's rac quet drop and saw him hurdle the net. In another instant he was at her feet tying the tiny bow. "You needn't have done that, Harry,'' she said. "Oh, no," Harry admitted, as he vainly tried to make his bow as trim as its mate. "1 suppose not. I don't suppose I need to think about you all the time either, nor follow you around till that new cocker spaniel of yours thinks I'm part of your shadow. Perhaps I don't need to love you." "Harry, get up! Someone will see you and think you're proposing to me." "Think? They ought to know I'm pro posing. But, Pauline, talking about 'need,' there Isn't any need of your being so pretty. Your eyes are bigger and bluer than they really need to be. You could tomffi&zl' siPQy MISS PEAK), WHITE. The Popular Pathe Leading lady. Who Plays thr Part Of Pauline In the Motion Plcta.ro Representation of the Novel Tho Portia of Pauline." aflaa w hit gnwn are made br liSdy Duff-Uordon lb famous "Lucile." Written by Charles see just as well If you didn't have sucn long, curly lashes, and there isn't any real necessity for the way they group together In that starry effect, like Nell Brinkley's girls. Is there any need of fifteen differ ent beautiful shades of light where the sun strikes your hair just back of your ear?" "Harry, stop this! The score Is forty fifteen." "Yes. all these things are entirely un necessary. I'm going to have old Mother Nature indicted by the Grand Jury for wilful, wasteful, wanton extravagance unless unless" Harry paused. "Unless what?" asked Pauline promptly. When neither love nor money can force a word from a woman's lips, curiosity will unlock them Instantly. "Unless," said the youth solemnly, "un less you promise unequivocally, absolutely and beyond peradventure"-- - "Now, Harry, don't use up your whole vocabulary promise what?" - "Promise to many me at once." "No, Harry, I can't do that that is, right away. I must have time." "Why time? Pauline, don't you love me?" "Yes. I think I do love you, Harry, and you know there is nobody else in- the world. . kV , , "I Must See Life." . "Then what do you want time for?" ' "Why, to see life and to linotv what life really is." "All right. Marry me, and I'll show- you life. I'll lead you any kind of a life you want." ,- - "No, that won't do. As an old, settled down, married womau I couldn't really do what I want,' 1 must see life in its great moments. I must nave thrills, adventures, see people, do daring things, watch hat ties. It might be best for me even to sec someone killed, if that were possible. As 1 was telling Harley St. John last night" "Harley St. John? Well, if 1 catch that fop taking you motoring again you'il ge! your wish and see a reaj. nice aristocratic murder. He ought to be piit out of his misery, anyvJay; b lit where did you get al! these sudden notions about wild and strenuous life?" Pauline did not answer. They both heard a discreet cough, arid Owen rounded the corner of the hedge. He delivered his message, and the three walked slowly toward the house. Advancing to meet them came a dashy checked suit. Above it was h large Pan ama hat w ith a gaudy ribbon. : A red neck tie was aiso visible, even at a consider able distance. Between the hat and the necktie a face several degrees darker in color than the tie came into vipw as the distance lessened. It was Mr. Montgom ery Hicks, whose first name was usually pronounced "Mugumry" and thence degen erated into "Mug." Mug's inflamed and scowling face and bulging eyes -usualW conveyed the general Impression that he was about to burst into profanity a con jecture which frequently proved correct In this ci.se lie merely remarked in a sort of "newsboy" voice:' "Mr. Raymond Owen', I believe?" Tie secretary's sallow face flushed a little as lie stooped aside and let Harry and Pauline pass cm of earshot. "See here Mug." comnlaineil Owen, "I hav n't a-cent for vou. You will get me discharged If you come around here like this." ' i "Well, I'll get you fired right now," growled Mug, "if you don't come across with the Money." And he started toward the front steps'. Owen led him out of sight of the house and finally got rid of him. For a blackmailer knows he can strike but once, and, having struck, he loses all power over-his victim So Hicks withheld the blow, collected, a paltry thirty' dollars; and consented to wait a little while for Marvin to1 die. Harry and Pauline passed on into the house. He had the straight backbone and well poised 'head of the West Pointer, but without the unnatural stiffness of the soldier's carriage; the shoulders of the "half-' back," and the lean hips of a runner were his, and he had earned theuuu , four years on his 'v trait 'tOMmf and track teams. The .girl beside blm. half a head shorter, tripped along with the easy action of a thor ougbbred. Both boreHBe name of Marvin, yV there waa' n'orefatOoo Harry V mother. Itmg- dead, ; had adopted fhls girl Nan' "Nr. Marvin ' first trip to KgyptHlgme was the daughter of an Emtllsh father and a native mother Mrs Murvlu first saw her ait a blar-eyed baby, tho. voung to understand that its- parents had Just bees d row net in the Nfte As brother and slater they, bmw up together until college stptaMed tke two.. Attar 'foy eara. PafcllnJk . dainty prettfti his struck' Harrv wfch a dretrartjlfc . dUghtful jrt of shock Jfatwn asHhve at flrat eight -It wsareaHy Harry (fctat light of J her MrQfoiiaii. Rvery eeaae.' and " Instinct" Wjmh shouted,. "et tfu.t gi.'l." and pothtag to efta answered '. "No " ' ' ' .- 'Mr. Margin looked unusually palp"- to I lam and Pattltne i.l those tso very vital young persons stepped Into th library, V He rped thoir- thoughts and said rfutpMV: Harry, lip VMS placed In the ' hands u! a teweli-?., "RtitmrtrT echoed Harry, with amasement, for he know that Marvin enterprises were flnsaoed -magnlfl cently. "Yea, Dr. Stevens Is the receiver He cays I have exhausted any inure Goddard, . stock of nervous capital, that my account at the bank of physical endurance is over drawn, nature hasrcalled her loans, and.you might, gay that I. am a nervous bankrupt." "All you need is rest," cried Pauline, "and you will be as strong as ever." "Well, before I rest I want to assure myself about you children. Harry, you love Pauline, don't you?" "You bet I do, father." "Pauline, you love Harry, don't you?" "Yes," answered Pauline slowly. "And you will marry right away?" "This very minute, if she would let me," said Harry. "And you, Pauline?" queried the old man, "Yes, father," for she loved him and felt toward him as if she were Indeed his daughter; "perhaps some time I'll marry Harry, but not for a year or two. I couldn't marry him now; it wouldn't be right" "Wouldn't be fight? Well, I'd like to know why not." Pauline Vas silent a moment. She hated to oppose tliis fine old man, but her will was as firm as his, and well he knew it. Harry spoke for her. "Oh, she wants to see life before she settles down wild life, sin and iniquity, battle, murder and sudden death and" all that sort of st.uff. I don't know what has gotten into women these days, anyway." The old man frowned and demanded: "Why, Polly, what does he mean?" Then Polly, prettily, daintily, as she did all things, and with charming little blushes and hesitations, confessed her secret. In short, it was her ambition to be a writer, a w riter of something worth while a great writer. To be a great writer one must know life, and to know life one must see it -see the world. She ended by asking the-ciwo men If this were not so Tbey looked at each other and coughed with evident- relief at the comparative luii mlessness of her whim. "Yes, Polly," said old man Marvin, "a great writer ought to see life in order to know what he is writing about. But what makes you suspect that you have the abil ity to be even an ordinary writer?" .Marvin sire winked at Marvin sop and Marvin son winked back, for no man Is too Ul or too young to enjoy teasing a pretfy and serious girl. I'auline saw the wink, and her foot ceased tracing a pattern in the carpet and stain lied on it instead. "I'll show you what reason I have to think I can write. My first story lias just been published In the biggest in igazine in tho country.' I have had a copy of it lying around here for days with my story in it, arid 'nobody has even looked at it." Out she flashed, and Harry after her,, almost upsetting the butler and gardener, who appeared In the library doorway. These fwd worthies advanced upon the statue Vif Pallas without noticing the master of the house sitting behind his big desk. The butler did notice that a large hound from the stable had followed the gardener Into the room. The Old Man's Hobby. "That's what one gets for letting out door servants into the house," muttered the hutler, as he hustled the big dog to the froot deer and ejected him. "Is he addressing himself to me or to the" purp, I -wonder?" asked the gardener, a fat, good -rial ured Irishman, as he placed himself in front of the statue. le read the name "Pallas," -forced his rusty derby hut down over hts ears In Imi tation' of "tjfe. 'Statue's helmet .and mim icked the pose. "What did. this guy, Phallus, do for his country, anyway?" he asked of the return ing butler. ;'Dld be build Palisades Park, maybe?" "Take your hat oft. in the house," re plied, the butler. lotUly, "and get bold of that statue If your hands Are clean." Together they staggered out with their burden. A moment -later they returned, carrying, with the help of -two other men. the, mummy In its big case. Owen also ar rive, and Marvin, with the joy of an Egyptologist, grasped a magnifying' glass and exiynlnedt the case. The old man's hobby had been Egypt, his liberal checks had assisted In many mf -Ma-jijiowledge of bar .rkabhlk Inserting1 a steel a- crajdk he .-ftlv. nrled half.of the mummy's front mars of., wrappings In of . yesfr agol'thi priests a ways some leiy of It waa, a woman. Marvin veoher tip he a princess excuse Tllmself and went mom, wer lUe firecloua mornhlnn w-r" hldd. n Tin. etf man. left alone, r opened the Jtfawfrlaver.i of doth lch btmad th'anoleit form A faint urt, was almnet like, a presence foth- train rSe -nwrebBri- fohiu g lost pal ins they were, ancient ipces, Otuypswa-eJfMLgreal race -that Wd.Jell tiejMBle or years bp ?4fcfysU Vie dead c.AltWtee.'' whispered Mvlft,te blwslt-, "1 cpa' almost rcl Hi. ': M-lt'n .irH eMr9ou8g wben HiW roasan breathed, 'Perhaps she was pretty ta-d foolish, like my Polly -yea, and ma;.e s stubborn. U". Manetho says they had a good deal to sty rn those days. Ah, now we shall see her fe." H" had uncovered bUof 'he muniuy's Btabaad when out ot rn bandages fell a tlio vial. Msrvlc quickly picked It up. The vial was carted from eotae sort of green crystal In the shape of a two-headed Kgyp tloa bird pod. Without effort the stopper rame oat sud Marvin held the small rot tie to' his iioetrtte, oaly to drop It at the rausnmy a teat. It aib-lnrt the odor of Jha -as rosea ration-, a 'KuMaVtlleRg LWaM Bar ,o.tetito open, the upper ..jawgin. and;raslk. wmo. aiw arawe l &c eewpiary VJ-'aWl Dllh hHssaVamB' H m&U3NXmim. S X - This is from the Motion Picture Film of "Pauline" by the Famous Pathe Players. "Something moved! There was a flutter among the bandages of the mum my. Slowly the bosom heaved. Suddenly the eyes opened. The lips moved the Mummy was speaking!" mummy which the reek of the centuries intensified a, thousand times. Aj,.iu he,, felt the weight of the cen ttiidesvaml the-hot breath of JSgypt seemed to rush and eddy about him. It was too much for the old man. He had overtaxed his .feeble vitality and felt his senses leaving him. With the entire force of his will he was able to cet to a chair, into which he sank. The odor of the vial was still In his nostrils. His eyes were fixed and stared straight ahead, but he could see, in a faint, unnatural yellow li.;ht that bathed the room. From the vial, lyi'i at the mummy's feet a vapor appeared to rise. It floated toward the swathed figure, enveloped it and seemed to bo absorbed by it. "Perhaps this Is death," thought Marvin, "for'l cannot move or speak." But something else moved. There was a flutter among the bandages of the mummy. The commotion increased.- Some thing was moving inside. ' The bandages were 'becoming loosened. They fell away from the face, and then was Marvin amazed Indeed. Instead of the tight, brown parchment-like Skin one always finds in these ancient relics appeared a smooth, olive-tinted complexion, it was the face of a young and beautiful woman. The features were serene as, If lp death, hut thera was .no sunken np'se, ho;. mummy's hollow eyes. A- strand of black ttajr .fell down, and the movement beneath the bandages In creased. Out of the fold cam e. an arm, .a woman's arm, slander, yet rounded, an arm- with light bones and fine sinews, clearly.-an arm and hand that had never known work. -Marvin was well aware that a mummy's arm 4s Invariably a black skeleton claw. At tliis point the old man made a men-, tal note that he was not dead, for he could fee) hat own breathing. The aira rapld'y and gracefully loosened and removed wrap pings from the neck and breast: -On the wrist flashed a bracelet made of linked scarabs. The arm now cast away the -last covering of the bosom, neck and shoul ders. "She's Alive." Next tbo hsnd passed over the face, re moving from the mouth, nostrils and eyes s sort 'of wsxllke covering. Blowly the bosom heaved as If In drawing a' long breath, then the hand dropped limp at her side. Marvin struggled with the paralvtls that held' 'him fast. He wanted to help her. He forgot Ills own predicament In disappointment that this beauty should after all fall to come td life. She resem bled someone, too. "Whaf a pMy.' Suddenly the eyes opened. They were large eyes' and ' long! like Pauline's, and their lashes, too. weft starry. A dazed expression was in them as they glinced about the room, until finally they fell upon Marvin. The arm etretrbed out toward . him and beckoned, but the old man could not respond. She seemed to be trying to speak, but the kfrange atmosphere and lungs thst had' not breathed since th days when the pyramids were cased in white proved too much for her. Looking down at herself, klie freed her left hand, lifted out the bottom half of the rase and slid the wrappings from her limbs. Barefooted -d bate-ankled. clothed only In a shimmering white gnwn that scarcely covered her knees, and a white heiddress with s green serpent head In ftonl, she stepped somewhat Ht If -fly Into 'ne room. Slowly she made sev eral y in--the fist steps of a 3"ti I r imp, looked down at herself snd s.ayed her lithe hips It occurred to Msrvfn that all this was by warffof a graceful little stretch after s few thousand ears of Sleep. Hct flCii JLurti art U aauKiU-t iia 4xcsj with n very modern and very feminine movement of the pink-nailed fingers. Marvin now observed that she was -Pan-. lin ''s height and age, ae well as general size and form. Slightly shorter she might have been, but then she lacked Pauline's lilgij heols. The general resemblanoe was striking except in the color, of the eyea and luilr. Pauline's tresses were a light golden yellow, while this girl's hair was black as the hollow of the sphinx. Pauline's eyas were blue, but she who stood before htm, gazed through eyes too dark to guess their color. '' Pauline's Double. The Egyptian had found a little mirror. Site patted her hair, adjusted the head dress, but Marvin waited In vain for the u powder puff. Prom the mirror the girl's eyes wandered to a painting hanging above the desk. H was an excellent likeness of Pauline. The resemblance between the two was obvious, not only to Marvin but ersl dently to the black-haired girl. She turned", to the old man and addressed him is a strange language. Not one word did ha recognize, yet the syllables were so clearly a and carefully pronounced that he felt he was' listening to an educated woman. Some i of the tones were like Pauline's, some were not lmt nil were soft, sweet, modulated. Th- meaning was clear enough. She wished Marvin to see the resemblance, and she frowned slightly because the rigid, star- . , lug figure did not respond. Why should she -be Impatient, this woman of the Pharaohs ' who had lain stiff and unresponsive wfeUe e Babylon and Greece end Rome and Spain hail risen and fallen? Soon site resorted to pantomime, pointed t hersjelf nnd Hie picture, touched her eyes nnd nnee nnd mouth and then tho corre sponding painted features. She felt of her own Jet halt-, shook her head and looked -questioningly at the light coiffure of Pau line. She turned to the. old man, evidently -asking If the painting were true In this re Hvt Then she smiled a smile like Pau- -Hue's. Perhaps she was asking If Paulina had changed the color of her hair. Now she decani,- Interested in a book on the corner of the desk. With little musical exclamations of delight she turned tl printed pages and . appreciated that the shelve) contained hundreds more of these treasures. The typewritten letters lying about excited her sdmlratlon snd than the . pen pud Ink. she quickly guessed, the use of the pen snd ran eagerly to the mummy rase. . A moment's search brought forth a. long roll of pnpynis. Before Marvin's eyes she unrolled n scroll covered with Egyptian hieroglyph If. There were footsteps In the hall and the -Kgvptian looked toward the door. Owea entered, looked at Marvin searrhingly, . placid him In a more comfortable position In the chair, spoke his name and walked out. Wluit Mvmcil most surprising to the sick m.m was Ills secretary's oversight ot the girl. I It- passed In front of her, almost brushing her white robe, and yet It was clear that he did not see l r. But the Kgvptian had seep him and the lght had excited her. She seemed des perately anxloui to say something to Mar vin, something about Paulina. The mummy nail a necrrtJo reveal! Knpldly her ilp moved Marvin under- Pt'KKl She tore ihe hrnceM from her right wrist nnd tried to force It Into Marvin's nerveless grasp Try as she would, his muscles did not re pond. Tl were voices In the hall Hairy . Pauline were running d.u-hilr The Prim-ess gave on- last Imploring glance at the psralv.e Zt,u, pnw. her ham) gently .trer his forehead' then trpped quickly back to theH Harry and Pauline ru-hed In. followed ' ic-s namuy oy lwn Thcr graapef "Id man's hands, snd Hsrry, setting telephone, railed Tir Rterene. But to oirprlBe of wryhndr Marvin suddenly me paraiysia, spoke, moved n 'firp- nnpr wnnu for his i