Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery (1914)

"LUCILLE LOVE --- THE GIRL OF MYSTERY"

GOLD SEAL DRAMA, FEATURING GRACE CUNARD AND FRANCIS FORD.

SYNOPSIS OF PARTS 5 AND 6
NOW BEING PUBLISHED IN 47 LEADING PAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

Lucille and the Chief's Daughter Become Fast Friends.

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"LUCILLE LOVE -- THE GIRL OF MYSTERY

SYNOPSIS OF PART ONE. -- In the preceding installment Hugo Loubeque, an international spy, who has set apart his life to avenge himself upon General Sumpter Love, steals important documents containing diplomatic secrets from General Love. To save the honor of her father and Lieutenant Gibson, the man she loves, Lucille Love, the General's daughter, takes it upon herself to regain the papers. Loubeque has already sailed from Manila on the steamship "Empress". Lucille goes in pursuit of the "Empress" in a hydroplane.

SYNOPSIS OF PART TWO. -- On her reaching the "Empress," Loubeque betrays his identiry by being startled at the likeness of Lucille to her mother. He injures himself wrecking the wireless apparatus after sending a false message, that General Love, and not the aide, sold the papers. Lucille volunteers to nurse him, and finally secures the documents. Fire breaks out on the ship and Lucille in thrown upon a South Sea Islend beach, apparently the sole survivor.

CAST.

Lucille Is Venerated by the Natives as a Sacred Being.

AT the opening of the third chapter, Lucille Love is discovered more dead than alive on the beach of the South Sea Island, where she had been cast by the storm, which had wrecked the small boat in which she escaped from the burning liner "Empress". As she regains consciousness she makes sure that she has the papers which she had taken from Loubeque, the return of which will save her father and sweetheart from disgrace. She has them in the bosom of her dress.

As she looks about she sees a band of savages and tries to escape. It is all in vain; they overtake her and make her captive. The savages, however, seem to consider her a sacred being, and the chief takes her to his hut, where his little daughter is sick, and asks Lucille to cure her. Lucille sets to work and nurses the chief's daughter. She quiets her and makes her comfortable. The chief then assigns a house to her, and in the sign language tells her that she will be perfectly safe there.

In this hut Lucille for the first time learns the secret of Loubeque's life through reading his diary and seeing the picture of her own mother, who was the only love of the international spy's life.

When the crisis of the illness of the chief's little daughter is past, and she recovers, the chief is extravagant in his praise and in his rewards. Among other things he gives her a sacred amulet, or charm, in the shape of a white elephant. By virtue of this sacred object all the natives become Lucille's slaves. The chief hangs the charm about Lucille's neck, and in token of the service she has rendered she is permitted to ride the holy elephant as a mark of the royal favor, and all the natives bow before her.

But Loubeque has escaped the fury of the waves, too, and has been cast up on the same island which is now Lucille's refuge. Loubeque sees the honor which is being

conferred upon the girl, who has the secret dispatches which she took from the desk in his cabin, and he is filled with hate and determination to get them back. There came upon the scene at this moment a native of an anarchistic torn of mind, who hates anything which has to do with the white woman. Loubeque sees him, and by virtue of their common cause, they join forces. Loubeque, however, chokes the savage nearly to death to show him who is master.

Together they plot to make way with Lucille. Soon an opportunity offers. Lucille is restless, and as she is regarded as a sacred person and can go anywhere without harm, she wanders on the sand dunes. The native, Loubeque's new slave, surprises her and starts to strangle her. In a moment it would all have been over had not the sacred amulat, which the chief had hung about her neck, escaped from her dress and attracted the attendion of the savage. The talisman works. He desists and bows three times before her. She is saved.

But Loubeque will not be defeated so easily. He plots to drive Lucille out of her hut so that he can search it for the dispatches, and for that purpose he and the Native catch snakes and put them through the grass walls of Lucille's hut. Lucille, of course, is terrified and runs out into the night. Loubeque searches the hut, but cannot find the papers and goes away more angry and determined than ever. He watches the hut as Lucille returns. The girl fears to stay there, and resolves to escape through the jungle. She goes to the chief's hut, but decides not to waken him, and slips away into the doubly dark shadows of the jungle. But nothing can escape the crafty eye of the spy. He has followed every movement of the girl, who does not even suspect that her enemy is on the island.

Loubeque is not the only enemy that poor Lucille has to centend with. The jumgle is full of wild beasts, and she has not gone far before she encounters a ferocious lion. Lucille is horrified and tries desperately to escape.