When Alan Law rescues Judith Trine, believing her to be her sister Rose, from the New York home of Seneca Trine, they proceed at once by motorcar to Jersey City, where arrangements are made for the marriage of Rose and Alan. Marrophat, ...See moreWhen Alan Law rescues Judith Trine, believing her to be her sister Rose, from the New York home of Seneca Trine, they proceed at once by motorcar to Jersey City, where arrangements are made for the marriage of Rose and Alan. Marrophat, Trine's lieutenant, discovers their escape, learns that it is Judith, and not Rose, who has fled with Alan, and with wild jealousy pursues, his car overtaking theirs in a slum on the Jersey side. Judith still pretending to be Rose begs Alan not to let Marrophat speak to her, and when Marrophat makes a leap from his car to Alan's the latter throws him violently to the street. This incident occurs directly in front of the ramshackle tenement occupied by Red November and his gang of gunmen, some of which rush out, pick up Marrophat and convey him to the room where November lies dying, in consequence of his injuries sustained in attempting to assassinate Alan in a previous episode of this series. Marrophat promises, in Trine's name, to avenge the death of November, and sends several members of the gang to try for confirmation of this promise. He then renews the pursuit of Alan and .Judith, again overtaking them and stopping their car by shooting a bullet through the gasoline tank which ignites the gasoline and blows up the car, but Alan and Judith continue without injury by taxicab to the house of the minister who is to perform the wedding. Here, as Alan is about to be married to Judith, who is still impersonating Rose. Marrophat bursts into the room exposing the impersonation. Judith turns in fury on Marrophat and runs from the house, getting away in the taxicab, Marrophat pursuing. Alan proceeds to look for Rose. On his way back to the ferry to take him to New York, he passes the tenement of the gunmen, just as they arrive in a taxicab with Rose, who has been taken prisoner by them, while attempting to escape from the house of her father in New York. Alan sees Rose hustled into the house, jumps out of his car and goes to her rescue. The gunmen lock Rose in a room at the top of the house, and after a violent fight with Alan on the staircase, throw him from the house. In the course of this fight a kerosene lamp is kicked over and explodes, setting fire to the tenement. The fire alarm is turned in, but escape from the upper floors is cut off because of the blazing staircase. Rose appears at the topmost window and Alan seeing all other means of rescue has failed hauls himself up to the level of the her window by means of a block and tackle in front of the warehouse across the street. He then swings himself across the window, where Rose is waiting, and so contrives her rescue, bringing her safely to the street. Written by
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