The Seven Pearls

Summary

A feverish odyssey unfolds in "The Seven Pearls," a cinematic serial charting the harrowing quest of Ilma, a woman ensnared by an ancestral debt. Her father's life hangs precariously on the recovery of seven fabled pearls, a brutal ultimatum issued by a relentless Sultan's executioner, Kismet. From the outset, Ilma's burden is shared by the fiercely devoted Harry Drake, whose love for her becomes both a shield and a catalyst for increasingly perilous escapades. Their pursuit is a labyrinthine dance with fate, punctuated by the malevolent machinations of Perry Mason, a villain of protean disguises and diabolical traps, and the unpredictable interventions of the enigmatic Nemesis, later revealed as a dangerous man, and Kismet himself, whose allegiance often shifts like desert sands. The narrative spirals through a dizzying array of close calls: masked confrontations, subterranean counterfeiting rings, mid-air balloon escapes, and water-tight cellars, each episode concluding with Ilma or Harry teetering on the precipice of certain doom. The pearls, elusive and coveted, exchange hands with bewildering frequency, often snatched from the protagonists mere moments after recovery. Their journey tests the bounds of trust, forcing Ilma to feign alliances and Harry to infiltrate criminal underworlds. The stakes escalate relentlessly, culminating in a climactic pursuit across cityscapes and natural wonders, where the true nature of loyalty and sacrifice is laid bare amidst explosions, betrayals, and the ultimate, fatal confrontation within a macabre wax museum, where justice, albeit grim, finally catches up to the architects of their torment. The serial culminates not just in the retrieval of the jewels, but in a union forged in fire and peril, a testament to enduring love against an opulent, yet deadly, backdrop of Orientalist fantasy.

Synopsis

Episode 1: "The Sultan's Necklace" [synopsis not published] Episode 2: "The Bowstring" Harry Drake discovers that the masked figure who held him up is Ilma. When they realize the intruder has departed, they discover the pearl has disappeared. Harry tries to comfort Ilma. He tells her that he loves her, but she tears herself away from him saying, "Love me? Do you realize how I must pay for those pearls?" She then tells Harry she must go into the Sultan's harem or see her father killed, if she cannot recover the pearls. Harry offers to co-operate with her and Ilma suggests he pretend to join Grady's gang. He agrees to do so. Ilma is traced by the Sultan's executioner, to Harry's apartment. Standing outside the door, he overhears their conversation. Nemesis, who secured the pearl from Harry and Ilma, has been overcome by the executioner who takes the pearl from him. Harry again tells Ilma he loves her and is about to kiss her when he hears a knock at the door. He looks through the keyhole and assures Ilma no one is there. She points to the floor, starting back in terror as she sees a bow string, used to strangle women of the harem who flirt, slipped under the door. Later the pearl is mysteriously returned to Ilma, and Harry, gambling for Jack's pearl, loses his own. That night, a member of the gang, sneaks into a rich man's residence. He is followed by Ilma. Entering a room used as a picture gallery, decorated by suits of armor, Jack dons one of the suits. Drawing his sword, he starts to cut out one of the pictures. He is interrupted by Ilma, who demands his pearls. He tells her he cannot get at them through his armor. He overcomes Ilma and, tying her to a chair resumes his work. The door opens, and a second figure in armor enters. Jack fumbles for his gun but is unable to get it from under his armor. The strange figure draws his sword and he and Jack fight like knights of old. Jack is overpowered. The stranger proves to be Harry. Recovering the pearls, Harry gives them to Ilma, and starts towards the window after Jack, who tries to escape. Ilma backs towards the curtain. In an instant some unknown throws a curtain over her head, takes the pearls and escapes. Episode 3: "The Air Peril" Ilma had just recovered two of the pearls from the burglar when they are taken away from her. She joins Harry and tells him of her loss. They are accosted by an old woman, who is strangely disappointed when she finds they did not recover the pearls. Harry escorts Ilma to her apartment after trying in vain to console her. The next morning Ilma is puzzling out a note of sympathy she has received from someone who signs himself "Nemesis,'' when the Sultan's executioner drops an envelope into the mail slot in her door. Ilma opens the envelope and finds in it the two pearls and a note which reads: "Here are your pearls. Nemesis is not a woman, but a dangerous man. Don't trust him. Kismet." Ilma 'phones Harry, telling him she has the two pearls. While she is talking, Stayne, a member of the Grady gang, is announced by Harry's butler. Harry tells Ilma of Stayne's coming and imparts the information that this member of the gang had two of the pearls. Ilma says she will visit him at once to help him recover the pearls from Stayne. Stayne tells Harry that the night before he attempted to rob the Mason home, but was caught by Perry Mason and his brother. He was searched and the pearls found on him. Perry kept one and gave the other back to Stayne, and after taking his fingerprints released him. In the morning papers was a story that Perry's brother had been murdered and Stayne was accused of the crime. Ilma arrives and learns of Stayne's predicament, who offers them the pearl he has if they will clear him of the charge of murder. Harry and Ilma, pretending to be reporters, call on Perry Mason and arc recognized by him. He tells his story and shows them the pearl. As they are leaving the Mason home Ilma secures a key to the front door. Later she tries to persuade Harry to return to the Mason home, but when he refused, she goes alone. In the Mason home she hears a conversation between Perry Mason and his servant which convinces her that the man killed his brother and that the servant helped him. When Perry and the servant leave the room Ilma recovers the pearl from a vase in which Perry placed it, and is about to depart when Perry returns and captures her. Perry is about to call the police when Ilma warns him that if he does she will tell he murdered his brother. Perry decides to get her out of the way, and with the aid of her servant he ties Ilma with a rope which is attached to a ring at the bottom of a balloon. The room in which Ilma has been captured has a sliding roof and when this is shoved to one side the balloon is inflated. Before it is released a tube filled with acid is fixed so that by degrees it will eat away the rope with which Ilma is attached to the balloon while it is in midair. Perry cuts the rope and the balloon rises, carrying the struggling body of Ilma up toward the unknown. Episode 4: "Amid the Clouds" [synopsis not published] Episode 5: "Between Fire and Water" Having fallen into a lake from the ballroom Harry and Ilma conceal themselves from the villain in his hydroplane by hiding under the stern of a fisherman's boat. The dirigible has sunk to the earth and has been smashed. As Perry glides away in his hydroplane, Harry and Ilma attract the attention of the fishermen and are taken aboard the boat and reach the shore. The executioner, Kismet, returns to Ilma's apartment in time to separate Harry and Ilma, as the impetuous youth is about to declare his love to her. Undaunted by their dangers, Harry and Ilma decide to return to search the Mason house for the pearls. They search in vain and then decide to terrify Perry's servant into opening a safe for them. As they are about to secure the pearls. Perry returns and traps them in a water-tight cellar, which he constructed for experiments on models of submarines. Perry turns on the water and leaves Harry and Ilma to drown. To cover his crime he decides to burn down the house. The episode closes with the conflagration raging above their heads while they are about to sink in the water which almost touches the roof of the cellar. Episode 6: "The Abandoned Mine" Ilma and Harry are about to be drowned in the cellar of Perry Mason's home when the floor of it caves in and they drop into the shaft of an abandoned mine. Perry, who knows about the mine, has also taken refuge in it and is struck on the head by some of the debris. He is knocked unconscious and loses his memory. Wandering around in the mine he finds Harry and Ilma and attaches himself to them. He takes one of the pearls in his pocket and after playing with it for a while, throws it away. Ilma picks it up, recognizing it as one of the pearls she is seeking. Wandering around in the mine, Harry, Ilma and Perry follow a figure with a light and come to a counterfeiters' den in the mine. Realizing their danger Harry makes Ilma and Perry conceal themselves and he also hides from the gang of counterfeiters, who are returning to their den. Perry, thinking it some sort of a childish game, comes from his hiding place and shows the gang members where Harry and Ilma are bidden. Realizing that Perry is harmless the gang allows him to wander around but bind Harry and Ilma and decide to put them out of the way for fear of being betrayed to the police by them. As the leader is about to shoot Harry, Perry, who has gone into their storeroom, returns with a can of nitroglycerin in his hand. The leader threatens Perry, who. realizing from childish experiments that the substance in the can will explode, makes as though to throw it at him. The gang hastily backs out of the den and Perry, Ilma and Harry are knocked senseless by falling timbers. Episode 7: "The False Pearl" Harry and Ilma, lying insensible on the ground, are rescued by officers, who carry them to safety. While nobody is looking Kismet steals in, picks up Perry and steals off with him. Sitting him down in the light he produces a small vial from his pocket, opens it and holds it up to Perry's nose. Perry opens his eyes and asks what has happened. Kismet says: "The first shock took away your memory; the second returned it." The next morning Harry and Ilma see Stayne. This man has been saved by Harry, but it is only after a fight that he gives up the pearl, as he had promised. Later he apologizes with every sign of sincerity, and Harry and Ilma forgive him. Stayne speaks: "And to prove to you I'm sorry I'll tell you where to find two more of your pearls." Believing him, Harry takes an address from him. In the meantime Perry, wearing a mask, sneaks in the window of Harry's apartment, takes the pearl from where Ilma laid it and places a substitute in its place. Stayne gazes over his shoulder with amazement. Harry and Ilma look up at Stayne, who hesitates whether or not to tell what he saw. He concludes not to say anything and leaves. Harry makes love to Ilma. Kismet, who has been listening, draws the Sultan's carved dagger. Hearing a knock at the door Ilma is alarmed. Kismet standards in the doorway, holding his dagger towards Ilma. She speaks: "I will obey." As soon as the door is closed Harry demands to know what is meant. "That's the Sultan's spy, sent to kill us both if I should fall in love, but of course, I won't." Going over to the table Ilma discovers that the pearl is gone and in its place is a piece of marble. Harry and Ilma trace the pearl to Miss Sunderlee's home, and sneaking in, Harry recognizes Stayne's footprints from the fact that he is wearing Harry's shoes. Coming from behind Harry knocks Stayne down, takes the pearl, and with Ilma, runs away. Stayne and his pals pursue and trap Harry and Ilma on a little point of land on the edge of the Hudson. Harry sees some boys flying a kite. He and Ilma grab the kite string from the boys and plunge into the Hudson. Stayne and one of his men jump into a little boat near the boathouse. They raise the sail and pursue, guns in hand. Episode 8: "The Man Trap" The episode opens with a fight between a sailing vessel and a fast naval launch, in which Mason and Stayne were pursuing Harry and Ilma. The naval officers rescue Harry and Ilma from the river and take them to the shore. One of the seven pearls Ilma is seeking is sold to the leader of a pagan cult, who fits the pearl into one eye of a bronze god, which his followers worship. He seeks the mate of the pearl for the other eye of the god, and the member of Grady's gang who sold him the pearl gives him Ilma's address, telling him she has some pearls. The priest calls on Ilma and tries to buy her pearl, but she in turn offers to purchase the one he has from the priest. The priest lures her to the temple by telling her he will put the matter up to his followers. When she reaches the temple he makes her an offer of marriage, and when Ilma refuses he drugs her tea, steals her pearl and is just taking her in his arms when one of his ardent followers enters. She is jealous, and while the priest is fitting Ilma's pearl into the second eye of the bronze god the jealous woman drugs the priest's tea. He is about to kill her when the drug takes effect. Harry, being informed by Kismet of Ilma's danger, hastens to the temple. He revives her and she discovers her pearl is lost. He forced the jealous follower to tell where the pearl is, and Harry goes alone into the temple room to get the pearl from the eye of the bronze god when Perry Mason, also on the trail of the pearls, enters and holds him up. Harry steps aside while Mason takes a pearl from the eye of the god. As he does so the outstretched arms of the statue come together, holding Mason in their deadly embrace. His screams bring Ilma and the followers to the room, and when the woman relaxes the arms Mason falls to the floor. Harry and Ilma snatch the pearls and flee from the room. They start to open the door of the house, and Harry looks out to see if the coast is clear. He beckons for Ilma to follow him, but just as she starts to do so an unseen figure emerges from his hiding place near the door, grabs her, and taking her pearls, shoves her through the open door. Harry saves Ilma from falling. She is telling him of the loss of the pearls as the episode ends. Episode 9: "The Warning on the Wire" A voice on the wire says to Ilma: "Parsons, the jeweler, has one of the pearls." Ilma repeats the news to Harry. They leave for the store at once, where they are shown the pearl, which they discover to be a perfect match. At that moment Mayor Winton and his daughter, Marjorie, are ushered up to the counter. The Mayor wishes to purchase a large pearl to be placed in the center of a necklace. Turning to Ilma the clerk asks if she cares to purchase the pearl for $20,000. She refuses. The Mayor is staggered at the price but finally agrees, requesting that it be delivered to him. Harry and Ilma determine to follow the Mayor and his daughter. On the street Harry hears the Mayor say that he has a toothache, and that he is going to the dentist. Jumping into his machine he leaves followed by Harry. Marjorie gets into a taxi, and leaves for home. Ilma, who heard the address, follows. The Mayor arrives at the dentist's and is seen by Perry, who is disguised as a woman. He looks vindictively after the Mayor, mutters something villainous and follows. Harry, who happened to be near, hears the vindictive muttering, and suspects that something is wrong. In the office the Mayor explains his trouble and the dentist starts to work. He is interrupted by his office girl, who brings him a note. It reads: "I want to see you this minute. Remember Sing-Sing. Signed, Bennet." Excusing himself, he goes into the next room, only to see Perry in his disguise of an old woman. Drawing the man close to him, Perry instructs him to do away with the Mayor. To refuse would mean exposure, so he consents. Ilma, who has followed the Mayor's daughter, manages to see her at her home. Explaining that the pearls were stolen from her and what it will cost her, if she does not recover them, Ilma gets Marjorie to agree that she will have her father return the pearl. Harry endeavors to warn the Mayor, but he refuses to listen to him, saying that he is too busy. That night the Mayor receives a note from Perry telling him that the District Attorney is dead, and the same fate is to fall to him. The Mayor promises to give Ilma and Harry the pearl if they solve this mystery. While Harry goes in pursuit of Mason, Ilma follows the Mayor to the dentist's office the next morning. While she is waiting, she sees a gunman enter and slip a note to the maid, instructing her to have it delivered to her employer. Reading the note, the dentist leaves, so excited that he leaves the note behind. Ilma picks it up, but it is written in code form. Wondering what it is, Ilma rushes to Harry. Harry reads the note, sees the word Algol, and guesses the answer. He speaks, "That means under the crown on the Mayor's tooth. Death in six hours." For safety's sake, the Mayor goes to his summer home in the Adirondacks. Harry and Ilma try to call him up on the 'phone, but are unsuccessful, because, as Ilma is about to explain, a dead tree falls across the wire and breaks the connection. They jump into a machine. Rushing up a mountain road, the machine breaks down. Walking up the mountain, Harry gazes over the edge of the ravine. He sees an electric wire. Running back to the machine, he gets a long rope and some hooks. Ilma ties the rope around her and much against Harry's wishes has him lower her. Ilma reaches the wire and sends a message to the Mayor. Ilma makes another flash, then receives a shock, twists convulsively and hangs limp. Episode 10: "The Hold-Up" Ilma, who has been rendered unconscious by an electric shock as she flashed a warning to the mayor and saved his life, is revived by Harry and carried to the railroad station by the mayor and his daughter, who agree that she deserves the pearl they have. Harry and Ilma return to the city with the pearl, and Harry attends a meeting of Grady's gang trying to recover some of the other pearls that the members have in their possession. He learns that one of the gang has sold his pearl to a fence, and a banker by the name of Nello Falenti is going to buy it. Ilma discovers the banker is trying to convince one of his honest bookkeepers that the accounts in the bank are all right, when he knows they are not. Harry forces the crooked banker into "a business proposition." Falenti agrees to have $100,000 in the bank by the following Saturday. He will take $80,000 of this for himself and leave $20,000 for Harry and Grady's gang. Harry secures the combination of the safe and the keys to the bank, and reports to Grady. The gangster plans the robbery. That night Harry again goes to Falenti and proposes that he take the entire $100,000 and split the $20,000. Falenti agrees, and when the gang opens the safe it is empty. After leaving the gangsters, Harry goes to Falenti to demand his $100,000. Falenti gives it to him and Harry buys the pearl that Falenti had secured from the "Fence." Ilma steps in and Harry gives the Pearl to her. She covers Falenti while Harry calls up the police, stating that he is the banker, and that he wants a guard to protect the money he had taken home from the bank. While Harry is talking, Ilma disappears and he goes in search of her. Episode 11: "Gems of Jeopardy" At Ilma's apartment, Perry demands the three pearls. She refuses. He draws his revolver and gives her three minutes to decide. Ilma faints. Perry binds her to a chair. Recovering, Ilma is again commanded to deliver the pearls. She shakes her head vigorously. He takes a jar from his pocket and a pair of jeweler's scales. Holding the jar he says: "This is vitriol." He places the scales so that the pan is above Ilma's head, then takes a candle, lights it and asks if she is ready. Ilma will not relent. "This may not kill you, but your beauty will be gone forever." Perry is interrupted by the entrance of Kismet, who covers Perry, then knocks the scales over. Perry meets Stokes, who informs him that he is wanted by the police. Stokes tells Perry unless he gives him a pearl he will call the police. Perry gives him a pearl. Ilma hears a knock and is overjoyed to see Harry. She tells him that Perry has two pearls. Ilma finds a note from Kismet, telling her Perry has surrendered one of the pearls to Stokes. That evening Ilma calls at the Stokes home, and poses as a detective. Harry, as an inspector, calls to read the meter. Examining the pearl, Ilma refuses to return it to Mrs. Stokes. Ilma pretends to throw it on the floor. Stokes starts toward her. Harry blows the fuse, putting the house in darkness. Stokes grapples with Ilma. Harry picks Ilma up and rushes out. She tells him the pearl is under the table. Harry goes back, runs his hand under the table, is seen by Stokes, who orders his servants to seize him. As Harry rushes up the stairs, he is seen by Perry. Harry gets through the skylight, sees a ladder lying against a chimney, mounts it. Perry sends one of the men after Harry. He gives the chimney a push, which sends the ladder toward the other roof. As the film fades out, the man is bending Harry over the edge. Episode 12: "Buried Alive" The fight on the edge of a roof opens this episode. Harry is struggling with one of Perry Mason's henchmen on the roof of the Stokes home, while Ilma watches from the street below. When Mason's henchman pushes Harry over the roof he manages to grasp a drainpipe, as with a final effort he pulls the man from his secure footing on the roof and sends him hurtling to his death five stories below. Harry pulls himself up to the roof, and to his dismay sees Perry come after him. He starts down the drainpipe, and when he is near the ground the pipe breaks and he falls. He picks himself up, and runs to Ilma's machine. As they drive away he gives her the pearl he had secured. Plotting against Ilma, Perry persuades Stayne to secure a job as an ambulance driver for a sanitarium. Ilma is down-hearted at the prospects of being unable to secure the pearls in time to save her father's life. She is warned by Kismet that the time is approaching when she will have to return to his master if he does not secure the pearls. Harry suggests that she go for an outing with him, and as they are about to start on an automobile trip she is told over the 'phone that one of the pearls can be secured at a certain place. She persuades Harry to drive to this place, and on the way, when they are passing through a lonely wood, all the tires on Harry's car are punctured. He is forced to leave Ilma alone, while he goes to secure other tires. Telephoning to his man, he finds Kismet at his apartment, who tells him to go back to Ilma at once as it is a plot of Mason's to get her in his power. Harry returns and finds that Ilma has been captured by Mason and Stayne, and has been taken to a sanitarium, instead of a girl for whom they have an order for commitment. Harry's man arrives in his car with Kismet and they start after Ilma. Ilma is sent to the sanitarium in spite of her protests to the physician in charge and is locked in a room. She manages to get out and sees the man attired as a mason and seemingly working at his trade. She runs up to him and asks him to assist her. He promises to do so and leads Ilma out of the sanitarium and tells her to crawl into a cave where he will conceal her from her pursuers. He conceals her only too well and tries to seal her in the cave and bury her alive as the episode closes. Episode 13: "Over the Falls" Ilma is being carried away helpless by Perry Mason and Stayne in an automobile. They take the girl to an old warehouse and leave her there a prisoner. Harry and Kismet, on the trail of Ilma, reach the warehouse and seek to enlist the aid of a policeman. The policeman says it is against the law for him to enter, but at that moment the fire alarm in the warehouse is heard and the policeman decides to enter and investigate. Ilma had set off the alarm by means of a lighted cigar which Stayne had dropped in his struggle with her. She held the burning end of the cigar against the automatic sprinkler, with which the warehouse was equipped. They rescue Ilma as Stayne and Mason watch them from a distance. Mason and Stayne arrive at their lodging and find there a distinguished Oriental, who presents credentials and orders from the Sultan telling Perry to deliver Ilma in Canada, where the Turk's yacht is waiting. The next morning Ilma finds a box marked "piano player" in her apartment when she returns from a walk. She calls Hairy on the phone and tells him about it and he warns her it must be some trick of Mason's, and to take good care of herself. As she hangs up the receiver the end of the box opens and Mason leaps out and captures Ilma. He binds her and gets into the box with her. A girl about Ilma's size, who had been in the box, dresses in Ilma's clothes and leaves the apartment. The men who left the piano player box in Ilma's apartment return for it and carry it away on a truck. Kismet and Harry go to Perry's old hiding place and find there some carrier pigeons. Harry says they will lead him to Perry and consequently to Ilma, and the next morning the pigeons are released and Harry and Kismet follow them in an aeroplane. The pigeons lead the men in the aeroplane to a little farmhouse near Niagara Falls. Perry and Stayne see the aeroplane as they shove the box in which Ilma is a prisoner on an auto truck. Harry and Kismet see Perry in the truck and follow it. Perry throws the box in which Ilma is a prisoner into the river above the falls and Harry and Kismet abandon their chase to rescue Ilma. They rush to a bridge across the river and Harry is lowered from it by a rope around his chest. He carrier another rope with him and manages to put the noose around the case. As the men on the bridge, whom Harry and Kismet enlisted in the rescue, attempt to pull up the case, the noose slips and the case falls back into the stream. Harry is pulled up to the bridge as the case starts over the falls to what looks like Ilma's certain destruction. Episode 14: "The Tower of Death" The fourteenth episode opens with a surprise for Harry when he is drawn to the bridge from over the rapids. He is greeted by Ilma, who, he thought, was in the piano box that went over Niagara Falls. She explains that when Perry Mason and his men threw the case into the river she managed to escape from it. Home again, Kismet warns Ilma and Harry that the next day is the last one set by the Sultan for the return of the pearls and that if she fails to secure the entire seven pearls she must go into the Sultan's harem. They hear that Jeo. Gudgeon, a member of Grady's gang, has the seventh pearl and is offering it to the highest bidder. After many adventures Ilma obtains it, and hands it to Harry for safekeeping. He returns it to her as he does not want to be responsible for it. Perry and Stayne attack Ilma and Harry and secure the pearl. In the fight Harry is knocked unconscious and Ilma pretends to be senseless, but when Perry and Stayne start away she follows after them. Perry and Stayne discover her and corner her near a big tank. To escape them she climbs up the ladder of the tank and Stayne follows. He is about to capture her when she pushes him from the ladder. In the effort she loses her balance and falls into the tank. She lies unconscious at the bottom of the tank, which has only a few inches of water in it. Stayne wants to rescue Ilma so that Perry will be able to get the Sultan's reward, but Perry wants to leave her to her fate. Their difference of opinion results in a fight and Perry throws Stayne under a locomotive engine passing on the tracks near which they are struggling. Harry regains consciousness and seeing the tank climbs up its ladder to get a drink of water. Perry sees him and is about to shoot him when Stayne, who has been badly injured, opens his eyes and seeing the situation, shoots at Perry to obtain revenge on him. Stayne's shot goes wild and dislodges the tank. It falls to pieces and Harry falls to the ground. Perry is knocked unconscious but Ilma is not to be seen. Episode 15: "The Seventh Pearl" The preceding episode closed at the water tank near the railroad tracks. When this tank fell, Perry Mason and Harry Drake were unconscious. The water revives Perry, who finds that Ilma has been thrown from the water tank close to Harry and that both are unconscious. He draws his revolver to shoot Harry but the gun fails to explode as all the cartridges had been used. He looks in his pockets for more cartridges and finds the seventh pearl, which he had secured. Hearing some men approaching he jumps on a passing freight train. Harry revives and carries Ilma to the station, where she is revived. They then board the train for the city. Perry goes to Ilma's apartment and is searching for the pearls when Harry and Ilma enter. Ilma tells Harry that the six pearls she has secured are in the Security Safety Vaults. Perry overhears this and leaves Ilma's apartment without being discovered. He goes to the Security Vaults and rents a safety deposit box. In this Perry places a package containing chemicals, which he has prepared, sets a clock, which controls these chemicals, and locking the safety deposit box, leaves the vault. The Sultan's Ambassador calls on Ilma for the seven pearls and reminds her that it is the last day she has to secure them. Ilma pleads with him and tells him she will give him the six pearls she has secured if he will cable to the Sultan for a few hours' extension of the time she has to secure the seventh. He agrees to do so. They go to the Security Safety Vault to get the pearls. Perry has been there before and had secured the pearls from the safety deposit box where Ilma had placed them. The chemicals Perry had placed in his safety deposit box gave off a gas that rendered the guards senseless, and Perry, wearing a gas mask, had been immune to this vapor. He is escaping with the pearls when Ilma, Harry and the ambassador enter; they are overcome by the gas when they attempt to capture Perry. A general alarm is sent out and Harry learns that Perry was seen at Coney Island. He and ILma and the police go to that resort and hear that Perry has been seen near the Eden Musee, which contains the wax figure of himself in the act of murdering his brother Charles. Ilma spies Perry and follows him into the Eden Musee. She loses track of him and Harry and the police tell her she must have been mistaken. As they leave the building, they hear a shot fired and return to find Kismet with a bullet hole through his head and Perry with the executioner's dagger through his heart. Kismet had discovered Perry in the act of gloating over the seven pearls he had obtained after he had thrown Harry, Ilma and the police off the scent by taking the place of his own wax figure in the murder group. Kismet had demanded one of the seven pearls, saying it belonged to his people, and Perry could have the others if he gave up that one. Perry refused, and in the fight that followed both men were killed. Ilma finds the seven pearls and returns them to the Sultan's ambassador. In Harry's apartment after the wedding, Ilma is dressed in a Turkish costume. Harry enters. She puts a Turkish fez on his head and he sits beside her. Turning to him she says, "My Harry," and he answers, "My Harem." END.