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Show CASTLE DALE. UTAH EMERY COUNTY marazlne to Vm pocket tbe playing card I found It. He morer I was no there asked "Are .Roche Interwbea "Noanswering. one." Is rupted. "Yes, there He pointed to the stairway that led to the top of the tower. There, lying under the bottom step, was a second same design on playing card with the the back as the one I bad found. What were they doing In that room? as he exBartley smiled to himself card. second amined the Roche asked. "What do they mean?" With a gesture that might bare meant anything, It was so expressive, Bartley replied, "They had a card party downstairs last night" Roche was excited in a moment. means. Some tii ten von what itkilled Slyke, folthat one at party lowed him up here and killed him." theory, and It was not a half-baeven hartley did not protest as much as I had thought he would Instead th io Then I showed blm and told blm where usaxr n the Kitchen Use GMLUmET BAKIPJG PBIVBER Time and Money Save? When you bake Charles J. Button Tho Economy A tit V Bag with Calumet you know there will be no loss or failures. That's why it is far less expensive than some other brands selling for less. ZTz7TTTt OWMT 11 i Copyrlgh BEST BT TEST 1922 B THE BALCONY The sale of Calumet is over 150 greater than that of any other brand. JCT Illuslralicnsby Eon't be led into taking Quantity (or Quality Calumet has proven to be best by test in millions of homes every bake-daLargest selling brand in the world. Contains only such ingredients as have been officially approved by U. S. Pure Food Authorities. y. THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER John Bartley,. noted criminal recently returned from (Secret btrvice work during Uie war, is asked by the governor of New York to investigate a mysterious attempted robbery of tha ltobert Hiyke home at Circle Lake, near fcaraioga. and to establish the guilt or innocence o( two men In Uie penitentiary for the crime. A miscanlage of justice is su.spected. Bartley finds in It the resuming of an old case, is interested and agrees to solve the mystery. Witn his friend Pelt, a newspaper man, bartley goes to Circle like, the the guests of Bob pair becoming Currie, an old friend. The three visit the tilyke borne. Klyke resents Hartley's coming, saying he U satibhed the two men in prison are guilty. Bartley is not. Next morning SSlyke is found deadhim-in bed, apparently having shut self. Miss otter, the dead man's sister-in-lathe village police chief, Jtoche, and the family physician. Doctor King, all agree Slyke killed himself, but Bartley insists he was murdered. f CHAPTER III Continued. 5 a onus f r Mr-i.- a. . iv !ii m , Why Farmers are Turning to ybr Zetmtmical Traniforliiit In 1922 Chevrolet jumped from seventh to second place in sales of all cars, and to first place in sales cf fully equipped modern cars. Purchases by farmers were the chief factor in this remarkable development. 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"When you look at the pillow," he explained, "on which his head lies, you will find only one or two spots of blood. The shirt, in fact, has none at all. The wound must have bled somo not much, It Is true, but far more than It seems to have done from the appearance of the bed. He was killed elsewhere and placed In this I doubt If he was bed afterwards. even undressed at the time of his death." Miss Potter, who had remained silent although obviously very nervous, asked If she might go to her room and leave the doctor In charge. This delegating of her authority to the doctor did not appeal to Roche; and he told her that, If her brother-in-lahad been murdered, It would be the police and not the doctor who would take charge of things. The ordeal through which she had passed must have been more than she could stand, for she made no comment on his challenge but started to leave the room. "Miss Potter." Bartley asked, as she reached the door, "did you ever see this revolver In Mr. Slyke's hand?" She hesitated a moment and then replied, "It's Mr. Slyke's; he was In (he habit of keeping It In a drawer of his desk. The gun was bought soon after the burglary, but, so far as I know, he has never used It." Although her statement that the revolver had belonged to the dead man made the suicide theory plausible, yet I could not quite see how the facts that Bartley had brought forward to disprove the suicide could be over thrown. "What makes you think, Mr. Bartley," Roche asked, "that Slyke was dressed at the time he was killed?" Bartley answered: "If Slyke had been killed In bed there would have been more blood on the bedclothes than the few drops we. see on the pillow. His nightshirt, too. If It had been worn at the time he was killed, would have had some traces of blood on It. There are no such stains. This, and the fact that death must have Vodd. Mead and G Inc. a had been carelessly flung there by man preparing for bed. After going through Slyke's pockets have grave Bartley said slowly, "I doubts If be was even killed in this room." He continued to examine the room, the searching the floor, looking into drawers of the desk, examining the walls even ; then he came back to the Picking up the blue silk clothing. shirt from the chair, he examined It a second time before he said : "I was in this room. right. He was not killed You will wore. he suit Here is the notice that all his clothing Is placed ou this chair in the manner that a man would naturally place it If he was undressing for bed. But there is no button in the front of hia shirt to hold his collar, and one stocking is missing. Any man may lose a collar button, but If he docs, that button will be dropped at the place where he No button is in this room. undressed. in the room in which he lost was It We find his shoes was undressed. here but only one stocking, and we naturally ask where is the other stocking. Then, Too, there are no blood stains anywhere In this room. Though his wound did not bleed much, it must have bled some. These are the reasons why I say he was not killed In this room, or even undressed here." His explanation seemed reasonable enough, yet somewhat mystifying. Why had the murderer taken all this trouble to undress Slyke, and why had he done it In some oth r room? The next question was just us puzzling. If Slyke had not been killed in this room, where had the crime taken place? As If he had read my thoughts, Roche suggested that as there was another room tower, we might see what could be found there. The butler, who entered at this moment, did his best not to glance at the bed. He was holding with great Airedale that difficulty a growled fiercely when he saw us. The butler motioned to the doctor to come to him. As he reached his side, Doctor King placed his hand upon the dog's head and It ceased to show Its teeth and licked his lingers. For several moments he and the butler held a low conversation, then King turned to us to say that he had Just been called to the hospital for an operation and would have to leave at once. Hartley scribbled something on a piece of paper, and handing It to the doctor said, "I think there ought to be a picture taken of the body so It can be used at the inquest." The doctor agreed and went out, accompanied by the butler. As the door closed behind them Bartley went to lock It,-- but the key was missing. After a moment's hesitation he decided It would do no harm to leave it unlocked while we were gone, and we all started for the floor above. The room we entered was of the same size as the one In which we had found Slyke. Here. too. then. little furniture three chairs grouned around a little table In the center of the room, a lounge In one corner a small desk In another. It was the table that attracted Hartley's attenOn it stood a tion. bottle of Scotch whisky, and beside the bottle three glasses, one of them holding about a spoonful of liquor. .ear one of the glasses was a half- smoked cigarette and a magazine, and on the opposite side of the table the stub of a cigar. Bartley looked at both of them with keen interest and finally placed 'hem in an envelope. The cigarette must have been n erv one, for the end was or the finest straw. The appearance of the table suggested that three men had been present and that two of them had been smoking. A conference, perhaps, at which a bottle of whisky hud assisted. Aside from the tame, there seemed to be nothing of interest In the room. While Bartley was stltl glancing at the table, I walked over to the large window and drew aside the heavy curtain that reached to the floor. At my feet was n playing card that had been concealed by its folds. Glancing around to see If there were any others and finding none, I brought the card to Bartley. As I stepped to his side, I saw Bartley Began a Search of the Room, that Using a Small Glass Once or Twice he was examining the magazine Like as If Ha Were Looking for Finger-Prin- t. many magazines, the back carried a caudy advertisement that covered the entire This one bad an unusual been Instantaneous, makes me feel amountpage. of unused white space IVirt sure that he was undressed after he was killed and then placed on the ley pointed silently to where someone had Idly amused himself by bed In the position In which we have drawing cn It with a pencil, a habit manv found htm." people have. The design was simple Bartley beptn a search of the room, only a mass of scrolls, with a little a small once or twice as using glass figure here and there, and lines run If he were looking for finger-printuntig through them. clothes were Slyke's flung overs chair, and one of his stockings had fallen to the floor. The way the gray suit lay on the chair made roe wonder If Bartley was right when be said the murWhatever it meant to Bartley the derer bad undressed him after the mass of reros held no significance to crime It looked so much as If It me. He did not enlighten me, but i SAY "BAYER" when you buy. Insist! Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets, you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for Colds Headache Toothache Rheumatism Neuritis Lumbago Pain, Pain Neuralgia Arjcpt only "Bayer" package which contains proper directions. 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He went to the window and glanced out, then came back and glanced up at the steps that led to the roof. All at once his face brightened, and motioning us to follow him he boun-leup the seven steps to the little door that opened onto the balcony. We followed more slowly. We found ourselves on a bale ny some four feet wide that ran around the tower. About eight or ten feet below its bronze-tippetop. an Iron railing protected the edge of the balcony and was covered with Ivy, as "ere also the sides of the tover itself. Bartley paused for a moment, "tending with his hand on the rail, 'lis face serious, his eyes thoughtful. Cut it was for a moment only; the next he was out of sight around the tower. Almost instantly we heard him us, and when we reached nls side he was on his knees' examining the floor and the lower part of the trail. Looking where he polated. I saw at Ids fee a dark splotch on the floor of the balcony, and a little higher several similar spots on the wall up of the tower I reallr.ed at last, ne that, md found what he had been looking for There was no doubt that the splotches we saw were blood, and tnat t had been shed within a few honrs. he expected to find them Just where he did? I wondered. SWH rUl Eyes kWmUe. H.rmU- -. So'da"? iUcommeodcd bf All Drum us tfr j m t |