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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION. UTAH The Blue Circle Daddijs E.oeumcj; Faina Tale A" Y ( by The Century Co.) 17 Continued , Leoni made us ell feel creepy for I know a few weeks, she admitted. she was on grandfathers nerves. She almost got on mine. It's a wonder she did not make us imagine all sorts of things. As It was, we had a servant on guard every night, you know." "Inside the house? Yes. And outside, too." And they never beard or saw anything? Uart said he saw a man stealing along our driveway late one night, but he ran as soon as he knew he was discovered, and Hart could not catch him. Jenks saw two others several times. "And thats all they reported?" Verity started to "Absolutely all. descend the staircase. Then, recalling his request, she stopped. "But If you still care to go over the house, she added, I shall be glad to take you. "Youre sure you have time? Quite. Where 6hall we begin? "Just where we are. I know my own room, so we neednt bother about that. And Ive seen Mr. Campbell's suite and the room Doctor Morris has. Also, I know where yours Is. What other rooms are on this floor? She told him as they walked down the corridor toward the left wing. There was an upper library and reading room, which no one used. She threw open the door and showed It to him. There were also two empty rooms and a bath running along the front of the house. There was Mrs. Fardees bedroom and bath, and a rather elaborate guest suite occupied by Madame Ilvoeslef of which one big room was assigned to Wanda and her nurse. Verity opened the doors of some of these, and pointed out the locations of all. Renshaw soon bad a mental map of the second floor. Are there any long windows and he wanted to balconies anywhere? know. Again she shook her head. The third floor, to which they presently ascended, held a well equipped billiard room, which, according to Verity, no one ever entered, a gymnasium over Renshaws room, which no one ever used, and several empty It also and bathrooms. bedrooms servants the the in rear, held, else Like' everything quarters. In the house, these were well lighted and modern as to their fittings. They Included a large sitting room with comfortable chairs, reading lamps, and tables, an open fire, and a supply of books, newspapers, and magazines. One understands why your staff is so well satisfied, he remarked as he glanced In. "They don't seem so well satisfied Veritys smooth brow pucklately. "Even Jenks has changed a ered. little, and James seemed almost sullen yesterday. I do hope we arent going to have trouble with them, now of all times. "Possibly its the night watching they object to. "I suppose so. And yet, on the other hand, Leoni gives them the most amazing fees. We have begged her not to, for of course she cant afford It; but she is used to doing everything on a superb scale and she Is not able to change her ideas. Any servants, anywhere, would be glad to do what she asks for what she gives them. And after this, of course, they wont have to watch. Possibly thats whats the matter with them. Perhaps they see their fat fees departing. But I don't think so. "Possibly. well enough by this her know They time to realize that she will keep on subsidizing them, on one excuse or another. Its the way Leoni Is made. She is the most generous woman In the world. Yet hereafter she and Wanda and Irma may have to live od a petty three thousand a year She added the last words as If she "You know were thinking aloud. about her? she asked suddenly. Doctor Stanley told me a good deal. "Then you know who she really Is? And Wanda?" "No; he did not tell me that. Theres no reason why I should know. "I have asked her to leave Wanda here with me, to be educated in America. I know she is trying to whip herself up to the point of doing It. but It will be very hard for her. Wanda Is all she has left, you know." He nodded. "Yes, I understood that Bqt I hope you will keep the child, he added, more warmly than he had ever spoken to her. It would be vastly comforting to think of nls little friend as safe In this girls care. They ascended to the fourth floor an and dispassionately surveyed enormous attic, given up to the largest collection of trunks Renshaw had ever seen outside of a railroad station. Verity nodded toward half a dozen boxes that occuhuge foreign-buil- t pied a conspicuous place in the foreground. Those are Leonls, she said. They hold everything she has, poor darling, aside from the precious memoirs. As they returned to the second floor, she described to him the plan of the first, with which, however, he was fairly familiar. Back of the living room, dining room, and two studies were a huge kitchen, a butlers pantry, and twin storerooms which Mrs. Par-dohad so ardently desired to fill with sugar. Would you like to go down and go through them? Verity rather listlessly suggested. Renshaw looked at her with sudden compunction. No," he said. Youre tired. I should have remembered that, and not dragged you all over the house." In a gallant Oh, Im, not tired. effort to prove that she was not tired, she gave him her first really spontaneous smile. "And your room Is all right? You have no complaint to make? she added Jestingly. "Not a complaint except that I like a few dozen towels a day, and they are forgotten. Verity looked surprised. Forgotten I she echoed. "Are you serious? Why, that doesnt sound like Annie! She literally festoons my bathroom with towels." ner eyes fell on the closet door. "But If she does forget, she ended, there are always heaps In this closet. At least, shes supposed to keep them here " She opened the door and entered the closet as she spoke. Renshaw paused on its threshold for a moment, and e If You Want a Dozen Towels Hers They Are. then casually followed her. This was the third time he had been warmly commended to that particular closet He might as well see what was In It What he saw was that It was a windowless closet the size and shape of his long and narrow bathroom, but lined with shelves filled with linen. There was a really fine supply of linen on exhibition, such a display as any housewife might be proud of. Verity, contemplating it with her back to him. tossed him a complacent sentence: If you want dozens of towels, here they are. Any time you find your supShe broke off with a ply short gasp. "Why did you do that? I didnt 1 His voice came to her out of the sudden blackness that encompassed them. "The door slammed shut after me Just this Instant. And, by Jove " He had turned and was twisting the doorknob, at first easily, then fiercely. Now he leaned against the heavy oak, exerting all his strength to push It outward. It did not yield. Whats wrolng with it?" The girls words were breathless. He had had time to think. Why, nothing at all, he said In matter-of-fac- t tones. The door slammed with such force that It stuck fast. Ill have it open In a moment I" Oh sured, but only momentarily, ne himself was not reassured at all. In hi hand the doorknob was turning round and round without resistance. It did not catch and retract the lock. Yet the knob had opened the door. Of course. It was possible that the Inner knob had got out of order, and that no one had discovered It. About the only way one was likely to discover It was by vainly trying to open the closed door from the Inside. All that might happen. All that was easily understood. But why had the door closed? It had been half way open, at right angles with the threshold, and his hand had not touched it. There was no draft In the hall to swing It to. Moreover, only on the wings of an Incipient cyclone could a draft be borne to close a door with the violent slam that had accompanied the closing upon them of this door. The motive power of the slam was a strong human push. He was convinced of that. Yet who could have administered the push? No one had been in the hall no one, that Is, that he had seen. When he entered the closet and for that moment stood on Its threshold, the open door Itself had cut off from his vision anyone or anything that might suddenly have come along the hail. As ne thought, he worked over the knob, twisting It this way and that way, trylne various combinations, pushing against the door quietly but with all his strength, hoping against hope that the mechanism would catch and turn. Unless it did catch and turn, they were prisoners. All the time he realized that It would not catch and turn. And he had nothing In his pockets to work with, not even a small penknife. He redoubled his efforts. The knob whirled smoothly round and round. Perspiration broke out upon his brow. This was a devilish situation for the girl to be In! The closet wns as black ns an underground dungeon, and so small that, though she had stepped away from him to give him room to work, he could hear her quick breathing and the soft rustle of her garments as she moved. That wing was the loneliest spot In the house. Even if they made the biggest kind of racket, it might be long before anyone heard them. Probably no one would miss them or begin to look for them till tea time possibly not till dinner time. It wns now three oclock, at the most That meant a wait of hours. And In the Interval he would have to tell the girl the truth. He would have to tell her the truth at once. She was plucky. She was trying to keep steady. But he realized that she was fighting an Incipient panic. Yes, devilish was the right word for the situation. It was so absolutely the right word, and It fitted so perfectly Into the pattern of certain other episodes at Tawno Ker, that a cold conviction settled over him. Of course, the little accident was not an accident at all, though It could so easily be made to seem one. The shutting of that door had been a malicious acas deliberately malicious as the tion actions that had so disturbed his nights. From this conclusion to the next was a short step, and he took It as he patiently experimented with the useless knob. It was unquestionably another malicious outbreak from that same malicious source. Verity's voice came to him out of the blackness: "Cant you open It ? "Not yet. lie spoke with robust cheerfulness, and even In her growing panic the girl took in the complete change in the quality of his voice. Renshaws voice had been one of the things to which she objected in him. It was In Itself an agreeable, even a musical barytone; but It spoke with an odd flatness, as if Its possessor were out of key with the harmonies of life. Now It vibrated with a vital quality she had never heard In It before. She appreciated the change, but It did not deceive her. She knew he had put on the tone for her, as he might have put on a reassuring tone In speaking to Wanda If he had found the child lost and frightened. What Is wrong? Is It really only stuck or Is It locked? She spoke quite naturally. Insensibly, she had been calmed and encouraged by his The knob turns without retracting the bolt" He explained the matter In detail, glad to divert her mind by conversation while be worked. matter-of-factnes- s. (TO BS CONTINUED.) I He heard her exhale her caught breath on the word. She was reas I UNKN VtMUN WALTZING MICE By ELIZABETH JORDAN WNU Servlet. 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Frogs Got Lonesome Texas mnn started a frog farm near Ra mondsville, to supply hotels wllh frogs logs. He obtained several score of giant leopard bullfrogs from Louisiana to cross with the native prolific variety, and nil went well until lie had about 10, 000 of marketable size. Returning borne one rainy night he found the road alive with frogs, all Jumping one way toward Louisiana. The Louisiana frogs, he believes, got the wanderlust when the rain came, and finding they could Jump the fence, led the whole colony toward (heir old home. The Texas frog raiser will start nil over again, this time with n taller fence. Capper's Weekly. A "How Can They Keep It Up? people came from other pnrts of the animal bouse to see the waltzing mice. I should think they would get dizzy, one person would say, and another would add : How can they ever keep It up so long a time? And a third would remark: They certainly are the waltzing mice. Theyre well named. But the waltzing mice, led by Willie and Wenna, didnt think now of what people were saying or thinking or doing. They only cared about their waltzing and how they did waltz and how long a time they kept It up, for they are rightly named the waltzing mice. They will always clear a space for their dancing wherever they are und whenever they want to dance and that Is most of the time, for Ihe regular waltzing mice can dance and dance and dance and dance and not be tired of dancing. In fact they made up a zoolet, too to add to the zoolet s being contributed to the Zoolet Society. Zoolets are verses of zoo creatures. The waltzing mice called their zoolet Dancing. It went like this: Waltzing, waltzing, waltzing. Whirling, whirling, whirling, Hound, round, round. Clear a space, clear a space, Give us dancing ground. 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