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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1928 rt LA3& .LAMP tomtit la J )VSnil Y 1 MARY ROBERTS RINEHART if COPYRIGHT GEO.H.DORAN COMPANY if X VSy CHAPTER W.N.U. SERVICE 17 August 23. Halliday saw a red light in the house the night Bethel was killed. Lie has just told me. Lie ran out, alter 1 telephoned him, and from the foot of the lawn he saw it. It was gone almost at once. lie has asked me to experiment with him tonight, using the lamp from the attic closet have given him the 1 keys. Apparently what he wishes to discover is the approximate location of euch a light. I have no Idea of his purpose. . . . I understand that the guards who have been watching the house at night have been withdrawn, and that hereafter only such watch will be kept as will suffice to keep away the curious 'crowds that still throng here in daylight hours. Today Annie Cochran and Thomas have been putting the house in order, preparatory to its final closing. I shall never open it again. Thomas has already painted the window boards and put some of them in place. Let ns pray that they keep inside what should be inside, and outside what should be out! August 24. "The strings of small bells, fastened across the losed and shuttered windows, frequently vibrated as though a hand had been drawn across them." (From "Eugenia Itiggs and Her Phenomena.") Any coherent record of our last night's experiment is difficult today; not only do last night's alarms always seem absurd in today's sunshine, but I am not at all certain now that 1 did not build up, out of my recent reading and what I knew about the house, a bugaboo of my own. And yet what a night! A man is a fool who, preparing to spend a night in a haunted house, where a terrible crime has been re cently committed, reads during the early evening the idiotic imaginings which other men have conjured out of their own disordered fancies. Or out of their disordered digestions, accord-'lnto the newest theory. Isn't it Wells who has the dyspeptic Mr. Polly sitting on a stile between Methodist Church Notes two threadbare" looking fields, and hating the world in general and his own home in particular, after a meal of pork, suet pudding, treacle, cheese beer and pickles? And Fraser Harris who attributes "the transcendent nonsense of the to the absinthe in their blood? So, last night, I must needs poison my mental digestion in advance; piek up a book which should be suppressed or sold only to large ladies of a lym phatie type, to read with a box o; caramels. And with it fill myself with elementals, hideous masses of niattei given temporary life and strange forms; demons, summoned by the dia bolical rites of the Black Mass; and ghosts of foul crimes, come to seek revenge on their slayers! Even before I started the untimelj ringing of Clara's alarm clock, uu stairs, set my nerves to Jangling. And there was a certain psychological preparation for me in the very steps I was obliged to take In order to get out of the house. For a man of mj age to put on his pajama coat, and re tire into his bed otherwise fully dressed, was an act of deception nerve-rackinenough in itself. But when Jane came in after I had re tired, tardily remembering a missing button, and demanded the shirt I was still wearing, I broke into a cold sweat. It was with diificulty that 1 got her away, shirtless, and settled down to wait until the house was quiet. . had opened the main Halliday house, and the red lamp was alreadj in the den. Owing to the fact that the windows were tvfirded from the out side, we had no i.cniples about lighting it; but although it was better than complete darkness it added very little to the general gayety. Halliday was quiet and somewhat strained, the house itself hot and airless, and with all outside sounds cut off. depressing ly stilt. I lighted a match and glanced into the library; it was a ghost of a room, the floor bare, the furniture and pictures once more swathed in white. Only the prisms of the glass chan delier reflected the light and seemed as it flickered, to bp quietly in motion Halliday had little to say. g COMPARATIVE DADS 'My daddy's better far than yours," Said Clarence William Tate. 'Cauce he's a preacher and he's good; at 10 o'clock every Classes for all ages. "The best man in the state." at 7 o'clock in the 'That's all bolopa," cried his chum. leader. Winchester, in this neighborhood "Cause of worship at 8 "My clad is good for NOTHING o'clock. Sermon topic, "Waiting for "And they PAY yours to be good." Christ." Mrs. Jewell Steffen will sing. LOCK YOUR CAR ' Sunday school at Corinne at 2 "My wife eloped in my new sedan o'clock in the afternoon and service with a traveling salesman last night." of worship at 3. "You poor tool, why don't you iock A cordial invitation to all. the car and keep the key? ALVIN R. DICKSON, Pastor, Sunday school Sundav morning. Epworth league evening. June Evening service "I would like," he explained, "to reproduce conditions as nearly as they were the night you saw the figure here." He smiled. "I don't suppose you real); want to go and stand at the head of that staircase. Skipper, but I'm going to ask you to. lust the same. I looked op the staircase nervously. "It you are going to reproduce the previous conditions, I protested, "you may recall that I had a revolver at that time! "1 also seem to remember that fired It," he said, and grinned at "It will answer every purpose, be considerably safer, If you merely point your finger at me you me. and will and say 'crash!'" But no amount of lightness on his part or mine could do more than temporarily lift the gloom ; the shadow of tragedy hung over everything at which we looked. Halliday felt it, and suggested that "we get to work and then get out" Tbe question Id his mind, he said, was this: I had said that, a second or so after the shot and the disappearance of the figure, the red light had died out in the den. If, as be believed was possible, this glow came from the lamp upstairs, brought down for some reason, or from a similar lamp, this required that the man I 6aw had time to go into the den, the lamp and conceal it, (since it wasn't in evidence later on) get back to the library, and be ready to leave by the broken window before he. Halliday, had turned on the light "It's a matter of time," he said. "1 was by the terrace when I heard the shot. I figure it took me ten seconds to pick up the chair, run to the win- dow and smash it" It was nervous work going up the staircase, but I managed it and took up my position. He stood below. I fired theoretically and he did what the figure had done; moved toward the door, still facing me, turned and went into the library. I heard him moving about and the light went out Then in the darkness he ran into the library again, where be struck a match. "Twenty seconds," he called. His voice trailed off; his shadow extended through the den doorway into the hall, and as I watched it, It shows the condition of my nerves that it did not seem to be his shadow at all, but something quite different For all the world like an old man In a dressing gown. Then the match went out and I heard him coming out into the hall again. "Did you move a minute ago?" he asked. "Move!" 1 said. "1 wouldn't move for a million dollars. Strike a light" "Funny," he said. "I thought I heard something." He groped his way back to the den, and the red lamp looked actually cheerful after the complete darkness. 1 heard him go into the library again and apparently stand there and listen, and very after he reappeared and asked me to change places with him. "See how you can make it Skipper," he said. I came flown rather more rapidly than I bad gone up, and Halliday took my former position. I did as Halliday had done, moved to the library door, turned and then, more or less holding ing the seances. As no explanation of It has ever been given, it remains a portion of that unsolved factor In our equation to which I have referred previously.) I knelt there, my face covered with a cold sweat, staring in the direction of the library door. 1 felt that If I looked away. If I were to lower my guard for an Instant, something would come through I hat door. I was. Id effect, holding It back with my eyes! And Haiiiday bad made no sound. He, too, I now know, was listening. This, as accurately as I can record It, was the situation last night when the next move came. The house was absolutely silent again. Halliday wa9 upstairs, and 1 was watching the door Into the library, when the location of the 6ounds changed. Protected by my eyes, in front, 1 was attacked from the rear, so to speak. At the window above and behind me, something was trying to get in. 1 could hear Its hand? sliding slimlly over the wood of the shutter, keeping on that blind and dreadful groping, until finally some sort of hold was secured ant! the shutter was shaken. And with that every last ounce of left me. and I leaped my Into the hall as If I bad been fired out of a gun. shouted, "llalliday 1" He came downstairs; rather be leaped down the stairs. He says he found me In a corner, gibbering, and I dare pay he did, but I must have told him my story with sufficient clearness, at that, for he left me alone again In that damnable place and ran And as I had no Intention outside. whatever of being left alone again for the remainder of my life, I ran also. There was nobody outside the window, but the fresh green paint was the thing that according to Halliday, saved me from being sent today to some sanctuary for the mentally deranged. It showed unmistakable signs of en tlrely huma.n Investigation. At least a hand with the usual equipment of thumb and fingers has left more than "Halliday 1" 1 BRIGHAM CITY Vern Nelson's Merrrmakers Enlarged Orchestra MILEAGE AND POWER TEXACO GAS AND OILS Quick for getaway, unusual mileage, and plenty of power that's what TEXACO GAS and OILS offer you. If you haven't tried this gas an oil, give them a fair test for the next fifty miles then you'll never change. Wadsworth Service Stations ONE IN EACH END OF TREMONTON the Cord. my breath, dived Into the library and through it to the den. I brought up there, close to the red lamp, caught my foot In the cord and Jerked It from the socket. Instantly we were in darkness again, and in absolute silence. Llalliday, I believe, was still waiting for leaning over the stalr-ral- l, me to complete the movement, and the sudden plunge into darkness had startled me more than I care to remember. Cut I do remember that In a sort of panic I got down od my knees to feel for the connection, and that at that moment, whether due to overstrained nerves or not I cannot sny, I distinctly heard a soft movement In the library. Trying to analyze that movement today I find It difficult. It was as though the linen coverings In the library has been set In motion, a soft and quiet motion, like that perhaps of a woman with a fan, and above that the faint clink of the prisms on the chandelier, like tbe ringbells. Hut whatever hart ing of caused It It was dying away when I noticed It. As If somehow the extinction of the light had taken away Its source of power. (Note: It is to be observed that we secured this phenomenon later, dur ABE'S HAN AND EGGS Why was Abie disinherited? Oh! A. B. A. T. M. N. X. HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID Subscribe for The Leader, $2.00. for all kinds of HIDES, PELTS, FURS When You Think AND WOOL LUMBER THINK WILSON Yours For Business Garland Hide & Fur Co. J. W. GARRETT, Manager Bell Phones 146 and 28 GARLAND, UTAH "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 11. SLEDS and SKATES For Outdoor n boy-ca- no more at Christmas time than by receiving a liberal collection of gifts for A outdoor use. it . . . one Impression on Later: And now where are we? I am willing, even anxious, to accept Haliiday's verdict, that the sounds we both heard in the library were due to bd east wind blowing down the chimney, plus the settling and creaking of the old portion of the house. But we have Just returned from an Inspection, in broad day, of the marks window of the outside the boarded-u- p den. There Is a complete imprint of the hand on it, and It shows a broad short thumb and a curved little finger. What Is more, there Is a complete absence of the usual whorls and ridges of the ordinary hand. One could take this Imprint and put it side by side with the one in the bowl of putty. They complete stock choose from. to Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company Dealers in the World" Retail "The Implement Largest " Phone 90 .Tremonton, Utah are identical. Halliday seems to have ?een a great light from somewhere, but to me the situation is as absurd as it Is maddening. It is as outrageous as that, out of some forgotten corner of my memory, I should have dug up a triangle within a circle, to find it cropping up soon after as the signature to n crime. (To Be Continued) New Chevrolet Six Gets Enthusiastic Reception Record crowds, highly enthusiastic over motordom's newest automobile, viewed the new line of Chevrolet d cars at the national premier showings last week in New York and Detroit. Thousands that crowded both exhibitions to inspect Chevrolet's greatest achievement "a six in the price enthused over range of the four" the streamline beauty of the new Fisher bodies, the latest accomplishment of this famous organization. Visitors were open in their admira" tion of the "expensive appearance of the new models. They were pleased with the smart new colors that will distinguish the new Chevrolet from all others; the elegance of the fitting's appealed to the g most discriminating and the of the feminine showgoers. They inspected the powerful new motor with its high compression head. They were particularly interested in learning that it develops 32 per cent more power than its predecessor, which was for power, and that its and acceleration has been speed stepped up to satisfy maximum requirements. In the shimmering new cars they saw the final proved product of more than four years research and experimentation in the Chevrolet experimental laboratories, the General Motors research laboratories and the General Motors proving ground. The hum of enthusiasm that pervaded both the New York and Detroit exhibitions seemed to presage a new record for Chevrolet in 1920. Orders were being placed immediately by those desiring early delivery in January, when the first of the new cars will be delivered to owners. Despite the fact that only two cities have seen the new cars, orders in large volume are pouring1 into the Chevrolet offices from every section of the country. Although the countrywide dealers organization will not have display cars until December 29. the entire sales organization is now equipped with full color illustrations of the cars, literature, and other information about the car that promises to write a chapter of sensational success into the automobile historv of world-famo- My Foot In goose-steppe- ra sight of God, but a very present help of us alL in time of trouble." be pleased luxur-exactin- Caught Conscience makes cowards of us alL That is old stuff. Now the reform"A lie is an abomination in the er's conscience makes The outdoors big-car- with MIXED QUOTATION Boys valve-in-hea- Blue Bird Ballroom THE POLITICIANS self-contr- er Dance at Another good way to cure the the dealers, the December production schedule has been stepped up to the sleeping disease is to monkey with the stock market. highest on record for the month. I "Take It From Me" "if P HIT better get a move on or I'll be late for my Christmas Shopping. Guess I'll go down to Fishburn's. They do the worrying and planning for me and have what the whole family wants. fHIIMIiiSSllJ Who said Christmas Shopping is a sorry There's experience? nothing to it; all I did 's was go down to and I found everything I needed. Why don't you do the same, if you haven't Fish-burn- already? 2-- ki rat Trimming Christmas trees is a pleasure if you didn't get a trimming yourself on your Christmas shopping, I never get trimmed. I just go down to Fish-burn- 's and do my the same treatment I- buying. You'll get everybody does. KNDLRM 1020. Meanwhile the fifteen giant Chevrolet plants across the country are pushing production with all the snood possible within the limits of precision manufacturing in order to supnlv dealers with cars as rpiirkh' as possible for delivery starting January 1 In order to accomodate the public and I Draper Dan - |