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Show 9 BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 LA yL J SVj i Nl .LAMP by MARY J A ill ROBERTS RINEHAR;r yY- - rVrwCTl 1 Halliday's story of his discovery fs Interesting; certain portions of the two seances he apparently accepts without comment save; "It was the usual stuff." and lets it go at that Although "usual" is hardly the word I should myself use in that connection. Cut the book was, as I gather It. not the usual stun!. "There was something about the way it came that night of the 6eance," be says, and makes a gesture. "Mrs. Flw September 3. seen Cameron, and be will come out. lie has evidently been seriously ill, but it shows the dominance of the mental over the physical that he brushed aside my apologies and went directly to the matter in hand. But it is a curious thing to reflect that, a short time ago, it would have been I who was the skeptic and Cameron who would have been ranged on the other side. Today it was I who was excited. And Cameron who was to be convinced! "This Edith, of whom you speak," he said, "how old is she?" "Twenty." "A nervous type?" "Yes, and no. Not hysterical, if that's what you mean." Certain of the phenomena, too, seem to puzzle him. The table levitation, the lights and other manifestations were not unusual, he said, with a strong physical medium present, and this he imagined Jane to be. The book, however, particularly attracted his interest. Over my notes on that he sat thinking for some time. "You say it crashed onto the table?" "At the last, yes. But Doctor Hay-warwho was nearest the library door, says that after my wife called, 'Here!' he felt something pass his shoulder. Float past, is the way he puts it. He thinks it was the book, and that it dropped onto the table COPYRIGHT GEO.H.DORAN COMPANY "j " I have t l cat WN.U. SERVICE "I rather Imagine," he said, "that when we pass over, our Interest in this plane of existence is Impersonal ; we may hope to educate it as to what Is beyond. But we hardly carry our desires for revenga with us." Of all that I had told him, however, the Evanston matter interested him most. Over the letter he sat for a long time, his heavy, almost hairless head sunk forward as he read and street." reread it. "Curious," he said. "What do you make oat of it?" "A great deal," l told bin, and detailed my discovery of the letter behind the drawer of the desk, and my theory as to old Horace Porter's death. I had brought that letter also, and he studied it as carefully as he had the other. " The enormity ot the idea,' he Is gone Sht tells tne that Starr has been on fcuard at the main house, quietly, for the two ulghts Halliday has been In town. But If she knows any explanation of his presence she does not give It. "He's afraid to go Inside." she said, "He Just sits out on the scornfully. terrace and smokes. If anybody said boo behind him hel Jump Into the bay and drown himself.'' She has apparently Implicit faith In Halliday's ability to keep me from further Indignity. But 1 am not so certain. The sound of a car on the highway sets my pulse to beating like a riveting machine; ar the arrival of the Morrison truck a few minutes ago with some belated buttermilk I got up and buttoned my My place in my little world Is neither large nor important, but It Is difficult for me to Imagine It without me. "Suppose the worst to happen." said Matthew Arnnold to the portly jeweler from Cheapslde; "suppose even yourself to be the victim; II n'.v a pas d'homme necessalre. . . . The great mundane movement would still go on. the crave! walks of your villa would still be rolled, dividends would still be paid at the hank, oninlhtisps would still run, there would he the seme old crush at the corner of Fenchurch re- peated. "That's a strong phrase. And he threatens to call in the police! Have you any notion as to what this Idea may have been?" "Not the slightest," I said frankly. "I would like to keep this for a while, if you don't mind," he said at last. "I have a medium here In town but I forget. You don't bolieve In such things!" "I don't know what I believe. But you are welcome to it, of course." It was only after this matter of the letter that he finally agreed to come out the da. after tomorrow. "The G. Stuff Went Night." P. Big Last Porter called It, and It came. Like a dog," he says, and watches me to be sure I am not laughing at him. However that may be, the book and the strange manner of Its arrival In our midst had Interested him, and he had spent some time over it. Thus, he found where it belonged In the library, and tried to discover some significance In that. But there was none. "I drew a blank there," he says. "I examined the wall behind, bu there was nothing. You see, It couldn't have been thrown In ; it wasn't possible. And when Hay ward said it touched him, botli his hands were being held. In other words, he didn't put it there." September 4. after that." All the time. I gather, he was feelThe words "making trouble," lightly "About what you heard in the hall; ing extremely foolish, lie would pause 24 on of underscored was this hall dark?" page "Smyth's now and then, in order to assure me "Yes. There were no lights anyEveryday Essays," are the iey to Gorhe felt "a bit silly." He didn't that The sentence entire don's is: where in the house." cipher. in such things ; when there was believe "It is often the ingenuous rather than "You heard footsteps?" a natural phenomenon there was a who world malicious about the go "No. It was like something feeling the law to account for It. Maybe natural its way along. You know what I making trouble." whatever they called it, or telekinesis, we In have a shall few hours, then, mean." . . . "But there had to be some reason or such at our least solved mystery, Toward the end of the conference for that book." he says. "I Just sat me portion of it as is locked in the diary. he leaned back and studied Read with this key we have already down and went through It." through his glasses. He has taken the key words to the I "What started you on this, Porter?" translated the sentence recorded here city, and has just telephoned (2 p. m.) Atwenty-seconof on the August. he said. we cannot interpret it without that the detective bureau has put a He did not remind me, although he lthough staff to work on IL the context, it becomes: "It will T)e several hours," he said. might well have done so, that my preG. went P. stuff "The big last vious attitude, to him and his kind, "It's slow work. But I'll be out with night" had been one of a sort of Indifferent In the same way the scrap of paper the sheets as soon as they've finished." his time entire that, during contempt; found in my garage is now discovered September 5. at the university, I had never so much to rea" "Smyth, P. 24." Edith's single Too much exhausted today to make as set foot in his rooms, nor asked error lying In the number, which she any coherent record. The four hours him into my house; that on the two had remembered as 28. last night In the district attorney's ofor three times only when we had met, P. that Q. the fice have worn me out I have called Halliday suggests I had taken no pains to hide my rejecabove may refer to George Pierce, but off Cameron tonight, for the same tion of him and all that he stood for. makes no attempt to explain the refer- reason. But it was Implied in his question, ence. . . . The mystery seems to be Increased, and I dare say I colored. I told him, than solvgd, by the diary. By rather however, as best I could, and he such portions, at least, as were read smiled. Subscribe for The Leader, $2.00. to me. And 1 do not understand the under which I was quesconditions compared with 165,000 sown in the fall of 1927 for the harvest of 1928. tioned, nor the questions themselves. Good G d, are they suspecting me 1927 Two years ago 157,000 acres were sown, and in the fall of 1925 it was again? Halliday is still In town. . . . an increase Later : Utah's acreage of fall-sow- n wheat 152,000. There hasinbeen Utah's winter Edith has removed my anxiety as to is estimated at 163,000 this season, of 11,000 acressince 1925. A small wheat sowings return. He has telephoned, Halliday's amount of the sown acreage usually meets with unfavorable conditions and she has just brought me the mesd Fall Wheat Acreage Smaller Than in . . . This Is the sixth. It was on the fourth, then, a few hours after Halliday had gone to the city, that a taxi stopped here, and Oreenotih got out. There seemed to me to be a trifle more than his usual ponderousness In his manner, and a distinct concentration in the way he lookpd at me as I came down the staircase. At the same time, he was civility Itself, and he stated his errand matter-of-faotlThey had a staff working on the diary, and he knew I wonld like to he present when It was finished. "It's a long job," he said. "But we've split It into a half dozen parts, and it ought to be ready by eight, or half past." It was six then, and as our early dinner was almost ready, I asked him to stay. We ate cheerfully enough, took the express from and were In town and at the seven-fiftee- Oak-vill- n e, County building at something before ten. I was surprised but not startled to find Benchley, the sheriff, there, and three or four other men, Including the district attorney. Hemingway, Hemingway held some typed sheets in his hand when we entered, and was reading them carefully. Halliday was standing by a windew staring out into the square, and the first indication 1 had that anything was wrong was the expression on his face as he turned and saw me. The second was a polite invitation to Halliday to leave the room, and his manner of receiving it. "I'm staying," he said flatly, "if there's any objection to that, I shall advise Mr. Porter to make no statement and to answer no questions, until he can be properly protected." "Protected?" I asked. "Protected from what?" "From this strong-aroutfit," said Halliday, and surveyed the room with his jaw thrust forward. "I am under arrest?" Hemingway put down the papers and took off his glasses. "Certainly not," he said. "Your young friend Is being slightly dramatic. I know that you want this mystery solved as much as we do; more, since It directly concerns you. This is not a trap, Mr. Porter; we shall ask yon some questions, and I hope you will answer them. That Is all." "I reserve the right to Interfere In case of any trick," Halliday put In. "We have framed no trick questions," Hemingway said quietly. "We want the facts, that's all." and is not harvested; but in Utah sage. He rang a bell, and a secretary "He says you are not to worry," she this abandoned acreage is only about Money 2 per cent of the total amount sown. reports. "He is working on the case. came in. My mouth was dry and some The condition of the crop on De- And you will not be disturbed again." one placed a glass of water before me. cember 1, 1928, averaged 87 per cent She looks pale, does Edith, and Jane From that on, for four hours, I anof normal, compared with 96 a year is not much better. I have told Jane swered questions; at the end of that average on Deago, and a whole matter; my absence last time I walked out, still free although cember 1 of 89. In some parts of the possibly prepared her, but slightly dizzy. on Irrigated Land. 6V& per Utah the crop is much better than 87 night had confession that I had been the very (Note: Halliday has recently seper cent, and in other parts it is not cent. No commissions. so good. subjected to what amounted to the cured a copy of the stenographic notes third degree has roused her to a fury of that night. As they would make a JOHN J. SHUMWAY The woman who married a man to of Indignation. small volume In themselves, I give Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-2- ; reform him finds solace in the Bell, 129 "How can they dare such a thing!" here only such portions as seem to forthought that even legislation cannot she said. "How can they even think ward the narrative.) do it. it?" Q. Your name, please. A. William Allen Porter. "It's their business to believe a man Q. Age? guilty until he proves his Innocence," A. Forty-siI reminded her. "And Gordon thought Q. Your profession it; you must remember that" A. I am professor of English literaFor nothing is more clear to me touniversity. day than that this diary of Gordon's ture at Q. You own the property at which Halliday himself carried to the known as Twin Hollows? police, has somehow incriminated me. I Inherited It something I A. do. September 6. more a than year ago, on the death of I can Id town. still Is do Halliday norace Porter. my uncle, nothing but wait here, eating my known Had that this propQ. yon heart out with anxiety, and allowing was to come to yon on your my imagination to run away with me erty uncle's death? In a thousand way9. A. It was always understood bewomen-folMy support me accordtween us. He had no other heirs. . . . ing to their kind. Jane serves me Q. Had any previous acquaintsweetbreads for luncheon, and Edith ance with you Mr. Bethel? I mean, before me an occasional almost sits by, giving on he took your house? furtive caress as an evidence of her A. None whatever. 1 never saw him faith In me. antil he came out to take possession. But Edith is curiously lifeless; that His Inspected the house, small but burning flame In her which and secretary were carried on negotiations A a we call want Come of for will better optimism, help. my attorney. through word, seems definitely quenched. She look Q. In any of your talks with Mr. Is silent and apathetic, and has been did you gather that be had Bethel, so since yesterday. known Mr. Horace Porter, previous to She seems to resent our having sent his death? In the key to the diary. A. Never. "If you only hadn't done that," she Q. When you rented the bouse, did said today. you retain any keys to it "What else could w do? We have A. I have a full set In my possesto get at the bottom of this tiling." sion. I don't see that It has got you anyQ. You had access to the house, where. It has only mussed things up." then? "The Largest Retail Implement Dealers in the World" do not What she has in her mind A. I never used my keys. If that's - - .Tremonton, Utah know, unless, poor child, she has been what you mean. Phone 90 building a future oo Halliday's solving Q. On the night ol the twenty-sixtthe crime, and that now tbat prospect of July, Mr. Bethel's secretary was at Unlimited to LOAN ... 10-ye- ar What Will the x. is? Oak-vill- Harvest Be? k Let the famous JOHN DEERE SPREADER, with the beater the axle, help answer this question. feed mill, or grinder, also in and over our machinery. Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company 1 . h e, tacked outside the kitchen door of the approach yoo on a matter of money? bouse, and managed to ring the bell A. Money? I don't understand the before he fell unconscious. Just where question were you, Mr. Porter, when tbat bell er Did he ever ark yoo for money? Or intimate that be needed it? rang? A. The police hnvt- - my statement as A. Never. He said something once to tbat By the sun-diaabout giving op bis position. Q Doctor Uayward was on the road Q. Where was he, the night you held In bis car; you were by the sun-dia- l, the conversation with Mr. Bethel, rel Yet when he ative to him? close to the bouse. , . reached you, you bad apparently only; A. Here In the city. 1 beliefe. found this boy. Is that correct? Q And Mr. Bethel thought he might A. It seems to me that the question have gone to the police. there might be, was Hayward on the A. That's the 6econd time yoo have main road that night as be says, or Intimated tbat Gordon bad something nearer to the house than be admits. to tell the police I can't talk In the dark like this. If anybody wanted tO( Q. You own a boat, I believe? avoid the police, It was this boy. . . . A. I Inherited one with the propQ. I am going back to the night Mr. erty. A sloop. Halliday found you in the house y. Do you sail the boat yourself? A. He didn't find me. We bad start A. 1 don't know one end of it from ed there together. the other. Q. You say you saw a figure at the Q. Id your various conversations foot of the stairs, and fired at It? wltih Mr. Bethel, did he ever mention A. I didn't Intend to fire. the character of the house? By that. Q. You didn't recognize this figure? I mean any curious quality in the A. No. house Itself? Q. It was not Mr. Bethel? A. He recognized such a quality. A. Bethel? No. He was locked In Yes. his room. Q. Did he ever mention a letter Q. You say you are not a spiritualwritten by him to a Mr. Cameron, here ist? In the city? A member of the Society A. Certainly not for Psychical Research? Relative to Q. You have never made any experithe house? ments in spiritualism? A. Never. But I know of the letA. I have been present at one or two ter. Cameron sent me word of It a seances. day or so ago. Q. When? Recently? Q. Are you a believer in spiritual-Ism- ? A. We have held two sittings In thei mair bouse within the last few days. A. I never have been. Recently, Q. When did you first hear of the however, I symbol of a triangle inside a circle? (Note: Here I caught a warning A. If you mean Ir connection with glance from Halliday and changed the crimes what I Intended to say.) Q. Before that Yon told Mr. Green-ough- , some time ago, that you beard Recently I have been trying to preserve an open mind on the subject of It in some other connection. Q. Why recently. A. I teld him I had happened on It A. For one thing, Mr. Bethel bad In an old book on Black Magic, and found the house queer; so had the told a group of women about It It was a purely facetious remark. secretary. Q. On the day yon asked the secre Q. Can you account for its ose In tary to luncheon, the intention was connection with these crimes? to allow Mr. Bethel to go through his A. I have no official knowledge that room? It was used In connection with the A. Bethel? ? crimes. Only with the Certainly not Q. But you know It was so used? Q. 1 shall read you this entry from A. I know that It was used once' Gordon's diary (reads) : "Porter asked me to lunch today, so B. could go when Mr. Greenough did not find It Q. Where was that? through my room. They left the knife, but at least they know I have it." A. On a tree near where the Morri1 have A. That's a lie I I asked him to son truck was discovered. luncheon so Halliday could search his heard it was on Carroway's boat but room. It was Halliday who found the I don't know that I know It was deknife. You can ask him. liberately put on my car, after Mr. Q. We'll let that go, Just now, and Halliday was hurt. come to the night you were found in Q. You say, put on the car? Do you the house, Mr. Porter, by Mr. Ilalll mean by that, Mr. Bethel did It? A. Bethel? We How could he? day. A. 1 wasn't found in the house by have thought lately that Gordon was Mr. Halliday. We had started for it responsible. We found a piece of his together. The maid, Annie Cochran, cipher nearby. Q. You have felt all along that Gorhad reported a 'quarrel between Mr. Bethel and Gordon, and that Gordon don was guilty? 1 would say A. I won't say that had gone away. You must remember that we suspected the boy of being the that the burden of the evidence Indikiller. I was anxious, and went for cated that be was guilty, Mr, Halliday has had considerable doubt of bis Halliday. Q. What time did the maid tell you guilt Q. Have you ever considered tbat It this? A. About seven thirty, possibly eight might be Bethel who killed Gordon? A. Never. He couldn't have done it o'clock. Q. But If he had had assistance? Q. And when did you go for Mr. A. Are you telling me tbat Bethel Halliday? did kill Gordon? A. It was about eleven, 1 Imagine. Q. I am telling you that somebody Q. What did you do in the interval? A. She was nervous, and I took ber killed GordoL, Mr, Porter. His body was washed ashore at Bass cove this borne. Aftetr that we bad callers. morning. Q. Did you see Mr. Bethel, In tbat (To Be Continued) Interval ? ... L ... ... ... s sheep-killing- ,,, A. No. Q. Had It occurred to you tbat Gor don might be going to see the police? A. I never thought of tt Why should he be going to the police? Q. Did Mr. Bethel think af it? A. I've told you ; I didn't see him. Q. On the night of the murder in the bouse at Twin Hollows, what led you to your discovery of the crime? A. 'My wife heard the telephone ring, and I went to It AH three build ings are on one line, and the receiver at the main house was down. I heard a crash, and heavy breathing near the telephone. Q. That made yon suspicions? A. I had been expecting trouble be tween Mr. Bethel and Gordon. Q. Why did you expect trouble? A. I knew they had quarreled. Mr. Bethel had told me that It was he who had struck Gordon, mistaking him for a burglar, and that Gordon suspected it Q. When did he tell you that? A. I don't know exactly. About three days befor? the murder, I When You Think HARDWARE THINK WILSON "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 11. PiTiTTSTi think. Q. Can you remember the burden of that conversation? A. Very well. He said that he was suspicious of the boy; that he was weak and vicious, and possibly criminal, ne knew he was going out at night On the night of the twenty-sixtof July Gordon was out, and he h dragged himself downstairs. When he heard him at the kitchen door he struck him. But he maintained that he had not tied him. I believe that, personally. He had one useless hand. Q. Did you ever hae any reason to believe that Mr. Bethel exaggerated his Infirmity? A. Exaggerated It? What do you mean? Q. You believe he was as helpless as he appeared? A. I can't Imagine a man assuming such a thing. Q. Now, Mr. Porter, you have snld that the telephone receiver at th main house was dov.n, and you heard over it enough to alarm you? ... A. Yes. Q. It rang, and you went to It? A. Yes. Q. 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