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Show THE HOUSE OF THOUSAND A ing a gentleman. Then, In my blind anger, I found what patient search had not disclosed, I threw the hammer from me in a fit cf temper and it struck one of the square blocks in the cement floor which gave forth a hollow sound. I was on my knees in an Instant, my fingers searching the cracks, and drawing down close I could feel a current of air, slight but unmistakable, against my face. CANDLES By MEREDITH NICHOLSON iatfcor THE MAIN CHANCE.' Etc. BAMEION, 1 Ujpjrttf U - 1IMD hy ZELDA e Oo. Bobbc-Mur- The cement square, though exactly like the others in the cellar floor, was evidently only an imitation, with an opening beneath. The block was fitted into its place with a nicety that certified to the skill of the hand that had adjusted it. I trybroke a blade of my pocket-knifing to pry it up, but, in a moment, 1 succeeded, and found it to be in reality a trap door, hinged to the substantial part of the floor. A current of cool, fresh air, the same that had surprised me fn the night, struck my face as I lay flat and peered into the opening. The lower passage was as black as pitch, and I lighted a lantern I had brought with me, found that wooden steps gave safe CHAPTER XI. Continued. this has Well, he exclaimed, been very pleasant, but I must run. 'I have just been over to see Morgan, the caretaker, at the resort village. The poor fellow accidentally shot himself yesterday cleaning his gun or something of that sort, and he has an ngly hole In his arm that will shut him up for a month or worse. He gave me an errand to do for hip. He's a conscientious fellow and wished me to wire for him to Mr. Pickering that hed been hurt, but was attending to his duties. Pickering owns a housq at the farther end of the colony and Morgan has charge of it You know Pickering, of course? I looked my clerical neighbor straight in the eye, a trifle coldly, perhaps. I was wondering why Morgan, with whom I had enjoyed a duel in my own cellar only a few hours before, should be reporting his injury to Arthur Pickering. "I think I have 3een Morgan about here," I said, Oh, yes! Hes a woodsman and a hunter our Nimrod of the lake. A good sort, very likely! I dare say. He has sometimes brought me ducks during the season. To be sure! They shoot ducks at night those Hoosier hunters so I conduct below and went down. I stood erect in the passage and had several inches to spare. It extended both ways, running back under the foundations of the house, and cut squarely under the park before the house and toward the school wall. The air grew steadily fresher, until, after I had gone about two hundred yards, I reached a point where the wind seemed to beat down on me from above. I put up my hands and found two openings about three yards apart, through which the air sucked steadily. I moved out of the current with a chuckle in my throat and a grin on my face. I had passed under the gate in the school wall, and I knew now why the piers other; now it was an august hr now a theme from Wagner, and finaU; Mendelssohns spring song won in cold, dark chapel to light and warmth with its exultant notes. She ceased suddenly with a little sigh and struck her hands together, for the place was cold. As she reached up to put out the lights I stepped forward to the chancel steps. Please allow me to do that for Salt Lake City, Utah, October 3rd, 190". UNION ASSAY OFFICE. H. T. RIPPETO, Chemists and Aasayers. ASSAYER. The business of the late John Mo Vlcker. Assayer, will be continued by d. S. Haaaaer. J. V, 8adle Samples by mail or express will his wife, at his request, under the receive prompt attention. 101 West Temple. name of John McVieker Assay Otflce 6 West South Temple St., 46 Balt Utah 1446. Mr. Lake City, Richards St, Arthur Selby, F. 0. Bes it or three years at the Union office, Salt Lake City, Utah. 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You cant go any farther, Mr. Glenarm, she said, and waited as though Assayers & Chemists to make sure I understood. Straight before us through the wood and beSalt LaKe City 135 W. 2 S. yond the school buildings the sunset faded sullenly. Night was following fast upon the gray twilight and al ready the bolder planets were aflame CRISMON A NICHOLS. in the sky. The path led straight I ahead beneath the black boughs. Assayers and Chemist. I might perhaps walk to the dormiOffice and Laboratory, 229 S. W.ii tory, or whatever you call it, I said. Temple Street, Thank you, no! Im late and havent time to bother with you. Its SALT LAKE CITY. against the rules, you know, for us to receive visitors. She stepped out upon the path. Western Engineering and ConstrucBut Im not a caller; Im just tion Co., Chemists and Engineers. neighbor! And I owe you several calls, anyhow. Experts In testing Oils and Minerals. DENVER MUD is used extensively and successfully in the treatment of She laughed but did not pause and We also design mining. Irrigation and followed a pace behind her. Inflamed Breasts, Pleurisy, power plants. We finance and pro- Erysipelas, Appendicitis, Sprains, mote all kinds of legitimate entei Frost Bites, Eczema, prises. Sell all kinds of machinery. Pneumonia, Cancer. Let us know your wants. Sunburn, Bolls, 2 Commercial Club Bldg., Bronchitis, Croup, Salt Lake City, Utah'. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 144-14- racKTOR W. A.Hodges yommJil S Sons St, 261-26- hear! He laughed as he shook himself Into his greatcoat Thats possible, though unsportsmanlike. But we dont have to look a gift mallard in the eye. We laughed together. It was easy to laugh with him. ' By the way, I forgot to get s address from Morgan. If you happen to have it I said. "Alexis With pleasure, Building, Broadway, New York. Good! Thats easy to remember, he Bald, smiling and turning up his coat collar. Dont forget me; Im quartered in a hermits cell back of the chapel, and I believe we can find many matters of Interest to talk Pick-erlng- AND EVENING SCHOOL. Bell Phone 1138. Salt Lahe City. lnd. Phone 1482. about Im confident of it, I said, glad of the sympathy and cheer that seemed to emanate from his stalwart figure. I threw on my overcoat and walked to the gate with him and saw him hurry toward the village with long strides. Commercial Club Building. Forfurther information write to . J. C. HENAGER, President CHAPTER XII. Explore a Passage. I found him busy replenishing the candlesticks in the library, it seemed to me that he was always poking about with an armful of canthere are a good many queer dles, things in this world, but I guess youre one of the queerest. I dont mind telling you that there are times when think you a thoroughly bad lot, and then again I question my Judgment and dont give you credit for being much more than a doddering fool. He was standing under a ladder beneath the great crystal chandelier and looked down upon me with that patient inquiry that is so appealing in a dog in, say, the eyes of an Irish setter, when you accidentally step on his Tom Dimes I Bates! tall. Yes, Mr. Glenarm, he replied hum bly. Now, I want you to grasp this idea that Im going to dig Into this old shell top and bottom; Im going to blow it Into Dollars. Oh Yes, Im Terribly Wicked, 8qulre Glenarm. that held it had been built so high, they were hollow and were the means of sending fresh air into the tunnel. When I had traveled about twenty yards more I felt a slight vibration accompanied by a muffled roar, and almost Immediately came to a rough wooden stair that marked the end of the passage. I had no means of judging directions, but I assumed that I was well within the school park. I climbed the steps and in a moment stood blinking, my lantern in hand, in a small, floored room. Overhead the tumult and thunder of an organ explained the tremor and roar I had heard below. I was n the crypt of St. Agathas chapel. The inside of the door by which I had entered was a part of the wainscoting ,of the room, and the opening was wholly covered with a map of the Holy Land. It was all very strange and Interesting. I looked at my watch and found that it was five oclock, but I resolved to go into the chapel before going up with dynamite, if I please; and if I catch you spying on me or reporting my doings to my enemies, or engaging in any questionable performances whatever, Ill hang you between the posts out there in the school wall do you understand? so that the sweet Sisters of SL Agatha and, the dear lit tie school girls and the chaplain and all the rest will shudder through all their lives at the very thought of you. and his Certainly, Mr. Glenarm, tone was the same h would have used if I had asked him to pass me the matches, and under my breath I con home. The way up was clear enough, and signed him to the hardest tortures of I was soon in the vestibule. I opened the fiery pit the door, expecting to find a service Now, as to Morgan In progress; but the little church was Yes, sir. do supempty save where, at the right of the business you What possible pose he has with Mr. Pickering? I de- chancel, an organist was filling the church with the notes of an exultant manded, . Why, sir, thats clear enough. Mr. Pickering owns a house up the lake, he got it through your grandfather. Morgan has the care of it, sir. and Very plausible, indeed! sent him oft to ha work. After luncheon I went to the end of the corridor, and began to sound the walls. They were as solid as rock, and responded dully to the strokes of the hammer. I sounded them on both sides, retracing my steps to the stairway, becoming more and more impaor stupidity. There tient at my was every reason why I should know my own house, and yet a stranger and an outlaw ran through it with amazing k daring. After an hours idle search I returned to the end of the corridor, re-peated all my previous soundings, and,I fear, indulged in language unbecom- march. Cap In hand I stole forward, and sank down in one of .the pews. A lamp over the organ keyboard gave the only light in the chapel, and made an aureole about her bead, about the uncovered head of Olivia Gladys Armstrong! I smiled as I recognized her and smiled, too, as I remembered her name. But the joy she brought to the music, the happiness In her face as she raised It in the minor harmonies, her isolation, marked by the little isle of light against the dark background of the choir, these things touched and moved me, and I bent forward, my arms upon the pew In front of me, watching and listening with a kind of awed wonder. There was no pause in the outpouring of the melody. She changed stops and manuals with swift fingers and passed from one composition to an I hope you dont think for a no ment that I chased a rabbit on your side of the fence in the hope of meeting you, do you, Mr. Glenarm? Be it far from me! Im glad I came, though, for I liked your music Immensely. Im in earnest; I think 11 quite wonderful, Miss Armstrong. She paid no heed to me. And I hope I may promise myseli the pleasure of hearing you often. You are very kind about my pool piuslc, Mr. Glenarm; but as Im going away I felt my heart sink a trifle. She was the only amusing person I had met at Glenarm, and the thought ol losing her gave a darker note to the bleak landscape. Thats really too bad! And Just when we were getting acquainted! And I was coming to church Sunday to hear you play and to pray for snow, so youd come over often to chase rabbits! This, I thought, softened her heart At any rate her tone changed. I dont play for services; theyre afraid to let me for fear Id run comic opera tunes into the Te Deum! How shocking! Do you know, Mr. Glenarm, her tone became confidential and her pace we call you the squire, at slackened, St. Agathas, and the lord of the manor, and names like that! All the girls are perfectly crazy about you Theyd bp wild If they thought I talked is that the with you, clandestinely, x way you pronounce it? Anything you say arid any way you say it satisfies me, I replied. Thats ever so nice of you, she said, mockingly again. I felt foolish and guilty. She would probably get roundly scolded if the grave sisters learned of her talks with me, and very likely I should win their hearty contempt. But I did not turn back. I hope the reason youre leaving I hesitated. isnt Ill conduct? Oh, yes; Im terribly wicked. Squire Glenarm! Theyre 1 sending me off. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Phenomenal Success of The St Patrick Mining & Milling COMPANY OF UTAH (Incorporated). CUT THIS OUT AND MAIL NOW. Utah, and consists of six promising mining claims. Over fifteen hundred dollars have already been B. A. M. Froiseth, Secty., expended in development work since date of incorSt. Patrick Mining & Milling Co., poration, February, 1906, consisting of over 500 Salt Lake City, Utah. feet of tunnels and inclines. Minerals already shares of I subscribe hereby for found carry values in Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead of the "St. stock, fully paid and Iron. We are now driving the tunnel ahead and Patrick Mining & Milling Co. at the price of Ten to cut the mineral vein which is believed to be Cents a share, for which I enclose $. an extension of the well known Maxfield mine, that as first payment, balance to be paid in four equal has already produced hundred of thousands of installments. le, monthly dollars. 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Our company is capitalized at 250,000 shares, of which 100,000 shares are set aside for working capital, and the remaining 150,000 shares of stock lf is pooled until at least or more of its treas-- ? is sold. stock ury Bear in mind that this stock is unassessable, and that private property of stockholders is not liable for corporation indebtedness. one-ha- 5.00 down and $5.00 monthly for four months buys 250 shares. $ 10.00 down and $10.00 monthly for four months buys 500 shares. $ $ 20.00 down and $20.00 monthly for four months buys 1000 shares.- - $ 30.00 dotwi and $30.00 monthly for four months L lys 1500 shares. $ 40.00 down and $40.00 monthly for four months buys 2000 shares. $100.00 down and $100.00 monthly for four months buvs 5000 shares. |