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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH nRnmn i iiil.iii.ili The TH) Business Training Pays ii Last year we placed more than 1000 in good positions. We can place you when competent. When will you be ready? Sent! or Success Catalog By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART WNU ( Behnke-Walk- Copyright by Ceorga R. Doras Company Business College er Uth and Salnuu Street Portland, Oregon mssaBSSSmmSsaaassaaammamm (Continued.) 20 But they would prove It, he was con JfldeoL So confident, Indeed, that be left he Inquired the make and 'eoet of my car. Evidently be has already mentally banked the reward. On tbe other hand, certain things Mem to me still to be far from clear. Halliday, I understand, passed over to tbe police the following facts: (a) A copy of the unfinished letter .from Horace Porter to some unknown. (b) A description of tbe print of s band, left on the window board. (c) A small Illustration from the book "Eugenia Riggs and her Phenomena, and showing the same band print. (d) A sworn statement ol the butler, the nature of which , do not know. . (e) An analysis of his own theory of the experiments referred to In the 1 , . diary. (f) And a letter to Edith from an anonymous correspondent. (To he referred to later.) (g) The possibility Cat the two attempts to enter tbe main bouse are due to the fact that, In the huste of the escape, something was left there which Is both Identifying and Incriminating. Bgt so far as I can discover, he bus not told them that, from tbe time the guards were taken away from tbe bouse at night, he was on watcb there. In other words, from shortly after the murder be must have known that something Incriminating had been left there, wben Bethel and bla accomplice, Gordon's "outside man," made their escape the night the secretary was murdered. He may even know what It la, aDd where. But be has not told Greenough. Again, there Is the fact that a statement by the Llvlngstoues butler wus a portion of tbe evidence be submitted. Purely they are not endeavoring to In criminate Livingstone I September 9. It Is Halliduys idea to bold auotbet seance, using Cameron's coming as tbe excuse for it. I gather that be believes that, uuder cover of the aeunce, another attempt may be made to secure the Incriminating evidence left in the house. Not that be says so. but Ills questions concerning the sounds I heard In the ball during the second seance point In that direction. This herbal odor you speak ot, Skipper," he asked, "was thut before you heard the movement outside?" But the Some time before. Yes. odor seemed to be In the room; tbe sounds were beyond the door." You don't connect them, then?" I hadn't thought about It, but I don't believe I do." Did you bear any footsteps?" Not foot I bad to consider that. sort a of was there scraping steps; along tbe floor." And tbe moment yon spoke this noise ceased?" "Yes." The whole situation Is battling In the extreme. 1 cannot Ignore the fact that the seances were proposed by Mrs. Livingstone, that it was she who left the bull door unbolted at the sec ond sitting, or that Livingstone him self wus absent that second ulghl. presumably ill. At the same time. It was Livingstone who Indirectly ad vised me against the business. Let It alone, be warned me. "Let well enough alone. So far as tlalllday Is concerned, ll Is clear that be does not like the idea uf another seance, hut feels that It Is necessary. He assures me the police will he on hand, inside and outside the tiouse, hut he does not minimize Hie fact that there will be a certain risk, and that he dreads Hiking Jane and Edith Into It. It's tike this," he said today, feel In a sense, lug painfully for words. you and I are at the parting of the ways iu (Ids thing. We can let It go mid turn loose on the world a cruel and deadly Idea which limy go on claiming v Ictiuis Indefinitely." He made Or we put Into a small gesture. the oilier side of the scule all we have in the world, and then " He pulled There's only possible himself up. Unless things slip. (lunger.'' he sHid. I here should he very little." llie same list of those preseut as There Is uU unconscious emphasis placed by llalliday on Hayward am mid Livingstone, hut perhaps overwaNhful I daresay, thus placed between mi duty and my fears. I shall do ui.v duty 1 peretlve that either Hayward or Livingstone Is mice more to he allowed arenas to the house, and under condl tions more or less favorable to wlia' that room, which rlLgs In the kitchen to a temporary ex tension In the When the garage, with a buzzer. touch the will he are lowered, lights bell, and Greenough Is then to smug gle bis men In through the kitchen While no one cun say what changes Cameron may suggest In our previous methods, Halllilay Imagines he will ask us at first to proceed as usual. In any event, I am to sit as near to the switch as possible, end when llullhlnt calls for lights, am to be ready to turn them on. . . . Hut I 8 :.?(). Everything Is ready Has he am concerned about llalliday some apprehension about his own safe ty tonight? lie came an hour or so too early to start with the car for Cameron, and borrowing pen and paper, wrote a long What communication to Hemingway. Is In It I do not know, hut he took It with him, to mall on his way to the Nation. (End of Mr. Porter Chapter -- I 10-- quit" on them. And quit It did. We rest There was nothing to be gained by giving tbe story to the public, and much to be lost At that time. It Is to be remembered, a wave of spiritualism, or rather spiritism, was spreading over the country; It wus still filled, too, with post-wa- r psychopaths. The very nature of the experiment which bad been trleu was of the sort to seize on the neurrflc Imagination. anJ set It aflame. It was not considered advisable to allow tt publicity. Now, of course, things are different. The search goes on. and perhaps some day, not by this method but by some legitimate and scientific one, survival I do not know; I do nmy be proved. After all, I am a not greatly care. Christian, and my faith Is built on a life after death. But I accept thut; I do not require proof of it . . . Iicture us, them that evening ot September 10, when the Journal ends, waiting for we knew not wlmt ; Jane picking up her knitting and putting It down again; Edith powdering her nose with hands thut shook In spite of her best efforts; Holliday at the railroad station with the car to meet Cameron; and off In the woodland, where the red lamp of tbe lighthouse flashed Its danger signal every ten seconds from the end of Robinson's point, Greenough and a half dozen officers. Picture us, too, when we bad ail gathered; Cameron, wltb his hund still bandaged, presented to the dramatis personae of the play and eyeing each one In turn shrewdly; Mrs. Livingstone garrulous and uneasy; and Living stone s sort of waxy white and with a nervous trembling I had never tb served before. Of us all, only Halil-daseemed nutural. And Hayward, nuturul because he was never at ease. What Cameron made of It I do no know. Very probably he saw In us With a Pocket Flash Examined the Thoroughly. Cabinet Bethel the "sinister design" to which Gordon hnd referred, but to which I had no key. I could see blm. with his Knowledge of the country, using that knowledge In furtherance of that Idea which uiy Code Horace had termed a menace to society In general. With the swiftness with which thought ere ates vision I could even see him hall Ing poor Maggie Morrison -- the storm required Janes smelling salts for It me to find that connection. A small green glass bottle. Id Ediths room, used as a temporary paper weight od her desk. As I sHy, my suspicions were ot LIv ingstone. during that strange walk up the drive. But I bad by no means eliminated Hayward. He was there, behind me. walking with a curious stealth, and with an uneasiness that somehow, without words, communicated Itself to me. All emotions are waves, I daresay I caught the contagion of fear from him; desperate, deadly fear. And once In tbe bouse, my sus ptclons of him Increased ratber than diminished. For one thing, he offered to take Cameron through the house and on Halllday'a Ignoring Hmt. and was going off with Cameron himself, In the distinctly surly. He remained hall ut the fool of the stairs, appnr ently listening to their progress sod gnawing at his fingers. I saw Watching him from the den. Him make a move to go Up the stairs but lie caught m.v eye and abandoned the Idea If was then that Jane fell faint, and went buck to the Lodge for hei I smelling salts. The letter, undoubtedly the letter Which ll.illidiiy had shown to the p desk ix. was lying open on under the green bottle, and as I lifted to the Moor. I H,e salts It blew I picked It up. glanced at it as 1 at In and her stopping her truck when she recognized him. Rut I could not see him In connection wltb Eugenia lilggs and her bowl of putty. Strange that 1 did not ; thut Chapter II tain that no hand was freed without to that ef uri Immediate statement In recording Hit- - feet Not that 1 expect fraud, of course,' "Hut ll Is customary, un tie added. der the circumstances." I am quite certain that nobody, ex cept myself, suw Halliday touch the bell us the light was reduced to the faint glow of the red lamp. It was not surprising. I dare say that beyond certain movements ot the table und fine raps on Its surface, we got nothing ut first I in fact, that we got anything ut all was probably due solely to Janes ignorance of the un Livingstone, next derl.vlng situation to me. was so nervous that bts hands twitched on the table; across. Halil day was beside tljywurd. and as my eye grew accustomed fo the send darkness. I could see him. forbidden recourse to his fingers, jerking his head savagely. And. for the life ot me. I could not see where all this was leading us. A breaking of the circle was. by (am eron's order, immediately to be aD noiir ced. Even In complete darkness when that came as I felt i' would what was It that llalliday expected to happen? It Hut the table continued to move. to slide the my along carpet; began grasp on Livingstone's hand was relaxed. und Indeed, later, as It begun to rock violently. It was all I could do to retain contact with the table ut all. began to see possibilities In this, but wheD it had quieted the circle remained a9 before. Very soon after that came tbe signal for darkness, and Cameron extinguished the lamp. Soon Edith, ueai the cabinet, said the curtain hnd coine out Into the room, and was touching her. The next moment, as before, the bell fell from the stand Inside the cab Inet, and the guitar strings was lightly touched. Without warning Cameron turned on the lamp; the curtain subsided and all sounds ceased. He was apparently satisfied, nnd after a fpw moments of experiment wltb the lamp on. result Ing only in a creaking and knocking on the table. agMiD extinguished It. On a repetition of the blowing out of the curtain, however, he left his chair for the first time, and witu a pocket flush examined the cabinet thoroughly, even the wall coming in for close inspection. When he hud finished with that, however. I sensed a change In him. I believe now that he suspected fraud but I am md certain lie said rather sharply that he was there In good faith Hiul not to provide an evening's amusement, and that he hoped any would be re suspicious movement Early Shorthand Form Godtrey Hewey. in a monograph oi Abbreviated writ- shorthand, says: down to und also for take lectures ing the preservation ot poems recited at the Pythian. NemeaD and Olympic games was practiced by the early Greeks and (here are specimens of an (lent Greek notae or shorthand Id the Vutlcan library at Rome, the Nat iunale. Paris, and tie British museum" whispered savagely: Let go. yoo fool. The next moment he had drawn his revolver, and wus stealthily getting to Ills feet. The dragging foot moved out .Into the hall. Livingstone, revolver in hand, was standing beside me, ami there wus a quiet movement across the table. Cameron was apparently listeD ing also; he made iio comment however, and in the darkness and the si lence the footsteps went Into the hall and there ceased. i hud uo Idea ol the passage of time; ten seconds or an hour Livingstone may nave stood beside me. Ten seconds or aD hour, and then Green-ough- s voice at the top of the stair- e Troublesome Spider The name tarantula Is general applied in the United States to a cer tain species ot large bird spider. It has a bite which Is painful but not dangerous, and very seldom fatal, so far as accurate records show Health Giving imimslhisim case: Careful below. All Winter Livingstone moved then. He made Marvelous Climate Good Long Hotels Toorivt a wild dasb for the red lamp and Camps Splendid Roads Gorgeous Mountain turned If on. Hayward was not to be Views. The wonderful desert resort of the West seen, and Halliday. revolver Id hand, Write Cree A Cheney was starting for the cabinet More light, he called. Light I CALIFORNIA Quick ! 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Springfield nip: Lenses Duplicated Scientific Eye Examinations Peculiar Way Deadly Curare Poison Works suer Directory Cullen Hotel ported. This Is not a game," he said shortly Jane was very quiet, and now I heard agalu the heavy breathing which I knew preceded the trance condition or that which we know as trance. Who Is that?" Cameron asked In n I tJe myself. And then two things were happening, and at tbe same time. There was something moving In the library, a soft footfall with. It seemed ro me, an Irregularity. For all the world like the dragging ot a partially useless foot, and Livingstone was quietly releusing his grip of m.v hand. I made a clutch at bitn, and he 229-23- lor Certain difficulties. Foi Hie first rims. kept uo notes. lime fiiund myself a part of the cl it le sitting between Livingstone and lane, and with Cameron near the lamp, of what prepared r make the notes should occur. "M course. he said, as we took oui places "we are not observing the usual I would call a test praruutiuiis of wlmt are seance attempting to do All we pos.-lld-e - m reproduce, us nearly hs the cm. ditin, ,s existing at the other two sittings And " be glurued a' !r 'oner's ad H me and earned dis ini'-iproves to the circle tild d g, can eliminate him." He to remain quiet, no , I tuiiiu-!U happened, and to be et Just Lika Football Little Meredith returning home from a visit to a farm was telling of the many things that interested her and in describing a hen and chickens she told her mother: And, mother, when the little chbkens get cold they all do a huddle with the old mother hen Just like the boys that play football out on the playground do. I mendous psychic exjierleuee explain It ; I do not know now what unseen forces were gathered I there together. eveD admit that probably I too, like Jane, had hypo-tize- not rows?" the events leading up that night denouement aaia.ing I am un -- the details ot 'he seance to trecan- we were on the verge ol some 1 felt then that the best thing to do, under tbe circumstances, was to let It ,iii-ii- ul I The glass and the hand which held It. For the hand was a mull ami wide one, with a short thumb and a bent little finger I From that time on. my mind was mi l.lvlngs-tone- . It milled about, seeking mne explanation. I could see Livingstone In the case plainly enough ; I emild see him. pursuing with old The Journal takes us up to the eveIt was to ning of September 10, 2. the fourth and last tragedy of that summer, which filled the next day's papers, that little Uettlaglll referred. In the conversation recorded In the introduction of this Journal. It was with this tragedy that, as Uettingill said aggrlevedly, the story a- . suspicion that evening cer tidnly pointed to Livingstone. Not to go Into 'he cruelty of my Ignorance, a cruelty which I now understand hut then bitterly resented, I had had both men under close observation during the time we waited for Cameron. And It mid seemed to me that Livingstone was the more uneasy of the two. An oilier thing which I regarded as highly significant was his asking for wale; just before we left the Lodge. Hnd holding he glass with a trembling hand. And as If happens. It wa.- - thut very glass of water which crystalized my CONCLUSION 1 l my Journal) ex only a group of sensation-seekers- , cited by some small contact wltb a world beyond our knowledge, and If he felt surprise at all. It was thut I had Joined the ranks. He himself did uot appear to take the matter seriously. He made It plain that he had come In tills manner at my request ; that Ills own methods would be entirely different. When Edith, I think it was. usked him If he made any preparation for such affairs, be laughed and shook his head. Except that I sometimes take a cup of coffee to keep me awake 1" tie said. On the way up the drive I walked with Livingstone. Why, I imrillj know except thut he seemed to drift towaid me. lie novel spoke bill mice, and ll seemed to me tlml lie was stir veylng the shrubbery and trees, like a limn who suspected a trap time-t- ie was ou my left was aware that he had pul his hand to Ids htp pocket, and I was so sturtled tint I shiiidded uud almost fell. I knew, as confident ly us I have ever known anything, that lie hud a revolver there. "Careful, man." he said Those were his only words during our slow progress toward the main house, and so tense were his nerve-ththey sounded like a curse. Is to he done. Hut which otic? Cameron and Kdlih were leading I Litter: I have done uiy duty. and I could hear tier tulklng, carry have telephoned Cameron, auri lie will lug on valiantly, allhough us it mrtied come out tomorrow night. out she knew beiter than any ot us except llalliday. the terrible possihid September 10 ties ahead. Hayward walked alone Halliday has taken evciy possible and behind u. his ti a shoes As ha lo tonight. precaution It milking no sound mi the dne l.eeu out c istoni to go ovei l lit tuci.--i I, tme ea u and - (aim ton made me uneasy, somehow; that silent o og i , s of hi- -; It was stealthy nmt v i di t1 - w it) i tiioimigti And I think Living l ll chi, d ud le p! II I erting - e ill el - nil'll f! ol tone fill ll so. too, for he striped ( oil.. I" ll o o co and turned around i v IV e tier e ; Iv Yet, at the time 'is between the two II o r. m m ini ti villi lie i men, i.e V. i N. U , .... wii.li Temple M. Ea-- 1", S . S;.:! I -- I Lake Cdy, tic. C i C'i'.y 9'9 |