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Show THE A the start i t I -- 'T she behaved this afternoon and the night fell. It was aot a night of sliver . Lizzie deserves some patterns enskled, but a dark and to death te touch the thing I cloudy cloak where a few stars glitthink she believes lta alive. tered fitfully. Miss Cornelia, at dinner, saw a bat swoop past the window Well, maybe HI send you a message on It from the Country club." of the dining room. In its scurrying Novel from said Dale lightly. She had paused, flight, and narrowly escaped oversethalf-was in the of ting her glass of water with a nervous B Talcing Lydia E. Pinkh&m! Bight up muttered, as she went darkly, toward By Mary Roberts Rinehart STORY from the alcove, and her aunt noticed bow start. The tension of waiting waitVegetable Compound the service quarters. and her shoulders drooped, belying the ing for some vague menace which Miss Van Avery Gorder Hopwood to after efforts her capture glared rtfyin all after all had "A neighbor advised me to try Lydia departing back. Lizzie Is really Im- lightness of her voice. Oh," she went might not materialize WMJ Service aim. after a long aeries of on nerves. She saw E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound, her to prey on, have afternoon begun robberies. the the by way and Supepossible. sometimes!" she with said "rh risht- - ,S:- which she said had r'Ll knowa to the police only Mary Rob.rU papers come yet? I didn't have time Dale off to the Country club with '"-Tstately Ire. Then her Tolee softened. Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. helped her so much. Bat" has brought about afa looked little better the to one was girl I when the for get rushing Though, of course. I couldnt do So I bougut a tew veritable reign of terror. At not was she still her her but ter nap, train." without her," she added. bottles and tried It r, wits end. and at the mans normal self. I dont think so. dear but I'll ask out. It sure helped Dale stretched out on the settee own request, the chief of police but she say she Shootyet was to She would going The house We best operative, queer. me wonderfully. 1 Miss Cornelia moved toward opi06lte her aunts chair. I know Lizzie." to set tm the trail of the not have admitted It to Lizzie, for her felt much, better. a you couldnX darling. . With her niece. Dale Og8001 heavens IMy Thanks for My work was no soul's salvation but, for the first whfp" shooting Gorder Van It matter. is bother "Oil, doesnt of dont Cornelia thinking the lemonade." She den. Mies longer a dread to In her sensible life, she listened time home of IJz-zl-e country the me. If I hear of any passed her hand over her forehead In Only if they have, would you ask living in Shotting of ot for pistol." who said woodwork, creaklngs rustling Fleming, his Billy, a gesture of fatigue. I am hot and to bring me one when she brings one who Is troubled the late Courtlelgh yellow mask of a face beyond ,il his recent death had been preserving its the way I was, 1 up the lemonade? I want to read leaves, stealthy steps outside, winimpish repose. He waved his hand. tired." nreeident of the Union bank, j the safe, bright squares of the will gladly recomabout about he Miss Van fascinates Bat the Gorder looked wrecked because of the theft of at her lou go sruhbery. You see." dows for anything that was actual, mend the Vegetable Miss of eurrency. sum me." The keenly. large young face seemed curiThe scene that met Dales not merely formless fear. Compound to them and I will answer van Gordef receives a note eyes ously worn and haggard In the clear There was something else In the tangible, vacate the place when she finally found the too much room In the coun- any letters In regard to the same." Theres warning her to afternoon light Mbs. Bebtha 1134 N. Penn. paper this morning," said Miss Corwas indeed a singular one. sruhbery" at onoe on pain of death. try for things to happen to youl" she Ave., Lansing,Meachax, Miss Van Mich. Yon you dont Oh, yes the Union bank nelia, Idly. feel a with shiver. really very confided herself to Gorder, her back firmly planted 1 bad been sickly ever Elnce I was the bank Mr. Fleming, Senior, was well, do you. Dale?" Even the night whenever I look out, fifteen years old. After taking Lydia against the trunk of a large elm tree seem has of failed. The president They girl turned her face a little seems to me as If the night were E. Pinkbams Vegetable Compound I CHAPTER II Continued and an expression of ineffable disto think the cashier robbed It. Did it away from her aunts scrutiny. ten times bigger and blacker han it got bo 1 could do all my housework and taste on her features, was Ob Its nothing. I feel all holding you see that. Dale?" 1 am in good health." Mas. Mabiz K. ever Is In New York!" right The room In which out a blunt, deadly looking revolver It was true. Alaska. The on of shoulders the Ketchikan, the Williams, rereally." girl she herself comfort To and comfortable mentally at arm s length. Fts muzzle wavered, From Michigan to Alaska.f rom Maine the stood, while I could send for Doctor Wells, staircase straightened suddenly. Then hearsed her telephone conversation of accessnow pointing at the to now at Oregon and from Connecticut to charming, seemed unusually saw "Yes ground, I It," the morning the conversation she had California they drooped again. A row of the sky. letters are continually being ible to the night prowler. sat she said in a queerly colorless voice. not mentioned to her household. At 0h Aunt Cornelia." n. women recomrear written a hen by at in the gave windows p French oanlng quietly to herself. Too bad. It must be terrible to to the time it had seemed to her most mending Lydiagrateful She managed a wan smile. Plnkhama E. It Isnt Vegetable terbelow the now and terrace and then appealing to the as bad as all upon a little that I'm Just tired and have every one suspect you and bunt reassuring the plans she had based Compound. beand about saints to curved a avert drive the visioned race The Compound Is made from roots the city was terribly hot and noisy you as I suppose theyre hunting upon It adequate and sensible, In the calamity. In As Dale and herbs and foe more than fifty years neath the billiard room windows approached, unseen, the and " She stole a glance at her aunt that poor cashier." now the But of normal day. light at cllnmx came. The revolver steadied, from between been helping to restore a hairpin loop, drawing up again "Well, said Miss Cornelia, "a man light of day had been blotted out, and has lowered lids. I got women to health. on the other 6ide pointed ferociously at an Inoffensive litwho a deserves the main entrance bank wrecks seemed your very the Her gardener, by with It her security. plans way," she said, Are you on the Sunlit Road to BetAt the left of the grass-blad- e some ten yards from Miss to tle of the house. of my way sympathy, thinking. casually. weapons of paper against the sinister ter Health? Van Gorder and went off. Lizzie French windows (If one faced the Did you dear? Thats splendid, might of the darkness beyond her winwas doing) promptly gave vent to a shrill Irish though but Ill tell you about that e terrace, as Miss Cornelia dows. A little wind wailed Incorrigible scream. Miss Van Gorder dropped was the alcove door she spoke of. later. Where did you get him?" In that darkness like a beaten Pedestrian (lecturing reckAngry the a little disclosed revolver like a hot potato and When open, it That good agency I cant rememchild beyond the hills thunder rumless driver after narrow escape) almost entirely devoted to the opened her mouth to tell Lizzie not ber Its name." Dales hand moved and with It light near, Youll come to the electric chair bled, drawing to be such a foot Then she saw foot' of a flight of stairs that gave and the storm. some duy! restlessly over her eyes, as If rememnlng direct access to the upper regions of Dale her mouth went Into a round She made herself sit down In the bering details were too great an efMotorist (calmly) With pleasure, O of horror and her hand clutched chair beside her favorite lamp on the sir. If youll let me know when yoa the house. The alcove Itself opened fort But Im sure hell be satisfacweakly at her heart center table and take up her knitting on one side upon the terrace and uptory hell be out here this evening are to be electrocuted. Boston TranGood heavens, child 1" she gasped. Knit two purl script. he he couldnt get away before, on the other into a large butlers with stiff fingers. was obviDidnt Billy tell you what I was dotwo " her hands fell Into the accusbelieve. What have you been doing pantry. The arrangement so if necessary, ing? I might have Bhot you like a all day, darling? that, tomed rhythm mechanically a spy, ously designed Why He It Unpopular terrabbit!" and, overcome with emotion, We have had a domestic upheaval. peering In through the French win(me could pass directly from the a n.un Is on such good terms Many she sat down on the ground and The cook and the housemaid have race to the downstairs service quardows, would have deemed her the pichimself that he never thinks of with started to fan herself mechanically left If youd only waited till the next ture of calm. But she had never felt ters or the second floor of the house 4 to anybody else. pleasant being with a cartridge. less calm In all the long years of her train you could have had the pleasure without going through the living life, Dale couldnt help laughing and of their company Into town. room, and so that trays could be carShe wouldnt ring for Lizzie to coma Aunt Cornelia how exciting 1 Im the longer she looked at her aunt the ried up from the pantry by the side staircmain and sit with her she simply wouldnt the more so without she stairs using laughed until that dignified sorry! Why did they leave?" But she was very glad, nevertheless, ase. lady Joined In the mirth herself. Why do servants ever leave a good when Lizzie appeared at the door, Aunt Cornelia Aunt Cornelia 1 place?" said Miss Cornelia grimly. The middle pair of French windows Miss Nelly." said Dale when she could get her "Because If they had sense enough to were open forming a double door. Lizzie?" Miss Cornelias voice know when "Yes, were to them over went well breath. That they off, they Miss Cornelia Ive lived to see the was but her heart felt a be servants. composed, wouldnt Anyhow, theyve Humph shut them tried the locks. day and they call us the wild generaSays Backache Often Mean You relief. of throb to well have I on Then gone on she Lizzie tion were earth depend thought. Why you having Flimsy enough Have Not Been Drinking with In here can you, I sit Can I and rest the of this week. I Billy she turned toward the billiard room. pistol practice, darling has Billy Lizzies a minute? Miss Enough Water Just Nelly, telephoned but they couldnt promise turned Into a Japanese spy, or what?" The billiard room, as has been said, sitbeen Tve was voice me plaintive. others before any in the Monday." was the last room to the right Miss Van Gorder rose from the And I was In town and could have ting out in the kitchen watching that A single main wing of the house. ground with as much stateliness as seen When you wake up with backache rend his funny newspaper the Jap for Bd If people you room. only door led to It from the living she could muster, under the circumfor ghosts till and dull misery In the kidney region and listening way wrong known said Dale remorsefully. Miss Cornelia passed stances. through this ft may menn you have been eatIm nearly crazy! she hesitated, "I mightnt Only, door, glanced about the billiard room, Oh, Hea All Right," She Said. No, my dear but theres no fool snld Miss ing foods which create adds, says a Lizzie," certainly, "Why, have at had time I mean least there An excess of like an old fool thats all," she statnoting that most of Its windows were can here "You authority. sit Cornelia, primly. some were then I But Im other things Well, dear, had to do, too high from the ground to greatly ed. I've wanted to fire that Infernal besides overworks oulja-boarsuch adds the me kidneys In the work and help the gardener and" I wont keep you. Run along and If encourage a marauder, and locked revolver oft ever since I bought It She rose.getting effort to filter It from the blood off listening tlidr mind will take That your lit a an box want Re theres I think will I aspirin, and go you the only one that seemed to her parttwo years ago and now I have and down and they become sort of parulyzod and for things I" for a little If yon dont mind, my top bureau drawer." When your kidneys get slugicularly tempting the billiard room Im satisfied. Still, she went on darling." You know Id loggy. Lizzie groaned. take Maybe Ill darling. "Thanks, window on the terrace side of the unand clog you must relieve them, touch that than shot thoughtfully, picking up the weapon, he gish rather was Miss Gorder Van wont all I really concerned. one and maybe I house. Then she returned to the livit seems a very good revolver and "Of course I dont mind but It like you relieve your bowels, removcanny ouljlel" she said dolefully. wont need Is to lie dawn for a while. must be much ing room and again considered her easier me the creeps every time I put ing all the bodys urinous waste, else shooting people gives even have lemonade?" on moved your the you staircase and She up defenses. have backache, sick headache, on that I supposed. All you have to do hands you It! my "Oh, Ill get some from Lizzie In the disappeared from the range of Miss Three points of access from the is to point the the front of it like Well, of course, If youd rather sit dizzy spells; your stomach sours, before I go up, Dale managed Cornelias vision, leaving Miss Corptfntry, terrace to the house the door that this and tongue is coated and when the weathI think I must have a nelia to ponder many things. Her trip In the kitchen, Lizzie" to laugh. led into the alcove er Is bad you have rheumatic twinges. Lizthe French winsnld me the Oh, Miss Dale, dear Miss Dale!" Oh, give ouljlel" headache, after all," she said. "Mayto the city had done Dale no good, of The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, dws of the living room the billiard came jn woebegone accents from the be Ill take an aspirin. Dont rather heartbreak. Td In of tones zie 111, not she worry, a certainty. If actually room window. On the other side of chunnels often get sore, water scalds In the than For the love darling." stabbed shot and be other side of the tree. stay was obviously under some considerand you are obliged to seek relief two the house there was the main enmore.' no more but Miss kitchen Dale, say of heaven. any I shanL I only wish there were able mental strain. And why this sudor three times during the night. trance, the porch, the library and dintake It away from her shell have something I could do for you, my den Interest first In the Bat then In Very well," said Miss Cornelia, Tts Either consult a good, reliable phying room windows. The main entrance herself all riddled through with buldear. the failure of the Union bank? Was your own decision, Lizzie remember sician at once or get from your pharled into a hall living room, and main Ill lets like a kitchen sieve and me Dale stopped In the alcove doorway. It possible that Dale, too, bad been that" Her needlea clicked on. macist about four ounces of Jad dour of living room on the right as too If shes let to have it again. Just finish this row, before we start,1 Theres nothing anybody can do for receiving threatening letters? one entered, dining room and library Salts; take a tahlespoonful in a glass the call You light up "At Lizzie, Im ashamed of youl said me, really," she said soberly. Til be glad when that gardener she said. in themight of water before breakfast for a few on the left, main staircase in front Lizzie Come out least oh, I dont know what Im saymeantime, company Lizzie's mistress, briskly. neU comes, she thought to herself. She sat down once more, and taking there seems to be a storm coming up days and your kidneys may then act from behind that tree and stop wailing! But dont worry. Im quite all make a man In the bouse at any rate. a a pencil and a piece of paper, drew want to find out If they Intend fine. This famous salts Is made from ing like an automobile siren. This right I may go over to the Country When Lizzie at last came in with and I out the lights tonight as they the add of grapes and lemon Julcei, to turn in and dance. plan of the lower floor of the house. safe Wont dinner Is competent club, after perfectly weapon lemonade she found her mistress the did last night. Tell them I find It combined with llthla, and has been And now Ive studied It" sh hands and" She seemed on the you come with me. Aunt Cornelia? shaking her head. used for years to help clean and stimmost Inconvenient to be left without Its of furon Miss no said demonstration escort" another your Im a of after Depends thought while, verge Cornelia," she was murulate sluggish kidneys, also to neuCornelia, that our Mr. If I way." as ther than If I hadnt As far Cornelia tartly. light landlord, powers. should to have you herself, tralize adds In the system, so they no muring mutoan figure out theres so many ways Richard Fleming, Is hiking you, I cerIts worse than Inconvenient," Miss Dale, for the dear love o taken to pistol practice when you were tered longer Irritate, thus often relieving criminal that Its his looks like Lizzie, and I shall It dont for a clever man to get Into this house away?" tainly God, will you make her put It Just shows how children bladder weakness. younger In off all the Is It what lights turning that I'd have to be a couple of SiaDale added her protestations to never dldl waste their opportunities!" Jad Salts Is Inexpensive, cannot inAs If one. like this house a all haunted hes Dale If Oh, mese twins to watch It properly." you laughed. right Lizzies, riease, darling, and makes a delightful, effervesjure the with bad wasnt a deal and "Drinks some enough said. nx she good spooks up want to practice, Billy can But of course she was not entirely llthla-wate- r drink. Drink lots of cent CHAPTER III ' lights on shut off from the world, even if the sort 'of target range but I don't wastes a lot of moncr but harmless water. soft 1" No a sedate Lizzie is this very assassinated aunt enough. want my favorite worst developed. She considered the The Storm Gathers. be home early." Yes, Miss Nelly T wasnt going te telephone Instruments on a table near by a ricocheted bullet before my party IllIn summer afternoon wore say another word." She went to the The long said her aunt that case," Well, 1" the wall, one the general phone, the eyes I shall stay here with Lizzie and my away, sunset came, red and angry, a telephone. Miss Cornelia knitted on Well perhaps It would be best to other connecting a house line which has been cougba due to colds sunset presaging Btorm. A chill crept oulja-boar- d will furnish t. She admitted knit two purl two" In spite of her for slxty-on- orelieving another time," also connected with the garage and years. try again she I Isbment for the very cowardly way into the air with the twilight. When experiments with the oulja-boarthe greenhouses. The garage would Miss Van Gorder. But there was a ye- t- OOOtiSGS 1116 1 111031. didnt believe In ghosts-a- nd wistful look In her eyes as she gave ot be helpful, since Slocum, her there were things one couldnt explain J loosen a tbs phlegm, promotes expecto-b- y chauffeur for many years, had gone the revolver to Dale and the three logic. Was there something like back to England for a visit. . Dale started back to the house. In this house a shadow walking that Lizzie allowed have never I should had been driving the car. But a vague shnpe of evil, corridors conthe she an d man in the gardeners to know what I was doing." like mist from room to room A drifting on the way. In a fided whisper, house While the harp Is a Welsh national era to the royal arms the golden lion till Its cold brenth whispered on ones woman Is perfectly capable of manShe pulled herself together with a It Is not recognized as the si the dexter, while the red dragon back and there I She hnd ruined her Instrument, Is really Jerk. of Wales, which his father had used aging firearms but Lizzie The naUonal ememblem. national knitting the last rows would lisve to sometimes." to nervous live, too ? red dragon of on the dexter, he relegated to the sin- be ripped out and done over. That Is the Cornelia Van Gorder, youre Wales for blem I know Just how you feel, darling," to go crazy before nightfall. If Cndwnllnder, the last of the Welsh ister side. These supporters continued came of mooning about ghosts like a Dale agreed, suppressed mirth shakIn In use until the accession (in 1003) Jon dont take hold of yourself. What kings. This emblem had a place ninny I reached little Britain as a of James VI of Scotland as James I you need Is lunch of arms Great and a nap In the ing her as the Butprocession the She put down the knitting with an royal oh," she could the terrace. in the reign of King Henry of England. James kept the golden exasperated little gesture. Lizzie hnd afternoon If you can make yourself supporter look did oh you end of lion on the dexter, but changed the Just finished her telephoning and was keep It no longer, take It. Youd better look up that rethat VII, but that king, toward the red dragon of Wales on the sinister to hanging up the receiver. funny, darling sitting under slide his reign, changed the supporters, volver of yours, too, that you bought the unicorn, as In the royal arms of of lions tree, with Lizzie on the other white ttvo when you were going to take a trip were the which Well. Lizzie?" on the of It making banshee noises and" Scotland an emblem of purity. to China. Youve never fired It off Welsh to dragon the Yesm," said the latter, glaring el March, Miss Van Gorder laughed, too, a dexter side, with the white greyhound yet, hut you've got to sometime today the phone. Tlinta what he says little shamefacedly. 4 here's no other way of telling If on the sinister. The latter emblem they turned off the lights Inst night Taste Not in Money I must have," she said. "But oh, of either the P t win work. You can shut your eyes was because thero was a storm threaten representative Lizzie Taste, runs the saying, flaunts no ing. He says It bums out their fuse. you neednt shake your head, with Beauforts. his own ancestors, or tw hen you do It no, you can't either One can spend a million Allen I am going t practice If they leave em on In a storm." Nevilles, the ancestors of his wife, dollar sign. that's silly, It there's no reason I shouldn't and families using the white dollars and have a hideous home, and these of both Cull you r spirited old lady, do Humph!" snld Miss Cornelia, T like as a family badge. In 1523 vice versa, one can spend but s few hope It will be a dry summer." Her you never con tell when things they? Well, you never had a better greyhound ended for support- - dollars and achieve good taste In the hands tightened on ench other. Dark that might be useful." she wish time to show your spirit than now!" to his son, Henry VIII, gsed did not She home with simplicity. vaguely. rather the nes darkness Inside this bouse ot Bale Ogden, taxl-ln( up from Taste Is more than a question of whlsiwrs t mnteh with the darkness alarm Dule with her suspicions yet two oclock trnin some time later, in the education, it Is more than a question outside I She forced herself to spent There, Dale yes, put It Bridge Built by Nature the front door locked, to re will reasinble-t- hat bethe of in Is drawer ' ut Rockbridge of breeding. Some few have It to In a normal voire. The Natural bridge make prise, am) rang for some time It a might more achieve and you Lteie. Lizzie. great with, gin sure was the left It by Ask Billy to bring some candle-Lizz- ie At last, Virginia. answer. she could get an county, Miss t u e us some lemonade, I think of the remainder of the roof mass of people have It thrust upon and have them ready." with an Billy appeared, white-coatecollapse hot them, fortunately. We say fortunatemust be thirsty after her long, had been Blaring fixedly at Insrrtit able expression on his face. lizzie of a tunnel formed by water percolatly for the majority of home owner At Miss Cor windows. French through a Joint or fissure athwart Will you take tny bag. Billy the Lizzie. ing said are content to let thoe who have neltns command she gave a little Jump Yes. Miss Cornelia," tunnel thus formed The stream. the thanks. Whore Is Miss Van Border rethe reVoveiing her normal calm ns was gradually enlarged until all the taste design and decorate their homey cf terror and moved closer to her mis taking a nap?' shut away In the drawer was volver Ph? water of the stream was diverted for them. tren. Xu, room. said Billy succinctly. of the large table In the living the stream bed below the Joint Toue not going to ask me to gi ke no from In sruhbery part-Goout one resist na,. 8he not In northern Great pent pngs Japan But she could cut In lhat ball. filnn? she said U of ingress, leaving a bridge. It lies Its hotting." thank "And shot. is from 50 to are fast (Unappealing owing to rec-- j a hurt voice. Bale stared at Win Incredulously, and not a spun of bd feet and leuiuHon of the land. lrm.mt.de Ill be making (TO til CONTINUED.) wide. feet 100 hooting Billy bullet wounds I sb f"f bandages Yes, ma'am, At least she uot the Play oulja-board- pun-scar- SICK WOMAN ed SOON RECOVERS side-stair- y he An-Strs- t 1 bell-pus- If" h. heW run-dow- over-worke- d Borne-wher- e, If Kidneys Act Bad Take Salts 1 1 1 well-know- n f k - Boschees Syrup d National Emblem of Wales Is Red Dragon able-bodie- go-In- g be-tor- d 'f 1 r Tt, |