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Is aak4 fcy U iowmt t Nw Tork U fcivMtlntta mraurieua atumpto robbery rob-bery of Uo Robort atyko homo at Clrels Loko, noar Saratosa. JPoeultor olru-jMJJJrttt olru-jMJJJrttt com iaUrort kwtioy, aad CHAPTKIl EL-Witn hie Ibrtond Pott, fWUav cmo to Ctrcio-Lako. tke pair ocomIa tbo noota o Bok Corrio. aa fid frland. Tbo tbroo Vlatt too Slrke oom. Siyko apparonU rooMta BorUora ombUx, wrtnc bo lo aatloiU too two bmo la ariooa for too atuaipto robbory wore SMllty, -BarUoy Is mot, Nut BMra-tec BMra-tec Blrko la found dot kt boi, awarea lr havtsf shot kimaolt y ,..,;i.,.jl,.,'..--f CRArrKR nwcies rotur, the deed taa's atotora-law, the Ttllafo pottos tbiof. Hocho. ana tbo fondly phrrtclo, toator Klnc aU aaroo Alyko kilid hl- Jilt, out BarUoy Inatata ao waa nvootia-aUnc Bartioy ads ovidoaoo that Sirk aftor a oard party was abot oa tbo- lowor of tbo droowd. and oiaeod ia bo.-- tmrtaf hie abooaeo from tbo room agpiiaaj imevte tbo iwvolvor front auyko'a haaaVv;-: CHAPTER "iT-A' W fj nrtii eaaorte ho board a ehot.darlx e Sia-ht. pparonUy "la tbo e, ei eearai roaiiy m the tower. r...( ... - t,-; : . ; - CHAPTtdi w-PoH etarto mm to law. Tlow tho atombora of tho card party. lie ada to hla aurprtoe that Uyko, aaaaroab. ty .waoJtby brokor. had oBorod to ooU hla frloada wktokr, Ho enda orkUnoo thai tho torn hi lall for attoatptod robbory of Uyko wore frajDod. CHAPTER Vt.-Rotiiretif from a rtalt to term toco. Bartlay. roll aad Carrie coaio upoa a iorgo motor trock, wtUwwt UaHto aod S too road. Thoy art dla- oovoro oadoaTorma' to aaeortala Ucoaao aambar, and Orod oa. The I fata away. Tbo tbroo oomo apoa a I dlauood burial vault. AoposoaUytho la bow. and BarUoy atcka M. - Thoy tho vault etorod with whlaky. aad aiao tha rovolvor which had booa found to Blyko'a hand. A wian. aoomlasly wou acquainted with tho alaoo. ano tnoy aouua aim. tt m iiriri onif hauffaur. A datoctlvo, worklnc far the rovonua dopartmoat. arrlvaa aad takes ohargo of tha vault. - v; . - ; . ; "mkrTOi vii Aftar eoaatdortos aU tho mysterious anaioa of tbo.aaoo, Bartlay Bart-lay apparently roacboa ao eondualoa as to tbo murdoror. Ho to aatlaflod that doato to whlaky - had .aomathlna .. to do with It Him Pettor'B Arm llf to the ouUa board." and aplrUualiam also onoaBmoHBBnBMwaoaoaoaBmoamioBaaBBBo' f '': "Thafs enough to prove those men kid ttothlng- to'tfdf with tni burglary. Ton ' know tbeT Times U an evening paper, and Is not sold on the newsstands news-stands far from Boston not up here, u any rate. If a copy of , the paper had been mailed here, as It would have to be, It could not hare reached Saratoga until hour! after the robbery rob-bery bad taken place. 8uch being th case, the men that broke Into the house . could not barer had it with thera. nor could the police bar found 'a piece torn from It In the room th next morning." - : ' I M his point and was eager to learn what be thought of the other tilings I had discovered. Above all. I wanted to , know .what . hi . opinion would, be of , Lawrence's statement that. Slykn was expecting some one to call after he left To my surprise he was much more interested In th fact of SIrke's havmg - offered the whisky for sale. I had expected, when I had finished with my story, that he would tell me what ho had discovered after I left him at Slyke's. But a he did nothing' of the sort, I finally found courage to Inquire. - s "Well. Pelt," he said with a qulsxl. car smlleT "there are two thing that I want very much to discover. The first thing I would Uk to know Is, what has become of Slyke's cbauf-Jteurr cbauf-Jteurr : v, l, .. . ,' , Seeing I did not understand, he went on r Ton know w sent for him but they could not find him. Up to the tim I left tb house they war still looking for him. Not only that, but Jthe chauffeur and Slyk had. quarrel yesterday afternoon." "A' quarrel r - : A. , . Tes. , No-one was near enough to hear, all that was said, but the cook heard the chauffeur say, 1 dont dar to do It, and Slyk reply, 1 should have done It before.' Th butler, you remember, told us that while we were in the tower he saw the chauffeur on .the eteps leading to the second story. -The chap, has disappeared, no one knows where. - The police are looking for him and may get him.. I hope so. There are few things I should like to ask hlm." rr ) ; , ''Maybe it waa he who took the re Volver, I suggested. 7 ' ' Hartley agreed. - As he did not continue, con-tinue, I asked hliu what were the -other things that he-wanted t know. "Has It occurred to you that U Is a strange thlirk that a man like 81yke should spend most of his time up here? For the past two year he has lived here almost . entirely, Bis of flee In New York Is closed, and he Is rumored to have lost money.' Why did he stay here aU the year roundr Bartley suddenly changed tho subject sub-ject "Miss Potter, cleared up one thing foras today. I knew that If the murderer was shrewd enough to go to the trouble of placing Slyke In bed, , he knew enough to know how the eyes should loukr Their being closed puzzled "tnei-" I . wondered how he hnd made such a mistake. But It will pay yea well t read th ads on ir 1 i Br . f 1 Cm Charles JDttttcn IWd.r1eo4da. ! wLea isfiS Potter told ua It was ah who' had closed them, I knew that I had not been mistaken, : Wnoerer killed Slyke knew what he was doing. There waa only one chance In a thousand thou-sand that he would not get it across." It was well planned," I suggested, f "It was not planned at alL It waa a sudden Impulse, a quarrel. . I dont believe that. ; when - the murderer went ; Into that tower room to see Slyke, be had the. east Idea of killing kill-ing him." "But think of the pains h took. It must have been idnnd,"' "No," he replied, "the planning was "done afterward." : "After be waa klBedr - " 1 JTe. ; Look t .th.. fact, Pelt Slyk waa killed on the balcony of a tower, fifty feet above th ground A man who planned murder would not pick out such a place. It was th last plac in the bouse h would bar chosea '.Just suppose that some one bad heard the shot and. investigated. Th v murderer ; would '. bnr been trapped with the dead body of hi yb tlm. To escape he bad to go dowa two flights of stair and through , th big room. Let n ftay.that Blyk In vited the "man to go cpon the bal cooy-for what, V cannot say end then they quarreled and the period killed him' on the Impulse pf the moment mo-ment vThe next thing to do was to get rid of the body. Finding the coast dear, be took It Into the next room and undressed It and carried It down to the bedroom and placed It In bed. tie knew how k body 'should look after suicide and that gun could be placed In Ju hand." , , r , -; "He seemed , to be pretty ur n one would disturb him at It" I ventured. ven-tured. ' ' ' :- ;' Bartley nodded. "Tea, there Is no doubt of that That brings up another astonishing fact Down In the big room waa young dog that did not, llk - strangers, Th murdereri ; in order to get out of the house,' had to g through .that room, y at th tot did not bart" v ; ;:-t'r V "Then' It ' was' 'omeon In ' th bouse r I Interrupted. "The coolness with which th murderer mur-derer took plenty of Urn In undressing undress-ing the body and th fact that n did not seem to be afraid of being found out make It . seem probable. . Why dldnt the dog bark ( Because he knew whoever It waa. That makes It eeem aa If It were someone In the house, or at least a If It were Someone that knew both th house and th, dog wU. "Of course, Pelt until we discover th motive we cannot get -tery far. At" present there seems to b none. There 1 nothing missing and no apparent ap-parent reason for Slyke's murder. It seem an absurd sort of a crtm. That' why I think It waa done on Impulse, 1 not : premeditated." ' He thought a moment : then added, "I did think I knew th kind of a person that might haw committed n crim like this. But- .5 ; - "But wbatr! I aakitf eagerly. " He opened the door with n little smile on his Hps, and It was not until we were half way down stairs that he completed his sentence, "ButI don't know." . - CHAPTER VI -Th Vault In. the WeedV ..' We found Currle waiting foc.n In one of his large cars, with hla cbauf feur. There wer few cnra,on th road, and In a very abort tlm we arrived ar-rived In' Saratoga. -V: tjv? i'-'''. We left the car before on of the hotels and followed r Bartley . to the public "library Bartley spent several moments glancing through the . card catalogue before he crossed to the loan desk, and asked the pretty young librarian for "Orlffeth's Mysteries of Crimes." She returned In moment with two volumes, bound In red cloth. Bartley opened one to th plac where the date when a book la taken out I stamped. : There . was only' one date on the white slip, and Bartley copied It in hi notebook. Then, turning to the librarian, he asked her how they had happened to buy th book, and If she knew who It was that bad taken It from the library the one tlm It bad goo out LooklttgThrougtt lier card; ah told him , that the book had been a gift, and that the . only person ; that bad ever taken it out was James Brlf-feur. Brlf-feur. Bartley raised hi eyebrows In surprise but did not ask ber anything more, .v." .v.; .""'':' -v.. As soon as we were again-on the street he told us that so far as he knew th only account of th Edllng-ham Edllng-ham burglary, other than the one , In the rare pamphlet that he owned, had been published In the volumes h bad been glancing at Uurrlo, of course, did not understand what h waa talk, lng about; and Bartley gave him the details of the English crime, and ended by saying that from th very first it had been his opinion that whoever who-ever had faked the burglary at Slyke's bad read the aecevaf V Hi Engllah crlm. Then, with a little rueful amlle, he added that the one person who had taken the, booa from the library w glyfcel cliauffeur." ' II might have said more bad . we not reached Currle's club Just then, We eat and talked until about eleven o'clock ; then we started to walk home. ' v A we were leaving the club, we met young man whom Currle Introduced Intro-duced to us as Captain Lowe, com-mander-of-ihSocariranch of the tat police. As he was going In our direction, we fell Into step together; and he told ua of hla work and how the tate troopers' had reduced crime ao much that farmers' wives now had a sense of security, even In th most remote country dlstrlcta. The greatest great-est trouble they had at present, he told us with a laugh, was with the smuggling of whisky, not only. Int Saratoga but even as far as Albany and Troy. Though they knew that a good ' deal of whlaky was getting through, they could not discover who waa running It At the barrack be bed ua goodnight A we passed th driveway that led Into the Slyke grounds, Currle told us that It ran through nearly a mil f dense woods before It reached .the bous, . We were about .. thousand feet beyond the entrance when Barb-ley Barb-ley suddenly atopped. ' i-Whaf thatr he asked to a lw I listened a moment, but the only thing I could , hear was th horn ef distant automobile. . , . , "Bartley continued, "I thought I beard a car In the woods, there on the reft. ...',-...,.,-;. "Currle, who waa a few feet tn front ef mm,- laughed. "John," .h said, "you're bearing thing. No er can b to., those wood. . Thoa art th trees you see from , my house, and they; stretch for some miles without n break. Slyke owns this part of them. Too could not have beard a ear."' ' -v - ' v Bartley placed hi hand "on bis friend': shoulder. t . .Thar what I thought Bob., But I did hear a mo-tori mo-tori f that I tn.nrt.Vv, -, ' H paused, , then -added . .suddenly, "Listen i There it is once more.", This' time we all heard . the ' faint sound of a motor running slowly and with difficulty. There was no doubt f it It came from the wood befor us. ' It sounded as If a car were running run-ning a few feet then stopping; as It would do on a 'very bad road when having difficulty In getting through. . A we stood listening t th Strang sound coming through the woods, Bartley said : "You say, Currle, that ;tber tsmo road ihem-yrt-by- tn aound of it I should say that was trucfc" Wbt do you say to going and finding out what it meaner Curte-'gava an-excletnatlon a disgust dis-gust "But It's none of our business, John -v : , "Just at the present moment everything every-thing that takes place on Slyke's ee- John,' Hearing Said, -You're - .Thlnga.",.. tate la our nuslness. h want to know what n car la doing In those wood at 4hls tJine5f night".'- - , "Oh, Tm game If the rest of you are," Ourrte responded. With s caution from Bartley not to make any noise, we left the road and entered the woods. ; It was lucky for us that there were not many vine or much underbrush, or w should not have gotten very far. ' There was no path, and we fell ; over stumps and broken branches 1 and bumped Into trees at almost every step. Bartley had a pocket torch with blin, but be did not want to use IL Once or' twice, though, he did tlash It for second ao that we could, disentangle ourselves' from ' the, vines that bad wrapped themselves around our feet. We had not heard the motor for several - moments -when -a-aloomed- so suddenly out of the shadowy dark bens ahead of us that we almost fell over It It was a great truck, loaded with small cases. Upon Its top, a tittle darker than the night we made out the figures of two men, while a third dlseutangled Itself from,' the gloom In . front of the car with a muffled oath, and climbed to the driver seat The car started for. ward with a lunge along the road. If It could be called such, that had been made by felling trees end leaving their stumps still . standing.; ;.Th drher mut hsve been familiar with It for no one who waa not could hav driven' that truck over It without llplita. : , : ' . "I want to got the number," Hurt- '2 s SAVE on the purchase of the wonderful new' model -Premier Duplex Electric Vacuum Cleaner " - The 200 Vacnnm Cleaner ' lOOfo Suction ; (Duplex) .' 100 Sweeper In this improved vacuum cleaner you have the power ful suction to extract every particle of embedded dirt, and in addition a motor driven brush which will' not injure the rug but will rather all lint and thread and surface dirt ; The brush is easily removed,-' convert- ilng the machine into a straight suction sweeper. " . Don! I.liss This Vterful Offer Only a few days remain to take advantage of this opportunity. op-portunity. . BUY NOW and we will, accept your old .vacuum cleaner as $12.50 in part-payment on a new Premier. . . , . - . 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A he fell, Bartley Jerked m to one lid and threw me on my face. The sound of ; Currle' fan waa ttke a young earthquake, and did not escape those on the truck. As I went down I eaw on of th men turn and . Ore, . Tn next second, gaining speed with every foot the truck shot down the road. With th truck gone, we no longer needed to hide J we 'rose and rushed to Currle to see if he were shot A Bartley light flashed over him, w discovered that be was sitting up, and swearing to blmaejf,- Bl fac wna covered with dirt 1 nd on y . beginning to turn black, but n ws otherwise unhurt ' "John," he demanded, what th devil made that tir exploder XI V "That was not a tire, Bob. Someone Some-one on the truck heard you as yon fell and took shot at you." Took a shot at mer cried Currle, in utter disbelief." "My O , whyr Bartley helped him to his feet and brushed the dirt from bis dothes before be-fore be answered.;!'Jt., a darned good thing they missed you. Those men on top of the boxes were there to protect them. I wonder what was la them,!!.. 1 ' '. r :. ' - ir."'.- ' . . " " J '. . ........ "I . . Ceatfawed Txt Wt.k. .'. . ....... . . Verfly j;;;.;..' ' A fool pick a fly from a mule bind, leg. ' The wise man lets out the Job to th lowest bidder. ' ' : " ' ' :. : CUT 1XO WEES ; And Floral Designs n Specialty. Carnations ant Roses, aU color. LEW FIOSJLL CO. - 1HI Telephone year , erder we ship prompUy. J. KOTIOS TO CREBIT0E9 In Tli rrth Jidlclal District Ceart f rtafc, Utah Ceanty. A In, the matter of the estate of Martha McTague, deceased. Creditors will present claims with voucher to the undersigned at his residence in American Fork, Utah County, Utah. on or before the 29th day of March, 1921 ,;,;:"..-".-' ::..'-,,.-,;. , JAMES CH1PMAN, JR., executor of th estate of Martha McTague, deceased. - r -r --T-v---v .r - Clawson A Ellsmore, Attorney tor Administrator. , .... rst Pvb'lrstfon Jsnnnry tT. 192J. Last Publication Feb. 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