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' , 1 10 tf f XISCILUKE0US !ARRT IF LONELTj for results try me; beit and most successful "Horn raker";, hundreds rich wish marriage 3oa; strictly confidential; most re-able; re-able; years experience; descriptions ' -ea. "The Successful Club", lira. : !ash, Box 65$, Oakland, Callt, 10-ttp. TUh-for the Merers - ' Old Kin Tut nerer lled to see the day but he's hsd his furniture moved csrefully at laat MCfvVt It tl "Ton see hew it looks. Pelt," . ho aald with a grin. . ,-Slyke did not want the police la at all. Be did not wish; any action taken, either then or later. He was nearer. the men than anyone else, yet he aware be could not Identify them. : That makes me believe that he knew who they were and did not want the matter looked toto.---;----r-7 - "Did the girl tell yea who found that piece of aewapaperr I asked. "She said It waa the chauffeur who had called their attention to it The police do not seem to hare made any search that night, or la fact until boob the next day. Then, with the help of the chauffeur and the butler, they searched the 11 ring room, and the chauffeur directed their attention to a piece of paper lying on the floor, half under a rag. Of course, yon see what that leads to. For hours that room had been unguarded, and .any -one who wished could hare gone la there. Even the piece of cloth was not found 'for several days, strangely enough; nor did the police And the footprints ' under ' the window - unto three days : later, although they claimed they had searched the snot I broke In with. That looks, ta other words, as If wi . "Aa.lf some one .wished to send those men te Jail," he finished for me. He airbed, gave a little laugh, and remarked: "There art at least three, things I would like to know. First, waa the robbery a plant!" r "A plantr I asked. looking at aba in wonder. s i- -, - v "Tea! There may hart been ao nbberyatan." "'.'"-'"'-"1.-,".C-: -r - ' What do you meaa by thatr He threw out hia hands. 1 doat quite know myself, but let that pats. There Is another thing that pussies me. and that la the chauffeur. J caa tell by the way Miss Potter acted when we mentioned hia name that she doea not like him. He it was who took from the library the book with the account of the English crime la It' He bad words with Slyka the day before the. murder, and waa missing when we wanted to Question him. A few minutes after be was seen near the tower room the revolver wss miss tog. I believe he la well worth watching. watch-ing. And lastly, what waa the motlro for Slyke's murderf . , , ' A wild thought struck mt I knew at the time how absurd It wss, yet a desire to hear what -Bartley 'would reply made me voice It "Perbapa the girl killed him." Bartley gave me a surprised look, started to apeak, then decided to wait and hear what I had to say. ' Ton say," I suggested, "that Slyko ! waa killed about two o'clock la the morning, . The girl might have come to the bouse and killed him; thea gone back to her ancle'a, and told the 1 i.Jil "Perhaps the Girl Killed Him. - - . i ' story about being afraid to go through the woods alone. She said It waa three o'clock when he came with her to the house. That'a a' good alibi.' of course; but suppose aba bad been to the house once before. The dog didnt bark, because be knew her. She waa also In the house when the revolver re-volver disappeared. . It yea claim the taking of the gun was foolish, why can It not be aald te be the kind of an Illogical thing a woman would dot The average man would know It waa ao use , to remove the gun. Too remember re-member bow startled the aunt was when she saw the glrL ' - - - -: Bartley had listened with an amused smile that grew broader as I talked. Though I had .not been serious when I began,, the more . I thought of the Idea the more plausible my sn;iietlon It will pay yea well to read the ads uvvn : roup ir Jl' VATA IDtl8KIli.S.y . a Charha ilBattoa r Ulcere! icftatrj " 9oM.Vkod omS C Ina,' sounded. ' Hartley mmsen nan that la the case we must build Up theory first and then see tf the facta would fit It f When I had ended, he "said that he himself had. at first considered the possibility of the girl's hsrlng done It, bot had decided against It' He reminded me that Slyke had . been killed, on the balcony, and carried down two flights of stairs, and that Slyke weighed one hundred and fifty pounds, the girl not a hundred. Remembering Re-membering that and the task It was to carry such a heavy Weight down so many atalra. - did I still think the girl could have done It? ; ' My face turned red with chagrin, end, seeing that I waa hurt, he smiled at me kindly and apologised. : "I didnt Intend to hurt your feelings, feel-ings, Pelt Ton are like all newspaper news-paper men, you enjoy building: up a story out of nothing. In this affair, we mustn't let ourselves get sidetracked. side-tracked. We ahaH need all the clear thinking wo caa do." r Anxious te redeem myself, I said, "John, we have been going on the theory that some one from outside came into the house and killed Slyke, a mysterious visitor who arrived after Lawrence had left Perhaps the murderer mur-derer waa hiding In the house all the time." ' S'V" " ' ' .. He gave me an Interested look and an approving nod. " ; - ; "Suppose," I went on, "that the murderer waa on the balcony. It waa a good place to hide. , It waa so dark up there that he could not have been seen from the ground. Then let us assume - that 81yke heard a sound above him, when he was ta the room below the balcony, and went np to see what it ' was. The person may have made the sound oa purpose to attract hia attention. At any rate. When he doea come out oa the balcony, bal-cony, he la killed." . Bartley did not speak for a while, turning my suggestion over la bis mind. Thea he answered. "Too may be right It la possible that some one wss waiting for him to come upstairs. But do not forget that lfthat la so, the person would hare had to waR there for a long time; for he could not tell when Slyke would come Into the room below the balcony. Still, your suggestion Is wen worth keeping ta mlnoV- ' " "'.-T"f':r --Although he spoke so favorably of my Idea, I could see that he did not really agree with me. c i , I yawned and Bartley glanced at hia watch. It was after three, and wo ahoold have been la bed several hours ago. He rose, and taking two object from hia pocket placed them oa the desk. I leaned over to see what they were. ' ". . " Lying black and sinister oa the dark mahogany surface were the revolver that had been taken from Slyke'a hand and hidden la the vault and a little cork stopper,' its . end covered with I red wax that showed where a knife ( had been used on It . . - r , "Look," , Bartley .. said, pointing at them with a laugh. "The sole result of a day'a work. The only clues we , have are before us. One la a revolver , that did not haro a finger print on It; ' the other a little stopper that m'ght have come 2com anywhere. .From these wo have to discover the' murderer." mur-derer." .'-.'"'-' Again he laughed. I stood looking at the fwo objects, thinking how Insignificant In-significant they were and wishing : they could speak and tell their, story. Catching my ' mood, hia face grew J grave. ' He stood looking at then for , a moment then with a sudden gesture swept them into small box saying, ; "We ought to here been la bod hours ago." ;!';M f llftA MAI.flAji tmw AAIM WkA m pulling down the bed covers when he j called to me. I returned to hia room and found him sitting oa the edge of hia bed taking off hia shoes "I forgot to tell you. Pelt that when we reach the' solution of this murder, somehow or "other whisky win be mixed up with tt r When you told me that Slyke had beea selling wblaky to his friends, I knew that something wss wrong. The finding of the Honor In his owa Vault makes mo more certain. cer-tain. Ha must have known that that whisky wss there. Why, under heaven, a mai that had n money Slyko was presumed to have had, should secrete whisky on his grounds Is more than t know." " "But" I reminded him. "yon say he did not have as much money as people thought ho hsd." - "Tea, that la true. . The lawyer sea-firmed sea-firmed what I had heard about , his losses. Whisky and Slyko had a goad deal In common, you . win find." ' He yawned, and I started again for my room. As I reached the door he added, "Black thinks the cfasuffeur killed 81yke, .Maybe he did. Still" snd be laughed "I never" saw a man with a square head that knew very much. - And that detective' certainly has a squnre head." "Hwiih h ahauM remark la my mind, I went to bed. ' ' ' ' ' " SBMMMam T v" CHAPTER VIII. v '-: . : The Inquest Opens. It wss only natural, rafter the lateness late-ness of the hour at which I went te bed, that I should oversleep the next morning. It was wen after nine before be-fore I entered the breakfaat room; I found no one there but a servant who told me that the others had eaten some time before. When I hsd finished fin-ished my breakfast I went la search of Bartley, and found him la the sun parlor surrounded by a mass of newspapers. news-papers. He wsved to me and went on reading. - -r:,, The Inquest was not to be held until one o'clock ; and I wondered what Bartley wanted me te do with my morning. As If In answer te my thought, he looked up and said ha was going Into Saratoga on soma errands, er-rands, and suggested that I go with hint and Interview the girl friend with whom Ruth had Intended to spend the night The first place wo stopped ea our arrival in town was at a largo drug Store, where Bartley aaked to see the proprietor. Whea ho appeared, Bartley placed a small object oa the counter before him. . "? "Can you give me any Idea," ha ssked, "what sort of a bottle that cork" came fromr The object was the little stopper with the red wsx which he hsd showed me the night before. Picking It up, the druggist looked at It very carefully. He turned It over In'hta hand, scratched the wsx with a knife, and took so long In replying that I thought he never would' speak. 1 think I can." he aald at last "The little cork not only hsd Its top covered with red wsx. but the wax ran down the sides of the bottle. la order or-der to get it open. It wss necessary to cut the wsx away. It looks to m at If It came from a Park Graham bottle." : ."You mean the drug firm!" Bartley asked. .' r 1 ' ' "Tea. I will show you." He went behind the screen and returned re-turned In a second with a little bottle la hia hand. It waa but a few Inches long, and the cork stopper waa covered cov-ered in the same manner with red wax, and part of tt had run down the aides of the bottle. It waa the mate to the stopper thst Bartley hsd found. Bartley examined the bottle care-fully.-noted the label, and returned It to the druggist . , When we were again la the automobile, auto-mobile, Bartley said, JT wish I were as sure what that stopper waa doing In that room as the druggist Is of the kind of s bottle It came out of," " Hartley's real object la coming to town r was. however, te visit the JaQ and fladout from Rocbe whether the chauffeur had told what he knew or not I left him at the Jail door, premising prem-ising to return within an hour, faad went In search 'of the young woman with whom 8Iyke's step-daughter had expected to spend the night ' . When I found her, Miss Morton bore out all that Ruth had said about the way aha bad happened to go home the night ef the murder. .They had been to a dance together, and on the way back the car hsd broken down near the entrance" to the Slyke estste. Ruth said,' as she wss so near, sbs might as well ro home. One of the young men had rnne with her to the little cottage where her uncle lived. He hsd wsited until the old men had come downstairs, and bad then rejoined re-joined hia party. Ruth's story hsd been true, and I saw how very foolish my suggestion to Bartley had been that she might have committed the murder. , . Whea I returned to the Jail, about an hour, later, 1 found that Bartley had gone to Doctor Klng'a office, and I followed him there at once. It was the usual physician's office, with esses ef instruments along the walls and a flat-top desk In the center of the room. Bartley and the doctor were bending over a small pad when I entered, and Bartley told me that the doctor had been drawing for him a little map of the roads around the Slyke estate. The doctor looked older than when I had awn him first tar more tired and nervous. It took several sev-eral years to get over shell shock, from which he suffered, he told us, and he hsd 'been very foolish to start to practice again so soon after his return re-turn from the front Ho recounted a few of hia war experiences, and they were enough to have broken any man, He said that aoon as his duties In regard to the Slyke esse . were over, he wss going to take a rest All the time he talked to us he plsyed with s pencil or tapped the desk In front of him.;'- yf, p ' -i v-. .s-,;-j - We spoke ef the inquest and he told us tfast he did not need to call a coroner's Jury unless be wUhed. The facts were so complex or sojslmplo It was hard to aay which that a' Jury would, be confused by them. He admitted ad-mitted that there waa no doubt that Slyke had been murdered, but doubted doubt-ed If any Jury would bring in a verdict ver-dict of murder on such slight evidence as we had. He auggeated that U It were murder, some one from Saratoga might have committed the crime. It wss pot a bad suggestion, and to my surprise Bartley seemed to regard It favorably. The doctor mentioned the chauffeur's arrest and said . that he bad only known the man by sight We talked for an hour or more, then returned re-turned home.' " Bartley was In his room changing his suit for luncheon, whea a telephone tele-phone call came for him. When he returned he told me that the call had lKn from Mr. . Slyke's lawyer. ' He lind .'panned him, Bartley said, thai anion? the pnpers In the safe was so inveln uitb "n thounand dollar llou Your Great. Opportunity! 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I With every AutoMatio we will give you Free the j Humphry Qothes Line Set, consisting of a 100 foot I sralvanized clothes line, attachment fnr fflsfpninw n-nA I tightening, a carrier for EVEEYTHINO ELE0TEI0AL TOE TIIE E01TC He Suggest That, If It Were Mar. der, Someone From Saratoga Might Have Committed the Crime. . la bills In It and that fhelwnaT had Informed him that on the day of oar srrlval Slyke hsd deposited thirteen thousand dollars with them.' While this was interesting news, I could not see thst It waa ef any Importance Im-portance to us, snd said as much to Bartley.. lie half smiled as he reminded re-minded me that ten thousand dollars wss a lot of money to keep la the house, and added that tt was strange that Slyke should deposit thirteen snd retain another ten In his bouse. He wondered if bis keeping the money had any relation to the visitor thst he wss expecting. At any rate, the man had not gotten the money, If that had bee.whst he was sfter. Luncheon over, Currie, Bartley snd I started for the Inqueat. The newspapers news-papers hsd evidently-received a tip that there was more ta Slyke's death than had appeared, for whea we arrived ar-rived we were forced to run a gauntlet gaunt-let of reporters, who recognised Bartley Bart-ley at once and crowded a round him. They realised that, if lie were Interested Inter-ested In the esse. It was of more Importance Im-portance than they had suspected, and wanted to know If he did not have some Informstion to give them. With a laugh at their Insistence,' be replied that he did notj hut, whea ho had, he would see that they were the ones to get tt. , There were a number of can in front of the house snd a small crowd of mea standing about la twos and threes. . Just ps we turned to mount the i steps, Lawrence drove up and greeted as with a rather forced smile. The Inquest wss to be held ta the large living 'room In which the burglars bur-glars had been found. , Though It waa not a public hearing open to every one, there were a goodly number of People present ' , . Ceatfa eed Vsxt Week' Offleo Tamo Opmea "When the boss cant come down to work, he's tndlspoaed; when a elerk can't come down, he's drunk." - . Hew Ifs Done - , Mrs. B.T wouldn't doubt' but that Graoe Rodgers will be. a June brld? . . . Mr. B. No doubt of It If she car. make up her sweetie's mind." I sat 01 I' Li .......-"..". r an AutoMatic. Then come ri the clothes basket and for ' r;1 Atta Boy tltoral J Lecturer nVera" got to halo ottf Infant Industries. Voice ratback "I'm helping brov ther. I just boaght stock la a safst pla company." loaf Tern Lean If one's a ten spot In hia pay - That ho will kindly loan as, Well pay It back the very day -.The soldiers get their bonaa. - Twat Damp Jlayhow - Careful Karl "I'm saving np foal a rainy day." 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