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Grove, or all on 0. ti Waralck. :- W tf MTSCEllAKIOUS f MARRT IF, LONELY; for reeulte fry 'me; bet and most suceessfal "Home MaW; hundreds rich wish marriage soon j atrictly confidential; moat reliable; re-liable; years experience r descriptions free. ."The Successful : Club",, Mrs. Nash, Box 856, Oakland, Callt, tt-Itp FOR SALE Fine ouallty alfalfa hay Lakeland Farms. West-over-tbe-Jord-'an: Phone 45R4 Lehl. Il-ttp. Acfrettwm 1923. ( - 'fa l I i JLllAt I "It was about a week later, I think. One morning, when I was passing Mr. Slyke's room. I heard them again. He seemed to be very angry about some, thing, I don't .know what His volet was loud enough to be heard through a closed door. 'I wish you could keep your mouth shut ' It's 'none of your business, anyhow.' .Then I beard Miss Potter; she ' was angry alto. . 'You wait and see. It will be my business If yon am not careful. If you keep on, something will happen to you." . This was an ' astonishing piece of Information. After all, things hsd not gone as smoothly In the household as we bad supposed. What the last expression, ex-pression, ."If you keep -on, something will happen to you." might mean, I could not decide. It might ham been a threat; and. In view of what had taken place. It would be necessary for Miss Potter to explain it Glancing at her, I noticed that though angry and nervous, she was not afraid. She seemed to regard what the butler had said as mom annoying than accusing. When I looked at Bartley, be showed too surprise; but then I had scarcely expected that he would, tor he made It a point never to be surprised at anything that might come up. The butler admitted that ho did not know what the Quarrel had been about, and that, with the exception of the two times he had mentioned, the relations that had existed between Slyke and his sister-in-law had always been very friendly.',;.!.-.-:. ..fii ;s The storm was now directly overhead. over-head. Claps of thunder were almost Incessant, and vivid flashes of lightning light-ning penetrated the room In splta of the heavy curtains drawn over tha wlndowa ' '. tfAs the butler left the stand, them was a slight commotion in the rear of the room ; and turning, I saw Rocho making his way between the . chairs, pushing the chauffeur ahead of him. King gam the two men a . pussled glance, and then turned to the district attorney and whispered something to him. Was Potter also turned to, see what the noise was. and an expression of consternation and dread came over her face,..:..; ;;; t C-v ,'. ;' , ; The two men passed within a foot of me, and the cruel Hps and ablfty eyes of the chauffeur made ma wonder won-der why- Slyko- ahould have kept such a man In his employ. When they The Chauffeur Gave Her a Look Pilled With Hatred, Slended With a tmlle : ef Triumph,, . ; ': reach)) the front of the room, Rocho motioned the chauffeur to the empty chair next to Miss Potter, who drew as far away from him as she could, and then seated himself 00 the other side of his prisoner. The chauffeur gave her a look filled with, hatred, blended with a smile of triumph. I could see that there, was something wrong between these two. ' f -, . ' A sharp' peal of thunder seemed to split the air, causing the crowd to stir uneasily la their, chairs. Again the lights , flickered down for, a moment, mo-ment, and again the thunder rolled, A violent wind lashed the rain against the windows behind me, and them waa scarcely - a pause between tha flashes of lightning. The room was deathly atffl j we were petrified. . Doctor King was. steading behind his deal, his face white, one hand playing nervously, with tha papers In front of him. . lie started at each vhld Hash of lightning and the thunder seemed to dace him. , Turning to the district ' attorney, and ' speaking half to him and. half to the room, he said: "I think we should adjourn the Inquest In-quest until tomorrow.'. The storm is so bad that I doubt It we can hear the It wDJ pay joa well to read the ads f; ;( 'AW . AMK.UIPAN (01 U' 1! air it 1 I Iff I Chcsirlcd JDattcn niurtrctlotiabtj ItnitMyets His decision seemed to be very b slble. We hsd been' unable to hear the dose of, the butler's evidence bemuse be-muse of tie thunder, and I doubted If any but thoee In the front seats would be able to hear the witnesses that wem still to be mlled. The district attorney objected, however, to adjourning. adjourn-ing. He aald that he could not be present pres-ent the next day, and. thought, that wo bad better hear the remaining witnesses wit-nesses at once. Sinking back into his chair. King asked the attorney whom he wanted to mil next. A;:-' " SJ'r'r : The district attorney rose to his feet, saying slowly, "I am going to call Briffeur, who was .chauffeur for Mr. 8lyke. He will '"It, v . But : whatever he was going to add wo never discovered. . Just , at that second there came a terrific flash of lightning that seemed to burn Its way across the room, followed by a deafening deaf-ening clap'of thunder. With a sizzle the lights went out and left tha mom as black as the Inside of a coal mtna. Low murmurs came from an sides. It waa enough surely to try the nerves f the most stout-hearted. 1 0 As the rumble .of thunder, died sway, I heard King demanding, in a voice that ahook a little. "WIU somebody some-body get a light lamps or candles!" " Someone pushed back a chair, and then suddenly, rising above all else and ringing through the room with a horror that seemed to gluo mo to my seat, fame a ahrlek of 'terror. It was sustained for. a second, then died sway in a long, sobbing moan. V " CHAPTfR X Sodden Death. . -. For a moment after tho cry had died away the only sound to bo heard was he dashing of tho rain against the windows and the' lashing of the treea outside. Everyone was too startled star-tled and frightened to move. I felt Hartley's hand on my arm, his fingers ofnklng deep Into my flesh. ' Then tho pelt was broken, and men asked each otyr In oxdted whispers what had happened. ; 7 ; -! ' v i The cry had seemed to come from the front of tho room. : It had been one of horror, dread and surprise, as f the person uttering It had met with some unexpected and awful experience. experi-ence. ' It had been a man's voice, and 1 wondered wfciee If could- nam been. "Come on, Pelt" ' " Bartley pushed back his chair and half dragged me to my feet. Wa started start-ed to grope our way . between the chairs toward the place from which the cry had come. . Tho room jrae'stUn In darkness and our progress wastry slow. Then the llghte began to flicker iw ouuiy, mau auaaeiuy nssnea again in all their power, , At first glance, them seemed to ha nothing wrong;, then I noticed thai King was bending over his desk, his face dead white, his eyes fixed on something on the floor In front of him, and fear showing in every feature.' fea-ture.' I realized suddenly that the chauffeur's chair was empty, and that Roche was on his knees before some , covered her eyes with her hand. After .bject Ulss Potter,- who had also j t moment she removed it and stem-heen stem-heen staring at the floor,, fainted and merad, "H-how whor . fell sidewlse Into the. arms of her I- k one attempted to answer. The niece. Then I saw what waa the mat- troth was that no one could. An we ten the chauffeur waa lying on tho waa that be had been killed by floor, with his face white, and his tho knife that was now in Hartley's eyes closed. - ,; v ; hand. But how, why, and by whom Bartley dropped to his knees, beside j It waa done, none of ns knew. It Rocho and gave one searching look 'aoemod IncredlbW that anyone could at the man. then straightened up with have crept up to the murdered man a queer expression on hla face. He in tho dark without being heard by pointed silently to tho chauffeur. ""Oa '1 those seated. on either side of him. his brown coatlowly darkening and -His cry had lasted but the barest widening, was a splotch of blood, snd .fraction of a secoiid ; It seemed acareo- rrom nis nreast protruded tno uit 01 a knife. ,;'V.ia-'Vvf;v For a moment my bead swam. Only s short time before, the 'lights hsd gone out the chauffeur had had a self-confident self-confident sneer on his face; tow he waa Irlnt? on tha flnon whlt anil atlll. .uh-v w u vithu aiivunr uiunicr had token place In Jiyke'ft house, and this i time la a room crowded with people. " "-- -f- . - . The district attorney and" Doctor Webster had by now reeched our side, end 1 the' doctor knet . down by the chauffeur. WUh. a glance at. the ax-clte4 ax-clte4 crowd pushing Ita way toward us. Hartley, suggested to Roche that he dear tho room of all but the family, fam-ily, fit waa not until bo had icallei wm of his jmen to hla aid that he was able to make the excited spec-latora spec-latora obey hja orders and withdraw. Doctor King fwas, assisting (Ruth to restore her aunt to consciousness. As for Hartley, myself and Black, who had : come forward, we had ayes for nothing but the silent figure of the chauffeur. , Doctor- Wenster opened his " coat nnd examined the wound. Then, when lie bad turned back his eyelids and felt his pulse, he slowly shook his head and said to Bartley:. "He can't live more than five ' minutes. The Icrilfo reached hla hesrt" . . ' ' Will he recover consciousness be b9 ute,r Mked PORK CITIZEN. f'! ean't say. tie might, tor a moment", mo-ment", f. . )..' ; , Even aa he aioke the chauffeur opened his .eyes,-eyes, that atlll retained re-tained their look -of horror and dazed surprise. Weakly his glance traveled over the faces bending over him"; he tried to raise one hand, but the effort waa too much for him' and his eyes closed again. When he opened them a second time, he seemed to recog- nice Bartley and gave him such an appealing look that he bent cloaer. Hla eyes had begun to glaze and bis face to take on a waxen hue. Though hla lips moved feebly, no words came from them. Then, with a final effort he gathered Up what little strength he had left, and. In a voice so low we could hardly distinguish tho words, he. stammered forth. The robbery robbery. Thoee men Innocent ask boy." 'Ills voice died away and hla eyelids eye-lids sank ; then-he opened them again and gasped, The boy he knows."-I knows."-I saw Hartley's face lighten, but he did not . speak. Briffeur lay so still that we thought he had ceased to breathe; but as the doctor started to rise, ho made a sudden effort to alt "I Killed " Up, and Bartley put hla ana vnder him. With eyes flashing, ha cried la a loud voice, "Slyke mur-murderad. I " His arm rose from his aide and pointed straight in front of him, his finger almost touching Doctor Webster, Web-ster, who gazed down at him, puzzled. "I killed " The chauffeur's voice broke; his lips ceased to mom; and, without even a sigh, his head fell back. The chauffeur would never speak again. . :. :. ..: ....u.:. ; Silently we' rose to our feet and stood looking down at tho dead, man. Wa wem all too overcome by what had (aken place, to speak. It seemed Impossible that a man could ham been done to death in a roomful of people, with the chief of police on one aide of him and three detectives near aim. But murdered he had been. Bartley seemed to feel as dased as I did; for he took the knife the doctor handed him, without looking, at It hla 'ayes upon the chauffeur and on his face a: very odd expression.' Nona of us seemed fully sble to grasp that 9 man ,a mutdeni alm0,t oar Doctor King bad been working over Miss Potter, and she now opened her eyes and glanced around wildly. She saw the body at her feet and with a little cry asked, "What's happenedr No ' one . answered for a i moment ; and then Bartley replied " simply, "Someone has murdered .the chauf feur." ' ,. s At the word murder sbe gasped and ,ly tim enough Vtween tha moment when the Jlghta went out and the time when the cry came for anyone to have come up to him, murdered him, and gotten awayagaln.' 'The murder must have been committed1 by someone near him. On one shl of him had been lilss Potter; and, on the other, Roche. Rocho was above iuHplclon t a police Chief does not kill his prisoner unless he, attempts, to .escape. -Then I remembered re-membered the strange look tht had passed btieea Miss Potter and the chauffeur when the latter had entered tho' room. ;, Though them had evidently been'llir feeling between . the two, it , seemed absurd to suppose that ahe had killed hjm. To have.doqe'lt she would hsve had to have known that he would be seated beside her. ' I knew that no one but tha coroner Jiad known beforehand before-hand how, the. witnesses would be placed.' Nor could ahe have known that tho .lights would go (out . Just when they did, and thus give a chance to strike the blow. It dawned on me, at thM point that ahe could not have known that the chauffeur would bo railed as a witness, and might not have even known that he had been arrested. Tet the blow bad been struck, by some one near her, and very near to him. , t At . this moment Roche hurried into the rr.om, his fut red face flushed to an even rvdtlt'r hue, his eys wide and curious."'' ':,v -Z- "What shsn t do with tbooa paopie outsider be ssked the district attorney. attor-ney. "I got them out. of the house, but the reporters are howling their brads off. t They want to know what has happened." x; .-v ir i , The attorney gave Bartley an ap-pmllng ap-pmllng look.:',-.'0'!'i." .rj "If I were you." Bartley told him, "I would can the Inquest eff for today to-day at least You have heard all tha Important evidence. Whit Briffeur might have said we shall never know. Our duty now Is to try and discover what happened to the poor chap." Ho turned to Doctor King. "If 1 wem you. Doctor, I would, take the name of every one that waa In the room this afternoon. You might tell tha reporters, Rocho, that wo will talk to them later." :' " As both King and the district attorney attor-ney nodded, Roche hurried from the room, but returned a moment later. Again we stood hesitating, no one seeming to know Just what to do next. waiting for Bartley to take tha lead. Seeing that we wem depending on hwv ho walked to the desk where King had sat, and called us around him. " - . v Silently, he turned tho knife over and over in his band, then gave It to each of us la turn , to examine. It was a curious kind of a knife, looking as if It had had hard usage. The handle was of wood, rather' heavy, and tho blade, some four Inches long, came to a fine, sharp point As the blade did not dose. It was an awkward awk-ward weapon to carry around, and I wondered , where tha murderer had. hidden It i. The mom I looked at It the mom I wondered what It had been used for. It wss not a' hunting knife, although It somewhat resembled one, of that I was sure. It fart. It was unlike any knife that I had over aeon. A Wa, all looked at It silently; and, when tho last to handle it had placed It back . on the desk, Bartley picked It up for a second time. This Is the weapon that killed Briffeur. - Ton wonder why ' I allowed you to touch It Instead of keeping It for finger prints, You will find no finger prints; for whoever used It had sense enough to have hla hand covered.1! cov-ered.1! v:. . ; Suddenly I remembered that he had said tha same thing about tha murderer mur-derer of Slyke, Them had been no finger prints fonnd In the rooms or on -tha revolver. I wondered If them could bo any connection betwoen the two deatba. , , . . ,: .. "It Is, of course, significant" Bartley Bart-ley continued, his voice grave, "that this manwas killed as ha waa about to testify. It looks very much aa If someone In the room feared that be might tell who killed Slyke, and, to prevent It took a great chance and killed him In a room full of people." . Doctor King, in a rather ezdted voice, broke in to say. "But Mr. Bart-fey? Bart-fey? no one .-could bave knows-that the lights would go jmt- I myself did not oven know thst Briffeur waa to testify, and I doubt If anyone else did." .tV" ' Bartley listened to the doctor's words with a grave face. "That la so, King. So' far as I know, only Bohe,' Buck, the district attorney -and myself my-self knew that the chauffeur . would testify. Noae, of ns. knew, however, what he was going to say, for be had refused to tell us. It Is absurd to think thst any of us killed Briffeur. Brif-feur. Pelt, Black and' myself worn at the rear of the num. .-Tho . district attorney waa at least seven feet away from him. The only person near him waa our friend Roche." The red face of the police chief turned even rodder. In astonishment ha hastily stammered, "My G , Mr. Bartley, Bart-ley, you don't think I killed him, do your?. ".--A' ;.-: r Cnder any other circumstances bis dismay would ham been so humorous that wa all would have "laughed, but we had no desire to do so now. -We an agreed with Bartley, when bo assured as-sured him that no one had even thought for a moment that bo had committed tho murder, j Ha added that ' his remark bad been- Intended simply to show bow mysterious the crime wss. . "It seems almost Incredible," he continued after a short pause, "that the chauffeur could bam been killed while we wem all In the room with him. ' - But he has bean,' and we must find out who did it I think tha beat thing to do win bo for each of us to seat himself Just where ha waa when tho lights went out But "first, we had better remove tha body." : Black, Roche and Doctor Webster raised tho chauffeur's body and carried car-ried blm from the room, followed by Doctor King. While they were gone, i Bartley got down on hla knees before tho chair In which tha chauffeur bad sat and examined tho heavy dark blue carpet which covered tha floor. Ho waa searching for a due, I knew, that would give a hint as to bow tha murder had been committed, ' Miss Potter and Ruth, who had resumed their old seats, watched hla with white faces, .. .'. When ho rose to his feet Bartley stood looking silently down at the floor with a little frown on hla face. At last he turned to ma and aald, "When, Briffeur came Into this room and took his chair, Pelt be was, of course, facing the coroner and tha district dis-trict . attorney. When wa found him after the lights came on, ha had sunk to the floor la a position directly opposite op-posite to that In which ha was seated that Is, with his back; to them. It may be that at tho moment of the blow, he had half turned to see what had happened to . the lights, , or he may . ham swung . around after 1 the KIao, mm h. mtmm allnnlnv tho Mut.tt ; I nodded, and he continued. "You I nntlw that tha blow rimt tm cloaa'H SATURDAY, MARC1T 31, 12X 1 T to tne cvnwr ux lae neait. TttO nrr derer knew where to strike. ' If US knife had reached the place aimed tot, the chauffeur" would have died wit2a out uttering a word. In fact - He was prevented from saying mora) by the return of the others. At hi suggestion, they took the places they; had occupied when the lights won) -out .'I was asked to tekf the chat thst Briffeur had been lv. This placodl Rocho on my loft, so near thai t almost touched him, and Miss Portaf about a foot away on my right Doe tor King took his station behind tha desk, which, was directly la front of me and about eight feet away. Tho chair of the district attorney waa at his side. .' Black and Webster" stood) near Bartley, who had seated himself on tha desk. ' ' - . ' ' "For several moments ha glanced around . the room, trying to recmatt for himself the way the row of chalrg had looked when the lights had beesl extinguished. As his . keen eyes) studied us, a frown came to his faca lingered a second, then faded away. "You people In the front row," ha commented, "wem the nearest to tha chauffeur. If anything waa heard, you would have been tha ones to bear it Of course, tho rattle of tha thus dor would have drowned almost anX other sound. The crowd waa a b!$ uneasy, too, because of tha sharp lightning, light-ning, and made a little rustling sola of ita own;' yet it seems almost' l credible that anyone could have crept" up to Briffeur and; struck him dowal without either Miss Potter or Rochal having beard them.; ..." Mlsa Potter flushed, and without waiting for him to any mora aha la terrupted, "J never heard a thing not a thing." ' Bartley studied her carefully aa be) asked, "Am you surer Her face paled, then the color ro turned, but again she replied,,"! hears) nothing, until , that horrible cry raaf outV .,'V"'.'r-? y:?:r'i , tI aaw her shudder ss if tha mens ory of It wem almost too mucb for her, but aba continued bravely, " knew It was beside me, and I won dered what had happened.; It fright ened me oo much that I can't teH Just what , happened after that". t She seemed to be telling tha truth; yet I could, not understand bow anyone any-one had gotten near enough to Briffeur to kill him without the persot next t him bearing his approach. , : ' Bartler toyed with a piece of paper a second, then smiled as ha aald, "Of course, the cry startled you, Mlsa Pot ter. But before or after It came, can you think of no little occurrence thai might help us? ,, Nothing at alir She waa silent for a long time, then) slowly, aa If apologetic ahe answered, "That Is, I heard nothing, but I did think I fdt something brush my dread on the side next to Briffeur. I an not sure, however. I only thought something did. ' The next moment I beard blm slip to tha floor and know something was wrong." : v Hartley's eyes brightened at her remark, re-mark, and ha atked eagerly, "Can yod show us Just wbem your dmaa u orushedr " , - . ' rWftJaaJ ' Wart W-w lccnranri) baby cziczs FOR SALE daring Kay sal JaM. Seni In year erdm early. A grada ItVOa for flftyi flLM per ksadrcdr 111940 per thestaad. AA grada t&M per fifty t tltM per has d red HUM per theszaad, F. 0. B. Pets- lama, evaer or ue Boaema vmxy Farm Bareaa AeeredUed ' Hatcbery J WBTTI nATCHIET-FITALUXA, nATCHIET-FITALUXA, CA1IF0RXIA. SO-tt ? tnglleti conquoot' of lmlaT. . 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