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Show SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1923 AMERICAN FORK CIT1 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1D23 it it. Wl V nu0 oras.v re A '"ir, M A Novel V YromtheVIai - tU MARY ROBERTS RJNEHART J rwAVER.Y HOPWOOO mTHt BAT COPYRIGHT, 1930. V MARY ROeCRTf RINEHART und AVERY HOPWOOD CHAPTER XI Continued. tecUve, Jerking his hend again. "Tnli : Hit Eyes Bored Into the Unknown's losing your memory stuff doesn't ,g down with me !" Ills eyes bored Into the Unknown's. ' '' "It doesn't go down very well-Wlth well-Wlth me either," said the Unknown weukly, making no movement of pro test against Anderson's rough handling "Did you ever see me before?" de xnanded the latter. Beresford held the candle closer so that he might watch the Unknown's face for nn Involuntary movement of betrayal. But- the. Unknown made. . qq suck movement lie gazed at Anderson apparently with the greatest bewilder ment then - his eyes closed In-seemed In-seemed to be about to remember win dttctlv was. "You're the doctor I saw-downtn!rsaren't saw-downtn!rsaren't you?" he said ii. nocently. Miss Cornelia gave a little shlvei The third degree. In reality, was li s pleasant to watch than It had hern to read about in the pages of ber favorite fa-vorite detective stories. said, turning to Anderson. -tie claims to have recovered consciousness conscious-ness in the garage, where he was tied, hand and foot!" "He does, eh?" said the detective heavily. lie glared at the Unknown. "If you'll give me Ave minutes alone with him. Ill get the truth out of him r he promised. A look of swift Alarm swept over the Unknown's face kt the words unper- celved by any except Miss Cornelia. The others started obediently to yield to the detective's behest and leave Jilm alone with his prisoner. Miss Cornelia was the first to move toward the door. On her way, she turned. "Do you believe that money la Irre-Tocably Irre-Tocably gone?" she asked of Anderson. The detective smiled. "There's no such word as Irrevocable' Irrevoc-able' In my vocabulary," be answered. "But I believe It's out of the house, if that's what you" mean." Miss Cornelia still hesitated, on the verge of departure. "Suppose I tell you that there are 'certain facta that you have over looked?" she said slowly. "Still on the trail I" muttered the detective snrdonlcalty. lie did not even glance at her. He seemed only anxious that the other members of the party would get out of his way for once and leave blm a clear field for his work. Ills brusque rejection of her offer seemed to nettle Miss Cornelia. "I was right about the doctor, wasn't I?" she Insisted. "Just fifty per cent right," said Anderson An-derson crushlngly. "And the doctor dldnt turn that trick alone. Now" he went on. with weary patience, "If you'll all go out and close that door" Miss Cornelia, defeated, took a candle from Bailey, and stepped Into the corridor. Her ' figure stiffened. She gave an audible gasp of dismayed surprise. "Quick I" she cried, turning back to the others and gesturing toward the corridor. "A man Just went through that skylight and out onto the roof r "Out on the roof!" "Come on. Beresford 1" : Tlustle you" men t ' no may be armed I" - High to coming P nd. following Miss Cornelia's lead, Bailey, Anderson, Beresford and dashed out Into the corridor, J ale and the frightened Lizzie Jl the. Unknown. i 1 W.N.U.SERVW ' "And Td run, if my "legs would I" "Hush !" said Dale, her ears strained for sounds of conflict -Miss Cornelia re-entered cautiously. with her candle, closing, the door gently behind her as she came. "What did you seer gasped Dale. : Miss Cornelia smiled broadly. "I didn't see anything,' she admitted admit-ted with the greatest calm, "I had to get thaUlratted detective out of the room before I assassinated him." "Nobody went through the skylight T said Dale Incredulously. "They have now, answered Miss Cornelia . with, obvious '., satisfaction. "The whole outfit of them." She stole a glance at the veiled eyes of the Unknown. He was lying limply back in his chair, as If the excitement ex-citement had been too much for him and yet she could bava sworn she had seen him leap to his feet, like a man in full possession, of his faculties, when she had given her false cry of alarm. r "Then why did you" began Dale, dasedly, unable to fathom her aunt's reasons for her trick. "Because," Interrupted Miss Cornelia Cor-nelia decidedly, "that money's In this room. If the man who took It out of the safe got away with It, why did he come back and hide there?" ' Her forefinger Jabbed at the hidden chamber wherein the masked Intruder had terrified Dale with threats of Instant In-stant death. "He got It out of the safe and that's as far as he did get with It," she persisted Inexorably. 'There's a hat behind that safe a man's soft felt hatP So this was the discovery she bad hinted of to Anderson before he rebuffed re-buffed her proffer of assistance! Miss Cornelia crossed behind the ckeT-clothcs-hamper-an picked utt something from the floor. "A hnlf-bnrned candle," she mused "Another thing the detective over looked." She stepped back to the miter oi the- room. looking knowingly, from the. candle to the hidden room and back agaln. "Oh. my God another one !" shrieked Lizzie, as the dark shape of a man ap peared suddenly outside the window as If materialized from the air. Miss Cornelia snatched up her re . volver.lrom.the J.onQf Lthe jsamper. ofl'r"sTToT)tr8JaTw'"r warning cry from Dale, as the latte recognized the figure of her lover. . Miss Cornelia laid her revolver dowi on the hamper again. The vacant eyes of the Unknown caught the move ment , Bailey swung In through the win dow. panting a little from his exer tlons. "The man Lizzie saw drop from tin skylight undoubtedly got to the root from this window," he sal "It's quite easy." Dale explained the situation t Jack. . ..,;.-.,,,,,-1, "Aunt Cornelia" tfctnks the moncy't-still moncy't-still here." Miss Cornelia snorted. "I know It'a here," She started to open the closets, one after the other, beginning at the left Bailey taw what she was doing and began to help her. Hiss Cornelia rattled the knob of a high closet by the other wall. "This one Is locked und the key's gone," she announced. A new 41lcker of Interest grew in the eyes of the Unknown. Lizzie glanced away from him, terrified. Miss Cornelia pondered. "It may be locked from the Inside 111 soon find out" She toot a wire hairpin from her hair and pushed It through the keyhole. But there was no key on the other side; the hairpin hair-pin went through without obstruction. Repeated efforts to-Jvrk the door open foiled. And finally Miss Cornelia bethought be-thought herself of a key from the other closet doors. Dale and Lizzie on one aide Bailey on the other collected the keys of the other closets from their locks while Miss Cornelia stared at the one whose doors were closed as If she would force its secret from It with her eyes. The Unknown had been so quiet during the last few minutes, that, unconsciously, the others had ceased to pay much attention to him, except the casual attention one devotes de-votes to a piece of furniture. Even Lizzie's eyea were now fixed on the locked closet And the Unknown himself him-self was lha tlrsr. to notice this. - At once his expression altered to one of cunning cautiously, with Infinite In-finite patience, be began -to Inch his chair over toward the wicker clothes-hamper. clothes-hamper. At last, he was within reach of the revolver. Ills band shot out In on swift alnnjua thrusfccluched hs weupon wltEarew, Us Then, concealed con-cealed the revolver among bis tat-, tered garments as best be could and, cautiously as before, Inched his chair back again to Its original position. "There that unlocked It T, cried Miss Cornelia, triumphantly, at last, as the key to one of the other closet doors slid smoothly into the lock and she heard the click that meant victory.' vic-tory.' : ,. i :.;",. She. was about to throw open the closet door. Hut Bailey motioned her back.1 "I'd keep back a little," he cautioned, cau-tioned, "lou don't know 'what may be Inside." "Mercy sakes, who wants to know?" shivered Lizzie. Dale and Miss Cornelia, Cor-nelia, too, stepped aside Involuntarily Involun-tarily as Bailey took the candle and prepared, with a good deal of caution, to open the closet door. - The door swung open at last He ceukl,iwfe Ui-t. -lie 4td -Qjual. star appalled at what he saw, while goose-flesh goose-flesh crawled on his spine and the hairs, of bis head stood up,.., After a moment he closed the door of the closet again, and turned back, white-faced, to the others. "What Is it?" said Dale, aghast "What did you see?" . ' Bailey found himself unable to answer an-swer for a moment Then he pulled himself together. lie turned to Mlsa Van Gorder. "Miss Cornelia, I think we have found the ghost the Jap butler saw," he- said . . slowly., ."How are .your nerves?" Miss Cornelia extended a hand that did not tremble. - "Give me the candle." He did so. She went to . the closet and opened the door. Huddled on the floor of the closet was the body of a man. So crudely bad he been crammed Into this hiding-place that he lay twisted and bent Miss jComelia's voice sounded strange to ber own ears wheu finally she spoke. "But who is it?" "It ' Is or was Courtlelgh Fleming," Flem-ing," said Bailey dully. "But how can It be ? Mr. Fleming died two weeks ago.r' I " "ne died In this house, sometime tonight The body Is still warm." "But who killed him? The Bat?; "Isn't It likely that the doctor did ' It? .The man who has been his accomplice ac-complice all along? Who probably . bought a cadaver out West and burled It with honors here not long ago?" But Miss Cornelia's face was still thoughtful, and he went on : "Isn't It clear, Miss Van Gorder?" he queried, with a smile. "The doctor and old Mr. Fleming formed a conspiracy con-spiracy both-needed-money tots-ef-It Fleming was to rob the bank and hide the money here. Wells' part was to Issue a false death certificate In the West and bury a substitute body, secured God knows how. U was. easy it. kept the name, of the president of the Union bank free from suspicion and it put the blame on me." He paused, thinking It out "Only they slipped up in one place Dick Fleming leased the bouse to yoi. und they couldn't get it back." "Then you are sure," said Miss Cor uelia quickly, "that tonight Courtleigli Fleming broke tej wKn tee-doctor's -bs; slstance and that he killed Dick, his own nephew, from the staircase?" "A'ren't your asked Bailey, sur prised. The more he thought of It, tfco less clearly ould be visualize It aa othfer way. Miss Cornelia shook her head de ddedly. , "No." , , "Wells tried to get out ot the houst tonight with that blue-print Why? Because tie knew the moment we got It, we'd come up here and Fleming waa'fcere?,s : "Perfectly true," nodded Mlsa Cor neiia. -"And then?" r "Old Fleming killed Dick and Well-killed Well-killed Fleming," said Bailey succinct ly. Tou can't get away from ttP But Miss Cornelia still shook. her head." "No," she said. "No. The doctor Isnt a murderer. He's as puzzled as wt are about tome things, tie sad CourtlelijU , Fleming were working together to-gether but remember this Doctor Wells was locked In the living room with. us. . He'd been trying to get-up the stairs all evening and failed every time." But Bailey was as convinced of the truth of tils theory as she of hers. "Ho was here ten minutes ago-locked ago-locked In this room," he said with a glance at the window-ladder up which the doctor had ascended. 'Til grant yon that," said Miss Cornelia. Cor-nelia. "Bnt " She thought bark swiftly. "But at the same time an Unknown Un-known Masked Man was locked In that mantel-room with Dale. The doctor doc-tor put out the candle when you opened that bidden room. Why? lie-cause lie-cause he thought Courtlelgh Fleming was hiding there P Now the missing pieces of her puzzle were falling Into their places with a vengeance.- "But at this moment" she continued, "the doctor believes that Fleming has made his escape I No we haven't solved the mystery yet there's another element an unknown element," her eyes rested rest-ed for a moment upon the Unknown. "And that element Is the BatP She paused. Impressively. The others oth-ers stared at her no longer able to deny the sinister plausibility of her theory. But this new tangling of the mystery, just when the black threads seemed raveled out at last was almost al-most too much for Dale. ' "Oh, call the detective P ahe stammered, stam-mered, on the verge of hysterical tears. "Let's get through with this thing! 1 cant bear any moreP .. . Plumbing That Pleases Phone 82-J A. 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To be sold at Sheriffs Sale on Monday Mon-day the 27th day of February. 1928, at eleven o'clock a. xa. of said day at the Front Door of the County Court i House, at the City and County Building, Build-ing, situate in Provo : City, Utah County, State of Utah, all the right, title and Interest of the above named defendants, of. In and to the following described real property, In Utah County, State of Utah;" to-witr - Beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 8 in Block 2, Plat.. A' Alpine City Survey of Building Lots; thence running North 132.65 feet; thence West 28 rods; thence South 132.65 feet; thence East 28 rods to the place of beginning. Together with all water and rights to the use of water heretofore and now used upon 'said land, or in any way appurtenant thereto, also all easements, rights-of-way and otner privileges Incident -to said premises, and every part thereof, also all the estate and Interest of which the Mortgagors or either of them may have acquired In or to eald property and the appurtenances thereto. Together with all and singular the teBtmnta, hereditaments,., and ap purtenances therunto belonging or in any wise appertaining. Purchase price payable in lawiui money of the United States. Date at Provo City. Utah, this 3rd day of February, 1928. J. D. BOYD, Sheriff or utan County. SUte of Utah.) By .ELI AS A GEE, Deputy Sheriff. Booth ft Brockbank attorneys for Plaintiff. Knight Block, Provo, Utah. , First Publication February 4, 1928. Last Publication February 25, 1928. VtduabU Quality, "We love dumb animal," k said HI Ho, the sage of China, "because they can never talk and betray ua." 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Clawson It Elsmore, , Attorneyg-for Executrix, .irr;"" First Publication January 28, 1928. SUMMONS In., the DlBtrlct Court of Utah County, State of Utah. - -. Aruiur ii. vye, riiunuu, vs. uurea . Wrigley, all the unknown helrs-at-law of Thomas Wrigley, doceaaedall the creditors of . tha estate .. of Thomaa,,. Wrigley, Deceased, also all other persona per-sona unknown claiming any right, . title, estate or Interest In the real property described In plaintiffs complaint com-plaint adverse to plaintiff ' ownership, owner-ship, or any cloud upon plaintiff's title thurtrt IWnnrtuntji fliimmnn. The State of Utah To Said Defendant: ' Tou are hereby summoned to ap pear within twenty day a after' service ser-vice of this summons upon you, . 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There are delinquent upon the following described atock, on ao connt rJ uuMmnt No. KS lavlad on the 31st day of December. 1927, the names of the respective shareholders as follows: Aj Csrt. -No. No, Shares Ami -Name Or-li-Bal! . vi -'isoe f b.uv . 799 2000 20.00 . 853 2000 20.00 .1008 668 5.6 . 872 6500 ,65.00 , 830 1000 10.09 Delia C. Beers W. D. Beers- J. L. Craig Annie Green '. ... B. Y. Greenwood..-. Mrs. Frankie M. Hall 767 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 2000 1000- 10.00-10.001 10.00-10.001 10,0d 10.00 10.00 10.00 10.00 ft no (Mrs. Frankle M. Hall 1068 Mrs. Frankie M. Hall 1069 Mrs. Frankie M.Hall 1077 Mrs. Frankie M. Hall 1078 Mrs. Frankle-M. Hall 1079 Mrs. Frankie M. Hall 1080 Mrs. Frankie M. Hall 1102 J.- W. - Hall.;;. 1081 10.06- J. W. Hall 1083 1000 1 10.00 W. M, . Hall 1083 1:. 6Q0 - MM. ii. W. Hall.. 1127 - 1000 10.00 Ethel C. Hansen,- 889 " 750 . 7.60 Ethel C. Hansen 90ti 250 " 2.50 W. A, Himstreet....... 854 4000 40.00 W. A. Hlmstreet 1032 3000 ' 30.00 E. P. Honsberger... 565 1000 10.00 E. P. Honsberger 658 1000 10.00 J. C. Iandeaberger 706 1000 10.00 Frank D.. Moses 1100 3000 30.00 -Leah Moyle 1131 400 --4.00 H. C. Nelson 1129 10,000 100.00 Joseph F. Walton..1120 - 1000 ; 10.00 Joseph F. Walton..-1121 1000 10.00 Joseph F. Walton 1122 600 6.00 And in accordance with law and an order of the board of directors made on the 31st day of December, 1927, so many shares, of. ach narcel .M stock as may be necesaarj', will be sold at the office of the secretary, American Fork, Utah, on the 21st day of February, 1928, at the hour of 2:00 o'clock p. ni., to pay the delinquent assessment thereon, together with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale. J. B. PARKER, Secretary, American Fork, Utah. Plrst'iPubHcatlon February 4, 1928.- - Aiklng tor It "This Is Saturday afternoon," to his nan . Friday said Robinson Crusoe. "There will be no mors tourists hers today. Tell me the rest of that story about the Irishmen named Pat and Mlke."-Kansas City Star. XT B OoottaMsT) |
