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Show - . , BFAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER - 2 m Tj? By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART WND Events of the story forth In tha journal of A. Fortsr, professor of literature: The professor's uncle, Porter, died mysteriously at set William English Horace at hl borne. Twin Hollows, now the profesaora property. Jane, the professor'a wife, la psychic With tbelr niece, Edith, the Porters go to Twin Hollows for tht-lvacation, despite Jane's reluctance. A letter Horace had been writing at the time of his drath hows that be was Interested In spiritualism. It blnta of danger A "red lamp Is mentioned. They take up their residence In the lodge, because of Jane'a aversion to the house. Warren Ha II Ids y In love with Edith, comes to live In the boathouse. A number ot sheep are mysteriously killed Ina the vicinity. The slayer leaves cabalistic sign at the acene nf the killings. Ureenough, a detective, arrlvea and Porter haa a feeling that he Is under suspicion. Twin Hollows is rented to an elderly, partially paralysed man. Bethel, who, with his secretary, Gordon, takes possession A youth, Carroway, on watch for the sheep killer, disappears. Porter haa the red lamp bidden In a room of which he alone hap the key, but many people. Including the professor himself, believe they have seen Its reflection at Twin Hollowa. Halll-da- y Is mysteriously attacked and seriously Injured. Carroway Is found In the bay, murdered Mary Morrison, Porter's cook, disappears. Gordon, Bethel's secretary, is found unconscious from a blow on the head. Halllday tarts an Investigation of the r mystery. (Continued.) 12 One finds, for Instance, that the small paneled room which we call the den was used for her seances That paneling In Itself sounds suspicious But stop I It was not paneled at that time; I recall when poor old Horace found that oak paneling and gleefully Installed It In what had been the old kitchen of (he original farm house An investigation, made Just now has supplemented my memory. The photograph (Note: I'lute I, "Eugenia Kiggs and the Oakvllle Phenomena") shows a plastered wall, "find one or two crude water colors on It I'os siMy the spirit paintings of the text. It also shows that the cabinet, so nliad. was not a cabinet at all. but a dark curtain on a heavy pole, which extends across a blank corner. In Ihe picture these curtalns are thrown back, showing a small stand on which are the stage properties of "Oeorge." a bell, a pan of something, a glass, and a small bunch of flowers. On the floor, ready for his ghostly hand. Is a guitar. The wall is certainly plastered. An Inset shows the pan. sel on Its edge to allow photography, and with the title: "Imprint of hand In putty. Dec. 2nd, 1!M)2. Notice lack of usual Bui In spite ot whorls and ridges." this rather militant caption, I Gnd I am unimpressed. Rather am I wonIn the dering whether somewhere there was not a Mr. background Kiggs, with a short broad thumb an-- l a bent r little tluger, who was not Ignorant of the lack of the usual whorls and ridges In a pair of rubber gloves. But, considering that plastered wall, the entire evidence In the book, gath ered together, forms a surprising whole. One niusf take off one's hat to the Kiggs family, provided there were two of them, or to whomsoever assisted the lady. Especially since the windows were "shuttered and bolted; and small strings of hells, which would ring at the slightest touch, were hung across them." August 3. Halllday, who Is an early riser, burst In on us this morning at the breakfast table, fairly bristling with excitement 7 Our own relief la enormous, but la much grumbling among the summer folk as well aa the natives. Starr Is the usual variety of small town constable, and It seems extraordinary that the case should be left In his care. It la of course possible that another man Is to be sent In Oreen-oogh'place, but If so we have no In tlmatton of It The immediate result of Greenough's departure has been rather to revive the Interest In Hie situation than other wise. I dare say as long as the po lice were on the case the people more or less lay hack and depended on them ; now they are thrown once more onto (licit own resources, and a va rlety of opinions and even of clews are being exchanged at that central clearing house, the post office. Thus: This morning the cows of a man named Vaughan were found huddled In a corner of the field, giving every evidence of having been run to death during the night (To the common sense suggestion of a dog being the culprit, pitying glances.) A stranger three days ago tried to buy a large knife In the hardware there THE STORY "Oood morning, everybody I" be sang "What do I receive for a piece of very cheering news? Greeuough's gone. Benchley came over yesterday and threw him off the case. At least. Hint's what they say at the post ofllce. Thirteen days he's been fooling around, and he couldn't get over the hump." "If only he had stayed a tittle longer," Edith said regretfully, "and somebody had killed lilml It's rotten bad luck, that's all " The conversation had little or no meaning for Jane. She was, I could see, puzzled .y our excitement and unable to understand our relief. "Surely they have left somebody." she said "We ought not to be left without protection. Who knows when something will break out again, and then where are vreV'l "Where Indeed 7" said Halllday. T1e move Is a totally unexpected one. Yesterday, as Halllday said, the sheriff came over to the hotel and was closeted for an hour or two with ' Urcenough.- - A bellboy reports that, on tarrying some cracked Ice to the room, he found fireenough sitting mo rngcty by a table, and Benchley at the window, staring out. Half an hour later the sherlfr left, passing out of the hotel without so much as a nod to anyone, and within the hour Oreen ough wns paying his bill In the lobby ntio nrlrlug a car to take hlui to Ihe .trillo out. D s ... store. (Ijiter shown to be the Living stone's new butler seeking a carving knife.) The second keeper at the lighthouse has resigned, deilarlng the tower is haunted. (This Is true, so far as the reslgna- tlon goes. He has. It appears, asked to be transferred. But Ward says there has been no repetition of the at rnnge affair the night of the storm.) A car driven recklessly and without lights has been seen twice near the llllljiiru road, both times after mid night (There seems a certain authenticity In tills; the cur, however, shows Its lights until fairly close to another car, when It shuts them oft entirely There may be, of course, some defect In the dimmers ) My own relief Is beyond words Looking In my shaving mirror today I am startled at the change In me the Inst few weeks. The tears are coming out to dinner tonight. More power to them. August 4. The party last night was a great success. Lear had brought me out a bottle of claret, and with candles on the table and six wine glasses, hnstlly borrowed trom Annie Cochran at the mnin house, we took on quite a fes five air. We divided after the meal, Jane nnd Helena to talk. Edith and llalll-dafor the boathouse and a canoe, and Lear and I to pace the drive with our cigars. Lear's quiet face and general dependability, and perhaps the need of a fresh mind on the conditions here. Impelled me to tell my story, to which he listened without Interruption. Is opinion Is that we have to do with a homicidal maniac, and that was preliminary to the sheep-killinthe rest "a propitiation," he puts It The supernatural angle of the case he put aside with a gesture. "I won't even argue It," he said. "There may be something to It ; I'm not denying that. But it's not stuff to be meddled with; when the Lord means to open that veil he will do It And I am no peeping Tom." He said further that Helena nas taken up the oulja hoard, and sits for hours "with anyone she can entrap," getting absurd messages which sound well and mean nothing. "In your place," he said. "1 would forget It. If you gel really to the point where you think you have some-tlilng- , send for Cameron and let him look Into It. But keep out of It your self. Porter, it's bad medicine." I took them to the eleven o'clock train, and have otdy ust returned But I think it would amuse Lear In spite of his handsotT .attitude, to know that as I drove Into the garage and shut off the lights and the en glne, In the very act of getting nut of the car I heard once more that peculiar dry cough, the faint slow footfall .nd smelled again that curious herbal odor which I shall, all the days of my life, associate with my Uncle Horace. So unexpected was It coming on lop of the happiest evening of the summer, that I stood for a moment Immovable. Then I leaped from the terrifying darkness of the garage out Into the moonlight, and there con fronted young Gordon, standing out side and quietly smoking. "Hello I" I said, when I could speak "Out again, I see." "Yes. That place gets my goat" he replied. "I guess I'm Jumpy, since the other night " He looked bad, and I asked him If he crtred to sit down before starting back. But he refused. "I'll gel b- -ll if he finds I've left the bouse," he said elegantly. I turned and walked back with him towurd the house, and seeing him secretly amused about something, asked him what It was, whereupon he said that he was thinking of the way I had shot out of the garage "Put something over on jou there ... g didn't 17" I "You startled me. What do you borhood Annie Cochran bas certain mean V support for ber contention, but not "I guess yon know," be said, with enough. bla aide-lon- g glance. "That cough." And she dislikes the boy extremely. "You mean, the lighthouse atory T" Probably she unwittingly revealed the He fell again Into one of bla secret reason for ber attack on blm Just convulsions of mirth. before I left "No, I don't mean the light bonse." "There's something wrong about he said, and turning abruptly, struck him." she said. "When a man's disoff through the trees. honest he thinks everybody else Is. I can take from this as much or "He's taken to locking his room and as little as I will. Is It' possible that carrying the key about with him. I Gordon bas beard the cough In the never took a thing of anybody else's house, and associates It with the other In my life." sounds of which he has complained to As Halllday went to town early toAnnie Cochran? Or has be merely day, taking the scrap of paper with been told of it, and with his per the cipher to an expert he knows verted Idea of humor, been delllterate there, I nave not been able to disly alarming me with It? cuss this new angle with blm Quite August S aside from the discrepancy In dates, Annie Cochrun declares thai young however, Gordon not arriving until Gordon has been lu the habit of slip after the reign of terror was well ping out of tiie house at night ; that under way, the chief stumbling block Is he commenced to do if shortly after the attack on the boy himself. . . his arrival, and has done It ever Suppose the boy does slip out at since; that Indeed, he was not sit night, and take the car? He Is young ling on the kitchen steps before he and I Imagine pretty much a prisoner was attacked, but had been out In all He takes dictation all morn day. the car, and was frying to get back ing, types after luncheon while Mr Into the house. Bethel sleeps, and at four o'clock She also believes that Mr. Bethel Is ready with his book and pen again suspects It. and has been on the alert, ell. The few moments he has spent especially iince the night of Ihe atwith Edilh now and then are plainly tack. stolen. "There's been bad blood between August 0. them. evei since that night," she said. Uulliday's expert was not , particularly helpful, I gather. We have this to our advantage, however. If advantage II be; the typing was done on a Itemington machine. As I had expected, he does not take Annie Cochran's story very seriously, but he bases his skepticism rather on the beginning of the terror before the hoy came, than on the attack or the boy himself Aside from tlds blind alley, up which Annie Cochran started us, we are all more nearly normal than we have- - been since the early days of the summer. I rise, shave and bathe and go to my breakfast, no longer with the feeling that it maj be. figuratively speaking, my last We are not worried by the uncer tainty of the prospect before us; the long period ahead of Edith and. Hall! day before they can marry; that nexi year, and the year after that and God knows how many years to come I shi.ll be pouring the priceless treas ures of the English language Into ears that will not hear; that my vaca tiou is more than half over, and that its net result so far Is a loss to me of some odd pounds of weight. August 7. Edith and Halliday for the Boathouse Edith has today received the large and a Canoe. sum of ten dollars for the lighthouse story. While she Is still far from the a bit when I'm In the "They talk opulence she has anticipated, there dining room, but once I'm out of It, has been great excitement here today, as glum as oysters." they're on receipt of the check. She also suspects Mr. Bethel of I find that Halliday has been quietbeing afraid of Gordon. On the nights ly working nlong the lines opened up when stie assisted him upstairs while by Annie Cochran. He is convinced was still invalided, she that Gordon has been the secretary going out at always heard blm bolt his door as nights, clandestinely, and using the soon as he was Inside. car to do so. "And the nights he stayed down," "1 don't blame him for that," he she added, "he had me bring down said today. "The car's there, and not that revolver of his. He laid it to being used. And I'm not keen about who the fellow got in by the gun room Gordon but from such views as I window, hut I've got my own Ideas have had of Mr. Bethel, a little of about It." him would go a long way. Gord-- . n's "What makes you think Gordon had disconnected the speedometer, hy the been off the place, the night he was way. But there's something else." hurt?" lie thinks It was Gordon who set "He said he couldn't sleep, didn't Ore to the boathouse. He fouud a he? And lie got up and went downbit of waste outside the garage, hang stairs to get something to eat, nnd ing on a limb of blue spruce there, then went outside?" and a similar scrap on the raised walk "So he said." over the marsh to the boathouse. "Well, as far .as i can make out. "But why?" I asked. "There has to he was dressed from top to toe. He he a reason." didn't need to do that to gel down to the pantry." And we had missed that! Hayward. Grcenough and I had checked up tha: Story, according to our several obil Ities, and had never noticed that disLord Cast el rose, writing on the death crepancy. "I sent his clothes to he cleaned Ihe next day." she said, "and ot Lord Asquith, dealt with the erudi tlon o. the Asquith family and said: noticed It I hen." But her real contribution, If I may "I could give you many examples ot Years before the newspapers call It that 'ay In the garage, and this. lo the hull and listen after started their general knowledge questions Mr. Anthony Asquith invented a Ing to the sound of Mr Bethel's dicta tlon from within, she drew me out game of plying his father with strange and outlandish queries, and yet so side. "So far us I know." she said, "that greut was Lord Oxford's erudition car's only been out twice since they that I can hardly remember blm fall lug over a fair question. I once heard came, und that was to take Thomas home one time, and me another, the Mr. Anthony Asquith persuade his fa ther to recite backwards the Derby night of the storm. But It's been out winners for the last 32 years, which just the same." he did accurately ; to describe the du"Wouldn't the old man hear It?" "He might and he mightn't. Suppose ties of an official of the college of It was rolled along the lane and heralds; affd also to give a brief de started? He wouldn't hear It there, Bcrlptlon of a minor character In Max Beerhohm's "Zulelka Dohson." Else would he?" she where Lord Castlerose wrote: "It is To Support her contention number of marks In true that Asquith was making a name showed me (he lane, certainly suspicious but hy for himself as a scholar in Ids youth but unfortunately he was earning no no means evidential. It Is nothing unOne day Lord Portsmouth usual for motorists lo strike Into the money. woodland along the lane, under the wrote the famous master. Ueverend Doctor Jowett and said: 'Have you Impression that It Is a public road and to be brought up all standing at got a suitable undergraduate to read with my son, Lord Lymlngton, during the house. Doctor Jowett But against all this, at least ns the long vacation?'" replied that he had exactly the article pointing to young Gordon ns our possible rrlmlnnl, Is what Is to me an required. In the shape of Mr. Asquith. We know that As a tutor Mr. Asquith was a finest Insuperable obstacle. the crimes are connected with the success, but there was a drawback Ifi this handsome, penniless, having killing of the sheep. It Is not possible to doubt this. And the sheep were clever young man In a household for killed nnd the altar built before Mr. every single young lady In the counBethel brought Gordon Into the neigh tryside fell head over-heel- s la love "1 can go long way for one," be said thoughtfully, "and Imagine be knows I've been working on the case and wants to get rid of me. But I grant that's not good. Burning me out wouldn't do that, unless he hoped I was inside! But that Is to imply that he Is guilty of the crimes, snd I dont believe it" But be added, as an afterthought: "There's one curious thing, though. That is, It may be curious; I'm not sure. The machine he's using Is a Ilemlngton." August 8. g This has been s day. I for one am willing to cry quits, to compromise with crime, and to say, In effect, that if the murderer leaves us alone we will not disturb him. My condition probably arises from sheer confusion. For the life of me I cannot see where the results of HalH-day'- s search can lead us. nor I think does he, . . . Edith this morning, at Halllday's request, telephoned to Gordon and asked him to lunch with us. He accepted, after a brief hesitation, and promptly at one o'clock came down the drive, clad in white flannels and with an additional dose of pomade on his hair. Whether he was suspicious or not we cannot tell. I know that watching hlra from a window, part way down the drive he came to a dead stop and then turned, as if be had some idea of going back on some pretext or other. But be evidently thought net ter of It, looked at bis watch, and came on again. He made a poor Impression on us, furtively watching Jane's choice of fork or spoon and otherwise bestow Ing most of his attention on Edith. Such attention, that Is, as he bestowed on anybody at the beginning. And ne was restless. From where he sat he had his hack to the windows, hut more than once he managed to turn and look out I had the feeling that the small room enclosed him too much ; that he felt somehow trapped. And more than once I found Ids eyes on me, and felt that he suspected me of some purpose he was if tempting to discover. His nervousness finally infected me. and even Jane began to show signs of distress. The small lunch party, for some reason she could not understand, was going badly. Only Edith played up well ; she pushed back her plate at last, and with her elbows on the table and her chin In her hands, nerve-rackin- said : "And now, tell us about the night you were hurt" "I'll do that," he said, with his twisted smile, "if Mr. Porter will tell me how he and the doctor both happened to be such Johnnies on the spot." But he carried that no further, and although the covert Insolence of the speech brought the color to Edith's face, she continued to smile. "There Isn't much to tell," he went on. "The fellow got into the house all right; I turned to go In by the door and head him off, and that's all I remember." "But you?" you rang the bell first, SAME PRESCRIPTION HE WROTE IN 1892 TCTkan Tir CMAvnW mtmriiA to nraetie medicine, back is 1875, the needs for laxative were not gTest as today. People lived normal lives, ate plain, wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh air. But even that early there were drastic physics and purges for the relief of constipation which Dr. Caldwell did not believe were good for human beings. The prescription for constipation that he used early in his practice, and which he put in drug stores in 1892 under the name of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, is a liquid vegetable remedy, intended for women, children and elderly people, and they need just such a mild, safe bowel stimulant. This prescription has proven its worth and is now the largest selling liquid laxative. It has won the confidence of people who needed it to get relief from headaches, biliousness, flatulence, indigestion, loss of appetite and sleep, bad breafli, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At your druggist, or write "Syrup Pepsin," Dept. BB, Monticello. Illinois, for free trial bottle. u Money Loses Weight If the director of the we can believe Denver mint men are getting less and less able bodied. First they become unable to carry silver dollars In their trousers pockets, they weighted them down so much. Now half dollars are becoming too heavy and the half dol lar must go. When the government bills there gets out Its new small-size- d may be no small change left larger than a quarter. Capper's Weekly. Los Angeles Boy Needed Help Leroy Young, 1116 Georgia St., Los Angeles, is a "regular fellow," active lt sports, and at the top in his classes at school. To look at him now, you'd think ananas he never had a day's sickness but his mother says: "When Leroy was just a little fellow, we found his stomach and bowels were weak. He kept suffering from constipation. Nothing he ate agreed with him. ne was fretful, feverish and puny. "When we started giving liiin California Fig Syrup his condition improved quickly, nis constipation and biliousness stopped and he has had no morj trouble of that kind. I have since used California Fig Syrup with him for colds and upset spells. He likes It because it tastes so good and I like It because It helps him so won- derfully!" California Fig Syrup has been the trusted standby of mothers for over 50 yeafs. Leading physicians recommend It. It is purely vegetable and works with Nature to regulate, tone and and strengthen the stomach bowels of children so they get full didn't nourishment from their food and waste Is eliminated In a normal war. to acFour million bottles used a year or for shows how mothers depend on it. Aldeter ways look for the word "California" on the carton to be sure of getting pretty the genuine. Whether because he hated knowledge that call for help, some reason none of us can mine tonight, he hesitated. "Yes," he said finally. "I was well excited, but I suppose I did." Almost immediately he asked me if I had tried heoring the bell as far away as the highroad, "with a motor engine going." (TO BE CONTINUED.) . Cycles Through Hoops At a recent motor cycle show in Loudon, a rider demonstrated li is skill by driving his machine through a double paper hoop while going at "high speed. The stunt required a steady hand at the take-ofsince the obstruction was of considerable length, and there was danger of turning the front wheel so as to make landing hazardous. Popular Mechanics Magazine. f, Charm and Ability Handicap to Asquith with him to the consternation of the At Inst Docmatchmaking mothers. tor Jowett was communicated with again, and asked If he could not sub stitute a less clever, less attractive and less amusing tutor. Pierre Van Passen, in the Atlanta Constitution. GOULD NOT GET OUT OF BED Cat's Meow The cat who loves cod liver oil Is being put upon. lie sure Is more fond of cod liver oil than liver or raw steak, or salmon, or kidneys, oi cat food and the family know it. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Strengthened Her LycKa ham-bur- Elkhart, Ind. "I had a tired feeling and was unable to get out of bed I without tne neip of my husband. heard of the Vegetable Compound and decided to try it. I wu still taking it and It euro is a help to me. I can do my work without resting am through. I know Recently he decided to go out for the evening. The youngster did not wish to have him go, but he slid out on the steps looking around for worlds to conquer. No calling for "Kitty, kit ty," would budge him an Inch. Then the small youngster ran and got the cod liver oil bottle. Site held It out to olm as bait He gave one sniff In the air and then came to the bottle as true as a needie to a magnet The child walked Into the house with the bottle, the cat followingend she bad htm. Springfield Union. 1) before'I ttlflf. Hand Laundered Men "The man with the stainless soul and spotless record uught to go out jmd get a few blemishes." e Grand pop Peterkln, "lust to keep ihe rest of . us sinners fnm feelln' too ua washed," Furui uud fireside. t vnmiin will give the Vegetable Compound a trial they can overcome those tired and worn-ou- t feelings. I cannot express the happinrw. I have received and how completely it has miule over my home."MR q. n. Siiieht, 1328 Laurel St. Elkhart, Indiana. i if ni r soyotk' fox wdKuifx III Uhlr lUKh!, HrtlllKli! I12J.M. ,"I""'M1 Clrrutsr. rreo ft mn'.t and Ebn'.ms, Livlniua. I'.ouUna r Jmsractions. CE3KCI |