Show Constipation THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE Vanishes rrompi VAA UvtK fail 1 Halsey now and they will make up" or Louise had steadily refused to see Halsey all that day and the boy orever Cure neuer--remanent Uli If rlLLiJnewrj JEUV3 Purely veget- jg the couch and approach of dusk able- act turely Hri was a signal for her to barricade the but gently oct entire suite Situated as it the liver was be-youd E" the Stop after circular staircase nothing I iy was frantic but an extremity of excitement would JLLU377MT10MJ BY had it We a quiet hour Halsey and have made her pass after dark T that evening and told cureiodk urnicur no av aaaaa-aatiaifc him confess myself that the place seemed several lull things 1 improv th complexion about the request tome to have a sinister appearance but getn- that we le ey PiU - hrU SYNOPSIS give up the Smll lease to Sunnyside about kept that we wing well lighted and XVI the CHAPTER to the telegram Louise about the until lights went out at midnight Ueaaine muabear Signature Miss Innes spinster and guardian of of and an Halsey established summer rumors approaching marriage it was really cheerful If one did not In the Early Morning beadquarters at Sunnyside Amidst between the girl and Dr Walker and know its history I stood looking at the difficultiesthe servants deserted empty bed last of all As Miss Innes locked up for the my own interview with her On riday night night then had gone The coverings had been thrown back she startled by the the was a dark figure on day before to bed resolved to go at once to sleep and Louise's pink silk dressing-gown veranda Unseemly noises disturbed her He sat back In a big chair with his during the night In the Thoughts that Insisted on obtruding Statistics are almost a87ns7tkf morning Miss the was gone from foot where it had Innes found a strange link cuff-button in face in the shadow and my heart fairly themselves pushed resolutely to the lain tory as facts are "stubborn a hamper Gertrudeand Halsey arrived The night lamp burned dimly with Jack Bailey ached for back of my mind systematically revealing the emptiness of the place The house was awakened He was 60 big and and by a shot revolver boyish! Arnold inAnn-1trng When had finished he drew relaxed fell Blerce'a Pleasant Pellets first muscle asleep It Dr Wft found shot and to the every picked but hand shook so death up my Pher ago regulate and Invigorate nail long breath Miss Innes found Halsey's revolver a soon and dreaming that Dr and bowels Sugar-coated was that put it down again' got ttny 6ranul£ actOn the and lawn He and Jack Bailey had "Whatever Walker was building his Louise does" He said mysteriously new house somehow' to the door The link cuff-button "nothing will convince me immediately in front of my windows Blest Be Nothing disappeared Detective Jamieson Aunt Ray There in hall arrived Gertrude revealed she was en-Jlck were voices the and that she doesn't care for could hear the thump-thump of the Wife- The doctor writes that la And up Bailey with whom she me Gertrude came running toward me to the view of our poor talked In billiard room a few moments two months ago hammers and then circumstanceshe will when she and her waked to a before the murder Jamieson "What is- it?" she cried "What was not present his bill immediately mother went west knowledge that somebody was pounding the happiest Miss Innes of holding was bock fellow that sound? W'here is Louise?" He Imprisoned an on on Artist- We are lucky that our cir intruder In an earth Then something my door empty room The prisoner escaped down made a difference she wrote me that I "She is not in her room" a said cumstances are no better if laundry chute Gertrude was suspected was up at once and with the tbe A her people "I of stupidly think- it was she- who were we might have to pay at negro found the other half what were opposed to the marriage sound of my footstep on the floor the once! proved to be Jack cuff-button Bailey's that her feeling for low screamed" "me was knocking ceased to be followed he ?y TeaPP®ars and says and Bailey It in response to a what had by telegram Gertrude always been but that immediately Liddy had joined us a Try Th sibilant whispering now carrying re This Summer said she had given Halley an unloaded something had happened which had inrough the keyhole light We stood huddled together at The very next time you're hot tired revolver fearing to give him a loaded changed her ideas as to the future of the weapon Cashier Bailey of Paul Arm-itrong "Miss Rachel! circular or thirsty step up to a soda Miss staircase Rachel!"somebody the head s fountain bank defunot was arrested for was not to write until she wrote me looking down into its shadows get was saying There and a glass of Coca-Cola einbsazlcment Halsey said over and it will Armstrong and whatever occurred over his wrecked nothing to be own bank and could clear the "Is that you was and it wai cool you off was to think Liddy?" asked seen relieve your bodily and my Hatley Paul Armstrong'sdeath was best of could her It absolutely sounded uana on the knob quiet down there Then mental fatigue and quench Halsey's Aancoe Armstrong Louise like a thirst your the puzzle When was said found at lodge The delightfully saw her yesAt soda "or the love of mercy let me in!" fountains or lodgekeeper Ixjulso and Arnold had iuuy k was the same thing only she said in a low tone a long talk the night of the Louise carbonated In bottles-5c everywhere murder perhaps worse" wastold prostrated Louise Halsey Delicious that She was leaning against the door refreshing and while she still loved him she was to wholesome Halsey I asked "have you any for when I Send to marry another and that he would despise Idea of the Coca-Cola opened it she fell in She Co Atlanta her when he learned tha the nature of the whole story Interview greenish-white Ga for their free booklet and she had a "The Truth between Louise Armstrong and Arnold was Coca-Cola" red and black barred' flannel petticoat About XI Tells Coca-Cola CHARTER V- Continued the night he what was murdered?" is over her shoulders and why It Is ao delicious "It was stormy Thomas flfl vh nnrA "Listen" she said standing in the Gertrude and Halsey went for a and thirst-quenching twice he And or almost broke the intn of the 2c long walk that middle floor and bolding on to send stamp for the Coca-Cola afternoon and Louise room he was so alarmed for Baseball Louise" me slept "Oh Miss Rachel 'it's the ghost Record Book for Time hung heavy on my hands IMO- contains Anotner thing Halsey" f said the dead and I did as had fallen into a habit man hammering to get famous "Casey Bat have you ever heard Louise mention poem At The " of doing league's lately - I sat records schedules'for down and a both woman named Carrington Nina Carrington?" Sure thought things over One result of enought there was a dqll thud and other valuable baseball inform -thud thud it tion my meditations was that got up suddenly Never"- he said positively came complied by authorities - apparently from the and went to the wall telephone or try as we would thoughts "It's had taken the most intense disfllke to always came back to thatourfatal Saturday not a gnost" T said decidedly THE LIMIT (bls If it Dr Walker whom It had 's a ghost never night and the wouldn't murder Every rap it who was being talked of in would comethrough seen and the path led to it keyhole" and we all the countrysideastho dance of Louise felt Liddy at looked the keyhole that Jamieson was "But it tightening Armotmnvy the sounds very much as though some one threads of evidence around John 1 is knew Sam Huston well There Bailey trying to break The detective's into the house" absence was had been a time when Sam was a Liddy hardly reassuring he must have had was shivering violently " good deal younger than he is now before something to work on in town or he told her to get me my slippers and he had married Anne Endicott would have returned she brought me a pair of kid gloves when knew him even Utter So now ' The papers reported that so I found things my myself and prepared "W Had a Quiet felt the' cashier Hour" Halsey no hesitation in calling him over of to call the Traders' bank was ill in his Halsey As before the and the telephone But when his office apartments at the Knickerbocker night alarm had the found electric boy had given way to his confidential -a condition lights the hall we heard Halsey the not surprising gone for its running considering save up mat clerk and that functionaryhad condescended staircase He came quickly down the everything The guilt of the defunct night lamp was in darkness as to went connect his to hall to employer's president was no longer in doubt across where we were standing the Halsey's f room hardly O desk telephone I Irl ( was somewhat at a missing know what "There's no one tryhig fo get In bonds had feared it been advertised but a loss as to was how to begin to find X of uUu and them him there heard discovered In very sound thought some one shriek "Why how are you Rachel?" Sam every some asleep his Who instance they and with was' It?" door unlocked said sonorously "Going to build that collateral for large had been used as "Wake up 'Our stricken faces told him loans and the Halsey" at said shaking house Rock View?"' It the e was a belief was current that not less than truth joke of his a M million and a half dollars had been Llddyz-xvas £1 half "Some a "Sometime IIP one screamed down there" perhaps" said "Just realized Every one in andULIUCU half of I connected with out the doof said "And is ndw to afraid and Louise want ask you a question the bank had been placed - not in to be z usual left under ar 11 alone room" about something which is none of my al°ne'and not quite rest ana released on heavy bond t0enter' H?r'cruples With a ierlc Hakov business" seemed Was he alone in his guilt or to f w ii n ir howevezv all at once "I see you haven't changed an lota was the She from Liddy and ran down the rirenhi his slotcashier gave a suppressed yell bolted absent-mInd lu a accomplice? Where of th staircase followed Llm more quarter a Rachel" was the ed money? of The estate the This was clutching the ly My nerves seemed to be In a state intendedto be another jest Jt dead man was comparatively sinall- Sh°Uld Say 8°f rve kn°Wtt "Ask of paralysis ahead everything but my do me oea Halsey could scarcely city was step a house on a fh fashionable street gradually waking the foot of the telPne to his office and ask mestic affairs is at your service''' stairs Halsey an Sunnyside a large estate largely J're seen it" Liddy wailed exclamation and put down the gave Maa ln' "Try to be serious" said "And light mortgaged an of tell Insurance $50000 in Woman white down the hall!" Has your firm made any "Aunt Ray" he called sharply me this: and some personal And They Wandered property- thi I plans for a house recently for a was paid no attention At the foot of the staircase Dr all The rest lost in SDeciilatkwr) hut Judge Nicholas Longworth Walker at Casanova?" "Halsey" in a heap her head on the Iow-ably the papers saidThere persevered "some one used to sit on Ohio's supreme bench "Yes1 we have" was nno is breaking into the house Get up stair was Louise Armstrong She lej looked unnaturally grave and "Where won't you?" was It to be built? have nmp and white dressing-gowu her neighbor in recognitionof his facial a'reHSon for asking" "It isn't our house " dragging loose from one sleeve of her depression named a "Judge OlCtJpIpet owl night-dress TtwHs to be believe on the Armstrong the iy And J then he and heavy braid of Longworth" It roused to the exigency was the very next place Mr Armstrong himself of the ner dark hair stretchingits length a occasion "All day that an excited right maid broke up his consulted me and the Inference wasj Aunt of Ray" he still couple steps above said her head as if wife's yawning "If garden party "Oh madam" -In fact am quite certain-lhe you 11 let me sne had slipped down get into something " said she "Madam! Jhidge Longworth hdiike' Was to be occupied by Mr Armstrong's It She was not dead' Halsey laid was all as could do- to get Liddy daughter wh' put her an egg" was engaged out of down the the on floor room The demands of the and began to rub td'taatry Dr Waller' occasion had no influence on her she her coJd hands white Gertrude and "" XS hen the ar altect had inquiredfor had seen the Liddy ran for stimulants As for ghost she persisted the different members of my and me family she she wasn't sat there at the-foot going into hall of ahd' had the that ghostly finally rung off But staircase-sat wa certain got her to over because myI pf otity my room at last knee thing Louise Armstrong dead more than alive and hold me- and made her where it wondered f C love with Halsey and the lie a man she down on the bed would all' endLouise-was was going to marry was Dr Walker The tappings which seemed to have Moreover this decision was not ue was oreathnew ceased Jor a ing better and' 1' suggested that while had marriagehad been for commenced we contemplated ta again but they were fainter bed before she Halsey get her back I some time There must certainly be Tk There satisfac-delightful S solid There was something grisly came came over in a few minutes and stood to explanation and some - but what was it? listening and horrible to me tlon and trying to seeing her there in rein locate the That day repeated to Louise the the sound almost same attitude and in the" freshmen t telegram Mr Hartori had opened She glass of a same n sop G ye me my revolver seemed to understand but an unhappier Aunt Ray " uau round her he brother s body said And A dflzt and Alug face have got it- the one never seen had She found in the tulip bed -and Jusc men the hall C1 looked like a criminal whose reprieve gave it to far off hm He saw Liddy there struck faintly three o'clock llllMrtffl 'uiiiHi over ana me day or executionapand divined at J four once that Louise Tas before Louise preaching VM was alone was able to talk first She Lay Limp and White "You let me attend-to and the this rays of dawn fellow whoever it is Aunt Ray through her windows to CHAPTER XV and g0 tiling which looked which faced the east before she uncomfortable for Louise will you? be She could may awake tell us coherently what Jack Bailey: lie and Paul Armstrong and alarmed" had occurred Liddy Gives the Alarm together had promoted a railroad company give it as she told it She lav The 'riday Gertrude So in spite of her protests I left next day in New Mexico and it propped in bed and Halsey sat beside broke the news of was rumored Liddy alone her stepfather's and to that together went back the her they unrebuffed her' Served with Sugar and had sunk and held death to Louise hand She did it as gently Perhai's 1 little large sums of money there went a while business she talked The ‘ a little as she could taste past the yawning blackness of Lemon telling her first that he alliance between the two men the (TO BE CONTINUED) circular was very JU' and finally that staircase he was added to the belief that Bailey knew and dead hear Halsey creaking cautiously Louise received the The Only Kind news In something of the looting down the the His unexplained the contains 'It most unexpectedi manner mam staircase The would be a good idea if brains and absence or the b$nk when pounding had ceased and rapping natural food elements of Gertrude came out to tell me on the then "°ne Mondays lent color to the suspicion silence a"d reDovat Sow slie'had stoodit almost now was painful field is think she was And then suddenly and grains and really against him The strange 'thing from almost shocked to be apparently under my very ILtlIat were P°ashle seemed food drink ieet a that relieves himself there rose a some brains "She Just lay and stared at the woman's scream a would have tr be me on point ofi departure To it fatigue and quenches renovated with 'a Xaut Ray she said me cry of terror that broke off as suddn the "Do you know seemed the shrewd calculation vacuum cleaner" of a y as it Ibelleve she is glad glad! thirst And she clcv er rascal came stood frozen and still la was not too Actively Every honest to pretend drop of in blood anything to my body Interchange of lover else but Confidence' What sort of a man was Mr seemed to leave the surface and gather meant to be convinced one way or the I Pure have come here?' said the rnt Wholesome Delicious Paul Armstrong anyhow?" around my heart In the other dead took no model in the artist's studio "for' one jiu faith He was a bully as well us a rascal that followed it throbbed as if It a set seI That night the Sunnyside'ghost beganpurr pose" "There's a Reason" Gertrude" said" "But would burst to am con-(f walk again Liddy had been I stumbled into uvau man ii vp '‘Yes" said the dog "auy one thing Louise will Louise's bedroom send sleeping in to one dressing room She at snap job''-Baitimor that on was not there! 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