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Show T THE MORGAN John Stahle Jr., Editor ihorcan & POST THE CIRCULAR STMROSE Proprietor UTAH 1 :mnY ROBERTS THE UTAH BUDGET JUNEHAJIT The citizens of Eureka hare deeld-ato celebrate July 4th ia a sane and d JiriJBTmMJ BY afe manner. The sixth annual outing of the United Commercial Travelers will be Aeld at Provo, July 4 and 6. The home of H. W. Marriott, at Harriott, Weber county, was destroyed Ejr lire on June 7, the loss being $3,000. The Weber club of Ogden, one of he best boosting organizations in the state, is to have a new home, to cost approximately $100,000. Inside of ninety days, it is expect-d- , the principal business streets of Ogden in the paved district will be entirely free from unsigntly poles. Joseph Jeffries, master mechanic oi the Salt Lake routo, suffered serious Internal injuries at Lynn junction while erecting machinery, by a piece steel falling upon him. Miss Sarah Jorgensen, aged 26, was found dead in a ditch near her home at Lake View. She was subject to fainting spells and had evidently fallen Into the water In one of these sew w wei mnmfa daring to stay behind. We found the unliving room and the drawing room disturbed. Somehow I felt that whatever we found would be in the card-rooor on the staircase, and nothing but the fear that Halsey was in danger drove me on; with every step my knees seemed to give way under me. Gertrude was ahead and in the card-rooshe stopped, holding her candle high. Then she pointed silently to the doorway Into the hall beyond. Huddled there on the floor, face down, with his arms extended, was a man. Gertrude ran forward with a gasping sob. Jack, she cried, Oh, Jack! Llddy had run, screaming, and the two of us were there alone. It was Gertrude who turned him over, finally, until we could see his white face, and then she drew a deep breath and dropped limply to her knees. It was the body of a man, a gentleman, in a dinner coat and white waistcoat, stained now with blood the body of a man 1 had never seen before. SYNOPSIS. Mias Innes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer at Sunnyside. Amidst nuheadquarters merous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night, she was startled by a dark figure on the veranda. She passed a terrible night, which was filled CHAPTER attacks. Struck by a switch engine while driving across the railroad tracks In Salt Lake City, Benjamin PrleBe was thrown from a eart and sustained injuries from which he died a short law later. with unseemly 1 noises. Continued. 1 Theres going to be a death! she walled. Oh, Miss Rachel, theres going to be a death! There will be, I said grimly, "if you dont keep quiet, Llddy Allen. And so we sat there until morning, wondering if the candle would last until dawn, and arranging what trains we could take back to town. If we had only stuck to that decision and gone back before it was too late! The sun came finally, and from my window I watched the trees along the drive take shadowy form, gradually lose their ghostlike appearance, become gray and then green. The Greenwood club showed itself a dab of white against the bill across the valley, and an early robin or two hopped around in the dew. Not unand the sun came, til the milk-boabout the same time, did I dare to open the door into the hall and look around. Everything was as we bad left It. Trunks were heaped here and and there, ready for the trunk-room- , through an end window of stained glass came a streak of red and yellow daylight that was eminently was poundcheerful. The milk-boing somewhere below, and the day "I Was Roused by had begun. came Thomas Johnson ambling up "bunch of servants my courage rethe drive about half-pas- t six, and we vived, and late in the afternoon came could hear him clattering around on a message from Gertrude that she and the lower floor, opening shutters. I Halsey would arrive that night at had to take Llddy to her room up- about 11 o'clock, coming In the car stairs, however she was quite sure from Richfield. Things were looking she would find something uncanny. In up; and when Beulah, my cat, a most fact, when she did not, having now Intelligent animal, found s.ome early the courage of daylight, she was actu- catnip on a bank near the house and ally disappointed. rolled in It In a feline ecstasy, I deWell, we did not go back to town cided that getting back to nature was that day. the thing to do. I warned Llddy not to mention what While I was dressing for dinner, had happened to anybody, and tele- Llddy rapped at the door. She was phoned to town for servants. Then, hardly herself yet, but privately I after a breakfast which did more think she was worrying about the brocredit to Thomas heart than his head, ken mirror and its augury, more than went on a short tour of Investiga- anything else. When she came in she tion. The sounds had come from the was holding something in her hand, east .wing, and not without some and she laid It on the dressing table qualms I began there. At first I found carefully. 1 found It In the linen nothing. Since then J have developed hamper, my powers of observation, but at that she said. It must be Mr. Halseys, time 1 was a novice. The small card-roo- but it seems queer how It got there. seemed undisturbed. I looked for It was the half of a link cuff butfootprints, which is, 1 believe, the ton of unique design, and I looked at thing to do, although my It carefully. experience has been that as clews Where was It? In the bottom of both footprints and thumb-markare the hamper? I asked. more useful In fiction than in fact. 'On the very top, she replied. Its But the stairs in that wing offered a mercy it didn't fall out on the way." something. When Llddy had gone I examined At the top of the flight had been the fragment attentively. I had never placed a tall wicker hamper, packed seen it before, and I was certain It with linen that had come from town. was not Halseys. It was of Italian It stood at the edge of the top step, workmanship, and consisted of a almost barring passage, and on the mother-of-peafoundation, encrusted step below it was a long, fresh with tiny strung on scratch. For three steps the scratch horsehair to hold them. In the cenwas repeated, gradually diminishing, ter was a small ruby. The trinket as if some object had fallen, striking was odd enough, but not Intrinsically each one. Then for four steps nothing. of great value. Its Interest for me On the fifth step below was a round lay in this: Llddy had found it lying dent in the hard wood. That was all, In the top of the hamper which had and It seemed little enough, except blocked the east-winstairs. that I was positive the marks bad not That afternoon the Armstrongs been there the day before. housekeeper, a youngish It bore out my theory of the sound, woman, applied for Mrs. Ralston's which had been for all the world like place, and I was glad enough to take the bumping of a metallic object down her. She looked as though she might a flight of steps. The four steps had be equal to a dozen of Llddy, with her been skipped. I reasoned that an iron snapping black eyes and heavy jaw. bar, for Instance, would do something Her name was Anne Watson, and I of the sort strike two or three steps, dined that evening for the first time end down, then turn over, jumping a In three days. ' few stairs, and landing with a thud. Iron bars, however, do not fall CHAPTER III. down-Btair- s in the middle of the nigbt alone. Coupled with the figure on the Mr. John Bailey Appeara. I had dinner served in the breakveranda the agency by which It climbed might be assumed. Hut and fast room. Somehow the huge dining here was the thing that puzzled me room depressed me, and Thomas, most the doors were all fastened cheerful enough all day, allowed his that morning, the windows unmolest- spirits to go down with the sun. He ed, and the particular door from the had a habit of watching the corners card room to the veranda had a com- of the room, left shadowy by the canbination lock of which I held the key, dles on the table, and altogether it and which had not been tampered was not a festive meal. with. Dinner over I went Into the living I fixed on an attempt at burglary, room. I had three hours' before the as the most natural explanation an children could possibly arrive, and I attempt frustrated by the falling of got out my knitting. the object, whatever it was, that had The chug of the automobile as it roused me. Two things I could not climbed the hill was the most welunderstand; how the Intruder had es- come sound I had heard for a long caped with everything locked, and time, and with Gertrude and Halsey before me, my troubles why he had left the small silver, actually which, in the absence of a butler, had seemed over for good. Gertrude stood remained downstairs over night. smiling in the hall, with her ha quite In the afternoon a hack came up over one ear, and her hair in ( ry from Casanova, with a fresh relay of direction under her pink veil is a very pretty girl, no matter servants. The driver took them with a flourish to the servants' entrance, how her bat Is, and I was not surand drove around to the front of the prised when Halsey presented a good house, where I was awaiting him. looking young man, who bowed at "Two dollars, he said in reply to me and looked at Trude that Is the my question. "I dont charge full ridiculous nickname Gertrude brought rates, because, brlngln' em up all from school. I have brought a guest, Aunt Ray,' summer as I do. It pays to make a I want you to adopt special price. When they got off the Halsey said. train I sez, sez I: There's another him Into your affections and your list. Let me present bunch for Sunnyside, cook, parlor maid and all. Yesm six summers, John Bailey, only you must call him and a new lot never less than once a Jack. In 12 hours hell be calling you month. They wont stand for the "Aunt: I know him. We shook hands, and I got a chance country and the lonesomenees, to look at Mr. Bailey; he was a tall reckon " But with the presence of the fellow, perhaps 30, and he wore a $50,-BO- Pa-eifl- x gen-irat- . $100,000. Shot through the center of the heart, after he had done terible execution with a razor on the face of J. R. Hicks, a negro, Joe Smith, a negro bootblack, 22 years of age, fell dead. The tragedy occurred In & negro club in Salt Lake City and was the result of jealousy over a woman. y s rl seed-pearl- g good-lookin- g Tomato Chicken Vegetable and ten other kinds. Delightful natural flavor and made from the very best materials, with the care of experienced chefs, inthe great White Enameled Kitchens. CHAPTER IV. y About eighty of the striking electrical workers of Salt Lake City have established a camp on the shores of Utah lake near American Fork, where Hey will remain pending a settlement sf the strike. The new orphans home and day ursery In Salt Lake City, which was recently constructed at a cost of and which was formally opened Thursday, June 10, Is already occur pied by fifty little waifs. August 1 Is the date officially set for the opening of the Western Freight traffic is now being handled with dispatch, less than four days being required for the run between Salt Lake and Saa Francisco. While driving down Ogden canyon, Beorge Kohn, with several friends, had a narrow escape from death when a automobile struck the vehicle from kehind, throwing the team of horses, lurray and its occupants Into the river. The proprietors of all the stores Ik Eureka have agreed to close their places of business on every Thursday afternoon during the months of June, Inly and August to give their employes a short rest during the heated term. carloads of cattle have Thirty-sibeen shipped from Modena during the past week, and shipments for the sext two weeks will be heavy. One aundied and ,, seventeen cars have been ordered to load at this point within the next ten days. Building Is at a standstill In Ogden sn account of the walkout of the carpenters and joiners of the local union three weeks ago. Indications are that the strike will not soon be settled, as loth sides have expressed themselves m against yielding to the other. Struck by an automobile, carrying I party of "joy riders, In Salt Lake Dlty Arthur Ougler was hurled a distance of fifteen feet and sustained fa everely lacerated left eye, as well as a sprained arm, Saturday night. His sscape from death wa miraculous. While swimming in the Green river Saturday afternoon, a short distance from his home, Emmett, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Anderson of Green River, was drowned. The boy had been forbidden to go into the water and was alone at the time the accident occurred. , Work on the power plant at Belknap, in Sevier county, has been begun by the Belknap Power company. e The plant, when completed, will 9,000 horsepower. Its lines will the extend throughout ultimately to county, with rumored intention reach Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Sessions of Syra cuse met with a very severe accident Kays-vlllewhile returning home from The horse became frightened and Mrs. Sessions and the baby were thrown out and seriously Injured, nhlle Mr. Sessions was dragged for sonsiderable distance. Since the Western Pacific was re opened for traffic between 450 and 600 men and three work trains have been employed in raising the track across the south end of Great Salt lake. When this work is completed the track will have been raised six feet above the old grade. Caught under a falling wall, john Powers, 60 years of age, sustained in juries from which he died while being taken to the hospital, and William Heinz received severe internal injuries. The men were tearing down an old building In Salt Lake City when the accident occurred. Work has begun on the new cereal This enterprise factory at Trenton. Is being financed by Trenton, Ogden and Salt Lake capital. TAe plant being put In will have a daily capacity of 500 cases, and will cost about , r T a Revolver Shot. small mustache. I remember wondering why; he seemed to have a good mouth and when he smiled bis teeth were above the average. One never knows why certain men cling to a messy upper lip that must get into things, any more than one understands some women building up their hair on wire atrocities. Otherwise, he was very good to look at, stalwart and tanned, with the direct gaze that I like. I am particular about Mr. Bailey, because he was a prominent figure in what happened later. Gertrude was tired with the trip and went up to bed very soon. I made up my mind to tell them nothing until the next day, and then to make as light of our excitement as possible. After all, what had I to tell? An inquisitive face peering in at a window; a crash In the night; a scratch or two on the stairs, and half ! a As for Thomas and his forebodings, it was always my belief that a negro is one part thief, one part pigment, and the rest superstition. It was Saturday night. The two men went to the billiard room, and I could hear them talking as I went upstairs. It seemed that Halsey had stopped at the Greenwood club for gasolene and found Jack Bailey there, with the Sunday golf crowd. Mr. Bal-lehad not been hard to persuade probably Gertrude knew why and they had carried him off triumphantly. I roused Llddy to get them something to eat Thomas was beyond reach in the lodge and paid no attention to her evident terror of the kitchen regions. Then I went to bed. The men were still In the billiard room when I finally dozed off, and the last thing I remember was the howl of a dog in front of the house. It wailed a crescendo of woe that trailed off hopefully, only to break out afresh from a new point of the compass. At three oclock in the morning I was roused by a revolver shot. The sound seemed to come from just outside my door. For a moment I could not move. Then I heard Gertrude stirring In her room, and the next moment she had thrown open the concuff-button- y door. O, Aunt Ray! necting Aunt Ray! she Some one has hysterically. been killed! Thieves, I said shortly. "Thank goodness, there are some men in the I was getting into house and Germy slippers and a bath-robtrude with shaking hands was lighting a lamp. Then we opened the door into the hall, where, crowded on the upper landing of the stairs, the maids, white-face- d and trembling, were peering down, headed by Liddy. I was greeted by a series of low screams and questions, and I tried to quiet them. Gertrude had dropped on a chair and sat there limp and shivcried ering. I went at once across the hall to Halseys room and knocked; then I pushed the door open. It was empty; the bed had not been occupied! He must be in Mr. Bailey's room, Ger-trua- v said excitedly, and followed by Llddy, we went there. Like Halsey's, it had not been occupied! Gertrude was on her feej now, but she leaned , against the door for support. I Where Is Halsey? Gertrude gazed at the face in a kind of fascination. Then she put out her hands blindly, and I thought she was going to faint. He has killed him! she muttered almost inarticulately; and at that, because my nerves were going, I gave her a good shake. What do you mean? I said frantically. There was a depth of grief and conviction in her tone that was worse than anything she could have said. The shake braced her, anyhow, and she seemed to pull herself together. But not another word would she say; she stood gazing down at that gruesome figure on the floor, while Liddy, ashamed of her flight and afraid to come back, drove before her three terrified women servants into the drawing room, which was as near as any of them would venture. Once in the drawing room, Gertrude collapsed and went from one fainting spell into another. I had all I could do to keep Liddy from drowning her with cold water, and the maids huddled in a corner, as much use as so many sheep. In a short time, although it seemed hours, a car came rushing up, and Anne Watson, who had waite to dress, opened the door. Three me from the Greenwood club, in all kinc( of costumes, hurried In. I recognized a Mr. Jarvis, but the others were Soups are ready Libbys for immediate use by adding an equal portion of hot water Ask your grocer for Libby s Soaps Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT Complacent Smoker Had No Use for the Bands, So What Was the Difference. There were four of them on the of a car, thrown together, so to speak, by a rough track. All were smoking. An odor, not of cigars, detracted somewhat from Interest In the general conversation. The odor became pronounced. One of the quartette cast about for a reason. He saw one of his companions complacently smoking a cigar that strangers. had burned down past the flaring red Whats wrong? the Jarvis man band that girdled it. There remained asked and we made a strange pic- no question of the source of the odor. ture, no doubt. Nobody hurt, is Excuse me, the discoverer said to there? He was looking at Gertrude. the complacent one, your cigar band Worse than that, Mr. Jarvis, I is burning. said. I think it is murder. Thats all right, old man, the comAt the word there was a commotion. placent one replied, "Im not saving The cook began to cry, and Mrs. Wat- them. son knocked over a chair. The men were visibly impressed. The Rude Visitor. There is a story about the secretary Not any member of the family? Mr. Jarvis asked, when he had got of a golf club who was a man of diminutive stature. It was summer time, his breath. No, I said; and motioning Liddy and the grass had been allowed to to look after Gertrude, I led the way grow rather long. The secretary was with a lamp to the cardroom door. playing in front of a visitor who was One of the men gave an exclamation, a very long driver, and kept dropping and they all hurried across the room. his hall in the neighborhood of the Mr. Jarvis took the lamp from me I secretary all the way round. At last remember that and then feeling my- the little man could stand it no longer I and walked back and remonstrated self getting dizzy and closed my eyes. When I opened them with the visitor on his conduct, but their brief examination was over, and the only reply he got was, If you Mr. Jarvis was trying to put me in a would cut the grass, one might be able to see you. chair. "You must get upstairs, he said The Vocabulary. firmly, you and Miss Gertrude, too. Webster was compiling the dictionThis has been a terrible shock. In ary, his own home, too. Getting together a few words to I stared at him without comprehenuse In a he extelegram, Who is It? I asked with difsion. plained. ficulty. There seemed a band drawn Herewith the public called him tight around my throat. blessed. is Arnold It Armstrong, he said, looking at me oddly, and he has been Crude, But Comforting. murdered in his fathers house. You are having a lot of fun with After a minute I gathered myself that kite of yours, said the neighbor. Yes, replied Ben Franklin, there's together and Mr. Jarvis helped me into the living room. Liddy had got a great deal of satisfaction in getting "Gertrude and the two a little long distance electricity withupstairs, strange men from the club stayed out being told that the lines busy. with the body. The reaction from the shock and strain was tremendous; I was collapsed and then Mr. Jarvis asked me a question that brought back my wandering faculties. Where is Halsey? he asked. Halsey! Gertrudes Suddenly stricken face rose before me the empty room, upstairs. Where was Follows a breakfast that is Halsey? pleasing and healthful. He was here, wasn't he? Mr. Jarvis persisted. He stopped at the club on his way over. I don't know where he is," I said feebly. One of the men from the club came fci, asked for the telephone, and I could hear him excitedly talking, saying something about coroners and detectives. Mr. Jarvis leaned over to Are pleasing and healthful, me. and bring smiles of satisfacWhy dont you trust me, Miss Intion to the whole family. nes"? If I can do anything he said. I will. But tell me the whole thing. I did, finally, from the beginaing, The Memory Lingers' and w hen I told of Jack Bailey's being in the house that night he gave a Popular Pkg. 10c. long whistle. rear platform light-heade- she They have been killed! gasped. Then she caught me by the arm and' dragged me toward the stairs, ?They may only be hurt, and we must find them, she said, her eyes dilated with excitement. I dont remember how we got down I wish they were both the stairs; I do remember expecting here," he every moment to be killed. The cook said when I finished. Whatever mad was at the telephone upstairs, calling prank took them away, it would look the Greenwood club, and Liddy was better If they were here. Especially behind me, afraid to come and not (TO BE CONTINUED.) d f A Happy Day Post Toasties Family Size 15c. Postura Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich. J t |