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Show f Not What He Asked For. small boy hurried into the corner butcher shop and told the proprietor his mother wanted a nice, tender turkey for Thanksgiving, and she wanted it dressed. T)ie butcher selected just such a bird from the lot In the window, and said, with satisfaction: "Here's a dandy, my boy just what your mother wants! the youth. No, It ain't!" returned That turkey hasnt any clothes on. Judge. A CROU A POSTAL CARO BRINGS YOU A COMPLETE PMCC LIST ON S RAW FURS vertical iron ladder, fastened to the planning, If I were not discovered, wall outside of the ballroom, and per- who would have my things. I knew WRITE haps 12 feet high. The 12 feet looked Liddy would want my heliotrope popshort from below, but they were dif- lin, and shes a fright in lavender. fosTPosTga. ficult to climb. I gathered my silk Once or twice 1 heard mice in the parfSATrSAcwnr! finalso I sat on the table, with around succeeded and and me, gown titions, .RETURNS tLLmmmm by tWSSM'KB ly In making the top of the ladder. my feet on the chair. I Imagined I VOflirwi y f on Once there, however, I was complete- could hear the search going DKNYElt, COLORADO SYNOPSIS. ly out of breath. I sat down, my feet through the house, and once some mantel and founa the panel. A collapsible conscience may be Now the sounds below redoubled; on the top rung, and put my hair-pinone came Into the trunkroom; I could Mils more comfortable than an Ingrowing spinster and guardian of in more securely, while the wind bel- distinctly hear footsteps. from the clatter and jarring I knew Gertrude and Halsey, established Bum The tlno'.l place on earth to lire and gti a HI Ki mer headquarters at Sunnside. Arnold lowed my dressing gown out like a "In the chimney! In the chimney! that seieral people were running up one, but it works as much harm. NKSS biU CATION worth wiu.e. ftuoeaighl as found shot to death in sail. I had torn a School 2?ih year. rue for eaiaUtg W.w Armstrong was of and the I the all with called st.uis. and as the sounds apmy might, great strip the hall. Gertrude and her fiance. Jack silk loose, and now I ruthlessly fin- rewarded by a piercing shriek from proached i could even hear what they to be more are Bailey, had conversed in the billiard The likely angels etec-tlv- e room ahortly before the murder. aid. counting beads of perspiration than Jamieson accused Mias Innes of hold ished the destruction of my gown by Liddy and the slam of the trunkroom of Haul jerking it free and tying it around my door Warm the end staircases!" Jamie- drops of tears. back Cashier evidence. tng Halley Armstrong's bank, defunct, was arrested head. I felt easier after that, although the son shouted Filth Floor Hamburger BuLUliug. "Damnation theres no for embezzlement. Paul Armstrong's Mrs. Winslows Soothing 8yrup. death was announced. Halseys fiancee, Luckily, the roof was flat, and I room was oppressively hot and light hue!" And then a second later. Louise Armstrong, told Halsey that while vas able to Invention. Free Forehtldren teething. softens tht gums. go over every inch of it But enervating. I hed no doubt the search All together now. One a pain, euro w ind colic. Ao a botue. two Booklet free. MtlX he itlll loved him, sue was to marry anPATENT; rystearcb h L N & .).. haiub W4 other. It developed that Dr. Walker was the result was disappointing; no trap- for me would now come In the right three " b6S Uth Bu, Washington, MJ larburn Hi., the man. Louise was found unconscious door revealed itself, no The door Into the trunkroom had glass window; direction, and after a little, I dropped The trouble hunter always bags at the bottom of the circular stancase. ' I She said something had brushed by her nothing but a couple of pipes two into a doze. How long I slept I do been lot ked from the Inside. At the W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. game. in the dark on the stairway end she inches across, and standing perhaps not know. second that it gave, opening against fainted. Bailey is suspected of ArmIt must have been several hours, the wall with a crash and evidently the lodgekeep-r- , 18 inches high and three feet apart, strong's murder. Thomas, was found dead with a note in his with a cap to prevent rain from en- for I had been tired from a busy day, tumbling somebody into the room, the WalLueien name bearing the pocket lace. M A ladder found out of place deep- tering and raised to permit the pas- and I waked stiff from my awkward stealthy fingers beyond the mantel-doo- r were ens the mystery. The stables I could not remember sage of air. I picked up a pebble position. gave the knob the proper imburned, and in the dark Miss Innes shot an Intruder. Halsey mysteriously disap- from the roof and dropped it down, where I was for a few minutes, and petus, and the door swung open, and by listening with my ear at one of the my head felt heavy and congested. closed again. Only and Liddy alpeared. His auto was found wrecked had a freight train. It developed Halsey an argument in the library with a woman pipes. I could hear it strike on some- Gradually I roused to my surround- ways screams and puts her fingers in A strong man is strong all ovsr. No man can be New cook disbefore his disappearance. in spite of her ears at this strong who is suffering from weak atomach with its point only now I was thing with a sharp, metallic sound ings, and to the fact that appears. Miss Innes learned Halsey livid but it was impossible for me to tell ventilators, the air was bad and grow- was not alone in the chimney room. consequent indigestion, or from some other disease alive. Dr. Walker's face becomes of the stomach and its associated organs, which imat mention of the name of Nina Carringhow far It had gone. ing worse. I was breathing long, There was some one else In the darkton. Evidence was secured from a tramp pairs digestion and nutrition, Far when the stomach I gave up finally and went down the gasping respirations, and my face was ness, some one who breathed hard, fh.at a man, supposedly Halsey, had been it weak or diseased there it a loss of the nutrition bound and gagged ana thrown into an ladder again, getting in through the damp and clammy. I must have been and who was so close I could have contained in food, which ia the aouroe of all physical empty box car. Gertrude wasranmissinga ballroom window without being ob there a long time, and the searchers touched him with into my hand. for her, Mias Innes When a man doesnt feel just right, Hunting strength. man and fainted. A confederate of Dr. served. I went back at once to the were probably hunting outside the Out-ldI was in a paralysis of terror. when he doesn't sleep well, has an uncomfortable walker confessed hit part in the mysthere were excited voices and intrunkroom, and, sitting down on a house, dredging the creek, or beating feeling in the stomach after eating, is languid, nervoui, irritable and deapond-en- t, tery. He stated that the Carrington woman had been killed, that Walker feared box, gave my mind, as consistently as the woodland. I knew that another credulous oaths. be is losing the nutrition needed to make strength. were The trunks ArmPaul set, and that he believed thathand I could, to the problem before me. If hour or two would find me uncon being jerked around in a frantla Such a man ahould use Dr. Pierce a Golden Medlem) a had killed been guided by strong the plpea In the roof were ventilators scious, and with my inability to cry search, the windows were thrown by Walker. Halsey was found in a disDlacovery. It c urea dlaeaaea of the atomach and other not was Paul tant hospital. Armstrong to the secret room, and there was no out would go my only chance of res- open, only to ehow a sheer drop of 40 ordana of dtieatlon and nutrition. It enrlchea the blood r dead. Miaa Innea discovered secret rooms ' Invltoratea the liver, atrentthena tha kldaeya, nourlmhem In which the Traders' bank treasure was trap-doo- r above, the entrance was cue. It was the combination of bad air feet. And the man in the room with believed te be. Mrs. "Watson, dying, said the nerves, and mo GIVES HEALTH AND STRENGTH TO Inade- me leaned some befor In one two rooms of mantel-doo- r the and heat, probably, probably the against the killed Arnold Armstrong, who years THE WHOLE BODY. before had married her slater under the tween which it lay unless. Indeed, quate ventilation was coming through and listened. His pursuers were You cant afford to accept a ucret nostrum as a substitute for this nontfias of Wallace Luclen Wallace was the room had been built, and the open the pipes. I tried to retain my conI heard him draw a long alcoholic medicine os enown costrosmoN, not even though the urgent dealer of the marriage. ing closed with a brick and mortar sciousness by walking the length of breath, and turn to grope his way may thereby make a little bigger profit. Ingredients printed on wrapper. wall. the room and back, over and over, but through the blackness. Then he CHAPTER XXXIII. The mantel fascinated me. Made of I had not the strength to keep it up, touched my hand, cold, clammy, deathwood and carved, the more I looked so I sat down on the table again, my like. At the Foot of the Stairs. A hand in an empty room! He drew As I drove rapidly up to the house the more I wondered that I had not back against the wall. The house was very still. Once my in his breath, the sharp Intaking of from Casanova station in the hack, I noticed before the absurdity of such saw the detective Burns loitering a mantel in such a place. It was cov- straining ears seemed to catch a foot- horror that fill lungs suddenly colacross the street from the Walker ered with scrolls and panels, and fin- fall beneath me, possibly in my own lapsed. Beyond jerking his hand away place. So Jamieson was putting the ally, by the merest accident, I pushed room. I groped for the chair from Instantly, he made no movement. 1 screws on lightly now, but ready to one of the panels at the side. It the table, and pounded with it frantic- think absolute terror had him by the give them a twist or two, I felt cer- moved easily, revealing a small brass ally on the floor. But nothing hap- throat. Then he stepped back, withknob. pened; I realized bitterly that If the out turning, retreating foot by foot tain, very soon. It Is not necessary to detail the sound was heard at all, no doubt it from The Dread In the corner, and The house was quiet. Two steps of the circular staircase had been pried fluctuations of hope and despair, and was classed with the other rappings do not think he breathed. not a little fear of what lay beyond, that had so alarmed us recently. ofT without result, and beyond a secThen, with the relief of space beAnd then I heard sounds from be- tween us, I screamed, ond message from Gertrude that Hal- with which I twisted and turned the sey insisted on coming home and they knob. It moved, but nothing aeemed low me, in tbs house. There was a madly, and they heard me outside. would arrive that night there was tft happen, and then I discovered the peculiar throbbing, vibrating noise "In the chimney!" I shrieked. "Benothing new. Mr. Jamieson, having trouble. I pushed the knob vigorous- that I felt rather than heard, much hind the mantel! The mantel!" failed to' locate the secret room, had ly to one side, and the whole mantel like the pulsing beat of fire engines in With an oath the figure hurled itself gone to the village. I learned after- swung loose from the wall almost a the city. For one awful moment I across the room at me, and wards that he called at Dr. Walkers, foot, revealing a cavernous space be- thought the house was on fire, and screamed again. In his blind fury be every drop of blood In my body gath- had missed me; I heard him strike under pretense of an attack of acute yond. I took a long breath, closed the ered around my heart; then I knew. It the wall. That one time I eluded indigestion, and before he left had Inquired about the evening trains to the door from the trunkroom Into the hall was the engine of the automobile, and him; I was across the room, and I had thank heaven, I did not lock it and Halsey had come back. Hope sprang got the chair. He stood for a second, city. He said he had wasted a lot of time on the case, and a good bit of pulling the mantel-doo- r wide open, I up afresh. Halseys clear head and listening, then he made another rush I had Gertrude's Intuition might do what and I struck out with my weapon. the mystery was in my imagination! stepped into the chimney-room- . I The doctor was under the impression time to get a hazy view of a small Liddys hysteria and three detectives think it stunned him, for 1 had a secthat the house was guarded day and portable safe, a common wooden table had failed in. ond's respite when I could hear him We are just as proud of the REMINGTON .22. After a time I thought I had been breathing, and some one shouted outnight Well, give a place a reputation and a chair then .the mantel door Repeaters as we are of the Remington Big Gem like that and you dont need a guard swung to, and clicked behind me. I right. There was certainly something side: high power rifles for just as good reasons. No other And sure stood quite still for a moment, in the going on down below; doors were at all thus Jamieson. "We can't- get In. How does It make of the .22 class is built to as high a strndard. were In two late the to the unable what afternoon, hurrying slamming, people darkness, enough, comprehend open? The featuies that place the REMINGTON .22 in a dan by itself are the ma! hie the and I Then had certain high turned and beat through halla, But the man in the room had happened. private detectives, accompanied by REMINGTON features Hammer lew and Solid Breech. You dess the Karrs! boas Mr. Jamieson, walked down the main furiously at the door with my fists. notes of excited voices penetrated to changed his tactics. I knew he waa ths breech not fords the dirt back into the working puts as in other 2X a, iaaaiag street of Casanova, and took a It was closed and locked again, and me shrilly. I hoped they were coming creeping on me, inch by inch, and I usefulness and maintaining constant shooting condition. train. my fingers in the darkness slid over a closer, but after a time the sounds could not tell from where. And then There is perhaps a greater difference between the REMINGTON and other 22 Ru That they got off at the next station smooth wooden surface without a sign died sway below, and I was left to the he caugh ne. He held his hand pesters than is to be found between rifles of any other class. silence and heat, to the weight of the over my mouth, and I bit him. I waa and walked back again to Sunnyside of a knob. A REAL RIFLE -i- he REMINGTON 22 Repeater. Shoot, without adjusts I was furiously angry at mysslf, at darkness, to the oppression of walls helpless, strangling and some one at dusk was not known at the time. meat. 22 short, 22 long or .22 long rifle cartridges. at everything. I did that seemed to close in on me and was trying to break In the mantel Personally, I knew nothing of either the mantel-door- , Set of Targeta Mailed Free. before the stifle me. move; I had other things to absorb not fear suffocation; from outside. It began to yield someTHE REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY. Aaoocyi 2M Broadway, New Verb City. me a I to come The I first was had had had me at that time. thought already warning where, for a thin wedge of yellowish Llddy brought me some tea while I seen a gleam of light from the two stealthy fumbling at the lock of the light was reflected on the opposite With my mouth open wall. When he saw that, my assailant rested after my trip, and on the tray small ventilating pipes in the roof. mantel-door- . was a small hook from the Casanova They supplied air, but nothing else. to scream, I stopped. Perhaps the sit- dropped me with a curse; then the library. It was called The Unseen The room itself was shrouded in uation had rendered me acute, per- opposite wall swung open noiselessly, awomIn & World" and had a cheerful cover, on blackness. haps It was instinctive. Whatever It closed again without a sound, and 1 Bovs shoes, ta.oo, aa.so and sa.oo. best in the world. I must have dozed off. I am sure was, I sat without moving, and some was alone. The Intruder was gone. sheeted figures which a Tbe'BoueflCisof free hides. If I eould take you Into my I did not faint. I was never more one outside, In absolute stillness, ran linked hands around a headstone. "In the next room! I called wildly. which apply principally to largo factories at Hrockton, At this point In my story, Halsey composed In my life. I remember his fingers over the carving of the "The next room! But the sound of sole leather, and the red ured Maas., end show you how caie W. I. Ikmgittfl shoe are tariff on sole leather, now fully blows on the mantel drowned always says; "Trust a woman to add made, the ru jerior workmanship my mo to enables the give And the high grade louther lined, two and two together, and make six. voice. By the time I had made them wearer more value for his would then undertaaud why To which I retort that If two and two understand, a couple of minutes had money, better and longer Iu for Dollar I Guarantee to Mines to hold their shape, X then discover makes the six, wearing $3, $3.50 and $4 jny plus elapsed. The pursuit was taken up look end fit better and wear shoes than I eould give preunknown quantity is the simplest than any other $3.(J0, then, by all except Alex, who was delonger vious to the tariff revision. 4.00 aboea you can buy. termined to liberate me. When I thing in the world. That a houseful Io you real Ixa that my hoe hare been the standard for over JO of detectives missed It entirely was stepped out into the trunkroom a free pTndeH year ; that 1 make and nell more $3.00. $3K) and $4 00 sboeg than . U because they were busy trying to th Htates ? Quality comiU, woman again I could hear the chase has made W. I. Douglas shoeUniH a household word everv here. two two and make four. that prove far below. , CAUTION ! NO SUBSTITUTE- The depression due to my visit to I must say, for all Alex's anxiety to lx your dealer cannot euppiy you wit li w. l hongi shoe wnt for Mail Order Caiaioe W. I. BOI'ULas, the hospital left me at the prospect of 14& Mark tot., Uruckioii, a set me free, he paid little enough atseeing Halsey again that night. It tention to my t plight He jumped was about five oclock when Llddy through the opening Into the secret left me for a nap before dinner, havroom and picked up the portable safe. "I am going to put this In Mr. Haling put me Into a gray silk dressing-gowand a pair of slippers. I listened sey's room. Miss Innes, he said, "and to her retreating footsteps, and as I shall send one of the detectives to soon as she was safely below stairs guard It. I went up to the trunkroom. The I hardly heard him. I wanted to place had not been disturbed, and laugh and cry in the same breath proceeded at once to try to discover to crawl Into bed and have a cup of the entrance to the hidden room. The tea, and scold Liddy, and do any of epenlngs on either side, as I have the thousand natural things that I had said, showed nothing but perhaps never expected to do again And the Soltf by Dealer Everywhere three feet of brick wall. There was air! The touch of the cool night air Y PO BALB no levers, no " MANUFACTURED BY no sign of an entrance on my face! Oil Continental Oil standard a hint. to Either Csmpaay the Company give ) hinges, (TO BE CONTINl'ED (T corpora ted) (Incorporated) mantel or the roof, I decided, and afthalf-hour at the mantel, producWorried Over His Trousers. er a The humors and tragedies of New tive of absolutely no result, I decided T .. y; i ,; vYork East side life are delineated by i.T to try the roof. I am not fond of a height. The few Frank Marshall White in an article In occasions on which I have climbed a Harpers Weekly Master Jacob Rosr have always left me dizzy enberg, eleven or twelve years of arid weak in the knees. The top of age, was suffering from a broken leg. "Ills supreme agony came, however, the Washington monument is as imwhen Dr. M. ripped up one side of possible to me as the elevation to the And chair. the juvenlls tre;: rs with a pair of yet I presidential scissors to make room for bandages. climbed out on the Sunnyside roof 'My new pants! My new pants! He's without a seconds hesitation. Like The Rays Lamp is a high grade lamp, told at a low pnrr , new Jacob a dog on a scent, like my bear skin my pants! cutting There are liepi hat cost tnore, hut t lure n do better lnmp hia-his and his with almost himself and spear shrieked, wriggled (Vinstnicted of aolld brass; plated eai ykritf.ear a n price progenitor, ornament to any room n any boa. There Is d Mr r known t' tu now me was there out of the the grasp of the policeman and wild boar, to v t uo of he K A To i of add he tot thatean irhv STEADY jihp ie giving device Rvery t dealer everywhere. If not at Tour. the driver in his efforts to prevent the WHIT lust of the chase, the frenzy of purcircular to he nearest agenrv of the descriptive UCHT mutilation of his raiment. All the CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY (lecorporaud' suit, the dust of battle. I got quite a way to hla home in the ambulance the little of the latter on me as I climbed hoy bewailed his mangled trousers from the unfinished ballroom out mors than he did his brokss leg through a window to the roof of the cast wing of the building, which was Keeps the spindle bright and fre We think that preachers ought to only two stories in height from grip Try a bex. Dealers everybrimfire and more hell to about of aoceae the say out top there, Omce where. Manufactured by Standard; stone: people are feeling altogether Oil Company (Inc.) For sale by the main building wa rendered easy Trsp-DoNo Rtvsalad too May about themselvss. -- at least it looked easy by a small MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Come to Los s Angeles VS 53-19- 10. 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