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Show T THE MORGAN POST John Stshle Jr., Editor & Proprietor MORGAN UTAH THE UTAH BUDGET Stricken with heart failure, William Jnrvis, t9 years old. a resident of Salt lake City, died while seated on the east steps of the temple. miner of P. J. Beard, an the Tintic district, died at Spring-ville- , June 25, at the age of 52 years, following an operation for abscess of the lungs. Lars Christian Larsen, who was born In Denmark and came to Utah over 35 years ago, having lived at Manti most of the time since, is dead at the age of 87. son of Postmaster The Johnson of Moab, met death by drowning. The boy went to the river to bathe with Borne other boys, and was overcome by the current. The Union Pacific has finished the telephone line between Ogden and Rawlins, Wyo., and henceforth trains will be operated over that section with telephone Instead of the telegraph. While under the influence of liquor Patrick Seeley, aged 35 years, fell from a second story window at his rooming house in Salt Lake City and sustained a fracture of the right leg. Caught under a loose slab rock in the porphyry tunnel of the Boston Consolidated mine at Bingham, Nick Evanoff, an Austrian, sustained a frac-Jur- e of the skull. He will probably recover. While the season has been exceptionally dry, the crops in the country tributary to Richfield were never better looking than they are this season. This is especially true of the beets and hay. The continued dry weather is causing a great deal of uneasiness among the American Fork sheep men, aiid unless there comes a rain in the near future the prospects for the sheep are doing poorly. son of Hugh Morton, the Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Morton, was drowned while swimming in ten feet of water in reservoir No. 1 of the Kaysville Irrigation company, half a mile north of Kaysville. Representative Howell has made a request to the geological survey that a topographical map of Box Elder county, Utah, .fee made by the survey. Director George Otis Smith has taken the matter under advisement. There is some talk at Provo of action being taken looking to the establishment of a park by the state at the head of Provo river, where the Provo, Weber, Bear and Duchesne rivers all rise In a comparatively small THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE ttyfURY ROBERTS RINEHART ILLUSmmMSBY old-tim- e SYNOPSIS. Miss Innes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer headquarters at Sunnyslde. Amidst numerous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innea locked up for the night, she was startled by a dark figure on the veranda. She passed a terrible night, which waa Ailed with unseemly noises. In the morning Mlsa Innes found a strange link cuff button In a clothes hamper. Gertrude and Halsey arrived with Jack Bailey. The house was awakened by a revolver shot. A strange man was found shot to death In the hall. It proved to be the body of Arnold Armstrong, whose banker father owned the country house. Miss Innes found Halsey's revolver on the lawn. He and Jack The link cuff Bailey had disappeared. Debutton mysteriously disappeared. tective Jamieson and the coroner arrived. Gertrude revealed that she was engaged to Jack Bailey, with whom she had talked In the billiard room a few moments before the murder. Ct, CHAPTER V. Continued. The quarrel, I believe, he persisted, was about Mr. Armstrongs conduct to you. Miss Gertrude. He had been paying you unwelcome attentions. And I had never seen the man! When she nodded a yes I saw the tremendous possibilities involved. If this detective could prove that Gertrude feared and disliked the murdered man, and that Mr. Armstrong had been annoying and possibly pursuing her with hateful attentions, all that, added to Gertrude's confession of her presence in the billiard room at the time of the crime, looked strange, to say the least. The prominence of the family assured a strenuous effort to find the murderer, and If we had nothing worse to look forward to, we were sure of a distasteful publicity. Mr. Jamieson shut his notebook with a snap and thanked us. I have an idea, he said, apropos of nothing at all, that at any rate the s ghost Is laid here. Whatever the have been and the colored man says they began when the family went west three months ago they are likely to stop now. Which shows how much he knew about it The ghost was not laid; with the murder of Arnold Armstrong he, or it, only seemed to take on fresh rap-ping- vigor. Mr, Jamieson left then, and when Gertrude had gone upstairs, as she did at once, I sat and thought over what I had just heard. Her engagement, once so engrossing a fbatter, paled area. An overdose of opium, mixed with now beside the significance of her If Halsey and Jack Bailey had vinegar, proved the undoing of Wong story. left before the crime, how came HalToy, a Chinese cook, whose dead body was found in Utahna park. In Ogden. seys revolver In the tulip bed? What Whether the oriental took the dose was the mysterious cause of their sudwith suicidal Intent or not is not den flight? What had Gertrude left in the billiard room? What was the known. of the cuff-linand where significance There is said to be a great scar- was it? city of track laborers on the Oregon Short Line. Many of the Japs who CHAPTER VI. have been employed on roadbed rework have pair. and construction In the East Corridor. abandoned the section and taken to When the detective left he enjoined the beet fields. absolute secrecy on everybody in the While excavating In Salt Lake City, household. The Greenwood club workmen found a grindstone, the date promised the same thing, and as there on the stone being 1849. W. H. Clark, are no Sunday afternoon papers, the the Sugar House druggist, has laid murder was not publicly known until claim to the grindstone, declaring that Monday. The coroner himself notified he burled it when he was a boy be- the Armstrong family lawyer, and cause he was weary of turning it. early In the afternoon he came out. District Judge Howell of Ogden has I had not seen Mr. Jamieson since made himself clear on the point that morning, but I knew' he bad been inbefore divorces are allowed in his terrogating the servants. Gertrude court some real good reason must was locked in her room with a headbe shown for it, and that the friv- ache, and I had luncheon alone. olous manner in which some regard Mr. Harton, the lawyer, was a little, the marital relation will not be tol- thin man, and he looked as if be did erated. not relish his business that day. At the Fourth of July celebration "This is very unfortunate, Miss Inat Upton, more than 100 prizes will nes," he said, after we had shaken be given away. Including four horses, hands. Most unfortunate and mysa buggy, five sheep, two fleeces, two terious. With the father and mother rocking chairs. There will be broncho In the west, I find everything devolves riding, steer roping, steer riding, on me; and, as you can understand, horse racing, automobile and motor It Is an unpleasant duty. racing. No doubt, I said absently. Mr. William J. Anderson, the Harton, I am going to ask you some son of Peter Anderson of Sandy, questions, and 1 hope you will answer was smothered to death by a cave-lthem. I feel that I am entitled to In the sandhills about two miles east Borne knowledge, because I and my of Sandy. It appears that the boy family are just now in a most ambiguwhile endeavoring to escape the blind- ous position. I dont know whether he undering rays of the sun, crawled Into the narrow cave. stood me or not; he took off his Sudden change to a high altitude, glasses and wiped them. I shall be very happy, added to the joyful prospects of soon he said courtesy. returning to the land of his nativity, with is believed to have caused the menThank you. Mr Harton, did Mr. tal derangement of Oreste Caralle, an Arnold Armstrong know that Sunny-sidhad been rented? Italian, who was taken from an train and placed In a padded I think yes, he did. In fact, I mycell In the Ogden jail. self told him about it. The Dener & Rio Grande railroad And he knew who the tenants is making unusual preparations for a were? hard winter. So far this summer the Yes. He had not been living with the company has more than 100,000 tons of lump coal from company mines family for some years. 1 believe? No. Unfortunately, there had been stored at the various junction points between Grand Junction and Ogden. trouble between Arnold and his father. For two years he had lived in After an illness of ouly twenty-fou- r hours, Joseph Clark, one of Ogdens town. Then It would be unlikely that he representative business men, is dead Mr. came here last night to get possession from an attack of pneumonia. Clark built the first steam flouring of anything belonging to him? I should think It hardly possible," mill west of the Missouri river, at he admitted. To be perfectly frank, was as and rated a millionaire. Ogden, Miss Innes, I can not think of any The program for the Independence reason whatever for his coming here day celebration at Park City will in- as he did. He had been staying at clude a parade headed by the Park the club bouse across the valley for in concert City military band and a (he last week, Jarvis tells me, but the morning, and foot races for men hat only explains how he came here, and children and a baseball game In It is a most unfortunate lot why. the afternoon. In the evening a; grand iR'ily." ball will hs give at the theatre. He his head despondently, k n e east-boun- b-- d Trembling as I was, I was determined to see that door opened. I hardly knew what I feared, but so many terrible and inexplicable things had happened that suspense was worse than certainty. I am perfectly cool, I said, and I am going to remain here. The lights flashed up along that end of the corridor, throwing the doors into relief. At the intersection of the small hallway with the larger, the circular staircase wound its way up, as If It had been an afterthought of the architect. And just around the corner, in the small corridor, was the door Mr. Jamieson had indicated. I was still unfamiliar with the house, and I did not remember the door. My heart was thumping wildly in my ears, but I nodded to him to go ahead. I was perhaps eight or ten feet away and then he threw the holt back. Come out, he said quietly. There "Come out, he was no response. repeated. Then I think he had a revolver, but I am not sure be stepped aside and threw the door open. From where I stood I could not sed beyond the door, but I saw Mr. Jamieson's face change and heard him mutter something, then he bolted down the stairs, three at a time. When my knees had stopped shaking, I moved forward, slowly, nervously, until I had a partial view of what was beyond the door. It seemed at first to be a closet, empty. Then I went close and examined it, to stop with a shudder. Where the floor should have been was black void and darkness, from which came the indescribable damp smell of the cellars. Mr. Jamieson had locked omebody in the clothes chute. As I le'aned over The Quarrel, I Believe. I fancied I heard a groan or was it and I felt that this dried-ulittle man ought to be able to change the plan the wind? was the repository of much that he of his house without becoming an CHAPTER VII. had not told me. I gave up trying to suspicion. elicit any Information from him, and There is little in the paper itself," A Sprained Ankle. we went together to view the body he admitted; but why should Arnold As I ran along I was before it was taken to the city. It Armstrong carry that around, unless had been lifted on to the billiard-tablit meant something? He never built the corridor I was confident that the and a sheet thrown over It; oth- a house, you may be sure of that. If mysterious intruder and probable mur erwise nothing had been touched. A it is this house, it may mean anything derer had been found, and that he soft hat lay beside it, and the collar from a secret room lay dead or dying at the foot of the I got dowm the staircase some chute. was still turned up. of the dinner-coa- t To an extra bathroom, I said The handsome, dissipated face of Ar- scornfully. Havent you a thumb- how, and through the kitchen to the basement stairs. Mr. Jamieson had nold Armstrong, purged of Its ugly print, too? before me, and the door stood been we As was now lines, only pathetic. "I have, he said with a smile, and went In Mrs. Watson appeared at the the open. Liddy was standing in the midin a of a foot and tulip bed, print of the kitchen holding a frying card-roodle door. a number of other things. The odd"Come In, Mrs. Watson, the lawyer est part is, Miss Innes, that the pan by the handle as a weapon. Dont go down there, she yelled, said. But she shook her head and thumb-maris probably yours and the when she saw me moving toward tbs one in was she the only withdrew; footprint certainly. basement sairs. Dont you do it. Miss the house who seemed to regret the His audacity was the only thing Rachel. That Jamiesons down there dead man, and even she seemed rath- that saved me; his amused smile put now. Theres only trouble comes ol er shocked than, sorry. r me on my mettle, and I ripped out a Before Mr. Harton left, he told me perfectly good scallop before I an- hunting ghosts; they lead you into bottomless pits and things like that something of the Armstrong family1. swered. as I tried Oh, Miss Rachel, dont Paul Armstrong, the father, had been Why did I step into the tulip bed? to get past her. married twice. Arnold was a son by I asked with interest. She was interrupted by Mr. Jamiethe first marriage. The second Mrs. You picked up something, he said son's reappearance. He ran up the Armstrong had been a widow, with which are go- stairs two at a time,' and his face was a child, a little girl. This child, now ing to tell me about later. you flushed and furious. perhaps 20, was Louise Armstrong, Am I, indeed?" I was politely cuThe whole place is locked he said taken her name, having stepfathers rious. With this remarkable insight angrily, Wheres the laundry key in and was at present California with of I wish you would tell me kept? yours, the family. where 1 shall find my . its kept in the door,' Liddy They will probably return at once, motorcar. That whole end of the celsnapped. he concluded, and part of my errand I was just coming to that, he lar is kept locked, so nobody can get here is to see If you will relin- said. You will find It about 30 miles at the clothes, and then the keys left quish your lease here in their favor. away, at Andrews Station, in a black- in the door, so that unless a thief We would better wait and see if smith shop, where It is being reIt seems paired. they wish to come, I said. unlikely, and my town house is being I laid dowm my knitting then and remodeled. At that he let the mat- looked at him. ter drop, bnt it came up unpleasantly And Halsey? I managed to say. enough, later. We are going to exchange inforAt six o'clock the body was taken mation, he said. I am going to tell after an you that, when you tell me what you away, and at seven-thirty- , early dinner, Mr. Harton went. Ger- picked up In the tulip bed. trude had not come down, and there We looked at each other; It was no news of Halsey. Mr. Jamie- was not an steadily unfriendly stare; we were son had taken a lodging in the vilonly measuring weapons. Then he lage, and I had not seen him since smiled a little and got lip. It was about nine With your permission, he said, I oclock, I think, when the bell rang am going to examine the card room and he was ushered Into the living and the staircase again. You might room. think over my offer In the meantime. Sit down," I said grimly. Have He went on through the drawing you found a clew that will incriminate room, and I listened to his footsteps me, Mr. Jamieson? growing gradually fainter. I dropped He had the grace to look uncomfortmy pretence at knitting and, leaning If you had back, 1 thought over the last 4S hours. he said. able. No, killed Mr. Armstrong, you would have Here was 1, Rachel Innes, spinster, a left no clews. You would have had granddaughter of old John Innes of too much Intelligence." revolutionary days, a D. A. R., a Co- Bolted Down Stairs, Three at a Ti After that we got along 'better. He lonial Dame, mixed up with a vulgar was fishing in his pocket, and after and revolting crime, and even at- was as blind as as some detecti a minute he brought out two scraps tempting to hoodwink the law! Cer- he could walk right in. I have been to the clubof paper. Liddy, I said sharply, come di tainly I had left the straight and narwith us and turn on all the lights house, he said, and among Mr. Arm- row way. She offered her resignation, as I was roused by hearing Mr. Jamiestrongs effects, I found these. One Is curious; the other is puzzling. son coming rapidly back through the ual, on the spot, but 1 took her by r The first was a sheet of club at the arm, and she came along finally, drawing room. switched on all the lights and poii on which was written, over and door. It over, the name Halsey B. Innes. Miss Innes, he said quickly, will to a door just ahead. That's the door, she said tall was Halsey's flowing signatme to a you come with me and light the east "The key's in it. The corridor? I have fastened so dot, but it lacked Halsey's ea-But the key was not in i;.' ones toward the bottom of t!:.- .beet in the small room at the bead u the Jamieson shook it, but it was a he were much better than the top ones. card room stairs. well locked. And then he stoo door, Mr. Jamieson smiled at my face. I jumped up at once. and began punching around the His old tricks, he said. That You mean the murderer? I hole with the end of a lead pei one is merely curious; this one, as I gasped. When he stood up vis face was e said before, is puzzling. we he said e,uletly, as Possibly," The second scrap, folded and re- hurried together up the stairs. Some tant. "It's locked on the he t a so into folded compass tiny that the one was lurking on the staircase in a low tone. "There inside," is somebod' writing had been partly obliterated, wherf I went back. I spoke; instead there." was part of a letter the lower half of of an answer, whoever it was turned Urd have mercy! gasped Lit a sheet, rot typed, but written in a and ran up. I followed it was dark and turned to run. cramped hand. I but as turned the corner at the (TO BE CONTI.Vl'ED.) for by altering the plans top a figure darted through this door rooms, may be possible. The best way, and closed it. The bolt was on Where It Goes. my In my opinion would be to the plan "That man made an immense In one of the rooms for chim side, and I pushed it forward. It is a closet, I think. We were in the upper tune out of a simple little inventh ney. That was all. If you will show me the "indeed! What did he Invent? hall now. Well? I said, looking up. There electric switch, Miss Innes, you would vent? Nothing, you dub! He was Is nothing in that, is there? 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