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Show PI THE MURRAY EAGLE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER was a woman, ft was surely n su replace for a rendezvous! It was the "friend" who the light, and who accounts for the suppression of this portion of the tale. It shone through the shruhhery, a small ligTit about two feet from the ground, and directly in front of the headstone of one George Pierce, who died in the last seventeen hundreds. Hadly did not see the light, but the "friend" persisting, he crept through the shrubbery to take a look around. It was then that he saw the figure, moving slowly and deliberately toward the trees. He seems to have no doubt that he saw an apparition, or that the Information belongs to nie, the reason lie gives for the latter being that George Pierce Is the gentleman who was, according to local tradition, shut and killed while attempting to escape tin excise In the old farmhouse which is now a part of Twin Hollows. I have entered this here, bccnu-the day seems given over to the supernatural We have breakfasted wi:h the spirit world, and seem about to lunch with It. Everything continues quiet at the other house. Jane and I today returned the Livingstones' call. Although it I have never quite abandoned the hope of finding, In Uncle Horace's unfinished letter, a clew to the present mystery. I therefore took It with me, hoping for an opportunity to show it to Mrs. Livingstone, But none came. Doctor THE RED LAMP MARY ROBERTS R1NEHART blue-whit- Fred Carlson & Co. FLODR, FEED AND COAL Poultry, Feed and Supplies ! j Phone 1 Murray a Specialty Opposite City Hall Murray, Utah fOO ut of the house, leaving the piiraljlle sunk in his chair. "He's gone? Where?" "He didn't say. He Just took the car and went." She was unensy; she had construed what he said as a threat against her of a serious sort, and I drove her into Oakville myself. On the way I tried to persuade her to return to her employment for a time at least, on the ground that we might need her, and she finally agreed. It wns perhaps nine o'clock when I returned, to find the rector and his wife calling, and to sit through an hour and a half of gently unetnom conversation, while my uneasiness constantly Increased, and my sense of guilt and responsibility. If we had warned the old man he would have been at least prepared to take core of himself in an emergency, but we had foolishly kept our knowledge to ourselves, and even allowing for exaggeration on Annie Cochran's part, there seemed no doubt that such an emergency might be at hand. At 10:30 our visitors took their departure, and leaving Jane prepared to retire and Edith to answer some of her letters, I wandered with apparent almlessness down to the boathouse. Ilalliday was not there, and as the dory was missing I knew be was somewhere out on the water. After waitwas ing until eleven, my restless-nes- s extreme and I walked up and around the main house, to find the parage doors open and the cur still out. Had there been any Indication of life in the building. I think I would have wakened Mr. Bethel and warned him; stayed with him, perhaps, until that murderous young devil was safely settled for the night. But his room was dark and his windows closed, so I thought better of it. But I did that the gunroom window were locked, and that if the hoy effected an entrance at all, It would he by some less surreptitious method. Tims reassured, I went back to the boathouse, and soon after Ilalliday rowed quietly In and tied the dory. I told him my story, but he was less anxious than I had expected. "It's not the game," he paid. "If Gordon Is the killer, we've got to consider that he doesn't kill out of anger. That's different He's cool and deliberate; he plans his stuff ahead and goes through with It. I don't even think he gets any thrill out of crime itself; the real secret Joy is In baffling discovery. And he knows this: after the quarrel tonight If old Bethel fell down the Ptairs nnd broke his neck, he would be blamed for It." 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TS PHONE HYLAND 5383, Salt Lake Factor FLOUR & FEED Paint and Varnish Service and Quality Guaranteed 4870 South State Phone Murray 431 Yard, Murray 23 Residence, 441-- W What About Your Supply of CHRIST AS CARDS have every right to fhooTuie fVrst and Investignto. tne afterwards. TA It was while I hesitated there, near the Bidihoard, that I wus first conscious of a cold air blowing around me. So distinct was It that my first thought was that some stealthy movement had opened the door to the passage behind me. AlmoK Immediately on that there was a tremendous crash as though some heavy object bad struck the dining-roo- Buy Beet Sugar- - table, and following that, the door Into the hall burst open, slamming back against the wall outside. This was followed by complete silence. So shaken were my nerves by all this that tny next consecutive thinking found nie once more in the gun room, ready to bent a retreat But here I managed somehow to pull myself together, and to return to my Conorlglunl errand In the house. vinced that the slamming of the door would have roused Mr. Bethel If, in deed, anything were to rouse him ngaiu; and by this time, shaken as 1 was, I was prepared for the worst the main staircase was not feasible. I made my way, therefore, Into the ant GIVE EMPLOYMENT TO THE FARMER, WORKER AND BUSINESS MAN of SALT LAKE COUNTY passage again to the servants' stair caw and crept up It, one stair at a time, with the revolver clutched In What Salt Lake County Factories my hand. At the top of the kitchen staircase was a door, opening onto the main ball, and this I cautiously opened. Save for the ticking of the tall clock on the staircase landing, the house was entirely silent The and the closed door gave me back my ebbing courage, and I advanced a step or two along the hall. Here I was close to Gordon's room, nnd I felt for and tried the knob carefully. It was locked, and listening outside 1 could hear no movement from within. The relief I gathered from this was enormous, and although was ttlll uuplensant my position enough, the fear of tragedy begun to leave me. There remained, I figured, merely to ascertain that Mr. Bethel's door wus closed and locked, and I could beal a retreat which I felt was by no means Ignominious. I made my way, therefore, to his door and tried It It was fastened also, and I heard him move within ; the heavy creak of his no doubt as he lay uneasily awake, waiting for the boy's return. 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I will swear that It moved, not toward the dining room and a possible exit by the window of the gun room, as Ilalliday suggests, but still upturned, toward the library, and that within a foot or two of that door It disappeared. I will swear that the red glow persisted for a moment or so after that disappeared nnd then slowly fadod away. And I will also swear that 1 had no more Intention of firing my revolver at thnt figure than I bad of leaping down the staircase nfter It The first knowledge thnt I had pulled the trigger came with the sound of the shot Itself. I was certainly not nltnlng ot the figure. If Mr. Green ough examines the mnrk left by the bullet, he will find, as Ilalliday nnd Vlorrison-lMerri- Co. ll "THE LUMBERMEN" Call on Us for Complete Estimates "KING COAL" K. I'hone Murray 8 170 II. WILLIAMS, Mgr. West 4Sth South Street Murray Extension 4-- 4 x t LADIES SHEAFKU'S LIFKTIMB PENS HAM) 4 X BAGS X ANNOUNCING New - Holiday Gifts Different - X Supreme Now On Display M-lin- X X Murray City Pharmacy t PERFFME3 NOVELTIES : 44..r4rr4 g. 1 Murray Feed Store We had almost reached the end of Hayward was there when we arrived and remained after we left. Perhaps, the walk over the marsh when he because my own world is awry, I think hailed suddenly and stared to the the universe la so. right "There was a light over there," he But It seemed to me that we were shown In to what almost amounted to said. "In the wood?. Walt a minute; a situation; that Livingstone, usually maybe It will show again." It did fhow, above the head of Robdapper and calm, wns flushed, and that Mrs. Livingstone was on the inson's point apparently, In that loneverge of tears. The doctor, rtanding ly strip of woodland which leads to by the window, hardly acknowledged the hiding place of the boat. watched It, and then our entrance, and renmlued standing, Ilalliday glowering and biting his Angers, until pasied his revolver to me, first taking oiT the safety catch. we left. "Don't fall over anything," he He in, I understand, 6oon to leave warned me. "And don't shoot until for a holiday. you see the whites of his eyes I I'm August 12. going over there, Skipper." (No entry.) He set off on a steady lope, headAugust 13. ing for the light but obliged to make (No entry.) a long detour around the marsh. I August 14. bo shall myself, holding the revolver gingerly, Tomorrow Hayward says I able to see Greenough; the first In started on to the house. I was feeling, comparatively speaktiniation I have had that ho is back In the neighborhood. ing, relaxed I felt, as did Ilalliday. But I feel that my consciousness of Hint Gordon was near Robinson's my own Innocence will be nothtiw point ; my duty, as I saw It, was simply to stand guard until Ilalliday reagainst Greenough's sheer determination to prove me guilty. And yet turned and wc could make pome plan ; guilty of what? Of a bullet buried In c.ic of trouble later to get Into the in the floor of my own house, and a houe, If possible. have had no fur broken window I 'fids thought Ihnt we might want ther crime. Nothing is altered, save to get Into the houe, bothered me. that a net is cloning My leys were at Ihe Lodge, and I my own around me. and that some malignant could hardly hope to secure them fate is silling spider fashion In the without Jane. I made, hk center t.f It, waiting to pounce on me a result, atmiher round of the winsnd destroy me. dow?, and was brought up short r.y Suppose, like a lawyer preparing a the fact that one of the gunroom brief. I mnke my stnletnont hero, and windows, certainly closed snd locked tomorrow read to MmT At hi'-- t I can hi fro, now lood open. mnke this entry full and exilMt. It , It wan the more startling, becaune paws the time, and he mny bo will- t bad hut that moment ascerlnlned ing to listen. . . . doors sllll stood wide. i that the garage This Is the Mth. It was, then, the , and that the ear was still tnls-Inearly evening of iho 11th. when Annie I d.iri iy every man has occnslonnl Cochran stopped at the I.odg on her doubt .f his physical conrnue; but way home and a."kod to see me at the I tl'iiwnr. too. Hint ever man hni n kitchen door. surl of oparo ro'vrvolr of courage, on "I'm leaving, Mr. Porter," ho s.iM which be can draw In tne emergency, "I dn't like to mnke trouble fur you, when It COtnei, Yet 1 hall tint pre but I can't stHnd that mcrclnry." tend, even to myelf, that I pulled u;t "What has he done, Annlel" my shoulders, examined my weapon, "DoneT she sntd, and miffed. "He's and lh n boldly entered that window I crawled lit, with knee watching me, for one thing. I never that sli'iik go upstairs but he's at my heel. Put under mo nnd a definite nnucn In th" that's not all. He's going to pit of my stomach. And to mnke mutrouble for Mr. Bethel. You mark my tters wirM there was slow fooiicp words. And Mr. IMhcl knows It ; he's somewhere nonr, which I wns a scared tonight." or so In Identifying ss a drip from There had been a Quarrel, she said, the old shower next dmr. I had n ibmbt whatever that Gorst dinner, carefully cnmonflngrd while the was In the room, but bronking out don had returned, snd the try fart fir thai ho bad rome without the car gain the moment she left It ss she could nwki out. It bad to di mnde tint return slnUtor. I groped with the seerelary's leaving the Iioum for Ihe door Into the rswato ntel st night, snd Ms Insistence that ho go stood there listening, but there win out when snd how he llkd. But tiO round, whatever, save the leak of there was something beneath Hint, she the tnp. 1 reached the dining room without thought. There was murder In Ihnt Inrhhnt and there s new thought boy's face, Mr. Porter." Mr. Bethel, she thought, wsi trjlng stnn k roe. Annte Cochran bnd rrpre pen ted the fid senllcman s tli(iiirtly to quiet him, but he refused to be q i! Finally Oordn got tin anl flung alarmed, snd I mywlf had seen him on pome lime btfore, more or le open the pantry d'Xr, finding It, snd he said, scoording ti her: guard, with a revolver. Suppose he saw PirnnR" figure emerge from h! "Listening, sre rout Well, you'd betor somrihing dinii watch get out, you'll ter ( room and start rp the stnlr Incsm.1 It neiutd to tne that be would yott don't expect." Then b! went to the hall lot Lis bat and slaouueJ 1928 j 21st South and 5th West HAY GRAIN Coal and Wood d, 13, FLOWERS hr ln-H- d Murrsy 44 For Every Occasion Funeral Work Our Specialty n 4,Vi2 Our Prices Will l'lcase You Murray, Utah So. State Street See Our Electrical Christmas Presents roe-on- d r-'-o Phones: Time to Induce Him to Open the Door. I did. Hint my bullet WeDt almost dun, nnd U embedded In the haw hoard of the hall, Dear the dun . 1 d'liT. As s inatlor of fact, the whole sequence of evmls, ending wilh the hot, bnd stunned me. Almost Immediately there was a crah of breaking In the library, a Ilalliday gins niasiied a win'!"" with s porch chair, II ml the next moment wns la the houo end fumbling for the lltht switch In Mde I he library door. When he ran Into the hall I Md him wl.nl had happened, and he Ini mediately ret shout his search. 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