OCR Text |
Show . jffiBfiirftniififf f.f ri THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Moon Msteri cTh.e Deserl bn KAl CLEAUER I SYNOPSIS Sam Stanley, wealthy owner of the Desert Moon ranch. Informs nl housekeeper, Mary Mag in that hia former wife's twin daughters, Danielle and Oabrlelle, are coming to the ranch to live, their mother being dead and their father, Daniel Canneziano who had been the cause of Sam's divorcing his wife, in the peniSam's adopted boy, tentiary lohn, has grown to manhood d and a girl, Martha, Mrs Ollie Kicker, Martha's nurse Hubert Hand and Chadwick are the other members ol the household The girls arrive lohn becomes engaged to Janl-lie. Uabrielie seeks to win John from her sister, and her actions when she receives a letter from France mystify Mrs. Megin Sam learns Canneziano Is soon to be eleased from the penitentiary Mrs. finds Uabrielie Magln choked to death, with tobacco ashes beside her She realizes that the ashes must be from Sams pipe, he being the only pipe smoker, and conceals them before culling the household Canfield commits suicide. The coroner's verdict Is murder and suicide, tain finds a note left by Caufleld confessing be killed Ga brlelle. but the rancher proves he could not have done it. and the entire household is pnder by Doubled j and meet me this afternoon, around four thirty, In the cabin II IL Weill" Continued - 7 thought It was only tier disappointment. But uow Who could be quite sane with such a fear confronting her? Yet she left all ol Iter things tn order; as If, dellher atelj, she prepared for death She liurned her papers and letters See lanny pointed to the fireplace. I crossed the room and looked lute, hnd recently been burned It Papers there. I took the poker and stirred In the fluttering, black hits; hut noth Ing had escaped the flames 1 believe," said Bunny, that you are the only one In the house who tiasn't looked st whal Gaby hnd tn her bag She walked to the table by the window. I followed her. I dreaded seeing that bug agnln; but I was curious about Us contents It was lying limp on the table. She picked It up, brushed It flick erlngly with the tips of her Angers and blew on It, as If she were trying to blow something off of It "Every thing," she explained, sticks to the little pointed bends.- I took It from her and looked ai It closely ; out I could see no speck of ash, no mlnnte particle of tobacco, nor of dust. "It Ib a beautiful thing," I said Ive wondered why u was that Gaby had all the beautiful, expensive things, such us thla Tour clothes are giretty and tasty, but they aren't near the quality of Gaby's." She hesitated a moment before an 1 have been In England werlng. for the past eight years, while Gaby has been on the continent, where beautiful things are more plentiful gad cheaper. alive I I thought you girls had lived together, at these years." No," she said, and picked up Gaby's cigarette case, and handed It to suld. I Sam is not going to tie. He told me Hits morning that he would And the murderer It It took every dollar he 8am Is had in the world ;o do It going to get to the bottom of this Be sure of that "I wonder," she sold What do you wonder? Mary I" she exclaimed, close to a reproach. I merely wonder whether or not Unde Sam will succeed. I looked at her brown eyes, all red and swollen from tears and at the deep, dark circles under them, and I wus ashamed. I put my arm around her shoulders and drew tier close to me. Honey, 1 We said, forgive your old Mury I are all overstrung, overwrought didn't mean to speak so sharply. I know Were yen looking for something else, on the table? There was nothing else In her hag." 1 was wondering," I said, about that foreign-lookinletter she got on the second of July. Bid she burn It, with the other things? I found It In Oddly, she dldn her desk; or, rather, beneath her Either she forgot about typewriter. It; or knew that none of us could read !L dt was written In code Here It Is." (ode. Indeed I When 1 took It from Its envelope, this Is what met my susplcon know. I know, Bunny answered 'but Hubert Hand swears that be wrote that note several weeks ago Too, we know that he was playing chess with Uncle Sum at half-pas- t four." He could have gone to the cabin inter, when the meD went to do the Ur wus he right with Sam chores. and Chad all the time?" "I suppose so He must have sal islied the coroners Jury, at the In Mary," hei piesl. ot his innocence. does it voice went all tense again seem to you that the Jury was very readily satisfied?' I spoke sharply, loo sharply to hei in nnswei tr whit I had imagined saw In her attitude Never mind about the Jury being easily satisfied Yes, -- I Doran Co., Ino. Cuby. Cau-flui- CHAPTER VIII 1 WNU Service weak-minde- i STRAHAN What did Hubert Hand think that had overheard In the cabin? Mrs. Kickers threat Contents of the headed bag. Empty match box. billfold Empty purse. Missing ( Robbery ,) handkerchief. Crumpled (Tears? Heading?) Rroken dg. holder. Hubert Hands note. The code letter. Gahrlelle's note to Banny. My face burns, even yet, when I leullze that, at half past two o'clock u the afternoon of the fifth of July If I hnd been possesset of Just one lick of sense, 1 could, instead of writ ting that list of clews, have written another one; a list that step h step lust as sure as sti night ahead, would have led to the guilty person. Why did t not tike Into considers Hon tne fact that, toi two months the Canneziano girls fad been search mg for something on the Desert Moon; something whhh I was all but erialn they had not found? Why did I not give a thought to ihe fact that Johu. after a secret onversatlon with Gahy according to I t eyes : luexzuzlytp I rn fgno atf Jan vkgt nyi kypulzne. zknz Mrs y nyx nyx dear ogrgrago ahgn clplzgf pnlf. zkg rg zkg vlzk nyxo Irlznzgf prleg. " vef fgno, I have copied only the first lines on the flrst page 'Ihere were four sleazy pages, all closely typewritten Not a scratch of handwriting on It What I Judged to be the signature, was, Slrsl." Bo vou know who wrote this?" asked I am sure, It 1 dure be sure oi anything that It wis written by a man mimed l.ewls Bauernmnt. I count d the letters of Lewis on my fingers. Five. The outubei of letters In the signature. Slrsl " If he signed his name Lewis," I said, then 'S would be, I, and T would be e and so on. Get a pencil, dear. Let's see If we can work It a 1 me. What Had Become ot the Key to the Attic Ooor? It was made of dull gold with her set In tiny black monogram. G. opals, with green and blue lights flickering In them ns If they were Ollb" alive. No," she suld, you see, the letter 1 set It down and picked op an 'S' comes twice In the last word, and other little gold box. It had powder there are no duplicate letters In rouge, lipstick, and a mirror In It Lewis She didn't rend the signature, 1 had seen It often enough before At when she read the letter to me. ' back on the fable and took I put least I don't remember tip a bended coin purse that matched She read It to you I" I exclaimed the 'nrge hag It was entirely empty I thought that she did. Now Isn't It queer that that should be dont know I cant he sure of any empty?" lanny asked And her hill to me what she said She rend thing She surely would fold Is missing. wus a copy of the letter; Hint Is. the not start to go anywhere with not a worked out code. She may have left Doesn't It look as out entire paragraphs. She may have cent of money. if she had been rohned?" changed It, In any way. In order to "Only" I said, "If anyone had keep hei terrible seciel from me. robbed her, why would he have left Yes, hut wlmt old she tell you the valuable gold cigarette case, and the letter contained?" vanity case?" Jt Is too long even to begin to tell, And I don't want lo tell It lie might have thought they now would he hard to dispose of, Mary." again; not today I have told John of course Ianuy's voice, alwnys low, grew low all about It. you see. er still with her Intensity, there Is Or you may ask John to tell you. one thing that no one has thought of It It was an Insult from beginning to Ianlel (annezlano could have reached end An Insult to her. I can't hear liere from California In a few hours, thinking ot It. any more; not today Mary," her voice i hanged suddenly by airplane.' I had thought of that. os did het manner, do you know But, Ban ii y, no airplane ever caine within why Uncle Sam asked me almost twenty miles of the ranch without commanded me tc tie In the living of us hearing It. and room at three oclock today? every tnnn-JucNo. Bunny. 1 don't But he told rushing out with our heads tipped Mrs. Kicker and me to be there, too buck to gape at IL Airplanes arent stealthy things, you know, that peo I guess he Just wants to talk to all de cun slip up In, and slip off again." of us. together. Uh 'n'k I What good Is talk go But, on the third of July, two passed over, going to the Telko Uig to do? Talk, In u place like this oow, where there Is not one true celebration. On the third," I reminded her, as certain thing to get hold of, any And you know how much advertised. where; where not one of us can he mdse they made. And how we all lieve In another She put a quick hand to hei lips; went out and watched them, from tiny specks in the south until they her eyes widened; she turned, and, werq tiny specks and lost In the north hastily pushing aside the heavy went through the clothes closet again. I picked np the carved Ivory cig Into her own room. I sat still, at the desk. The paper arette bolder. It fell to pieces In my before me. am. the sharp pencil Id fingers. Was this Kokeo In her bag? I my hand, tempted me to make a list, as they always do In books, of the Quesl toned. Yes. Snapbtd la two. And she clews, to date. I wrote: Locked door. oved ! Key In my pocket. I Ailed the pieces together again, T. A. (I put only the Initials of on the table, and took up a folded tobacco ashes.) wheel of paper, and opened It, and Chads suicide. read: Chads note. What persou was be 'Glorious Gaby: Be a good sport a darling. Be game that Is. be trying to shield? 1 s cur-tnln- Ricker had been clenn and away off the dace since early afternoon until evening? Why did the fact 1 that not Include Gahy In my list given the gold monkey to Martha? Why, iustead of trying to puzzle out the rode letter, did I not read between the lines of Gahrlelle's last note to Bunny? Howeer. at the time, since It was was quite well of my own tanking. I took tt to satisfied with my list the table to check over the Items. Sam Imd put the key, with which I had opened the attic door, alongside 1 the other things there. I picked It up, now. and looked at It for Ihe flrst time. I hud not looked nt it, 1 hud merely used IL the night before. My heart Jumped It was not the up In my throat. key to the attic door It was a rusty old purs key that hnd hang on a nail in the broom closet, off the kitchen for more vears than I could remeni her. Whoever had pul this key In my pocket, must have been well acquainted with the Desert Moon kitchen, to have found that old key under the brooms, and mops, and dn.-rugs, and chamois skins, and the resL that hung around It and over It In the broom closet. What had become ol the key to the attic doty? CHAPTER IX The Session When I went down to the living room, at five minutes before three Danny, John, Mrs Kicker aud Martha were all there. Martha was on the biggest davenport, playing with the monkey charm. Sam and Hubert Hand came Into looked Sam the room together. around, counting nosea. All here, he said, and locked the door he and Hubert had come through, and dropped the key In his He went all around the pocket room, closing and locking the doors and wind ns He moved a chair to the foot of the stairway, pulled a small fable over beside IL took bis six gun out of his hm.k pocket, put it ou the table, and sat down In the chair. No one had moved nor had said a I know word that I was frightened I was not afraid of Sam, and I was not afruld ot that six gun. Mostly. I guess. I was afraid of being made afraid; partly. I was afraid of my self. Hubert Hand spoke flrst. Cannon ugh? he sneered. That's ail right Hand, Sam an This Is here, mostly I swered. think, for ornamental purposes. Baddy," Martha piped up, arent we going to have the fireworks to night ? Not tonight, Sam frowned at her daughter. She opened her mouth and began making those dreadful noises she always made whenever she was crossed In anything. Shut Sam rapped on the table, that up, here and now," he said Not another whimper out of you. Hear me, Martha?" She closed her mouth with a snap. I thought those Immense eyes ot hers I am woul 1 pop out of her head sure the others of us all felt the way she looked. In all the years we had lived on the Desert Moon. It was the flrst rime any one of us had ever heard Sara speak Impatiently to As for scolding her. being Martha stern with her. up to this minute It hnd never been In the book 1 reckon. Sam began, that all of you In here know that anyone could walk up to any man or woman In here and call him or her a murderer, and that not one of us could give him the lie. right now I reckon that you know, too, as everyone In the country knows that at this hour, the Desert Moon ranch Is rotten with the muck of crime and suspicion. Maybe yon don't know that It Is not going to say that way for many more hours. "We have called the law In, as was right and proper. And the law has been real polite, and blnke Its eyes, Folded Its tents like and departed the Arabs, and silently stole away I didnt ranch Well, tha' s all right rare about having these fellows mis Into my private business; anyway, not until I had found out that I I am couldnt attend to it myself I can not going to find that ont. attend to It. I am going to. right Later on when we here and now need the law again, well call on It The Innocent In this room will have The Desert their oames cleared. Mood will he a fit piece for a white man to live on Now this gun here may look like I don't felt violent or something. And Im not going to act violent This gun Is here for Just one pur pose and I'm dead certain tt won t A word to the he used for that. No person, barring wise, though. none and including the ladies. Is .o leave this room until i give the word No innocent person ip here will try to leave. Any guilty person In here and. before God. there is a guilty person here; guilty, at least ot aiding and abetting is going to have too much sense to try to make a break That Is why I won't need the gun Not. I mean until we find ihe guilty When wc have found him person It may he of some use until the sher 1 Trace Origin of Gypsies to Northwestern India The race ot gypsies Is now a very much mixed one, with elements of the blood of all of the countries In which they have resided; and gypsies from one part of the world may present clmracterlsilife and appearances quite different from those of another part The Eng1 is1! word gypsy reflects the that the old belief of many countr gypsies were Egyptians. In othe' countries they were called Tartars The old agreement of the traditions concerning them was that they had come to Europe out of the EasL M dern Inquiry has revealed a good deal of their true history, however, and has established that the race is originally from northwestern India Bands of the Inhabitants of this r glon were driven away from ttieii homes and set wandering by hordes Distance of Star The celestial body neurest the earth i; the moon, and astro mei s me. is ure the distance by observing simultaneously the angle to a given point on the moon from two widely separated points on the earths surface. The trl angle thus formed Is then solved by the aid of trigonometry. The distance to the sun Is measured In much the same way, hy sighting the planet V mis as It passes across the face of the sun. The stars are measured hy using the diameter of the orbit of the earth, about one hundred and eighty six million miles, as the base of the triangle. of northern down tur.v. Invaders upon them In can get here. All Tm asking, of everybody here. Is tbal you all tell the truth. You'll have to, sooner or later. Ret ter make It sooner. During this speech my dander had It had got up pretty been rising. Sam good and high by this time. Stanley," I spoke out, yon ought to know that you can't force truth out of anybody at the point of a gun, nor Well by keeping them locked up. get hungry. Well get thirsty. And when we do we'll eat and drink and go about our affairs. At least I will unless you shoot me. Im not fixed to put up with this kind of foolishness. Mary," Sum roared at me. Thats enough out of you. Yon be quiet You are going to do as yon are told. So are the others." Sam had uever spoken like that to It left me limp as a me before. drained lelly bag. Before I could get my breath tor an answer, HuDert Hand wus talking. (hanged your mind since morning, havent you. Sam? You were dead sure this morning that no one on the place had had anything to do with the murder." Never mind about my morning's opinions, Hand. You are right. Dead Ive changed my mind Now, right since you are already going pretty good. Ill begin with you and work around the room, taking each one In tarn I want you to fell everything yon know, and everything you suspect concerning the murder. Sorry," ILiheri Hand said, but ij dont know a d n thing except that, apparently, she was strangled to death some time between four oclock yesterday afternoon and eight o'clock yesterdry evening. We saw her alive at four. We found het dead at eight That's the extent of my knowledge.' All right Now go ahend with what you suspect" 1 enn't see. Hubert Hand obthat suspicions have aflj Jected, place here Beyond stirring up a they rumpus and hard feelings wouldn't get any of us any place" Sam That Is for me to decide. You were mighty busy for a said. while this morning, throwing oul It this session hints and slurs. doesnt do anything else, it can anyway clear otit all this whispering lhal Is going around. Come on now Lland Come clean." Well." Hand said, I can talk all right But I want to start with this I dont know any understanding facts that amount to a d a Yourt rlgnt that I have suspicions, and, since you are determined to have them now, at the point of a gun. I'll say that I think John did It and that somebody else Id the house It shieldIff which swept the Ninth cen These forbenrs ot the modern gyp sy moved Into Kubullstan and Persia and ultimately filtered through Syria into Egypt and northern Africa and through Turkey Into Europe. There are now fourteen or more distinct dialects of their language In Eu co u.trles Indicating thelt ropeati widespread distribution. Paper Varying Qualitie Philatelic nomenclature Includes the adjectives wove, Inld, granite, quadrille and peltire as applied to postal In a general way the distincpaper tions are these: Wove paper Is of the plain, even texture used for hooks and newspapers; laid paper Is watermarked with parallel lines close to gether; the lines may he either vert! cnl or horizontal ; quadrille paper Is watermarked with both vertical and horizontal lines, which thus form s ..ares or oblongs; granite paper shows colored fibers In Its texture, the fibers are tiny pieces of silk thread and the reverse of the stamp has a mottled appearance; pelure paper Is thin like tissue paper, semi transparent hut tougher and harder than the tissue texture and usually grayish in color. Moat Coait Lina Michigan lias by far the greatest coast hue of any state nervousness treated with This i Helpfully Famous Aid no iii kOUiUI'8 NKKD tried and tested medicinal beneaid haa successfully proved Itsofgroat Hieepltae-nes- s. ficial worth In the treatment Nervous Indlgustlon and Nervoua irritability, Ay" All Over the World. AT ALL DRUG STORES Generous FREE Ramp! Bottle Sent on Bequest Koenld Medicine Co, .J Dept. U 1045 No. Welle St. Chicago, III. Formerly Pattor Koenig 'a Nervine" IkQENIoraNEBVIKEIi 'EL Dim?, Headachy, bilious, constipated? REKEDT 1 Take J tonight. This mild, safe, vogota-- I bis remedy will have you feeling J fine by morning. Youll en joy J free, thorough bowel action with-- J out the slightest sign of griping or discomfort. r Safe, mild, purely vegetable" at druggists only 25c PEEL LIKE A MILLION. TAK3 j ' nd&toknicht j j PISOS gives quick, reliet effective Pleasant, sooth- Excellent tor ittg and healing. - children contains no opiates. Successfully used for 65 years. 35c and 60c sizes. ' Twins Merely Starred Dads Sense of Humor j Mrs. Mildred MelMe M.iirison of eugenics fame relieved the solemnity of a Prairie du Chien lecture with an anecdote. Large families are a curse." she said. Oh, would that all could accept this curse with the hilarity of John Mald-men- t, a struggling bookkeeper. When John first became a father it was a twosome, for Ills young wife presented him with girl twins. Merrily he named them Kate and Duplicate. A year later male twins came to bless John Maidment Laughing heartily he named them Peter and Repeater. "Another brace, males once more, followed quickly, and as soon as he could control his mirth John spl uttered that he'd call them Max and Climax. A letter from John Maidment reached me In my hotel last night. Male twins have once more blessed ing him." him, and hes naming them Hugh and Danny gave a thin, sick little shriek Cry." Detroit Free Press. and threw her arm around John In a JoIid straightened protecting way. Nothing I New Under his tan I could ee the color Gabriel Wells paid SOS.ihK) the other seeping out ot his face Gently, be day for Shelleys own copy of Queen removed Dannys arm. Mab. He said to a reporter afterSam lowered his white eyebrowi wards: until his eyes looked like two slits Shelleys 'Queen Mab shows ns of blue light, glinting out from away how old our new Ideas ure. All these When he spoke new behind his face. and his voice was iron. Ideas of our Bolsheviks and Why do you think John killed youll find everyone of them her? In Queen Mab. In the first place, John Is th W7e change little. In the height of only one here who hasnt a water- Victorianism a girl of sixteen was pretight allhl paring to be confirmed. Her minister Not by a d n sight he isn't," Sara asked her one day If she had ever been But never mind. Gc kissed. Yea, she admitted, she had. interrupted on." TIow many men, said the minisAt four o'clock Gaby came down ter, have you kissed? While she was through the room. Doctor Fifthly,' the girl answered, still In sight, Danny called down, try-- ; I came here to be confirmed, not to Now boast Ing to get her to come back. this Is Just anothe. suspicion; I don't know whether anyone will back ml Didnt Bother Lumberjack he up In It or not probably not, caught on a drawbridge when Being added the last In a hateful, slurring were lifted to allow a boat the spans hut I noticed that her voice way to pass throflgh the draw did not ' exsounded strange, like she was bother up unidentified lumberjack at cited, maybe, or else afraid Green T.ay, Wis., recently. He perched Sam asked, Did anyone else here himself on a girder, calmly watched notice anything of that kind?" the boat pass, waited until Ihe bridge 1 Mi's, (ticket spoke. noticed it," was lowered, lipped the bridge tender she said. 60 cents for no reason whatever and Hubert bowed at her. In a sort ol continued on Ills way. mocking way. Knowing what 1 knew, I thought that oer corroboration Preface would do Hubert Hand more harm What Is the foreword to his new than good. But of course, the oth- novel ? ers did not know what knew. "Dictated but not read." Let me see, Hubert Hand con-- j i t1nufd. where was 1? Gaby, after-going through the room, stopped on Household Remedy the porch for a minute to talk to He came Into the house in ('had. For External Use Only a fine uumor. Gaby then went around Hanfords the houcp to the rabhlt hutch, and for some reason, gave her bracelet to Myra Martha. Martha was In the house'; Hooey back for tint bottle It not PI again wlihln five or ten minutes. Danny hnd come down by that time. He-al-l h Giving From four to five, then, you and t were playing chess. Ohnd was at the flano. Danny and Mary were AH Winter Long over there, talking together. Mrs. Ricker was tatting. Mprtha was Just Marvelon Climate Good Hotel. Tourist Gam pe Splendid Koed. Gorgeous Mountain folding around the room. I'm pretty View. The umnderfu I deserl resort of the Weet certain not one of us left this room Write Crem A Chelfoy during that hour. "At five we three men went togethCALIFORNIA er to let the cows In and to milk. Mary, I believe, was Id the kltcheo Cossack Alfalfa, hardiest variety known. alone, getting supper, during that Write for description and special fall prices. time. Mrs Ricker, Danny and Martha Darrow Brothers Seed Co.,Twin Falls. Idaho. remained here Id the living room Is Work at HomewSpare or full time $25 to $100 weekly. Immediately workable. Anywhere. that light?" Sample A plan 25c. SrientiHc Troth Bureau. S249 ttowewood Ave., Toledo, Majbe It Is. and maybe It Isn't, Ohio, Dept 45. Sam said. There Is the hour In there, before supper, that well all The Moler Barber College, In have to cconnt for, right accurately, State Licensedbarbbksin iibmand Colic e. Kara While You team. before nnv of ns hns that water tight ,oranT 8ttc 118 Kh.GEMrST..SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH allhl you were talking about, Hand. "All right," Hubert Hand agreed. PARKERS You and Chad and I went down to HAIR BALSAM the barns together. We let the cows Remove Dandruff Stnp?H&it F&llio Restores Cctvr and In. We milked them. At least, you Beauty to Grey end Faded Hai? and I did. Chad stayed with you and $1 go at Dnifirjriit. 0 r. j Wki P&trl:ngm y T and was kidding around down In your FLORESTON SHAMPOO Ideal for ose In end of the barn, I heard you laughconnection with Varkri Hair R<am. Mnkeo tbd hair ooft and flnffr. 60 eento bjr mail or at drug ing and talking down there, together, cioU. UUcox Chemical Works, Patchogr.e, N. f. time. the whole - t anti-marria- j j I j 1 A Balsam of h p. RgaaslaisE -- 4 TO BE CONXUfUBD) W, N. U, Salt Lak City, No. 29. |