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Show ! V. THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH. UTAH WOOOWiMltOOOBBOOOOOOBOOOOC "Dravada used to be very stopld, but his cupidity has given him a sort of Intelligence. He allowed Brown to think he was perfectly satisfied, bnt he wasn't at all. By seeming to bo satisfied he learned all about the of the plan, and he knew that Brown, to avoid pursuit. Intended te take the way to Horwich. He knew that if Brown went through Horwich he would stop for several drinks. He would need them if he was disappointed. He would have to have them if he had the manuscript and was excited by it So Dravada went to Horwich. It all worked out, and when Brown got to the village, he found Dravada. Then he telephoned tb the fellow Sim to let me go. I was perfectly harmless. It was an. interesting situation. I could wish Dravada had tortured He has the you, I said to Jed. means now, through you, to torturt this family. I said I knew DraVada had th manuscript, said Jed. I did that for effect What I ought to have said was that I knew he thought he bad the manuscript. If I had no more than the Intelligence you credit me with, doctor, I could not have conducted this affair so long. What Dravada has is not th( diary of Mr. Sidney. Until I felt the relief following Jedl explanation that the blackmailers haA stolen only a decoy, I did not fully realize Into what despondency our predicament up to that time ha thrust me. If Mr. Sidneys diary were being read by unscrupulous men, we might expect anything. The lawyer, whose shrewdness and lack of morals made him formidable, was dead. The Spaniard would soon discover bis disappointment and would be furious. I thought the physical danger to Jed was greater than ever and found some pleasure In telling do-tel- ls OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOfiOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtX CHAPTER X 12 Continued. Finally the old boy got up with the ease held tight under his arm and went toward the door with the girl end the foreigner following him, and the foreigner talking fast and loud. They got outside and all got Into the car, the girl beside the old boy, who was driving, and the foreigner behind. As the old boy started the car, the foreigner made a grab for the case, but the old boy was too quick for him and dropped it to the floor. The car gwervcd toward the ditch. You cant drive a car that way, I said. Youd better tell that fellow to i. ay off. Ive told him, said the old boy. If he keeps on bothering me, Ill tell him with a gun. Hell kill all of us. So they started, but they hadnt gone a quarter of a mile when I heard the girl scream. I got my motorcycle, which was out in front, and went down the road after them. There was sure going to be an accident if the foreigner kept grabbing at the man at the whdel. They must have been going pretty fast. I chased them a mile and a hnlf, and several times I heard the girl cry out ahead in the dark. , I was wlthiD two hundred yards of them when the girl screamed louder than ever, and I heard a crash. I knew theyd get it, and they had. The car had gone Into a tree at the side of the road. The old boy was dead, and the girl was unconscious but the foreigner was' gone. What about the leather case? asked a man in the group about the constable. It. was the question I could have shouted out myself. It was gone, too. The old boy did not have a single paper In his pockets, but after I got help and we got attention for the girl, we found a letter in her' purse addressed to Miss Agnes Mitchell, Efartley house. Hartley. That was the only Identification we had. I telephoned over to Hartley and a man said he would be over. Thats all I know about it Ive got to be getting over to the station. Its about time that man from Hartley was looking me up. As he went out, I followed him, and on the sidewalk I Introduced myself. had made it easy for the maid to search through his belongings. Agnes did not know what value was attached to the It was her obligation manuscript merely to get it The lawyer was to have an automobile waiting on the road beyond the oak grove. He was to be by the small door, through which the maid escaped. She ransacked Jeds room in the fashion of which I saw the result and found the box cunningly hidden in his bedsprings in a manner so contrived that except to careful investigation it seemed to be a part of the structure of the bed. ' Agnes said that she had planned to make her escape after my round ot the house, but her excitement at finding the thing so earnestly sought betrayed her into incautiousness. The lawyers plan was to take the road we would think them less likely to take in case there were pursuit, dnd for that reason had gone toward Horwich. The Spaniard was not expected to meet them, but he knew they intended to go through Horwich, and he knew approximately the time they would get there if they were successful. The trafh which stopped at Horwich to let oft passengers allowed him to act upon a plan which his suspicions of his lawyers good faith suggested. He thought that If the lawyer saw a barroom light he would stop for a drink. He was in Horwich unexpectedly to meet the girl and the lawyer. The scene In the Half Day barroom followed. The Spaniard was determined to have possession of the manuscript. The lawyer was determined he should not have It. They struggled as the lawyer tried to drive the car, having several narrow escapes from the ditch. Then the Spaniard, in a rage, abandoned all caution and threw- - himself bodily on the lawyer, who lost control of the car and hit a tree. That was all the girl knew. I thought a while, trying to make up my mind what further to do with the girl. Finally I said: Agnes, I am inclined to compromise with the law. I will prefer no charges against you now, and without forecasting the future, I may intimate ' CHAPTER XI. f The constable looked at me for an instant as if uncertain whether to regard my manner of getting his narrative as altogether friendly. You were telling what I wanted to I came In beknow, I suggested. cause I was directed to inquire for you there. I did not interrupt you, but it was without intent of gaining information that I did not expect to gain otherwise. Its all right, said the constable. You see through me, though. I was Just thinking how uncomfortable I ought to have been with you listening, and I was pretty near getting sore. The first thing is the identification of the body. For the time being, it is in the station-housThere was no possible doubt, even Before I looked at the face, from which the constable drew the sheet which covered the body as it lay on a bench. The shabby little lawyers rascally necesschemes, timid but villainous sary, probably, in his gnarled and unhappy life were closed by death. A deputy of the coroner was present, and he took a deposition by me which gave merely the dead mans name, stated that he had called several times at Hartley house on business and that I had no personal knowledge of the manner In which he came to bis death. That was all the authorities needed of me. A maid by the name of Agnes Mitchell had been given temporary employment at Hartley house. It was undoubtedly she who was the companion of the man who had been e. . ui - s room.' ' 1 treated with every consideration and that if it were possible to have the other maids regard her kindly so as not to make her feel obloquy, it would be only Christian. Mrs. Aldrich was a very stanch churchwoman and I could see in the tightening of her lips that such soft treatment of a woman caught in crime did not satisfy her ideas of morality. She went but dissatisfied, but I knew she would do her best Jed came in, still in his superserviceable mood. Would you like some coffee, sir? he asked. I was tired and did want a stimulant. Yes, Jej I would thank you, I said as heartily as I could, determined to break down his triumph of imperturbability by a commonplace handling of him. He brought the tray. Your schemes Sit down, I said. have come to a bad end in this house. It will do you no good, and it may destroy the family. Things are beyond your control or my control. The Spaniard has the manuscript he was after. Your power is gone. It Is transferred to him. So you are familiar with this af- fair! WMMKWC. I Am a Thief and Know the Business and Have a Record." Because no charges ever will be preferred against you if I may have you removed to Hartley house, where you will have every care, but where you must remain under a sure but unobtrusive surveillance until we give you permission to go. In spite of her pain the girl smiled. You would amuse the police," she ' said. Why? I asked. Why do you suppose the lawyer hired me for this Job? ' "Because you were available, suitable and easily tempted. Because I am a thief and know the business and have a record." That was a facer, but It did not change the present need. You have less reason, then, for wanting to come to the attention st the police again. I have no reason at all. Then you will come to Hartley house as I suggested? Sure, if you can get me there without killing me." , I made the necessary arrangements, and Agnes set out on her return, in an ambulance. The servant who opened the door as we drove up was Jed. I CQuld not help showing by a start and by the expression on my face that I was astonished by his reappearance. This1 pleased him. When he acted he liked to produce effects. He looked inquiringly at the ambulance and then inquiringly at me. By that time I was able to accept him as a usual part of the household. ' Get someone to help you with a stretcher, Jed, I said. "Agnes, a maidi hns been hurt. Then tell Mrs. Aldrich I should like to see her in the office as soon as it is convenhfit. Yes, sir, said that I r (ca k packsss before the war (eja package v during the war t The Flavor Lasts So Does the Price! him so. He was convinced of that himself and was not happy. Why dont you end your rascality? I urged him. Why dont you give the manuscript to Mrs. Sidney and allow her to disposition she wants of it? Then your conscience will be easy your position in this house will for the first time be tolerable to a decent man, and your physical security will be promoted. He would not He seemed to hesitate for a moment, but his purpose was too long fixed and too much a . I am not. I only know what has happened since I came here. I do not want to know any more. You are wise. There is nothing but unhappiness and danger in knowipg. It is not news to me that Dravada has Mr. Sidneys diary. They released me after they learned that the manuscript had been found and that the lawyer and Dravada had It Jed then sat down and told what had happened to him. I was very angry, remembering Isobel as she came hunning in that night with her sleeve torn from her waist. I wondered that I could hear the man calmly, but he had extraordinary power, being moved by extraordinary erhotlons. ' In the first place, he said, may I say that I have been preposterous? You think I am a lunatic. Sometimes I am, almost. It Is easy enough to be a cabbage if you are one. It is sometimes hard to seem one if you are not. Ive been a fool but Ive been hunting for something . that I have not been able to find. I want happiness and importance. My egotism asks for it, but my common rense is going to have its way. Thats preliminary. Then he told his experiences. He had become violent with Isobel. He wanted it understood that he had been desperate but respectful. He had no idea of taking hold of her or of tearing her sleeve. She had been magnificent. She had given him a moral shock. He felt like a worm. He had been attacked suddenly by the men who had overpowered him. They had come upon him from the brush. He had recognized Dravada at once. He might have overcome the Spaniard, but the desperate little lawyer, In a frenzy of activity, had been just bold and strong enough to Interfere so that Jed had been made helpless. Another man had come breathlessly to help. Jed had been bound and gagged. He had been hustled into the screen of woods and beyond them to a waiting auto- make-whateve- r part of his life. He no longer was surly with me, and I seemed to have lost my ability to enrage him. We parted with my telling him that there would be no possible truce or peace between us unless he respected the women of the household. IJe bowed. Anything else, sir? he asked; and then he departed as the servant, Mrs. Sidneys relief to find that i the robbery had proved only a hoax on the robbers was such as would come from escape from tangible horrors. The lady had been keeping control of herself, as was necessary to protect her husband and daughter from her own agony of mind and to keep the household from finding significance in what could be passed over as a trivial piece of robbery. When she learned that the alarm was over,, she relaxed limply in her chair, and I feared that she might collapse; but in a moment she had struggled back to command of herself. Then she excused herself and 'went into her" bedroom for prayer, I knew. Mr. Sidneys joy at the return of Jed was robust, and Jed went to bed very tipsy with two bottles of wine In him. I found him in the hall as I went my rounds, of the house. He was singing. I knew wed hear again and soon from Dravada, but not in what manner. Naturally I was apprehensive, was more so, aland no doubt-Je- d though to save himself from my contempt be tried to conceal his fears. The Spaniard could not be expected to accept his failure as final. He would try again. That expectation was fulfilled in a disconcerting fash- 11 FLEA EMBALMED IN h 1 aT HONEY ALL THE TIME HE WANTED Little Insect Pest Found Which Met Excellent Reason Why Traveler Need Not Worry Over Possibility of Its Fate In Egypt Many Thousands of Years Ago. Missing His Train. It is believed that the earliest food store laid aside for his wants by man, and which is still in existence, is a Jar of honey found in an Egyptian tomb, and probably placed there for the sustenance of the dead during the journey across the Stygian river, says the When American Forestry Magazine. found, the honey had changed into a very dry candy and it had lost its sweetness,1 though it could still be Identified as honey. In the bottom of the jar, well covered with honey, was a dead flea of precisely the same sort as those which plague Egypt to this day. Apparently, the insect had hopped into the jar while the last rites over the dead were being observed, and when the jar was corked, the little fellow was shut up within, and, like the true patriot, he probably could have declared that death was sweet. Anyway, he sank to the bottom while the honey was still soft, and there the archeologists found him after a good many thousands of years. A Cleveland man with business interests in Illinois tells of an Incident at a railway junction in that state. He was hungry and it was only two minutes before the departure of his train. He rushed up to the counterman and Give me a sandwich and exclaimed: a cup of coffee, quick! Havent time for anything else. My friend, said the man behind the counter,, take all the time you want. Just cast your eye over this menu and Ill phone the superintendent to hold the train a while. , Do you mean to say that he will actually hold the train while I eat? Sure, friend. This is a branch road, and theres, no other train coming or going over it this morning. The superintendent will want you to have a good meal he owns this lunch- room. ' Electric Light Plant Perhaps. A plant which is somewhat common His captors, In the automobile, had in Brazil shows a remarkable luminosheaded for the city and entered it after midnight. They had taken their prisity which can be seen for a distance oner to a tenement on the Hast side. of a mile. Seated near one of these For several days the lawyer and DraFollowing years of agitation, Oxford plants after nightfall it is possible to vada had tried to extort the secret university has finally decided to grant read fine print and to perform other from Jed by threats. They had tried ion. degrees to women. operntinhs which require a light. to buy it by promise of an equitable we been Thus had far dealing with as division of profits. The lawyer had with apparitions and threats. y. been quite frantic part of the time, chance, ye now came to deal with inevitabilJed said, bounding about in an ecstasy disabeen Our had experiences of rage. At other times he had been ity. greeable, but they had not presented v friendly and persuasive. Dravada had been savage and want- - unescapable consequence. We had a choice of ways. Now we entered a ed to try torture, but the attorney, enway from which there was no esbecame in his as he frequently raged cape. failure and disappointment, would not Four after Jeds return a man permit this and had got a trustworthy came todays house and inquired Hartley named of his Sim, rascal acquaintance, with two other men, to keep a con- for me. He was a detective. His stant guard over Jed with a view not npme was Morgan; he was the head of the Morgan Metropolitan Detective only to prevent his escape but to keep Dravada from doing him harm or tak- agency. I thought on first seeing him while yet wondering what his busi' ing him away. The lawyer, both dismayed and en- ness with us could be, and yet knowit had to do with raged by Jeds obstinacy, had finally ing instinctively that that this newcomer had thought of corrupting someone In the Dravada more than a suggestion of shrewd house to find and steal the manuscript. The best he had been able to do was malevolence in his face. Before he was through his interto persuade a maid to prove false view with me, or rather his inquiries enough to Introduce the real thief. Dravada and the lawyer never had of 'me, I knew that inevitability had any hesitancy at having their quarrels entered our case. We were no longer in the room where they held me, Jed progressing at the mercy of opportunl. Brown was afraid Dravada ty or chance. Morgarj was fate. The said. would corrupt the fellow Sim, torture 'whole aspect had bdeh;altered. MorSordid, me and get the story. Dravada was gan, a muscular, black-haireafraid Brown would corrupt someone unscrupulous man of action and obflawas pure viously of queer action, in Hartley house and get the manuus.' to one feared Each Greek that tragedy the script. (TO BE CONTINUED.) other would succeed independently and get away without making a divieleEggstraordinary Coincidence. sion. cera has custom with The prevailed to be satisfied Dravada pretended when Brown told him that he must tain Episcopal church in California of not appear near Hartley. When they presenting each scholar of the Sunday thought they were going to succeed In school with an egg at the celebration stealing the manuscript out of iby of Easter.' On one occasion, when Made by room Brown proved to Dravada that that point in the service was reached the only one of them that could go to which had been set apart for this InPostum Cereal Co, Inc, meet the maid was Brown. Dravada teresting ceremony, the clergyman rose Battle Creek, Mich. Hymn appeared to accept that as reasopable, and made the announcement: and he must have put Brown off his No. 419, Begin, My Soul, the Exalted guard, because Brown told him all the Lay, after which the eggs will be di Boston Transcript. tributed. plans. mobile. killed. I asked the constable where I might see the maid and whether she was too badly injured to talk to any one. He said that she had been taken to the nearest hospital, which was ten miles away. He did not know how serious her injuries were. I had my driver take me to the hospital and found that as a representative of the family for which she was employed I might talk to her. She was in pain and heavily bandaged, but was conscious and willing to talk. Agnes, I said, .when the nurse had left us, I am not here to make a great deal of trouble for you, butdf I show leniency it will be in exchange for your We have known that an confidence. unconsclonaiPe gang of rascals have had designs on Hartley house. Evidently you have yielded to some temptation thejf offered you. Deal with me frankly, and Ill be more than lenient." She told me that the lawyer had tried fo corrupt the maid, Anna, who had asked, later, for a months leave. She found that she did not have the mirage for the .work. The lawyer evolved the plan of introducing a resolute and reliable woman into the house by the expedient adopted. Her were to find and take away s mennspyipt she would find concealed I Mrs. Aldrich came Immediately, and old her the girl Agnes was to bo a Children Should Not Have Coffee . , r but they enjoy a cheering mealtime drink hot at just like the older folks." 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