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(tiurd-r- 4 Mary Mrilan. lurir'o rook diaappoara y t And now where are wet W can oo longer doubt July 25 that the same bund which throttled ('arrow ay and attacked llallldny. haa brought about the dlsapea ranee aud almost certain murder of Maggie Morrison. ttatllday know It Edith knowt It I know It Hut what use are we to muke of our knowledge! What effect. tor Instance, will It have on my own serio-comi- c position t Could Green ougb arrest me on suspicion T Al though Ualllday laughs at thut, be Is. I think, trifle uncertain. He feels ns I do, thnt before long G reenough will have to satisfy the public by an arrest of some sort, and that I am the only person against whom he nas the shadow of a case. What developed last night Is as fol lows: Ualllday got out of the car at the spot where the truck was found, and had Edith go back and approach slowly, along the road from town. Ap proxlmately, the conditions were the same as those of the night of the disappearance, save that no rain was falling. Ualllday, It peurs, was searching for that spot, buck among the trees, where the unknown had wulted. secure from observation hut still able to see the truck's lights far enough away to be able to run out and hnll It before It had passed. After two or three experiments he found the proper locution, and there commenced a sort of Intensive search with the pocket flash, with Edith In the car, to warn him of any approach and Hie lights ont. Not under the tree he had selected, hut perhaps a dozen feet away from It, he found, well trampled Into the ground, a small screw cap. tnude ot tin; exactly similar, he tells me. to those used on ,fhe cans of certain makes of ether, and underneath which there Is a cork. "In my case, he was unlucky," he ex plains. "He went through the same procedure, and took the cap off before he hailed me. hut the cork came out He had better luck this last rime." As to his discovery of the murderers Infernal symbol, he is more He had some sort of a reticent. 'hunch'- to examine the trees them selves, be says simply. "You thought there might he some thing on a tree? "I don t know that I thought about tt at all. Skipier. I Just turned the flash up. and there It was." Perhaps I am wrong, hut bts ex pianatlon does not qnlte satisfy uie. nor, I hlnk does It satisfy nlmselL With ail his keen Intelligence be Is strictly conventional ; I think he believes It would somehow Invalidate bis manhood to confess that his hunch might have been a guidance by some unieen source. But the triangle enclosed In a circle was there, on a tree only thirty feet ack from the road. July 29. Annie I'ochran says absolutely that there la neltlier a red lamp nor a red liatirern In he other house. I stopea ker this morning and Asked ber. ... tl WlillstA ao AnUAilA berft thinking uus pfrlly f aS (h tllng tpywril lately ruv dear, I aid gravrty "tu ai.a4" Wa J ry alrafif fruta Ib It sal and Aetil la ils-- i ttemtrid I I a red at Ibal ijg Prb4 nrgab Ik bat IA Ib "At ti pm14 AVgaA "y tdird and Hi (- iod mrmd aa f uf aumetblrig tell ymi." all and "ltat la II smut really ! cant "I .ld t Ibmigbl tfierw nUielblhg "M bat t. Ilk A Altai I mold Iitlhliig II I here ut tell I her wn frilia-lhlu- g lifted up bis bead amt and t ten en t bowled at II, amt -- 1 don't niemtirf gel I lot Maialcs U lllliiq Il la iti remainder uf Jane's story wldib weein worthy nf ronalilmailoA k atrr i In lw nf m-- r pmlooa tip a Mi weld tn sleefi alpkllig fu'bolo liiin iiiooti luuMem mil a Wall-lie' Hire hi Im k Smldotily and fully, amt nl up In bet tied Ihp she as md In a led t all tlie Was In a bout and Margie klurrtnon ii wn tn It. lying at bet feet After a time- - he bus no Idea tuiw loog 1 1 tll-fudinl and (Ii wa atlll lltin Ip In bel led. ftinb deiulja a I enn draw tri m net follow a; are I lid a I'm I llorai in Hu iP-i-- p d lrit n In-ii- (Continued 1 0 "It you amateur wouiii keep out ' be grumbled. koiilil yi-- l mihiw I, or with till rune Son ibi.t mi n ,,u Ik going In l diImhIiia, utiil I II liar umre trouble oo io luind From trkli'li one mm caihei lliui Mr. (Irwiitiugti Ihui ere cot through alih in ulniiiilon I fall ltit . anil Edith hat taken ;ii rar aiiiI gone out tills evening inn la eery uneasy. bill I fiel llmi they sill lie safe enough. The heal time lo travel Is Immeill stely afier rnllroad accident. it.lA ll'y " p It, nlg'd uf b tuneleriilb slip aaw Maggie klmrlo-riatitojanlly Itatbei m ,o ib morning ol th iwenilein. a'Mt.'eil Ibal ! ha actually bad alt l her rurnnis pyillt ii bet liter la a d'oiepniu y In tm aa markeil aa ll Iniertal I iiet ib'Nib and h tweed Ilii I Uln of Idtn it In no tin library Horn Murrlaon dlwipia-arvi- l Maggl pi aUloatil) at el ten n'rlia k Hi lilglil ad I '.Mi , It i.iiie a vlslnii fuvurred at Hite Hi morning of Hi JiHh nt yu Inlet fulit am way! rids morning, al eleven uclmk "Wakening uUl ol a Sleep! Tea1 lane let the eollngv lot Hie llral Hut Was I tier the an in aorl ol tlld! that aiie In day a. git lug aa an eirn Il iiNun'l a light elai-l- l '.Vid meunt to liad over Warren llitllldav s I rant diwrrlh from antwber mine a buck sueb 'lMlla and bring It eyaelly; Ib things I so ar liinil pi I riil mending mma" tV hen an hour liml gone by ami n on Hi body oi In Sli anw no ro mid nni returned I begun to grow un ilmr was no sign of In ib and bout, I knew. out on llulllihiy, lory on the girl the buy. and In such times as the Sli looked very eni vful." savs any aniHlI detlullou from the norinal Ian, and sets m tn aliudderlng la iipaeiilng I atarted after her lhr tin one indiit however, ah Is en fore, and wus ala riled ted to And bet detlullw She maintain thui ttrely In th living quarter or on the ver ot doth lied around were there pieces I nml.'i Itul when railed rh answered the oarlocks nt the bout. "Whl fmm below, and going down I found cloth." she ados aa an afterthought her among the Imats. -Why dot Well I" I sail "And are yoo going "Tn keep the ours from making s Ashing!" noise," says my Jane, who hat been 'I was Just wandering about." she In a rowlHiut fierhaps a half Inter sail "There's another boat. Isn't times In all her life! there f' We ant on the vein min while lliilll "Halllduy'a out In It. Why! duy came In wlih the host ; he hso Bui she pretended not to bear me been out. I daresay, on some scouHns and went up the steps sguln. Even business of hla own. and I ronfess tn then she made various excuses uni lo a sort ot terror thut hy some unlucky leuve nt oiica She went Inside, and diHiice we might tlnd the oarlocks ol could hear tier etrulgliienliig tin this very boat, wrapped alib while When there was cloth, to keep the onrs from making small living room nothing more to do she came out a oolse." But they showed no stigma again. of crime. "I don't think he has cooked a thing Why." I said to Jane, aa Halllcay since It buppened," she sail "Sup tied hla boat and came wlib his sp'en pose we wait for him, and take him did stride up the runway, "why did back to luncheon! you come down here to look at our She Is oo actress. Is June, and It boats, m.v dear!-Shshowed a faint distress began to dawn on me that she was determined to wuit for Halllilays re "I don't know. William I Just bad turn, and that she had one of hei feeling thnt I had to come." I have not asked her why she has suppressed this experience fm so long For site no more doulils that .Maggie Morrison was killed ami thrown Inti the sea from a boat with mnflled oar locks, than she dmilits her mvu exist ence But coupled with Mini certainty lias been her dread of possible public Hy. and tlmi eu-- t pl'eSciil feeling o tiers thut whnfevei power she has Is somehow shameful. 'r y rll ym abet owesl lld Hut II H hr My July Turned the Flash Thsr It Waa Up and hidden reasons for It It was there on the boHthouse veranda, thnt she flnally told her story, which Is de tailed In the extreme. You remember, she said, the night of Maggie's dlsupiiearauce, that a storm whs threatening and that I was nervous. I felt queer I cant describe It, William. I bad a sort of premonition. I think, anyhow. I didn't want to go to bed. Once In awlille something terrifies me. and I am afraid even to wink for fear something hap pens while m eyes are closed. It was like that "Edith was writing something or other, shut lo ber room, and after you bad gone the storm hegau to come up I went sod I felt queer and Jumpy sroond the windows downstairs, and then went Into the living room and sal down to wait for you. "Let's see What time wa that!" "It must have been ten o'clock ensybs a UUie later. Then I hate to silting irU-pmiu- sa la l . igiirli.iW omlmwib Ilk n ilium after at.rtrk, TbK wer mi tictita la Ib mala buufeo, sad ! fun her wuml ram foow It. dareway at amb time on t'vw bo llili.k; oo a1a autmuailcal l ly. I dn not itdnktng at all tl rm-a- but do mill trying m feel my way bruugb lb trees, and Ibal I raa Inin no aid a as artUlly stunned for aa Inaiafti, The buuaai was atlll rouqitetety dark and Pent. I fell my way with tucr iwgih-fl- , kklrted ft ahrubtiery and at found lb railing leading up I hr ateji lo th kllrbeii llerw I wsa on ai fey ground, and I rtiwned Ib arnat lOrh in lb dor with Inereaad flib-m- . utily in eiumhi nvr ami knew at one thing and almost fall 'at tl wsa and I fell audderdy III although my brain waa a artlv aa r la my Ilf But I fmnd who matt he tn mt dmaiitf fuvs porkt and striking on bent over a flgur t waa young lying irrin al my fet Gordon, nnrvmaHou and from a blow io lb bead and eqrrty ieit with a rot was atlll aiiaiplny net him. fuinhllna for another match lino In my fa.. when a fluelillgiii m t pi a Veit on in blinding filry for a moment and Hun on th boy Ifieut-eon lb lhm and now slightly ll ns iHrd get up kbd I lira lulu a tbatr, "Now, Gurl." b ball "whal bap m y..q! Try Atd pr-M-- n ,w and IbrA Ah and liar auddea tl b 4'Mlur pul 11 Mi Aw," t kii dirty davlir "WUi Ml our But b aaa mill bifrtii Ibougtil It H Tta Cuady. lo dsd lmjrutd Aftr Ibal. buwrtrr, Alihuugb (laltird nf briars bradailm. f c rapidly Woman Driver run tw 11 1 as happens sftr cooruaslon, but nut of hi munJrr-ma wrr a hi to tcor fairly rtAbwiid tiory, II bad herd onat-- l lo bleep, (M ram gsrruloua, in, g nm causa of rertsla nolar lo hi II bad got un and goo dwq to lb klti tiro fol Muioetlilng to eat. After Il.t. rrtmiani to go up in his routs again b bad wtdrrd out onto lit klirbeo rtepa and aal Ihero. Il wa I hra Ihal b beard Noum on slraltMly adrna hlng th bou. II Utietirl and flnally b beard S window of ih old run rmi onl lo lint laundry bring ralael II stared ths bnuttpuli plug AA ASkluitVA lilib avaa.is insulator specially trvAinl to with-tAiha much higher QtampktQ Is ktaiUt ( llU ol (mparaturas of iht modern hlghomprra-sio- a tog lot. AIo a ot r ptiraitJ olUl coppsri that iwokAiaa ' ulin-M- tl absolutely undsr high gas-tig- ht n. compc-sio- Special anwlysts tlsctrodrs whlchassurw A &sd spstk-gs- All under driving coodiiions. Champion bllrg OHO to drl ve wi th Cham rion Spar k Hues becaute 1 know I'll not be annoy ed with engine (rouble due to faulty spark plug. 1 like SparJCPhtgs TuiawOv Otai for DeprnJaklt C MS Es-rv- . .... Estist in Wlml A htiqiied! said A vole from hnhtiid l, and With relief try gnired It a thr doctor's II aald. rlalnt dlxxlly burl. Sirmk on the bead I think" th than there and turn on III rarry him In" the light I did n b told m being ailll anm a hut and a b laid Hi taiy n the rtoot and airalghiened I wn awr Hint bla ever, a they rented on me. wer hnufde and uplroua Inmieilliiiely. however h went to on the boy examining him Ural and then removing Hi only stunned." b aald and examined th wound tn th acaip rare A Bet that h dressed It the fully hoy by that tint moving about and groaning but silll only partially eon china When th dreaalng was don the doctor disappeared and returned cushion wlih Keeping the boy miplne. be sllped It under bit bend Then he straightened. You'd better notify the nid man," be sail "I'll stay here. If you don't mind." And from the look be gave me. I gni tiered that be had no Inlentloo of leaving me with the boy. I tusde my way upstairs to the room ovei the den, and knocked fot some time before I was beard. Then Mr Bethel called out, startled, and I asked If I cor.ld come In I heard him mak Ing heavy work ot getting out of hel and finally he shot the holt and open lug the door en Inch or two glared out at me. "What the devil's the matter!" "Nothing serious." I sail "Theres been a little trouble downstairs, and we thought you'd better be toll "A fire! "Not a fire." 1 reassured him, and gave him s brief account of what had occurred. He wus not particularly gracious; demanded to know wliut the hoy wus doing outside ut that hour, und seemed to feel that, with a doctor already In wus (lie house, his responsibility ended. As there was actually nothing lie could do. I helped him buck tn his bed und left him sitting on the side n n unpleusunt hut helyiless figure. TLit "0n un-le- Cunningham ad pi thr up of ttcrj on tult it t iiillt proof of in built intrily -- and quality. Lsft Him Sitting on th Sid an pissiant but Htlplesa Figuru. Urn u a dark wuy. and Insists he llgure Itiere. The next moment It waa gone, and be was certain there wus some one In the house. He hul apparently, turned to enter the house and beud off the Intruder, tut was struck dowo In the doorway. On the mutter of ringing the bell be wa rutlier vague at flrst, not remembering that he had done so. but later Buying he hod had Ids hand on the rope, when the blow came. Hayward listened to Ibis Intently. Then he turned to me. "And you were where, Porter!" On the other side "By the sun-dia- l. of II I hud started toward borne." Do you mean to suy that, after that bell rang, this man Gordon speaks of bud time to tie him and escape, before you got here!" "I've told you the facta It Isn't a simple matter to get here from the sundial. In the dark. In spite of the doctors attitude and my own fears, I cannot see today that a dispassionate examination of the evidence would really Involve me. Gordon suw a man enter the gun room window, and wus attacked from thi. kitchen by Hint mun. It must be perfectly evident to Greenough. on hearing the doctor's story, that had I for any reason desired to make some uefurlous entrance Into the house, I need not have resorted to a window have keys to every loot aud cud t, reduce them. that The Count I,emuel Bollcs, former nutionul comtold mander of the Amerlcun a New York rejiorter a story of Ids return from Paris. "A surgeon." he said, "was giving us some of his wur reminiscence at a Purls banquet, lie hud cut off a soldier's arm, lie suld. und afierwurds he certified thnt the mun wus unfit for any more fighting. Buck rume the question from headquarters why wus the mun unfit? The surgeon replied that It was been use he Imd only one arm. Bnck came the nnswer again How do you know he only has one arm? The surgeon replied: I counted It.' It Is vain to trust In wrong. What Will (TO BE CONTINUED.) 27 execution. I have spent a inriie por Ion of the day In urging Edith ann Jane to go hack to town, hul without result. Not unless you go, Jane said firm ly. and Edith and I exchanged glances As a mnttei of fact, last ' night's events have lefi me In a more preearl mis position than before, and I feel that any more on my part would only precipitate matters Greenough has given out a statement to the reporters that an eurly arrest may he ex lieeied. and I do not for the Hfe of me understand why he has not pounced already. I Imagine the only thing that has saved me, so far has been the single fact that Peter Gelss knows I was on the sloop the night and hour when Halliday wus attacked. That puzzles him. Abrf a lltlA lb poor .In lie. The blow Inis fallen ngaln. and till-tiI'liut almost hi our very door ll Is not murder Is not due to any lack of Intention but lo weakness In 'I Just tbli Hy. Ib ktti be and ward lo Stalled In aumntoA Hi far.Uirf I rgtig by pu tlug a rojiM AHsrbed h The srarthrr are fnn bail I bat lh Utirro-I. Is tut and If mi a and lda kill It lad of lb Attempt rnliMf la likely t'i ns il by abu l.rr are many wiirtd I Iha ami Ihal ltd fill fop iar1iir wgau " "At tl slimier, and that lb atliirlf al I lie bottom 4 iilirly, Hr rattier. in aliiloidd lie It alls yrtia H. A her I II In tnenl by Hi the tuy. will 0l A whllw. I And tin Mw th It Ksfg rujiily lernw ArrOird Mcl W uA H I kiwulii bo detemp imii lil Iq lit lhiy tmmm M IA - MMMS n youik. Carroaiy, ok aalifc ky. kill eluding lk kvlin iky al d-- bs iirtpl kti d ,w l, The d merits In thr Sl-- I bad A4 ! Ira fret brf uf beard II- brl m g!i.g. By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART mBuU IV't-r- aIa I wvat kf was bAsHmii la It hlHb4k AlarUig ruad tu and iwrtit many rumairat4 uA th dutinr gad myvi if. II put bts bang In Ms brad and Mt tt tuudag. kd "Ul.rr4 grl Hiatf b Th Sbu fuuad lb sundial by airl my lag sfaliial It, M Ihua erW-lli.At . , . To record last nights strange affair tn sequence: I could not sleep, a condition which Is growing chronic with me lately, and at or about midnight I went down stairs and outside The night was ex treinely dark; I paced hack and for ward along the drive, keeping at first close to the Lodge, hut gradually ex tending my steps as I grew accus turned to the dnrkness. After twenty minutes or so of this and at the extreme of my swing toward the other housed heard some sort of movement In that direction and stopped to listen. It was a can tloiia disturbance of the sliruhhery. and I swung la among th trees and stood listening. If was not repeated, however, and I turned to go hack. 1 bad, bo ever, lust my way, fnij One Wild Beast That Defies Power of Man In the eternal game of tag" he Iween man and the animals tie lias hunted, there is only one beast knmvu to man that has oever been caught. Every zoo In the world would like very much to get the white rhinoceros to he found In large numbers near the rivers of the Sudan, but none has (bus fur been successful. It has been found so hopeless to attempt to catch a whitg rhinoceros alive that the government nt Khartoum has forbidden the bunting of tills strange animal. Compared with the white rhino, lions and elephants are easy marks. He will kill his hunter or himself. Al first sight of a human the white rhino charges. If the hunter evades his fierce onrush, the rhino will. In his Mind rage, charge the first substantial object within his reach, with a ferocity terrible to be- ened with captivity, will deliberately commit suicide. Young white rhiuog which were captured hy natives died within a very short time, so sensitive are they to captivity. If It were possible to catch them, they would keep up their frenzied charges until they killed themselves. The London zoo authorities have offered thousands of pounds for a specimen of the white rhinoceros, and un til the ban of the Sudan government was established, practically every na tive In the section tried to catch one. It was the great slaughter of the beasts In an effort to capture one alive which resulted in the hi w against hunting the white rhino, which seems to prefer death his determinedly death or the hunter's to captivity. hold. little girl lives near a dug which Is loved and cured for by a childless woman. The owuer of the dog came to call on the little girl's mother. Mrs. Blank," she said, "I think Mary Is changing so much. I don t want to have any hard feelings, bin I really thought you ought to know that I overheard her being very Impolite. Sure, I want lo know, and thunk you for calling my attention to the matter. I shall speak to Mary about it What did Mary say! asked Hi agitated mother. My dog was out In front as to school and she said. Voi dirty cur, don t you dare touch -- It Is the ouly animal which, threat- - Fingerleta Familiet The story Is that the great grat ;rundmother. when she was young, told a tie about uu apple whereupon her purenis threatened her with a curse HihI her children later on would be born with deformed bat.ds. Wheth er It Is true or not, the tamlly of whom the story Is told have for four generations suffered from a curious Ten members have bad deformity. something wrong with their fingers some having only two joints Instead of three in some of the fingers, others and one or I wo having no flnger-natls- . being without Hagers at sIL London Ut-Bil- Impolite A ii. Few men boast how were unless they are uu pirri. u rb- -j on. 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