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Ifaa IwHMum. sheep ar I ha trinity, ? h ! killing ll,luii rmi 1 that ha Tia ili a tM'ili, mi, la ' 1M IM af ! II HUH in hM friar liir u4r la 1 li-ci- tm4 la pflj-piriiallf a Ilk hla llaibvl, aha, ralart, A A i;caaaah, f4 la lliliMu, a la IM iwalaf at mtnif !iH ratalMlle I ha Mt lakra l'irra, an pawnim aalrh fat youth. Iha ahrap klllat, disappear Im hat Iha lamp h44rll la a taon of a hit b ha Hunt ha Iha kr. hul taiftf pa.pl. In. tltJini Iha ptalaaiar n hlmaalf, ll hall Ihrf llta al Tala llullowa 11111-4- y I allarkff mtalatluualy and arluljr lnai4 1tnaait la (unit la Iha hay, murdr4 cook, Maty hloirlaan, fuller llelhel IMli'l, Meheluu (mm ralaty, I onfiin4 Iha had llalMday p bin lari an lnvrtiiioo of iha my alary. tr t4 4tppr (Continued ) -1- 2On Ami,' for lust a no. Hint Ilia A lilt'll we rail Ilia pinnll iumlail dan 11 Used fur liar nan naan Tlltll In llnalf Sound JUUK-Ilnsusplchuia ltut slop I ll tm uni n nalail nl Hint lima; I rarnll a lion uuir nlit Horae found Ilml nnk paneling Hint gleefully Installed ll In aIhiI lml lieen Iha old kitchen of Ilia orlln:il fur in tmii An Investigation. mmla Juki Hour linn supplemented my inainnry. Tin photograph (Sola: Ilnta I. Eugenia Biggs nl Ilia Oiikvllla Phenomena") show a ilnstaraci a all. aiul one or two crude water color on It Ioa alldy Ilia spirit imltif in its of iha text ll also aliowa Ilml Iha n l.i ni'i ao cnllail, wiia hoi a cabinet al nil. hut n dark curtain on a heavy jmle, a Mali extends aero a Jlnnk aoniar In ilia jik'lura llicso curtalnn arc thrown Imrk, showing a aiuall siinul oii which pre the slime properties of George a bell, a pan of sotnaihlns, a cln, and a etnnll hunch of flowers. On Ilia floor, randy for Ida ghostly timid, I a guitur The wall la certainly plastered tn. set on Its An Inset shows the eilce to allow photography. and with Hie title: Imprint of hand In putty loc. 2nd. ISki2. Notice lack of usuul whorls and rhlces." But In spile of this rather militant caption. I find I am unimpressed Bather am I wondering whether somewhere In the there was not a Mr background Biggs, with a short brond thumb nud a bent little Huger, who waa not Ignorant of the lack of the usunl whorls and ridges In a pair of rubber gloves But, considering that plastered wall, the entire evidence In the book, gath ered together, forma a surprising whole. One must tnke oft one's lint to the Biggs family, provided there were Ovo of them, or to whomsoever assisted the lady. Especially since the windows were "shuttered and bolt ed. and small strings of hells, which would ring at the slightest touch, were hung across them." August 3. Holliday, who Is on early riser, burst In on us this morning at the breakfast table, fairly bristling with rti g excitement Hood morning, everybody 1" he sung out. What do I receive for a piece of very cheering news? Greenoughs gone. Benchley tame over yesterday and threw him off the case. At least, that's what they say at the post office. Thirteen days he's begn fooling around, and lie couldnt get over the hump.' If only he had stayed a little Edith said regretfully, and longer, somebody had killed him I It's rotten bad luck, thats all." The conversation had little or no meaning for Jane. She was, 1 could see, puzzled by our excitement and unable to understand our relief. Sure ly they have left somebody, she said We ought not to be left without protection. Who knows when something will break out again, and then where are we? Where Indeed? said Halliday. The move Is a totally unexpected one. Yesterday, as Halliday said, the sheriff came over to the hotel and was closeted for an hour or two with A bellboy that, Greenough. on carrying some cracked ice to the room, he found Greenough sitting morosely b.v a table, arid Benehtey at the window, staring out. xIInlf an hour later the sheriff left, passing out of the hotel without so much as a nod to anyone, and within the hour Green hill In the lohhj ongli was paying I'M ordering a car to take him to the rerts .t'aia L4 Hat a)m lblrtrl IfllNkjlmlN I iti a (( IhaA a lb brf i Iha a Hr on IN mi iha n la ms n M las la Ni k nt Ihctn; (oia bay a'w brA n m a onto I l.iii nan nmtmri rlrijr nl n.li4ima an1 rrn id rlrw arw t mg rtibengnl al INI or Ufa (kaiH ti , I M, rich ring 1 bi font i.lng I ! row uf Ptan nmiH- - Yaiiglan Acre fnn4 l a rofltaf nl IM Bald, glilng athlatira nf hating boon run In dalh during Iha blgb. T Iha mminnn nna suggoib'U of a dg bring lb rtilprli, H)ing f nltl H-- 1 bit lu-bta- i nnt - ) tNin A buy airangai ihm larga knit ilijt In ago triad i the hardware alorw. (later ahown to be IM Utlng ainhes nr w l.uih-- r mi king a ran log knlfr ) The amiinl keeper af lb llgtdhou dn luring baa iiNunird. I he M im "I (, tiHir wtt k fur bit Aldeh'M Ml (.!, Mt tutiM Yti g tursM, id, A lib fsHlgtl,' be "That lifhthou , lie fail again lido 11 al t Id etorjf eoetrf of ndlth rMltlSM arts No, b lL and luttdaf off lbrMigh He tb-4- ttrrt He tigltbti, abruptly, strurl ran lake fum HI as mtnti or a lull a I aid I It that itut'k'M b Nurd IN ou;li In (be It ebb the other hotiM, and mod d a hub ! b roii'pNInad la I (;bi aMlir Annie Nf t' itr be b ld.f of It, nd Alth In n rird I k' tit i.'itoM, ly al.'tniiag lor Alth Ilf wrly bi ar i.'i:i-rut- August 4 bro. duljrr that young In lb baldl of I!p bn ti-out of Ibe bourne af tdgbl that pli-be ruimormul In do If aitorlly after Id arrival, and ha due It evet ! I bat, tndoed i n4 siton lh Uithrii atojui lf.re lie ing but had hern out In am and eaa trying lo gat tun k the lido H' hotir, hhe also td lavra that Mr Half at amlii It. and hn li-t- t no the alert, !nr tl.e night nf the Antde I tt'kl. rr, rsi'i!ly "There Ihatii, rt lertl had blood halwern elnrt Hint itlghf," she said- And Hin-aas- U)T & scs Edith and Halliday lot the Boathouse and a Canoe. Thay talk a bit when Pm In the dining room, hut once I'm out of It, they 're aa glum as oysters." Bhe also suspects Mr. Bethel ol being afraid of Gordon. On the nights win it she assisted him upstairs, while Hie secretary was still Invulldcd, she always heard him bolt his door as soon as he was Inside. "And Ihe nights he stayed down," she added, he hnd me bring down Hint revolver of his. He laid It lo the fellow who got In by the gun room window, hul Ive got my owd Ideas about It." "What makes you think Gordou had been off the place, the night he was hurt? "He said he couldnt sleep, didn't he? And lie got up and went downstairs to get something to eat, and then wont outside? So he snld." Well, as far us I can make out, lie was dressed from top to toe. lie didn't need to do that to get down to the pantry." And we had missed that! llaywurd. Greenough and I had checked up that story, according to our several aldl ities. and Imd never uoticed that ills sent his dollies to he crepancy. denned Ihe next day." she said, and I noticed It then." But her real contribution, if I may cull It that, lay In the garage, and to (lie hall and listen after lug to the sound of Mr Bethel's dicta lion from within, she drew me out side. So far us I kuow." she said, "tlini car's only been out twice since they came, and that whs to take Thomas home one time, and me another, the night of the storm. But IPs been out lust the same. Wouldn't tiie old man hear It? He might and he mtglitnt. Suppose it was rolled along the lane and started? lie wouldn't hear It there would he? she her contention To support allowed me a number of marks In the lane, certainly suspicious but by no means evidential. It Is nothing un usual for motorists to strike Into the woodland along the lane, under the impression that It Is a public road and to he brought np all standing at 1 the house. But against all this, at least as pointing lo young Gordon as our po sibie. criminal. Is what Is to me an insuperable obstacle We know that the crimes are connected wiih the killing of the sheep. It is not possible to doubt lids. And the sheep were killed and the altar built before Sir Cctbel brought Gordon lino the neigh kna I' and Aahia ank "There rn8 Muc(bJi, about nem'i di Idin," she fcold "AVbrti I hotinl he thlnla "He'S I keii lo lirUtiy Id room and carrying the key about Alth bits I a itdng nf anytly elm a brirr In my Hie," Aa Halliday Arnl la town early la A lib day, faking the scrap nf a .a know the rtplwr in an di ah' Hot, I biive fol ru ltd tc angle Alth 1dm (joile a Ma fmtn lb di fepniioy In dale bnwcvi-r- , Goph'ti not arv!i,g until after N rvdgii uf terror wn Aab ui.dai a ay. lh chief atunddlngbliM k 1 the aitii'k nn W iy bluuu-lf- . the boy tlws slip nut al Kuj ! blgtd, and lake Ibe car? lie la young and I Imagine pretty mmli a prin.ner all day lie lakes dictation all mrn ti g. Iyt after luncheon a Idle Mi lietbei alii'pa. and at fui again la ready Alth bla txk and wn ill. The few momenta be baa miii Alih t allib bow and then are plainly tolan. August Hntildiiy'a expert am md pnrile ularly helpful, I pal her. We have lid to our advantage, however. If ad vantage It be; the typing nn done n a Itamliigion machine. Aa I bad eipactvHl, be dm md take Annie (Tvcbroii'a story very aerlnua bul be btiaea hi shepHclsni rather mi Hie beginning nf Hi terror before Hie by came, limn mi the a Mack or himself llie Aside from tills blind alley up Abldi Annie ('ncliriin ainried us. we are all more nearly normal than we have lou since llie early diva nf the summer. I rlsv. aliave and baihe and go to my breakfast, no toiicot with the filling ll.ul ll may be. figuratively speaking, my last We are nol worried by the uneer tiilniy of the prosisi'i Indore us; the long period ahead ol Edith and llalll day before they eun marry; that nov year, and the yeat after that, hio' God knows how mini) years to runic I sli,. II he pouring the priceless Iren urea of Ihe English language lub ears Ilml will not hear; Ilml my vacn lion Is more Ilian half over, mid thin Its net result so far Is a loss lo me of some odil pounds of wofglu August 1 Edith lias today received the large sum of leu dollars for the lighthouse story. While she Is still fat fi'oin the opulence she has atiHclpnted. there has been great excitement here today on receipt of the check. I And that llullhlny lias been quid ly working abvng Ihe lines opened up by Anule Cochran He Is convinced that Gordon has been going out a' nights, clandestinely, nnd using tin ear to do so. I don't hlnme him foi that " lie said today. The cars there, and not being used And I'm not keen about Gordon hut from such views as I have had ot Mr. Bethel a little o' Idin would go h long wav Gord n's disconnected the speedometer, by the way. But theres something else, lie thinks It was Gordon who set Are to the boathouse, lie found a bit of waste outside the garage, hang Ing on a limb of blue spruce dime and a similar scrap on the raised walk over the marsh to the boathouse. "But why? I asked There tins to he a reason " - U-c- r y tr m," "and lituigin nutklni on ll b b In ra ei ft gd M4 Augutl L li-- a nerve Cm king day ..r i.t.e am Adlitig to cry quits l voioptiitidM' Alth vrliua, and in say in effect, that If Ibe murderer leave U uh'lie Ae All) md dNItitb bltu from My rotiddioti pMditddy sliti-- r ronfuvion lb life of toe I id av wlrnre Ibe result of 11111 day's waufi It ran lend u. nor I think 1 irt o'ilk bn a llut I Hd of m Burning w grant IbaCa mil Aouldu'l do that, atdowa b I In.htrt tuf that I (a Iqtplf tbnl b I guilty of lb rrlttw, ami I iMri It," But l added aa an aftortbioigW ; "Ttiete'a on cut bma thing, rboueft ll may 1st ruHus; I m tad I bat I ba' ulng I mire, The tua Ido IJatidtiSton in by eilramaty IndmUy iN unwillingly rrveaNd live on blui bii Nt rmuiii before trfl, fr nn r "I aid thoughtfully, IN divides ly l. f up(1 tmu(i IVlints ba a certain eeniMdb, but in l, n t AM.I for bar liii r la (lid la true, an far as lh rrlgna linn gni He him. ll opi-antril I. ul Ward In la liaiisfarrad. there ha lira fin re'alinn of Ihe alrange affair ihe night of the ainrm I A car li Nan racklawnly and Aithnit earn twlre nanr Iha llglda hn Im-llllhura road, lailh llliH- - aflaf mbl night (Tharr aaainr u t n In nulliatillclljf II III Hit; Ihe dir. IlnWHar, slui.l llulili iifilll f.ilily rlnsr In nnathaf inf. nlian ll thill I ham off aliiNaly nf atuirM'. anme daf I Thar limy In ihe dlmmor Mv own ralhd I beyond winds I jH'klcg In my shining mirror fodi.v I urn slur I lad nl Iha almnge In me 'la Iasi few weak Iha l.atir are oomlnir mil in dinner tonight. Mora power fa I ham August 4 Iha party h sl ld:;li( mis a grant la'lir Imd bmuglif me out h In 11 la ol chiral and with aiindtas on I tie (iihlo ninl wlx wine ghiSM-s- . Imsilly iHirrowed from Annie f'oclmin lit Ihe niiiln hmise. Ae look on qulia a fee live Hlr We divided iiflei Ihe maul. Jana mid llalami In lulk, Ivlllli mid llulll lay for Ihe Isuil house mid a eiimm mid I In puce the drive ulth and our cigars. I.enr'8 qulel face and general de Niidiihlllty, and perluiis Ihe need ol a fresh mind on (lie conditions here. Impelled me lo loll my alopy, to which lie listened wllhout Interruption. Ills opinion la Hint we have lo do with a homicidal maniac, and tlial the aheep killing was preliminary to Hie rest, a propitiation. he puts It The superuiiturul angle of the case lie put aside with a gesture. 1 won't even argue It, he said. There may he something to It; I'm not denying Hint, But It's not stuff to he meddled with ; when the l.ord means to open that veil lie will do It. And I am no peeping Tom." tie said further that Helena nas taken up the ouija hourd. and sits for hours "with anyone she can entrap, getting absurd messages which sound well and mean nothing. In your place, he said, "1 would If you get really to the forget it. point where you think you have some tiling, send for Cameron and let hint look Into It. But keep out of It yourself, Porter. Its bud medicine." took them to the eleven o'clock train, and have only fust returned But I think It would amuse Bear In spite of Ills hands off attitude, to know Hint as I drove Into the garage nud shut off the lights and the en gine, In the very act of getting out of the ear I heard once more that peculiar dry cough, Hie faint slow footfall i.nd smelled again that curious herbal odor which I shall, all the days of my life, associate with my Unde Horace. So unexpected was it, coming on top of the happiest evenlug of the summer, that I stood for a moment Immovable. Then I leaped from the terrifying darkness of the garage out Into the moonlight, aud there eon fronted young Gordon, standing out side and quietly smoking. Hello!" I said, when I could speak Out again, 1 see. "Yes. That place gets my goat " he replied. I guess Pm Jumpy since the other night " He looked bud. and I asked him If he cared to sit down before starting back. Bui he refused. Til gel h 11 If lie ffnds I've left the house, be said elegantly. f turned and walked hack with him toward the house, and seeing him secretly amused about something, asked h!n what it was, whereupon he said that he was thinking of the way 1 had shot out of the garage Put something over on you there didn't 1? Mm4 lYNl 4" fu 1 bn 1 n lr Im. d- , . idtn , ltd morning, at llalihtiy roiiisl, telephoned in Gordon and Rtlril him In lunch Alth it II afier a brief bcvdiatlon and ram dAt lntMptiy at one Hi drlv. rtad In a hit Annual and of tnuid Alth an additional do on Id hair Whether It ah ausphlou or md a cannot tell I know Ibal, watching him fpun a window, part way (twn Hi drlv b cam to a dead atop and Iben turn'!, a If h bud worn Idea of going buck on amu pretext or other. But h evidently thouchi mr ter of ft. balked at bis watch, and came on again. II mad a Impression on us, furtively watching Jane choice of fork or Mn and otherwise Imki.-Ing most of Ida attention on Edith Such attention, that la. aa be Im-s- i "wml on anylMMly at the beginning. waa resile. Emm where And it li sal he had Ida back lo ibe win down, but more than once he niuii'icod to turn and look out. I Imd Hie feel Ing Ilml Hip small room enclosed him Iini nine'll ; Ihut he fell somehow irapiKKl. And more than once I found Id ayes on me. and fell Ilml he u na peeled nie of some purpose he '(tempting in disoover. Hi nervousness Anally Infected me. ml even June begun lo show sNns f distress The small lunch party, or some reason she could not tin- lerslund. was going badly. Only Edith played up well ; she pushed hm k her (late at last, and with her ellm-w- on the table and her chin In her hands Edith l, o'hk ti s said: "And now. tell us about the night you were I'll tl hurt." ilml," he said, with tils twisted smile. II Mr Porter will tell me Imw he and the doctor both Imp. pctied to he such Johnnies on llie spot. Bul he The Doctor . It it rwmiiil that tnf car ahouU alwayt operate prop ecly ami amWiouly t ue Chamrkm $park llugi. lra? CfeftmfVxi ! Hit pa k (dug tMHM It tM an nJuiiva lAMil attU itAtthiar p with aav4 iha much higher l mprraiurca of iha Irrutd I nwera highNiiprM aioo engine. Atm a new l futmicJ mlij copper ynlirMMliiii(iviBiM sbvolutrly gHght tinder high comprr "XV. Special amilywi tloctmdcvA hivh aotstr a Bvl U driving cooditioeti pttrfc-gxpuod- Champion SparJ(Ptogs aa ToNUCbu PPAfabf fc n- i- or .- -ii. Erv raffs Aviators Have Found Use for Old 'Chutes Muffle fur aviator an being fund from worttoul pit rachitic tm-- in lb aviation branch f the I'ldied blata army. Biiraclniie are nude of ihe finest, a fict Jupiities alik. They ar made In many pleira, aa that If a break occurs it will not run lh entire IrttgHi d of the cbdh A pararhute usually lust about fit year. The allk Is (hen turned in and llie larger place are used lo muke tmiffiers for pilots. The (toft silk aenea n valuable purpose In protect lug the Hirotil of the wearer from rhatlug of the helmet strap, c"crl:il ly on long heps. After the World war the discarded covering of airplane whig was much In demand by li(h men and women for outing shirts. Clung to German Marks When the will of a wealthy out of Hate man was filed with AsslHant Attorney General Ktulih. of Maine, for Interassessment of taxes on Amim-la- l ests of that state, an unusual rluuse was found In the will. That purl of llie dncumtni referred to 1 KU mi,ih mi., (nhi.ihhi German marks which llie, man had bought during Ihe war. and In Hructed Ihe executor lo retain the currency until It could he redeemed nt a "reasonatile price rather Hum appraise It ait practically worthless. The man bought the marks for almut $0,000. carried Ihut no further, aiid Plentiful Supply although the covert Insolence of the speech brought the color to Edith's "We're going south for the winter. face, she continued to smile. "What? With so much of It right There Isn't much to tell." he went here In Alaska?" The fellow got Into the house mi. nil right; I turned to go In by the door and head him off, and thats all I remember." But you rang the bell Arst, didn't yon?" Whether because tie hated to acknowledge that cull for help, or for some reason none of us cun deter mine tonight, he hesitated Yes, he said Anally. I was pretty well excited, but I suppose I did Almost Immediately tie usked me It had tried hem Ing Hie hell as fat away us the highroad, with a tnotoi engine going." 1 (TO BE t'ONTINt'ED.t Charm and Ability Handicap to Asquith Lord Caste ro sc. willing mi Hie denili of Lord Asqtiilli. dealt with the erudi tion o. Hie Asquith family and said' 1 could give you many examples ot Years before llie newspapers-startethis. their general knowledge ques thins' Ms. Anthony Asquith invented a game of (dying his fafhet with strange and outlandish queries and vet so great was laird Oxfords erudiHoti that I can hardly rememhet him fall I once heard ins over a fair question Mr. Anthony Asquith persuade his fa ther to recite hack wards the JVHn winners for the Inst 32 years which he did accurately; to describe Hie lu ties of on official of the college ot heralds; and also to give a brief dp scription of a minor character In Mas E'se Beerhohm's Zulelka Ihdison. It is where Lord tasilerose wrote: true that Asquith was making a name for himself as a scholar in his youth but unfortunately he was earning no money. One day lird Portsmouth wrote the famous master. Beverend Have you Ihictor Jowett. and said: got a suitable undergraduate b read with my son. Lord Lymington. during the long vocation?'" Doctor Jowett refilled that he had exactly Hie article required. In the shape of Mr. Asquith As a tutor Mr. Asquith was a g.eat success, hut there was a drawback if, this handsome, penniless having clever young man in a household for every single young lady In the countryside fell bead over heels in love I with him to the consternation of the tor-toAt last matchmaking mothers Jowett as communicated with again, and asked if he could not sub st it ute a less clever, less attractive and less amusing tutor. Pierre Van Passen, In the Atlanta Constitution. Caf'a Meow The cut who loves cod liver oil is put upon He sure is more fond of end liver oil Hum licet qr raw ham burg steak, or salmon, or kidneys, ot cat food and the family kuow it. Beeently he derided to go out foi ihe evening. The youngster did no! wish to have him go, hut he slid out mi the steps looking around for world to conquer. No catling for Kitty, kil ty, would budge him nn Inch, Then ihe small youngstei ran and got Hie cod liver oil bottle. She held it out to iim as bait He gave one sniff in Hie air and then came to the Dottle as true as a needle fo a magnet. The child walked Into the house with the bottle. Hie cat fulliov-inand site hnd him Springfield Union lu-in- Hand Laundered Men sn-i- l The man wttli Hie stainb-mid sjH'tless rcoorq .night to go f md get a few blemishes." e Grand pop Petcrkln. just to keep the rest of us sinners from (eelin too im washed. "Farm and Fireside. s When your Children Ciy for It Ostoria Is a comfort when Baby Is freirul. No sooner takyn than the little one Is at ease. If restless, a few drops Boon bring contentment No harm done for Castorla is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant ; you have the doctors' word for that! It is a vegetable product and you could use it every day But its in an emergency that Castoria means most Some night when constl pation must be relieved or colic pains or other suffering. Never be without It ; some mothers keep an extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will always be Castoria in the house. It Is effective for elder children, too; read the book that conies with It -- irNy-rK.- -: -- A |