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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH lA N ovel I THE d-- From the Poy J MARY ROBERTS RINEHART tnd AVERY HOPWOCD OAT COPYRIGHT. 1930 by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART and AVERY HOPWOOD WHU SERVICE shell that had been Kkhurd Fleming He turned the body half over let it sink back ou Its face. For a moment Ive had some trouble with my car, he glanced at the corner of the blue town the road, he said finally. He iu his hand then at the doctor print I to came glanced at Dale attain. Then he stood aside. ask If I might telephone." All right, he said laconically. find to Did It require a searchlight So Uicliurd I lemiiig left the room Ihe house? Miss Cornelia ashed auswhere lie had been struck down so piciously. suddenly and strangely home out by "Look here, the young man blusBeresfoid, the doctor und Jack Bailey nil me tered, why are you ashing The little procession moved us swltlly He tapped his clg these questions? and softly as circumstances would per arette case with an Irritated air. its passuge Whata your name?" Anderson mit Anderson followedFor with watchlul eyes. peihaps u laid sternly. dozen ticks of lime, Dale was 11 1 un Beresford Reginald Beresford, watched and she made the most ot aid the young man sulhily. "If you tier opportunity. doubt it Ive probably got a card Her hngeis tumbled ut t lie bosom He begun to run omen here ot her liiess she took out the prethrough his pockets. cious, dangerous fragment of blue VVhat8 your business?" went on print that Anderson must uot bud in the detective. tier possession hut wiiere to hide it, here?" business Whats my queried her chance had passed? Iier before the young man, obviously fencing eyes fell on the Inead roll Inna with his interrogator. that hud lallen supper-tray- , No how do you earn your livhad seen liei Lizzie floor when to the Anderson said sharply. ing?" and hud on the stairs gleaming eye "I dont," said the young man flipShe ever unnoticed since. lain tl.el'e If I to have now, begin may pantly. that is of any interest to you. As a bent over switlly und secreted the tuntilizing scrap of blue paper iu the natter of fact, I've studied law, but body ot the roll, smoothing the crust The one word was enough to start buck ulinve it with trembling Augers. Lizzie off on another trail of distrust Then she replueed the roil wiiere it she quoted "He may be a lawyer hud tullen originally, and stiulglitened to herself sepulchrully, from the eveup Just us Billy and the detective both ning newspaper article that had denlt with the nijsterlous Identity of the returned. Bat Billy went immediately to the tray, And you came here to telephone piiked it up, und started to go out about your car?" persisted the detecagain. Then he uotieed the roll on the floor, stooped for it and repiuced tive. Dale rose from her chair, with a it upon the tray. He looked at Mis Cornelia for instructions. hopeless little sigh. Oh, dont you see lie's trying to Take that tiuy out to the dining But protect me," she said wearily. She room," she said mechanically. turned to the young man. "Its no Anderson's attention hud ulready been Bse, Mr. Beresfoid. drawn to the tiny incident. Iieresfords air of flippancy van"Wait 1 li look ut that tray," he ished. said briskly. Dale, her heart iu liei I see, he said. lie turned to the mouth, watched him examine the others, frankly, "Well, the plain knives, the plules, even shake out the truth is I didnt know the situation napkin to sie that nothing was hid and I thought Id play safe for Miss den iu Its folds. At lust lie seemed Ogdens sake." satisfied. Miss Cornelia moved over to her "All right take it away," lie com She put a hand niece, protectlngly. iimnded. Billy nodded, und vanished on Dales shoulder, to reassure her, toward the diuing room with tray and ond turned to Anderson calmly. roll. Dale breathed again. lie doesnt know anything about The sight of the tray hud made Miss this," she said, Indicating Beresford. Cornelia's thoughts retuiu to practical "lie brought Mr. Fleming here In Ids affairs. ear thats all." "Lizzie, she commanded now, "go Anderson looked at Beresford for out iu tlie kitchen and make some confirmation. coffee. I'm sure we all need it, she "Is that true?" He started sighed. Yes," said Beresford. Lizzie bristled at once. to explain. "I got tired of waiting "Go out in that kitchen alone?" ond so I Cornelia "Billy's there," said Mg-The detective broke in curtly. wearily. All right." Tlie thought of Billy seemed to bring lie took a step toward the alcove, solace to Lizzies heart, little "Now, doctor." lie nodded at the she "Thut Jap and Ids Jewy-Jltsu- , Beres-forhuddle beneath the raincoat. twist "One and muttered viciously. followed his glance1 and saw the I'd he folded up like a pretzel !" ominous heap for tlie first time. But Miss Cornelia's manner was iiu Whats that?" he said tersely. No him. The doctor was perative and Lizzie slowly dragged one answered herself kltclieuvvard, yawning and his knees on beside the body already of raincoat drawing the gently aside. promising the saints repeutauce Beresford stared at the shape thus every sin she hud or had uot com revealed with frightened eyes. The mittod if she were allowed to get there without something grabbing at her color left his face. corner of the hull not Dick Thats Fleming is it?" ankles in the dark When the door had shut behind her. he said thickly. Anderson turned to Dale, tlie corner Anderson slowly Podded Ids head Beresford seemed unable to heliexe of blue pi hit which lie hud taken from tlie doctor in his baud. bis eyes. "If you've looked oxer the ground, "Now, Miss Odgen," lie said tensely I have lie re a scrup of blue prim said the doctor In a low voice to Anderson, "I'll move the body where we which was in Dick Fleming's hand when lie was killed. Ill trouble you can have a better light." Ills right for tlie rest of it. if you please!" hand fluttered swiftly over Fleming's Tlie rest of It? queried Dale, with still, clenched flt extracted from It a show of bewilderment, silently thank torn corner of paper. . . . Still Beresford did not seem to be lug her stars that, for the moment, ai able to take In what had happened least, the incriminating fragment had lie took another step toward the body passed out of her possession. "Do you mean to say that Dick Her reply seemed only to Infuriate he began. Anderson si tlie detective. Fleming Don't tell me Fleming started to gi lenced him withun uplifted hand. What have you got there. Doctor?-hnut of tlds house witli a blank scrap of paper in his hand, he threatened said in a still voice. He didn't start to go out at all! The doctor, still on his knees beside Dale rose. Was Amlersoti trying a the corpse, lifted his head. What do you mean? clisnce shot in tlie dark or had lie You took something, Just then, out stumbled upon some fresli evidence f Flemings iiaid," said the detec against her? She could not tell from tive. his manner. "I took nothing out of Ids hand, Why do you say that? she feinted " said said the doctor firmly. His caps there on tlie Anderson's manner grew peremp tlie detective with crushing terseness Dale started. She had not remem tory. I warn you not to obstruct the bered tlie cap why hadn't she burned course of justice!" he said, forcibly. Itooiiccaled it as she had concealed "Give it here!" the blueprint? She passed a hand The doctor rose, slowly, dusting off over her forehead, wearily. his knees. His ejes tried to meet An Miss Cornelia watched her niece. dersons and failed. He produced a "If youre kteping any tiling back torn corner of blue-prin-t. Dale tell him, she said. Dale knew herself cornered at last "Why, it's only a scrap of paper-noth- ing at all, he said, evasively. Tlie detectives deductions were only Anderson looked at him meaningly. too shrewd do what she would, she "Scraps of paper are sometimes very could keep him away from the truth important," he said, with a side glance no longer. at Dale. "He was going to take the money The doctor motioned nervously. and go away with It I she said, rather "As the coroner if Mr. Anderson is pitifully, feellug a certain relief of satisfied 1 suggest that the body be despair steal over her, now that she no longer needed to go on lying lying taken where I can make a thorough examination," he said haltingly. involving herself in an inextricable Once more Anderson beut over the web of falsehood. CHAPTER VII Continued 11 , Miss Cornelia, Dale !" gasped alarmed. But Dale went on, reckless of consequences to herself, though still warily shielding Jack. "He changed tlie minute he heard about it. He was all kindness before She shud that hut afterward dered, closing her eyes. Flemings face rose before her again, furious, distorted with passion and greed-th- en, suddenly, quenched of life. Anderson turned to Miss Cornelia triumphantly. She started to find tlie money and save Bailey, lie explained, building i ip his theory of the crime. "But to it she had to take Fleming luto her confidence and he turned yellow Bather than let him get away with it. siie He mude an expressive ges ture toward ids hip pocket. isn't that true? demanded Anderson. Dale already felt the cold clasp of handcuffs on her slim wrists. What use of denial, when every tiny circum stance was so leagued against her? And yet she must deny. I didn't kill him, she repeated perplexedly, weakly. "Why, didn't you call for help? 'ou you knew I was here?" I ule hesitated. I I couldn't. Tlie moment the winds were out of her mouth she knew from ids expression that tlu-- had only cemented ins grow ing certainty of tier guilt. 'Dale! Be careful what you say! warned Miss Cornelia agitatedly. Dale looked dumbly at her aunt. Her answers must seem tlie height of reckless folly to Miss Cornelia oil, If there were only some one who understood ! Anderson resumed his grilling. "Now I mean to find out two things, he said, advancing upon Dale. Why you did not call for help und what you have done with that blue print." "Supposel could find that piece of t for you?" said Dale, des- - s tal-Ie.- blue-prin- doctor aiid Beresford who had Just returned, with Jack Bailey, from their grim task of placing Fleming's body in a temporary resting place iu the library. "Well, Doctor? he grunted. The doctor shook Ids head. "Boor fellow straight through tlie heart." "Were there any powder marks? queried Miss Cornelia. No and the clothing was not burned. He was apparently shot from some little distance and I should say from above. The detective received tills informs tion without the change of a muscle In his face. He turned to Beresford resuming liis attack on Dale from another angle. Beresford, did Fleming tell you why lie came here tonight? Beresford considered the question. No. lie seemed in a great hurry-s- aid Miss Ogden had telephoned him and asked uie to drive him over. Why did you come up to the house? We-e- l, said Beresford with seem ing candor, "1 thought it was putting rather a premium on friendship to keep me sitting out In tlie rain all night, so I came up tlie drive and, by He snapped his fingers ir tlie way! riratedly, as if recalling some signifi cant incident that hud slipped his memory, and drew a battered object from his pocket. "I picked this up about a hundred feet from the house, It A man's watch. lie explained. was partly crushed into tlie ground, and, as you see, it's stopped running. The detective took the object and examined it carefully. A man's open face gold watch, crushed and battered in as if it had been trampled upon by a heavy heel. "Yes, he said thoughtfully. Stopped Anybody here running at recognize it? The detective silently held up tlie watch so that all present could examine it. He waited. But if anyone In the party recognized the watch uo one moved forward to claim it. Y'ou didnt hear any evidence of a struggle, did you? went on Beresford. "The ground looked as if a fight had taken place of course it might have been a dozen other things." Miss Cornelia started. Lizzie heard Just about she in the grounds, out, cry somebody said. The detective slipped tlie watch in his pocket. "Do you always carry a flashlight, Miss Cornelia, Mr. Beresford?" a trifle suspiciously. Hi Always at night in the car. certain. and was prompt reply This is all you found?" queried the detective a curious note in his voice. Beresford sat down, relieved. Yes. Miss Cornelia followed his example another clew had led into a blind-alleleaving tlie mystery of tlie night's affair as impenetrable as ever. "Some day 1 hope to meet tlie real 1 estate agent who promised me thut be would sleep here as I never slept He s fore ! she murmured acridly. on clothes ! with my Ive slept right I came!" every night since As she ended, Billy darted in from the hall, his heady little black eyes a long, gleaming with excitement, in his butcher-knifwicked-lookinhand. ! he "Key, kitchen door, please mistress. his said, addressing "Key? said Miss Corhelia, startled. What for? For once Billys polite little grin was absent from his countenance. Somebodys outside trying to get "I see knob turn, In," he chattered. , so, he illustrated with the butcher-knifetimes." "and so three The detectives hand went at once to his revolver. Youre sur of tint, are you?" he said roughly to Billy. Sure, I sure! "Wliere8 thut hysterical woman Lizzie?" queried Anderson. "She may get a bullet in her if she's not care ten-thirt- "Doctor, have yon a revolver? Anderson seemed to be going over the possible means of defense against this new peril. No. "How about you, Beresford? Beresford hesitated. he admitted finally. "Al"Yes, ways carry one at night in the counThe statement seemed reasontry. able enough but Miss Cornelia gave him a sharp glance of mistrust, nev- ertheless. Tlie detective seemed to have more confidence in the young Idler. "Beresford, will you go with this Jap to the kitchen? as Billy, grimly retraced clutching his butcher-knife- , his steps toward the hall. If anyone's working at the knob shoot through the door. I'm going round to take a look outside. Tlie detective ran lightly up Into the alcove and tiptoed out of the terrace door, closing the door behind him. Beresford and Billy departed to take up their posts in Hie kitchen Ill go witli you, if you dont mind " and Jak Bailey had followed them leaving Miss Cornelia and Dale alone with tlie doctor Miss Cornelia, glad of tlie opportunity to get the doctors theories on tlie mystery, without Andersons interference, started to question him at onc-e-. "Doctor." Yes." Tlie doctor turned, politely. Have you any theory about this She watched occurrence tonight?" him eagerly as she asked tlie question. He made a gesture of bafflement. "None whatever its beyond me," he confessed. And yet you warned me to leave this house," said Miss Cornelia, can-nilYou didnt have any reason to believe that the situation was even as serious as it has proved to be? "I did the perfectly obvious thing when I warned you," said the doctor, tThose- - letters made a diseasily. ten-thirt- d y I Kill Him," She Repeated, Perplexedly, Weakly. Didnt "Would that establish Jack Baileys inuocence? Tlie detective stared at her keenly for a moment. "If the money's there yes." Dale opened her lips to reveal the secret, reckless of what might follow. As long as Jack was cleared what matter what happened to herself? But Miss Cornelia nipped the heroic atIn the bud. tempt ut She put herself between her niece and tlie detective, shielding Dale from Ids eager gaze. "But her own guilt!" she said, In No, Mr. Antones of great dignity. that she knows derson granting wiiere that paper Is and she has not said that she does I shall w unt more time and much legal advice before 1 allow her to turn it over to you. All the unconscious note of comwealtli und mand that tlie pride of u great name can give was in her voice, and the detective, for the moment, bowed before it, defeated, lie gave up his grilling of Dale, for the present, and turned to question tlie perately. self-sacrifl- d g e ful. She see too. She shut in cloret say prayers, may lie," said Billy, with out a smile. Tlie picture was a ludicrous one hut not one of tlie little group lauglioj. xixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxvxxxxxxxx Comments on Britons Lack of Individuality Among the visitors to this country Just arrived from tlie West is a mail who left Lngland 35 years ago. He has prospered abroad and now comes to take ids case In his "a!u countree. What are tlie differences he notices from chiefly In our national make-utlie people he left a generation and more ago? He tells you frankly: Youre all alike, as like ns two chips There Is a similarity of faces and ex1 pression. of occupation and idling. And les individuality among people here at home now, less character, less sharply defined natures. I think the fact that so many of you play some sort of game is responsible for a general laek of character. Games dont develop anything hut your muscles. They cramp tlie character, Im sure. "In times gone hy I can recall nine out of ten of my father's friends who were real characters, individuals They had a zest in life mid blazed their own trail, whether it was footpath or high road. It was their own way of living. They had a definite rending of life. Then every person you met was a uew experience Today everybody's cut and dried, an economical And his cheery laugh factor, eh? mitigated the sting London Chron p Weight of Words The domestic efilciency expert will have to Invent a new set of scales for the weighing of words. If a husband talks too little a wife may get a divorce, was o ruling in a court of domestic relations a few days ago. If a wife talks incessantly she is also a guilty of mental cruelty, was verdict rendered by another Judge. Is It not too much for anyone to say Just what Is the balanced ration? Los Angeles Times. ide. Bird Has Wide Range The sora is a bird of tlie rail fain This Is a swamp bird that lives ily. entirely in marshes, usually fresh ot brackish waters, and ranges over fhp entire North American continent, as far north as southern Canada. It win ters from the southern part of the Cnited States south to northern South America. These birds are all poor flyers. They run through weeds and rushes and have the appearance of being However, they make rather long migratory flights. Hit sora lays ti to 18 eggs, in some r gions the bird is hunted as game, and an open season is provided hy federal law. woak-vvipge- Trade Term term "foolscap applied to paper is a corruption of the Italiun d words "foglio capo, meaning a sheet of paper. Tlie full-size- tinct threat. could not deny the And yet she felt decidedly unsatisfied with the way things were progressing. "Y'ou said Fleming had probablv been shot from above? she queried, thinking hard. Tlie doctor nodded, "Yes." doctor? "Have you a pocket-flash- , she asked him suddenly. Tlie doctor did not Why-y- esseem to perceive tlie significance of A flashlight is more imthe query. portant to a country doctor than castor oil, he added, with a little smile. Miss Cornelia decided upon an experiment. She turned to Dale. "Dale, you said you saw .a white light shining down from above? "Yes," said Dale, in a minor voice. Miss Cornelia rose. May I borrow your flashlight, doctor? Now that fool detective is out of the way. she continued, somewhat acidly, "I want to do something." The doctor gave her his flashlight She with a stare of bewilderment. took it and moved into tlie alcove. "Doctor, I shall ask you to stand at tlie foot of the small staircase, facing Miss Cornelia truth in his words. up. The doctor slowly followed her into tlie alcove and took up the position she assigned him at the foot of the stairs. "Now, Dale, said Miss Cornelia, briskly, when I give the word, you put out the lights here and then tell me when I have reached the point on the staircase from which the flash light seemed to come. All ready? Two siieDt nods gave assent. Miss Cornelia left the room to seek the see ond floor by the main staircase fcnd then slowly return by the alcove stairs, her flashlight poised, in her reconstruction of the events of the crime. At the foot of tlie alcove-stair- s the doctor waited uneasily for her arrival. He glanced up the stairs were those her footsteps now? He peered more closely into the darkness. An expression of surprise and apprehension came oer his face. He glanced swiftly at Dale was No she sat In ihe watching him? her chair, milling. lie turned hick toward tlie stairs and made a frantic, Go hack, go hack !" insistent gesture it aid. plainer than words, to Something in the darkness by tlie head of the stairs. Then hi face relaxed lie cave a noiseless sigh of relief. Dale, rousing from her brown study, timed out the standing lamp by the table and went over to the main light-- . l witch. awaiting Miss Cornelias to plunge tlie room in darkness The doctor stole anntfler glance at l,er had his gestures been observed? apparently not. Unobserved bv either, as hoth waited tensely for Miss Cornelia's signal, a Hand stole through the broken pane of the shattered French window behind their hacks and fumbled for the knob which unlocked the window door. It found the catch unlocked window-doo- r swung open it tlie noiselessly just to admit a crouching figure, that cramped itself uncomfort nhlv behind tlie settee which Dale and the doctor had placed to barri cade those very doors. When it had settled Itself, unperceived. In its lurking place the Hand stole out agair relocked It. closed the window-door- , Hand or claw? Hand of man oi woman or paw of beast? In the name of God whose hand? Miss Cornelias voice from the head of the stairs broke tlie silence. All right! But out the lights!" Dale pressed the switch. Heavy Tlie sound of her owr darkness. breathing. A mutter from the doctor Then, abruptly, a white, piercing shaft of light cut the darkness of the stairs horribly reminiscent of that ornei that had signaled Flea light-shasig-nn- No mother in this Enlightened age would give her baby something she did not know was perfectly harmless, especially when a few drops of plain Castoria will right a babys stomach and end almost any little ill. Fretfulness and fever, too; it seems no time until everything is serene. That's the beauty of Castoria; its gentle influence seems Just what is needed. It does all that castor oil might accomplish, w ithout shock to . the system. Without tlie evil taste. It's delicious! Being purely vegeta-ablyou" can give it as often as there's a sign of colic; constipation; diarrhea ; or need to aid sound, natural sleep. Just one warning; it Is genuine Fletchers Castoria that physicians recommend. 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