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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH T -- 4 A Novel from By Mary Di8 Bftt, fopyrlght CHAPTER XI by Mary Continued 17 Bailey swung In through the window, panting a little from hU exertions. The man Lizzie saw drop from the skylight undoubtedly got to the roof ftrom this window, he said, it's quite easy." Dale explained the situation to Jack. Aunt Cornelia thinks the moneys still here. Kiss Cornelia snorted. 1 know its here. She started to pen the closets, one after the other, Bailey saw beginning at the left. what she was doing and begun to help her. Mies Cornelia rattled the knob of s high closet by the other wall. This one Is locked and the keys gone, she announced. A Dew dicker of interest grew in the eyes of the Unknown. Lizzie glanced away from him, terrified. Jllss Cornelia pondered. It may be locked from the Inside 111 soon find out" She took a wire hairpin from her hair and pushed It through the keyhole. But there was so key on the other side; the hairpin went through without obstruction. Repented efforts to Jtrk the door open lulled. And finally Miss Cornelia bethought herself of a key from the other closet doors. Dule and Lizzie on one side Bailey on the other collected the keys of the other closets from their locks while Miss Cornelia stared at the one whose doors were closed us If she would force Its secret from It with her eyes. The Unknown had been so quiet during the last few minutes, that, unconsciously, the others had teased to pay much attention to him, txcext the casual attention one to a piece of furniture. liven Lizzie's eyes were now fixed on the locked closet. And the Unknown Minin If was the first to notice this. At once his expression altered to one of cunning cautiously, with Infinite patience, he began to Inch his chair over toward the wicker tlolhes-bampede-tot- At last, he was within reach of the revolver. His hand shot out In one swift sinuous thrust clutched the He then conwithdrew. weapon cealed the revolver among his- - tattered garments as best he could and, cautiously as before, Inched his chair it.it k again to Its origlnul position. There tliut unlocked U!" cried Miss Corueliu, triumphantly, at last, as the key to one of the other closet tloois slid smoothly Into the lock uml she heard the click that meant lory. She was about to throw open the closet door. But Bailey motioned her hack. Id keep back a little," he cauYou don't know wliut may tioned. be Inside." Mercy sukos, who wants to know?" shivered Lizzie. Dale and Miss Cornelia, too, stepped aside involuntarily as Bailey took the candle and prepared, with a good deal of caution, to open the closet door. The door swung open at last, lie could look in. lie did so and stared appalled at what he saw, while goose-fies- h crawled on his spine and the hairs of his heud stood up. After a moment he closed the door of the closet agalu, and turned hack, white faced, to the others. What Is It?" said Dule, aghast. What did you see?" Bailey found himself unable to a awer for a moment. Then he pulled himself together, lie turned to Miss Van Border. Miss Cornelia, 1 think we have found the' ghost the Jap butler saw, How aie your he said slowly. nerves?" Miss Cornelia extended a hand that 1 d not tremble. (,he me the caudle. lie did so. She went to the closet and opened the door. Huddled on the floor of the closet was the body of a man. So crudely lud lie been crammed into this hiding place that he lay twisted and beut Miss Cornelias voice sounded strange to her owu ears when filially ' the spoke. But who Is It? It Is or was Courtlelgh Flem-said Bailey dully. "But how can It be? Mr. Fleming died two weeks ago. I " lie died In this house, sometime tonight The body Is still warm. But who killed him? The Bat?" Isnt It likely that the doctor did it? The man who has been his acWho probably complice all along? bought a cadaver out West and burled It with honors here not long ago?" But Miss Cornelias face was still thoughtful, and he went on ; Isnt it clear, Miss Van Gorder? he queried, with a smile. The doctor and old Mr. Fleming formed a conspiracy botn needed money lots of It Fleming was to rob the bank and hide the money here. Wells' part was to Issue a false death certificate In the West, and bury a substitute body secured God knows how. It was easy It kept Use name of the president g. Jta Play WNU Hopwood of the Union bank free from suspicion and It put the blame on me." He paused, thinking it out Only they slipped up In one place. Dick Fleming leased the house to you and they couldnt get It back. Then you are sure, said Miss Cor nella quickly, that tonight Courtlelgh Fleming broke in, with the doctor's as sistance and that he killed Dick, his own nephew, from the staircase?" "Aren't you? asked Bailey, sur prised. The more he thought of It, the less clearly could he visualize It any way. Miss Cornelia shook her head decidedly. No." Wells tried to get out of the house t. NMo? tonight wilh that we got moment the he knew Because It, wed come up here aud Heniing was here. Perfectly true nodded Miss Cornelia. "And then?" Old Fleming killed Dick and IV ells killed Fleming, said Bailey succinctYou cant get away from It!" ly. But Miss Cornelia still shook her head. No." The doctor No," she said. Isnt a murderer, lies as puzzled as He and we are about some things. Courtlelgh Fleming were working together but remember this Doctor Wells was locked In the living room with us. Hed been trying to get up the stairs all evening and failed every time." But Bailey was as convinced of the truth of his theory as she of hers. Ho was here ten minutes ago locked in this room," he said with a up which glance at the window-ladde- r the doctor had ascended. Ill grant you that," said Miss Cor"But " nelia. She thought hack But at the same time an Unswiftly. known Masked Man was hvked In that mantel room with Dale. The doctor put out the candle when you by? Beopened that hidden room. cause he thought Courtlelgh Fleming was hiding there!" Now the missing pieces of her puzzle were falling into But their places witli a vengeance. at this moment, she continued, the doctor believes that Fleming has made his escape! No vve havent solved the mysti ry yet theres another element an unknown element," her eyes rested for a moment upon the Unknown. And that element Is the Bat! She paused. Impressively. The others stared at her no longer able to deny the sinister plausibility of her theory. But this new tangling of the mystery, Just when the black threads seemed raveled out at last, was almost too much for Dale. Oh, call the detective! she stammered, on the verge of hysterical tears. Trets get through with this thing! 1 cant bear any morel" But Miss Cornelia did not even hear her. Her mind, strung now to concert pitch, had harked back "to the point It had reached some time ago, and which all the recent distractions had momentarily obliterated. Had the money been taken out of the house, or had It not? In that mad rush for escape of the man hidden with Dale In the recess back of the mantel, had he carried with him his booty, or left it behind? It was not In the hidden room, that was certain. Yet she was so hopeless by that time that her first search was purely perfunctory. It was when Bailey finally opened that they the lid of a clotlies-liampe- r stumbled on their first clew. Nothing here hut some clothes and hooks," lie said, glancing inside. Books?" said Miss Cornelia dubiI left no books in that hamously. blue-prin- per." Bailey phked up one of the cheap paper novels and read Its title aloud, with a wry smile. I.lttle Rosebud's Lover, or the Cruel Kevenge,' by Laura Jean" That's mine!" said Lizz.ie promptOh, Miss Nelly, 1 tell you this ly. house Is haunted. I left that hook tn my satchel, along with Wedded but No Wife and now Isn't that your satchel, l.lzzle?" asked Miss Cornelia. Indicating a fluttered bag tn a dark corner of shadows above the window. Lizzie approached It gingerly. Yesm, she admitted. But she did not dare approach very close to' the recovered hag. It might bite her!" Miss Cornelia started for the satchel. Then she remembered. She turned to Bailey. You open It," she said graciously. If the moneys there youre the one who ought to find It." Bailey gave her a look of gratitude. Then, smiling at Dale encouragingly, he crossed over to the satchel, Dale at his heels. Miss Cornelia watched him fumble at the catch of the bag even Lizzie drew closer. For a moment even the Unknown was forgotten. Bailey gave a triumphant cry. The moneys here ! Oh, thank God!" sobbed Dale. It was an emotional moment It seemed to have penetrated even through the haze enveloping the Injured man In his chair. Slowly he got up, like a man who has been waiting for bis moment, and now that It had come was in no hurry about it With equal deliberation he drew the revolver and took a step forward. And at that Instant a red glare appeared outside the open window, and overhead could he heard the feet of searchers, running. Fire!" screamed Lizzie, pointing to the window, even as Beresfords voice from the roof rang eut In a shout, The garage Is burning! They turned toward , the door, to escape, hut a strange and menacing figure Mocked the way. It was the Unknown no longer the bewildered stranger who had stumbled In through the living-roodoor but a man with every faculty of mind and body alert and the light of a deadly purpose In liis eyes He covered the group with Miss Cornelias revolver. This door is locked and the key Is In iny pocket! he said In a savage voice, as the red light at the wludow grew more vivid yet and inuftied cries and tramplings from overhead betokened universal confusion and alarm. CHAPTER XII He I the Bat! Lizzie opened her mouth to scream. But for once she did not carry out her . purpose. Not a sound out of you! warned the Unknown, brutally, almost Jabbing the revolver Into her ribs. He wheeled on Bailey. Close that satchel, he commanded, and put it buck where you found It!" Baileys fist closed. lie took a step toward his captor. You lie began in a furious voice. But the steely glint In the eyes of the ferries He shephe warned again. lives! herded them away from the dlrectioo of the window with his revolver. In a moment or two," he said In a hushed, taut voice, a man will come Into this room, either through the door or by that window the man who started the fire to draw you out of this house. Bailey threw .aside all pride In his concern for Dale's safety. For God's sake, don't keep these women here! he pleaded, In low, tense tones. The Unknown seemed to tower above him like a destroying angel. Keep them here where we can watch them! he whispered with fierce Don't you understand? Impatience. Tliere8 a killer loose! And so for a moment they stood there, waiting for they knew not what. So swift had been the transition from Joy to deadly terror, and now to suspense, that only Miss Cornelias agile brain seemed aide to respond. And at first It did even that very slowly. I begin to understand," she said, In a low tone. The man who struck yon down and tied you It tlte garage the man who killed Dick Fleming and stabbed that poor wretch in the closet the man who locked us In, downstairs, and removed the money from that safe the man who started that fire outside Is Sssh!" warned the Unknown, as a sound from the direction of the window seemed to reach his ears. lie ran quickly back to the corridor door and locked It. Stand hack out of that light! The CHAPTER XIII. Quite a Collection. ladder!" The top of the extension-ladde- r began to tremble. A black bulk stood clearly outlined against the diminishing red glow the Bat, masked and sinister, on his last foray ! There was no sound as the killer He waited stepped into the room. for a second that seemed a year still no sound. Then he turned cautiously toward the place where he had left the satchel the beam of his flashlight picked It out. In an Instant the Unknown and Bailey were upon him. There was a short, ferocious struggle in the darkness a gasp of laboring lungs the thud of fighting bodies clenched in a death-grappl- Get his gun ! muttered the Unknown hoarsely to Bailey, as he tore the Bats lean hands away from his throat Got It?" gasped Bailey. He Jabbed the muzzle against a straining back. The Bat ceased to struggle. Bailey stepped a little away. I've still got you covered! he said fiercely. The Bat made no sound Hold out your hands, Bat, while I put on the bracelets," commanded the Unknown In tones of terse triHe snapped the steel cuffs umph. on the wrists of the murderous prowler. "Sometimes even the cleverest comes through a window at night Bat of Picked One the Up Cheap Bailey Is caught. Double murder burand Paper Novels. That's a good glary and arson ! Unknown was enough to give any man nights work even for you, Bat ! lie switched his flashlight on the pause. Jack !" pleaded Dale. Bailey halted. Bats masked face. As he did so the Do what he tells you! Miss Corhouse lights came on the electric nelia insisted, her voice shaking. light company had at last remembered A brave man may be willing to fight Its duties. All blinked for an Instant with odds a hundred to one but only in tbe sudden Illumination. a fool will rush on certain death. off Take that hnndken liief !" dejectedly, Bailey obeyed barked the Unknown, motioning at stuffed the money back In the satchel the black silk handkerchief that still and replaced the latter in Its corner hid the face of tbe Bat from recogniof shadows near the window. tion. Iailey stripped it ft out the hagHe watched the Unknown Intentlv. gard, desperate features with n quick One moment of relaxed vigilance and movement and stood appalled But though the Unknown was unA simultaneous gap went up from lot king the door with his left hand Dale and Miss Cornelia. the revolver in his right hand was as It was Atnlerst it, the detesthe! steady as a rock. He seemed to listen And he was the Bat! for a moment at the crack of the door. "Its Mr. Anderson! stuttered Dale, "Not a sound, if you value your aghast at the discovery. Yes," An hour or so later, In. room whose terrors had Miss Cornelia, her niece . the living departed, and Jack Bailey were gathered before a roaring fire. . The local police had come and gone; the bodies of Courtleigh Fleming and his nephew had been removed to the mortuary; Beresford had returned to his home, though under summons as a material witness; the Bat, under heavy guard, had gone off As under charge of the detective for Doctor Wells, he, too, was under arrest, and a broken man though, considering the fact that Courtleigh Fleming had been throughout the prime-move- r in the conspiracy, he might escape with a comparatively light " . sentence. Miss Calmly and. dKpasr'nnately. Cornelia worked out the cross-worpuzzle of the evening and announced her results. 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"It must have been a blow to the doctor and Courtleigh Fleming, when they found me settled In the house!" And when their She smiled grimly. letters failed to dislodge me." But it was the Bat who held her interest; his djring assumption of the detective's identity, his searching of the house, ostensibly for their safety hut it) reality for the treasure, and that one moment of Irresolution when lie did not shoot the doctor at flip top of tlte ladder. .And thereafter lost his chance. It somehow weakened her terrified admiration for him. but she had nothing hut acclaim for the estnpe he had made from the hidden room itsplf. "That took brains." slip said. Cold To dash out of that hard brains room and down the stairs, pull off Ids mask and pick up a candle, and then to come calmly hack to the trunk room again and accuse the docted" as a veil' and eravatecr" aptor that took real ability. Blit I plied to one who ties a cravat, aldread to think what would have hapthough now practically obsolete, were pened when he asked us all to go out at one time fiequently used. Thackeand leave him alone with the real ray In "Vanity Fair speaks of a Anderson !" man d young being handsomely When Lizzie came at last to coax " and scold her Into bed. she was sitting happily at the table, surrounded Used the New Name by divers small articles which she Years ago a young London dinmntic was handling with an almost childlike critic blessed with the fine old name zest A clipping about the Bat from of Moses, got the idea that lie would the evening newspaper; a piece of make greater strides in his profession paper on which was a well defined were he to change his name. And so finger-prina revolver and a heap of he did, blossoming forth as Morton. five shells; a small, very dead,, bat; Israel Zangwill, a brilliant wit, althe anonymous warnings. Including though fond of Morton, never quite the stone In which the last one had forgave him the change of name, and been wrapped; a battered and broken on one occasion when the critic was watch, somehow left behind; a dried the guest of honor at a dinner, over and broken dinner roll, and the box which Zangwill presided, the latter of sedntive powders brought by Doctor Wells. stopped the show for several minutes when he began his remarks with: Lizzie came over to the table and And the Lord spake unto Morton, surveyed her grimly. You see, Lizzie, Its quite a codec .Kansas City Star. saying tion. I'm going to take them Learn as You Listen But Lizzie bent over the table and "Ah !" remarked the fascinated bypicked np the box of powders. No, maam," she said, with extreme stander, after listening for a time to the moving man who had dropped a finality. "Yon are not. Yoa art grand piano on his foot, that's the going to take these and go to bed ' And Miss Cornelia did. phrase I was trying to think of yester(TBE END. day on the links "Detroit News. French Dandies First to Sport the Cravat (me of the few words of Slavonic origin that does uot retain Its exotic flavor Is cravat. The linen scarfs worn around their necks by Croatian merchants captivated the fancy of the fashionable French, who adopted the French word for Croatiap to designate this kind of neckwear. Thus " create" became crovnte" or from vv hence our word cravat The word was adopted In France in lGIiti and appears In English about 1700. Its synonym, necktie. Is of later origin. Its first use as cited by the Oxford dictionary being 1S38. Cravats when first introduced were not exclusively an article of mens apparel, but some, which were and tied In a bow with flowing Cravat- ends, were worn by women. Are You Listening In? . Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood Robert Rlnfhart and Avry other .A. .B the The Unknown gloated over bis captive. "Im Anderson," he sail This man has been Impersonating me. Youre a good actor, Bat, for a fellow that's such a bad actor! he taunted. "How did you get the dspe this case? Did you tap the wires to headquarters?" The Bat allowed himself n little sardonic smile. he be"Ill tell you that when I gan, then, suddenly, made his last bid for freedom. With one swift, desperate movement, in spite of'fils handcuffs, he Jerked the real Andersons revolver from him by the barrel, then wheeling with lightning rapidity on Bailey, brought the butt of Andersons revolver dow n on his wrist Baiieyg revolver fell to the floor with a clatter. The Bat swung toward the door. 'Again the tables were turned! Hands up, everybody!" he ordered, menacing the party with the stolen Hands up you!" aa Miss pistol. Cornelia kept her hands at her sides. .It was the greatest moment of Miss Cornelias life. She smiled, sweetly, and came toward the Bat as If the pistol aimed at her heart were as Innocuous as a toothbrush. I Why?" she queried mildly. took the bullets out of that revolver two hours ago. The Bat flung the revolver toward her with a curse. The real Anderson instantly snatched up the gun that Bailey had dropped and covered him. Dont move!" he warned, or Ill fill you full of loud!" He stnlled out of the corner of his mouth at Miss Cornelia, who was primly picking up the revolver that the Bat bad flung at her her own revolver. You see you never know what a woman will do," he continued. Miss Cornelia smiled. She broke open the revolver five loaded shells fell from it to the floor. The Bat stared at her then stared Incredulously at the bullets. 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