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Show THE SAUNA 81 SAUNA. UTAH I "1 The MazarofflE Mysttery by W. N D. "ttril, Mr, t& l ilfwl 4. rabla treak of a cable trank, THC STORY Hlt irmiuMraffIf ralli kim. Sum Afi.r t ( innlmi kurl i.r ikr mi ni il la Urey rd aa Maaarwff." I eadalwed, pau "Aa "But o he Wr aurpri lug la knew hire, here, ea Mrrrhtwmf "Ihnia gut ta he found out, my lad!" h an erred, with knowing look. kVa found lUjtbuVne standing el th dour of the Inn, la company with Mugrate: M)tbnm gave Crol a ram ep sort of informing amtle aa to thru. dl Mr. Mugrae hat Ju1 mad Ilia gua Is mUa cowry," he Mid. Ing "No three month rime gat twmiy pound for It!" Mugrt muttered. "Very mur brand new It was! Couldnt have hclleted It could ha been taken fox there, neither." And where waa It ukro from?" asked Crle, "It wa talm from the private kitting room that Mr. Illl there, and the deed gentleman had," replied the land klrrrbieob. and Mrhln? . o4rwli U.ritM.lt la ntuli. lkr ClrkiMitai 11 Ith.lU mouf, hit (if Ik li Mfhl-daMfo- l kn.it-lalkr-d and . lo Wr diMH'lr ' Ilk Hll kr 1fc ir Hull 'Mr.lUtwr( tad kta kia ' ikv ir 14 ikal livibur I ki.rfhi.p Tki1 tail r Maaarulf I I 4 loh.r coa.in a Ul iv.ra.r rurlhu- - kuiln f 14a (4 kepiktf la 14 ioioi Hr Hfl. Tlwrt 4 IH bmIKa'lc Aniir4t lKir kar llell I ty a remar Crol. Ha euMtlofeod h-l- Mkr and HrMl ieea Haaarc.tr port. r4 Mr tarolT la found it Harlborn. larr, andamt. l l.irriita, pnraidiamond Ibal Haaaroff Valu-ak- Hr ally carried ar miiaa ro(r ai ika Idea Hipkintioa la that SUuroff Hrklun. CHAPTER Ill-Con- tinued Nothing absurd unatn. In my I ell-I- n x that." retorted Crol. with lb Icoat touch of asperity. Holt," u turning to me. "you l!l juat XUzorvff confided Id precisely you. 1 1, a second night of your any at lha Woodcock. Till tlit uhol story." I told lle whole atory, aa we all atood liter In that little room. Hut, though 1 watched lira. Elphlnstone no cloudy during my narrative, I sign of any navering on her fart. "The tlilnga absurd!" be declared in the end. "Utterly ahaurd! The man waa probably aoine adventurer who had got hold of certain facta about Merchlson part history, and wanted to make money out of bla know ledge I" "Im!" Crol Hid quietly. "Now j that, ma'am. If you will pardon m for using plain spereh to a lady, la Indeed an utterly absurd suggestion I Mr. Mnzaroff, or, aa we should call him, Mr. Merchlaon, to far from being a needy adventurer, was a wealthy man, a very wealthy man! And If you will pardon me still further. I will Juat put something before you. If this man was, as he asserted him-- I self to be, and as we shall probably prove, Andrew Merchlaon, who married you twenty-tw- o or three years ' ago, your second marriage with Mr. Elphlnstone la no marriage at sill Tou are still. In law, Mrs. Merchlaon, ll ht nv ( . I and" i "What la all this leading up to?" demanded Mrs. Elphlnstone. I " "To this, maam," continued Crole, lifting an admonitory Anger, and a very Important point, too, as you will quickly see. Although I have had very Uttle dealing with this unfortunate man, I have had some dealing, while be was In London, and It 1b my distinct Impression that he has died Intestate." Well and what has that to do with me?" questioned Mrs. Elphlm stone. Merely this, maam. If he was Merchlson, and you his wife, and this j young lady your child, you and she come in, between you, for every penny hes left I And there will be a great many pennies, or Im a Dutchman My advice to yon, ma'am, Is this be- fore settling on an attitude of 1n- -. credulity and denial, Just step across to the Woodcock, and see If yon can ; not satisfy yourself that the man lying . there, sadly disfigured, but identlfi-- j able, waa not the man be claimed , to be." With this Crole made one of hla j j bows and walked out, j and I followed him, leaving mother i and daughter standing looking at each other. As we passed the gates, Crole pulled out a snuffbox and took a i hearty pinch. Thats a d d fllnt-lik- e woman, he said, cynically. Holt. Hard hard and obstinate I My own Impressions of Mrs. Elphln- atone were precisely those which Mr. so emphatically. j Crole expressed But I was just then thinking of other 1 ! , i matters. If the real Andrew Merchlson was drowned In Mombasa bay," I said, how could " Crole interrupted me with a sharp, aceptlcal laugh. i Aye. but was he so drowned J there, or elsewhere, or anywhere? he exclaimed. My own belief is that he was never drowned at all I For all that Sinclair, the writer of that letter, knew, Merchlson had arranged for a boat to come off for him at a certain hour at night It eomes. and he slips off Into it and is clean gone. Easy I He could have sent money and things especially money ahead of him to wherever he was bound. Didnt you tell me he spoke of Durt j ban?" ' move- er no monument, hUo that Halim Mataeuff eaa Andrew Mrrh! , abd that ha eaa murdered ment Of Durban, yes," 1 answered. It was there be took the name of Maza-roff. no Aye, well," continued Crole, doubt hed some reason other than the one lie told you of for leaving bis old name behind him. He may have wished M-- In both England and Iidia to believe that Andrew Merchl-owas dead. But letter or no letter. that th driar which he called "lie 414" "I CHa name tariir gair4 I (Ml) M aa-be- dioe kBuwa ?crllr? frvm cumber uur hal'a hla eumSrf he tug "Ilea a shuorirg cum, tlmaetf." tiaibg at High Clap lodge with a aWHb party," "Ah, lha he 4 kow what b waa talking about." he tvm(hed end turned from m to Crol. "Well and erj-lie- Mra. ISphlnetocef 01 at n)4 him all about cur 44ng Msrrthria tower as wa walked (tom the moor, lit lialened and said noticed that hla ) little. Itut grew brighter and hi whole air more alert when we mm lo ItehrCa dm a black, gloomy, eerie; Jut the place for murdcroua dml. There waa a I oral policeman on guard there; he ahowed ua the place where MiaarofiTa body had lain and hem Ihl waa amongst a ma of gnra and bramble at the foot of an almoaf perpendicular rock, tome thirty to forty d!cor4 feet In height. "My nate, what found him." th policeman sabl. In n mnSdrnilal whisaa how when he Oral per, he come across him, be thought a the them gentleman had fallen over crag In the darkness, flat of ruur ho hadnt and cau why? If hed from there, hed ha broken ha fallt-hla neck and etery bone la hla body; big, heavy man like that he was. And there wasnt no bonea broken. My Im la aa how he wa murdered first, and carried here after-warIxMik how these her ahrub la trampled down!" Maythorne waa closely examining the surroundings: I noticed that be, too. waa apparently struck by the evident trampling of the gome and bramble. Once or twice he slopped, at If to look closer at hla objects once I saw him pUk something from the ground and thrust It Into hla waist coat pocket. Presently he came back to where Crole and I stood with the policeman. If a gun wore fired In thla ravine, those rocks would give back a fine reverberation," he observed Then he You didnt looked at the policeman. bear anything that night?" he asked with a smile. "I heard nothing," agreed the policeDont know nobody aa did men. lord, with a glance at me. "Hung on neither. Theres a cottage by hert the wall, on two hooks It waa, Juat back o that clump o beech the Just Inside the door you may ha noticed folks there, they didn't hear nothing. It, Mr. Holt?" Not nothing whatsoever 1" "Yes, I noticed a gun there, cerOh, theres a cottage there. Is tainly," I replied. "But 1 hadnt no- there?" said Maythorne. And who ticed that It had gone." Uvea In It?" Nor me only I havent been Into Old shepherd and hla missis Jim that room thla last two or three days," Cowie, hla name Is," replied the policesaid Musgrave. It was the missis man. I was talking to him about this that found It out she came to me affair Just now they heard nothing.' about It just now. Of course, some o Maythorne turned away, toward the them drover chaps poked their noses of beech. We followed him, clump In there, and, seeing nobody about a narrow track that ran at the along helped themselves to It I easy enough, foot of the rocks under the lower that would be." branches of the trees, and went up a Was the gun loaded?" asked flagged path to the cottage door; I suppose not?" Maythorne knocked; a womans voice Well, It was," admitted Musgrave. bade ns enter. I kept It loaded you never know Inside, at a round table drawn np what yon may want In a lonely place In front of a turf Are, an old man and like this." an old woman sat. At sight of us, the Dangerous, though, to keep a loaded old woman rose, politely, but the old gun about, dont you think?" said man stuck to his seat, eyeing us with He got In the By the no friendly glance. Maythorne, good humoredly. bye, what sort of cartridges were first word, too, surlily, before Maythere In your gun?" thorne could address him. number twelves," replied Dont know nothing about that Kynochs, Musgrave, promptly. Always use there affair In the den yonder! he those." growled. "Tell'd the policeman Just That might help you In tracing the now we neither heard nor see'd any Yon remarked gun, Maythorne. thing, and dont want no bother should tell the police that." He about It." turned from the landlord towards the "My good friend! said Maythorne, We only wanted to ask moor, motioning Crole and myself to soothingly. follow him. Im going to have a you where this footpath, that crosses look at this Reivers den, he said. Reiver's den, and goes outside your Better come with me. Odd, Isnt It, garden, leads to? We're strangers." that Musgraves gun, loaded with numThere now, master 1" remarked the ber twelves, should disappear on the old woman, glancing reprovingly at You see now I this very night on which Mazaroff Is shot the old man. dead? Didnt you tell us, Mr. Holt, gentlemans only asking his way. 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By his call, the cuckoo has made himself an International character, while the chickadee has individualized Itself In its utterance. When asked what's In a name, the birds might reply: We have put most of ourselves Into them, and they have been most excellent advertising." ' ret e I abort nit free lumrid. ii4 I ! vet, aWp tract." "Abd 6idl H ibal blgbi, arULef iVibac," greeded lb knew butbleg lot abwwH ) HHa umbet Iweltawr this BwW Cut-- MayUem ir. iVertW'i k Ma. iM afed or If Mrr lba 141 p It ma Hr; lb UewlcMfc," replied Ibe all But IK Imie ea4 Mr itd Uni Myers firvl hr jJace," brra, S. FLETCHER J. Irwin IlIiMtrotlons By riftll Ira da lk, Utah Cap Mia Dont Ba a Wobbler Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work In band The sun's rays do not bum until brought to a focus. Alexander (Jraharo BelL MU( I" kf Rr lM at way Mb 14 "PeWl (id aothtef t Wa barked wet. elud k daw, ad an.1 ;, Mtytbem nUiad tawTulably, "All Ibe km, M a tariff fallowed tit a lb," be ea!4 "Uby? IH4 be M I l Itl.ta Cop ledge? Mr, Court bopr place? Ur bad b been there and eaa rowing away from 111 tt ba knows? However, want t d of I Wo racks." p le I bo Ilo lamed off tbe and brill I wake bis way to tbo brad of lbs rat Ins tlrouab tbs scrub and under grosth. Crole and I followed. Wa came out on a aort of plateau, over oklt Ibe bistk depths la which MturuTt body bsd I era fottn4 And there, n noUitry figure, stood another old man, older, It seemed, than the misty and ancient fellow w lad Juf left; grayer, more gnarled and wrlo hied, but erect and alert, and vl a boy, fad dently quhb of bearing at tbe first sound af our approach ba turned sharply upon ua acyariartty 4 Md I wyartartly jiustsi T tZ'Taat IM Lyu. IPEEt yocr ditbts its? tbit tivtscosts ta Ettttu tsi biaCs lepCrtoa.aABdltlCm tbia bitch cl Kb cesScr tbca mikSs? ;tb. "Tbe pise already attract the curt oua," l ohserve4 bslf Ironically. "W have something nor than 111 mriorily to bring u bore, sir," Crol a a I moat sharply. "W ar fbt dead gentleman's friend I May I la my turn ak aa you neetn later ratrd in tb matter If you can tall ua anything to belp aa?" Tht old man smiled, and lonknd from on lo tht other. "Well, I could tell you of aometblag, but whether It will help you or not I dont know, Yrt It might I beard a gun discharged herenbouta on tbo night this man wa missed." "And about wbat time would tbat 1 Yea bivc IXIsh-Tc- ft bet to cso Lnxif. Lyo and crtsifi torc?s csvtd from to tbs dhcctSssi Besclts era ccrtzbu Stsl tz3 tribofikeoiofi?ei Ilfr. of Spidikb Jim D. Svu.toJwSdLM UHtuejMea ilaSOd -- Try HANFORD'S Bclssni of Myrrh At an dadHa riOSUTON FAMKEMI HAIR BALSAM wo i n iieUaS UeCntaHr4IU " iwMaaia. Ml4a IV7 IHAMPOO-MH- T wU aaqri naaiUihitirallWliHw HS 10 kaar and mmt W mu by uul at law UawifliioIWulahnlamAI, i HatlMMkaaaiaal HI 77 I ForBarfcedWireCds ro-ton- be?" Inquired Crola. "About wbat la uauallp my bedtime," replied the old fellow. "Ten o'clock." "Tbat Crola looked at Maythoraa. must bats been tbo ahot," bo atld, musingly. Just then tbo policeman at the foot of the rocks, who bad been pottering shout the bushca, looked up, and waved bis hand excitedly. down here I" he ahoute4 "Com "Ive found something. A gun I" We began to descend tbo rocks to tho dense undergrowth amidst which the policeman stood lie was gingerly handling s sporting gun, and as w drew np to him, bo nodded toward a clump of overgrown gorse. "Shoved In beneath that I" ho ox claimed "That's where It wax" Maythorne opened tho breech there were two cartridges In tho barrels; one. In tbe cboke-bo- r barrel, bad been lie glanced at Crole, discharged, Odd!" ho said Why didnt bo nse the right-banbarrel?" The old gentleman, who seemed to he fascinated by the sight of a weapon that hud doubtless been nsed by a murderer, laughed a little. If tlmt'a the gun that was nsed to shoot this young gentleman's elderly as L per companion," be remarked, sonally, have no doubt It was, there's a good reason why the murderer nsed barrel. Terhaps you're the not a shooting man, sir? If not, I barrel may tell you that the of a fowling piece Is always narrowed In the bore as It approaches the muzzle: the notion, of course. Is that the shot, or discharge, Is concentrated rather than diffused. If a man wanted to shoot another man dead, at close quarters, as In this esse, hed natbarrel In urally nse the choke-bor- e preference to the other." Then, with a polite nod, be turned and went off. Maythorne watched him for a minute or so; then glanced at the policeman. Who Is that old gentleman?" he asked. That's Mr. Hassendeane, of Blrn-sld- e house, sir," replied the policeman. Maythorne drew Croles attention and mine to a name and address engraved on a plate let Into the stock J. Musgrave, Woodcock Inn, Marras-dalThis Is the landlord's missing property, sure enough, be remarked. VVe left Reivers den, and went back across the moor. Maythorne, as soon as we reached the Woodcock, sought out Musgrave and told him of the discovery of his missing gun. He hurried over his lunch, and as soon as I had finished mine, addressed me. The police are sure to come along here after the finding of that gun," he And I want to be beforeremarked. hand with them. I want to examine Mazaroffs belongings. "Just so! murmured Crole. "That, of course, must be done. We went up to the dead mans room. Maythorne did the searching while Crie and I looked on. In the waistcoat pockets of a well-wortweed suit Maythorne found a number of loose diamonds. large and small. What did I tell you? exclaimed Crole as the diamonds came to light He did carry diamonds, loose, on him? Look at those, now must be a dozen or so stones there, loose In hls pocket I Do you suppose those are worth a lot Maythorne? Yon know more about It than I do. Cant say, replied Maythorne, Indifferently. lie was more deeply Interested in a crumpled scrap of thin paper which he found In an Inner pocket and smoothed out before use. Look st this!" he said presently. Here's somothirg, at any rate. (T r 3E CONTINUED) BAB ITuiNU ct It . . pert fcr3 trc free fcsro tot? f el (beeioli cs4 t'Jsi (t tp a ETflDIS Us Hid lasg ud ef Ftbr Ualarri&ad Tb Modara Father Hobble, If you Ron "Pad. I got 70 on tho Engm youll make your mother very lish courac." pad (ardent golfer) nilal-hav- e Fin ngry. I parr .What's Utile Bobble That dont ucare me none. Fhe aint my wife. Wta Bet He Cany1? When a man has nothing to do kU Greatest triumph of old age Is to attends to It personally. Mscoa N listened to. Telegraph. Old and young can lake this family laxative; free trial bottle! Tbe next time yon or the children need u laxative, try this famous doctors prescription which aids the bowels without doing any harm. 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