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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH tain that reached to the floor. At my feet was a playing card that had been concealed by its folds. Glancing around to see if there were any others and finding none, I brought the card to Bartley. As I stepped to his side, I saw that he was examining the magazine. Like many magazines, the back carried a Benefits From Tanlac in Ending gaudy advertisement that covered the His Stomach and Rheumatic entire page. This one had an unusual Bartamount of unused white space. Troubles, Priceless, ley pointed silently to where someone States Tucker.. had Idly amused himself by drawing a habit on It with a pencil, many I wouldnt take $10,000 for the good people have. The design was simple, Tanlac has done me, declared W. E. only a mass of scrolls, with a little 1120 North 2Sth St., Richmond, Tucker, and lines figure here and there, boxmaker for the Allegheny a Va, them. through Box Co., recently. I thought I would have to give up the Job I had been on seventeen years, but Tanlac has built me up eighteen will be dropped at the place where he Whatever it meant to Bartley, the pounds, and I never felt better in my undressed. No button is In this room. mass of zeros held no significance to life. It was lost In the room in which he me. He did not enlighten me, but I was so weak and run down and was undressed. We find his shoes placed the magazine in his pocket. had lost so much weight and strength here but only one stocking, id we Then I showed him the playing card I Just felt broken down all the time. naturally ask where Is the other stock- and told him where I found it He I got up mornings awfully nervous, ing. Then, too, there are no blood asked. Are there no more?" I was with no appetite, feeling like I hadnt stains anywhere In this room. Though answering, No, when Roche inter- slept a wink, and while on the Job my his wound did not bleed much, it must rupted, Yes, there is one. nerves were so unstrung that the noise He pointed to the stairway that led In have bled some. These are the reathe factory Just tortured me. My sons why 1 say he was not killed in to the top of the tower. There, lying liver wasnt acting right, and I sufthis room, or even undressed here." under the bottom step, was a second His explanation seemed reasonable playing card with the same design on fered so much from rheumatism I could use my arms. enough, yet somewhat mystifying. the back as the one I had found. hardly But Tanlac has made a clean sweep Why had the murderer taken all this What were they doing in that room? trouble to undress Slyke, and why had Bartley smiled to himself as he ex- of my troubles, and now, with plenty of strength and energy, I am working and he done it In some other room? The amined the second card. feeling fine. next question was Just as puzzling. If Roene asked, What do they mean? Tanlac is for sale by all good drugSlyke had not been killed In this room, With a gesture that might have Over 35 million bottles sold. gists. where had the crime taken place? As meant anything, it was so expressive, Advertisement. if he had read my thoughts, Roche Bartley replied, They had a card suggested that as there was another party downstairs last night. Bees Have Hip Pockets. room In the tower, we might see what Roche was excited in a moment. In the bees legs are pockets for could be found there. Ill tell you what it means. SomeThe butler, who entered at this mo- one at that party killed Slyke, fol- holding pollen, each pocket being closed by rows of bristles which interment, did his best not to glance at lowed him up here and killed him. lock In the most wonderful manner, so the bed. He was holding with great half-bawas It not a theory, and difficulty a Airedale that even Bartley did not protest as much preventing the pollen from falling out. growled fiercely when he saw us. The as I had thought he would. Instead butler motioned to the doctor to come he said, There is something in what Cuticura Soothes Baby Rashes to him. As he reached his side. Doc- you say, Roche. We must look first That itch and burn, by hot baths tor King placed his hand upon the for the person who had the chance to of Cuticura Soap followed by gentle dogs head and it ceased to show Its kill him. You assume that after the anointings of Cuticura Ointment teeth and licked his fingers. For sev- party the person who dropped these Nothing better, purer, sweeter, espeeral moments he and the butler held a cards did what any cially if a little of the fragrant Cutilow conversation, then King turned person might do. That is, he placed cura Talcum Is dusted on at the finto us to say that he had Just been the cards of his last hand in his ish. 25c each. Advertisement. called to the hospital for an operation pocket. He may have followed Slyke and would have to leave at once. up here, hidden behind the curtain, Nothing Doing. Now in tween you and me and the Bartley scribbled something on a and as he killed him dropped some Naw, the graplio-phon- e graphophone piece of paper, and handing It to the of his cards on the floor. doctor said, I think there ought to He paused, half frowned, as If the might talk. Syracuse Orange be a picture taken of the body so theory did not- - quite appeal to him, Peek It cn be used at the inquest." and added slowly, Still, Roche, there The doctor agreed and went out, ac- are other things to be considered. CATARRH Catarrh Is a Local disease greatly Incompanied by the butler. As the door Those two cards are In different parts closed behind them Bartley went to of the room; not together as we might fluenced by Constitutional conditions.conHALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE lock it, but the key was missing. have expected if they had been sists of an Ointment which gives Quick Relief by local application, and the dropped by accident. It looks to me Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts as if they might have been placed through the Blood on the Mucous Surwhere we found them by design. As faces and assists in ridding your System of Catarrh. If someone wished us to think Just Sold by druggists for over 40 Years. what you thought. Then there is F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. that bottle of whisky and the three In telling your side, the listener will glasses. All three glasses have been drunk from. The glasses show that agree with you, but will go on weighthey were all used at about the same ing the evidence. time. Evidently two of the men smoked; the third did npt. Whnt I wonder Is, were these three persons In the room at one and the same time?" Roche, who had long since lost his air of now offered to help us make a thorough examination of the room. When we had ended our unsuccessful search, Bartley stood silent. a puzzled expression on his face. Its more mysterious than ever, he said at last. I am sure he was not killed in the room below. I am also sure he was not killed here. There must be blood spots somewhere, yet where? There are none in this I Sure Relief FOR WOULD NOT TRADE FOR SI 0,000 INDIGESTION CASH FOR INDIGESTION 25 cprs k 6 Sure Relief R 25$ run-unu- g THE BALCONY John Bartley, noted criminal Investigator, recently returned from Secret Service work during the war, ts asked by the governor of New York to Investigate a mysterious attempted robbery of the Robert Slyke home at Circle Lake, near Saratoga, and to establish the guilt or innocence of two men in the penitentiary for the crime. A miscarriage of Justice is suspected. of Bartley finds in it the an old case, is interestedrestaging and agrees to solve the mystery With his friend Pelt, a newspaper man, Bartley goes to Circle Lake, the pair becoming the guests of Boh Currie, an old friend. The three visit the Slyke home. Slyke resents Bartley's coming, saying he 1b satisfied the two men in prison are guilty. Bartley is not Next morning Slyke is found deadhim-in bed, apparently having shot self. Miss Potter, the dead man's sister-in-lathe village police chief, Roche, and the family phyall agree Slyke Doctor King, sician, killed himself, but Bartley insists he was murdered. CHAPTER III Continued. Bell-an-s Hot water AND 75 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Don't Cut Out a Shoe Boil, Capped -- Hock or Bursitis for "iifiir it will reduce them and leave no blem. ishes. Stops lameness promptly. Does not blister or remove the hair, and horse can be worked. $2.50 a bottle delivered. Book 6 A free V. F. Toni, be., 310 Temple St, Springfield, Mat. ' - f When Electric Globes Pop. The strength of the glass prevents? an electric light bulb from bursting! When a bulb is broken with a blow,! the pop is the result of the fact that? the Interior was not filled with air. I The city worker money than the so spends more. farm-han- may get but mort? he - I d 5 "When you look at the pillow," he explained, on which his head lies, you will find only one or two spots of blood. The shirt. In fact, b: s none at all. The wound must have bled 60me not much, it is true, but far more than it seems to have done from the appearance of the bed. He was killed elsewhere and placed in this bed afterwards. I doubt If he was even undressed at the time of bis death. Miss Potter, who had remained silent although obviously very nervous, asked if she might go to her room and leave the doctor in chaige. This delegating of her authority to the doctor did not appeal to Roche; and he told ber that, if her brother-in-lahad been murdered, it would be the police and not the doctor who would take charge of things. The ordeal through which she had passed must have been more than she could stand, for she made no comment on his challenge but started to leave the room. Miss Potter, Bartley asked, as she reached the door, did yo. ever 6ee this revolver In Mr. Slykes hand? She hesitated a moment and then replied, Its Mr. Slykes; he was In the habit of keeping it in a drawer of his desk. The gun was bought soon after the burglary, but, so far as I know, he has never used it. Although her statement that the revolver had belonged to the dead mnn made the suicide theory plausible, yet I could not quite see how the facts that Bartley had brought forward to disprove the suicide could be overthrown. "What makes you think, Mr. Bartley," Roche asked, that Slyke was dressed at the time he was killed?" Bartley answered: If Slyke had been killed in bed there would have been more blood on the bedclothes .than the few drops we see on the pillow. His nightshirt, too. If it had been worn at the time he was killed, would have had some traces of blood on It There are no such stains. This, and the fact that death must have been Instantaneous, makes me feel 6ure that he was undressed after he was killed and then placed on the bed in the position in which we have found him. Bartley began a search of the room, using a small glass once or twice as If he were looking for Slykes clothes were flung over a chair, and one of his stockings had fallen to the floor. The way the gray suit lay on the chair made me wonder If Bartley was right when he said the murderer had undressed him after the crime. It looked so much as If It had been carelessly flung there by a man preparing for bed. After going through Slykes pockets I have grave Bartley said slowly, doubts If he was even killed In this room." He continued to examine the room, searching the floor, looking Into the drawers of the desk, examining the walls even ; then he came back to the clothing. Picking up the blue silk shirt from the chair, he examined It a second time before he said: I was right He was not killed in this room. Here Is the suit he wore. You will notice that all his clothing Is placed on this chair in the manner that a mnn would naturally place It if he was undressing for bed. But there is no button in the front of his shirt to hold his collar, and one stocking Is missing. Any man may lose a collar button tut if he does, that button w finger-print- s. half-grow-n absent-minde- room. d to replace It's today Dont get bald, get much more pleasant. At all good druggists, cue, HESSIG-E1X1or direct from Clouts, Memjtu, Tan '' ' FREE-EXPE- RT OPINION on defaulted stocks or bonds. They may have a value Send full particulars to CLAY & CLAY, Tonic 30 EYES SORE? TkA EYEWATER A reliable and speedy remedy since 1795. Boy yonr druecist8 or John L. Thompson Sons 16 River titreet, Troy, N. Y. BOOK. LET FKt ' followed more slowly. We found ourselves on a balcony some four feet wide that ran around the tower. About eight or ten feet top, an iron below its bronze-tippethe edge cf the balrailing protected with ivy, as covered was and cony were also the sides of the tower itself. Bartley paused for a moment, standing with his hand on the rail, his face serious, his eyes thoughtfuL But it was for a moment only; the next he was out of sight around the tower. Almost instantly we heard him call us, and when we reached his side he was on his knees examining the floor and the lower part of the vail. Looking where he pointed, I saw at his feet a dark splotch on the floor of the balcony, and a little higher up several similar spots on the wall of the tower. I realized that, at last, ne had found what he had been looking for. There was no doubt that the splotches we saw were blood, and that it had been shed within a few hours. Had he expected to find them Just where he did? I wondered. After a moments hesitation he decided it would do no harm to leave it unlocked while we were gone, and we all started for the floor above. The room we entered was of the same size as the one In which we had found Slyke. Here, too, there was little furniture three chairs grouped around a little table in the center of the room, a lounge in one corner, a small desk In another. It was the table that' attracted Bartleys attenOn it stood a tion. bottle of Scotch whisky, and beside the bottle three glasses, one of them holding about a spoonful of liquor. Near one of the glasses was a cigarette and a magazine, and on the opposite side of the table the stub of a cigar. Bartley looked at both of them with keen Interest and finally placed hem in an envelope. The cigarette must have been a very one, for the end was of the finest straw. The appearance of the table suggested that three men had been present and that two or A conferthem had been smoking. You say I know who killed a bottle of which at ence, perhaps, him I I know? whisky had assisted. Aside from the table, there seemed to be nothing of Interest In the room. (TO BE CONTINUEDWhile Bartley was still glancing at Every man thinks he Is the proper the table, I walked over to the large nnd drew aside the heavy cur- one to stand around and boas the Job, win? d . SAY BAYER when you buy. d d high-price- d - - Insist! Unless you see the Bayer Cross on tablets, you are not getting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over 23 years and proved safe by millions for Headache -- half-smoke- CITY. East 23rd Street, NEW YORK He went to the window and glanced out, then came back and glanced up at the 6teps that led to the roof. 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