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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH I dare not remain there m the presence of this grisly spectacle. To be found would fasten the hideous crime upon me, while such a story ns I must tell would never be believed. 1 did not know even who she really was, or where she might be. 1 cared nothing for Alvas death; horrible as it was, I was conscious of no regret, but I must not be mixed up in the affair. The only thing for me to do was to disappear, and leave the police to make their own discovery. And the knife? the weapon which had done the deed? What should I Jo with that? I did not hesitate ! MURDER! Synopsis. -- In a New York Jewelry store Philip Severn, United States consuls agent, notices a small box He' purchases which attracts him. It Later he discovers In a secret a writing giving a a revolutionary movement In this country seeking to overthrow The writ- the Chilean government and lng mentions a rendezvous, FindiSevern decides to investigate. ng the place mentioned in, the writideserted, Severn ng apparently A visits a saloon in the vicinity. woman in the place is met by a man, seemingly by appointment, and Severn, his suspicions aroused, follows them. They go to the designated meeting place, an abandoned Iron foundry. At the rendezvous Severn is accepted as one of the conspirators and admitted. He meets a stranger who addresses him as Harry Daly. The incident plays into Severns hands and he accepts it. His new acquaintance is a notorious thief, Gentleman George Harris. Concealed, Severn hears the girl address the conspirators. She urges them to hafeten the work of revolution. The girl discovers Severn listening. She accepts his explanation of his presence and asks him 'to meet her next day. He tells her his name is Daly. She is "Miss Conrad. Harris informs him of a scheme he has to secure $1,000,000,' the revolutionary fund, and offers to "split with him. Severn accepts. Severn learns it was his new friend and a Captain Alva who had lost the box which started him on the traiL Harris tells him the woman is Marie Gess-le- r. He arranges to meet Severn next day at Tom Costigans saloon. compartment clew to as curiosity led me to cross the muddy parkway to assure myself as to what this strange desertion meant. There was no one in the car. I could look straight through the dimmed windows, against the glare of a street lamp a block away. One of the rear doors stood half open, and, tempted by it. I bent over and felt within. My nand touched some object on the floor, and I instantly straightened up with the thing gripped in my fingers. It was a long, ornament dagger an rather than a weapon with an odd, fanciful hilt. There were stains upon the polished steel ; and the moment I saw it, I knew where it had attracted my attention before as a pin in Marie Gesslers hat. thin-blade- d CHAPTER VII. long. I would already gone out, and had left no word as to when he would return. I was rather glad, yet I left a telephone number, with a request that I be called whenever he came back. I waited impaiently for the call in my room, but none came. It dawned upon me that in all probability Harris was frantically endeavoring to find the whereabouts of Alva, as yet having no suspicion of his death. I telephoned Costigans, but Mr. Parker had not returned. I sent out for a noon edition, eagerly scanning its columns, but finding nothing. Surely the deserted car, with its grim burden, must have been discovered before this. The police must have suppressed the news to enable them to work in secret; hey might have found some evidence in the dead mans pockets, or in the dark recesses of the car, by which they still hoped to capture the assassin. I remember eating in a basement restaurant, where I was totally unknown, and then departing for the rendezvous on Le Compte street I approached the number given wl'p' serious misgivings. If the police were actually on the trail, some knowledge of this place might be in their possession, and I could not be too cautious. GIRLS LOVE THEM Our diamond rings win tlie hearts of the ladies. All lirst class Our reasonable prices ease the way. BOYD JEWELERS BOYD ARK BLDG 166 MAIN STREET protect her from discovery if I could; at least until I was myself convinced of her guilt. There was no longer the slightest doubt In my mind but what this was her act. Everything pointed straight toward her. Yet there might be a reason, a worthy cause, and, in any case, she had done ENGRAVED WEDDING STATIONERY a service to the country. The world Announcements Invitations Calling Cards. was better oft with this conspirator Your printer is our representative and has complete samples and prices dead; nor would I denounce the one Co. who had taken his life. I hid the knife in a pocket of my coat, and When You Think FORD Think hastened down the side street toward the nearest car line, my only desire being to escape that neighborhood as swiftly as possible. By a quarter of three 1 was safely In my room at the hotel, for the first SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH time feeling a sense of real security. Yet it was not to sleep. I did not CLEANERS & DYERB. even undress, except to remove my Service Quality. Clothes insured. We pay Work guaranteed. before flinging mywet (TO BE CONTINUED.) return Price list on request postage. self on the bed. My brain wouldnt Myers Cleaners A Dyers. 114 E. Broadway. rest, and I lay there staring up at the NOTES CONVERTED INTO PULP MONUMENTS. Write for catalog. Standard1 ceiling, while my mind reviewed over Marble A Granite Co., 117 W. Broadway. i and over again every incident of the Millions of Dollars in Wornout Cur. For a real good place to eat, follow the crowds to for and the night, planned morning. SHAYS CAFETERIA rency Destroyed Every Week in How would the murder of Alva affect Small English Village. Opposite Post Office. Down the marble stairs the plot I had started to overcome? RUBBER STAMPS A STENCILS. Seals and Would it continue under some other A lonely village in Kent, England, ear tags also made. Send for samples, prices, is the scene of the destruction of ten etc. Salt Lake Stamp Co.. 65 W. Broadway. tons of treasury notes every Monday. $9 70 an lour craning and shampooing rag. free. $l()commissionop The average face value of the notes sales. Vacuum furnished Dodge Bros.. 66 E. 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Jennfngs-Gottscha- ll Engj-avin- g ; outer-garmen- ts -- Seek Miss Conrad The Threads Become Tangled. 1 grasped the thing in my hand, holding it up incredulously into whatever faint light I could find. There was no question as to its identity; I could not doubt. This was the same peculiar ornament 1 had observed that evening in the girls hat, or else its exact mate. 1 recalled the quaint shape of the miniature hilt too clearly to be mistaken. ThVn this car Was the one in which she had departed with Gustave Alva two hours before. What had occurred in the meanwhile? Something serious evidently. The dagger on the floor would indicate a struggle, or at least a hasty departure from the CHAPTER VI Continued I vehicle. I -9- I stood staring at it, slowly compref If so, who then was Miss Conrad? the probable meaning of those Not Marie hending Gessler, certainly, under Their naanother name, for she would have re-- s dark stains on the blade. turned to Washington. There was no ture could not be determined in so dim a when I touched them ubt as to that, for Alva had jj agreed with light, yet to take her direct to became discolored, it my finger the depot in his 0WD oar, and would My God! could it be blood? Blood! it un-tOffice & School Supply, 92 W. Second South St. leave 4 scarcely was blood ; then this had been a scene she was safely on the train. L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. Says Bacon ,Had Microscope. the other woman was a confed- - of tragedy, of awful crime perhaps, Discovery of ciphered manuscripts School of Efficiency. All commercial branches. erate with whom she would communi-cat- e The discovery sickened me but 1 had 60 N. Main St., Salt Lake City. crudely illustrated, which are claimed Catalog free. to go on. I wrenched open the forby telephoue. My clearer judg- to prove that Roger Bacon, laboring KID FITTING CORSET PARLORS. withment told me all corsets. this, made me fully ward door and peered fearfully in the dark age of the Thirteenth cem Specialists in designing, making, fittingaccordion could I in. out not know conscious instantly of the danger of keeping Hemstitching, embroidering, braiding, jt a used E. made. and side Buttons microscope 40 tury, Bdwy. pleating. this appointment, yet never swerved what I saw a dim, huddled form and telescope, instruments generally VULCANIZING A me froi an and RETREADING. Intention to do so. Marie leaning forward across the steering Dagger. it Was a Long, Quality inattributed to Seventeenth-centurservice.' Standard Tire Works, 361 So. State. I Gesslers eyes were frank and honest ; wheel, one hand yet on the spokes, with head. dangling helplessly, upheld leadership? Who? And the money? ventors, was made known by Dr. Wil- Inventors Models Made. Key, lock and gun a they had looked directly into my own, what would become of that? What frid M. Voynich, noted bibliographer. repairing. Knudson Novelty Co., 355 So. State. I Pleadingly I imagined, and I retained only by contact with the windshield. The drawings reveal, he said, that of plans would Harris a blind readjustment I vas dead before faith in her no I knew, the man I clr- YOUR LOCAL PUBLISHER ordinary Bacon observed celestial and anatomi- SEE Once I knew his cumstances would overcome. She was touched the cold hand; his very pos- consider necessary? For loose leaf binders, special blanks, records situation, I could cal objects never before known to have of all kinds. He gives Quality Service. ft Involved in this ture told that and how he had died; conception of the own criminal conspiracy action. Mean- been viewed by human eyes and first MOLER BARBER COLLEGE. Qualify as barbetter there could be no my regulate doubt as to that instantly, from a stab in the back, course was to re- known to science 400 years later. safe the ber in few weeks. 43 S. West Temple Street. while only why? under what conditions? could not see his features, the darkA key to the code used by Bacon and main profess What could ever Ignorance. still, have driven so woma- ness hid them, but desperation drove 247 Le to conceal his great work has been NEW CHIEF JUSTICE nly a woman to such an association? me to pass my hand over the con- Then I had the engagement at d reveal found by Dr. William Romaine that street was her might cealed face; the upturned mustache, Compte appeal to me an effort at of the University of Pennsylof Importance to help me ance? Was she blindly endeavori- the exposed teeth, grinning ironically something and he now is deciphering the solve the vania, ng to learn in this problem. as to he who no doubt In death, left way If I was Doctor Voynich said. the manuscript, I got up, removed worthy of trust, and dagger from confidence? This was the Chilean soldier and attache. in ope would not examined It the and of it my pocket, down ; it remained in- Captain Alva. The awful horror Good Word for the Mouse. sistent, persistent. I would keep my paralyzed my very brain. She must electric light. It was a toy weapon, 1 all that, The old question why is, a mouse?" for have must That dangerous, would yet done this! have sufficiently to girl the go place desig, horwith a to been answered at last. at the hour set; I would go killed him! But why? for what rea- and I looked at it womansense of ever seems a have seed have a Hes ed, prepared for How ror. could Could have It planter, according to what for son? purpose? whatever might wcur of one with blade keen the forestry service, and with the chiptreachery but I would go. been in answer to Insult? Had the thrust even that Yet the once heart? the munk, erhaps here was the blow to advances to plays a big part in restoring his through press key to the whole man dared me. in the West. dark reforests Those before she had evidence ' ery : and once I solved her was and alone? were n they inblood human The blood his with the plot appetite of rodents for pine and stains were not question particularly if sisted? I would seed has often been commentfir in tree their unmistakable not was but dried this now, possible. necPbSnVed,her from blame and the clination, yet The knife lay on the floor behind him, proof of crime. I washed the steel, ed upon, forcefully and unfavorably, lard in Kf exposure. I could go C ear from leaving the blade bright and polished ; by those attempting to replant burned COnsclence, and land just as plucked, hm Where they lustly be the wound. , The girl, then, was not then wrapped it carefully, and hid it or logged areas, but J. V. Hofmann of longed even riding beside him ; she could not away at the very bottom of my bag, the Stabler, Washington, experiment instation, has found that young trees reblLu1)84 have covere(1 four or five be to have dealt such a blow she locking the latter against possible maid. I felt re- turning to such lands frequently come seat. rear curious the a in alone been immersed in such must have by spection thought, al-0f my surrundlngs, There in the dark, unnoticed by the lieved once I had tbe weapon out of from seed buried by small rodents luv henH1!etfUl beneath the duff of the forest floor." she had leaned forward, sight. low before the rain, my man driving, tf$t m re ieD blade unerring6S y no contained that driven sharp and The morning papers slushlug through the Wter t He had sus- reference to the tragedy the body of Thirty Days. P!S 0n tbe sldewalk. I met ly home to the Inheart. no athletic An even raise young fellow in Austrato time not in been found no sound to arouse me; pected nothing the dead man had an ahn,lteard dazed, time. There would be noise enough lia went on a tear and landed in the in arm an Then, dark desolate, forlorn, Then smi i"9,3 terrible deed, for- when it was, no doubt, for Alva must police court. The magistrate inquired 6n y 1 became conscious of frightened by her some un in her terror, have been widely known and ranked what the prisoners occupation was. knife the of even Just ahead. getful Hes a professional football player, tok It for a wrecked wagon she had dashed it to the floor and fled as of some importance. Even if his ivi He plays outside his counsel. rear said the no if the curb but another into the darkness, leaving William Howard Taft, former PresIdentity was never established, step fn his team. for as right to his her. aroused behind posiwas ident of the United States, has been door open suspicion ?:ard reveaIed the truth--a Oh, he does, does he? replied the appointed chief Justice r.ing car. its red of the Supreme, That was the story; that must be tion, and secret work in this country, Well, then, we must court by President of magistrate. case scene the would the mud and bare,y visible. the story. My mind pictured yet the very mystery and con-- i approach1 Harding firmed by the senate. He Is the ninth1 Yet what could ac- create a sensatipn. But perhaps he change his position. Hell be left int wasTnred WUh a feellng of relief; in all Its horror. side for the next month. man to hold that high position. n0 slgn of acd- - count for such an act? What cause had papers on his person of value. I dent was LTeCked searched his this having not this woman, notlced- - Evea in that could transform4 regretted dim Did He Wax Enthusiastic? light I ?0U d see the machine was smiling-faceThis Echo girl, into a murderess? pockets. Then the conviction came Do I will not deceive you, your commit Doctor be the true behind might here a that weapon A that 8edanpossibly brllits Her leaving large room in the cast of Simon-et,laat to suCari glass a slngf thread." e f. the raln to proclaim that the deed solution of the murder a desire to se- life now hangs by seem Pc U would near Milan, has a remarkable and otters, Tailor (feebly) That will do. If the jPamt gleaming brightly. was done in haste, on the spur of the cure some documents the man carried. threads waxed, doctor, Ill echo. A pistol shot is reverbrated pull down to Costigans place on ouiS obnt wonderlngly, but moment; that it had not been In any I went sixty times. through." Science and Invention. certain of the not entirely and being foot, planned. e the notblng to account for way premeditated was an It ordinary would have guarded exaet location. Canarys Voice Big for Size auS,l9UCb 8 and or it ap-- against she Temples of Wood. of discovery. corner saloon, with stairway leading such A danger , mans voice could be heard 800 dwn both ,treets The Shinto temples, says the Axaas carelessness, alobe might to rooms above. In the morning Lours that miles Why, If it had the same carrymoved a away not uad was nearly deserted, but lean Forestry Magazine, are always but the slongh of ruin every hope of escape, might bring the barroom te wind in ing power from the wood me proportion to his weight over of the Japbar. loeking constructed her to the electric chair it was the man at the a canary. that of or anese "Mr. abonrltsf bad Parker hlnoU, said that cautiously, wtb the loneliness at It all. damning evidence. I , Daynes-Beeb- e, L! d ; 1 il Prob-;ab!- y high-powere- d Thin-Blade- d y New-bol- as-I- S con-ctio- for-thes- B blood-staine- self-defens- e. de-nlJi- A tail-lig- ht d a, Oth-erwi- l 1 se |