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Show SPANISH FORK. UTAH THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. to Pravafi sort lma given him a hi cupkmy Imt Brown to H allied it .licence. satisfied, but he was perfectly ' b " all. By wasn't t Tty the about ha learned all CLIFFORD S. tils of the plan, and be Intended to Brown, to avoid pursuit, RAYMOND Ilorwieh. to tuke the way wen? Brown He knew that If wonld stop for he Horwich through need them several drinks. He wonld Illu4tratfd by have would lie f he wns disappointed. IRWIN MYERS " have them If he So Dravada Copyright by Caorgo H. Dana Co. nd wns excited by it. worked out all went to Ilorwieh. It v llage. he the to cocccoo6ccccocooccooeooocosoooooooocooeooaoo805GO!occciOCiC05oecooccoo; Brown got and when telephoned he Mrs. Aldrich came Immediately, and found Pravada. Then bud made It easy for the maid to search CHAPTER X Continued. to let me go. I was I 12 through his belongings. Agnps did not I told her the girl Agnes was to be Pi the fellow Sim and perfectly harmless. It was an InterFinally the old hoy got up with the know what value was attached to the treated with every consideration the esting situation," have to If were It that possible It was her obligation rase held tight under hi arm and manuscript. other maids regard her kindly so as "I could wish Prnvnda hnd tortured went toward the door with the girl merely to get It. He has the would I said to Jed. to feel It automonot make her von. nn obloquy, The lawyer was to have and the foreigner following him, and 'means now. through you, to tortim the foreigner talking fust and loud. bile waiting on the road beyond the he only Christian. Mrs. stanch a small was Aldrich the to was be very this family" by They got outside and all got Into the oak grove. He tna "I said I knew Prnvnda hnd ear, the girl hesldo the old hoy, who door, through which the maid escaped. ehurehwomun and I could see In the for that did "I Jed. fashsoft said such of that the her room In Ups behind waa driving, and the foreigner manuscript." She ransacked Jed's tightening was said have to I In crlmr effect. Whnt ought "Ah the old hoy started tin ear. the ion of which I saw the result, and treatment of a woman caught he had the foreigner made a grab for the ease, found the box cunningly hidden lit Ids did not satisfy her Ideas of morality. that I knew he thoughtmore than the no I hnd I .She If contrived knew went out dissatisfied, hut manuscript. but the old hoy was too quick for him bedsprlngs In a manner so doctor, me with, It credit In. came do her Jed would best. she ear you cureful to The floor. Investigation It the that to Intelligence and dropped except affair I could not have conducted this seemed to he u purt of the structure of still In his superservleenblo mood. nerved toward the ditch. "Would you like some coffee, sir?" so long. What Pravada hus Is not th "'You can't drive a car that way, I the bed. suld. Youd better tell that fellow to Agnes said tlmt she bad planned to he asked. I was tired and did want diary of Mr. Sidney." t'ntii I felt the relief following JtMl off. her esenpe ufter my round of a stimulant. make lay ImA findwould I thank Jed Yes, old you," hoy. the house, but her excitement at explanation that the blackmailers "Ive told him, aald the not I did fully If ho keeps on bothering me, I'll tell ing the thing so earnestly sought be- said us heartily as I could, determined stolen or.!.v a decoy, to break down his triumph of Imper him with a gun. He'll kill all of us.' realize into what desqmmlency our trayed her Into tncautloiisuess. time ha "Sp they started, hut they hadnt The lawyer's plan wi.s to tuke the turlmhlllty by a commonplace handling predicament up to thnt wue I Mtn. Mr. He heard of when If a a the me. diary mile Sidneys tray. gor.e brought thrust quarter of road we would think them lean likely "Sit down, I said. "Your schemes being read by unscrupulous men. we the girl scream. I got inv motorcycle, to take In case there were pursuit, which was out In front, and went and for that reason had gone toward have come to n Imd end In this house. might expert anything. dedown the roud after them. There was Ilorwieh. The The lawyer, whose shrewdness and Spaniard was not ex- It will do you no good, and It mny sure going to he an accident If the forare the beyond lack of morals tnnde him formidable, family. Things ported to meet them, hut he knew stroy eigner kept grubbing at the man at they Intended to go through Horwich, your control or my control. The Span- was dead. The Spaniard would soon the wheel. They must linve been and he knew approximately the time iard Ims the ninnuserlpt he was after. discover his disappointment nnd would pretty fust. I chased them u m'le they would get there If they were suc- Your power Is gone. It Is transferred be furious. I thought the physical and a half, and several times I heard cessful. The trafn which stopped at to him." danger to Jed was greater than ever the girl cry out shend In the dark. So you ore familiar with this af and found some pleasure In telling Ilorwieh to let off passengers allowed I wns within two hundred yards of him hltn so. to act upon a plan which Ids sus- fair! them when the girl screamed louder has know whnt not. am I "I only He was convinced of thnt himself sugfaith of his picions lawyers good thau ever, and I heard a crash. I knew gested. He thought that If the lawyer happened since I came here. I do not ami wns not hnppy. they'd get It, and they had. The car saw a barroom light he would stop for want to know any more. Why don't you end your rascality?" bad gone Into a tree at the side of the a drink. You are wise. There Is nothing but I urged him. Why dout you give the road. He wns In Ilorwieh unexpectedly unhappiness nnd danger In knowing. ninnuserlpt to Mrs. Sidney and ullow The old boy wns dead, and the girl to meet the Is not news to me thnt Drnvnda lias her to muke whatever disposition she girl and the lawyer. The It wns unconscious hut the foreigner Mr. Sidneys diary. They released me wants of it? Then your conscience scene in the Half Day barroom folwas gone. will be easy your position In this determined after they learned that the manuscript lowed. The Spaniard-wn"Whnt about the leather case? to have possession of the ninnuserlpt. hnd been found nnd that the lawyer house will fur the first time he toleraasked a man In the group about the ble to a decent mun, and your physiThe lawyer was determined he should nnd Pravada hnd It." constable. It was the question I Jed then sat down and told whnt cal security will be promoted." It. They struggled as the have not could have shouted out myself. He would not. He seemed to hesitried to drive the enr, having Imd happened to him. I wns very t"It was gone, too. The old boy did lawyer angry, remembering Isohel as she came tate for a moment, but his purpose narrow the from several escapes Dot have a single paper In h's pockets, hunnlng In that night with her aleeve was too long fixed and too much ft but after I got help and we got atten- ditch. tom from her waist. I wondered that pnrt of his life. In abana Then the rage, Spanlnrd, tion for the girl, we found a letter In I could hear the man calmly, but he He no longer was surly with me, her purse addressed to Miss Agnes doned all caution and threw himself hnd moved and I seemed to have lost my power, being extraordinary conon who lost the ability lawyer, Mitchell, Hartley house. Hartley. Tlmt bodily emotions. to enrage him. We parted with my was the only Identification we had. 1 trol of the car and hit a tree. TKtat by extraordinary I "In the first place," he said, may telling him that there would be no telephoned over to Hartley and a man was all the girl knew. I thought a while, trying to make say that I have been preposterous? possible truce or peace between us said he would be over. That's all I You think I am a lunntlc. Sometimes unless he respected the women of the know about It Ive got to he getting np my mind what further to do with I am. almost. It Is easy enough to be household, lie bowed. over to the station. Its about time the girl. Finally I said: a cabbage If you are one. It Is some"Anything else, sir?" he asked; and Agnes, I am Inclined to comprothat man from Hartley was looking mise with 'the law. I will prefer no times hard to seem one If you are not then he departed as the servant. me up." I've been a fool but I've been hunting Mrs. Sidney's relief to find that As he went out I followed him, and charges against yon now, and without that I have not been the robbery had proved only a hoax on on the sidewalk I Introduced myself. forecasting the future, I may Intimate for something able to find. I want happiness and Im- the robbers was such as would come portance. My egotism asks for It. hut from escape from tangible horrors. CHAPTER XI. my common rense Is going to have Its Tbe lady Imd been keeping control of way. Thats preliminary." herself, as was necessary to protect The constnble looked at me for an Then he told his experiences. lie her husband and daughter from her Instant ns If uncertain whether to rehnd become violent with Isohel. He own agonyof mind and to keep the gard my manner of getting his narrawanted It understood thnt he had been household from finding significance In tive as altogether friendly. desperale but respectful. He had no whnt could be passed over as a trivYou were telling whnt I wanted to Idea of taking hold of her or of tearial piece of rubbery. I came In beknow," I suggested. ing her sleeve. She had been magnifiWhen she learned that the alarm cause I was directed to Inquire for cent. Fhe hnd given him a moral was over, she relaxed you there. I did not Interrupt you, limply in her shock. He felt like a worm. He hnd chair, and I feared that she hut It was without Intent of gaining been attacked suddenly by the men collapse; but In a moment shemight Information that I did not expect to had who hnd overpowered him. They hnd struggled buck to command of herself. gain otherwise." come upon him from the brush. He Then she excused It's all right," said the constable. herself and went had recognized Prnvadn at once. He Into her bedroom for You see through me, though. I wns prayer, I knew. might have overcome the Spaniard, hut Mr. Sidneys Joy at the return of Just thinking how uncomfortable I In the little a lawyer. desperate frenzy Jed was robust, and Jed went to bed ought to have been with you listening, of activity, hnd been Just hold and and I was pretty near getting sore. very tipsy with two bottles of wine strong enough to Interfere so that Jed In him. I found him In the The first thing Is the Identification of hall as I hnd been made helpless. Another mnn went the body. For the time being, It Is In my rounds of the house. He come to hnd Jed breathlessly help. the station-house.- " was singing. hound had nnd heen gagged. He Imd There was no possible doubt, even I knew we'd lipar again and soon been hustled Into the screen of woods before I looked at the face, from which from Dnivada, but not In what manthem nnd to a beyond waiting auto- ner. the constable drew the sheet which Naturally 1 was apprehensive, mobile. covered the body us It lay oa a bench. and no doubt Jed was more so, altn Ills tbe automobile, bad captors, The shabby little lawyers rascally beaded for tbe city and entered It after though to save himself from my conschemes, timid but villainous neces-snrmidnight. They bad taken their pris- tempt he tried to conceal his fears. probably. In his gnarled and unThe Spaniard could not he expected oner to n tenement on the Nat side. happy life were closed by death. to For accept Ills failure ns final, several the ami lie days lawyer A deputy of the coroner wns present, Because I Am a Thief and Know the Thnt expectation had tried to extort the secret would try again. and he took a deposition by me which Business and Have a Record." from Jed by threats. They had tried was fulfilled in u disconcerting fashgnve merely the dead man's name, ion. slated that he bail called several tlmt no charges ever will he preferred to buy It by promise of an equitable Thus far we had been dealing with of division The profits. had I lawyer times at Hartley house on business against you If may have you removed ami (tint I had no personal knowledge to Hartley house, where you will have been quite frat'tle part of the time. chance, with apparitions and threats. We now came to deal with Inevltubll-Ity- . of the manner In which he cuine to every care, hut where you must re- Jed stdd. hounding about In nn ecstasy Our expel lences Imd been disaof At other limes he rage. had been main under a sure but unobtrusive his death. hut they had not presented and greeable. friendly we persuasive. survelllanee wna until nil the authorities needed Thnt give you perPrnvnda Imd been sang ami wantunesi nimble consequence. We bad a of me. A maid by the name of Agnes mission to go." choice of ways. Now we entered a In spite of her pain the girl smiled. ed to try torture, but the attorney, enMitchell Imd been given temporary You would amuse the police," she raged ns be frequently became la bis wny froin which there was no esemployment at Hartley bouse. It wns failure nnd cape. would not said. undoubtedly she who wns the comFour days after Jed's return a man permit this ami lin got a trustworthy panion of the mun who hud been Whyr I asked. of his acquaintance, mimed Sim came to Hartley house and killed. Why do you suppose the luwyer rascal inquired with two other men, to keep a for me. He wns a detective. His I uskpd the constable where I ndght hired me for this Job?" over name wns Morgan; be wns the head Jed with a view not guard Uecnuse you wore nvailab.e. suitsee the maid and whether she was only to prevent his eeape but to keep of tbe Morgan Metropolitan Detective too hndly Injured to talk to any one. able uud easily tempted." agency. I thought on first seeing him Because I am a thief and know the Prnvnda from doing him harm or taklie said that she had been tnn.n to him ing while yet wondering wlmt his busiaway. a business and have the nearest hospital, which was ten record." The lawyer, both ness with us could be. nnd and enThnt was a facer, but It did not miles away. He did not know how yet know-In- g obs inaev, laid raged by Instinctively Hint It Imd to do with serious her Injuries were. I had my change the present need. finally You have less reason, then, for thought of corrupt lug someone in the Dravnda that this newcomer hud driver take me to the hospital and house to find nnd steal the found that as a representative of the wanting to come to the attention niantiseript. more than a suggestion of shrewd Tbe best lie bad been able to do was malevolence In his face. family for which she was employed tlie police again." to persuade a mall to Before he was through his Inter-vie"I have no reason at all." I might talk to her. poc false to Introduce ti real thief. enough with me. or rather his Then you will conn to Hartley She was In pain and heavily Inquiries "Priuadii and the hi never had of me. I knew that hut was conscious and willing house as I suggested?" inevitability had I at any g heslt.inej ileir If iu, our entered case. v were no ion ,., to talk. "Sure, you run get me there withquarrels 111 the room where I) V he'd in.-,- J,., at the mercy of progressing "Agnes," I said, when the nurse had out killing me." opportunl. "Frown was nfr.dd Prnvnda said. I made the necessary arrangements, left us, I am not here to make a great ty or chance. Morgan was fate. The would the Itow corrupt Sim. loiiun whole aspect Imd been altered. Mordeal of trouble Tor you, hut If 1 show and Agnes set out on her return, in tile lllld get the stm-u muscular, was . gan. sordid" 'a., leniency It will la In exchange for your an anibiilanee. afraid I'li'nwii would eorni.r nicotic man or action HntI oh confidence. We have known that nn The serrant who opened the door as III unscrupulous liottse iii. llurllcy matiil-- t unconseUnn!o gang of rascals have ue drove up was Jed. vbmsly of queer action. u,is nura Kuril o e f. aied that lie Greek tragedy to us. I could not help showing by a start script. had designs ou Hartley house. EviWould snect mdcpcinicutiv T') IIE dently you have yielded to some temp- and by the expression on my face (hat and get away without niaklu a divi tation they offered you. Heal with me I was astonished by Ills reappearance. sion. Eggstraordinary Coincidence frankly, and I'll be more than lenient.'' This pleased him. When he ucted he "Prnvnda pretended to be The custom him prevailed with a cersatisfied She told tne that Hie lawyer had liked to produce elTccts. He looked In- when Prop,, told him that be ms--, tain Episcopal church In tried to corrupt thu maid, Amin, who quiringly at the ambulance and then no. appear near California of Hartley. VIl,,t presenting each scholar of the Sunday had asked, later, for a months leave. Inquiringly at me. P.y that time I was thought were got,," to succeed n school with nn they egg nt the celebration She found tlmt she did not have the able to accept him as a usual purt of stealing the mantis, ripr out of of Faster. On one occasion, when iv' ou rage for the work. The lawyer the household. room I'.imwt, proved to I tlmt point In the service was "Ciet someone to help you with a the cv'dvod Ihe plan of Introducing n resoreached only one of them 1( which had been set apart for this Inlute and reliable woman info the house stretcher, Jed. I said. "Agnes, a maid, meet the maid was P,,)mt row,,. i,ni Her Inims been hurt. Then tell Mrs. Aldrich ceremony, the clergyman ros by 'he expedient adopted. appeared to accept that as reasonable teresting nnd wide the announcement: "Hvrou structions were to find und take away I should like to see her In the olllce ns ami lie must have put Prow,, ,l(T No. 411). Begin. My Soul, the soon ns It Is eoiivcnbiit. o mnnnscript she would find concealed Kvaited guard, because Brown told him all " . tn mo the Lay,' after which the eggs will be The ubdueifon of Jed "Yes, sir," said plaus. I trlbuUid. 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