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Show I TIIE BULLETIN. RINGHAM. UTAH w!n (HTMNHWNES'IRWIN U S E RV I C E once, to Ace'i part,- - desire to conquer her; and to conquer her was, at once, to begin to tire of her. Rumors of his conquests, both at home and abroad, choked our tea-tal- For the last few years, other rumors had of spread reports financial embarrassment It was said that Ace had run through all his patrimony and his various inheritances; that each year in-creasingly, he spent more than be earned. And then occurred the strange complication to which I have al-ready twice referred. Molly Eames came back from a year in Europe the most beautiful girl that Satuit had ever produced. In three months she was engaged to Wal-ter Treadway, Ace's secretary. It seemed to everybody that they were passionately in love and yet after six months Molly broke her engagement to Walter. Six months later, she became engaged to Ace. No one of us who had known Ace, no one of us who loved Molly, felt happy over this turn of events. But one thing Ace brought to us from the war which meant more to Satuit as a whole than all his dec-orationsand that was his friend, Bruce Hexson. Bruce Hexson was a lawyer. He was in Paris when the war broke and volunteered immediately to drive an ambulance for the French army. He met Ace in the hospital. When we entered the war he vol-unteered for aviatioa The two men served in the same squadron. Long before the Armistice, they had become inseparable pals. Bruce, too, was a man of private fortune. He lived in Pennsylvania, He came regularly every summer to Satuit and visited Ace for two months at a time. And then suddenly an unexpected thing happened to him. To use the old pat phrase Bruce "got" religion, but not somehow in the usual sense. Ace always avoided talking about his friend's spiritual seizure, but he told me once that he attributed Bruce's frenzy to the long strain of the war. "If he had been wounded once," he said to me, "it would have been better for him. Aviators often went haywire. The officers watched us like doctors. The instant any one of us showed the first sign of psy-chological strain, they gave him a long leave in Paris. If a man were slightly wounded, the change to the hospital helped. Bruce nev-er got a pip; he never showed any signs of nerve breakage. That's my explanation." Whatever the reason, the result was definite and permanent Bruce Hexson's whole life changed. He - "Oh yes. Aunt Mary. Aunt Mat-ti- e put a little pitcher of cream in front of my plate just for me." "What time did Aunt Mattie and Uncle Peter get home last night?" "I don't know. Caddie put me and Dorinda Belle to bed before they came." "And so you did not see Aunt Mattie and Uncle Peter until this morning?" 'To. They came into my room and they hugged me and kissed me. Oh I almost forgot Aunt Mattie told me to tell you that she wanted to come over to see you after breakfast as soon as possi-ble." I reachea out and touched the bell "Sylvia," I said, putting my arm about her and drawing her closer, "do you remember how you danced with Doctor Ace at the masquerade?" Sparkles gathered In Sylvia's eyes. "Oh yes, I rememberl He couldn't guess who I was. He tried and he tried and he tried, but he couldn't , "Doctor Ace has gone away," I said to her. "He's gone away for a long, long time. But I want you to remember, as long as you live, how he looked and how kind he has always been to you. Promise me you won't forget him." "Oh, I'll never forget Doctor Ace," Sylvia vowed easily enough. She did not ask me where Ace had gone. Sarah came In with my tray. "Now run downstairs to the piaz-za," I bade Sylvia. "And don't leave it without asking me." Sarah did not seem herself. The deep umber of her flesh still showed a tallowy quality. "I hope you feel better this morn-nln- g, Mrs. Avery," she said. "I feel rested, Sarah, but you don't seem so very spry." "I feel that we're all under sus-picion!" Sarah commented somber-ly. "Everybody on this Head we women as well as the men." I made myself smile. "We don't have to worry, Sarah," I reassured her. "Nobody in. this household has to worry. Doctor Geary says Doctor Blaikie ' was murdered somewhere about midnight prob-ably before. We all have alibis. And then, Sarah, it seems to me very unlikely that a woman could have committed this crime. How could a woman have stabbed a man so tall and big as Ace Blai-kie?" "A woman who's big enough and mad enough, Mrs. Avery can do anything." "Will you call up Mrs. Stow at once, Sarah," I asked, "and tell her that I'm dressing now and to come over here as soon as she wants." "Yes, Mrs. Avery.". "I suppose everybody's been on the telephone." "Everybody. Every Boston pa-per's tried to get you, but I said you were still sleeping." "That's right Sarah. Don't let anybody get to me today except long distance of course." "There's a stack of telegrams, Mrs. Avery." "I'll look at them later." I bathed and dressed swiftly, vent downstairs. Almost instantly Mattie Stow came into the living-roo- from the halL We kissed, then stood off and stared appraisingly at each other. "You look as washed-ou- t as I do, Maryl" Mattie commented. "If I look as I feel," I said. "You look all of that Mary. It's the most horrible experience of my lifetime. Sometimes I feel as though I'd never get over HI" "Horrible 1" I could only help-lessly echo. "What time did you go home, Mary? I can remember so little, clearly." I described our movements Sylvie's and mine in detail "Peter and I dressed at the Bray house," Mattie said. "We left our place at about half-pa- st eight and got back at about ten. Naturally, we never left the house again. No-body left the house but" She stopped suddenly. It was her own thought dogging her words, that had caught her up. "Of course Ace left before the unmasking because we never saw him again," Mattie glided swiftly. "It puts an end to our masquer-ades," Mattie ended lifelessly. "I could never give another one." The telephone buzzed. Instinctive-ly I arose. But before I could get the extension on the piazza, I heard Sarah at the hall telephone. I took up the receiver. Patrick O'Brien's voice said, "This is the chief of police speaking. Can I talk with Mrs. Avery?" "This is Mary, Patrick," I broke in. "Oh, how are you this morning, Mary?" Patrick asked. "Well, I slept after a while," I answered. "It was a tough break, Mary-happe- ning on your placel I called up to ask if I could come to see you for a few minutes. I'm at Joe Geary's." "I know you'll have to be here all the time, Patrick. Don't even bother to telephone. Come when-ever you must If I'm not at home, Sarah will take care of you. Mat-ti- e is here." ' (TO BE CONTINUED) 1KB gJ m r "-- SYNOPSIS "iritor who Bves ta the Vsatt.it, Mass., with two manuscript decrib n, the c Li Head murder, which Next to Mary live "liS ISeV Stow who every ,r masquerade party. One of TZ this function is murdered. .nd Mrs. Ce.r, .nd the.r hBhW .nd her husband L&tor Myron Marden and 'granddaughter, C.ro PrenUM. . irl who was born in oung- - Pul n1 L" Eame' , daughter Molly. Molly was murdered m.n, Ac. Blaikie. prtSeosly been engaged to W.Her , the engagement was suddenly ;d he had left town. Other nemo-- ! The Fairweather sister Flora, and Margaret All but the ."attend the ma.quer.de. Mary', a..old niece. Sylvi. S.rd, is waiting summer. The wooded part of Settat. is called the Spinney. In i 1 log cabin, called the Little House, dar of the maiquer.de excitement Mary decided to take Sylvia, who usually observant child. C.ro Pr. g Molly Eames drop fa during- - the I Molly seems Soon iVrive. and Blaikie. Doctor Marden Ice Hejion, a friend of Ace's, alight, i impatient to leave and they all At the party Sylvia iden-L- h of the masked sests as they Ace comes garbed as JuUus Caesar. lames sppesrs as a Snow Queen, ae--i led by s man in armor whom Sylvia L a. Walter Treadway. They dance eontinuou.ly. Caro Prentias and srrir dressed in Revolutionary t, the doctor wearing jeweled shot a When the guests nnmssk, Ace, and Molly have disappeared. Sarah ionfidei to Mary that someone ap--' had spent the night in the Little Sylvia finds a shoe buckle in the J and Mary drops it into jewel box i pi it Sarah walks down to the llouse snd returns screaming. She M Acs Blaikie stabbed to death in iinney. Mary summons Patrick 1 , chief of police, who had been s ate of hers and Ace's. , SATURDAY Continued period which I might de-a- s late babyhood provides " th no picture of Ace, although Dssible that I did see him then ; iday school, or on the beach. ly the boys had shortened bis 5 :w England name of Asa to 5 little knew how appropriate - nickname was to become. s exactly eight when I 'K became conscious of his nee. I remember perfect-- v he looked the first time I 01 ibservant eyes on him. The e es bad spent that summer in t e. Ace was their only child i aturally their pride and Joy. F le might be thatl There was te iod in his life when, whatever rcasion, he wasn't the most p Dme male creature present iost striking and debonair. ras typical of Ace that not id he appear the first day of wearing a Scottish costume M his mother had bought in Ed- - fh It was typical of him that 1 rried it oil with distinction H mplete unconsciousness. ippose that every other girl J dass fell dead in love with I P day. I did not however, "i y--yes, even then, Mark and I were meeting at the pads to go to school togeth- - ce broke hearts left and right 3 fweksure pilgrimage through ? am glad he did not break 4 1 He never caused me even a on of heartache. 1 iw more and more of Ace, I fer. We became great friends. I ways entertained and inter-- J -- me. He was fascinating, r Patrick O'Brien and I were fading spirits in our class. k. m I have said, beat me in "holarshlP and was Jd at the head. However. C was salutatorian, I Jedictorian. Ace never stud- - never 111 daner of iKJea.d,0fthe but miracle. He had a good 1 !L ythIng he culd read 4 The Def0r H J, . .C,0ul,d "member. The s'fesiWirs rK J always been J USe ,s withou ldeS arBbTWul Satuit ide PfWe of the AW. oirn i ,UrnitUre' two cen- - lHK At fl ?Q Ace be to (J esandy-pull- s and the like; later it was dances and plen-ty of them. Ace went to Harvard; Harvard was a tradition in the Blaikie fam-ily. He went to Harvard Medical Instead of finishing off in Germany, as most doctors did in those days, he chose to study in Paris. He was there when the World war broke. In the autumn he joined the Foreign Legion. He was wound-ed that winter; when he recovered, he volunteered for aviation. He flew with the French army, until we entered the war. Then he Joined our army. He became an ace-str- ange how life fulfilled the proph-ecy of his nickname I He had five enemy planes on his record. He believed, himself, that he had brought down two or three more; but that he could not prove. When he came back from France, the town gave him a party no one In Satuit missed it We asked him to come in uniform wearing all his decorations the French and Bel-gian Croix de Guerre, the Me-dail- le Militalre, the Legion d'Hon-neu- r and the D.S.C. I thought him, that night the handsomest male creature I ever laid eyes on. Then Ace settled down to a prac-tice in Satuit Of course he could not make money in so small a place, but instantly he became a great success. Personality helped here, his own tremendous strength, his robust vitality. For with Ace's entrance to a sick-roo- m came a gust of health-givin- g air. But per-haps his greatest asset was that sympathy with the sick, the old, the weary and the discouraged. It even helped that he liked girl-babi-so much. However fathers felt mothers always knew an in-finite pride when they pleased Doc-tor Blaikie by bringing forth a girl But for other reasons, the coun-tryside adored Ace. One was his reckless generosity. Anybody who wanted to sell tickets, or to get up a fund for charitable purposes made a bee-lin- e for Ace. He under-stood human nature on the side of frailty perfectly. Mothers of girls In trouble, fathers of boys in trou-ble went at once to Ace, to get him to treat with seducers and po-lice. Nothing illustrates Ace more per-fectly than the story of his treat-ment of Tom Boylan. Tom was Jie village drunk. Ace was always having to take care of him, free of course Tom had no money for alcoholism. Once he brought Tom through delirium tremens. Yet when Tom got well, Ace always gave him his first drink after Tom had begged long enough for it And yet . . . And yet . . . Some-thing had happened to Ace I don't mean to his body. Something had happened to his soul In the meantime, I had married Mark Avery. I used to talk Ace over with him. My husband, who was a nerve specialist like Doctor Geary, with an office in Boston, had served as a physician in the World war. He had great wis-do- He said to me once, "Mary, the strange thing about war is that it frequently ruins good men and rehabilitates bad ones. Men are returning to this country on every transport who, if they had not been caught at the right moment by the discipline of an army, would have spent most of their lives in jalL On the other hand, war fre-quently ruins able men its rigid discipline, its inherent immorality." War must have been bad medi-cine for Ace. It must have un-loosed something in him that he had always held in abeyance be-fore. At any rate, from the time he came back, he seemed to me to disintegrate. Not physically! To the very end, he kept his magnifi-cent body in condition. He was al-ways inheriting money. Yet no matter how much company filled the huge Blaikie house, Ace was always leaving on sudden calls. How often when I have been there, he has returned with a wearied but triumphant "A big eleven-poun- C boy!" or "A nice little girl!" Once and this was the apex of his medical pride "Girl twins!" The countryside always surged with gossip about Ace. He was, had always been, would always be a terrific I use the word of my ge-nerationflirt I will not say that he desired all women, but I will say that any pretty woman seemed to serve as a challenge to him. Why, when Mark first began regu-larly to specialize on me, Ace looked upon that as a challenge! I laughed his tentative wooing out of existence. Along with this tre-mendous susceptibility, let me call it although it wasn't exactly that came ' an equally tremendous fickleness. As I have hinted, to see a pretty woman meant Brace Rented the Camp From Ace. came to Satuit every year, but now for the whole summer. He did not as formerly, live with Ace. Ace owned a little camp on the Indian river. Like everything Ace touched. It was charming and convenient Bruce rented the camp from Ace-li-ved there with his two colored servants, Adah Silverston and Ber-ry Vale. Bruce Hexson had become a so-cial fixture in summer Satuit Nowadays he never came to our parties, but always, broodingly ten-de- r, we felt him there. SUNDAY I remembered hearing the clock strike four before I fell asleep that night But once asleep I lay like a log for perhaps an hour. After-ward I remembered that early in the morning, just after dawn. I awoke with a searing thirst Grad-ually, I pulled myself up out of bed and staggered to the bathroom. On my way back to bed I paused to look out the window. A gray-ish fog covered the landscape. Trees blurred shadowy through it foliage in a faded photo-eraph- ic -l-ike film. 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