Show Ht TTIH 1T i Bride of the Yellowstone By FRANK LOVELL NELSON How Carlton Clark Solved a Strange Weird Mystery in the Western Country His Telepathic Suggestion Tells of Strange Condition of Affairs Detective Proves Worth of His Theory When Man is Confronted Master Mind Finally Triumphs ici sy HE man was English i that was evident at first glance I Tl Moreover ho was of that ubiquitous typo of sneering sneer-Ing faultllndlng Britisher whoso favorite tipple has e won him In tho far cast tho opprobrious title of Llmojulcer The woman wom-an well wo hud more difficulty dif-ficulty In classifying her Tho accent and tho clothes wore English beyond be-yond the possibility of tho most char itable error Hut the piquant sad face tho soulful brown eyes tho cheeks of dark but wholesome and even color the full red lips the small and delicately molded features those were legacies perhaps of French ancestors an-cestors more likely tokens of that conglomerate strain now called the American typo but English never As sho carne opposite my elbow mike raised her head and gave mo a look full In the eyes n look so full of helpless appeal that It startled me Our drnwing room connected with tho stateroom of tho English couple by n door so that tho two might on occasion bo thrown together en suite I looked down and saw the corner of an envelope appear I called ClaMcos attention and wo watched It until tho entire envelope a long white one stuffed so full of papers that It went under the door with difficulty lay on tho floor at our feet Our pretty llason progresses whispered Clarke Thero Is a billot doux for you I hastily seized the envelope and emptied Its contents on tho rending table And then Clarke and I stared and gaped In helpless and Idiotic astonishment as-tonishment Before us lay bonds of the United Zinc Corporation to the value of 7GO000 With thorn was a single sheet of noto paper with tho crest of the Los Angeles limited at the top Clark and I lead It silently To Mr Carlton Clarke I am taking tak-ing what I believe to bo the only course to save these papers and my life lly tho time we reach Old Faithful Faith-ful Inn I hope to devise some disposition disposi-tion to ask you to make of them Until then guard them well I know I can trust yow Destroy this note at once Lady Ethelbort Snlvely After breakfast nt Yellowstone station sta-tion tho next morning our entire party numbering about GO were loaded Into tho big MY stages for tho 32mlla drive to the Upper Geyser basin and Old Faithful Inn Clarke and I had a surrey to ourselves In charge ot ono Bo Hughes Uo being Yellowstone slang for driver Wo also traveled special That Is wo were relieve from adhering to tho regular schedule laid down by tho stage company Wo reached the Fountain lunch sta tjon and tho Lower Geyser basin In advance of the rest of the party und Clarke roused to his duty sufficiently to walk out with mo over the formation forma-tion as the acres of limestone deposit de-posit made by the geysers Is officially and technically known l Hero again wo met rny lord and lady when tho rest of tho tourists came up and wero grouped reverently In a circle to watch tho Fountain goyser play Lady Snlvoly clapped her hands In glee as tho boiling water throwing clouds of seething steam shot CO feet In the airTime air-Time shadows ot the western snow peaks were lenghtunlng when wo drew up In advance of the rest of tho party again by virtue of our special before be-fore the log portals of that wonderful piece of forest architecture Old Faithful Faith-ful Inn I was assigned to room 17 und Clarke to loom 18 Lord and Lady Snlvely followed us and drew No 19 Whatever tho destiny that bound us together It seemed unbroken This would be n dangerous place to travel about on at night Ho I said to Hughes as wo clambered up and down the mounds of calcareous deposit between bottomless pools of boiling water peering down into tho growling sulphurous depths of the Lion and tho Cubs threading tho treacherous and precipitous sides of tho Grotto and feeling beneath our feet tho hollow crunch of tho crust that seemed but a thin partition between be-tween the beautiful world above and tho regions of tho Inferno beneath Youre mighty right answered Hughes I never knowed l of but one man that over come over hero at melt and he wandered out a tho hotel h drunk or crazy or somethln and never showed up uo more No sir I reckon theres a devil awnltln at the bottom of every ono o these hero holes with a hook Why even the swntties thats the soldiers you know whats detailed out here HUe that fellow over there to see that tho tour sts dont carry off none o tho formation forma-tion they couldnt no more bo dragged out here at night than you could get a cow puncher to herd sheep It was all Innocent enough at dinner din-ner hut my dean drawled the husband hus-band you surely cawnt believe all that beastly rot Cawnt a fellow have l4 fl42ccb I A L 4 i 2kfV Ji iA rrf t WL I IiIi I 4 1 I r I lW i I d T 24i H < L J r a y nYD DISflPE QED fls F y rNF EhPI Ni90 cShryLLO D 4w r i rl tt a beastly clipping in his bag without being a blooniln crook Havent I brought you out to this beastly hole and given you everything you wanted Yes with my own mono Interrupted Inter-rupted tho wife You know I couldnt star In London Lon-don another day with the beastly hay fever coming on Alice Now what have you done with those papers Yes I Know you had searched my luggage liar Dont give jouisolf any false hopes You will never see them again Then The sentence was lost In a hiss of rage Oh Yell I know you arc perfectly capable of killing me just as you did those other women Great guns shes making for the formation Its suicide I whispered We reached the edge of the treacherous treach-erous hen of alternate limestone and boiling water There already far out upon It was the woman dashing blindly blind-ly and heedlessly along with Instant and awful death on either side of her Behind her the man picked his way cniefully and emulously And so in Indian file we started following fol-lowing Hughes and picking our way gingerly between the spurting jets of steam The woman had stopped her head T long flight and was kneeling on tho formation as If jn prayer In her I clasped upHliod hands we saw the glint of polished metal Behind her the husband crept with outstretched arms Closer and closer ho came but sho seemed unmindful of his presence Were we to t witness a murder or a sul chic pri emed It was hard to loll Vo could do nothing but stand Idly by and await the denouement To cry out to advance would bo but to precipitate the tragedy Clarke diopped on ono knee and drew n care ful bead on the advancing man no Hughes did the homo As for mo I was too fascinated for action Suddenly thero was a scream of Y agonized fear The man threw up his hands and disappeared as it the earth had swallowed him up Veritably it had for when wd rushed to the spot where we had last seen him we found only tho boiling swirling waters of The Devil Well Thank God sho exclaimed I s fear it Is wicked to feel so but it is better than suicide for me or hanging for him Tho absence of Lord Snively would do bo a difficult thing to explain at tho hotel and none of us relished tho Idea of an Inquest with its consequent do lay to say nothing of the Incriminating Incriminat-ing colors with which suspicious I minds might Invest the events of tho night But manifestly there was noth ing 10 ho dorm but to tell the truth and so Clarke and I took Lady Snlvely be won us am piloted by Hughes wo hitched our way carefully hack over ho quarter of a mile of treacherous formallon Whcn we set fool on solid anal safe ground allIln Old faithful Wits Just beginning to play fie 11Iu played just liB wo slarled ant and so according 10 hit SClwdllle nHllnlalned thruu1hout tho eentnrluR wo had boon on limo rormalou Jlltt GJ minutes mind not It scented more lion ten When Wo reached the hotel 10111111 wo two very potent work In agencies lit our favor Clarkos roputa Ion whIch had UlO Yellowstone penMtateQ tTt q DotTt and whoso straight Do n doubt Without th7k M 0ltte 4 0 Blngloonoof tso i lMw ono at our fellow sd ° of P1a was quietly t arranged stet that all procoed In the JL H > clap l stage In chargo l1Iornlng be e or clay Mununouth lIu C station end of tho park at thet to the cavalry there tom Re colonel This plan admitted In rtJ sleep at which at a re > r wvo hastened vantage to And now Lady l Clarke When SnheI1 + we stowed away In Were coal f the stage morning perhaps the you your story und wo can can it to tho future advise IaP Please do not call lI1e 0 Lady ly answered the brave IUlIe That II name was my undolnt henceforth I am content J to ha Alice Hathaway The 8tor story and If it would only prove a n to nil foolish American girls feel that I I have not lived It I In My father died when whenlwi If was one of tho organizers or lher ted States Zinc Corporation fore his death ho had but conver hIl his stock Into bonds i Was child and I suddenly found J m m11e1 the possession of tho bonds T you have now That was lava ago I was young and foolish J Ideas of life had been gained and reading notion not the besll I hove When a real lord In the J of Lord Snlvely met me and askU d hand in marriage I was hu enough to believe 1 was maifU great match We went first to London world and the future looked lordi a time but the dream gpolled was sow polled Suspicion began to gnaw my happiness when Instead of t ceedlng at once to his ancestral m In Surrey as he had promised we i denly packed In an hour and malt e hurried return to tho United Sat On tho passage home I found lu luggage a newspaper clipping that run Hilnlrf nil thn n v un I the story of some villain In En who under various names was iJ pected of marrying a number of wen w-en securing possession ot fti wealth and then murdering them J Frederick Hannlster was IftoJ t Interrupted Clarke Do yon hoi Sexton I rather suspected front first It was him He was a sort English Johnnn Hoch and wenttaj a number of aliases Yes Hannlster was one of names used and the description In paper fitted him so perfectly tb t struggle as I might against the ail thought I could not get It out of mind lie knew of my wealth i knew tho safe deposit company t which it was kept I determined draw It out secretly and place It el where I had secured the papers at with tho suddenness that marked his movements he told me wen going to tho Yellowstone I had opportunity to place the bonds a where so closely did he watch ne am now convinced ho knew 11 I b them on my person for our Jon was n constant series of quarrels < the question of my placing all my f tune in his hands that he mIght deem from mortgage his ancestral tates During ono of these quarrels < the time we reached Chlcif charged him directly with the cllrpi I had found in his luggage Mimi look of terra and anger told mss t shaft had struck and then he teci tho same inscrutable oily illlalt before Hut I knew the truth and knew that upon my wits alone Tel the safety of my fortune and my Chen C-hen you gentlemen entered t I Thel train I studied you closely learned Mr Clarkes name and It w nt onco familiar to me because H Richard King whom I know qd well had told mo of jour wonder rescued b work and how you had and her husband from the wiles of worker of black magic I Knew 1 roc trust you Yon received the note I sUp through the crack in the wall Clarke directing tho disposition fortune In case of my death Yes I received It all right swered Clarke Hut now I bate it I to restore happiness to be able Its rightful owner living commandant at Its Wo found the reasonable man mouth a most satisfied with our storj was fully readilY girt the promise acting only would keEPb I assure you that we whereabouts in advised of our powers above him should wish matte tOl I the closely Into qulro more the d t trew also The stage company issisd In Ina I consideration with marked t our Interrup that we should resume tour as their honored guests Miss Hathaway ai wen Snlvoly or safely I on uw I 6ei called her wo saw berf cast hound for the at Granger IlollbllltUe 1 BU pi < low passengers no doubt UScst m Ing that sho carried with her kings ransom Clarl remarked 0 Do you know pru wo resumed our BU after we had always unreasonable women are f away she really wanted l to make wander usem herself why did sIll mile < 01 uS of ainiheloff most three gtiarters rc either dt death on lion with certain pistol of her to do H with n roils prob Involved a > V As tho question oC a rib that dates from damS s low wend unnnswered remained necessarily Jlaibawa1tgIJ We never saw Miss aod I but twice each year Clarke payr upon rt celvo each tho Interest ed otaU tied united of Ihe > la worth of bonds lD0 the Kino Corporation I WPP01 elso WhY shod stand In our names Dt I they send us tho Interest CHI sure conscious sure neither of us Is lug curnoJ any such reward ChPIllP Copyright by W 00 r |