Show 1 HOLLOW NA A KATHARINE GREEN worth Case C The of ot the tha Whispering I Only Masterpiece Of Mystery etc eta story dory controlled by the t e Mccrure New pap r tv V. I LESS t fated Deborah again I feeling had bad passed and Oft ot cold p had advisers said he ced with Mr Black Binek brows met wo erG wise io aid ho Then Thenis is is his tiler position was fast rable j-rable she falteringly io to you and Oliver 3 Mail all the reasons convictions fi mY pu ou I ht there was o mis misS mis'S mis- mis S 'S S the necessity you lain the tho mysteries of oft Bi it t was yesterday wo we DayI av own rown into a void K half uttered Phrases i an echo lich rung inmost being but in inS S both natures silence tho silence of tic do- iid ho speak When to breathe her gi IG ltd iad always before S coked Booked up to find findy r her ber and y gh deep waters ve your support how can you youse vou se e erica dropping her lier her eyes eye swimming lilt it what can T I do doT If i bo be questioned If l bly that i is you to S. S sink out mens men's J If this is js your wish I it Glady will wo we bo ho once this this very night if cr wa 3 9 that I 1 ask no rio such sac sac- V. V rould it avail There Iff thing which can reinstate io tho confidence and andese ese people Cannot you j mean your own that the sentence on Tonn on John was a n. just So q satisfied of this your tern tern- f is is such that you would bo bG cate whether you yon wished n it or pur ur very silence would be clo- clo do- do inco me I am wilting t to bare Ostrander But how can 0 50 A stands between he and the you mention shadow cast by Oliver Oliveras as he m malo lo Fivay va towards the tho bridge with my lands land's bludgeon in his hand hid Pid you OU seo him the blow Q e there thore any opportune shadows to toay toray I ay ray what happened between the in in- nt it of let of-let let us is say Oliver's Olivers approach L the fall of my friend Much ran ja u in fu a minute and this matter I 5 of minutes Granted that the Sot that of Oliver and tit be carrie was tt 8 ono one IL X su what is to tot I t tho foll wi from having o oc- oc The S stick bieh ivor ivo may in n abs at t frame of up ho has st Ic ot t in the han ban ok as-ok flinging the C hurries up the em cm emon on into town tov John JohnI fi I the tho bushes sees ces hi his ins it at or III k C into M v- v 1 beyond carries a aby r- r rn n I by the tho man who armed d. d The place is isse se to possess T is sudden and ick falls on anything or orabe ore abe e about all this Fco- Fco tt open to crime Oliver when i I sat upon the theand and now you shall shallI I I have ave Uw iu the door and mei me- me i followed Ifer Ier thoughts hid She did not know ri or of herself The Tho sf ti weeks week was stirring in of the trans trans- from hand to c. c Only y Scoville had hadU hadt U i i t that at too upon their be had bad not struck this ved him after d S she ie him iA her ft will she sho believed Jr pain gain why ha iha hall hail and he ho was i. i jig the cur cur- Not from fromn n she 5 felt I guessed mystery Looking back int into behind d her har she caught ft A A. oeting glimpse of R hovering hO on a distant din ds- tant taut threshold Leaving the judge without oven oven A murmured word of apol ogy og- gr she ho ran t t to tho child embraced her herand and promised to join her soon and thon then satisfied with tho the comfort thus AA gained De she the returned quickly quick to where the judge judg still awaited her with his bio hand on the curtain in For Forgive ie mo me mo said lAid the she and me meeting meet tin t- t in lug ing with wito no reply st stood od tre trembling while he e unlocked tho the door and ushered her in in A k new leaf leal in th the history of this old cunIO was about to be bo turned Once within the tho room ho be became m hh his courteous self on once more moro Bo Be seated be ho begged indicating a i chair in the half hal gloom As she took it the room sprang into sudden light Ho had pulled tho the string which regulated the thc curtain over the glazed elated panes in the tho ceiling Then Thon as ns quickly all was Wag gloom l again laiD aiD ho had lot let the str string n escape from ron hi his hi hand Half light is better he muttered in JD vague apolo apology It It was miS a weird beginning to an interview inter inter- vie view whoso whose object was as all yet incomprehensible to her Ono One minute a blinding glimpse of the tho room whoso whose details were s so so varied ried th that thit t many of them unknown to to her the her the next everything e swept n again ain into shadow through h which the tho tall taU form of tho genius senius of ot the loomed with melan choly choir suggestion She was as relieved when ho bo spokes spoke i I Mrs CI Scoville not Deborah now hav bavi confidence in Oliver Oliver's you ou any s sword word r Sh She Sha did not reply at once Too much depended upOn a simple ye or no Her first instinctive cry would have boon yes YO but hut If it Oliver had bad been guilty and andrut yut rut held back his dreadful secret allt all t these eso years herr horr could she believe his word Tord when his whole life had been a aho alie lie ho Hof lbs Has there thore ever been anything in in his his conversation as you knew it in Detroit Detroit De De- troit tc to make you ou hesitate to reply the judge judco persisted as aa she sho continued speechless No nothing I had every evet- confidence con con- in his assertions I should have yet if it at t were Tere not for this horror f. f Forget For tt it for fer a a. moment R Recall call his effect upon you as a man matt a I. I prospective son for law in-law for you vou meant him to marry C I I I trusted him I would trust himin himin him himin in many ways yet CI Would you OU trust him enough fo believe be be- lieve that ho he would tell you yea the truth if you asked him point blank whether his hands wore clean dean of crime t tYes Yes The won camo came camoin in a whisper whis whis- Por per but there was wae n no wavering in in it I She Sho had felt folt the tho conviction dart like liko an arrow through h her h T mind that Oliver might slay Q a man mau in his hate might hate might even even cven conceal his guilt for but years but that ho bo could not li Jilt about it when brought face to face with an accuser like herself Then I will let lot you ou read road something he wrote at my nay request those these man many years cars ago An experience experience the the of ono one awful n night tho the horrors of which loc locked d within his bis mind 1 and In 1 mine nave stave no cr never been bean revealed to a third person That should share our secret you our now is not only necessary but f fitting It becomes the tho widow or of John Scoville to know what hat sort of i a l man she persists in inre re innocent Wait here bere for me sue 5 With a quick stop topho he ho wound his hi way the tho various pieces of hi o furniture to the door opening inthis into int his bedroom A breathless moment ensued en- en sued durin during which she sho heard his key turn in Su the Jock lock fol followed oWed by the repeating re ro- sound of his footsteps as ho he wended his way inside to a p point int she could only guess at from irom her knowledge of tho the room to be bo a dresser in one ono of ot the corners Hero he ho lingered so lon long that without an any conscious volition of her own own almost almost t in of h her r volition which b would have o kept her where she ehe was wa j wa-phe wa she he found herself on her feet then mO iD moving step stop by step more cautiously than he in and ont out of huddling chairs and cluttering tables till eho sho came camo to toa a standstill before tho the reflection in irs some sorno mirror no doubt douM of ot tho the judges judge's es e's tall taU form bending not over oer the tho dresser Ils ns as the she had supposed but before a cup cupI cupboard cup cup- board bon in iu th the tho wall wall wall-a a cupboard she site had bad I never nc seen in n a wall naU she sho had bad never neverseen neverseen seen but hut no now r recognized for tho the ono one hitherto con concealed caled by br the great carpet C rug ruC He lie had a It ron of paper in his hand band which he ho bundled d together an as ho he dropped the curtain back into place and then stopped to smooth it out over the floor with tho the precision of long habit All this she ebe saw in the mirror as S though she had bad been at his back in theother tho the other room but when she beheld him turn then panic seized her and she sha ted started breathlessly for the spot whore hore ho he had left her hor glad that there thore was eo so little light and praying that ho he might bo bl deaf to her which gently as they fell lI sounded portentously loud in her ber own oars ears She had bad reached her chair hair but she sho had not had bad time to reseat herself when she sho beheld him approaching Dg with t the e bundle of loose sheets clutched in irs his handI hand I I I 1 want you to sit hero hera and aud read said he ho laying laying- the manuscript down on 00 ona ona a a. small smal table near the wall van vahl under agas a agas L gas jet which h ho be immediately lighted I am m going coing back to my own desk If you want to speak you may I shall not be oJ And Amid she heard beard his hiB footsteps retreating again in and out among the furniture till un he reached hi his own chair and sat before his own table This ended all sound lound in the tho room ex ex- c the ibe beating beatin of b her ber r own heart which had bad become tumultuous How fow could sIte eho sit there and read words with the blood pounding in her veins and her eyes half halt blind with terror and excitement It was only the tho necessity sit sity of the case caso which made m-ade it poss possible ble She know knew th t she would never be bo released re reo leased l led from froin that spot until she sho had hl ha 1 read what had bad been placed before her Thank God Godl the manuscript waa Wu legible Olivers Oliver s 's hand handwriting rit ng po possessed tho cl clearness of print She bbs had bad begun to read before she se knew it and having begun e n. n she sho never ever paused till she reached the end I was 15 It was wu my birthday and andI I had bad my own ideas of hOw I J Wa wanted t d to spend it My hI hobby was m modeling dehn My rv father bad hod no sympathy with this b bobby To him it was a a. waste of time bett better spent in study or such sport sports an as would fit me mc for study But ho Ito had I never er absolutely forbidden mo inc to c ex i my talent this way tray and when on th the day dar I mention I had hud a few hours of freedom I decided to begin a piece of work of which I bail bad long dreamed This was the tho remodeling in iu cIa clay of an exquisite statue which had greatly aroused my admiration This his statue et t stood in a forbidden en enI place It was one of the tho art treasures I I I of tho the great house on the bluff comI com cons I called Spencer's Spencers Folly I ha had bad seen geen this tide marble once when whon dinin ruining dining therewith therewith there therewith with father and was wu so impressed b bits by hy its beauty that it haunted me mc night an anday and da day daj standing out white and aDd wonderful on erful in mv tuV imagination against t backgrounds of c endless variation To COP copy its lo el lovely lines line to caress with a creative c band hand those curves of ot beauty instinct aa as I 1 Ithan thou than felt with soul SO became ray my ono one overmastering desire desire desire-a a desire de re which soon eoon deep deepened ned into purpose The boy bov of fifteen would attempt the impossible I procured my clay cIa and then awaited my mf opportunity It came cam as I have saul said cl on my birthday There was no one living hiving in in the hou house e eat at this time Mr Spencer had gone goue oue West for the tho winter Tho The servants had Imd been dismissed ed and arid the place was vas closed dosed Only that morning I had heard one of his boon companions say i Oh Oh Jacks Jack's done doue for Hes He's found a pretty widow V in the Sierras and there there's theres s no knowing Vin now when C 1 well we'll drink his health again in Spencers Spencer's Foil Folly Folly a a a statement which wakened but bill one picture pic rio ture in m iny my mind and that was a lou long JO longstretch stretch o empty rooms room teeming wit with art treasures al iJ which one gem tm rose tho tho gem which b through hi his reckless carelessness I 1 now proposed proponed c to tomake tomake tomake make my mr own if it Jo i loving 1 fill fingers and the tho responsive rc clay elas allow it What to cn every ry other othur r person lenson in In town would have bavo seemed an insuperable obstacle oh ob I stacle to this undertaking was no ob obstacle ob- ob b- b stacIe stacle to me I 1 knew how to get et in One day in iu m mv rt restless wanderings wandering about a place which had hac something of the nature of a to me I had noticed noticed no that that ono one of the windows window a swinging one overlooking o the ravine moved mo as ns the tho wind took it Either the lock leek had way given way or it had not Ue been n proper properly fastened If I could only bring myself to disregard the narrowness narrow narrow- n ness hess os of tho the Je ledge fe separating the tho house from the precipice beneath I felt feJt that I could reach this window and sever ever tho the vines sufficiently for or m my bod to to toI press s in and this I did aid that night d. d I tug ing just as Lit I had expected that once a 1 i little force was brought to bear upon the bash ash it yielded easily casU- offering a u af j f t feo CG ec passage o to o the delights within I. I In tin sill this I experienced little fear but once inside I Degan to realize the I hazard of my mv adventure nd as hanging at I I full length from tram the casement I meditated medi ou on the drop rop I must take into what to m my say aed eyes looked like an I Vi absolute void This taxed my courage but after a moment of sheer fright I Ilet I Ilet let go I go-I o-I o I had to and to-and and imme immedi immediately i- i atel found myself upright bt in ina inn a n space so 60 narrow nan I 1 could touch the walls on either side It wits was as a J. J closet I had entered caterer opening as az I soon discovered i cov c ered into the huge dining hall hail where 1 I had halt once tat at belide my father at theone tho the thoon on ono one formal meal of In my life tife T I that room it had made madea a rest great impression upon me and aDd some fome light li ht finding its way ray through tho the panes ot of of glass lasa which topped each eachor oC or the tho three windows ov o tho the ravine ine I 1 soon wa wan tibIa to find lintl th the door leading into the drawing r room nin I J had brought ht a small in the tho I bag slung to mv my shoulders but I bad had hadnot not hitherto dared d to u use e it or 01 account of the tho transparency of the mines panes have c mentioned but once in the tho perfectly dark recesses of the tho room T I drew it out and without the tho lea least t fear of detection boldly turn jt t upon the i small 11 alcove 0 where stood the th object ct of fUn my adoration I It It W was another instance of the reckless reck t Iles less confidence of youth I Wl wn on n tho er o of ot ono one of too the most appalling adventures adventures ad ventures which could befall a n alan anti mi yet ct no premonition disturbed di t I lit lie ecstasy rl ec p. f stasy tas wi with h which I knelt the tho glimmering marble and amid unrolled my mr bundle of wet net clay Ia- Ia I J was waR not Dot a complete fool I only meant to attempt a n miniature copy but 1113 presumption led Ird mo mc to expect it to tobe be he like yes like yes like Jil like oh oh e-oh oh 1 never doubted d it ill But when alter after a n few minutes of rapturous contemplation of the proportions proper proper- which hie |