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Show -THE STORY fVTKR LDiv Ronald McAlUter. ! epeelal work-applied T ihlairrntlve opens M latareate tfffi-Sr. m th m.ll town of t BldHb of recluee, Henry Mor- & rtwraey. who It worklp- on tbe testified ha eaw k woman 2Sopb hom the eight e('U iSSri ee special mention of (b waj wearing-. Doc-LTuiehardt, Doc-LTuiehardt, friend of JecllUter, SffltBd invite. WllsUr to see SMtleat With bl two friend the ewtets W the hospital Om Ui h !TSiJ of a notorious pirate. Bully EJklls. who . bad operated la New Etai waters. Doctor Relnhardfa pa. SatKOTH to be a youn woman, tela MconaciouaneM miittere la iZuf Beinbardt doee aot ender. irHheAHiter apparently doee, later buiif hit frlendt the girl la South uTHtaitt and her muttertn tu . .L . u.4 Innotl. Ha tu noted a Miliar tattoo mark oa her arm. The iwen the murdered New Zealander and the ClrL . CHAPTER Ill-Contlnued. -TEHory has a TteyT TIeTeforted liiten-" , Ko, that was not Mallory. It ill ot anybody trying to get In, for ome v. y.A Irendv aneceeded aomev mmm 'J tody who was already making his way, with iwift, almost Incredibly stealthy 'ttepa, up the stairs from the second 'toor to the room where we were sit- (tbtf. ,:- 1 Wi drew back Into an obscure cor-aer cor-aer and stood close together, half-Joooehlng, half-Joooehlng, eyeing the door. , t I Presently we saw It opening. "And a there emerged from Its shadow 'Sum w both knew a face neither of Si Ii ever likely to forget The eyes n that face we had never.' seen be-im, be-im, tat they had been closed the last aw we looked at It Now they were iboot ail we could ee. The black 3tlr ktt Itself In the shadow which 'metoped the doorway, and the olive-Wn olive-Wn akin was Itself a Shadow, Pat 2 ejes-Hhey burned with the flam- peen Intensity of s leopard's. Tbt doctor and I shrank back Into corner and waited, breathlessly. M what she would do. The. first pi was curious, and tittle to be ex-perted. ex-perted. She closed behind her the door V which she had entered. Then, with Mil certainty, but with po noise at he moved toward the desk. That her a little nearer niT'TT" Shad got within arm's reach or iwlrel chair, when suddenly' like sua, all the motion of her body arretted, tier attitude bad some of the frozen alertness that one h a letter dog when he points we could see her face) better i n was turned sqnarely toward apparently, she did not see 7 That "Was natural. ' for wt'wm hv the shadow. - But she kneW irf ttere. The next moment I rwr. "4 that she knew by Tlrtne of the ienje mat the setter uses. She caught our scent nr Httle, her nostrils dilated,-nd wmeo to be drawing In deep no eommnnd of English to f"7 suuiiPTiness and one, pedness of the thing that happened I h th,'re before as, ss L, ' "ko one frozen, so sUll p iin. And -.tin.,,, witn no prelim- tatherlng jxf the -forces for Wjg, she tlns',,.,1 across the room i'ljd the open window, HCe ( W n For js, an Instant 1 saw Pn.flle n.-Bhe "poised Tb A,,!!thPn ""ewaagone. JJJ followed l,,r to the window wwy as my ,.,,1Sy, human mo-permit, mo-permit, nnd looked down, KiV: ,,er ,yln bnl" lil,;i;.,7-cnw Instead tl"- ,!(',,tln tort of , "toward the Rate - -r 4 BXtmont !.. Tt1 u runnlns at ton Ja . . wJ5un I iad soon t... .v- J! j . "had ton a, -nil- . ther t.u.,., v arua, r . m7 rwundlng along " bones io .UCD t chi;t wCAll8ter' nv ttdS-lloryi-andM-M W . ur comlnc ,t,,- ..... bt'11" "well hart uiiwu an .,. tm.. NofintR"p',owTO'tot. .Mat. Um f-lth.,' ,an,P. und we wra Z;1 ILLiie .aid briefly, eom..- ' "k Well anAnrti -atL me cnnaa V 1 WNUSarWce TO get her saon neve? felr. "NoChTIH ttat wears skirts can outrun .me." . ' I was already half Inclined to take his advice and torn back, for the pace tripped over something and fell bead-long. bead-long. ' By the time I had picked myself np and shaken some of the loose snow oat of my sleeves, he was already a hundred yards ahead down the road. I was about spent, so, regretfully, 1 turned back. : But for one moment I passed cnrl-ously cnrl-ously to Investigate the cause or my falL ' It . had been something soft, something that gave a little) ai my foot It Was a Cloak, a Green Cloak, and the Collar Waa Cut Hloh In the jBack. . , . , ' , . struck It, and then clung. It had been entirely covered by the snow, which had fallen out here In the country to a depth of nearly six Inches. ' I scuffled around In It with my feet until I found It, Then I stooped and picked It up. It must be shawl or a blanket, I thought, as I shook the snow out of Its folds and held It out In botli hands. No, It was neither. It was a cloak; a green cloak, and the collar was cut high In the backv I cast a glahce over my shoulder, Uallory was already out of .sight In the distance. I threw the cloak over my arm and trudged back to the nous. ' ' CHAPTER IV Early the next morning Doctor Ho Allster and I took one of iha trains upon- which . the male population of Oak -Ridge habitually goes to town npon Its several and various business We had by oa- means exhausted the possibilities of discovery which stilt lay concealed, we felt sure, within that lonely old house where we had passed so strange a night ; nor had we solved Its mystery. But matters of a more Instant Importance compelled us, for a while," to abandon It . In the first plac we knew that, little as we liked the prospect, it was our clear' duty to report to Ashton whit we knew' of the mysterious, wild creature who had escaped from the hospital arid was now at large. By one means or another, she must be found as quickly as possible. She had already destroyed one life of that we were practically sure and until she was safely under restraint again, we could have no guaranty that she would not destroy others. To thwart that possibility, we must call In Ashton and the police, however little to our Uklng such a course might be. We deferred our breakfast until our arrival In town, memories ef the dinner din-ner we had had the night before making mak-ing it easy to go hungry for a while. W were later getting In than we expected ex-pected to be, for a combination of fog and freezing sleet delayed our train. Out of the car windows we could see as we crawled along, that the tele-graplvwlnts tele-graplvwlnts were already sagging under un-der their white armor of ice. As soon as we got in, we drove straight to The Meredith. - In the restaurant we found Ashton himself. Just sitting down to break-last, break-last, . Us. welcomed- us with, an cngerv ness that showed that he had already heard some report of our adventure of 'th might efprtii-''-v-"'-"'','-''' 1 was oo. the point of telephoning forjou.! lot". said, Jot.jou'Te saved the precious hour or two by coming on your own . account Mallory reported re-ported to me her at six o'clock this morning, having com all the way from Oak Ridge on foot, and without getting the slightest trace of tho mysterious mys-terious woman who Invaded the Morgan Mor-gan house last night I confess that her appearance throws a different light on Harvey's testimony. And I U'lnk 1 ' AMERICAN frORK CITIZEN WTO agree that In an probability, he Is the criminal." : . ' Tve no doubt myself," said Doctor Doc-tor McAlister, -that It was her hands that strangled old Morgan." I .; "Well,, then, she's th criminal, isn't she!" said Ashton ; and regarding the answer to this question as to obvious to be waited for h "The whole energies of the poHc and 1 oi au trie detective force connected with our office will be bent toward finding her. What I want from you from both of you, Independently Is the most complete and careful description de-scription you can give of the physical appearance of the woman who entered Henry Morgan's study last night" "lou can describe her .for -your-elf," said Doctor McAlister H rather shortly, "ion have a talent that way"' "What do you meant "Tou've seen her. lou've enjoyed a good look at her. She's th girl that Eelnhardt sent for us to see at St Michael's two nights ago. Ashton'areJIur'cTear ' amaiement first at the doctor and then at me. "You're surer he gasped. "Perfectly," said I gravely For moment he sat silent ' Then he frowned. , 'v "May I ask whether yon had any suspicion, when we saw her there at the hospital, that she might prove to have some connection with this case?" "Yes," said my chief blunayj. It's your right to ask. I did suspect con nectlon ' between ner , and th Oa k Bldge mystery. I recognised and understood un-derstood the language In which 'she was chattering to herself. It's a lan fuagi that with minor variations, is spoken In all those Islands la the South Pacific. The thing "she was singing to herself was a death chant" Ashton looked pretty gravis at that "I won't presume,? he said, "to question ques-tion your motive for your reticence with me the' other night Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly it seemed Justifiable to you. but as a result of it, a dangerous criminal Is now at large. I admit It was not s result you could have foreseen, for 1 remember your recommendation that she be closely watched, and I have no doubt that with the dew you've Just given me it won't be many hours before we find her. A strange creature crea-ture like that half-wild, chattering a language that no one can understand, cannot remain hidden very long. I can't understand, though," be went on, "the reason you gentlemen have for wishing to withhold from me your i full confidence. You havent given It to me ' yet You've dlcovered something some-thing more that bears upon this case which I haven't heard of." "We have," said the doctor, "and It was with the purpose of telling yon about It that we came back to. town, this mojrolng thatwas jarJjoJLi?S: purpose, at any rate. Do-yon remem ber the green cloak which yon so confidently con-fidently declared to be nothing but a bit -of Action, born of Wlir Harvey's puerile ' ranlty? Well, .'we've found that A green cloak, with a high collar, col-lar, Just as Harjey described it" Ashton eagerly demanded the details de-tails as to where and how the cloak was found, and these I supplied blin with. Then there was a little silence. Ills displeasure over our previous reticence j-wss suddenly swallowed up in his in terest In the revelations we made to him. "That's one to Mallory, certainly," he said at last "He was right aod I was wrong." " "How do you make that out?" 1 questioned. "Didn't I tell you that Mallory suspected sus-pected Harvey of some active connection connec-tion with the; crime, and thought that he was lying to shield himself? The discovery of the cloak makes it evident evi-dent that he was right He knew who the actual criminal was, knows now, and was undoubtedly associated with her. He probably thought to save ttlnwelf by giving us the clew that would lead to her detection. In his eagerness, he overreached himself nud told too much, told more than ho could possibly have seen, lf"hTs testimony ss to how he saw tt were true." He broke off 7 there with a short laugh. "But confess," be said, turning turn-ing to my chief, "confess that tu is discovery of Phelps puts your t!uv of associative Illusion completely oit of court Harvey testified to a -blao-k-halred woman In a green cloak, and denies that be saw more of her than her silhouette upon , the shade. We know nowthat a hlack-hnlred woman In a green cloak was actually there, from which It follows that uany lied, knew that he lied. And to have lied thus about a matter which he knew to be vital and significant, U mdst have some powerful, and probably prob-ably guilty, motive. I don't believe that you can get away from the logic of that" "Your conclusion la probable," d my chief, "but it's not Inevitable." Ashton dismissed the denial with a mere tolerant shrug, and set It down to the obstinacy of old age. "Yon brought the cloak to town with you, I suppoae," he went on presently I nodded. "Youll want it I P sume?" "Yes, he said "It may prove a val-table val-table bit Ttf lilf. 'nor tor the glrl her--self, of course, but possibly for one. of her accomplices. I'll have Hu-- y Parrested at" once. '" Surveillance-Tsnt j goo enough for him now; I want mm i in jaiLt :. t ' " i "Yon nromlsed me a chance at nur- tey after you got through with him. Do you remember V said the doctor. "I hope you dont mean to withdraw It"-- Ashton stared at him "You still think you can bent up anything In that covert?" he asked incredulously. Oh, wel Tve nobjjectlon to jour fylng ni have hm arrested at one ) nnd br.iiKin to l)lW0. Where do yod wunt hhoT At )imr laboratoryr s "Yes," said the doctor. "When may we expect him! This afternoon, some timer ... ; , - , . "Yes," said Ashton, "Not later than four o'clock." " ' ; The doctor swallowed th last of bis coffee, pushed back his chair, and ros to bis great ungainly height "Now, let'a have an understanding." said be. "I've given you, freely, all the Information you've asked for. It comprises pretty much all the Information Informa-tion you have which can b of any service to yr In the solution of th mystery of this crime. That of course, Is partly due to luck. I believe that 1 can solve that mystery by my methods. meth-ods. I believe that with your methods you wlU fall. Phelps and I are going to set about trying to find that girl for ourselves. In our own . way, ; It we find her. we will examine her In our own way; and we shaVt tell yon "Wththf abounrinai"onr tovestiga-' tlon is complete." Ashton smiled."- "Of ' course yon know," said he, "that yon ar proposing propos-ing something that under my oath of office, I can't permit . If yon find that girl I don't think It very likely that you will, tout If you "do," t shall b obliged to take her away from yon and put ner to ! kplng. And th methods m use to determine her guilt or innocence will be toy methods, aid not yours.". - :.";7, - . The doctoj laughed; "That's understood," under-stood," he said. .."You're welcome to take her wherever you can find her, In my laboratary. c anywhere elseiJ tf you ffont find her " "That's -thin ice, Doctor McAlister" Ashton Interrupted earnestly. - "If yon proceed With that express determination determina-tion of yours, I may find It necessary, little as I'd ilk toi to have you watched, as persons suspected of conv poundlng a felony." "All right" said th doctor. "That's understood. Watch away all you like. But you'll still let me have a chance at Harvey r Ashton shrugged his shoulders with a vexation that was half-genuine, half-simulated. half-simulated. "Yon don't deserve it" he said, "but Tve made a promise and I'll stick to it" . CHAPTER V I fully expected, that after the grin- ing he had received at th hands of the district attorney, Harvey would prove a recalcitrant and reluctant sub ject for the tests we wished to try upon him. He was nervous It is true; and it took a good deal of reassuring of the most tactful soft, on Doctor McAllsters part to get him quieted downlnto anything Jlkeanormal, eutavot mind; but he was perfectly willing. .;Hls first sight of the queer, mysterious-looking instruments which our big room contained did nothing to counteract coun-teract that fear. To the eye of Ignorance Ignor-ance It must look like a torture chamber cham-ber from the Inquisition, brought down to date. My chief spent th better part of an hour taking the young man around and explaining - the different instruments instru-ments to him, and it was not long be-tor be-tor young Harvey began to show sn Inclination to test himself by every electricalnd mechanical piece of apparatus' ap-paratus' in the laboratory. He had forgotten for-gotten the Oak Ridge mystery, forgotten for-gotten Ashton, forgotten his recent arrest ar-rest forgotten, even, the detective who was wsJUnfta Jhecorrldor outside. He was ready at last for our real xperlmen t Nothing about ; Docto? McAlister's .' manner suggested ...that there was, any difference, from our point of view, between - th -amusing things we had been doing and the test which hejowjroposed. "Pm going to see how quickly you can think," he said. "You're to sit -down--tn-this Thalr, and Mr. Phelps here will read you a list of words. Th Instant he reads a word, yon are to say, aloud, the word it makes yon think of say It Just as quickly as you can. You've shown an unusually quick reaction time so far, but this is a bet-' ter test than any of them. We hang np a pair of little telephones, so one in front' of you and One in front of Mr. Phelps. The moment he speaks a word it makes a little mark on that, revolving re-volving cylinder. The moment you speak, a second mark ts made. The cylinder turns- rolrad H the-while, and the distance between-the'twd marks shows how quickly or how slowly you think.". j - I ran my eye down the list which my 1 chief had prepared, with a good deal J of care, while we were waiting for i them to bring Harvey to the laboratory. labora-tory. The first twelve words were what j we "call central, that Is, they had no ! connection, so far as we know, with the crime, the mystery or the Inquest In telling ns his association with them, which he would probably do freelg enough, our subject would establish his normal speed In this sort of mental men-tal operation. But the thirteenth word was Loops and th fourteenth was Pipe.' Th associations as-sociations he should announce .with those two words and the time he should , take . in pronouncing them would go far toward establishing conviction In the doctor's mind and In mln as to whether Harvey had guilty knowledge of th means which had been employed for th old man's murder. mur-der. If he had such guilty knowledge, If be had seen that ghastly tourniquet made, and twisted It taut himself, or had witnessed the operation, those two simple little words would almost Infallibly In-fallibly ' recall It Th words : that would flash Into his mind might be violin, perhaps, or ' throat or even, possibly, th plain black word murder. It aom . such word as that jam : ' ' u ' K B VBv jm MT .m. . ' LOST 7-month-oId Ournsey heifer. Branded J. W. Notify Citizen office. For Sale Good, young milk cow. Cheap. Tel. 28, American Fork. -., FOR 8ALE660 Comb. Honey Supers. 'Phone 6W5, American Fork. 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Telephone 93 American Fork damaging, suggestlv word, should flash into his mind, one of two things would happen, lie would either say it aloud, or he would stop himself from saying It and deliberately think up another, an-other, word which, to our ears, could Jiavt no sinister giftecv BnM hat latter course of action would betray him as certainly ss the other, for thought takes time, and. the fact that he had been obliged to stop to think would be remorselessly nd exactly shown In the chronograph. With a feeling of excitement which I found It hard to conceal, I began reading those first twelve neutral words. His answers cam with flash-like flash-like rapidity. He was a good subject and he had entered fully into the spirit spir-it of the. test r To ray ear the interval between my word and his was about half a second. When I saw the record afterward, I found that It averaged a little less than that about four-tenths. four-tenths. The word Pen brought th obvious association, Ink. Snow called ; up Shovel; and . Song, Theater. The twelfth word, Sign, called np the curious curi-ous association, Woodland, which was to prove of Interest and significance to us before th day was out But I had no time to think about tt then. ' Without varying the Interval, without with-out varying the tone of my voice, or raising my eyes from the list I held in my hand, . I pronounced the thlr-rtwrrthordTLoops: thlr-rtwrrthordTLoops: " - The answer came like a flash, and tt was Automobile. I glanced np as he said it snd caught afalnt smile of reminiscence on his Hps. Loops in his mind were things to be looped, and the circus billboards supplied the as sociation" with" automobile. Th next word Pipe, brought the simple association, asso-ciation, Tobacco. To my mind his unT hesitating utterance of that word was ss good s demonstration of his Innocence Inno-cence of the crime Itself as n completely com-pletely established alibi would7 have But wr were" only at the beginning of our erperiment Neither th doctor doc-tor nor I believed him guilty; W both believed that hidden in some corner ef that mind of his. was a ptece of unsuspected knowledge which would give us the key with which to unlock the heart of the mystery, Three or four numbers down the list came another wordrMap, which might have drawn a significant reply. Tb Instantaneous association which It brought up, however, was. Europe. After that came a succession of words, straight Inventories of articles to be found In various rooms In the Morgan house, but they all drew blank, Never once was there s moment's hesitation. hesi-tation. .. 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Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the ' undersigned at his office In Pleasant Grove, Utah, on or beforethjlst2day.or..September 1927. . ;. .' ' ' ' - , J. O. CLARK, Administrator. MARTIN M. LARSON, Attorney for Administrator. First Publication July 2, 1927. Last Publication July 23, 1927. DELINQUENT NOTICE -Th West Mountain Development - Company, , . . .. -Principal place of business American Fork, Utah. - Notice There are delinquent upon the .-following described stock, on account ac-count of assessment No. (, levied on thn 11th dar at Ma v. 1927. tha aaversJ amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as fol io ws: . . Cert. No. 6 7 ' 9 Name . Arthur King ' C. T. Jones . Thomas Jones J. R. Walker E. J. Wild . E. J Wild E. J. Wild C T Jones . Snares 1,000 6.000 9,000 . 80,000 ' 20,000 7,000 Amt I 1.60 . 9.00 mo 120.00 " 80.00 10.60 10 11 13 15 it' 83,000 15.000 49.60 21.50 23 Leonard WUd 350.:.J53..-. And in accordance with the law. land an order of the board of directoraJ. made on the 11th day of May, A. D. 1927, so many shares of each, panel .of stock as' may he necessary will be sold at public auction, at the office of the company, ' American - Fork, Utah,. on- th 1st day of August AVD. 1927, at 2 o'clock P. M, to pay the delln-( quent assessment - thereon, ' - together with, the cost of advertising and ex pense of the sale. - , 4 . . EDWARD B. JOXES, 'Secretary Went "Mountain Develop-jient Develop-jient Cr' American ForkUtah, First Publication July 2, 1927. 2 Last" PubUcatlon "July 9," '1927r"f" ASSESSMENT .K0TICX . Paciflo Gold Mining and. Milling: Company Principal Place of Business' American Fork, Utah- '- Notice is hereby given that 1 a , meeting of th Board of Directors of tho Paflc aoid Mining and Milling , Company, held on th 28th day . of June, 1927, an assessment (No. IS) , of onehalf cent per ahar waa levied J on the outstanding capital stock of th corporation payable Immediately to th secretary at his offio at American Ameri-can FOTkUtah. . " . ; " Any stock npon which this assessment assess-ment may remain unpaid oa Saturday, July 30th, 1927, will he delinquent and advertised for aal at public auc tlon, and unless payment la mad be tor will be sold on Tuesday. August 23rd, 1927, at 2:00 o'clock p. m, to paylhff dellnquniiassaasmnt,--- together to-gether with th. cost of advertising and expense of sal. ILL.-.'-L.,-I.I J. B. PARKER, Secretary. Frst PubUcatlon July 1, 1927 - - Ust Puhlicatlosk July 23,-1927.- ASSESSMENT KOTICB -WHIRLWIND CONSOLIDATED MTN. ING COMPANY. PRINCIPAL PLACE ' OF BUSINESS, AMERICAN FORK, UTAH. Notie Is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors of th Whirlwind Consolidated Mining Company held on th 9th day of June, 1927, an assessment (No. 16) of cent per share (fiv dollars per thous- and. shares)! was levied on tb out. standing capital stock of the corporation corpora-tion payable Immediately to th seer, tary at his., office . at Jkmerioaa flork, Utah. . ; ;-j , Any stock apon whicn this aases- , ment may remain unpaid on Tuesday, July 12. 1927, will b delinquent and advertised for sal at publio auction, and unless payment it mad before -will be sold on Tuesday, August 2," 1927. at 1:00 o'clock p, m. to pay the delinquent assessment thereon . together to-gether with the cost of advertUlng and xpens of sal. " , 7 - J. B.' PARKER, Secretary, ' Ajmerloan Fork, UUhl First PubltcaUon June 1L 1227. |
