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Show I f The 1 By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART fflUSsr SYNOPSIS clerical Job. It will be a long time uciuib i ara independent Before be could marrv. . he meant And again I thought of ...jr euuownment rund for lovers There are so manj funds fm Ing human life, and so few to make u worm tlie preservinst. Rm I .,,,,., talk to Edit- - It Is no use the boy more unhappy than hemaking Is. or breaking ' down the restraints he Is on hlmselt cieanyI..- -. putting . i '.-iwo years in the war," he said. "That threw me back, you see." i oare say 4t was not Iosl- "No." he agreed. "1 suppose a man must gain something by a thing like "iai, ii lie survives." From that to the stories about tin main houre. and to Thomas' reclml this, morning, was not a ung step, nor from that to the historv of the house Itself and to Mrs. Klaus. "Some night, sir." he suggested, you ana i niignt go up there ami try ruh bing the thing; see If we can evoke ." the genu, About8:3(l. tonight 1 took Jock and walked to Nylle's farm, where the sheep had been killed. I found the Meld, and wandered Idly In. To my surprise, a man with a shotgun rose from a fence corner and confronted me, and Jock's hair rose as be pr pared to spring. . "What do you want here?" be demanded, suspiciously. "Oo easy with that gun," 1 sunt 'My name's Porter, and I'm out for a si roll. That's all." He apologized gruffly, while I beid Jock by the collar, and even condescended to point out where the deao sheep had been found, but there was certainly no cordiality In his manner and even a trace of hostility July 1. More sheep were killed last night The Livings-tonehave Iosl a dozen ol their blooded stock, and several farm ers have suffered. In each case the method Is the same; the sheep are neatly stabbed in the Jugular vein and then as neatu-.- t the Pventf as iet tory the Journal of William Porter, professor of English ...... mi re: ancle, Horac tm professor'at hi died mysteriously p.rur now the Twin Hollows, horn. Jane, the mfessor's propel ijr. wife,J is a psychic. ....She A A f...r Unci norntc, ucou iui had attended his class re Inilsti '.,.1 nd nroduces a snapshot to Professor Ltrt her contention or psychical Starch. Inclines to the idea ol Sic photography. With thelitr Sltce Edith, the Porters go Twin' Hollows for their vacation, A let-,isspiie Jane's reluctance. Horace had been writing at he time of his death shows that Mwas interested In spiritualism A "red lamp" H hints of danger. .mentioned. Tbey take up their because residence in the lodge, house of Jane's aversion to the Be of tt p, lose tt that t tanks; it In Interested Smeron. durii I consQif (Continued.) 5,rr took hlmselt away a that, but before be very soon left be ex wed a glance with Thomas, and tliat something lay De- sad a feeling It was not id this morning visit it out. Thomas before brought ij jwiears that Nyne ran arrer trie tig It to the edge of the wood, and (fe st(Mir) hesitating. The woods, tlie of the :lier. share in And as he stood there, al the bouse was .,!ijb everyone knew he distinctly saw the evil glow ihe red lamp from it I dare say Jane Is right, and my but I of humor Is perverted, resist the opportunity of ill) out i:in Thomas. In which I realize made a tactical error. 1 'Bmlljr I said. "Nylit was eer- t oist that, was he?' M :u as plain as I see you," said "1 know ynu don't believe it "San wit n her on, t poi i can What Hhout do believe you. lamp?" 'Ml." he Siiid. "it's I Bai ml e alxmt these Hint neaithy well pretty parts that that Some suv one some say another, but mo ts is agreed on that. "Still. I don t see how It could kill do you?" M even now 1 do not distinctly to nuuiectlon. I Imagine the Io- ' Wiff is that the lamp exerts mali'ii influence, possibly even " liberates some sinister spirit i. I Imagine, that this Is ever Dut ii mid w it ralla lOOUt purp 1)6 pi Is ii St tt rds. The nearest they come 'w Is the statement that the lamp w "healthy." and that "George' keep at bet cume ' fa ly back. il least that Is all that 1 can make of that strange mixture of hysteria. wsiitioiis fears and local pres; r Coo r nt mishaps Mich tita Thomas gave birth In the oiinilles or sn It he'nn ten "it ' Annie Cochran In lamp came, and 'hi into the country-side- : the house aft gradually ex cows had terti.usly and prematurely calved; meteorite had downed Into-field rirl'j; a fisherman's boat had been foe to noi Is !i I'm enintv 10 In vi 11 ill :hro: - iber dur: spirit. me! " illp m of : mi a sin. jiaj owner never seen again! .ii. pesnit.ra.e ,,aA deilth nHd ,1- tt community, equaled only In r h the last few months of nip,- ,. .... nnus . y in me "ie tradition,i,j,n wna flint lira tftfi'ii lIsed h red lamp to call her par- - "I otM M """ r'- is " V' " 'said this there's some -niutin ,llle "!,' "Him i,se slievp?" saying tlnii either H IIIHD. ,irt w.mhIs r..i ' think WIN. "lese H I rh.-miis- you come killi-- tH sain naiiie, large he gave hack?' n'" taying that." he said """al J J' fliis. that has I of rill Hnd by trouble." leslr o ins ni ii.- "'a' - lt WOIImll Hut Cllllil would have gone nigin before hist - i had tiotie fur eiiuu:h """'fi-deto the light- " l:i,P Hintexplain IliKht liut Ml I nw t)e heiieved me wi'Migh it did not f..r a mo "" his Htlltiide toward tlie I iit , t "ml,t'', " fiict.' I con ihlnk Mrn. Curler Miiiall ""in .Nyile chased, looklnit In ,M, tfttl I " panirj wlii...w" J, ,'L""1 D ' i 09 ii bwn 'ae M Till. .,.. n.- "111 ' - -iiniuj. '(Jeorjie .... all ......L.l - 'avfri ii, u IN'"IU HI I III- - HUM II ,'lillu arrlveil tixlav. In Im.Ih iinrii8. nrnRen wittj a ' inisk eniotlou wbeu he aw Ij n . 1:iirtern. ''H " (birtied ir.uni .,i v., n nil although the words were "", ,, "'-'- J "'e wotni-- left we a! on the terufi.iu ... ,. ... . which summons i n tjii., "ii three sides, ami smoked ' tl! IIK hi. i ... . "ciimsinnces ; ne nas juj, . i. ' 0r. I'm -- J ti, "i ... " .i.... .i. uiii iu iioiHU etioiit'ii S;ttl..i. -- . . ,..nioorjf .in win ruke unotber year "' """ rlme r,e n to hflV pl,r,n,-rsli'in a law nrra In P """w whut that means, at ,a,l. -- A sort of aubllmatal a book on Black Magic somewhere or other, and bad as promptly forgotten save for one or two catch phrases and that Infernal symbol of a triangle tn a circle; how I had foolishly r peated them to a group of women, and now seemed likely never to heat the last of it "As I gather, the Lear woman has spread It all over town," I sulci. "She it dabbles In spiritualism, or something, and It seems to have appealed ho hei Imagination." "It has certainly appealed to some body's Imagination." he said. "That's the mark our friend the sheep killei ha? been leaving." lie was very cordial as he picked up his hat and prepared to depa-- t He wac sorry to have had to trouble me; nice little place I had there. He understood was fighting shy ot the other house. He would do the same ming; he didn't believe In ghosts, but he was afraid of them. And so nut onto the drive, leaving me with a full and firm convictlou that he suspects me of killing some 1 s laid out In a row. We are buying no mutton from the local butcher! I assured Thomas, this morning that I had not lighted tlie red lamp again, but he did not smile, lie Is quite ca pahle of believing, I dare say, that I have summoned a demon I cannot ly A Small, Cabalistic Drawn control. But he tells me that a county de tective from town, sent by the sheriff, Is coming out to look into the matter. And there is a certain relief In this It seems to me that we have to do with some' form of religious mania. symbolistic in its manifestation. The sheep is the ancient sacrifice ol many faiths. Tliis belief Is strengthened by Thorn as' statement that In each case save Ihe first one there bas been left od a nearby rock or. In one Instance. n fence, a small cabalistic design roughly drawn In chalk. Eight p. m. I feel like a man who has dreamed of some horrible or gro tesque figure, and wakes to find It perched on his bed bost The detective sent by Benchley. the sheriff, has Just been here, a man liull named Greenongli. a heavy-se- t vldual with a pleasant enough man l i LI.. (I nruum aamnanie smue. net and a considerable conceals he which amount of shrewdness. He had. of course, dithered togeth er the local superstitions, and lie ww. inclined to be facetious cojiceniliu my ownership of ihe red lamp. But to wns serious enough about the bulnes hat hud brought him. n'e "It's probably psychopathic,' i aid. "and the psychopath Is a Individual to let loose in atr column iiity. especially when lies got a knife M own suggestion ot Minion ma ilia seemed to Interest him "It he said 'It's possible." .. .. 11. !....,... ...I wm mi. me in j lueel nine IVople seem ready to do anymina think anythliiM u escape reality And from that io delusional insaiiilj Iso ' far N"W I'll ask you sonn tbina I ijd vou evel heal ol a circle, will' m triangle Inside it?" . vt I Had i siippose I started uiid iillck iliipressl. li thai nls eyes were ... . ...I.... ,.ui.i,..i mi me. snrewiiij Bui Ihe next liioliienl be bis tlas."es bad reached Into bis pocket and Irawii out a pencil and u envelope Like this, be said. Miid drawing tbe nifeiiuil sytub'tl slowly and palnsmk me nt'ly. held It out To !"iie my life I could noi Kei the envelope visibly my hand nls eve on . piivered Mini I U llieiill Heal ol n I i What do came to me im it And then asked lenlv Hint that ridiculous Mateinenl of mine bad somehow iM to tbe fel rows ears. ind that he was quietly I said, and hoaxing me "Jood Lord!' So you've happened on thai .tihiiiic groaned too r So you know eometliliig about II T be said quietly, and leaned forward Now. do you mind tellinn me "'"" you know?' lie had not been hoaxing me. mere In his imm uhm curious significance ner. In tlie way he was looking al I told m hip. and It persisted while absurd story. Told It badly I re.iMf aod haltingly; that I had picked ut Design Roughly In Chalk. forty odd sheep in the last few nights, probably In the celehration of some Black Mass of my own psychopathic devising. July 2. has rented the bouse. I made a telephone message from him the excuse to go to town this morning. Mr. Bethel, the prospective tenant was not present but bis secretary was, a thin boy with a bad skin and with his hair pomaded until It looks as though It is painted on his head. He smoked one cigarette after another as we talked. If tomorrow is fair. Mr Bethel will motor out and look over the property It appears that he Is In feeble health If It Is not, Oordon; the secretary, will come alone. It develops that tbe boy Is a local product. Hiid not one to be particularly proud ot Mr Bethel comes from the West; Cameron note to l.iirkln merely in troduced him. hut assumed no re Larkin !.ponsibilil.V thinks be As. however, be offe Ihe rent In advance, the matter ol ref erctne becomes, as lirkin "ays. an detail. imlinpoi-tiiii- l I ue the liiipwsioii from the vc retary thai the old mini Is wrltltiii a hook, and wishes to be undisturbed mid II his choice of a secretary fairlj -- him b will be. From Laikin I learned that be bait beaid o Hie circle in a triangle from I led nit Lent herself at a dilinel la hie. and Ibal he bas no den that It Is He regards the usi-o- f at all widespread It by Hie sheep killei as purel coincidence wblcb trenlly cheers me Nevertheless I went In the Lear Helena bus Mitrevii mid lunched there I io spread Nlie lliiiia "" tunliei and came away wild a ureal sense o re liel. Into tbe bma.iiii. I.eai lells tin-- I hut Cameron. Hftel sluil.vliia Ihe pbo digraph I sent him Is Inclined to ihlnk It Is the result f a double ex here, and I walked buck with him He tells me that on bis first night In the boat house, be saw a light moving over the salt marsh, about three hundred feet away. At first he thought It was some one on the way to the beach, wltb a flash light or a lantern, and he watched with some curiosity. Earlier In the evening he had himself walked along the edge ot the swamp and decided it was not passable. . But half way through the marsh the light stopped and then dlsapieared "1 decided the chap, whoever It was. wa? In trouble." he said, "so I called to hlin. But there was no answer and the light didn't appear again." "Marsh gas. probably." I explained "Methane. C H., of course." "Marsh gas burns with a thin blue flame, doesn't it? This was a small light, rather white. I waited an hour or so, but If didn't show again." ' 1 have, since my return, looked up tlie book on the Oakvilie phenomena which I discovered on the desk of the main house. It la not significant, but It is interesting, to find that Mrs. Klggs produced fleeting lights, sometimes of a bluish-green- , from the cabinet, again a sparkling point which generally localized Itself near her head. But I cannot find any record of a light persisting for any length of time, or following a definite course July 3. The house Is rented. As It rained this morning, the secretary came alone, and seemed very well satisfied. But at the last moment my conscience begun to worry me? and perhaps too, for none of our motives are unmixed, I was afraid he suspected something.- - He made some observation about the rent being low for a property of that size, and glanced al me as he said it, s I plunged. "1 think I'd better be honest with you, even if tt costs me money," I said. "The house is cheap because If well, it Isn't an easy house to rent." "Too lonely, eh?" 'Tartly that, and partly because a portion of the house Is very old, and there have been some stories about it circulating In the neighbor hood for years." "Ghost stories?" "You can call them that 1 don't believe anyone claims to have seen anything. The reports are mostly of raps and various noises." lie seemed to take a peculiar, almost a furtive, enjoyment out of my statement my confession, rather. "Hot dog!" he said. "Well, raps won't bother me, and Mr. Bethel's got a deaf ear; he can turn that up at night if they worry him." So the house Is rented, unless something unexpected turns up, and I have done my part But I coufess to an extreme distaste for the sec retary and Edith may find herself with a small problem on bet hauds For Just before we left he spied bet on the float and gave her a careful Inspection. "That looks pretty good to me,'' he fidd. And although his gesture em braced the water front bis eyes were on bet. I have arranged with Annie Cocli rr'j. following Cordial's query almul a servant, to resume Iter old positioi, hi the main house. She refuses to re iniiiii after dark bul I presume Hits will be satisfactory She will also commence tomorrow to koi the hoiise In readiness With that slrnnge rwiMliesb Willi which news travels lu the country already the word lias u'Uie out Hail the p'ai Is reined, nnd I lay to iliai n oui sudden popularity this alien werv Killed ib No more sheep bin-pnight I understand liievhouch guards on all ihe nearby, tlocks i:iid advised outlying farms to do the same H ina Magale Morrison told us thin iiiorliilia Mint they were doing ll dut In I tfatliered ti Unit dearled limn Slosl ot llierj ifiieir nmi. tier Ills very natuie. the maraiidei Is Im pervious to shot mid shell tine curious ihlng however line bo slopped been brought, In by Stan. In a iiiead.-tm bis way past today not fat from the Livingstone plan two lare stones, which had lain there for years, have been moved logeiliei and rtood on theli edes. and n rial slab ! rock mid across iiiein On top of this, when It was found lder. lay a small heap ot fine sand ! course Mini pen Hie cab flcure. is an altar, erected by the same an balanced inibd which ban lw en klllln. the slieip 'Bul no oiTerina has ve ftif n laid on U 'be etvuliu llalitd.it Cwp B. Dana Conpuf si i arrive was Doctor Hay-warnervous and Jerky, fiddling with bis collar, and when for a moment NURSES know, and doctors havo excluded from tbe talk, gnawing abdeclared there's nothing quite like stractedly at his finger ends. He hlmselt mostly to Jane-th- ere Bayer Aspirin for all sorts of aches and pains, but be sure it if genuino is a ceitalu type of medical man who wins bis way into families Bayer; that name must be on the Is more and favor ol package, and on every tablet. Bayer the women, by is genuine, and the word genuine in ot his ease with them than with its red is on every box. You can't go uieu folk aud only beat a circuitous wrong ii you will just look at the !jx: route to the subject uppermost In his mind, which clearly was that an elderly invalid had taken Twin Hollows and would probably require a physician. In the course ot this roundabout talk, however, 1 came finally to the conclusion tnat like the detective, he was watching me. And, as had huppeued wltb Greenough, I became Once I menabsurdly tioned the matter of the eheep, but be rather dexterously sidestepped It and o.j. fratl mark of finally brought the talk around to the lt.n,.I.M I am con But of the bouse. ef Monoaceticaclcleiter of Baltcylleaeia renting him fident that Greenough has been to Kmiu'lia. Join Ortiftniil, Nationally Chartered. la about me, and has asked him to give StroiiKiwt "Protestant Woman's Ordr" by Women. Write SaDle O. him an opinion on my mental balance. World. Controlled 1600-Ala. 12th Ct., Birmingham, Cooper, I was on guard after that ; deterNECKYVKAR: Nw Selling Method. mined to exhibit myself In my most MEN'S Mun or Women. Snappy Stylea. Now Iei'lsn rational manner. But there Is some- W'peklv. Popular prices. BlK pronla. WKS. NKV1N, (21 Federal St., Pittsburgh, Pa. thing upsetting In the mere .thought InIs that one's sanity being brought WHAT IS fllRISTIANITTf to question. Our Chart From Adam to Christ Anwer This Question. Why mo many DunomlnallonaT tlnyward left finally, when the Liv- Our Chart God'i Cartoons of Wordly Nations Answers this Great QueRtlon. Who is th ingstones arrived. Man of Rot. 13:18? What will take place "You mast take good care of this when (60 His Power takes the President Chalrt fine husband of yours, Mrs. Porter," Tlust) and Every Seemingly Impossible Quea-tio- n Answei-efrom the Bible. No Creed; he said, holding her hand In the paJust Hible Truth your Child can Understand. J. Charts and OiiMes, ternal fashion of his type. "He's probTHE niHI.E CHART COMPANY ably been overdoing it a bit" Tlie noi Sta. A - - I.or Angeles, Calif. AGENTS WANTKD result of which Is that Jane herself has taken to watching me quietly, and that she suggested this evening that I take a cours of bromide for my Use Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh nerves. Irritated at Haywurd as 1 was, and Money back for lint bottle It not salted. All de&leri. annoyed at myself, I saw him to his car, and asked hirn the question which Placed has been In the back of my mind ever Special Duty cn Last H omecomer since I found ihe letter In the library desk. Governor Gore of West Virginia "By the way," I said, "you knew my was talking at a Charleston luncheon Uncle Horace pretty well. Better about oil troubles. than I did, in recent years. - Did he "Strong measures are needed," he have many friends 1 mean, locully?" said, "to save our oil reserves. Yes, we must cut to the root of the evil He stratghteaed bis tie with a Jerk "He had no intimates at all, so far not Just resort to expedients, like the as I know. I knew him as' well as paterfamilias. "A- paterfamilias with a large famanybody. He rather liked Mrs. Liv ily of daughters said to a friend one Ingstone. but he had no use for Liv Irigstone hlmselt" ,. day: "Well. I'll change the question. Do "'With nil these daughters of mine you know of any quarrel he hnd had. coming in at all hours my night's rest Is naturally much broken up, and for shortly before he died?" "That's easier, lie quarreled with some time the consequence was that ou a good many people. I Imagine I'd oversleep myself every morning know that as well as I do." and be lale for work at tlie ofllce. Bad "He never mentioned to you that he business.' bad had a definite difference of opin "The paterfamilias looked gloomy, Ion with anyone?" then he brightened up. "'But I've hit an u splendid expediLooking back tonight ovei that con ent now,' he said. 'I've made If a versatlon. I am Inclined to think that hard and fast rule thut the last girl he had an answer for that question and that he almost tave it But be In culls me on her way to bed.'" changed his mind. "I'd like to know why yon ask me New Screen Methods that." he raid. As a substitute for glass riereoptl-co- u "He bad never talked to you about slides, film strips may uow be calling on the police, in some emer shown on a screen from a flashlight uency?" projector and this method has been "Never. 1 see what you're driving made simpler still by a camera which at. I'orter." he added. "I admit. I enables tlie operator to tnuke his own hud some thought of that myself at negative rolls, says Popular Mechanthe time But the autopsy showed the ics Magazine. A length of the dim cause ol death ail right. He wasn't which will give as many pictures as murdered. " would 3(J pounds of gluss slides weighs "The blow on tbe head had nothing hardly au ounce. The rolls can be io do with It then?" printed directly on positive film for He glancvd tit me quickly. use in the projector. With this outfit, "If it was m blow." be said, "it didn i travelers may have a convenient recbelp matters any of course. But I ord of their trip to show their friends prefei to think that the head Injury and the apparatus is especially servwas received as he fell.' lie hesltat iceable to lecturers, etc. ed. "Iiont you?" ' "Naturally." I i'reed. The first to To Gcola'Biirn ' Farmers' ITO BE CONTINUED.) There ure now at least lii.HOU farmers' associations In the United Slates, with a membership of over 2.000.)KI farmers, doing a business Hmountina to In 1!)lf, ihere were only 5,424 associations engaged in buying farm supplies nnd selling farm products. Where Ccurlship h Privilege of Women I IMisure Copyright by .Vol "l.iV does tlie I'lnini uiaiileli Milne but propo:-ii- l Hi n IimIoi lilini uiiikii the Willi net, also lies the Moreover wnen It does "Iten ihe wife rendu l lie home the chll "I Ihe propert dreli. ami Kven more tavoied Is the tflrl ol Iriln-ol As i he "maternal kinship' mil She promises iii.il. II be accepts, ihe marriage lakes plm- - and the biisbiind must I ben come and live with her people And the wife limy divorce Bj tier husband when she plensi-she doing, indeed she Kiiilis much not only keeps the cliildri'li mid hel own pliqieriy. hut all hel div:eel liushiiinl" proeM) us well If a bus band divorces his wife bp nnisi still im ihi urreiidor his entire pMi-Hlilldren to her The maiden of Honda I'orjas in ili'tiiilive lor divorce. which llvon-- oiie-thlr- s miiitberu India resorts to a severe tesi when selecting a hiishnnd The chosen iiinn has to m company her Into the Jun L'le, where she 'applies fire to his bar inn k It the pain draws u yell from hlin. be Is contemptuously rejected She takes him for husband only If he suffers In silence. In Borneo. ainotiK (Ne Kalablt peo pies. It Is always the tflrl who con ducts the courtship. From the t.'on tirietital Kditlon of the Ixindon Dnlh Mail , s ti World's "Mother Tongue" Littln Is Hie li'lig'iaye culled tbe rid Ihe civilized ..ther tongue licording to an answered iiestiMii berty. No Silent Wish "lain"." ' ,, i i sijs milium lire more poni!:if em. so t pcak.--Fa- rm pni.'e ivitl r'o,l;s aud Fire ' ' Successful Only in West Die Knllsh walnut originated u outhwesierii Asia and bas been undei luipoi-fai.- t cultivation In the United States since Knt. If Is successful only In tlie fai aeRtern states, mainly In I'lillfortiia. Oregon ami southwestern The principal center it Washington iround Los Angeles In southern Call helm fortila. I'lHiitliiu. Is increased In central California, north western Oregon and conilguous ter rlfory north of 1'ortlnnd. If should b. jrrown under 2,hk fet of altitude The climate requirements are model ate bul uniform temperatures, consld eruhle moisture. Hnd freedom from rad leal drops In temperature, con-t;in- ily Even if some tnings refuse to go your way, there are other things. An impossibility She "I nm very sorry but you must forget me." He "Impossible I You see I'm a memory expert." Work Is i fKrting a piine tn play. If one has blood. I If you seldom express your opinion, people will ask for It. ALLEY'S lfGOTEASE Ftopa the pain of Corns and Bunions nnd you can waIIt r.ll (lav In Mii And comfort. Motblng u'ves isucb relief to hot, tired. achlnc. Inflamed or swol-feet, blister", or cal luses, A llttla sprinkled in eaoh shoe In tbe momlna; will roiticeyou lorgvtabont tight shoes. It take th friction from tlie gtxio, use It for Dunclnir and to Break In New Phocs. For Fr amt'l and a rVnUKas Walking Poll, ldre Lc Hoy, N. Y. ALLEN'S In Pinch, I'm Allen's Foot Fju l v ln FO&I-EAS- FOOT-EAS- HABVKSTFR KICIt MAN'S CORN Poi.r limn s fr,e Onlr I2A with bundle lin attachment; sold In eteiy stat r'me catalog !liiwlng picture of barretter Pm rest Co. Saljaa Kansas W. N. U, Sa't Lak City, No. 28. |