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Show I I BEAVER PRESS Unc t. i Li a fur-line- d coat iMMM Urnsk. tall Anson was In the closet. Slumped in a little heap. She was cold to my touch. I did not scream. It seemed to me as If I could never make any sound again, but I did, over my shoulder, to the people crowding now In back of me. "She's dead," I got out huskily "Anson's dead." "mzv--zw- m. IX Continued 9 It seemed ages before the return of that Jury. They came at last, across the filing stately hall. The dining-roofell silent before their appearance, and even the turbulent hall whs hushed as the foreman stepped forward and begun reading from a paper. In a very formal voice he Intoned, "We, the Jury, find that the deceased, Nora Ilarrlden, came to her death on the thirteenth of October, nineteen thirty-three- , between eight and P. M. through shock and hemorrhage, caused by being hit on the head by n sharp Instrument held In the hand of person or persons unknown." That was nil. No names. No recommendation of holding any one to the grand jury. Then Donaluy rose. The rustlings that had begun In the room ceased abruptly, so did the Jubilation In my heart. For he said, "You have heard the finding of the coroner's jury. That Jury Is now dismissed. This case will remain in the hands of the Inspector of police until fur ther evidence warrants calling In the district attorney of Queen's county. Pending Investigation nn witnesses wHl be allowed, without permission to leave the premises.' nine-thirt- CHAPTER X ., 8 1 cried sharply, "It's the diamond! and Ilarrlden pushed forward. We were all pushing forward Through the confusion Deck's voice came, sharp with anger. "I tell you I only picked the thing up again few minutes ago I left It about this morning." I had reached Mitchell now. "Oh that's true don't you remember he asked you for a cigarette this morn ing?" I gasped. "Oh, do get in to them and tell them sol" "Steady now," Mitchell was mnr He put his hand over muring. mine as It gripped his arm. Ilarrlden's voice dominated the confusion. He stood over Deck like a madman; he looked as if it was all he could do to keep his hands off him. "Nora's diamond!" he hurled at him. "The big pendant that was worth the lot So you hid it out eh? You dirty thief! You dirty killer! P,y God, we've got you we ve got you now !" And then Donahey, trying to make himself heard, "Mr. Ilarrlden please " There was no stopping Ilarrlden All the hatred that had been work ing In the man, all the festering suspicion seething In him since Elkins' report of Deck's threaten Ing words came out now, lfke pent up gall. "You hound! Yoi skunk! Chns Ing after my wife, making her life miserable with your Importunities Entreating her to be 'compassion ate to take pity on your 'love sick soul'! Soul!" He spat out a vile word. "Begging to drown yourself in her eyes! . . . You'll be drowned In quicklime before I'm through with you!" And Deck, very straight and stiff. loure crazy, ilarrlden. A man can't resent Insults from one In your condition." "lour condition Is what will worry you when they put you In handcuffs and lead you to the death cell when they drag you, whining and puling, to the electric chair!" And then Letty Van Alstyn fainted. ... dead . . . Choked ANSON was and thrust behind one Her pretty face was dark and terrible In con gestlon. She was rigid In death She had been dead five or six hours they said. The police were already with us very soon the medical examiner made his appearance, together with Doctor Olliphant. A dazed horror hung over the house. Anson dead. The second murder. The thing was inexplica ble. "There's a maniac hiding in thl house !" the princess declared In ex clfement. "I have felt It! Ecco Miss Seton heard him in the night in her room ! A miracle she was not murdered In her very bed!" It was the first expression of be lief In my story I had heard from the haughty princess. One of the strangest, most puz zllng things about it to me was that out of Anson's stiff, clenched hand the medical examiner had pried a bright, brown crescent, set with glit tering stones. Letty Van Alstyn's hair ornament The broken thing she had thrown away and permitted Anson to carry off and then demanded back from her. It didn't make sense. She couldn't have been murdered for Its posses slon, or the murderer would have taken it away. And why had she got it back from Miss Van Alstyn? We were a dreadfully 6haken group of people. With drawn revolvers the police tramped through room after room peering behind doors, beneath beds. the basement, the investigating storerooms, the laundries, the wine tpVENTTJALLY every one quieted - down. The sharp outbreak of protests dropped to more considering undertones at that phrase, "without permission." I overheard the Watkins reminding each other that they had meant to stay till Monday, anyway, and presently Mrs. Crane's voice was audible to me, telling them that Dan was staying on, too, that he planned to take his wife's body to the cemetery on Monday morning. lie wanted only the simplest ceremony at the grave. She sntd that she and the Kellers were going with him. When the main hall had been cleared of all the outsiders the guests streamed out into It again. She dropped like a stone at HarISriilrid us, in the dining room, rlden's feet, and he stood there, his swift-footeefficiency was setting fury checked, looking blankly down out the paraphernalia of another at her. The faint did not last long; buffet luncheon. the women kneeling by her were Every one reacted from the tens- still asking for more air, for water, ity; laughter kept breaking out. for cushions, when I heard her voice voices ran Incautiously high, .then saying, rather weakly, but with com remembering, dropped to undertones plete control, "How silly! But I that were still lively. didn't eat much breakfast. I've I never felt lonelier In my life. 1 been fjoling faint." wanted some one to talk It over She got up very quickly; I saw with, and I hadn't anybody; Deck Ilarrlden go to her side and say had vanished into the dr.iwinsr something; she gave him a quick room and Mitchell, too, was no upward The Prince Was Most glance, then moved away. where to be seen. As If he had forgotten Deck he went Then I heard Deck's voice, sharp heavily after. cellar. And there was not a trace as the crack of a whip. "Damn It I stood there, shaken through and all, Donahey, I told you myself that through. I turned to Mitchell but of an invader to be found in that house. There was not a clue call never went through. Am he had left me; he was standing be great except the brown crescent, and not I to blame because the village tele side the table picking up the aban a mark on the closet door except phone girl doesn't happen to re dotied cigarettes. the prints of the maid who found member that I asked for a New J he Inspector was saving, his the body. No one had seen Anson York number?" voice unemotional again, "This will alive since the time that I had I could see the bark of Deck take some disproving, you know, talked with her In the hall. head; he was confronting Donahey Mr. Deck." And the words sent the Donahey had us herded all to n Him mine or- notes. saw quick thought to me that tlm only I.etty Van Alstyn's brown head way to disprove this about Deck gether again In the drawing room, tilted towards him, a little on one was to prove something else about and he barked bis questions at us with the manner of a thoroughlv side. I saw Ilarrlden standing be some one else. I thought of Anson. hind her, caught a glimpse of his If that hand belligerent and bewildered man. And Just what time was that kerchief I was sure she had seen stony profile. Miss Seton?" he snapped. Donahey stared stolidly, T.essle had been In I.etty Van Alstyn's I hurried to give an Amermann"s gut a very good mem room ! approxima It seems queer to ory, Mr. Deck. I.etty had fainted. Perhaps she tion of the time. He summed up, nie that a man who goes away from hadn't realized, until that moment. noil, you a say It was a little be a dinner table to put In a long ells the consequences of throwing that fore nine when you saw her? And tance call doesn't wait to get it you were the last person that saw suspicion upon Deck. that he goes upstairs after a Inst Now. when she was still shaken. her alive." "I think the Prince P.ani'inl was handkerchief." was the time to confront her with I was watching Deck so that handkerchief evidence If the last person," I said quickly, reclosely that 1 saw Clancy the ollicer touch only Anson could be found . . . She membering. "She left me to go back him, saying something, and Deck must have come out of hiding by to his room." without looking nronnd, drew out now . . . Donahey shot one of his gimlet a cigarette case from his I ran up the stairs; I took the glances up at linncinl. "How about pocket, the soft brown leather one I had left hand branch, so as to pass that, prince?" The prince was most self pos heen before, and passed It back. along the main hall, looking for sessed, most affable In his reply. Then he suld, "Come, Mr. Inspector, some maid to question. Miss Seton Is mistaken I left be don't pretend you yourself never The door Into the prince's room I got tired waiting for a connection was open and looking In, I saw the fore the poor pirl and went otf after something else." maid nho did my own room, busied passed through the apartment of my ife and when I came out they "Weil" mumbled Donahey. about It. ere still talking In the hall." "Well?" challenged Deck." "Are "Have you seen Anson yet?" 1 we going on with this "How about that. Miss Seton? He Indefinitely? said breathlessly. I'm telling you that I've She stopped on her way to the says you were still talking togeth got to be back on the Job tomorrow or my closet with a pair of slippers in her er when he left the premises." paper will want you fellows to sa'v hand. "Well, I didn't see him," was all I why." "We haven't seen her. Miss Seton, could say. I didn't notice what was Not since that time you were talkhap"They were very busy talking." pening until I saw the funny look ing with her this morning." said the prince with satisfaction. on Clancy's face. He was I moved away, holding Donahey looked curiously t me. thinking 1 had bet the case In his hands and ter get hold of Mitchell. Then I "What were you talking about?" with slow. Investigating heard the maid scream. I had never feeliiij, "I was waiting to ask her about fingers. Then he pushed up beside heard such whether she had seen any hmdker-chic- f shrieks Dick In front of the table. In my life. Shriek after shriek. My drying on Friday evening. I He was dumping out the contents stumbled me as I ran bad noticed that she didn't volununder legs of the case. I saw the cigarettes bark to her. teer things directly unUs she was come out. one after the other, and She was backing hysterically asked, and 1 hain't heard that then with another shake, some-tilinaway from the closet, her apron asked." eb.e ramp, rolling out. Instantover tier head. "Couldn't you wait for the Inly the heads closed over It; I "What Is It? What" quest?" couldn't see what was there. I heard She moaned, "oh. In there In "After oil the tliin-- s said about Donahey say, "I'.y !n nn there;" and be.in shrieking 11,'rtin. me here I thiuK had a ri:.--: t to in credulous voice r,nd(;,, Clam v, "Will I dashed to the closet; (he door vestignte a much as cool t., ;,M.i J'ou look at that?" then sumchudv was wide and the llytit from the the real murderer!" ... ... Your clg--ett- blood-curdlin- g When all-tim- fl ope by by Pjam. ore weaiin, n.t , name w.-a- i al si . Weekly. 1 . l flmv ' S NEXT YEAR TO ihvZ' X'l SALT LAKE CITT. . a ..- TfiBlfl t. 4 IUI Jill"" m.k (,i..iri lid 40 crf Mid IW Twl ei( v nciqliful lluildme Hchnlrhlp, Slronf Social dvlopmmt. , n' Col? Westminster Nt-vad- POCATKI.T.n rollees of Cam n Alninr Von 4 Alpine, Wvo.. have cnmlMn,! Proximately 25 per rent- r,f roacl liich is to open a now rnio. J0 Y(,1lfwstone National Tnt rcDnrts ,0 CCC hmd- her, Jtate that six of the I I 4402-23r- d ttt N " Low Cot Tuition. in rurulntfd homf-- li r-r- Stlf brlp I offered. H. W. RETIEKDJM - 2 '' tLML 3aS comKrl L.' rn,i," , b('Cn u'nrkcrs arc ds .m"st P the r. 'ivui s uranu can- Jon between Alpine and Jackson. RAIM UT.-- The JP th Wall nf SniL-- ,' n mJa. n t h ci, So they st;n,e-ami den they ,.;, 'ii" home to Kn,.. I. ind tl ry jr: '"'"I "... sleepi,,. l lies, Si DENTON'S COSMETICS St, long IsUndWjj bags. SALT I.AKP pttv r.. ng the period from , May 1, 1933, . ft Tl.. i mo. ccived mn in loans ihrcuV Administration, it was disclosed in a report from Reverlr v' r.i'iif Utnh bas received the largest fJ110"" of drouth relief loons in n(i.(ilstncf, which includes Utah, and Arizona. k?!lforn,!a'. 1 amoun,S ,0 $1,752,497 , , : "ou in amornia irt r.r.-- Ephraim of clothing waf in lint climates ,., vv.,r ..,.,., ri;(. Dees of Inquiry. Write today, Washington, D. C, carried 42,950 pounds of the control bait, packed in 10 and 25 pound sealed " st.Ue best for night re POCATELLO. IDA T field and orchard mice in the Astern states, the Pocatello bait-tion- s, mixine station has recently filled n orcier tor a carload of orenar- ed bait. The car, which was sent 7113 ntj S. rno i 3850 the Sj S'V' X DS,in?Ld'nCe hrtb Z IM B i Ari ,ndiaa ie we 1 is worn , ordinary Iress by vast, nun rs of thedaily "- v- "f ln..ln. "ivjama" , "'"no In that .,.,. ry. ,, loll, ,. HHsb pro,,,,. , found in 12 drouth-stricke- COMIMKD) we go ,o l)(,l ,n of irrigation water that will be carried over to next season already points to abundant water supply m 1937 for the farmers of the Gooding project, Manager S. T. Baer of anai the Big wooa predicts. viTT.T.OWSTONE PARK. WYO. e record for travel The into Yellowstone National parn was shattered during August, as the 1936 total reached 321,791, surpassing by 3793 the full season of 1935. when 317,993 visitors en tered the five gateways. New china, giassw,. LOGAN, UT. Plans are comfurniture newi,, summer first camp the for what aboutaset0J plete for advanced students in forestry, -- u s jo- yrange and wild life management to gather up want at the Utah State Agricultural and some string college, August 30 to September once on this lovelyT' 28 Professor .Paul jvi. uunn, wnu is in charge or tne scnooi ui iui ket design with estry at the college, reports. set off by a conl PANGUITCH, UT. The potato a r growers of Panguitch valley and stitch. You can rnafe concernmucn Hatch district are nuii iu uouies, a bufi ed with a scourge of worms that iei piece ana tray are attacking the potato vines. match. In string I The worms are the larvae of a doihe measures 18 from that small butterfly requires and the smaller 12 10 days to three weeks to develop. The infested fields are I In pattern 5fiw J. those bordering areas that have fcomplete instructions t been farmed previous years, out 'for makin? tho are idle this season, and producillustration of them ing a crop of Russian thistle or stitches used; materia tumbleweed. ments. POCATELLO, IDA. The insect To obtain this patten ana pests are attacking gardens in stamps or cents fields near Pocateiio. to The Ser hun One UT. MONTICELLO. Household Arts Dept. e families in dred and twenty-fivFourteenth St., New i: this locality who hitherto mainWrite plainly tained themselves without government aid may be forced to your name and address, accept some form of relief to i ot 0 avoid suffering this winter, it was (e car Standard of Excel pointed out at a meeting of state resettlement administration offitier At the height of hi cials and civic heads. atta fa By am POCATELLO, IDA. Dan Claude Monet, the painter, destroyed jd Hitchcock, telegraph editor of a sheet of water, the fc the Pocatello Tribune, has decidsriny ed to stick to newspapers and to work, because years' Inleave nature to the experts. rise to his standard. It: ikes vestigating the activities of a hive of what is cood in condnr in h of bees, he was stung 12 times and sensitive as tk by i and nearly choked of coughing high artist, we would ho y fere before medical aid could adminwith many of the chokes lontl ister sedatives. as make. IDA. Drunken POCATELLO, How often we accepts I d driving convictions brought libest simply because cense revocations to 38 Idaho auf pers standard of excellence! tomobile drivers and suspensions iught to six others during July, the drivnate are too easilv inflnenrw ers' license bureau of the state iona' crowd, we stoo short d A lama department of law enforcement our decisions are madei reports. A false statement and ance with nnnr. human reckless driving cost two more stead of in obedience tea frefc operators their licenses. .ndc Of God. MOSCOW, IDA. The black lowa: cust tree is the favorite of Idaho .iscu farmers. Of 47,835 trees sent out ice from the University of Idaho colever lege of agriculture nursery during the past few months, 31,F"7 'BUCKS were of that species, Royale K. Keens K Pierson, extension forester, who is associated with the college staff, Evergre,SK reports. The soil conservation service planted 175,000 trees in northern Idaho and several thousand more in the southern part of the state SALT LAKE CITY. UT. The Nebraska Farm Bureau federation is sponsoring a service for Opening Jut transfer of quality young pigs weighing from 35 to 65 pounds each from the n FEMALE AGEf, territory in eastern Nebraska to Utah farmers, who will also be Makers of a well known S benefitted, declares Fred Adams, cosmetio orepank1 ethical secretary of the Nebraska State seekina femals ecjenti, M Farm bureau. r pnrrentlv enaaaed fa A SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Tentl L.MH ft. i euecuvou-"tative reservations have been wont, mgniy jmrrla Tnxlros it a IHie iinK made by 150 reserve officers of the Third Reserve Area to attend in 907 of cases. It the 1936 contact camp at Old to curchasesaiipM Faithful Inn, Yellowstone Nationchandise if satisfactory cnj al Park, Sept. 4. 5 and 6. erencea are furnished wfl Something about a handkerchief drying on a radiator. Something that was silenced now forever. The prince had muttered, half angry, half soothing. "That Is non sense! There was nothing . . ." "All right, prince," Donahey agreed. "The girl goes back to your room but you aren't there that's your story, and you stick to It. But now sometime after that, any time In the next hour or so, somebody in that room got hold of her and choked her to death. Now where was everybody for that next hour?" It was hard to discover where every one had been during that hour for they had moved about so much. Rancini said he had gone downstairs for a time, then up to the Kellers' sitting-rooon the sec ond floor where he and his wife had waited with the Kellers and Mrs. Crane for the summons to the Inquest. The only ones who declared they had stayed definitely in their own rooms during the entire- time were Alan Deck, Harriden anfi (TO HE An unusual HOODING. IDA. y large amount But ticking away, deep down in my mind, was the Insistent thought that Anson had known something. rrt y o! PINCHED STUDENT CAMP OPENS TOURIST RECORDS FALL POTATO PEST APPEARS low. Ilarrlden stated he had been elth- er in his own room or In his wife's room the entire morning, and that he had heard no disturbance of nnv kind in the Rancini anartmenr. And If I had. I wouldn't have cared!" Deck said he had been in his room, but that he had no proof of it. I could offer no proof, either, that I had stayed in my room, aft er the time the maid had gone to deliver my two notes. I had a bad time over those notes. The one to Mitchell was easily es plained, but when I admitted that I had written to Alan Deck asking him to come to see me 1 saw a gleam In Donahey's eyes. Well, now, Miss Seton, why did you want to see him?" "It was pretty lonely, waiting for that Inquest. And since Mr. llarrl- den had linked us in his accusa- 1 felt we had a lot to talk over." Then he said to Deck, "You didn't come up this morning, though?" Didn't get the letter till too ate. The maid had left It for me on the table, and I didn't see it in time." ll II IMIIL' 1 IllOII-t- lt Villi were In your room all that time?- Deck hesitated. Then he said all. lightly, "I'ractically There were a few minutes when I popped Into Mitchell's room, next mine, to get some cigarettes yon mav'remember my case was mislaid." And I hadn't any suPf s left. I waited a bit for Mitchell, then came bark " So It all went on . .... I tier nothing else brought out th.-.- t seemed to matter. At the last the Inspector concentrated on the sub- Ject of Deck's cigarette case, when he thought he had lost it. when first found It again-- ln the hall De, k said, on one of the tables be couldn't remember exactly whrP and then, very suddenly, as if his mind were making Itself L hey to.d the rest of us J cused and retained De, k private Investigation. ru SUPPLY 1937 VATER 125 FAMILIES prince?" Rancini smiled boldly back. "A pretty maid " He shrugged. "Anything else?" said Donahey shortly to me. "I asked her why she didn't complain to the princess, and she said that the maid was always wrong. Then she said she'd have to go back for the towels she had forgotten. I asked her to valt, and we had the talk about the handkerchief." "What'd she tell you?" "Not a thing. But I had the very definite Impression that she had something on her mind. She said she'd tell all she knew downstairs at the inquest, but she didn't like to make trouble any one might have washed out a handkerchief.' Then she vent back Into the room. And I don't think she thought that Prince Rancini had come out of it while we were talking," I flung out. "for she looked awfully bothered at having to go in again." My eyes encountered Donahey's cynically thoughtful face. I wondered if he was thinking the same thing as I was. Suppose Rancini had been in the room when Anson returned suppose he had grabbed her and she had started to scream? In his anger and panic he might have choked her and choked harder than he meant. He was a big fel- the prince's overcoats. n Set Briefly told for Busy Keader Slowly the Inspector's gaze shifted towards Rancini. "Been making passes at her, to of easy Intermountain News me.1 " CHAPTER XI 11 CHAPTER "All d 1 M... right, all right, lou were what waiting to Investigate. Then were her exact words that passed between you?" I don't know why his overbearso ining manner should have been nerves crisped but my furiating, and I said a good deal more than 1 had meant to say in public. "I was waiting to ask her about the handkerchief. She came out of the room, smoothing down her hair. She said, 'Those foreigners!' and then, 'He can keep his hands off room fell Into it. 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