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Show THE BEAVER PRESS. BEAVER, UTAH SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS P"- Eij Leuore Cjl enn U tHAFTKB XIII THIS FAB: Beturnins visit with Dyke McKinnon, nia ftora McKinnon, Georglne Wyetn ncle, Tjd to aad null daughter, Barby, stopped t STORY I 5HV.CI visit Mra. Peabody. Mr.. Peabody told them about the death of &lisa Tillsit decided They to .lay and Investigate. luey iaiKea with many Oifferent person nu ueciuou that most ot the evidence to Gilbert, Mri. Peboi' hui-bannow in the army. However, Todd pointed out, that any one of the relatives would hae had the chance to have secured and given Miss Tillsit poison. pointed CHAPTER XIII terialize out of the shadows. "Can you talk now, Georgine?" he murThen Georglne did scream; over mured. id over, with the full power of Todd perched on the edge of the her lun'iw. She was beside the door, chair inside her n switch and click-in- slipper flrjdir.ii the wall door, hands in the pockets of his without result. down and it up dark robe how like him, GeorgThere were no lights anywhere, ine thought, to be sleek and niere '.as, however, an answering aculate-looking at three in the gtfr from the other rooms. and looked at her with morning! Startled voices were raised in intent, concerned eyes. "Now, my response, other light switches were dear. What really happened?" His with the same futility, questions were injected so quietly boors opened. She saw Todd first, as scarcely to break the flow of flame of a her murmured narrative. holdimi up the tiny tigareite lighter ; then Mary Helen, "You didn't hear Barby get up? blundering out of her room after Yes, that's probably what disover something. turbed your sleep in the seemingly falling beginUary Helen had a flashlight, and ning. It was some minutes, the about circle swung fts dazling maybe twenty, after I heard her, upper hall. Nella Peabody was when the other sounds began; and standing at the top of the stairs, five or ten more before I heard and Horace came plunging into you scream . . ." the hall just as the light reached I half-ope- .' imm- hM ... him. "Someone who made you think - he was I," he thoughtgone; Barby's not in fully, under hisrepeated f She's breath. chok-farhalf said, tier bed," Georgine Georgine drew her hand across "There wasn't any lights. I her eyes. "It may not have been got' up to I couldn't find someone who meant harm to me. Todd was beside her, supporting I don't know. It just felt dangerber with a steadying grip, ous." f "She's fallen downstairs," "It was," Todd said softly, his Georgine said, moving toward the Jaw tightening. "I shan't leave you opening. alone, from now until the I "No " Nella Peabody told her. upstairs minute we can go. I shouldn't I but was slowly up, coming fl leave you at all, if I had my way." thought I saw or felt, rather "A bit difficult to manage, don't lomeone coming out of your room, you think? But it was this afternow." just noon that I could really have man"VYhere'd you get that torch?" gled you, for giving me the tip Todd inquired, holding his lighter about her and then going off." HorHelen's hand. to lose Mary "About whom?" ace had vanished into the attic "Nella. How could you, Todd? of full was hall the voices, entry; Maybe you thought she wouldn't bedonce as the all crying out at dare do anything openly, but I'm room lights flashed on. Horace sure she tried to drug me tonight. came out, remarking competently, She I was fathoms under, as f Main fuse was loosened," just in- that'sthought how she could dare come jlary Helen gave a bewildered into my room openly. Probably spection to the flashlight in her she saw Barby go out, and wander iand, and answered, "Why, I fell room and stay iver it in my room, it was lying on into Mary Helen's was her chance " and that there; floor." the J It was Barby's treasured posses-lioOver the babble her own jmall voice sounded from across the hall. "Mamma! Mamma, where I'm ere you? There was a noise cold, Mamma " She was on the chaise-lounln Mary Helen's room, trying to jit up. "I called and called when that noise came, but I couldn't make you hear for the longest time, Mamma! I couldn't make any noise myself, at all." "I don't wonder," Georgine 'said, maternal calm falling on her like a cloak. "You're hoarse as a Come hootowl, my poor lamb. back into your own bed." Todd put her in and tucked the blankets tightly about her; she was wheezing and flushed. "I know what happened," Georgine said in a low voice. "She got up by herself, and then couldn't find her way back to her room because she ;was half asleep again. It's happened before. Didn't you hear her come in, Mary Helen? She must ; have thought your couch was her cot, and just dropped onto it." "Hear her? Good Lord, no," Mary Helen said. "I did think there was a kind of thud, some- -; where in my dreams" she gig-- 1 gled pleasantly "but that must have been when the flashlight went down. You're certainly a ten-- ? der mother, Mrs. Wyeth, imagine "Please tell me how much." yelling like that because your kid- -: die wasn't in her crib!" "Wait a minute!" Todd said "I'll yell louder," said Georgine tartly, "if she's in for another bout levelly. "What made you pick on out of asthmatic croup, after getting Nella? Not the case I made chilled this afternoon and again against her? But, dear heart, hers was no more convincing than any tonight." "But, my dear," said Nella, with of the others." an intent glance, "was that all that Georgine gazed at him, stupi-fie"I didn't read the others. You frightened you?" Horace's voice covered hers. "Damned queer mean to say" about that fuse, it was okay when He seemed to be struggling with we went to bed. Is "I liad to include her, amusement something poing on, or shouldn't we ask? Georgine, but if you'd only read a What did you bit farther, you'd have seen that say, Nell, about see" ing son.eone Mary Helen, or Horace, or Susie He stopped and turned his eyes or the doctor might just as easily away. Georgine's lips had parted have been a murderer." to cry out, "Yes! There was some"You should be flattered," said one m at the luncheon table, "that Nella been must have try room; it one cf are home for all their children the you, what did he want?" But the words held themselves meals while you're here." back. "We are flattered indeed, said She let her eyes travel from face Todd expansively. Everyone to feu smiled at everyone else, and t, meeting each look, knowiming or puzzled. One of these three Georgine fought down a wild bad been, not ten minutes before, pulse to laugh. It wasn't funny; was a hi ;p. ring from the darkness of she was sure of that; there presence continued the in room. purpose "Mamma." Barby said hoarsely, of Mary Helen and Horace. I can't "And how's the kiddie?" Mary breathe right." "S' e is going to be 111," said Helen inquired. "Horace and I and were in to see her this morning, georgine turnt d .nlo herdespondently, and she looked so murh brighter. bedroom. Tod 1, who "I thought so too," Mrs. Peawithout waiting to orcfs fully had said. Horbody out with gone ace in "When did you two find time 'ow, now appeared with a asked load of supplies from the drug- - to pay a call?" Georgine :,; crouP kctt,e was set up casually. gets:f.p :',. by's "Oh, while you were down as cot, and John Crane if Seemed breakfast. ad. "This'H fix you her no in ting up be lonely." "roe, young 'un. You she might keep the young l.ujy As if I'd been gone for hours, quict Mrs wyeth. and indignantly. i fit day tomorrow, and I'll Georgine thoughtalone, ' she reome in onrr nr tiuiv happy "She's quite nJ make ' I"' sure she's nil " W marked in a sweet tone. "Riht riv, tr nm rpf', "ir.il bat? and looked vatrue- - riow she's sitting up reading the Iv nfl a if euro ho Alice tint Dyke gave her. if h;, rn t you ft gnolV,;.. "Oh, that reminds me Nella said asking," mind my had bcen exercising don't H- m fnr keeping out of the way diffidently, "was there any l1rn v. news from the sergeant! nntcd, scmed to ma- -- r, her" n. ge ? f' i ; d. trf T ;,a V intcr-estir- "t xj 7 IP, - "News? I haven't heard from him." Nella gave her a look of bewilderment. "Didn't you find your letter?" "Letter?" "It came by special delivery last night about nine. I didn't want to wake you, so I just tiptoed in and laid it on the desk." "Why, no, Nella," said Georgine slowly. "I didn't happen to find it." She could not afford to meet Todd's eyes, nor anyone's. "Oh, dear, do you suppose that in the dark I laid it down under something, or missed the desk en- tirely?" "You might have done. I'll look." She gazed at her plate and ate steadily. The letter could not have fallen to the floor, for she had been all around those baseboards this morning, tapping them. A letter from Dyke: in her mind's eye she saw a page in her own handwriting, lying face upward on the carpet near the door. It had borne the words, "How much did Mary Helen tell you?" "Barby's going to get tired, spelling out that story," Todd remarked. "I wish we had something to give her for a change. You haven't any illustrated books, Nella? Or some old pictures that might have a story connected with them?" "No, I'm afraid not," said Mrs. Peabody, "unless you count those photograph albums. There's one in the drawing room." "That ought to do." He was beautifully casual. "Finished, Georgine? We might have a look to see if it would interest her." Georgine went with him obediently. There was method in thii irrelevance, she thought. For one thing, the folding doors cut of! one's view of the stairs, and any of the family could slip up to the second floor within the next few minutes. He wanted them to havi the opportunity. "These are fine specimens," Todd said, turning the pages of the plush album on the marble-toppe- d table. He swung toward the dooi as if to make sure his voice would be audible. "Will you look at th gentleman in the tie! And here's a family group, on the front porch of this house-Lo- rd, kind of uncanny, seeing th old place when it was new and those trees were small; doesn'l look real. This must be Miss Tillsit. Seems to me Mrs. Labare had a larger copy of this same picture. There was no answer to thesi comments, and Todd glanced al Georgine. Then he strolled over tt a corner whatnot and picked up a small reading glass from on of its shelves. "See if you can find out what those pieces of jewelrj were," he murmured. "I say, Mary Helen," said Todd into the hall, "Barby's going tc drive us crazy asking what all these rings and pendants and what had not were, that your great-auin her heydey. Was that ring ar amethyst?" Mary Helen, on her way into thi sitting room, turned and cami across the hall. "No, topaz," shi said interestedly, bending ovei the album. "A great big one; sh must have paid fifty dollars for it." "And those six stones on that chin chain? It's a li'le incongruoui to see that one plain piece amonj all the baroque." "Those were amethysts," Mary Helen said. "I never cared foi them at all, myself, unless thej and these wen were pale. I hate this kind of jewelry anyway. It wasn't worth a thing, but they seemed to like it in th nineties." "Did anyone come up to see you, darling, while you were finishing your lunch?" "I heard a coupla people go into the bathroom," said Barby with frankness, "but I didn't see who. Nobody's been even to this end ol the hall. Mamma, and I'm kind of tired of reading." Georgine closed the doors to thi hall and opened the connectin one from her room to the sewinj room. She heard Todd beginning, a story about the gentleman in as she hurried ovei the frock-coa- t, to the desk. The manuscript, ai she had expected, was untouched It was just possible that the letter had fallen down behind thi bed, to be caught on a ledge of thi headboard; but it had not. Shi felt perfectly sure what the mid night intruder had wanted: thi letter, in answer to hers in which she had asked that innocent questionwhich might have been interpreted, by any one of three oi four persons, as an ominous one. And when the intruder had failed to find it had he attempted to dc her bodily harm before she could read it? And here it was. 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