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Show 1EAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER RED LAMP The f By NARY ROBERTS RINEHART Gmrttkt THE STORY that be was Interested lng around me, and sent the detective scurrying back to the center of It again, to pln such new threads as be Is able. July 29. Today has been quiet Those constant reminders of the latest tragedy, the boats dragging the bay, have disappeared, and once more we see gay little picnic parties chugging across the water to Robinson's point or thereabouts, laden with hampers and. I dare say, with flasks. Jane and I took a brief walk this afternoon, and noticed a man clearing the woods on Nylle's farm, across the road. We stopped and watched him for a time, and he seemed curl ously Inexpert at the job. Hut perhaps I am too ready to suspect Green ough's fine hand In everything I see. Young Gordon, although still confined to bis room, la up and about In spiritualism. It hints of danger. A "red lamp" Is mentioned. They take up their residence In the lodge, because of Jane's aversion to the house. Warren Halliday, In love with Edith, comes to liv In the boathouse. A number of sheep are mysteriously killed In the vicinity. The slayer leaves a cabalistic sign at the scene of the killings. Greenough, a detective, arrives and Porter has a feeling' that he is under suspicion. Twin Hollows Is rented to an elderly, partially paralyzed man. Bethel, who, with his secretary, Gordon, takes possession. A youth, Carroway, on watch for the sheep killer, disappears. Por- ter has the red lamp hidden In a room of which he alone has the key, but many people, Including' the professor himself, believe they have seen Its reflection at Twin Hollows. Halliattacked day Is mysteriously and seriously Injured. Carroway Is found In the bay, murdered. Mary Morrison, Porter's eook, disappears. Gordon, Bethel's secretary, is found unconscious from a blow on the bead. (Continued.) . -1- 1- Tbomas, however, who - July 30. I have today borrowed some of Mrs. Livingstone's act Event of the atory forth in the Journal cf William A. Porter, professor of English literature: The professor's uncle, Horace Porter, died mysteriously at his home. Twin Hollows, now the professor' property. Jane, the professor's wife. Is a psychic With their niece, Edith, the Porters go to Twin Hollows for their vacation, despite Jane's reluctance. A letter Horace had been writing at the time of his death shows ? Ce. . Daraa Caspaaf W k U ferric f seems tave his own methods of acquiring to In- formation, today tells a fact which. Id my Ignorance of such matters, I bad not noticed last night He states that the doctor reports the boy as having been tied in the same manner as poor s around Carroway; in two the wrists, a turn or two about the body and arms, and ending In two at the ankle. The rope, it appears, was not brought for the purpose, but hud been left lying on the top of Annie Cochran's laundry basket in the kitchen, when ehe went houie last night. Later: Greenough and Doctor Hay-warhave driven past, on their wuy to the main house. I have telephoned to Halliday, and he Is on bis way kere. I may need hiip. July 28 After all, things passed off yesterday better than I had hoped. The detective coucedes that, while in daylight It is a simple matter to reach , the main house from the it is not an easy one at night. And I think he was puzzled when I said: "After all, the real mystery to me Is how Doctor Hayward, who says he was passing on the main road in his car, could reach the house so 6oon after 1 did." "He had his car." "But he didn't drive In. You left It outside the Lodge gates, doctor didn't you?" "1 didn't know Just where the bell was ringing." "But you knew there was such a bell on the main house. Every one around here knows it Even at that you made very good time. I had only had time to light one match and see the boy, when you turned your flashlight on me." ' 1 imagine, and Ualliday agrees with me. that whatever Greenough had in mind when he enme, the new element thus Introduced caused him to hesitate. And to add to his hesitation, the doctor, from the breezy unetuous-nes- s of his entrance, took to twitching and gnawing his finger tips. "I don't suppose you are Intimating that I knocked the boy down. Porter," lie said, "but It sounds like it. As a matter of fact, I didn't even know him; never saw him, to my knowledge, until last night" "I'm not intimating anything. I'm In a peculiar position; that's all. And you have, been considerably more than Intimating that I was where 1 had no business to be last night. I had, you see, exactly as much reason to be there as you had. Rather more. I Imagine." I was perhaps a trifle excited, but , heaven knows I had a right to be. "1 know what you have in your mind, Mr. Greenongh, and I'm glad to have this chance to lay my cards on the table. Ask my wife why I was on the float, the night Carroway was killed in the bay. VShe'll tell you 1 was In bed, until she roused me unrt sent me down to the beach. Ask r Geiss where I was at the hour when Halliday was attacked; he can tell you. Ask the newspaper reporter who told me, right here, about that culvert under the road where Halll-day'car overturned; and ask Halll day himself about our excursion to examine It and my losing my fountain pen there.. And then ask yourself If I would open the gun-roowindow of the main bouse to make an entrance when 1 hove in this desk a key to every door In the place." Greenough smiled dryly. "That's a pretty strong defense, considering that you haven't been accused," he said. ?As nm:ter of fact, we hadn't , found your fountnln pen. Mr. Porter. I'm afraid we overlooked something there T . , . . Since they have gone, I feel, a I though he has not said so, that Halll-dabelieves I have made a tactical error, Neverthpless, I feel a great sense of relief. I have nt least made a bole in that web of circumstantial ' evidence which has seemed to bo clos half-hitche- half-bitch- d sun-dial- Pe-te- s again. Today I asked Wayward, who had been to see him, If I might visit him but he shook his head. "lie is still In an excitable condition." he said. "Better give him a day or two more." As, however, Annie Cochran reports him In excellent shape, although moody and Irritable, I can only feel that the doctor has his own reasons for keeping nn away from him. At the same time, 1 must be careful not to allow suspicion to carry me too far. Mr. Bethel states flatly that the boy has no Idea of who attacked him and himself suggests Thomas! . . . My talk with Mr. Bethel last nlsiht was Interesting and not without an unusual quality of Its own. He chose to be civil, and rather more than that I felt that the alarm of my entrance over, he not only greeted me with a sense of relief, but kept me as long as possible. Sly last Impression of him Is of a helpless and yet indefinably militant figure In a dimly lighted room, sitting upright In its chair, one withered hand palm upward, on his knee, and the other not too fur from a revolver. . . . I am puzzled over that picture, as 1 am over the one which I saw from the terrace window, as 1 approached. He gave the same Impression then as he did when I left, of a man sitting waiting for something. As 1 looked In at him, he was facing toward the hall and the dining-roodoor, directly across, with a concentration so great that my light tap at first did not reach his ears. And dnr lng tire entire conversation which followed, every now and again I was conscious of a sudden abstraction on his part, an Intent listening, that made me nervous In spite of myself. I gather that, like young Cordon, be has heard certain sounds In the house at night, hut does not Intend to he stampeded by them, to use his own words. He has some theory of a dis turbance of molecular activity, by some undiscovered natural law, which 1 could not follow closely. But In the discussion of superstition in general which followed, I was a trifle rtiscon certed to find him laying much of It to the Christian religion; that our present theology had given birth to the widespread belief In evil spirits and In sorcery. Strangely enough, I had at that moment one of those curious sensations which I have heard referred to ns a failure of the two sides of the brain to synchronize. I had the feeling that sometime, somewhere, eons ago, 1 had sat In a dimly lighted room and heard those same words. And that 1 had had the same instinctive revolt from them. But the Impression was fleeting, and seeing perhaps that our views did not must not be coincide, he added that lieve that he disregarded the spiritual side of the Individual, or of the unl verse. "Soul animating matter I" he said. "It Is a great thought, Mr. Porter. And I have reached that time In life when what Is to come Is assuming more im portance than that which lias gone." Then he dismissed the subject, and went back again te the local situation, this time taking up the crimes them selves. He pees no necessary connection between the disappearance of Maggie Morrison and the tragedy of Carroway, on this I did not enlighten 1 him. As to tack on the strange affair ot the at- Gordon, he himself wlfh Annie Cochran's assistance, examined the gun room the next morning. The lock of the window was broken, but he fancied that was a matter of old standing. He was having It repaired. "The boy's story seems to he borne out by the facts," he said. "There were Indications, as you probably know, that some one had entered by the window. But what strikes me as strange Is that whoever did so should have known his way so well. Gordon says oo light was turned on, yet this fellow puts his hand on the only weapon about the poker, without difll cully." lie turned and glanced at me. "How long have jou known Thomas, the gardener?" he asked. "Too long to think he would do a thing like that," I said, rather warmly. "1 dare say And, although I think Thomas Is not fond of Gordon, that would be carrying a distaste rather far, 1 Imagine." He has no anxiety for hinwlf, or at least so be said; I am personally not so certain. For as I looked back from the terrace on my way out, he v. as once more facing toward the hall and 1 somehow felt watching It books on psychic re- search, and Intend to go into them If there Is any proof la thoroughly. a mass of evidence, it Is certainly here. On the other hand, one most remember that the hope of survival is the strongest desire of the human heart How many, if they felt that this life was all, would care to go on with It? Analyzing my last night's experience, however, 1 can find nothing In my mind before I went to sleep, to for it I ate a light dinner, and spent the evening after Jane retired, with this Journal. The night was quiet, and my last waking thought was across the concerning the road, who seems so singularly Inactive except when some one leaves the Lodge, or appears at one of Its win ac-con- wood-cutte- r dews. One thing I have traced, however. It is distinctly possible that the herbal, aromatic odor I noticed at the end of the experience was due to the leaves be collected yesterday, and which I find have smoldered throughout the night . . . It was after midnight when, Just as 1 was dozing off, Jane came to my Today He Took Me to See It door and asked me If 1 would mind sleeping in her room. "I can fix you a bod on the couch," she said, avoiding my eyes. "I'm nervous tonight, for wine reason." 1 went at once, Hailing my bedding with me, and while she prepared the couch I observed her. She was very white, and I saw that her hands were shaking, but she refused my offer of some brandy with her usual evasive answer. "I'm all right," she said. "1 Just don't like' being alone." She fell asleep almost at once, like one exhausted, but the change of beds bad fully roused me, and I lay for some time staring into the darkness. I d not know when It was that I began to' have the feeling that we were not alone in the room, but I Imagine fully half an hour had passed. I saw nothing, but I had the sensation of being stealthily watched, und with It something of horror rather than of fear. I was rigid with It. Then something seemed to tug at my coverings, and the next moment they had slid to the floor. Almost immediately nfter that there came a rustj of air through the room, a curtain billowed over my face, and the door into the hall swung open. Theu all wag silent, save for a low whine from Jock, outside In the hall. How much of this today to allot to my nerves I do not know. Undoubtedly Jane's nervousness had affected me; equally undoubtedly bed clothing has a tendency to slip from a coach. I have experimented today. A gale of wind would blow out a curtain and opu an unlatched door. On the other hand, 1 am as certain today as I have been certain of anything recently, that I bad bolted the door when I entered the room. But it was not bolted ia the morning. If 1 have Indeed actually bad a psychic experience, it seems singularly Up to this time I have purposeless. imagined, correctly or not, that these Inexplicable occurrences have bad a concealed but definite objective, If suen a phrase may be used. Cut In this case there Is apparently nothing. We have had, however, a development of onr own. and this from Edith I It appears that this morning, seeing Doctor Uayward pass on bh round of morning calls, she went to bis office and. on bis housekeeper reporting him out, asked permission to go into bis office and there leave him a note. "A note?" I inquired. "What sort of a note?" "Any sort of note," said Edith. "As It happens, I asked him to tea tomorrow. It was all I could think of." But what she really did was to type a few lines on his typewriter, tear the paper out and put it in ihe small vanity case which Is as much a part of her as the nose she powders from It. (As a net result of which audacious performance Halliday now Informs me that the cipher words were not written on the doctor's machine.! A careful comparison unor a magnifying glass shows this so that even I can recognize" It So there we are again. This Is, I Imagine, fair presumptive evidence, although it brings us eo rearer the identity of the criminal than we were before. One thing, bow-eve- r, may be valuable Edith, who knows a number of unsuspected housewifely things. Insists that the strips which wrapped the oarlocks are of a fine grade of materiaL "Look for somebody," she says, "w ho uses linen sheets on bis bed, and doesn't care that they cost twenty five dollars a pair nowadays." From which I gather, among other things, that our little Edltb has been pricing the equipment of a borne. which in Tonight that old the boathouse holds on its top the law books which were to occupy Halliday's leisure this summer, and which so far seem to be used chiefly to hold open his doors on windy days the old contains to date the four clews which are our sole ammunition In the putative expedition against Greenough. They are: (a) Half of a broken lens from a pair of (b) A scrap of paper, containing a cryptic bit of typing in large and small sea-che- The Doctor It is essential that my car should always operate prop erly'and accordingly I use sea-che- Champion Spark Plugs. Champion is the tetter park plug because it has q exclusive cilli snanite insulator cpe daily treated to with stand the much higher temperatures of the letters. (c) The small cap of an ether can. (d) A fragment of white cloth. modern sion engine. Also anew patented solid copper gasket-sea- l thatremaint high-coupr- Had It not been for Halliday's un wittingly placing a weapon in the enemy's bands we should also have absolutely under high compresgas-tig- sion. Special analysis electrode which assure under a fixed spark-gaall driving conditions. had: (e) A very sharp knife, with a plain wooden handle and a blade approximately six Inches long. August 1. An Incendiary fire was started beneath the boathouse last night, or July 31. rather toward morning. An assortHalliday has found the boat. At least he has found a boat whic!i ment of what was apparently answers Jane's description. Today be' waste was placed In one of the took me to see It pails from the sloop, and a candle It lies In the small creek which ex- lighted and placed In It. Over this was tends through the marsh half a mile laid such lumber as was left from the north of the boathouse, and Just berepair of the pier. yond Robinson's point Had Halliday been asleep the entire The boat, evidently an old and abanAs It building might have burned. doned one, gives some evidence of rehappened, he had been In the woods cent use. That is, although it con near where we found the boat, on a tains some water, there is very little, chance that Its proprietor might pay whereas, as nalliday says, after the It a visit. He discovered the tire from some distance and by hard running, recent rains It might well be full. The oarlocks are wrapped with din- readied it in time to extinguish it. He notified Greenough early this gy white cotton cloth, and to prevent their being stolen, or the boat taken morning, but the gentleman was ex away, the oars had been skillfully tremely noncommittal. He stood with hidden In the marsh. Halliday located bis hands in his pockets, kicking over them but left them as they were; but the ashes of the fire. with his penknife he cut away a sma'l "What's the big idea, Mr. Halliday?" bit of the muffling on the oarlock, for he inquired. later possible Identification. "1 don't get that," said Halliday, It was in this boat, Halliday be- belligerently. lieves, that the murderer fled onto the "Don't you?" said Greenongh, and after kicking the ashes once more, bay from our slip the night Carroway discovered him, and from it too that took an unruffled departure. he later climbed Into Carroway's The best we can make of that is launch and attacked him. that the detective believes the whole Small wonder that the boy's face thing a clumsy but concerted plan, on set hard as he examined It. Halliday's part and mine; that we Yet, for one must find some humor have endeavored to show that, although his watchers would be able to nowadays oi go mad, there was sometestify that I bad not left the house thing humorous in the careful indirection by which we reacted It. We last night, the unknown is si ill at made rather ostentatious preparations work. Nor can 1 entirely blame him for to go fishing, Halliday working with that. Whoever built the tire knew hooks and sinkers, and I hopelessly en that Halliday was out at the time. tangled In roils of line. Later, we rowed across the bay and But Halliday could not so state with anchored by the whisiie buoy, wliere out betraying his knowledge of the we fished assiduously for some time. boat, a matter be wishes to keep to Our approach to the mouth of the himself as long as possible. A new month begins today, and like creek was therefore of a most desul it behonxes nie to fake stock of once but around liohlnson's Pepys, sort, tory caution and myself. In spite of my best endeavors point, we abandoned some of my anxiety has crept into this rowed rapidly. Had Greenough been able to see us. record during the Inst month; and not Alone, I from start to finish, he would have always anxiety for myself. could take off my coat and fight this had some basis for his suspicions tiling out, but I am handicapped by of me. Edith and .lane. Whether Halliday's later discovery Edith will not go and leave Hallior uot we has any significance are not certain. Believing that, on the night day; June will not consider abandonof the girl's murder she vu brought ing me here, although she has no idea in the truck to the water front, and of the true situation. I have, I feel, a responsibility I can coupling this with the finding of the not evade. The responsibility to my sheltered from oh boat, he left I tenant. have, by a reduced rent and In woodland the and started servatlon an alluring advertisement, brought through It toward the main road. here an elderly paralytic and his In a half hour or so be came nacft And, evade the is secretary. again, and reported that he had found young I may. as fact remains that sue the the track of wheels driven through the of violence have woods, and that In one place a barbed the last two acts on my property. been From the he wire fence had been taken down and boards placed over It. to permit the ginning. Indeed, the most casual sur vey of the situation shows me that passage of a cur across it. l Twin Hollows has been a sort ot point. It was on this property that Nylte saw the sheep killer hunt sanctuary ; not on it, but adjacent to it. is still hidden the boat, and It was from my own float that be first e3 a of course, busy life, to stamp his caped from Carroway and later killed work with an Individuality before him; it was even very possibly his which we stiil stand lu adtninilion flashlight that Halliday saw, the night Haydn ground out over a hundred of his arrival when, finding the boat house occupied, he worked his way symphonies because his chiet Job. nn der Prince Esterbazy, was to furnish through the salt marsh toward the symphonies; Bach wrote his church sea. More recently the radius oi his accantatas because be would have lost !ms been naiowed to the prophis Job If he hadn't. tivity Mozart wrote li!s Hequiem mass because a customer erty Itself. The secretary sees him outside a window; he enters the came along who wanted one. shake speare wrote his plays because Hie bouse and attacl.s him from within stock company he was working for And a few days Inter, possibly having needed things to act -- Vanity Fair overseen Halliday's discovery of his to drive him away bout, be attempt Magazine. . hy settlna fire to the boathouse. . I am tempted to ask Mr Bethel to Masculine Preferred cancel bis lease; to return hi in his It evei It was deemed a handicap money, entire, and relieve me of reto have been born a girl, that can no sponsibility. longer be Ihe attitude or mind oi What would he say. I wonder? any one who sees how wide open tn August 2. women are all the doors of oppor I Mrs. Living been have rending tunlty. But a Portland (Maine) boy tdone's hooks, and u pretty lot of nonmust still be of the opinion that lie I find t hem. If there Is anysense was In luck to have been horn of the thing In this question of survival, masculine gender. Recently In Sunwe cannot expect to find It In surely day school the subject of regenera Why not better phenomena. nhysical Hon wns being discussed When told the nervous that force which accept that It meant to he born again, he the actuates body may. in certain InIt made clear that he was not In dividuals, extend beyond the periphery favor of It When asked his reason of that body? be said: Nevertheless, It Is as well that I "How do I know that If I was to away from the other hoiice brought I be boru again wouldn't he a girl?" the hook I found there on the desk, on "Eugenia likes ami the Onkville A wife never hates to ssk her hus Phehoinenn." It Is no reading for Mr hand for money any less than Bethel, under the Hrcimistiioce, to have do It IIU UR1 (XMTIJ-'IEL.- ht p Champion SparlCPhtgs Toledo, Ohio 622 Dependable for Every Engine Aviators Have Found Use for Old 'Chutes Muffles for aviators are being made from wornout parachutes used in the aviation branch of the United States . . army. Parachutes are made of the finest, Boftest Japanese silk. They are made In many pieces, so that if a break occurs It will not run the entire length of the cloth. A parachute usually lasts about five years. The silk is then turned in and the larger pieces are used to make mufflers for pilots. The soft silk serves a valuable purpose In protecting the throat of the wearer from chafing of the helmet strap, especially on long hops. After the World war the discarded covering of airplane wings was much In demand by both men and women for outing shirts. Clung to German Marks When the will of a wealthy man was filed with Assistant Attorney General Stubns, of Maine, for assessment of taxes on financial interests of that state, an unusual clause was found in the will. That part of the document referred to 14.1,tHKJ.K0.-OOO.OIK- I German marks which the man had bought during the war, and instructed the executor to retain the currency until it could be redeemed at a "reasonable price" rather than appraise it as practically worthless. The man bought the marks for about SG.O00. Plentiful Supply "We're going south for the winter." "What? With so much of it right here in Alaska?" It Ma:y Be M toc-Ji- Shining Example of Art "Made to Ordsr" in Raphael's or Itulxms been a singularly tn must have time, artistic person, Judged by modern standards. He generally began his career as an apprentice, grinding 'ol ors and stretching canvases or pre paring panels for some eminent employer. Later, he was allowed to work on the less Important portions of bis master's works, and still later, he opened a studio of his own. But didn't call It a r.tudlo. It was a shop equipped to turn out art by the piece or on time. Its proprietor was ready and willing to furnish whatever was wanted, from a sign for another shop to Ihe celling of a chapel. Ills main concern wns to please bis customers make ns much money as possible, and turn out a good Job. And heroine In Its only true sense Is ulmost as Involuntary a process as the growth of a man's hair or the col orlng of bis eyes, be managed, in the A painter No Pressuiork Necessary The waffles him. had Just discovered cowboy and he had his apietlte with The Hist order disappeared In record time and amther supply was called for. Order after order fol lowed, but the wa files did not come quite fast enough for the cowboy, so he said to the waiter: "Tell the fellei out there he needn't stop to put the prlntln' on tlem; Jest scud 'em In plain." . hr I ... IV. id. ., When your Children Cry for It Costorla Is a comfort when Baby Is freirul. No sooner takv than the little one Is at ease. If restless, a few drops Boon bring contentment. No harm done for Castoria Is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest Inf.int vnn l.m-- !. word for that I It Is a vegetable prouuc-- i una you could use It every day I'."f it's In an cmerjtoncy that Castorln most. Tr ,,e night when const must be relieved or colic pains or other aufferln?. Never be without It ; some mothers keep nn extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will always he Castoria in the bonse. It Is effective for older children, too; read the book that comes with It - liK-a;.- s |