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Show BFAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER The LAMP By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Cavmcat By Ow. THE STORY WMC ' Ernta of the it or 7 forth In the journal of William A. Porter, professor of English (e) tbe notebook. In the same cipher. A man does not record his thought? In this manner, unless be wishes to keep them bidden. (f) Tbe linen strips muffling the oar locks, and suggested to Halllday today by bis place of concealment The Inventory of tbe main house shows a certain oumher of linen sheets. If one Is missing It will prove a strong factor in connecting him with he boat (g) The locking ot his bedroom. (h) I .a ft uud not least, an unpleas ant personality. Halllday uses the word "degenerate." bul I am not pre reared to go so far. A3 against all this, however, we literature: The profesaofa uncle, Horace Porter, died mysteriously at hi borne, Twin Hollows, now the Jane, th professor's property professor's wife, (a a psychic With their niece. Edith, the Pur-tego to Twin Hollows for theli vacation, despite Jane's reluo tance A letter Horace had been writing at the time of hi death shows that he was Interested In spiritualism ft hints of danger A "red lamp" Is mentioned They take up their residence In th lodge, because of Jane'a aversion to the house Warren Halllday In lovt with Edith, comes to live in the boatbouse. A number' ot aheep are mysteriously killed In the vicinity The slayer leaves a cabalistic sign at the scene ot the killings. Greenough. a detecr tlve, arrives and Porter has s feeling that he la under suspicion. Twin Hollowa Is rented to an etderl;, partially para Ivied man, Bethel, who, with his secretary, Gordon, takes possession A youth, Carroway, on watch for the sheep killer, disappears Por-te- r has the red lamp hidden In room of which he alone ha the key, but many people. Including the professor himself believe they have seen Its reflection at Twin Hollows. Halllattacked' day Is mysteriously and seriously injured Carroway Is found In the bay, murdered Mary Morrison, Porter's cook disappears. Gordon, Bethel's secretary. Is found unconscious from a blow on the head. Halllday tarts an Investigation of the It Is discovered that mystery. Gordon frequently leaves Twin Hollows at night, clandestinely n have: la) The attack on him at the kltch en door, and the manner In which he was tied, corresponding to the rope iImiuI Carroway. (h) The sheep killing and rnurdei ot Carroway. taking place ns they did before his arrival. (c) The fact that Halllday cannot identify him as the man he picked up In his car. murk (d) The distinguishing by which the criminal has signed his crimes, so to speak. Is the circle und triangle, drawn In chalk; while this Is noi vital, HaJliday found no chalk In the room. . , . have put to Hulliduy the boy's veiled Inquiry about the doctor. It Is impossible for us to experiment with the bell, hut he thinks It could he distinctly heard from the main road. On the other hand, the arrival ol llayward on the scene almost as eoou as I had got there Is extremely puzzling. We have tonight paced off the distance. In view of my statement that I had lighted only one match when the doctor's flashlight was turned on 1 (Continued.) 13 "1 don't believe It could be done." he said, with his sideways glance at me. "He's got good ears, tlie doctor ' De said something before he left about looking for another Job. as me. There seems to he no doubt that this one was too confining, and the was on the property last llayward "I man not easy to live with old only I do not accept the postook It for the summer," he snld. "and night. Hut sibility, by suggested Halllday, that I'm about fed up with It. It's too In Greenough's confidence And he'd let that cat ot as he was confining. lie had been watching me. A man his rot before he'd let me take li out ' does not, I Imagine, go out on such With which clumsy attempt to allhi an errand with his medical hag In his himself regarding the car, he took hl hand, and the doctor had carried his In smre Edith believes that departure. I recall distinctly his taking bag: manner he knows that the t ar has been It the dressings from for Gordon'? examined, and she may he right head Ilalliday's Investigation ot his room August 9. ' during his absence proceeded wl'h new Nothing today. Halllday out difficulty. With my keys and An watched the main house last night, an 'riile Cochran's connivance he made but no one left It Annie Cochran re easy entry, Mr. Rethel having retired thaf Mr. Bethel Is suspicious ol ports,. his for siesta Gordon, and that the feud between At first glance the room offered them still continues. He declines the nothing, and leaving Annie Cochran secretary's assistance as much as poson guard outside under pretense ol sible. cleaning the passage. Ilalliday made a That he Is not certain, however, Is more Intensive search. The bed disshown by the cure with which he now closed nothing, nor did the closet; his has the house locked up at olght suitcase was locked, and ovet It Hal "He waits In the library," she says, liday spent more time than was en "until I've locked all the doors and ' 1 rely safe. windows. Then I bring hlra the keys, "Toward the end," he says. "1 was except tlie one to the kitchen door. pretty shaky, I kept thinking I heard He lets me have that to get In wilb him. and of course the tnore 1 hurried In the morning." the more 1 bungled the thing." He Is showing considerable courage, He got It open at last without break-ln. to my mind. the lock, and found In It the noteMrs. Livingstone told us a new book. story, Illustrative of the general state (Note: I find I have given no de- of the local mind. She says that three In the orignights ago Hadly, who keeps the hard scription of the note-booAs It played a eonsid inal Journal. erable part In the approaching tragedy, It deserves some attention. H was a small compact volume ot the loose-lea- f type, a sort of diary, but not regularly kept Most of the entries, due to the complication of the cipher, were very brief. One or two. however, occupied almost a page, and ' all of them had been typed. , Needles lo say, the cipher was the one we had fund on the scrap of paper picked up In my garage.) with The discovery of the note-hooIts cipher sent his excitement to fever "pitch, lie ran through It for the code word, but was unable to find it. Then, replacing the book and leaving the suitcase ns he had found It, he set to work more carefully on the room Itself. The coll ot rope and the knife were behind a row of books on the bookshelf, a packet of typing paper and a box of carbon sheets thrown over them with apparent casualness. to con ceal them Ptlll further. So closely had he calculated the time that he had barely restored them to their places when Cordou slammed the entrance door downstairs. Mads a Mors Intensive Halllday had not time tc make the Halllday Search. Annie Cochback staircase, however ran opened the linen closet door, and ware store In Oakvllle, when parsing he bolted In there. He heard Gordon where Carroway It tbe cemetery unlock his room and enter It and al burled, saw a figure walking slowly most Immediately reappear and de the grave. It stopped, looked at mnnd of Annie Cochran It she had past tbe mound, and then moved on, fad been In It during his absence. An an lng Into nothing at the clump of ever gry dispute followed, within a foot or greens beyond It two of tbe linen closet not the less seems to have made 00 fur Hadly crimoulous because of Its lowered I ther Investigation voices, and of an almost hysterical August 10. lu Gordon's. quality At midnight last night Halllday Every particle ot tils veneer had wakened me by throwing pebbles dropped from him, and the threats be the screen of my window. He made If he should find she had been against was standing close underneath, and in bis room are net even to be record mo to put on something and asked ed here. . . . work my way quietly toward the oth And now, once again, where are we) er house. We have, as against Gordon: "What's wrong?" I asked, (a) The knife and the coll ot rope "He's getting ready to go out. I (b) Our belief that he uses the car think. He put his light out at eleven clandestinely, at night. und turned It on again a few mln tc) At least an Indication that fit utes ago." net the tire iinoet the boathouse. Halllday moved awny, and as quick ' td) The clpnet, found In my ga ty as possible 'I dressed and followed hi ile was under tbe trees, wait . . after-luncheo- n 1 g . k M. la more likely our old friend Bethel la suspicious and Is watching him Tbe old man's door commands his He locks his door from the Inside, uses his rope, and la free to go where be Pmi Casss I ing, when I Joined him. and together we worked quietly across the garden and toward tbe garage, coming oat beyond It toward tbe lane. Here, while concealed ourselves, we bad a full view of the house, but tbe light was nut again and for a time It ((Miked as though nothing more were to hap pen. We stood together, welt bidden In the shrubbery for some time. Halll day, who has not had much sleep foi a night or two, fell to yawning, and 1 was not much better off. when I heard some sort of stealthy movement In the woodland to our left I touched Halllday oh the arm, to find him rigid and bending forward, staring toward the house. "lies coming, he said. "Quiet!" The boy was ratWng his window screen with all possible caution Kven when It was accomplished he stood so long, probably listening ami watching, that I began to think tie had changed his mind and gone back to bed, but as events showed, he had done nothing of the sort t'p to this moment I had not sus peered the use of the rope, although believe Halllday bad. The dark neps was extreme. But now I h..r.i faint scraping against the wall of the house Itself and realized that Cordon was coming down by means of the rope. Ills coming was as stealthy as the preliminaries had been He was nroh ably half-wadown, coming hand over hand, before I had Interpreted me sound. I was not even aware that he had reached the ground, when I saw him. a blucker shadow among other shad ows. near at hand But he did not come directly toward the garage: he walked along under the walls of the west wing to the gun-roowindow and stood there. Then with extreme caution, he raised It an Inch or two. as If to reassure himself that It had been unlocked from within, and closed It again Prom there, with somewhat less cuu tbrn, he moved to the corner of the house and seemed to .be surveying the waterfront and the hoathouse. We had our only real view of him then a? he stood silhouetted on the top of the rise. nut'" suddenly something alarmed him. Neither Halllday nor I saw or heard, anything, but evl deutiy he did. and realized, too. his ex posed position. He dropped to the ground. So tin expected was his sudden disappear ance. that gasped; It was not until I heard him creeping along the ground that 1 understood his ma neuver. ne lost no time In his retreat, nor did he attempt to use the rope again. He raised the unlocked window, crept over the sill, and closed it again, all with surprising rapidity and silence, and sooner than we could have expected we heard him drawina up the rope from his room over head. . No Interpretation of this is possi ble without taking Into consideration the really horrible stealth of the boy's manner, lie was engaged on some nefarious business of his own. wheth er we can connect that with the crimes or not. As to the extremely dramatic man ner In which he chose to escape from tbe house, when he had already unlocked the window. Halllday is divided between two theories, of which he himself favors the second. 'He may be merely dramatizing himself; you'll find a certain tyne ot degenerate mind which is always act log for Its own benefit. Or and this 1 y 1 gun-roo- pleases. "But," be added, after a pause, "he unlocks the gun-roowindow, too. so he can beat a retreat if be has to Tbat'a the best I can do, and If it Isn't correct It ought to be!" Today I am convinced beyond doubt that Gordon la our criminal and I think even Halllday Is shaken I am no detective, but It seems to me that the boy. coming here during the height of the excitement about the sheep-kille- r and young Carroway found the way already paved for a career of secret crime, and adopting the methods and the symbol of some still undiscovered religious maniac has carried on. one may say, under his banner. Certainly one fact at least supports the Idea. Halllday may be right and the attack on hltn not have been made by Gordon. But there seems 00 rea son to doubt that, some time od the day before we got back, he crept In to my garage and put the Infernal symbol where we found It We have discussed today at some length the desirability of notifying the police once more. But our recent ex perience with them is not reassuring On the other hand. I feel strongly that Mr Bethel should be warned. But Halllday argues against It "lie knows something already," he says. 'He is on guard, and the bov knows It. Then you have to remem ber that the game, so far, has been to strike In the dark, and run That Is, It you are correct Skipper, and it Is a game, without motive." Probably he Is rluht. There would ne little chance for him If he attacked the old man; he Is 100 well known to be on bad terms with him Such a warning, also, might alarm Mr. Bethel to the point of getting rid of him. and after all the only chance we have Is to let him go a certain length, and then, with our proofs, call In the ounce. But I am very uneasy tonight as I make this entry. I have not Halllday's easy optimism that he "won't get away witb anything without out knowing it" August 11. 1 had a visit last night from Cuckoo" Hadly, our village Don Juan, who sells hardware over his cohnter 'to pretty village matrons, and who was dubbed "Cuckoo" some years ago by a summer visitor who saw a resemblance to Byron in him. Hadly was slightly sheepish. He knows, and he knows 1 know, that his road home at night lies nowhere near the cemetery. At the same time, he had something to tell me, and was de termined to go through with it It appears, then, that it was not near Curroway's grave that Hadly saw the figure, but In the old part of the cemetery, and that there are some facts which he has not given out. Tbe cemetery Is surrounded by a white fence, and inside it is shrubbery Hadly, it seems, was not alone, but was standing in the road, "talking to a friend." If, as I Imagine, the frien.1 was a woman, It was surely a safe place for a rendezvous! It was the "friend" who iw the ight, and who accounts for the sup presslon of this portion of the tale. It shone through the shrubbery, a small blue-whitlight about two feet from the ground, and directly In front of the headstone of one George Pierce. who died In the last seventeen hun dreds. Hadly did not see the light, but the 'friend" persisting, he crept throuch the shrubbery to fake a look around. m - e It war then that be saw the figure, moving slowly and deliberately toward tlie trees. He seems to have no doubt that be saw an apparition, or that the Information belongs to me, tbe reason be gives for the latter being that George Pierce Is the gentleman who was. according to local tradition, shot and killed while attempting to escape the excise In tbe old farmhouse whicb la now a part of Twin Hollows. 1 have entered this here, because the day seemr given over to the so pernaturaL We have breakfasted with tbe spirit world, and seem about to lunch with It Everything continues quiet at the other bouse. . . . Jane and I today returned tbe Livingstones' calL Although it seems absurd. I have never quite abandoned the hope of finding, In Uncle Horace's unfinished letter, a dew to the present mystery. I therefore took it with me, bcplng for an opportunity to show it to Mrs. Livingstone. But none came. Doctor The Gatires, an ancient African entombed tlie bodies ot dead friends In tall towers Instead ot bury lng them In the earih. Outing the tirst three days after the body had heen laid In tlie tower It was thought to he lu danger of being carried away by the devil, and kinsmen kept watch to prevent hltn from tormenting ttie soul as It winged Its way to the ce lestial regions. On or before the fourth day the soul was In a place ot torment or hap piness. and the priests proceeded to prognosticate the future state of the deceased The body was laid on Its back, with the eyes turned toward heaven, and the vultures were permit ted to teas' upon it Tbe soul was supposed to have gone to bliss It the right eye was taken first, but It was an equally sure omen that the soui had gone to a place of punishment If the left eye was first devoured. Another mode of ascertaining the tribe, Good Bargain "Isn't that a new coat MandyT" isked the clerk In a small town store ot a seemingly happy customer, a colored woman large, who recently had been mnrrled for the third time. Is a new coat This "Yea. sir, is a present to me from my new man,' good-nature- tlt admitted Mnndy. what did you give hlml asked Hit curious one. "Me? What did I ive him?" give him no.liln 'ccpt Just me. 1 Just give him me."' "And 1 state of happiness or misery of a soul was by the movements of a dg near the corpse. it If the animal went close then were the relatives con vinced the soul was in a state of bliss, but if the dog could uot he tempted to go near the body despaired tHy of their frleud escaping everlasting to torment. Oct roll News. Plea for Tolerance Whai Is abhorrent to you may be not only fustlflable conduct to another hut actually praiseworthy. That Is where tbe spirits of tolerance and charity come lu We can't ull think alike, any more than all trees caD hear similar foliage ann fruit We are all Inconsistent Not one of us acts according to the standard his best sell et8. Besides, we are all more or les like the man In the fable, who carried two wallets ovei his shoulder, one lu front and one behind. The one behind con rained bis own faults, the one In front his neighbor". ' Can It be wondered that he was always conscious of bis neighbor's faults and forgetful of his own? London Tit-Bit- s University' History Columbia university was founded In 17.54 as King's college by royal grant of George II, king of ICngland. "for the Instruction of vouth lu the learned languages and the liberal arts and sciences." Tlie Kevolutlonury war In terrupted tts active work, but in 1784 It waa reopened as Columbia college. In 1912 the title waa changed to Columbia university. K-aethfco- " " 0 'V? A When your Children Cry for It Baby has little upsets at times. ATI your care cannot prevent them. But you can be prepared. Then you can do what any experienced nurse would do what most physicians would tell you to do give a few drops of plain Castoria. No sooner done than Baby Is soothed ; relief Is Just a matter of moments. Yet you have eased your child without use of a single doubtful drug; Castoria Is vegetable. So it's safe to use as often as an infant has any little pain you cannot pat away. And It's always ready for the crueler pangs of colic, or constipation or diarrhea ; effective, too, for older children. Twenty.fl.ve million bottles were bought last year. Won it Was Then That He Saw the Figure Uayward was there when we arrived and remained after we left. Perhaps, because my own world is awry, I think the universe Is so. But It seemed to me that we were shown in to what almost amounted to a situation ; that Livingstone, usually dapper and calm, was Bushed, and that Mrs. Livingstone wat on the verge of tears. The doctor, standing by the window, hardly acknowledged our entrance, and remained standing, glowering and biting his fingers, until we left. He is, I understand, soon to leave for a holiday. August 12. (No entry.) August 13. (No entry.) August 14. Tomorrow llayward says I shall be able to see Greenough; the first In timation I have had that he Is back In the neighborhood. But I feel that my consciousness of my own Innocence will be nothing against Greenough's sheer determina tion to prove me guilty. And yet. guilty of what? Of a bullet buried in the floor of my own house, and a broken window I We have had no further crime. Nothing is altered, save my own feeling that a net is closing around me. and that some malignant fate is sitting spider fashion In the center of It, waiting to pounce on me and destroy me. Suppose, like a lawyer preparing a brief. I make my statement here, and tomorrow read to him? At last I can make this entry full and explicit It papses the time, and he may be wili . ng to listen. This Is the 14th. It was, then, the early evening of the 11th. when Annie Cochran stopped at the Lodge her way home and asked to see me at the kitchen door. "I'm leaving, Mr. Porter." she said. 1 don't like to make trouble for you. but I can't stand that secretary." "What has he done. Annie?" "Done I" she said, and sniffed. "He's watching me, for one thing. I never go upstairs but he's at my heels. But that's not all. He's going to make trouble for Mr. Bethel. You mark my words. And Mr. Bethel knows It; he's scared tonight." There had been a quarrel, she said. at dinner, carefully camouflaged while he was In the room, but breaking out again the moment she left It So far is she could make out It had to do with the secretary's leaving the house at night and his Inslsterice'thaf he go out when and how he liked. But here was something beneath that, she thought "There was murder In that boy's face, Mr. Porter." Mr. Bethel, she thought, was trying to quiet hltn, but he refused to be quiet ed. Finally Gordon got up and flung open the pantry door, finding hei in ide It and he said, according to ber: 'Listening, are you? Well, you'd bet ter watch out, or you'll get something you don't expect" Then be went In to the hall, got his hat and slammed out of the bouse, leaving the paralytic sunk In bis chair. "He's gone? Where?" "He didn't say. He Just took the car and went." She was uneasy; she had construed what he said as a threat againpt her of a serious son., and I drove her Into Oakvllle myself. On the way I tried to persuade her to return to her employment for a time nt least, on 'he ground that we might need her, and he finally agreed. . c Destination of Soul Shown by Odd Signs Are loii (TO BE COMTlNl'ED.) the tip. by waiting Will Cold Worry You This Wlnt'er? Some men throw-of- f a cold within a few hours of contracting it. Anyone can do it with the aid of a simple compound which comes in tablet form, and is no trouble to take or to always have about you. Don't "dope" yourself when you catch cold ; use Tape's Cold Compound. Men and women everywhere rely on this amazing little tablet. Adv. 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