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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928 laxed Id her chair; her face looked white and her eyes were slightly fixed. "It is ringing." she Bald, thickly. And that Is bow I happened to be at the telephone that night And bow. too, I gave the alarm which enabled the murderer to escape, bj calling llalliday. "Get your revolver and meet me at the main house." I said. "There's something wrong there." I know that had I not rung the telephone, bad I gone for llalliday In LAMP V J MARY ROBERTS RINtHARJ COPYRIGHT bf GEO. H. DO RAN COMPANY CHAPTER 16 (Continued from last week) of tie receivers was down, either at Ilalliday's or at the main house; that I heard a crash over the wire, fol21. August I lowed by a second and nearer one, and The excitement Is still Intense have hardly seen llalliday since our after that a silence; that following I heard, near the receiver, the trouble; he Is working with the po- that of exhaustion, and that breaih sobbing a to which of come number have lice, that the receiver after immediately assist Greenough. Curious crowds called llalliday franstand outside our gates, whkh we went up. and have been obliged to close and lo. k tically; iind that, on his replying, told him my suspicion that something A few of the more adventurous, admission by the lane, are turned was wrong at t lie main house, and to back there by guards who are on duty meet nre there at once. I'.ut there is a discrepancy here day and night. Thomas, standing at the gate, has which may cause me trouble if they orders to admit only the detectives come hack to it. A telephone such a and duly accredited members of the ours does not ring if one of the receivers is down. And the plain fact press. On the bay we have once more the is that our telephone did not ring at familiar crowd of searching boats. Off all that night. As I have not yet recorded the the Point, dragging has been going on, but with no result Owing to the fact events of that tragic evening in their that no guards were placed by the sequence. I shall do so now. llalliday had dined with us. and boat, a large portion of it has already had been more like himself than for morbid Individuals been taken away by who will place their trophies, I dare-pa- some time past. After dinner he and on tables or mantlepieces, and Edith sat on the veranda, and going to lower a shade I saw that she was thereafter gloat over them. Truly, just as the lunatic always holding a match while he drew someInsists that he Is sane, so do the sane thing on a bit of paper. But the often demonstrate that they are mad. match went out almost at once, and would have thought no more of it. And so far, nothing. had I not heard Edith say: GorNothing, that is, which leads to "And the cabinet was there?" don's apprehension. From the time "In the corner." he replied. landhe turned back In the boat and I am uo eavesdropper, so I drew the woods Into his the made escape ing, and turued away. shade above Robinson's point, he disapHe left at something after ten, and a Here and there peared entirely. clew has turned up. to end in disap- Edith joined us. She was very quiet, me play solitaire pointment. Greenough believes that and sat watching he will be found, that he cannot es- while Jane sewed industriously. At , but I am not half past ten or thereabouts. Jane sud cape the police : I I jinin-ln- 1 drag-net- so sure. . . .. hours Although almost forty-eigh- t have papsed Jane, has not yet opened up the subject of the telephone, and because of her morbid reserve on such matters, I have not told the police. Asked how 1 had happened to be at the telephone and thus receive the alarm, I have replied that the bell rang, that I went to the instrument, and was itiinifiMatolv aware that one ilonly said "The telephone is, ringing.' Both Edith ami I looked up in amazemetil ; the instrument was in the small hall, not ten feet from where I sat; il would have been impossible for it to ring without our hearing it, and we had heard nothing. "You've been asleep, Jane!" Edith accused her. Bui I glanced at her. and I remember that she was oddly re-- He Drew H Something Paper. on a Bit of stead, we would have caught the criminal. But to ring the one bouse was to ring the other; he may still have been standing there gasping. He had, for all he knew up to that time, the rest of the night In which to finh?h his deadly work; to dispose of the body, to gather up his suitcase, waiting outside, and get away. But 1 called llalliday, and the criminal listened, lie knew then that Instead of hours he had only minutes. He must have worked fast, in that ghastly shambles of a room; the car was probably already out, In the lane. He may even have stood there, at the corner of the lane, the engine turning over quietly, and watched Hallida' running up toward the houee. And perhaps he laughed, that secret laugh of his which had always rather chilled me. Then he simply got into the car and drove away. Cool and crafty to the last No body, no murder. He made for the boat. He left behind him only two real clews ; the knife, which Annie Cochran identifies as one taken from the kitchen, and his packed suitcase. Not intentional, this last He must have ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bergstrom needed clean linen. And certainly that Miss Sarah Peterson came home diary of his, in cipher he would not Monday after a month's visit with her want that in the hands of the police. aunt, Mrs. Clarence Reeves, at Cen But what would the diary matter, terville. after all, if he himself escaped? (Too late for last week) John Cranier and Allie Cranier of President Heber J. Grant and party August 22. held Corinne spent Sunday with friends were in attendance at a meeting As time goes on the case Is compliin our ward Sunday evening- at six here. cated with the eagerness of all sorts Miss Erma Johnson was taken to o'clock, also the Bear River stake of people to bring in extraneous cirpresidency, and over 250 people were the Valley hospital Thursday and was cumstances which they consider imby operated on for appendicitis. present to hear the remarks given Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson were portant were present from Honeyville, Brig-haFor Instance, Livingstone's butler, Tremonton, Garland, Evans, Ogden visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bergstrom and the one who bought the knife in Oak-vlll- e Bothwell, and Penrose. Many reand caused so much excitement mained standing throughout the ser- daughter Vaudess went to Ogden vices. Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving by so doing, has been over to get a Miss lone Christensen of Garland with Mr. and Mrs. J? rank JNorgberg. description of Gordon, preserving an with friends. Mrs. Joseph Nelson and children air of visited over the week-en- d mystery which under other cirMiss Ruby Bergstrom came over are visiting relatives in Avon. cumstances would be vastly entertainSunC. attended and Mrs. and Mr. W. Waldron and from Logan Friday day school in company with her par- - children are visiting at Morgan, the ing.Another story concerns a middle-age- d guests of Mr. Waldron s parents. man of highly respectable apmovand are family George Young ing to Corinne, where Mr. Young has pearance and of a square and heavy build, who was seen walking uncerpurchased a home. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. C. Peterson and tainly along the main road near the Mr. and Mrs. Albin Borgstrom visit- Livinstone place at 1:00 a. m. the L. E. ALLRED, Prop. ed with relatives at Penrose Sunday night of the murder. A passing car. Monday evening a number of self- - seeing his state, stopped and asked If invited guests went to the home of he was In trouble. Cecil McNeely and spent the evening, BOOTS AND SHOES ne replied that he had been struck the occasion being the birthday of Mr. a car an hour or so before, and had by was MADE TO ORDER The in spent McNeely. evening social chat and, at a late hour a been lying by the road ever since. dainty luncheon was served. Covers His condition bore this out, as he was Mr. and Mrs. Joseph stained with blood and dirt He acUtah were laidMr.forand Mrs. T. E. Adams, Tremonton Nelson, cepted the offer of a lift, and was left Mr. and Mrs. Roy Anderson, and Mr. at the railroad station at Martin's and Mrs. McNeely. Ferry to catch the express there for the city. There have been many similar ones; an Innumerable number of people are convinced that they have seen Gordon, and apparently almost any dapper youth of twenty or so, with what Edith calls patent leather hair and an Inveterate cigarette habit, Is likely at any time to be tapped on the shoulder and taken to a police station. . . . Of clews of other and lesser sorts there has been almost an embarrassment Both the library and that portion of the hall near the telephone have furnished finger prints. Bat as Greenough says: "Finger prints do not discover criminals; they Identify them." Nevertheless, great pains have been taken to preserve them. On the white marble mantel a very distinct Imprint In blood was photographed without others, less clear, were difficulty; dusted with black powder before the camera was used. Detailed pictures were made of the library and hall, beQuick for getaway, unusual mileage, and fore any attempt to put them back to TEXACO what of power that's plenty " order was permitted, and these prints GAS and OILS offer you. If you haven't have been enlarged and carefully studied. One of them with a strange tried this gas an oil, give them a fair test result. for the next fifty miles then you'll nevGreenough, handing It to me, said: er change. You can "This print Is defective. keep It, If you care to." But I wonder If It Is defective. There Is what Greenough calls a light streak In the lower corner, but It requires very little Imagination to give to this misty outline the semblance of a form, and to the lower portion of Thatcher CITY SHOE REPAIR MILEAGE AND POWER TEXACO GAS AND OILS Wadsworth Service Stations ONE IN EACH END OF TREMONTON It the faint but recognizable appearance of brocade. I have said nothing. What can I . . . One thing which puzzles the police Is the violence of the battle; it seems Incredible that Bethel could have ninde the figlit for life which he evidently did. At the same time, they have two problems to solve wbicb repeated searching of the house and wide publicity have not yet answered. One Is the disappearance of the man uscript on which Bethel bad worked all summer. Annie Cochran has testified that this manuscript was kept locked In a drawer In the library desk; when llalliday and I entered the house this drawer was standing open and the manuscript was missing. It bus not yet been located. But perhaps the most surprising Is the failure of any friend or relative of Simon Bethel to Interest himself In the case. Cameron's note to Larkln before Bethel rented the house ex. pressly disclaims any previous know! edge of him. "Here is a possible tenant for Mr. Porter's house," he wrote, "of which he spoke to me some time ago. I have no acquaintance with Mr. Bethel, save that he called on me a day or so ago, in reference to a statement In a book of mine. I Imagine, however, that he would be a quiet and not troublesome tenant," llalliday brought up this curious situation yesterday, In one of the rare moments he has given us since the murder. "Has it occurred to you, Skipper," he said, "that It Is strange that no one belonging to Mr. Bethel has turned up?" "1 dare say a man can outlive most of his contemporaries and most of his friends." "He wasn't as old as all that" And he asked, apparently irrelevantly a moment later : "The two evenings you saw him and talked to him, how did he Impress you? I mean, his state of mind?" "The last time, of course, he was He said as franklv frightened. much." "And before that?" 'Tie didn't say so, but he was more or less on guard. He had his re volver. Of course, those were rather sayl parlous times." As a matter of fact, the case Is any thing but a clear one against Gordon, as it develops. Greenough has been all along, as convinced of Gordon's guilt as he had previously been of mine. But Benchley is more open to conviction, and a conversation between Halliday and him this morning, on the lawn near the terrace, Is still running in my mind. llalliday had been protesting against Greenough's method of "following single idea until It went up a blind alley and died there." "Of course," he said quietly, "you can make a case against Gordon; it's oil here. But you'll have something left over that you won't know what to do with. We know that it was Mr Bethel who hit Gordon and knocked him out some time ago, but who tied him? Where's the boy's own story about seeing a man at tbe gun-rooMr. Porter here later on window? finds that same window open, and sees a man In the lower hall. Who was that? The same hand tied the boy that tied Carroway, and Gordon hadn't even seen this place at that time. What are you going to do with ... the night express remembers carrying oo such passenger. Greenough today 6howed me Gordon's diary, rescued from the suitcase. It has at some time beeu dropped into water, and certain pages are not legible. If Indeed that word may he used where nothing Is legible; where each page presents such Jumbles of iarge and small letters as the following rentence, which 1 have copied as a matter of Interest: Trn g.K. GTItgg UnMT aot LmGT MotrT." The record Is not a dally one, but apparently was used for Jotting down odd thoughts or Ideas. It continues, however, at Intervals, for the entire period of his stay at Twin Hollows, the last entry having been made on August 17. Certain entries are neat and methodThe one on July 27, however, after bis Injury, Is by hand, and shows and changes. Once or twice ical. eras-ure- a the record Is long, covering more than a page, while the July entries are all brief. On the last page, however, and without comment, he has drawn In, rather carefully, a small circle enclosing a triangle. Greenough, while attaching a certain interest to it has not yet sent It to be deciphered by the code experts of his department As a matter of fact, I suspect him of holding tt out, with the Idea of being able to claim the reward of he Dnds Gordon. Which reward, by the way, now stands at ten thousand dollars. In August (To Be Continued) BEHING THEIR BACKS She Have you ever kissed another girl before me? He No, dear. I never kiss before anyone. Eats Big Steak And Fried Onions No Gas "Every time I ate I had terrible stomach gas. Now, thanks to Adlerika, I eat steak and fried onions and feel fine," Mrs. J. Julian. Just ONE spoonful Adlerika re lieves gas and that' bloated feeling1 so that you can eat and sleep well. 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She'll like to bank here, where everyone is so friendly. 4 $1 opens an account. per cent interest compounded semi-annuall- y. that?" "Then where's Gordon now?" Bench ley asked, practically enough. "1 don't know. Dead, maybe." Benchley stood thinking. "1 think I get the Idea," he said "The fight, you think, was between Mr. Bethel and this unknown of yours; the boy either saw It and got mixed up In it, or knew he'd be suspected and beat it. Is that It?" "Well, I would say that a man about to commit such a crime doesn't pack his suitcase, with the Idea of escaping with It." A thought which, 1 admit, had never occurred to me until that moment As a result of this conversation, Benchley has advanced a theory of hi own which accounts at least for the failure of any relatives to make Inquiry. This is that tbe ole man was In hiding under an assumed name; hiding, in the most secluded spot he could find, from some Implacable enemy who had finally caught up with him. How he reconciles this with the Carroway murder and the disappearance of Maggie Morrison I do not know, but certain facts seem to bear out this Idea. He was, In one pense, a man of mystery. His accounts were paid In cash; the automobile In whicti he arrived had been bought at second hand a few days before, by the secretary and In the same manner. And all Identifying marks had been carefully removed from bis clothing. In addition to all this, there Is the puzzling report on the knife Itself. under the microscope Examination shows fiber? of linen as well as frag ments of cellular tissue. But It also reveals minute particles of tobacco leaf, showing it had gone through a pocket But Mr. Bethel was not a smoker. At some one time, then, Bethel clear ly secured the knife and wounded bis Not seriously, evidently, assailant eince after that he was able to do what he did do, but sufficiently to turn the minds of the police toward the man who claimed to have been struck by an automobile. 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