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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928 of LA XI f &2 RSMrj V Xf., .LAMPby A --W-Jti I fJ, 5PL 11 """" 'ROBERTS RINEHART I 17 At the same time we are not without developments, of a sort. Although he is reticent on the subject, Halliday seems to feel that the experiment the other night, Incomplete as it was, negatives the theory that the man I saw escaped by the broken window in the library. "Then where did he go?" I asked. "That's the point," he said. "Where did he go? When we've answered that we'll have answered a number of tells . me, A? CE0.H.D0RAN COMPANY WN.USER.VICE killer. enough, COPYRIGHT j August 25. Five days have passed since the murder, and we are apparently as far from Its solution as ever. What work Is being done Is now centering about the 'county detective bureau in the city. A deputy constable keeps up a more or less casual surveillance of the property during the day, but is careful to depart before twilight The dragging of the bay has once more been stopped, and Benchley's idea of an unknown enemy of Bethel's has apparently been abandoned in favor of Gordon as the things." But he mary j." CHAPTER - surprisingly that he has taken up a sort of temporary residence in the house. "Whoever tried to get in the other nigjitmaycn!l!2 back, again' hesnys. Elementary School THE UNKNOWN GIFT Poor little Nell was sitting- on the doorstep crying. She knew she was not going to pet anything for Christmas because her mother and father were poor. She was thinking of the nice things the other choldren would get. Christmas night when she went to Ma. And today he prefaced his business with a small lecture to me. taking me Into the drive to deliver it. "Ton don't look like a man who has been on a vacation," he began, surveying me, I know you've had a bad time, but after ail. It's no possible responsibility of yours." "I rented him the house. And I knew I had no business to rent it to anybody." "Poppycock I" be said, and cleared his throat Be had fallen Into step with me. but at that he stopped and faced me. "Now, see here. Porter, he said. There's r good bit of talk going around. Some of your friends are saying that you and Jane are laying the blame on some d n fool nonsense about the house itself. That's poor hearing, and it's ridiculous into the bargain. The Morrison girl was not killed in the house." "I'm not sure she wasn't At any rate, he was. And 1 believe the same hand killed them both." "But a human hand, of course? You're not going to say" "Oh. I admit that," I said. "Cut there are a lot of curious things. If you think the house Is normal, spend a night there and see." "Normal !" he snapped. "Of course the house Is normal. It's the people In it who aren't" And warming to his subject : "You and Cameron should be locked up together. And Pettin-gill.- " tie added. Which brought him to Cameron, and his errand. . . . Immediately on Cameron's return from the Adirondacks he had gone to bed with an infested hand, which had I have offered to stay with him, but not. I dare say, with any enthusiasm. But he declines with a smile. "You are too psychic, Skipper!" he says. But it is perfectly evident that he does not want me. This morning, going unexpectedly Into the boathouse, where this conversation took place, I found him sitting by his table, and spread out be fore him the bit of linen, the cipher, the broken lens and the top of the ether can which constituted our vari ous exhibits before I was gently elim iuated from the case. But he also had a box of figs and a hand mirror before him, and when I entered unexpectedly he was studying himself in the glass. been torn by a fishhook, and had been As he Immediately asked me if I too ill to look at the accumulation of cared to go fishing, which I did not, I mail. Cut the day before, although saw that he was not prepared to make still very weak, he had gone through . . . any explanation. his letters, and there found one from The other development, although it Mr. Bethel, 1'r.ted late in July. does not solve the crime, or touch on In this letter Bethel recited various it, came to me through Lear today, "abnormal conditions in the Twin and throws a new and interesting Hollows house, and asked Cameron, at light on poor old Bethel himself. earliest the possible moment, to go Lear did not like his errand; he out and them. investigate to a presumptuous skepticism prefers "And he wants to come?" I asked an irrational credulity, and knows no Lear. middle ground. Those things which "I tell you he's been sick," Lear lie beyond his understanding he re"He wants to know said impatiently. word to a as favorite fers "poppycock," about showing it to the police. He bed she cried herself to sleep. The doesn't want to be dragged in, If he next morning she found by her bed- can help it." "You've seen It?" side a beautiful doll, the kind she had a found also "Yes. There's nothing In it except .She wanted. always purse with a dollar in it. What do what I've told you." you think she did with that dollar? "He docsn" describe these abnormal She ran up town and bought a. nice conditions?" present for her mother and father. "No. But te said he had made some Then she was the happiest girl in of his own, and was experiments the world. anxious to have his results verified." MARJORIE KOFORD, Fifth Grade. "Experiments? Using a red light?" "He didn't say," Lear said, with some asperity. "A red light! What -. heaven's name has a red light to do with the immortal soul?" He enlarged on that savagely. Helena, he said, had been off in a corner saying, "ora, om" to herself half the summer, and when she dozed off in so doing, would waken to claim that her astral body had been off on some excursion or other. "1 can't appeal to her reason," he said with a shrug of his thin shoulders, "but 1 have appealed to her decency. I've asked her lf it is fair to Intrude Into the privacy every human Individual is entitled to at times. But It's no good. She keeps a record, and I'm convinced it would Jail her." The only advice I could send Cameron was to use his own judgment concerning the letter. Personally, I do not see what value it has, save to corroborate my own Ideas concerning the bouse. But it has suggested to me the advisability of asking Cameron to come here quietly and look the place over. I rather think he wants to do so. August 26. All along, 1 have been impressed by the attitude of at least the summer public to our tragedies; as each one came it brought with it Its temporary thrill; for a moment one might say, the dancing stopped and a bit of drama was enacted on the stage. Then the curtain fell, the band struck up, and the whirl began again, with some inconsiderable of the dancers missing. Poor Carroway's widow is working at one of the shore hotels, and has And a small boy bobbed her hair. with adenoids delivers our milk and chickens; I caught him this morning chalking up a triangle within a circle on one of the pillars of the gate. The main house shut and empty, a new assistant keeper at the lighthouse, and perhaps a closed room and grief at the Morrison farmhouse these are the only apparent scars left to mark Atomour summer's wounding. I saw Larkin this morning. He believes that we may be able to sell the property as a hotel site ; as this would insure destroying the house, it seems the best thing. But one other change I have oot recorded. i- MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR TREMONTON mm i f WWt-- T If I o X STEAM I,. mIIImI I BAKERY ON DISPLAY Books Stationery Candies Fountain Pen Sets Cutex Sets Hand Bags Purses Ivory Perfume izers Manicuring Sets Toilet Sets Perfumes Prices That Are Right for High Class Merchandise Be sure and get your tickets on the dolls to -- be given away each Saturday night. Airplane to be given away Christmas Eve We Give Green Trading Stamps H. G. Scott Drug Co. Phone 47 Tremonton, Utah Again, he has asked me for Cncle Horace's letter, and has been apparently making a study of Ii Only along the lines of what 1 call the supernormal phenomena of the Snowville A baby boy registered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keed Larkin Dec 4. J. Y. Rich was badly frozen Friday night when his car ran out of gasoline west of here and he undertook to walk to Rose's ranch. It was much further than he thought and he be- success. Miss Cora Daley of Bingham was came exhausted. He lay down and piled snow over his feet and legs to guest of Mrs. Mary H. Cooper keep them from freezing-Help did not come until next afternoon about 3 o'clock. Subscribe for The Leader, $2.00. Mr. Rich was brouprht to spiritism. He accepted that decision without the Nelson hotel where Dr. Ward-leig- h was summoned and Mr. Rich comment. But shortly after he asked Edith for the letter from Evanstun. was taken care of. He is improving CASH and sat thinking over it for some time. nicely. The baby son of Mr, and Mrs. Mo"Of course, itb a little Imaginaroni Arbon has been quite ill. that he tion," said, "you might figure Miss Florence Anderson of Howell these people were somehow let In on for all kinds of what happened here last year. But spent last week here with her sister, Mrs. A. P. Larkin. HIDES, PELTS, FURS why Evanston?" And after a pause, AND WOOL the The of Bluebird Primary girls following a train of thought: mothers entertained Yours For Business their association, "Of course I suppose, if you grant at a party Tuesday afternono. & Fur Co. Hide Garland a spirit world, you have to grant that The Gleaners and Juniors enter- J. W. GARRETT, Manager where time and space do uot exist and only nbratlon counts whatever Bell Phones 146 and 26 that may mean you could tune in When You Think GARLAND, UTAH Evanston as well as well, as easily as you can on the radio." But he got up soon after, saying that we were all crazy and he himself "Everything to Build Anything" was the maddest of the lot, and went Phone summer does be show his old openness, and there be is frankly puzzled. My decision not to call In Cameron has, I think, disappointed him. But Cameron's my reasons are sound. coming might result In unpleasant press publicity for us, and more than that puts me where I do not Intend to be placed, among the believers In ? . HIGHEST PRICES PAID LUMBER THINK WILSON August 27. Livingstone Is a curious chap; dapper, fastidious and taciturn. He is almost too much of a gentleman ; I have had the feeling, and I think Jane has also, that a part ct his reticence is caution, that he Is always watchful, subconsciously at least, lest the veneer crack, and something secretly vulgar be exposed. I am still wondering why he came to see me today; he was sitting, gloved and spatted, in our small living room when Clara brought his card to me In the garage and I hurried in. Sitting, too, staring at our ridiculous parlor organ, with an odd look on his face. "Haven't seen one for years," be said, in his clipped and yet deliberate manner. "Where'd you happen on that one?" "It was here when we came," Federal Farm Loans 11. away. 1 ex- plained. He gave it another glance before we sat down, and then apparently dismissed it. But not entirely. Now and then he looked toward it, and once I saw a slight smile, as though back in his mind was some equally faint humorous memory. But he came to the point with a certain directness. "You're a man cf sense," he said. "1 came because you've got a head on you." "I used to have," I admitted modestly. "Lately, of course " He b3nt forward. "Use it," he said. "Don't let this spirit bunk get you. Easiest stuff In the world to fake." "I don't intend to let it get me." He brushed that aside, and glanced once more at the organ. "You trke a thing like that," he said, "and start it in the dark. It gets you creepy in no time. They all use It; it used to be organs like that; now Its They say it starts the phonographs. vibrations! Well, I'll tell you what it does ; it gets you worked up. Sometimes it covers something the medium wants to do." "So I Imagine," I agreed. His volubility suddenly left hlm then, and he seemed rather at a loss." "Let it alone," he said. "Let well enough alone" After a pause: "There may be something, but let It alone." And that so far as 1 can make out, He was the purpose of his visit showed a certain relief, as if he had got rid of something momentous to him, and soon after he took an abrupt departure. Thomas tells me that another attempt was made to get into the house last night He bad left his pruning ladder outside under a tree, and found it upright against Gordon's window this morning. . . . 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(To Be Continued) - The fellow who wants to begin at the top should become a well driller. Eskimo songs reaching this country by radio are said to be almost as bad as our own. hypocrite is one who pretends to believe a person whom he knows is A lyniR. Looks as though some husbands also may have been picked out in a Watching Halliday as 1 do, affectionately and not too openly, I .an see a blindfold test. very considerable jhange in him. lie An editor Rets many an idea from is like a man lit from within by some who surest how to run the folks resoor flame, of vengeance perhaps, it is the idea lution certainly. And he Is moody at paper. Most frequently to shoot the sufrtfcster. like he'd that times; his old gnyety is gone. He has put me out of his confidence, not be- FORCED TO SLEEP IN cause he does not fust me, but beCHAIR GAS SO BAD cause for some reason he Is afraid of me. "Nijrhts I sat up in a chair, I had And the same, J think. Is largely such stomach jras. I took Adlerika true of Edith in the Inst day or two. and nothing I eats hurts me now. 1 It is as though be said, In effect: Bleep fine." MrR. Glenn Butler. Even the FIRST spoonful of Ad"Keep out It is dangerous. I an relieves jras on the stomach lerika to but a want take chance, willing of to know that the rest of you are safe." and, removes astonishing amounts system. Now and then, however, I gather old waste matter from the Makes you enjoy your meals and Thus yesterday be said: something. No matter what you better. sleep "You have to remember this; we are have tried for your stomach and not dealing with a criminal, bat with bowels. Adlerika will surprise you. an Idea." H. G. Scott Drug Co. 1 tained the M. L A. at a Christmas party Tuesday evening. Jos. J. Cutler and Miss Martha Harmon of Ogden were married in the Logan temple Dec, 5. They came here to make their home. De Lamar Cutler has invested his savings in a radio. The Primary bazaar and fish pond held Thursday of last week was a big: A New Year! But Si ill the Same Bank finding us stronger financially, and even more firmly established in the good will of the community, is proof of our principles of Integrity and Character strong foundations, on which we shall continue to build during 1929. The new year will find us just as eager, just as able to serve your needs. 1929, Tremonton Banking Co. The Bank Best Able to Serve the Bear River Valley |