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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928 Red LAMP Y J MARY ROBERTS RINLHART jh I COPYRIGHT fure without, I think, showing that I bad made any discovery whatever. But nothing can alter my conviction that Harvard is biding ta tIs own bouse, and that be was in that back room when ? rang the doorbell at something before midnight Not even d Halllday's opinion that, since he he had me at is officially today, the right to be "not at borne" last Hay-war- night "After all," be said, "give the poor bis due, Skipper, fie works devil bf GEO.H.DORAN COMPANY WN.U. SERVICE CHAPTER 17 thought too that she was listening August 28. With my hand ou the knob of the wail It is impossible for me tonight to ing room, caught the attentive lnk draw any conclusion from last eve- nn her face, and found myself listen ning's discovery; 1 have not my old ing also. It seemed to me that there 'faith In circumstantial evidence. I was somebody moving in th back ofcan only ask myself If an Innocent fice, and immediately after I caught man hides in his own house. . . . the stealthy closing if a door someJane had one of her bad headaches where. With that she appeared to last night, and at eleven o'clock I took relax. the car and went In to the village "You are sure you know what you pharmacy. It was closed, however, want?" she asked. and 1 was at a loss to know what to said, and went "Quite sure," do. In the emergency I thought of the waiting room to the con through Hayward's office; like most country suiting office. She followed me and doctors he keeps a medicine cabinet turned on the light, and stood there and fills many of his own prescripme The room was intently. watching tions. I went there, therefore, and filled with tobacco smoke, and she saw rang the bell. that I noticed it, for she said : It took some time and several rings "My husband was sitting In here. to rouse the housekeeper, an elderly I'd be glad If you don't say anything 'and taciturn woman, and when she' about it." finally opened the door it was to say I am not suspicious, and the conthat the doctor was away, and to at- fession satisfied my faint feeling that tempt to close it again. 1 prevented something was not quite right in the his, however, and managed to get house. I got the tablets from the cabipast her and into the hall. inet, and being nervous about un"I only want to get some medicine," labeled bottles went to the desk; 1 explained. "The cabinet Is in the there, neatly piled up, were the back office, isn't it?" month's bills for Hayward's profes"I'm not allowed to let anybody sional services, written in his own unInto the office." tidy band, and one not finished on the "Nonsense!" I said sharply. "Any- pad. how, you are not allowing me. I'm The woman was still watching me, going." and I managed to write my label, glue She seemed completely at a loss, and it to the bottle, and makeray depar- Mrs. Leo Earl; vocal duet, Rhea and Adeena Wood; reading, Anita Hess; Christmas story, Mrs. Dan Garn; vocal duet. Hazel and Irene Farnsworth; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Spackman and reading, Von olt; short address, T. F. and family are spending the holidays with Coombs; vocal duet, lhelma Mrs. Agnes Spackman of Farmington. Phyllis Wood; reading, Iva Wilcox. On Monday the Sunday school enter Mrs. Spackman is their mother. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Garn and tained at another program. A large daughter Althea are Christmas guests crowd attended and Santa Llaus visitof Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Halliday of ed them during the afternoon and presented each with a little Christmas Ogden. , Sunday morning at the regular gift. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Godfrey and Sunday school hour a program was given. Superintendent Job Welling small son Joseph of Lehi are guests presided and Elmer Richards con- of Mrs. Eliza Godfrey and family. ducted and the following selections Mrs. Frank Cannon was hostess to were given: Reading by Frank Hess; the members of the Social Develop class; reading, ment club Thursday afternoon of last song, Kindergarten week. Business discussion for the annual anniversary dance was carried out. During the program Miss Jane When You Think Alleman and Miss Alta Hansen ren dered a musical duet and Mrs. Lester Holman of East Garland gave a reWILSON told storv. A social hour was enjoyed and luncheon was served. Mrs. Can"Everything to Build Anything" non was assisted by her daughter, Phone 11. Mrs. Norman G. Gilbert of Connne, and Mrs. Grand ville Snow. 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The Best Mill in the Bear River Valley. Highest Cash Price Paid for GOOD WHEAT Near the Depot Utah Garland Ho Said, "Give Devil His Due." "After All," the Poor hard, and why shouldn't he get back a day earlier than he is expected and steal a few hours to get out his bills? He has to live." But he seems to me to be a trifle too casual about it. I admit that he puzzles me, these days. August 31. After all, one can find the mysterious where It does not exist I may not yet know why Halliday considers it necessary to watch the main house at night. Eut I do know the reason for Livingstone's extraordinary visit Mrs. Livingstone, sitting with Jane during her convalescence, read the letter from Evanston, and is eager to form a similar circle, to sit In the house itself. And poor Livingstone Is opposing it and is making, for some reason or other, quite a business of it. Mrs. Livingstone has apparently some absurd idea that we may receive "a clew, or something," as she vaguely puts it ; and on my firm refusal departed indignantly convinced that I have lost a great opportunity to solve our mystery. . . . Later: Halliday wants the seance! Nothing has so surprised me in years as his willingness to join the table-tipperBut I suspect in him some purpose not far removed from Mrs. Livingstone's, although just what he hopes to discover baffles me entirely. "Why not?" he said, when I told him. "After all, we have to keep an open mind on this thing, and we've had enough already to make something of a care for the other side." "The other side of what?" "The other side of the veil," he explained gravely, and then, seeing my face, was obliged to laugh. "There is a pleasure In being mad. which none but madmen know,' " he quoted at me, "I've heard you say that Descartes advises us to seek for truth, freed from all preconceived ideas. - Who are we, to stand in the way of truth?" "And we are to search for it sitting around a table in the dark?" "Precisely that, Skipper," he said, with sudden gravity, and has left me to make what I can of Twelve days have now passed since the murder here, and the police know no more than they did on the morning of the twentieth. Now and then a car stops outside the gate, but our curious crowds are gone. Save that some nocturnal relic-hunthas chipped a corner off the sun-diathe place is much as It was before. 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She accepts the idea of a second accepts it stoically and without surprise; It is almost t though, from the sitting tonight without enthusiasm, beginning she bas Lnown that It was but apparently with the fatalistic ides to happen. But she is nervous. that what must be must be. Edith shows a peculiar and rather As to what Halliday bad hoped to set-f- a Whether she discover, I am as completely in the Intensity. knows that something quite different dark as ever. On my decision to end lies behind It or only suspects It 1 the seance, and on turning on the do not know. lights as I did without warning- - th? Halliday, also, Is grave and quiet group was seen to be as It bad been He Is less interested, however. In the at the beginning, except that Mrs. manner of the sitting than la its dra- Livingstone's chair appeared to have matis personae. The list be lias made been pushed back, and was somewhat out himself; Uayward, the two Liv- nearer the cabinet than before. ingstones, Jane, Edith and himself. Uayward, so far as I can tell, bad On my pointing out a slight omission, not changed his position, ills attitude namely, myself, he told me cheerfully throughout seemed to me to be me that I belonged among the Scribes and of polite but rather uneasy skepticism. Pharisees. Livingstone, on the other hand, showed "The Scribes, anyhow," be said. strong nervous excitement from first "You are to sit by the red lamp and to last but certainly never left the make notes. 1 am particularly anx- table. He is ill today, which Is not surprisious to have notes,'' be added. On the other hand, Mrs. Living- ing, but I understand the intention fs stone has entered into it with extraor- to carry on the experiment without dinary zest She appeared this after- him tonight . . . . . . Regarding the phenomena noon, slightly wheezy with the heat, carrying a bU ck curtain of some heavy themselves, what can I do but uccept material and demanding a hammer them? Certainly they showed no conand assistance before she was fairly nection with what Mrs. Livingstone out of her car. As It wus apparently likes to call the spirit world; on the up to me to furnish both I did so, but other hand, either they were genuine, anything less conducive to a spiritual or they showed an experience in trickstata of mind than the preparations ery utterly beyond any member of our which followed at the main bouse it small group. would be hard to find. An who would trick us? And why? To stand on a ladder In the heat Livingstone was right, however, as and darkness of the den, and to nail to the psychological effect of the preup that curtain across a corner with liminaries ? In spite of myself they Inno more ritual than if I had been fluenced me. The music, the low light hanging a picture; to place Inside it followed by darkness, the strange and a smail table and a bell on It, while fearful expectancy of something bebeside It leaned an old guitar, resur- yond our ken, all added to the history rected from the attic and minus two of the house itself and Us recent tragstrings, struck me as poor psychologedy, bad prepared us for anything. ical preparation for confronting the The billowing of the cabinet curtain unknown. was particularly terrible. Skeptic as The sun was low before we had I am, I had the feeling of some dreadfinished, and as we sat resting from ful Thing behind It; something one our labors dusk began to creep into should not see, and yet somehow the house. And with It came might see. . . . of course a 6ort of awe of P.oth Crawford and Cameron believe that cabinet I had myself Just made; that certain individuals have the abilit took on mystery; behind its heavy ity to project from their bodies rodfolds almost anything might happen. like structures of energy, invisible to It brooded over the room, tall and the naked eye but capable of producmenacing, with folds that seemed to ing levitatlons, rape and other phesway with some unseen life behind nomena. They believe that these them. structures are utilized by outside spirI left Mrs. Livingstone placing its, or "controls." My own conviction chairs about a small table and went is, that if such powers exist, they are out into the airl not directed from outside, but by the The arrangements are now complete. medium's subconscious mind. In that Mrs. Livingstone has brought over a case, of course, it is possible that Jane phonograph, with a collection of what was the innocent author of last night's appear to be most lugubrious records; entertainment Mrs. Livingstone suggests that if she also promises Livingstone, alive or dead. we secure anything of interest tonight, "I left him sulking," she said. "But I consult Cameron with a view to his he will feel better after he's had his joining us later on. . . . dinner." Notes of Second Seance. And to this frivolous measure we 2 ; 1 a, m. Largely from memSept. start the night's proceedings. since all the later part was held ory, Notes Made During First Seance, without light, but made Immediately Present: Sept. 1st; 11:15 p. m. seance. Present i Jane, following Jane, Edith, Hayward, the two Living Edith, Hayward, Halliday, Mrs. Livand stones, Halliday myself. Livingingstone and myself. Livingstone abstone and Edith examining house. All sent outside doors locked and windows I have moved lamp out from corner, boarded. The red lemp on small stand and am now near door into ban. corner in diagonally opposite cabinet Doors from den and library into ball and my chair beside It closed. Door Into library open. 11 :30 p. m. All is ready. Mrs. Liv11:10. Table moves almost Immediingston at end of table, next to cab- ately. Edith says Is rising from floor. inet On her left Jane, Uayward and It has risen, but one leg remains on Mr. Livingstone. On her right, Halfoor. A red silk handkerliday and Edith. 11:15. All remove bands, and table chief over lamp makes light very settles down. acfaint I have started phonograph, 11:20. Loud raps on table. Concording to instructions. I was right strued as demand for less light Handabout it; it is playing: "Shall We kerchief thrown over lamp. Curtain Gather at the River?' of cabinet billows into room. Guitar 11 :45. Small raps on the table, and overturned inside cabinet All quiet one strong one, like the blow of a now. doubled fist No phenomena whatever. Xor about 11:47. The table is moving, twisting about. It ceases and the knocks come again. 11:50. The curtain of the cabinet seems to be moving. No one else bas apparently noticed it. I have stopped the phonograph. 11:55. The curtain has blown out as far as Mrs. Livingstone's shoulder. All see It Edith says something has touched her on the right arm. To my Irtquiry J' anyone has relaxed his grasp of the hand be Is holding, no one has done so. 12:00. The bell Inside the cabinet has been knocked from the table, with such violence that It rolls out Into the room. 12:10. Nothing since the bell fell Livingstone has asked If less light is required, and by knocks the reply is "Yes." 1 have put out the lamp. (The following notes were made In the dark and are not very distinct I have supplemented them from memory.) All quiet since the last entry. There Is a mouse apparently playing about in the library. Edith says that Jane seems to be in a sort of trance. She is breathing heavily. More raps, apparently on the door frame Into library. I am cold, but probably seif-create- ten minutes." Jane" very quiet Hay ward feels ber pulse; is fast bad strong. Mrs. Livingstone asks If tool much light and rap replies "jft." have put out the lamp. (Note: From here on 1 was ablet only to jot down a word or two in long hand, the previous night's experlmenti of making stenographic notes in dark ness havln- - shown Its practical impos sibility. The following record I have! since elaborated from memory.) The bell In cabinet rings violently and Is flung across rrom. striking door) Into ball. a small ugnt, Diuisn-wnitabout a foot above Jane's bead. It shines for a moment and then disappears. It has flashed again, near the fire place. A line but steady tattoo Is being beaten, apparently, outside of the door to balL A tap or two on metal, pos sibly the fender. Silence. e, Jane apparently In trance. The sounds extend into the library and there Is movement there. The covers seem to be in motion as before The prisms of chandelier tinkle like small bells. From where I sit I can see a small light over bookcase In library. It is gone. ; The herbal odor again. Jane Is groaning and moving in her chair. Mrs. Livingstone and having trouble holding her She calls: "Here I bands. Uerel" sharply. Hayward says something bas touched him on the shoulder. "Something floated by me Just now," he says, "on the left It touched my shoulder." A crash on the table. I notice the herbal odor once more. Silence again. Something Is in the hall It is gropi ing Its way along. It Is at the door be- Day-wa- side me. My notes end here. 1 had reached the limit of my endurance and, as the switch was beside me, I turned on the lights. As before, Mrs. Living stone's chair seemed somewhat nearer the cablnt'i ; no other changes in pos! tlou, except that Halliday had gone out to search hull ana lower floor. The bell was on the floor near door into hall, and lying on table, "Smyth's Everyday Essays." To the best of my knowledge this book was to the Jibrary at the begin' ning of the seance. No signs of disturbance In library or hall, to account for sounds I heard. But an unfortunate situation bas arisen, owlna to Mrs. Livingstone's failure to lock door from hall to drive, She had pushed the bolt, but as the door was not entirely closed, it had We found this door! not eugaged. standing open. This, however, although Hayward seems uneasy, hardly Invalidates the, extraordinary phenomena secured to night. Jane exhausted, and Edith with her. ; (To Be Continued) ' ' Roofing Tile While considering material for the roof of your new home give attention to roofing tile. If your house is In .the. 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