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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1929 Red LAMP Y j ay MVRY ROBERTS -- RJN&HARX COPYRIGHT ty CEOlH-DORA- stop-watc- COMPANY WN.aSER.YICt "The world's nil right It's the people who mesa things up." "Like fleas on a dog," was his rather abstracted comment He felt in his pocket, with much the same gesture as on that early visit of his when he had drawn the triangle within the circle on the back cf an old ervelope. Whether the movement was reminiscent to him, us It was to me, I cannot say. But he glanced at me quickly and then smiled. time. "Sort of had me going, yon did, there I myself collapsed this morning, and Hayward has put me back to bed. for a while I" he said. "But I was getEdith, spreading my coverings neatly ting pretty close to the facts before before Greenough came up, says I am this diary came along.' Of course, It now so thin that: helped." He had Gordon's diary In his hand. "You really make a hollow, William. "Naturally," he said, fingering the If it were not for your feet, nobody book, "your young friend's Informawould know you are there!" . . . It Is impossible to record In detail tion was valuable; I'm not discounton the winmy conversation tills afternoon with! ing that The hand-priGreenough, covering as it did more dow board, for instance. I'd have than an hour. He came in, I thought, found it sooner or later, but It saved slightly uncomfortable and perhaps a time. And the young lady, too. She's little crestfallen, and I motioned him done her bit, all right I've been hanto a chair. He sat down and mopped dicapped by being too well known his face with his handkerchief, and around here. And Starr's a fool." He snapped out this last statement, after that stooped and rather delibI gathered that he was still smartand erately wiped his shoes with It. Then he straightened an j looked at me. ing under the knowledge that, without "Well, professor," he said, "it's a Halliday and Edith, he would still be darned queer world, there's no denySubscribe for The Leader, $2.00. ing it." September 7. Halliday has saved me from arrest, by giving to the police tbe information which he has been gathering on the ease all summer. Has made a quiet gesture, which is like him, and given me back to life, liberty and the pursuit of literature. He came out late last night, and 1 understand Is still asleep. He has had very little sleep, poor lad, for a long nt Bothwell Get a permanent hair wave at Phone Myrtle Holmgren's Garland. Bell 42w. Mrs. George Smith Idaho, spent the week-en- d of Preston, here with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith and family of Preston, Idaho, are visiting here at the home fo Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hunsaker. Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson motored to Ogden Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stokes and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hunsaker were the guests at an oyster supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Summers Friday evening. George Nye, Mrs. Chambers and Joseph Newman of the stake board were visitors at the Bothwell M. I. A. conjoint meeting Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Summers were the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stark Sunday evening. Cards was the diversion, after which a dainty luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Burnhope entertained at dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. George Summers and children, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Jewett and Thomas Payne. Saturday evening at the home of Miss Dolly Wright a party was given. The evening was spent in playing games and at 11:30 o'clock dainty refreshments were served. Those who enjoyed the evening were the Misses Verba and Ruth Sessions, Dolly Wright, Edythe Tracy, Dorothy An- f derson, Ella and Marjorie Stokes and Crlyle Anderson, William Wilson, Kenneth Anderson, Merlin Summers, Oscar Christensen, Raymond Stark and Reed Anderson. Saturday morning J. A. Hunsaker and son Wendell, Roy Sessions and Milton Anderson left for Promontory on a rabbit drive. They returned home Monday evening. Friday night in the Bothwell hall the Elwood Dramatic company presented their drama, "The Finger of Scorn." A good crowd was there and everyone enjoyed the show. A dance was given afterward, music being furnished by the Elwood orchestra. ' Thursday night the Bothwell M. I. A. basketball team met the Thatcher team at Thatcher and Bothwell was victoroius 19 to 7. Thursday night in the Bothwell hall the local basketeers will meet Dew-eyvill- e. Mrs. Bert Gibson has been quite ill during the past week. The Bothwell school teachers, Miss Vera Sumsion, Miss Victoria Jackson and Miss De Lora Rasmussen, who spent the holidays at their homes, are on the job again ready to continue their school work. Word has been received that J. L. Hunsaker, who is doing missionary work in the south, has contracted a severe case of flu and is. now in a hospital. Maralyn, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stark, has been quite ill during the week. A mile a minute is fast going but a smile a minute covers more territory. Promises for the future will not take the place of results in the pres- Unlimited Money to LOAN on Irrigated Land. 6V& per cent. No commissions. JOHN J. SHUMWAY Phones: B. R, V. 69.a-2- ; Bell, 129 ent. When we see the kind of men some dogs love, we wonder if animals have any instinct. When You Think LUMBER THINK WILSON "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 11. What Will the Harvest Be? Let the famous JOHN DEERE SPREADER, with the beater on the axle, help answer this question. A feed mill, or grinder, will also help. Come in and look over our machinery. Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company The Largest Phone 90 nowbere. It was, more or less, his defense. "Or course," he said, "ever lure we got hold of this diury of Gordon's, oue thing's been pretiy cleur. Bethel wasn't working alone. According to what 1 saw of blm I' wasn possible. He couldn't even have made a cet-awwithout help The only question was. who'd helped him. "So you picked on meV "Well," he said wryly, "you'll have to admit that you'rt seemed to go nut of your way all summer to get Into trouble! As a matter of fact, I didn't lie pick on you; it was Gordon." looked at my clock. Tve only got an hour," be said. "Tour niece is sitting on the stairs b on me. I vow, holding a can't read you this thing, but I can tell you what's in it And believe me, that's plenty." . . . Briefly, then, the deciphering of the diary had left me in a very bad position. When they had finished it, it was Benchley's idea to arrest me at once. They had the boy's body, a fact they, had kept to themselves, and I was within an ace of a charge of murder. But Halliday had stayed. "He seemed to feei there was trouble coming," Greenough said. "He bung around and drove us all crazy. He in sisted, as he'd brought the key, on his right to read the stuff as it came through; and as It went on, he didn't know exactly what to do. "Finally, seeing what was In the air, he made a trade with us. He was willing to have you brought In and Interrogated, but on condition that if you weren't held he'd come over with something of his own. You get the point, of course. There's a reward Involved, and he'd been holding out on us a bit" He waved his hand. "That's natural. We don't hold it against him. But the point is. he made his trade." Coming to my examination, my answers had apparently Impressed Hemingway satisfactorily. On the other hand, added to the diary's constant suspicion of me, was Greenough's own case against ma He passed over that rather airily. "I wasn't trying to make out a case against you," he said. "As a matter of fact, you couldn't have been the You man who attacked Halliday. Retail Implement Dealers ia the World" .Tremontoo, Utah Nothing Is so dramatic In all the diary as the situation unconsciously revealed between the paralytic and the boy; each watching the other, the guard up between them, while the servant is in the room, and then down again. The boy recklessly mocking, the old man grim and waiting. And nothing imIiL The bo goes to tbe city ami tries to buy a revolver, but there is a new law In effect, and be falls. He has the knife, and lias to trust to flint. He thinks of going to the police while be is in the city : the reward would he a big thing. He I could go around the world says: on ten thousand." But his rase Isnt complete: he needs the outside man. err. Evidently he has al cost of my buuked the reward. On the other hand, certain things seem to me still to be far from clear. Halliday. I understand, passed over to the polh-- the following facts: (a) A copy of the unliulshed letter from Horace i'nrter to some unknown, (b) A description of the print of a band, left od the window board. (c) A small illustration from tbe book "Eugenia Biggs and her Phenom-ena,- " and showing the same band ready Collinston One of the most pleasant events of last week was the dancing party given at the Beaver Dam amusement hall Thursday night The Thatcher orchestra furnished splendid music e print. (d) A sworn statement ot the Livingstones' butler, the nature of wblcb I do not know. (e) An analysis ot his own theory bat he "hasn't the of the experiments referred to In tbe diary. goods" on me. And there are times when he admits (f) And a letter to Edith from an the possibility that 1 may not be the anonymous correspondent. (To be reoutside man. One night he hears the ferred to later.) unknown in the bouse. There is (g) The possibility that the two reddish glare and he sees a figure attempts to enter the main bouse are teal Into the den. But It "did not due to the fact that, in the haste of look like Porter." And he Is more the escape, something was left there which is both identifying and incrimpuzzled than ever, for Bethel is In hi inating. room, asleep, and although the boy But so far as 1 can discover, he has camps on the ptalrs until diiylight. he not told them that, from tbe time the does not see the figure again. i "At daylight examined den and li- guards were taken away from tbe bouse at night, he was on watch there. brary. All windows closed and locked In1 other words, from shortly after It beats me." murder he must have known that the It is about this time, too, that he something Incriminating had been left begins to believe that Bethel Is not there, when Bethel and bis accomonly watching him. but that he Is exGordon's "outside man," made pecting trouble from some other plice, source. He tells Bethel he has seen a their escape the night the secretary He may even know was murdered. figure go Into the den at night, and But be has not and It where. what is, Bethel shows alarm. E? suspects me, "He and the other one have quarreled," he says. "And B's afraid of him." But on the night when he came home, to find Starr, Halliday and myself in the bouse, bis suspicions of me returned in full force. He decides that Bethel and I have had a quarrel, and that one of us has tried to shoot the other 1 But bis knife has been taken; be steals one from the kitchen and carefully sharpens It; but be is not so frightened as be has been. Bethel and I have quarreled, and he "can handle the old man." But matters were rapidly approaching a climax. Bethel was going to give up the bouse and let him go. He m told Greenough. Again, there Is the fact that a statement by the Livingstones' butler was a portion of the evidence be submitted. Surely tbey are not endeavoring to incriminate Livingstone (To Be Continued) 1 Those who knock at the door of Truth may hear the welcoming voice, "Come In." Tell a false rnmor and your mouth becomes a loud speaker that has many listeners In. Those who run the race of life need to live clean they may endure. cross-countr- y Aviator: He glanced at me quickly, but went back to the night of the inquiry. "The question was, whether to hold you or not. You may remember Hemingway going out, when it was over, and talking to Halliday outside? Well, it was then he made the trade." Apparently the fact that Gordon had been the victim had not been the surprise to the police that it had been to me. For one thing, the microscope had shown one detail which the detective had not mentioned to me at the time. Caught between the handle of the knife and the blade had been a short piece of hair. The microscope showed this hair not only young, a matter read.'ly determined, and the approximate color of Gordon's ; It also snowed It liberally coated with Poor Gordon's glistening, varnished hair But Greenough bad been inclined at first to think that there had been two victims, instead of one. "Dying and passing on," he pays, "is not like taking your thumb out of a bowl of soup. It's bound to leave some sort of a hole." And there had been no hole. If Bethel had died and passed on, no one apparently missed him. As time went on and no queries were received, the thing began to look ominous; as though Bethel himself had been hidtag away, under an assumed name. The Idea that Bethel had had an enemy from whom he was hiding, and who had found him, began to intrude When the hour strikes for service, that we had made the minutes of preparation count. 1 m in! if 111 Subscribe $2.00 a year. people down SUMMONS In the District- - Court of Box Elder County, State of Utah. John A. nt lit for the Leader1 Reliable I Wrist Watches for both Ladies and Gentlemen At prices ranging from $10 up Tremonton - Utah 15-1- - abandoned that Idea, however, and ing. there was a time when he suspected Thomas; even a time when he thought of bringing his suspicions to me. But Bethel was beginning to be afraid of him. He thinks Bethel knows he has discovered the bout. He grows alarmed, and buys a knife; he records that "he can take care of himself." But there Is bravado in It. Later on, he finds that he Is occasionally stenlthily locked In at night, for three or four hours, and he buys a rope and hides It In his room. After that matters moved rapidly. window unHe found the locked on certain nights, and set a watch on It, And on one such night Bethel tried to kill blm. "He tried to kill me last night," be writes on the 27th of July, and goes on to say that Bethel couldn't have tied him, and that "maybe It was Porter." From that time on he suspected gun-roo- me. And Bethel was watching him. "He worries me," she paid, "and he Is worrying Edith. If you go out now and look, you'll see blm pacing the boathouse veranda, and he has been doing It for the last hour." I admit that he puzzles me. It wus Greenough's errand, so far as I can make out, to relieve my mind as to myself, but to treat Halllday's case, as given to the police, as entirely confi- dential. "It's the outside man we are after," he said; "and the outside man we are going to get" But on my mentioning my right to know who was under suspicion, he only repeated what the detective bad said. "You understand," he said, "there no case in law yet. Knowing who did a thing, and proving who did It, are different things entirely.". But they would prove It, he was confident. So confident. Indeed, that before be tcfl he Inquired the make and only We have a Large Stock of we wish quieting plaintiff's title to sen, Anna S. Jeppesen; also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiffs ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff's title thereto, defendants. Summons: The State of Utah to the Said Defendants: You are hereby summoned to appear within twenty days after service of this summons upon you if served within the county in which this action is brought, otherwise within thirty days after service and defend the above entitled action; and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the clerk of this court. This action is brought to recover a Dartd Bethel to Discharge Him. enfuss, plaintiff, vs. Joseph B. Jeppe-th- e land described in said complaint. seems to have dared Bethel to disLewis Jones, plaintiff's attorney. P. charge him, and to have more than O. Address: 1st Natl Bank Bldg., blnted at what be suspects. Brigham, Utah. "I can talk for ten thousand," he writes, "or keep quiet for twenty. He can take bis choice." He bas the upper band, now. The other man is no longer in evidence; they have apparently quarreled, and Bethel is left to bear tbe situation alone. The boy lays various traps, but no one enters the house. 'The murItself. der pact" la broken, and the old man "But," he said, with engaging frank- sits in his chair and broods. ness, "that eliminated you. And you "Blackmail Is an ugly word," he says wouldn't be eliminated. Yon were like once. some people you've seen, when there's "Not half so ugly as murder," retorts a camera man about; always getting in front of the machine and Into the Gordon, and notes it with satisfaction In his diary. picture." "Murder" was the last word he Then came the diary, and Gordon wrote there. . . . In a brought me in unmistakably, and for all his apparent frankness, But, of. Not not had way they thought errand was clearly only Greenough's an enemy, but an accomplice; Bethel relieve my anxieties concerning myto and with connivance, my there, hiding the two of us, he the brains presum- self. He refused all further informaably and I the hands, working out be- tion. "We have a suspect, all right," he tween us some sinister dedgn which said. "I don't mind saying that But even the boy could not understand. "Whatever It is," Gordon had writ- we haven't a case yet, and It's touch ten, shortly after the Morrison girl's and go whether we get one. Until we not talking." disappearance, "he's got outside help." do, we're And he wonders if I am guilty. But September 8. he is not sure of that; he even susUalliday's attitude is very curious. pects Bethel, in one entry, of being He is taciturn In the extreme; be less helpless than he appeared, and avoids any confidential talks with me, possibly of "working on his own." He and Jane commented on it this morn1 the up here. Keep trying to live the Christian life. Endeavoring keeps us from going to sleep spiritually. here!" Half there thought we were going to fall that then. Passenger: So did half the people weren't here." "Naturally," I agreed, gravely, "I wasn't here. Of course, if I had been po-ma- Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Simmons entertained their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bigler, at a family New Year dinner. The rooms were beautifully decorated in yuletide colors and a radio concert followed. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Simmons entertained at a New Year's dinner complimentary to their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George White of Smithfield and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. White of Garland. Covers were laid for twenty guests. Miss Thyra Bowen of Beaver Dam delightfully entertained at a home party Tuesday evening. Out of town guests were Misses Lucy and Flora Simmons of Brigham City. Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick entertained at a card party and luncheon Tuesday evening. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Clark Bowen and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lefler. Mrs. Edith Bowen had as her New Year's guests her son, G. L. Bowen, and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bigler, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Simmons and sons and Miss Thyra Bowen motored to Brig-haThursday, combining business and pleasure, and were the dinner and afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simmons and family. Mr. and Mrs. wuford Durfey and daughter Patricia have gone to Richfield where Mr. Durfey has work for , several months. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Potter and family had a pleasant visit in Logan Saturday with their mother, Mrs. E, B.' Rucker, and family. Mr. and Mrs. John Saunders and family motored to Preston, Idaho, Saturday to visit with relatives. Miss Mary Berlin is home on a visit after several months in Ogden. t Mrs. Rosada Fryer was operated on Tuesday at the Valley hospital for the removal of her tonsils. Collinston was well represented on the busy streets of Tremonton Saturday. 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