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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929 communication to Ilemlngway. What is. In It I do not know, but lie took It with faim, to mall on, his way to the LAl KA SVj 1 ' VV I w by MARY J Cj r-- J aiNEHART COPYRIGHT V GE0.H.DORAN COMPANY V. J a- t- ROBERTS I "I wt LAMP , " WN.U.SERYICt It Is Halllday's idea to hold another seance, nsing Cameron's coming aa the excuse for It 1 gather that be believes that, under cover of the seance, another attempt may be made to secure the Incriminating evidence left In the house. Not thBt be says so, but his questions concerning the sounds 1 heard in the hall 'luring the second seance point in that direction. "This berbal odor you speak' of, Skipper," he asked, "was that before you beard the movement outside?" "Some time before. Yes. Dut the odor seemed to be in the room; the sounds were beyond the door." "You don't connect them, then?" "I hadn't thought about It, but 1 don't believe I do." "Did you hear any footsteps?" 1 had to consider that "Not foot steps; there was a sort of scraping along the floor." "And the moment you spoke this noise ceased?" "Yes." The whole situation Is baffling in the extreme. I cannot ignore the fact that the seances were proposed by Mrs. Livingstone, that it was she who left the hall door unbolted at the second sitting, or that Livingstone himself was absent that second night, presumably ill. At the same time, it was Livingstone who Indirectly advised me against the business. "Let It alone," he warned me. "Let well enough alone." So far as Halliday is concerned, it Is clear that be does not like the idea of another seance, but feels that it is necessary. He assures me the police will be on hand, inside and outside the house, but he does not minimize the fact that there will be a certain risk, and that be dreads taking Jane and Edith into it "It's like this." he said today, feeling painfully for words. "In a sense, you and 1 are at the parting of the ways in this thing. We can let it go, and turn loose on the world a cruel and deadly Idea which may go on TO HOME AND COMMUNITY PRESIDENTS In the recently published article which was a suggestive extension and not Farm Bureau program, you may find projects in which you are not vitally interested. Please do not attempt to force the likes and dislikes of a few onto those of the majority. If such is done, you are not reaching the aims of the national extension division of bring to the majority of the farm homes, ideas and practices which will be of benefit in developing a better financial condition, a more satisfied rural people, and more modern and livable conditions on the farm. The county farm bureau officers also have ideas to be given you later as a suggestive county farm bureau project, hence do not crowd your Unlimited Money to LOAN on Irrigated Land. cent. 6 per No commissions. JOHN J. SHUMWAY Phones: B. R. V. 69.a-2- ; Bell, 129 claiming vTctlmslndefihltely." "UeTnade a small gesture. "Or we put Into the other side of the scale all we have In the world, and then" He pulled himself up. "There's only possible danger," be said. "Unless things slip, there should be very little." The same list of those present as before. There is in unconscious emphasis placed by Ualliday on Hayward and Livingstone, but perhaps I am overwatchful. I daresay, thus placed between m duty and my fears, 1 shall do my duty I perceive that either Hayward or Livingstone is once more to be allowed access to the house, and under condi tlons more or less,, favorable to what is to be done. But which one? . . Later: 1 have done my duty. have telephoned Cameron, and be will come out tomorrow nignt. September 10. Halliday has taken every possible precaution as to tonight As It has been our custom to go over the house before each seance, and as Cameron may do this with unusual thorough ness, It has been decided not to place Greenough and his officers until aftei the sitting begins. Halliday has therefore today connected the bell from that room, which rings in the kitchen, In the extension to a temporary When the garage, with a buzzer. lights are lowered, he will touch the bell, and Greenough Is then to smuggle his men In through the kitchen. While no one can say what changes Cameron may suggest in our previous methods, Halliday Imagines he will ask us at Frst to proceed as usual. In any event I am to sit as near to the switch as possible, and when Halliday calls for lights, am to be ready to turn them on. . . . But 1 8:30. Everything is ready. am concerned about Halliday. Has he some apprehension about his own safe ty tonight? He came on hour or so too early to start with the car for Cameron, and borrowing pen and paper, wrote a long 1 programs with no consideration for that. M i KTLfJ JJAViDbU. tion with Eugenia RIggs and ber bowl of putty. Strange that 1 did not; that It required Jane's smellints salts for station. A small me to find that connection. (End of Mr. Porter's Journal) green glass bottle. In Edith's room, used as a temporary paper weight on CONCLUSION her desk. As 1 say, my suspicions were of LivI ingstone, during that strange walk op Chapter the drive. But I bad by do means The Journal takes as up to the eve- eliminated Hayward. He was there, behind me, walking ning of September 10, 1022. It was to the fourth and last tragedy of that with a curious stealth, and with an summer, which filled the next day's uneasiness that somehow, without papers, that little Pettingill referred. words, communicated Itself to me. All emotions are waves, I dareeay. In the conversation recorded to the InI troduction of this Journal. caught the contagion of fear from It was with this tragedy that, as him; desperate, deadly fear. And once In the bouse, my susPettingill said aggrievedly, the story "quit" on them. And quit It did. We picions of him Increased rather than felt then that the best thing to do, un- diminished. For one thing, he offered der the circumstances, was to let It to take Cameron through the house, and on Halllday's Ignoring that and rest. There was nothing to be gained by going off with Cameron himself, was giving the story to the public, and distinctly surly. He remained In the much to be lost At that time, it Is hall at the foot of the ft airs, apparto be remembered, a wave of spiritual- ently listening to their progress and ism, or rather spiritism, was spreading gnawing at his fingers. over the country; It was still filled, Watching him from the den, 1 saw him make a move to go up the stairs, The too, with post-wa- r psychopaths. very nature of the experiment which but he caught my eye and abandoned had been tried was of the sort to seize the Idea. on the neurrtlc Imagination, and set It It was then that Jane felt faint, and 1 went back to the Lode for her aflame. It was not considered advisable to allow it publicity. smelling salts. . . . The letter, undoubtedly the tetter Now, of course, things are different. The search goes on, and perhaps some which Ualliday bud. shown to the poday, cot by this method but by some lice, was lying open on Edith'sI desk, under the green bottle, and as lifted legitimate and scientific one, survival to the floor. 1 may be proved. I do not know; 1 do the salts It blew 1 picked It up. as it at I am a glanced not greatly care, fter all, Christian, and my faith Is built on a life after death. But 1 accept that; Chapter II I do not require proof of It . . . Picture us, then, that evening of In recording the events leading up September 10, when the Journal ends, to the amazing denouement that night the details of the seance 1 am unwaiting for we knew not what;' Jane and her it der up certain difficulties. putting picking knitting down again ; Edith powdering her nose Thus, 1 kept no notes. For the first with bands that shook in spite of her time I found myself a part of the best efforts; Halliday at the railroad circle, sitting between Livingstone and station with the car to meet Cameron ; Jane, and with Cameron near the lamp, and off In the woodland, where the prepared to make the notes of what red lamp of the lighthouse flashed its should occur. danger signal every ten seconds from "Of course," he said, as we took our the end of Robinson's point, Greenough "we are not observing the usual places, and a half dozen officers.. of what I would call a test Picture ?, too, when we had all precautions seance. All we are attempting to do gathered ; Cameron, with his hand still is to reproduce, as nearly as possible, bandaged, presented to the dramatis the conditions existing at the other personae of the play and eyeing each two sittings. And" be glanced at one In turn shrewdly ; Mrs. Livingstone Mr. Porter's adme and smiled garrulous and uneasy; and Livingto the circle proves to be dismission stone a sort of waxy white and with turbing, we can eliminate him." a nervous trembling 1 had never obHe asked us to remain quiet, no served before. Of us all, only Elalll-damatter what happened, and to he eer seemed natural And Uayward, tain that no hand was freed without ease. natural because be was never at What Cameron made of it I do not an immediate statement to that ef know. Very probably he saw In us feet ex"Not that I expect fraud, of course," only a group of sensation-seekers- , cited by some small contact with a he added. "But it Is customary, un world beyond our knowledge, and if der the circumstances." I am quite certain that nobody, ex he felt surprise at all, it was that I had joined the rank3. cept myself, saw Halliday touch the He himself did not appear to take bell as the light was reduced to the He made It faint glow of the red lamp. the matter seriously. plain that he had come in this manner It was. not surprising, I dare say, at my request ; that his own methods that beyond certain movements of the would be entirely different When table and fine raps on Its surface, we Edith, I think it was, asked him if he got nothing at first In fact, that we made any preparation for such affairs, got anything at all was probably due he laughed and shook his head. solely "to Jane's Ignorance of the un "Except that 1 sometimes take a cup derlylng situation. Livingstone, next of coffee to keep me awake I" he said. to me, was so nervous that his hands On the way up the drive I walked twitched on the table; across, Ualll I hardly with Livingstone. Why, day was beside Hayward, and as my know, except that he seemed to drift eyes grew accustomed to the toward me. He never spoke but once, I could see him, forbidden and it seemed to me that he was sur- recourse to his fingers. Jerking bis veying the shrubbery and trees, like head savagely. a man who suspected a trap. Once And, for the life of me, 1 could not he was on my left 1 was aware that see where all this was leading us. A be bad put bis hand to his hip pocket, breaking of the circle was, by Cam and I was so startled that I stumbled eron's order, Immediately to be an and almost fell. I knew, as confident noucced. Even In complete darkness. ly as I have ever known anything, that when that came as I felt would be had a revolver there. what was It that Halliday expected to "Careful, man." he said. happen? Those were his only words during But the table continued to move. It our slow progress toward the main began to slide along the carpet; ray house, and so tense were his nerves grasp on Livingstone's hand was re' that they sounded like a curse. lnxed, and Indeed, later, as It began Cameron and Edith were leading, to rock violently, It was all I could and I could hear her talking, carrydo to retain contact with the table at ing on valiantly, although as It turned all. I began to see possibilities In out she knew better than any of us. this, but when It had quieted the cir cle remained as before. except Halliday, the terrible possibilities ahead. Hayward walked alone Very soon after that came the slg shoes nal for darkness, and Cameron extln- and behind qs, his rubber-solemaking no sound on the drive. It made me uneasy, somehow; that silent progress of his; it was stealthy and disconcerting. And I think Livingstone felt it so, too, for he stopped olice and turned around. Yet at the time, as between the two men, my suspicion that evening certainly pointed to Livingstone. Not to go into the cruelty of my Ignorance, a cruelty which I now understand but then bitterly resented, I had had both men under close observation during the time we waited for Cameron. And It had seemed to me that Livingstone was the more uneasy of the two. Another thing which I regarded as highly significant was his asking for water Just before we left the Lodge, and holding the glass with a trembling "if y 1 SALT LAKE HOG MARKET NORTH SAUT LAKE, Jan. 16. Hog market strong at weeks 25 to 50c lower; close week's top on good butchers $9.70; good butchers quoted at close around $9.25 with bulk drive- ins going at $8.75 to $9.10; packing sows $6.50 to $7.00. Tactless Captain The storm was increasing in violence and some of the deck fittings had already been swept overboard, when the captain decided to send up a sienal of distress. But hardly had the rocket burst over the ship when a solemn-face- d passenger stepped on to the brdige. "Captain," he said, "I'd be the last man on earth to cast a damper on anyone, but it seems to me that this is no time for setting off fireworks." Insurance is as important as the marriage certificate. If every wife knew what every widow knows, she would insist upon life insurance. When You Think LUMBER THINK WILSON semi-darknes- d "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 11. What Will the Harvest Be? hand. Let the famous JOHN DEERE SPREADER, with the beater on the axle, help answer this question. 1 Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company Largest Retail Implement Dealers in the World" Phone 90 I ) fmJSI 1 A feed mill, or grinder, will also help. Come in and look over our machinery. The And, as it happens, It wa. that very glass of water which crystal zed my suspicions. The glass and the hand which held It. For the hand was a small and wide one, with a short thumb and a bent little finger From that time on, my mind was focused on Llvlngrtone. It milled about, seeking some explanation. I could see Livingstone In the case plainly enough; I could see him, pursuing with old Bethel the "sinister design" to which Gordon bad referred, but to which I could see blm, with his had do key. knowledge of the country, using thai knowledge In furtherance of that Idea which my Uncle Horace bad termed a menace to society In general. With the swiftness with which thought creates vision, I could even see him hailing poor Maggie Morrison In the storm, and her stopping ber truck when she - - , .Tremonton, Utah recotTnlzed him. But I could not see him in connec With a Pocket Flash Examined Cabinet Thoroughly. tht gulshed the lamp. Soon Edith, neat the cabinet, said the curtain bad come out Into the room, and was touching her. The Dext moment as before, the bell fell from the stand Inside the cab lnet and the guitar strings was light ly touched. Without warning Cameron turned on the lamp ; the curtain subsided and all Da was apparently sounds ceased. satisfied, and after a few momenta of experiment with the lamp on, resulting only in a creaking and knocking on the table, again extinguished It On a repetition of the blowing out of the curtain, however, he left his chair for Thursday night the M Men of this the first time, and with a pocket flash ward met with the M Men of Both- examined the cabinet thoroughly, even well and played basketball Bothwell the wall coming in for close Inspec- was victorious. tion. Saturday Mrs. John A. Fr--er went When he bad finished with that to Salt Lake City to visit he daugh Mrs. Lugene Schieb, over the however, I sensed a change In blm. I ter, week-enbelieve now that he suspected fraud. Thursday nieht the district school but I am not certain. He said rather sharply that be was there In good boys were entertainedweekat an oyster they had a faith and not to provide an evening's supper. Dunne the and mouse hunt The girls of amusement and that he hoped any sparrow the same age were entertained at the suspicious movement would be re home of Norma Hansen and enjoyed an oyster supper the same night. ported. "This Is not a game," he said shortly. Sunday afternoon Mrs. Lawrence Jane was very quiet, and now 1 Christensen and little son returned to beard again the heavy breathing wblcb Ogden. I knew preceded the trance condition, O. G. Harwood of Osrden visited or that which we know with relatives here Sunday. as trance. Mr. and Mrs. M". Keller of Osrden "Who Is that?" Cameron asked In a visited with relatives here and at Deweyville d. auto-bypnotis-n Col-linst- on low tone. "Mrs. Porter." Halliday said. "Quiet . everybody V The room was completely dark, and save for Jane's heavy breathing, entirely quiet Strangely enough, for the moment 1 forgot our purpose there; forgot Greenough and his men, scattered through the bouse; I had a premonition, If I may call It that that we were on the verge of some treI can mendous psychic experience. not explain It; I do not know now what unseen forces were gathered there together. I even admit that probably I too, like Jane, bad hypo-tlzed myself. And then two things were happen ing, and at the same time. There was something moving in the library, a soft footfall with, It seemed to me, an Irregularity. For all the world like the dragging of a partially useless foot and Livingstone was quietly releasing hid grip of my band. I made a clutch at blm, and be whispered savagely: "Let go, you fool" The next moment be had drawn bis revolver, and was stealthily getting to his feet The dragging foot moved out Into the hnlL Livingstone, revolver in hand, was standing beside me, and there was a quiet movement across the table. Cameron was apparently listen Ing also; he made no commeut, bow ever, and In the darkness and the si lence the footsteps went Into the ball, and there ceased. 1 had no Idea ot the passage ol time; ten seconds or an hour Living stone may have stood beside me. Ten seconds or an hour, and then Green ough's voice at the top of the stair Sunday. Mrs. Fred Harwood and son Dallas and daughter Bessie Lue visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. LJsh, Sunday. Dunne the next few weeks the Mu- tuals of this ward will put on four one-aplays, the contest drama and the drama for February. the Junior girls and Bee Hive snrls will put on "How Nellie Made Good," the M Men James Proposal, and the adult department "What Happened to Jim." The Scouts have a short Scout play. ct Save yhile you can and youH not need when you can't Subscribe for a year. the Leader only $2.00 There Is No Guesswork About It When we fit you with glasses we KNOW they are right tic nave vxic: r a jtvi iiiv7 am the. . : equipment for properly , . :.v r: uie eyes wiui giunBea. lining il si' sa"1 --- case : "All right Careful below." Livingstone moved then. He made a wild dash for the red (amp and turned It on. Uayward was not to be seen, and Halliday, revolver in hand was starting for the cabinet "More light," he called. "Light Quick 1" I had a confused Impression ot Hal llday, jerking the curtains of the cab inet aside; of somebody else there with him, both on guard, as it were, at the wall; of some sort of rapid movement upstairs; of the door from the den Into the hall being open where It bad been closed before, and of a crash somewhere not far away, as of a falling body, followed by a sort of dreadful pause. And all this is In the time It took me to get around the chairs and to the wall switch near the door. And it was then in the shocked silence which followed the sound of that fall, In the instant between my finding the switch and turning It on, that I will swear that I saw ence more by the glow of the red lamp the figure at the foot of the stairs, looking up. Saw It and recognfted It Watched It turn toward me with fixed and star ing eyes, felt the cold wind which sud denly eddied about me, and frantlcal ly turning on the light, saw It fade like smoke Into the empty air. . Behind the curtains of the cabinet somebody wus working at the wall , Edith, very pule, was supporting June, who still remained In her strange uuto hypotlc condition. Livingstone's arm was about his wife. And tl'i was the picture when Oreonouxh enme running triumphantly down the stairs, the reward apparent ly In his pocket, and saw us there, lie paid no attention to the rest of us. hut stared at Livingstone with eyes which could not believe what thev saw. "(l.x.d G d!" be said. "Then who 1 there?" is lie pointed to the wall behind the cabinet Itvin an live ice house 'til April? tC O O V 1 Tikis amazing offer makes it so easy for yo i to enjoy whole-hous- e warmth NOW The astonishing (To Be Continued) de- tails in the January SUMMONS In the District Court of Box Elder County, State of Utah. John A. Pap judgment 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 com plaint adverse to plainun s 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 ahsiva entitle! net ion: and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you accoraine to ine demand of the complaint which has been filed with the clerk of this court. This action is brought to recover a enfusH, plaintiff, vs. josepn v. jeppe-th- e land described in said complaint Iewis Jones, plaintiff's attorney. P. n ArlrtroitB! 1st Natl Bank Bide., . d Utah. Rrio-hnm- Utah - Tremonton 16-19- 12th issue of The Saturday Evening Post, pages 86 and 87. 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