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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1929 1Y i I V ; V A LAMP 'Y MARY ROBERTS RINtHARJ COPYRIGHT bf GEO.H.DORAfl COMPANY WN.U SERVICE I Chapter III The steps by which Ualliday solved the murder at the main house, and with it the mystery which had preceded it, constitute an interesting story in themselves. So certain was he that, by the time we were ready for the third sennce. his material was in the hands of the district already attorney. And It was not the material he had given to Greenough. For the solution ot a portion of the mystery, then, one must go back to the main house,. uu) consider the older bought the property, and In makls-repairs tbe old passage was discovered. Although she denied 06ing It for fraudulent purposes, neither lialliday nor I doubt tli:it she did so. She points to the plastered wall as ber defense, but Ualliday assures me that ft portion of the baseboard, hinged to swing out, but locked from within, would have allowed easy access to the it ft Is well known that manj houses of that period were provided with hidden passages, by which the owners hoped to escape the excise. Sucb an attempt, many years ago had cost George Pierce his life But the passage leading from the old kitchen, now the den, to a closet In the room above it, had been blocked up for many years. The builder was dead; by all the laws cf chance time might have gone on and the passage remained undiscovered. In ISOfl, however, Eugenia Kiggs part of Subscribe for The Leader, $2.00. SALE OF ANIMALS FOR I have in my possession the followDAMAGES ing described animals, which, if not State of Utah, County of Box El- claimed and taken away, will be sold der. at public auction to the highest cash In the Penrose Precinct of said bidder at my premises in the Penrose County. precinct on the 3rd day of February, 1929, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon. Description of Animals When You Think 1 brown mare, 11 years old, with star in forehead. LUMBER 1 bay mare with star in forehead, avout 9 years old. WILSON Said animals were taken up by me "Everything to Build Anything" as estrays in the Penrose precinct. Phone 11. THINK GEORGE MARSH, Poundkeeper of Penrose Precinct. cabinet But Halllday bad at the beginning no knowledge of this passage, with Its ladder to the upper floor. He reached It by pure deduction. "It bad to be there," he says modestly. "And It was." . . . Up to tbe time young Gordon was attacked at the kitchen door, bow-evelialliday was frankly at sea. That Is, be bad certain suspicions, but that was all. lie bad discovered, for Instance, that the cipher found In my garage was written on the same sort of bond paper as that nsed by Gordon, by the simple expedient of having Annie Cochran get him a sheet of It, on some excuse or other. But his actual case began, I belleve-wlt- h that attack on Gordon. At least he began at that time definitely to associate the criminal with the bouse. "There was something fishy about It." Is the way he puis It. And with Bethel's story to me, forced by his fear that the boy knew It was be who had attacked him. the belief that it was "fishy" gained ground. "Gordon was knocked out," he says. "And that ought to have been enough. But it was not He was tied, too, tied while be was still unconscious. Somebody wasn't taking a chance that he'd get back Into the bouse very soon." It was that "play for time," as be terms it, that made blm suspicious. All this time, of course, be was Ignorant of any underlying motive; he makes It clear that he simply began, first to associate the crimes with the house, and then with Bethel. lie kept going back to his copy of the unfinished letter, but: "It didn't help much," be says quietly. "Only, there was murder Indicated in It And we were havini r, murder." WhafWillfhe Harvest Be? o 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 Retail Implement Dealers in the World" Phone 90 .Tremonton, Utah He bad three clews, two of thera certain, one doubtful. The certain ones were the linen from the oarloclt of the boat, torn from a sheet belonging to the main house, and the small portion of the cipher. The one he was not certain about was the lens from an eyeglass, outside the culvert. He began to watch the house; he "didn't get" Gordon in the situation at all; there was no situation there, really; nothing, that Is, that he could lay nis hand on. But on the night I called him and he started toward Rob inson's point, as he came back toward the house he saw the figure of a man certainly not Gordon, enter the house by the gunroom window. When he got there the window was closed and locked. He was puzzled, He looked around for me, but 1 was not in sight. Still searching for me, he made a round of the house, and so was on tbe terrace when I tired the shot From that time on he saw Bethel somehow connected with the mystery, but only as tha brains. "There was some devil's work afoot," he said. "But always I came up against that paralysis of his. He bad to have outside help." On the night In question, then, he was certain that this accomplice was still In the house through all that fol lowed; through HaywarJ's arrival and Starr's. He was so certain by that time of Gordon's Innocence that he very nearly took him Into bis 4 I For Life's Harvest Time A Plentiful Income Ji conn" dence the next day. But be was afraid of the boy ; he was not depend able: Ualliday bad an Idea that "be Assurance of a comfortable income in your later years is based on your saving now. For, after all, your whole investment program finds its beginnings in your weekly or monthly deposits at the teller's window. And the dollar planted today in a savings account becomes the fruited tree of independence tomorrow. VISIT US TODAY! Do not delay in opening your savings account. Form the thrift habit now. Our staff is at your disposal to advise you on your banking problems. Tremonton Banking Co. The Bank Best Able to Serve the Bear River Valley was playing his own game." But If this man was In the house that night where was be? He grew suspicious of the den, after that, and he found out through Starr the name of the builder who bad put in the paneling In the den, for Uncle Horace. It was a long story, but in the end be learned something. Tearing the old baseboard prior to putting up the panels, the builder bad happened on the old passage to the room overhead, and he had called Hor ace Porter's attention to It It seems to have appealed to the poor old chap; It belonged, somehow, to the room, with the antique stuff te was putting Into it He built In a sliding panel ; It was not a particularly skillful piece of work, but it answered. And be kept his secret at least from me. I doubt If he ever used It until prohibition came In. Then, no drinker himself, he put there a small and choice supply of liquor, some of which we found later on. And one bottle of which placed Halllday In peril of his life, a day or so after the night I bad fired the shot Into the balL He bad borrowed Annie Cochran's key to the kitchen door, and after midnight entered tbe house and went to tbe den. Although be Is reticent about this portion of It I gather that the bouse was not all It should be that night "Yon know the sort of thing," he says. But, pressed as to tkjit, be admits that he was bearing small and Inexplicable sounds from tbe library. Chairs seemed to move, and once he was certain that the curtain In the doorway behind him blew out Into the room. When he looked back over bis shoulder, however. It was hanging as before. He bad no trouble in finding the panel, and as carefully as be could be stepped Inside. But be had tonched one of the bottles and It fell over. "It didn't make much noise," be He was says, "but It was enough. awake, and paralysis or no paralysis, I hadn't time to move before he was In the closet overhead, and opening the trap in the floor." lie had not had time to move, and even if be bad, there were tbe infernal bottles all uround him. So be stood wiUiout breathing, waiting for be knew not whut "Things looked pretty poor," be fays. '1 dldu't know when he'd strike a match and see me. And It was good idght if he did !" But Bethel had no match, evidently. He stood listening intently, and in the darkness below Halllday held bU Iireatb and waited. Then Bethel moved. He left the trap door above open and went for a light and Halllday crawled out and closed the panel quietly. From that time on, however, be knew Bethel was no more helpless than he was. He abandoned the idea of an accomplice, and concentrated on the man himself, . . . Annie Cochran was working with him; that is, she did what he asked her, although she seems not to have known at any time the direction In which he was working. Her own mind was already made up; she believed She made no Gordon to be guilty. he asked her when however, protest to break Mr. Bethel's spectacles one early morning, and give him the But she did It,- pretending fragments. afterward that she had thrown the pieces into the stove. Bethel was watchful and suspicious by that time, and she had a bad time of It, bnt what is Important here Is that lialliday took the fragments Into the city, and established beyond a doubt that they and the piece of a lens found near the culvert were made from the same prescriiltion. And he bad no more thau mude his discovery, when Gordon, attempting at last the blackmail which he had been threatening, was put out of the way as quickly and ruthlessly as bad been poor Peter Carroway. "Twenty-fou- r hours," Halllday says bitterly, "and we would have saved him." But twenty-fou- r hours later Bethel had made good bis escape, and everything was apparently over. But from that time Bethel as Bethel, ceased to exist for Halllday. . . . He was not working alone, however, Very early, he bad realized that he needed assistance, real assistance. Annie Cochran's nelp was always of order. And he found the below-stair- s the help he wanted after the niht Gordon was attacked, in llnyward. As a matter of fact, It was Hayward who went to him. "ne was worried about you, Skipper," Halliday says, with a grin, "lie considered it quite possible that the attempt to wrangle English literature into too many brain corrals might have driven you slightly inai." On the night, then, when Gordon was hurt, the doctor was impulsively on his way to Halllday and the boat-hous- "He came within an Inch of having you locked up that night," says Halllday. Later on, he did go to Halllday, and Halllday then and there enlisted him He was not shrewd, in his service. but he was willing and earnest and from that time on he was useful He had started, presumably, on his vacation but uctually on a very different errand, when the murder at the main house occurred, and Ualliday recalled blm by wire. But when he returned, it was, at Halliday's request to hide in the Livingstone house. It was from there that he came, at night, to assist Halliday In guarding the main house. One perceives, of course, that the Livingstones had been brought into the case. Dragged In, is the way Ualliday puts it. But after the first conference between the doctor and himself they were in It willy nllly. "Who," Ualliday asked Hayward, referring to his copy of my Uncle Horace's letter, "were likely to have access to Horace Porter at night?" "No one, so far as I know. The Livingstones, possibly." "Then the man who came In while he was writing this letter might have been Livingstone?" "He was 111 that night I was with him." "Then Livingstone's out," said Ualliday, and turned in a new direction. "Some theory, some wickedness, was put up to him. And it horrified and alarmed him. A man doesn't present sucb a theory without leading up to It Let's try this: what subject was most interesting Horace Porter during the last years, or months, of his life?" "Spiritism, I Imagine. I know be was working on it" "Alone? A man doesn't work that sort of thing alone, as a rule." "I'll ask Mrs. Livingstone, If you like. She may know." And ask the Livingstones he did, with the result that Halllday got his first real clew, and elaborated the daring theory which culminated in that fatal fall from the ladder, in the secret passage on the tragic night of the 10th of September. . . , All this time, of course, It remained only a theory. Hayward scouted It at first, but came to It later on; the Livingstones offered a more difficult problem. "They didn't want to be Involved," Halllday says. "But after Edith's let ter came I more or less had them. And of course after he'd tried to get Into the house, and left the print of his hand on tbe window board, they had to come In. They'd denied any knowledge of the passage before that But be knew It as well as 1 did, or better, and that there was a chance old Bethel knew It too, and had used It" This letter of Edith's, to which I already refeired, runs as follows: "Dear Madam: "1 read your article with greal (lnterett, and would like to suggest that a good medium might be verj useful under the circumstances. "lot have one of the best In the country In your vicinity. She lias re-und ,s now "vIn3 under another ' 'Pname somewhere In tbe vicinity of Oakvlle. "When 1 knew her she was known as Ei'genln Biggs, but this was bei (htve hi-T- e - ! m, V X t 1 "a11 Vf with the others; even my dear Jane: knew a little ; no wonder she required! ber smelling salts. Actually, out of the confusion, only two pictures remain in my mind: One was of Greenougb staring at Livingstone, and then Jerking aside the curtains of the cabinet where Halllday and Hayward bad opened the panel and after turning on the red globe hanging there, were stooping over a body at the bottom of tbe ladder. The other is of that figure at tbe foot of thp stairs. I know now that It could not have been there; that it was lying, dead of a broken neck, at the foot of tbe ladder. I have beard all tbe theories, bnt I cannot reconcile them with tbe fact How could I have Imagined UT I did not know then who was Inside tbe wall. I am not a spiritist but once in every man's life comes to him tbe one experience which he can explain by no law of nature as ho understands them. To every man his ghost and to me, mine. In the dim light of the red lamp, dead though he was behind the panel, I will swear that I saw Cameron, alias Simon Bethel, standfng at the foot of the stairs and looking up. (To Be Continued) NOTICE owners are hereby notified that in order to get rid of a great number of worthless dogs in our city, the city council, in regular session, voted to increase the tax on dogs to $2 for male and $5.00 for female dogs. All dogs not having a license on or before February 1st, 1929, will be taken up and disposed of by the marshal. Owners are also noticity Denied of the Any Knowledge They'd fied that the ordinance provides that Passage Before That" dogs must be locked up at night, and maiden name, which she bad retained. this, too, must be complied with. husband's name Is Livingstone; Owners must call at the office of the fer not City Treasurer and pay on or before know his initials. above date. "She has abandoned tbe profession BY ORDER OF CITY COUNCIL. In which she made so great a success, Dated January 14, 1929. but I understand is still keenly interested." NOTICE OF SALE FOR SPECIAL TAXES The letter is not signed. . . . Notice is hereby given that Special knowlnot did that Halllday require Taxes for Street are due and edge ; he had suspected It before. But unpaid in amountspaving and upon the land him One a had lever. it gave attempt set forth and described in the delinalready been made by Bethel to get quent list hereto attached; and unback Into the house. Time was get- less said taxes, including interest, toting short; before long we would have gether with the cost of publication, to go back to the city, and although are paid on or before the 1st day of he knew by that time who and what February, 1929, the real property upon Bethel was, he could prove nothing. which such taxes are a lien, will on said day be sold for said taxes, inTo go was to abandon the case. terest, cost of advertising and expense He could not secure the arrest of a of sale, at the front door of the Post man because his lens prescription was Office, in Tremonton City, Utah, bethe same us the murderer's. Or on the ginning at the hour of 12 o'clock, strength of an unsigned book manu- noon, of said day, and continuing unscript left behind the wall of the den. til all of said property shall have been De could not prove that Maggie Morri- sold. Delinquent Tax List son had died In the process of the exDistrict No. 1 Paving had Gordon puzzled over, periment Herman Landvatter, lots because the mud on the truck wheels block 14, plat A, Tremonton Ctiy, corresponded with the red 137.5 feet frontage on Main street, of the lane Into the main house. Ue Amount delinquent....$553.6ST I. N. Kirkpatrick, lot 5, block 9, could not prove his own interpretation of the abbreviations S. end G. T. so plat A 50 feet frontage on Tremont liberally scattered through the diary. street. Amount delinquent....$256.03 And he could not prove that It was J. D. HOGGAN, Bethel who, looking for the broken Treasurer and Collector of City lens in or near the culvert bad found UKON WATER CO. my fountain pen there. A fact which Notice Gordon had noted in the Journal as There are delinquent upon the fol follows: "I have them now, sure. W. P. was here last night and left bis lowing described stock, on account of Assessment No. 2, levied on the 5th fountain pen." of December, 1928, the several But he could, through the Living- day amounts set opposite the names of the stones, take a chance on proving all respective shareholders as follows: these things. And, against LivingCert. No. No. Shares Amt. stone's protests and fears, prove It he K. Watanaba 89 4 $ 8.00 did. 4 8.00 "As a matter of fact," he says, "they Geo. F. Somers 5 92 10,00 were in a bad position themselves, and Gustaf Larson 7 3 6.00 Fred Peterson they knew it They had to come over Isaac L. Isaacsen 4 4 8.00 . . . again!" 5 8 16.00 John Oyler 13 18.00 Things were, Indeed, rather parlous W. A. Adams 7 14.00 for the Livingstones "As a matter of J. W. Rhodes 30.00 15 fact," Halllday says cheerfully, "I E. S. Hansen 131 5 10.00 gave the police a very pretty case Chas. C. Hess 10 10 E. Robinson.. 20.00 Joseph accordwas them. all It there, against 180 3 6.00 Ralph Grover ing to Greenough. Even to the hand- Thomas 2 119 4.00 Harris !" print 2 4.00 Ezra Packer But he held them off. Ue had done Ole Peterson 7 14.00 what he wanted, turned the police James H. Hess, Jr 4 5 8.00 1 5 10.00 along a false trail and was free once Milton H. Welling 7 14.00 mute to travel along the true one. Frank Burns 3 143 6.00 And In this he says, und I believe, D. B. Jones And in accordance with law, and that his purpose was not mercenary. an order of the board of directors "The situation was peculiar," he made on the 5th day of Dec, 1928, so says. "The slightest slip, the faint- many shares of each parcel of such est suspicion, and he was off." stojek as may be necessary will be And he goes back again to the sub- sold at the office of the secretary at tlety and wariness of the criminal his residence at East Garland on the himself; so watchful, so wary, that 28th day of Jan., 1929, at the hour throughout it had even been neces- of 1 p. m., to pay delinquent assessments thereon, together with the cost sary to keep me in Ignorance. "You had to carry on. Skipper," he of advertising and expenses of the sale. says. "In a way, the whole thing DAVID LARSON, on Even you. then, you nearly bung Secretary Ukon Water Co., East wrecked us once." Garland. 2t Which was, be tells me the night of tbe second seance, when the criminal actually fell into the trap and entered the bouse. Livingstone was on guard upstairs that night and everything would have ended then All dog- - Iron-cla- y 61-1- 37-10- 57-9- 44-10- 58-9- 8 40-1- , 84-16- 3 21-1- 69-1280-1582-16- 1 There Is No probably. "But you spilled the beans I" be accuses me. From the first the seances were devised for a purpose, and I gather that some of the phenomena were deliberately faked, in pursuit of that purpose. On the other band, Mrs. Livingstone has always been firm In ber statement that "things happened" which she cannot explain. Tbe sounds In the library, the lights and the arrival of the book on the table are among them. But trickery or genuine Guesswork About It When we fit you with glasses we KNOW they are rigiit. We have the experience and the equipment for properly fitting the eyes with glasses. psychic manifestations, In the end they served I called tbe third their purpose. seance, and the mystery was solved. It Is not surprising that my memory of those last few moments Is a clouded one; I was, of all those present except the police, the only oue In com plete Ignorance of tbe meaning of what was going on about me. Edith knew, and was bravely taking ber risk Tremonton - Utah |