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Show EMERY COUXTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH rh e irionse of Whi II "TT "TT "iVni-J- . UEfiBtt V For Infants and Children.- 1 C. little, Brow y I 151" M "" having wveo'ct Spalding Nelson, clerk, Soro jotnins the American forces to France, he Is in a despondent mood when he receives 7 invitation to dinner from his Rutus Gaston. On tiie v to the house he meets, under a young ww'uliar circumstances, trouble-tnom arrrently to be of I,, 'haB an opportunity same in the She li'?s service. slieht Gas-ta- n awrtPient bulldins as Rufus n4 he accompanies her to the iou'se. Gaston and his wife are gome to Maine for a trip and want tne io leave Nelson in charge of accepts. Gaston apartment He their teil wife ina his -- S 0 great-nephe- noises "whispers have heard In the his On way to the house, arurtment the next Sunday Nelson aealn meets his accidental acdays before. quaintance of a fewShe urees him Barbara Bradford. not to allow the fact of their beknown. to At be tas acquainted Nelson meets the the apartment Wick, and InstinctIn a wall sare ively dislikes him. of necklace a magnificent tiuds he fortune. pearls worth a small In the hallway she Meeting Barbara him without recognition. "passes Diiiing in a restaurant he is conscious of the unpleasant scrutiny of a stranger, but a man whom he Next day Nelhad seen before. son finds the pearls have disappsafe. wall His the from eared first idea of informing the police Ga-sto- III. Continued. little restaurant in one streets and walked home. Immediately on entering the apartment I decided to put my money in the wall safe. There would be loss in a I dined the side of me to spend it if I little in my pocket. As I opened the safe by means of the combination I made the astounding discovery that one of the jewel cases had disappeared. And now I stood hesitating at the temptation for carried only a bade me richer the superintendent nor telephone. n notify the police. Yet I must do something. Tho jewels er. rusted to my care had been stolen. TlTe thief must be found and the pearls recovered. Why should not I myself play the I had abundant leisure deterihe? now. My great-uncl- bad informed e that there was something wrong In the house and had charged tne to discover what it was. Here was the me me to fulfill the trust on me. The thought flashed across my mind, too, that perhaps the crafty old gentopportunity for he had imposed leman had deliberately planned the disappearance of the gems. Perhaps lie had devised an elaborate test to see if I was honest, if I was of th(? right caliber to be his heir. Maybe he and his wife had not gone to Maine at all. They might even be quartered in another apartment in this very liimse. entering when There reallfor them to of the safe. not have told me anything surreptitiously they knew I was absent. y had been go necessity ?ive me the combination They need abmit the pearls. themselves I wondered If they might not have taken away the jewel box just to see if I would diswrT the loss and to ascertain what I would do about it. Another theory suggested itself. My Miit evidently prized her jewels highly. After thpy na,i started she might havi? repented having left them behind nd have sent the old colored butler back to get them. He of course wou!d have a key to admit him. and lh7 would have supplied r.- - with e combination, Jvy hau tne. Probably he had been tcld to leave message for me and had forgo to do so. More than likely in a "ay or two I would receive a letter from rJ,j RUfus tilat would explain evT.vtlilng. 1 was glad now I had not notified superintendent not tic police. My euinii theory surelv wns far nior lo;r- an the first. Tt sppmprl nrpnnn terovs ,,at they would risk hundreds '"e to test tnv honesrv Still. I determined to fl'Jgh make a thor- - If tbev bod been nvestigation. ;f"en. I would set about in a scien-tay to discover the method of theft and to bring about restora-'n- I would keep my investigation T0'. and if it tu-nout that the were safe, no one would know m ed "'' fright about the matter. I my work as a detective. 1 wou,d examine the safe possible finger prints. I would interrogate Mrs. I wuld watch ff'Jruher carefully ny appearance of guilt. I would arousing her suspicions, tr d 'certain if h hH lot hor "w tnv p. tf ,her possession. 1 """'Ii Wo",(J insert an advertise-o'- f irifi !',! ',rJpr'S a reward for the return e" ''''''s- - so worded that only the th; )it myKt,if would understand. I would 'y". try to locate i the '!S 'nA ... ii ,j j "ouiu question tne nan lf) as Kirl to whether ,n,'non t'nv returned. "r. and discover what try m ilio 'p mysterious letter that had n sci.ur vyni!e tbls (it, ' -- 1 y : 1 "it f 1 " l r- - ' --"- ' ' " me to know ' - that when trouble aealn. threatened her she had decided to trust in me and had sought my aid. I fell asleep at last and slept for I do not know how long. Opening my eyes in the darkness I seemed to feel the presence of someone in the room. There was the sound of footfalls somewhere muffled, seemingly sour, dis- tance off. was almost certain I could detect muttered words. In a curious detached state of mind I listened, wondering whether I was awake or asleep. The footsteps seemed to come closer, then recede. The whispering noise ceased. I sprang up, and hastily lighting up all the rooms, exand looked about for a hiding place. plored them thoroughly. There was Recalling a custom of my mother's, I no evidence anywhere of anyone's to over the bookcase and tak- presence. stepped As I lay there thinking ing a Macaulay's History, Volume about it, I decided that my illusion Three, from the shelf, placed between must have been a due to my dream, the leaves all of my money except thought of spirit rappings when I first fifteen dollars. No burglar was likely had heard Miss Bradford's signal. to find It there. I was still thinking about my expeI extinguished the light and in the rience when I awoke early the next darkness stepped back into my bed- morning. Springing lightly out of room, and stopped stock still. bed, I stopped in utter bewilderment. From somewhere in the room there There, in the center of the room on came three distinct taps. Instinctivethe floor lay a small white folded slip ly I crouched in an attitude of of paper. It could not have been a and strained my ears to listen. dream, after all. I had heard footMy first impression was that there steps and whispers. I had not imagwas someone In the room, probably ined it. Someone had been In the the burglar. I hesitated about turn- room while I slept. There was the ing on the light. If he were armed proof, the note they had dropped. it would give him all the advantage. Wondering if Miss Bradford had Breathlessly I listened. Once more found still another unusual way of there came three distinct raps, this communicating with me I hastened to time apparently from somewhere out- pick up the folded paper that lay on side the room. I wondered if it had the floor. On the outside it bore my been sounds like these that had so ter- name, in typewriting, "Mr. Spalding rified the old couple. Nelson." With eager fingers I unfolded the Perhaps it was the echo of someone pounding in another apartment, the paper, wondering what message It connoise being carried along by a water tained. As I read it, I stood there, pipe. The thought that it might be aghast. It ran: the crackling of some hidden steam or "Why didn't you tell the police refrigerating pipe suggested itself. about the pearls?" Both these theories I rejected. The CHAPTER IV. sound, whatever it was, had originated close at lurid. I hail twice traversed the cross lane It came again. This time I was certain that it was not due to footfalls near McGowan's Pass tavern waiting Although it as I had at first conjectured. I whs for Barbara Bradford. been my intention to ride thither had more the to locate too, closely able, direction from which it came. The I was amazed to learn on applying at enwindow at the foot of the bed stood two of the stables near the park few a to the horse trance that hire float seemed to open, and the sound in from somewhere outside. I hurried they bad there either were owned priover to the window and thrust my vately or had been already engaged. There was nothing for me to do but head out. At first I could see nothto go to my rendezvous on foot. I had a arm looked white ing, but even as I almost despaired of Miss Bradford's coming when I spied her cantering slowly along the lane, followed at a decorous distance by a groom. She was looking right and left and when she saw me her face brightened but she rode a few steps past me with no sign of recognition. I was wondering what to make of this new slight when she suddenly reined in and allowed the groom to come up with her. "James," I heard her say to the ridgroom, "my head aches, and the Take the ing is making it worse. horses back to the stable, and I will walk the rest of the way home." "Very well. Miss Bradford," be said, touchiig his cap, as he assisted her to alight. She waited until he had vanished and then hastened to the bench where I was seated, one I had purposely selected because it was half hidden by a turn in the road and the branches tree. of a She colored vividly as I rese to ! It I Stood There Aghast greet her with outstretched band. A- - t .Read "Oh, Mr. Nelson." she cried. "I don't thrust forth from an adjacent window know what you will think of me, askI am in on the same floor. It held a riding meet me here. as was ing you to I don't someone. tell I crop and reaching out as far must on the trouble. possible it rapped three times know what to do!" sill it my window. "The only thing to do," I suggested, the It dawned on me at once thatBradto begin at the beginning and tell "is win.low next must belong to the me the whole story. I've sisters of my It must be Miss own. Just ford apartment. pretend you are one of my Bradford trying to signal to me. let me help you." and sisters "Hello," I called out softly. at me thoughtfully, She .looked rea "Oh, Is that you. Mr. Nelson?" if questioning whethas me "I thought studying I lieved voice whispered. be trusted, and apto was not or er I must see vou would never hear. in the affirmative, deciding parently 'ou" me an amazing story. told "Wiiv didn't vou phone me; -It's all about ray sister, Claire," she Someone might hear T couldn't. than began. "She's five years older me." that she's but a girl, She's lovely I. "What's the matter?" to be impulsive, romanused she is, "I've had another letter." She and my tic, md headstrong. "From those men in the park?" never got along well together, mother "I suppose so." and she was sent away to boarding "Tell me about it." school. One winter, it was six years me meet Can you "I can't now. mother was in Europe and only ago, somewhere tomorrow ?" Hid and I were at home . . ." "Wherever you say." Evidently her She sighed sadly. to her mo"Do you ride?" back were bringing words "Yes. indeed." leads ments of heartache. Til be in the cross lane that "To make a long story short, Claire between from McGowan's Pass Uvern ran away from the school and ma" eight and rriedmarried a French chauffeur em"I'll be there." in the neighborI did ployed by a family me Whether or not she heard me Into her confitook She hood. She withdrew quickly not know. week later, and I well, I told a endence had from the room as if someone window dad. There was a terrible time about the her hustered I waited there in wish it all. Dad found out that should she case in hour full for a married, had a wife was already band to communicate with me againwindow and child right here in this city. He In her manBv and by the light sat had the marriage annultod and even then but of the paout was extinguished, everything hoping aged to keep Claire's husband threatened there at the window adjoining, He renew pers. seek to In vain that she would with prison and made him go back to conversation. the France. Dad was simply wonderful. was I t Into bed about Claire's Wnen at last I had quite for- No one knew anything ourselves, the prin-rip,n a jubilant mood. I except me escapade for cutting of the school, and the judge given Miss Bradford with her when she met me In company in Nassau count, who ordered down for was enough mother an-- sister. It e is not acted upon because of peHe has been culiar circumstances. discharged from his position without adequate explanation or reason, and feels himself involved In something of a mystery. He decides to conduct an Investigation himself. CHAPTER " me. I was about to get Into bed. had turned out the light, in fact, when I recalled the errand that had lea me to open the wall safe. I bad ioFe than two hundred dollars in my trousers pocket and I purposed putting it where it would be safe. With the feeling that if the jewels had disappeared, so might my money, I pressed the light button in the sitting room iwat-uncl- e, of nivswrious which" ihey ' - not seem to have any connection with the other affairs that were troubling me, if I was to remain in New York and become better acquainted with Barbara Bradford, as I fondly hoped. I meant to have nothing hanging over IN TROUBLE." -- Circumstances KvrJi" - Mothers Know That By WILLIAM JOHNSTON Cprr! fl E H wide-spreadi- eight-thirty.- ii 1 -- - - - Genuine Castoria ii II : iii ""LCOHOL-3rEHCO)- the marriage annulled. Dad kept mother abroad until after It was ull over, and to this day she never has heard a word about it." "Your father must be a wonderful man," I said enthusiastically. "He was," she said simply. "He has been dead two years." "Ob, I'm so sorry," I cried, " I did not know." "If Dud were alive he would know what to do. You see, when he died, there was not much money left. We're, really little better than paupers. We've been living from day to day on our tiny capital, and Mother has been working every wire to arrange a good I wanted to do match for Claire. something, to go out and earn a living for myself, but she never would consent. She Insisted I'd be damaging Claire's prospects If I went Into trade, as she calls it, and I promised her Td do nothing until after Claire is safely married." "And Is she to be married?" I asked. A troubled expression came into her face. "She was to be, but now I don't know. She Is engaged to marry yotmg Harry D. Thayer, who Is worth a lot of money, but someone has found out about her secret." "How did they find out?" I asked eagerly. I understood now the mysterious meeting In the park that had brought me first Into touch with Barbara Bradford. Some hand of rascals was trying to blackmail Claire Bradford, and her sister was trying to save her. "That's the greatest mystery of nil," "Before exclaimed Miss Bradford. Dad died he turned over to me all the papers about the annulment of Claire's Somehow he seemed to marriage. rely on me far more than on either Mother or Claire. He explained to me the Importance of always keeping them, in case the past should ever crop up, but he charged me to see that they always were safely put away where no one could find them." "Where did you keep them?" I asked. "In the wall safe In my sitting room." "In the wall safe!" I cried, thinking in bewilderment of the coincidence that these papers should have had a similar hiding place to the Gaston jewels which had vanished so jl T. similaUnamciooo vj Bears the Signature ttcretyftomIniDiiesto rwrfufness indRc stGoatwis :tJ a neither Oplam.Morpblne thru ,S r If, Always 1 LW of r iS?,. In fcsSiu " V i L.inr.dPemedyfbf IxssofSlep z. i i Exact Copy of Wrapper. c For Over Thirty Years in" ,.a Use TMC CCNTAUII COMMHY. NCW VOftK CITY. 3 In 1930. Otherwise Content. ob yours," one colored wash lady observed to another, over the dividing back fence, "he shore do seem a right contented man." "He would be," (he other responded, "'('eptln' for only two things which troubles him. He has to quit eutln' to sleep, an' he has to quit Kleep'n' to "I want to buy a battleship," said the lady secretary of the navy. "Well ?" "I wonder if I could get the chairwoman of the naval committee lnter ested?" "Ask her to go battleship shopping with you." Louisville Courier-Journa- Some wives win to think that bands were made to order. Latin ceased to be spoken as the language of the people of Italy about the year fiS. "Dat husban' rat." hus- l. Where is Relief From Blazing Skin Diseases? Mast I Endure Forever the Torturous Itching? The skin is fed from the blood, and upon the condition of the blood depends whether or not your skin will be healthy and free from boi!3, pimples, scaly irritations, red eruptions and other disfiguring- and unsightly disorders. The sensible treatment that will show real results is a remedy that strangely. "Yes," she answered, plainly puzzled "It was an exone hut my- SOME OTHER KIND OF BISCUIT No cellent hiding place. self had the combination. I don't see now who could have taken them. I Mrs. Pomple Satisfied Cows Were Not Fed on Anything That Was found the safe locked as it always Composed of Milk. was." "When did you first discover the paOne after the other, customers had pers were missing?" "Let me see," she pondered. come to the shop n(l complained "Claire's engagement was announced about (he milk. "What I want to know," said Mrs. at a dinner three weeks ago last who looked almost as thbi as Sunon Pomple, The newspapers Thursday. 'is what you feed your cows the milk, Two It. day carried a brief notice of on?" came." note first the later days "Feed them on?" snapped the dairy"What note?" She reached into the pocket of her man. "Why, I reckon we feeds them riding habit and drew forth' a folded better than a good many human beings I know feed themselves" this slip of paper. "I brought it with me to show you; with a chalky stare at the thin customer. "My cows are fed on the fat here, this is the first one." Like the mysterious note I myself of the land, and if their fodder ain't had received only the preceding night, up to the mark, we give 'em the finest this one was not inclosed in an en- biscuits we can buy. And If we can't I buy the biscuits, we make 'em. velope. It was just a folded slip, addressed in typewriting to "Miss Claire stops at nothing when I wish to please Bradford." On the other side was this my customers." "I'm not denying it," declared Mrs. message : "What if Thayer knew about your Pomple, "but I challenge yon to conHow much tradict me when I declare that It ain't being married before? will you give to get those papers milk biscuits you feed 'em on." Lonback ?" don "Where did you get this?" I asked. "I found it on the floor of my bedLife's Little Problems. room one morning when I got up late. "George, dear!" began the worried I gave it to my sister without having woman, read it, thinking she had dropped It "Yes, wotisit?" grunted George, withthere. She read it and screamed and out looking up from his newspaper. fainted. Fortunately Mother was out "Would you mind helping me with a of the house at the time. Naturally I little bit of arithmetic?" she pleaded. read the note then. I went to the "Not at all." documents found the gone. safe and "Well, If we pny the new cook the Claire has been nearly crazy ever wages she wants will we have enough since. She Insists that it Is all my money left to buy anythfng for her to fault. She says I ought to r.iave de- cook?" London Answers. stroyed the papers, but I couldn't, could I?" "Of course not," I replied warmly. "You did quite right In keeping them. It was not your fault they were stolen." "I couldn't destroy them. Dad had told me to keep them," she said simply. "What did you do then? Did yon tell your mother?" at my bewilderment. Tit-Bit- will cleanse the blood thoroughly and kill the germs that cause the trouble. And for this purpose no remedy ever made can approach the record of S. S. S. which cleanses the blood of the disease germs, at the same time building up the general health. For valuable literature write to Chief Medical Adviser, 100 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. SEEKS FOE OF JAP Hat Been Detailed to Specialist to This Country Enemy of Bring Horticultural Pest. The Japanese beetle Is going to have Its old enemies on Its trail In this The United States departcountry. ment of agriculture has sent a man to Japan to find those enemies and send them across the ocean. They will then be established In the sections of New Jersey wlfbre the beetle has gained a foothold, and they are expected to aid greatly In the control of the pest. The agent employed In Japan Is familiar with Japanese conditions and' Is a specialist In this kind of work. It Is expected that the task will require his sojourn. in Japan for two or three years. While something Is known of the parasites of the Japanese beetle a great deal Is still to be learned only where the under field conditions beetle lives with all the enetnles thnt prey upon It The beetle reached this country with Importations of greenhouse plants, and thus far apparently has been comparatively free from molestations by natural enemies. Explained. gold." "Perhaps that Is the reason people don't have as much of It put In their mouths as they used to." "Silonce Is You may know some men If you know some people they know. never lets up until It reaches the jumping ftff place. Self-estee- One Trial of Grape-Nut- s will do more than many words to convince you of the goodness of this wheat and barley food. Barbara has heard the whispers, too. (TO BK CONTINUJia.) Compensation in Age. It Is true that a poet wrote a famous hymn, "I Would Not Live Alwtys," yet people are Interested In living as long as they can, as that is one of the great laws of nature. Even advanced age, bringing dim sight, loss of henrlng and general decline, Is not without its compensations, and Longfellow proved that "age la opportunity no les thau youth," BEETLE But its worth saying that Grape Nuts contains all the nutriment of the grains, is ready to eat, requires no sugar &nd there's no waste. I GrapeNuts is a Builder |