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Oh, 'e's a mean dorg!" down nine year-oldaughter told of It to her Ideas. London small playmates at school. "Why, it's Just like a title," she ended. Peril of Growing Pains. "Everything that comes to our place Little John had put In n very hard has written on It after our names, Collet t place.'" day of playing and that night be said, aches!" Another little sniffed "Mother, oh. bow my knee a pain and is growing "That just very disdainfully. if that is "Oh, ro In the morning," all he will right ivhat you mean, we've got one too," she informed the audience, "and it's plied his mother. "But the At that John exclaimed: almost like your'n. Illght after our is one of and one knee, in !s name on just pain everything that comes to than the be to longer our house, write, 'Collect, my legs going they d d nine-year-o- ld please.' other?" "Exchange. No Wonder. Otis Von Say that something at tlie banquet last night disgusted you? Chester Yes! had too much climate. ox By WILLIAM JO,,NSTON 8 JL smoother sailing, provided of course of the gang to which young Nelson, In the few now In prison charged with the mur that I was acquitted. "Nothing doing," he sneered. "Any chats I had had with her, I had real-ize- d der of Mlsa Lutan, undoubtedly be crook Jarlng enough to steal those that wealth and luxury and social longed. Their theory was that a bur on he had got his hands position meant nothing to Barbara's glar gang succeeded la planting Nel pearls, once them, never would return them. happiness. She was the sort of girl son In the apartment as a caretaker, Pearls are to easily disposed of. who for a man she loved gladly would and that this enabled them to get their bearings la the building and proYou've got to dig up a better explabrave poverty, hardship, everything vide themselves with false keys for a with woman a nation than that" sincere, "What did Mr. Gaston think? What clear vision of the real values of ex- ransacking the rooms at their leisure, The guilt of young Nelson, the police did he say when he found them istence. there?" My messenger returned with the say, Is established beyond question. "He had nothing to say. lie was newspapers, and as I picked them up, and they are hopeful of being able to so tickled at finding them again that everything went black. "Millionaire round up his associates. There was also a brief Interview he hustled with them right away to Gaston Found Murdered." was the with Wick, In which he was quoted as flushed before the safe deposit vaults and did not startling headline that rest until he had them safely locked me, right there In the column next to saying : "I was suspicious of Nelson from up. He took both jewel enses with the account of the Bradford wedding. The sinister effect of this terrible the start and tried to keep an eye on him and made me go along with him news dawned on me Instantly. With him. He was very secretive about hU to protect them." Rufus dead, without comings tnd goings and was always "Didn't you look at all for the secret my great-uncl- e of his eorroloratlng prying about trying to learn some the I told you about?" possibility passageway How "Still dreaming about that, are any part of my story, my case was thing about the other tenants.him as came Gaston Sir. to employ we Unquestionably didn't. hopeless, desperate. you?" scoffed Gorman. "No, I It would On the way up to the Granddeck the it would mean that I would be found caretaker never learned, but be no hard matter for a slick young to sentenced and murder of I told It and old man spoke about guilty to Impose on so old a him that In my opinion there was death in the electric chair. As soon crook like him as man with a cock and Mr. Gaston I as could myself compose recovered the sufficiently nothing to it After he bull story." In the was pearls he was too excited to think I read every word there I sniffed indignantly as I read this. It seemed to newspapers about this new tragedy, about anything else. I knew that Wick was deliberately try at break him all up, and I took him back smiling grimly at the thought that ing to still further discredit me I to bis hotel and left him there. He least they could not blame this mur recalled that he himself had told me said he had some writing to do, and der on me. our Mr. Gaston, it appeared, had come that Mr.. Gaston had mentioned that be would meet me at my oilice he was obvious that It relationship. In o'clock to the Granddeck about ten at noon today." in was this, withholding deliberately "How do vou account for the re the morning and had gone at once to formation with a sinister purpose. turn of the pearls?" I cried desperate- his apartment. On his arrival he had knew well who had killed Wick That ly. "What's your theory about them?" been greeted by the telephone girl and Rufus Gaston, in just as he knew wb was he only "I haven't any," he replied. "It's had informed her that bad shot Daisy Lutan, 1 was morally up to you to explain it. Maybe by the city for a few days and was stay- certain. I was Inclined to agree with be added had that He the time I come to see you tomorrow ing at a hotel. Gorman that Wick himself was not the you'll have thought up a new yarn would not be occupying the apartment murderer. The fact that he was of a rewife's his for weeks until several to spin." and Clinging nature seamed half-pascowardly t About "Please, please," I called after him turn to the city. to argue against associating him aca come had twelve tomorthere telephone as he turned away, "do look crimes of violence. Yet with untively row and see if that secret passage is call for him. The girl had been the virulent way In which he was the from to 1 said able get auy response it was." not where evidence against me to the adding not He walked away without answering. apartment. Knowing that he had showed plainly that he was he and that I might gone out, fearing B:u k once more in my cell, stretched engaged in masking the real of illness, iyself despondently on my little iron have had a sudden attack murderer. notified and she become alarmed to had cot, and closing my eyes, tried Who could the murderer be? I was Mr. Wick, the superintendent. concentrate my thoughts on an confident that the same person who account the The new superintendent, to solve this mystery, Miss Lutan had killed my hud Mr. killed, lleury which I could plainly see had all but continued, had summoned I could only conjecture great-untiGranddeck owner of the honthe Kent, in my destroyed Gorman's faith The police theory as to motive. the had gone Together they esty. I must solve it if I was to re- apartments. It was burglary seemed as logical that - Mr. Gaston's rooms. unable toto Being get free, yet tain him in aiding me as any. The more 1 pondered over ine the whole thing seemed inexplicable. to get any reply to repeated rings and matter the more firmly I became con I could hardly blame him for doubting knocks they had finally let themselves vinced that there was a numerous of a in in with possession pass key me. The great value of the pearls criminal band at the back of it all. of owner the the building. ttieir for had been motive enough In his study In the rear of the No one man or two men could carry theft, but what possible motive could they were horrified to find out all the deviltry, even with the help returnapartment thief the there have been for old Rufus Gaston, fully clad, lying on of the telephone girl. ing them? I recalled, too, how I had been skillEtone dead. A face the down, floor, to came too, me, It With a shock head of his on back wound the shadowed, work that evidently fully that the restoration of the pearls great he had been killed, prob showed that organization and employees. required of whole theory practically upset the I from convinced blow was terrific that Wick and the a by instantly, my defense. If I could have estab- ably A telephone girl were only two more of a blunt Instrument. sort some a this of theft, jury lished the fact search of the rooms failed to show than likely two minor members of a might be persuaded to believe my tale powerful body of criminals. That It any sort of a weapon. whisof anonymous notes, mysterious crime was this same sinister force that had was the that The theory police pers, and a secret passageway by was undoubtedly the work of a bur- caused my discharge from the office I which the thief bad gained access to glar who had been trapped by the re- was equally sure. This sort of thin the apartment, but without the motive turn of Mr. Gaston so unexpectedly took brains far bigger brains than of theft, my story, unsupported by How the murderer Wick gave any evidence of possessing. to his apartment. othwitnesses and uncorroborated by A peculiar apathy came over me as after attacking Mr. .Gaston er evidence, surely would be Incred- escaped n puzzle to the detectives nt work I finished reading the account. Never was ible of belief. on the case. The superintendent of before had 1 so fully understood how I bad just one hope left. Old Rufus the building expressed the opinion that thoroughly an innocent man could be and must find that secret passageway the murderer had gained access in the damned by circumstantial evidence. see whither It led. That, with our of a meter Inspector. Attendknew Barbara knew that I was ab guise knowledge of the Identity of the tele ants In the hall recalled that there solutely Innocent. I doubted much if phone girl and the possibility of provwas had been such a man In the building we could get anyone else to believe It, ing Gorman's belief that Wick As he wore the usual The cunning web had been woven seemed likely to be my that morning. an the customary with such malicious thoroughness that and uniform presented find must only salvation. Old Rufus credentials, he had been permitted to escape seemed impossible. What was that passageway. He must! He must! enter and leave the building unmo the use of my fighting further? For hours I lay there racking my lested. brains over the unsolvable problems. CHAPTER XIII. There followed a long review of Ru I My luncheon was brought In, but Gaston's business career and an fus waved It away untouched. Wearily estimate of some of his extensive hold Coming as It did as a dire climax to I wondered whether the recovery of real estate, and bonds in stocks, all ings my other troubles, the shock of old the pearls had destroyed my aged relRufus Gaston's murder sent me Into to It seemed as In me, ative's faith an apathetic state from which It I could have destroyed Gorman's. seemed impossible for me to arouse me he doubted if him hardly blame myself. Without hope and even withafter finding that my story of the disout interest I dully awaited the ap was apparappearance of the pearls proach of my trial for murder. ently untrue. In my brief experience While there never had been an op too all learned had I as a prisoner portunity for any bond of affection to well the.bitter fact that once a man become established between my aged one no henceforth Is discredited, relative and myself In fact, I had trusts him. If Rufus Gaston failed seen him only three or four times in how see not did I me at this juncture my whole life, and then only for brief unI could possibly extricate myself and periods still his unexpected unseeen web that the from scathed me of had bereft end dreadful practimalihands had so skillfully and cally every hope of being acquitted of ciously woven around me. The only absurd charge against me. Wick, the ray of comfort that I could find anyIt was plain, Intended to d'sclaim all in was situation whole In the where knowledge of my relationship to Mr. my firm belief that though old Rufus and now there was no one Gaston, world whole the and Gorman and how I happened to be to else explain doubted me, Barbara Bradford my at the time of the In building living Barbara, 1 ventured to call her In my murder. Lutan's Miss Unfortunately to would eontinua Innermost heart I had destroyed both Mr. Gaston's letno would be She sure, me. In believe ter to me and the Dote from my matter how much appearances went which had first told me of the mother against me, that I was telling the ijfl iffMl" Intention. My great-aunold man's I if Even knew. truth. Barbara and "Millionaire Gaston Found Murdered," I learned from the newspapers, had 6he had not known that I could not Was the Startlina Headline That been completely prostratea by the Flashed Before Me. possibly have Pred the shot that killed tragedy and had been unable to come Miss Lutan. I was certain that she to the funeral. The shock of the news forhis that it which me. from appeared still would tiflve trusted of her husjmnd's violent end had left ten over to run tune was likely to Thinking ubout Barbara I reca-'e- d It in a very critical condition. surher some was with wei-dlnIt dollars. million of that It was the day her sister's her have seemed to deranged wholly or score a I I had one of the prison attendprise that learned that brain, and the physicians sumants get me the evening papers to see more of years ago the old man appar-in jaged to the Maine camp where she moned a been powerful figure what they had to say about it, for ently had was refused to permit her to be reboth active of the life metropolis, of some the breath I was fearful lest moved from there or to let anyone life. scandal at the last moment involving in Its business and social What interested me most was the talk with her, declaring that the least the Bradfords might bring about a remarkable co- excitement of any sort would be apt Eagerly I was hoping attention paid to the postponement. a few weeks be- tee have fatal results. that only that nothing had happened to prevent nfidence To be sure there was my mother, taken had murder a place in the fore the marriage taking p'.ace. With the y could prove my relationship, but who . below, under practi-n'just fortune of her sister assured and ipartment I felt there was little use of dragging The po circumstances. same the I realized her mother's future safe. hereuncie's the account staled, were Inclined her into t. On rending of that the course of my relations with was one ilea.h she had hastened ou from the the that lieve bi ;o much e Barbara 'utd be likely Continued. true-hearte- d 1 m oermission I ihe House Whispers C 15 about Vegetable Lpound so tried it Now I feel all can work better. You have Arhtand 8 CHAPTER XII after stomach meals. I could not :vr?J West to attend his funeral and had been puzxled and alarmed by not find ing me there. All the time I had been In prison I bad been writing her my usual weekly letter, affecting a cheer fulness I was far from feeling and telling her nothing of what had happened. Her letters to me, addressed to the Granddeck, had been forwarded by the post office, so that until after she ar rived in the city she knew nothing of my plight It had been my hope that I would be able to conceal everything from her until after I had been trium phantly acquitted. If 1 were not she would know the worst soon enough. When she first learned, or from what source, of my predicament I wa unaware. I did not even know of her presence in the city until the day after s my funeral, when just twenty-fou- r hours before my trial was to begin a keeper brought me word that she was waiting downstairs to see me. 1 steeled myself for the Interview with her. Naturally 1 expected that she would be terribly horror stricken and shocked at my plight, but what her attitude toward me would be I could not conjecture. I fully expected nothing but reproaches from her. She had been so opposed to my coming to ! Poetry and Prose. "Oft in my silent vigils, I hear the voices of the night." 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For years, It seemed to me, the relations between my mother and my been nothing but continuous To my great misunderstandings. amazement and bewilderment not an unkind word nor the suggestion of a reproachful thought cume from her lips. Oh, my boy, mynoy," she had cried as she saw me, "I know you didn't do It. I know my boy Is Innocent I What can I do to help you?" In that glorious, wonderful moment of reaction all resentment 1 had felt toward her forever vanished. I had one sacred, unforgettable glimpse of the eternal greatness of the Mother-hear- t, ever ready to forgive, ever quick to comprehend, ever prompt to aid. For one sweet hour we talked tothan gether, more understanding ever before In our lives. Freely and fully I told her everything, even to my wonderful but hopeless love for Barbara Bradford. She was willing, anxious, eager to aid me but what was there that she could do? what was there that anyone could dc? It was hopeless for a lone woman of limited means, unacquainted with the atbig c'ty and unused to Its ways, to such to powerful battle against tempt and desperate criminals as were conplot to cerned In the make me the scapegoat of their heinI could only advise ous misdeeds. her that she see McGregor and Gorman and be guided by what they sugi gested, When the morning of my trial actually arrived I entered the courtroom In a state of dull apathy. The night before I had not slept at all. I had spent all the black hours reviewing ray life, especially the last year, thinking with what high hopes and great expectations I had come to the metropolis and how miserably everything had turned out for me. Step by step I had reviewed the events that had brought me, discredited, all but friendless, all but penniless, into this dismal court room accused of a horrible, cowardly deed, seeking to see wherein I might iave altered my recent actions or changed the course of my life to avoid giving arrived at this shameful goal. Yet, strange to say, I found myself after mature reflection convinced that had 1 this lact year to live over again not In one Iota would 1 have done difcould have ferentlyno, not even If Ihad in store future the what foretold for me. self-ha- (TO BE CONTINUED.) "Tempus Fugit." The teacher gave Margaret some yarn and cardboard, and after showtng her how to work a design, told her to finish it at home. When she came to school the next day with the work, the teacher asked her why not finished It; If she had run bad she out of yarn. "Oh, no," answered Mar"I just run'd out of time." half-finishe- d garet; For the Poor. The Revenue Collecto You can't run tb. tent show na pocket th the war tax. proceeds, without paying That's not a benevolence, as you claim. If JheOwner Manager My friend. with mj ;!reum-itance- s you were familfr and my show you'd consider the purchase of every ticket a real charity |