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Show fcXfERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. The House Whispers of vii-- WILLIAM JOHNSTON mastratieB by IEWIN MYERS br LltUa, Brown Co. CHAPTER XIV Continued. 17 Copyright 1 have," she answered, looking at steadily In the eye, but speaking 1 iith a eugat tremor in ner tones. n'tiat ir m f crli f ha dm. s Im It because she feared the conse-jtenceof the revelation as to her jientitv, or was it that she feared she sljht be trapped by his questions? ne snot "Kow tell me, Mrs. Aioore, inur-jwe- d "who really her it explosively, Daisy Lutan?" "Henry Kent, she answered qulckthe district attorney had X before ine to stop her. "What's this?" exclaimed the judge. tThat did you say?" 1 object!" vociferated the district attorney, striving In vain to tch the attention of the Judge presMcGregor, iding. apparently well satisfied with the results of his question, stood there, smiling assurance "Object! it me. "Toung you "will itatement tilled woman," directed the judge, kindly repeat your last louder. Who did you say Daisy Lutan?" girl turned to face the judge. Her lips were set as If she had determined to carry out some fixed plan, coat what It might "Daisy Lutan," she repeated, "was murdered by Henry Kent, who owns the Granddeck. He's really Orville Granders, the bank president who got away with eight hundred thousand dollars and was sent up for seventeen The jearg." There was a commotion in the rear the courtroom. A dapper little old jentleman with neatly trimmed white whiskers rose hastily and made a lash for the door. Gorman, who had if been sitting behind him, sprang after and pinioned him by the "Nothing doing, Granders. Mm arms : I've got jon. sitting up near the counsel at 'the same time showed evithat he, too, was contemplating flight, but a husky chap whom Wick, table, dence basty 1 respected of being one of Gorman's tides, seized him, too. "Tour honor," cried my counsel, "I the issuance of warrants at once for Orville Granders, alias Henry Kent, and his confederate, James Wil- wn, alias James Wick and 'Stuffy Jim, on the charge of having murdered Daisy Lutan and Kufus Gaston. further urge the Immediate release of my client, Mr. Spalding Nelson, In my custody. Testimony that we already have obtained will establish that he was an Innocent victim of the rdly plots of these two demand 1 ex-co- vlcts." The reaction that came from this udden clearing of my name left me In a puzzled daze from which I hardl- y recovered until late that evening. hen. once more free, I found myself to the Gaston apartment. Granders, Ms tool. Wick, and practically every mployee of the Granddeck were under arrest, and warrants were out for other members of thp hnnri ivimw entity had been revetiled by the for mer telephone girL And there in the apartment with me my mother, Gorman. McGregor and to my surprise and delight, Barbara Bradford. After her sister's eddlng, it appeared, Barbara's mother hl'jl I'ono QvrnTT n li.!.-- f ...c-- her alone In the apartment ith the servants. She had welcomed the opportunity to work undisturbed U tlie mysterv that linil Innrierl mp hinJ the bars. Thinking that at Itufus Piston's funeral she might pick ur some clue that would be of service in traveling the tangled skein that held "er and me together, she had gone either, and seeing my mother there, nd suspecting at once who she might w. had Introduced herself. Quickly they had become good friends and she was who had informed mv mother of my plight. Present also with us rlpsnlr the 'ateness of the hour, was the district Jttorney and two of his aides, and Nellie Kelly, or as she much preferred to be called, Mrs. Moore. The girl was technically a prisoner, but her services 'n bringing the real criminals to book bad been so exceptional that she had been released on her own recogniz-an''e- . Hither she had been brought at the district attorney might cheek BP with her the marvelous tale of riniinai conspiracy that she had d to my counsel in the brief re-- s of the court t.w. day. Orviiip Granders, it appeared, had ""a the master-min- d that had directA score of years ly a" the plotting. he had been president of one f the metropolis' biggest banks. He bad heen discovered to have embez- -' nearly a million dollars. He had been tried nnd sentenced to seventeen imprisonment, but no one ever Iteeti able to find what he had tone with the money, so safely had he hu'n it away. 'n his long years In prison, assocF dany with criminals of the worst and listening to their plans for Tin 11 L further crime on their release, his own criminal instincts, already developed, had grown stronger, and he had spent his time plauning a new system of crime of which he was to be the head, using as his confederates certain evildoers with whom he had become acquainted in prison. When he had been released he had slipped quietly away to the West and lived in close retirement until he had been forgotten. The white whiskers be had grown so changed his appearance, too. that he had little fear of being recognized. Recovering such part of the stolen money as was left to hitu, lie had come to New York in the guise of a prosperous Western investor and. purchasing a plot of land, had erected the Granddeck apartments, designed for the occupancy of the wealthiest class of tenants. In this building, sitting like a little white spider in his web. he planned to prey secretly on all who came to live there. Every attendant in the building was either a criminal or an associate of criminals, reporting to him daily all that went on, and obeying his orders implicitly. A special switchboard in his apartment enabled him to listen in at will on all telephone conversations that went on. Every letter delivered at the Granddeck went through his hands before reaching the tenants, for every wall safe in the building he held a master combination and his pass-kewould unlock every door there was. And in addition to all this HE HAD BUILT A SECRET PASSAGEWAY. We found it that night and explored it, famlliarizing'Ourselves with all its exits, greatly to the amazement and confounding of Gorman. Connecting with the service elevator by a masked opening, it ran atong the hall of each apartment, with entrances concealed in wall panels. It enabled Granders to wander at will through the apartments at night, leaving mysterious notes to terrify his tenants, prying into the secrets hidden In their wall safes, listening when he chose to their most private conversations, examining the contents of their pockets. As he had planned from the beginning, he gained in this way much information that he was able to utilize to his financial profit without arousing suspicion. He had discovered, Mrs. Moore said, secret stock market movements one of his tenants was planning and had made a small fortune out of the advance Information. Several Injudicious women he had successfully blackmailed, turning over to agents who never came near the Granddeck the secrets he learned from letters he opened and telephone conversations he had listened to. In the case of Rufus Gaston, he had plotted to steal the Gaston pearls, Mrs. Moore explained, first terrifying the old couple Into leaving the apartment, the whispers that had been heard coming of course from the secret passageway. "But I can't understand," I said, "why. after he had once got hold of the pearls lu Mr. Gaston's absence, he should have restored them to their hiding place." "He had a duplicate made of bony pearls," explained Mrs. Moore. "It was part of his plan not to have any of the tenants discover the thefts for a long time after they occurred." "If he was so cautious," said the district attorney, "I am puzzled as to why he killed Miss Lutan and Mr. Gaston. He must have realized that both murders would be thoroughly in- "He promised that if I would help he would get Eddie out," she cried. "I was desperate. I'd do anything to get my husband back." Gorman and the district attorney exchanged meaning glances. While nothing more was said, I felt sure as they departed that both were thinking that this brave young woman who had solved the mystery for them certainly deserved some reward, and I think we ail realized that the only reward life ever could hild for her was the freedom of her husband. Presently they went anJ left us alone, Gorman, my mother, Barbara, TAH him NW Contents 15TluidHracrir, Children Cry For 1 f , -- . . --- 'y " " I XI fN 1 A p rsa "' h ami I. "There are still two things I cannot understand." I said, as we sat talking it over. "The first is" and I turned to Barbara "what was your sister doing in this apartment on the night of the first murder? When I came up from the Lutan apartment 1 caught her just coming out of my door. I could not help wondering if they had made her plant the revolver." Barbara started up, blushing. "Oh, no," she cried, "it was nothing like that. You remember a few moments before you and I had been in your room, looking at the secret pas-- a . . Food tnrReduH- c.m;!.finrtthf oiuiiiu"" - i tinj4iheStomaisafwlBiWtls Special Care of Baby. l Thereby Promoting Digestion uwenuincss um neither Op'mm.Mtf-phui- fctfr. v.; na tocral.NoTXAHco,v Sema (Unfit ST fii&jm Ait k Remedy for kfol Constipation and and Fevwisn Loss y Diarrhoc- - -- of Sleep That Baby 6hould have a bed of its own all are agreed. Tet it is more reasonable for an infant to sleep with grown-up- s than to use a man's medicine in an attempt to regulate the delicate organism of that same infant. Either practice is to be shunned. Neither would be tolerated by specialists in children's diseases. Your Physician will tell you that Baby's medicine must be prepared with even greater care than Baby's food. A Baby's stomach when in good health is too often disarranged by improper food. Could you for a moment, then, think of giving to your ailing child anything but a medicine especially prepared for Infants and Children ? Don't be deceived. Make a mental note of this: It is important, Mothers, that you should remember that to function well, the digestive organs of your Baby must receive 6pecial tare. No Baby is so abnormal that the desired esults may be had from the use of medicines primarily prepared for MOTHERS facsimile Stfnatoreot SHOULD grrwn-u?- GENUINE - THrCENTufiCcto-- NEW I Had Something to Offer You Besides My Love!" EVERY BOTTLE OF FLETCHER'S I A CAST0RIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of THS CBNTAUN COMPANY. NtW VORK CITY. 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Finally Wllklna' baffled head emerged. "I felt all around the blamed thing, captain," he explained, "and I'll be hanged If I can locate that capacity unvwhere." Home Sector. What Price the Fool? Kansas Paper The Ladies' Aid will hold another fool sale on Tuesday. Huston Transcript. WEAR SHOES hoes lant longer after Koot Kae, the antlaeptlo uninK Allen'a hoe powdvr for the feet. hShaken into theAllen's end aprlnkled In feel Foot-Rahoea makes tiitht or new any; irlvei Instant relief to corns and Sors and ereventa Hllatera. Callous It's the greatest comfort dlncovery gpota. Sold everywhere. of ths age. Try It LADIES CAN One mnaller and foot-bat- Exceptionally Qualified. Mrs. Gasdppe I'm rather hard to please. Have you had much experience as a ni'iid? The Applicant I worked for th Scraplelgh Stiles for six months before they separated. Mrs. (inzlppe I'll engage you. Now tell me all about It. t aa bun-Ion- His Summer Resort. sageway. Claire Just then had com "I don't know Noah embarked. Into my room looking for me. She whether I shall spend the summer at was puzzled by my absence, and the the seashore or mountains," he anPretense Called For. only solution that came to her was that I must be in your rooms. Alarmed Kdward had come to spend the time nounced. at what she considered my Impruwith Betty while his mother went to dence, she had slipped out into the the club. She stayed so long they were tired of playthings and of each hall, and seeing your door open, had Of course she did not So finally In despair Hetty other. investigated. The man or woman with weak kidfind me, for I had returned by way of A lame, stiff said, "Well, Edward, let's Just play neys is half crippled. back, with its constant, dull ache and the window ledge. She told me about we are having a good time." sharp, shooting twinges, makea the it the night before she was married. Headaches, simplest tank a burden. I don't wonder, though, that you susdizzy spell", urinary disorders and an Things Apart. ''ftll'worn out" feeling are daily sources pected her." My little niece was studying her Don't neglect kidney of distress. "I didn't suspect her," I cried. "I bound the mo to asked ami geography weakness and risk gravel, dropsy or dobeen had she what wondered Her grandmother state of Nevada. just Bright' disease. Get a box of Docn't ing there." Kidney Pills today. They have helped looked up and said: "I am surprised people the world over. "That's right," said Gorman. "He as traveled a that little girl that has a she minute that wouldn't believe for An Idaho Case much as you have must ask any one had had anything to do with it." Mrs. J. W. Web-ste- r, to help them with their lessons." 0110 Elehth St., "But what puzzles me most," I went Caroline said : "Grandma, when I Iewlston, Idaho, .' on, "Is how you ever persuaded the 'jogra-phynot I for and travel, travel joy says: "I had troirble from my kidneys ot " Kxchnnge. telephone girl to give Granders away. a dropsical nature. It must have been done after she had MornlnRS my hands How It did were first swollen so badtestimony. given her Lemon Pies. I could hardly ly happen that she changed so suddenly Frances had heard her mother tell close them, and my over to our side?" feet were swollen, of her fondness for lemon repeatedly too. The flesh under As I looked from one to the other World. of the when about the day Religions my eyes was puffed pies, and then for an explanation, Gorman burst out up and I had other According to reliable statistics and she ate too much of the dainty and symptoms annoyinfr laughing. one taste to e never adherbe the could estimates persuaded carefully-madof kidney complaint. "You'll have to ask Miss Bradford ents of the leading Christian religions again. Frances has reached the age. I used Doan's Kid-no- v Pills and thev about that," he said. "She did it all." number: Roman Catholics, 272.8ti(),-0OO- ; In the teens, when the boys are beginfixed me up In good shape." vestigated." I turned again to look at Barbara, 120.-00Gre'k or Orthodox Catholics, ning to show her attention. Get Doan's at Any Store, 60c a Bos "Both were accidents, so to speak," expecting her to speak, but she merely The other day her mother hap171.rO,(KI0; making Protestants. them of "Each the girl explained. blushed and was silent. one of when Christians. Tho pened to bo in the room a totnl of r)4.r.lO,(MM "Go on, tell me," I urged her. surprised him in their apartment, and bodies number: her swains called her over the phone. CO.. BUFFALO, N. Y. leading "Well," she said hesitatingly, "as I Cotifucianists. MohamK),S.'?0.OO(l; conversation, the From the heard her testifying. I bad an inspira- medans, llin. his. L'lO.rild.-fKii- ; mother gathered that Frances was Intion. I heard her say that she loved : laS.'JTO.OOO Animists. Buddhists, venting excuse after excuse not to her husband, and that she did not care i:;K.orU.OOO ; Shintoists, l;:.,(HK),(Hio. tf see blin or have him call. who knew it and and and all at to these be added .lews and the unWhen Hie receiver was bung mi her SHAVES mice I realized that love was the classified, the total molher said: "What makes you treat ' strongest influence in the world, so I number l,0S1,'tX1.00(, who wilh the Joe that way?" "(Hi, well." said the had Mr. McGregor ask for an adjournChristians make a world's population young woman, "it's just smother case (MK. ment, and then " of lemon pie." Indianapolis News. Cut icon Soup m the favorite foriafetyrmzor having of She slopped in confusion, the rosy her blushes once more mantling PARKER'S cheeks. BALSAM A&:f$$rJlReiaoTHAIR "Go on," I Insisted. F lJz Dandro a 8 topiH air lUnri Color and Keitore. "I can't tell it," she cried. I JT' to Grr and Faded Hair !J Ji$t Buty "You must tell," I urged. "I have a ioc and ti.oo at drwrrlsta, "Mj right to know it. What did you do?" HINOERCORNS "1 managed to see her alone." louses, etc, atop all pato, ensures comfort to th makes walklrur mw. t5c by mail or at lruiJ ft. Again she hesitated. "What did you say to her?" I demanded. "I just told her," she faltered, lowering her eyes as she spoke, "that that I loved you just as much as she loved her husband, and I begged her for love's sake not to help send you to Body the chair, and she broke down and He Had Built a Secret Passageway. Nine of Out Ten People told everything," Suffer From It "Oh, Barbara, my Barbara!" I he had to kill them to make his getand clasping her away. I suppose he had been roaming cried, springing up 1 around so much he had got careless." in my arms. "If only I had something It Bends its harmful acids sod gases all love " besides to offer my asked you revolver?" the about "How over the body, instead of health and "I wouldn't worry about that Just Gorman. ' How did he come to plant SMS) strength. Day and night this ceaseless damnow, Spalding," interrupted my mothroom?" Nelson's In It 's age goe on. No matter how strong, ita great-unclefound your voice. er's but"They Mr. Nelson "He was puzzled by victim cannot long withstand the his made He will today. you ting In on the Bradford case, and it effects of an acid stomach. sole heir." him I Wick and made him sore. heard Good news for millions of sufferers. But Barbara and I hardly heeded said and he one it about day. talking were too busy Chemists have found a sure remedy one that he'd teach Mr. Nelson not to in- her good news. We world-olstory. that takes the acid up and carries it out terfere. 'How?' asked Wick. 'I'll telling each other the THE END. of the body; of course, when the cause if frame him for the goat if, anything happens." " removed, the sufferer gets well. Formation of Asbestos. "And was it he who had me disBloating, indigestion, sour, acid, gassy Asbestos Is found iu fissures of rock charged from my office?" I asked, eagstomach miseries all removed. This is rock when the and It is believed that, erly. over half a million ailing folis proven by penewater and still was on hot, a forming note wrote "Sure it was. He who have EATONTC with wondei them and taken widened Mr. Gaston's stationery saying that trated the fissures, and silica ful benefits. It can be obtained from any magdissolved soinef flie had he a after check you had forged druggist, who will cheerfully refund iti befriended you. He wrote In the let- nesia. On drying, these crystallized of magnesia, silicate a as to cost if not entirely satisfactory. hydrnted not was trifling prosecute going ter that he should enjoy its benefits. Fr fou because of your mother, but that forming threadlike crystals building up Everyone f the fissure and he felt that you were unworthy of em- from opposite walls of quently theirst tablet gives relief. meeting in the middle. ployment anywhere." "I believe," said the district attorL.V Kr.el!. OU.tm.nt-- . Tow drOfll't or it LUk Battle Creek, Michigan Posts Total Over 8,000. BaMWIlteavW C. SO 7H Michl. AvMAua. CtllCMJim. ney, "that that clears everything up, x issued were new chartersNinety-siexcept for one thing why, Mrs. YV. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. Moore, did you aid him and Wick in the week ending March 20, brining the total to 8.659. all these crimes?" BRACE UP! 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