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Show The Murray Eagle, Thursday, May 23, 1929 w hat the Gray H TLe Mystery o a Haunted Mansion 'By - THE STORY Hilton Hanby, prosperous New York merchant, has purchased a country plac the Orsy hfiuse, near Pine Plains. Hiss Selenos. a former tenant of the Gray hoime, warns him that the house Is under a curse. Further alarming details are Impressed upon Adolf Smucker, Hanby's secretary, by a man who claims to have been chauffeur for Sir Stanford Seymour, former occupant of the place. The Hanbys lanch off the warnings, as some form of practical Joke. But they sre shocked when they hear that the caretaker whom they have put In charge of the Giay house, a man named Kerr, haa been mysteriously murdered. Hanby consults h!a friend Pelham. The family starts for the new home. App'.e-toa clerk of Douglas and Smith, the agents from whom Hanby boupht the Gray house, explains to Pelham, that a dangerous pond near the house. In which several children have been drowned, has since been filled In, but he urges Pelham to dissuade Hanby from occupying the Gray house. Hanby and Junior learn that the caretaker was known to the police as "Red Chapln" and had a bad record. Wyndham Marly n W. N. V. Service Copyright by Wyndham Martyn almost liiviirkilily to dVpt'iiriulile peo ple. 1 wouldn't nine picked ttils fellow lted Cluipln to luive watched a clog pound. If he was hnlf as bad a you any. I took that man Smucker over with the business, the d d, dirty anarch!!! I caught nyself calculating Diy forces If anything unpleasant happened up at the Gruy house. Rill I'elham would tackle a lion single-handed. He's been proved. I won dered a little about Leslie." "Dad, you don't really think there's anything wronjj vltb that new place?" n, IIAMPION'S exclu insulator is practically impervious to carbon and oily deposits. sive sillimanite Special analysis electrodes re- sist pitting and burning to fl? 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TaVs Thla Ktkkdy mild, safo. vrfUbk) rrranSj will bare Too Youil wor fraa, f rellnf line b? mornln. wtUwot at a thoruuih bowl acuoo jtfpiag ut discomfort. lo Mul the tcrt toni;rU mm oaly 25c At DrucsUa Tbs Widower's Crief Fenalor Noibcck, discussing Mil bird bin. Kiil.l In Washington: "I lmo llnr lit ti' hypocrisy In thi love for MnW Unit I voiced everywhere. 1 "hope there's nothing In It nf tin" widower, "This widower wont on terribly, terrihly, nt the church services for hi wife. A friend ttiO next day condoled wlih him. saying lie bud never seen such nwfiil rtcf. "All, ;iori:i'. said Hit u J.1owt. 'lt' pity yoii iliiln'l pel out to the cemetery. If yu cu!d have seen Hie way I cut up there"" Idols Must "Make Good" A Iribc tvhUh hu fuid tn ItoriHTO bind lit Idola wlih npca and Icnvci the fHtetn on until t prny trful rcquciil I pranled or thp dii llonur nf lie dlnnprwlnted itippll tx-o- runt nhiilc. CHAPTER III there's something on her mind more than a passing whim. I don't know hut Dlna's right. She said 1 should meet disaster, ruin, and even death. there's some mystery about my pleas ure house in Dutchess county." "Nothing will keep me away from tt now." Dina asserted. "We shull have four able bodied men In the place all the summer." "Four?" her husband demanded. "You tire not counting fourteen-year-olTim as an male, are you?" "There will be you, Junior, and Rill." Me?" I'elham cried. Of course I On your own confession, you've nothing to do until your company la reorganized In the fall. Danger calls, and we need you. I've already picked out your suite." "Dlna, you are taking great cliances. Mil, the last to scent Kven the dancer, knows that I'm In love with you." "That makes you so much the safer You shull work, believe me. I'm crazy to have some stately gar dens. You shall be my man with the ' Wake up WF.VrtKH.W' lyour energy (' able-bodie- VimmmfmL$ Mm wMm f WltJH tJUlS j dull-witte- d BOOT hoe." "I sign on here and now," said Bill 'Where are you going?" I promised to teli Tim about the Inquest. My children have the modern Interest In crime. Don't go I I sban t be very long." relham looked at Uanby almost wist Continued It was his first opportunity to see a man with a price on his head. Death had revealed with marked emphasis the unsocial qualities with which lied Chapln had been dowered. What he had tried during life to hide was now plain for all the world to see the loose mouth, the short cranium, the Jaw. Junior shuddered a little. ''What do you suppose he wanted the Job of looking after an empty bouse for?" "It's my belief he was hiding," said the policeman from Kingston. "I've checked up on him pretty well. He kept himself to himself In Kingston. He received no cullers or uialL His landludy says he was suspicious 6f strangers. Ited was always one to frequent pool rooms and places like that; but this trip he kept away from them. Why? lie knew they was after him.' "Who?" Junior asked eagerly, forgetting that he was listening open-eyeto a policeman Ignorant of psythrust-forwar- Hii old-worl- d the utmost. That is why Champions excel in service. sase Toasted, golilen flukes vitb all tlic wholesome corn PobtToasties ewTctnt'ssof the for warm weather cereal is just the breakfast when jou want foods light ami crisp. Serve it to ihe family tomorrow v illi cool milk or cream topped off with rijc fruit or berries. See if everyone doesn't cull you a good provider! You'll send them off to work or play with a grand new store of energy. For PortToasties ia rich in energy in lhc mot quickly digested and youngsters alike find it form. Grown-up- s easy to digest. Easily served, too, right from the red and yel- fully. "Hil, was that a Joke on me or a genuine Invitation?" "Don't you want to come?" "Except for the reason that your family Is my family, thut 1 shall live rent free nnd make enough out of you at pool to spend an affluent winter d chology. A IT -n- "I'm Not Going to Be Frightened Out of It by Any Rude Old Woman." Inquired Junior, his eyes sparkling at the thought. "I'll have to disappoint you by say ing no. It was Just a passing nt of depression. It has gone." "I'll be gone, too, If you don't cut the speed down," his son cautioned. "Slow down I There's a motor cop ui the ofling." sun-rincnc- tl o!" "That's settled, then," said Hunby. "Honestly, Dill, I shall be glad to have a man like you, with nerve and courage, around the house." "That sounds as If you anticipated trouble." "Oddly enough, I do. I must be get ting old, but driving back today I began to make excuses for not living In the Gray bouse. Subconsciously, 1 waa actuated by fear. Most people patronize their subconscious mind nowadays, but it's the subconscious mind that gives you the real danger signals. I'm going up there, but I'm not going up there with the Idea that every prospect Is as pleasing as It looks. I'm on guard 1" "If thnt's so, 1 demand a salary as well as free board and entertainment. Make It five dollars a day, and replace all clothes stained with gore In the exercise of my duly with ones of equal or greater value. The trouble with you la that after piking along on thirty thousand a year and a mere duplex apartment, you've got twice manthnt amount and a thirty-roosion. It has gone to your poor weak head. Y'ou are paying too much atten tlon to poor Aunt Selina." You didn't see or hear her," Han by reminded him. "She's merely a crank. One morn ing. thirty lung years ago, In the bosky dells that are now yours, she met a rustic swain and pursued hlra with love, Wise'y he Jutnjied into the lake and was drowned. It Is a sacred spot to her." "What about the Seymour chauf feur?" "An Ignorant, good hearted, generous His simple man, fond of children. untutored mind believes that evl1 spirits dwell there because his boss children ventured on an unsafe bridge 4. and were drowned. Probubly he bas As to Red a dozen kids himself. Chapln. he took refuge there and wan killed by his puis whom he hnd double crossed. 1'erfectly plain, as 1 see It.' "Ma be." Hanby said slowly, "It Is merely annoyance that the bouse I bought for Dlna should be mixed up In He spoke al this tragic business." "1 hate gloom and most Irritably. tears and dentil. When I first saw the Gray house. I said. 'Here Is a place where eople have been happy.' I'rctlt rotten picker, eh. Rill?" "Your family will lake the curse oft anything." said the other. "Dina win have us all dancing ns happily as ever Junior will bring his crowd, and (VID will Impoit hers. I miss my guess t: .he result won't be a very Interesting Dame on!" he concluded mixture. "Outside your win dramatically. dows your faithful house detective will sleuth tie watchlni; the simple-mindewhose meager pay Is five dollars a dni and extras. During the day I shnll be hoe man Id chief tn Dlna. At duxk I am the house detecllve. Ill get a deputy's budge, to case I have to mnke MIES low package. Call up your grocer today. rosTL'M coMrANY.I.NC, Battle Creek, ) 1 rj; A Miql O 1929 r Co.. Iia "The man that bumped him off. We shan't probably ever know who. We've KAKMS I.Uho OnVrs F.icellrnt Opportunity Eait Indian MoTement got Red, and somebody else'll pick up In mm with Hmllril mellsl. (io.d. irolucin Missed Death's Touch i hmnbir of bis pals when their time comes." Swanil Is the teaching. In India, of fiitim avBllnt.lv. Writ lilnlio Ilookli-t (1). by Proverbial Eyelash self government by extension, culture Commeifc, U'Oiw, Idaho, lur The policeman pointed to the dead HKJ M.MMMt l'VS! All Mil nian's big, roughened hand. Who had the closest call In the nnd political government under native Seiab .y ttrio-- lhn RsUs CHAPTER IV lv iu lu.w ami f.ir ut We Onrli "That's the hand that squeezed the .iul World war? Perhaps It was Capt, Influence rather than English rule. uur .. t buy squntxi at umiiril Candid Is un life out of a Salt Lake City detective. teacher Hindu The division, Seventy-eight- h Curtis liarnes, them. for Rill relham was waiting JUiiiini er rr.we-rnof this system. Strangled him In a telephone booth, he A. E. F In tlje Argoime offensive. A S4THlS.ll. Mil AH rAHU. INC.IOWA "Won't take me ten minutes to get It. heard near a soul not W and IM I IIS did, by machine bullet crashed through his said Ilauby. "I've clothes," clean Into a That's the hand thut shot half dozen tin hat and he was not hit, although news, Dlna." Health living men. Look at that face, Mr. Hanby. got strange It was close enough to take out the sne retortea. bas "So mil," like It, and. when you see another left lens of his eyeglasses. Then "Mlno Is of a tragic nature." watch out!" He there Is the case of Cadet All Wlntor long "You've nothing on me," said Hill "I will." Junior said quickly. a of In observer's was the busi cockpit In the wholesale tragedy "I'm Marrrlm.a (llmatu r.ood llolrla Touriat lie envied the professional his poise ness." I 'ampa StplviHllfl Huaila 4rmua Mountain P.reguet. 1,IHK feet over Clermont So a moment this. Th trondrrfuldttrt faorl of lw B nt Views. like occupied at In l'JlT, during aerial discussed France, nnd r'errund, Pelham. Hanby Dina, waa he with this Intimate touch of when be was gunnery training, Hunny the matter In the library. crime that he did not notice until the listened to wh.t with the bis Ihe of out told had thrown cockpit Appleton car slowed down to pass Amenla that machine gun In his jrrasp. He was friend. 4A1IFOIIMA be hnd ncaln missed the Gray house. tossed clear six fed. lie landed Hal "Then Smucker wasn't lying." he reso further a or mile "Wow!" he said, A dominant personality Is that which on his stomach exactly nstrlde of the marked. "Appleton corroborates his on, '"you misled that truck by linle narrow rear part of the fusiluge and wishes to win nnd refuses to be a It means thnt some one wants story. less than an Inch 1" to prevent us living there. What could managed to work his way back to the martyr. "You exaggerate," replied Ids father. Then the commanding officer be?" reason the cockpit. possibly It wasn't half nn Inch. I m In a "1 give It up." said I'elham. "Do ordered a lot of safety belts, , hurry to get home, liiil I'elham may you think the police have the rlghl Salt City have new. on ihe Chnpln murder?" If dope some They did not peak again for The excitement of nn "Whul else could It be?" lime. Then llanhy surprised his son want who same gripped Fliabeth. these people That., ah now iimsn by asking qtifsilons concerning "Yes." she contided to nn out started to terrorize to f yon keep fi.f th.. mho want th I'.arnm. the youth to whom Celiu gave "we've that 0 SALT I.AK (ITT. he moving It got him. IHHI4. friend, may t'Tn murdering you by deal time. her of a good he was an Innocent victim, (if course, wagons and ever) thing up to our iiMMOV ft.Ssr. SsTl.M "Lea is a peach." said Junior warm we know that he wns wanted by the house, haullisg our furniture away." stand I wouldn't I S.?i.r.? were he. "If Beauty Culture ,t ly. Well." replied the other girl, "we're law. and that In a sense his removal Inrlu'llris prma-r,,fr.Tie CfiMri mt'ltsB. the way Celin behave. One day ahe'a la a all the house burns ur ,uii-i- ' Wnh teuia going to move, too if our blessing to society, but Waln. a In sunr and the next vinegar. hiii. v cn ..fH down." same he may have Intended to bn an ASIV lAka. Salt Waa. UI r. returned It "l'xe seen that," llanhy honest watchman for the lime being." "Thais' not unusual. I did not menu sml and Suef'tlaa. OOira larallara A S'OMIVS HEAD is level and her "Dinn." said llanhy presently, again K i h'lt'h nn I i. Mimaor'arH , that ts he courageous? Would he t . W household n good I that Ina rap-U rnt Judgment Hioti-ir,f till There Mim lla. . hardly conscious of his wife's unusual depres. w.i , . .. . a. k i a useful man In a tight placer when she puts haui't heard of Ciistorlu! At least five I'ina ,i air,l I' ' . . mi.---i the at scared are pros "If i you SUI sion, llta WL llnu1 fW it "You ought to have seen the scrap tlMIIIIVH'l M IIOOI M I I I V Ml. n ililon lniiie are never without It. If of going up there. I'll open nego IM So. Mala Mrwl Salt he rut up against a strong tinned pect til. there) are thildnn In jour family, tlatlons with Miss Selenos. who parwaller that tried to put him out of a f me of Its t.eed rni-and almost loathes there's despises dully tlon. Thero Is roadhotise Inst April I The waller was ticularly rt. And uny light may find Jou very What about It?" Tor Efficiency no beauty ao old heavyweight pugilist, and he e. GTTTT "Think twice before you answer." rood tl.nntful there's a bottle In ll.e l.oo-without he knew andScnkc could punish, certainly Mil I'elham warned her. health. Nobody lust a few drops, nnd ti nt colli or rlhra. Cill naa n f Iir and Arnw piatr outweighed and ontrlnwed. and ' .'itlon Is relieved; or diarrhea expect to I" "I haven't even seen the place yet n.nt! km ina. tmaro braks lininc. ukl he pvxan. but Isn't a to bad chance duck; he come really iberi.ed. A VeretaMo product; a !:ihy she said, smiling. "I'm not going to t imt aort of a mother'a boy. He wu CILL PISTON RING CO. from out of It by uny rutle old be frightened esnrdy meant for ymrg folk. C:i'.ori.i com of use thn out for twenty minutes." If East 4th tooth a Salt Lake City woman, lilt. I believe she's at the hot a iibout lb onlv thine ymi Ime ever beautifiers. Rrlfht eyes, tU-a"That s ItitcreKiing," bis father com plexion I'm hot golnw to Infant. torn of till this mystery. skin, and iwy cheeks, follow inn uso ,ienrd doctors ndOse giving "I didn't think the languid menled. THt sueftY CO. tiieitlrlni to rob my llousutonlc of his manor I' lire drincerou t' 8 All dealers. Of the "Prescription." sir.,t don't but In you a fcM II tlM Itul yiciNOall laka I My, I' I ah. hlra; Les bod Hill queried "What's woman requires a tonic and I nhy, Iiowexer lmnnlns t' ey tony "llousatonlc?" f.S 1KI Every tiny a expect tne to approve of rowdy boy thnir SiiepoHsra, nervine at some period of her lite. ,)o to grown Op. C"od old CntorS.l! E .Ho etw'"f". SMomltial I. alia, Invalid klaKiTOi)' stiie""i lndnc thrown out of a questionable . Whether suffcrlnit from ncrvousm nnd rmii,l.er mo h,. At name. HH'a real the college yoo r.emenibor tinne, I hope?" debilm ana 111 Sui t lias. or faintness reneral madhouse, . dlrlness. im'ral called him Tony." ti buy It. It may pare y"l fleep-e"It wasn't questionable place. ity, the "Prescription" Mbenefits a new one on me," Mid Hill. So XSIn St. nnvlous night. It Is always ready, lot rpcl Taklra and SirT'' and anrthini in "It's Mia r mother Amlii taken W7 "You've Junior retorted Sellnn for It," Pout'tWi, bubo, s"t: "n imiil hi.mii I Aunt I'.lame snfe to ti"; In Miirrcrnclea. or Show Caars and Stors Imutrs Skftk writs your nlwny l Isnt rowdy he's Just fus ukrn In. i'nm I ftrnriie l'itii. there. me nllnii i.ts. Any hour of the "She going got declared. s tiic sad BfoiM snd It Hanby arrests," itU't fi.r tldlnua. He complained of a big fly tn W. L. WETIIEHBEE I tell you It Is n ort'hf!.it f sr. 4 llunt rivers. that I'aby becmes fr California her a on knock with nl''rv. wns Idglit and the There !.(y door, if er Uk wibi in trod swlitifm. U Ufca . TesapU W. Ms cvfTec. That roused the waiter f never Kurlea. was like the a face has old Cnorln or entered. thnt hag retle. Mary Sloan to fury, and he said that Ixs could Is but It She may be mad and vindictive, (TO UK CONTINUED.) A Necetsilv OiAy,ONDS,VATCIIES 1if( pfiputnr Wltll tnothrrs tlnn drink It or not. but he had to pay Every druggist la It .oday. ' s In S U do Junior wondered why his father Bm they "Why put iul riwn4 tvw (nf Onatwaa. W ill aat4 ohiisauos. opooooooooooooooooo0 ooooo ooooooooooooooooo OOOOO OOOOC tiii-c?ta iur hank f r fraa lniiwiwi- -i should a?k about l.esllea gnmeties rArrroL jewojit ro. mr To ventilate It." Mr. Ilnnby was In ao unusuallj sll laW OtJ tl Cast la4 'k to Goes thoughtful mood. !t!i l.ove Is too often adulterated You're rr'ttj husky," he said prea Slroaxy in (kt tt'tft atajtf Buy Kfp do weigh you "What moorv, etitly. only as the father of medicine but a the ancient among Physicians nd teventy stripped." "A hundred ne of the orlgiuntors of the art ol honey and itomatis utHUcd the Junior told Mm. la fact, making. enndy medicines, A Lea tn'l ao in preparing Iloir Day "My weight to a hair. From this quaint origin the cand manufacture of randy traces Its v'otk Clothes manufactured by the VS NOT w that ta much. Is heT a km apsvln, rt g f'"i to the days of Hipp' rule, Industry lias progressed to suru an bark I' r! i ir.i i s v m 1 ! A lur-l-. origin and (' Inn hundred :milaf SiiJt "He and I'll! clg'i Nl'i tt S; tint, ciith, a ea . if a 'kf Antn P.KEMrG.CO.,siilVtCit).itsii of medicine, who lived In the extent that it ts now one of th In 1,1 If; r"' lrse eHr in i ri-- if intii r a V iv i"a f fiy the stripped. Why? tiolog to father thos In II. Industries. days Its C, world's lending produc Fifth century a'l 'l nwii-nAl ft' ire tamildly bu!:5 ft kly, exhibitions?" some boilng promote rinm a l rn'il it Mr, l human 111 ion LWs riut M;;r tlon Involves labor In all ports of the leti-- e doctors' remediia t'4'4e''-4- 4 ' ' s e (aViHi i ria, enn. Nothing like that." lieibs. In or of means and of l.olr, and bn world bitter denes ant lj-lof every tt (alliiara Sid sUted iooa pmp!)t "What a on your mind, did?" Choose a Profitable VoMticn J t. n'"!rri's. et poF'j J, the palate of his rich lranM.rtaton known to man. Ei "Khcthnk Lupin. It would take m re der t" tickle A 1 1 ;'CltH9-Sli-e- . tit Hin. Hnm, ( tillft. (1. . HtM: ,iSt H ppoirnlcs smeared a little S S change. tm anfia ut I 4, aa a --r t iii,i than Jur admitted skill to tlnd out. patients.on V4 f containthe of va cup fci'SltV. arrt the edge istau mii a.', bran1-- I don't know nitwit. I p"io bono bis . H on coated t Un. 4Ua la twiiV a e t T VtHltlitt sc Mont, the pothm, nnd Inter I. ikr in 1 l i l II lit V Certaia Retipa gUa for it F"t the 1r.t lime, the ing w'.'.h similar Mm comI s as shlvrr ,,il Salt l akatll ( lift llld(. J ?',v nn sn nmke blinelf can A Gray nmn no doubt, forting his patients and. the hedfellnvi ikrd It 1 it' nuifkr wasI hate dulnit thlogi comfortable' by iicren'iiiC Ids ''''' a. a ICJIi- It. I fAiltn rrf... 'n;. I dn't rrvei la crime. Americas . II I .. ' I 1 1 vvr I L Hi t, A. . I lu. k did H;pMK rates think that he thnt po against his ,rslBW. N. U Salt L?kl City, N, ,l.kl little nd I harmotil H Lke hnpp? oot Mngn?.!na to fume, down to go destined oux Something U'ld! Die leads u.e was rhti-kt-ii- e T What Will iCanBauEa Tallin ft (V (. i Lake Salt Lake City Directory t9 Pipe, Fitting! & Valvci l rotirM tf all rurpnw. J Monsey Iron and Metal Co. , 3nl W et MH lake Ctlr. 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