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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH mw JMBuQF Clifford Saunic3S3 Illustrated bg Irwift-Mye- JED ABDUCTED. Synopsis. Dr. John Michelson, Just beginning his career, becomes resident physician and companion of Homer Sidney at Hartley house. Mr. Sidney is an American, a old and rich and very desirous to live. Mrs. Sidney is a Spanish woman, dignified and reticent. Jed, the butler, acts like a privileged member of the family. The family has come from MonteSoutl America. video, Hartley house is a fine old isolated country place, with a murder story, a haunted pool, and many watchdogs, and an atmosphere of mystery. The haunted pool" ib where Richard Dobson, son of a former owner of Hartley house, had killed his brother, Arthur Dobson. Jed begins operations by locking the doctor in his room the very first night. Doctor John fixes his door so he cant be locked in. He meets Isobel, daughter of the house, and falls in love at first sight. In the night he finds the butler drunk and holding Mrs. Sidney by the wrist. He interferes. Mrs. Sidney makes light of it. John buys a revolver. John overhears Jed telling Mrs. Sidney he will have his way. In reply she says she will not hesitate to kill him. Mrs. Sidney asks John to consent to the announcement of his engagement to Isobel. The young people consent to the Later they engagement. find it is to head off Jed, who would marry Isobel. Jed tries to kill John, but the matter is smoothed over. John, though engaged to Isobel, conceals his love. Mr. Sidney visits a nearby prison and has Dobson, .the murderer, pointed Out. Jed tells the story of the Dobson murder. The family go to South America for the winter. John is left at home, but the "enis not broken. John gagement hears the story of a tragedy that might have happened in Montevideo. A The family returns. mysterious Spanish sailor appears. Jed recognizes him and wants to kill him. The sailor plays burglar. Mr. Brown, for the attorney sailor, calls on John and makes demands. semi-invali- d, Copyright bydeotqe HDoranC Thats a threat, and the people in this house can make the best of it. Im in this case to stay, and my Spanish client is not easily discouraged You have chosen to deal with us in this fashion. Well get the rest of this evidence, and weU make you pay ten times more than wed be willing to settle for now. Weve got an equity in this matter, and were going to collect It. We know all about you, my friend Jed, ana weU show you that we do. Wheres my cane and hat? Im going to get out of here. Youll regret it. Jed, I said, show the gentleman where the door is and dont let the dogs attack him on the way out. A disappointed shyster went away in a hurry. I was not only perplexed but alarmed. Of the rapacity of the little man, of his lack of conscience and morals, I had no doubt at all. My only question was whether he could make his malevolence and cupidity effective. Jed showed him to the door and then came back. I could see that he was frightened nearly to death. CHAPTER IX. make-belie- We had seen nothing of Dravada or the lawyer for nearly three weeks. I was unable to think that we had heard the last of them. Dravadas purpose had been too long nourished and the lawyers cupidity was too great for either to abandon his intent Jeds disposition was resilient, and soon he recovered his poise. He thought his enemies had abandoned their intent It was a relief to me when going to bed and lying a few minutes awake, to hear the rush and scurry of the dogs about the place. They were active at Kabbits, coons, weasels and night. occasionally a fox kept them moving. Jeds courage returned and with it, I was disturbed to observe, a threat of 0 another fit of temper. It showed itself 0 CHAPTER VIII Continued. first in moodiness and then in inso10 lence. I was glad to find that Jed in I cannot correct your convictions, this mood this time was not directing 1 Said. You must use your best judghimself against Mrs. Sidney. He had ment. You have our permission to do turned against me. I knew that he anything that suggests itself to you. was in torment again. He had nothYoure going to brazen it out, he ing to say to me unless he saw me in Mr. Sidneys room. cried. Then he was VYe are not going to do anything at pleasant Jed, I said to him one morning, all, I said, not seeing any necessity for doing anything. I might merely I know you better than you think I suggest to you that there are legal do. Youll torment yourself until you do something youll regret provisions against blackmail. Go to the devil, said Jed. The quiet little man, with his notions of profit evaporating, suddenly Isobel and I had been progressing became savage and desperate. as rationally as two young people I cant be fobled with, he cried. could, situated with regard to each I know you. You wont assail me other as we were. One evening I had been reading and with a blackmail charge, because you do not dare. I know I am guilty and Isobel had gone to the piano. I had can be punished unless I have a real put my book down on my knees as hold on this family. I have taken the she began to play. Then I was aroused chance that I have a real hold. It was by perceiving, without seeing, that sot certain, but now, I know it. It somebody was near me. I turned suddenly and saw Jed. He was not three feet behind my chair. His face revealed disorder of mind. Do you want a cocktail? he asked. No, I said. Isobel touched the keys of the piano, as a player done with a rpood may do to express surfeit or conclusion. Not a mild one? Jed asked, persisting. I said. Well, then, very weak, I took up my book again and forced myself, as discipline, to read. I had not been able to do it so long as Isobel played, but now, that she had stopped I might at least try. I made an effort. I tried to keep my attention on the type. It was no use. After fifteen minutes reading I found that I had not turned a page. Neither had Jed brought the coqktail. I got up and walked about the library. I went to the front entrance to find if a few deep breaths in the open would ' not produce tranquillity. As I stood at the entrance Isobel came running toward it. I heard her before I saw her. She was running and gasping. She came up the steps, saw me, controlled herself and tried She might to appear undisturbed. "You Are in for Trouble," He Said. have succeeded, but a sleeve of her "We Know What You Have, and gown was tom from her waist and had fallen to her wrist We'll Get It. What has happened to you? I Is not enough ot a hold, but it Is asked. enough to keep you from making trou"Nothing, she said. ble for me, and Ill see that soon It You are running. will be enough to make you listen to A little exercise. me. Look at your sleeve, I said. You may do anything you want to She clutched at It as if she had become conscious of it for the first time, do, I said. He became quiet and cunning again. and then ran by me and indoors. "Then, if you dont mind, Id like to We mot at dinner twenty minxes later. Isobel had on another gown. speak to Jed, he said. I rang for him. Jed did not serve us. Dinner was deWhen Jed came, the little shabby layed ten minutes. Then two maids Mrs. Sidney lawyer became excited again and got undertook the service. up out of his chair to shake his finger asked for Jed. One of the maids said that he had not appeared and they at Jed: You are in for trouble, he said. were doing the best they could with"We know what you have, and well out him. Why, what can have happened to get it They dont dare stop us, and Mrs. Sidney exclaimed. are Jed? notice that you to you give I want What did happen to Jed? I asked marked. Thats all. Youll be followed and hounded and run down in the Isobel after dinner when we were end. and there'll be an end to this alone. when I dont know, she said. superciliousness here. It may be Who tore your sleeve? dead. youre ance, she was relieved by his absence. I had a pleasant two hours with Mr. Sidney, and after that the night produced an occurrence. Ever since Jed had disappeared I had been accustomed to taking certain with regard to the responsibilities house. The element of security entered as a question. I knew we werd in circumstances which demanded at least asked precautions. So I went about the house at night to see to locks, In a supervision of the duties the servants performed in closing the place one I took on myself without saying anything about It Hartley house was large, with many s It was nearly a wings. work to visit all the entrances and see to bolts. Many of the halls and corone. ridors were dark, and I carried an It is insignificant, I said. With electric flash to use when needed. I did not say anything of my ashis habits he must occasionally pay a price. A touch of indigestion this sumed duties, but I suggested to Mrs. time. Sidney that considering the state of To extemporize a few lies to get through the night was easy enough; but Jed was not back in the morning, and Mr. Sidney had to be deceived in more enduring fashion. I explained to him that Jed had been called away on an urgent matter, which seemed to Mrs. Sidney to justify his going at once. Mrs. Sidney, at my request, made the same explanation later, and Mr. Sidney accepted it This explanation seemed very lame to me, but it served. Mr. Sidney did not know of any reason why Jed should disappear. We offered him an explanation of the servants absence, and he accepted it-I- t was apparent that the Spaniard and the lawyer had been two of the men concerned in Jeds plight, and I thought it best to telephone a discreet detective agency and have the lawyer Mrs. Sidney put under scrutiny. thought this was a proper course or at least that no better one was avail, able. Two days later the detectives reported that the lawyer had disappeared from all his accustomed places and that it might require sdme time to get "Ill Not Be Bulldozed, Said the Lawtrace of him. yer. Jed had been gone four days when It be wise to tell the would the house, a for months maids asked the one of leave. Her mother was very sick, she household that all doors would be locksaid. Mrs. Sidney agreed willingly, al- ed at ten oclock. Mrs. Sidney thought though disliking to have an unfamiliar this good policy and the servants wen servant in the house to fill this maids so informed. The night which had our place for the time she would be gone. Anna, the maid, said that a very close phenomenon as a development I startfriend of hers would be glad of an op- ed through the house at midnight I portunity to have a month in the coun- had gone from Mr. Sidneys room to my try. Mrs. Sidney took Annas recom- own, had put on a smoking jacket and slippers, put my revolver in my pocket mendation with some relief. The day Anna went away a very and had laid my watch on the dresser. I went downstairs and examined the pretty girl was met at the train by the She was the thirty-da- y bolt, lock, and chains on the doors at chauffeur. maid. I saw her as she came in. I the main entrance. In the halls leadthought her manner did not indicate ing from these doors there were elecdomestic service, but afterward I tric buttons, and the house being prefound that In spite of appearance she sumably closed for the night and darkvyas very deft and competent. With ened, I went from hall to hall, from Jed gone, such of his duties as could door to door, lighting my way by pushbe done by the maids were given them ; ing the buttons and turning off the and this new servant, Agnes, was so lights when I had satisfied myself. In efficient in the dining room that she two wings, one to the north and one to the south, there was no electric took over what Jed had done there. Mr. Sidney liked attractive women wiring. In the halls of these wings I about him, and Agnes pleased him with went along easily enough with an occasional flash of the little light I card her bright, pretty appearance and ried. or In three serviceability. Jeds room was in the south wing four days he was glad to have her assigned to duties which Jed had done on the second floor. The windows of for him. In little over a week Agnes the hall toward the east showed the had fitted into the routine of the house waning moon just rising above a grove of oak mixed with larch, and I perfectly. Up to this time nothing had been stopped at one of the windows to adheard of Jed, but on the ninth day of mire the quiet scene. I was attracted not startled but turned by a noise his disappearance the detectives telethe farther end of the hall. At that at Mcthat had the they lawyer. phoned end of the hall were the stairs to the Guire was the second floor, where Jed had hip room. name. ' I am not to understand what 1 3 There were no windows at that end. back of this case, he suggested, tele- and it was in complete darkness, although three faint rays of moonlight phoning. "It is not necessary, I said. If he traversed the hall from the windows is willing to come here in your cus- nearer me. I listened, and it seemed that the tody, that is enough. The next day McGuire, the detec- sound I heard was the creaking of old tive, came with the lawyei, who ap- stairs under a light and stealthy step. parently was trying to keep from That interested me, and I went as quietly as I could toward the sound. looking as frightened as be felt I must have made some noise. The understaUd came I have Ill you 'creaking stopped. I stood still in one of my own volition, he said. With- Mr. McGuire representing of the shafts of moonlight There was an instant of silence. I took another I volition, your suggested. I think Ill look about the grounds step toward the stair and hit my foot against a chair, almost losing my balfor a while, said McGuire. What do you expect to gain by ance. There was a scurry of feet and a this? the lawyer asked when the derustling of skirts from the bottom of tective had gone. What did you fear to lose by not the stairs across the dark hall. I coming? I asked. Suppose we make flashed my electric light, and within its our dealing plain. You were one of rays saw a glint of white which ina party of three that abducted the stantly disappeared down a side corservant Jed. We want him released ridor which led to a small door used by servants. I started in pursuit, but and returned here wfyere he is needed. "You are talking nonsense, said the a blow on the head, sharp but not powlawyer. I came with your detective erful, coming from behind, knocked because I thought that at last this me down. It dazed me a bit and felled me, but household was prepared to deal reanot enough to make me unconwas a with man. reasonable sonably scious. Nevertheless I got to my feet Where is Jed? I asked. unsteadily and made my way slowsy Thats none of my business. down the corridor Into which the flash It will be made yours. came to the Barking dogs moonshine things of white had turned. I to scare babies, .said the little man. door with my electric light illuminatMcGuire came back. ing the hall, and thus I knew no one I guess Ive seen all I want of the was In It it had no recesses or furnigrounds," he said, and theres a train ture to offer concealment and found back In half an hour. Weve our rig the door locked from the outside. waiting. Im not going back, said the lawyer. I stay at Hartley. What is he to do?" asked McGuire. Merely leave the house, I said, and I rang for a maid. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Ill not be bulldozed, said the The Eye of the Cat. lawyer. As showing how widely the permaYou are not being I suggested. The maid will show you out." nently blue eyes of cats differ from He was at a loss but had nothing other eyes, it is noted that immediate else to do but go when the maid came. ly the eyes of white cats that are to I held McGuire for only a moment and have permanently blue eyes open they asked him to have operatives watch shine bright red in the dark. No oththe lawyer constantly, with an idea er colored eye does this. that he actually would remain In HartOne of Human Ways. ley, and to continue to search for Jed. y Ever notice how every one of "the Mr. Sidney, Isobel and I had a cheerthinks his one good ful dinner that evening. Worried as habit is the secret of longevity? Mrs, Sidney was by Jeds disappear Jed, she said with resolute frankness. "Where is her I don't know. Where were you when he did it? "At the edge of the woods. I had gone out for a bit of air Just across the lawn. Jed appeared. What did he say? I dont know something incoherent, violent; and he took me by the sleeve.. I was not frightened, but I drew back suddenly. My sleeve ripped out. We were at the edge of the woods. Three men appeared, strangled Jed before he could cry out, picked him up and carried him off. I spent the evening with Mr. Sidney and told him that Jed was ill. 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