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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH rrrrrrr-rrrrrrrrr- e. V The Mysteiryof Hartley Homise The children love Wrlcley's and it's By CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND !!?! ht mWN MYERS CHAPTER IX Continued. By this time I had my senses fully recovered. I ran to the nearest window and was just in time to see two figures, one in white, the other indistinct, at the far edge of the lawn, running., They ran into the woods, and while I stood at the window, trying with painful consciousness of stupidity and ineptitude to decide upon a course of action, I heard an automobile engine start in the lane beyond the woods. Out of a stupor, in which I watched the two strange figures go from the moonlight on the lawn into the dark of the oak grove, I was aroused possibly by the sound of the engine of the automobile with a course of action suggested. It came of fears long entertained, no present with a threat of imminent I ran for the stairs, consequence. flashing the light, up the stairs and to Jeds room. . His door was open. As I have said, this wing was not wired for electricity. I turned my light about the room, saw that the fear which had caused me to patrol the house was realized and then hunted for the lamp, which I found and lighted. Jeds room was in the disorder in g which a housebreaker, intent on finding jewels he knew the room contained, might have left it It seemed almost ripped to pieces. On a table was a small pearl-inlai- d ebony box. The lid was open ; the box hard-workin- was empty. As I stood in the midst of the disarray of the room, with the empty box ... Mrs. Aldrich brought me a light eavesdropper get what I came to get breakfast, and one of the gardeners in direct conversation. I had aiy bottle of beer, and the bartNo, doctor," said Mrs. Sidney. If came to say that the dogs had been there had been any chance of finding it found in the woods. They had been ender went back to the group, domiwe should have taken It away from fed drugged meat and were sick and nated by the squat, talkative fellow. him. In his absence we have searched even now barely able to stand. He was not the comic type of conhis room frequently. I was preparing to go to Mr. Sid- stable. He showed intelligence and These people are after the manu- neys room when the telephone rang decision, but evidently he was fond of script, and they are satisfied that they again. It was a call from the village a story when he had it to telL He was have it. I said. I am sure of that of Horwich. forty miles east, a place saying : There was a small pearl-inlai- d I was up late because there was a box, of some repute, or ill repute, for the open and empty, in the middle of the number and character of its drinking bad set at the Half Day, and Bill floor. places and roadhouses. Dailey thought he might have trouble We never found such a box, said The man calling me said he was the with them before he got them on their Mrs. Sidney. constable of the township of Horwich way. About one oclock they had a Then it might have been there? and asked If he were talking to a per- quarrel, without anything but talk, It might son of responsibility. I assured him divided into two sets and went away If it was, they have it and we must he was. Then be told me that an auto- in two cars toward the city. Bill and mobile accident had occurred two I split a bottle of beer, and Bill said get it back." Oh, if we can, we must she cried, miles out of Horwich and that the only hed be going himself. It was nearly holding her hands so tightly clasped identifying marks suggested Hartley then, and I thought Td wait that the delicate bones made a crack- house as a place to make Inquiries. up for Number Eleven at two oclock He asked if I could come to Horwich. and see If anyone got off. ling noise. ' I tried to be encouraging and consolI endeavored to question him over Bill gave me the keys and told me ing and, as a practical measure, gave the telephone, but he said there was to shut the place up. I had another her a bromide. little information he could give, a bottle of beer and was playing solitaire on the bar when Number Eleven diary. 11 ct,cH.iwe it? Do you know where Jed kept 1 one-thirt-y CHAPTER X. ' the most significant thing in it the marvelous unreality of Hartley house, a smiling dread, seemed to have visible token. caped. The empty box, I thought had conIf you have been disturbed, I sugtained the manuscript which recorded gested, probably your father has, also. Mr. Sidneys secret. The flash of white You had better go to his room and tell which I had seen in the hall indicated him that the servants have been flusthe method by which it had disap- tered by a burglar scare, and then you peared. The two figures crossing the had better go to your mothers room lawn in the moonlight were further and stay with her until things quiet indication. There was the sound of down. the automobile engine. I had a sore That seemed sound enough advice, spot on my head. The manuscript I but when Isobel had gone I was left knew or believed had been in the wondering again what to do next. It box which stood with significant empwas out of the question to notify the tiness in the midst of the disordered authorities. The thieves had stolen room of Jed, who had been kidnaped. something which, from what I knew of If my surmises were correct, Mr. Sid- it, I preferred to have In their hands ney's secret, upon which I knew the rather than in the possession of the happiness of the family depended, was police. in the hands of men designing to make Our detective agency I could trust, use of it. but I did not want to communicate about the with anyone but McGuire, the superinJed, fleing a major-domtendent, and there was no need of teleplace, had in his room a telephone conphoning him until later in the mornnecting with the various servants quarters. I used it to arouse the chaufing. The case, as I thought it over, came feur. It took five minutes of ringing his bell to awaken him; when he re- to this: The Spaniard and the attorsponded, I told him that the house had ney, by the aid of a confederate, a been robbed by a man and a woman woman, had obtained possession of the dressed in white, who had escaped, diary containing the secret of Hartley under my sight, through the oak grove house. They would soon be heard and had used an automobile waiting from. They would not disappear. We for them on the road beyond the grove. did not have to pursue them. They would pursue us. I told him to awaken one of the garThere was the possibility of dealing deners, take weapons and go as quickAnyly as possible south by the best roads. with them by force extra-legallWhen this had been done, I called thing we did for our protection had to Mrs. Sidneys maid and told her to be done I thought Mcawaken Mrs. Sidney and tell her, if Guire could and would attend to that, and I Intended to instruct him to consider murder the only process not to be thought of. I tried to reconcile my ideas of Mr. Sidneys character with the facts of the family's terrible dilemma. What could a man of so just and honorable, kindly and charming a nature as revealed In his old age have done, even in a hot and passionate youth, which he could not face now? What crime could he have committed which not only constituted a danger to his security but remained a source of satisfaction to him? For two hours I sat by the telephone, expecting momentarily to hear from the chauffeur who had gone in pursuit of the thieves.- - It was about four oclock in the morning there was a pale suggestion of light in the windows when Mrs. Aldrich, the housekeeper, came to the office. She was an lady of disciplinary habit and ordinarily unruffled dignity, but now she was disturbed. Doctor, she said, Agnes, the new maid, cannot be found. She is not in her room. Her bed has not been touched. Most of her belongings and her suitcase are gone. I came to you with this probably unimportant domestic incident, thinking that well, the occurrence of the night might I without that her, alarming possible some connection with this girl. have on an to her to urgent wished speak "" I think Agnes probably was inmatter. In a few minutes the maid came volved in the matter, I said. We have always so dreaded to take back and said that Mrs. Sidney could new servant, said Mrs. Aldrich, a bet in the sitting see me. I found but Agnes came recommended for the room of her suite. , month by a very faithful girl who It is nothing serious, Mrs. Sidney, a months leave. Has anything rewanted we now need that I said nothing value been taken? gard as serious; and it does not con- of great, Nothing of any Intrinsic value cern Mr. Sidneys health. There has whatever, Mrs. Aldrich. I imagine the been an intruder in the house. Morebefore they over, the purpose was to break into robbers were alarmed or plate. room found been has any jewels and Jeds room, Jed's Thats a- consolation, in any event, broken into. I got a glimpse of the housekeeper; but we never person who did it, a woman. I saw a said the able to take in a new servant man and a woman run into the oak shall be ease of mind. enwith an automobile any heard again I grove and The chauffeur telephoned as Mrs. road. I have sent a gine start on the In the chauffeur and a gardener in chase, but Aldrich went away. The chase so great a night had been useless, as might be against are traveling they have no hope. What I expected, and I told him to return start mat Mr. Sidneys home. , fiiir K tVr they have Satisfies the craving for sweets, aids digestion, sweetens breath, allays thirst and helps keep teeth clean. Still 5C Everywhere I went to the front door of the bar o extra-legall- imper-turbab- le man and a woman in a car man past middle age, a young woman In white; the man was dead, the woman badly injured. "Ill be over as soon as possible, I said. Please keep the effects all to- gether." There was no doubt in my mind that the quavering little rascal of a lawyer with his precise way and timid but controlling unscrupulousness had come to the end of his road and at the very moment when he had success in his hand. There was no reason to doubt that the woman was the maid Agnes whom I had surprised at midnight stealing down the stairs from Jeds room with Mr. Sidneys diary. But if we were rid of the timorous, grasping little attorney, we were in worse difficulties. With the attorney and his Spanish client, we at least knew the manner of dealing. It was disconcerting I might almost be forgiven the exaggeration of saying it was horrifying to consider that the diary was being handled by a constable, a sheriff or a coroner or even in thev by any idler or resort-keepe- r .village of Hdawich. If tlje automobile accident had disposed of one ingenious enemy only to make a equally unscrupulous ones, or to apprise (I was tempted to think this was worse) one incorruptible officer of the condition of Hartley house in either event,, we were the worse for the change in circumstance. One of the stablemen knew how to drive a cat and I asked him to bring out the auromoblle which I used when I went to town. The chauffeur, when he returned, would have been up most of the night. I did not want to impose on him. I might be gone most of the r we were away day. In a toward Horwich. I never had been over the road, which ran by old fapns with stone fences and was little traveled except by the people who lived along it. Originally the place had a respectable tavern. It was called the White Owl. It was still respectable, but oddly enough, it was the success of the White Owl which had attracted the other places, I Inquired for the constable and was told that I should likely find him at the White Owl, he being a frequenter of that place and now having a case which needed a great deal of drinking and talking over. I went to the White Owl and on the barroom, which really had an attractive rather than a disreputable appearance, saw a group of men d about a short, broad, fellow who was talking to the interest of half a dozen or more felhalf-doze- n half-hou- square-shouldere- lows. My entrance made no diversion, and judging, from what I had been told, that the squat, talkative fellow was the constable and that he was telling the story I wanted to know, I decided to remain unidentified, have a bottle of beer from the bartender, who from the concame half-hearted- stables narration and thus as an and we had a drink together. kli Costs little, benefits much. and looked over toward the station. A man had got off, and he was headed toward the Half Day, which was the only place showing a light. I waited in the doorwajt, and when he came up, I saw he was a foreigner. He had gold rings In his ears. He made as if he wanted to come in. He didnt speak enough English for me to make out what he was saying. I let him In, and he went up to the bar, put down a quarter and pointed toward the whisky. I gave him the bottle, and he pointed to me and smiled. So I said I didnt mind if I did, l Made under conditions of absolute cleanliness and brought to them In Wrlcley's sealed sanitary package. stopped. Hartley house had a general office where the business of the estate was handled. It was to one side of the main entrance. I had promised to be an extraordinary person In meeting extraordinary circumstances, but all I did was to go to the office and, lighting the lights, sit there. I was In the extreme dejection of a weakling when the door opened and Isobel came in. What are you doing, up? I asked. Ill ask the same thing of you. What are you and the whole household doing, awake and moving? I told her that housebreakers had been surprised at work and had es- - cood for them. HE FLAVOR LASTS I thought Td like to know what this fellow wanted in town, so I didnt suggest it )was closing time. Then I was surprised to hear a car coming along. The other fellow seemed to be expecting it. We both went to the door. The car stopped at the door, and a man helped a woman out He was a little old shriveled fellow. She was young and pretty. The old fellow said something to my foreigner, and he threw his arms In the air, wriggled all over, lffughed and fell on the old fellow and kissed hiih.'" The old boy - struggled and kicked, but the foreigner just picked him right up and kissed him on both cheeks. That old boy was mad when he got loose. This is unthinkable, he said. It is beyond expression. You human pig ! Dog of a man slobbering beast ! Then he stopped speaking English and said a lot of things the foreigner understood, but it didnt make him mad. His eyes just sparkled. He put a dollar on the bar and pointed to the whisky again. Bring our drinks over here, said the old boy, pointing to one of the tables in a far comer of the room. They sat down, and the two men talked. The girl didnt seem to have A-15- w 3 One Eloquent Word. Not Bad. An old negro brother, seated far Amelia was four and full of initiative. The other day she removed three back In a crowded experience meeting, gold fish from their bowl and laid them stood up, gained the attention of the out carefully on the library table. A leader, and said: Kin I say jes one word? little later, when her mother found Go You can, said the leader. them there dead, she exclaimed : My, ahead. No, Amelia, but you are bad! I am not bad. I Amelia said calmly. Then, with all his might, he shouted, Halleluiah ! Atlanta Constitution. am cute. To Have a Clear Sweet Skin Touch pimples, redness, roughness or Itching, if any, with Cuticura Ointment, then bathe with Cuticura' Soap and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to leave a fascinating fragrance on skin. , Everywhere 25c each. Adv. High notes are hard on the singers throat, and still harder on the neighbors. 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Deliberate slowly, execute promptly. their table as I could, and pretended to play solitaire and wait for their orders, watching them as much as possible and trying to make out what they were talking about. Pretty soon Suggestion they wanted another round of drinks. wantWhen I served them the old boy ed to know if he could telephone to the city. He paid me the toll, and I showed him the telephone booth and heard him give his number. It was River 4600. WHEN the in hunWhen he 'got his party, he said: Is gry, here are some that you, Sim? Everything is all right. wholesome delights that him Let as go. Yes, expected. will satisfy the most That was alL He went back to the ravenous appetite. table. I noticed that he kept tight Cookies hold all the time on a leather case. cup shortening 2 cups sugar When they got to talking again, the 14 cup milk 2 eggs foreigner kept pointing toward the 14 teaspoon grated nutmeg case and began to get more excited. I teaspoon vanilla extract or grated rind of 1 As near as I could make out what was lemon 4 cups flour happening, as they kept on talking and S teaspoons Royal motioning, it was the black leather Baking Powder case the foreigner wanted, and the Cream shortening and suother man wouldnt let him have it. gar together; add milk to Another Royal COOKIES and DROP CAKES From the New Royal Cook Book (TO BE CONTINUED.) Meredith and Lady Macbeth. Lady Butcher in her Memories of George Meredith, recently published, gives the world not a little new information about the novelist which is both significant and extremely entert- aining. Here is one of the passages Phe quotes from her diary which shows his amazing power to painty with words : Mr. Meredith went with father and me to see Irving and Mrs. 'Crowe (nee During supBateman) in Macbeth. per he explained the acting of the scene to mother, and g wishing to describe the way that Lady Macbeth pushed the palms of her hands from nose to ear, he said : My dear Mrs. Brandreth, I assure you that she came through her hands like a corpse stricken with mania in the act From Book Gosof resurrection sleep-walkin- sip." i To a person, five feet tall standing on the beach at seaside, the horizon is about two and away I three-quarte- miles beaten eggs and beat again; add slowly to creamed shortening and and sugar; add nutmeg flavoring; add 2 cups flour sifted with baking powder; add enough more flour to make stiff dough. Roll out very thin on floured board; cut with cookie cutter, sprinkle with sugar, or put a raisin or a pises of English walnut in the center of each. 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