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Show L-- THE WEEKLY KEFLEX T.g run WEIBOMG AAA.B&CIH1 SMUDSPEIfe- - & K Tlie young man pretended not to . understand. TlTesergennt settled himself In a comfortable chair beside tlie bed and lighted a cigar. -- So you gave us the slip, did you?" lie puffed a time or two. "Well.- -i won't deny you kept half a dozen men busy' last uight, trying to find you. Caused us a lot of tumble: l'.ut I complain. 'You've helped its a lot In the solution of the murder." Helped you? Do you mean, to say youve caught the murderer ? "I can lay my hands on him, any time I plt'use," Kllduy asserted. "1 know who he Is, where he Is and what he did last night. It Isn't a mystery any more." Young Curmody relaxed against the pillows. s I suppose It's time to cheer," he said. "Rut what hus last night got to do with It?" "You ought to know." Klldays eyes never left the young mail's face. "Me?" "You killed Jim Franklin!" At first Rylte smiled. "You have a queer Idea of humor," he said. Then he sat up straight. "Say, are you serious? Do you think I why, man, you're out of your head!" "You think 6o7 The sergeant was elaborately casual "Criury Idea, eh? Listen, It Isn't half ns entry as that story you just told me about I know where an auto accident. I know you got that black eye. where those bruises came from. And you weren't even In an automobile, The things I know young felldw. ure going to send you to the chair." Kllday edged forward, the hard lines of his fuce no haFder than the bleak stare of his eyes. "1 was on to you from the first. If Cardigan had listened to me, then, hed he here with me today, Instead of where he is. Put you're not going to pull the wool over my eyes any take your chances with Fletcher. And that's wbut Jou did. You lucky break when l'letcber hare Impressed Itself on his mind in that last Instant ' Then he was struck one lust teron the him shot caught b4ck-ffitrific blow. LJnd Xl-Co- ntlnued tent blm reeling. It splintered chair. ot Even then, right at the end, he wag wall thinking of tweed. pSer caromed Into the rant-broken, Wi fall bad been CHAPTER XII ude hla feet Now to struggled he waa 'th. first time bla opponent Another Arrest Teter blm and the light KILDAY discovered over Uiut him there, crouching Into SERGEANT Callls Shipley and Ry frenzledly chair, groping were lie at about Carmody missing, L blackness to find him. Choking time Peter was struggling In the Reter L hU fobbing breath, was his Franklin's darkened office with his cautiously. Now unknown assailant Rylle's disapSancel was pearance by the angry reported as man straightened up Just detective whom he had given the oU the ft hurled himself through In the country. I In t flying tackle. He Btruck his slip, The disappearance of the gfrl Stagoolst Just above the knees, was discovered when Kllday sent pure, L impact numbing his shoulder, for her In the hope that Daniel reter did not care. The map it L down. reter was confident of Bullls might Identify her as the .tie, more than woman In blue he had seen In the abiuty to fight on rectors study with Franklin. ao terms, once he came to grips "Hn she gone .with young CarPeter Cardigan Jth the fellow. or is she afraid that Rullls mody a a more than six feet tall, with Identify her?" pondered the might ja flanked hardness that did not detective. Ue quickly abandoned lie the power of his as he realized she latter the theoryj hia iiscularlty. grip had not Releasing known' he Intended conthe fellow's legs, Ieter aimed a with the politician. Ee her fronting ioui blow to the abdomen, Intent was more than ever anxious to find ending the struggle as promptly the missing couple when he learned The blow missed Its possible. to Peter Cardihad rt glancing too high, against the what The happened been found had novelist gan. a. lie. drew back his arm for on the sidewalk In unconscious, no was ther blow, but there Ills antagonist gripped him ie. ut the body, crushing him down. tre was no room for a blow now. 11 iked In each others arms, they 1 ad-$ac- e i well-traine- d 1 1 led, panting, across ih was seeking for the t the floor, the table, broken glass. cow Peter got the palm of his id under his antagonists chin, gritted his teeth and put all t, s, trength Into the effort as he wL' ced the other's head hack. Els 3th was whistling painfully !gh his nostrils. There was an Tcnf agony In his chest, as Noi ugh some tremendous weight ' crushing out his breath. Still forced hack that head. It would a be over now. Ee was only sbaaJ uely conscious of the blows sod ich battered at his face. The was a tinkle of J f i g to as i id fel Trw Ee' tried ow must give in soon. force new energy Into his flag-- g drained of much of if strength , by the punishment had absorbed during the strug- muscles, omehow t his of his strength. be tired, too. jurftr- - i ton 1 hot wssts wK I an el kothP ing-n- - .1 - t" 7iibe,r ... u. 'w'hullw i wll n. i S -- K ll Un-- 1 Els opponent front of the Greer building. NeverWith the en--p theless, It was the following mornof despair he flung himself ing before Rylle Carmody was lo0 new attack. Els arms fed light, like cushions that he cated at his borne, to which he had returned during the night Kllday a pushing forward with tremen-1- 4 was resolved to place the young orh Of what use were blows man under arrest convinced that e that? Ue must hit harder I his flight had had some connection krl Harder with Cardigans Injury. idll his blows seemed only to Of course, this meant that Spears lt trough space. From some-f,- r was innocent How else account for something was beat- - what obviously had occurred at him, steadily. Was It the Frankllna office? Who but the murhead? 0r wer they derer would have hurled Cardigan Of They no longer seemed to through' the window? Certainly Re seemed to be sinking, that was not Webster Spears, who ow he could Just drift had been under arrest at the time. 7. comfortably, into forgetful-o- e Callls Shipley lacked the strength tried to remember dazed- for such a feat But Rylle CarW 1,oud beep on strug-Ther- e mody lie had not been entirely 8. was some reason for If wrong in his surmises, then. Cpt eludinS him.i Then Rylle Carmody had not given his In w to the abdomen hurt shadow the slip, things would have afieh!Tre he remenbered. Ee worked out differently, surely. for his life JtaSiKhtin The sergeant was a determined fn Un'8 murderer- - They man when ha presented himself at to r rememT agaln He coold the Carmody residence after being rer?ereUlDgup-- But here Informed that his quarry had reblurred- weaving turned. Tm sorry," the butler declared. knew he must it "Mr. Carmody Is ilL Ee can see no ,he one." declared Kllday . "Hell see me," his extended In palm he dourly. exhibited his .badge. "Take me to his room." the wall up in bed. sevM their ,uul T, reter he.n! eralRylle was sitting !:"'. behind his propped ''pillows crssh . hreakln ? glass. It back. Els. left eye was discolored h f cool-i- and' swollen. One arm waa banriSrJr?h A " Iron his daged above the wrist and the 8hou,aep had knuckles of the other hand were Ife red the pane, ,tapeL. "Good morning, Sergeant." What bed at the1 1?" Dls fingers brings you here so early In the f morning?" rIed t0 tch was the "1 guess you know-,but a,. nfr lacked Xth look as "You rejoinder. W0l of though youd run into a " FallinnH TheSl,c,othing. gRylle raised hla arm, the better air wait crtBP anJ foot to exhibit the bandage.. "nad an . he DTOKen he explained. to accident," fowhi, l..f ; ?" The sergeant grinned Oh, yeah th t8 had mirthlessly. "An accident, eh? Authrough the tomobile, I auppose?" fo w. lf to the fellow',hlft?vld have "Yea, I skidded on some loose and WTed hi to!ht gravel, m8elt "This was while you were trying Ofhhow to .give my man the slip yesterday r the garment ahonld afternoon?" at abort I'erlmps Alexander Severus Is Just ns well satisfied that the Jtehool children of a democratic Innd troop past Ids empty tomb without noticing It.- ' Emperor of Rome from 222 to 235 I'., auccessor to the degenerate llellogaba'lUB, who had himself officially crented a god, he might have appreciated Andrew Jnekson'a emotional outburst. He appenra to have been aomewhut of a skeptic regard and lng the divinity of emperor an boy despite his environment of degeneracy, Ills brief reign Is chiefly dlstln gulshml for Ills feeble efforts to better the hard lot of tlie common people. He established government loan offices where they could borrow at low Interest to got tliein out of the clutelioH of the "hankers." He did much to Improve tlie status of the common soldier of the Roman legions. Christianity was making headway In Rome. The emperor was not convert, hut he neglected no chance to improve Id fate hereufter. He kept n private elmpel with statues of Orpheus. Abraham, .Apollo and Jesus, and paid cquul homage to all of them Washington Ftur. i , evl-owe- Pe - em-dage- s, you. him. gave our detective the slip. A ' - j "You for a open-minde- few years later Andrew Jack-sowas reported dying at the ller-t- o n ' It wus a pleasing Illusion and fiat- terlng to masculine vanity that the women choose their clothes to pleuse . Rut In his heart every man has known lt Isnt SfL So the New York authority who says women dress to please themselves and other'woro- en uttering merely an obvious 'the first pluce, the average truths-I- n man pays little, attention, to hi wife's costume the brute! and in the second place his Ideal of color schemes I primitive. How many households"' have been torn by the failure of an unobservant, husband to notice that hi wife had a new dresn? And hw many have been promptly put la their places when they have Igaor-antl-y remarked that a more somber color would he more becoming? So It Is with due dlflldencq that we suggest anyway, if the hicn had their say, their wives would not be wearing these little saucepan hats pulled down over one ear. And having ventured thus far we bare our breast to the New York stylist for. a barbed reply. Kansas City Star. . the-men- 1 -- Ferry's Seeds are sold oidy In fresh dated packages. When you buy Fernoar Nashville. Elliott had or unhappy, Inspiration to rys Seeds yon are sure of the finest tip offer the tomb to Old Hickory ns a quality available. Adv. ; i,lst r,,stjnK j,,u.P The Wrong Tim Jacksons reply Is one of the lie (on the dance floor) 1 wish 1 lassies of American literature: were In your shoes. "Although laboring under great She perhaps, hut I wish you (It y and affliction from a severe would refrain from attempting to get I reoovfrom which not attack nuiv Into them now. er." the dying man wrote the navy officer, "I raise my pen nnd endeavor produce the wrecked car. That tn y T1. Blon(,!n,.S!l of Iny should be pretty strong clrpum-.iiinerves iiinv perhaps load you to contlal evidence, us you cnll It" clude my strength Is not ns great ns Kllday puffed thoughtfully "The here expressed. Strange ns It limy wrecked ear, eh? What time was B,,ari tny nerves nre ns steady ns this wreck? they were 40 yenrs gone by, whilst About eight thirty, or perhaps a froni debility and affliction I am quarter to Mne, ou a gruw-- r.md KaspnK for breath, SOME NEW FACTS ubout tcu miles from Westport. Pnni0t consent tlint my 'mortal more. did W'hut did you go? "Where, IN body shall be 'laid In a depository HISTORY You killed Jim Franklin. Whethdo? ilow did you get hack to prepared for au emperor or a king, er you did lt to prevent him from you . OF GOLD MONEY town? W'hat time was It thcn?"ijjy republican fcelngs andprlnel-ThA Few marrying your sister, after everyEvery sergeant shot Ids questions with pi, forbld It. The simplicity of our thing else had fulled, or for another staeeuto to Is a for romedown It gold quite rapidity, Night Morning ystera of government forbids It reason. Well discuss that later. "I was stunned. I guess It was Every monument erected to perpet-tlil- s be used for money or the basis for We know you quarreled with him Will Clean, blow ou the lieud that did lt." ate the memory of our heroes nrnl currency. ln'the study of tlie church, within of would a combination lt require Healthy Condition! r a of the time he was Rylle fingered the discolored eye statesmen ought to bear evidence of I the economy and simplicity of our hlstorlun, philosopher, banker, poll how "I know dont long gently. At All Drvi Stores murdered. We know that Webster was out It was quite dark. I re-- ! republican and the flelnn and mystic to write the history Institutions, Clioo Choo told about Pr Book you Sienrg WriuMuriaCo..Dpt.W,C))Mo,rOT The car had overturned plainness of our republican citizens, of the precious metal. Dr. Frederick Tralu that very afternoon, at member. 1 1 of the consumers' G. counsel nnd had beeu thrown clear. llowe, who are the sovereigns of our glorl lunch. Spears is under arrest Ee didnt I had ous union, nnd whose virtue is to at Adjustment admtnlstra Agricultural that realize, first, OLD. AOS rr.NSION INFORMATION In admits he told you, the hope that Hond admit looked at potunfe lt. True virtue enunot exist tlon, told the Cosmos club the other I Then unconscious. - - Humboldt, Kas. IJCHMAN Would Ee the JllKiE yon Btop wedding. That where pomp nnd pnrnde are the ulghL even admitted, this morning, that my watch. It was Among the ancient Hindus It wus T1 Cun MIm Wonderful Produrto. me, ttcrause I waa supposed srnlng pnsslon. it can only dwell he was the author of that anony(n to meet some one at nine. And the! with the people, the great laboring revered a sacerdotal. "He who tarn Iny. flower-- 1 114 to 1100 weekly Plan II. mous message your father received. Ohio. R KKKI Deltroy, last thing I remembered before the and producing classes, the form, the per with It," said the law, dies ou Ul'(hr.lK He admits everything except the a dunghill and. rots In hell to the I iad had plenty of time bone and sinew of our confederacy murder Itself, and the phone call accident, end of time." Only princes could so a to ennnot "There was I farmhouse up the Fljrur Matrimoniul permit my remains to Choo Choo Train. Perhaps that rond about half a mile. I could see ?m the first In these Vnlted States much as touch It Muud Is entering the matri"So was your work. Oh, Spears has tried e I Gold wus first. demoted to the monial market and with a young up there and to be deposited In a sarcophagus to protect you, but he won't any the lights. So limped 1 I have Howe avlntor?" of Doctor status or an asked for for West nindr king. "money," emperor help, telephoned longer, Spears has talked, and hell "Yes. shes tuklng a flyer, so to Port from there and got a cur. 1 hen prepared a bumble depository for said, by the Lydians, who put the . keep on talking." as It wherein s lieslde and used home. rcturned lt mortal that stamp king's body u)Mn my speak." "Webster Spears?" Rylle's tone'1 "What time was It when you lie my beloved wife, where, with medium of exchange. Interest immewas Incredulous. "Did he say that? out any pomp or parade I hnve re- diately anise to 3(1 per cent, farmers reached the farmhouse? 'iIt doesnt really matter what WHEN shEI I dont know, exactly. It might quested, when God rail me to sleep lost their land nnd sold themselves UPST brushed aside Spears says." Kilday have been about ten. Not much with my fnthers, to he laid, for both and their families Into slavery In the interruption with an Impatient later, Im sure." order to live. wave of the hand. "Weve got the This 3(1 per cent, Doctor Howe una slow Bnilled The Bergenut goods on you, anyway. After your was the first money Interest and Fashions for suld, pleasant sort of smile lu which Playtime quarrel with Franklin you returned there was no trace of mirth. arose naturally out of the former LyWell-Dresse"ITetty d Tot dian system to the study, entering by the rear . the of doing business. work. but wont lt clever, Carmody, door, so that you wouldnt be obTrade had been primarily Id cnttle. was around four somewhere It In the good old summertime, young When cows were sold on credit It served. Ee was standing In the o'clock when you started for the fashion sacristy door, with his back toward plates become wus assumed they would hove calves. five you About You seized the knife that country. ersl you. 14 So the seller demanded the price of rl BwlehCTlcdcro.haul-ne- r man who wits following lost the WIICl was hanging on the wall and stabbed And for the fastidious two to eight a as luvabia calf has additional payment. This ilwd Nature' dupouitkia, pep and vitality. The accident occurred nearly him twice. Then you locked the you. who wishes to devote all was calculated at about Slmif ik bowel in vsiv year-old- , warning: the four hours later, within thirty miles ably mul tin pouonouiw loir raging your attention to boating, bathing, and value of a cow. . door, wiped the blade off on the of the odra ibe duvet cauae of beadachea, d were tost where you spot In cnlda, complexion trouble. NATURE'S its seen. to seams nnd .curtain and replaced the knife imraa, rather than basking, When you pay Interest to the bunk REMEDY the mild, kaxaUvw It didnt take four hours to oblitto careful crenewest first are here the sheath, buttons, being md y atimulatea the awlirt eliminator tract today you are paying, genetically at not rate miles travel the thirty trongthena, regulates the bowrli for nonssli on the erate your ations In playtime fashion. considered, the price of the calf of Mfuroi functuayou were going. Where were you Not handle. but the Cet ZJc bo bur following, leading the cow you borrowed. tTvf. , ijhTJ all that time? What were you dot your vogue of the elders, the youngster "Franklin had a revolver In his ing?" Other notes on gold from Doctor tody dniulat. these days who would be really In Howe's studies ; . pocket and attempted to draw It, hesitated. "I was Just gotelwt.tod1jpily ii Quick Rylle batb the swim, must have s You wiped All the gold od earth la worth find. yfolwi(wfi!f during the struggle. for a ride. I wasn't going anying too, and where la It clean of about $11,000,000,000. It could be particular." then thought of leaving Franklins stored In a room of 30 cubic feet 'You said you had an appointon the weapon. own thumb-marThe workers of the United States ment at nine. With whom? You pressed lt Into the dead mans earn It all by working GO days could "That doesnt have anything to do a at $5 hand, then flung lt into the bushes with day. They could earn all the the case," the young man reof the garden, in the rear. After In their own country In 20 days. gold slowly. "I merely mentioned The total of gold In the United States that you left the way you had plied Newest Hotel to fix the time of the accident' lt into the has about the same Intrinsic value as come, but you couldnt go me be the to let have "You'll to total of diamonds. Washington church because you had not had of whats Important now," detime to dress for the wedding. You Judge Star. gruffly. "Who were still tn tweeds. So you crossed clared the -sergeunt to meet and were you going the street and waited In your car Fruit Trees a Good Bet where? until after the crime was discovSome years ago so many orchards The young man remained silent ered. t were planted that there wus an over"All right" declared Kllday. "Ill T t' "You have already told us what abundance, but this condition promtell you. Your engagement was to After taking Callls ises to be greatly changed In the fuyou did then. go to Franklin's apartment That's ture. Many orchards have been alShipley home, you returned to the why it was necessary for you to knitYou knew Franklin had in the newest church. lowed to die out and the time Is comsuit, lng Ee shuke man the first my To protect your- give saw been murdered. tote In the afternoon. ted weave, gay In white, red, or navy. ing when fruit will be In much' better last you self, you first said that the girl had There Is no ..record of your move- Felt tabs attaching top piece to demand. - As It la too late to start an told you. Yotr knew she couldn't ments between then and the time shorts add the Jauntiest of fashion orchard after the demand has come, know Franklin was dead unless she you claim this accldenj occurred, touches. lt is a wise plan to invest a little In And what more fitting fashion for this form was Implicated' tnt be affair; When -f- act-- after The' The JjuitLlmpraveraent. 'nearWesiport than a trees cost so title that this does not you saw you were trapped, you tried you had searched Franklins apart- the fastidious as gayly striped have to prevent anybody from havseersucker sun-su- it to wriggle out of it, and the girl ment you went to bis office, where tried to help you. I dont know. It you bad the struggle with reter as a stick of candy. Red, green, or ing an orchard, or at least a few 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths might have worked lf It had not Cardigan. Then you became fright- blue atrlped suits with fitted waist- select trees. The United States to catch-al- l Is and line been for last night." which blessed because pocket some means of fruit of needed especially ened. 'You Radio connectkHi fat every room. "Last night?" Rylle Carmody acountlng for your movements at perfectly Indispensable for precious some sort can be grown In every RATES FROM f 1.30 stared fixedly at the detective. "You that time. Besides," the sergeant stonej gathered along the beach, will state. We should appreciate this Jmi Wfo Mrn TdimA keep coming back to that. What leaned back and studied his man be worn this year wherever two to fact all the more when we remember about last night?" are' gathered for a that In many countries fruit is such thoughtfully, "you were badly batERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. You want me to tell you, ehf tered In that fight You were quiet game of leap frog. Carolyn T. a luxury that lt Is beyond the reach KUdays gaze never wavered from going to have to explain those Radnor Lewis In Child Life Maga- - of average people. Pathfinder MagaI zlne. the youths face. "You were WNU w bruises. What better explanation zine. 1834 n'V-.fenxloue to escape the could you find than sn automobile W following you, AcUdont?- papwhowas u I you JTO BE COISTINTEILJ had something to do that would PACKET IS ALL YOU PAY bear watching. Halted CoTrsor' Vets' was there of , the Abuse of ... HYoa were afrqjd something in- Frtnklins apartment first governor of Ohio created such -that might Identify you with the bitter resentment toward gubernacrime. You hadnt an opportunity torial Interference that when his to do it before, because we were enemies secured control of the conYou renllzedryou stitutional convention In 1S02 they watching you. were under suspicion. That height- adopted the opposite extreme, deened your anxiety and made you priving the governor of any voice AT YOUa all the more eager to destroy that in legislation. Under the territorial could the In the legislature were apartgovernment STOKE NEICHSORHOOO It if evidence, Every packet dated not pass a bill over the governors ment. "So last night you made up your veto; under the first constitution, could not the governor mind net ta wait any longer. You nntll. " T bill veto at all s and decided tf shake the detective observed w lieu you wont to 1 rankling apartment and dice ou knocked Cardigan through the win- dow. but not before he had lo:t Ins mark on you. . This accident story wont got you anywhere, Sifpposo, replied the boy "her-- , that 1 can prove then really ly, was nu accident? "Ho you have witnesses?" be -- - i n ffMNEL, i THE e Drops and Promote a , j half-hou- y. gov-worrl- Constipation Drove sun-worsh- hold had been For the first time a feeh Ths Novelist Had Been Found, f hopelessness engulfed Peter, conscious. was very tired, almost at the 1 by w bosejjjjiJment i hoye ' Mossed Immortality." four-fort- hen. abort of ns there to remain until the last trumpet hounds to jcull the dead to Judgment, when we. 1 hope, shall rise together, elothed with the 'heavenly body promised to all who believe In our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might IlveTand some-evidenc- the-,jon- r V) Daring Man Ventures Criticism of Fashion pro-fun- r win oca . ; ui i Burial in '.Royal Tomb Not for Old Ilickor after there and decided liuukini bad kept It at his office. "I dont know what you we-- e n't er jet. Rut I'll find out. ProbnVy YaahIugton possesses the tomb-othat connerwl tlU a Roman r emperor. Shipley girl with the 'case.- - t r The box like stone strucstrange perhaps it connected you. oi cm-ture on the lawn of the Arts nnd Inyoung Spears with the critic At' dustrie bultding of the- National any rutc, tliuC where Curdig. in outwhich museum, visitors usually pass guessed us both. Its too 'tiiol have more confidence Ipjihu. without noticing, was the occasion If I had, Id have been with 1dm of a dramatic Incident Ik) years ago last iilght, and he would be beie. when It was first brought to WashNext time. I'll piny Its ington, right now. The tomb wits secured by Commo- bunch, lf there ever is a next tune," Jesse R. Elliott, commander of ,dere .The detective scowled. I don't tllP friKatc Constitution, which was understand how you caught hup so flagship of the Fnttevrstate (omp ite j off his baluuce. lie " In tthe Mediterranean In armed. Rut somehow or otIVr you squadron from a hillside behind the city isctti, did. And liT the struggle wtihh fob jpf nriruti Syra. Although the you knocked htm out of vas not such as would satisfy window. Rut pot,", he paused to an Elliott believed lt arcu,(,i0;St. glunee significantly at Rylle ban- wng tjie tomb of the Roman "not before be had put up un Alexander Severus. lie awful struggle, lie left bl.s mark jpr(r, j, nought It back to Washington with on nine-thirt- into crashed ' j l per-bee- n an opening other was too cautious to nL bey - I went out for' a coiiplq of hour Rut jou couldnt find wlint you went -- CHAPTER PACE SEVEN tgrio' buzz-saw.- -- lii one-thir- acby,hM-sUvu.Nort- m e d n s finger-print- two-piec- e finger-print- s, k Salt Lake Citys . I i 1 i;:j feasted , all-wo- ol HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE -- er j eight-year-ol- eud-denl- y , Jat , iiann-- i- f nlghTr-werent'yo- PUREBRED , VEGETABLE - SEEBS 1S-'- r 4 i |