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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH SEIYNS WIFE of large build, would remain house; the others would return morning. CHAPTER XIV - J KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen Norrie CHAPTER XIII Continued 16 So that we finally have these facts "You. to go on, ltyan summarized. and your father quarrel about your relationship with this lady, your father strikes you, and you threaten to kill him. You leave the house In anger, and I teg your pardon? "I say that what I said could not be construed Into a threat to kill him, Gibbs protested. "You mean that you phrased It. Ill kill you If you say that again? that I don't think "Yes, I Is quite One might he a the same thing. threat, Mr. Ryan, and the other more of a well, more of a boast, or of a a silencer that should prove effective," George interposed mildly. I see, Ryan said dryly. "Weill he resumed, after a pause, you leave the house In nnger, and on foot. A few hours later, presumably between the hours of nine and ten oclock, somebody familiar with this house enters the room your father is sitting In; does not alarm him enough to cause him to leave his seat ; goes to where he keeps his the table-drawpistol ; takes It out, and deliberately kills him. Afterward throwing the pistol into a basket seventeen feet the Weve away. maids, but you can easily see that no servant could do that without Instantly alarming him. More than that, he disliked their coming and going, and would have questioned any one who came in. We know that pistol was in the drawer, because your wife saw It there, as late as yesterday morning, in the hands of the gill, Lizzie. Lizzie was talking with your wife at her fire until after ten o'clock, undresses and goes to bed, opening the communicating door between the bathroom and bedrooms you know what they were talking of, and why that girl had nothing In her mind last night but her own happiness! Mrs. Josselyn theib sits on by the fire, sees that Lizzie is asleep, goes to bed herself, and sleeps until you awal en her, In what she describes as an excited condition, at two oclock. Those facts we have. Now perhaps youll tell us just where you were last night between the hours of eleven minutes - past six and two oclock. Til tell you as well as I can, Gibbs said simply. I went first to the club where I sat in the little smoking room for a long time more than an hour. Gettling. the steward there, came and touched me on the arm. and said that it was nearly eight oclock, and asked me to dine. You had had nothing to eat? Nothing. Nor to drink? Yes, I had had a wldsky-and-sod- a tvhen I went in, and then later an other. Ah ! And did you drink with you.' dinner? Go on, please, just as the cross-question- events transpired." I had two cocktails before my dinI was still upset from the talk with my father The quarrel?" The quarrel, yes. I didnt eat much. I may have eaten something, but I am not sure. I went out What time was this? Nine oclock, I should say. Get tllng would remember that, because he followed me out to ask me something about the hunt breakfast on Thanksgiving. Will you get hold of him?" Ryan asked one of his men In qn undertone There was a moments interruption Then Jtyan said and murmuring. Excuse me. Will you go on? After that I started walking, without thinking much where I was going. Gibbs said. It wns dark, but not very cold. I walked a long way, and then I saw the lights of the Wayside Inn. Wed been there before, last summer. I - nt up on the porch, and stood there, looking In. ner; didnt Wh.v you gc straight In, Mr. Josselyn? I dont know. I think I wasn't sure that I wanted to go in. You walk what is it something more than eight miles, In the darl commented the district attorney, and then you vacillate about going in? I remember thinking that I was P,ut they hungry. Gibbs went on. were dancing In there, and I didnt feel much like getting Into n dance. But you did go In? No. I didn't. While I wns standing there I recognized I recognized friends nt a little table right near the window Friends? Who were these friends. Mr. Josseijn?" That Id rather not say, really. Gibbs said, in his old autocratic manner. Weve had Lillians story. Gibbs, George said, in a low tone. Gibbs gave him a quick, startled look; the blood mounted to his face. You saw Mrs. Josselyn and her lover, eh?" snld p.van. George saw the muscles of Gibbs Jaw suddenly tighten. I object to that term," he said quietly. We needn't mince words. Ryan Go said sharply, his eyes narrowing. You went Into on with your story. the bar? . 1 lid not go in at ail. Gibbs reiterated. "But somebody saw you there?" Not that I know of. And nobody, raw you on your way tnere?" Not tbs' I know of. You turned around, and walked back?" "I turned around, and walked back." Reaching home " home at about one Reaching oclock, I think. I sat by the fire In my wifes bedroom for awhile, and she woke me up. We had a short conversation. and I told her that I proposed to leave my fathers house the next morning. Then I went to bed. One moment, Mr. Josselyn. On that walk back a long walk, you know, for a man alone in the dark, you must have passed through several villages. Didnt It occur to you to stop somewhere else for food? 1 dont remember thinking of food. Yet you thought of food when you readied the Wayside Inn? Gibbs was silent. How do you account for the fact that you did that? I changed my mind, I suppose. Exactly. You changed your mind. But do you know what caused you to change your mind? Again Gibbs did not speak. I could believe that to a man In your excited condition the mere sight of the woman he loved dining there with another man might cause a decided change of mind, the district attorney said, thoughtfully, making a series of hard little marks with his pencil on the blotter before him, and finally raising his head to look Gibbs straight in the eyes. But I wish, for your own sake, Mr. Josselyn, that you could find some one to confirm this rather extraordinary story. Eight miles," he added, musingly; well, a man in condition might walk that far, and decide not to eat anything, and walk back I used to walk once myHe pursed self, a good deal. But his lips and elevated his eyebrows with the shadow of a shrug. One more thing," lie asked, in a dead silence. You dtdnot tell your wife last night what you had seen?" That I had seen my fathers wife No. dining with Pepper? Why didn't you tell her, Mr. Josse- In In the never did In nls life Before, nut net the you are skipping your meals, ,ylng awake nights, and getting hysterical! My G d. Sis, youll do him much more-- harm than good this way." After the quiet funeral, when the Josselyn family had run the gauntlet of a hundred reporters and photographers, and were back in the Yilllno dell Orto again, Joe came upstairs to find his sister. It was two oclock and a low table bad been drawn before the fire and spread with "Come In, Joe," his sister said, And will you have when he knocked. some tea? she added, with a shadow I know you didnt of her old smile. have any lunch, like the rest of us." How do you feel, dear?" he asked, taking the offered cup. She blinked back the Oh fineT y tears, and controlled the trembling of her mouth. day ! she added, unsteadily. Awful day. Listen, Sis," Joes tone suddenly changed and become firm, I want to talk to you about something! Wheres Gibbs? Has he had anything to eat? Why, It was for Gibbs that I risked them to bring tills up, Ellen anBut before It came George swered. had called him away. Theres so much to attend to so many different things. Joe, did you hear anything more about the Bridgeport position? Well, thats what I meant to speak to you about, Ellen. I had a letter from this fellow Mainwaring, yesterday. Tneyll give it to me. In fact, they wanted me today ; but of course I couldn't go. I cant get there until tomorrow morning. You are going, then, Joe? I think so. He sighed, rubbed his hair boyishly with his hand. 1 saw Harriet. he added suddenly, end I thirt shes satisfied to have It this way. Mr. Lnthrop was a king about It, and he said that I should stay where I am. But I got this Job through him, you know, and I didnt feel comfortable keeping it now when Ive been a disappointment and a trouble to you all. So Ill go to Bridgeport. Ellen looked with pity at the clouded face; Joe seemed so young, so much a boy to face these grave lyn ?" realities. Why it did not occur to me to do So you go to Bridgeport?" so. I never have discussed the mat"Yes, he said, rousing himself from ter with her. his brooding. And, Ellen, I think Tell me Just what you mean by the matters "The the anything that concerned my stepmother. I suppose. You quarrel with your father, threaten to kill him, leave his house, over this very man, and then do not consider this fresh evidence of Mrs. Thomas Josselyns relationship with Pepper of sufficient Importance to tell your wife? Didnt it occur to you that here was an absolute refutation of your fathers suspicions ; suspicions that you knew were shared by your wife?" No, 1 dont remember thinking that." Gibbs asserted doggedly. You didnt say to yourself: Here is an excuse for me and more than an excuse! You didnt say my dear, to show you how innocent I am In this whole affair, Lillian or whatever you call her and Pepper were dining together tills ery evening! I have told you that I did not mention it to my wife, Gibbs answered. 1 should like to call your attention to the fact that Mr. Josselyn was unwilling to bring his stepmother's name into this discussion a few minutes That ago," George said quietly. would seem to me to indicate that there had been no prearrangement between them." as They Were, These Hours at Exactly," Rvan said, with a sharp Empty the Jail Were Ellen's Life. look. Thank you I think that is all. When you came Lizzie and I will he married, and Oil, one moment. home from this walk, you approached shell go with me. the house by the rear road, erosspd But when, Married! she echoed. the field of (lie adjoining properly, en- Joe? tered the gate on the tennis court, and Well" lie heaitnted. Tonight, so came around the west face of the I think. house, to the front door? Tonight ! "Yes, sir. I guess so. So Unit, by a really circuitous "But,' dearest boy! Dont you have route, you did not pass the lighted to have a licence nnd things? study window? Ive got them. Her mother nnd Accidentally. I did just that. father will te there, nnd Aunt Elsie. Thank Thats nil. of course. 'Accidentally, you. Mr. Josseijn." But Joe so quickly ! Ellen mupd Again there was the little stir of After all, perhaps its the wisest men changing position. Gibbs and tiling, she conceded. I'll try toGeorge went to t lie disk. morrow to get someone else for Tom"I will make It my business to look my. tin tiiose matters you called to my atT was going to speak to you about tention. Mr. Ryan," George said. In a that. Sis. Why cant we take Tom-inv- ? business-likI'll see Mr. Josse tone. You'll have your hands full iyn8 man of business find out if Slit turned deathly while, and there was anything irregular, any dis- leaned hack in her chair with closed pute there. There was one point 1 eyes. would like to make before we end this "I dont mean that! he exclaimed, All. pull yourself together, Investigation: is it possible that Mr. quickly. Josselyn fell asleep In his chair, and dear old girl!" wns slioi in that slate? Ellen nervous, got to her feet ; she The nodded began to walk about the romn. wringdistrict attorney He had scored steadily, ing her hands, and pressing her locked thoughtfully. throughout the long day, but lie was fingers against her lips like a person rasped by the conviction that Gibbs In pain. Oh, I know what you've nil been despised him. I will speak to Corrigan about it. waiting for these days! she said. In That would lie an Important point, of her whisper qf anguish. Ive seen it course. He glanced at the coroner, in GeorgeS face I know why you wlm had risen, and was standing be- want to tfll.e Tommv away from it side him. all! I know that Gibbs has expccte-- l Doctor Cutter spoke of that," the it; weve been together for three days man said. "P.m it is impossible. When now, Joe. weve sat for hours wpli we found the body the bead was sunk my band In his not sajing a word. She came back to the fireplace. Joe forward, ' exactly like a man asleep. But the bullet could not have entered had risen, too, and was watching her the body as it did enter it while It wns with a distressed face. She laid her In that position. Mr. Josselyn wns sithands on his shoulders, and looked ting erect when the shot was fired, and with wild appeal into his eyes his assassin must have engaged him in Joe!" slie faltered, alinosi Inaud-IhlI lie nwake nt night racking my conversation, holding ids own hand, nnd there s nohoy else! with the revolver in It, barely anoe brains the level of the table. They can't find anybody else! Rut. "I see," George said. He and Rvan Top, If lie did do it If his father, m conversation at that cool, smiling say of his fell in o a Ail over the 'Look here, Ellen ! Joe said hlunt one of the windows. I'm surprised at you. Gihhs is j room there was the rustle preceding j ty, ntua I going to depend oa you Uuw as he departure A deputy, a kind-facee 1 d too-rend- Yes, I know I" Ellen said quickly, But, Joe, she added, I beep thinking that that Ryan will ask me ask me outright what I think, and what can I say? I ennt " Now, listen, Ellen, he interrnpted In the first place, he never firmly. will ask you what you think. Hell simply ask you what you did, or said, or heard said ; he may not put you on Now Just calm the stand at nil. down. Take things easy. And you let us have Tommy. Lizzie adores the kid we both do. And hell he out of the way of the whole thing. Get me? I get you! she smiled, little sadly, as she returned his kiss. And you may be married tonight?" be! Will It seems so strange, Joe." Fhe went with him to the door of her Not what I thought my little room. brothers wedding day would bet" she said. Nor I," he answered gravely. She thought he looked all a boy as he walked away, and turned nt the stair head to wave his hand to her. A few minutes later Gibbs came up, and Ellen lighted the flume under the spirit-lamnnd made him fresh tea. ne looked tired and 111, but he smiled at her gratefully as she gave him the smoking cup. There was a knock nt the door, but he did not seem to hear It. He had dropped his handsome head against nnd closed his dark, the chair-bacshadow-rimmeIt will seem eyes. good to get out of this, and get the little scout again, nnd go off out of the range of newspapers and cameras, I was thinking wont it? he asked. we might take the roadster and go South Florida, maybe, or Atlanta." Ellens color rushed up, the vision of escape from all this horror had set her blood to dancing. The open road again, Gibbs and Tommy, meals here nnd there and everywhere Another knock at the door. Gibbs heard tills one, and turned questioning eyes toward it. "Stay where you are 1" Ellen commanded. She went to the door. Gibbs heard one whispered word of protest and horror, nnd got to his feet, the color draining from Ills face. He saw Georges grave face, and another face or two In the background. In the foreground, their eyes sweeping the d room quickly, were two d enuhnK.i SAY and INSIST? BAYER ASPIRIN Unless you see the Bayer Cross on tablets you ar not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe for by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Accept only Bayer package which contains proven directions. 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I'resently the will of the murdered man was filed, nnd caused its own sensation. After the bequests to servants nnd charities, nnd the gifts to old friends, the widow was to have her handsome allowance, payable unless she remarried, throughout her life, besides her country home at Wheatley Hills, and all It contained. To the son certain hooks and specified silver nnd Jewels were bequeathed, nnd a moderate sum was to be held in trust for the little grandson. All the rest went to the daughter inlaw. More than tli.it, should Lillian remarry, she was to lie glen a lump sum, the remainder of her fortune to revert to Ellen. 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She must nerve herself afresh for the sight of him, dishonored She bin, despondent, must breathe the suffocating moral ntmosphere that surrounds (lie offend ers. the human who is felt by other She must humans to lie dangerous. talk to him. and vet not talk of cloud that pressed so close over him. and the hideous weight on their hearts that made them bo'h afraid they would go mad. She kept him supplied with hooks nnd sometimes made him read aloud to her. George was often with him. full of confidence and courage. Empty as they were, these hours at the Jail were Ellens li'e. Otherwise she was hardly conscious that she lived at all. She sat hv the fire will her aunt, in the evening, talking with the busy, kindly woman and the. old captain, hut not knowing what She wrote her tightly lettm to Joe or Lizzie, with a scalloped kiss for the hoy. and vvi nt early to lied She rose early, and Joined the old people nt breakfast. 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