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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH THE BLUE CIRCLE By Elizabeth THE THING Jordan br Tbs Century Co.) men- 6YN0PSIS. Incapacitated tally by shock, aa a result of experiences during the World war, Renshaw makes a proposition to David Campbell, wealthy, elderly man of leisure, that for a year he assume responsibility for him "buy" (Renshaw) practically g him. Doctor Stanley, the Indorses friend of Campbell's, which Campbell, proposition, with some natural misgivings, The arrangement Is acoepts. that the young man become an Inmate of the Campbell household, with the nominal duty of Renshaw meets Versecretary. ity, Campbell's granddaughter, and gets the Impression that she does not like him. Jenks, the butler, Renshaw also feels, Is distinctly hostile. Renshaw has a feeling that the servants are spying on him. Jenks warns him that there are "queer things" going on In the house. That night he Is disturbed by the appearance on the wall of his room of a small blue circle of light. Mysterious noises In the corridor outside his door cause him to but he discovers Investigate, nothing unusual. His employer asks him to Ignore anything he does not understand. Campbell tells Renshaw that tfie household Is in some respects "unusual," but makes light of his story of the mysterious sounds. meets Madame Hvoeslef, a foreigner, with an air of outside wanted to get in. Othst sounds followed scratching sounds. For a moment he listened In puzzled confusion, unable to Interpret them. Then, under his breath, he swore again. The thing outside was climbing. He felt It bump against his door, and the bump was heavy and without caution. The thing seemed to have no objection whatever to being heard. In some way it was drawing Itself up to the transom. There were padded sounds against the glass. There seemed to be a definite effort to open the transom. He was sitting up again, with unswerving eyes upon that transom. And now, at last, he saw something. It was a hand and arm, very large and dark. The hand clutched avidly but futilely at the top of the transom, in an apparent effort to release the catch. Rut the catch was on Renshuw's side. The transom did not open. For smother instant the clutching hand moved and even seemed to beckon. Then It disappeared, and simultaneously there was again the sound of heavy fall, this time just outside the door. That was followed by the crawling sound, growing fainter by degrees, and then by silence. Renshaw moistened his lips. The situation was simply incredible, but Campbell revealed the fact that he had not been as drowsy as he had seemed. "Madame Hvoeslef told you Just now that she wanted you to go Into town tomorrow, didn't she? Yes, sir. You wont mind? of course not. Why No, sir; should I? Id hate It like the devil, Campbell cheerfully admitted. "A visit to town knocks me out for a month. The Infernal noise alone is a nightmare. But of course thats nothing to a young chap like you. He had forgotten or was deliberately Ignoring the young chap's admitted lack of nerve fitness, and in either case Renshaw was grateful. He included Miss Campbell In ids farewell ns he was leaving the room, but she seemed to have forgotten his presence. She was trying a new song In an undertone and did not raise her eyes from the notes. Rut the music of her wonderful voice followed him Into the hall, and he still seemed ,to hear It as lie went upstairs. He entered his room with a warning sense of comfort. The lights were lit, a fire blazed In the big fireplace, the sheets of Ills bed had been folded hack. It was not yet eleven oclock. He would read for half an hour, and CHAPTER IV Continued then, he hoped, have a good night's 8 Madame Hvoeslef was walking sleep. Soon he began to fpel drowsy and the toward staircase, lie ac- he turned off lowly the but companied her in silence. On the low- he could still see reading lamp, distinctly In the est step she stopped and looked at fire-lit room. him. The look was a peculiar one. The house was very quiet. His subIntense, doubtful, almost suspicious. conscious mind dallied with memories Under It he straight i tied, and his own of the day bits of Campbells conas met hardened eyes they squarely s fidences, baby hands, the hers. He objected to being so obwatchfulness of James the footman, and this viously weighed by foreigner, he saw no reason why he should not the hushed, throaty voice of Madame Hvoeslef show it. Her glance changed suddenIt was at this instant that he again ly. She became again the fascinating observed the blue circle. It had apwoman of the dinner hour. peared as suddenly as on the night Mr. Campbell has told me," she behut in a different spot on the In her rather gan graciously. throaty, before, same wail. For a few 'moments he , velvet-sof- t voice ami excellent Eng-llshthat you will perhaps he so watched It. his eyes narrowing with an interest he bed not felt the night kind as to do me a service." Tomorrow before. he must look Renshaw Inclined his head. find source around and of that rethe I am here to be of use, he said flection. In the meantime, he would formally. once more compose himself for slumYou are so good." Madame Ilvoes-lef- s ber. manner warmed still more. She He may have slept half an hour sent a swift glance up and down the lie heard the first sound In the before a It is deserted hall. It Was a Hand and Arm Very Largs little journey to the city that I ask," she went on outer hall. It was an unmistakable and Dark. sound the sound of a very heavy hurriedly and in a very low tone. You body falling. He sat up with a jerk his mind worked on It with gratifying will not mind that, tomorrow morning to take the train at ten oclock and and a muttered oatli that held more briskness. Seemingly the tiling, whatever it to return at five? You can ie back, Impatience than ainrm. Tt perfectly inhis He fell out of some room into tlie had. was, feelings. expressed In time for dinner. you see. deed. been so reassured by Campbell's hall. Yet no animal or human being I am entirely at your service. I words that morning that It was diffheavy enough to make that noise in will get the rest of my instructions icult to foel any emotion hut annoydropping could possibly crawl through after breakfast. I suppose, he ob- ance nt this untimely interruption to a transom. Nevertheless, the thing served in a matter-of-fac- t tone and had apparently made an effort to without lowering his voice. Its clear sleep. crawl through his transom. Also, it in noise the the But hall not would pitch seemed to alarm her. She had made an effort to open his door. be Ignored. The tiling that was maklooked about apprehensively. it had begun to move, to crawl That seemed sufficient proof that the ing Yes," she murmured ; "after breakitself Had not locked his door. fast in the study. Thank you, then along, to pant heavily. Renshaw tiling Some one else had done so. Who? and his his raised eyelips pursed and good night. brows. In tlie gloom of his room lie Presumably tlie door had been locked Stie threw in her most charming could plainly see the transom above to guard ldin. Why, and from what? smile with that, but Retisliaw's unIds door, hut no reflected gleam came And If he had to be guarded from accustomed lips could not return the some animal or madman, why the It. The lights in the hall had through smile. out. Kven if he rose and devil hadn't Campbell told him so? been turned "Hood night, Madame. he said with Renshaw found no answer to these the door, he could not clearly grave courtesy, and returned to the opened in the hall. And it questions, though they occupied his was see what 1iing room. ndnd to a degree that forbade sleep. lie was conscious that she did not was none of his business, anyway. His For a It none was to fact. mind that long time he brooded upon them, clung at once continue her little journey while renewed silence settled r tlie of his business! Anything that haptip the stairs. Instead, she remained in the hall He didnt need to house. Then he rose and went to tlie motionless, looking after him. lie pened He didn't want to get up. door. Instantly tlie knob yielded to up. get opened the door into the long room In fact, the notion of getting up was Ids hand. The door swung buck. Beratiier horrible. Therefore, of course, yond it was the reassuring sweep of he must get up. Convalescence, tie tlie long, black, empty hall ; and around him folded tlie peaceful si was beginning to discover, meant doh,nee of a soundly sleeping household all and ing immediately anything things one particularly did not desire to do. Chapter V He rose quietly, and without switching on a light went noiselessly to the Renshaw Asks a door opening into the hail and grasped Renshaw dressed, the next morning, the knob. l!!s intention was to open wearing a certain line of determinathat door with a quick Jerk and thus tion about his jaws and nursing a vasurprise the thing that was moving liant resolve to keep steady. He had outside. Rut, though he unconscious- slept well, when lie was left to sleep, ly braced himself as he seized the hut lie did not enjoy his night's knob, the door did not yield. He exin retrospect any more than he erted all his strength. The door held had enjoyed it at tlie time. He fast, lie drew hack ami stared at loathed being locked in his room. And It. It had not yi. hied, for the host he decided that Hie latter experience and simplest of reasons. It was at least should not happen to him locked and locked from the outride! attain. lie bail opened his windows before II was going to town Hint morning, he went to bed. The co'd night air lie would equip himself while there figblowing In upon hs pa.iama-clawith a little set of tools that would ure reminded him that Ihe reflect inns open any locked door with reasonable which seemed his sole recourse could pronipness. Also, lie would get a he indulges In more comfort ably In flashlight, a revolver, and a few other bed than out of It. He went hark to trifles li at seemed to fit neatly into bed. There seemed nothing else to his new environment. do. His room, he had already obTlie aleriness of his mind in workserved. did nt include the convenience ing out these plans vaguely gratified of a hell a rather striking omission, him. until lie began to think about it. by the way. lie listened. Then the obi s e of lethargy crept The thing itself was coming nearer, into his eonat bumpess. combined with near his door, was now at tin self-pit.vhnse twin was On the Lowest Step She Stepped and was very Itself. There, for a moment. door the tl d riot want to think He Looked at Him. It lay motionless, though lie continabout ail U'ese complications, lie with an actual sense of escape, and ued to hear the panting breaths. It wanted pea e and a clean-cu- t job. Immediately regretted that he had re- suggested a sick animal, a very large But. since the undosired elements were turned. Verity, still at the piano, and very sick animal. All right. If forcing themselves into tlie situation It wanted to pant at his door, let It he forced his w ill to the task of meetglanced up at the sound of his entrance, and he met her eyes. They pant. ing them. lie considered the notion But In his heart Renshaw objected of reporting the night episodes to darkened a If with annoyance, and He objected to that Campbell. her smooth brow puckered under the to the tiling. decided and promptly same emotion. The expression passed locked door, and to an odd sense of against It. He had already had his as quickly as it came, hut lie interhelplessness that stole over him. lie ruling on that point. to tli ink, and evolved only the tried It as disliked She him preted aright. much as he disliked her. She disliked wild idea Hint possibly old Campbell him so much, indeed, that his casual was testing Ids nerve an Idea killed What is this thing at R;n And what effect return to a room she was in almost as soon as It was horn. Old Campshaw's door? have on is all this myetery angered her. Well, he would not an- bell was not tliut sort. The noise oytside the door began a Renshaw? Recon d noy her long. Without glance at her. he crossed the room again, hut now Its character had o Campbell's aide. changed. The knob turned, softly but the thing Apparently (TO BE CONTINUED.) Instructions. slrT persistently. Any life-lon- Ren-Bha- w (Copy for Thu Department Supplied by tha American Lesion Newt Servlca.) COLORADOS TYPE OF SOLDIER BOYS John Charles Vivian, attorney of Golden. Colo., now commander of the Colorado department of the American Legion, got tired of governmental red tape during the war. He decided to do h little unraveling himself. He had been under consideration for a commission ns major In the Judge advocate's department. But the matter hung tire. The commission did not come. So one day he enlisted as a private In the marines. On t he same day that he closed up his law hooks, his younger brother, Chnuneey II. Vivian, then editor of the Boulder (Colo.) News-Heraldropped (lie editorial shears, Jaldied the brush Into tlie paste-po- t and enlisted also ns a private In the murines. 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