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Show THE SAUNA Sl'N. SAUNA. UTAH fWJ lame "Nsawfwtts Ttbe fa hs eerwac. duced himself stitNM raa prova that Ik b(Ultot tSlltta IMS VhuM h a death yS ' Inquiring U4 zaat la Mi Mazaroff to Mystery J.S.FIetchei-j-f left eye, sir," squint rrnrkri s M-svs- t4 u 41 n lira him S C . 14 kivsw llluMriiM4 l. I looked lrwir. Myin- - bm liiwrj -- murjrr for the sate of ruldry. Hut briber Its tbe tf a THI ITOHV Mimm Kbit Baa Mil'll to easa4 to a klm.vlf HaMfbff After lour l hay pul p hi Ihs iriHlui short rort-seaio- Wes4ik las Mrraa4sl wear. They meet, casually. Mra Ktphlaalaaa bb4 hhaila Mrrhl aoa. MstarofT i.lta llult Ihsy ara hia air aa Oauabter ato uai hia raal aama la Marcbiaua. Thai alhl M stare IT taila to raiura la Ihs inn an4 b disappearance to llolt meets bbaila uaesplaise an4 lalla bar of Man-f- r disappears ara. Tby go to bar causia'a iVsrnsr ('uurihopal aboaiiag baa f. hoping to And Sums word of Thera Ihey meet hlr Armimrada aod Unto abaia. Holt la questioned by I heravant Manners and a report er. Iiuwnaa Maasrolta murdered body to found, Crole, (Ft lawyer, and Mayihurna, Valuprivate detective, arrive. able diamond that Maaaroff carried are missing. Mra at the Idea Eiphinston that MaaarofT le Merrhison and producea apparent proofs of bla death. A gun. elulrn from Mur- rave. I found at Ibe scene of tbe murder. hia-sel- H-- Ms-ta- ro af right one or Bd You doom It?" I aloJ. lie gave us a candid, coofijmttsl mile. If )i asm to know." h reanther doubt It oof agree really plied, I lib tL At preaeot I dot know where we are. Id like le know a let of things yrb In particular a bo w as the man that M taro IT said he wanted le see. hereabouts? I H J he See him? If xt, when and where? If he hsdnt seen him, was he on his way le see him si the time of the murder? Again dors this man, whoever he Is. know Mazaroff as Maxarnff or as Merrill-ami- ? Was Mazaroff murdered as Mazaroff, an unknown man here, or as Mrrrl.lx.it, a man who bad been known here?" AhJ" mullrred Crole. My ques- tion!" sci-IT- CHAPTER III Continued The rrop of paper waa receipt for registered loiter, dispatched from Cape Town, and addressed to the Imperial Ilmiking Corporation of South Africa, CJij Ixmibard gtreet, iAitnlon. Maythorne pointed to the date January 17 on the postmark. "Nine month since," be remarked. "IIow long had Miizaroff been In Hug-lan- d when you met him at the Cecil?" A few weeks," I replied. "A far a I know." I know," said Crole. "He came to England iu July about the end of the month." "Then the letter, or packet, or whatever it was, to which this receipt refers, was sent off from Cape Town to the London branch of this bank some months before Mazaroff came here," observed Maytbome. lie turned the Theres an Indorsereceipt over. ment on tbe back letters and a figSee? BL. D. 1. ure," be continued. What's that mean, I wonder?" lie carefully put away the receipt We'll Just keep the knowledge of that to ourselves, for the present" be aid. If the police come here this afternoon, as they're pretty sure to, After that gun business, and want to examine his effects, let em. But I'll keep this scrap of paper to myself I want to work things up from It The police came to the Woodcock a little later. They asked a lot of questions of Musgrave about his gun, and of me and of Webster about our movements on the night of the murder, of Crole (.bout the dead man's Identity and position; of me again about the money and valuables he was likely to have on him. And In the course of their Investigations a fact came out of which I, until then, had been unaware. It turned out that after dinner on the night of the murder, while I was busied In writing some private letters, Mazaroff, who was naturally a sociable r man, had strolled into the of the Woodcock, where a highly diversified assemblage had gathered farmers, cattle dealers, drovers, idlers, all homeward bound from Cloughth-walt- e fair. There he had made himself very agreeable, and had treated the entire company to drinks and cigars, which he paid for with a note, taken, said the barmaid, from a notecase that seemed to be pretty full, and In open view of anybody and everybody. This bit of news appeared to give considerable satisfaction and even to the police officials, and Manners, who lingered behind when his superiors went away, found it impossible to refrain from communicating to me his belief that they were on the right line of pursuit. I communicated the police sergeants e notions to Crole and Ma.vtborne. seemed to understand Manbar-parlo- five-poun- d re-lf- May-thorn- ners standpoint "Following the most probable line, (Lea Ivforswd u)tag la Tt fur North Eastern hotel, old I had noticed Mr. ah Ilsiwnliut, lYul sad I entered Ihs hw, had risen from kis seat, and was smiling laformingly at Ik coroner. b positive. Mr. Klkla!un I may at vssll say that lam! I knew Andrew Merrklx wet) enough la Iks hen be asrd I rent kero, old and after ard hre ks was a young man I knew him, ton, after he'd mar lied MU Union, new Mrs. Ktphla-stons- . And my memory fay fa ms ( remarks J y keen, sad I recognised kirn easily ensuch ahrn I ssr kirn Ik other atxbt. Andrew Merihiaon, without doubt!" Where did you or this man. Mr. llssMndeansr Interrupted th coroner. I saw him th night on uhlrh h evidently met his death," replied th In Itlrnsld It old gentleman. village street, near mr houoe." And you are quite poelilv on this matter of Identity?" I am absolutely positive! Th man aaa Andrew Mercian, whatever os! da. The York Solicitor m-r- instead of harsh purges; trial bottle Free la vsriou trading ftwoenv a y la Ihs ks had retired In all I bio. ssrtuus properitea, sad Mged all Iks prurvoda la rash at hi (vnndoa hank. Iks Imperial Hooking Carport th of (tuatk Africa, pending Investment la Ihla country. The la a rathe JuruUr fsahb k remark'd that up is then, as ka had no rh!llr, and aa relations, ke had never awd a alii, hut k now desired la do wv, lo produced a sheet of a kirk bo had ritteo out hi paper ilea handed It to me, sad ked If 1 cunld pat ll Into shljahapo form, I (old him I nould havs I ho wilt him, and he was lo rail and ferula It at any lima after three rioth that aftenvot. lie returned to my office at half past three, akea tke aid ready for kis atgastor. Ha duly appended that aod carried th win off ltd him. It was not antU om ds later that I found that I rst!ii Lad OH Dr. CaUwvlTi prescription cannot fom the cathartic habit It can b given to the child whos longue is costed, or whoa breath la fetid, or hai a little fever. Or to older prop! mhoM howcla r clogged. Its ingredient! stimulate muscular net bn and thus aid the boweli to nvorc normal functioning, Th par nna and laxativ herht In Dr. Caldwell'i Syrup 1cpain art good for th ayttem. So do not heaitats to uve it when thrrc'a bilioutnett headache, w any !gn of conctipation. Yoor druggist hat thit prescription in big bottles. Or, ovvr Men fieri, I!L, $4 Dr, CM'JtrWt Syr? Ft fttt tnei htllt tnU be tent le yen, fetifeij. k'--s world-famou- fr oa had omitted la gtv bin kis original draft, which I found lying amongst mn papers aa my desk. I rot ruood lo th North Easter hotel alth It, myself, bat learned then that Mr. Msssroff and kla friend Mr. llolt had left for Durham aod th north, leaving no addreoa. I therefor forked op th draft Testerday I read In th newspaper th various account nf a hat had happened hern, and as I particularly noticed that Mr. Msurvff had keen robbed nf his papers as well as his money and valuable, thought It my duly to com here at once and tell what I knew." Much obliged to you. Im sure, Mr. nald. coroner Ioollethwalte," th Now, according to you th deceased man carried off this will In his pockrL It a v n from tha evidence that everything he bad on him money, vatuuhtra, papers was stolen, mst likely by the murderer or murderer: presumably the will has gone with th rest However, Its something to know that such a document was In existence. You ssy he told you he was a wealthy man. Did ha nay bow wealthy?" "Yes. He told me be was worth bout eight hundred thousand pounds.' Tbe coroner leaned hack lo bis chair, put the tips of his fingers together, slid looked round the court Then he turned again to the witness. "I think well trouble yon to read thnt draft Mr. Postlethwalte," he aid, quietly. Postlethwalte read amidst a dead silence : This Is the last will of me, Snllm Mazaroff, of the Hotel Cecil, London, In the county of Middlesex and of Oil Darling street Cspe Town, South Africa. I devise and bequenth all my estate and effect!, real and personal, which I may die possessed of or en titled to unto Mervyn Holt of fifiOa Jermyn street, London, absolutely, and I hereby appoint tbe said Mervyn Holt sole executor of this my will and I revoke all former wills and codicils." This was all. But I was suddenly conscious that all eyes had turned from the witness to me. The first thing thnt I wna accurately conscious of after the crushing shock of tbe York solicitors announcement was Crole's voice, close to my ear. "Keep quiet. Holt I" he was whisper-lo- g Keep quiet calm! Intently. I don't think I did more than hear him I wos watching the coroner, d feeling, now, that he, somehow, In himself all that tha various people In that room were thinking and wondering. The coroner looked around at nocrys-tallze- body In particular. "I understand that the will has not The theory Is been found," he said. that It was stolen by the supposed murderer, with other of the deceaseds papers. Nobody knows anything about It, eh? Wetherby was suddenly on his legs, with a sidelong glance at me. As Mr. Holt, the beneficiary, Is present, sir, he said, I should like to ask him if he knows anything about It? "I know nothing about it! I exclaimed. "I never hqHrd of it 1" Wetherby gave me another look ; there was something cynical in it which I strongly resented. French Enjoy Fishing ' criticizing a financier, Power has mad him ruthless," said kmator FarkotL He thinks be ran rid down everybody, lie baa can tlon to tbe foar winds. thro "A friend of bis was advising him to go alow In hia dealings with n certain grant Industrial lender whoa flltlatlona were wide. 'Iieroc-mt-crhia friend motioned blm rvmenilrr on which nid your bread la buttered.' "Bosh, Mid be, TH-n'- l 1 always eat both aldeaf" ,' Aoaleal Nevada City h remains of a one "loet r!ty have teen discovered In tbo llaiyt valley, Nevada, by rrprwrataUvaa of tbe Koutbwet museum. Tbo new loot city, tb discoverer Mid, waa about two and one half mile long, and belong to tb poat, basket making period dating barb at least UttO year. It la bellv4 to hat bad a population of about Id, ono persona. Excavations thus far, bo Mid, havo brought to light pit bottom, turquoise necklacm, riag bracelet and bead. Maoty Cans Uomorrlad Irlshmew Daddy," Mid Bobby, "that alga Imdlng tbe world In unmarried we Just passed Mid, Cro Roada.' resident, W per rent of lb men In What makes them erosaT" the Free Flat between twenty-fivBeing run over no often, I gueaa," and thirty are unmarried, la north- replied hie dad with a emll. ern Ireland, the rorreHnding figure la G2 r cent. Tiiak It Ovor Tb great uiuti i be who la tbo A warped Idea of what eonstliutm midst of Ibe rrowd kerpa with perOelf sacrifice and goodness la to be a fect aweetness the Independence f doormat solitude. An Ailing Are too prepared to render Erst aid and quick comfort the moment your youngster hat an upset of any sort? Could you do the right thing immediately though the emergency came with- out warning perhaps tonight? Castoria is a mothers standby at such times. There is nothing like it m emergencies, and nothing better for everyday use. For a sudden attack of colic, or the gentle relief of constipation; to allay a feverish condition, or to soothe a fretful baby that cant sleep. This pure vegetable preparation is always ready to ease an ailing youngster. It is just as harmless as the recipe on the wrapper reads. If you see Qua. H. Fletchers signature, it is genuine Castoria. It is harmless to the smallest infant; doctors will tell you so. You can tell from the recipe on the wrapper how mild it is, and how good for little systems. But continue with Castoria until a child is grown. Truth and Nothing But, in Doctor's Statement Deferred "Did you propose to the lady editor? No; I saw her reaching for a In asking for the appointment of rejection slip." an unknown man for a rather Im portant federal appointment In bis When you make political predicstate. Senator Borah sold: tions thank your stars that peopl n natural-borThe position colls for a forget most of them. dlplomnt and thnt Is whnt I consider Doctor Blank to be. A successful country doctor has to be a diplomat or he won't survive. "One day, this chap Ive recomTaka M MATURIfi SHUT mended was calling on a cantaker-ou- s m tonight. Your eliminative old man who had collapsed while O organs will be functioning prop-er- ly by morning and your conplowing. stipation will end with a bowel You say my heart Is weak, action aa free and easy aa narasped the old man. Do you mean ture at ber best positively no that It's liable to give out on me pain, no griping. Try It any time? MILL safe, purely eefetaU 'Bless you, no! exclaimed the at drugtutt only 25c FEEL LIKE A WLLION. TAKJt diplomat. 'That heart of yours will Inst a lifetime. "Los Angeles Times. i Scottish Abbey Holds Relics of Robert Bruce glass-fronte- He'd Swallow Tkaaa Rraator Karkett of Kentucky was jroimmm (TO BE CONTINUED) fragments white marble and calm believed to be portions of the stone magnificent monument of King Robert the Bruce at Dunfermline destroyed by the Lords of the Congregation. The relics are preserved in an oak d cabinet placed alongside of the abbey pulpit erected Immediately above the vault of the Bruce. London Mail. s ft. pro-pare- d pi-ci- The Inquest was duty otrned next morning. Crole, as a solicitor whom be had employed In London, and I. as Ids traveling companion. Identified the dead man as Kalita Mataroff, and told whut we knew about him: Kccle-shar- e and the local doctor testified at to the cause of his death: the men who had found the body at Itelvers den gave evidence as to the circumstances under which they came across it At this stage an Interruption came through the entrance of Mr. and Mra. Elphlnatone and Sheila, wish whom appeared an elderly man of professional hearing; Manners, by whom I was silting, whispered to me that this was Mr. Wetherby, Mrs. Klphlnstone's lawyer. Wetherby lost no time In letting the authorities know why be and his party were there. He said, addressing the coroner, I wish to make an application to you on behalf of my client, Mrs. Elphln-- s tone, of Marrasdale tower. To support it, 1 shall have very briefly to refer to tome past history. Mrs. Elphlnstone, as Miss Jean Linton, waa or four Wsathsrby Lost No Tims In Letting married, some twenty-thre- e th Authorities Know Why Ho and years ago, to a Mr. Andrew Merchlson, who formerly had come connection His Party Wsrs Thar. with this neighborhood. The marriage was not a success, and to put matters he may have called himself of recent years." plainly, Merchlson, within a comparThe coroner glanced at the solicitors atively short time and after making gathered about the table at the head due provision for his wife, deserted her, and, it was believed, went off to of which he sat. "I think we had better adjourn for tbe East. Eight months after he hud a fortalght?" be said. During that gone, Mrs. Merchlson had a daughter the young lady whom you now see time " Just then a policeman opened the here, Miss Sheila Merchlson. Merchlson was never beard of again until door of the room, ushering In a young, some years later, when Mrs. Merrill-sospectacled man. Tbe coroner paused received news that he had been and glanced Inquiringly at him. drowned off Mombasa, on the East Tbe newcomer pulled out a card-cas- e African coast, while on a voyage from and, advancing to the head of the Bombay to Durban. From that time table, whispered a few words In tbe forward Mrs. Merchlson believed hercoroner's ear. I saw a look of someself a widow, and In due course she thing between surprise and perplexity married again, and became Mrs. cross the coroner's face. We seem to be dealing with a Elphlnstone. Now I come to the cause and reason of my application. Yestermysterious matter, quite strangely day, Mrs. Elphlnstone was visited by apart from the death," he remarked. two gentlemen now present, who have, "This gentleman he glanced at the I understand, Just given evidence card "Mr. Postlethwalte, Stephen Mr. Holt and Mr. Crole. On the Invisolicitor, from York tells me that tation of Mr. Crole, Mr. Holt Inhe saw accounts of this case In the formed Mrs. Elphlnstone that on the papers yesterday, and has hurried here second evening after he and Mr. Muza-rof- f to give some information. I suppose arrived here at the Woodcock, wed better have it now?" Mr. Mazaroff told him that though he Mr. Postlethwalte formally described had a perfect right to the name he himself as a solicitor. He produced a was now known by, having legally diary, and exhibited an entry which adopted it some years ago, he was In recorded a call from Mr. Salim Mazareality the Andrew Merchison who roff. had married Miss Jean Linton, and Mr. Mazaroff, he continued, "who had left her. I need hardly say, sir, was a total stranger to me, Intro that this Is a very serious matter for my client, and I think it will be well for all parties If Mrs. Elphlnstone Is allowed to view the body of this dead man, In order that sh may see if she can recognize it as that of Andrew Merchlson." Subject to the fulfillment of certain "That seems, obviously, the very conditions, the trustees of Professor thing to do," agreed the coroner. Noel Paton handed over the follown of Dun"Perhaps youll accompany your ing articles to the client, Mr. Wetherby? fermline abbey: 1. A portion of the There was considerable hushed exskeleton of King Robert the Bruce, citement in that room during the abnamely, the metatarsal or bone of the sence of Mrs. Elphlnstone and her great toe. 2. A "small portion of the Some of the older folk solicitor. outer leaden shroud of King Robert the Bruce. 3. A small portion of the amongst the spectators whispered the name Merchlson had evidently toile dor in which the body of King 4. roused sleeping memories. Robert the Bruce was wrapped. When Mrs. Elphlnstone, followed by The remains of one of the iron nails Wetherby, reappeared, at the coroners which were found among the remains suggestion, she went Into the witness of the coffin In which the body reposed. box and gave evidence. It compressed 5. The remains of one of the six Itself not tron rings, or rather handles, which Into this she could Identify the dead man as Andrew had been filled In with lead Into the Merchison. Had the features remained largest of two stones protecting the unmolested, she said calmly, she might vault of the P.ruce when first discovhave done so, but as things were imered on February 17, 1318. 6. Twelve possible Crole, In his professional capacity, Rainbow Colors rose to ask Mrs. Elphinstone a quesIn the rainbow in the Inner or prition. be said, "had Mrs. Elphlnstone. mary bow the colors of the spectrum Andrew Merchlson a cast in his left are arranged in their order, red on the outside and violet on the Inside. eye. In be the outer or secondary bow the she had, replied. Certainly, colors are In the reverse order. A decided onel 1 Family doctor's laxative a that ks aeslity mas; i.s ke k4 mads very kis v a hoe votes that ass before kirk-sessio- A sensible one, too. he remarked. Heres an evidently wealthy man, traveling in a luxurious car of his own, puts up at a roadside inn, goes Into a lets It be seen that public hes lots of money on him, and strolls out on a lonely moor after night has fallen. What more likely thun that one of the men before whom he's Just pulled out his purse should slip after him, murder him. and rob him? With Musgrave'8 gun? I asked. Nothing out of the way about that little detail ! said Maythorne. What was easier than for the murderer to take down the gun from those hooks, and slip out after Mazaroff? That would presuppose a knowledge that the gun was there," remarked Crole. agreed Precisely, Maythorne. There were no doubt local characters about who know quite well what was in this room and what hung on that wall. 1 think Manners has got hold bar-parlo- r, CHAPTER IV ai ! rua4, fw d)s at l ho o Its I'avt, and lately la oxteoolts link kiss a 4a, disaud drstagi la fiwth Africat i!w Ltd a Jl mark, la lha fans of r ktotaUh, a k'-- right furrana. aa wiMvtuwua er, I That, , a 4 I stuck mark, I It, Hal I rival Import iks fvmkrr proof strongly foavtmwd k sf ik IJrtittiy sf th 4nMH as UI k Andrew Mmktxsv found, sad Should SttgfCl " "There rrd h sa d"uM shout It !" ir frota Ihs ssrtalaxd a suj.b-Andrsw orutora. Tbs me kuv a Comedy Stuff "Why did you quit? "They wanted me to demonstrate a cigar lighter. UANh When one Is Insulted, he Is never prepared. ink, grime, etc., from handt All Ignorance Is not bliss. j Kill AIP removes auto great, paint, AGENTS WANTED S28 West 2nd Sa Salt Lake City. 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