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Show 'HE TtEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS, f.AYTON TTAH fot to tnv roofti went phone- - roy betraying the add ttu jit." Keller tenk Nmrge rf Hu rather scattering conjectures, lie was skoft, stout, energetic iTt a TU'ldy face, anU keen in.tR, Mne eyes. Sec- here," he said, "this cur Iwmse and Nora seems to have vanished from It. . . . Either shes ut about tlw grotinds, walking off tier headache or whutevvr rovy yn.u had. or she base cut and rufl to town. . . . Now let's find out. She couldnt get out of the grounds without going out Hie gate, and thats locked ami shed have to apply to b We'll phono blu. I remembered the high, wall$, and the forbidding Iron gates, that iened for rue that afternoon., Hut the lidge keeper.-beluphoned to. stated that no oue haij applied, either for admlsshyi dr departure.. "That settles that she foasu't . . gone to town." , "Have you any theory. Dad?" Mrs. Keller demanded.. He appeared to hesitate, lie gave n quick look at all our curious laces clustered alsnit, add I suddenly felt sorry for him. M w!s lndecbnt, this public exposure 'flf. the man's secret wretchedness. We'd had row," he said Slowly, as If the.' words were dragged was hysterical from him. Sh-s- he She she threatened a things If I well nevej.mlnd. . her sleep, Anyway, after an ovier. of I afraid to be Ing. lga dose of some asked Taula to go up, I was un . . pasy, somehow. '"Shes been lie added: Sloly,. like this before. Hut this wjks a bit Suddenly - 1 loilgd-keeper- . g . Ijelin SYNOPSIS j ' n! beautiful young Setoa. and'" expert on paintings. Is com missioned to go ' over the Collection of paintings In the horns of the New York, where wealthy Kellers-lparty Is in progress. From her Iwindow 'she witnesses a man In an other room strike a woman. Shortly after Mrs. Keller sends up word, asking her to Join the party at din ner. Leila hastily . dresses and goes I seated between Mr. down- - Sit Peck; a critic, and Monty Mitchell, a noted lawyer. Introductions fol low; There are Mr. Harrldeh, Miss Letty' Vsn Alstyn. Mrs. Crane, Mrs. Watkins and Prince and Princess Ranclnl, guests. Leila finds she Is taking ths place of Nora Harrlden. Pan Harrlden leaves, the table, arid Mitchell explains he has gons up to sea how his wife's headache I. Us returns shortly, CHAPTER . 1 Continue 2 . wondered If Deck were Interested In Nora Harrlden, if she ha 1 been the lady foe was expecting in the gallery. I gathered courage and addressed him; and tie talked Quite amusingly, with Ills suggestion of a drawl, of a new book; hut a)l the time I had a feeling that he was only playing off the top Of Ills niind and the under part of It was deeply brooding on some Inner matter. Whaf does Suddenly I said: Mrs. Harrlden look like? "You've never .seen her?" he said I .V j it),.,,. wiri.it, ro,,;,. Thrtl M. Ing an uruvr.f ,,.,,,1 ... . In pm in fh,,. " lilt III,., I ptisti.M) li I' Illumined I b.-tiW;ji empty. The bed was ready f.u TV Mtht. h. rosy silk c"wr:' tiin..i qmtti, a gossamer Hi;. ,. !:Ut. laid out. I looked about. Tlo-'ere doors In plenty behind w tilth she might be; I went to each amt s;.ke. No sound behind them. 1 went h.u k jm-- l tried another door the closit. apparently but that was locked. She certainly Wasn t In a locked closet. Another door, half open, led to the dressing-rooand ha'h, and these were too Peeling like a thief tn the night. I came out, and saw Miss Van n In the hall. Me pa.sed, I smiling eoufusediy. and hurried dowl. Al-st- y 'good--man- I'd-foun- d sleeplng-.stufr-rnywa- y 1 wrso. "Well, there's n?1 good talking here Keller told us. "Nora s. profo: foemhiche aldy out walking off down vine of the paths. Ye'd better tcou start out and find tbere.ll nstair. Instantly, ns If he had watching, Alan Pec! came up, my cup of coffee In Ms hands. "She Isn't there, 1 murmured. ' "Not there? "No. looked everywhere, hath and all She simply Isnt there. He stood hy me. staring oddly. Then he gave a sort of jerk, and started for the stairs. "Thank very much, he said as lie passed me. . , . slowly. 1 watched him go tip; and ' queer, Not unless J saw her coming tn. hard hostility to Nora Harrlden wp's one . There woman , , lovely' burned In me. in gold pajamas I saw with dark Now lie was looking for her. In vys." some place lie had Just thought f. was Yes, that Nora," he said. I remember thinking tills; and Then, for the swond time, a man llar-rldetI left the table;. And this time ItWas then found myself next to Mr. foot He a but man, sat big Alan Deck. He looked at hjs wrist-watcHe looked as If he might be stout. exclaimed sharply, and loud-merciless. ly. Jove, Ive got to put Ip a Call J" Then, as the Princess Itanclnl was and with another word'tp his host us, to the tables being moving s, took himself off. He was gone formed past for bridge, he cuught her kmgpr'than Mr. Harrlden had been by tbe elbow, gone. I know that when he was quickly run up and see my wife, "Paula awn f, therte was a queer constraint 1 think she will you? ought to sve a about that table. The talk went she me. You talk won't for doctor but If as It were on, and I ber-t-sln- ee red-haire- d making-con- versation ' bridge-playing-.' . qiotq-lng.- some-thin- g card-table- s piid-ilr- .. might g& uf" About the house was a general And somehow hrq voice affected me bustle' of running Jfeet and voices; deeply. It .was bo desperate, so us evident'! y the staff was huryylng kent T cant trust a servant I from floor to floor. Alan Deck drew "Its. odd- -I dldp't find cant. write, .Shp doesnt answer her near-me- . ' room phone. I beg you her. either he said simply. Of .course. I will," I said quickly. We all drifted .up the stairs o "Dont let the others see you, he .Mrs. Ilarrlden'a facant roo.m, as If . Warned. we could get' a clue frpm ey'lnjf Us T'U try not but which to her bright eiftptlness. , . weakly,... 'Tve got. to reach her," he-sai- .... room?" . "Its quf-er,- " Harrlden kept say- Second door on the front It's ing, staripi about under frownltg ' Cext to the last to the north." brows. was lying on She on: My mind flashed back. The next jle went to the last to the north I Why, that the bed when I went down said she s the lighted window I bad stared bad a headache. .b had certainly In; It was Nora narrlden, then, who had a crlse des nerfs. . . When I was biding her marked face there' came up. during dinner, I opened the one now I door, not the ball door, but the and between our rooms, very gently, CHAPTER II her room was dark and still; so I I thought she was asleep, and bad her." I" COULD hardly wait for that meal better not disturb to be over. Coffee was Id the Mrs- - Watkins suddenly raised ber You drawing room; I harried up the rather shrill young voice. broad Central stairs, turning to the didn't see her, by sny chance, when fight branch. At the door that had yon were Dp. Alan?" No not a glimpse," be said. "1 designated, I knocked softly. w-a- ln. A : .. iTI I sa.W.Miijs Vim Alstyn. ' I isnt-Tlvcra,- - .Murmured.- be no peace tilt she's found. I'll get the men started. He went to the . room fdihne. . Mrs. Keller said slowly: "II we knew what she had on Umi shA undrftssvd, Daii? lle'Jiositaled. No, I don't think 1 So-.- . . . "Arent yousure? When you-cahi- e down tq dinner, was, she lh negli gee?" ' "She was In those "gold pajama? TVell, .she. fa n't have gone walking In them, can she?'. Mrs. Keller mover toward thp dressing-room- . Call An sob, and see If she picked them up, she directed her husband. Anson-- the pretty maid who teu been summdned downstairs, apthat peared promptly and. report-ethe room had been 'darjt grid empty when she rnme In the be She said that It looked- as 4f .som'e one had been lying on the bod with out taking the covers off. Rut Mrs narrlden wn not anywhere about and. fhero were do gold pajamas. Perhaps 'they. are' In the closet,1 Mrs. Watkins 'suggested, find Mrs. Kellnr fnoved tp the Hmyt door. That's odd." sold Mrs. .Keller, shaking the k'nob.' Nora usually . locks her Jewelry up," said Harrlden. "I doubt ;lf Hie pajamas' are ttter. Shewpuldn hang them tfp." Well we can hare It opened, and see. Call the housekeeper, Anson. If she's stlll.in tbe pajamas, she lsjat on her way to town," suld Mrs. Keller; aarl as the housekeeper ap, she took peared with hbr It from ber ant turned tbe lock. Harrlden. for .all bis dlghellpf ot the pajamas being put up thefe, was quick to step Inside. as the lights sprang on, as If he wafited bo hand bub bis', I thought a little sentlmen tally, to handle his wife's things. "They certainly arent here be said, his voice muffled bytbe Noset. Nothing but coats and dresses. She may be hiding sqinewbere; to be dra matlc." So people were detailed to go over , n - pass-key- tbe house. No one was , discovered In the house. She's either gone away or been abducted, Mrs. Keller summed up In way. There are plenty of bandits who might abduct Nora and hold her for ransom. Was the window open, Dan when you went down?" I don't remember think not" Then Mr. Keller put the question I had been dreadlog: And no one was In tbe room after e that? There was a moment's wait. I kept a guilty alienee, flow could I explain my Intrusion there, without Oar lobby Is delightfully air cooled daring the summer months. 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Yes." 1 w.ent tip to my reoin." said Miss VnhAJstyu.' flliv glaneed di If y ihi use .slip covers (vj y olir rectly Ot me, and I fell a lerili remove them eecusion-ull- y furniture, . premonitUm. ami luk for moths. Moths Werenb you just ivtnlng out, ECt into the tufts ( lurmtutv atul ' wb'ea I weut'byi" . . I hesitated, In miserable the, blood rushing tit tuy cheek like flags of guilt. I knew they were ' wondering how L of all Hqle 1 who knew Mr. omong thv.m, only by nnuta, could jHssitly have gone' t her room w heu slie was reported sleeping till a head ' ! ache. I had td speak. to say something I. felt' I could not violate, my trust, 11 nd jqt what was Alitn Dink to me? I said slowly. .Yes;-went tip. Before tha princess fold. I wanted to see how.shfi Was." a desperate hope that the Inquiry. might etld there,, that they might assume I li'ad been beht on the same .ernmd. as the pHucestj. ' But Ll.arrldpn bad cnngbt my words and erled out roughly: f didnt ask you lor,Wliat the devil did jrou tuenn entering her room V ?I tfonT answer' a question ' like that," I flashed back. .. '. Oh, yes, yu will, he told me ; and stung- by thp lnsuftlng overlond-shlof tils .tone, I ftuug.at him: V.ery well I will I I went because, from my window, 'before dinner, i bad seen you strike 'her In the face I knew she wa's biding tbe tuark, staylqg 'In Her room; and since I .was tlie fuily one who knew It, I thought I could go to her, and she might trust me toget her something ' to put on' It to cover For one. moment,-wheI saiv hi eyes,, the sheer savage 'pirln.tq them, 1 WaS sorry; tfoo next 'moment they blazed red. . .Tlihts & lie," he said. T never struck. 'hor. What d'you meno, 'guying that? ,'. I' could only stand find gtare, gripped In a horrible uncertainty. 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TAnd Quesliour Cut SALT LAKE'S IJeibsons c.mje intef being as the Jesuit of "the eqcentrtcity of Tobins . llobf on,, an Englfsh .stable turner... When a.msn came to was lun; to .tent a . horSe,. chown r tuiinber of finimals stable., but JU'bstin ahyays th.it be tq,ke tjho 'Horst; whii l nUtod . next to, the stable i hilar. 1 La h't !': cj'ioice" , was tints fooni.liy. irviicate that thotigU tire selectio n vas suppos-- . I by yours; th;U of another person . lorped upon you. tUf'VC , door. T Ite hoive, d.ui! Misom fcom garden plants, cultivate soil wc water pl.mts frofpiontly dutTd tin dry ii.t veather. . f - Hobson's CKoIce ffomJiokt The lrhicess Haticlul spoke m 1 went vp was, you know. Ian askell me. "And Anson ns. of .raurstt, Stm' has told us bow site fmiud tbe You didnt nhtice anything urmsuat. , did you. Anson? Mrs, Keller broke off tA demand of thy maid ho was tfov group hoveling on the .tnlge-.oThe git hesltatetl. Wirt, m win atn If was Just empty ; that wm all ' And yuir .didnt we any ntie abotit?. Earlier In tbt cveiting?" I thought It was with rt sort of re lucthnce that she glauctMl about at ,ecfc. "1 did nee Mr. Deck once, go Ing down the hall he might h:i hetp stiindtng outside her door." Everybody turned to lok at him them- His room-- as I learned Inter, was la the left, wing on (be second floor, ;so there was no 'invasion tor him to foe passtug Nora Hamden's n ? - ' - t. forced; thought that people were watching her over." The princess turned on him her Mr. IJarrfden. furtlv'elywere they face, in which no surprise was lovely I thinking, as was, that Alan Deck uppareut. tad gone up for the. chance of a She Is ill, then?" words with Nora tlarri-vfotl. few "Nerves she ought t hare some thing quieting. Him tip and see It t got the. Chatty Mr.' Mitchell t she won't See n doctor. . , I d only tell me wio the others were. ,". There were six 'Inf us women: stir her tip." The princes smiled, and moved Mrs Keller-anher sister, Mrs. to the staircase. obediently Yane; and there was Miss Van Al out Ida own helpblurted He had the're and was. a, tyn; tlUTe piece, Mrs. Watkins, who.wns lessness so honestly t I could surI her second honeymoon, mise, better than the princess the reason for that helplessness that learned. , . That made four, and 1 was five; slap In the face be bad given her. I And the Princess Kanrlnl was the Imagined Nora would hot boon forAnd I wondered what It sjxlh. The .princess was lovely In give that. was all ahont jealousy, of course; ti sjatuesque' tray. I Imagined. of Alan I had a strong reeling .that pew and jealousy, Deck: Harrlden had the reputation pic about that table were otfly till Alan Deck of being madly to love with hlj came back. ,1 bad begun to won- wife, apd Insanely Jealous of "her der if he were ever coming, when beauty. I saw Deck return and gatnfo the be entered, said something about . Miss Van Alstyn was drawing-romnthe rotten service and sat down. Almost Immediately, as If aware already down. Then, for a nipment. that "his conduct bad given, rj.se1 to I forgot the Harrlden affair hi' my , unwelcome Speculation, be began to bother over the I. was letting thyself be apportalk to me. "Did you see Ttbe pictures? bo tioned to a table, when the princess entered, narrlden and Mrs. .Keller .wanted t6 know. "You forgot I left thejn to you," were standing together; she went-tT reminded . . ' them and said something. I foeard him. Ab, so you did. . . Yo.a didnt Ilarrldefos reply; can' Vhy, thats afosimt Whty-e-tetnrn?." , , ' No, PH. see them In the she 1?" Mrs. Keller answered something ; senf.a man. to, ask a maid, eviAsshe Then, suddenly, he said an . . tounding thing: dently; for a maid .came In for a moment, .and' denied haring seen say I want you to do . for toe.; Will .you? After Mrs. Harrlden ahont the bouse. Mrs. this Infernal meal Is over, slip. up Keller ask You the btbers," ..fond see Nora narrlden will you7" said, and there was a curious mo. I demurred, f dont know Mrs. ment ,q'f Indecision. Tbe wav toTell her you come from me," be ward the was stayed in with each fiflld decisively. Tell ber to take po . debated . People seen Ive her." . other. , .stypvtlll But shell think" I began "If. she fond 'a. be'adache, she Deck had pur thn? Alaq In me? SIG-- THIS BASEBAUL, WILL YOU. DIZZY? . . An odd shiver ran across Marti-denface.' Tlietf ha' said, through lips that seemed to I have no means with paljifulness: of knowing whrt was In liiy wife's room before (.came Up.,".. s; There was a. perfectly ghastly I .didn't dare IjMia'at Alni Deck, though 1 know 1 was asking myself If It had been lie In that room, he wLo hud slapped that woman. " . . could understand Ida message he had tried to send by mo:. To take no atepa. v Fljially Keller spoke. All tlrl'a 1a getting u 'nowhere; petty rowa dont matter: The queg tfon Is,, whene- haa Nora, gone to? Since she hasn't chnngcd her qlotheg, shes probably somewhere ahont, and I suggest we go out hud. help Un . men who are looking." , ' The men trooped off .for coals the October against the ifhJll night,, and we womcp were left together. I had a feeling that I was in disgrace, dangerous Interloper who might explode.-a"Bny jnompnt with more shattering bombs of rov . elation. . i Mrs. rane 'in her Suddenly suld, practical voice: A .bandit couldn't possibly havb gpt. In here, could be, Carrie In th? window and carrle bef off?" It sounds fjfntastlc," said Mrs Keller. "Well, its been done." (TO DF. CONTINUED)- . I - a t 1 Crotting tha Rubicon The Rubicon Is a very small, Insignificant stream. 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