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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS, LAYTON, UTAH Ilarrlden's UNCONFESSED By MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY Copyright by D. Appleton-Centur- y Co., Ino. WNU Service CHAPTER XIV Continued -- 1 3 Then, for one unforgettable see ond, It seemed ns If the dead had moved, nnd chill terror gripped mb, but It wns the soft, dark hair stir ring In their air from the withdrawn sheet, Not worth It? the nmn thunShe was worth the whole dered. damned lot of you I I'd rather have her little Anger than any woman's body. If I can't have Ills voice cracked, recovered. Ill never get over her. And I'll tnke this out of the hide of every one of you. Out af you, you Interloper," he shot at me, looking In at windows, and out of yon, nnd he thrust his mottled face toward Peck, running after another ninns wife, writing your damned rot to her bennty " lie burst out, "She didnt want you. She was plnylng with you trying to plague me. , , . You couldnt have held her for a week. . , . She was my girl, nilnel And you leuve me with her. Clear out, all of you. Leave me alone with her while I've got her. . , . Clear out. Clear out." her" sake. Ilard enough to know that his wife was In love with another but harder to know that she hnd been thrown aside, repudiated. I said, "I did go In after the cat. But when I saw the case there, I opened It to look for those letters for you. Ue caught me at It" nis arm which hnd been lying along the top dropped about my shoulders with a quick caress. "You darling I" I didnt feel like a darling. I didn't know that I even wanted to he his darling. Ills arm dropped so readily about shoulders It had about Letty Van Alstyn when he wanted her to coax Dan down from his room. But his voice hnd taken on a new I've never met any one grnvlfy. like you, Leila Seton. Id he a better nmn If 1 had. You're all loyalty, all courage. I told you you looked like a fair saint when I met you tn that gallery, and I'm taking you as my saint. My bright saint." Mitchell came out, rnrrylng three tumblers of amber liquid on a trny. I saw his quick eyes taking us tn, but If his expression changed, his voice was cheerfully unheeding. Here you are. Hot. toddles. Sugar? Lemon?" . . I'm telling her what a wonderful girl she Is," snld peek gaily. Mitchell put the trny cnrefully on a little table before the sofa and snt down on the other side of me. "She's a thorough fool of a girl, to trull Into that room after a ent to open that case for your letters for I suppose that she was looking for your letters? Knowing all the time how gfuve the evidence wus against her. . , . A thorough going fool," he Insisted firmly, "hut nn endearing ono. I grnnt you that." I smiled over the top of my glass at him. Mercy, not Justice, Tour Honor I" I hope you never have to say 'Your Honor,'" he replied, soberly. leaned forward, across me, "IIow do you think It stands, Mon- - lck werent In narrlden's room after- Only on the threshold of Noras. Your absence gave time for radiator marks hut not for rust And Leila found rust In her tests." Peck raised his coffee cup. To Leila my salvation." Oh, you arent saved yet," said Mitchell drily. We talked about everything ns It came Into our minds; I remember asking about the crescent nnd its strange appearance In Anson's deud hand and Mitchells saying "It was Just one of those things. Those things that you think are going to he clues and turn out to be will of the wisps." I know that Mitchell told us something he hud found out, that Letty had been In the room with Nora after they hnd come up to dress. She hnd let thnt out when talking about the prints tn the room. She hud said, "Of course my prints are there. I wns looking for Nora and then I was In the room before I went to dress. Just for a moment." "What I think," Mitchell expounded, "Is that she followed Nora tip tn find out what she could about the row thnt hud been going on her eyes wouldn't miss Bint. And I think She went away because Pan came In. I think Letty knew Pnn all the time. But she sat tight." "She would," Peck answered. When Pan prompted her to ask for the cigarette case and feel of It, nnd have Clancy feel of It, he probably told her he was sure the diamond was hidden In It. She followed his lend all right, hut when she saw how It worked out, when It came home to her Just wlint the consequences were, when she henrd him exulting over Pecks fute, then It nil rather did for her for a moment. But only for a moment. Do our Letty that Justice, Alan." Peck nodded, un resent! ugly. Oh, hell If that I could liuve fried would hnve helped her get Pun." Mitchell continued: "When Leila, here, brought out what Bnnclnl had been up to with Anson " I Interrupted by asking Mitchell when he had first suspected llurrl-den- . 1 . CHAPTER XV WENT. Incomprehensible It mny seem, that terrible, that extraordinary acene ended with our streaming out of the room, like dismissed children. We left liar rlden alone with Ids dead. The world seemed to go to pieces about me after that. I was as weak ns a rag. The tears on my face were tears of tiredness. Unseeing ly I blundered through the group at the head of the stairs; I beard a WE Ills dark eyes twinkled. olce. Miss Seton It was PonaUoy. lie said slowly, About that and Iron how do you know The cat licked It You can have it tested, but I'm sure. You heard him say, 'If you know-rth- nt you .did It" "The cat the cat put you bn .to It?" Tie stared at me ngnln. "I'll have to get thnt andiron, he added glumlly. "at once." I got away from them then. I went downstairs where a knot of policemen In a huddle told me thnt the excitement above hnd been having Its repurcuaslons here. I let them stare; I walked through the glass doors under the branching stairs, Into the lounge behind the hall and there I curled up In a corner of a huge divan nnd soaked a pillow very thoroughly with my tenrs. I. didn't bear any one coming till a voice said, Here she la," nnd I looked up to see Monty Mitchell and Alan Peek standing beside me. I sat up and brushed the hair out of my eyes. I said helplessly, "I haven't any powder,"' nnd Mitchell snld cheerfully, "Neither have I," hut Peck tolil me to look In the drawer of a writing table, and I went over to It There was perfect field equipment In thnt drnwer. I needed. It; I looked to myself ns If I had been left out In tho rain a long time. Keep your powder dry," Peck advised gaily. "We .never know when the shooting mny begin agntn." lie seemed in high spirits. "What do the.v want me for now " I wns beginning and he said blithely, "They, dont Want, you we want you." . "What yon want Is coffee," Monty Mitchell cut In, "and well have some If nny of the Impeccable staff of this establishment are about" Briskly he went to . the wnll and rang a bcH dangling In a tassel at the end of an old embroidered strip. Grant," he remarked, ns that functionary appeared, his perfection rebuking our everyday attire, "Grant, Is there any ' white-veste- coffee to be had? There will be, sir. minutes." d ... In Just ten And sandwiches, Grnnt. Not anything delicate, you understand. Something with plenty of bacon In them or ham nnd 'slabs of , firm, yellow cheese. Tlenty of Grnnt." Yes, Mr. Mitchell." And something handsome In drinks nnd not In ten minutes, either. Ill show you my Idea," he added, and disappeared with Grant Good. Im Not So Sure It Wasnt .... Ity, Said Mitchell. a case? To hold hint yes. To make It stick no. Not unless something more turns up. Unless he makes more of an admission than he has done . . . Leila, here,. Just did a brilliant hit of guesswork. It was overwhelming when she poured It nil out nnd It tits, lut how much of It can he proved" lie broke off, taking a "drink. "About thnt scene ut the window," he rcButucd. Pan probably thinks Leila Is prepared to swear to him now hut are you?" he asked of me suddenly. I shook my head, perplexed. "I can. swear. to myself thnt. 1 know It Is so but I couldn't swear to a w-- 1 " Crnnt came, hcnrlng a silver tray with coffee pot nnd cups. Behind him was Gruff with another tray of the table. "Every one. And burned them. I've been pointing that out to The last one wasnt there she Donuhey all along," he said. "You hadnt kept It" couldn't hnve left the hnndkerchlef fTm glad." I was glad, too, for and retrieved It afterwards lor you ... but nevertheless a baffling murder case that will hold your interest from beginning to end! Its a picture of violent death that the foundations of a little New England community on Bos-tons South Shore.. .an experience Don't IDiss o days Leila" life-lon- that tor-t- o do. I do now," I told him as assuredly ns If I hadnt Just found It out an Instant before. I am stupid about words; I couldnt say any thing of what I felt to him. I only-sathpre, breathless, looking at him, feeling my own happiness and his , And then Peck came buck, his glass In Ills hand. Monty Jumped to hi? feet. Heres a toast we'll make It a loving cup," he cried and caught, me by the linhd, drawing me beside him. "To Leila who loves a lawyer! The glass In Peck's llnnd wus motionless. He looked at me. No foolin'?" 1 looked at hlrii. No foolin'," Peek put the glnss to his Jlps. lie took a long drink. "Well, I'm glad for you, Monty, old chop, nnd Im damn sorry, fur myself . . , Its the hell of a world. '. It was. In the silence following that pronouncement that we henrd the shot The shot that Pnn had fired Into Ills temple ns he leaned over bis wifes body, the shot that he would ruther meet thnn'the courtroom with Us publicity and scandal the shot thnt was the only confession he ever t , liar-rlde- n uiude. . THE END idea of selling his windmill to the town. The heavy gales practically ruined the mill as a useful farm appliance, a fact which was, actually, unimportant, as Silas had installed town water three years before. But It gave him the idea nevertheless; it was either a matter of paying to have the thing repaired, d or sell It, and as Si was a old New England Yankee, the idea of paying for anything went against his grain. He waited a month, then dropped over to his neighbor, Asa; Gardener, and casually mentioned the subject. Asa was chairman of the board of selectmen and Si's crony. Hows that?" said Asa, regardSell the ing Si in astonishment. town that rickety, old windmill? Sell u? Why you blasted old highway rotber! Its a wonder we aint got out an injunction agin you long ago fer defacin' the landscape with the danged old thing! Si reddened to his ears. Rickety old windmill! You callin my windmill rickety Dang you. Asa, youre plumb onromantic and onsentimen tal. That there windmill has been In my family for near 300 years. It Was brung over in sixteen hundred and sumpin! Its the oldest danged windmill in the hull country!" Its time It was torn down and drug off then," said Asa. Its Cluttering up the scenery." The next day Si went down town and tackled other prominent .citizens, But he was too late. Asa Gardener had, apparently, thought Sis idea about the best joke he'd heard in years, and had proceeded to let every, one in on it Worst of all, Mapleridges citizenry saw eye to eye with the selectman chairman. They were vastly amused. Si came home in a rage. He felt like a man who had been ridiculed, made a laughing stock. Moreover, he was serious in his idea about erecting the windmill on the village green. It seemed to him like a splendid plan. A pity those fools couldnt see it. Why, they were even talking about getting a court order to make him tear it down, just for the joke of the thing. If they succeeded It wpuld cost him some money. The thought was griping. It is necessary to note here that coincidence played a big part in the events of the next week. For it was coincidence, most assuredly, that caused J. Allen Brown, capitalist, philanthropist and citizen of Boston, Mass., to pen the letter that set all of Mapleridge agog. The letter was directed to S. Kent. He opened it in the postoffice, with half a dozen curious citizens standing Idly by. He read the letter's contents and set up a whoop. Within an hour every resident of Mapleridge knew that the great J. Allen Brown had been recently driving through the town, had spotted Si Kent's windmill, and wanted to buy it for $1,500 to add to a collection of American relics he was making. It took Mapleridge about a half day to grasp the significance of all this, and then tilings began to happen. A special town meeting was held. Speeches were made, speeches which were to the effect that SI Kent's windmill was certainly a landmark and It would be a shame to have it moved off to some museum. That windmill had stood on its present location for years! Without it the town would seem undressed. Why, Si himself had suggested erecting it on the village green with a placard to explain to tourists what it was. And wasnt that a good idea? You bet it wasl It would give the town an air of distinction. Advertise . the placet Bring in business! No, sir, no J. Allen or any one else could walk off with Mapleridge's most outstanding characteristic and treasured posseshard-shelle- He checked himself; he didnt touch me or make any speeches. He Just Buld quietly, Dont be I Cracked skulls and broken arms are not unusual among players of Jai Alai, the Spanish game. Play, ers have to handle a ball half the size of a baseball and almost as hard as a golf ball at terrific speed. A softer" game was needed for less reckless athletes. So Green Where Bine Is of American soft ball is being in. and reputations The names troduced. deceptive; sometimes are places tablished justice and the democracy at the same time by placing the whole people of Athens in the jury to courts and permitting any citizen before bring cases of oppression them. devastated the town of thus the Pacific ocean is turbulent; Black Mapleridge that gave Silas Kent the the Blue Danube is green; the . grateful or anything like But If you could manage lenrn to love me " public-spirite- Youll await each succeeding installment eagerly as Mary Avery and Patrick O'Brien solve the murder of Dr. Asa Blaikie, young physician... you'll be charmed by a host 0f fascinating changers who' pande before the narrators eyes in a d tying procession of alibis. And a mysti-rocke- mere child furnishes the final clue that traps the guilty person! Single Chapter! Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the ovi. inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels. Adv. Mountain (Montenegro) is gray, but black. Germany's Black Forest is Em Human Make Ancient Italian Town in the public eye do not Men Italian Casinum was the ancient made up about anecdotes remind was town where Marc Antony are smart. anecdotes if the and them puted to have held his orgies where, at the foot of a mountain, the Romans constructed an amphitheater mentioned by Pliny. Beware Coughs Worship Their Mountains obThe mountains in Japan are of jects of religious devotion. Songs to Fujiyama, veneration, dedicated Hukusan, and other peaks, date back more than a thousand years. from common colds That Hang On No matter how many medicines you have tried lor your cough, chest cold or bronchial Irritation, you can g d Shape Determines Hardness The shape of the grains of sand determines the hardness of a beach. Round grains make soft beaches, grains pack while and form a harder beach. windmill? After the way you treated me? After the way you talked? Dang you, get offin my property! Git offin It afore I have you throwed off!" The committee withdrew to the sidewalk and consulted. They had been authorized to offer Si a price, but the majority were of the opinion that it was going to take more than a price to cool the old man's ire. Presently they returned to Sis front piazza. Bert Englewood, a lawyer who was considered quite an orator, made a speech, a fiery speech. He pleaded with SI, appealed to his sentiment, to his public spirit, to his devotion to the dear old town of his birth. Si listened and scratched his chin and hemmed and hawed. Bert wound up by offering $2,000 cash for the .windmill, and Si weakened. Triumphantly the committee withdrew and Si went back into his house. He closed the door and began to laugh, which was almost a phenomenon. Sara, his wife, looked at him in astonishment, and Si said: Its nothing. Sara, nothin' Only It's a lucky thing fer me them folks didnt insist on me showin em that letter from J. Allen. 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Cet them from any druggist FOR INFORMATION ON JUNGO AREA ; Scene of Austin Gold Excitement HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA Phone, Write or Wire CHILD, BARCLAY & COMPANY Member t Bolt Lk Stock Exchange Stock Exchange Building Thone Was. 4153 Salt Lake City, Utah Teletype Slk. 34 Wa Want Yonr Bnaineaa Establiehed 1898 sion. A committee was appointed on the spot, a committee which waited on Si Kent the very next morning. What?" said Si. Give you my long to be remembered among the peaceful folk of that garden spot, Hard Gam es- nearly steadiness, with bantering gaiety and dark, quizzical eyes. So I shook my head violently about Peck. You mean that? Mitchells voice leaped out at me, almost Incredulies such a tuklng devil I lously. sandwiches. world characters WAS the famous wind storm of IT1935 and which lasted three ... v7!v'r. Something new in mystery sto- ties! No blood WNU Service. But Pock, ns a man, hnd growu unsubstantial. He hud simply not been there. He hnd shielded himself behind my explanations, he had been willing to use my sympathy on his behalf. Ho hadnt sprung to defend me us Mitchell hnd done; It hadnt been Peck who had crossed the room, before Ilarrlden's glaring eyes, to put his arm through mine. The comfort of that touch I would never forget Oh, Pock had been everything he ought to have been, but Mitchell had been so much nioreJ And there was so much more to Mitchell. I didn't think I liked handsome men any more, desperate reckless men who ran to you for sympathy. I was cured of them. I liked men with force and character and .IRWIN'S 4ml RC By R. H. WILKINSON C Aavieiata Kewepapcra. letters Inez Haynes warily. A Sale in the Wind warmth. "Am I too lateT he said, and It was strange to hear his voice Is It Peck? sounding like thnt. I didnt say anything I was too busy wondering ut myself. For It wus not Peck, the Alan Peck of my dreams, the man who had taken such possession of my sympathies. Peck wus vivid, exciting, romantic und he wns ready, 1 felt Instinctively, to play at love with me, to yield to a new glamor. But I didn't Wunt him, I win terribly sorry for him, for all the disillusion lie had been through in his bitter passion for Nora liar-fldeI wns fiercely protective for him against any danger he might he In through her death, I was ready to lie for him, to steal those Starting in our next issue . . saud-wlches- I . court that I recognized 'him." ' "But don't say that yet to pona-hey,Our hope Monty counseled. now Is for some admission :. lie went on. to tell us that he had been working on estimates about thnt gruesome pool of blood, nbout tho time It must hnve tnken to form. He said, That' wus why I was a little unexcited about Ilnnclnl or Letty I couldn't persnndo myself that cither of them hud had time enough for that. Now you, Alnn, when you were upstairs, had Just a little more tlnn " Thnnks. for nothing." said Peck Splendid 1" snld Mitchell approvI'll pour the coffee. Leila, ingly. engulf this cheese sandwich. You look nnothpr girl Irendy." The bacon sandwiches will he rendy Id a moment, Mr. Mitchell." That food wns marvelous. The bacon sandwiches, when they came, were crisp and nppetltzlng. We all ate ns If we were famished.. through the service door. Mitchell went on to tell what else Deck and I went hack to the he had been working ou the time It ,dlvan. I wus glad to sit down again took rust stains to form. The for the strength had gone out of had not been rusted; thff? me I didnt reach even to his ex- had been tiny flecks In the paint on hilaration. which the linen hnd touched "My God, how did you do it? he metal ; and for rust to form. demanded. That was the most In those conditions, required more smashing accusation time than the Interval In which 1 Interrupted, Did you get your Leck hnd absented himself from letters? Hard to say, now , , . Thought it was you, Alnn, at tho beginning, but I tried to keep nn open mind , , . The radiator marks puzzled me. But I didnt see my way till I snw thnt play, about the cigarette case and examined the cigarettes, and even then I didn't suspect the beginning of It the andiron, the dummy on the bed. I kept bothering over Anson's testimony." They spoke of insanity as the defense. .Mitchell thought It would efid tn mistrial. Pock conjectured that with all Ilarrlden's resources It would never come to trial. "And I'm not so sure It wasn't Insanity the Anson' part," said Mitchell. No sane man would hnve choked thnt girl to death, and put himself Into such Jeopardy over the lltlle. site hnd to tell . . . Well, he tuny pull himself together and fight You may he the one tried, It out. after all Dont .lose hope, my Ind." We could banter about It. Beae-tloiwas si rung In us. There comes a time when you are drained of horror when lu sheer actf preservation you. revert to what Is normal, ' ' and gay. . We ate all the Hnndwlehes; drank all the coffee and we smoked Innumerable cigarettes. Thou Peel-- , went, to get himself another drink, nnd Monty- Mlichell and sat there, still, talking.'lie told me thnt ho declined to take bock a word about my foolishness, but- that he forgave It for the sake of my courage. You stood up there, facing him. nnd put thnt scene together as, if. you were seeing It. I He hail Btnod there, too. Beside i ty? You've Just been talking with those fellows. Is there enough of Perhaps he wns thinking of that, for he gave me a quick look and said, By the way how about that engagement of ours? You were pretty sweet," I said. Standing by." I realized that he hnd been beside me every moment la thnt house. I tried to say so. Td like to tnke It on ns a life I Job," he told me. And then, think Im ruther desperately In love with you, Leila Seton." For a moment I Just looked at him. Ills eyes, usually so gay with banter, held a bright, deep me. wards. was In It, somehow, An Athens on Jury Court Solon According to AristoUe, HIEPOSSESSEE) i TRUCKS t PASSENGER CARS Nothing over $295,00 Buy direct at wholesale prices Your car accepted as part payment TERMS I t 4 4 - 4 t: t 4 t ALWAYS A LARGE STOCK TO CHOOSE FROM t t I Nothing over $295.00 SALT LAKES HEW SUPER ECONOMY CAR LOT 825 South State Was. 8294 1 t X DRIVE A BARGAIN HERE t t t t 4 |