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Show THE PAYPON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH j. , Aa0 It May Be '4 1 The id 3 K N Uk By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART rmj T'.'.TyiFv'dtidyT4 Itanc Chapter III 21 The steps ty which Halliday solved the murdei at the main house. and with It the mystery which find pre ceded It. constitute an Interesiing story In themselves. So ceriuin whs tie ttiai by the time we were ready for the third seance, his nuiterlul whs already In the hands of the district attorney And It was not the material he had given to Greenough. For the solution ot a portion ol the mystery, then, one must go hack to the i piain house, and consldei the old that It well known many Is It. of part houses ol that period were provided with hlddeu passages, hy which rhe owners hoed to escape the excise Such an attempt, many years ago. had cost George IMerce his life. Rut the passage leading from ihe old kitchen, now the den to a closet In the rooir above It. had been blocked np for many years. The builder was dead; by all ie laws ol chance lime might have gone on nnd the passage remained undiscovered. In tS!l!l. however, Eugenia liiggs bought Ihe property, ami In making repairs the old passage was discovered. Although she denied using It for fraudulent purposes, neither Halil day nor I doubt that she did so. She points to the plastered wall as tier defense, but llallldny assures me that a portion qf the baseboard, hinged to swing out, hut locked from within, would have allowed easy access to lit cabinet. But Hnlllday had at the beginning no knowledge of this passage, with Its ladder to the upper floor, lie reached It by pure deduction. It had to tie there," he says mod estly. "And It was." . . . Up to the time young Gordon was attacked at the kitchen door, teav ever, llulliday was frankly ut sea That Is, he had certain suspicions, hut that was all. He Imd discovered, for Instance, that the cipher found In my garage was written on the same sort of bond paper as that used h.v Gor don, hy the simple expedient ot hav Ing Annie Cochran get him a sheet of It. on some excuse or other. But Ids actual case began. I believe-witthat attack on Gordon. At least he began at that time definitely to as soclate the criminal with the house. There was something Ashy about It." Is the way he puts It. And with Bethel's story to me, forced hy his fear that the hoy knew It was he who had attacked him, the bellel that It was "llsh.v" gained ground Gordon was knocked out,' he savs And that ought to have been enough But It was not He was tied, too, tied while he was still unconscious. Rome-bodwasnt taking a chnnce that hed get hack Into the house very soon. It was that play for time, as he terms It. that made him suspicious. All this time, of course, he wag Ignorant ot any underlying motive; he makes It clear that he simply began first to associate the crimes with the house, and then with Bethel, lie kept going hnck to hts copy of the unfln Ished letter, hut : It didnt help much, he says quiet Only, there was murder Indl ty. cured In It. And we were having minder." He had three clews, two of them certain, one doubtful. The certain ones were the linen from the oarlock of the boat, torn from a sheet belonging to he main house, and the small portion of the cipher. The one In was md certain about was the lens from an eyeglass, outside the culvert. lie began to watch the house; he "didnt get Gordon In Ilie situation at all; there was no situation there really; nothing, that Is, that he could lay hts hand on. But on the night I called him and he started toward Rob Insons point, as lie came back toward the house he aaw the figure of a man certainly nni Gordon, enter the house When he goi by the gunroom window there the window was closed and locked. Ue was puzzled. He looked annum for me. hut I was not In sight. Slid searching for me, he made a round of the house, and so was on the terrace when I fired the stmt From that time on he saw Bethel somehow connected with the mystery, but only as the brains. '"There was some devil's work afoot,' But always I came up he said. against that paralysis of his He had to have outside help." On the night In question then, he was certain that this accomplice was still Id the house through all that fol lowed; through Hayward's arrival and He was so certain by that Starr's. time ol Gordons Innocent. that he very nearly took him Into his con II deuce Ihe next day. But he was afraid ot the hoy; be was not depend able; Halliday had on Idea Dial he xx as playing his own game But If this man. was In the house 'mu night. wt'cre'WMg he? He grew suspicious of the den aftet itoii and ne found out through Start toe name ot the. bulldet who had put tit 'be In the don, for Uncle - !t was a long story, hut tb no-!il coif i .! toi.id.g He dig up 1 something. , ii- i tli I Ol:-(- . 0;inl prlot to the builder hud ,r Copyright by Ceotf R. Doraa Com pa ay ZBSfl itcrrertkCi happened on Hie old passage to the room overhead, amt he tiad called Hor It seems ace Bolter's attention to It to have appealed to the pool old chap, it belonged, somehow, to the room xxlib the it til l ue stufT te was putting inlo it. He liuilt In a sliding panel; It oas not a pari Iculariy skillful piece ot work, tint It answered. And he kept his secret at leust from me. I iloiilil It he evci used It. until pro tiililt loti came In Then, no drinket himself, lie put there a small and choice supply ot llipior. some ol which we found latet on And one hoi lie ol which placed Halliday iu peril of hls life, a day ot so after the night I had Mix'd the shot Into the hall. He had borrowed Annie t'oclirnns key In the kitchen door, and aflet midnight entered the Ionise and went to Hie din Although he Is reticent about tills porllon ol It, I gather that the house was not ajl li should be Him night. You know the sort ol thing. he says. But. pressed as to that, he admits that he was hearing small and ibex plicnhle sounds from Hie library tlmlrs seemed to move, and once he was certain that the curtain In the doorway behind him blew nut Inin Hie room. When he looked back over Ills shoulder however. It was hanging as before He bad no trouble in finding the panel, and us carefully as be could be stepped Inside. Bui be Imd touched one of the bottles ami ll fell over. It didn't make much noise," he He was says, hut II was enough. awake, and paralysis or no paralysis I hadn't time to move before he was In Hie closet overhead, and opening the trap in the floor." lie had not Imd time to move, and even if he Imd. there were the Infernal bottles all around him. Ro he stood without breathing, walling for he knew nol what. Things looked pretty poor," tie says. I didn't know when hed strike a match ami see me. And It was good tight If be did I" But Bethel had no match, evidently He stood listening intently, and lu the darkness . below Llallldny held his Then Bethel breuth and waited. He left the trap door above moved open and went for a light, and Halil day crawled out und dosed (he panel quietly. From that time on. however, he knew Bethel was no more helpless limn lie was. He abandoned the idea of an accomplice, and concentrated ou . . the tmiu himself. Annie Cochran was working with him: that Is, she did what he Hsked her, although she seems uol to have known ut any time the direction In which lie was working. Her own mind was already made up; she believed Gordon to be guilty. She made no protest, however, wlieu he asked her to break Mr. Bethel's spectacles one early morning, and give him the fragments. But she did It, pretending afterward that she had thrown the pieces Into the stove. Bethel was wutchful und suspicious hy that lime, aud she bad a bud time of It, blit wlmt Is important here is that Halliday took the fragments Into the city, and established beyond a doubt that they und the piece ot a lens found near the culvert were made from the same prescription. And he had no more tlmu made his discovery, when Gordon, attempting at last the blackmail which he Imd been thrcalenlng, was put out of the way as quickly ami ruthlessly as hud been poor Beter turrowuy. Twenty-fou- r hours," Halliday says bitterly, aud we would have saved Idtn." hours lutei Bet bet Bui twenty-fou- l hud made good Ills escape, and every thing was apparently oxer. But from tlrtii time Bethel us Bethel ceased to exist for HallMay. . He wus not working alone, howevet Very early, be bad realized that be assistance, rent assistance. Annie Cochran's help was always ol Hie below-slalrordt r. And he found the help be wanted after the night Cordon was attacked. In Hayward. As a tmit ter of fact. It was Hayward who went to him. lie was worried about ' you. Skit lie tier," Halliday says, with u grin considered It unite possible tlmi the attempt to wrangle English literature Into too many brain corrals might huxe driven you slightly mao." On the night, then, wlieu Gordon was hurt. Ihe doctor was Impulsively ou his way to Halliday and the boat needed s house. He came within an Inch ot having you locked up thu night," says llal liday. l.ntei on, he did go to Halliday, and Halliday theu und there enlisted him He was me shrewd, In Ids service. hut he xvus xxilling and earnest, and from that time ou la was useful He Imd started, presumably, on his vacation but actually tin a very different errand when t tie murder at the main house occurred, and Halliday recalled him by wire. But when he returned, It was, at Uallidays request, to hide lii the LivB was from there ingstone house. HI night, to assist llal guarding 'he rim In house One perceives, of course, that the Llxlngsioties Imd been brought Into Ihe ease. Hragged In is the way Haiti Bui after the Mrs! con day puts it ference helweeii the doctor am) him self they were In it. willy uill.v Who," llulliday asked Hayward, referring to his copy ot ui.v Uncle Hor nee's loiter, were likely to have access to Horace Boitet at night?" No one, so far as I know. The l.iviiigsloiies. possibly." Then ihe man tv ho on me In while lie wus writing lids letter might have been Livingstone?" "He was III Ilia! night. I wus with lmt be came. ailay In him." "Then Livingstones out." said Hal lldav, anil turned In a new direction. Some theory, some wickedness, was Ami it horrifled and put up to him alarmed Idm A man doesnt present such a theory without leading up to that a good medium might be very useful under the circumstances. "You have one of the best in the country In your vicinity. She has retired, and Is now living under another name somewhere Id the vicinity of Oakville. WheD I knew her she wus known as Eugenia Biggs, but this was her maiden name, which she had retained Her husband's name Is Livingstone: I tlo not know his initials. She has abandoned the profession In which she made so great a success, but I understand Is still keenly Inter ested. The letter Is not signed. . . . Halflilay did nut require that knowledge; he hnd suspected It before. But it gave him a lever. One attempt bad already been made by Bethel to get back Into the house Time was get ting short; before long we would have to go back to the city, and although he knew by that time who und what Bethel was. he c"ild prove nothing To go wus to abandon the case. He could not secure the arrest of a man because his lenF prescription was the same as the murderer's. Or on the strength of an unsigned book manu script left behind the wall of the den He could not prove that Maggie Morrl son had died In the process of the experiment Gordon had puzzled over, because the mud on the truck wheels corresponded with the red iron-claof the lane Into the main house. Ue could not prove his own interpretation of the abbreviations S. nnd G. T. so liberally scattered through the diary. And he could not prove that It was Bethel who, looking for the broken lens In or near the culvert, had found my fountain pen there. A fact which Gordon hnd noted In the Journal as follows: I have them now, sure. W B. was here Inst night and left his fountain pen. But be could, through the Living-stonestake a chance on proving all these things. And. against Livingstones protests and fears, prove It be y did. Theyd Denied Any Knowledge of the Passage Before That." It Let's try this: what subject ' was most Interesting Horace Borter during the last years, or months, of Ids life?" I know he "Spiritism, I Imagine. was working on It. A man doesnt work that Alone? sort of thing alone, as a rule." I'll ask Mrs. Livingstone, if you like. She may know." And ask the Llvlugstoues he did. with ihe result that Halliday got Ids llrst real clew, and elaborated the dur Ing theory which culminated in that fatal fall from the ladder, in the se net passage on the tragic night of the . . 10th of September. All tills time, of Course, It remained only a theory." Hayward scouted It at first, hut came to It later on; the Llv Ingstones offered a more difficult problem. They didn't warn to be Involved, But aftu Edith s lei Halliday says. ter came I more oi less lad them And of course aftet he'd tried to gel Into the house, and left the print ol Ids hand on the window hoard, they Imd to come In. They'd denied any knowledge of the passage before that. Bui he knew It as well as I did, ot he) ter. und that there was a chance old Bethel knew It. too, and had used It." This letter of Ediths, to which I have already refeired, runs as follows: 'Itear Madam: "I have read your article with great Interest, and would like to suggest As a matter of fact," he says, they were In a bad position themselves, and they knew 1L They had to come over again!" . , . Things were. Indeed, rather parlous As a matter of for the Llvlngstones I fact, Halliday says cheerfully, gave the police a very pretty case against them. It was all there, accord Even to the hand ing to Greenough. print But he held them oft. He hnd done what be wanted, turned the police along a false trail and was free once more to travel along the true one. And In this he says. and I believe, that his purpose was not mercenary. he The situation wus peculiar. The slightest slip, the faiut says. est suspicion, and he was oil." And he goes back again to the suit tlety and wariness of the criminal himself; so watchful, so wary, tlmi throughout It hud even been ueces sar.v to keep me in ignorance. You had to carry on, Skipper," be says. "In a way, the whole thing hung on you Even then, you near!. wrecked us once." Which was. lie tells me the uigtii of the second seance, when Hie erim itiul actually fell Into the trap ami entered Ihe bouse. Livingstone was on guard upstairs tltnl night. hik everything would buve ended then probably. Bui you spilled the beans 1" be accuses me. From Ihe flrsl ibe seances were de vised fot a purpose, and I gather that some of Ihe phenouo na were delilier utely faked, lu pllisuil ol tlial pur pose. Oil the otliei band Mrs l.iv Itigstnrie bus always been Arm in liet t statement 'but lings happened 1 Youths Seem to Have Odd Ideas of History Examiners ut times cite with a sigh some ol Hie absurd of iiiebtiM-lii.lUndet fills ansxvers they receive. heading.' Australian schoolboys fakt no second place lo American youths Here are some samples taken from answers at an examination ot the graduating class ol a Sydney high The British admiral. Sit school: Francis Brake. Is fatuous fot having discovered the Invisible armada. and In the European monasteries ol I hr Thirteenth century the monks had tea ti common This was lliclr principle distract b'ti Reldom they visited tb ilieutet ot Hie cinema " One boy nnsxxered the questlot 'Wlmt xxtis tl.e cider event In Hie reign ot Queen Ellzubclh?' with the words: Installment Plan Old The system of purchasing on the In slallmeut plun can he traced hack tt antiquity, Crassus. a contemporary ot Julius Caesar, Is said to liuve made n fortune hy building houses outside ot Borne and selling them on the Install meat plan. The present system l knoxxn to have existed a century ago It xvns during the last decade that fre mendoiis expansion In sales and lu dustries In Installment buying oc curred. Undei Hie reign ol Queen Elizabeth parliament often implored Hie Queer to get married, something that par lament nevet asked ot het fathet Henry VIII It Is true, ol course, that in the billet ease the Intervention ot parliament was not absolutely neces sary." 0 Dobbin horse, you are a wonderful llileg; no buttons to push, tm Imrns to honk, you start yourself, no clutch to slip: no spark to miss, no gears to snip; no license buy Ing every year, with plates to screw on front and rear; no gas hills climbing up each day, sieal ing Hie Joy of mot'ring away; no speed cops chugging In your rear, yelling summons In your ear. Your Innet tubes are all O. K. and bless ymp heart, they stay that way; your spark plugs never miss and fuss, the way they do In some old bus. Your frame is good for many a mile; your body uexer changes style. Your wants are fev nnd easy met ; youve something on the auto yet. American Forests and Forest Life. O which she cannot explain. The sounds library, the lights and the arrival of the hook on the table are among 'hem. But trickery or genuine psychic uiiinifestutions. In the end they served I their purimse. called the third seance, and the mystery wus solved. In Hie It Is not surprising that my memory ot those Iasi few moments Is a clouded one; I was. of all those present except the police, the only one In complete ignorance of the meaning of what was golug on about me. Edith knew, and was bravely taking her risk with ttie others; even my dear Jane knew a little; no wonder she required her smelling salts. Actually, out of the confusion, only two pictures remain In my mind: One xxas of Greenough staring at Livingstone, and theu jerking aside the curtains of the cabinet, where Halliday and Hayxvard had opened the panel and after turning on the red globe hanging there, were stooping over a body at the bottom of the ladder. The other Is of that figure at the foot of the stairs. I know now that It could not have been there; that It was lying, dead of a broken neck, at the foot of the ladder. I have heard all the theories, but I cannot reconcile them with the fact. How could I have Imagined It? I dll not know tlieD who was Inside the Children Cry for It Castorla is a comfort when Baby id fretful. No sooner taken than the little one is at ease. If restless, a few drops soon bring contentment No harm done, for Castorla Is a baby remedy, meant for babies. Perfectly safe to give the youngest infant ; you have the doctors word for that! It is a vegetable product nnd yon could use it every day.' But its in an emergency that Castorla means most. Some night when constipation must be relieved or colic pains or other suffering. Never be without it ; some mothers keep an extra bottle, unopened, to make sure there will always be' Castorla in the house. It is effective for older children, too; read the book that conies with it wall. I am not a spiritist, but ouce in every man's life comes to him the one experience which he can explain by no law of nature as he understands them. To every ntan his ghost, aud to me, mine. In the dim light of the red flow to Avoid INFLUENZA lamp, dead though he was behind the panel, I will swear that I saw Cameron, alias Simon Bethel, standing at the foot of the stairs and looking np. Nothin? you can do will bo effocta-vv- '" ally protect you against olde. In. duenza or Grippe as keeping your organs of digestion end elimination active end your yutera free from poisonous accumulations. Nature's Remedy (HI Tablets) does more then merely cause pleasant end easy bowel action. It tones and strengthens the system, increasing resistance agaiast disease and infections. at a ifo Boa at Yamr D realist's Chapter IV Who are we to Judge him? If a man sincerely believes that there Is no death, the taking of life to prove M must seem a trivial thing. He may feel, and from his hook manuscript hastily hidden behind the wall of the den we gather he did feel. That the security of the Individuaf Fooled the Monk Somebodys monkey was running Around loose itt Los Angeles and a policeman was delegated to catch It, lie tried various traps and lures, but the monkey would not remain within Brins' reach long enough to he captured. Then thinking of the old say-lu"monkey see monkey do, he made a noose, thrust his head through the noose several times and then extended the trap gently toxvard the animal. The monkey put his head right through the noose und lost his liberty. counted as nothing against the proof of survival to the human race. But that he was entirely sane. In those last months, none of us can believe. Cruelty Is a symptom of the borderland het ween sanity and tnad ness; so. too Is the weakening of what we call the Herd instinct. It Is well known at the University that for the year previous to his death he had been distinctly Certainly, too, he fulfilled the axiom that Insanity Is the exaggeration of A tije 'woman never buttons anyone particular mental activity. And that he combined this single exagger- thing she can pin. ation with a high grade of intelligence Nothing Is Impossible to the man only proves the close relation madness and genius: Kant, tin who can nnd will. able to work unless gazing at a ruined tower; Hawthorne, cutting tip his bits of (taper; Wagners periodical vio- g, antl-sorin- l. lences. The very audacity of his disguise, the consistency with which he lived the part he was playing points to what I believe is called dissociation; toward the last there seems to have been a genuine duality of personality: during the day old Rintnn Bethel, dragging his helpless foot and without pfTort holding his withered hand to Its at night, the spastic contraction; active Cameron, making his exits on his nocturnal adventures hy the gunroom window; wandering afoot Incredible distances; watching the door of Cordon's room and locking him In; learning from me of Halliday's interest in Ihe ease, and trying to burn him out ; very early realizing the embarrassment of my oxvn presence at the Lodge, and warning me away by that letter from Ralem Ohio. It seems clear that he had not ex peeled me at the Lodge; Larkin apparently fold Gordon, but Gordon neglected to Inform nltn. Just wlmt he felt, wlint terror and anger, when I greeted him at the house on his arrival will never be known. I remember now hoxv he watched me. peering np at me through hts disguising spectacles. with the beef cube in his hand, and waiting. Waiting, But the disguise held. My own very slight acquaintance wit h him. my near sightedness, my total lack of suspicion, all were In his favor. And of the perfection of the disguise. It Is enough to say that Gordon appnreutly never suspected It. He did suspect the paralysis. He nioxed Ids arm today, be wrote Ho knows I saxv once, in the diary. it, and tie has watched me ever sim-e- . It takes very little to change an up pearanre beyond casual recognition '' I Itthlda t tells me. "The Idea is to take a few Important points anil sab slluite tin'll opposites. Tike a man xxiilt partial paralysis: one shle ut hi Well lie can't face drops, you see. 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