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Show AN EXCUSE THE CIRCULAR SIURGY "Diamonds $150 per Carat This price is for clear, perfect, absolutely flawless stones, ranging from one to two carats. Smaller sizes guaranteed perfect at $125 per carat. When these are gone there probably will be no more. Now is the time to invest in a diamond. And remember, that it IS an investment. Values will continue on upward move. D BKhary ROBERTS RINEHART nmmATiotuBY face in the shadow and my heart fairly ached for him. He was so big and boyish! When I had finished he drew a long breath. "Whatever Louise does, he said, nothing will convince me. Aunt Ray, that she doesn't care for me. And up to two months ago-- When she and her mother went west, I was the happiest fellow on earth. Then something made a difference; she wrote me that her people were opposed to the marriage; that her feeling for me was what it had always been, but that something had happened which had changed her ideas as to the future. I was not to write until she wrote me, and whatever occurred, I was to think the best I could of her. It sounded like a puzzle. When I saw her yesterday, it was the same thing, only, perhaps, worse. Halsey, I asked, have you any idea of the nature of the interview between Louise Armstrong and Arnold the night he was murdered? It was stormy. Thomas says once or twice he almost broke into the room, he was so alarmed for Louise." I said, "Another thing, Halsey, have you ever heard Louise mention a woman named Carrington, Nina Carrington? Never, he ssfld positively. For try as we would, our thoughts always came back to that fatal Saturday night, and the murder. Every conversational path led to it, and we all felt that Jamieson was tightening the threads of evidence around John Bailey. The detectives absence was hardly reassuring; he must have had something to work on in town or be would have returned. , 170 SALT SYNOPSIS. V'HAINIt LAKE C1U UTAH Miss Innes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer at tiunnyside. Amidst nuheadquarters merous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night she was startled by a dark figure on the veranda. Unseemly noises disturbed her Miss during the night. In the morning n in Innes found a strange link arrived hamper. Gertrude and Halsey with Jack Bailey. The house was awakened by a revolver shot and Arnold Armin the strong was found shot to death revolver hall. Miss Innes found Halseys on the lawn. He and Jack Bailey had dismysteriappeared. The link Detective Jamieson ously disappeared. arrived. Gertrude revealed she was ensh gaged to Jack Bailey, with awhom few motalked in the billiard room ments before the murder. Jamieson accused Miss Innes of holding back evidence. He imprisoned an intruder In an empty room. The prisoner escaped down laundry chute. Gertrude was suspected, negro found the other half of what iroved to be Jack Baileys Talsey reappears and says he .and Bailey left in response to a telegram. Gertrude said she had given Bailey an unloaded revolver, fearing to give him a loaded weapon. Cashier Bailey of Paul bank, defunct, was arrested for embezzlement. Halsey said Armstrong wrecked his own bank and could clear Bailey.- - Paul Armstrongs death was announced. Halseys fiancee, Louise The was found at the lodge. Arnold had lodgekeeper said lxuise andmurder. Loua long talk the night of the ise was prostrated. Louise told Halsey, to was she him loved still she while that and that he would despise marry another, learned whole story. the her when he cuff-butto- cuff-butt- The American Express cuff-butto- 24 Hours to California Leave Salt Lake City daily at 3:00 p. m Arrive Los Angeles (next day) 2:30 p. m. 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Eight or nine women, assembled at luncheon, were discussing ailments and operations aa eight or nine, or one or two, or sixty or seventy will. The talk ran through angina pectoris, torpid liver, tuberculosis and kindred happy topics. I thought, commented the guest of honor, that I had been invited to a luncheon, and not to an organ r cital. Everybodys Magazine. wo-me- n He Knew. Wot does Nomoss Rollingstone 'superfluous means? Tatterdon Torn A baihrobe an a cake of soap." Philadelphia Record, And In Kansas, Too. In speaking of his campaign for governor of Kansas, waged last June and July, Mr. Wagstaff said: My campaign is gathering momentum just like a snowball. Whereat a Kansas editor, who5 was not in sympathy with Mr. Wagstaff reand his campaign, ironically marked : In selecting his simile Mr. Wagstaff evidently forgot what time of year it is. From our observation, though, a more expressive figure could not have been chosen. Everybody's Magazine. True to Life. George Ade, at a dinner at Habel den Farm, his Indiana residence, said of his two years silence: You see, I am thinking up original and realistic ideas. And for my new heroine Ive hit on a remarkably good thing. It's so simple and so true. Its a wonder it never occurred to Pinero or Hervieu or somebody before. "What is it?" a guest asked eagerly. said Mr. Ade, "is a My heroine, brunette in the first act and a blonde in the last. A Fatal Breatner. "Mark Twain hated a gloomy man," said a New York editor. Once, at a banquet, a gloomy man sat opposite him. This man would not smile at the most amusing jokes. Whats the matter with you? cried Mark Twain. The stories are all good. Why dont you laugh? Ah, sir, said the gloomy man, bow can I laugh when I remember that every time I breathe a Soul passes into the great beyond? Good gracious,' said the humorist, did you ever try doves? " Continued. and Halsey went for a that afternoon and Louise tome to have a sinister appearance, but we kept that wing well lighted, and until the lights went out at midnight It was really cheerful, if one did not know its history. On Friday night, then, I had gone to bed, resolved to go at onco to sleep. Thoughts that insisted on obtruding themselves I pushed resolutely to the back of my mind, and I systematically relaxed every muscle. I fell asleep soon, and was dreaming that Dr. Walker was building his new house Immediately in front of my windows; I could hear the thump-thumof the hammers, and then I waked to a knowledge that somebody was pounding on my door. I was up at once, and with the sound of my footstep on the floor the low knocking ceased, to be followed immediately by sibilant whispering through the keyhole. Miss Rachel! Miss Rachel! somebody was saying, over and over. "Is that you, Liddy? I asked, my hand on the knob. For the love of mercy, let me in!" she said in a low tone. She was leaning against the door, for when I opened it, she fell In. She was greenish-white- , and she had a red and black barred flannel petticoat over her shoulders. Listen, she said, standing in the middle of the floor and holding on to me. Oh, Miss Rachel, it's the ghost of that dead man hammering to get found in the tulip bed and gave it to him. lie saw Llddy there and divined at once that LouIbo was alone. You let me attend to this fellow whoever it is, Aunt Ray, and go to Louise, will you? She may be awake and alarmed. So in spite of her protests, I left Liddy alone and went back to the east wing. Perhaps I went a little faster past the yawning blackness ol tlio circular staircase; and I could hear llalsey creaking cautiously down the main staircase. The rapping, or pounding, had ceased, and the silence was almost painful. And then suddenly. from apparently under my very feet, there rose a womans scream, a cry of turror that broke off as suddenly as it came. I stood frozen and still. Every drop of blood in my body seemed to leave the surface and gather around my heart. In the dead silence that followed it throbbed as if it would burst. More dead than alive stumbled into Louises bedroom. She was not there! in!" Sure enought, there was a dull thud thud thud it came apparently from the wall. "Its not a ghost, I said decidedly. If it was a ghost it wouldnt rap; it somehow d CHAPTER XV. I Llddy Gives the Alarm. The next day, Friday, Gertrude broke the news of her stepfathers death to Louise. She did it as gently as she could, telling her first that he was very ill, and finally that he was dead. Louise received the news in the most unexpected manner, and when Gertrude came out to tell me how she had stood it, I think she was almost shocked. She just lay and stared at me, Aunt Ray," she said. "Do you know, I believe she Is glad, glad! And she Is too honest to pretend anything else. What sort of a man was Mr, Paul Armstrong, anyhow? He was a bully as well as a rascal, Gertrude, I said. But I am convinced of one thing; Louise will send for Halsey now, and they will make it all up. For Louise had steadily refused to see Halsey all that day, and the boy was frantic. We had a quiet hour, Halsey and that evening, and I told him several things; about the request that we give up the lease to Sunnyside, about the telegram to Louise, about the rumors of an approaching marriage between the girl and Dr. Walker, and, jst of all. my own interview with her ho !0 d rOtf. V in a big chair, with his In the Early Morning. I stood looking at the empty bed The coverings had been thrown back, and Louises pink silk dressing gown was gone from the foot, where it had lain. The night lamp burned dimly, revealing the emptiness of the place I picked it up, but my hand shook so that I put it down again, and got slept Time hung heavy on my hands, and I did as I had fallen into a habit of doing lately I sat down and thought things over. One result of my meditations was that I got up suddenly and went. to the telephone. I had taken the most intense dislike to this Dr. Walker, whom I had never seen, and who was being talked of in the countryside as the fiance of Louise Armstrong. I knew Sam Huston well. There had been a time, when Sam was a good deal younger than he is now, before he had married Anne Endicott, when I knew him even better. So now I felt no hesitation in calling him over But when his office the' telephone. boy had given way to his confidential clerk, and that functionary had condescended to connect his employers desk telephone, I was somewhat at a loss as to how to begin. "Why, how are yon, Rachel? Sam said sonorously. Going to build that It was a 20' house at Rock View? his. of year-oljoke Just "Sometime, perhaps," I said. now I want to ask you a question about something which Is none of my business. "I see you havent changed an iota in a quarter of a century, Rachel. This was Intended to he another jest. "Ask ahead; everything but my domestic affairs is at your service. And "Try to be serious, I said. tell me this: Has your firm made any plana for a house recently for a Dr, Walker at Casanova? "Yes. we have. "Where was it to be built? I have a reason for asking. "It was to be, I believe, on the Armstrong place. Mr. Armstrong himself consulted me, and the inference was in fact, I am quite certain the house was to be occupied by Mr. Arm' strong's daughter, who was engaged to marry Dr. Walker." When the architect had Inquired for the different members of my family, and had finally rung off, I was certain of one thing. Louise Armstrong was In love with Halsey, and the man she was going to marry was Dr. Walker. Moreover, this decision was not new; marriage had been contemplated for some time. There must certainly be some explanation but what was It? That day I repeated to Louise the telegram Mr. Harton had opened. She seemed to understand, but an unhap-pie- r face I have never seen. She looked like a criminal whose reprieve Is over, and the day .of execution approaching. CHAPTER XVI. Wi Had a Quiet Hour, Halsey and I. The papers reported that the cash- would come through the keyhole." ier of the Traders bank was ill In his Liddy looked at the keyhole. But it apartments at the Knickerbocker a sounds very much as though some one condition not surprising, considering is trying to break into the house." everything. The guilt of the defunct president was no longer in doubt; the missing bonds had been advertised and some of them discovered. In every instance they had been used as collateral for large loans, and the belief was current that not less than a million and a half dollars had been realized. Every one connected with the bank had been placed under arrest, and released on heavy bond. Was he alone in his guilt, or was the cashier his accomplice? Where was the money? The estate of the dead man was comparatively small a city house on a fashionable street, Sunnyside, a large estate largely mortgaged, an insurance of $50,000, and some personal property this was all. The rest lost In speculation probably, the papers said. There was one thing which looked uncomfortable for Jack Bailey: He and Paul Armstrong together had1 promoted a railroad company In New Mexico, and It was rumored that together they had sunk large sums of money there. The business alliance between the two men added to the belief that Bailey knew something of the looting. His unexplained absence from the bank on Monday lent color to the suspicion against him. The strange thing seemed to be his surrendering himself on the point of departure. To me, It seemed the shrewd calculation of a clever rascal. I was not actively antagonistic to Gertrude's lover, but I meant to be convinced, one way or the other. I took no one on faith. That night the Sunnyside ghost began to walk again. Llddy had been sleeping In Louises dressing room on a couch, and the approach of dusk was a signal for her to barricade the entire suite. Situated as it was, beyond, the circular staircase, nothing but an extremity of excitement would have made her pass It after dark. I confess myself that the place seemed I Llddy was shivering violent'y. told her to get me my slippers and she brought me a pair of kid gloves, so I found my things myself and prepared to call Halsey. As before, the night alarm had found the electric lights gone; the hall, save for its night lamp, was in darkness, as I went across to Halseys room. I hardly know what I feared, but it was a relief to find him there, very sound asleep, and with his door unlocked. Wake up, Halsey, I said, shaking him. He stirred a little. Liddy was half in and half out of the door, afraid as usual to be left alone, and not quite daring to enter. Her scruples seemed to fade, however, all at once. She gave a suppressed yell, bolted into the room and stood tightly clutching the of the bed. Halsey was gradually waking. Ive seen it, Llddy wailed. "A woman in white down the hall! I paid no attention. some one Halsey, I persevered, Is breaking Into the house. Get up, won't you?" It isnt our house, he said sleepily. And then he roused to the exiAll right, gency of the occasion. Aunt Ray, he said, still yawning. "If you'll let me get Into something It was all I could do to get Llddy out of the room. The demands of the occasion bad no Influence on her; she ' ad seen the ghost, she persisted, and she wasnt going into the hall. But I got her over to my room at last, more dead than alive, and made her lie down on the bed. The tappings, which seemed to have ceased tai a while, had commenced again, but they were fainter. Halsey came over in a few minutes, and stood listening and trying to locate the sound. Give me my revolver, Aunt Ray, be said; and I got it the one I had to the door. There were voices in the hall and Gertrude came running toward me. 'What is It? she cried. What was that sound? Where Is Louise?" She is not in her room," I said stupidly. "I think it was she who screamed. Liddy had joined us now, carrying a light. We stood huddled together at the head of the circular staircase, looking down into its shadows. There was nothing to be seen, and It was absolutely quiet down there. Then we heard Halsey running up the main staircase. He came quickly down the hall to where we were standing. Theres no one trying to get In. I thought I heard some one shriek. Who was it? Our stricken fanes told him the truth. Some one screamed down there, I said. And and Louise is not In her room." With a Jerk HalBey took the light from Llddy and ran down the circular staircase. I followed 1 lm, more slowly. My narves seemed to be In a state of paralysis; I could scarcely step. At the foot of the stairs Halsey gave an exclamation and put down the light Aunt Ray, be called sharply. At the foot of the staircase, huddled In a heap, her head on the lower stair, was Louise Armstrong. She lay limp and white, her dressinggown dragging loose from one sleeve of her night-dresand the heavy braid of her dark hair stretching its length a couple of steps above her head, aa U she had slipped down. She was not dead; Halsey put her down on the floor and began to rub her cold bands, while Gertrude and As for ifie, Liddy ran for stimulants. I sat there at the foot of that ghostly staircase sat, because my knees wouldn't bold me and wondered where It would all end. Louise was still unconscious, but she was breathing better, and I suggested that ws get her back to bed before she came to. There was something grisly and horrible to me, seeing her there in almost the same attitude and in the same place where we had found her brother' body. And to add to the similarity, just then the ball clock, far off, struck faintly three o'clock. It was four before Louise was able to talk, and the first rays of dawn were coming through her windows, Mother (severely) strawberries have this basket, Ethel? you How many eaten out of Ethel Only two. One to see how it tasted, and the other to take'the taste out of my mouth. NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT My little son, a poy of five, broke out with an itching rash. Three doctors prescribed for him, but he kept getting worse until we could not dresa him any more. They finally advised me to try a certain medical college At but its treatment did no good. the time I was Induced to try Cutl-cuhe was so bad that I had to cut his hair off and put the Cuticura Ointment on him on bandages, as it vas Impossible to touch him with the bar hand. There was not one square inch of skin on his whole body that waa not affected. He was one mass of sores. The bandages used to stick to his skin and in removing them it useA to take the skin off with them, and the screams from the poor child waro I began to think that heartbreaking. he would never get well, but after tho second application of Cuticura Ohto ment I began to see signs of improvement, and with the third and fourth applications tbs sores commenced to dry up. Hia skin peeled off twenty times, but It finally yielded to tho treatment. Now I can say that ho to entirely cured, and a stronger and healthier boy you never aaw than ho twelve year or more slice is the cure was effected. 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