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Show e ju.vr UK CIRCULAR STAIRCASE :mary I20SZHTS mnzhart mrrmotrm v f some one higher up on the stairs. There were no marks of powder. The bullet, a 38 caliber, had been found In the dead mans clothing, and was shewn to the jury. Mr. Jarvis was called next, but bis testimony amounted to little. He bad been summoned by telephone to had come over at once with the steward and Mr. Winthrop, at present out of town. They had been admitted by the housekeeper, and had found the body lying at the foot of the staircase. He had qiade a search for a weapon, but there was none around. The outer entry door in the east wing had been unfastened and was open about an inch. I had been growing more and more nervous. When the coroner called Mr. .John Bailey, the room was filled Mr. with excitement. suppressed Jamieson went forward and spoke a few words to the coroner, who nodded. Then Halsey was called. Mr. Innes, the coroner said, will you tell under what circumstances you saw Mr. Arnold Armstrong the night he died? I saw him first at the Country club, Halsey said quietly. He was I rather pale, but very composed. stopped there with my automobile for gasolene. Mr. Armstrong had been playing cards. When I saw him there he was coming out of the cardroom talking to Mr. John Bailey." The nature of the discussion-- " was it amicable? Halsey hesitated. They were having a dispute," hs said. I asked Mr. Bailey to leave the club with me and come to Sunnyslde over Sunday." Isnt it a fact, Mr. Innes, that yon took Mr. Bailey away from the club house because you were afraid there would be blows? "The situation was unpleasant,' Halsey said evasively. At that time had you any suspicion bank had been that the Traders wrecked? 8YNOP8IS. Mils Innea, spinster and guardian of Bertrude and Halsey, established summer headquarters at Bunnyslde. Amidst numerous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night he was startled by a dark figure on the veranda. Unseemly noises disturbed her flqring the night. In the morning Miss in Innes found a strange link a hamper. Gertrude and Halsey arrived with Jack Bailey. The house was awakened by a revolver shot and Arnold Armstrong was found shot to death in the hall. M bs Innes' found Halsey's revolver n the lawn. He and Jack Bailey had disn mysteriThe link appeared Detective Jamieson ously disappeared. arrived. Gertrude revealed she was enshe gaged to Jack Bailey, with whom motalked in the billiard room a few acJamieson murtter ments before the cused Miss Innes of holding nick evian In dence He Imprisoned an intruder empty room The prisoner escaped down a laundry chute. Gertrude was susppi ted. A negro found the other half of what proved to be Jack Balley'Bhe and Bulev Halsey reappears and says 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 Armstrong's bank, defunct, was arrested for embezzlement. Halsey said Armstrong wrecked his own bank and could clear Bailey. Paul Armstrongs death was announced. Halsey's fiancee, Louisa ArmThe strong, was found at the lodge. had lodgekeeper said Louise and Arnold Loumurder. of the the long talk night Louise told flie was prostrated. Halsey, hat while she still loved him she was to marry another, and thatttiehe would despise her when he learned whole story, it developed that Dr. Walker and Louts were to be married. A prowler was heard In the house- - Louise was found at tha bottom of the ciroular staircase. Sun-nysid- e, cuff-butt- cuff-butto- cuff-butto- CHAPTER XV. Continued. Quarrel Reeulte In Pitched Battle. Winter, Wia. The village of Winter Is under martial law as the result of a pitched battle between a posse beaded by Sheriff Mike E. Madden of Sawyer county and two sons of John F. Deitz, in which both of the Deitza and their sister were wounded, the latter seriously. Leslie Deitz, aged 21, his sister, Myra, and Clarence Deitz, aged 23, were driving into Winter from their home at Cameron Dam, when the posse, looking for their father, ordered them to stop. Tne Deitz boys, it Is alleged, opened fire and the battle ensued. post-morte- panic-stricke- - n is more soothing than Cold Cream ; more healing than tiff any lotion, liniment or salve; more beautifying than any cosmetic. Cures dandruff and steps hair from falling out is the name to remember i you need a remedy COUCHS end COLDS LOOK! Our new Jigsaw puule Is now on the market. It Is a new one. Bent br mall 10 cents. NEWPORT JLFG. COf Newport, Maine ENGAGEMENT NOW OUT. Dashed to Death Before Bride. Vreden-burg111. Larue Springfield, aged 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vredenburgh, of Springfield, was auInstantly killed in the twenty-mil- e tomobile race at the state fair grounds track late Saturday afternoon, when Stoddard-Daytocar which he was driving plunged through the fence, and he was almost decapitated. Sitting in the grand amphitheater was his bride of but a few months. She fainted and was taken away in an ambulance. n Estimates for Naval Service. Washington. The total estimates for the appropriations necessary for the naval service In the next fiscal year were announced Friday to be This stands against ap1128,300,000. propriations of 1137,913,000 for the fiscal year ended .July and 1132,384,000 for the present fiscal year. Besides the two battleships and two colliers already announced as the naval building program for next year, there will be several other vessels of minor class. Werent you surprised when heard about my horse running away with me? Ernest Not very. Pd do the same thing myself if I got the chance. Ethel you Now They 8leep Inside. George H. Beattie, jeweler In the old Arcade, and L. E. Ralston, auditor of the News, have Jointly and severally decided that sleeping out In the open Isnt all that it has been declared to be, says the Cleveland Leader. They were both in a deep snooze out at the Beattie farm, near Chagrin Falls, the other night, when a runaway team from the county fair city turned Into the lane leading up to the Beattie estate and came along at full speed. Sound asleep, but dreaming of Impending danger, Ralston rolled out of his cot toward the north, and Beattie from his cot toward the south. The runaway horses dashed between the sleepers, oversetting everything In the and Ralston way, but missing Beattie by margins too narrow- to be measured. Since that night Ralston has slept In his town house and Beattie has found shelter under the ample roof of his house on his big plantar , five-inc- Fits-hugh- Witch Hazel Find Queues Source of Annoyance. Memorializing the Washington. throne at Pekin in favor of abolishing the former the queue, Wu Ting-fang- , minister to Washington, has explained how Jie happened to take that attitude. In his memorial, the text of which has just reached Washington, Mr. Wu says Chinese residents In North, Central and South America have been teased by foreigners until they Implored him to seek an Imperial edict giving official sanction to cropping the hair and changing their cos tume to accord with western ideas. "I was not sleeping well," she began, partly, I think, because I had tor Began. slept during the afternoon. Liddy My Home la in Englewood, tha Do brought me some hot milk at ten o'clock and I slept until 12. Then I had we not ourselves heard the rap- side, as there had been an accident wakened and I got to thinking about ping noises. I should have felt that there, and Mr. Arnold Armstrong had things, and worrying, so I could not Louise's imagination had run away been shot. He dressed hastily, gathgo to sleep. with her. The outer door was closed ered up some instruments, and drove 1 was wondering why I had not and locked, and the staircase curved to Sunnyslde. heard from Arnold since the since I above us, for all the world like any He was met by Mr. Jarvis, who took aw him that night at the lodge. I other staircase. him at once to the east wing. There, be111, was was afraid he Halsey, who had never taken seri- just as he had fallen, was the body of Woman Attacks Jurist. , done ously my account of the night Liddy Arnold Armstrong. There was no to was have cause he to not be A he had for and was man me, need of woman, the the Chicago. thought something instruments; and I were there alone, was grave come back. It must have been three enough now. He examined the panel- dead. In answer to the coroner's demented, attempted to assassinate when I heard some one rapping. I ing of the wainscoting above and be- question no, the body had not been No. Judge Frank Baker of the appellate sat up and listened, to be quite sure, low the stairs, evidently looking for a moved, save to turn It over. It lay court of Cook county on the street What occurred next? and the rapping kept up. I was cau- secret door, and suddenly there flashed at the foot of the circular staircase. The jurist escaped Mr. Bailey and I talked In thn bil- here Saturday. tious, and I was about to call Liddy. into my mind the recollection of a Yes, he believed death had been in- liard room until 2:30. unhurt. The woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Then suddenly I thought I knew what scrap of paper that Mr. Jamieson had stantaneous. The body was still someAnd Mr. Arnold Armstrong cams Burke, aged 45, a seamstress, used a It was. The east entrance and circu- found among Arnold Armstrong's ef- what warm and rigor mortis had not there, while you were talking? Mrs. blade. knife with a lar staircase were always used by fects. As nearly as possible I re- set in. It occurred late In cases of Yes. He came about half-patwo. Burke was arrested. On her way to Arnold when he was out late, and peated Us contents to him, while Hal- sudden death. No, he believed the He rapped at the east door, and I ad- the station she screamed and strugsometimes, when he forgot his key, he sey took them down In a note-booprobability of suicide might be elim- mitted him. gled. The policeman could not learn would rap and I would go down and The silence in the room was In- her motive for the attack. I wish you had told me this be- inated; the wounds could have been let him in. I thought he had come fore, he said, as he put the memobut with difficulty, and tense. Mr. Jamiesons eyes never left back to see me I didnt think about randum no weapon found. had been there Horrible Mine Disaster in Mexico. found We Halseys face. carefully away. the time, for his hours were always The doctors examination was over, Will you tell ua the nature of his at all In the house, and I exnothing Pass, Texas. One hundred Eagle erratic. But I was afraid I was too pected little from any examination of but he hesitated and cleared his errand? and miners possibly more are fifty The to stairs. weak get down the He brought a telegram that had the porch and grounds. But as we throat. and believed to be dead in entombed "Mr. Coroner, he said, at the risk come to the club for Mr. Bailey. knocking kept up, and just as I was opened the outer door something fell 2 at Palau, Mex., in the number mine about to call Liddy, she ran through into the entry with a clatter. It was of taking up valuable time, 1 would was He sober? Las mining district, operEsperanzas I Into out hall. room the and the got a cue from the billiard room. like to speak of an incident that may Perfectly, at that time. Not earlated by the National railway of Mexon some or throw up then, feeling weak and dizzy, and not this ier. may light Halsey picked it up with an excla- matter." If it was put on my dressing-gown- . Was not his apparent friendliness ico, as the result of two explosions, mation. I I must see him. presumably because of an accumulawas alert at once. audience The a Arnold, knew from his former attitude?" change Thats careless enough, he said. tion of gas. The men entombed are corothe I did not understand It. It was very dark everywhere, but, Some Yes. doctor," Kindly proceed, of the servants have been of course, I knew my way. I felt along ner mostly native and Japanese miners, said. How long did he stay? themselves. for the stair-rail- , and went down as amusing although the number includes several My home is in Englewood, two five About minutes. Then ha left I was far from convinced. Not one beAmericans. I from doctor miles as had The could. the Casanova," entrance. knocking quickly by the east of the servants would go into that In the absence of Dr. Walker, gan. then? stopped, and I was afraid I was too occurred What New York Democrats. late. I got to the foot of the stair- wing at night unless driven by dire a number of Casanova people have "We talked for a few minutes, die Dix Will Lead Y. A state convenN. case and over to the door on to the necessity. And a billiard cue! As a been consulting me. A month ago Rochester, Mr. a la plan Bailey had cussing east veranda. I had never thought of weapon of either offense or defense five weeks, to be exact a woman mind. Then I went to the stables, tion that will go into political history was an absurdity, unless one ac whom I had never seen came to my where I kept my car, and got It out.' as one of the most remarkable in the onything but that it was Arnold, until I reached the door. It was unlocked cepted Liddys hypothesis of a ghost office. She was In deep mourning and "Leaving Mr. Bailey alone In tha history of the Democratic party closed and opened about an Inch. Everything and even then, as Halsey pointed out, kept her veil down, and she brought billiard room? Friday night by nominating John A. billiard playing ghost would be a for examination a child, a boy of six. was black; it was perfectly dark out My sister was there. Dix, chairman of the partys state of an ancient evolution modern side. I felt very queer and shaky. very The little fellow was ill ; it looked like Mrs. Ogden Fitzhugh had the cour- committee and a wealthy WashingThen I thought perhaps Arnold had institution. and the mother was frantic. age to turn and eye Gertrude througb ton county business man, to run on typhoid, That afternoon we, Gertrude, Hal- She wanted a used his key; he did strange things permit to admit the her lorgnon. a progressive platform of the widest I, attended the coroner's Into the Childrens hospital sometimes, and I turned around. Just sey and youngster And then? type. s I reached the foot of the staircase quest In town. Dr. Stewart had been In town here, where I am a member I took the car along the lower road, in summoned it that also, transpiring I thought I heard some one coming. of the staff, and I gave her one. The not to disturb the household. Mr, La Follette Would be President. My nerves were going anyhow, there that early Sunday morning, when Incident would have escaped me, but Bailey came down across the lawn, I Madison, Wis Senator Robert M. In the dark, and I could scarcely Gertrude and had gone to our rooms, for a curious thing. ' Two days before through the hedge, and got into the La Follette again Is to be a candidate view to he had called the been body. I stand. Mr. Armstrong was shot, I was sent car on the road. got up as far as the third for the Republican nomination for or fourth step; then I felt that some We went, the four of us, In the ma- for to go to the Country club; some Then you know nothing of Mr. president in 1912. It can be said one was coming toward me on the chine, preferring the execrable roads one had been struck with a golf-bal- l Armstrong's movements after he left that this fact was freely talked during The next Instant a hand to the matinee train, with half of Cas- that had gone wild. It was late when the house? staircase. the sessions of the Republican conmet mine on the stair-raiSomeone anova staring at us. And on the way I left I was on foot, and about a mile I of Monhis read death Nothing. vention at Madison, and plans were brushed past me, and I screamed we decided to say nothing of Louise from the club, on the Clayburg road, day evening for the first time. and her interview with her step- I met two even made during the convention for Then I must have fainted." were disputnot on see hi him did people. Mr. They Bailey immediate starting of the campaign That was Louise's story. There brother the night he died. The girl ing violently, and I had no difficulty In way across the lawn? could be no doubt of its truth, and the was in trouble enough as it was. I think not. If he had seen him for Senator La Follette in other states. recognizing Mr. Armstrong. The woman, beyond doubt, was the one who he would have spoken of It thing that made it inexpressibly awful Found Dead on Fiancees Grave. CHAPTER XVII. to me was that the poor girl had crept had consulted me about the child. Thank you. That is all. Mies Ger As a tragic sequel to the down to answer the summons of Paris. At this hint of scandal, Mrs. Ogden trude Inrtes. A Hint of Scandal. brother who would never need her Gertrude's replies were fully as con- death of Edmund Poillot, the French Fitghugh sat up very straight. Jamie In giving the gist of what happened son was looking slightly kindly offices again. Twice, now, with skeptical, cise as Halseys. Mrs. Fitzhugh sub aviator, his fiancee, who had shown out apparent cause, some one had en- at the inquest, I have only one ex- and the coroner made a note. jected her to a close Inspection, com- almost uncontrollable grief, went to tered the house by means of the east cuse to recall to the reader the "The Children's hospital, you say, mencing with her hat and ending with his grave Sunday and fired a bullet entrance; had apparently gone his events of the night of Arnold Arm- doctor? he asked. her shoes. I flatter myself she found Into her heart. Poillot was killed on way unhindered through the house, strong's murder. Many things had Yes. But the child, who was en- nothing wrong with either her gown September 25 while making a flight and gone out again as he had entered occurred which were not brought out tered as Lucien Wallace, was taken or her manner, but poor Gertrude with a passenger. While at a height Had this unknown visitor been there at the inquest and some things were away by his mother two weeks ago. testimony was the reverse of com of ninety feet It collapsed and the mar third time, the night Arnold Arm told there that were new to me. Al- I have tried to trace them and failed." forting. She had been summoned, chine fell backward and was broken. was a it and gloomy affair, All at once I remembered the tele- she said, by her brother, after Mr, strong was murdered? Or a fourth together, the time Mr. Jamieson had locked the six men in the qorner, who con- gram sent to Louise by some one Armstrong had gdne. She had waited Famous Artist Dead. stituted the coroner's jury, were evi- signed F. L. W. some one In the clothes chute? Dr. In the billiard room with Mr. Bailey Me. Winslow Homer, the Portland, presumably Sleep was impossible, I think, for dently the merest puppets in the Walker. Could the veiled woman be until the automobile had been ready, famous artist, died at his home in gentlemen, the Nina Carrington of the message? Then she had locked the door at the any of us. We dispersed finally to hands of that Scarborough Friday, aged 74 years. bathe and dress, leaving Louise little the coroner. But it was only idle speculation. I had foot of the staircase, and, taking He had been 111 for four weeks. HoI Gertrude and sat well back, with no way of finding out, and the inquest lamp, had accompanied Mr. Bailey to the worse for her experience. But I mer had practically lived the life ot a determined that before the day was our veils down. There were a num- was proceeding. the main entrance of the house, and hermit in his Scarborough studio for over she must know the true state of ber of people I knew: Barbara InThe report of the coroners physi had watched him cross the lawn. His long life several years past. in extravagant mourning she cian came next The fiffairs. Another dectskti I made, and exstead of going at once to her room, many years ago won for him a 1 put it into execution immediately always went Into black on the slight- amination showed that the bullet had she had gone back to the billiard work after breakfast. I had one of the est provocation, because it was becom- entered the chest in the fourth left room for something which had been conceded place asofone of the ablest American artists. unused bedrooms In the east wing, ing and Mr. Jarvis, the man who intercostal space and had taken an left there. The cardroom and billiard and most original bark along the small corridor, pre- had come over from the Greenwood oblique course downward and back- room were In darkness. She had Child Was Poisoned. pared for occupancy, and from that club the night of the murder, Mr. ward, piercing both the heart and groped around, found the article she Ohio. Nearly a Toledo, of imthere! was time on Alex, the gardener, slept Harton too, looking lungs. The left lung was collapsed, was looking for, and was on the point strychnine was found In the grain stomach there. One man in that barn of patient as the inquest dragged, but and the exit point of the ball had been of returning to her room, when she of Bessie Shepler, an girl bouse was an absurdity, with things alive to every particle of evidence. found In the muscles of the back to had heard some one fumbling at the of Ohio, whose death was Bradner, Mr. corner a From Jamieson was the left of the spinal column. It was lock at the east outer door. She had happening all the time, and I must say due to ptomaine poisoning that Alex was as unobjectionable as watching the proceedings intently. Improbable that such a wound had thought It was probably her brother, thought caused by eating ice cream cones. was could Dr. have one Stewart called been. His been first any and Its oblique and had been about to go to tlje door, possibly The next morning, also, Halsey aud evidence was told briefly, and amount- downward course pointed to the fact when she heard It open. Almost imTwo Lose Lives in Fire. 1 made an exhaustive examination of ed to this: On the Sunday morning that the shot had been fired from mediately there was a shot, and she Burlington, la. Explosion of an oil the circular staircase, the small entry previous, at a quarter before five, he above. In other words, as the mur- had run through the stove tn the residence of Mrs. Jennie at Its foot, and the cardroom opening had been called to the telephone. The dered man had been found dead at drawing room and had roused the Liltech at Gladstone, Ills., caused a from it. There was no evidence of message was from a Mr. Jarvis, who the foot of a staircase, it was prob- house. fire in which Mrs. Liltech and her coma to once to at him unusual the asked and able the shot that might had been fired by before, Sunnyanything . (TO BB CONTINUED tather-ln-lsw- , Conrad Liltech, were burned to death. l. Munyons Soap- - h g tlon. I Loves Crime. George was a manly fellow, yet, surprising as It may seem, he was guilty of a grave charge, a criminal offense theft, for had he not many times, stolen kisses from his fair sweetheart? Maude, one of the most lovable of girls, was equally guilty as an accessory; she received the stolen property. Each seemed to have perfect confidence in the other, however, and when sentence was pronounced by a properly qualified official, they decided t serve their time together. They remained loyal to the end, neither making any effort to have their sentence abrogated or shortened, but during the course of their long term together several small offenses were directly chargeable to them. J. W. B. in Puck. I hate to see a thing done by halves; If It be right, do It boldly; If It be wrong, leave it undone. Gilpin. v A FOOD DRINK. Which Brings Daily Enjoyment. A lady doctor writes : Though busy hourly with my own affairs, I will not deny myself the pleasure of taking a few minutes to tell of my enjoyment daily obtained from my morning cup of Postum. It Is a food beverage, not a poison like coffee. I began to use Postum eight years ago, not because I wanted to, but because coffee, which I dearly loved, made my nights long weary periods to be dreaded and unfitting me for busi- ness during the day. On the advice of a friend, I first tried Postum, making It carefully as directed on the package. As I had always used 'cream and no sugar, I mixed my Postum so. 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