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Show RUSSIAN AVIATOR IS KILLED THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE Dashed to Death During Altitude Competition, Every Bone in Hia Body Being Broken. knew how to account for BKhary Vs St ROBERTS Petersburg. Captain Maclevich, military aviator, was killed on Friday in a fall from a Voi-obiplane. The accident occurred during an altitude competition, which was won by Captain Maclevich, who reached a height of 3,933 feet. Maclevich had risen 3,933 feet, but decided to descend. When at a height of 1,600 feet his machine upset and the aviator was thrown out. He cme hurtling down like a plummet, reaching the ground before the biplane. Every bone in his body was broken excepting an arm. It is the belief of the physicians that he died of heart failure before reaching the ground. Loss of control of a lever is supposed to have been responsible for the accident. The fall of the aviator caused a panic among the spectators. The wife of Macievich became delirious and it Is feared she will be permanently insane. Macievich was considered the most skillful and careful of Russian military aviators, and only last Wednesday took Premier Stolypin for a flight. the Russian n ILLUSTRATIOHd ujkehart BY 8YN0PSIS cuff-butto- Arm-etron- cuff-butt- fast t A new element was about to enter Into affairs; I. -- day, or Tuesday at the latest, would find Dr. Walker back in his green and white house in the village, and Louise's attitude to him in the Immediate future would signify Halsey's bappiness or wretchedness, as it might turn out Then, too, the return of her mother would mean, of course, that she would have to leave us, and I had become greatly attached to her. From the day Mr. Jamieson came to Sunnyside, there was a subtle change in Gertrudes manner to me. It was elusive, difficult to analyze, but It was there. She was no longer frank e lowers the price of oil. n nounced, through its official publicity I. C. Clarke, a reduction in the prices of kerosene in Europe and the far east. The cam palgn has been all planned out carefully and the officials of the company are convinced that it will result in greatly increasing the use of the concerns products. The statement issued by Mr. Clarke is in part as follows: The Standard Oil company has inaugurated a campaign to increase the worlds consumption of refined oil. The level of prices for refined oil today in the United States is lower than at any time during recent years, and as a direct result of these prices the consumption of refined oil in this country is increasing. The same policy Is now being actively pursued abroad. Already the Standard is carrying on a similar campaign in this country and by similar methods. Last August the company made substantial reductions in prices in America. At that lime refined oil in barrels was cut 1 cent a gallon, from 9 to 8 cents at. the refinery, and refined oil In tanks was reduced 1 cent a gallon, from 6 to 5 cents. The success of the policy which dictated these reductions evidently has demonstrated to the officers of the company the wisdom cf extending the same policy to its operations in foreign lands. representative, J. CHAPTER XVI L Continued. "You heard no other sound? the coroner asked. "There was no one when he en with Mr. Armstrong tered? "It was perfectly dark. There were no voices and I heard nothing. There was just the opening of the door, the shot, and the sound of somebody fallini?. ii Then, while you went through the drawing room and upstairs to alarm the household, the criminal, whoever it was, could have escaped by the east door? "Yes." Thank you. That will do.1 1 flatter myself that the coroner got little enough out of me. I saw Mr, Jamieson smiling to himself, and the coroner gave me up, after a time, admitted I had found the body, said I had not- known who it was until Mr, Jarvis told me, and ended by looking up at Barbara Fitzhugh and saying that In renting the bouse I had not expected to be involved in any family candal. At which she turned purple The verdict was that Arnold Armstrong bad met his death at the hands of a parson or persons unknown, and we prepared to leave. Barbara Fitzhugh flounced out without waiting to speak to me, but Mr. Harton came up, as I knew he would. You have decided to give up the house, I hope, Miss Innes. he said has wired me Mrs. Armstrong again. I am not going to give It up,1 maintained, "until I understand some things that are puzzling me. The day that the murderer is discovered, I will leave. Then, Judging by what I have heard, you will be back in the city very soon, he said. And I knew that he suspected the discredited cashier of the Traders bank. Mr. Jamieson came up to me as was about to leave the coroner's of- Will Follow Great Britains Lead. Paris. The question of the formal recognition of the Portuguese republic already is the subject of exchange of views between the powers. So far as France and Spain are concerned, It is understood they will follow the lead of Great Britain, whose century-ols alliance with the Portuguese and her important commercial relations give her a position of preeminence. It is understood that France regards the flight of Manuel from Portugal as the first great facfice. tor, making possible the recognition How is your patient? he asked of the republic. with his odd little smile. I have no patient, I replied Roosevelt Given Warm Welcome. tartled. Knoxville. The south gave TheoI will put it in a different way dore Roosevelt , a welcome Friday then. How is Miss Armstrong? which hi described as great, by She she is doing very well, George! Throughout the first day of stammered. his southern trip, which took him Good, cheerfully. And our ghost across Virginia and a part of Tennes- Is it laid? . see, he received all the honors which Mr. Jamieson, I said suddenly, the south can pay. Colonel Roosevelt wish you would come to Sunnyside started the day determined to make and spend a few days there. The hut few speeches, because his throat ghost is not laid. I want you to spend is not yet in good condition. But one night at least watching the cir wherever he went a crowd was wait- cular staircase. The murder of Arnold ing for him. Each crowd was out to Armstrong was a beginning, not an cheer, and did cheer until he made a end. speech. He looked serious. Perhaps 1 can do it, he said, Twenty Hurt in Wreck. been doing something else, but have C. N. For the second Asheville, I will come out well, time within a week, passenger train We were very silent during the No. 18 on the Murphy division of the back to Sunnyside. I watched Southern railroad coming from Mur- trip Gertrude closely and somewhat sadly phy to Asheville, was wrecked Friday To me there was one glaring flaw in afternoon. Twenty people were in- her story, and it seemed to stand out jured, two possibly fatally. for every one to see. Arnold Arm Raising Money for Dynamite Victims. strong had had no key, and yet she locked the east door. He Los Angeles. Funds for the relief said she had must have been admitted from within of families left dependent by the over and over I repeated it the amount up to house; Times explosion will myself. to figures which may soon bear comThat night, as gently as I' could, parison with the amounts appropriat- told Louise the story of her stepof conviction ed for the capture and, brother's death. ' She sat in her big, the conspirators. pillow-fillechar, and heard me It was Independence League Names Ticket. trough without interruption. was shocked beyond she clear that York. The 'New Independence words; if I had hoped to learn anyleague, which nominated John Hooper from her expression, I had of New York for governor and Wil- thing She was as much in the dark failed. liam R. Hearst for lieutenant gover- as we were. nor. Wednesday night, met in convention again Friday night and comCHAPTER XVIII. pleted its ticket. A straight Independence league ticket was named A Hole in the Wall. The nominations were all unanimous William R. Hearst, who arrived from My taking the detective out to raised an unexpected storm of Europe Friday, did not attend the con him from Gertrude and Iiaisey. I from rotest statement a but vention, as Clarence noi prepared for It, and I scarcely was read to the delegates by J. Shearn. d mon-arch- . e in some occult way. I was glad enough to have him there, when excitements began to come thick and Miss Innes, spinster and guardian of Sertrude and Halsey, established summer Amidst nuheadquarters at Sunnyside. merous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night ihe 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 a hamper. Gertrude and Halsey arrived with Jack Bailey. The house was awakg ened by a revolver ahot and Arnold was found shot to death In the revolver hall. Miss Innes found Halsey's on the lawn. He and Jack Baliey had dismysteriappeared. The link Detective Jamieson ously disappeared. arrived. Gertrude revealed she was enshe gaged to Jack Bailey, with whom motalked in the billiard room a few ments before the murder. Jamieson accused Miss Innes of holding back evidence. He Imprisoned an Intruder In an empty room. The prisoner escaped down a laundry chute. Gertrude was suspected. A negro found the other half of what proved to be Jack Bailey's and Bailey Halsey reappears and says he 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 Armarrested for strongs bank, defunct, was embezzlement. Halsey said Armstrong wreoked his own bank and could clear Bailey. Paul Armstrongs death was announced. Halseys fiancee, Louise ArmThe strong, was found at the lodge. Arnold had lodgekeeper said Louise andmurder. Loua long talk the night of the Standard Company Begins a Louise told Halsey, ise was prostrated. that while she still loved him she was to Designed to Increase the and that he would despise marry another, learned the whole story. her when he Consumption of Kerosene. It developed that Dr. Walker and Louise New York, Oct. 5. With the de were to be married. A prowler was heald the house. Louise was found at the dared intention of increasing the con- In bottom of the circular staircase. Louise a knock at the door sumption of refined oil the world over, said she had heard answered It. Something brushed past the Standard Oil company has just an- and her on the stairway and she fainted. Cam-palg- To me Sun-nysid- r V MS BV it far less formidable under my eyes, where I knew what he was doing, than he was off in the city, twisting circumstances and mdtives to suit himself and learning wkat be wished to know about events at Mr. Jamieson was -- d Sun-lysid- Liddy heaved a sigh. "Girl and woman, she said, Ive been with you 25 years. Miss Rachel, the through good temper and bad idea! and what I have taken from her In the way of Bulks! "but I guess I can t stand It any longer. My trunk's packed." "Who packed It? I asked, expecting from her tone to be told she had wakened to find it done by some ghostly hand. "I did; Miss Rachel, you won't believe me when I tell you this house is haunted. Who was it fell down the clothes chute? Who was it scared Miss Louise almost into her grave? I'm doing my best to find out, I said. What In the world are you driving at? She drew a long breath. "There is a hole in the trunkroom wall, dug out since last night Its big enough to put your head in, and the plasters all over the place. "Nonsense!" I said. Plaster Is always falling. But Liddy clenched that. Just ask Alex, she said. "When front ihe floor, and inside were all the missing bits of plaster. It had been a methodical ghost It was very much of a dloappoint-ment- . 1 had expected a secret room, at the very least, and I think even Mr. Jamieson had fancied he might at last have a clew to the mystery. There was evidently nothing more to be discovered; Liddy reported that everything was serene among the servants, and that none of them had been disturbed by the noise. The maddening thing, however, was that the nightly visitor had evidently more than one way of gaining access to the house, and we made arrangements to redouble our vigilance as to windows and doors y S xor T H C NAMt THE BEST MCDICINI Cfor COUGHS 5 COLDS A FEW THINGS. that night Halsey was Inclined to pooh-poothe whole affair. He said a break in the plaster might have occurred months ago and gone unnoticed, and that the dust had probably been stirred up the day before. After all, we bad to let it got at that, but we put in an uncomfortable Sunday. Gertrude went to church, and Halsey took long walk in the morning. Louise was able to Bit np, and she allowed Halsey and Liddy to assist her downstairs late in the afternoon. The east veranda was shady, green with vines and palms, cheerful wrlth cushions and lounging chairs. We put Louise in steamer chair, and she sat there passively enough, her hands clasped in her lap. We were very silent. Halsey sat on the rail with a pipe, openly watching Louise, as she looked broodingly across the valley to the hills. There was something baffling in the girl's eyes; and gradually Halsey's boyish features lost their glow at seeing her about again, and settled into grim lines. He was like his father just then. We sat until late afternoon, HaUej growing more and more moody. Shortly before six he got up and went intc the house, and in a few minutes he came out and called me to the telephone. It was Anna Whitcomb, in town, and she kept me for 20 minutes telling me the children had had the measles and how Mme. Sweeny had botched her new gown. When I finished, Liddy was behind me, her mouth a thin line. I wish you would try to look cheer your faci ful, Liddy,' 1 groaned, would sour milk. But Liddy seldoit replied to my gibes. She folded hei lips a little tighter. He called her up, she said oracu There Wat Something Baffling In tha Girla Eye. larly, he called her up, and asked hei to keep you at the telephone, so h with me, although I think her affec- he put the new cooks trunk there last could talk to Miss Louise. A thank tion never wavered. At the time I laid night the wall was as smooth as this less child is sharper than a serpent! the change to the fact that I had for- This morning its dug out, and there'! tooth. bidden all communication with John plaster on the cook's trunk. Miss Nonsense!" I said brusquely, Bailey, and had refused to acknowl- Rachel, you can get a dozen detectives might have known enough to leav edge any engagement between the and put one on every stair in the them. Its a long time since you and two. Gertrude spent much of her house, and youll never catch any I were in love, Liddy, and we for time wandering through the grounds, thing. Theres some things you can' get. walks. handcuff. or taking long Liddy sniffed. Liddy was right As soon as I could Halsey played golf at the Country No man ever made a fool of me, club day after day, and after Louise I went up to the trunkroom, which she replied virtuously. left, as she did the following week, was directly over my bedroom. The Well, something did, I retorted. Mr. Jamieson and I were much to- plan of the upper story of the house gether. He played a fair game of crlb-bag- was like that of the second floor, in CHAPTER XIX. the main. One end, however, over but he cheated at solitaire. The night the detective arrived, the east wing, had been left only roug Concerning Thomas. I said, when wi Saturday, 1 had a talk with him. I ly finished, the intention having been Mr. Jamieson, told him of the experiences Louise to convert it into a ballroom at some found ourselves alone after dinnei Armstrong had had the night before future time. The maids rooms, trunk that night, "the inquest yesterdaj on the circular staircase, and about room, and various storerooms, includ seemed to me the merest recapitula the man who had so frightened Rosie ing a large airy linen room, opened tion of things that were alread) on the drive. I saw that he thought from a long corridor, like that on the known. It developed nothing new bo the information was important, and to second floor. And in the trunkroom, yond that story of Dr. Stewart's, and my suggestion that we put an addi- as Liddy had said, was a fresh break that was volunteered. tional lock on the east wing door he in the plaster. An Inquest is only a necessary for Not only in the plaster, but through mality, Miss Innes," he replied. Un opposed a strong negative. 1 think it probable, he said, that the lathing, the aperture extended. 1 less a crime is committed in the opet our visitor will be back again, and reached into the opening, and three the inquest does nothing beyond getthe 'thing to do is to leave things ex- feet awfty, perhaps, I could touch the ting evidence from witnesses whilt actly as they are, to avoid rousing bricks of the partition wall. For some events are still in their minds. Thi suspicion. Then I can watch for at reason the architect in building the police step in later. You and I both least a part of each night and prob- house had left a space there that know how many important thin, For Instance: The ably Mr. Innes will help us out. I struck me, even in the surprise of the never transpired. would say as little to Thomas as pos- discovery, as an excellent place for a dead man had no key, and yet Misi sible. The old man knows more than conflagration to gain headway. Gertrude testified to a fumbling You are sure the hole was not here the lock, and then the opening of the he is willing to admit. I suggested that Alex, the gardener, yesterday? I asked Liddy, whose ex- door. The piece of evidence you men would probably be willing to help, and pression was a mixture of satisfaction tion, Dr. Stewarts story, is one Mr. Jamieson undertook to make the and alarm. In answer she pointed to those things we have to take cautious For one night, how- the new-- cooks trunk that necessary Iy; the doctor has a patient wbc arrangement. ever, Mr. Jamieson preferred to watch adjunct of the migratory domestic. The wears black and does not raise hei alone. Apparently nothing occurred. top was covered with fine white plaster, veil. Why, it is the typical mysteriThe detective sat in absolute dark- as was the floor. But there were no ous lady! Then the good doctoi ness on the lower step of the stairs, large pieces of mortar lying around comes across Arnold Armstrong, wbc dozing, he said afterwards, now and no bits of lathing. When I mentioned was a graceless scamp de mortuls then. Nothing could pass him in this to Liddy she merely raised her whats the rest of it? and he is quar either direction, and the door in the eyebrows. Being quite confident that reling with a lady in black. Behold morning remained as securely fast- the gap was of unholy origin, she did says the doctor, they are one and the ened as it had been the night before. not concern herself with such trifles same. And yet one of the most inexplicable as a bit of mortar and lath. No doubt (TO BE CONTINUED.) occurrences of the whole affair took they were even then heaped neatly on a gravestone in the Casanova Sameness. place that very night. on 'There is a certain sameness about room to came churchyard! Sunday my Liddy 1 brought Mr. Jamieson up to see natural scenery, said the man who morning with a face as long as the moral law. She laid out my things as the hole in the wall, directly after Ieohs bored. Do you mean to compare a mag usual, but I missed her customary breakfast. His expression was very garrulousness. I was not regaled with odd when he looked at it, and the first nificent mountain with the broad exthe new cook's extravagance as to thing he did was to try to discover panse of the sea? Yes. Wherever you find a spot of egg, ana !:.. even forbore to mention wliat object, if any, such a hole could that Jamieson, on whene arrival she have. He got a piece of candle, and exceptional beauty somebody is sure had looked with silent disfavor. by enlarging the aperture a little was to decorate it with sardine tins and Whats the matter, Liddy? I asked, able to examine what lay beyond. The biscuit boxes. at last. Didnt you sleep last night? result was nil. The trunkroom, alNot So Bad. No, ma'am, she said stiffly. though heated by steam heat, like the Did you have two cups of coffee rest of the house, boasted of a fireNervous Lady Don't your experiat your dinner? I inquired. place and mantel as well. The open- ments frighten you terribly, profesNo, mam, indignantly. ing had been made between the flue sor? I hear that your assistant met I sat up and almost upset my hot and the outer wall of the house. Thvie with a horrible death by falling 4.00C water I always take ft cup of hot wa was revealed, however, on inspection, feet from a balloon. ter with a pinch of salt, before I get only the brick of the chimney on one Pnfessot;Oh, that report was side and the outer wall of the house greatly exaggerated. up. It. tones the stomach. Nervous Lady Exaggerated: How' Liddy Allen, I said, stop combing on the other; in depth the space ex Professor It wasnt much mor. that switch and tell me what is wrong tended only to the floorfng. 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