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Show , V T i. t OLD SOLDIER WISHES TO SUFFERERS FROM SIDNEY, HELP LIV- GETTING ROBERTS DJKJTHATiT FyWtdT? T ,wrl er WINKWIM with the body we all went back to the Mr. Jamieson house. walked with me, while Halsey and Gertrude fol- SYNOPSIS. Miss Innes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer Amidst headquarters at Sunnyside. difficulties the servants deserted, pis Miss Innes locked up for the night pike was startled by a dark figure on the vernda. Unseemly noises disturbed her Miss during the night In the morning n In Innes found a strange link arrived n hamper. Gertrude and Halsey Jack Bailey. The house was Erlth by a revolver shot and Arnold was found shot to death In the hall. Miss Innes found Halseys revolver had dispn the lawn. He and Jackn Bailey mysteri-husty appeared. The link Detective Jamieson disappeared. Errtved. Gertrude revealed she was engaged to Jack Bailey, with whom she -- Calked- 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 Baileyshe find Bailey reappears and says Halsey In response to a telegram. Gertrude pelt aid she had given Bailey an unloaded revolver, fearing to give him a loaded weapon. Cashier Bailey of Paul Armarrested for strong's bank, defunct, was embezzlement. Halsey said Armstrong wrecked his own bank and could clear Bailey. Paul Armstrongs death was announced. Halseys fiancee, Louise ArmThe strong, was found at the lodge. had lodgekeeper said Louise and Arnold Loulong talk the night of the murder. se was prostrated. Ixrulse told Halsey, khat while she still loved him she was to and that he would despise gnarry another, he learned the whole story. and Louise that developed tt to be married.Dr.A Walker prowler was heard In the house. Louise was found at the Bottom of the circular staircase. Louise Bald she had heard a knock at the door and answered it. Something brushod past her on the stairway and she fainted. Bailey Is suspected of Armstrongs murder. lowed. "I suppose I shall have to notify the They will know Armstrongs, I said. if Thomas had any people and how to reach them. Of course, I expect to , cuff-butto- defray the expenses of theuneral, but his relatives must be found. What do you think frightened him, Mr. Jamieson? It is hard to say, he replied slowly, but I think we may be certain it was fright, and that be was biding from something. I am sorry in more cuff-butto- than one way; I have always believed that Thomas knew something, or suspected something; that he would not tell. Do you know how much money wallet of there was In that worn-ou- t his? Almost two Nearly $100! months wages and yet those darkies seldom have a penny. Well what Thomas knew will be buried with cuff-butto- him. With the death of Thomas, I felt that a climax had come in affairs at Sunnyside. The night that followed was quiet enough. Halsey watched at the foot of the stairer.se, and a complicated system of bolts on the other doors seemed to be effectual. Once in the night I wakened and thought I heard the tapping again. But all was quiet, and I had reached the stage where I refused to he di turbed for minor occurrences. were notified of The Armstrongs Thomas' death, and I had my first interview with Dr. Walker as a result He came up early the next morning, just as we finished breakfast, in a professional looking car with a black CHAPTER XIX. Continued. Why was at the Inquest? Mr. Bailey not present The detective's expression was peculiar. Because his physician testified that he is ill, and unable to leave hie bed." "111!" I exclaimed. Why, neither Halsey nor Gertrude has told me It Waa Thomas. was there, apparently in charge of the table my eyes traveled around the arrangements for the funeral. Halsey room, and stopped at the door of a disappeared shortly after Louise left closet. I hardly know what Impulse and came home about nine that night, moved me, but I went In and turned muddy and tired. As for Thomas, he the knob. It burst open with the imwent around dejected and sad, and I petus of a weight behind it, and somethat" There are more things than that, saw the detective watching him close- thing fell partly forward In a heap on the floor. It was Thomas Thomas Miss Innes, that are puzzling. Bailey ly at dinner. Even now I wonder (Ives the Impression that he knew what did Thomas know? What did he without a mark of Injury on him, and dead. nothing of the crash at the bank un- suspect? At ten o'clock the household had til he read it in the paper Monday CHAPTER XX. night, and that he went back and sur- settled down for the night Liddy, I do who was taking Mrs. Watson's place, rendered bimself Immediately. Dr. Walkers Warning. .not believe It. Jonas, the watchman had finished examining the was on his knees In a moWarner In corners the of the and shelves the different at the Traders bank, tells a at the old mans colment, fumbling story. He says that on the Thurs- cooling room, and had gone to bed. lar to loosen but it, Halsey caught his day night before, about 8:30, Bailey Alex, the gardener, had gone heavily hand. - ; circular his adto the staircase room, up "went back to the bank. Jonas "You said. he Let him alone, mitted him,- and he says the cashier and Mr. Jamieson was examining the he Is dead. was In a state almost of collapse. locks of the windows. Hhlsey dropped cant help him; We stood there, each avoiding the In room a and Into chair the he ilving Bailey worked until midnight, then other's eyes; we spoke, low and revclosed the vault and went away. The stared moodily ahead. Once he roused. What sort of a looking chap is that erently in the presence of death, and occurrence was so unusual that the we tacitly avoided any mention of watchman pondered over it all the Walker, Gertrude?" he asked. the smooth-shaven- . suspicion that was In every mind. Rather tall, very dark, rest of the night. What did Bailey Not bad looking, Gertrude When Mr. Jamieson had finished his do when be went back to the Knickerhe got up and bocker apartments that night? He said, putting down the book she had cursory examination, dusted the knees of his trousers. to suit-casbeen read. Halsey for instant a pretending ready packed he There is no sign of injury, departure. But he held off too long; kicked a taboret viciously. a for drew know I and one, I, said, he waited for something. My perLovely place this village must be of relief. "From what he said Irrelevantly. long breath sonal opinion is that he waited to see In the winter, Warner says and from his hiding in Miss Gertrude before flying from the A girl would be buried alive here. the closet, I should say he was scared It was then some one rapped at the to death. country. Then, when he had shot Fright and weak heart, todown Arnold Armstrong that night, he knocker on the heavy front door. Halgether. had to choose between two evils. He sey got up leisurely and opened it, But what could have done it? Gerdid the thing that would immediately admitting Warner. He was out of trude asked. He was all right this turn public opinion in bis favor, and breath from running, and he looked dinner. Warner, wha did at evening surrendered himself, as an Innocent half abashed. he say when you found him on the man. The strongest thing against I am sorry to disturb you, he said. porch? him is his preparation for flight, and But I didn't know what else to do. Warner looked shaken; his honest, his deciding to come back after the It's about Thomas. face was colorless boyish murder of Arnold Armstrong. He was What about Thomas? I asked. Just what I told you, Miss Innes. as shrewd enough to disarm suspicion Mr. Jamieson had come Into the hall Hed been reading the paper downto the graver charge," and we all stared at Warner. stairs; I had put up the car, and, The evening dragged along slowly. Hes acting queer, Warner ex- feeling sleepy, I came down to the Mrs, Watson came to my bedroom be- plained. He's sitting down there on lodge to go to bed. As I went upfore I went to bed and asked If I had the edge of the porch, and he says he stairs Thomas put down the paper any arnica. She showed me a badly has seen a ghost. The old man looks and taking his pipe went out on the swollen hand, with reddish streaks bad, too; he can scarcely speak. porch. Then I heard an exclamation running toward the elbow, she said ries as full of superstition as an from him. It was the hand she had hurt the night Didnt he say anything you could egg is of meat, I said. Halsey, bring of the murder a week before, and that some and we will all go understand? I asked. whisky she had not slept well since. It looked down. "He said something about the grave to me as If It might be serious, and I to get the whisky, giving up its dead. one moved No told her to let Dr. Stewart see It. Mr. Jamieson was going through the from which I judged there were three The next morning Mrs. Watson for emergency. old man's pockets, and Gertrude was flasks ready pocket went up to town on the 11 train and Gertrude threw a shawl around my composing nis arms, folding them was admitted to the Charity hospital. , always shoulders, and we ail started down across his white She was suffering from so had so I spotless. made over the hill; many I fully meant to go up and see nocturnal excursions around the In the course of his investigations place her there, but other things drove her that I knew my way perfectly. But the detective had come to the inner entirely from my mind. I telephoned Thomas was not on the veranda, nor pocket of the dead butlers black to the hospital that day, however, and was he Inside the bouse. The men coat. Here he found some things that ordered a private room for her, and exchanged significant glances, and interested him. One was a small flat whatever comforts she might be al- Warner key, with a red cord tied to it, and the got a lantern. lowed. He can't have gone far," he said. other was a bit of white paper, on Mrs. Armstrong arrived Monday He was trembling so that he couldn't which was written something in Thomas' cramped hand. Mr. Jamieevening with her husband's body, and stand when I left. the services were set for the next Jamieson and Halsey together made son read It; then he gave It to me. It day. The house on Chestnut street. tfc tho lodge, occasionally was an address In fresh ink: In town, had been opened, and TuesLlClEN WALLACE, i In; uiu u.an by name. But caihug day morning Louise left us to go there was no response. No Thomas 14 JElm Street, Richfield. home. She sent for me before she came, bowing and showing his white As the card went around, I think went, and I saw she had been crying. teeth through the darkness. I began both the detective and I watched for How can I thank you, Miss innes?" to be vaguely uneasy, for the first any possible effect it might have, but, You have taken me on time. Gertrude, who was never nerv- beyond perplexity, there seemed to be she said. faith, and you have not asked me ous in the dark, went alone down the none. any questions. Some time, perhaps, 1 drive to the gate, and stood there, Gertrude exclaimed. "Richfield! can tell you; and when that time locking along the yellowish line of the "Why, Elm street is the main street; comes, you will all despise me Hal road, while I waited on the tiny ver- don't you remember, Halsey? sey, too. "Lucten Wallace! anda Halsey said. I tried to tell her how glad I was to Warner was puzzled. He came That is the child Stewart spoke of at somehave had her, but there was around to the edge 6f the veranda the Inquest." Warner, wtth hls mechanic's thing else she wanted to say. She and stodd looking at It as if it ought said It finally, when she had bade a to know and explain. had reached for the key. What to Halsey and the t constrained good-bHe might have stujnbled into the he said was not a surprise. car was waiting at the door. Yale lock," he said. Probably a house, he said, "but he could not I "Miss Innes, she said In a low have climbed the stairs. Anyhow, hes key to the east entry. There was no reason why Thomas, tone, if they If there is any attempt not inside or' outside, that I can see." made to to have you give up the The other members of the party had an old and trusted Bervant, should hoaae, do it, if you possibly can. I am come back now, and no one had not have had a key to that particular .afraid te have you stay." found any trace of the old man. His door, although the servants' entry That was all. Gertrude went into pipe, still warm, rested on the edge was in the west wing. But I had not town with her and saw her aafely of the rail, and iaside on the table his known of this key, and it opened up decided cool old gray hat showed that Its owner a new field of conjecture. Just now, pome. 3he reported ness In the greeting between Louise had not gone far. kowever, there were many things to gnd her mother, and that Dr. Walker I tla waa not far. after alL From the I be atteuded to, and. leaving Warner tea-towe- - e . shirt-bosom- blood-poisonin- y Cer- I am frequently troubled with kidney and so very A little girl had been bladder trouble, especially in the Spring and Fall. Being an old veteran of the naughty that her mother found it Civil War, a little exposure or cold settles necessary to shut her up in a dark on my kidneys, and then I am laid up closet in that family, the direst with kidney or bladder trouble. Your punishment for the worst offense. Swamp-Roo- t was recommended to me a For 15 minutes the door had been number of years ago, and I took a number from of bottles of it and was more than pleased locked without a sound coming behind it. Not a whimper, not a snifwith the result. I consider Swamp-Roo- t the greatest and best kidney medicine on fle. At last the stern but anxious parent the market, and it never fails to give quick results in kidney trouble, bladder unlocked the closet door and peered trouble and lame back. into the darkness. She could see has done me Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Roo- t nothing. so much good that I feel if any words of What are you doing In there?" she mine will be, the means of relieving any cried. poor sufferers that you are at liberty to And then a little voice piped from use this letter as you see fit. the Y ours blackness: very truly, I thpit on your new dress and I GEORGE W. 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This year the slogan of the tuberculosis fighters and the Red Cross Is A Million for Turberculosls From Red Cross Seals In 1910. hood. "I must make The future and the past are near relations to the present. The Army of Constipation a double excuse for this early visit. Miss Innes, he said Is Crowing Smaller Every as be sat down. The chair was lowet CARTERS than he expected, and his dignity rePILLS LIVER went on. he before quired collecting zineiiM they i are My professional duties urgent eely give relizf CABTEC a fall to the and long neglected, and they pemaamdy manner "something must every-dabe done about that body. jfivEi Yes, I said, sitting on the edge of my chair. VI merely wished the adBfliees- dress of Thomas people. You might ns, ladigsithA Bek Headache, SaBawSHh have telephoned, If you were busy.' He smiled. (HALL PUL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PMCt 1 wished to see you about someGenuine Signature As for Thomas, thing else, he said. it is Mrs. Armstrong's wish that you allow her to attend to the expense. About his relatives, I have already notified his brother, In the village. It was heart disease, I think. Thomas LIVE STOCK AND always had a bad heart. Heart disease and fright, I said, MISCELLANEOUS Slightly Mixed. Two Englishmen were resting at the still on the edge of my chair. But the Red Home inn at Stratford-on-Avon- . doctor had no intention of leaving. "I understand you have a ghost up One of them discovered a print picturhere, and that you have the house ing a low, tumbling building underThe filled with detectives to exorcise it,' neath which was printed: IN GREAT VARIETY House In Which Shakespeare Was he said. FORj SALE cAT THE For some reason I felt I was being Born. Turning to his friend In mild LOWEST PRICES BY Hls as to "You the he print. Halsey says. surprise pointed pumped, and friend exhibited equal surprise have been misinformed, I replied. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION What, no ghost, no detectives! he called a waiter, who assured them of W. Adam St, Chicago disa of smile. his the with "What the still accuracy inscription. said, Pon my word," said the observing appointment to the village!" I resented his attempt at playfulEnglishman, shaking his head dubiousness. It had been anything but a joke ly. "I thought he was born in a manto us. ger! "Dr. Walker, I said tartly, I fall "For months I had great trouble with my to see any humor in the situation. Just Guessed. stomach and used all kinds of medicines. 1 came Since here, one man has been Mrs. Wadsworth," I am very glad, My tongue has been actually as green as shot, and 'another one has died from ' Indeed, to meet you. But, havent I grass, my breath having a bad odor. Two shock. There have .been intruders in had the honor of being introduced to weeksago a friend recommended Cascareta the house, and strange noises. If that you before? What was your name and after using them I can willingly and cheerfully say that they have entirely is funny, there is something wrong formerly. If I may ask? cured me. I therefore let you know that I with my sense of humor. "My maiden name? shall recommend them to anyone sufferYou missthe point, he said, still name were before you "No; your Chas. H. Hal. ing from such troubles. The thing that is divorced. good naturedly. pern, 114 E. 7th St, New York, N. Y. reon me Insist is that you How did you know I had been difunny to Pleasant, Palatable, Potent, Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken, Weaken or Grips. maining here, under the circums- vorced?" 10c, 25c, 50c. Never sold In balk. The gentances. I should think nothing would uine tablet stamped CCC. Guaranteed to Why, hasnt everybody? 829 cure or your money back. keep you. 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It cures female complaint right in th. privMy For how long?" he asked. of home, it makes unnecessary the disagreeable My lease is for six months. 1 shall questioning! examinations end local treatment so universally insisted upon by doctors, and so abhorrent In stay until some explanation is found every modest woman. for certain things. My own family is Wa shall not pnrticnlarize here as to tba symptoms of implicated now, and I shall do everythose peculiar affections incident to women, but (hoe. of Arnold to the clear mystery thing wanting full information as to their symptoms and means of positive our. are referred to th Armtsrong's murder." People Common Sens. Medical Adviser 1008 pages, The doctor stood looking down, slapnewly revised and Edition, sent frto on receipt of 21 on-ceping his gloves thoughtfully against to cover of coat hand. stamps the palm of a mailing only; or, in cloth binding for 31 stamps. You say there have been intruders Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. 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