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Show hekuih School 'Pins BKmabv was cheap at the price of a church carpet. I received less gratification and less gratitude when I presented the new silver communion set to SL Barnabas. I had a great many things to think iLLmrmms syc T Mmr mg fv about in those days. I made a list of questions and possible answers, but SYNOPSIS. I seemed only to be working around Miss Innes, spinster and guardian of in a circle. I always ended where I Gertrude and Halsey, established summer began. The list was something llk Amidst nuheadquarters at Sunnyside. merous difficulties the servants deserted. this: As Miss Innes locked up for the night Who had entered she was startled by a dark figure on the before the murder? the houae the night veranda. Unseemly noises disturbed her Thomas claimed It was Mr. Bailey, during the night. In the morning Miss whom he had seen on the n and In Innes found a strange link a hamper. Gertrude and Halsey arrived who owned the pearl with Jack Bailey. The house was awakdid Arnold come back Why Armstrong ened by a revolver shot and Arnold Armafter he had left the house the night he strong was found shot to death in the was killed? hall. Miss Innes found revolver No answer. Was It on the mlselon on the lawn. He and JackHalseys Bailey had dis- ROBERTS RINEHART soaa4-Mmuf- I want every chronic rheumatic to throw way ull medicines, all liniments, all Blasters, end give M UNION'S RHEUMATISM REMEDY a trial. No matter what your doctor may say, no matter what your friends may say, no matter how prejudiced you may be against all advertised remedies, so at once to your drug-sland get a Dottle of the RHEUMATISM REMEDY. If It falls to give satisfaction,! will refund your money. Munyoa Remember this remedy contains no salicylic add, no opium cocaine, morphine or other harmful drugs. It Is pnt tip under the guarantee of the Pure Pood and Drug Act. For sale by all druggists. Price, 25c. at cuff-lin- mysteriappeared. 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 ? roved to be JackandBailey's says he and Bailey falsey reappears 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 Armstrongs 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, Louise Armstrong, was found at the lodge. The had lodgekeeper said Imise and Arnold Loua long talk the night of the murder. ise was prostrated. Louise told Halsey, that while she still loved him she was to marry another, and that he would despise her when he learned the whole story. It developed that I)r. Walker and Louise were to be married. A prowler was heard In the house. Louise was found at the bottom of the circular staircase. Louise said she had heard a knock at the door and answered it. Something brushed past her on the stairway and she fainted. Bailey is suspected of Armstrongs murder. After seeing a ghost." Thomas, the lodgekeeper, was found dead. A slip was found in his pocket bearing the name "Lucien Wallace, 14 Elm street, Richfield." n Do ft Wow Tomorrow A. M. too late. Take CASCARET at bed time; get up in the morning feeling fine and dandy. No need fog sickneaa from over-eatiand drinkwork while you ing. They surely sleep and help nature help you. Millions take them and keep well cuff-butto- ng CASCARET9 loc a bo for a weeke treatment, all druggist Biggest seller In the world. Mnilon hoses a month. 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Well, Ive changed me mind, as tve the rights to do, replied his wife. She said to put sody on thim stains In the tablecloth, and 1ave it out overnight on the line, an theyd be gone entirely whin morning come. Sure tis the tablecloth that's gone the deYouths saving woman that she is! Companion. A Logical Landlord. Many a tenant will sympathize with the man in this story, from the Philadelphia Record. He was renting a small house which the landlord had refused to repair. One day the owner came to see him. Jones, he said, I shall have to raise your rent. What for? asked Jones, anxiously. Have taxes gone up? but I No, the landlord answered, see youve painted the house and put In a new range and bathtub. That, of course, makes it worth more rent. Deadlock. "Who is that man who has been sitting behind the bar day after day? inquired the stranger in Crimson Gulch. "Thats Stage Coach Charley. Hes in a peculiar predicament. He went to town last week and got his teeth fixed. Then he came here, and, bein broke, ran up a bill on the strength of his seven dollars worth of gold fillin. Charley wont submit to havin the nuggets pried out an the proprietor won't let him git away with the collateral, and there you are! A ' WISE WORDS. Physician on Food. A physician, of Portland, Oregon, views about food. He says: has I have always believed that the duty of the physician does not cease with treating the sick, but that we owe it to humanity to teach them how to protect their health, especially by hygienic and dietetic laws. With such a feeling as to my duty I take great pleasure in saying to the public that in my own experience and also from personal observation I have found no food equal to Grape-Nuts- , and that I find there is almost no limit to the great benefits this food will bring when used in all cases of sickness and convalescence. "It is my experience that no physical condition forbids the use of Grape-NutTo persons in health there is nothing so nourishing and acceptable to the stomach, especially at breakfast, to start the machinery of the human system on the days work. In cases of indigestion I know that a complete breakfast can he made of and cream and I think it is Grape-Nut- s not advisable to overload the stomach at the morning meal. I also know the when the great value of Grape-Nut- s stomach Is too weak to digest other foot-pat- cuff-butto- Louise had mentioned? Who admitted him? Gertrude said she had locked the east entry. There was no key on the dead man or In the door. He must have been admitted from within. Who had been locked In the clothes chute? Some one unfamiliar with the house, evidently. Only two people missing from the household, Rosie and Gertrude. Rosie had been at the lodge. Therefore but was It Gertrude? Might It not have been the mysterious Intruder again? Who had accosted Rosie on the drive? It Again perhaps the nightly visitor. seemed more likely some one who susLoupected a secret at the lodge. Was ise under surveillance? Who had passed Louise on the circular staircase? Could It have been Thomas? The key to the east entry made this a possibility. But why was he there, If it were Indeed he? Who had made the hole in the trunk-roowall? It was not vandalism. It had been done quietly, and with deliberate purpose. If I had only known how to read the purpose of that gaping aperture what I might have saved In anxiety and mental m strain ! Why had Louise left her people and come home to hide at the lodge? There was no answer, as yet, to this, or to the next questions. of Thomas funeral in the village, and Alex and . were in the conservatory cutting flowers for the old mans casket. Ltddy is never so happy as when she is making herself wretched, and now her mouth drooped while her eyes were triumphant. I always said there were plenty of things going on here, right under our noses, that we couldnt see, she said, holding out her apron. I dont see with my nose, I remarked. What have you got there? Liddy pushed aside a half dozen geranium pots, and in the space thus cleared she dumped the contents of her apron a handful of tiny bits of paper. Alex had stepped back, but I saw him watching her curiously. Wait a moment, Liddy, I said. You have been going through the t library again! Liddf was arranging her bits of paper with the skill of long practice and paid no attention. Did it ever occur to you, I went on, putting my hand over the scraps, that when people tear up their correspondence it is for the express purpose of keeping it from being read? "If they wasnt ashamed of It they wouldnt take so much trouble. Miss Rachel, Liddy said oracularly. More than that, with things happening every day, I consider it my duty. If you dont read and act on this, I shall give it to that Jamieson, and Ill venture hell not go back to the city That decided nae. If the scraps bad anything to do with the mystery ordinary conventions had no value. So Liddy arranged the scraps, like workchiling out one of the dren play with; and she did it with much the same eagerness. When it was finished she stepped aside while I read it. "Wednesday night, nine oclock. paper-baske- to-da- puzzle-picture- s CHAPTER XX. Continued. Certain. In what part? In the east wing." Can you tell me when these intrusions occurred, and what the purpose seemed to be? Was It robbery? As to time, "No, I said decidedly. once on Friday night a week ago, again the following night, when Arnold Armstrong was murdered, and again last Friday night." The doctor looked serious. He seemed to be debating some question in his mind, and to reach a decision. Miss Innes, he said, 1 am in a peculiar position; I understand your attitude, of course; but do you think you are wise? Ever since you have have come here there have been hostile demonstrations against you and your family. Im not a croaker, but take a warning. Leave before anything occurs that will cause you a lifelong regret. I am willing to tike the responsibility," I said coldly. I think he gave me up then as a poor proposition. He asked to be shown where Arnold Armstrong's body had been found, and I took him there. He scrutinized the whole place carefully, examining the stairs and the lock. When he had taken a formal farewell I was confident of one thing. Dr. Walker would do anything he could to get me away from Sunnyside. CHAPTER XXI. Fourteen Elm Street. It was Monday evening when we found the body of poor Thomas. Monday night had been uneventful; things were quiet at the house and the peculiar circumstances of the old man's death had been carefully kept from the servants. Rosie took charge of the dining room and pantry, in the absence of a butler, and, except for the warning of the Casanova doctor, everything breathed of peace. AfTairs at the Traders bank were progressing slowly. The failure had hit small stock holders very hard, the minister of the little Methodist chapel in Casanova among them. He had received as a legacy from an uncle a few shares of stock in the Traders bank, and now his joy was turned to bitterness; he had to sacrifice everything he had In the world, and his feeling against Paul Armstrong, dead, as he was, must have been bitter in the extreme. He was asked to officiate at the simple services when the dead bahkers body was interred in Casanova churchyard, but the good man providentially took cold, and a substitute was called in. A few days after the services he called to see me, a kind-facelittle man, in a very bad frock-coa- t and laundered tie. I think he was uncertain as to my connection with the Armstrong family, and dubious whether I considered Mr. Armstrong's taking away a matter for condolence or He was not long in congratulation. d doubt. I liked the little man. He had known Thomas well, and had promised to officiate at the services in the rickety African Zion church. He told me more of himself than he knew, and before he left I astonished him and myself, I admit by promising a new carpet for his church. He was much affected, and I gathered that he had yearned over his ragged chapel as a mother over a child. "You are laying up treasures, Miss food. he said brokenly, where This is written after an experience Innes," neither moth nor rust corrupt, nor of more than 20 years, treating all thieves break through and steal. manner of chronic and acute diseases, I sent him home in the car, with a and the letter is written voluntarily bunch of hothouse roses for his wife, on my part without any request for It and he was overwhelmed. As quite to Read the little book, The Road for me, I had a generous glow that a Reason. There's in pkgs. Wellvllle, half-clothe- d He Scrutinized the Whole Place Carefully. Why did both she and Dr. warn us away from the house? Walker Who was Lucien Wallace? What did Thomas see In the shadows the night he died? What was the meaning of the subtle change in Gertrude? Was Jack Bailey an accomplice or a victim In the looting of the Trailers' bank ? reason made Louise Wliat determine to marry l)r. Walker? were still working bank, and it was probable that several weeks would elapse before everything was cleared up. The firm of expert accountants who had examined the books some two months before testified that every bond, every piece of valuable It paper, was there at that time. had been shortly after their examination that the president, who had been in bad health, had gone to California. Mr. Bailey was still ill at the Knickerbocker, and in this, as in other ways, Gertrude's conduct puzzled me. She seemed indifferent, refused to discuss matters pertaining to the bank, and never, to my knowledge, either wrote to him or went to see him. Gradually I came to the conclusion that Gertrude, with the rest of the world, believed her lover guilty, and although I believed It myself, for that matter I was irritated by her indifference. Girls in my day did not meekly accept the public's verdict as to the man they loved. But presently something occurred that made me think that under Gertrude's surface calm there was a seething flood of emotions. Tuesday morning the detective made a careful search of the grounds, but he found nothing. In the afternoon he disappeared, and It was late that night when he came home. He said he would have to go back to the city the following day, and arranged with Halsey and Alex to guard the house. Liddy came to me on Wednesday morning with her black silk apron held up like a bag and her eyes big with virtuous wrath. It was the day The examiners on the books of the Traders Bridge, I read aloud. Then, aware of Alex's stare, I turned on Liddy. "Some one is to play bridge tonight at nine o'clock, I said. Is that your business, or mine?" She was Liddy was aggrieved. about to reply when I scooped up the pieces and left the conservatory. I said, when we got "Now then, outside, "will you tell me why you choose to take Alex into your confidence? Hes no fool. Do you suppose he thinks any one in this house is going to play bridge at I supnine o'clock, by appointment! pose you have shown it in the kitchen, and instead of my being able to slip down to the bridge quietly, and see who is there, the whole household will be going in a procession. Nobody knows it, Liddy said humbly. I found it in the basket in Miss Gertrude's dressing room. Look at the back of the sheet." I turned over some of the scraps, and, sure enough, It was a blank deposit slip from the Traders' bank. So Gertrude was going to meet Jack Bailey that night by the bridge! And I had thought he was ill! It hardly seemed like the action of an innocent man this avoidance of daylight, and of his fiancees people. decided to make certain, however, by going to the bridge that night. After luncheon Mr. Jamieson suggested that I go with him to Richfield, and I consented. i am inclined to place more faith in Dr. Stewarts story, he said, "since I found that scrap in old Thomas pocket. It bears out the statement that the woman with the child, and the woman who quarreled with Armstrong, are the same. It looks as if Thomas had stumbled on to some affair which was more or less discreditable to the dead man, and, with a certain loyalty to the family, had kept it to himself. Then, you see, your story about the woman at the card-roowindow begins to mean something. It is the nearest approach to Medals Badges, platinum work. Society Emblems of all kinds. The highest quality for the lowest prices. SALT anything tangible that wa have had yet. Warner took ua to Richfield In the car. It was about 25 miles by railroad. hut by taking a aeries of atrociously rough short cuts we got there very quickly, it was a pretty little town, on the river, and back on the hill I could see the Morton big country house, where Halsey and Gertrude had been staying until the night of the murder. Elm street was almost the only street, and number 14 was easily found. It was a small white house, dilapidated without having gained anything picturesque, with a low window and a porch only a foot or so above the bit of a lawn. There was a in the path, and from a swing at the side came the sound of conflict Three small children were disputing vociferously, and a faded young woman with a kindly face was trying to hush the clamor. When she Baw us she untied her gingham apron and came around to the porch. "Good afternoon, I said. Jamieson lifted his hat, without speaking. "I came to inquire about a child named Lucien Wallace." I am glad you have come, she said. "In spite of the other children, I think the little fellow is lonely. We thought perhaps his mother would be here Mr. Jamieson stepped forward. I wondered "You are Mrs. Tate? how the detective knew. "Yes, sir. Mrs. Tate, we want to make some inquiries. Perhaps In the house Come right In, she said hospitably. And soon we were in the little shabby parlor, exactly like a thousand of its prototypes. Mrs. Tate sat uneasily, her hands folded in her lap. How long has Lucien been here?" Mr. Jamieson asked. "Since a week ago last Friday. His mother paid one week's board In advance, the other has not been paid." Was he 111 when he came? No, sir, not what you'd call sick. He was getting better of typhoid, she said, and he's picking up fine." "Will you tell me his mother's name and address? "Thats the trouble, the young woman said, knitting her brows. She gave her name as Mrs. Wallace, and said she bad no address. She was looking for a boarding house In town. She said she worked in a department store, and couldn't take care of the child properly, and he needed fresh air and milk. I had three children of my own, and one more didnt make much difference in the work, but I wish she would pay this weeks board. "Did she say what store it was?" "No, sir, but all the boy's clothes came from King's. He has far too fine clothes for the country." 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I dont know, replied the soberly, I'm trying hard t Success Magazine. quit. Moral Support. "Every time the automobile breaks down I notice you examine your stats license. I do that for encouragement. The license says I am competent to oper ate the machine." Detroit News. Joiner Willie, tools?" 'Willie Doing Hi Best. (to his apprentice) have you sharpened "Yus Well. all the all out the 'and saw. and I havent quite got all the gapa out of it." Sketch. A Double Fall. Did the aerial acrobat who was to give the manager an exhibition of his ability make good? No. In his best act he lost his balance." What a pity! And It was his trial Baltimore American. balance, too. 1 I Could See the Mortons Big Country House. A Long Engagement. Maud Are you engaged to Jack for good? Ethel "It looks so. I dont think hell ever be In a position to marry me. Professional Courtesy. ive's cuff, now then. Ill bet you don't know what your name Is! .Don't you charge that man any 1 do," said the boy. "Lucien Wal- thing for your services, doctor? lace. Not in cash. Hes my butcher and Great! And what your mother's I take It out In trade. name?" Ah, I see. Professional courtesy. "Mother, of course. Whats your Cleveland Leader. mother's name? Before and After. And he pointed to met 1 am going The facial features plala-'-y Dawson to stop wearing black; It doubles a indicate character and disposition, woman's age. And where did you live before you n selecting your wife were you govcame here? The detective was politc-- erned by her chin? been No, but I have etiuugh not to smile. Spenlow 'TO BE CONTINUED.) ter since we married. I |