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Show f T c T T Y r 7 It Is better to Inherit a fortune than to marry one. DOCTORS Mr. Window's JAILED Suffered Several Years Witt Kidney Trouble, "Peruna Cured Me. ing which etal PARKEfe8 HAIR BALSAM ClStll Ud bMOtifltt Iks ML B tanrisnl frewth. Tills to Bostoro On? rromous Vmr 0c.sadll.00rt Dmggijts SmtraM'i lindM. Breech l.t.I.I GUNS i sail fir Loading Inti, t3.fi mm, KVfU Good luck likes are not expecting ,Tr-- 4c StMW OflEXT a. to visit people who It Pettits Eye Salve for 25c. Relieves tired, congested, inflamed and sore eyes, quickly stops eye aches. All druggists or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N. Y. ' Sweetest Success. "Whats the sweetest kind of success? That which you achieve by acting contrary to the advice of your friends. Not a Solitary Exception. Professor Astrology teaches that a girl born in January will be prudent, and fond of dress; in April, Inconstant and fond of Hostess In what months are girls born who are not fond of dress? Professor In none, madam. good-tempere- d Only on Great Occasions. 1 ? "How are you, Mr. hope there Is nothing wrong with that set of teeth I made for you a few weeks ago. "No, theyre all right f but, great Scott, Doc, I paid you $30 for them teeth. You dont spoee Im going to wear em for everyday use, do you? Tyte-Physt- He Couldnt See. Little Jacks father was the teacher of the Sunday school class of which Jack was a new member. He had been told that as this was his first Sunday he would not be asked any questions hut he must pay close attention just the same. So, on the way home his father asked him who it was who killed 'Goliath. 1 dont know, I was sitting on the back seat and couldnt see, was the ready answer. From Norman E. Mack's National Monthly. HEALTH AND INCOME Both Kept Up on Scientific Food, Good sturdy health helps one a lot to make money. With the loss of health ones Income Is liable to shrink. If not entirely dwindle away. When a young lady has to make her own living, good health Is her best asset I am alone In the world, writes a Chicago girl, "dependent on my own efforts for my living. I am a clerk, and about two years ago through close application to work and a boardinghouse diet I became a nervous invalid, and got so bad off It was almost Impossible for me to stay in the office a half day at a time. A f.riend suggested to me the Idea food which I did, of trying Grape-Nut- s of at least two a It part large making meal3 a day. brain-tire- , Today, I am free from an overof Ills all the and dyspepsia, worked and Improperly nourished I brain and body. To Grape-Nut- s owe the recovery of my health, and the ability to retain my position and income. Read "The Road to Wellvllle," In ykgs. "Theres a Reason. A aew Ever read the above letterf to time. They me mean from ttaea are ceaalae, tree, amd fall of haaaaa Utercit BEmary t th Murine Eye Remedy Does What strrnifibrn and Sumo-kt- e la til Uni rrali. t Tie ROSERTJ V RINEHART f she stood squarely in the doorway, and it was impossible to preserve one's dignity and pass her, Miss Armstrong la very 111 and unable to see any one, she said. I did not believe her. And Mrs. Armstrong Is she also ill? She Is with Miss Louise and cannot be disturbed." Tell her it is Miss lnnes, and that It Is a matter of the greatest importance. It would be of no use, Miss lnnes, my orders are positive." At that moment a heavy step sounded on the stairs. Past the maids shoulder I could see a familiar thatch of gray hair, and in a moment I was face to face with Dr. Stewart. He was very grave, and his customary geniality was tinged with white-strappe- CHAPTER XXVI. Halseys Disappearance. Jamieson came back about eight oclock the next morning; he was covered with mud, and his hat was gone. Altogether we were a trio that gathered around a breakfast that no one could eat. Over a cup of black coffee the detective told us what he had learned of Halseys movements the night before. Up to a certain point the car had made it easy enough to follow him. And I gathered that Mr. Burns, the other detective, had followed a similar car for miles at dawn, only to find It was a touring car on an endurance run. "He left here about ten minutes after eight, Mr. Jaiffleson said. He went alone; at 8:20 he stopped at Dr. Walker's. I went to the doctor's about midnight, but he had been called out on a case, and had not come back at four oclock. From the doctors it seems Mr. lnnes walked across the lawn to the cottage Mrs. Armstrong and her daughter have taken. Mrs. Armstrong had retired, and he said perhaps a dozen words to Miss Louise. She will not say what they were, but the girl evidently suspects what has occurred. That is, she suspects foul play, but she doesn't know of what nature. Then, apparently, he started directly for the station. Along somewhere in the dark stretch between Carol street and the depot he evidently swerved suddenly perhaps gome one In the road and went full into the side of a freight. We found it there last night. He might have been thrown under the train by the force of the shock, I said tremulously. Gertrude shuddered We examined every Inch of track. There was no sign. "But surely he can't be gone! I cried. Arent there traces in the mud anything?" There is no mud only dust. There has been no rain. And the footpath there is of cinders. Miss lnnes, I am Inclined to think that he has met with bad treatment. In the light of what has gone before. I do not think he has been murdered. I shrank from the word. Burns is back in the country on a clew we got from the night clerk at the drug store. There will be two more men here by noon, and the city office Is on the lookout. "The creek? Gertrude asked. The creek is shallow now. If it were swollen with rain it would be different. There is hardly any water in it. Now, Miss lnnes, he said, turning to me, I must ask you some questions. Had Mr. Halsey any possible reason for going away like this, vithout warning? None whatever. lie went away once before," he g d restraint. Continued. "He's as dear to me as he is to you, she said sadly. I tried to warn him. "Nonsense! I said as briskly as I could. We are making a lot of trouble out of something perhaps very small. Halsey was probably late he is always late. Any moment we may hear the car coming up the road. But it did not come. After a half-hou- r of suspense, Louise went out quietly, and did not come back. I hardly knew she was gone until I heard the station hack moving off. At 11 o'clock the telephone rang. It was Mr. Jamieson. "I have found the Dragon Fly, Miss lnnes, he said. It has collided with a freight car on the siding above the station. No, Mr. lnnes was not there, but we shall probably find him. Send Warner for the car. But they did not find him. At four o'clock the next morning we were still waiting for news, while Alex watched the house and Sam the grounds. At daylight I dropped into exhausted sleep. Halsey had not come back, and there was no word from the detective. Mr. Normal The days of chivalry are not past A lady entered our office the other day and we took our feet off the desk. Miss lnnes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer at Sunnyside. The servant headquarters desert. Gertrude and HaUey arrive with Jack Bailey. The house was awakened by a revolver shot and Arnold Armstrong was found shot to death In the hall. Miss lnnes found Halseys revolver on the lawn. He and Jack Bailey had disappeared. Gertrude revealed that she was engaged to Jack Bailey, with whom she talked in the billiard room shortly before the murder. Detective Jamieson accused Miss lnnes of holding back evidence. He imprisoned an Intruder In an empty room. The prisoner escaped. Gertrude was suspected because of an Injured foot. Halsey reappears and says he and Bailey were called away by a telegram. Cashier Bailey of Paul Armstrongs bank, defunct, was arrested for embezzlement. Paul Armstrongs death was announced. Halseys fiancee. Louise Armstrong, told Halsey that while she still loved him, she was to marry another. It developed that Dr. Walker was the man. Louise was found at the bottom of the circular staircase. Recovering consciousness, shq said something had brushed by her on the Bailey is susstairway and she fainted. murder. After pected of Armstrongs seeing a ghost, Thomas, the lodgekeep-er- , In his was found dead with slip pocket bearing the name of Lucien WalDr. Walker asked Miss lnnes to lace. vacate In favor of Mrs. Armstrong. She refused. A note from Bailey to Gertrude a meeting at night was found. arranging A ladder out of place deepens the mystery. The stables were burned. During the excitement a man stole into the house. A search failed to reveal him. Mss lnnes shot an intruder. A man limping was seen on the road. Halsey mysteriously disappeared, Louise scenting danger before hi3 absense was notch. CHAPTER XXV. leanae, Prt.ujotin Houlihtu! Circulation, Try Murine in your Eyes- - OundMona. SYNOPSIS. equals Peruna. I suffered tor sev years with this trouble, spent hundreds of dollars on doctors and medicine and all to no purpose until I took Peruna. "One bottle did me more good than all Mr, John N, Watkins, the others put together, as they only Peruna cured poisoned my system. me. I used it for four months before a complete cure was accomplished, but am truly grateful to you. The least I can do in return is to acknowledge the merits of Peruna, which I take pleasure in now doing." Bladder Trouble. Mr. C. B. Newhof, 10 Delaware Street, Albany, N. Y., writes: "Since my advanced age I find that I have been frequently troubled with Urinary ailments. The bladder seemed Irritated, and my physician said that tt was catarrh caused by a protracted sold which would be difficult to overcome on account of my advanced years. X took Peruna, hardly daring to believe that I would be helped, but found to relief that I soon began to mend. my The irritation gradually subsided, and the urinary difficulties passed away. I have enjoyed excellent health now for the past seven months. I enjoy my meals, sleep soundly, and am as well as X was twenty years ago. I give all praise to Peruna." Myrow. Theres many a penitent man in tha penitentiary. iLLUSmAnom 3Y aermuran ar laiianan Mr. John N. "Watkins, 8133 Shenan doab Ave., St Louis, Mo., writes: "Among all the greatly ad-- 1 vertised medl- clnes for kidney and blad-1 der trou b e there Is noth- noofbln PorclikiUMtt wmimiif, softens tne kuiu, Finnic tUuumauuuAiUajrkiMii'i.curiMtwiuaouUo "Miss Armstrong Is Very III "And you were as sure persisted. then." "He did not leave the Dragon Fly Jammed into the side of a freight car before. No, but be left it for repairs in a blacksmith shop, a long distance from here. Do you know if he had any enemies? Any one who might wish him out of the way? Not that I know of, unless no, I cannot think of any. Was he In the habit of carrying money?" He never carried It far. No, he never had more than enough for current expenses. Mr. Jamieson got up then and began to pace the room. It was an unwonted concession to the occasion. "Then I think we get at it by elimination. The chances are against flight. If be was hurt, we find no trace of him. It looks almost like an This young Dr. Walker abduction. have you any Idea why Mr. lnnes should have gone there last night? "I cannot understand it, Gertrude said thoughtfully. I dont think he knew Dr. Walker at all, and their relations could hardly have been cordial, under the circumstances. Jamieson pricked up his ears, and little by little he drew from us the unfortunate story of Halseys love affair, and the fact that Louise was going to marry Dr. Walker. Mr. Jamieson listened attentively. There are some interesting developments here, he said thoughtfully. The woman who claims to be the mother of Lucien Wallace has not come back. Your nephew has apparently been spirited away. There is an organized attempt being made to enter this house; In fact, it has been entered. Witness the incident with the cook yesterday. And I have a new piece of information. He looked Mr. carefully away from Gertrude. John Bailey is not at his Knickerbocker apartments, and I dont know where he is. Its a hash, that's what it is. Its a Chinese puzzle. They wont fit together, unless unless Mr. Bailey and your nephew have again" And once again Gertrude surprised me. They are not together, she said hotly. where Mr. Bailey is, and my bi other is not with him. Miss Gertrude, be sajd, if you and Miss Louise would only tell me everything you know and surmise about this business, I should be able to do a great many things. I believe I could find your brother, and I might be able to well, to do some other things. But Gertrude's glance did not falter. Nothing that I know could help you to find Halsey, she said stubbornI know absolutely as Httle of his ly. disappearance as you do, and I can I do not trust Dr. only say this: I think he hated Halsey, Walker. and he would get rid of him if he could. Perhaps you are right. In fact, I had some such theory myself. But Dr. Walker went out late last night to a serious case In Summitville, and is still there. Burns traced him there. We have made guarded inquiry at the Greenwood club and through the village. There Is absolutely nothing to go on but this: On the embankment above the railroad, at the point where we found the machine, Is a small house. An old woman and a daughter, who Is very lame, live there. They say that they distinctly heard the shock when the Dragon Fly hit the car, and they went to the bottom of their garden and looked over. The automobile was there; they could see the lights, and they thought some one had been injured. It was very dark. You are the very woman I want to Send away see, he said promptly. your trap, and let me drive you home. What is this about your nephew? lie has disappeared, doctor. Not only that, but there is every evidence that he has been either abducted or I could not finish. The doctor helped me into his capacious buggy in silence. Until we had got a little distance he did not speak; then he turned and looked at me. Now tell me all about It, he said. He heard me through without speaking. And you think Louise knows som thing? he said when I had finished. I don't in fact, I am sure of It The best evidence of It Is this: She asked and Unable to 8ee Any One." me if he had been heard from, or if bad been learned. She won't but they could make out two figures, anything allow Walker in the room, and she standing together. The women were made me promise to see you and tell curious, and, leaving the fence, they went back and by a roundabout path you this: don't give up the search for Find him, and find him soon. down to the road. When they got him. He is living. there the car was still standing, the Well, I said, If she knows that, headlight broken and the bonnet knows more. She Is a very cruel she crushed, but there was no one to be and ungrateful girl. seen. She is a very sick girl, be said The detective went away ImmediNeither you nor I can ately, and to Gertrude and me was gravely. left the woman's part, 'to watch and judge her until we know everything. wait. By luncheon nothing had been Both she and her mother are ghostB of found, and I was frantic. I went up- their former selves. Under all this, stairs to Halseys room finally, from these two sudden deaths, this bank sheer Inability to sit across from Ger- robbery, the invasions at 8unnyside and Halsey's disappearance, there is trude any longer and meet her some mystery that, mark my words, . come out some day. And when Liddy was In my dressing room, sus- will we shall find Louise Armit does, to and piciously put trying a victim. strong e arm-hola right sleeve in a left of tf Then we drove slowly home. I had new waist for me. I was too much the doctor put me down at the gate, shaken to scold. What name did that woman in the and I walked to the house past the kitchen give? she demanded, vicious- lodge where we had found Louise, and, later, poor Thomas; on the drive ly ripping out the offending sleeve. where I bad seen a man watching the Bliss. Mattie Bliss, I replied. Bliss. M. B. Well, that's not what j lodge and where, later, Rosie bad been she has on her suitcase. It is marked frightened; past the east entrance, where so short a time before the most N. F. C. The new cook and her initials trou- obstinate effort bad been made to enbled me not all. I put on my bonnet ter the bouse, and where, that night and sent for what the Casanova liv- two weeks ago, Liddy and I had seen the strange woman. Not far from the eryman called a stylish turnout. Having once made up my mind to a west wing lay the blackened ruins of course of action, I am not one to turn the stables. I felt like a ruin myself back. Warner drove me; he was as I paused on the broad veranda beplainly disgusted, and he steered the fore I entered the bouse. Two private detectives had arrived livery horse as he would the Dragon Fly, feeling uneasily with his left foot in my absence, and it was a relief to for the clutch, and working his right turn over to them the responsibility elbow at an Imaginary horn every time a dog got in the way. Warner had something on his mind, and after we had turned Into the road he voiced it. "Miss lnnes, he said. "I overheard a part of a conversation yesterIt wasn't day that I didnt understand. my business to understand it, for that matter. But Ive been thinking all day that Id better tell you. Yesterday afternoon, while you and Miss Gertrude were out driving, I had got the car in some sort of shape again after the fire, and I went to the library to call Mr. lnnes to see it. I went into the living room, where Miss Liddy said he was, and half-waacross the library I heard him talking to some one. He seemed to be walking up and down, and he was in a rage, I can tell terror-Alled-aye- s. red-eye- d y you. What did he say? The first thing I heard was excuse me. Miss lnnes, but its what he said, 'The damned rascal, he said, I'll see him in' well, in hell was what he said, in hell first. Then somebody elBe spoke up; it was a woman. She said: I warned them, but they thought I would be afraid. "A woman! Did you wait to see who it was? I wasnt spying, Miss lnnes, Warner said with dignity. But the next thing caught my attention. She said: I knew there was something wrong from the start. A man isn't well one day, and dead the next, without some reason I thought she was speaking of Thomas. "And you dont know who it was! I exclaimed. Warner, you had the key to this whole occurrence in your hands and did not see it! However, there was nothing to be done. I resolved to make Inquiry when I got home, and in the meantime, my present errand absorbed me. This was nothing less than to see Louise Armstrong, and to attempt to drag from her what she knew, or suspected of Halseys disappearance. But here, as in every direction I turned, I was baffled. A neat maid answered the bell, but Gertrude. of the house and grounds. Mr. Jamieson, they said, had arranged for more to assist in the search for the missing man, and at that time the country wa3 being scoured in all directions. The household staff was again depleted that afternoon. Liddy was waiting to tell me that the new cook had gone, bag and baggage, without waiting to be paid. No one had admitted the visitor whom Warner had beard in the library, unless, possibly, the missing cook. Again I was working in a circle. (TO BE CONTINUED.) His Little Joke. "Im sorry, old man, said the doctor when his patient came out of the chloroform, but we had to remove your leg to save your life." Will I get better?" asked the man feebly. "Yes, you're all right now. You ought to live 20 years more. Ah, sighed the victim, that's s long while to live with one foot in the grave." 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