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She said something had brushed by her In the dark on the stairway and she fainted. Bailey is suspected of Armmurder. Thomas, the lodge keepstrongs er, was found dead with a note in hU Luclen pocket bearing the, name A ladder found out of place drp-en- s The stables were the mystery. burned, and In the dark Miss lnnesd shot an intruder. Halsey mysteriously His auto was found wrecked bv a freight train. It developed Halsey had an argument in the library with & woman New cook disbefore his disappearance. appears. Miss lnnes learned Halsey was alive. Dr. Walkers face becomes livid at mention of the name of Nina Carrington. Evidence was secured from a tramp that a man, supposedly Halsey, had been bound and gagged and thrown Into an empty box car. Gertrude was missing.a Hunting for her, Miss lnnes ran IntoDr. man and fainted. A confederate of Walker confessed his part In the mystery. VBB-lace- ." CHAPTER XXIX. Continued. Sh'e struck me as being an ugly customer, and when she left, about 11 o'clock, and went across to the Armstrong place, 1 was not far behind her. She walked all around the house first, looking up at the windows. Then she rang the bell, and the minute the door was opened she was through it, and Into the hall. How long did she stay? "That's the queer part of It, Riggs She didnt come out said eagerly. that night at all. I went to bed at daylight, and that was the last 1 heard of her until the next day, when 1 saw her on e truck at the station, covered with a sheet. Shed been struck by the express and you would hardly have known her dead, of course. I think she stayed all night in the Armstrong house, and the agent said she was crossing the track to town when the to take the express struck her. I exclaimed. Another circle! Then we are Just where we started." "Not so bad as that, Miss lnnes, Riggs said eagerly. Nina Carrington came frofij the town in , California where Mr. Armstrong died. Why was the doctor so afraid of her? The Carrington woman knew something. I lived with Dr. Walker seven years, and I know him well. There are few things he is afraid of. I think be killed Mr. Armstrong out in the west somewhere, that's what I think. What else he did I don't know but he dismissed me and pretty nearly throttled me for telling Mr. JamleBon here about Mr. lnnes having been at his office the night he disappeared and about my hearing them quarreling." What was It Warner overheard the woman say to Mr. lnnes in the library? the detective asked me. "She said I knew there waa something wrong from the start. A man Isnt well one day and dead the nex without some reason. " How perfectly It all seemed to fltl Rosie. The domestic force was now down to Mary Anne and Liddy, with s wife coming the every day to help out Fortunately, Warner and the detectives were keeping bachelor hall in the lodge. Out of deference to Liddy they washed their dishes once a day, and they concocted queer messes, according to their several abilities. They had one triumph that they ate regularly for breakfast, and that clung to their clothes and their hair the rest of the day. It was bacon, hardtack and onions, fried together. They were almost pathetically grateful, however, I noticed, for an occasional broiled tenderloin. It was not until Gertrude and Rosie had gone and Sunnyside had settled down for the night, with Winters at the foot of the staircase, that Mr. Jamieson broached a subject he had evidently planned before he came. Miss lnnes, he said, stopping me as I was about to go to my room upstairs, "how are your nerves tonight? - I have none, I said happily. "With Halsey found, my troubles have gone. "I mean, he persisted, do you feel as though you could go through with something rather unusual? The most unusual thing I can think of would be a peaceful night. But if anything is going to occur, dont dare to let me miss It Something is going to occur, he said. "And youre the only woman I can think of that I can take along. He looked at his watch. "Dont ask me any questions, Miss lnnes. Put on under-gardener- of headstones, and although, when I found myself last, I had ,an instinctive desire to keep looking back over my shoulder, I found that, the first uneasiness past, a cemetery at night is much the same as any other country place, filled with vague shadows and unexpected noises. Once, indeed but Mr. Jamieson said it was an owj, and I tried to believe him. In the shadow of the Armstrong granite shaft we stopped. I think the doctor wanted to send me back. , "Its no place for a woman, I heard him protesting angrily. But the detective said something about witnesses, and the doctor only came over and felt my pulse. Anyhow, I dont believe youre any worse off here than you would be in that nightmare of a bouse, he said finally, and put his coat on the steps of the shaft for me to sit on. There is a sense of desecration, of a reversal of the everlasting fitness of things, in resurrecting a body from its mother clay. And yet that night, in the Casanova churchyard, I sat quietly by, and watched Alex and Mr. Jamieson steaming over their work, without a single qualm, except the fear of detection. The doctor kept a keen lookout, but no one appeared. Once in a while he came over to me, and gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "I never expected to come thts, he said once. "Theres one thing sure Ill not be suspected of complicity. A doctor Is generally supposed to be handler at burying folks than at digging them up. up-trai- n , v hs Walked A I UA round the House heavy shoes, and some old dark clothes, and make up your mind not to be surprised at anything. Liddy was sleeping the sleep of the When Churchyards Yawn. It was on Wednesday Riggs told us Just when I went upstairs, and I the story of his connection with some hunted out my things cautiously. The Incidents that had been previously un- detective was waiting in the hall, and explained. Halsey had been gone I was astonished to see Dr. Stewart since the Friday night before, and with him. They were talking conwith the passage of each day I felt fidentially together, but when I came that he might be carried thousands down they ceased. There were a few , locked In, per- preparations to be made: the locks to of miles in the or food. I had be gone over. Winters to be instructed water without haps, read of cases where bodies had been as to renewed vigilance, and then, found locked in cars on isolated sid- after extinguishing the hall light, we ings in the west, and my spirits went crept. In the darkness, through the front door, and into the night. down with every hour. I asked no questions. I felt that His recovery was destined to be almost as sudden as his disappearance, they were dojig me honor in making and was due directly to the tramp me one of the party, and I would Bhow Alex had brought to Sunnyside. It them I could be as silent as they. We seems the man was grateful for his went across the fields, passing through release, and when he learned some- the woods that reached almost to the thing of Halseys whereabouts from ruins of the stable, going over stiles now and then, and sometimes stepanother member of his fraternity for It is a fraternity he was prompt ping over low fences. Once only In letting us know. somebody spoke, and then it was an On Wednesday evening Mr. Jamie- emphatic bit of profanity from Dr. son, who had been down at the Arm- Stewart when he ran into a wire fence, strong house trying to see Louise We were joined at tne end of five and failing was met near the gate at Sunnyside by an Individual precisely minutes by another man, who fell into as repulsive and unkempt as the one step with the doctor silently. He carAlex had captured. The man knew ried something over his shoulder the detective, and he gave him a which I could not make out. In this piece of dirty paper, on which was way we walked for perhaps 20 minues. . scrawled the words: "Hes at City The doctor was puffing somewhat The tramp who when we finally came to a halt. I conhospital, Johnsrille. brorsht the paper pretended to know fess that just at that minute even nothing, except this: The paper had Sunnyside seemed a cheerful spot. We been passed along from a "hobo in had paused at the edge of a level Johnsville, who seemed to know the cleared place, bordered all around information would be valuable to us. with primly trimmed evergreen trees. telephone Retween tiiem I caught a glimpse of Again the came into requisition. Mr. Jamieson starlight shining down on rows of called the hospital, while we crowded white headstones and an occasional around him. And when there was no more imposing monument or towering longer any doubt that It was Halsey, shaft. In spite of myself, I drew my and that he would probably recover, breath in sharply. We were on the we all laughed and cried together. 1 edge of the Casanova churchyard. am sure I kissed Liddy, and I have I 6aw now both the man who had r kad terrible moments since when joined the party and the implements I seem to remember kissfcig Mr. he carried. It was Alex, armed with two Jamieson, too, in the excitement spades. After the Anyhow, by 11 o'clock that night first shock of surprise, Iv flatter my-- I Gertrude was on her way to Johns-v- i self I was both cool and quiet We lie. 3se miles away, accompanied by I went tn single file between the rows CHAPTER XXX. box-car- - First, Looking Up at the Windows. The uncanny moment came when the spades on the grass, and I confess I hid my face. There was a period of stress, I think, while the heavy coffin was being raised. I felt that my composure was going, and, for fear I would shriek, I tried to think of something else what time Gertrude would reach Halsey anything but the grisly reality that lay just beyond me on the grass. And then I heard a low exclamation from the detective and I felt the pressure of the doctor's fingers on my . arm. Now, Miss lnnes, he said gently. If you will come over I held on to him frantically, and somehow I got there and looked down. 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What to do with my boots was the greatest puzzle of all, there bsing no place in the house safe from Liddy, until I decided to slip upstairs the next morning and drop them into the hole the ghost had made In th trunkroom wall. I went asleep as soon as I reached this decision, and in my ' dreams 1 lived over again the events of the night. Again I saw the group around the silent figure on the grass, and again, as had happened at the grave, I heard Alex's voice, tense and triumphant: he said. Then weve got them, Only, in my dreams, he said it over and over until he seemed to shriek it in my ears. I wakened early. In spite of my fatigue, and lay there thinking. Who was Alex? I no longer believed that Who was the he was a gardener. man whose body we had resurrected? And where was Paul Armstrong? Probably living safely In some extradition-les- s country on the fortune he had stolen. Did Louise and her mother know of the shameful and wicked deception? What had Thomas known, and Mrs. Watson? Who was Nina Carrington? This last question, it seemed to me, was answered. In some way the woman had learned of the substitution, and had tried to use her knowledge for blackmail. Nina Carringtons own story died with her, but, however it happened, it was clear that she had carried her knowledge to Halsey the afternoon Gertrude and I were looking for clews to the man I had shot on the east veranda. Halsey had been half crazed by what he heard; It was evident that Louise was marrying Dr. Walker to keep the shameful secret, for her mothers sake. Halsey, ah ways reckless, had gone at once to Dr. Walker and denounced him. There had been a scene, and he left on his way to the station to meet and notify Mr. Jamieson of what he had learned. The doctor was active mentally and physically. Accompanied perhaps by Riggs, who had shown himself not until he quarreled everscrupulous with his employer, he had gone across to the railroad embankment, and, by jumping in front of the car, had caused Halsey to swerve. The rest of the story we knew. That was my reconstructed theory of that afternoon and evening; It was almost correct not quite. There was a telegram that morning from Gertrude. Halsey conscious and Improving. Probably home In day or so. i. DODuLaS, 14ft park ft., recktea, Maee Clousohold Lubricant THE ALL-AROU- OIL ND IN THE HANDY, TIN OILER EVEN-READ- Is specially selected for any need In the home. Saves tools from rusting. Can cannot break. Does not gum or become rancid. MANUFACTUMO BV 0)1 Coepaif Standard FOR SALK fV Continental Oil Company (Incorporated) (Incorporated) Truth has a sliding scale, regardless of the frank person. Hn. WlmWnr'i Vbrebtldren .i'-t(MtlilBi, -t TOO BAD. Soothing Syrup. . ofu-n- lh gum., rMnmll. 3tea bouts. There Is no playing fast and loose with truth. In any game, without growing the worse for it. Dickens. Experience is a safer and more useful guide than any principle, however accurate and scientific it may be. Buckle. A "What Womans Privilege. the latest thing in Is wed- dings?" Generally, It Is the bride. Tribute to Painter's Skill. One of the still life paintings by Jan van Huysen In the museum at The Hague was recently Injured, but It Is believed the perpetrator was neither vandal nor thief. The picture represents a basket of fruit on which a number of insects cine. have gathered. On a pale yellow apThe Agent But It cured you? Mr. Knocker Yes, of even the little ple, which is the centerpiece In the cluster of fruit, is a large fly, painted faith I had in it. so true to nature, so say the officials of the gallery, that the canvas was SAVED OLD LADYS HAIR Injured by some one who endeavored to "shoo it and brought his cane or My mother used to have a very bad A humor on her head which the doctors hand too close to the canvas. tribute to the painters genius, says called an eczema, and for it I had two the letter recording the fact, for which different doctors. Her head was very the work had to suffer. sore and her hair nearly all fell out in spite of what they both did. One Why Do They. day her niece came in and they were Why women like the baldheaded speaking of how her hair was falling man It Is somewhat difficult to define. out and the doctors did It no good. It may be because he appears to be: She says, Aunt, why dont you try ' Cuticura Soap and Cutlcura OintThoughtful and kind. Trustworthy and confiding. Whim- ment? Mother did and they helped sical. Past the follies and frivolities her. In six months time the Itching, of youth. burning and scalding of her head was Usually successful. over and her hair began growing. ToA man of property day she feels much in debt to Cutl-cur- a d Opinions why women like the Soap and Ointment for the fine man obtained by the Daily bead of hair she has for an old lady Mirror are as follows: of seventy-fouHe Is not silly like young men. "My own case was an eczema In my He accepts refusals of marriage so feet As soon as the cold weather nicely that one is sorry one did not came my feet would Itch and burn and accept him. then they would crack open and bleed. The bald patch looks so clean and Then I thought I would flee to my GERTRUDE. With Halsey found and improving nice. One would like to kiss it mothers friends, Cutlcura Soap and A doctor welcomes baldness when it Cuticura Ointment I did for four or in health, and with at last something to work on, I began that day, Thurs- comes to him, as it la a sign of five winters, and now my feet are as and dignified learning, which smooth as any ones. Ellsworth Dunday, with fresh courage. As Mr. Jamieson bad said, the lines were Invariably Increases his practise. ham, Hiram, Me., Sept 80, 1909. closing up. That I was to be caught and almost finished in the closing was How It Happened. Progress In Railroading. happily unknown to us all. "Yes, says the lady whose dress He was limping down the street It was late when I got up. I lay In case Is covered with strange foreign with one arm in a sling and both eyes my bed, looking around the four walls labels, "the way railroads are run In mourning. of the room, and trying to imagine be- nowadays Is a great Improvement Whats the matter? queried a hind what one of them a secret cham- over what they were 60 years ago. friend. Automobile accident?" ber might lie. Certainly, in daylight, "But surely you had no experience No" replied the other, sadly. "I Sunnyside deserved Its name; never as a traveler 60 years ago, says her met a man who couldnt take a joke. was a house more cheery and open, friend. less sinister in general appearance. "I dont mean that But nowadays, No matter how long your neck bs There was not a corner apparently dont you notice, when there Is a or how sore your throat, Hamlins may Wizard above-boarOil will cure and not and it was that surely quickly. It open wreck It la always had at some point and yet, somewhere behind its hand- convenient to a cluster of farm houses drives out all soreness and inflammation. somely papered walls I believed firmly where the victims can go for coffee Many a woman Is single from choice that there lay a hlddeh room, with and to get warm? the choice made by a man who all the possibilities It would Involve. chose another. I made a mental note to have the EAGER TO WORK. house measured during the day to disFood. Health Regained by Right cover any discrepancy between the A POSTAL CARD BRINGS outer and inner walls, and I tried to The average healthy man or woman COMPLETE pJCC UST ON exact recall again the wording of the la usually eager to be busy at some RAW paper Jamieson had found. useful task or employment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) But let dyspepsia or indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes y At the Mark. Touth is eternal to him who believes a burden. 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