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Show The Primitive Man. "Jones is so dreadfully primitive." Whats his latest? "Why, we were at the opera house the other night and a stage hand removed a table and Jonhs yelled 'Supe! supe! We were dreadfully mortified. I was at a dinner the other night and Jones sat next to me. When he saw the row of spoons and forks and knives beside his plate he beckoned to the waiter. Say, boy, he hoarsely muttered, I guess you spilled the spoon holder! Well, its lucky he's rich. THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE &KmnY ROBERTS $ . RINEHART nwmmruBY r (t ,WrM wV'f'V T MN-tmur- 8YN0PSIS. MIh Innes, spinster and guardian of Gertrude and Halsey, established summer headquarters at Sunnyslde. Arnold Armstrong was found shot to death In the hall. Gertrude and her fiance. Jack Bailey, had conversed In the billiard room shortly before the murder. Detective Jamieson accused Miss Innes of holding back evidence. Cashier Bailey of Paul Armstrong's bank, defunct, was arrested for embezzlement. Paul Armstrong's 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 unconscious at the bottom of the circular staircase. She said something had brushed by her In the dark on the stairway and she fainted. Bailey Is suspected of Armmurder. Thomas, the lodgekeep-er- , strong's was found dead with a note In his Lucien Walbearing the name pocket lace. A ladder found out of place deepens the mystery. The stables were burned, and In the dark Miss Innes shot an intruder. Halsey mysteriously disappeared. His auto was found wrecked by a freight train. It developed Halsey had an argument in the library with a woman before his disappearance. New cook disappears. Miss Innes learned Halsey was alive. Dr. Walker's 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. Hunting for her. Miss Innes ran Into a man and fainted. A confederate of Dr. Walker confessed his part In the mystery. He stated that the Carrington woman had been killed, that Walker feared her, and that he believed that Paul Armstrong had been killed by a hand guided by Walker. Halsey was found in a distant hospital. Paul Armstrong was not dead. Miss Innes discovered secret rooms In which the Traders bank treasure was believed to be. Mrs. Watson, dying, said she killed Arnold Armstrong, who years before had married her sister under the alias of Wallace. Lucien Wallaee was born of the marriage. Miss Innes discovered a secret panel to the mysterious room and unwittingly locked herself within. During the hunt for her the searchArmers ran across Paul Armstrong. strong pitched forward down the circular sethe In neck. his staircase, breaking cret room was found the Traders' bank had taken. loot, which Armstrong CHAPTER XXXIII. Continued. grave and quiet, and he nodded when he saw the safe. Will you come with me for a moment, Miss Innes? he asked soberly, and on my assenting, he led the way to the east wing. There were lights moving around below, and some of the maids were standing gaping down. They screamed when they saw me, and drew back to let me pass. There was a sort of hush over the scene; Alex, behind me, muttered something I could not hear, and brushed past me Then I realized without ceremony. that a man was lying doubled up-the foot of the staircase, and that Alex was stooping over him. As I came slowly down, Winters stepped back, and Alex straightened himself, looking at me across the body with impenetrable eyes. In his hand he held a shaggy gray wig, and before me on the floor lay the man whose headstone stood in Casanova churchyard Paul Armstrong. Winters told the story in a dozen words. In his headlong flight down the circular staircase, with Winters Just behind, Paul Armstrong had pitched forward violently, struck his head against the door to the east veranda, aqd probably broken his neck. He had died as Winters reached him. As the detective finished, I saw Halsey, pale and shaken, in the card-roodoorway, and for the first time I put that night I lost my my arms 'around my boy, and for a moment he had to support me. A second later, over Halseys shoulder, I saw something that turned my emotion into other channels, for. behind him, in the shadowy cardroom, were Gertrude and Alex, the gardener, and there Is no use mincing matters he was kissing her! Twice I I was unable to speak. opened my mouth; then I turned Halsey around and pointed. They were quite unconscious of us; her head was on his shoulder, his face against her hair. As it happened, it was Mr. Jamieson who broke up the tableau. over to Alex and He stepped touched him 05 the arm. how And now, he said quietly, long are you and I to play our little comedy, Mr. Bailey? at l. CHAPTER XXXIV. The Odds and Ends. Walker's sensational escape that night to South America, of the Of Dr. recovery of over $1, 000, 000 in cash and securities in the safe from the chimney room the papers have kept the public well informed. Of my share In discovering the secret chamber they have been singularly silent. The inner history has never been told." Mr. JamiesoD got all kinds of credit, and some of it he deserved, but if Jack Ballsy, as Alex, had not traced Halsey and insisted on the disinterring of Paul Armstrong's casket, if he had not suspected the truth from the start, where would the detective have been? When Halsey learned the truth, he insisted on going the next morning, weak as he was, to Louise, and by night she was at Sunnyside, under Gertrudes particular care, while her mother had gone to Barbara Fitz-hugh- What Halsey. said to Mrs. Arm Strong I never knew, but that he was sonsiderate and chivalrous I feel con fldent. It was Halseys way always with women. ) "Aint it? was Halsey's idea that John Bailey come to the house as a gardener, and pursue his investigations as he could. BABYS HAIR ALL CAME OUT His smooth upper lip had been sufficient disguise, with his change of When my first baby was six clothes, and a hair-cu- t by a country months old he broke out on his head with little bumps. They would dry barber. So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who up and leave a scale. Then it would had been our ghost. Not only had he break out again and it spread all over alarmed Louise and himself, he ad- his bead. All the hair came out and mitted on the circular staircase, but his head was scaly all over. Then bis he had dug the hole In the trunkroom face broke out all over in red bumps wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria. and It kept spreading until it was on The note Liddy had found in Ger- his hands and arms. I bought several trude's scrap basket was from him, boxes of ointment, gave him blood and it was he who had startled me medicine, and had two doctors to treat Into unconsciousness by the clothes him, but he got worse all the time. He chute, and, with Gertrudes help, had had it about six months when a friend carried me to Louises room. Ger- told me about Cutlcura. I sent and trude, I learned, had watched all got a bottle of Cutlcura Resolvent, a night beside me, in an extremity of cake of Cutlcura Soap and a box of Cutlcura Ointment. In three days anxiety about me. That old Thomas had seen his mas- after using them he began to improve. ter, and thought he had seen the Sun- He began to take long naps and to nyside ghost, there could be no doubt. stop scratching his head. After taking Of that story of Thomas, about see- two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes of ing Jack Halley in the footpath be- Ointment and three cakes of Soap be tween the club and Sunnyside, the was sound and well, and never had night Liddy and I heard the noise on any breaking out of any kind. His the circular staircase that, too, was hair came out in little curls all over right. On the night before Arnold his head. I don't think anything else Armstrong was murdered, Jack Bailey would have cured him except Cutlcura. had made an attempt to search for I have bought Cutlcura Ointment the secret room. He secured Arnold's and Soap several times Bince to use keys from his room at the club and for cuts and sores and have never got into the house, armed with a golf-stic- known them to fail to cure what I put for sounding the walls. He ran them on. I think Cutlcura is a great against the hamper at the head of remedy and would advise any one to the stairs, caught his cuff-linin it, use it Cutlcura Soap is the best that and dropped the with a I have ever used for toilet purposes." crash. He was glad enough to get (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Harmon, R. F. D. away without an alarm being raised, t, Atoka, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1910. and he took the owl train to town. The oddest thing to me was that Breaking It Gently. Mr. Jamieson had known for some He Was Kissing Her. was stopped on the street Callahan time that Alex was Jack Bailey. But He and Louise had no conversation days Halsey lay In the box car, tied the face of the was by Father Clancy. The good priests countenance took on a sad exprestogether until that night. Gertrude hand and foot, suffering tortures of very queer Indeed when, that night sion. I mean Jack had gone for thirst, delirious at times, and discov- in the cardroom, the detective turned and Alex Whats this, I hear, Callahan, a walk, although it was nine oclock, ered by a tramp at Johnsville only In to him and said: asked he, "about your breaking Hoand anybody but a pair of young geese time to save his life. How long are you and I going to head last night? And the two gan's fallTo go back to Paul Armstrong. At would have known that dew was play our little comedy, Mr. Bailey? of you friends for years! ing, and that it is next to impossible the last moment his plans had been Well, it is all over now. Paul ArmCallahan seemed somewhat taken to get rid of a summer cold. frustrated. Sunnyside, with its hoard strong rests in Casanova churchyard, Sure, I was compelled to do At half after nine, growing weary in the chimney room, had been rented and this time there is no mistake. I back. of my own company, I went down- without his knowledge! Attempts to went to the funeral, because I wanted It, your riverence, he explained apol"but out of consideration stairs to find the young people. At dislodge me having failed, he was to be sure he was really buried, and ogetically, the door of the living room I paused. driven to breaking into his own house, I looked at the step of the shaft for that same frindliness, I broke it Lipplncotts. Gertrude and Jack had returned and The ladder in the chute, the burning where I had sat that night, and won- gintly, your riverence. on a of the stable and the entrance through dered if it wag all real. Sunnyside is were there, sitting together The Patient Townsmen. divan, with only one lamp lighted. the cardroom window all were in the for sale no, I shall not buy it. Little "So you got to work in spite of the They did not see or hear me, and I course of a desperate attempt to get Lucien Armstrong is living with his beat a hasty retreat to the library. into the ehlmney room. who is recovering snow drifts?" Yes. But I dont see why the city Louise and her mother had, from But here again I was driven back. from troubles that had exgradually Louise was sitting in a dep chair, the first, been the great stumbling-blocks- . tended over the entire period of her folks should not follow the example of The plan had been to send second marriage. Anne Watson lies country people and put up a strong looking the happiest I had ever seen her, with Halsey on the arm of the Louise away until it was too late for not far from the man she killed, and kick for good roads." her to interfere, but she came back who as surely caused her death. chair, holding her close. The next day, by degrees, I got the to the hotel at C just at the Thomas, the fourth victim of the conwhole story. wrong time. There was a terrible spiracy, is buried on the hill. With Paul Armstrong had a besetting scene. The girl was told that some- Nina Carrington, five lives were sacevil the love of money. Common thing of the kind was necessary; that rificed in the course of this grim conenough, but he loved money, not for the bank was about to elose and her spiracy. what it would buy, but for its own sake. stepfather would either avoid arrest There will be two weddings before An examination of the books showed and disgrace in this way, or kill him- long, and Liddy has asked for my no irregularities in the past year self. Fanny Armstrong was a weak- heliotrope poplin to wear to the since John had been cashier, but be- ling, but Louise was more difficult to church. I knew she would. She has fore that, in the time of Anderson, the manage. She had no love for her step- wanted It for three years, and she old cashier, who had died, much father, but her devotion to her moth- was quite ugly the time I spilled cofForced fee on it. We are strange juggling had been done with er was entire, very quiet, Just the the records. The' railroad in New into acquiescence by her mother's ap- two of us. Liddy still clings to her Mexico had apparently drained the peals, overwhelmed by the situation, ghost theory, and points to my wet banker's private fortune, and he de- the girl consented and fled. and muddy boots In the trunkroom as From somewhere in Colorado she proof. I am gray, I ddmit, but 1 termined to retrieve it by one stroke. This was nothing less than the loot- sent an anonymous telegram to Jack haven't felt as well in a dozen years. similalirvg rtmFoodarReguia- ing of the bank's securities, turning Bailey at the Traders bank. Trapped Sometimes, when I am bored, I ring ihe Stomachs and Bowels of ling them into money, and making his es as she was, she did not want to see for Liddy, and we talk things over. an teleman innocent The arrested. 1 1 cape. CHI When Warner married Rosie, Liddy NFA K f. Nl But the law has long arms. Paul gram, received on Thursday, had sent sniffed and said what I took for faithArmstrong evidently studied the situa- the cashier to the bank that night in fulness In Rosie bad been nothing but Promotes Digestion, Cheerful-nes- s tion carefully. Just as the only good a frenzy. mawkishness. I have not yet outlived and Rest Contains neither Indian is a dead Indian, so the only Louise arrived at Sunnyside and Liddys contempt because I gave them Opium, Morphine nor Mineral safe defaulter is a dead defaulter. He found the house rented. Not knowing silver knives and forks as a wedding Not decided to die, to all appearances, and what to do, she sent for Arnold at the gift. SOU DrSAMVLmtE when the hue and cry subsided, he Greenwood club, and told him a little, So we sit and talk, and sometimes would be able to enjoy his money al- not all. She told him that there was Aimpltt Sd threatens to leave, and often Liddy MxSimm most anywhere he wished. something wrong, and that the bank discharge her, but we stay together ftothfll Salts was about to close. That his father somehow. I am The first necessity was an accom-pliceAmu $td 0 of renting a talking fypptrmuU -The connivance of Dr. Walker was responsible. Of the conspiracy house next year, and Liddy says to be BiCafivaaUSrdsv was suggested by his love for Louise. she said nothing. To her surprise, sure there Is no ghost. To be Hrm Sttd perfect CUrjfd Sufar The man was unscrupulous, and with Arnold already knew, through Bailey ly frank, I never Wmkrfrttn flavor really lived until the girl as a bait, Paul Armstrong that night, that things were not right. that summer. Time has since passed A perfect Remedy forConstipa-liosoon had him fast. The plan was ap- Moreover, he suspected what Louise I began this story. My neighbors are . Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea parently the acme of simplicity: A did not, that the money was hidden at packing up for another summer. Liddy Worms .Convulsions .Feverishsmall town in the west, an attack of Sunnyside. He had a scrap of paper is having the awnings put up, and the heart disease, a body from a medical that indicated a concealed room some- window-boxeness and LOSS OF SLEEP filled. Liddy or no Lidcollege dissecting room shipped in a where. a for dy, I shall advertise His inherited cupidity was aroused. house in the country, and I Facsimile Signature of trunk to Dr. Walker by a colleague in dont care San Francisco, and palmed off for the Eager to get Halsey and Jack Bailey if it has a Circular Staircase. CT supposed dead banker. What was out of the house, he went up to the THE END. The Centaur Company, east entry, and in the billiard room simpler? The woman, Nina Carrington, wss gave the cashier what he had refused Hunter Kill Big Grizzly. NEW YORK. the cog that slipped. What she only earlier in the evening the address of The monster grizzly bear that fot suspected, what she really knew, we Paul Armstrong In California and a years has been making many sleepless never learned. She was a chamber- tslegram which had been forwarded nights for the farmers, miners and to the club for Bailey, from Dr. Walk- residents of the northwestern Trinity maid in the hotel at C , and it was Food atdj er. the under to was her intention in blackmail It juwratitced evidently response to one Bailey region has at last been slain. Dr. Walker. His position at that time had sent, and it said that Paul ArmThis monarch of the forest and Exact Copy of Wrxpp. was uncomfortable: To pay the wom- strong was very ill. slayer of small domestic animals was C an to keep quiet would be confession. He killed by Thomas McDonald, a wealthy Bailey was almost desperate. He denied the whole thing, and she decided to go west and find Paul Arm- mining man who has been camping went to Halsey. strong and to force him to disgorge. along the Salmon range In Trinity. It was that that had taken Halsey But the catastrophe at the bank ocSingle-handeMcDonald, who is a to the doctor the night he disap- curred sooner than he had expected. mountaineer of marked ability, killed peared. He accused the doctor of the On. the moment of starting west, at the bear after a lively tussle. in your mouth removed while deception, and, crossing the lawn, had Andrews station, where Mr. Jamieson The bear weighed 1,000 pounds, and said something cruel to Louise. Then, had located the car, he read that the Ib the finest and biggest specimen you wait thats true. A Cas-carfurious at her apparent connivance, bank bad closed, and, going back, sur- ever seen in the Trinity mountain retaken when the tongue is he had started for the station. Dr. rendered himself. gions. The animal had for years de- thick ooated with the nasty John Bailey had known Paul Arm fied all efforts to capture or kill him. Walker and Paul Armstrong the latin stomach, ter still lame where I had shot him strong Intimately. He did not believe Maryville Correspondence San Fran- squeamish feeling hurried across to the embankment, that the money was gone; in fact, it cisco Call. relief. brings easy, natural certain only of one thing. Halsey must was hardly possible in the interval nature to way help help you. 903 not tell the detective what he sus- since the securities had been taken. Safe Offer. roc CASCARBTS Where box week' treatwas do reit? And from some chance you offer Jones Why on earth pected until the money had been ment. All druggists. Biggest seller moved from the chimney room. They remark let fall some months earlier such a large reward for the return of in the world. Million boxes a month. stepped into the road in front of the by Arnold Armstrong at a dinner, that horrid, yapping, snapping cur? sure there was a hidden car to stop it, and fate played into Bailey felt Brown To please my wife. Jones But snch a large reward will their hands. The car struck the train, room at Sunnyside. He tried to see and they had only to dispose of the the architect of the building, but, like be sure to bring him back. Brown 0. no, it wont. He's dead unconscious figure in the road. This the contractor, if he knew of the they did as I have told. For threa zoom, he refused any information. It I drowned him myself. Stray Stories k k golf-stic- pseudo-gardene- As Alex and I reached the second floor, Mr. Jamieson met us. He was 8LIGHT DIFFERENCE Me mudder fought Id be a capn of industry. You missed it, eh? Yep; I became a major general of Indolence! On the Dog. small West Philadelphia boy may be an author some day. He has Just fiuished his first essay. It is on a deg. 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