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Show The Fmifo? Fbliil Copyright. 1915, by Path Exchange, Inc. All moYinr" plctun'rishts and aJl foreign copyrights strictly reserved. fc (CONTINUED fbom yesterday.) Dr. Dossing- came hurriedly to the bedside He made another examination examin-ation of the sinking man and his face was very grave. He glanced at the nurse and slowly shook his head. Slight as was his motion, It did not escape the invalid. "Tell me the truth, doctor." West demanded. "Am I really dying." . The doctor nodded "Dying! I MUST see Edgar Clay Phone him." Dubiously the doctor hesitated for a" moment; then nodding acquiescence, acquies-cence, took his hat and hurried to the nearest phone at the neighboring cigar counter. 1 And thuB It was that Russell Irwin and Edgar Clay were interrupted in j their conference the second time. . "It's a call from a dying man, I don't know him but perhaps I'd better bet-ter go," announced Clay, turning from the phone. "Yes, go," said Irwin, "we can do no good here!" And while Clay was on his way to the humble cottage of the'1 stricken man. Dr Desslng had sent yet another an-other phone message. This time it was to Horace Stone "I thought I'd tell you, Horace, that your old clerk Is dying. His end Is very near. It Is only a. question of minutes." "Too bad, too bad," answered Stone in a voice that seemed to have something some-thing of relief In it. Too bad. Poor fellow. Keo on doing everything PETER WEST RELIEVES HIS SOUL BY A CONcr... 'I I OF STONE'S CRIME. tONKSS10N ,j I you can for him, doctor, and send me the bills as you have been doing.' "All right," answered the doctor, and then as an afterthought he added, "and, by the way, West begged me to send for Edgar Clay. He said ho had to see him before he died." "Some foolish fancy, no doubt," quickly interrupted Stone. "He'll have forgotten It by now. Pay no attention to Jt. Tever mind sending for Clay." "But I already have," answered the doctor, and he was surprised at the suddenness with which the conversation conversa-tion terminated. Stone had hung up on him. Clay and death made a merry race of it for the bedside of Stone's old clerk. And Clay won. He did not need more than one glance at the stricken man, did not need the warning warn-ing gesture of the nurse, to make him , realize that his victory had been by' the narrowest of margins Feebly raising one trembling hanS, West haltingly grasped Clay's extended ex-tended palm and indicated to the ' flpotot and nurse that lis wuwiwi tj be alone with his gutst "Take that pad nd-pen from off the table, and write Ts I dictate," the dying man commanded. And this is the statement he made with the last ;j ounce of breath iinhls emaciated if' body: M-'r jj" "I relieve my soul by the con- . ' fesslon that my employer, Horace Stone, Btole JjlOO.OOfl In securities J from Edgar Clay, Sr., to Thos son I am now dictating this con- fesslon. Stone obtained the sig- nature of transfer while Clay was A intoxicated, one hour before said ! -. Clay was killed by train. I have K been bribed by Stone to keep this 4 quiet." y" Summoning all of hls njng ' (strength. West took the pen from the ,young man s hand, and with a firmness firm-ness that was remarkable In one so near death penned his name, in a j good, clear signature at the bottom, of the confession. And then as If his wearied spirit !fhlrdealea by the "tins of a hfv L nu ' P8ter W8t. smilingly in tKPacefulIy Psed away. 'gpssr?& i sxs, ind hutiTi srffirsJ building, had Mm hUdt,"S. S hadf gazed long and - 31 him as ho strode awav n?eatly after I hate wore depicted on Anxlety an1 jl face as he shrugged Ei attorney' ' I impotent rage and au', ahouldeis in . self: muerod to him- r "I must find out nat , , .. '1; I onat he knows." . CHAPTER iv. And now, imppiioa Dv tl , 'I inexorable fate that hii v. SWlft and , by Folly's hand, event- en "leased fl swift and fast to n' T'"0re inovinS S Slowly the pattern In1" crblS- "jH these people's lives w woof of : pleted. Poor fools all i be,"S com" .' H homage at Foliy cm y had done rH about to pay the price and wera 'H Mrs. Clay waa back t n i H playing heavily a., w l. cra Blake's. .H losing steadily ci.iy Jre r wont. and rH partner's offico showing8 uack at hi -sH confession, and layinir F hlm West's M by the knowledge that hna to beneflt iH ly come to him. Ston,. So strange- mM desk, busily j scheming -sback at hit H to learn whit Clav ha,i ? flnd a way H , 5 --vnd out- H I |