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Show 5 1 BEGIN HERE TODAY Was the. body of that gay young lieutenant, BARNEY LOL'TRELLK, lying cold and stiff in the snow and ic . This was the fear In the hart of ETHEL CAKEW, when she rushed from the home of her grim old grandfather, Ll CAS CULUBW, SENIOR, who hsd been struck with anger and terror when he learned that Loutrelle Wtta going to Resurrection Rock, that ghostly Island ln Lke Huron, xvlth Its unoccupied house. Loutrelle and Ethel had met In these northern woods of Michigan ln London he had received. In a seance, messages from thel's father. Instructing him to go to the Hock a trip which he hoped would clear up his obscuro parentage. Old Lucas Cullen. winner of millions mil-lions ln violent battles for timber land ln the ory days, tries to prevent Lou-trelle Lou-trelle from reaching the Rock and Ethel fenrs that Barney has been klll- . ) b) KINCHItOB, acting under Cullen's orders. or-ders. Sh" tries to reach the Kock herself. GO OX WITH THE STORY CHATFK VI Ethel reached the lake and removed her skis Kincheloe was still far ahead of her, but lie restored to Ethel ' her fears of the night. Miss Piatt's husband seemed to be losing deter- ' minatlon, he no longer was hurrying! but was glancing back often at her, i and he aa pandering Oil from the' direct line to Resurrection Rock. She noticed that r-umething on the shore teemed to disturb him and looking look-ing about. Ethel observed that Aaa ! Redblnl nad emerged from the trees and was hastening after them. Asa .V is . 1 1 rvmg his rifle.. You want me to stop him?" Asa Inquired when he came up. Bthel shook her In ad. Just come with me." ln silence they completed their Journey Jour-ney to the mysterious house on Res- j urrecllon Rock. There were no signs of life and nhen Ethel and Asa led-bird led-bird reached the main entrance, the I glri received the first shock. The Klass panel over the knob had 1 heen broken After a moment's hesl-tatlon, hesl-tatlon, Ethel thrust her arm through the hole, so plainly prepared for turn- I As sho did so. she realized that neither Bagley nor Barney Loutrelb-I Loutrelb-I would have need to enter ln this fash- I Ion. "Bagley got key from Wheedon." Asa explained. 1 Barney Loutrelle came yesterday and Bngley right hero let him In." The hail was wide and pleasant, furnish, fur-nish, d with gay. bright wall paper picturing tall herons standing ln m r reeds There were pretty painted chairs In gray and gold. maaUhlng a table and a lounge which had cushions cush-ions of black silk embroidered with gold herons. I'ndcrfoot was a hnnd-tome hnnd-tome silky rug ln the blue and yel- low designs of the Chinese, weaver, it showed no wear or soil; nothing showed show-ed use Ethel stood amazed at the beauty and brightness; she found Bertell thinking f a woman In connection with this house on Resurrection Hock a wo ma n ( poi'b and k 1 - Draperb-s hung In a wld" dooruny oponlng Into a big room at the front Bright, diffused light fell upon a large heavy carved table near the- center Of the room; upon chairs and a couch on one sld'-, upon a grand piano at the east end with a tall lamp and a music mu-sic cabinet nearby. in the wall to Ethel's left, which was the interior I wall, erae a large beautiful fireplace with a high marble mantel. The room showed no sign of dlsor- j dcr or of violence dene there; yet the I sight of the room ltaelf amazingly die-turbed die-turbed her She did not know why, at first; she merely felt frightened as by 'something uncanny Asa. I'v been In this room. I've ineer been ln this house before, but I'VS been in this room:-' Ethel cx-! cx-! claimed. "Ys?" Asa Inquired, unublc to comprehend her I It was plain to her that this room once had been part of a French build- j ln French of the sixteenth or Sev - I , nteenth t entury Ethel's recognition .f this portly xpl-ilrn 1 h i impr. sslon of familiarity here, when she was a child at her aunt's chateau, aunt Cecilia Ce-cilia had taken her on visits to chateaux cha-teaux of many of uncle Hllalre's friends. h- might indeed have been ln this very room before It wss hopeless hope-less for her to try to recall from her memories of when she was five and eight. Her mind was not now dwelling upon up-on what might have been her own association as-sociation with this room. What was Barney Loutrelle's? He had been sent across the ocean to the room Why? She moved nearer the mantel and gaxed at the design Incised over the fireplace, it bore a dignified, formal device like yes. very like the design wrought upon Barney Loutrelle's ring. They searched the house thoroughly No one, living or dead, was In the 'nouse, nowncre jiu.u i luiiiu uj.wii sign of violence or indication of cause for Barney Loutrelle's disappearance. "Where's he gone, Asa?" Ethel appealed ap-pealed finally. "How do I know?" the Indian returned re-turned Irritably, and Ethel appreciated appreci-ated that his nerves were on edge. 8he heard scratching at the door, and. remembering the dogs, sho recalled re-called the brown mat ln Lad's hair. "Let them ln. Asa." she directed When th door was opened and the dogs ran ln, she thought that they rushed Into tho salon, because she was there; but Lad only brushed against Iher on his way to the further end of the great room, where he thrust his head down and smelled of the floor whimpering and scrambling about In a circle. Lass blundered about near him so excitedly that they followed to see what was there, only to find a space of bare, varnished floor. But her interest in-terest stirred Lad to leap upon her and dash to the door on the south, which communicated with the outalde steps down the Rock to tho summer landing. When she looked through tho glass of this door. Ethel observed for the first time that those steps showed the depressions of deep footsteps. I The dogs jumped Into the snow and 'floundered down the steps to the Ice' where they shook themselves and j rolled over, barking She waa fearful- ly expecting that Lad was leading her to the sort of horror which she had believed to be ln the house when ' he oaine upon chunks of lco standing i lieslJe a hole, about a yard In diameter which had boen chopped through to the water. Y'oung ice had frozen over, not yet ' hnif an inch thick. i?he knelt and I leaned forward with her hands on the edge of the hole. peering down) through the new. glassy crystal Into the dark, ijeep water underneath She i felt footsteps en the floor of ice. and I l looking about, she. saw that Asa after some delay had descended from the J Rock. He came to her side and gazed I Into the hole. "vVn'er he' " " sold ouletlv Rag les i hop It here yesterday to fill buckets buck-ets Bagley did not chop it so big." "Yea; that's It; why? Why. Aaa? she cried, suddenly losing control of herself "Why should any one want tho' hole bigger?" "Nobody would." Redblrd aaa u red positively, "for water " "No." she said. 'No, no. no-.r Sho "You wnnt me to tnp him?" Asa Inrjulrrtl meant first, agreement with Asa. then ' St, end dental of. the Images In her own mind The Indian and she now understood the same events Asa Indeed. had discovered more than she. "What kept you up there"' she Inquired In-quired of him He said he would show her. and to-r. to-r. : her r .i- . M .-, ... i ,,,, in the He led her to the part of the floor, whore the dogs had been sniffing sniff-ing "Somebody washed right here, you see. Somebody did it last night. I think; somebody scrubbed. But no place else " "Somebody burned cloth ln fireplace." fire-place." Asa Informed, going to the hearth and produt ing a handful of ashes which exhibit. -d s woven texture ji i iuiu. ne yrouuceu also a cnarreq bit of shaped wood which had been jtho back of a scrubbing brush. Asa I offered it to her and she put out her .hand to tAke IL and then she could not (touch it. Blood had stained It before It had boen burnt; Klncheloo had put lit ln the fire to burn away blood Asa had let go of It, thinking that she was taking It. and It dropped to , the floor between them It waa to make sure that such trifles as this wore completely burnt, she thought. Hut Kin. heloe wlslv-d to come to the Rock early this morning I She could think these things; but 'she could not say them. She told him about th mat of blood In Iad's hair. Asa wont out and examined the dog. "Nothing there now," he reported wh. n he returner "Hair there all 1 cut off." This brought her to the door to wltnesS for herself that, since her discovery dis-covery sari) thai morning, aomo one had clipped the hair close under the dog's jaw Who had done that? Kln-chelOO? Kln-chelOO? Or Miss riatt" Or her grandfat h er ? 'Soraebodj was i.i'led here. Asa?" "What else to think'" "But who Asa. who?" "Who was here last nlghf" Asa returned re-turned logically She flinched. He meant, of course, her friend of ester lav, Barney Loutrelle. Lou-trelle. OH A ITER VII .1 "Well," Lucas hailed Ethel, on her return. "Well, you're back from your little sunrise expedition. Kincheloe tells me Tell me all about It." 'Grandfather! " she crald, breathless breath-less from her excitement and from hurrying. "He was just here Kin- i h- In. musn't go away; he " W hat's the trouble with you?" her grandfather demanded, selxing her ermf Btep in here and explain what's come over you." He used Just enough force to orer- COm her physical opposition. She 'dlil not struggle violently, as his grasp , warned her that If she exerted more strength, ho would also employ more land overpower her. lie was angry with her tor what she had done In the night and for having gone out carlv thin morning, but he was big and firm-handed and so muci? as usual, that sh" cried out confidently "Grandfather, ou don't know what he's done!" "Who's done?" "Kincheloe!" "Well, well." he demanded "What's he doDM that I don't knew? Tell me all about It," he invited. "Y'ou know about It, all. all!" she cried aloud. "Oh, grandfather!" And she shrank back before him under her share of the horror and guilt of what had been done (To Be Continued) |