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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH ,gra) Freshen a Heavy Skin a With the antiseptic, fascinating Talcum Powder, an exquisitely scented, economical face, skin, baby and dusting powder and perfume. Renders other perfumes superfluous. One of the Cutlcura Toilet Trio (Soap. Ointment, Talcum). Advertisement. Cutl-cur- By Elizabeth Jordan THE THING ( SYNOPSIS. Incapacitated mentally by Bhock, as a result of ex- periences during the World war, Renshaw makes a proposition to David Campbell, wealthy, elderly man of leisure, that tor a year he assume responsibility for him "buy (Renshaw) practically g him. Doctor Stanley, friend of Campbells, indorses the which Campbell, proposition, with some natural misgivings, The arrangement Is accepts. that the young man become an Inmate of the Campbell household, with the nominal duty of secretary. Renshaw meets Verity, Campbell's granddaughter, and gets the Impression that she does not like him. Jenks, the butler, Renshr also feels, Is distinctly hostffe. Renshaw has a feeling that the servants are spying on him. Jenks warns him that there are "queer things going on In the house. That night he Is disturbed by the appearance on the wall of his room of a small blue circle of light. Mysterious noises In the corridor outside his door cause him to but he discovers Investigate, nothing unusual. His employer asks him to ignore anything he does not understand. Campbell tells Renshaw that the household Is in some respects "unusual," but makes light of his story of the mysterious sounds. Renshaw meets Madame Hvoeslef, a foreigner, with an air of life-lon- CHAPTER IV -- Continued Madame nvoeslef was walking 6lowly toward the staircase, lie accompanied her In silence. On the lowest step she stopped and looked at him. The look was a peculiar one, Intense, doubtful, almost suspicious. Under It he straightened, and his own eyes hardened as they squarely met hers, lie objected to being so obviously weighed by this foreigner, and he saw no reason why he should not show It. Her glance changed suddenly. She became again the fascinating woman of the dinner hour. "Mr. Campbell has told me, she began graciously, In her rather throaty, velvet-sof- t voice and excellent English, "that you will perhaps be so kind as to do me a service. Renshaw inclined his head. I am here to be of use, he said formally. Madame Hvoes-lef- s You are so good. manner warmed still more. She sent a swift glance up and down the deserted hall. It is a little journey to the city that I ask, she went on hurriedly and in a very low tone. "You will not mind thnt, tomorrow morning to take the train at ten oclock and to return at five? You can be back, you see, in time for dinner. I am entirely at your service. I will get the rest of my instructions after breakfast, I suppose, he obtone and served in a matter-of-fawithout lowering his voice. Its clear pitch seemed to alarm her. She looked about apprehensively. Yes, she murmured; after breakfast In the study. Thank you, then and good night. She threw in her most charming smile with that, but Renshaws unaccustomed lips could not return the smile. Good night, Madame," he said with grave courtesy, and returned to the living room. He was conscious that she did not at once continue her little journey up the stairs. Instead, she remained motionless, looking after him. He opened the door into the long room with an actual sense of escape, and Immediately regretted that he had returned. Verity, still at the piano, glanced up at the sound of his entrance, and he met her eyes. They darkened as If with annoyance, and her smooth brow puckered under the Eame emotion. The expression passed as quickly as It came, but lie Interpreted It aright. She disliked him as much as he disliked her. She disliked him so much, indeed, that his casual return to a room she was in almost angered her. Well, he would not annoy her long. Without a second glance at her, he crossed the room to Campbells side. Any instructions, sir? Campbell revealed the fact that he had not been as drowsy as he had seemed. Madame Hvoeslef told you just now that she wanted you to go Into town tomorrow, didnt she?" Yes, sir. You wont mind?" No, sir; of course not. Why should I Id hate It like the devil, CampA visit to bell cheerfully admitted. town knocks me out for a month. The infernal noise 'alone is a nightmare. But of course that's nothing to a young chap like you." He had forgotten or was deliberately Ignoring the young chaps admitted lack of nerve fitness, and in either case Renshaw was gratefuL Be Included Miss Campbell In bis ct -- r by Th Century Co.) WNU Service cautloa farewell as he was leaving the room, but she seemed to have forgotten his presence. She was trying a new song in an undertone and did not raise her eyes from the notes. Gut the music of her wonderful voice followed him Into the hall, and he still seemed to hear It as lie went upstairs. He entered his room with a warning sense of comfort The lights were lit a fire blazed In the big fireplace, the sheets of his bed had been folded back. It was not yet eleven oclock. He Would read for half an hour, and then, he hoped, have a good night's sleep. Soon he began to feel drowsy and he turned off the reading lamp, but he could still see distinctly In the fire-lroom. The house was very quiet His subconscious mind dallied with memories of the day bits of Campbells confidences, baby hands, the watchfulness of James the footman, the hushed, throaty voice of Madame - it We-we- es nvoeslef It wns at this instant that he again observed the blue circle. It had appeared as suddenly as on the night before, but in a different spot on the same wall. For a few moments he watched it, his eyes narrowing with an Interest he had not felt the night before. Tomorrow he must look around and find the source of that reflection." In the meantime, he would once more compose himself for slumber. He may have slept half an hour before he heard the first sound in the outer hall. It was an unmistakable sound the sound of a very heavy body falling. He sat up with a Jerk and a muttered oath that held more Impatience than alarm. It perfectly expressed his feelings. He had, Indeed, been so reassured by Campbells words that morning that it was difficult to feel any emotion but annoyance at this untimely interruption to sleep. But the noise In the ball would not be ignored. The thing that was making it had begun to move, to crawl along, to pant heavily. Renshaw pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows. In the gloom of his room he could plainly see the transom above Ills door, but no reflected gleam came through It. The lights in the hall had been turned out. Even If he rose and opened the door, he could not clearly see what was in the hall. And It was none of his business, anyway. His mind clung to that fact. It was none of liis business Anything that haplie didnt need to pened In the hall get up. lie didnt want to get up. In fact, the notion of getting up was rather horrible. Therefore, of course, he must get up. Convalescence, he was beginning to discover, meant doing Immediately anything and all things one particularly did not desire to do. lie rose quietly, and without switching on a light went noiselessly to the door opening Into the hall and grasped the knob. Ills intention was to open that door with a quick jerk and thus surprise the thing that was moving outside. But, though he unconsciously braced himself ns he seized the knob, the door did not yield, lie exerted all his strength, The door held fast, lie drew back and stared at it. It had not yielded, for the best and simplest of reasons. It was locked and locked from the outside! lie had opened his windows before he went to bed. The cold night air figblowing in upon his pajama-claure reminded him that the reflections which seemed his sole recourse could be Indulged In more comfortably In bed than out of it. He went back to bed. There seemed nothing else to do. His room, he had already observed, did not Include the convenience of a bell a rather striking omission, by the way. He listened. The thing itself was coming nearer, was very near his door, was now at the door Itself. There, for a moment. It lay motionless, though he continued to hear the panting breaths. It suggested a sick animal, a very large and very sick animal. All right. If It wanted to pant at his door, let It 1 d pant. agala The thing outside was climbing. ne felt It bump against his door, and the bump was heavy and without But In his heart Renshaw objected He objected to that to the thing. locked door, and to an odd sense of helplessness that stole over him. He tried to think, and evolved only the wild Idea that possibly old Campbell was testing his nerve an Idea killed as soon as It was bora Old Campbell was not that sort. The noise outside the door began agala but now Its character had changed. The knob turned, softly but Apparently the thing persistently. outside wanted to get la Other sounds followed scratching sounds. For a moment he listened In puzzled confusion, unable to Interpret them. Then, under his breath, he swore The thing seemed to have no objection whatever to being heard. In some way It was drawing Itself up to the transom. There were padded sounds against the glass. There seemed to be a definite effort to open the transom. He was sitting np again, with unswerving eyes upon that transom. And now, at last, he saw something. It was a hand and arm, very large and dark. The hand clutched avidly but futilely at the top of the transom, In an apparent effort to release the catch. Rut the catch was on Renshaws side. The transom did not open. For another instant the clutching hand moved and even seemed to beckon. Then it disappeared, and simultaneously there was again the sound of a heavy fall, this time Just outside the door. That was followed by the crawling sound, growing fainter by degrees, and then by silence. Renshaw moistened his lips. The situation wns simply incredible, but his mind worked on it with gratifying briskness. Seemingly the thing, whatever it was, fell out of some room into the hall. Yet no animal or human being heavy enough to make thnt noise in dropping could possibly crawl through a transom. Nevertheless, the thing had apparently made an effort to crawl through his transom. Also, It had mnde an effort to open his door. Thnt seemed sufficient proof that the thing Itself had not locked his door. Some one else had done so. Who? Presumably the door had been locked to guard him. Why, and from what? And If he had to be guarded from some animal or madman, why the devil hadnt Campbell told him so? Renshaw found no nnswer to these questions, though they occupied his mind to a degree that forbade sleep. For a long time he brooded upon them, while renewed silence settled over the house. Then he rose and went to the door. Instantly the knob yielded to his hand. The door swung back. Beyond It was the reassuring sweep of the long, black, empty hall; and around him folded the peaceful silence of a soundly sleeping household. 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Xlnekputter, the faithful guardian of the peace and digI baffled by gosh nity of Petunia. em plumb Into the tall timber before they got away." Kansas City Star. ! Top-heav- ! Con-tab- le 5oolliinq And I Renshaw Asks a Question. Renshaw dressed, the uext morning, wearing a certain line of determination ubout his jaws and nursing a valiant resolve to keep steady. lie had slept well, when he was left to sleep, but he did not enjoy his nights experience in retrospect any more than he had enjoyed it at the time. lie loathed being locked In his room. And he decided that the latter experience at least should not happen to him again. lie wns going to town thnt morning, lie would equip himself while there with a little set of tools that would open any locked door with reasonable promptness. Also, he would get a flashlight, a revoher, and u few other trifles that seemed to fit neatly Into his new environment. The alertness of his mind In working out these plans vaguely gratified him, until he began to think about It. Then the old sense of lethargy crept Into his consciousness, combined with whose twin wns the lie did not want to think about all these complications. lie wanted peace and a clean-cu- t job. Rut, since the undesired elements were forcing themselves Into the situation, he forced his will to the task of meeting them. He considered the notion of reporting the night episodes to and promptly decided Campbell, against it. He had already had his ruling on that point. self-pit- y Cynical Farmers The $(15,000,000 gifts of James R. Puke and George Eastman to the American people led George Jay Gould HOW DOES me FOR itf INDIGESTION -- For 5k in L 00 D. HcAlinq' Disorders S. Business College school of frncirNcv A II commercial branches. Catalog free. N. Main SI. SAL I LAKE CITY. UTAH PARKERS o. 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