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Show C PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH BL UE Cl Chapter VII By Elizabeth Jordan 12 A Message. The secretary dressed for dinner that night with his mind on several new problems, the first of which was the problem of the black leather case. Looked at from every possible angle, he could not wholly solve It, though he was rapidly evolving a working theory. If he were to have any peace and comfort this year, if he were to get back his nervous strength and recover for himself the man he had been, he must do certain things, and do them quickly. Among them, he must once and for all do away with the melodramatic mysteries of Tawno Ker. He must find out what there was In the house that crept along halls and climbed up to transoms nnd stole and then reduplicated leather cases-anturned them. After that, perhaps, he would have some comfort a condition he could not hope for now. This very night, for example, he was probably in for some infernal manifestation that would deprive him of the sleep he so urgently needed. However, he was, in a way, prepared for these. He had two pistols now, and the other articles he had bought. The pistols were loaded and ready. In one wny the fact was reassuring. In another It disturbed him. He did not wish to do any impulsive shooting and subsequently and bitterly regret it. He began to feel that he had made a mistake in buying the pistols. He considered hiding them In his trunk. He ended by hiding one there and slipping the other into a pocket of his evening trousers. It was He a very small, unobtrusive pistol. had been careful to select that kind. And undoubtedly It would be safer in his hands than In the dark and sinister hand he had seen through hi transom window the night before. Dinner that night was again almost gay. Madame Ilvoeslef was her most engaging self. Evidently, with the transference of the black leather case to the Trust companys vaults a great weight had rolled off her mind. Verity and David Campbell responded to her mood. Soft ripples of laughter swept the table, laughter in which did uot join but which he subconsciously enjoyed. It was rather wonderful to hear Verity Campbell laugh, and he had not realized that her beautiful but rather cold face could be so warmed and illumined as he saw It now. Her laugh was delicious soft, low, nnd full of lie listened to Mrs. Pardee mirth, but looking at Verity, and as he looked his dislike of her and his inner masculine resentment of her cool gave place to his first ImSomepulse of genuine admiration. In had stirred admiration like thing him when he watched her play with He began to realize that the beautiful Miss Campbell had two sides. That was disturbing. With the discovery of an attractive side, he could not lend himself to the whole- hearted disapproval of her which lie had expected and desired to feel. Her singing after dinner strengthened this conviction. It, too, reflected her new mood. The Slavic songs to which heretofore she nnd Madame Ilvoeslef had largely confined themselves made way tonight for French and Spanish numbers, In which the theme of love was predominating wedded to that of joy. Listening in his corner, Renshaw felt his lip curl a trifle. Much that girl knew about love ! Tbe foreigner knew. There was a woman who had loved and lived nnd died a few times and been born again, always with a heart attuned to life nnd the master hand. She must have had many lovers. She was the type whose inner fires were fierce nnd consuming and soon exhausted, and readily replenished. He wondered what she and Miss Campbell talked about when they were alone. Certainly not uhout love! The foreigner was too sophisticated to permit Verity Campbells clear eyes to rest on any untidy pages In her book of life. He recalled his vagabond thoughts with n suddenness that brought him Without anupright in his chair. alyzing his reasons, he felt that speculation as to the possible lovers of the foreigner was, In a way, pardonable. Certainly he had indulged in it without the sense of recoil he now felt. The recoil merged into a grim amusement at his own expense. He was making progress, he was getting back in touch with life, when he found himself speculating about women! He resolutely centered his thoughts on the black leather case. He went up to his room at eleven oclock. Before he opened the door he stood for a moment in front of it, silently studying the lock. It was a A good lock, but an ordinary one. trifle he had bought in town would ft from being effectually prevent locked from the outside. He entered his room and inserted this trifle into the keyhole, nodding with satisfaction as he did so. No one outside could lock his door tonight. On the Iten-Bha- We-we- -- ( by Tb Oantury Co.) WNU Service. Birds Courageous in Facing Bad Weather At 2jNm six o'clock one July morning homing pigeons belonging to the York lure Federation of Pigeon Owners were released at Aries, France, to race look to their home in Lancaster, a distant e of a little more than 500 low-tone- miles. In miik liamiel they were enveloped in a heavy sionn; in the south of Eng- land a worse storm was encountered, and jn the Midlands the weather was no better. Jet at fi fltO p. m. the birds were arriving home. Tho breast feathers of most of them were gone a the result of the head wind, and some were so exhausted that, having alighted in tin yard, they were unable to tly lip to the loft. The winner of the race had nevertheless managed to mnko the long Journey at a pace o! '.mmi yards a minute. 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There was also the sound of hurried, excited breathing nnd of a rap on his door, lie sprang out of bed and hastened to open it, disturbed yet reassured by the rap. It was alarmed, but It was normal. lie threw open the door and stared Incredulously. Verity Campbell stood before him In the darkness. lie could not see her, but lie knew Iter even before she spoke to him in a voice hushed and terrified. Dh, Mr. Renshaw, she gasped, please come with me quickly! I other hand, neither could he himself lock it. He drew forward a chair, Inserted Its back under the and so placed It that a certain effort would be required to push the door open; He could not be taken wholly by surprise. After these simple preparations, he read and smoked for a time. Then, with a sense of expectation mingled with other emotions, In which excitement, resentment, anxiety and nervousness predominated in turn, be undressed, got into bed and turned cant find either Jenks or James out the lights, putting one of the new arid something dreadful has happened revolvers under his pillow, but within to grandfather! Renshaw nodded and stepped back immediate reach, ns the final precauInto his room. tion for nn interesting vigil. One moment, he said, "and I will He waited with taut nerves. It was be with you. Almost midnight, time for. the nocturHe thrust his feet Into slippers nnd nal activities of the Thing to begin. As soon as he heard the sounds an- pulled a dressing gown over bis paknotting the cords of the robe nouncing the Things near approach, jamas, lie would fling open the door and as be rejoined her, lie had to run to eateli up with her. Having summoned spring out upon whatever was there. After tliut well, after that he would him, she was nlmost at the end of at least know what he was up against. the corridor when 6he felt him beside her. As they hurried past the The clock on his mantel struck central hall landing and into the west twelve. He was almost convinced that wing cf the house, he asked a nothing would happen. Possibly the or two. She replied In Thing did not roain about every U voicequestion that trembled. night. Possibly it would never roain Madame Ilvoeslef Is with him." she about again. Probably It had been said. "1 called her first, when could shut up, confine- dtmt get the servants. I cant Imagine lie closed his eyes, and swiftly what has happened to Jenks. lie is opened them again. Something had so reliable and faithful, flat Aunt touched them, passed them, and was Katharine says they take a car and go focused on the wall. It was the blue Into town sometimes at tuglit, ami percircle--an- d tills time he studied it haps she Is never right, though closely. It was a circle about the thought so. size of a silver dime. Its blue color "Whats the matter with your grandwas a singularly vivid hue. It danced father?" and quivered on the wall beside him, Renshaws long, swinging stride was so close to him that he could put up easily keeping pace now vviili her bis hand and touch It. As lie did so, shorter stops. it vanished and the familiar darkness "I dont know. I heard a fall. His of the room closed around him. bedroom is next to mine, you know. He lay still and for the first time I thought I heard n groan. I ran out seriously tried to explain the circle to In the hall to his door and knocked. himself. It was, of course, ns he had When there was no answer, I went In. held from the first, a reflection from lie was lying in his bedroom, on the That floor." somewhere, from something. wise conclusion was still obvious. But "Hurt? Unconscious? from what? I dont know. I ran for help for The visiting light appeared again. It Jenks first, then, when I couldn't find was as feverishly active now as it him, for Madame Ilvoeslef. Auntie had been motionless on Its previous Is of no use, of course, in a crisis, so visits. It touched his face, flitted we didnt even wake her. She stopped as they reached what about, and came to rest on the footboard of lfls bed. It touched his hand, was evidently the door of the old nnd flew to the opposite wall. It mans bedroom, and passed through In played about his lips and leaped to the silence, leaving the door open for to follow her. door leading to t?ie hall, where It Ills first impulse was one of shock glowed silently on a panel. Ilenshaw watched It with a gaze nt the seeming lifelessness of the that shifted when it did. If he closed prone figure on the floor, over which his eves, it lingered on the lids till he Madame Ilvoeslef was distractedly reopened them. Its character changed. keeping guard. Her dark face lighted It had been interesting nt first. It be- up with relief as the young man came annoying, like the repeated at- Joined her. I have not ventured to do anytacks of one mosquito on a hot night. It became more than annoying. It be- thing, she explained In a quick whisHe breathes; but I did not came first infuriating and ut last sim- per. know If it would be wise to lift Ills ply devilish. lie rose and, going In turn to the head -- t.I Renshaw knelt beside his master, rooms four windows, stared out at each. With his movement the light nnd his heart lightened. He had been lie could see nothing afraid of violence, even of tragedy. disappeared. outside but the storm nnd the tor- .Anything, he now believed, might hapbranches of oaks pen In Tawno Ker. But seemingly tured, and maples. He went to his door, wlint had happened was common opened it and glanced down the dark enough. The old man hnd felt III, had No sound or movement risen, hnd perhaps tried to call for corridor. there rewarded him. He closed the help, and hnd fallen unconscious. What Is it? under door, replaced the chair-hacVerity asked the question In a whisthe knob, and returned to his bed. As soon as he was comfortably settled, per. The young man went on with his the blue hall entered, touched his face, hurried examination. A shock, Im afraid. nnd danced for n moment on the wall. Is he dying? Then suddenly it grew quiet and reno. Indeed. lies unconscious, "No mained fixed in one spot, like a watchhis heart Is working well. Tbe but ful and infernal blue eye. first thing to do Is to make him comThe clock struck two, the strokes sounding ominous in fortable." He lifted the light figure in his arms the darkness. Two oclock! And he had been on the edge of his nerves ns easily ns If It had been the body of It to the bed laid That sort of thing a child, nnd carrying since eleven It the between sheets, drawing the would not do It simply' could not be It. around up carefully bedclothing he Tomorrow would endured. tell (TO IIB CONTINUED.) Campbell that he, Itenshaw, must go away, that he was not up to the work. Boaster Taken Down But no, that would not do, either. He a football field n man with a On had already shown that lie was up to was boasting to a party voice loud the work. Campbell bad referred at of youngsters of the doughty admiring be to of done a lot dinner to things he done on the football field had deeds the next day. Well, then, be could In by. Suddenly he turned gone days say he was not in as good condition his the band. Jo attention as he had imagined. !" lie observed, those fellows Ah A sudden memory seared his conbut fallen off theyve decently, sciousness. He could not resign! He play I was a member of the since terribly behad no situation to resign simply band." cause he had refused a situation. He What! ejaculated one of his hearwas not his own muster. He was. for You played with that lot? ers. a year, David Campbells property, I was was the reply; Certainly, for. bought and, in part, actually paid for them with years." On the morning of the day that had The crowd roared and the boastful only just ended, Campbell had given one hastily retired on learning that on the purhim a generous advance In question wns composed of band the chase price; and the greater part of harmless inmates of tbe local lunaUc that advance he, Renshaw, had alScotsman, Edinburgh asylum. Even assuming ready spent In town. to break the was willing that he Smoking in Church agreement he and Campbell had enIs common in South AmerSmoking a month to tered Into, he must work A visitor to Peru churches. ican that by pay off the obligation Imposed a at church in Lima he that records advance. In other words, he was a of one the noticed congregation enjoynot leave. fixture here. He could service a and during the alcigar had and he ing closed had His eyes in the same luxury. most lost consciousness when be bishop indulging door-kno- TWICE IN THIS PARKERS HAIR BALSAM Kt'movthaiuirutf Stop Hair Kniling Kcfttores Color and and Faded Hoir Beauty to Gray tflvam) Si nt) at OroKkrtut IHncox htin Win .PatrnptftH.N I HINDERCORNS Iousoh, ou UmnovAH Homs, Y. Cal- - Mpps nit pum, rtmurpH comfort to itiu foot, uiakog Mrulklntt easy, l.V hy umU or at. lmg-gluts- , iiiaooi Chemical Works, iauhog tie, N. Y. IKDIGESTJO.V 6 L Dell-an- s Hot water Sure Relief D. S. 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