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GRAY DUSK By OCTAVIUS ROY COHEN A Mystery Story With a Mysterious Plot (Copyright, 1919, Dod d, Mead & Co., Inc.) CHAPTER I David Carroll felt suddenly ill mist swam momentarily before his -tyes, dimming the smali sheet of yellow paper which had so affected him. He passed his right hand across his forehead and bent to re-read the neatly typed telegram: Karnak, South Carolina, October 9. A David Carroll, Berkley City. Mary killed. I have been arrested. In jail at Karnak. Need you imme- diately as friend and detective. Wire. STANFORD FORREST. The message had completely rob- bed David Carroll of his poise. In all his years of successful crime in- vestigation he had never experienced # such a sense of personal horror as *gripped him when the import of the telegram impressed itself on his mind. Mary Carmody — Mary Forrest now—a bride of three days, mur- dered. Stanford Forrest, lifelong friend and school chum, arrested for the crime. Why, it had been only a few days before that Carroll had stood at the chancel with this man and woman, best man at their wedding. And now— He lifted the combination telephone instrument and called the telegraph company. “Take this message,” he snapped, and as the operator an- 4+ swered “Ready” he dictated: “Stanford Forrest, Jail, ith Carolina—got that?" Yes, sir.” g Telegram received. Leave on next train. Keep a stiff upper lip. Sign it ‘Carrol.”” Carroll then called the number of “-his assistant’s boarding house and the cool quiet voice of Jim Sullivan came back to him over the wire: “Yes, chiet? This is Sullivan.” “Pack your suitcase. We're leav- ing for South Carolina in two hours. 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In the first place, Carroll knew Stanford Forrest as it is given to no man to know other than his friénd of years. They had grown up to- gether, gone through school and col- lege together, shared joys and tribu- lations of boyhood and adolescence. And to David Carroll had come the first confidence of the budding of his chum’s mature, uplifting love for Mary Carmody. Carroll didn’t biame his friend. Mary Carmody had been charming since her eleventh year when her family moved to Berkley City and the boys first made her acquaintance. Later she had left Berkley City, while Car- roll and Forrest were at college to- gether, and the next thing they heard she had gone on tHe stage. It was as a vaudevilie headliner that Mary Carmody had revisited Berkley City for the first time in six years, and i* was then that Stanford Forrest had found her good to look upon. Thus had matters gone on for three years. Forrest and Mary had become en- gaged; only David Carroll and the immediate families knew of it. And so only David Carroll and the fami- lies knew when the inevitable lovers’ quarrel developed and the engage- ment was broken. As usual there had been a third person in the affair, this time an extremely handsome and none -too scrupulous bucketshop: operator of New York, Bennet Hemingway byl name. Bennet Hemingway, it seemed, had financed a pretentious act for Mary Tarmody, and while he reaped a good 'financial harvest Stanford Forrest had known that was not his sole ob- Jjective, and so he remonstrated with the girl. His great love for her jus- tified his jealousy, if there is such thing as justification for the green- eyea monster; but they had steered their craft to the rocks and seen it founder. - Principally through Carroll's ef- forts, the bark had been salvaged and they became re-engaged—happier and more jealous of their happiness, because of the very danger to which it had been exposed. Three days go, after a second engagement last- ing nearly a year, they had been married and departed with much pleasant ribaldry and rice throwing, for South Carolina. That South Carolina idea had orig- inally been’ Carroll's. Long years be- fore, he and Stanford Forrest had agreed thdt when they should marry they would prefer the quiet country t> the turbid city for their honey- moon, and when they discussed plans for Stanford's wedding trip, it was David Carroll who remembered Franklin Furness. 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But either he¢ went too early in the fall, when the fetid heat of the swamps was still on them; or too late when the clear, bracing fall weather had de- generated into the first nasty sting- ing rains of winter, because when he returned to Berkley City his friend, the physician, ordered him to Denver. And in Denver Furness had been for the past six or seven years; his home on Highland circle still unoc- upied and the cabin on the San- tee river vacant. Carroll, Forrest and Furness had been friends. and from the ownen Stanford Forrest had received en- thusiastic and telegraphic permission to use the Santee river cabin—Fur+ ness lodge—as a honeymoor spot. On the night of October 6 Stanford Forrest and his bride, accompanied by one Robert Carter, servant in the Forrest household for some 20 years, entrained for.the South. On the seventh they reached Charleston and on October 9 they de- parted for Karnak in a delirium of happiness as was attested by a letter received that morning from Stanford —a somewhat saccharine letter writ- ten on the stationery of the Charles- ton hotel and containing a postscript in Mary’s firm, round hand. Less Had come the telegram 'announcing Mary's death and Stanford's arrest in connection with it. The doorbell rang sharply, and Freda, Carroll's maid-of-all-work, led Sullivan into the dining-room, and, at a nod from Carroll, left the two men alone. Sullivan knew by a “single glance that something had 'occurred to dis- rupt his superior's entire cosmic scheme. Without a word of explana- tion Carroll shoved the telegram across to him. “I suppose you see how it affects me, Jim?"” . “Yes, chief. You know I'm sorry.”™ “You can leave immediately with me? This morning?” “Certainly.” A ... The sleepy little town of Karnak had been parred from its lethargy by than half an hour after the letten|g the murder at Furness lodge. Such business as there was re- mained at a standstill for.the two days following the startling dis- closures. The second evening prev- ious Stanford Forrest had driven into Karnak in his car, Robert Carter, sober-faced and steady, at the wheel. In the tonneau sat a stricken mran with the body of a woman in' his arms. : The woman was his bride of three days. She had been murdered, so the story ran, with an ice pick. And they had arrived only that morning from Charleston en route to their honeymoon home on the Santee. It had been dark on the night of the ninth when Forrest drove into Karnak, and had asked direction to the home of the sheriff, John Potter. To the steady-eyed sheriff, the bride- groom’s story had been told. Tom Hanford, county coroner, had been summoned and had taken the body. in charge. Then the sheriff person- ally escorted Stanford Forrest to the little brick building at the rear of, 'the court-house. The inquest, tenth, was a mere fermality. groom refus2d to say anything. The findings of the jury had been a foregone conclusion. Stanford For- rest was accused of the murder of his wife and bound over to the grand jury without bond. Then he had} gone back to his cell. Robert Car- ter had been released, but he hung around the jail like a hounded ani- mal. The eleventh of October was as clear and bright and pleasant as only a perfect October day in South Car- olina can be. Karnak has a population of less than 300, but there were more than 500 persons grouped near the depot when David Carroll alighted; drawn there by the magic of the under- ground telegraph of gossip. First sight of Carroll brougrt a sigh of disappointment. They had expected to see a great detective and instead they saw two boys, one a bit round and pink-faced; the other obviously even younger, though taller, broader and with flashing black eyes and crinkly raven hair. It remained to Mart Farnam to put an end to the conjecture over which was which. He crossed to the depot where the two men stood un- certainly beside their suitcases, and Carroll raised his eyes to those of the native. It was Mart Farnam who spoke first, and he addressed Jim Sullivan: “You ain’'t Mr. David Car- roll—are you?" Sullivan shook his head. ain't.” “Then you be?” He turned to Car- roll. “Yes, I'm David Carroll. I do for you?” ‘Nawthin'—nawthin’ . . . look pow’ful young."” “T am.” “An’ we was kinder expectin’ . . . Anyways, I seen you fellers standin’ here an’ it kinder struck me maybe you was lookin’ f'r th’' jail, or the co’thouse or maybe th’ hotel.” “Is Mr. Forrest in the jail?” “He sho is. I'll take you there if you like.” *“Theanlks . . . 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Sullivan.” “Delighted to meet you.” gave evidence of his delight in two, bone-crushing grips. “I see,” he My assistant, Mr. of our county oracle.” “Farnam?"” “Yes. limelight. everything there is to tell and learned your life history besides?” “Very nearly.” The meeting between Carroll and Stanford Forrest was touching by its very repression of outward emotion. “I'm sorry, old man,” said Carroll softly. Forrest’s voice was choked: been through hell.” . CHAPTER II. “I've Carroll stared at his friend on the other side of the barred door. “Of course you are innocent.” “Of course. I guess I'd better be- .I'm in a pretty tight hole, David. Carroll turned away. sheriff to let me in your cell “I'll get the And >’ * Farnam stuck, ut one bony hand while he wiggled, the left arm from under the pit of ain’t many said; Potterj and his eyes twinkled, “that you've run shy Can't keep Mart out of tha I suppose he’s told you by the way: Jim Sullivan is down here. I'd like him to hear it, too, it you don’'t mind.” Forrest lighted a cigar and Carroll, calmer now in the actual atmosphere of the trouble, studied him closely. The laughing light of his find brown eyes had been usurped by a solemn brooding, a lurking look of horror which seemed to peer out from some disturbed brain-cell. Abruptly, he began: “We arrived in Charleston on the evening of the seventh and went im- mediately to the Charleston hotel. T'll not say anything about how happy we were . . . God! and that only four days ago. On the eighth I sent Car- ter in the car, which we had shipped by fiaight to Charleston some time ago, to the Furness place out on the river. It is a drive of about 50 miles and rotten bad roads for a great part of the distance. He got back at nightfall, having straightenedy up a good bit, but he said that the place showed signs of having been recently occupied.” Carroll sat up straight in his chair. “Recently occupied?”’ he echoed. “What did he mean by that?” “He was probably mistaken. But he insisted that there was no dust to be seen. Of course, whatever be- longings or furnishings were there would not have surprised him, as he had never been to the place before and he didn’t know what Frank Fur- ness might have left. But he did insist that the place had been very recently cleaned and dusted. His statement struck me as peculiar—' “‘Rather.” “But, at the time, I @idn’t pay any attention to it. He had taken a com- plete line of supplies up there; 200 pounds of ice, groceries, some meats, canned goods . . . about everything we had been able to think of and, which we could get into the car fon a single trip. The following morning —the ninth—with Carter driving and, Mary and myself in the back seat, we started out for the real com- mencement of the honeyméon, the car loaded with such supplies as we had forgotten the previous day. In it, too, were our suitcases and inci~ dentals such as fishing tackle and what-nots. Our trunk had gone to Karnak direct and Carter had taken it out the previous day. “We reached Karnak about noon. 1 stopped at the post office and they handed me a few letters. The clerk seemed inclined to gossip, but I didn't 'say anything except that I was going’ to the Furness cabin— which was all Carter had told the natives on the previous day. We started out for the river and I opened- oné of the letters. It was postmarked Columbia, South Carolina, the eighth and—" his voice dropped to a mere whisper, “it was from Bennet Hem- ingway!” “The letter?” queried Carroll sharply. “You are sure it was dated at Columbia on the eighth?” By way of answer Stanford Forrest rose and stepped to the door of his cell. Sheriff Potter came in answer to his .call. “Will you show that letter to Mr. Carroll, sheriff?” (Continued Tomorrow.) 0 UR CONNECTICUT distributors have more than 800 carloads of Moxie. CHAULMOOGRA OIL MAY CURE LEPROSY —_— Austrian Tree Yields To Search- ing Scientists Washington, July 21.—Introduction in the United States of the chaul- moogra tree' to assure a permanent supply of the oil for the treatment of leprosy is planned as a result of a trip through Siam, Burma and Assam by Prof. J. F. Rock, formerly of the University éf Hawaii. 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