The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 18, 1917, Page 6

anor “Seven rr Ave, Near MBER or senrr rs NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF sew @ mow. $1.90; year $3.60 | month. | hone Mere oe Vetvete cond | FHIS EDITORIAL IS PUBLISHED FOR ST ONE MAN TO SEE |there were enough to look after us A th | STAR—TUESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1917, PAGE 6 Copyright, Paget Newspaper Service (Continued In Our Next Issue) So, as a working hypothesis, 1 teok the fact, the fact, mind you that somebody elae did turn on that gas, and | settled down to find out that somebody's nam My thinking now a com fortab) armehatr tead of one the wicker role, was the northwest corner of the room, thus commanding the from the hall, as woll as all the other doors and windows of the room. I left the hall door ajar, always, and en couraged any one ared to, to come tn and divcuss matter with me at any time Cissy Carreau, with orton | and her Poltergel#t h had gone home, and |v lad of tt Bellamy had gone, too, but the Earl still lingered and Janet Field chatr, who ¢ the }was to stay a short time longer Most of the servants had given notice, some indeed had left, but comfortably and the house was run pretty much a when was there. “I'm going to hunt for Marybelle Unt stroked his Pulled at tt, and he thoughtfully the way Englishmen de and out Fairly jerked at it, fact, as he sald, “Too clever half for imagination! M Wosley a crook-handied nee "» Ee DD. IK.’s.". COLYUM IN GOOD TIME By BRKPON BRALEY ANL wise ‘men look for peace, No “peace with honor” while dishonor | stellen About the world, sew Uneba Fence wo Toes, S eecten frenay shell sbate; Nothing ts settled (il it's Aght!* rather, in flotion in by Has um but there | or lurks beneath the | ped. While this Prussian beast seething hate | ‘We must wettied yasked him about the umbrella iden, | brolla or did she borrow mine?” moustache Here was a moll! Herringdean surpected Helen Wesley of the method Helen had attributed to Cinay! Were all the tnmates of the household ready to fly at each others’ throats? I wondered if any-| body suspected me, My room was | directly over Marybolle’s! | Well, it seemed the Earl did sun! | pect the two Wealeys, Ho waa nice jabout it, but he confided to me that }he thought it must be they, for the were so glad to get the house and the money. Also, he felt sure they had secreted the pearls, for other wise they would have been found Jere thin, He knew, he sald, that |MaryWelle couldn't have hidden them they couldn't be found Jafter such desperate search I was tempted to stop then and there and hunt up those pearls, But I was on a glimmer of a hint of a shadow of a clue, and I didn't want} |to interrupt myself pone, I thought, somebody | |had turned off the gas entirely at) the main in the cellar, And sup-| pose the same person had secretly | say, in the afternoon—opened the Thes regular They in the would are regular sell ac] ougall-/outhwi SECOND AVENUE NOT Tie are 50c Ties at way for a AND PIKE In Our Annual September Sale STREET the when Nelginim’s debt te met, when Her- w one bit “pews, and France shall be) pearls,” sald Helen, coming tn, good more than morning. “Very well,” I Jot In Marybelle’s room. And then,| }#uppowe, late at night, or, rather! rly in the morning—for the ¢ tor had said the gas had been fid we tive tn shall rimmed on not later than four| the same fiend in human crept down cellar and mrize fer empire thre © feed Cf liurned on the main. It would Then we may talk of “honorable peace” escape nowhere else but at that one Bat net one dey, and not ene hour, | burner, I went to see about this, | beter’ “It was this way, sir," Mra, Blum | responded, to my discreet question. | “I cooked all the dinner on| gas range, except the roast Them ovens {# good enough for a |cheefe, but the coal range for tbollia’ er steamin’ ta oh, lawks! So I uses the gas range allu mont satisfactory ft ts, yus, sir.” “But you turned it off after din I inquired eagerly 1 did that, sir.” “And no gas Was used, of course during the night.” “Well, o just! "Twas that o¢ that us servantses| nigh froze. And lote of us, me and Vida, anyway, and Spears, that 1 know of we had our snug little eas stOves a-goin’ in our bed rooms.” pol Ss te “And these wore turned off, say, | : 5 on about midnight?” : . “Not mine, alr turn on full ‘all the mornin’ my re cL “ERAKESPEARE a It's nome ox-penae, yer. a> BNOCIX- KNEE O sir, t fis’ Mona, the dear lydy | r begridged us a mosse! 50c, and the Hun- of Colors, returned, a little absently 1 was to her put jtering about, poking into cracks and crevices, climbing to the top Somewhere in Seattle there is a motorcyclist who will be/of wardrobes or bureaus, and rum 9, maging ssir drawers that had tsted in this photograph. f nuae Ghies Care odneen of times } Tt is a picture of a child’s casket. Under the white cover is the tein eels es the little body of the girl he killed had a right tc Wednesday six-year-old Cora Middleton was going wished. The the street, on Phinney ave. Down upon her rushed a|pearls were hers, too, she ne if motorcycle. It struck her to the pavement end}t, masse tiege Bhs ig poe on. The rider did not even stop. {ned he was prolonging his stay in _ So now, Reckless Rider, wherever you are in this great|/nope of finding the pearls and look upon your work. claiming them himselt. “oe look, on. you other riders who hurl madly along), “You know, Helen,” 1 said, at s with never a thought for city ordinances. » you policemen who permit them to do it. A THESE ast, as she was excavating a broad window-seat fuset behind me, and ED-MAD D' > LITTLE i ILDREN AND THE TO! TORN HEARTS OF MOT HERS throwing things all about, “when 1} HOUT HONOR jget around to ft, I'll find those pearls for you.” | “Do you know where they are?” “ think so. Or rather, I think it will come to me where they are. when I can put my mind on It. At present, I'm busy.” fadging by the experience of the United States and Ar-| “You're bumetions mations still having German ambassadors in their ureed, had better arrest them on suspicion. German autocracy has no conception of right, humane ‘or law in warfare and knows not what honor is in deal $ with other peoples with whom it is at peace © put down such an element is not only the necessity t also the duty of civilization, and talk of making an agree- ent with it is sheer drivel. |floor and looking ut INY PEACE TERMS jyou think ean think you to do How do know One of the latest German peace terms being talked about lashington is amusing, anyhow. It is the restoration of jum and Northern France, to be paid for out of the sale pany’s colonies to Great Britain ny’s colonies are very largely Great Britain's now are about the poorest investment that any nation hold, at any time. When Great Britain consents to hat Germany owes Belgium and France, wake us up! tre must be a streak of humor in German autocracy haven't noticed. used dreds Patterns Huns shalt o'clock shape had when and as well first class and inducement the as quality strong But, she argued, & all hers, and she price |rummage all sho make this the time for Ties coming you to save on now, for the season and for holiday gifts. and conceit eitting at me, fin hed, them I kep’ that thing ht long. An’ in| » Was Warm as t at once. you the burglar she nev heat I left her, my bubble burst, my had one aircastio in ruins! If the gns/ what it kh burned tn her roor night, the: was no chance for the theory I ha formed. I thou perhaps th woman Ited, but other servants cor wated the tale, 1 gave oO} “Killed her in order to steal the pearls?” | “Of course. What other motive could anybody have had for mur der?” “Inheritance,” I sald, her squarely “Inherttan Fre Oh, do you mean Vida? “Vida! Kl her mistress for two | 4 dollar thousand dollars. Oh, she doesn't| Maybe next seem that sort. Vida ts truly dis-| sets hold of a dollar h tressed at Marybelie’s deat |to take it to a museum, we'll all faintly expresses it 1 thought! “But who, then? Janet’? able to take a good, long look|deeply. I cogitated. I meditated. “Nonsense! Who benefited most | at one. |I speculated. 1 ruminated, I did by the will?” A fow years ago @ person could/all the things Peter Mark Roget “Why, me and Frank, You don’t | >ring ho Led sized bundle| could suggest or recommend. I mean us, do you?’ with a dollar, but now s even cudgeled my brains, ransacked Helen t show tndignation so | even b ne seal b y mind and fell into a brown much as a nervo y. It was|dle under his study a strained little : ve,| Not long ago Oh, yes, I know Friend Holmes and sald quickly whole family would have looked at the tipl sense. Of course, if It was murder, vies for a ¢ » burner and at once have bab. nobody in the house did it.” and th bled off his versati portrait of “But nobody out of the house| We remen when a dollar|the murderer, as a cross-eyed man, lcould hare done {t.” | would get brooms; |elaht feet high, smoking a Trichin. “Then we must come back to|20W, & broom, would|opoly cigar. But the elgar aroma |Cissy’s ghost Mr. Prall, did feel humiliated if ether were re| + lost In the gas fumes, no ma ever think that Cissy might have/| lated to one another The final|{s eight feet high, a crosseyed done it—oh, I don't mean of her| blow wi when the dollar/ness had nothing to do with the own volition, but under influence | Watch i* no more case. |—hypnotism or something, by thone| | eee But, there was one, give, food | loceu n oa : oe enough for even at ‘stute fis eee ee oe ONLY ONCE Sherlock. That was the moonstone “Has dealings with?” I repented, As the stage coach careened | {ring Shades of Wilkie Collins! I |biankly. I find these blank repett- | toward the edge of the cliff, || must deduce something from that |tions useful in drawing people on. | the timid tourist gazed anx- | |ring or write myself down a very ; you know she’s always go-| | !usly down at the brawling | |lonc-ecared donkey }ing to seances and ‘sittings,’ as stream feet below First, then, why was the they call them, And the mediums > Deople over this | on the gas burner? Not for safe- fool her, 1 know.” | preet pic en?” she asked. ng or to hide {t from burglars “Fool her?” The driver cluck ring Was not valuat “2 She has lots of money,| | hore. “No, madam moonstone t# but and they get large sums away| | turned placidly; “never gem, something le from her—" once.” my ‘estimation, and, tho it | “What are her people thinking | er | well set, it was not in finely Jott” THE TELEGRAPHER’S DREAM wrought roid or faceted platt num, | he hasn't any people but her! i569 7 Kn Ru Collect DPR But ft might have be mo a spe-| father, and he's always off #ky-| yn" p'Ns gcolloct n pt cial personal value to Marybelle.| be “ | d out, larking. Cissy does ax she Nkes.|my CRA FO 47 jt al gang ra Wiikey tik: dna Well, suppose these mediums hyp-| 12? M may notized Cissy to go into Mary-|“* °Y fF paid 11 aaid she did not think she had ever seen the ring before. However, | belle’s room and steal the pearis| | and turn on the gas—and Cissy that was not strange, never knew she did It at all!” Marybelle only once a year or #0,| “But how did she get into Mary- nd it was not a dinner ring. Doubt belle’s room?” less she had had ft as a girl, {t was ‘Samet. see tangas ob the bown,| schoolgirl looking affair, she| say at three or four o'clock, and Marybelle let her tn. And suppose she managed to steal the pearls and turn on the gas without Mary- belle’s knowing it—” | albus OU aaiabs te pe uest, By the way, he had given “But If Cissy were hypnotized, | trannetion, and our ous: |/Net an emerald engagement ring. Marybelle would know it.” + ates acuae feo cap plan coreg praglletrd t with sound (vu jood gracious,” I exclatmed pet- “Oh, well, I don't know about agement. tishly, “why don't you look after] - the detalls, You're the one to find these Jewelry matters? If {t wasn’t] those out. But suppose then, t 4.6 buried with her, doubtless Mrs Marybelle was asleep when Cissy /O es Wesley has tt.” went in, and Cissy turned on the Pala on Savings Accounts Probably,” sighed the Earl, He Accounts, Subject to Check Are || seemed resigned to losing all his fd she reach {t?” Cordially Invited erests in such properties, and to and Helen looked wise, - = » sure, they did not belong to him. “there's crook-handled umbrella : e's possession: ep now in the closet-—" Peoples Savings Bank and there was an end on't pt me T shoute SHCOND AVE. AND PIKE s#T, I met Janet Pleld tn the hall and Helen went to the closet and pro: asked her about the moonstone duced an umbre with the fre ring. | quently seen J-shaped handle ‘I never saw Marybelle wear it,"| “Turn on the gas with tha she sald, thoughtfully, “But of! directed, course she had jewelry and trinkets But try as that I didn't know of; why don't couldn't do it. The crook bent you ask Vida?” around too far. Had it been || 1 did, and shaped like a letter L it might have || was not her mistr worked, but not as it was. ‘But, no!” she “Nothing doing,” I said, “but ts pos'tive-—ah, but there an L-shaped umbrella handle that ring! I should|} in the house?” nown ft, so, All Madame’s Thoro search revealed one in the I know.’ Telean them, Tar Earl's roorn, but it was a little them, But that uble? No, absurd to imagine him killir was it Madame’ | own sweetheart! But, Vida, how could it possibly “Unless he wanted the peagis get on the gas fixture? Who, ex back again,” suggested Helen cept a lunatic, would climb up and “Wanted fiddlesticks!” I exclatm put it there ed. “If he regretted his gift, he Vida shuddered, “It was the could have retrieved it without wat you call? the polterre ghatst! crime!” but that {s who It was! Miss “I suppose so,” said Carreau, she 1s right! No human sighing in a futile, hand wore that ring! No human fon, she went away hand put It on the high gas! It Now why T liked to talk was the hand of the evil spirite It gave me no real the wicked ghost—he left b help, but it gave me new Ideas, odd on the g His hand tu hints, that might be of value jet—from the finger of that hypnotized! turned on by a - . * |came the ring—the moonstone crook-handied umbrella! At least || Fisher Flouring Mills Co, ag a token—as a sign ulated records, They did, Harber lelend, See 1116 FIRST AVE. these things must go into my tab-|| op Vida flung up her hands |BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1 and ran away. : hen the fant atroled dn, x! (Continued in Our Next \seue) “I year senece bu. Fhone Blain 1590 | Here ts a have mado @ of a Gollar if note en gle, he gets @ a equint ata rybelle? atom "] en don’t aad ee he shadow of/|that Idea Unabashed, un if some of unruffied, I went back to my think long enough ing chair. 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