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-—— a ee The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday. April ta ae ed ; aN ngs el By Maurice Ketten |The Secret in the Snow: col A Girl’s Weird Adventures In the Realm of Mystery wegen (| Fa hananaannaunegs “Then you don't consider Mr, Tan- ner guilty?" I cried joyou s (Copy righ 1015, by Mildred Van loweaen SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CATT Ratwaric ‘ re “Oh, don't 17" he retorted, instantly | wpetern nt te Tht dashing my hope. “Well, perhaps I perhaps T do, But there's inst him, And there's don't, and evidence a Ka other evidence, too—evidence which a mh person”—with a sly look at Mra, Ka Hampton—"who wears slippers Ike fhrouse At these’—holding forth the black felt face looks ' «a. sSiipper—“wouldn't glad to hear.” Mrs, “Tian fone ote 4 "Other — evidence 1 exclaimed fecha T sleep. dts Katharine learn’ tercoly, “Then why didn't you bring come ex " ; it Into the inquest? Why didn't you present it to Coroner Spry?” “Humph!" snorted the Sheriff, drawing himself up. “You don’t sup- | pose I'm going to let him share tho | glory, do you?” | "What glory? I demanded, | glory of clearing up this! “Th — erim 7 ry nd what {f wo do hold our CHAPTER XV. tonsuos?" I parrled, my heart pound: drove bac he ing in my throat, “What tt we do E drove back to the club, @ Unf vei, he replied, “1 you do, i'll wretched, heartsick trlo— be Robbie Tanner who'll pay.” too wretched even to men- — “Hob? I gasped, “But how could tion the events which had he 0 just taken place, too heart- How 0 murderers uaually pay? ath to & vs Nee RROCEPE ayes Te canes and pointed menacingly to ck to gaze into one yes his neck. and learn what the others might be Strained to the Mitt of my pa- thinking tience and endurance, I burst into a + " ‘ ye Storm of tears and fled to my room,| Unable to endure longer the reek= Crying: | ing quiet of the club, the hi “Oh, you are heartless-—ntterly | tnaction, I threw on my wraps and heartless, every one of you! tarted down the anve,, For a sud- _ And fo they seemed, for the ne- has hdbdeecdatohid : creta they were hiding appeared to - den purpose had taken root in my be such simple things when com- bral I would go to the scene of pared to the ener re howd eee | the crime, and, if I had to shovel they Involved, When I realize eed now the entire night, I would dig up & few words from Madge, explaining seresd - nhl n the nig! of e blige something to work on, something to ane e statement from Mrs.| clear Bob's name, were it only & Hampton in regard to the black felt button slipper, and a confession from Henry oath to enter again the house ae to whom he had been guarding in witch had been the scene of that the cellar, might clear Bob's good dful tragedy, I hesitated between name and restore him to freedom, I o ne Paces — gece M4 facua thought | had apever known people mn, . h ed more selfish and cold a figure coming toward me—a man's i 1B ies i y should they Instet that there ure. Henry! He was following the had been nd ghost when they knew iuetaaea the Oe ee ice positively that we had seen some- The to hie Kost aad cow and ten to flings. Why @hould they deny alt » ie chitin and now and then (9 cnowledge of the mystery at hand a when It Was perfectly obvious that | This in ew a great deal about it? The ord bapa uth, of course, must come out jher, Thad great difficulty in sooth. @nd that ah Suppose you should find the clue to untold wealth— and at the same time to untold peril? You might perhans have the pluck to solve the prob- lem an did the hero of THE MESSAGE By LOUIS TRACY NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD Do you remember ‘The Wings of the Morning,” by the same author? It was one of the mort popular novels ever published in The Evening World. 3: 3: Well “THE MESSAGE" ia better than “The Wings of the Morning.”’ This ta suflicient proof that IT 1S WORTH YOUR READING. POTEET SC TIFISISVISHT STO SIVITITTTD appeared at the foot of my bed, some- ing down to dinner. Henry informed Where about midnight, I had no idea f her disappearance as soon as that she was around, although Mr, he had a chance to go down to the Adams suggested that she must have cellar and make sure of it. While the come hore, the ing the only rest of them were at dinner me she had ev own in Forest. searched the house, Henry even went out with a rn, but there wasn't Did you cry out when «he ap. 4 sign of her peared?" I asked, recalling the dis. “Was your daughter aware of her turbance which had followed so Presence in the house?" closely upon the vision In my glans. ot then. 1 didn’t tell her until “It startled moe,” Mrs. Hampton after Miss Kingsiey’s alarming en- said, “but I was tore amazed than Counter in the hall closet, I presume terrified. [couldn't belleve my eyes, Kate was there all the time, although Kate Bryant in’ my bedroom! [ 1 can remember opening the door and thought it must be a dream until calling name, without gettingeny she threw herself upon me in a p respons At all events, it's certain sionof tears, beseeching mo to snve that Miss Kingsley bumped into her, got away and hid—in ing her, and expected any moment to the corridor leading to the servants’ have the household at my door, And quarters, presumably—before any one I realized how you all would feel if could cateh her, But how she got you should learn thera was a lunatic downstairs and out on the poreh in under the same roof with y ot tine to frighten Mr. Carrol I can't that she was really a lunatic, People #8y, though it would have been a aim- ied her one, but she wasn't that. Ple matter, for the entire household It was her memory that waa gone, had collected In my room to talk over not her mind. Had her mind bean the excitement and to discuss the given half a chan I'm sure that finding of the black felt slipper. bit by bit her mem would have “The black felt slipper!” the Shertf® come back, That is why T promised cut tn “Why did you say it was to help her to see ff I couldn't tn. yours?” terest one of the wealthy club mem: — “Because T thought that would be bers In her. ‘There are sanatoriums the safest explanation,” she answered, where they take bebe CA and “And also because it was about the where cores are frequently effe first excuse that “Hut why should you have «¢ ” err ee ae all this trouble for @ servant «tri? ‘6 a ready tongue,” observed the Sheriff inquired, Sheriff shrewdly, “Hecause Thad nover forgiven my- | “I have ‘o have, in times like theee,” self for my treatment of her," an- 8he returned, swered Mrs, Hampton, a note of deep | There was a little pause, during emotion creeping into her voice, “L Which we shifted weight from one practically turned her out—a servant foot to the other, pulled our wraps whom I had picked from the entire Closer about us, and tried not to see summer force to be with me in tha bow blue the ends of our noses were Wolo he was sooner or later, But would tt come led in his right out in time? And how would it end| ng the sno Every time I thought of the end my i—ten minutes, perhaps— heart grew still, for there was ever he had disappeared around the Within me the !mage of Bob on the xt bend in the boundary-line of the Stairway landing, his and cau- | grounds. ‘T wly and thou tion. Coupled with tl he feeling fully, U picked my way to the porch, — that Madge and her mother. in spite t se securely locked, Of all they knew and refused to re- 1 found the house secur ly oe a. vent, considered him guilty, and that| saiian ld te the pub med to § with them, | eye beret aan © tne te made me utterly wretched and afraid: ying and meddlesome visitors, The newspapers were ruthless in their sappointed and disheartened, I St nts, and printed all sorts of pe 1 myself on the railing of the eA das eatclaala ert porch, in front of the window. by e Wan little chance for the sus- Sigh aA: the n, that he was a dastard, hey made a sort of saint. martyr of Camdon Carrol, His The ho' vchment for Madge was played Maen oy te eee darkened! upon to the fullest extent, and Rob's i 11d have to look Ana Dene t first this thought struck SPreulatio presented it- sickened Midge ordered Henry to burn every 1 haggard newspaper t ame to the hous: was doing. He but even so, she ently from bamboo, was prodding and about 4 to be gained by this v within mes WhICh we forced to speak to him, With this It wasa terrible sight—that strong, stood aside, waiting for Mrs, Hamp- bearing on the murder, I didn’t think determination to spur me I floundered tmpassi man, whom I had never ton’s grief to abate and for an expla- it was neces: - and on through the drifts, seen display more than a flitting nation to follow, Hut none did, for “And she When at Jength I paused, panting flame of feeling, bowed down with when Mra, Hampton at length rose to the murder?” pes Dave @ bearing on I broke tn, faco! I knew what M te boule) age ecbene bu- and breathless, I discovered that 1 anguish and distress, I turned away her feet and turned away from the ‘The sheriff turned to Mrs, Hamp- was search for something, and ! Potdine forth tempting uiker# had come almost to the driveway that I might not seo his suffering. frozen body all ahe said was: searching in the snow Well, so W LJ ipting offers, jeading to the main club building, About us still hung the glowering “I suppose we'd better notify eome he asked. and a third, @ cheap vaudevillian in- would I! gray of early morn, and there had one. gasped Mrs, Hampton, “I an in- was now standing knee deep in tt Down on my knees I fell, and, hay- dividual, actual) haa tng eudaaty tO walk running parallel . But asl come as yet no sound of life up I've already done so," I informe ‘ ng no cane, 1 pawed elumatly with Put h appearance at the club, started forward, inte to reach the numbing stlence—no sound save her, “I called up the sheriff on my ma to know anything,” Tie hand wled aiong: but this ‘The age became unbearable, the club house steps, which had been Henry's sobbing, of which the very way out, and he said he'd be over at ween n and [ should have packed up anc lett partially cleared hy the invest!eating softness cut through me like a knife, once.” don't we? the sher ee ud not loyaity to Madge and her feet of the sheriff and his crew, | Kate! He called her Kate! This, lo'll probably stop for the under- iff retorted, ‘Then, wheeling on Mr work er insisted Upon my remaining. stumbled su uy over something then, must be the Kate of my ad- " she murmured Hampton, he said abruptly: “What th Hesides, 1 thought of Bob and the which lay bene the snow—stum- venture, the Kate for whom he had “I ‘believe they're coming now,” mi A trial. ‘ vag Died and would have fallen had not mistaken me, But what had brought Henry said. the outer e of the veranda, Ail day long the telephone was my hands caught at the iron railing her here? And why should her death Pointing toward the pike, which ing, when I reached the steps, to Jangling, Ail long the tide of which fenced the walk from the dr be of such overwhelming tmport to stretched in a straight line from the back by the inside line. Visitors cane and went—reporters, — Rughting myself, | looked around to Henry? clubhoure entrance to the village, ho “Just who is Crazy Kate? I do- of shoes. And thu snow with my . I slowly cire Je you hide her?” Hide whom?" L erled. y.”" said the sheriff, “Crazy There seemed to be nothing here, detectives, people Sram tae Stes ae see what it was that had tripped me. Rapidly the chain of evidence un- indicated a small dot on the horizon, manded. re ( ‘The enc tossed up in jeering lig ness a Hates of Bobs anc bed er Protruding from the broken crust of polled itself before me, and rapidly In muffled silence wa watched it, at e's @ dead ‘un, that's what,” sald ness, rev b baa pte} genes Pi er @ the snowdrift blown he h the links began to fit. ‘This was the first a mere ck, growing with a cryde attempt at hu ° was abou TROURnY 1: ANOUG Fe dr nearer tine renee Dar was & bit t fice we all had seen, that the hair larger and larger, until, as tt drew mor pete ee cuee G hed t reaa of 3 co! scarcel) rather garish in color Lite) countere and ni nistakable run of 4ut the sheriff, frowning Ezra into i reached fai nor han this arish my fingers had encounter nd near with an unmistakable rumble of — But the sh « bund the , led as from freque: ‘a snapping views of the club, Or touched it. timidly, t bump into a reporter with a trail of poraly. washings. [those the feet on which belonged the wheels, we could recognize the under. silence, explained ; 1 Pincked 1 shippers—the Blaok felt elippers that taker’ wagon. Tenry ndvancel | ‘he belonged at the poor farm- re parted aan token: # f we had found, one tn the hallway few steps to meet it, and it stopped an inmate, you #6, Once upon & Bur i. was not the window which We one On rhe te ary not ,, Phe next minute Thad shrunk back, closet, the other on the Carrol porch, on the drive near where we atood, time she was @ wervant at the olub.” interested me. It was what I found 0%) foe Nora and Henry knocked fafful and quaking; for at was not @ ‘There could be no doubt ab ; “Who ts it?” I heard the Sherttt “A servant?" I ejaculated. “Here?” beneath ft. Tor thors, close to the secure, for Nora and Henry knocked gcrap of flannel, It waa @ Karment— Kate, this poor, dead Kate, w cry, aa he, Ezra Spry and the village Three heads nodded in confirma- sill and completely buried in a bank TPA Mt ephone, or by @ special mes- @ kimono! And it covered @ human ghost of Edgewood! constable vaulted over the wheels, tion, and Bzra and the Constable ex- from wh ¢ same low, narrow kind of window, and as se- of anow, I came in contact with a Plead 7 body! In the excitement of this discovery ‘What did you find there?” claimed simultaneously: er, which, when Thad anatohed Senger. boy cage ween OB ference _ 2 tried to call to Henry, but my , Inne excitement of ett yh HEtey irene Mae dawardithe MG eer TeoTetE ; 4¢ up and blown the snowflakes from cision ‘ voice refused to sound. Itried to turn wind 1 laid am hand on. Henry's clubhouse walle, and turned in stlenen “What made you hide her?” the were anything but companions of Bees teak lay, comfort and cheer. Monday was 60 Fun from the horror teh tay bes years long, Tuesday @ century, and red to be blac r for the left foot, ain asked Mrs, Hampton. use It seemed the only thing its surface, I dis: and of felt—a slipp shoulder, and, giving him a ttle to lead the way. They fatrly tumbled Sheriff shake, sald: through the snow, without a thought Rec: i Lippe jetimes happens in rare crises, @ G to do," Mra, Hampton said. "Sho the very mate, in fret, to the slipper \vodnesday worse than all the Dark & somett ABE m Who js she? ‘Tell me who she tsi” to path or drift, and reached us Ve Bob had found on the Cottage closet ie Beha Andalite time Sort of cold, unfeeling courage #weDE re woutd not answer hreathiens, the Sheriff first, then Hens besited and begged me not to wend floor! Merete tera aeaerinanien 1 eee Or ae ana’ oath cig bare Diplor Rey was never in my line, Fy. and in the rear Ezra and the con- dag Ftd eat a Eta 4 Aa start Gils could ave on tne yrruraday morning Gawned cold and hands bexan to brush the enow away O24 1 was the last person an arth 10 GUE oe secon the Sheriff, & Gay oF two, and try to And @ come ‘ 7 i K, W ¢ ~ e aful could i . - s é e nd if it would help or hinder iaden aky, but a promise of more c handful after handful, until 1 Could out q particle of ceremony | burst In “Lat me see!" Ezra panted, fortable placé in which to put her--a rd a sound beh snow in the clouded horizon, Crouch= ““iiere tt lay, the frozen body of a UPON Mrs, Hampton as she lay in Mre. Hampton stood aside and #inatorium, perhaps, But she got just In time to see the ; to t ing at my bedroom window, where I ,.nere tt lay, the fromsh my tom bed, and, scarcely waiting to deter- pointed at the drift hohind her. ‘The @way. Henry was called to the ; nol 4 didn't have time to lock ; ie window and step had since long before the first ; Fawn face {ro mine whether she was sleeping or threa men rushed forward, phone and didn't t wilt, fain aks of light ‘nad appeared wnlen with © handkerchiel 1 feoked wage, T hanted forth "Why," exclaimed the Bhertft, an he the cellar door, and we haven't #ron "On, thank vou for that.” ho sald. in the east, I thought T had never Wi ie Vee mnich had glared fe found her in the snow, and peered down at the cold, etill face, haven't seen her. But Miss Kingsley stretching fortir hi pray teria. Ae goon a pid Bie 200rR OO Ani at mo six nights before from the “7s dead! gisHest wince) tursied 8 ‘Craey Kate! evidently ran against her in the hail never did anyth! ‘ : , as’ n 4 irmur under yhuddering hate as those vast, silent darkness of my glass! “Where?” flung back at me es she CHAPTER XVIII and It wen, prey we wae and bla stretches of white. Snow, snow, pase ease left the room, To which, with almost . Steet Me Geena aia eine everywhere, burying its secret deepar CHAPTER XVI. equal brevity, I answered: ie T was I who broke the stab- Enrouah ie TRGOWS IR . cant Mrs. ind. deeper, blocking progress at i “In front of the clubhouse, on the 0 oer tat ene Geenah MIRORIBE: tan 3 this staggering truth ¥ IP, Was alence 1 ortea, ,, AN why should sho have frient- Md prods "As 1 knelt there, thinking of Bob swept upon me, Tacrambled ‘The olatter of her unbuttoned shoes x y 1" 1 erted. ened him? the Sheri inquired, & ani the impending trial, [felt that 1 to my fest and ran as fast On the stairs roused me to action, and ‘Crnry, you may?" pecullar note in his. voice I sped after her, pausing in the office "An crazy aaa loon," af- _“! I don't know,” stammered Mra. my mind. Something must to phone @ hasty summons to the frmed the Sheriff, and added: “That's [ampton, while her eyes faltered to-day! nething | must as the snow would let mo XVI. ; T could stand the un- after Henry, whore back, Gisappear- gherfr. an fell : ‘ was con- longer. Rather would T {ng up the driveway, was still vistble, “Come quick!" I cried, ‘We've Why ste ran away Haus Jou can mean ah per ahe tree and wepee Madse Henry!" I screamed, holding my found # woman's Posy in the snow!” Ban away?" My voter dropped to perhaps.’ fhe murmure tes ne in jail in the shadow ¢ 4 eae aed at catiahed | & aetdecas: “Hump ; F 1 hands funnel shaped to my mouth. ynciie ar peg AMR po lmneelidaen: | ayen tran) malooarctaen' waas What are you talking about, any ult, t uate would free nim? What “Walt! Wait!" And aa he halted, “Henry “was quite himeelt whan T aq son anon re , way?" exclaimed Bara peovisly, . 4 his name? Only the 890W probably more because of the shriek- got back to the club, but, though his “14 you thin - mq See er een RLU Inte Bag i But ¥ ) se QUESTIONS, | ing intensity of my votes than in face was calm and his volce moro “The poor-farm?" I echoed, “And turin’ to npto: i f ju ta par ily _ remember whee te the wetuai words I had Steady, Ne looked years older, Hin why from there?" Kacy n ra faint recol- obedience to the actual words face was ashy white, with drawn Zeonuse that's where she lived.” aa irae 16 Meets, srpeareat won f it comb In my uttered, I cried: “Come here! At ines about hia mouth anda dond @x-vagre ying oa" On Friday night,” she ! por t e turned ¢ ve next thing T once, And quickly pression in his eyes, as if something he lived at the poor-farm I “Nora caug it a giimpae of her during Multe ! te, t tunbilng down te Bven hefore he reached me and had been killed within him met * mim Hinakly and et Henry, and thought she was & ghiat : . WiPMBDOE driveway, fy UNROVER Dane! ; a He was talking with Mrs, Hampton, and last at Mrs. Hampton, and ap- By Meal AR the’ fast ward ein of my coat, I could perceive my agitation, I think wae 'ted gone a little ahead of me, pealed to her witht “What ta ho tal. ‘MANight, tn mone GF 08 it t {was the primitive thstinct pe knew what I was trying to tell. Gna I heard him say, aT came Upt tem about?” an on th put " . wiich prompted me to turn Por, without pausing to ask @o much “It's my fault, Mrs, Hampton, If “it's a long, long story," said Mr Dp, she IcoKaytt® 2 repented ri at w for comfort, for HAUTE TOY= As one question, he sped by me, fol- I hadn't been oarelesa, she wouldn't Hampton sadly, ‘ t ort soothe and heal. But what- questien, + fineeos hele, BO ME ar veh” ie ak uaih pas Reka Gk Gk or ve was, tiere was T plodding lowing the crooked trail of my foot- D&re Seepen 1 mani ite cocina longer ye! the poor tarm—Adame is bias name Wh nic the snow, tears dropping Off ateps through the drifts to the club «No, it's mine. Thad no bu sible glance in her direction Phoned over to ask tf aho had be ‘ Ir, Hf te m my breath Mak- house, Struggling wong behind I hiding her in the first placa, Tmight “story? sequel?’ | reneaced, and in #08 loitering around the club, ‘That nil, with w could hear #0 have known—but I did (t for the a durst of timpntience erted out; OW I learned that she wow missing ! ve been a ludicrous spec- and was conscious of the frenzy of best “Pleaas, please tell me! I've got to Hen phoned me, too," the Shertft nin te ut Inve at that hour pix emotion, He was ke @ madinan, "Perhaps tt'e for the best, after all,” know!" anid tree though tt al! and when he came upon the still, Henry responded, ‘She's out of mla- "Yen," epoke up Hzra, “I want to‘ at's the message you re 1 was ¢ meeven then of sitt figure in the snow and dropped ery now Door gt a know too. I want to know what she 1 exclaimed. I've often iveurdity, for, catching BiBKt on his knees beside tt, I thought for — “Yes,” agreed Mrs, Ifampton. “She's was doing hore hy tris ea ioe °x- of Honry com owly toward me UD the thoment that his reason hed out of her misery now.” Then, with “Why,” said the wheriff withawith- ‘Yes, answered Mra, Har , wie no the drive, tt was my fmpulse to avo!d gurely departed, tears streaming down her taoe, she ering look, “that's plain enough, Bzra, “that Was the message, Come : aoe i hin F ze “Kate! he | whispers etaring dropped on her knees beside the at!ll Bhs got lost in the blizzard and frogs, did out of & clear wiv, LL upset me With a wave of Irritation=munt T wildly at the white, white face. "My figure and @obbed: "Kate! Kate! For- She ran away, you know.” dreadfully A bitter nig and ' \ i t na I tur ed preity Kate!" Covering his features give me! I didn't know! I didn't 0, I don't knov enapped Fizra, Kate # cant vthed 1 kne v rutht, and withou' with his hands, he burst into @ pas- know!" demanded sulleniy: “Why didn't tha aha wasn't found ! . to wal Ps ref, sobbing over and over Didn't know what? And why ft I ni mt Pal No rocked to and fro: "To * 1 longed to pour forth a ‘ jo is yeu ua to ae lea 4 vind, only a ste think it to this! Wo think it of eager questions, but out of the eli B CoO. reply And as 1 «MeeeD alent: determination not to meet Henry and came ty tial” sneiaunite ration J held my peace and dida’t then gev how pe could have 4 ple might be Nora's shop, Until eLe A | And yet [diemisaed her, Not be winter. You bably wouldn't re- growing. Poor Mrs. Jlampten, tn member her, Mr. Blunt, as she was her scanty covering, looked half then, and you may not believe me frozen; but the Sheriff would not let when I say that she was one of the her Ko. \prettiast girls I've ever ssen, Sho “Ilave you any !dea,” he asked, had lovely coloring, deep blue eyos, Peaking with thought, and slowly, land halr as black as night; and she “Why Crazy Kato should have ac- |was aa sweet as aho was pretty, and tally terrified him?" And as Mra, capable, too, L became really at- Hampton lowered her Ids and shook toched ‘to her In the short tine she ber head without speaking, he added was with me-from May till March, crisply: ‘You don't know anything iva @bOUt Mr. Carrol, do you?” of what she bad done—for that I he said in a faint voice, “I— never blamed her—but on account of I don't the attitude she assumed in regard , “Did any ono nee her tater—atter to tt. She absolutely denied avery. he,had seen her, I mean?” thing, though I knew only too well . “I don't believe so, although my what her trouble was. daughter, whom I had eautioned to be “It wasn't that my senslbilitin were paw wer etenting wrried eouent she ‘shocked, for I've seen enough of Ifo Couple of hours after midnight: to take things as they come; but tt COuple of Bolte ‘i angered me to have her le. And oupte of hours after snidnight! when eho declared potnthlank that no How did your dnughter ‘happen to de ono could drag her secret from her, UP and stirring then that It was her business, hers alon: ‘She couldn't sleep that night.” was my temper got the better of me, I Mrs, Hampton's low toned explana- criered her to leave!" Mra, Hamp- tion, “She was lying there staring ton sighed heavily. “A little later I tnto the darkness when @he heard—or was rorry that I had done so, but 1 imagined she heard—some one at- took no step to bring her back. I tempting to open the windows in the dared not rivk a scandal at the club, living room, Remembering my tn- Where she went I never knew, but junction to be on the lookout for her money Kate, she sitpped out of bed, put on she was found som her coat, for it wae bitterly cold, and field near Gunther's—very ill went downstatrs to let the poor @irl telirtous. in, There was no one at the wine “Out” L gasped, “How frightful!” dows or at the door, end she was “rhe county took her over,” turning to go beck upstairs when Hampton dr on i tone! something—a mere shadow—fitted voice, “and as soon as Bb by. She opened the door swiftty end she became an inmate of the called Kate's name, Receiving ao an- Thero was really no other plac ewer, she stepped out on the her, She had no fainily and people and called again, and kept on i couldn't be bothered with @ lunatic. and advancing until #he came to the Onjy @ servant girl, they sald, and #0 It was then that ohe caw & they let her go and forgot all about -a mere dark dulk—vanien ‘er She's been at tho farm ever @round the olump of sumeo bushes. since—-four long years, paring vexe- Fearing that #he had frigh tables for her board, scrubbing away, she went after ages r Hate porches for her clothing. Poor, un- qround the house through Fy appy Kato! I did all in my power fot only once but twice until, bitesed for her, but It was very Aye 18 ae | and half frozen by the parison with the wrong I'd done, storm, ghe was am telling you all this that you may foroed to give up the chase end Fe- comprehend my course of action, ‘To ‘UE quiet her that night I promised to | “Oh! Ont Cat Lert, Grontag Help her, Once I'd made the promise out my arma in en agony of retied and the conviction grew upon me that it Comprehenston, that's where was my duty to help. But to help Madge had been!” her, to hide her, 1 should need help As they @ll fixed questioning eyes myself, and #o L went to Henry.” upon me, T went on to explain whee I She was silent for a moment, as tf had seen and suspected, and what dire cting strength. Then #he went conclusions I had drawn. After which the sheriff remarked dryly: Henry had n at the club at “You must have eyes in the back of the time of Kate's misfortune, and I your head!" knew he would be only too glad to | “I wish I had.” I retorted. “T might do something for her ndw. [ locked then be able to see through youl” her in my room and started for tho ‘There's Just one more question,” c on stairway, and it was then that you satd the sheriff, as Mrs, Hampton surprised me, Katharine.” She turned shivered and made a move to go, “I her eves to me, “For fear you might want to know, If the left slipper ts Ruesn my secret, [ told you the first the one that waa found in the hali thing that flushed {nto my head closet, how it came to be buried in a Magee was walking in her sleep snow-bank on the Carrol porch,” thouch Ecould see from your expres. “But It wasn't the left one which sion that you didn't believe a word was found tn the hall closet," I de- of tt. Well, to continue, I finally got clared Hampton made a mis to Henry ‘and woke him, and we was confused, It was t tulked together, It was his sugges nber perfectly tion that we should concen! Kate in * ot concluded — the the cellar, and that {49 what we did, sheriff, "the one that came to Mm: He set up a cot in the laundry and tn tho bank of snow, is the frst one's smuggled down hev meals, and for a mat day all went smoothly, But at the Exactly led, and added: “It end of that day the unexpected hap- you'll come to the Cottage with th Sh Away—how why, i haps Mrs never really know, All w MM let Us seo hens, and that while Henry. w Lup dinner he heard the sald tho sheriff, “Wel one, and tt was probably while you ladies may go. We have our wor » Was Answering jt that she made to do," and he motioned to the Agur her escape, He didn't jock the door, you closed tt behind him ward the Cot inter < hurry and lock tt he found at nee td the cor ” had flown, but, h r suine one movinis he still had} have a pris Wheeling around, we saw Eara, the const He carrying t while tl! something in ngsley tn 6 sheriff, wheeling his b about. “And what were you doing ‘ant now there " Hampt patient ex- Ma c Inve pation,” FT tout ¢ hin 5 new they were hiding 1 " Tsaid, and started for ip stray-and L ile came half way to meet me, out who it was running exc vod T saw what it was he had ttle white wool and an mn- shawl, such as old ladies love to knit re was nothing “What do you think of thi ried, holdit up exultantly, “It ady was around Kate's neck!" And he showed tne in the soft weol thre parkling ambe: f Md have Alto ueiulng save Madge’s fatal-chain, ae phone aad Mies Kh ley's come rf Be Continued) “uy