The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 11

The Secret in the Snow, The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, April 15, 1916 i | seneseesece [ dodeddadadeehlodaohsbokadedatedadn Suppose you should find the clue to untold wealth— and at the same time to untold peril? had proved that he had removed his at und coat While talking to Com ces ef don and had lad D8 avert. there i beside the whiskey dec leat Of Katharina X . universally accepted, M LN m on tho tible NOL RES ot tt was APPLY To Agent! ! Hampton both jbbpeit Loc dea ON PREMISES | Sunday morning, while | was getting my wraps from my bedroom, preparas tory to going for a walk, Bob had gone Do you remember “The Wings of the Morning,” by the same author? It was one of the most popular novela ever published in The Evening World. it Well “THE MESSAG of the Morning. 3 You might perhaps have the pluck to solve the prob- A Girl’s Weird Adventures os THE APART , : eh oe ene cere oF In the Realm of Mystery ) Best) ARE one tas | ? “ * B M LOCATION HOT CAKES 3 E | By Mildred Van Inwegen | | Asssoy" ) Garey 1 e HAR AAMA AGIA Aa AGAR RNG SANA NARADA AAA ATT a nite r a ARRAY WILL BE ERECTED —, 13 By LOUIS TRACY Dopyrifiit, 1015, by 4 Van Inwewen.) was seized upon eagerly, and when ON THIS SITE 5 WOPSIS OF PRECKDING CHAPTERS 1», after much cross-questioning, APARTMENTS. i * +7 ; 3 i NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD i > ig geen peering in yf micht in better than “The Wings This ia sufficient proof that " for his to the room in question, So, * TORT . Lad Po with three people to back up bis atate- | : IT 18 WORTH YOUR READING. _ ) ‘convinced that ment, there couldn't be any doubt as, “e Derr oh to its truth, { But what had been Kate's reason ind het who paid, Sitting Nera write taking her away. He was going to Kill 4‘ ajar, Carte for wearing the garment? And if ahe [ink this, thee’ hate and bitterneas her, Now that I'm quieter, I don't be~ Pabitiet to ts hrair had worn it, who had brought it back? Hthin me. CAML the tort « he did mean t much mt at the smber It was decided, after endless debat- damned, all the flames of he sida't of @ coward, But ent L bE patarine ant ing, that Camdon must have caught| make him suffor what she did, Hut I thought sure ¢ f I Timnelt up the coat on the moment of depart. | mustn't get started like this, for Ud think @ star in hea o that . ° never stop, and I have @ story to tell nicht, or else al ot . Around her thewt ls the amber onan, {Better decoe ) LLL IL "ites, Hampton, you didn't know tt “Something. inside of, ine. told’ m& | ure and thrown it about Kate to pro- | tect her from the cold, In passing the desk by the door of the olfico she bt — 4 CHAPTER XIX. must bave slipped her hand to the re- | AT ONCE _ MOST and one knew it, for I kept it where they were. They'd gone to Mr HOSE threo little amber Volver which always lay upon it, and quiet 1 Kate Aryant. Tho first Carrol’s. Mr. Robert's coat and hat smuggied it into a pocket. Thus they day she set foot in Edgewood, with were lying on the table, and Tt } DESIRARLE APARTMENTS her pretty blue eyes and laughing lips, them on and grabbed the IN TOWN T eatd to myself: from tha office desk. I went ¢ I presume it would have they had gone in by the window ete WHUG On GURIA Piece AN de: Gen) eee ROTEL Doe i Euan sooner or later been cleared, which Bob and I found open was not| But she couldn't seen didn't coulda nything, but i knew just , vevght. the even disputed, for there Was no latch | la try to force myself on her, for L bo- how to go that Kats had come to light, key about the murdered man, and the} eve in going slow, and f he first They had left the gate open, and I pers hud been identified, and @ gipper which Kate had dropped in onth or two T didn’t say nothing at walkod right up the steps to the door, mber of other points explained. the snow-bank beneath It proved that {all—just stood off and worshipped It was locked, and L tried ali the be that t may, the amber they had entered there. ke And then, along In June, with windows till C reached the one that it, be that as i 9 How long they © erounds #o green and protty and was found up. 1 could hear them beads cleared up the Mmy# had left the Cottage and started for| tery, although without them the Jonely house over the way. ‘That in the hous ds burr matters—and more, ang what happened to cause the | ta moon up in th y, LE thourht how ta ikir and Mr. Carrol yielded: y saved Hob from trial, For, found siooting were other puints uaknown, hice if we could be together e Give me that ehain, you devil! Tt they were in the knitted shawl at But they must have had a quarrel - | Ko, alking to the village, Bhe refused 4 ire any more.” ‘ i he, perhaps, balking at imprison- ' ist time 1 asked her, and the Kate wan eort of aobt Kua je back of poor Kate's neck, it * | is Y of # ng and my ; ment, refusing to be hidden, and he in jaccond, But £dldn’'t give up. Lasked peart just from. 1 for oved that it was sue who had worn @ vioient rage attempting to use force. | ty xo again, and that thme abe There wan a light In the lorary rh e chain, and, with this proved, A struggie—fear against hate, she . P ast unsealed. breaking away, the chain about her La Ps ‘a bet ate hearing in "eck falling earthward as she ran, | foaere Was 85 mained! sats and he rushing after. Quick as a| e Forest County Court House, and fash, the revolver brought into pla: didn’t take much palavering on the Two shots! Death and flight! t of his lawyer to convince the The shock of what she had don dge that He was innocent, and that might have somewhat cleared her actin hiding the amber chain bad mind e might have re ned to — folks have than others. And ering and di prompted by chivalry alone. the Cottage. Yes, she must have re- | WHEN = ra ent IO fay WAAC lO her, Mee ark an SenIDE. ivalry? 4 knew better. Jt was turned there, for who else could tt] OB oDY Hiunpton, that He ane'd take meta bo gL POU blame me, Mra. Hampton, ve! have been whom Madge heard fum. | ) WIWLTHE CAN BEAT US the rich int happlest fellow in the {" pl did? T wasn't eight feet $ was a most nerve-racking ses- blin the windows and saw, later, | HOUSE BE IN Quick World, “She didnt-eay nothing, jue OYaY wen fired. The first shot n, that morning bearing, leading disappearing about the corner of the; READY FOR . kind of laughed and looked away. 1 fle gel) wh hut the aecond got him, r, and} douvt porch? And how could Bob's coat! OCCUPANCY b> Building: | trled to urge her, and got excited and jg where he was standing, and I she'd think about tt end of a | “Well, we went walking that night, had bv | along driv The ciub was ail Ht crossed Up, and there was musio and crowds, in front of the fire co at the end jand the same over at Carrol’e 1 r of the room At first I thought he | member that because when w fot to was choking but I saw it wae ) the gate we stopped and look over the chain he had hold of, and they there, and talkd about how much more both were jerking tt. She was whine candle, for the electricity Misconnveted, When shold, there they were mone thrill to an Z drew a straig sath during the have been where be ieft it, if she had wild Uke, and #he backed away and “A'e screomed and ran re procedure. They started with not brought it back? | —~ | whiapered: When I think of how calm and chain as tue central pivee of evi- Thus tt was settled that Kate had “'Tean't, Henry, thank you. There's Mrtly I was, it sooms funny. I'd Ince, und the argumeat Was some- gained entrance to the Cottage, had some one else? Killed a man. I knew tt. But [ didn't lows put the coat {n its proper place and } ‘And TP saw her hand go up to her 6¥en look at him, once he fell, I stuck 5 the person had fled again into the night, only to throat and take hold of a chain she th@ revolver back in my pocket, 1 on the night lose her way and her life In the den- was wearing. It was a chain of ame tabbed up tho enndle and turned te ho hu: mt the murder, w could she have sity of the snow ber beads, Mrs. Tiumptam, and i follow Kate, Rut she was gone, I pt it, and when Vay, on Madge’ Tt was 4 supreme moment when this never forget how they shone in the d everywhere, and (@ouldn't find wong tabi Madge was posi- decision was ache and the uni- ! night She probably went out of the lve that sie had put it there, and versal feeling seemed to be one of pity |e Well, we walked back to the elub, Window an t herself in the storm, hile we were sleighing was for Kate, not sorrow for the murdered nd that was the first and last time & | couldn't have been a minute behind own to have had the habit of wan- man. In the eyes of the world she asked anything of her. TE noticed that her, but the anow was so thick that I ing, and she must have s Was justified in her act, justified a to Madgo's room during - hundred times over, and nothing more poe. And, as the beads Were proity could be said d bright, it seemed quite natural | alone, was not satisfied, Who, t they should have attracted Ler, was the man on the stairway landing? But if she had taken and worn For man it was who appeared there | m, that didn't explain their pres- a man as large as Bob Tanner, and | ice Ai the feet of the murdered man, Not poor, delicate Kate. 1 heid my | low had they found their way to his peace, however, and had sense enough | eNing? Could she have worn them to let well enough alone, for if the Jahe wasn't (much evenings, Couldn't see. T couldn't hear, neither ind didn't join ine with the servant | decided, finally, that ahe must have wi; bot Edidn’t think of trying to run back to the Cottage, I threw find cut what she was doing. L knew &Way what wae left of the candle, she must be with that other feliow, Closed the gate so opie wouldn't ind thet was enough, [t hurt. But f Suspect anything queer, and the snow never guessed the fellow was him! — Miled in the trail. “Hy and by | saw she was getting |“! forgo. to take a latehkey when I pale and peaked, and didn't smile go left the Cottawe, and the front door and didn't wear her orotty locked Itwelf, But I knew I could open , ero? Apparently she had, and they public were content th believing chain no more, And then she went One of the French windows ensy, and» pust have quarrelled, and the chain, Kate the sinyer, why should { dispute] -—.-—- sind in as = Soe a __.. |away and had all her trouble, 1 Twas fumbling at it when I saw some, Dw possible struggle, wae snatched {t? There had been enough trouble can't write about ft, Mra, Hampton, One in the living-room tnaide, It and broken apart. Aamall piece re- Alrendy, 1 would not atir up more ending wi! “You couldn't have “No more than 1," he said. “For But VU give him credit for thia—~ Cottago—and proved herself my right The pen would break to pieces, But wouldn't do to be caught now, so Ty ined in Camdon's hand, just as Thus was vengeance accomplished, Submitted to that if you hadn't cared 1 the revolver came to Mkt and he knew that Kate was mising from hand Rau ihattdady to Bessette T want to tell you that the thought Slipped by and stole along the porch, je had clutched it; a few beads clung the mystery solved, and peace ra. —A littl evidence hung thick about me, L ac- the poor farm, for the head of that : vy offered te of Her was alway with me, I ewore and Miss Margaret came after. p Kate's worsted shawl, where the stored to Edrewood Bob smiled, tually was puzzied by tt all, IT couldn't institution had notified him of the @*#ct. She very sweetly offered to to mynelf that if ever I found*that heard her call, and I ran, and she ran fain had been strongest; the re- As the sheriff—with @ sigh, for the | “Sweetheart,” he said, “you're figure cut the presencaof the weapon fact; and when he discovered that #!ng during the ceremony, but I told fellow I'd make him pay, Well, I too. I hid under the steps of the winder dropped to the floc loss of the trial was a sore disappoint- blind as a bat!" And o# I looked at in my cout. As the days went by it there had been queer happenings at her that I'd rather she'd be maid of M4. T reckon! kitchen entrance and she passed by. Bo much for the chain, And now Ment—unfastened the handcuffs from him to convince him that I wasn't. he whed on me that Twas really ina the Cottage, that a "ghost" was pré- honor, 1 knew that if ordinary music — “The amber chain that Mr, Carrol &he wont around the house twice, She determine if Kate bad gone with Bob, he remarked focularly added: “1 hid the chain in the first sty ©. But had I known who SUmably around, it was easy enough ‘ " ‘yy Kitve. Mins Margaret. was the first thought I wae Kate. .And then she %, you must remember, on your working for me*—lapsing into tv put two and two toxether, Kate Ws affecting herg would break UP thing that sort of made me think, &4v@ up. It was awful running tn ount,” sentime again—"“who was fairly Was the ghost we were de bing, the wedding, and I wasn't keen for There couldn't be two chaing #0 near that blizzard, ‘On my account?" I echoed. breaking her neck to wet me free, 1 and Kate's the face which had fright chat, alike, A wondered whero Mr, Carrol |" staved under the atepe until 7 Yes, and against my better judg- needn't have been so uneasy, Had - ened the mur do man yi . on) & ot hin To never much liked him, thought {t safe to try to get in again RCT NG ath hE hia te Renate Been told that Chie wonldt hanantcs, (Mia HRMBe Object in hiding ,, Vo Were married at noon, and Mrs. PLe Mh ouint no was muare, Then f mot in finally, through the pantry the girl was beyond him, ikewise Hampton appeared barely in time for kite came back, and there was all Window, [walked through the kitch Bob's peculiar stand, Madge he sus- the ceremony, Even amid all the ex- tat excitement, It was hard work ¢n—I was sort of dazed and almost Jamdon to his house, and, if so, whea “You can thank Miss Kingsley for nd for what reason. The biack felt this, Mr. Tanner. If whe hadn't gona Npper found on porch beneath & hunting, the black felt slipper e Open window proved undoubt- dn't have been found when‘ e had been . and the Was, nor Kate Bryant's body discov- b he night of the ered. It's Miss Kingsley who saved I saw that {f I didn’t you would. anu fis arms stole around me wizard, at an hour long after the You!” 1 wisa't going to jet the only girl in believe 1 would have broke Cottage was asicep. Her reason for | 1 sank back in my seat, my cheeks the world run such a risk.” This with | "Oh, Bob!" 1 whispered peoret bi little, nd at the tne of citement of the vecasion f felt that Mding hi but harder seeing her frozé—through the butler’s pantry, going could only be guessed, but tt burning, and Rob turned swiftly to- a kiss ou can't cover up evidence bilesful. “What a air of gee fobs arrest he had been protty well yn was falrly burating with some- that way so thin and cragy, It mude &nd out on the landing. T thought I pemed to he ati uniisputed fact that Ward me, And though every one waa without taking chances,” ie contin- are!” cdot ae, Dext day. however, he thing, safter L had promised to luve, Me mick all through hoard some one when I opened the Eimdon. w fraid of her, that he Pressing forward, his mot and ued, “And though the arg t you . There came a ra at the di Pesca led at the poor-farm, re= honor and obey, were eating “I don't know where she was after door, and I waited a minute. | But Bad taken her to his house to get her Ssters, and Madge looking up with put up was mighty good, | couldn't knob and @ banking at the door, and {ieshed himaclf with Kate's unhappy ding brcakfust—it was really she got oul of the cellar, nothing happened, so 1 went on down ont of the way beautiful eyes, he pushed then help being sceptical, Well, when 4 bevy of vuives eried history, end thus, bit by bit, twlatwd he came over tu me and whis- 1 suppose, then outdoors, and the steps, crossed the living-room mee ene should > have heen all aside and made a bee-line acros# things went so well at the beginning, Hi, there, you turtle-doves, let us bi threads into a whole, pere again in the house, It would nid closed the door of the smoking- Barats of hereon miillonnire mane when every one seemed to be at sea, int We want to talk things over.” He had permitted the coronor to "May I ao you alone for a few been easy for her to slide around— room behind me, T don't know why Hes over, and ahe only an ignorant J, as he reached my T began to think perhaps we could put AS soon as Rob had whisked to the Proceed aw he did merely to make his moments before you leave? It's of ‘moat every one on the slotgh-ride, | didn't take the revolver from the servant ° si and bent over, “Kate, you our pl n ; and then the Sher- other end of the table and I had dis. OW" disclosures at the trial inore the greatest importance.” and the fl ® loc ta their ruoms, overcort. [forgot all about it. T for- Conviusions were jumped at apeed- Plucky little darling iff jumped in on us, Whew! How creetly placed an wk well and a dice H@Pressive; and it was a bitter 1 I knew without being told what it They were scared ally, got all abe thing save my fy, but facts and proofs were needed, ADd there, In front of every one, that f ied us! He was wiser uty between us, and called ment for dim when he suw the trial was, it had to do with—well, nu. “Weil, IT dosed most of saturday Pretty Kate For I knew I couldn't There were Kate's misfortune and @nd_ before knew what he was than Le would have given him they might ¢ they came AS HOt te ta Bob promigad ty vet matt evening in the amoking-room, fhe 14 her In all that deep snow, and T Camdon's doubtful past. There were £NE to do, Bob Tanner gathered credit for being, and his game was a bursting In, laughing and poking ail hin the entire front sh “Do you want Bob, too?" T asked. gieigh party came hacky Mr. Carrol Knew she was lost for good. T pulled Kate's stubborn attitude in regard to me {nto his arms and kissed m: hummer." sorta of fun, and offering Uneir von- {iN n head-iiney “Why, certainly,” she said was drunk, and carried on something Of Mr. Robert's coat and hat, put her betr and Camdon's hasty de- "Gar 1 exelatmed gratulations th aA Bho wares ay: such We managed to slip away by and terrible. ito ordered whiskey, Mr, them hack on the table and went back parture for Europe in very yeur CHAPTER XX “Certainiy, He knew ng that There was a perfect hubbub. K tale’ at lemar Gertie. pias sl sure he by, and shut ourseives in the upstairs Robert sald: bal, egg ote) Bee Nicsblnes ope And th we on and on, It vitithlsdaa Sacaiails Crazy Kate was mixe up in this, flew, T kissed Bob's mother and his . ye sitting room. Madge came with us. No, don't give tt to him’ oar, Kin ' was show w easily he could have BELIEVE they shoved us He'd been warned of her disappear- sisters and his million-dollar ‘ Meir Tava Bob whispered, when = “This may seem like a queer thing “Hut T broucht it to keep him know what Hlowed — how we met poor K his. grou 80 clone into an ante-room and 4A6e by the superintendent of the whom T never could abide, and Made, Ue Mex@lon Was over, and we Were to introduce at a Wedding,” Mem quiet. Mr, Robert told me to. try tn searched rehed and finally Barina clubhouse, ne the > mas closed the door T vaguely Poorefarm; but he could find nothing Who looked sad and woobex nthe Mtardng two by two for the oor, Hampton began. She scomed to bo get him to bed and let him sleep it found her The only thing that fer.’ Her beauty would ‘drawn ee yabaialhath tangible--only a hint here and there, midst of this celebratic 1 M ae jie orters are al est plaguing jolding something behind her. But off, But Mr, Carrol wouldn't listen Comforts mo is that her misery te bin to her, 1 she j Irish : mn a oar ; ap ae ind So he had to walt for things to de- Hampton, a ynay even have Kissed as! ie Ee a Wont ce 1 knew you too would he furious if to me “ ase won't be unhappy ever girl, woul: een fla 1 by his faughter, but nothing was vy the Sherif can't say, for 1 ee o * Tdidn't let you see It. Tt came this “Mind your own business, you an. #8 ; Attentions: | This the inevitabl All clear for at least half an hour save | "You mean he never considered you king y clouds ‘of m He iment?” I said, cocking my MvmiMe orf should way, 1 found it formal idiot!” he suid, , c fia sorry, FOU SIL She. teanble, Fae very horr: for 1 ind for the that Bob's 1g wero about me and guilty?” 1 asped, And as Rob hadn't the vaguest idea of w ? id, co my in my room: cade he aiee Re came Robert's arrest an rest of us tha tere muleat een e AMM Wero BOUL MO ate Pe nee umhen nce could waa Going. And oh, such @ talking on one side. “But you haver She held toward me a thick white those were h _ PE psi vr but put L couldn't help it, 1 didn't know has Laat Lal etal that he was whispering words of en. ROM! T burst out,” ih 1G WAR GOURG ne OF jane isked tme—yet! en Hose wore hig wordy, He awore at Mr. what to do, And I'm glad, yee, glad Fate had od played into Cam rment in my ¢ When TI began «Oh, arresting isn't h fear poor Camden's memory was "Asked he cried, “Aw if £ “What is it?” 1 faltered, taking it off t« Ad es boon aa Thad fined pocuied Tim: ade TG Get over anes @on’s hands when it robved Kate of to recove he ob , sally P . quite forgotter needed to!" And blocking the way , fore i to-morrow if T could, Only next time Monig hands when It rol K r, and the oblivion of dream: coolly’ replied. “He wat make @ ® ni 4 ad ay from 1 staring at the queer, Mr. Carral’s room for*the night, [pa make it torture, You see how fT Bolutely emave Against ne ditelosuve 1nd to slide away, I found that we me talk. ‘That seemed the easiest . f had to tell M ove Hy Pane Ae tine tee putea Pik gen Mane pag nt to hed, too, He was ritting at the ¢ which, had she retained her mental- Were sitting on a table in the judge's | fonts PON aie wert A Ponisi abe ane fade tous "na ordered atorniy: “and fg! Ae AANOAT Tioga Ete. Mice GaMat nits ct Ararat eer nome lins caine linet: : , e w, once he had aske 1 y; and she had to tell n . 0, i tand Me whe addec toad 4 we under hin breath when L lett hum to gay tha F like wait “ry ity, she might have been tempted into OWN apartment, our hands clasped Those questions und. eat hilahed he she thought that it was Bob, and that Tl! ket tokets to-morrow for Bant With Bob hanging over one shoul T vot undressed and started to go to ag a Aes 2: a Me 1 td ye si giving, And yet, in spite of bis se- and our faces cheek to cheek. It probability that a. person unknown | Knew it and was trying to muicld | “Banff!” 1 echood. “Heavens, not der and Madge ide, Ts ‘ couldn't « u, dear Indy, and gurity, what a dread ys to have BFOMALIy. eolinds’ vary. billy and wide ROE. TRO’ Tolee ia Rieae a Bink: Mira Pig Make it some where in the ¢orrid slowly de folded y you, T couldn't ap eyes would miregnarer, ils, a a and I presume we should have "dn't committed the murder. Her ie ful ty ° it y t ‘ ng Hast i f i ine uM. panera: nt 1 aprend then vl ni \ my se ; tr Bye ! nar and th “5 | emotion rose from shock, n guilty Slipper was « ered, she joningly ‘ nt ap. ter, she termed It, but awered. “Wh id t where she been would ha |g creatufe whose misfortune was of hig had better sense, but when It « Bb cOnAAlanoe CRG ROE Oana ee ne idee! ¢ the awful de nin sight of anow reality was a document, for the She knew him " a Be eta NUMA Te, i 4 f Rae w ae to the question of love, you'll find it's safe in dixplavin the chain have heen Ki A a ae AMRAG And CALEHE me papers Ware imuny and Aumbored, whaok, and yat tt : et. Dut far away © wondered if Kato had recog- tne older couple f Ha ALK PAGE - Kate's disappearance t 1, though th five and the writing labored, yet tne It remember you and o a ay ban I nised him, and i he older couples who are the bigger In faet, T considered It 9 michty ‘ t 5 by | ed him, and what her sensations 1 o a whim of t y ortera, the bmnpe fel- was dated at the Edgewood Club, two of } at“on some ¢ ' t had been on seeing him at Madge's ‘lots. clever move. | It would turn suspicion maa war re ki ne more nights before, but we could by 4 Pasanwe. She w ? were y Side, If she had, hate and jealousy “And all along I thought tt was [iY Way, eave Madge a lot of un- now 8 : i H 4 Louth tHe” Pariacate in waa hanae a This ‘ ry 4 supreme must have welled up within Mudge," was my favorite retrain, RCMmintneam, and incidentally mix ev. 7) Vaeata wes nt RSE an in age y em wo'll b@ that {t had beon set down ut differs Wb nA woe had that) hain of hin f Bue cee her, foll»wed by vild desire fo a : avorite refrain, ery one up; and in the meanwhile 7 neide eren't col 1 : are iE Ad bean q sand wie ; " AAI 1 hoa whl ir grea (4 Wenge. Had siefitadan te ilatrounl whenever there came a lull, “I was Should have plenty of time for reflec. WAY : Ah De TUR wise tay CO ee ae in bad Kindy a ¢ of hun as to await his return from |} positive you loved her tion, T[ could see that the ao-called It was she who had CHAPTER ieee br pe 4} war Rs ne Ady sort of cleared up hee mand, Bhe mombe mh ENAY ARS nd then reve A “ coat ii ghost In the house had something to Setrehing in the snow, 1! HA e Du wil very queer, me talked more sensiile hati A en an eit 26s, and He Fev 4 hereelt And It doesn't look very much like It a. with the tragedy, and Ww enntha KS ight be lost in ‘th a off like thin withow vor ¢ found tt upstaits! she told him, reading it waa several minutes before ise tee ee a , eau H Just now, does it?” Bob would retort, Sheriff brought out’ that point so hoping that in Hing he c Eowere married on Saturday ! im) but F just have | o1t C sHow did it get there? Then, quick a@ any one Could: speak Lit was t ome upon him as he bat there anne eating me close, ¢ strongly—that it was a woman's hair would be ywaeon the Ww of the follow week, and | stay here any longer, not with wehtning, she put poor It tnda with my hand tn my hushand’s—ow f ine Arunhen autor ond tenon And you never! did love her?” L you had touched—I inatantiy. grusted The black Colt sipp Pee liin tant: ehtee a k dead and you king on hin wii tid amid, eager ike: proudiy [ write it!—who murmured him into s ger one Ren alaned: porelated Not the tiniest little the situation woman after Cam- Sheriff's statement that it la 1 . yale KOttINE whe killed him, "You've 0 wok for me. LE knew broken What had followed hates 9 Bpeck? lon—he had rather a bad reputation found on the Carrol porch, was 0 [ ready, Not that we had an “Mra, Hompion, Kate Bryant 4 you would “Poor Henry! Evident i clewed between them? — "Not wo that you could notice,” was “ind after him for revenge! Why imagined, @ horiile revelation t elaborate wedding, It was Kill Mr. Cur Tt wae ine.” Fes kab enAe gwar ana CARA inimed? Share: & nothing for Henry, who had slept clome by Dia why Aner Tell me, what made ciae should he have been ao terrified showed her all In a flayh the tren! of @ very quiet affair; and 1 wore my | There wan a breathieas moment aa Kot fo ble fool Ho was wate! soln ‘i Ever : ‘ / crane by. you th tha vy her presence, and have so com. the situation. He wa ‘ , type ut eight +g dropped the We gised at wh y ’ F @ fwore that he lid heard no disturb: ‘Oh, who's 6o lovely und beautiful,” pletely formiten himeelt an Ne aid? had wronged Kate! In thone words #0nes-away costume; but elght days | Urhhped the Gheel, Oe Tee idee turned at ant ‘ wWaailt me who bad taxen tho club. * Mace You, T anid, tt was g woman who had lay the whole situa! jan't a very Jong time in which to Shotner s had musd ! \ i house revolver? aa he clubs i ok Belt 08 lovely and beautiful as done the marder, a woman maddened = The Sheriff, on his par acquire a trousseau, order a cake and — "Who who wrote this thine? to be scar 1 vterly ole ao siforuard SAS sae by the wift of the amber chain, And to say. An 1K favors and call ‘ Henry!” Mra, Hampton framed hack as [ t stolen it ws a safeguard 4 ad men al pariah. for her.” T wan conhdenh, when) turned momie fo epting the Lo alt avorn and call up rel hue and ae NDeTanA Ragnar atone ott hie 1 An, hotrayer? And was it ehe who had ot this one!” he fired back. er to the Sheriff, that the woman on the day of the trial, t friends, Indeed, 1 often wonde! Ley dah An >: fire the phate If so, how had the Then why did you do it?” 1 would soon be found,” ered his movements I managed to do tt "Read oni" Hob orderad c M w bere Pe le Way peak te the que nt De How herote of you!’ I exclaimed, been cautious to the eatie If it hadn't been for Madge pro The letter continued tus han An lea whore It f okt Olle a o the pod “ job's o clinging to his han collection of evidence. | bly couldn’ ve done Madea T shot him with the ciubnouse re+ \ st thie 1 knew every: ing oven Why, take her guilt upon your “Herole nothing! he scoffed, "T have guessed from * amy conlen’t Be rip ftersenn volver, and I'd do ft agnin fifty times was ne world Hen ihe she had worn the cont, self." Rapidly I went over his dis- wasn't endangering myaelf—or at Kate wan in the tragedy, but [have Cat With Me GR We A over, No death could be too bud for! to [ war lying on the ba on Ht , for it had been left closure of the amber chain, and all jeaat I thought T wasn't." reasons loubting hi le made When Bob was freed-—sh t him. For {t was him who Killed my floor. The waa ompty. [ raatized v 5 moking room, The suggestion the complications which follov “T worried ao!" I sighed, too many stupid myvew. endure the thought of staying @t (14 pret Kate’ worse than killet her, otraig ff what he'd ne, ot 18 (TH ND.) 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