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‘ Ratti ean La eS i aaa oo . — = a a A eR RAP LA Op NERD HE ON Al Ml ME OAT " “Fias £ xf . 1 . The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, May 8! 1916 i ca a ws ; , MMR AERA RNB ERAT RARER EGAN RRR TN ERROR ITT, 4 —————— { R | I ’ Conrriaht. 1916. The House of the Pur le Stairs he Day of Rest ert Row York Brening Won) By M aurice Kett e n If you were lost in the Canadian woods end a gloricusly 4 p ; beautiful girl should happen along— ” . ee eee mmm ns Well, that is the situation conf = ¢ 1, s nfronting the hero of A Mystery Story with a ¢ JOHN COME WITH US 9. JOHN WHERE HE WAS CHASING NAUGHTY DOaGie! Wholly New Twist. ¢ OR A WALIC IN THE 1S THE DOG RACING CAR SCARED HIS MISTRESS nnn mn irnrimmp perpen ARK , IT'LL 00 You HE WAS HERE & ALMOST To DEATH | By JEANNETTE L. HELM j)|| @ >< a = NORTHLAND A RRR RD RETR REBT RR RRR R ARRON REA RRIR | & at) By ROBERT E. PINKERTON . , ’ (ot, 1, Hy Pt A See Zn NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD . CHAPTER I. The Mystery. This is a story of the Big Outdoors —just the sort to read OHN GORDON missed his road in the dark as he sought to reach i i i | the station. He was on his way back to New York from a pro- | in springtime. fessional visit—he was a young and clever lawyer—to the little There plenty of adventure and mystery in it and a town. goodl: i 1 i - It was midnight when he passed by a Hghted house, whose front | 7 PORLION Ok SOMIEWHAY SSUBL Tove IHtereat, oor was suddenly thrown wide, A glimpse of the hallway was revealed, | —— . ‘ Up from the hall's centre arose @ broad stairway, whose steps seemed to be of some whitish metal or composition, A pane of stained glass cast a pur- Soyer Gn en yy LS rerlgtot 4 She met his eves frankly. ple reflection on the stairs. fine-tooth comb, audetng trom your somehow. 2a - Jud and ess of everything In the doorway stood a girl, who was trying to summon help. Presently description of the king of man be is, made the teal jumpy, wut as far oe 3 she ran back to the stairfoot, where lay the body of an older woman. At I don’t think he will be hard to lo- the rest was concerned, I was as well sight of the body Gordon hurried into the hallway. From the girl's broken ee ee eae Hislting doen 1 . , se 0 close Keer together they bent over the other woman, he gleaned the fol- | ["O Jonny WHERE The BABY! |) Nau gay GikL SHE WAS JUST READY “Well, we had better get back as book.” hank You, Atte. Wetherat ' j ! 4 soon as possible and see if we can that will be all. Isn't that our man ; The girl was Bertha Wetherall, The dead woman was Mra, Wetherat,| | 'S BABY 2 SHE WAS HERE FOmeR Athos? tw ih Sad pick up the trail, I'want to look over now, coming oui? He evidently wants her aunt. Bertha told Gordon her aunt had started down etairs, and then on A MINUTE AGO. ‘OUN TAI things a bit more, have a talk with to speak to vou, Mr. Gordon, and as I had suddenly shricked and had pitched to the bottom. They two, she de- nels, If yon can menage Ad Ane or okange martsare Peet ley oon ‘fel ry - artners, on”! + elated, had been alone in the house at the time, Mrs, Wetherall’s husband gut about the maids. This Martha low gat on fo fay belong a detesthyes having taken a late train to New Yor! enkins seems to be in the family And by the way, Miss Wetherall, m: On examination Gordon found @ long hatpin transfixing the v'>stim's onhey. Seesaudea tbe Sivan ie cal Went te ae oy te bo : oward %. t. pert sek aa them back, and were finally deposited Hertha turned to Gordon. Yr, McDonald, the local % at the entrance of the Wetherall "Can I see you aft have held the inquest next day. ‘The hat- Se to have done it, even if he place Inte in the afternoon. spoken to him?” one asked. Un come dentified an Bertha’s, though “Riis itecieg wiscen by me As thav went up the drive Bertha down here when hos gone,” and with: pin was identified as , though — jtollins wheeled on him sharply. “A came out on the piazza and stood out waiting for an answer she fol- the girl stubbornly adhered to the third person? Who do you mean?” there waiting for them. Her fa lowed the detective. story she had told Gordon, Martha “A tramp that I found lying drunk was calm, but she was pais, and there Jenkins, the Wetherall maid, hinted Abit GA DUC LORIE Teen Toe ties | esta aecouan GF Gab Ree aa CHAPTER III. to the Coroner that there had been he'was in, I think we com elaitare fave Gordon an almost rrestetibie Enter Mr. Quinn ill feeling between Bertha and her him, too. impulse to take her in his arms and HE “ aunt, and the dead woman's husband “Teil me all about him,” demanded | comfort. her, S aaeecr alk Grokia ee intimated that Bertha’s mind was un- the detective, Her forlorn expression vanished, gravel walk toward Gordon Dalanced, ‘The Coroner showed he “He's an odd sort of chap 1 met (however, aa she saw Gordon, and she Was A direct opposite to the strongly suspected ber of committing late in the afternoon after the I | acknowledged his Introduction of the one who had Just left, and the crime. quest. I stumbled over him in the detective with one of the smiles that in spite of himself Gordon Gordon found himself strangely {n- woods about # mile off, and he asked |made her face so rarely beautiful. = smited at the contrast. This detect: terested In the case. He also, to Ma me for geome money, which I was 0 glad you have come, Mr. feo) Bi ONG WH, GA tae ‘ hd ie be) Ane ie hog eee ce Be him. He was a will Thaw ae ine liaet on tun aheaae with sharp, restless eyes and an pers t cto . ost unkempt specimen; was half r . , a 4 pathitgh as oy i aides a ue gone with consumption, I should| | WHY Did you LEAVE WHY DON'T You HE WAS HERE | ful mystery, ogetic smile, as of one who deprecates Rowe by volun tiene (oe Used from the way 3 Cougted, radii ar z ihe WHEN \sToe > A MINUTE AGO lacheteee 80, Indeed,” answered the in advance the unfavorable impres- ,, h ch th ods back vas helping himself along the [Oo TALIK TOA Ys WALKIN 1 sion he is about to ke. to tiking through the woods back other half with drink and dope—or ao | [ALMOST To - Fe ed artee vine wa minwonl cr tae t ‘toe WITH & ‘took, and after that he glanced at her | When he spoke, however, Gordon FAMILY but seldom, His manner toward her, Tecelved a surprise, for instead of the u however, was both reassuring and high-pitched tones his small figure protective, and Bertha responded to SUKKested, his voice was deep and it readil rich, with @ resonance one would | 8 there some place where we can have expected from a man of twice talk privately?” he asked. ‘I should Dis size. like to hear your story, if ft will not “Mr. Gordon, I believe?’ My name be too painful for you." is Quinn—James Quinn—from head- “No, though it will be told for the Garters, The District Attorney wired [second time this day,” she anawered Ie to come. May I have a few words | with a sigh as she led the way to @ With you? Il summer-house. Gordon did not start, although he ‘Whom else have you told it to?” had received # still greater surprise ked both men in the same breath, &t the sound of the name, | “To a man who T thought at fitat Bever met him, but he had hi was your friend here, Mr. Gordon, Quinn, and liked very little what he but who said the District Attorney had heard, He had been @ criminal had sent him to investigate the case, lawyer of sharp practice and un- That was why I came out—to warn enviable repute, had narrowly eg was accosted by a jeg ~ He seemed to have belonged | a tramp, who seemed either druk or de. ‘0 @ better class once, in spite of his mented, and who asked him for “itt and appearance, and I couldnt money. help feeling sorry for him. He was Next morning he heard the same Nn his way to see some one who, from tramp in private talk with Wetherall, What he said, 1 judged had no desire ‘As Gordon was coming down the ever to see him again, I shoulln't purple lighted staircas little later, have thought of it again if I hadn't | & patch of plaster fell from the ceil- discovered that person to be Mr. | ing, nearly killing him, An odd sus- Wethera’ picion seized the lawyer that this was = “How? no mere accident. And he summoned — “By overhearing a conversation be- | Rollins, a detective, whose work he tween him and the tramp the next knew, to investigate. Rollins, going morning.” over the ground, at once declared the “Tell_ me every word they said.” Plaster had been loosened by some Tho detective's eyes were snapping one, in order to injure Gordon. with eagerness. Gordon repeated the “By Jove!” said Gordon, and again interview faithfully. \ @ momentary nausea came over him. “And what. bec: quest, Gordon WHERE Is DADDY ? me of him?" de- Be wae ier) manded Rollins, “Couldn't you find caped the penitentiary, and finally “That's what we've got to find out. him afterward cell you.’ Seadea eisetah serene) cebaenen Who in this house is most interested taik with bint os Set & chance to ee and Rollins exchanged Jeided through porsonal induenc i {a putting you out of the way?" “T tried t Pdon't know any one that 9 ried to, but he had disappeared entirely. x be,” answered the young man, y. Mr. Wetherall said he had | ir, Wetherall, And what earth- “°"'y jams ly reason could he have?" “People don’t show their reasons,” “Why didn't we get back sooner? C4iNe known 4s a remarkably clever muttered the detective to himself, tracker of criminals, “Now, Miss Wetherall," he went on, | But tt was not this fact which made i Hite a wit will mako it easier for both of us Bim the worst man that could have fie dia that Than ig if you repeat to mo exactly what you O let, Attor fedid that, There's wore tee wegh think about,” returned the detective sociated with so distinguished a col- quirles, and no one remembered hav- “I'm not thinking anything until I toiq. the detective In actly whet Fou to investigate the case. Two yeate . ad “0 x vl y e et oe pl e, . \s e ‘® to urd actly what happened.” But I am positive he was dead and show him the exact spot where very welcome tor Tileall up my clerk &Pound here, Then I called up River- you find a couple of bite that ft to. /neths, exact order in which he asked OM te Toe ver associate, “Big BUllt Gordon did so, adding: “But Mr, drunk that night, and couldn't have he had found the tramp lying that now and tell him to bring it over bank, the town below this, thinking gether, and you go around looking for ‘ha did so, and he followed her Lloyd, Quinn having saved himself Wetherall was in bed, having taken a Pushed a pebble off, not alone that Night, and whistled softly as he con- here, He'll be back at the office by that he might have gone through tore of the same kind, Sometimes with dian attention, dering: dhiae from a like fate only by “squealing;” sleeping draft—or so he said.” molding. templated the two empty whiskey this time. If there are any other there on his way to tho city, The YoU have to try to fit all sorts of im- to the “DM os, The and it had been reported to hin “Saying doesn’t count for much, Perhaps so, but he might not have bottles, which lay half hidden under questions you would like to ask I'll do possible bits together until you get gary Weary areca ote a popnctie time that Quinn meant to het event | said the detective dryly. “The ques- been so drunk the night before.” the bushes, the n for you. 1 lave ten Station telephone was out of order (he right asking when her uncle left, and why _ "1 understand that you, were the tion is-how did he kngy you were “You think he had anything to do ,, “If he could hold all that, slip Into minutes to spare.” and couldn't be fixed for a couple of — “I think we have got hold of one of Khe had been outside at the time. first person on the scene of the mur- going to be there at that time?” with the murder?” queried Gordon the house unseen by you, ana get UP- Gordon thanked him and offered a hours,” the biggest bits now, but I'm not #ay- ~ ‘rhen,* continued Bertha, “he der,” sald Quinn, as he seated himself. 21 AOlG NLT Wee cD Sut sore eu stairs in time td drop that moulding cigar while they waited for the clerk. Gordon's face clouded over. Ho ink anything till Tsee how ho fit In. asked mo If | was entirely alone” — That ix, according to Miss Wether- breath of air, and he asked me to | “Can't say: every clue counts in a OM, You. he must be some st at elle they waited tor the clerk, | Gordon's, fac) clouded, Over He uulwe Daven'e even act Wold Of Mim MTT gid Memiaet Meher ait’ cou alliatetataments sen. caiaalintc\ realm close up everything and then went on maze, and I think we are on the thin most men,” he observed. ‘” ine, aren't they?” asked the doctor this clue by the bitter disappoint. yet PPS Gitar ube enw hon aunt til/at the tee to bed, Besides, I didn't hear any scent of a possible solution. The ®% Gordon's face fell, “this doesn't ag he tit hi HOW: “Well, it sounds plaualble enough, “rat to the best of my knowledge of the stairs, Will you tell me just gar, ment he noise, and it must have taken some thing for us to do now is to find that “fect the main theory I'm working * although the man seemed to me hard- tramp.” on, and we've got to get hold of that Yes, and I should have hesitated n there's no use in hunting for La gaged P 1 wa answered Bertha simply, what you saw strength to shave that molding off, " to take it up, but I have been ao him ly capable of such a carefully planned “My aunt was upstairs, as [told him, Gordon disregarded the instnuation “What did you do after Mr. Weth- Gordon beamed with satisfaction, there is ao" yhore tn this\ houses strangely as Molated “with the whole "Every kind of use," answered the 4ct. which must also have required and there was no one else in the of the first part of Quinn's speech and erall went up-stairs vhile, and Bully for you, Rollins, I believe we We'll have to go down to the village air that I am interested In seeing detective briskly. “He is the man I conaldersblastrengtht asd T oaa't bore Bouse,” proceeded quietly and clearly to repeat T went outside for a while, and are on the right track at last, and I then, and while I'm calling up what T can make of it.” Want most to seo right now. We must “bly Imaging what hia motive could vir only we had ot that tramp! tho substance of what he had told at Phen Tame tn tte a imagine KBCW T was Wise in sending for you, had better get hold of the doctor Well, don't mind saying you wi Had bin-and quickly. iut while we Rave Been, Still in such @ motivelaws muttered Roilins., “What did ho ask the inquest. ‘Tho Uttle man Hstened the stairs ang see ify contra. Wath. J Should never have thought of the the minutes, Find out all you can." have a hard time convincing any jury ! ting to phone there's another [P/N 1A the wine eee eean he as any Yolnthen, please 2 in silence until be had finished, bis any plausible season for Mra Whur (aM in that connection myself—be — This plan suited Gordon excellently, of Miss. Wetherall’ innocence,” re- thing wo've got to find even more 1 EE tw Nit lave Dek he ak tee | Oh, he asked me before that if 1 nervous hands twis:ing about erall’s dea a S ou fh anntier pene seemed so feeble and harmies: for he wanted, from motives of dell- turned the doctor complacently. “It's Guickly—something to eat. It's past hi he Fi one jee nouaibien ake Weeb. had noticed anything unusual about cane and his restless eyes on pera ta BOr yeu “Walt and see,” answered the de- cacy, to get ‘away from the house a sad thing, for the young indy ix 2 o'clock and I'm starved, There's him as soon as possible, Mr. Wethe my aunt that evening, I sald that sho ground, Hehe dateotive nodded. “Well?” tective dryly, “and don't build too When the funeral party returned, and sweet and charming. Homicidal an oyster house here that looks fairly (1°), va got quite a distance off by had complained of a headache and ‘Were the screams you heard in @ { “I got to the spot where Mrs, Weth- Much on anything just yet. Facts !t Was nearly time for that now, e mania is the best you can make of it, decent, Come on in, and I'll tell you joy 4 had Sone Ve bed, parly, Then he asked young woman's voice or that of an erall must have. fallen, and then— have a queer way of hitting you from ®M4 Rollins struck across the lawn I'm thinking.” what i found out after I All up this "OM su, ene agreed the detective, 7,What time I had returned to the older person?” he boomed with suet {hough Tam not imaginative, Rollins behind like a boomerang; and I'm a M4 found a short cut which brought — “I shall not be content with that,” aching vold of mine.” rising “and we can't afford to 1066 [ cata not te ahenlut we ve though suddenness that Gordon nearly —the thing came over me with such fh Jot mistaken $f there ian't more in them into the village in fifteen said Gordon auietly, hvnen they had finished aatiatying eae eee a thar uihen tallow OF tOR wert eee oe ly sertain, He Jumped. parents > Pa ; é ide 8 than Is on top." ninutes, "So vou think she is innocent, eh?” if not elegant dinner Gordon related i th the n v , ‘otherall a ae again Usisxaetly, what. do you expect?” — There he left Rolling to hig own The ductor shot him a queer 1ook bis Interview with the doctor. tay moment til. tey -Fuverbank fala at the inuuent about wesing hee USwheedid yooreerive ot | And thats what did the trick," in- @8ked Gordon curlously, devices and hunted up the doctor, from under his shaggy brows, “Well, “Huh! grunted the detective when 20¥,, Moment. Hi, Wy ati were comet dnennauent about sealing her | “Why did you arrive at the howse i terrupted the detective. “How long But Rollins shook his head and The latter was not in the coroner's I hope so, for her sake, They are he had finished. “That doctor's nut to°cai) me up as soon as the wires involuntarily. Lait e ii 4 ; were you outside? Four—five min. busted himself in making minute dia. office, which was tucked away in a one of our best families." ts a full man's stn, and that don't Ware fed,” YOHUntATY, ow Interrupted Roftine, that ceceine € find @ short ous to ; oan Gordon nodded, “Just 8Tams and measurements of the ‘irty. frame building between the “Have you ever noticed any signa need any Sherlock Holmes to ‘ : Pane Lc ota hy . the = see ncugh for old man Wetherall stairs, the Mbrary, even the hall Red Men's hall and the local under- of clusion in her before?” es either. ‘Theso country ginks think Peseta yt end JM oer one pti} anything about the Rather @ long short cut?” ede i tosen the moulding exactly above #bove, He examined the windows taker: but he was fortunate in catch- "Not particularly. 1 haven't seen they know everything. mh Tooull enoush for Gordon. mecomme tims ANSEF served Guinn innocently. _, the spot where he had previously carefully, particularly the purple {ng him in his own home. much of nen, to tell the truth; but have had a friend of mine take @ look patient and hunt him up. At the door AAO, was next gn doeaottsicigt my, WAY.” returned j seen you standing, Then tt would be ones, which were set in half-way up The doctor recei him civilly the family has always been queer @t the body. Still, the doctor must ol OLN tin Teme! oS earmer. He 1 told him, about Mr, Gordon's the can's tone on not like see i an easy matter for him to push it off the stairs, and satisfied himself that enough, and professed himself at and liv shut up in that gloomy have been pretty well tisfled to an ni 1 me toward Gordon Coming in and helping me. He asked poth xe ge OF MARNE, y ough When you were underneath it again, Bertha's statement of the moon shin- Gordon's service when the latter old house is enough to make any Wve let the funeral proceed. Let's ae et assiaien. if Thad known hig before, and when “and you were entirely: alone | Keeping out of sight himself.” ing in through them could be verified, asked for a few minutes of his time, girl strange.” have @ look at the evidence. We'll with an alr of dec x T anid I had not, asked again if I were nd you were entirely eine whim ' SEne Out oe it was hia motive?” a8 the roof of the conservatory was He plunged at once into affairs, for — "What kind of a person was Mra, Ko over It together while we are walt- “We're on the track ndw," he @x- nonitive on that point. T don't think tio tenner aw at th i i inquired Gordon, “I don't think he Of plain glass, and even now the sun he had taken the doctor's measure Weth ing for rbank; there's no one ulted, “This man thinks he saW @ heheaved"— she hesltated: anderen «a2, far as | knew at the time, i fancies me, and I return the compli- Was pouring In through that and and felt sure that frankness would = "Qu { very harmless; the last here now, and this is as good @ place man of our chap's description asleep finished quickly-—“that 1. ws tellin Heck’ server et fie couse, I bee i ment; but I have nothing more than Staining the stairs with purpl serve him best with the bluff Scoteh- gort of j 1 1 should imagine any @% any.” by the road as he drove in from the truth, oh: and Ber. Wetherall aware ' a fecling to fo on, and it's coming it , “Where do these sido stairs lead man, one mu Ne in that coldcbiote) . fm fact the Httle oyster and chop Kiverbank this tnorning, He's going FISH wasted: ahd dcokedatinas One enon fa bit strong on the old gentleman to to?" asia ctalia dinionna tana ‘al the strongest proot of House was nearly empty, and when back now, and I've hired him to take jing but that individual was sazin Yes." Gordon was becoming Irri- ota himeot trying to dispose of a , “Up to the servants’ quarters, We Wetherall, decree bee eee cor Miss ey ait aac Gordon had tipped the Walter with in- us with hin to sea if we can't Dick thenehtfully out over tho piven fated, but he endeavored not to show i Guest in ¢ way, no matter how tried to go up them that evening, and entirely in my professional capacity, 1 "\W fond of bia Stfuctions to leave them along, they up our man by the way: “Don't Worry, about what people iti fle suspected that Quinn's motive i rue oe al found that phe door at the top Was Want Ao ask You fra al capacity, 1 ond Ct DIA hud tho place to themuclves. The de “Had thay aeen anything of him at think" he mid, “appareniiy coming Was, to badger him into betraying y re,” ga Rol ; locked, ¥ t he 4 Alerae ia sacint a tective read the evidence through Riverban ings Luise ie (3 3 ming his hand he was too wise to do Mee. one dares One Folin: ree gt hav ed ‘the case to the district | “Absolu ; they were an Curefully, marking several passages, —"L-couldn't get them; the wires were fun fur wag) Maly, elon as yout ies sivive at the solution of any mystery, — “Mise Wetherall and ¥, Me, “tg answered the doctor (afi), couple, iB every Way. Miss ‘rien he'lagked up and nooded as if attll broken or busy; but this farmer Age Set aa athe toe i 1 Miss 1 | for ‘d If you can't fasten it directly on any therall had carried his wife's body bluntly Me a VidanGe. lett Meee praorell s fasher Was @ queer Obab suilatiog, has a very 4 t lttle mare, and "ste 7 remembered where f had. loat when k slew 1 bs0* person or thing, you've got to ellm- UP the big staira; but we both felt the choice I have not heard from him Gud,t tink vou can trace the taint wf | didn't feol dead sure before she'll Ret un over in nearly as 00d the pin. I told him that T thought T ttm “afraid y : Tnate the improbable, bit by bit, until Same distaste of going that way our- yet, but he will probably wend down (here: Ho died suddenty, te that we needed that tramp In our bus- time to find out. ‘That iw better than aq jot tt in my aunt's room.” rene N oe Lonel sk Misa you arrive at some possible’ con- Selves, and went up the side @ man at once to look Into the (°r° H up iad but iness, L do now, See here, Wetherall waiting here, and there's the chance ~ wwnhatty if? oxclaimed Rollins herall at yo tates positively that there was no ef picking up our man on the w Quite rie Clusion, Let's work it out in this “And they were closed off—why?" matter.” ad you sharply. “You don't speak of that k in those things. house, bee “Mr, Wetherall said that hia wite rdon nodded and jumped Into the nM ase When he left except before you i i There were ne yordon had recte of mee in the here he evidene case, There were in eeeneralt: hia WAS nervous and had everything HUE hoo bicsced he eed as Muchs and Kind of stury always springs Up Uke jis wife and niece; but a little fur- buggy, and the other two squeezed in UNGN Tata memember: It Mece and. the serv How many Up that night on account of their be- mm n send for Hollins immedic {208 IA Iasnpatioke thee hare BO eee eee ae aioe eter a tieg vemteniay. whan I told) Ar “cordon” soa neha ing alone. - age rare altel tas Pdi- here's evidence," as the clerk ¢xan of the mises before careful watch along the road, they “et would have heen hett ail peating the gardener, but he slecps in a house by $tamination of the body and helping added to advantage, more Ican do for you to seo if any one had got in during hunting ¢ 1 there were no traces jiny rather shortly t him, ear Miss Wetherall carry it over to the need not ask,” he said suavely, A ence. He may not have BUS of any ® place where the Why? Do you think"—— " round MEA vg those sanida ket! couch when any one could have “whether vou eo fully convinces ‘“Thunk you, doctor, You bave on at her death was not & nat- farmer still declared he had seen HIM — Nothing In’ the. world Tam Ane rroger no ibout. She's new here. Mr, @ site rs, Wetherall's death, because other- a iow you w a : 5 os . ert en, e on to Riverba st mended, ts 4 ii got her from town yester- | “It might have been possible," he wise you would not hive allowed the ear the young lad to see if everything Was 4il then.” said Gordon, “and the soone t now, But don't y ‘of Quinn's ; da The other, Martha Jenkins, had ®4mitted, “We were naturalry cen- funeral to proceed w waiting ed the doctor, “But 2 hink ce ectroum. *he, better.” things up; only, if he asks you ¥ th as If heen with them some time before; left tring all our attention on the body. for the district attorney, Knowing as a tough job before you Tot tn Uo Ne a cane 4 The little mare, despite the heat and any more q ore June atic’ to 10, 8 pant Your t is when all the other servants did, and 7hey, Would have had to Fo out ofthe Ido your high medical ability, It dis- my professional reputation hat was J her triple Durden, gave a good ao- what you toll In the avidenee, And Pure! h rat tame i Martha Jenkins. 1 think the other think we should have seen any one doctor's high cheekbones © found, go ahead aid PE VEL oes lites more. Rollins Jumped out before — “Surely,” she answered with a pa- 4 | thon j Eos thy unt, but we can't be sure. Pa eine that way. All the doors and “Most certainly there was no Acasa hil koe ay, Miss W she had falrly stopped, and disap- tient iittle sigh th ordon's ' BU, 1 believe we oun safely eliminate Windows were undisturbed the next doubt.” he retorted sharply “and the iad) tolepautly au be abowed aava have chatiatis late ioe cuns heared into the pollee station, He heart. Rollins's v cone aan the maids until we find some direct ™0! 5 conditior ne body was such that man out, ‘uumded, and with two windows and fame out after a x % More more gentle as he went ont motive for them, ‘That leaves the Td you make any search before the funeral could not be delayed, [ Jd not say anything, but . door open when ahe went down ilsurely, and stopped at the curb to “Had your aunt been tn god to onswerlng choice between the other two—unless YOU went upstairs am confident that the district attor- © str he, too, smiled to the Walk with her uncle, There was }\" a cigar with provoking delibera- heuith previous to that e t n of volume you incline e ghost theory, and | No, we didn't consider tt neces- ney will feel satisfied with my OUR a aeRaie Pie ee Wk Bee One a Ere Bate tan. ak “Why, yes: she waa never very ro- 1 hat Miss W | is innos fom : Tather a substan. SAT¥. as no one knew then that Mra, when he reads the evidence Binney a prenscaer Haperully tas if What 4s man? catied Gorden bust, and tho heat tried her ereatly, cent. and Tan w » that the Hal ono to mle to pry off that Wetherall had hoen mus ered, But t Tam duite mura of it a war D 1 ne hi 1 "ye, although Mist Wetherau patiently we they seen Him?” but t never heard her « plain of A wo just suspleton mouldir I ole aa exceedingly well hi ob, etouan Mls . No, worse and though they anything except a headache like the nave never hesitated to t + Ww Vm, sure Miss Wetherall before and hidden himself somewhere, you will allow mn to say ; keemed to be quite positive that BO sited’ up Weston and Shirley, the one she sald she had that evening.” Up any case, Nr. nn elton ie Mr, Wetherall did, either," Hae nearly 9 malin ® mie We § cone of The miinuies to gl é everything waa closed and bolted DO traces of him there, ether, @id for her headaches?" innocent, no matter what the conses n coolly ROUARL ROG) SUEDE AROSE SENOS Des Shere Are AGING Do! 5 Where Is the Tramp? sual when he came in at half past Gordon's face fell “She generally slept them off. quences were. Horective thrust hia bands Inta (Peas fic frat aonsaranne ce Take Cane AGatora moment SHEN ho we a x. I'd like to believe your theory, ‘Then there's not much chance of Sometimes, when thev were seve: The allusion was direct, ; 4s pockets and whistled, LARA AE ROHR LNG Ran eeeatin wanltdienailadiren ake \- tolling, but when T think It all over f our finding him?" she would take a dose of bromide.” | young man's face was grime aeas PAN inti lay it an the ghost aince ‘action, And then there is was \ y ' ‘ale don't really see how any one could _ “Every kind of chance,” returned Rolling ma note In his book, have brought tt home; but Quinn 8 & C® Miss Wetherall’s story, which she praise. d looked . . Ma Raet ee ty al 18 BnOae an \ ho she pri p K {up Save very well passed by us in the Rolling briskly, ‘We haven't ex- ‘Did she take any that night?” — own face did not show recogn Voup hi ud a third y n” Sticks to in spite of that hatpin, The man's record, and re Ld anttion of hat reminds mo--there wos a 1 ati as Lib ne | and her te. hall without our knowing tt.” hausted every place yet. He may “Yes, my uncle gave her some. She anv ulterior meaning, He hinked rf person outuide,” returned Gore fusing it ets.” a @ more cone any AL an oy 0 “He 1 have been let out." sald have gone off by the river, but even hated madicina.” n nervously, and nodded as tt 5 Vag “but 4 doubt if be waa io any Wail unili we wet moze facts to case, 11 Hattered Lids alWo 60 BO de hb@ BY BH) bbe ue svemh We Do you think it Was u put-up Job? notified the police om but sides to your) ~ iti he at Lea |