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The Wingham Times, 1914-12-10, Page 7December loth, 1914 101111111111010.1100.11WOMMINIMMIt 2.11.1.01.111011.1.., THE WINGHAM TIMES • • .0.0 • • • . .00;red AV' * 00'. IS" 10" #01'iff.4;Air...016-0,ti;t17,4%.,-*1••• Oi.VSS". le. "6'h e SECRET egg ID 11/4 Pfe f.Ct io LONESOME COVE m 1.0 ft! By Samuel Hopkins Adams Pm) ft‘ Copyright 1912 by the Bobbs-Merril Company wire"a nu jells otrs trit.--A Tt. 7fortillif,rib, that game finless you go in for the streight holdup. And blackmail was elways too strong for my taste. So I did the natural thing -gave her special geadings and doubled on the price. sSbe paid like a lamb. *Then, blame if It didn't sllp out -Sea walsant married at all! I lost that letter. It was kind of endearing, 'Irene put up a howl. It was getting too persona) for her taste. I told her g _would cut it out. Then I gave my -swell lady another address and wrote her for a picture. Nothing doing. Bot she began to hint around at a meeting One day a letter came with a hundred dollar bill in it. Loose, too, just like you or me :night send a two (put 'stamp. 'For .expenses,' she wrote, and I was to come at once. Our souls had returned to recognize and join each other, she said. Here is the only part of the letter Icould dig up from the wastebasket." • ••• Here a page was pasted upon the doctunent s s"You have pointed out to me that salve, , our stars, swinging in mighty circles, .are rushing on to a joint climax. To - ;ether we may force open the doors to the past and sway the world as we sought to do in bygone days.' "And so og and cetera," continued the narrative. "Well, of course, she 'was nutty-tiaat is; about the star laisi- mess. But that don't prove anything. The dippiest star chaser I ever worked -was the head of a department In one .of the big stores, and the fiercest little V_siness woman in business hours you knew. That was the letter she first called me Elermann in and signed Astraect to. Staid there was no use pre - .tending to conceal her 'identity any longer from me. Seemed to think I .knew all about it. That jarred me some. And, with the change of writ- -Ing in the signature, it all looked pret- ty queer. You remember the last let- eter with the copperplate writing nanee at the bottom? Well, the all came that way after this; the body of the tter very bold and careless; signature tten in an entirely different hand. V -"But hundred dollar bills loose in let - tea' mean a big stake. I wrote her I Would come, and I signed it 'Her- mann,' just to play up to her lead. Irene got on and threw a fit She said ber woman's intuition told her there , Was danger in it. Truth is, she was , tuck on me herself, and I was on her, tit we did not find It out until after e crash. So I was all for prying tAstraea loose from her money if I had to marry her to do it. She wrote Some blush about the orie desperate plunge together and then the glory that was o be ours. That looked like marriage ; me. "You saw the last letter. It had me ,rattled, but not rattled enough to quit. , here was a map in it of the place for , e meeting. That was plain enough. ., Put the 'our and 'we' business in it -bothered me. It looked a. bit like a -third person. X had not heard any- thing about any third person. What ifi More, I did not have any use for a third person In this business. The Oars forbade it I wrote and told her gm and said if there was any outsider *ling in the stellar courses would have •,a sudden change of heart. Then I put Iny best robe in a bag and bought a teket for Carr's Junction. You can lleve that while I was going through the woods I was keeping a bright eye out for any third party. Well, he was ,olot there, not when I arrived anyway. Where he was all the time I do not .know. I never saw him. But I heard 'him later. I can hear him yet at night, God help me! lik"She was leaning against a little tree he edge of the thicket when 1 first w her There was plenty of light from the moon. and It sifted down • NERVES WERE BAD Hands Would Tremble So She Could Not Hold Paper to Reed. Wheat the nerves become shaky the -whole system seems to become unstrung •:atel a general feeling of collapse occurs, as the heart works in sympathy with the nerves. Mrs. Wm. ANkaver, Shallow Lake, Oat., .writes: "1 claztored for a year, for my :livut and navel, with three different . doctors, but they did not seem to know what was thz matter with inc. My • nerves got so bad at lalt that I could -,not hol:1 a pa;w: in my hands to read, eic., way they tmithle I. I gave up ,doztori.v; thintin.,,. I co II 1 .tt ot get better, A. lady liyiat o few dolt; froTi inc ad- ,vv.e.1 inc t') try a bo.; of Niilbarn's Heart trri. Nervtt ITR t) plcaqa lio 1 did, . and. I am than',1 to -day for doing so, fret- I am qrow.:, ,turt doinl 'my own work withoat helm" and Nrerve. Pills are 5 / cons per box, 3 boxes for $1,25; at ell, gang -gists ..or defilers, or mailed direct ott receipt of priee by The T. 1V1ilbutti (Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. through the trees and fell across IRE head and neck. 1 noticed a queer cir- • Set around her neck. The stones were like, sOft pink fires. I had not ever men any like them befove, and I stood there trying to figure whether they were rubies and how much they might be worth. While I was wondering ebout it she half turned, and I got my arst look at her face. "She was younger than I had reckon- ed on and not bad to look at, but Neer, queer! Something about her truck me all wrong -gave me a sort n ugly shiver. Another thing struck me all right, though. That was that 3he had jewels on pretty much ail her fingers. In one of ray letters to her I gave her a hint about thet-told her that gems gave the stars a stronger hold on the wearer, and she had taken it all in. She certainly was an easy ;ubject. "A bundle done up in paper was on the ground near her. I ducked back, very still, and got into my robe,. The irrangenient in her letter was for me to whistle when I got there. I whis- tled. She straightened up. "Come,' she said, 'I am waiting: "Her voice was rather deep and soft. But it wasn't a pleasant softness. Some way I did not like it any better than I liked her looks. I stepped out Into the open and gave her the grand bow. "'The master of the stars, at your command,' I said. "'You are not as I expected to see you,' she said. "That was a sticker. It might mean most anything. I took a chance. "'Ob, well,' 1 said, 'we all change.' "It went. 'We change as life cbanges,' she said. 'They never found you, did they?' "From the way she said It I saw she expected me to say 'No.' Sol said 'No.' " That was left for me to return and do,' she went on with a kind of queer joy that gave me the shivers again. The instant I saw your state- ment in the newspaper I knew it was your soul calling to mine across the ages, "Our boat is at the shore."' "In that last letter she mentioned a ship. And, now, here was this boat business. (Afterward I looked for a sign of either, but could not find any. I thought perhaps it would explain the other part of the 'we' and 'our.) If I was going to elope by sea I want ed to know it, and I said as much. "'Are you steadfast?' she asked. "Well, there was only one answer to that I said I was. She opened her package and took out a coil of rope. It was this gray -white rope, sort of clothesline, and it looked strong. "'What now?' I asked her. "'P0 bind us together,' she said. 'Close, close together, and then the plunge! This time there shall be no failure. They shall not find one of us without the other. You are not afraid?' "Afraid! My neck was bristling. "'Go slow,' I said, thinking mighty hard. 'I don't quite see the point of "Didn't I curse myself for not re- membering what 1 had written her? No clew, except that the poor soul was plumb dippy-too dippy for nae to mar- ry at any price. It wouldn't have held in the courts. Yet there might have been $5,000 of diamonds on her. I suppose she felt me weakening. "'You dare to break our pact?' she says in a voice like a woman on the stage. Then she changed and spoke very gently. 'You are looking at these gewgaws,' she said and took a dia- mond circlet from her finger. 'What do these count for?' And she put it in my hand. Another ring dropped at my feet. Mind, she was giving them to me. 'These are as nothing compar- ed to what we shall have,' she went on, 'after the plunge. Wait!' "She had dropped the rope, and now she went into her paper parcel again, , kneeling at my side. I had stomied to look for the fallen ring when I felt her hand slide up my wrist and then a quick littte snap of something cold and close. A bracelet, I thought. And it was a bracelet! "'Forever! Together!' she said and steed up beside me, chained to me by the handcuffs she had slipped on my right wrist and her left. "'Hove much to let me off?' I asked as soon as I could get breath, YOu see, it flashed on me that it was a po- lice trap. Her next words put me on. "'The stars! The stars!' she whisper- ed. 'See ours -how they light Our path- way across the sea, the sea that awaits usr "More breath catne back to me. It wasn't a trap, then. She was Only a crazy Woman that 1 bad to get rid of. I looked down at the handcuff. It wati of iron and had dull rusted edges. A hammer would haVe Made short work of It, but I did not have any hammer. I did nOt even have a stone. There 'ould be stone a in the broken land beyond the. thicket I thought I saw way. "'Y'es, let's go,' 1 said. At, the., aze. 01. ths thicket Was a flattish rbek' With' stuall stones near IL Here I pretended to slip. I fell with my right wrist :Wogs A rook and eaught iip a coiableettnie with my left hand. At the tirst creek of the stone on the handcuff 1 mom feel the old iron weaken. 1 got no ehance for a seemul blow, tier hands were at my throat, They bit In. Then I now it was a fight for my Ilfte "The neXt thing I remember elensiS she was quiet on the ground end I was hammering, hammering, hammering at wy wrist with a blood stained stone. I do not know If it was her blood or mine. Both, ineybe, for tny wrist was like pulp when 1 he Iron finally craeiced open and 1 .was free. I caught glimpse of blood on leg temple, I suppose I had bit her there with the giant). Site Motive dead, "All I wented was to think- to think -to think. I was pretty intiell dotty. I guess. "While, 1 was trying to think she came alive. She wns on her feet be. fore I knew it and off at a deed rtin The broken handcuff went jerking and jarnping around her as she ran, rhat was au awful night full of awful things. But the one worst sight of ail -worse even than the finding of her afterward -was that mad tigure leap- ing over the broken ground toward the cliff's edge. I held my breath to listen ,Sor her scream when she went over. X never heard it. "But I heard something else. I heard a man's voice. It was clear and strong and high. There was death in it, I tell you, Mr. Kent. Living hor- ror gripped at the throat that gave that cry. Then there was a rush et little stones and gravel down the face ef the cliff. That was ail. "Beyond we the ground rose. 1 ran up on it. It gave me a clear view of the cliff top. I thought sure I would see the mau who bad cried out from there. Not a sight of him! Nothing moved in the moonlight. I thought fiee' ust have gone over the cliff too. I threw myself down and buried my rn "How long I lay on the ground I do not know. A 'Avisp of cloud had blot- , ted out the woman's star, now; and by that I knew she was dead. But the moon was shining high. It gave me light enough to see my way into the gully, and I stumbled and slid down through to the beach. "I found her body right away. 11 lay with the head against a rack. But there was no sign of the man's body, the man who had yelled. I felt that before I went away from there I must conceal the caese of her death and everything about it that I could. If it was known how she eves. killed they would be more likely to suspect me. "I went back and got the rope. got an old grating from the shore. I dragged the body into the sea and lei It soak. I lashed it to the grating. I stripped the jewelry from her, but 1 could not take it. That would have made me a murderer. "There Is a rock in the gully that I marked. Nobody else would ever no. tice it. Under it I hid the jewelry. 1 can take you to it, and I will. "I got on my coat and sunk my 'robe In a creek and got myself to thegall. road station for a morning train. And when I got home I married Irene, and I am throng') with the crooked work forever. This is the whole truth. If any human being knows more about the death of Astraea it must be the man who shouted as she fell from the cliff and who went away and did not come back. "(Signed) PRESTON JAX, S -M." CHAPTER XIX. In the White Room. • NNALAKA, July 15. -To Hotel Ey ri e, Martindale -Center; Dust 571 and send up seven chairs. Chester Kent" "Now, I wonder what that might mean?" mused the day clerk of the Eyrie as he read the telegram through for the second time. "Convention in the room of mystery, maybe?" Nor did the personnel of the visitors Who, in the course of the late after- noon, arrived with requests to be shown to 571 serve to efface this im- pression. First came the sheriff from Annaiaka. He was followed by a man of unmistakable African derivation, who gave the name of 31m and declin- ed to identify himself more specifical- ly. While the clerk was endeavoring, with signal lack of success, to pump him, Lawyer Adam Bain arrived and so emphatically vouched for his prede- cessor as to leave the desk lord no fur- ther excuse for obstructive tactics. Shortly afterward Alexander Blair came in with a woman heavily veiled and was deferentially conducted aloft. Finally Chester Kent himself appear- ed, accompanied by Sedgwick and a third man unithown to the clerk pom- pottsly arrayed in frock coat end silk hat and characterized by a painfully twitching chin. "Who have Come?" Kent asked the clerk. That functionary ran over the list. "We shall not need in 571 ice water, stationery, casual messages, calling cards or any other form of espionage," said Kent. He led his companions to the elevator. SedgwIck put n hand on his arm. "The Woman with Blair?" he asked un- der his breath. 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Greetings a moug the little group in the white hung room, so strangely and harshly thrown together by the dice east of the hand of Circumstance, were brief and formal. Only Preston fax was named by Kent, with the corn- tnent that his story would be forthcom- ing. "First, the jewels." Kent turned to Preston Jax, who heeded him a package. Opening it, Kent displayed the wonderful Grosve- nor rose topazes, with a miscellaneous Mt of rings sparkling amid their coils. With a cry, Marjorie caught up the necklitee, "Are till the remainder of the lost valuables therm Mrs. Blair?" asked Kent. She glanced carelessly at the rings. "I think so. Yes. But this Is what matters to me." '"Illese are all that Preston Jax found on the body." "It was y an who found the body?" demanded Blair of Jas. "Yes," vild die astrologer uneasily. "Were you alone when you found "Yes. No. I don't know. There was a man somewheres near. I heard him, but I never saw him." "Was Mr. Francis Sedgwick with you that night?" pursued Mr. Blair in measured tome. "I never saw Mr. Sedgwick until to. day." There was a little soft sigh of relief from where Marjorie Blair sat "That may or may not be true," said Alexander Blair sternly. "It is the word of a man who has robbed a dead body if, indeed, he did not also kill" - "I didn't kill or rob any one," said Jax. "How came you by myrglaughter's jewels, then, if you did not take them from the body?" "Who e/er said I didn't take 'em tem the MARV retortedthe ether. YOU CAN HELP 1 PURE FOOD CRUSADE By HOLLAND. EVERY ONE appreciates the importance of pure food. All appreciate the danger in adulteration, the risk in substitution. You can aid the pure food movement and at the same lime aid yourself. How? Merely by buying articles that aro of known purity and merit IIc”,./ can you know these ar- tides? By watching the ad- vertising columns in this pae per and in other papers. Man- ufacturers who advertise have confidence in their goods and are willing to have themselves and their prod- ucts known. Makers of sub- stitutes and "just -as -goods" usgally hide behind anonym. ity Or use a theaninglese firm name or brand. PROTECT YOURSELF BY PROTECTING THIO PUBL/C1 neva cell wt.e no better guarantee of the purity and merit of an article than the feet that it Da widely adver- tised. Kent Displayed the Wonderful Gros. venor Rose Topazes. And what I want to know is how did they come to be on the body anyhow': Whet was that Astraea woman doing with your daughter's rings and neck. lace? Tell me that!" "Walt a moment," put in Kent. "Ex- plain to Mr, Blair, Jax, -Meat your pun pose was in taking the jewels." "To hide 'em. I thought the less there was on the body to identify it the better chance I'd have of , getting away. I was so scared that I guess was half crazy anyway. And now I bear she never has been ideintified. Is net right?" Sheriff • Schlager half rose from his chair. "Ain't you told 'era, Professor Kent?" Kent shook hls head. "Nor you, Mr, Blair?" "Then I don't see why we can't keep It among ourselves," said the sheriff. "There is no reason -why it should ever be known outside of this room," said Kent, and at the words Alexan- der Blair exhaled a pent up breath of relief. "But it is due to one person here that she should know everything. Follow the through a page of unwrit- ten local history. The beginning of this story goes back some seventy-five years, when there lived not far from Hogg's Haven in a house which has since been destroyed au older sister of Captaia Hogg, who married into the Grosvenor family. She was, from the evidence of the Grosvenor family his- torian, who, by the way, has withheld all this from his pages, a woman of the most extraordinary charm and meg- netism. Not beautiful in the strict sense of the word,' she had a -gift be- yond beauty, and she led men in chains. Her husband appears to have been a weakling who counted for nothing in her life after the birth of her children. Seeking distraction, she flung herself into mysticism and be- came the priestess of a cult of stai worshipers, which included many of the more cultivated people of this re- gion. Among them was a young Ger- man mystic and philosopher who had fled to this country to escape punish- ment for political offenses. Hermann von Miltz was his name." "That's why she called me Her- mann," broke in Preston in an awed half winsper. "Don't jump to wild conclusions," said Kent smilingly. "Some of their correspondence Is still extant. She sigma herself Astraea in handwriting ensile', to the signature of that note of yours, :Tax. There seems to have been no guilt between them as the law judges guilt. The bond was a mystic one. But it was none the less fatal. It culmivated in a tragedy of which the details are lost. Perhaps it was an elopement that they planned; per- haps a double suicide. with the idea that their souls would be united in death. There are hints of that in the old letters in the historian's possession and in the library at Hedgerow house. This much is known; The couple em- barked togetber in a small boat. Von Miltz was never again heard of. Ca- milla Grosvenor's body came ashore in Lonesome Cove. She was the Cove's earliest recorded victim. The sketch which that mischief meager, Elder Dennett, left at your door, Sedgwick, supposing it to lie a likeness of the unfortunate creature he had seen on the road to your house, is a Charles Elliott sketch for the portrait of C.a. milla Grosveuor." "My God!" Jax burst out. "Was it a ghost I met up with that Mght on Ilawkill heights?" "As near as you are ever likely to encounter, probably," enswered Kent, "Now, I'm going to make a long jump down to the ptesent. 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Some distance clown the road the wayfarer encountered Simon P. Groot, the itinerant merchant. Sedg- wick afterward met him and made in- quiries, but obtained no satisfaction. "Sedgwick was back in his house by 0 o'clock, and we have a witness here who was talking with the wearer of the necklace at that hour. Jax, let us have your statement." Holding the copy of the confession in his hand in cage of confusion of memory, the starmaster told of his rendezvous, of the swift savage at- tack., of the appalling incident of the manacles, of the wild race across the heights and of the Mial tragedy. "I've thought and wondered and fig- ured day and night" he said in con- clusion, "and 1 can't get at what that rope and the handcuffs meant." "The handcuffs must bave come from that dreadful collection of Captain Hogg's things in the big hallway at Hedgerow 'house," said Marjorie Blair. -"Yes," assented Kent, "and the dim clew to their purpose goes back again, 1 fancy, to the strange mysticism of the original Astraea. The disordered mind, with which we have to deal, seems to have been guarding against any such separation as divided in death Astraea from her Hermann." -it was the other man that killed her," said Preston Jax. "the man I heard yell when she went over. But what became of bitn?" "Simon P. Groot spoke of hearing that man's scream, too," confirmed Bain. "Have you got any clew to him, Professor Kent?" "The other man was Francis Sedg- wick," declared Alexander Blair dog- gedly, Chester Kent sbook his bead. "I've got a witness :against that the- ory from your own side, Mr. Blair," said he. "Gansett Jim at first thought as you do. In that belief he tried to kill Mr. Sedgwick. Now he knows his mistake. Isn't that so, Jim?" SYeli," grunted the half breed. "There was no other men." said Chester Kent. "Don't you undoestand, Mr. Blair," he added, with signifieant emphasis, "the souree of het ery In the night heard by ;lax nncl Simon P. (I root ?" A thisb of enli Satenmert swept Blitir's face. "„eigh ' be :veld in a long drawn breath. %%II II: "I was wrong: I beg Mr. 8, deed° ke.e pnrdon." Sedgwick bowed. Merjerie Blair's hand went out, end het' fingers closed softly on the teir•le hand of her father - in -la w, "No third person hail any part what- soever in the drama N% hien Jar has re- counted to es,- pm" tied tient "In the morning the 1,fiti;.. d. -covered. Sheriff Sehltwer v..is 4144141 for. Ile ronno in the p.1,1 111,11 trayvd the eoions oi 1, 1 o.b With Hedgerow hous' '..1 bit of utsch..., ler with the heading still • H., sheriff. "With this be u 4 n oft Jinn who after a 'yell had eomo out on tI s ., a:miming that ibe slimme ts' ' him of the identity tg sheriff SAW a elethee ffe s. If I de: you an inju '11 eer- reet MA2 "Go right ahead. Don't mind me. I'll take my medicine." "Very weir. Schlager adopted the ready made theory which 11lr..1ax had prepared for him, so to speak, that the hody MD; washed ashore, and arrang- ed. with the counivanee of Dr. Breed, the medical officer, to httry it as an unknown. For this perversion of theft duty Mr. Blair rewarded them hand- somely. As I understand It, -he dread- ed any publicity attaching itself to Hedgerow house and his family. "To avoid this. Air. Blair was will- : Ing even to let the supposed intirderer, whom he believed to be Sedgwick, go onscathed of justice. By chance I saw the body on the beach. Not untit the inquest, however, (lid I realize the • really startling and unique feature of the case. There is where you and Dr. Breed made your fatal error, Mr. Sheriff." "That's right Yon , saw the face when we lifted the lid, 1 s'pose." "NO. You were too quick in replac- ing it." "Then how did you get on to the thing?" 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