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You came in to see me from Fair- teem?' air-lawnl" "No, sir, I didn't.' The fact Is, I'm not but there any longer," "Not there! What ('o You mean?" "I've been discharged, sir, with two other servants, since the funeral yes- terday," "Discharged) By whom? Not Bliss Natalie, surely?" "Yes, sir. She didn't give no reason; just said we were not wanted any lunger. That's one reason why I came here to see you, sir." "Fut I 1 lin how I of hardly ow 1 o v can be Y help. I have no house of my own, and —well, the truth of the matter is, Sex- ton, just at present I am not on very good terms with the young lady my- self,'' u I know that sir," moreconfidently, 'and It Isn't a position I nm seeking, at all. I have quite a tidy bit of money laid away, and could get plenty of work. That's not the point, sir. Why should '.Mss Natalie tell nye to go like that? It Isn't a bit lake her, air; she ain't seemed natural at all lately, and I tell you there's something wrong gain' on out there. I'm sure o' that. sir." "Sure of what? "Well, for one thing, It's my opinion that f'errivnt Coolidge never stilted himself, sir," West sat up stiffly, as tllnngh struck a blow. These wnrrls startled him; drove his own mind Into sadden nc- tivity. "What motes you think that, Sex- ton?" he questioned slowly, "Well. there's more than one thing," as though glad to have made the plane, and anxhms rn jnstify benself. "Ilt,t first of all that wasn't tits ro• volver they found lying beside h101. He elwnys had me In his valise. nn' it's there nnw, or was when T (naked to pee." "Yon didn't fell that to the cnrnner." "No, sir: he never. put inc on the stand. Besides 1 didn't know about It then, Did you nntlee where he was shut. sir?" "Behind the right ear; the wound was plainly visible." "Not very eney for n man to do him- self, sir,", "No, hut possible, nevertheless. The. coroner was satisfied on that point," "Yes, sir, but the coroner overlooked one thing, sir. He was sure It was n suicide case, and minted to stet done with it In a hurry. I heti Simmons, sir, washed the body to get if ready for burin(, an' I comped the heir rinwn over the bullet wound. There ween't no powder marits on the skin, en' not a hair was singed. sir. That's what makes me Say he never killed himself." West sat silent and motionless; look - Ing straight at the man oppnsite, en- deavoring to decide on a course of ac- tion. Some way in the depth of his earnestness, Sexton no longer appeared a servant. He was a man, vnlcing a man's heart. West realized the Chance Instinctively; here was an intelligent Loyal fellow, to be met frankly, and for the tl'tne being, at least, nu the ground of equality. It would be use- less to try to either mislead, m Ile ceive. "Sexton," he began finally, "this is a pretty serious .charge you make, ms man, but singe I have been thinking things over, I confess some suspicious circumstances have arisen In my own mind. 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The truth tar' be confessed frankly, "I did not tell all [ knew to the coroner's jury. I meant to do so, but the right questiont were not asked me, and certain details slipped my memory until too late. Do you recall a boulder of rock out in that clover field?" "Yes, sir, to the right of the ?path; It le mostly hidden now by the growth." "Entirely concealed, a few yards away. Well, when I crawled through the fence after hearing that shot fired; I saw nothing, and heard nothing. 3 had advanced aced 1 oto the field several rods when I came upon the trail of some one leading directly north. It was not a path; merely evidence that a single person had passed that way, i followed, and came to this boulder, Her therewas every proof visible that the previous party had remained for some time, seated and lying on the ground under protection of the stone The occupancy was a recent one. Then evidently, whoever it was, had advanced to the right An the general dt.reotion of the rate through the, TOM'S, near where Coondge's body was found. The marks of advance ended on a little rise, some ten yarcle from the boulder, where the fellow appar- ently- turned about and retraced iia steps." "[low far was that from the gate into the road, sir?" Sexton asked breathlessly. "Within easy sheeting distnhce for a revolver of that calibre. I should say, Any gond marksman could have rung the bell." "And you sow no one?" "No; not a sign; the feet Is i failed at the time to put two and two to- gether. The thought of a possible tnu'der never occurred to rue." "You think it was murder then, sir?" "Yes, I do," replied] West gravely. "It has all the marks, but who com- mitted the crime? What was the mo- tive? It will never do for us to make such a charge, after the coroner's verdict, without positive proof." "No, "And you know of nothing which might Blear this up?" "No, sir; I've been with the "ootidges. sir, ever since Bliss Natalie "You Think It Was Murder, Then, SIr7" was a Ilttle girl, and I ain't heard of any trouble that ought to end In mur- der, sir." "Piow old was Bliss Coolidge when her father died?" "She mast have been seventeen, sir," "And since then Percival Coolidge had toll charge of the estate?" "Practically! yes, sir; there was at - other trustee, but he died; and then, as I understand, Miss Natalie had some funds of her own." West tools a cigar from his pocket, and lit It. Although not altogether clear in its owtt mind, he had begun to see light. CHAPTER ViI Against a Stone. Well. Was this dtscOvery anything to him? What u diP reace could it m.e w•h i.�th - er Percival Coolidge e had died by 1 its Own hand, or been treacherously shot from ambush? How would it benefit Natnlle Coolidge to have the truth revealed? And, If It well(' benefit her, ' why should he devote his time anti labor to such ori effort? Sho had mat him orf, thrown him aside; her af- • fairs had no further interest for 1111)1. Let her lawyer take care of them. 1.'1080 were rent's Mat teougnts, All true, :yet 01118 state 'of mind brought no satisfaction. He was In- terested, he could not eseape his drat impressions of the girl, or drive from him a desire 00 serve her, whether she wished, It, Or net. She might, indeed, he In equal danger from :An assassin. He could not determine this until he learned tile cause of the slaying of Percival, Then, an the other hand, suppose some one else's suspicions 'were also aroused. Who would tlieY naturally look to As guilty of this hor- rible crime? There wasbut one an, swer—Natalie Coolidge. She was seemingly the only person to directly benefit by his death, All these consid- erations urged him on, overcame his doubt and indecision. Then he desired to learn the truth himself. His eyes rested on Sexton's anxious face. "I've been thinking It Over," be ad- mitted quietly, "and 1 guess it is up to you and ane to And oat what this means," "Yes,sir," hesitatingly. "You—you don't think it was Miss Natalie, sir?" "No, I do not, Sextoi,, I have my own reasons for saying that. Yet naturally she Is the one to be first suspected, Do you know anything?" "Only that I am sure she was in the garden, sir, when the shot was fired. I saw her there just after you drove away." "That is conclusive then, so far as her personal actions are concerned:" "Where was it the three of you went on Sunday In the runabout, Cap- taln West?" asked Sexton, "To ahoo useover In the factory die - s tract; some charity case that Coolidge was interested in—the widow of one of his employees, I believe. "Did you see the people?" "No, I didn't go In; waited outside In the carr Itw n as 0 affair of mine ne. Why?" he asked in surprise. "Because, sir, Bliss Natalie seemed like a different person when she got back. Not in looks, for nothing like that, I don't mean, but in the way she talked and acted. Nothing suited her all the rest of the day. You snow bow_ she was to You. sir. Well she was just that snappy with all of us, even after \ve brought tate body back to the house. And she wouldn't look at him, sir, not even after he was dressed proper and laid out." "I hardly believe," said West thoughtfully, "you can attribute her state of mind to anything that oc- curred on that trip. indeed she WAS in high spirits all the way home." "I can't help that, stir," Sexton in- sisted blindly. "It was something that happened yesterday what set her wrong, an' if I was you, sir, I'd find out what happened In that house first of all. Could you find the place?" "Yes, I think so. I'll look it up, al- though I don't have much faith to your theory." He glanced at his.watch. "I'll go out there now. You come back here about five, and we will talk over any discoveries I may make." "And what shall I do, sir?" Both were standing, West with hand on the knob of the dour. The light in his eyes hardened. "Nothing occurs to me now, Sexton, unless you can find an excuse to return to Fairlawn, after something you, have forgotten, let us say. If we can learn what Bliss Natalie proposes doing it might furnish a clue," "Very well, sir, and I am to be here at five o'clock?" "Yes, at five; I will leave word with the doorman to show you in at once." West picked up a taxi -cab for the trip, bidding the cha1ulleur to drive to a certain section of the city, and then up and down the various streets un- til told to stop. His conversation with Sexton had greatly strengthened his conviction that this was a murder, and he bad determined to ferret out the truth if possible. Yet, thus ter there was nothing to build upon, no clue, no motive, uo suspicion ns to who had perpetrated the deet]. He simply faced a blank well, In which no entrance was apparent, yet there must be one, if be wits only fortunate enough to stumble upon it. Deep down to his heart West was conscious that he possessed a tunttve In this search far more worthy than mere curiosity. That motive W115 Nataiie CootIdge. tie smiled at the thought, yet confessed It true. In spite of her enrt rlistnissai, his memory of the girl centered about those earlier hours of their acquaint- ance. Something mysterious had oa furred to make her change so quickly, and he was unwilling to condemn her before learning the real reason. The ehnuffeur drove slowly up and down obscure streets for half an hour before Kest recognized familiar surroundings, and motioned for him to draw up against the curb. He had discovered the place sought, but from the street It exhibited no signs or occupancy, nor dill any knocking at the front door bring response from within. Ile circled the betiding. Every door was locked, hut, as he passed slung the other stile to regain the,taxi, n man emerged from Ih0 next house, 0(111 halted hint. Say, what're yer snnopiu' round there for? Loatthn' for somebody? "Yes, the parties who were here Sunday. What's become of them?" "IluhBrt, yon 1111'11111'' "Ts that Ills mine? I met him down - them, anti he told Inc to cone herr," West explained rapidly. "We hail a 11081 on." "011, yet' did hey," leaning his arms on the fence"Well, Jin Hobart was tl e h it'' a Tha 's t tv house the tial i g tit, s Y, , whie11 is why I happen to knew what Ills nacre was. Something wheel• abelt tint feller, T rectm, but 'tain't none 0' my business. You ain't n deice• live, or notlrin' like that, are yet'?" "Nothing at all litre that," West ltnlghed, (111holgh interested, "Wimy? Did you think the pollee might be after him?" "Not for enythIng 1 khow about, rn11y 110 shlppen cat mlgtlny. 500000. Paid tae a mouth's rent, and only stayed there three days. That looks sorter queer, Thee Sunday that feller what committed suicide out south—I rend about It in the papers^• -came to see 111111 111 a car, 1 got a bey WOrltiu' iu his factory. that's how I come to know whro the guy was, The next night Labatt, Re' them with hint, just natur- ally shipped out." "Who did he have with Mtn Here -a family?" "A woman 'bout his age, I should say, an' a youuger one. I didn't see 'eta Ditty from the window; didn't get no sight 0' the girl's face at all, but could tell the way she walked she was young. They didn't have 'Iothia" with '010; that's all nits, gulf in the house there." reeling the uselessness of trying to learn anything more, West thanked him, and returned to the tail, "Hack to the club," he ordered brief- ly, and settled into his seat to think, The information thus gained had been small enough, yet sufiieient to stimulate his ,belief that he was at least upon the right trait. The sudden departure of this man Hobart, and the fleet that no young children were In the family, were important items to consider. Coolidge, then, had not visited this cottage to aid a widow and orphuns. There had been some other object lu his call. The gIr1 must have known and understood the real purpose; that was why they both ac- quiesced so readily to his remaining outside in the car, It was part of heir mutual plan to thus leave team in ignorance. Yet they had made a mistake In taking him along at all, This error alone gave him now an op. portunity to unravel the riddle. 13111 d What did It? did he Pita kaon Merely n1 Fd�e had that Co notnto g ne this house on an errand of charity; that the occupant called himself, tem- porarily. perhaps, ,T1n1 Hobart; that his faintly consisted of two women: andescrlited except Le t0 age; and Vint all three had mysteriously dis- appeared together. He might take it for grentel that this disappearance was caused by the death of r"onlldee, tut they had left no trail. 110 inkling es to where they had gone. lie might suspect this sudden vanishing had di- rect connection with the crime he was endeavoring to solve, but he pos- sessed absolutely no proof, and, ap- parently, any further movement on bis part was completely blocked. • More puzzled than ever, although now fully convinced that murder had been committed, West could do nothing but wait the reappearanre of Sexton. The latter .arrived promptly on time, and West told his story. H'1s listener seemed to sense the situation clearly, "It wasn't no mistake, your gain' out there, sir," he said confidently. "What we know now gores us some thing to work on anyhow, an' It's just what I thought—that trip Sunday lett up to this Idllin', an' something hap- pened while they was in there to stir Miss Natalie all up. Now we got to find this fellow—what slid you say his- name was, sir?" "Hobart—Jim Hobart; that is, he was known by that name there," "And did you say he bus simply dropped out o' sight?" "That's true; never left a clue be- hind him." "Well, sir, I'm not quite so sure about that. You listen to me, sir. This afternoon I walked nut to Fair- lawn from the car line, an' come in across'the fields to the house. I didn't have no good excuse for goln' heck there, sir, an' was sorter afraid to meet up with Bliss Natalie. She might have thought I was just spyin' 'round. But I didn't here no ueed for being afraid, for it seems she'd driven into town about noon, an' hadn't got back. There wasn't nobody but the servant around the place, sir. Do you remem- ber Lizzie, the second amid—sorter full face, an' light hair?' West nodded, wondering, what all this might be leading to. "Well, she nn' I always hit it off together, an' I talked with her quite a bit. She told the, sir, that Bliss Natalie had a telephone call thas morning that took her into the city. Lizzie she went to the 'phone when It rang, en' it was a man's voice. He wouldn't leave no message, but insisted on speaking to Miss Natalie. Llzize had to call her down from upstairs." "Did the girl overheat the converse. Non?" "Not so as to make mach out of it, sir. She was sorter Interested, the man's voice being strange, and hung around in the hall listening, but about all she could make out was what Miss Natalie said. It seemed like he was Orin' her some kind of address, which Abe didn't exactly understand, an' se she repeated it after him two or three times to be sure." "What was the address?" "288 Ray street, sir, an' then about an hour later, Miss Natalie ordered her car, an' drove into town." "Alone 7" Yes, sir; It was On. electric she took," 1\'est remained silent. tapping withItis ddnife on the tabic. This might prove important, and he roald not af- ford to ignore the info'matinn. While to his mild 1t wits lenity 1lkety Ile- hnrt hell 0011011 the girt, yet the pos- sibility remained. "I never heard of a Ray street," he sant of length, "hut or course, ,there may he n ti e.h Charlie," O 1 " he stopped to med a welter passing. "Ilring me up a 411,7' dirertnry, will yet? The man returned with) the book. placing it on a chair next \\'est, who Immediately begun to inspect the vol - 111110, "T;ny street." be sails doubtfully, fingering the pages. "There Is no such street herr., Sexton. Are you sure you got that right?" ;(t intestttNd Next Week), I the Master Sa1esm1nn. Lo, the people of the earth do me homage. 1 arm the herald of success for men, merchants, manufacturers, municipalities and nations. I go forth to tell the world the message of service and sound merchandise. And the world lis- tens when 1 speak. 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