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It may be as well to add, too, thet
the 3:Pasoll he (lilt not lllnItY lll:S
earlier lila, Unt.:1 th,
sieureh shifted to tile Sea, AWL 1:10.114h-
t,s. the vicinit•y where the trek woe
Lound watt still tho focal main, and
wee rarely without its , or
ite group of cariutte on-lookere.)
Not under th;• tie -i) he hail selected
but perhaps a dozen feet awoy (rem
it. he found, well trampled It the
L'eound, a small ecrew cap, wadi, of
tin; textunly similar,. he tells to, to
those Wed oll the rang of vertain
melee; of ether, and underneath
which there 1.• a eerie.
"Ito Mg case, he was unitteley," 11
plains. "Ho went through tho
same procedure, and took the imp off
before 11 hailed mo, but the cork
came out, He had 'better luck this'
last. time."
As to, his discovery of the
(levees infernal symbol, he is lyiern.
reticent. Ile had sore eort of a
"hunch" to examine the trees them -
„aloes, he say e simply.
"What do you mean by a Minch?”
"I don't know. Just an idea I
1111`).P°
You;hought there might be some-
thing Olt 0 free?"
"I don't know that I thought a -
beet it at all, Skipper. I just tutu -
eel the flash up and there it was,"
Perham: I am wrong, but his ex-
planation does not quite satiery
nor, I think, does it satisfy himself.
'ith all his keen intelligence ho is
ettictly vonventional; I think he be-
lieves it would aomehow invalidate
his manhood to confess that his
'hunch'might have l" 1 eti
eince by some enseen souree.
But the triewelo enclosed fl 1a!1* -
Me was there, on a' tree only thirty
feet, back from the road.
July 20th.
Annie Cochran says theolutely
that there ie neither a red limp nor
a red lantern in the other house.
I stopped her this morning^ and
asked her
The day has brought no develop-
ments in the Morrison case, which
has eettled down more or leee into
a routine. The searehers net fewer
each day; the fishermen have gone
hack to theie pets and trawls, and
to -day will probably see the last of
the attempts to drag likely spots on
the bay.
There Ore TrIntly 11011' WhO behove
that this time the anchor rope is
shorter, and that the body, securely
anchored to the ooze at the bottom
of the bay, will not be U11001'0111(1 by
the lowest tide.
But if tho day has brought no new
developments outside, it has brought
ono or two to us here.
For ono thing, the morning ma1
returned to me through the dead let-
ter office my hitter of thanks to•tho
young woman in Salem,. Ohio, an
event which would puzzle me ntore,
did I not suspect the lady oil usiog
a fictitious name, for all her appar-
ent .frankness.
For another, Jane has at lea un -
bosomed herself. She maintains net
on the night of the nineteenth she
saw Maggie Morrison, clairvoyantly.
Rather, on the morning of the twens
tieth, for granted that ehe has ac-
tually had another of 1100 curious
psychic experieoces, there is a dts-
crepancy in time 11000 as wanked as
the interval betweeh Uncle Horace's
•death and her vision of him lying on
the, library floor.
'Waggle MOrriSOn disappeared pre-
sumably at eleven o'clock the night
of the 19th; Tane't, vieion occurrea at
three the morning of the 20111, Or
four houre later
This morning, at eleven o'cloek,
Jane left the cottage for the first
thne in days, giving' as an excuse
that she meant to look over Warren-
Hallidaa's clothieg and brine back
such as required mending.
"T need a little attention of that
omomae.maroartresamemeawcatat,tersti,casmnal„
Letterheads
Envelopes
Billheads
And all kinds of Busineas
Stationery printed at The
Post Publishing House.
We will do a job that will
do credit to your business.
Look over your stock of
Office Stationery arid if it
requires teplonishing
us by teleplione 31.
The Post Publishing lime
grAtt°
, sort myself," I observed, "I Clem":
!nand eompetitee with a tepestry---
afini' all, that ie art, and whet am 1
to net ?----but 1 reeent 0001,e110 e with
a younger and lamilsomer man."
Shia gave me the smile with whirl!
very wife giehos tn alt femilier
jocularity of every husband, and left
ite to my reading.
When an hour, however, had gone
ity and. she had not -returned, I 1'.
001to grow uneaey. flelliday,
know, was ont on the bey, and in
wah thee • lei theSe any email devia-
iiim feem tin. normal is upeetting.
.tatted after her, therefore, ond \PR.,
startled not to find her in the living
imaviewei or 00 the verandah. Duo
when 1 veiled 5111 filleWerell from 1-
011' and going' down I fennel her
among' the boats. •
"Well"I said. "And are you int-
im; fishing?"
ti was just wandering about."
elle said. "There's another boat,
isn't there?"
"Halliday's out in it Why?"
But she pretended not to hear roe,
and went up the steps again. Even
then
she made varioee, e000000 not to
leave ttt once. She went :wick end
1 email hear her straightening the
smell living room. When thert was
nothing more to do she came mit ,
again.
"I don't think he has cooked a
thing since it happened," ehe saal.
"Suppose we wait for him, and take
him back to luncheon?"
She is no actress, is lane, and it
began to -dawn on me that she was
determined to wait for ITalliday'e r€-
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hidden reasons for it. It was there,
sitting on the boat-boase verandah,
that he finally told her story, which
hi detailed in the extreme.
"You remember," slut side], "the
night of Maggie Morrison's disap-
pearance, that a, storm wile threaten-
ing, and that 1 was nervoue. 1 bit
queer—I can't describe it. Williami
had a sort of premonition, I think,
anyhow. I didn't want to to to bed,
and when I tMd you that yen started
off to Doctor- Hayward's for a pow-
der."
"You had 'rleant deliberately to
stay awake?"
"Yes._ Once in a while eomething
terrifies me, and I am afraid corn to
wink for fear something will happen
while my eyes ere closed. It wee
like that,
"Edith was writing something or
other, shut in her room, and after
you had gone the storm began 'to
come up, and I felt queer and jumpy.
1 went around the windows down-
stairs, and then went into tha
room and sat clown to wait -for you."
"Let's see. What time was that?"
"It must have beet ten o'clock;
maybe a little later. Then -4 hate
to tell you this, lS9lliam It sounds
so 'silly." •
"I've been thinking some pretty
foolish thing's myself, lately, my
dear," I said gravely. "Go ahead."
"Jock wan very strange, from the
moment we went in there. He sat
and stared at that oId parlor organ.
Igoe
"At the parlor organ! What in the
world—"
"At the parloa organ," she said
positively. "00 rather, above and
behind -it, whore it sits aerosa the
corner. And after awhile, I thought
SOW something there."
"What soot of 'something'?"
"I can't tell you," she said, and
shivered. "That is it wasn't yeally
anything. It wait like a mist. I
could just tell thee° was something
there, and then Jock lifted up hie
head and howled at it, and -1 don't
even remember getting u.pstaire, Wil-
liam" •
Now, so far, this runs -fairly true
to form; the usual strange combine.
tion of the grotesque—witness the
parlor organ I—Overstrained nerves
due to the approach of an eh:of:liked
storm, and jock, absently attiring at
nothing at all and preparing to give
tho storm howl for howl.
It is the remainder of janti'e stooy
width seems worthy of consideration
in view of her previa -tee overage of
hits.
She went to sleep, sinking fel-home
(The) into unconsciottsness, „ but at
three o'clock she wakened, etaldenly
and fully, -and sat up in hew bed,
But elle wee; not in a bed at OM.
She was in a heat, and Maggie Mor -
risen also was in it, lying at her feet.
After a time—she has no idea how
long—the vieioti faded, and she wae
still sitting nu in hen bed.
Snell detailt4 as 1 can -draw from
her ftrp RS follows:
"Did you see Uncle Horace in the
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same way?"
"Wnkeniog ont of -a :sleep, Yes,"
"Was there , the Ante. .sort' of
light'?" • • -
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"Not it light extualy, It doetioh
eome from anywhere1 cae't 1-
'0111, it exactly; the thinge 1 a,. are
auninous."
She has, however, her staler llmi-
tetions; she epoitles of a boot', but
-.Mealier 11 watt quiet or in molten she
one en idea; Asked if she and the
earl were alone, he thinks not, but
etta give. no reaeon for so thinking,
aiikeri as to why oh e believed the giri
WnS dead, ShO sue: "I felt that title
•-tene dead," awl then qualifiem that -by
itatino: "Iteeides, 1 never :10(0, 111.'
V14)11,, unless someone hat
This, like most broad etatements,
ie al) q•ror, hut in this caea tho gen-
,ral developments bear her out. 1
ray,wit believe that, if she saw the
Morrison girl at all, she saw her
dead, as she says.
She saw no rope on the body or
ill the boat, and there was no sign
itojury on the girl.
"She looked very peatieful," says
attne, awl sets me to sleuddering.
Ono one point, however, she ig e11-
00010 11.finito, She maintnine that
thero were pieces of Moth tied nround
the oar -locks of the boat. "White
Moth," sho adds, as an after thought
"Why cloth?"
"To keep the wire from making a
noise," says met Jane, who 'ins been
in 0 row-hoat perhaps a half dozen
time in all her lifel . .
We sat on the verandah while Hal -
Riley came in with tho boat; he had
been out, I dareeay, On SOM,?, llcOut-
1110 of his own, and 1 con-
fess to a sort of terror that by :tome
unlucky chance we might tied the
oar -leeks of this very boat, wraPPad
with white cloth, "to keep the oars
from making a noise." . Due they
showed no stigma of crime.
"Why," I .said to Jane, es Halliday
tied his boat and came with hie splen-
did stride up the run -way, "why did
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porch of the main house and used
in. times before the telephone wee in-
stalled, to summon the garderuic. It
is rung by puffing a rope attached to
it.)
It rang sharply twlice and then ab-
ruptly stopped, and the $uti d eil-
once seerned somehow ominoua, 13120
the stillness after a shriek.
There were no lights in the main
house, and no further sound.; from
it. I daresay at ouch times one does
not think; one acts automatically.
Someone has said, "With the spinal
cord. Not the brainti I do not re-
call thinking at all, but I do recall
trying to feel my way Omagh the
trees, and that I•ran into one and
'10110.0 particularly stunned for art in-
stant.
The house was still completely
dark and silent. I felt my way with
more caution, skirted the 6hrubbery,
and at last found the railing leading
up the steps to the kitehen. Hese
I was on safer ground, and I crossed
the small porch to the door with
increased confidence, only to stumble
over something and almost Yell,
knew at once what it was, ant I fidt
euddenly ill; although my brain vis
you come 0100'11 here to look at our
as active as ever in my life. "In the
boats, my dear?"
she ":"anr,,,,1 9 etas s eerael ease .
,pit of his stomach man is always a.
"I don't loony, Widium. 1 juet 'lies in my (t)'00,( 1.0.11,
had a feeling that I had to come." and striking one bent over a figure
have not asked her why she has lying prone at my feet. It wag young
suporeesed this experience for oo Gordon, unconscious and bleeding
long. Carrying it down with her to front a blow on the head, an Isecuve-
pour my breakfast coffee, going with. Iv tied with a rope. I was still
it through the day, and at night stooping over him, fumbling for are
mounting the stairs with it and so
other match, when a flash -light shone
to bed. Brushing her hair 1110t1001_eul- in my face, ;fairly blinding me. It
ously, and settling Jock for the night; played on me for a moment, and
going in to kiss Edith and tuck her
then on the boy stretched on the
into her fresh white bed, and then floor and now slightly moving -
closing her door and shutting herself "What's hapepned?" said a yokel
away with it for the night, And al- from behind it, and with rebel 1
ways with the guilty feeling that she recognized it as the doctor's.
was withholding that which should "He's _bort," I said, rising dizzily.
he known.
For she has no more doubts that "S‘t!Oukoritilehead,peenthedoortleIre taltICII':
tara on
Maggie Morrison was allied and the lights. I'll carry him in."
thrown into the sea from a boat with T did as he told me, being still
muffled oar -locks, than the doubts somewhat unsteady, and as he laid
her own existence. But coupled
the boy on the floor and straightened
with that certainty has teen. her I 10118 aWaTe that his eyes, as they
dreed of possible publicity, and that rested on ine, were hostile and sus-
eVer present feeling of hers that plenem
Immediately, however, he went to
work on the boy, examining him first
and then removing the 001)0.
"Hes only stunned," he said, and'
whatever power she has is somehow
shameful.
My poor Jane.
July 27th.
The blow has fallen again, and this leaving him lying 115 he was, began
time almost at our very door. That to move about the room. .Tut inside
it is not murder is not due to any the door Wag the poker from the kit -
lack of intention, but to weakness in chen range, and this, with the rope,
execution., I have spent a large raw- , he laid aside carefully. Then he
Mon of the day in urging Edith and went outside, and with a flash ex.
jane to go back to town, but without monied the bell.
result, "Just wheve were You, Porter,
-when this happened?" he asked.
"In the grounds, by the stm-dial
I couldn't sleep. When 1 heard the
bell I came on the run"
"It was the boy who pulled the
bell?'
"Ihavon't, an idea,"
He went back to his patient, and
examined the wound in the scalp
11101'0 carefully. After that he dress-
ed it, the boy by that time moving
around and groaning, but still only
partially conscious. I gave sunh help
as I could, getting water and so oe,
and when the 'dressing wets done tho
clear disappeared and returned
with a cushiou. Keeping the by sup-
ine, he slipped it under his head.
Then he straightened.
"You'd better tiotify the old man,"
he said. "I'll stay here if you dovat
mind."
And from the look he gaY0 1000i
gathered that he had no intention or
leaving Inc with the boy.
made my way upstairs to the
room over the dem and knocked for
some time before I was littera, Then
Mr. 13ethel called out, startled, Orld
I asked if I eould come in, T hoard
him making heavy work of. getting
out of bed, and filially he ehot the
bolt and opening the door an iuch or
two glared out at me.
"What the devil's the Matte -eV
"Nothing serious," I mid. "There's
been a little trouble downstairs, and
we thought you'd hotter he told,"
firel"
"Not a fire," I reassured him, And
gave. him a lwief tweount of what
had oenurroci,
by etrilting against it, and thus orient- 31:(1 was 11°1 graelaiN4
mg myself, tuned about au,/ „aa.a. demanded to know whet the boy was
back toward the Lodge. ''. doing Outside at that hour, end seem -
I lied 1101 gone ten feet latrine V oil to feel that, with a doctor Already
head the ben rmoug, itt the home, his reeponsibllity wns
(Note: A large bell 611 thlt kilehoo 011(100(1 As thtl" "8 Set"1117 "6-
oingeoj1 4 1,helped hint back
"Not unless you go," Jane said
firmly, and Edith and I =changed
glances.
As a matter .of fact, last night's
events have left me in a niore pve-
carious Position than' before, and I
feel that any move on my part
would only precipitate matters.
Greenough hats given out a state-
ment to the reporters that an early
arrest may be expected, and I do not
for the life of me underatan 1 way
he has not pounced already.
1 imegine the only thing, that has
saved me, so far, has beenthe single
fact that Peter Geisa knows 1 was ofl.
the slop the nigh and hour when
Halliday WEIS attacked. That puzzlee
him
To record last night's strange af-
fair hi sequence:
r could not sleep, a conditien which
is growing chronic with ine lately,
ancl at or about midnight I went
downstairs' and outside. The night
was extremely (lark; 1 muted back
and forward along the drive, keeping
at first (doge to the Lodge, but grad-
ually extending my steps as I grew
accustomed to the &trims&
After twenty minutes err so of this
and at the extreme of nty swieg to-
ward the other house, I .heard some
sort of movement in thot direction,
and stoppedto lieton, It was a cap-
tious distittbance of the shrubbery;
and Iswung among the trees and
deed listening, It was not repeated,
however, and I turned to e;c!, baek,
had, however, lost my wase, and
!ter some brief 112010 T fiennuleted
about. At last 1 found the stmedial
WEDNESDAY, OCT, 11, 10211.
to his bed and left him aitting, on theside of 11 I had started toward
side, an unpleasant but help eel fig- bone.'
211,0. "Do you DV an to etty thitt after
As I went out he asked me to tied bell rang, this man Gordon
hoing him a eup of hot water: arn4the Of had time to tie him and
Tho bOy 0'113 0011;40 [OLL; Whell 1 01)q(1)0„ brIfOrl, yOU got alere?" .
weld back to the Ititeleie, etarhee "I've told you the facts. It isn't
iironnd him, and partieulaely ciin- a eimple matter to got here front the
eentrating on the doetor .end inn -dial, in the ihnit."
He pat hie bawl to hie heed :eel felt I remembered the hot wake then,
the lemilnge.
t d I get that?" he asked earried it up to MP. Ilekhot He show -
and finding sone, in tlei lea -kettle
eft Sue more cOsility this • time, In -
After a time be tried to got, up, quired after the: boy, and ono: of -
and the docti», put him into a chair. fered me his poeket (leek, nring on
"Sow, Gordon," he eala, "what hie bedeide table. There vole a ro„-
Iguiperwd to you? 'Pry aed think." volver hesble it and he -.1(1.0' Ina
"He hit me," he said finally. "The giant., at it and Knelled alioniy,
dirty devil!"
"Who hit you?" "What with the eUlAtifiA ineide
your houee, o.nd the things thet are
But -he was still too dazed foe eoh- happeninto outside, I think tt best to •
(went thought. He impraved rapid- be prepared for anything."
ly after that, although he cemplaie- So, in spite of youne a:melon's
ed of teivere headache. He beerene prophecy, he too has been hearing
garrulous, too, ae happeee (.01, thing.
eussion, but out of his oneenderinge, In spite of the aoctor's attitude
we were able to seoure a fairly V011- and my 010/1 fear, 1 cantiot eve te-
meted story. day that a dispassionate exemination
He hail beim Unable to 01,,61.), be- of the evidence would reolly lovelve
eau go of certain noises in his room. me, --
He glanced at me. "You were right, Gordon saw a man enter the eem
old dear," he said elegantly, "when MOM WilldOW, l'ind was atteeeked vein
you said the place has an unoleaeant the kitchen by that man. It must
reputation. 111 tell the werlil it's be perfectly evident to Gr.. •nough,
unpleasant." - on hearing, the doctor's story, that
had I for any reason deeired to make
He had got up, and gone dew); to
the kitchen for somethingto eat. eorne nefarious entrance into the
After that, reluctant to go to his house, I need not hay, resorted to
room again, he had wandered out a window. I have keys to tvery
onto the kitchen 8teps and sat there, door, and can produce them. -
It was then that he heard aotheowt Thomas, however, who eeeme to
stealthily approaching the house. have his own methods of a.emiring
Hlistened „and finally he heard information, to -day tells a fact which,
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in my ignorance of such '1101110'11s,a window of the old gun room next
to the laundry being raised. He had net noticed last night. He state
..01011(1 that way, and insist .
hsaw that the doctor reports the boy as
s e
having been tied in the same manner
a dark figure there.- The next mom -
as poor Carroway; in two oalf-hitehos
ent it was gone, and hee .ivrts certain
there was someone in the 11 205:. around the wrists, a turn or two
He had, apparently, turned to en- ahou;theibo.iit,ch„
body and„, aattenish,nk
,antein;Iing
ter the house and head off the 11V1V11-
intahitf
way. On the matter of ringing the
bell he was rather vague at first,
not remembering that he had done I
so, but later saying he had had his '
hand on the rope, when the. blow !
came,
Hayward lietened to this intently.
Then he turned to me.
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