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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1914-12-04, Page 7- been readuti day to day* relatives sit nerves* toto sleep. nst'ung and/ --ve nue tem volts systatt Ma.rtinto 1014, I I was ' heard o ,,-otia elm using ; I imero 'ottooi ag to many ve Pills are 11.25 at receipt ot 0- Limited, - College Catalogue ervelt, Jrt Accountant :ram•••••1•1.11qM1.11r !TrOMEMEIM!MMUM I)ECEMBER 4 1914 pis_ _mains 0 You Wish to Be Well You . Must Keep the Bowels Regular. If the bowels do not move regularly they will, sooner or later, become con- stipated, and constipation is productive of more ill health than almost any other trouble. The sole cause of constipation is an inactive jiver, and unless the liver is kept active you may rest assured that headaches, jaundice, heartburn, piles, floating specks before the eyes, a feeling as if you were going to faint, or catarrh of the stomach will follow the wrong action of this, oue of the most important organs of the body. Keep th.e liver active and working properly by the use of Milburn's Laxa- Liver Pills. Mrs. Elijah A. Ayer, Fawcett Hill, N.B., writes: "I was troubled with constipation for -many years, and about three years ago my husband wanted me to try Milburn's La Liver Pills, as they bad cured him. I got a vial and took them, and by the time I had filen three vials I was cured, - I always keep them on hand, and when I need a mild laxative I take one." Milbmeds Laxa-Liver Pills are 25c a vial, 5 vials for $1.00, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by Th -T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. TRICK, GLOSSY HAIR FIME MOM DANDRUFF Girls! Try it! Hair gets soft, fluffy and beautiftd—Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine. If you care for heavy hair that glis- tens with beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable softness and Is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of -your hair besides it imme- diately dissol-res every particle of dandruff. You can not have nice heavy, healthy- hair if you have dandruff. This destructive ecurt robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it produces a feverishness and itching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, toosett and die; then the hair falls out fast Surely get a 25 -cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug stOre and just tty it LEGAL. B.. S. H:AYS ' BarriSter. Solicitor, donveyancer_ and Notary iPthlic. Solicitor for the Dom- inion Bank. Offloa in rear of the Dem - talon Benk, Se,aforth. Money to loan. J. M. BEST. Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyanoer and N-6tary Public. Office up -stairs over Walkers furniture store, Main street, Seaforth. F.,HOLASESTED. BarriSter, Solicitor, Conveyancer and •Farms fer sale. Office, In Scott's block, Maio street, Seaforth, PROUDFOOT, HAYS & ICILLORA.N Notary Public. Solicitor for the Cana- dfan Bank of Commerce. Money to loan. Barristers, SS>lielters, Notaries Public, etc. Money to lend In Seaforth on Mon- day of each week. Office in Kidd block. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V. S. • Honor graduate ef Ontario Vetetin- ary College. All diseases of Domestic Animals treated. Calls promptly attend- ed to and charges moderate. Veterinat Dentistey a specialty. Office and resi- dence on Goderich street, one door east of Dr. Scott's °Moe, Seadorth, F. 11,S.RB1JSN, V. S Honor- graduate of Ontario Vetesta- a.ry College, and honorary member of the Medical Association of the OntarioVtertnary College. Treats diseases of all Domestic Animals by the most rrod- ern principles. Dentistry and Milk Fev- er a specialty. Office opposite Dick's Hotel, Main street, Seaforth. All Or- ders left at the hotel will receive prompt atiten t ion. Night calls received at. the office. IsfEDICAL C. J. W. KARN, 425 Rich -mend street, London, Ont. Specialist: Surgery and Genito-Uria ary ditea,se.s of men and women. DR. GEORGE HEILEMANN, Osteopathic Physician of Godericit apecielist in wernen's and childrea's diseases, rheamat ism, acute, chronic and nervous disorders, eye, ear, nose ard throat. Consultation free. Office at Commercial Hotel, Seaforth, Tuesday and Fridays, 8 teem. till 1 pm.. DR. F. J. BURROWSt--- Office and residence-Gnderich street, east of the Methodist chlkti•ch, Seaforte„ Phone No. 46. Coroner for the CauntY of Huron, DRS. SCOTT & 'MCKAY. J. 0: Scat, graduate of Victoria and College of Physicians and Surgeont. The Secret of lmesome Cove By Samuel Hopkins Adams ICopyright, 1912, by the BobbseMerrili • , Company . The two visitors could hear the PS' treloger grope heavily. As the light flashed on they saw, with a shock, .•tbat he was on all ' fours. It was as 111 Kent's -word had felled him. Instant-, ly he was up, however, and said: "What am I up against? How did you find me?" Thrusting his hand in his pocket the Scientist brouebt out a little patch of black cloth, with a single star skil- fully embroidered on it. "Wild blackberry has long thorns and sharp," he said. "You left this atter Hawkilecliffs:" • At the name the man's chin muscle throbbed_ with his effort to hold his teeth steady against chattering. "What do you want?" faillaaxchange,a My name is Ches- ter ES mita' The starmaster's chin worked. con- VIlISIVOIS, "The Kent that broke up the -Co ordinated Spiritisni Circle?" "Yes,' _ "It's all bargaining with the devil," Jtiserved ;Preston Jax grimly. "What's the exChange?" - "I do not believe that yon are guilty sf murder. Tell me the whole story plainly ahd straight, and I'll clear you in so far as I can believe you ham- :Ann.- For the first time the seer's chin was ar peace-.• _ "he tepazes are cached under a yock near the cliff. I couldn't direct you, but I could show you." "In .tinie you shall. One moment Aa you realize. you are under presump- tion of murder. Do sou k -now the idene tity of the victitnr "Of Astraea? That's all I know thout her. I don't ecru know her last name." "Why Astraea?" ."That's the way she signed herself. She seemed to thInt 1 knew all about her without • being told." And you played up to that belief?' "Well, of course. I dal." "Ye.s. you naturally would. But if you had no name to write to how could yen answer the letters?" "Through personal advertisements. She had made out a code.- She was a smart one in some ways, I can tell Foe." "Have you any of the letters here?' "Only the last one." "Bring it to me." Obedientlyas au intimidated child, the astrologer left the room, presently rethrning with a plain sheet of paper with handwriting on one side. With drooping head and chin a -twitch the master of stars stood studying Mrs. Blair and Kent while they read the letter together. It was in two handwritings. the date, address and body of the letter being in a clear running character. while the signature. "Astraea.- was in very fine, minute, detached lettering. The note read: All is now ready. You are but to carry' eut our arrangements implicitly. The place is known to you. There can be -no difficulty in your -finding it. At two hours after sundown of July the 5th we shall be there. Our ship will be in waiting. All will be as' before. Fall me not. Your re- ward shall be greater than you dream. ASTRAEA. Kent folded and pocketed the letter. -Bad you ever been to this place be- fore?" Kent asked of Jax. •ln).11, "Then how did you expect to find ItT' "She sent me a ranp. 1,lost-it-that night." "What about the ship?" "I wish you'd tell me. There wasn't any ship that I could see." •.1And the fefer-c:iiCe- to all being as ii was before?" -You've got; me - agnin there. In most every letter there .was some- thing about things I didn't under- stand. She seemed to think we used to know each other. Maybe we did. Hundreds of 'em come to me. I can't Ann Arbor, and member of the Ontario -remember 'em all. Sometimes she , Coroner for the County of Huten. I called me Hermann. My name ain t C. MacKay, .hogor graduate of Trinite i Hermann. Right up to the time I saw University, and gold na-..,dallist of.Tria-1 ber on the heights I was afraid she ite Medical College; membe,r of the Col-; was taking me for somebody else and l ege of Physician5andSergLoaa., Ontario, that the whole game Would be. queer - DR. H. HUGH ROSS'. . I ed aS seen as we came face to. face." Graduate of University of glOronto I "W.,,),Iat did she say when she saw P_aCeity of 'tdedicine, member of Col-; Y°gel ..,. • lege crPityalciarri- and Surgeons of On- ' "Why, she seemed just RS tickled to tarlo; pass graduate ccurses in Chicago ' set eyes on me as if I were her Her- Clincal School of 'Chicago; Royal Oph- : mann twice over." University Cailege Hospital, London fa`cifixonittly," replied Kent, with sails- thalmic Hospital e London, England, ' England. Office --Back of the Dominion Bank. "&aforth. Phone No. 5. Night ' "We11' hONT that" calls ans.wercci from reeidence,Victetla street, Seaforth. Passing over the query, the other • proceeded: "Now, as 1 understand it, i you put yourself in my hands untee servedly," "What else cae I do?" cried Preston Jox. do you account for AUCTIONEERS.' THOMAS ,BROWN. Licensed auctianeer far the counliee of Huron and Perth. Correspondence ar- rangementa Ear sale dates can be made by calling up Phone 97, Saafarth; Or The Expasitor office. Charges moder- ate and eatiefactien guaranteed. -------- JOHN ARNOLDI Licensed auctioneer for the counties of Heron. and Prth. Arrangements for eale dzat.z.: can be made by calling ep Phone 2 on 23 Dublin, er 41 Seaforth, or the Expasitee Office. Charges mod- erate and sa t ilef action guaranteed. B. fa PHILLIPS, 3( Huron and Peeth. Being a practical ?sealer mei thorough te understanding tee value of farm tete it and implements plac.ee roe in a better positioa to re- alize good price. Charges moderate. latiafactien guaranteed or no pay. All orders left la Exeter will be promptly attended to. "Nothing that would be so wise. So do not try. I shall want you to collie to Martindale Center on call. Pack up and be' ready. Come, Mrs. -Blair. Remember, Jax, fair play, and we shall pull you through yet." In the taxieMarjorie 13Iair turned to Kept. "You- are a very wonderful person," she said -Kent shook his head -"and, Itthink, a very kind one." •••••••• IIIIIMMI=6191.••••=k THE HURON EXPOSITOR Nothing- i2c cuer equaled or eon:T.:a-red with the ?medicinal fats in Scoff's Emulsion to arrcst the deelineeinvigorate the blood, strengthen the nervous system, aid the appe- tite and restore the courage Of better health. Sootes Emulsion is Pure health. bulk& Ing fond, without harmful drugs. TRY IT CASTO R 1 A For Infants and Children in Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of "Sou are a very wonderful person," • she said. Kent shook his head again. "Be kind to me and leave me to go home alone." Kept stopped the cab, stepped out and raised his hat. She leaned toward him. • "Just a moment," she said. "Per- haps I ought not to ask, but it is too strong forme. Will ypu tell ni who the woman -was?" Kent fell beak a step, hie eye ening. "You don't see it yet?" he ask "Not a glimmer of light-unle was seine - some unecknow Member of the family." "No; not that" "And you can't tell me who she was?" , "Yes, but not just now. Try to be patient for a little, Mrs. Blair." "Very well. Your judgment is best, doubtless. Of course you know whose hand wrote the body of that letter?" "Yes; try not to think of it," advised Kent. "It isn't nearly, so ugly as it seems." Sbe looked at him with.her straight, fearless, wistful glance. "That it should have been m band who gave the thing mo does to me to another woman why did he write the letter to P Jax for her to sign?" Chester Kent shook his head.. wid- a. s - she edged CHAPTER XVIII. The Astrologer's Tale. ' MIDNIGHT found Kent hotel room. A knock b him to the door. -- "Letter for you," an ed the messenger boy. What Preston Jax had to sa first, in the form of a very brie eecond, in the hhaph of et forir looking document. The note "Esteemed sir," concluded "Yoi morsefully" and set forth in so exotic language that the writer trig a lapse of courage that iniglht con- fuse his narrative when he tliould come to , give it had "taken Pen in hand" to commit it •to writing and would the recipient "kindly pardon haste?" Therewith twenty-one typed bus - pre But eston in his ought ounc- was, note; tabl begat( rs re- ewhat fear - pages. "Quite enough." said Chester Kent, Ind dived into the turbid • flood of words. And behold! As be turned, so :o speak, the corner of the narrative he current became suddenly clear. The reader ran through it with In - :refusing absorption.. Preston 1 Jax, whose real name was John P estone red, after a rebellious boyhood, run tway to sea, lived two years before ;he meet, picked up a smattering of education, been assistant and capper !or a magnetic healer and had finally !Ormulated a system of astrological srophecy that won him a slow but in: !reasIng renown. "This Astraea affair looked good_ from the first." So began Pr ston Fax's confession, as beheaded and ;tripped down by its editor. "It I oked Ike one of the -best Ybu could mell 3rney in It Teith half a nose. Her first :eredr &dine in on tiVonday, 1 recollect. Irene, my assistant, bad put the red sencil on it when she, sorted out tke mall to show it was something special. But don't get her into this, Professor Kent. If you don's all off, jewels and dl. Irene has always been .for the draight star business and foreeast tame and no extras or side lines. Be- sides, we were married last week. "She .quoted - poetry, swell poetry. First off she signed herself 'An Ade td I gave her the Personal No. 3 and l- imed it pp with the Special Frien ly No. 5. Irene never liked 'that No. 5. She says It's spoony. Just the same, It fetches thein -but not this one. She began to get personal and warm heart- ed, all right, and Answered up with the kindred soul radket But .come to Boston? Not a Move! Said she couldn't. There were reasons. It look- ed like the old game-filttet headed wife and jealous husband. Nothing in that game unless you go in for the -straight holdup. And blackmail was always too strong for my taste. So I did the natural thing -gave her special readings and . doubled on the price. She paid like a lamb. "Then, blame it it didn't slipout •she wasn't married at all! 1 lost that letter. It was kind of 'endearing: Irene put up a bow tr It was getting too personal for her taste. I 'told- her I would cut it out Then I gave ray swell lady another address and wrote her for a picture. Nothing doing. But. she began to hint around at a naeeting, -One day a letter came with a hundred dollar bill in ,it. Loose, too, just liko you or me .nlIght send a two cent stamp. TAIL -menses; she wrote, and I was to comeent once. Our souls had returned to recognize and joiu each other she said. Here is the only part of the letter I eeuld dig up from- the wastebasket." - - Here a page was pasted upon the document. " 'Yon belie Pointed out to me that our stars, swinging in Mighty circles, 14-41 it re rusning on to a joint climax. To- gether we may force- open the doors to the past and sway the world as we sought to do in begone days.' "And so on and cetera," continued "W he tile nari ve. ell, o course, s was nutty -that is, about the etar.busi- riess. But that don't prove anything. 'rhe dippiest star chaser I ever worked was the head of .a department In one of the big stores, and the fiercest little business woman in.busineis hours you ever knew. That was the letter she first called me Hermann in and signed Astraea to. Said 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- ter with the copperplate writing n 'me at the bottom? Well, they all cine • that way after this; the body of the letter very bold and careless; signature written in an entirely different hand. "But -hundred dollar bills loose in let- ters mean a big stake. I wrote her I would come, and. I signed it 'Her- mann,' just to play up to her lead. 1 "'Forever! Together!' she said and stood up beside me, chained to me by Irene got on and threw a fit. She said the handcuffs she had slipped on my het woman's intuition told her there was danger in it. Truth is, she was right wrist and her left. . stuck on me berself, and 1 was on her, much -to let me off?' I asked but we did not find it out until after as soon as I could get breath. You the crash. So I was all for prying see, it;dashed on me that it was a po- Astraea loose from her money if I had lice trap. Her next words put me on. . to marry her to do it. She wrote Some "'he stirs! The stars!' she whisper - Slush about the one desperate plunge ed. 'See ours -how they light our path - :together and then the glory that was way across the sea, the sea that awaits us? "More breath cane back to mea It wasn't a trap, then. She was only a crazy 'woman that I had to get rid of 1 queer 307 that gave Mel the Advent again. 'The itistnnt 1 SRw your state. ment in the newspaper I knew It NM your soul calling tomine across the ages,. "Our boat is at the shore."' "In that last letter she mentioned a ship. And, now. here was this boat business. lAfterward 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 hy sea I want- ed to know it, and I said as much. "'Are you steadfast?' she asked. "Well, there was only one anewer to that. I said 1 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. "'To bind us together,' she said. 'Close, close tagether, and then the plunge! This time there shall be no fallnre: They shall not find one of us road station for amorning train. And without the other. You are not afraid?' when 1 got home 1 married Irene, "Afraid! My neck was bristling. • .and 1 am through with' the crooked " slow,' I said, thinking mighty .work forever. This is° the whole truth. bard. tl don't quite see the point of If any human being knows more about . - the death of cAstraea it must be the . "Didn't I curse myself for not re- :man who shouted as she fell from the membering what I had written her? 'cliff and- who went away and did not No clew, except that the poor soul was come back. plumb dippy-toefdippe for me to mar- "(Signed) PRESTON JAX, S -M." ry; at any price. It wouldn't have held Follow me In the courts. Yet there relight have CHAPTER XIX. ten local been $5,000 of diamonds on her. '1 In the White Room. this story g supPose she felt me weakening: years, wh NNALAKA, July 15. -To Hotel Hogg's„Ha ” Yer ou dare to break our _pact?' she Eyri e, Martindale- Center: says in a voice like woman on the since been Dust 571 and send up seven - Stage. Then she changed and spoke tal very gently. 'You are looking at tbese gewgaws,' she said and took a dia- mond circlet from:berfinger. !What do these count, forT And she ptit it in vadMINNIMINIONME "Nor you, Mr. Blair?" "Then I don't see why we can't keep it among oumelves," said the sheriff. ,"There is Ina reason wky :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. ough a Ipage of unwrit- tory. The beginning a- es back some seventy-five there lived not far from en in a house which has destroyed, an older sister ogg, who rmarried into the . p chairs. Chester Kent." Grosvenor family. She was, frOm the "Now, I wonder what that might evidence of the Grosvenor family his - mean?" mused the day clerk of the torian, who, by the way, has 'withheld Eyrie as he read the telegram through all this from his pages, a woman of the • for the second time. "Convention in my hand. Another ring &tipped at I I most extraordinary charm and mag- _ the room of mystery, maybe?" I my feet. Mind, sli was giving them Nor did the personnel of the aieliors netisin. Not beautiful in the strict to matrhese ttee as nothing compete who, in the course of the late After- sense of the word, she had a gift be. yond beauty, and she Ied: men ilin ed to what we shell -have,' she +vent' noon, arrived with recitieits to be on, 'after, the plunge Wald' - chains. Her husband appears to have shown to 571 serve to efface this 110 been hid dropped' the rope, and now pression. First came the sheriff from been a weakling whO counted for, nothing in her life after the bir she went into her paper parcel again. th :of Annalaka.- He was followed by a man kneeling at me side. I had Stooped to her children. Seeking distraction, she, of unmistakable African derivation, be - look for the fallen ring when 1 felt flung herself into xnysticism and. whoogave the name of Jim and declin- tier hand slide up my wrist and then a came the priestess of a cult of star ed to identify himself more specifical- quick little snap of somethirig cold and worshipers, which locIuded many -of ly. While the clerk- was endeavoring, close. A bracelet, I thought. And it the more cultivated people of this iv - was a bracelet! to.be ours. That looked like marriage tome. "You saw the last letter. It had me rattled, but not rattled enough to quit. looked down at the handcuff. It Was There was a map in it of the place for O`f Iron and bad dull rusted edges. A the meeting. That was plain enough. hammer would have made short work But the 'our' and 'we' business in it of it, but I did not have any hammer. bothered me. It looked a bit like a I did not even have a stone. There third person. I had not heard \any- I would be,. stones in the broken land thing about any third person, What 10 i beyond the thllcket. I thought I saw more, I did not halite any use for a a way. third Denten in this business. The 1 Yes, let's go," 1 said. stars forbade it. I wrote and told her ..We set out. At the edge of the so and said if there was any outsiders thicket was a flattish rock with small rung Ili the stellar courses would'have stones near it Here I pretended to a sudden change of heart., Then I put slip. I fell with my right wrist across my best robe in ,a bag and ltought a a rock and _caught up .a cobblestone ticket for Care* Junction. You can with my left hand. At the first crack believe that while I was going through of the stone on the handcuff I could the woods,I was keeping a bright eye out for any third party. Well, he Was not there, not when I arrived anyway. Where he was all the time I do not know. 1 never saw him. But I heard him later. 1 can hear him yet at night, God help mei "She was leaning against .a little tree at the edge of the thicket _when I first: saw her. There was plenty of ligt4; from the moon, and it sifted down' throtigh the trees and fell across her head end neck. 1 neticed a !veer cip get around her neck. The stones were Ike soft pink fires. I had not eve; - ;eel], any like them before, and'I stood :here trying, to figure. whether they. were rubies and how much they might se worth. While I was wondering thout it she half turned, and I got my irst look at her face. "She was younger than I had reckon. - tel on and not- bad to look at, but - - and jumping around her as she ran. iueer, queer! Something about her That was an awful night full of awfula itruck me all wrong-Igave me a sort • . )1' ugly shiver. Another thing struck me all right, though._ That was that ibe bad jewels on pretty much all her angers. in One of my letters to her ;aye her a hint about that -told her that gems gave the stars a stronger aOld on the wearer, and she had taken It all in. She certainly was an easy iubject. "A bundle,done up in paper was on ;he ground near her. I dncked back, ror gripped at the throat that gave very still, and got into•my robe. The that cry. Then there Was a rush of • irrangement in her letter was for me • towhistle when I got there. wets_ I little stones and gravel down the face ' :led. She .straightened up. "'Come,' she said, 'I am waiting.' -. A' the cliff. That was all. _ "Beyoud tue the ground rose. 3 ran -Her voice was rattier deep and soft. up on it. It gave inc a clear view of But it wasn't a pleesant softness. the cliff top. 1 thought sure 1 Would Some way I did not like It any better see the man who had cried out from than I liked ber looks. I stepped out • there. Not a sight of him! Nothing into the open and gave her the grand moved in the moonlight. I thought bo":1.'he master of the eters, .at your , I threw myself down and _buried my hraecem. ost have gone over the cliff too. --mainland,' I said. "'You are not as I expected to see i "How long I lay on the ground I do you.' she said. • not know. A wisp of cloud had blot - "That was a sticker. It might mean • ted out the woman's star,,now, and by must anything. I took a chance. that I knew she was dead. But the 'Ob. well: 1 said, 'we all change.' moon was shining high. It gave me 'It went. We change as life light enough to see my way into the cleinges,' she said. They never found gully, and I stumbled and slid down you, did they?' feel the old iron weaken. I got no chance for a second blow. Her hands were at my throat. They bit in. Then knew it was a fight for my, liee. "The next thing I remember clearly she was quiet on the ground and I was hanimerIng, hammering. hammering at my wrist with a blood stained stone. I do not know if it was ber blood or mine. Both, maybe, for my wrist was like pulp when the iron finally cracked open and dl was free. 1 caught a glimpse of blood on her temple. I suppose 1 had hit her there with the stone. She looked dead. "All I wanted was to think -to think -to think. 1 was pretty much dotty, guess. "While 1 was trying to think she came alive. She was on her feet be- fore I knew it and off at a dead run. The broken_ handcuff dwent jerking things. But the one worst sight of all -worse even than the finding of her ifterward-was that mad figure leap- ing over the broken ground toward the cliff's edge. 1 held my breath to listen for her screani when she. went over. I• oever heard it. "But 1 heard something else. I heard a man's voice. It was clear and strong and high. There was -death int 0, 1 tell you, Mr. -Kent Living hor- through to the beach. • "Froin. the way she said it I saw she "1 found her body right away. If expected me to say 'No.' So I said No. lay with the head against a rock._ But " 'That was left for me to return there was no sign of -the man's body, and doe' she went ou With a kind of the man who had yelled. 1 felt that before I went away from there I must conceal the cause of her death and , • everything about it that I could. If it Constipation-- was known how she Was killed they •311GZG••••1112111M. 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 - 'ether excuse for obstructive tactics. Shortly afterward Alexander Blair came in with ti woman heavily veiled and was deferentially conducfecl aloft. is a.ri enemy within the camp. It will undermine the strongest constitution and ruin the most vigorous health. It leads to indigestion, biliousness, impure blood, bad complexion, sikk headaohes, and is one of the most frequent causes of appendicitis. To neglect it is slow suicide. Dr.Morse's Indian Root Pills positively cure Constipation. They are entirely vegetable in composition and do not sicken, weaken or gripe. Preserve your health by taking Dr. Igor se's " Indian Root Pills would be more likely to suspect me. "I went back and got /the rope. I got an old grating from the shore. I dragged the, body into the sea and let It soak. I lashed it to the grating. I stripped the jewelry from her, but I could not take it. That would have made me a• murderer. . "There is a rock in the gully that I inarked. Nobody else would ever no- tice it. Under it I hid the jewelry. I can take you to it, and 1 will. "I got on my coat and sunk my robe in a creek and got ntreelf to gion. Among them was la young Ger- man mystic and philosopher who had fled to this country to escape punfsh-, ment for Political offenses. Hermann von Miltz Was his nam." "That's why she called me Her- mann," breke in Preston in an awed half whisper. Finally Chester Kent himself appear- erjon,t Jura_ p to wild copelusions,", ed, accompanied. by Sedgwick and a said Kent smilingly; "Some of their. third man unknown to the clerk pom- correspondence is still extant. She pously arrayed in frock coat and 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 'ulster, stationery, easuai messages, ciiiiing cards or any other form of espionage," said Kent. He led his companions to the elevator. Sedgwick put a hand on his arm. "The woman with Blair?" he asked un- der his breath. Kent nodded. "I rather hoped that she» wouldn't -some," he said. "Blair might better trave told her; so far as he knows." "Then he doesn't know all?" "No. And perhaps she would be con- tent with nothing else. It is her right, And she is i brave woman is -Marjorie Blair, as Jaz here can Iestify. We have seen her under fire.' "She is that," confirmed the man with the twitching chlu. "This, then, is the final clear-np?" asked Sedgwick. "Final and complete." Greetings among the little group in the white hung Iroom, so strangely and harshly thrown together by the dice cast of the hand of Circumatance, were brief and formal. Only Preston Jar was named by Kent, with the eotn- ment that his story would=be forthcorn- ing. "First, the jewels." Kent turned to Preston Jaz, who handed him a package. Opening it, Kent displayed the wonderful Oresver nor rose topazes, with a miscellaneous lot of rings sparkling amid their Coils. With a cry, Marjorie caught up the necklace. "Are all the remainder of the lost valuables there, Mrs. Blair?" asked En e She glanced carelessly at the rings. think so. Yes. But this is what matters to me." "These are all that Preston Jax found on the body." "It was ydir who found the body?" demanded.Blair of Jax. _ . "Yes," said the 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 tones. "I never saw Mr. Sedgwick until th- 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 low stunned him with a rock and ea.. body if. indeed. be did not also Ida"- caped. Some distance down the road 'I didn't kill or rob any' one," said the wayfarer encountered Simon P. J4x. Groot, the itinerant merchant. - Sedge I"How came you by my daughter's wick afterward met him and made ine jewels, then, if' you did not take them quirk% but obtainedtro satisfaction> from the body?" "Who ever said I didn't take 'em from the body?" retorted the other. "I did take 'ern, but it wasn't robbery. And what I want to know Is how did. they come to be on the body anyhow 18 in his hand in case of confusion of What was that Astraea woman doing menaory, the startnaster told of his. with your daughter's rings and neck- rendezvous, of the swift- savage at- ' lace? Tell me that!" tack,' of the appalling incident of the "Walt a moment," put in Kent. "Ex- •manacles, of the wild race aeross the plain to Mr. Blair, Jax, what your pint heighth and of the final tragedy. pose was in taking the jewels." "I've thought and wondered and figs "To hide 'ern. I thought the less nred day and •night," he said in con - there was on the body to identify 11 elusion"d I n' eha'd tti,ncat get at the bttercnce 1''i 1-. what .that " away. I was so scared that I guess I rope and the handcuffs meant. was half crazy anyway. And now I Continued Next Week. hear -she never has been ideintified: Is that right?" - •MISZN/NWitip•aik===',-.r.T4 Sheriff Schlager half rose from his chair. "'Ain't you told 'em, Professor Kent?" signed herself Astraea in handwriting similar to the signature of that note Of yours, Jam 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 culminated in a tragedy of which; the details are lost. Perhaps it "-lira* an elopement that they planned; per- haps a double suicide, with the Idea' that their sOUIS would be tinitild In death., There are hints of that in the; old letters in the historian's poesesition, and in the library at Hedgerow house.' .This much is known: The coupre em- barked together. In a small boat Von' Miltz was never again beard of.- Ca- milla Grosvenor's body came ashore In Lonesonie Cove. ,She was the Cove's earliest recorded victim. The sketch vvhich that mischief monger, Elder Dennett, left at your door, Sedgwick,supposing it to be a likeness of sthe unfortunate creature he had seen 00 the road to your house, is a Charles Elliott sketch for the portrait of Ca- milla Grosvenor:" "My God!" Jaz burst out.. "Was it a ghost 1 met up with that night on ETawkill heights?" "As near as you are ever ilike17 •ta encounter, probably," answered *tut, "Now, I'm going to make along jump down to the present. First, then, want you to follow With me the course of a figure that leaves Hedgerow house'on the late afternoon of 'July 5. By chance, the figure is not seen, ex- cept at a distance by Gansett Jim, who suspected nothing then. OthersViie it would have been stopped. as it wears Mrs. Blair's necklace and drags:* "Dressing the part of Astraea,' guessed Lawyer Bain. "Precisely. Our jeweled figure, in it dress that is an old one of Mrs. Aiairli and with a package in hand, inakei ita way across country to the coast.", . "To join me," said Preston Jas. "To join you. Chance briugs 4,110 wayfarer face to faee with that gen- tlemate of the peekaboo inied. Elder Dennett They talk. The strange; asks -quite by chance, though the ei- der assumed it was otherwise -about the home of Francis Sedgwick. At the entrance to Sedgwick's place the pair met. There was a curious ena counter, ending in Sedgwick's demand- Ing an explanation of the rose topazes,. which he .knew to be' Mrs. Blaleds." "How did he know that?" demanded Alexander Blair. "Because 1 had worn them when sat to him for my picture," said Mare torie Blair quietly. - 4 "The stranger," continued Kent, "ree fused to give Sedgwick any explank don and when he threatened tO fol. "Sedgwick was back in his house hy, 9 o'clock:, and we have a witness here who was talking with the wearer of the necklace at that hour. Jax, let fie have your statement" Holding the copy of the confessicei 0 4 ;..u‘yri-mq:acr7-1,••••,").•r--suenue Children Cry FOR` FLETCHER'S CAS1-0141A'