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SlMr""'" "' Jl " "" '. T r ) v 1" "" tr 'i ' ' ' ' " THE CIRCULAR SDURCASE 'BKmmf 4& vfs -zr T- RrNEHART 'ILLUSTRAWNS BY 'frYvMr- tdPfwcitr net nr AMMvuMvca X 8YN0PSIS. ' Minn Innon, iiflnitor and IV'!,!'1" " Annr.lrolitf wriH ruimil Mlml In tlnillll Hi" h Si "'(Jortru.u- m,.l l.;r ;"''. loom niioiuy ui-iiiM- "' ,'"" , "i,,,!,!. nc line l-vl iMirr. CMhMit llillli-y of 1' all Anni'ron l.anl., .1. riim;t.. ;" nrrr. trU Animlroii'; s .....i.r.ii titotil l'illll Ilir r unr.i' "i' " - .. .... i. ..,.,.,. ilPiilli Wirt niinniinpfrt. . wi ' . UiuIho Arroatroim. told la my U '' hVr II i c V pi 1 that Ur WtilUur wa ho m.u " li iIhi wan founjl u.icoiimp oiib ill till' l.otlniii of tlio rliciilnr Htiliuifc. In Hit liark on ho mulrwny anil w fi ImIpiI Hullpy miHppfloil or Arm- rwnrm.m.iirl wltl.' nolo In UN inrliPt lionrliiK t if nnnio "Iiurloii Wu; i. " A Imlilpr foiinil out r Ijlncn iJppp- In iriipil. mill In Urn lar: Aims iiinia mi m In Vii" ". Ilalmy myBtiTlouily illHnp iinird III unto viih fount! wrpcltfil l ! rrplclil rain U ili'velnppil llulnoy liml ,,faVK,Hnont In tho lll.inry with ii woman lipforo Ills tl miipp'irunrp. Now ook iiih i.pilpnrn! , Mlw Iniica learned Halaey was iiilvc. CHAPTER XXVII. Who Is Nina Carr1ngton7 Tlio four dnyH, from Snturday to the following Tuesday, wo lived, or ox- luted, In n Rttito of tho moat dread fill HimjiciiBO. We nto only when Llddy lirouRht In n tray, and then very little Tho import), or course, had got hold or tho Hlory, and wo wcro huslorjed by nownpapor men. From nil over tho country fnlHO cIowh ramo pouring In d rained hopen that crumbled again noLhlnir. Kvery morgiio within 100 mllea, ovory hospital, had been vis ited, without result. Tho Inaction was deadly. Llddy cried nil day, nnd, becauso sho knew I objected to tearB, snlincd audibly around tho corner. "Kor heaven's milco, Binllo!" I Bnappcd nt her. And her ghastly at tempt at a grin, with her swollen nose nnd red oyca, mado mo hysterical. I laughed and cried together, and pret ty soon, lllto tho two old fools wo woro, wo were Bitting together ween ing Into the same handkerchief. On Tuesday, then, I sont Tor tho car nnd nropnrcd to go out. As I watted nt tho porto-cochero I saw tho under gardenor, nn Inorfonslvo, nraylah haired man, trimming borde-a near tho house. Tho day detectlvo was watching him, sitting on tho carriage block. When he saw me, ho got up. "Mlsa Innes," Jio Bald, taking off hlB hat, "do you know whoro Alex, the gnrrtcnor, Is?" "Why, no. Isn't ho hero?" I asked. "IIo linn been gone nlnco yesterday nftcrnoon. Havo you employed hhn long?" "Only a couplo of weeks." "Is ho cniclent? A capable man?" "I hnrdly know," J Raid vaguely. "Tho place looks all right, nnd I know very Utile about nuch thlngi. I know much more about boxes of roses than bushes or them." "Thia man," pointing to the assis tant, "nays Alex Isn't n gardener. That ho docBn't know anything about plants." "Thai's very strange," I Bald, think ing hard. "Why, ho came to mo from tho Ilrnyfl. who aro in Kuropo." "Kxactly." Tho detectlvo smiled. "Rvory man who cuts grass Isn't n gardenor, Miss lnncs, and Just now It Is our policy to bollovo every person around hero a rnBcal until hu proves to bo tho othor thing." Warner camo up with tho car then, nnd tho conversation stopped. As he holpod mo In, howovcr, tho detective Bald something further. "Not n word or sign to Alox, If ho coincn back," ho Bald cautiously. I wont first to Dr. Walker's. I was tired of beating nbout the bush, and I folt that tho key to Halsey's disap pearance was hero at Casanovn, In spllo of Mr. Jamloson's theories. Tho doctor was In. Ho camo at onco lb tho door or hl8 consulting room, nnd thero was no mask or cor diality In hln manner. "IMcaso como In," ho Bald curtly. "I Bhnll Blay hero, I think, doctor." I did not llko hlB fnco or hlB manner; thero was a Biibtlo change In both, ilo bad thrown oh the air of frlnndllncsa, nnd I Ihuught, too, that ho looked anx ious and haggard. "Dr. Walker," I suld, "I havo como to you to nsk somo questions. I hopo you will answer thorn. Ah you know, lay nophew hns not yet been fouud." "Ro I understand," stlllly. "I bollovo, If you would, you could help us, nnd that leads to ono of my questions. Will you toll me what was tho naluro of tho conversation you hold with him tho night ho was at tacked nnd carried off?" "Attacked! Carried off!" ho said, with pretended surprise. "Roally, Miss lnncs, don't you think you exaggerate? 1 undorstand it is not tho (Irst time Mr. Innoa has disappeared." "You aro quibbling, doctor. This Is a mnttcr of Ilfo and death. Will you fWBwor my question?" "Certainly. IIo snld his nerves woro ball, and 1 gavo him a proscription for thorn. I am violating professional othlcs whon I toll you oven as much as that." I could not tell him he Hod. 1 think I looked It. Hut I hnzarded a random Bhot. "1 thought perhapn." I said, watch ing him narrowly, "that it might be nbout Nina Canington." Tor n moment I thought ho wns go ing to Btrlko mo. He g'ow livid, and a Binali ciooked hlood-vesiol In IiIh tem ple swelled nnd thiobbed curiously. Then ho forced n short laugh "Who is Nina Carrlngton?" honsked. "I urn nbout to discover that," 1 re plied, mid ho wns quiet at once. It was not difficult to dlvliio that be feared Nina Carrlngton a good deal more than ho did the devil. Our leave talcjig was brief: in fact, wo merely Htnied at each other ovor tlio waiting room tnblo, with its litter of year-old magazines. Then I turned and went out. "To Rlchlleld," I told Warner, and on tho way I thought, and thought hard. "Nina Cairlnglon, Nina Carrlngton," the roar and rush of tho wheels seemed to sing the words. "'Nlna Car rlngton, N. C." And 1 then knew, knew us Biirely ns If I had seen tho whole thing. There had been tin N. C. on tho suit case belonging to the wom an with the pitted fnco. How simple It all seemed. Mattlo Ullss had been Nina Carringtoil. It was she Wainei had heard In tlio llbrnry. It wns some thing she had told Hahioy that had taken him frantically to Dr. Walker's office, and from thcic perhaps to his death. If wo could find tho woman, we might llnd what had become of Hal Boy. Wo were almost nt Ulchfleld now, ko 1 kept on. My mind was not on my errand thero now. it was back with. Halsey on Hint momorablo night. What was it ho had nald to Louise, that had sent her up to SunnyBide, half wild with fear for him? I made up my mind, as tho car drow up before the Tate cottage, that I would Bee Louise If 1 had to break Into tho house at night. Almost exactly tho same Bcono as before greeted my eycsat tho cottage. Mrs. Tnte, tho baby-carriage In the path, tlio children nt tho swing all were the same. Sho came forward to meet me, and 1 noticed that somo of the anxious I'nos had gone out of her face She looked young, almost pretty. "1 am glad you have come back," alio said. "I think. I will have to be honest nnd glvo you back your money." "Why?" 1 asked. "Has the mother como?" "No, but somo ono camo and paid tho boy's board for n month. Sho talked to him for a long time, but when I asked him afterward ho didn't know her name." "A young woman?" "Not very young. About 40, I sup pose. Sho was amall nnd fair-haired, Just a little bit gray, and very sad. Slip was in deep mourning,' and, I think, when alio camo, alio expected to go at onco. Hut tho child, I.ucleu, In terested her. She talked to him for a long time, nnd, indeed, she looked much happior when alio loft." "You are Btiro this was not tlio real mother?" "O mercy, no! Why, she didn't know which of the three was I.uelen. 1 thought pcrhnps she was a friend of yours, but, of course, I. didn't ask." "Sho was not pock-iftarked?" I asked at a venture. "No, Indeed. A skin like a baby's. Hut perhaps you will know the In itials. Sho gave Luclcn a handker chief and forgot It. It was very fine, hlnck-hnrdered, and It had three liand worked letters In tho corner P. 11. A." "No," I said with truth enough, "she is not a friend of mine." P. H. A. wna Panny Armstrong, without a chance of doubt. With another warning to Mra. Tato as to silence, wo started back to Sun- nyslde. Po Panny Armstrong know of Lticlen Wallace, and wan flufllclontly Interested to visit him and pay for his support. Who was tho child's mother nnd wliero wns alio? Who was Nlnn Carrlngton? Did cither of them know whero Halsey wns, or what had hap pened to him? CHAPTER XXVIII. A Tramp and the Toothache. Tlio bitterness toward the dead president of tho Traders' bank Boomed to grow with time. Never populur, his memory was execrated by people who hud lost nothing, hut who were titled with disgust by constantly hearing new RtorloH of tho map's grasping avarice , Hut, like everything else those days, tlio bank fniluro was almost forgotten by Ooi trade nnd myself. We did not mention .Fuck Halley; 1 had found nothing to chnnge my impression of his guilt, and Gertrude knew how I felt. As for tho murder of the bank president's son, I was of two minds. One day I thought Gertrude knew or at least suspected that Jack had done It; the next I feared that It had been Ger trude herself, that night nlono on the circular staircase. And then the mother of Luclcn Wallace would ob trude herself, and nn almost equnlly good case might he made against her. Thero were times, of course, when I was disposed to throw all those sus picions aside, and fix definitely on the unknown, whoovcr that might he. I had my greatest disappointment whon it cnnie to tracing Nina Carrlng ton. The woman had gone without leaving a trace. Marked as she was, it should have been easy to follow her, hut alio was not to.be found. A de scription to ono of lie detectives, on my arrival at home, had started the hall rolling. Hut by night she had nut boon found. 1 told Gertrude, then, about the telegram to lionise when alio had been 111 before; nbout my visit to Dr. Walker, and my suspicions thnt Mattlo HHss nnd Nina Carrlngton wore tho same. Sho thought, as I did, that there was little doubt of it. I said nothing to her, however, of tho detective's suspicions about Alox. Little things that I had not noticed nt tho time now came back to mo. I had an uncomfortable feeling that perhaps Alex waB a spy, and that by taking him Into tho house I had played into tho enemy's hands. Hut at eight o'clock thnt night Alex himself np pearcd, and with him n strange and re pulsive Individual. They made a queer pair, for Alex was almost as disrepu table as tho tramp, and ho had a badly swollen eye. Gertrude hnd been bitting listlessly waiting for the evening message from Mr. Jnmleson, but when the singular pair came in, ns they did, without cere mony, she Jumped up and stood staring. Winters, the detective who watched the house at night, followed them, nnd kept his eyes sharply on Alex's pris oner. Por that was the situation as it developed. Ho was a tall lanky Individual, ragged and dirty, nnd Just now he looked both terrified and embarrassed. Alex was too much engrossed to bo either, and to this day I don't think I ever asked him why he went off with out permission the dny before. "Miss Innes," Alex began abruptly, "this man can tell us something very important about tho disappearance of Mr. Innes. 1 found him trying to sell thla watch." Ho took n watch from his pockot and put it on the table. It was Halsey'B watch. I had given it to him on tho mwm B II ll'ullMITllfnTT: I was dumb wey- j fa w?l w lT V V i' UV 1 &rV.i-W 1 VIA dor (U . -v-X- M ft 11 , " -V CsP""' ma1 gas fStftosrw:?; ssssmsasi&sS! Alex Was Almost as Disreputable ns the Tramp. twenty-first birthday; with apprehension. "He snys he had a pair of cuff-links also, hut ho sold them " "Per n dollar'n half," put In the dis reputable Individual "hoarsely, with an eye on tho detective. "Ho is not dead?" I Implored. The tramp cleared his throat. "No'm," he sahl huskily. "Ho was used up pretty bad, but lie weren't dead He was comln' to hlsself when I" he stopped nnd looked at the de tective. "I didn't steal It, Mr. Win ters," he whined. "I found It In 'the road) honest to God, I did." Mr. Winters paid no attention to him. Ho was watching Alex. "I'd better tell what ho told me," Alex broke In. "It will bo quicker. When Jninieson when Mr. Jamleson cnlls mi we can start him right. Mr. Winters, I found this man trying to sell that watch on Fifth Btreet. Ho of fered it to mo for $.V "How did you know the watch?" Winters snnpped nt him. ' "I had seen It before, many times. I used It at night when I wns watch ing nt tho foot of the stnlrcaso." The detective was patlsflcd. "When ho of fered the watch to me, 1 knew it, and I pretended I was going to buy it. We went Into nn alley and I got the watch." The tramp shivered. It was plain how Alex had secured tho watch. "Then I got the story from thin fel low. Ho claims to havo seen tln whole affair. Ho says he was in an empty car in the ear tho automobile struck." Tito tramp broke In here and told Ills story, with frequent Interpreta tions by Alex nnd Mr. Winters. He used n strange medley, in which fa miliar words took unfamiliar mean ings, but It was gradually made clear to us. On the night In question the tramp had been "pounding his ear" this struck mo as being graphic In an empty box-cnr along the siding at Casanovn. Tho train wns going west, and duo to leave at dawn. The tramp and tho "brnkey" wore friendly, nnd things going well. About ten o'clock, perhaps earlier, a terrific crash against the side of the car roused him. He tried to open tho door, but could not move it. IIo got out of tlio other side, and i Just as he did so, he heard some one groan. Tho habits of n llfotlmo mndo him cautious. He slipped on to tlio bum per of a car and peered through. An automobile had struck tho car and stood thero on two wheels. The tall lights were burning, but the head lights were out. Two men were stoop ing over some ono who lay on tho ground. Then the taller of two started on n dog-trot along the train looking for nn empty. He found ono four cars away and ran back again. Tho two lifted the unconscious mnn Into the empty box-cnr, anil getting in them selves, stayed for three or four min utes. Whon they camo out, after clos ing, tho sliding door, they cut up over the railroad embankment toward tho town. Ono, tho short one, seemed to limp. The tramp was wary. Ho waited for ten minutes or so. Some women camo down n path to the road and in spected the automobile. When they had gone, ho crawled Into' tho box-car and closed tho door ngnln. Then ho lighted a match. The figure of a man, unconscious, gagged, and with his hands tied, lay far at tho end. The tramp lost no tlmo; ho went through his pockets, found a little money and tho cuff-links, and took them. Then he loosened tho gag It had boon cruelly tight and went his way, again closing tho door of the box-cnr. Outside on the road ho found the watch. He got on the fast freight oast, somo time nftcr, and rodo into tho city. Ho hnd sold the cuff-links, but on offering the watch to Alex ho had been "copptd." Tho story, with its cold recital of vlllnlny, was done. I hardly knew If I were more anxious, or less. That It was Halsey, there could bo no doubt. How badly he wns hurt, how far ho had been carried, were tho questions that demanded Immedlnto answer. Hut It was tho first real Information wo had had; my boy had not been mur dered outright. Hut instead of vaguo terrors thero was now the real fear that he might bo lying in somostrango hospltnl receiving tho casual atten tion commonly given to tho charity cases. Rven tills, hnd wo known it, would havo been paradlso to tho ter rible truth. I wake yet and feel my self cold nnd trembling with tho hor ror of Halsey'B situation for threo days after his disappearance. (TO UK CONTINUED.) Labor That Aids tho World. It Is true that all wealth comes from labor, but not necessarily from labor by tho hands. Tho thinkers of tho world havo ndded Inestimably to Its development. It was n portrait painter who Invented tho telegraph, ti college professor who produced the tolephone, nnd tho list might bo ox tended almost Indefinitely. It Is well that to-day, with all our Indulgence In rest and piny, that wo romombor that It la Intelligently directed onorgy pf whatovor kind which makes man hotter nnd helps along tho world to the millennial dawn. HEINLE MARRIES .AN ACTRESS Montana's Young Copper King, Who Worsted the Trust, Weds Bcrnlco Golden Henderson. Butte, Mont. Tho marrlago of P. Augustus Helnzo to Miss Uornlco Gold en Henderson, which recently took place, wns of considerable public In terest, not so much on account of tho bride, who is young, beautiful and an actress,' ns because of tho remarkable personality of this young "copper king" of Montana, who single-handed and almost nlono brought tho most powerful trttBt In tho world to Its kneea. Helnze, who Is a native of Brooklyn, whore he was born in 1SG7, came to liutto in 18S9 as n surveyor and found F. Augustus Heinze. work In the copper mines. After two years' aervico ho camo Into ii fortuno of $50,000, went to Germany, where hu Etudlcd engineering and metallurgy and returning to .Montana organized tho Montana Ore Purchasing company. At this period vti3 formed the great Amal gamated Copper company, with a eai itallzatlon of $7.",000,000, since In creased to $155,000,000. In a labor dis pute which the trust forced upon Its employes, seeking to reduce wages and rearrange tho hours of labor, Helnzo stood b;i tho workers, paying those In his employ tho usual wage rate, and thus came under the dlsplcnsuro of tho trust. Por years the Amalgamated sought to force him into tho trust or drive him out of the stnto nnd the bat tle between Helnzo on the one hand nnd tho trust on the other wub carried In numerous suits through every court In tho state nnd to tho supremo court of tho nation. And Heinze won at every turn. Upon tho Issues nt stake in these suits men were elected to the legisla ture, Judges were appointed to tho bench and newspapers were bought or subsidized. Poetical Issues were lost Bight of and men nlmost forgot that they woro Democrats or Republicans, being classified instead as adherents of thu Amalgamated company or of tho heinze interests. Heinze is a strong man mentally and ph)slcnll:-. On his father's sldo tho family iu traced back through a The Explanation. Old I'odklna lay back In his chair in calm content, niur though his wlfo wan quite near him ho was happy, for sho had not broken tho silence for nearly flvo minutes. Ho had been married for flvo-and-twenty long years, and Mrs. I'odkins, almost dally during 124 of them, had disturbed the domestic peace by a too full exercise of her tongue. "My dear," broke Jn Mrs. P " thinking it time alio said something to interrupt the quiet, "I sco by tho pa pers that a petrified Jaw two yards long hns been found in Cornwall." "What!" cried Podklns, starting up. "Now I know your secret. But you never told mo your ancestors camo from that part of tho world!" NO HEALTHYVSKIN LEFT "My llttlo son, a hoy of flvo, broke out with an itching rash. Threo doc tors prescribed for him, but ho kept getting worso until wo could not dress him any more. They flnnlly advised me to try a certain medical college, but its treatment did no good. At tho timo I was induced to try Cut! cura ho was so bad that I had to cut his hair off and put tho Cutlcura Oint ment on him on bandages, as It was Impossible to touch him with tho baro hand. Thero was not ono square inc'i of Bkln on his wholo body that was not affected. IIo was ono mass'o! sores. Tho bandages used to stick to his skin and In removing them it used to take tho skin off with them, and the screams from tho poor child wer heartbreaking. I began to think that ho would never got well, but nfter the second application of Cutlcura Oint ment I began to seo signs of improve ment, and with tho third and fourth nppi, cations tho sores commenced to dry up. HiB skin pooled off twenty times, but It flnnlly yielded to the treatment. Now I can say that ho is entirely cured, and a Btrongor and healthier boy you never saw than ta is to-day, twelve years or more since tho euro was effected. Robert Wattam, 1148 Forty-eighth St, Chicago, 111, Oct. 9. 1909." The Part of It. "I wonder if that sour Mls3 Oldglrl ever had any salad days?" "I nm sure she had tho vinegar and peppery part of them " T 1 RY MURINE EYE REHED Y Cor Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eye and GRANULATED EYELIDS MurineDoesn'tSmart Soothes Eye Pain DrunUti Sell Marine Eje Rimed?, Liquid, 25c, 50c. $1.00 Murine) Eye Salro, in AneptIcTub-, 25c. $1.00 EYI3 BOOKS AND ADVICE FREE BY MAIL Murine Eye Remedy Co.,Chicago ly MMMnrhTVTCBS. JEpgfM WITTLE dHBF Inn ic L4VVL 1 fiiMt Mrs. Hendereon-Helnze. for the $&&?P&zg long lino of Luthoran ministers over threo centuries, nnd on mother's aide it goes back In this coun try to tho first governor of Connecti cut. Ills brldo is a well-known actress, who won success on tho stngo as tho Vampire In "A Fool Thero Was," suc ceeding Kathryn Kaolred in this rolo. Although Btill in tho early 20s, Miss Henderson htiB already been married and divorced, and It was to support a two-year-old daughter that sho em barked, on tho advice of David Helas co, on a stage career last season. About Women Smoking. Washington. Just now thoro ia n crusado against tho smoking of clgnrottes by women. Tho fact that society women havo taken up this Eolaco is considered an ovldcnco that our present social courso is leading tho way to decay. Yet tho only thing that la now about! tho smoking of cigarettes by women la tho protest against it. Androw Jackson's mothor used to smoko a corncob pipe. Probably Abraham .Lincoln's mother did, too. Cortnlnly most of tho ladicB who camo over in tho stcorago and tho daugh ters of many of thorn aro now found In our most exclusive clrclos-woro rarely without their old pipes, somo clay, somo corncob. No protest was mado ngnlnst tho rmoklng of a pipe by Androw Jack uon's mother and vrti havo nover hoard of any meetings of protest in Mrs. Lincoln's neighborhood. Inci dentally, each of theso women reared a son who mado his mark in tho world. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clmntrt mil UtuUtlt iho lute, l'romotcf a luxuriant growth. Novor rll to Itritore Oriy Hair to it Youthful Color. Cunt c!p fllwiut litlr fitting. 30c,iniHl.U)t Dmgglm Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt ReliefPermanent Coro CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely veget able act lure, but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner diitreu fitreuulL ceation improve th complexion brighten the eyea. 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