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Arnold ‘ - '• mg u , found s11■ »t to death in ill «**rtn:.d* and ii» r fiance. Jack ( h i • h.Ml . .»nv.'m*d in the billiard r • - or:;y before t: • T iurdet I«-h-< - • :r • Si-r it a-.-d Mif hoid * • o ►. e . id. *i. - v'ashier Bailey of Paul *.r-•.strong - h.**.k dt f un t. was arrested •r -n;...x2i Paul Armstrong’s was uf •• mel Halseys fian> »-e. •- '• \r?:*.-tr«-ng t«*iH liaise} ’bat while >* • - l-o.-: s:.• wa. to marry an I: * i * - \j*. * that It Walker was ’ • n an Loa--. v t- found urn »:is; ions J • • t: • hoontr f - . , * alar staircase i > * -iU - •?? . na .ad l*ruslied b\ her j ’ ' • ♦ da if, * Tie stairway and site < ■ • Ha * is suspected of Arm- ; - * ' -S •• d* a.i with a note in his , • • : • - ^ f aani. la, on Wal- j A 1.1 !• T f". rid • iut of I»':»ce de+ I> • • - • ■ ■ rv T: • s* aides w • re ” • - - - . . darn .V In ties shot • • . Halsev m\st. riouslv disap 1- - I - - auto was fo .ad wrecked by . *- . • •*,.-. 1- d- io|. «i Hals*} bad i - • •*- ii!»rar> w •»! a woman i “ .> u:sup|* .r■. N» w ook dis 11 - Innesi b an I Halsey was 1 - W. b • • - 1.0 *• hr on»e« livid * r .!•<■ .• N.a.t C.trnnc- : i. r w.,- s«-*".!•• Ila.sey bad he*j. CHgg*-d .end throwt :rito .ii: * . • ‘of'“ l*r I CHAPTER XXIX —Cont -jed. i ali.-d the hospital, w hile we crowded around him. And when there was no longer any doubt that it was Halsey, and that he would probably recover, we all laughed and cried together. 1 ini sure I kissed Liddy, and 1 have had terrible moments since when 1 seem to remember kissing Mr. Jamieson, too. in the excitement. Anyhow, by 11 o'clock that night Gertrude was on her way to Johns ville. 3St> miles away, accompanied by Rosie The domestic force was now down to Mary Anne and Liddy, with the under-gardeners wife coming every day to help out. Fortunately, Warner and the detectives were keep ing bachelor hall in the lodge. Out of deference to Liddy they washed their dishes once a day. and they con cocted queer messes, according to their several abilities They had one triumph that they ate regularly lor breakfast, and that clung to their clothes and their hair the rest of the day it was bacon, hardtack and onions, fried together They were al mos- pathetically gratt ful. however. 1 noticed for an occasional broiled ten d< rloin. It was not until Gertrude and Rosie had gone and Sunnyside had settled down for the night, with Winters at the loot of the staircase, that Mr. Jamieson broached a subject he had evidently planned before he came. ness past, a cemetery at night is much the same as any mother country place, filled with vague shadows and unex pected noises. Once, indeed—but Mr. Jamieson said it was an owl, and 1 tried to believe him. In the shadow of the Armstrong granite shaft we stopped I think the doctor wanted to send me back 'll s no place tor a woman. I beard him protesting angrily. But the de tective said something about wit nesses, and the doctor only came over and felt my pulse. "Anyhow. 1 don't believe you're any worse off here than you would be in that nightmare of a house," he said finally, and put his coat on the steps of the shaft for me to sit on. There is a sense of desecration, of a reversal of the everlasting fitness of things, in resurrecting a body from its mother clay. And yet that night, in the Casanova churchyard, i sat quiet- I ly by. and watched Alex and Mr. i Jamieson steaming over their work withoui a single qualm, except the fear of detection. The doctor kept a keen lookout, but no one appeared Once in a while he came over to me. and gave me a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "I never expected to come this.” he said once "There's one thing sure— ! I ll not be suspected of compile! a doctor is generally suppe. J 10 be ... ~ * ■ 5* - str • k m« as 1. ::ig an ugly s' : • r ant: wh-n she b i t. about 11 • k *>.i w-n' a"ri s to the Arm - rent ' ..i-• 1 i as not far beh.tid her. if • d .-.11 aro..nd Th-‘ boas- first. •*. :« a tie windows Tin n she • ‘ • t» !l. and the minute the their ■ .<. was through it anu lEto the hall ■■ ' H' u ior.g did -he stay*" ■ ••• ;:a-' ;t.‘ Uigas • 1 - > She - in't eo:m out • ...a- : "lit a: ail 1 wtm to bed at and that wit- the last 1 ■ a' . ;ti- . U:- r V tl »b-n 1 -aw !h r •> a tr.a k the station. S - bet n i. by th- eis'-ss and you would ill; ..v- known her—dead, of I r. -1 • night n It::- Arti.-troug lious'* and the - t 1 - was t ns the trat k lin t , \-.r . ... , t her " Ar:<- r circle’" I exclaimed i " :i. * - ar< v -» w h- w s'arteu A • » t ad . - lira* Miss inn--.' its., -a | eagerly ‘Nina Carrington an- i.m the :own -n California whei- V: Ann: trims died Why was] ’: * d*« -o afraid of 1. r" The Car mr n » tt.an knew something 1 -: - —a w In Walker seven years. • cd J kt •» hitu well There are few ' i-gs :- - afraid of 1 thick he killed V- ’•rn.st-ms nit in the west sane wh- - at - what 1 think What else . ■ ■ u c 1 d n t know—but he dismissed 1 n * an j pretty nearly throttled mi—. ~ *• .'.nc Mr Jamieson here about) Mr ir.c-s hat i.c been at his u5or: T - : . 'Is di: jj>;*ared and about n.> :• aring them quarreling ” | v us i; Warner overheard the [ v - -ay to Mr inne.- in the li braxy* the detective asked me >' s iid I ku- w there was some • be v r- : e from the s»ar A man ' We. -Be day and dead the next v tli<*ut -onie reason Hi i- per:* ily u all s-» tiled to fit ’ CHAPTER XXX. When Churchyards Yawn. i wa- n Wednesday Itisss told us' ' • ! - tin-11 n with some i - ■ :'s : a1 i» i! previously un 1 > had be- n gone - t • Ft i.. : sht before, and ■ tt:* pit— s- of each dry I felt r.ii- i> artn-d thousands “Eut tee Face That Shewed in the L ght—" ■ n. ;• - :n tli* \-tar. locked in. per 1—ps. without water or food. 1 had; r- ad ol cases where bodies had been u;<*i kicked m cars on isolated sid nt- :c the west, and my spirits went down with every hour. li.s recovery was destined to be ai n.".~t as sudden his disapp* arance. a: was dm directly to the tramp A!» i had brought to Sunnyside It -- ms -he man was crateful for his release and when he learned some of Halsey's whereabouts from nn 'her ns-aVr of his fraternry— r t is a fraternity—he was prompt .n lettinc us know Oe Wednesday evening Mr. Jamie -'■L who had been down at the Arm strong bouse trying to see Louise— and fa : ing—was met near the gate at Ss :nay>ide by an individual precisely as repulsive and unkempt as the one Alex had captured The man knew | the detective and he gave him a piece of dirty paper, on which was s: raw led the w ords: “He's at City hospttaL Johnsville " The tramp who brought the paper pretended to know nothmc except this The paper had been pass'd along from a hobo" in Johnsville. who seemed to know the in'omation would be valuable to us. Again the long-distance telephone tame into requisition. Mr Jamieson > “Sne Walked All Around the House First. Looking Up at the Windows." -Miss Innes. he said, stopping me | a* 1 »as about to go to my room up- : sia:e> "how are your nerves to night 1 have none." 1 said happily. With Halsey found, my troubles have gone." | 1 mean,* he persisted, "do you feel j a> though you could go through with something rather unusual?" "The most unusual thing 1 can think of would be a peaceful night. Hut if anything is going to oo •. don’t dare to l*'t u:e miss it." "Something is going to occur." he said And you're* 11-- ua'y woman 1 * an think ot that i < ,n ..f.u* along." He look**d at his »■?:, ii lion ; ack me any questions. Miss lit’**.- i';t on heavy shoes, and soni- old dark clothes, and make up yi..;r :a...d n.*; to be surprised at anything" 1-iddy was sleeping the sleep i> ;!,* just when 1 went upstairs, end 1 hunted out my things cautiously. Th, detective was waiting in the hall, and was astonished to see i >»- Stewart with him. They were miking con lidentiallv together, but when 1 eauie ■ down they ceased. There were a few ~ partitions to be made: ’he locks to . t>e a ;• wart when he ran into a wire fence. We were joined at tne end of five minutes by another man. who fell into step w ith the doctor silently. He car ried something over his shoulder which I could not make out. In this way we w alked for perhaps 20 minues The doctor was puffing somewhat when we finally came to a halt. I con fess that just at that minute even Sunny.side seemed a cheerful spot We had paused at the edge of a level cleared place, bordered all around with primly trimmed evergreen trees. Between them I caught a glimpse of starlight shining down on rows of white headstones and an occasional more imposing monument or towering shaft. In spite of myself. I drew my breath in sharply We were on the edge of the Casanova churchyard. i I saw now both the man who had joined the party and the implements he carried. It was Alex, armed with j two long handled spades. After the first shock of surprise. I flatter my self 1 was both cool and quiet. We went in single file between the rows of headstones, and although, when 1 found myself last, 1 had an instinctive desire to keep looking back over my shoulder. 1 found that, the first uneasi handier at burying folks than at dig ging them up." The uncanny moment came when Alex and Jamieson tossed the spades on the grass, and I confess I hid m> , lace. There was a period of stress. 1 j think, while the heavy coffin was be ! ing raised I felt that my composure 1 was going, and. Tor fear 1 would! shriek, 1 tried to think of something • ise what time Gertrude would reach Halsey—anything but the grisly reali ty that lay just beyond me on the grass. And then 1 heard a low exclamation from the detective and 1 felt the pres sure of the doct or s fingers on mv ••rm. Now. Miss limes." he said gently "Ii you will cor e over—" 1 it '.d on to him frantically, and son >w 1 etc there and looked down Tht li t of :i>e t site: 1\ J been raised and a silvei p*ute on it proved we had made no mistake. Hut the face that showed in the light of the lantern was a face 1 had in vt r seen before The man who lay before us was not Paul Armstrong! CHAPTER XXXI. Between Two fireplaces. What w ith the excitement of the dis covery. the walk home under the stars in wet shots and draggled skirts, and getting upstairs and undressed w ithout rousing Liddv. 1 was completely used up. What to do with my boots was I the greatest puzzle of all. there being no place in the house safe from Lid d'\ until 1 decided to slip upstairs the next morning and drop them into the hole the "ghost" had made in th< ' trunkroom wall. 1 went asleep as soon as 1 reached ’.his decision, and in my dreams I lived over again the events of the night. Again I saw the group around the silent figure on the grass, and again, as had happened at the gntt 1 heard Alex's voice, tense and tri umphant: "Then we’ve got them." fce said Only, in my dreams, he said it over and over until he seemed to shriek it in my ears. 1 wakened early, in spite of my fa tigue, and lay there thinking Who was Alex? 1 no longer believed that he was a gardener Who wins the man whose body we had resurrected? And where was Paul Armstrong" Prob ably living safely in some extradition less country on the fortune he had stolen. Did Louise and her mother know ol the shameful and wicked de ception? What had Thomas known and Mrs Watson? Who was Nina Carrington* This last question, it seemed to me. was answered la some way the woman had learned of the substitu tion. and had tried to use her knowl edge for blackmail. N na Carrington's own story died with her. but. however :t happened, it was dear that she had carried her knowledge to Halsey the afternoon Gertrude and 1 were look re ’or clev. s to the man 1 had shot on the east veranda. Halsey had been half crazed by what he heard; it was ev dent that Louise was marrying l'r 1 Walker to keep the shameful secret, for her mother's sake Halsey, a! wa>s reck’ess had gone at once to Hr Walker and denounced him There had been a scene, and he left on his way to the station to meet and notify Mr. Jamieson of what ne had learned ! The doctor was active mentally and ' physically. Accompanied perhaps by Riggs, who had shown himself not everscrupulous until he quarreled w ith his employer, he had gone across to the railroad embankment, and. by jumping in front of the car. had caused Halsey to swerve. The rest j of the story we knew That was my reconstructed theory of that afternoon and evening; it was almost correct—not quite There was a telegram that morning from Gertrude. llalsey conscious and improving Prob ably heme in day or so GERTRUDE. With Halsey found and improving in health, and with at last something to work on. 1 began that day. Thurs day. with fresh courage As Mr Jamieson had said, the lines were closing up. That 1 was to he caught j and almost finished in the closing was happily unknown to us all. It was late when 1 got up 1 lay in my bed. looking around the four w alls of the room, and trying to imagine be hind what one of them a secret chain t*er might lie. Certainly, in daylight. Sunnyside deserved i;s nau was a house more cheery and open, less sinister in general appearance There was not a corner apparently that was not open and a hove-board, and yet. somewhere behind its hand somely papered walls I b. ieved firmly that there lay a hidden room, with all the possibilities it would involve. 1 made a mental note to have the house measured during the day to d;s cover any discrepancy between the outer and inner walls, and 1 tried to recall again the exact wording of tht paper Jamieson had found. 'TO KB CONTINUED ■ Takes In Circuitous Routes Letter Journeys Long Distance to Reach Destination Ten Feet from the Starting Point. One of the most remarkable mail routes in the world is that in which a letter journeys in going from Beebe Plain. Vt., to Beebe Plain. Quebec. Canada. While the two offices are within ten feet of each other—are lo cated in the same room, in fact—a let ter mailed from one office to the other must make a trip of 294 miles—6? j miles in Canada and the remainder in the United States. The plain, old-fashioned store build ing which is situated on the interna tional boundary line contains both the United States and the Canadian offices. There are separate entrances to each, but both are in the same | room, have the same lobby and there are no partitions to mark the division between the domain of Uncle Sam and the possession of King Edward. “If you mail a letter from the Ver mont side addressed to the Quebec side.” says the postmaster, “it goes ; from here t8 the junction, then to New port, then to White River Junction, and back to Bennoxville, Qhebee, over the Boston and Maine. There it is transferred to the Grand Trunk and goes to a south-bound mail pouch and comes to Stanstead Junction and then back to this same building, a distance of 234 miles. "If we wish to mail a letter from the American side to Derby Line, it must go to White River Junction and then come back over the official route.” At the Half-Centurv Mark. Youth is eternal to him who believes in eternity. To me youth means anv where from eight onward I was an exceedingly old person at eight and 1 trust I violate no confidence when 1 confess a youthful exuberance now that I have bumped against the half- j way post. Fifty is a splendid time for youthful expansion; ones fancy still retains all its ingenuity while ' one s judgment is bettered by experience When sitting on the 50 milestone the vane of man s vision points southward to the past and northward to the fu ture with a minimum of oscillation Rancorous thought and splenetic ex pression give way to quieter nerves and calmer view, and the mellow light ed vista of the years that have gone soften the heart of the youth of a half century of years—John Philip Sousa in the Circle AN OLD-TIME CLOWN. J. B. Agler. (Tany Parker.) Praise* Doan's Kidney Pills. Mr. Agler is on* of the best known men in the cirrus world, having been on the road with a wagon show 53 years. When inter viewed at his tome in Winfield. Kans„ he said: “i con tracted kidney trou ble in the war. and suffered intensely for twelve years. ^ Backache w as so j" severe I could hard ly walk and my rest w as broken by distressing urinary trouble. T>or.r's Kidney Pills cored me and my cure has been permanent for five years. This is remarkable as 1 am in my ytrd rear Remember ;h° name—Roar's For sal-' by ail dealers 5 ■ cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y. A LITTLE TOO PRIMITIVE Showrr Bata Arrangement Something cf a Shack ta the Participa.-.t. August Re-morn, at a dintur m Sara toga, i r;ust>d the seaside • •» ns of New Kngland. "Rut some of them." he add l. ' are a little too primitive l remember a story about the primitive town of Rock'r R.vkford had a rough bath ing establishment. with e shower hath You stood in your bathhouse and pulled a rope and a deluge of <-v>’ wa ter descended from the celling 'Well, a lady visitor stood*one day in her bathhouse, ready for the show er S herse’.f 'out no shower follow jcs, gave the rope another tug. whoa the gruff voice of the sui-or proprietor ol the establishment sounded from aloft " ‘Stand a p'int more to r.or-east mum." it said, ‘if ye wgn: to get the *ull forts'' "And the horrifi ed lady. looking up saw- the old sailor frowning Impa tiently through a hole in the ceiling and tilting a barrel of sea water Jot the shower." SOLAR PLEXUS 5LCW. Choily Soli—May 1-aw-have past unw aw-good-night k.ss' Miss Wise—Why. certainly, voe poor, dear boy* How you must miss •our nurse when you are away from home: WASTED A FORTUNE ON SKIN TROUBLE "I began to have an itching over tn. whole body about s< v.a ><&rs ago and this sefted tn my limbs, from the knee to the toes. I went to see a groat many physicians, a matter w h’.ch cost me a fortunx*. and after 1 noticed that I did not get any relief that way . I went ?o» three years to the hosrital rut they were unable to help tne there. I usee a!! the medicines that 1 couid . ■ ■ but became worse and worse. 1 had ar inflammation wh;eh made me ..'most craxy with pain When I showed my foot to ray friends they would get really frightened. 1 did not know w hat to do 1 w-as so sick and had be come so •'ervoas that 1 positively lost all hope “I hat’ --on the advert! ment el the Cut.c..ra Remedies n proa; many times. V . could no; make up my mind to buy s iem. for 1 hrd already used sc many - dicines. Finally ! did decide to ur. - .he Cuticura R m ies and l tell ye. that 1 was nev.r s.- pleased as when ! noticed that,after hav r.g used two sets of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura Ointment and Cuticu-a P s. the on tire inflammation had gone. 1 wras completely cured. 1 should be oa'.y too glad !f p-x>p!e with similar d ease wrould come to me sr.d fid cut the truth. 1 would only recommend them to use Cuticura. Mrs Bor-.ha Sachs 1621 Second Ave . New York. N Y. Aug. 20, 1?00.” “Mrs Bertha Sachs is my sister-la law and 1 know well how she suffered and was cured by Cuticura Reme dies after many ether treatment* failed Morris Sachs. 321 C $$h St. New York. N. Y, Secretary at Peutsch-Ostrowoer Cnt.-Verein. Kemp ner Hebrew- Benevolent Society, etc." Managing a Husband. Men are like children, they want managing, although you must never let them dream that you think so. No child likes to he ordered about, no man will endure coercion. Hut man aging" it is an art so subtle, so elu sive, tha: few women understand ever the rudiments of it. Sisters mine, let us reason together, says Woman'* Life. In every human being there it a spark of the divine: it is yours to fan that spark into a Same—that is managing a titan—it is to get the very best out of him there is to have, an » not two women in ten can do it. Do not think that there is anything unworthy in managing a man to bring out the best is a high vocation. Only let ns see to tt ihat we are worthy of it. There are women who have made angels oi men. but at the cost of their own divinity. There ia room for more than one unselfish pep son in a family. A careless philosopher says a man never knows who his friends are un til he hasn't any. One genius is about all the average family can afford.