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Mr. Wlntcrst nnd Alox dlHposcil of tlic trninii with a warning, it wiib ovl-(U-nt ho luul told tin all ho know. Wo had occriHlon, within a day or two, to ho doubly IhanUful that wo had Klvon lit in bin freedom. When Mr. .Inniie mm telephoned that nlRltt wo had news for liim; ho told mo what 1 had not realized hororo that It would not lie lioHBlblti Ui llnil HalBcy at once, oven with IhlB clew. Tho earn by thin tlino, llnoo days, inli;ht ho r.entlored over the union. Hut ho wild to beep on hoping, that It wan tho best1 nowti wo had hnd. And In tho meantime, conmimed with anxli-ly an wo woro, things were hap pening nl tho Itoiiso In rapid snceoB hIoii Wo hnd ono peaeoful dny then I,ld dy look nick In tho niRht. I wont In when I henrd her KronnltiR, and found her wllh a hot-water bottlo to her fneo, and her right cheok Hwollcn un til It wan RhiBHy. "Toothaeho?" I aBked, not too Rent- ly. "You denervo It. A woman of your bro, who would rathor ro around with an oxpused nervo In lior head than have tho tooth pulled! It would hu over In a moment." "So would banRlitR," Uddy pro tested, from behind tho hot-water bot tle. I wiib bunlliiR around for cotton and laudanum. "You havo a tooth jiiBt like It your Keif. MIbh Hachol," bIio whimpered. "And I'm Hiiro Ilr. Hoylo'a been tryliiR to take It out for years." Thero wan no laudanum, and Llddy matin a torrlblo fiiHB when I proponed carbolic acid, jimt berauBO 1 had put too much on tho cotton oneo and burned lior mouth. I'm suro It novor did her any permnnent harm; indeed, the doctor said afterward that HvIiir iu liquid dlot had been a nplcndld rest for her Htomach. lint sho would havo none of tho ae.ld, and bIio kopt mo awake RroanltiR, ho at hint I got up and went to CJortrudo'B door..To my HiirprlBO It wan locked. I went around by tho hall and Into her bedroom that wny. Tho bed was turned down, and lior droBBliiRRown and nlRht-droHB lay ready In the little room next, but Gorlrudo was not thero. Sho had not undressed. I don't know what torrlblo thouRhtH came to mc in tho mlnuto 1 Btood tlioro. Through tho door I could hear liiddy grumbling, with a squeal now and then when the pain stabbed harder. Then, automatically, I got tho laudanum and went back to her. It was fully a half-hour beforo Lid dy'H groana subsided. At Intervals I went to tho door Into tho hall and looked out, but 1 saw and heard noth ing suspicious. Finally, when Uddy had dropped Into a doze, I even ven tured as far as tho head of tlw circular Htalrcase, but there floated up to mo only tho oven breathing of Winters, tho night detective, Bleeping just In side tho entry. And thon, far off, I heard tho rapping uotso that had lured l.ouiso down tho Htalrcaso that other night, two weeks before. It wan over my head, and very faint three or four short inuflled taps, a paiiHO, and then again, stealthily repeated. Tho sound of Mr. Winters' breath Iiir was comforting; with tho thought thai tlioro was help within call, some thing kept mo from waking him. I did not movo for a moment; ridiculous things liiddy had said about a ghost I nut not at nil superstitious, except, perhaps, in the mlddlo of tho night, wllh ovorythlng dark thlugs like that cam ) back to me. Almost besldo me was the clothes chuto. 1 could feel It, bnl I could seo nothing. As I Htood, I'stonlng intently, 1 hoard a Bound :iear mo. It was vague, Indollnlto. Then It ceased; thero was an uneasy movement and a grunt from tho foot of tho circular staircase, and silence ugnln I stood perfectly still, hardly daring to breathe. Then I know I had been right. Somo oac wns stealthily passing tho head of tho stalrcaso and coming toward mo In the dark. I leaned against the wall , for Htipport my knees woro giving waj. Tho steps woro closo now, nud Hiiddenly 1 tliought of Gertrude. Of course it waB Gertrude I put out ono hand in front of me, but I touched nothing. Mv voice almost refused mo. i5 k am m I a J When I Came but I managed trudo!" "Good Lord!" to gasp out, "Clor- a man ii voice ex claimed, just besldo me. And then I collnpscd. I felt myself going, felt Homo ono catch me, a horrible nausea that was nil I remembered. When l came to it was dawn. I was lying on the bed In Louise's room, with tho cherub on tho ceiling staring down at me, and there was a blanket from my own bed thrown over mo. I felt weak and dizzy, but I managed to get up and tottnr to tho door. At tho foot of tho circular stalreane Mr. Win ters was still nsleep. IIard,ly able to stand, I crept back to my room. The door Into Gertrude'B room was no lon ger locked; hho was sleeping like a tired child. And In my dressing room Uddy hugged a cold hot-water bottle and mumbled In her sleep. "There's some thliiRS you can't hold slth hand-cuffs," Hho waa muttering thickly. CHAPTER XXIX. A Scrap of Paper. For the first time In 20 years I kept my bed Hint day. Llddy was alatmed to tho point of hysteria, and Bent for Dr. Stewart Just after breakfast. Ger trude spent the morning with mo, reudlng something I forget what. I wiib too busy wltii my thought to lis ten. I hnd said nothing to tho two detectives. If Mr. .lamleson had been tlioro I Bhould have told him every thing, but I could not go to those strange men and tell them my niece hud been missing in the middle of tho night; that she had not gone to bed at all; that while I was searching for her through tho house 1 had met a stranger who, when 1 fainted, had car ried me into a room and left mo thero, to Ret better or not. as It inlRht hap pen. And there was something olse: Tho man I had met In tho darkness had been oven more startled than I, and about his voice, when ho muttered his mullled exclamation, thero was some thing vaguely familiar. All that morn ing, while Gertrude rend aloud, and Llddy watched for the doctor, I was puzzling over that voice, without re sult. Dr. Walker came up, some time juat ufter luncheon, and asked for mo. "Go down nnd see him." I instructed Gertrude. "Tell him I am out for mercy's snko don't say I'm sick. Find out what he wants, and from this time on, instruct the servants that he Is not to bo admitted. 1 loathe that mnn." Gertrude enmo back very eoon, her fnce rather Hushed. "He enmo to ask us to got out," sho said, picking up her book with a Jerk. "He says Louise Armstrong wanta lo come nere, now mat she is recover. ing" "And whnt did you say?" "1 said wo were very sorry we could not leave, but wo would bo delighted to have Louise come up here with us. llo looked daggers at inc. And he wanted to kuow If wo would recom mend Kliza as a cook. Ho has brought a patient, n mnn, out from town, and Is Increasing his establishment that's tho way he put It." "I wish him joy of ICllza." I said tartly. "Hid ho ask for llalsey?" "Yes. I told him that we woro on tho track last night, nnd that It was only a queetlnn of time. Ho said ho was glad, although ho didn't appear to be, but lie said not to be too san guine." "Ho you know what I believe?" I asked. "I believe, as firmly as I be lieve anything, that Dr. Walker knows something about llalsey, nnd that ho could put his finger on him, if ho wanted to" To It Wac Dawn. There v. ere several things that day that bewildered me. About three o'clock Mr. .lamleson telephoned from tho Casanova station and Warner went down to meet him. I got up and dressed hastily, and tho detective was bhown up to my sitting room. "No news?" 1 asked, as he entered He tried to look encouraging, without success. "It won't bo long now, Miss limes," ho said. "I have come out hero on u peculiar errand, which I will toll you nbout later. First, I want to ask some questions. Did any one como out hero yesterday to repair the telephone, and examine the wires on the roof?" "Yes," I fcaid promptly; "but it wns not the telephone. Wo said the wiring i might havo caused the tiro at tlie stable. I went up with him myself, I but he only looked uround." Mr. .lamleson ainlied. "Good for you!" he applauded. "Don't allow any ono In the house that you don't trust, and don't trust anybody. All are not electricians who wear rubber gloves." He refused to explain further, but he got n slip of paper out of his pocket-book and opened It carefully. "LislDU." he said. "You heard this before and scoffed. In tho light of re cent developments I want you to read it again, ioii are a clover woman, Miss Inues. Just as surely as I sit here, thero Is something In this house that Is wanted very anxiously by n number of people The lines are clos ing up, Miss Innes." Tho paper was the one he had found among Arnold Armstrong's effects, and I recall It again: by nltorliiK thu plans for rnoniM, may be po.snlhte. The host way, In in) opinion, would be to tho plan for In ono of the rooms chim ney. "I think 1 understand," 1 said slowly. "Some one is searching for tho secret room, and the Invaders " "And the holes in the plaster " "Have been In tho progress of his" "Or her Investigations." "I lor?" 1 asked. "Miss Innes," the detective said, getting up, "I believe that somewhere In the walls of this house is hidden some of tho money, at least, from tho Traders' bank. I believe, Just as sure ly, that young Walker brought home from California tho knowledgo of something of tho sort, and, falling In his effort to reinstall Mrs. Armstrong and her daughter hero, he, or a con federate, haH tried to break Into tho house. On two occasions I think ho succeeded." "On three, at least," I corrected. And then I told him about the night before. "I havo been thinking hard," 1 concluded, "nnd 1 do not believe the man at the head of the circular stalr caso was Dr. Walker. 1 don't think ho could havo got In, and the voice was not his." Mr. .lamleson got up and paced the floor, his hands behind him. "Thero Is something olse that puz zles mo," ho said, stepping beforo me. "Who and what Ib the woman Nina Carrlngton? If It was sho who camo bore as Mattio Ullss, what did sho toll llalsey that sent him racing to Dr. Walker's, and then to Miss Arm strong? If wo could find that woman we would havo tho whole thing." "Mr. Jamleson, did you over think that Paul Armstrong might not have died a natural death?" "That Is tho thing wo aro going to try to ilnd out," ho replied. And then Gertrude enmo In, announcing a man below to seo Mr. .lamleson. "I want you present at this Inter view, Miss Innes," ho said. May HIbbs como up? Ho lias left Dr. Walker and ho has something ho wants to tell us." fH I llPllSftrWfT HIggs came into tho room dlflldent ly, but Mr. Jamleson put hltn at his ease. He kept a careful eyo on me, however, and bIIiI Into a chair by the door when he was linked to sit down. "Now, ltlggs," began Mr. .lamleson kindly. "You nre to say what you have to say before thin lady." "You promised you'd keep It quiet, Mr Jamleson." HIggs plainly did not tiust me There was nothing friendly In the glance ho turned on me "Yes, yes. You will be protected. Hut, llrst of all, did you bring what you promised?" HIggs produced n roll of papers from under his coat, and bunded them over. Mr. Jamleson examined them with lively satisfaction, nnd passed them to ino. "The blue-prints of Sun nyslde." he said. "What did I tell you? Now, HIggs, wo aro ready." "I'd never have come to you. Mr. Jamleson," he began, "If It hadn't been for Miss Armstrong. When Mr. In nes wns spirited away, like, und Miss Louise got sick becaiibe of It, 1 thought things had gone far enough. I'd done some things for the doctor before that wouldn't just bear looking Into, but I turned a bit squeamish." "Did you help with that?" I asked, leaning forward. "No, inii'm. I didn't ev.cn know of It until the next day, when It came out in tho Casanova Weekly Ledger. Hut I know who did It, all right. I'd better start at the beginning. "When Dr. Walker wont away to California with the Armstrong family, there was talk In the town that when he came back he would be married to Miss Armstrong, and wo all expected It. First tiling 1 knew, I got a letter from him in the west. He seemed to be excited, and ho said Miss Arm strong had taken a sudden notion to go homo and he sent me some money. I was to watch for her. to see If she went to Sunnyslde and wherever she was, not to lose sight of her until he got home. 1 traced her to the lodge, and 1 guess I scared you on the drive ono night, Miss Innes." "And Hosle!" I ejaculated. HIggs grinned sheepishly. "1 only wanted to make sure Mlsa Louise was there Hosle started to run, and I tried to stop her and tell her some sort of a story to account for my being there Hut she wouldn't wait." "And the bioken china in the basket?" "Well, broken china's death to rub ber tires," ho said. "I hadn't any complaint ngalnst you people here, and tho Dragon Fly was a good car." So Hosle's highwayman was ex plained. "Well, I telegraphed the doctor where Miss Louise was and I kept nn eye on her. Just a day or so before they came home with the body I got another letter, telling mo to watch for a woman who had been pitted with smallpox. Her name was Car rlngton, and the doctor mado things pretty strong. If I found any such woman loatlng around, I was not to loso sight of her for a mlnuto until tho doctor got back. "Well, I would havo had my hands full, but the other woman didn't show up for n good while, and when sho did the doctor waB home" "HIggs," I nsked suddenly, "did you gel Into this house a day or two after I took It, at night?" "I did not, Miss Innes. I have never been In tho house before Well, the Carrlngton woman didn't show up tin til the night Mr. Halsey disappeared Sho camo to tho office late, and the doctor was out. She waited around, walking tho floor and working herscll Into a passion. When the doctor didn't come back, sho was In an awful way. She wanted me to hunt him, and when he didn't appear, sho called htm names; said ho couldn't fool her. Thero was murder being done, and she would see him swing for It. (TO 11H CONTINUUM.) Dresden China. Judging by your recent note, writes a correspondent, It seems that tho geographical knowledge possessed by girl typists Is about on a level with that possessed by tho damsels who represent the postmaster genornl be hind the counters of our suburbnn post ofllces. Having occnBlon recently to telegraph funds to a town In Ger many, It became necessary for the clerk to consult the post olflco guide. After a long and fruitless search 1 ventured to suggest that bIio waa not likely to llnd the town I wanted In the section devoted to the celestial em pire, whero bIio was looking. "Not under China" sho retorted supercili ously. "You said Dresden, dldn'l you?" The Consoling Volume. Thero was a backward student at Halllol who, for failure to pass an ex amination In Greek, was "sent down." Ills mother wont to soo the master, Dr. Jowett, and explained to him what an excellent lad hor son wns. "It Is a hard experience for him, this did grace," naid tho old lady; "but ho will havo the consolation of religion, nnd thero is always ono book to which he can turn." Jowett eyed her lor a mo ment nnd then answered: 'Yes, ma dam; tho Greek grammar. Gout' niornlug " itSTERJMlRCE Unknown Who Has Become tho Republic's Star. Brland, Now Prime MlnlBter, Is Only Forty-olx, and Was Not Even a Conrjressman 10 Years Ago Considered a Genius. Paris. Hrland is forty-six ycara old. Ho is prime mlul3ter and muster of Die French rcjmullc. He was no body, not even congressman, ten years ago. Also, ho is a genius, in tho sense of a Pitt, Jefferson or Uobesplerro; and geniuses aro rare. However they differ, they havo an instinct for greatness. Hrland will bo French president If ho wishes. 1 say "If ho wishes," because he is not only a genius, but a strange one At thlrty-ilvo he was an outsider and, worso, seemingly a failure, even as a lawyer. Suddenly he willed; and all camo easy to him. Only genius could havo led the ease- loving, hall-follow cafe charmer, half eases, In ten years to dizzy power as the great man of France The public Is still astounted. Perhaps Urland re mains a trifle surprised. And perhaps not. He remnlnsxU bundlo of contradictions. Franco wonders at his erudition. As cabinet minister, successively, of public In struction, beaux-arts, cultes, justice and interior, he appeared a laborious specialist of each. In the separation ho hold tho record of all time for brilliant readiness In the tribune, master of a thousand technicalities. Yet no one has ever seen him open a book or take a note Ho still loves his onse In his cafe. You cannot be with him five minutes without feeling the amusing, easy going companion, bubbling with tho joy of life; yet back of it, even his old cronies feel a negligent force that Briand, Master of France. ecares them. No one can be moro familiar than Hrland; but no ono get-i familiar with him, nowadays, without Invitation. Horn In tho dull Hreton port of St. Nnzalro, ho conquered a degreo of law. Would ho havo boon content to plead party-wall cases, marry an $8,000 dot, play the violin, sing ndmlr ably, beat them all at billiards, and talk politics at the Cafo du Com merce? When doos he prepare thoso speeches that charm, equally, in cold print? They aro all Impromptu. When ho lets himself go everyone listens. Every llBtenor feels tho pres ence or a mighty Intellect, perhaps, a great heart. Yet .every foreigner, at first, wonders how ho camo to bo prime minister. lie Is so negligently gay, almost bohomlan. And yot nnd yet. with all thoso easy ways, ono feels n gossamer wob between him self and tho strange, worn young man. What will ho do? Nobody knows. What does ho do? Ho steps through cruel dinicultles without effort, non chalant, clgnretto on lip, tho young prime minister. Othor prime minis ters, gray-headed or bald, grow up, slowly, to the porllous position. 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