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CHAPTER IX Continued.
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Hy llil.s time 1 lint) my senses fully
recovered. 1 run to the nearest win
low nnd v;ns Just In lime to see two
figures, one In white, the other India
tlnct, at the fur edge of the lawn, nul
ling. They rim Into the woods, nnd
while 1 Ktood nt the window, trying
with painful consciousness of stupidity
nnd Ineptitude to decide upon u course
of action, I heard mi automobile en
glue start in the lane hcyund the
woods.
Out of u stupor, In which I wntched
the two strange 11 pi res no from the
moonlight on the lawn Into the dork
of the oak grove, I was aroused pos
Blnly by the sound of the engine of the
automobile with u course of' ngdon
suggested.
It camn ut fenrs long entertained,
now present with a threat of Imminent
consequence. I ran for the stairs,
ilnHhlng the light, up the stairs and to
Jed's room.
His door was open. A I have said,
tills wing was not wired for electricity.
I turned my tight about the room, saw
that the fewr which had caused me to
patrol the house was realized and then
bunted for the lamp, which I found
' nnd lighted.
Jed's room was hi the disorder In
which n hard-working housebreaker,
Intent on finding Jewels he knew the
room contained, might have left It. It
seemed almost ripped to pieces.
On a table was a small pearl-Inlaid
ebony box. The lid was open ; the box
wns empty.
As 1 stood In the midst of the dis
array of the room, with the empty box
the most significant thing In It, the
marvelous unreality of Hartley house,
n smiling dread, seemed to have visible
token.
The empty hpx, I thought, hnd con
tained the manuscript which recorded
Mr. Sidney's secret. The Hash of white
which I had seen In the ball Indicated
the method by which It hnd disap
peared. The two figures crossing the
lawn In the moonlight were further
Indication. There wns the sound of
the automobile engine. I hnd u sore
spot on my head. The manuscript, I
know or believed hnd been In the
box which stood with significant emp
tiness In the midst of the disordered
room of Jed, who had been kidnaped.
If my surmises were correct, Mr. Sid
ney's secret, upon which I knew the
happiness of the family depended, wus
In the hands of men designing to make
use of It.
Jed, being n mnjor-domn about the
place, had In hlspoom u telephone con
necting with the various servants'
Quarters. I used It to arouse the chauf
feur. It took five minutes of ringing
his hell to nwnkeu him; when he re
Bponded, I told him that the house hnd
been robbed by a man and u woman
dressed In white, who had escnped,
under my sight, through Jho oak grove
nnd had used an automobile waiting
for them on the road beyond the grove.
t told him to awaken one of the gar
deners, take weapons and go as quick
ly as possible south by the best roads.
When this had been done, I called
Mrs. Sidney's maid and told her to
awaken Mrs. Sidney and tell 'her, If
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"Oh, If We Can, We Mustl" She Cried.
possible without alarming her, Hint I
wished to speak to her on an urgent
matter.
In n few minutes the maid came
back and said that Mrs. Sidney could
nee me. I found her In the sitting
room of her sulle. -
"It Is nothing serious, Mrs. Sidney,"
I said "nothing that fc need now re
gard as serious; and It 'does not con
cern Mr Sidney's health. There has
been an Intrude;' In the house. More
over, the purpose wus to ureal? Into
Jed's room, and Jed's room has been
broken Into, I got n glimpse of the
person who did It, u woman. I saw a
man and a woman run Into the oak
grove and I heard tin automobile en
gine start on the re id. I have hcnt n
chauffeur u.i'J n jrivilencr In chue. but
they are tru II' g lUiilnst so great a
Hurt bit l lifve no hope. What I
fi'in ' li.' iiey have Mr. Sidney's
diary. Do you know whore Jed kept
It?"
"No doctor." said Mrs. Sidney. "If
I here had been any chance of finding It
wo should hnve taken It away from
hlin. In his absence we hnve searched
his room frequently."
"These people uroiafter the manu
script, ami they are Mitlsficd Hint they
have It." I said. "I am sure of that.
There was a small pearl-Inlaid box,
open and empty, in the middle of the
Moor."
"We never found such n box," said
Mrs. Sidney.
"Then It might have been there?"
"It might."
"If It wns, they have It nnd we must
got it bnck."
"Oh, If we can, we must 1" she cried,
holding her bands no tightly clasped
that the delicate bones made u crack
ling noise.
I tried to be encouraging nnd consol
ing and, as if pructical mensure, gave
her a bromide.
CHAPTER X.
Hartley house had a general offlcc
where the business of the estate was
handled. It was to one side of the
main entrance.
I hud promised to he an extraordin
ary perron In meeting extraordinary
circumstances, but all I did was to go
to the office and, lighting the lights, sit
there. I wns In the extreme dejection
of a weakling when the door opened
and Isabel came In.
"What are you doing, up?" I asked.
"I'll ask the same thing of you.
What are you and the whole household
doing, awake nnd moving?" ,
I told her that housebreakers had
been surprised nt work nnd hnd es
cu'mhI. "If you have been disturbed," I sug
gested, "probably your father has, also.
You had better go to his room nnd tell
him that the servants have been flus
tered by n burglur scare, and then you
had better go to your mother's room
nnd stay with her until things quiet
down."
That seemed sound enough advice,
but when Isobel had gone I was left
wondering again what to do next. It
was out of the question to notify the
authorities. The thieves had stolen
something which, from what I knew of
It. I preferred to have In their hands
rather than In the possession of the
police.
Our detective agency I could trust,
but I did not want to communicate
with anyone but McOuIre, the superin
tendent, nnd there was no need of tele
phoning hhn until later In the morn
lng.
The case, as I thought It over, enme
to this: The Spaniard and the attor
ney, by the nld of a confederate, a
woman, had obtained possession of the
dlnry containing the secret of Hartley
house. They would soon be heard
from. They would not disappear. We
did not have to pursue them. They
would pursue us.
There was the possibility of dealing
with them by force extra-legally. Any
thing we did for our protection had to
bo done extrn-legally. I thought Mc
Gulre could and would nttend to that,
and I Intended to Instruct him to con
sider murder the only process not to
bo thought of. ,
I tried to rcconcllo my Ideas of Mr.
Sidney's character with the facts of
the family's terrible dilemma. What
could a mnn of so Just and honorable,
kindly and charming a nature us re
vealed In his old age have done, even
In a hot and pnsslonnte youth, which
ho could not face now? What crime
could he have committed which not
only constituted n dnnger to his secur
ity but remained n source of satisfac
tion to him?
For two hours I sat by the telephone,
expecting momentarily to henr from
the chauffeur who hnd goue In pursuit
of the thieves. It was about four
o'clock In the morning there was a
pale suggestion of light In the windows
when Mrs. Aldrlch, the housekeeper,
came to the ofllce. She was an Imper
turbable lndy of disciplinary hublt and
ordinarily unruflled dignity, but now
she was disturbed.
"Doctor," she said, "Agnes, the new
maid, cannot be found. She Is not In
her room. Her bed hns not been
touched. Most of her belongings and
her suitcase are gone. I came to you
with this probably unimportant do
mestic Incident, thinking that well,
the occurrence of the night might
have some connection with this girl."
"I think Agnes probably yas In
volved In the matter," I said.
"We have nlways so dreaded to take
a new servant," said Mrs. Aldrlch,
"but Agnes came recommended for the
month by n very faithful girl who
wanted a month's leave. Has anything
of great value been taken?"
"Nothing of any Intrinsic value
whatever, Mrs. Aldrlch. I Imagine the
robbers were alarmed before they
found uny Jewels or plate."
"That's a consolation, In any event,"
nld the housekeeper; "but we never
shall he able to take In a new servant
agnlii with nny wise of inltid."
The ehitun'eur telephoned ns Mrs.
AldrW'h went away. The chase In the
night had b-e(i useless, as might be
expected and I told him to return
home
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Mrs. Aldrlch brought me n light
breakfast, and one of the. Hardeners
came to say that the dogs bad been
found In the woods. They had been
fed drugged meat and were sick and
even now barely able to stand.
I was preparing to go to Mr. Sid
ney's room when the telephone rang
again. It was n call from the village
of Horwich, forty miles east, a place
of some repute, or 111 repute, for the
number nnd character of Its drinking
places and madhouses.
The man calling me said he was the.
constable of the township of Horwich
nnd asked If he werctalklng to a per
son of responsibility. I assured him
he wns. Then he told me that an auto
mobile accident hnd occurred two
miles out of Horwich nnd that the only
Identifying mnrks suggested Hartley
house as n place to make Inquiries.
He asked If I could come to Horwich.
I endenvored to question him over
the telephone, but he mild there wus
little Information he. could give, a
i Had My Bottle of Beer.
mnn and n womnn In a car man past
middle age, a young womnn In white;
the mnn was dead, the womnn badly
injured.
"I'll be cvcr as soon as possible," I
sold. 'T'iease keep the effects all to
gether." There was no doubt In my mind
that the quavering little rascal of a
lawyer with his precise way and timid
but controlling unscrupulnusness bad
come to the end of his road and at
the very moment when he had suc
cess In his hand. There wns no rea
son to doubt that the woman was the
maid Agnes whom I hnd surprised at
midnight stealing down the stairs from
Jed's room with Mr. Sidney's diary.
Kut if we were rid of the timorous,
grasping little attorney, we Were In
worse dllllcultles. With thenttorncy
and his Spanish client, we lit least
knew the manner of dealing. It was
disconcerting I might almost be for
given the exaggeration of saying It
wns horrifying to consider that the
uiary was nclng Handled ly n con
stable, n sheriff or n coroner or een
by nny Idler or resort-keeper In the
vlllago of Horwich.
If the automobile accident had dis
posed of one Ingenious enemy onl to
make a half-dozen equally unscrupu
lous ones, or to apprise (I was tempted
to think this wus worse) one Incor
ruptible officer of the condition of
Hartley house In either event, we
were the worse for the change In elr
cumstance. One of the stablemen knew bow to
drive a car, and I asked him to bring
out the uutomobllc which I used when
I went to town. The chauffeur, when
he returned, would have been up most
of the night. I did not want to Impose
on him. I might bo'gone -most of the
dny. In a half-hour we were away
toward Horwich. I never had Leen
over the road, which ran by old forms
with stone fences nnd wns little trav
eled except by the people who lived
along It.
Originally the place had a resect
able tavern. It wns called the White
Owl. It was still respectable, but odd
ly enough, It wns the success of the
Whlto Owl which had attracted the
other plnces.
I Inquired for the constable and was
told that I should likely find him nt
the Whlto Owl, he being a frequenter
of that place and now having n case
which needed n great deal of drinking
and talking over.
I went to the White Owl nnd on en
tering the barroom, which really had
an attractive rather than a disreputa
ble appearance, saw a group nt men
about a short, broad, square-sliotil-dered
fellow who was talking to the
Interest of half u dozen or more fel
lows. My entrance made no dl.vertf on. nnd
Judging, 'from what I had been told,
that the squat, talkatlvo fellow was
be const nhti- nnd that he was telling
the story I wanted to know, I decided
to remain unidentified, have a bottle
of beer from the Imrtender, who
enme liiilMirnri--tN.v from the con
stable's iuni'.lon-und thus us au
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eavesdropper get what I ainie to gel
In direct conversation.
I hnd my bottle of beer, and the Imr
tender went back to the group, domi
nated by the squat, talkative fellow.
lie was not the cnmle type of con
stable. He showed Intelligence anil
decision, but evidently be wus fond ol i
a story when he hud It to tell. He was
saying: j
"I was up late because there was a
bad set at the Half Dny. and Kill
Dal ley thought be might have trouble
with them before he got them on (belt
way. About one o'clock they had a
quarrel, without anything but talk,
divided Into two sets and went away
In two ears toward the city. Kill uml
I split u bottle of beer, and Kill said
he'd he going himself. It wns neurl.v
one-thirty then, nnd 1 thought I'd wait
up for Number Eleven at two o'clock
and see If anyone got.olT.
"Kill gave me the keys and told tn
to shut the place up. I bad another
bottle of beer iuiiI was playing soli
taire on the bar when Number Eleven
stopped.
"I went to the front door of the bar
and looked over toward the station. A
man had got off, and he was headed
toward the Half Day, which was the
only place showing n light. I waited
In the doorwuyi and when he cume
up, I snw he wns n foreigner. He bud
gold rings In bis ears.
"He made as If he wanted to coma
In. He didn't speak enough English
for me to make out what be was sny
Ing. I let him In, nnd he went up to
the bur, put down n quarter mid point
ed townrd the whisky. I gave him the
bottle, nnd he pointed to me and
smiled. So 1 said I didn't mind If I
did, and wo bad a drink together. I
thought I'd like to know whut this fel
low wnnted In town, so I didn't sug
gest It was closing time.
"Then I wus surprised to bear a car
coming along. The other fellow seemed
to be expecting It. We both went to
the door. The car stopped at the door,
and n iiian helped a womnn out. He
wns a little old shriveled fellow. She
was young nnd pretty.
"The old fellow snld something to
my foreigner, and he threw Ids arms
in the nir, wriggled all over, laughed
and fell on the old fellow and kissed
him. The old boy struggled and
kicked, but the foreigner Just picked
him right up and kissed him on both
cheeks.
"That old boy wus mud when he got
loose. 'This Is unthinkable,' he snld.
'It Is beyond expression. You human
pig! Dog of u man slobbering beast 1'
Then he stopped speaking English and
snld a lot of things the foreigner un
derstood, but It didn't make him mad.
His eyes Just sparkled. He put n dol
lar on the bur uml pointed to the
whisky again.
"'Krlng our drinks over here.' snld
the old boy, pointing to one of the
tables In n fur comer of the room.
"They snt down, nnd the two men
talked. The girl didn't seem to have
the language. The foreigner was ex
cited. The old boy kept wiping his
eyeglasses. He wasn't showing us
much nervousness us the foreigner,
but he wns pleased over something.
"I kept behind the bur, ns near
their table us I could, and pleteuded
to play solitaire and wait for their or
ders, Uvatchlng them us much us pos
sible nnd trying to make out whut
they were talking about. Jl'retty soon
they wanted another round of drinks.
When I served them the old boy wnnt
ed to know If he could telephone to
the city. He paid me the toll, and I
showed him the telephone booth and
heard him give his number. It was
River 41100.
"When he got his party, he said; 'Is
that you, Sim? Everything Is all right.
Yes, ns expected. Let him go.'
"That was all. He went back to the
table. I noticed that he kept tight
hold all the time on n leather case.
When they got to talking again, the
foreigner kept pointing toward the
case uml began to get nioro excited
As near as I could ninke out what was
happening, as they kept on talking nnd
motioning, It wus the black leather
case the foreigner wanted, and the
other mnn wouldn't let bint have It
(TO 1112 CONTINUED.)
Meredith and Lady Macbeth.
Lady Kutcher In her "Memories of
(Jeorge Meredith," recently published,
gives the world not a little new Infor
mation about the novelist which Is'
tintl. slgnltlcnnt and extremely enter
tabling. Here Is one of the passage
she quotes from her diary which shows
bis nmuzlng power to paint with
words :
"Mr. Meredith went with, fattier nnd
mc to see Irving and Mrs. Crowe (nee
Kiitcninn) In 'Macbeth.1 During sup
per he explained the acting of the
sleep-walking scene to mother, nnd,
wishing to describe the way tln-U Lady
Macbeth pushed the palms of her
hands from nose to ear, he snld; 'My
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To n person, five feet tnT standing
on the beach at seiyMo the boHon Is
about two and thice-uuui'urt !-,!'
av.ny.
THEN TRIES SUICIDE
Never-Endlng Cares, Heavy Labor,
and Lack of Sleep, Had Driven
Mother to Welcome the
Thought of Death.
Cleveland. Life had dealt hnr.-dily
with Mrs. Ktitherlue Mlkulie. Years
of hardship mid sulTeiing made her
wish to end It, uml it was to save her
daughter from u similar experience
that she threw her llve-your-old clilld
Into the water and tried to drown her
well In Lake Erie.
With a sigh and a shake of her
head, she sat on her cot. in the prison
ward ut City hospital and told the
reasons which piomplcd her act.
"Yes, my baby's gone," she said,
"Now she won't have to suffer and
struggle us I hnve. I'lense give me
something so I can go to my baby.
"I want to die. IMcu'-v let me tile."
Rhe pleaded as she pressed her bauds
to her temples. "This headache will
never go."
As If In a daze. Mrs. Mlkulie sat,
clasping her hands about her knee.-,
and sighed njtulu. Her eyes were red
from tears, and she stared long ut the
sheet.
Her hands were coarse, bruised and
swollen. Her long black hair glist
ened us If still wet from the waters of
the lake.
Although she says she' s twenty
nine. Mrs. Mlkulie seems nearer fort.
"John? He can take care of him
self bye and bye," she snld when link
ed why she hnd not taken her twelve-year-old
son with her to the lake.
"Eight years I have this headache."
she said, again pressing her bauds to
her temples. "Oh. I so want to die.
"Four years I have worked every
night, nnd every day I can't sleep.
This' headache never goes away. All
day I walk the floor until It's time to
go to work again. Never do I sleep."
"Husband No Good to Me."
"My husband? He wus no good to
me. He worked u little, uml then he
won't work again. He spent all the
money drinking."
Mrs. Mlkulie stared at the spoon
which she took from a tray of food.
"Ten yenrs ngo my husband cumo
here. He left me In Croatia with my
babies. Two years I did not hear
Threw Her Child Into the Water.
from him. Then I worked nnd saved
mid afterward I came here, too. I
had $5.
"He worked sometimes) In a butcher
shop. Hut all the time he's drinking,
uml then he lost his work.
"Four years I worked every night.
In the tiny time 1 could not sleep.
Lust winter he go sick and so did I.
did not see him when he died. Yes,
I cried u little; but be wus no good
to me."
Had Often Wished to Die. '
Continuing In Uer broken Engllhh.
he said she went bnck to work'to
pay fr her husband's funeral, but tl.d
not want to leave her huhy.
"I work'.'d Inst night, but nguln I
could not sleep and still I had this
Headache. walked the tloor. up and
down, and then I suld: '1 will die.'
"Please let me die nnd go to mj
hnbv," she sighed nguln.
Samuel White, 8100 Medina nventio
N. E., wu-i working near the foot of
East Seventy-second 'Btreet when ho
heard n womnn was In the lake.
Plunwlng in fully clothed, he swam
to where she had disappeared. He
dived and brought her to the surface.
When she regained consciousness he
cried: "Why don't you let me dlor
cM"
"My baby's In the Inke," she said,
"pleiibo let mo die, too."
White swam for some time before
ho recovered the child's body.
Mrs. Mlkulie wns taken to Mount
Rlnal hospital nnd Inter to the City
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