THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1918. IT m --- sssa- ' ' j l l. I i M V 4F The Abandoned Room By Wadsworth Camp. CHAPTER X-Connued.) A second Mystery Murder. "Bobby I You there" It was Katherine. Her tone made the night as frightening as the black ness of the pit. "What's the matter?" "You're there. I didn't know. Get ftp. Hartley's putting some clothes on. Hurry I The house is so dark so strange." , "Tell me what's happened." She didn't answer at first. He struck a match, lighted his candle, threw on a dressing gown, and stepped to the door. Katherine shrank against the wall, hiding her eyes from the light of his candle. He thought it odd she should wear the dress in which she had appeared at dinner iut it seemed indiffer ently fastened, and her hair was in disorder. Oraham stepped m his room. 1 "What is it?" Bobby demanded. "You wouldn't wake up, Bobby. You were so hard to wake." The idea seemed to fill her mind. SI repeated it several times. "It's nothing," Graham said. "Go back to your room, Katherine. Sire's fanciful" She lowered her hands. Her eyes were full of terror. "No. We have to go to that room as I went last night, as we .went today." Graham tried to quiet her. "We'll go to satisfy you." Her voice hardened. "I know. I was asleep. It woke me up, steal ing in across the court again." Bobby grasped her arm. "You came out and aroused up at once?' She shook her head. "I I couldn't find my 'dressing gown. This dress was by the bed. I put it on, but I couldn't seem to fasten it." . Bobby stepped back, remember ing his last thought before drifting into .the - trance-like sleep. She seemed to "know what was in his mind. 1 "But when I knocked, you were sleeping so soundly." "Too soundly, perhaps.". "Come. We're growing imagina tive," Griham said. Howells would take care of himself. He'll prob ably give us the deuce for disturb ing him, but to satisfy you, Kather ine, we'll wake him up." . "If you can," she whispered. They entered the main hall. Light came through the stair well from the lower floor. Graham walked to' the rail and glanced down. Bobby followed him. On the table by the fireplace the cards were ar ranged in neat piles. A strong draft blew cigarette smoke up to them. "Paredes," Graham said, amazed, "is still downstairs. The front doer's open. He's probably in the court." 1 "It must be very late," Bobby said. , , , ' Katherine shivered. . "Half-past two. I looked at ray watch. The same time as last night." ' With a gesture of resolution she led the way into the corridor. Bobby shrank from the damp and musty atmosphere of the narrow passage. , "Why do you come, Katherine?" he asked. "I have to know, as I had to know last night." Graham raised his hand and knocked at the door which again was locked oil the inside. The echoes chattered back to them. Graham knocked again. With a passionate revolt Katherine raised her hands, too, and pounded at the panels. Suddenly she gave up. She let her hands fall listlessly. "It's no use." , "Howells I Howells 1" Graham called. "Why don't you answer?" "When he boasted tonight," Katherine whispered, "the murderer heard him." "Suppose he's gone down to the library?" Graham said. Bobby gave Katherine the sandle. ."No. He'd have stayed. We've got to break in here. We've got to find out." Graham placed his powerful shoulder againt the door. The lock strained. Bobby added his weight. With a splintering of wood the door flew open, precipitating them across the threshold. Through the dark ness Graham sprang for the oppos ite door. "It's loced," he called, "and the key's on this side." Bobby took the candle from Katherine and forced himself to ap proach the bed. The flame flickered a little in the breeze which stole past the curtain of the open win dow. It shook across the body of Howells, fully clothed with his head on the stained pillow. His face, in tricately lined, was as peaceful as Silas Blackburn s had been. Its level smile persisted. Bobby caught his breath. "Howells" He set the candle on the bureau. "It's no use. We must look at the back of his head." "The back of his head I" Kather ine echoed. "It's illegal," Graham said. "Look!" Bobby cried. "We've got to lookl" Graham tiptoed forward. He stretched out his hand. With a mo tion of abhorrence he drew it back, Bobby watched him hypnotically, thinking: "I wanted this. I hated him. thought of it just before I went to sleep." Graham reached out again. This time he touched Howells' head. It rolled over on the pillow. "Good God!" he said. 1 They stared at the red hole near the base of the brain, at a fresh crimson splotch, straying ' beyond the edges of the darker one they had seen that afternoon. Graham turned away, his hand still outstretched, as if it had touched some poisonous thing and might retain a contamination. ' "He was prepared against it," he whispered, "expected it, yet it got him." He glanced rapidly around the room whose shadows seemed crowding about the candle to sifle it. ."Unless we're all mad," he cried, "the murderer must be' hidden in this room now. Don't you see? He's got to be, or Groom's right, and we're fighting i the dead. Go out, Katherine. Stand by that broken door, Bobby I'm going to look. , To Be Continued Tomorrow.) Takes Over Property of uountess ozechenyi 1 ' V T tU-v :Hwi AT THE THEATERS STUAkT WALKEfc has just received a letter from Lord Dunsany saying that he will arrive in New York early in Janu ary. - Th6ugh they have carried on a three years' correspondence, much of which has been published, this will be the first meeting of the Irish playwright and his American producer, who won wide gratitude throughout the United States for his presentations of "The Gods of the Mountains," "King Argimenes and the Unkown Warriors," "The Golden Doom," and other works of the great Irish dramatist. Though his uncle, Sir Horace Plunkett, saw those productions, Dunsany was un able o, for ht has been in the war since its beginning as captain of the Royal Inniskilling Fusileers. He has been wounded, and now comes to America by special permission. For the week starting this after noon, Gayety-goers will be enter tained by lean, lanky Al K. Hall (alcohol) and half-portion Bobby Barry, who are here with "Maids of America" one of the high spots of the great Columbia circuit. Flor ence Rother is the prima donna. The cast is said to-' be a good one, and the scenic section of the produc tion unusually heavy. To morrow's matinee starts at 3. With today's performance the current bill at the Orpheum closes its week's engagement. The cur tain tonight rises sharply at 8 o'clock. For tomorrow one of the stellar offerings will be "Where Things Happen." It presents a viv id glimpse of "over there" in six scenes. Another headline attraction will be "Foxy Grandma," with Mrs. Thomas Whiffen in the title role. Her distinguished stage career be gan 50 years ago. The stay of "Leave It to Jane" at the Boyd ends with two perform ances today. The week of this mer ry comedy has been one of the really successful ones of the sea son, for folks like the piece and the players immensely. On Sunday evening William Hodge comes to the Boyd in his newest comedy, "A Cure for Cur ables," the work of Earl Derr Big gers and himself. It not only tells a good story, but permits the intro duction of a great many "types," all of which add to the enjoyment of the affair. ' D. W. Griffith's supreme triumph, "Heart of the World," which has- de lighted thousands during its thirty odd performances at the Brandeis theater, will be presented for the last two times, matinees and even ing today. "A Tailor-Made Man," at which New York's gourmands of the drama sat in feastffor solid year, is at ia to be served up for local delec tation at the Brandeis for five per formances, starting tomorrow night There Will be a matinee Wednesday. Miss Romaine of Plunkett & Romaine, singers and dancers ap pearing at the Empress theater, has six changes of costumes all of them designed by herself. Wiesser & Reeser, blackface comedians in their comedy "Tan Town Follies" put over some of the late musical hits. Peasants Glad to Be Freed of Bolsheviki Rule in North Russia With the American Forces in Northern Russia, Oct. 1. (Cor respondence of the Associated Press) Russian peasants in this district are glad to be freed from bolshevik rule. "The bolsheviks promised us that we would have land and peace and plenty," one sturdy old man said to the Associated Press Correspondent, "but we soon learned what was their real theory. It was just this: "Tonight I go over and steal your cow and tomorrow night you come back and cut my throat and steal it back." The peasants here are now set tling down to what they hope will be order and tranquility after a long reign of bolshevik terror. All along the roads here one finds, in the evenings, peasants walking back to their houses with little bags of food, given them by the allies. Now and then, they are given a can of jam, a luxury even for the rich in Russia now. In one village, which the allies had not yet had time io reach with their food supplies, the correspond ent found one peasant family eating swan which they described as ex ceedingly tough. j "It was a sacred bird with us be fore," one of the peasants apolo gized, "but we have no meat and the bolsheviks killed the fish in our lake with bombs from their airplanes.'. The peasants are working will ingly under the kind treatment of British and American Russian speaking soldiers. They were very glad to build an aviation ' field, cut ting down many acres of thick tim ber, because they were told the field would be theirs for cultivation after the campaign. ' -1 The Bee is the best paper in Ne braska. Ask the person who reads it it NMi&Ml COUNTESS SZECHENYI Property of the Countess Sze chenyi, formerly Miss Gladys Van derbilt, was taken over by A. Mitch ell Palmer, alien property custodian, according to a list just made public, which contains the names of twenty-nine women. The property was taken over along with the holdings of other American women who mar ried German and Austrian subjects. Securities worth $4,000,000 and the income from a $500,000 trust estate created by her father, were taken from Countess Szechenyi. flASBWrfam FILMLAND PHOTO PlAY OFFERINGS TOR, TODAY- TACK MOWER is some young J athlete. Before joining motion e.ft.ti.A li tviftit a liviniv mm m IIV,UlVO "V . M M W II I ll'g W J professional boxer, swimmer, wrest ler, base ball player, trap shooter, foot ball player. For four years he was swimming champion of the Pacific coast Thanksgiving day at the Rialto theater broke all records .for this newest of Omaha's playhouses, the house playing to the biggest crowd since its opening last spring. Dustin Farnum and his company are at Big Bear valley making out door scenes for a new western play. Playing opposite Farnum in the piece is Claire du Brey. Twinkle, twinkle, movie star, I wonder just how old you are? When upon the screen I see Maidens well past sixty-three! What will press agents do when peace is finally declared and there are no more souvenirs and letters and regiments to write about? "Made in i America," a series of eight pictures showing the work of training the American soldier and bringing him to seacoast ready to embark for France are to be re- On the Screen Toddy NALTO MARGUERITE CLARK la OUT OP A CLEAR SKY." STRAND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS la "HI COMES lP SMILING." BRANDEIS D. W GRIFFITH'S "HEARTS OF THE WORLD." BFX MART PICKFORD la "THB EAGLE'S MATE." w Ml'SE MABEL NORMAND li "PECK S BAD OjRL." EMPRK8S ETHEL UARRTMORB In "OUR MRS. McCHESNBT." lOTHKOl' Twenty-fourth and Loth, rop CORRINE GRIFFITH Id "THB GIRL OF THE DAT." GIRL OF THE DAY.'' "HUNS AND HYPHENS" oomdy and MUTT ANli JEFF 1 1 BOULEVARD Thirty-third and Lea venworth WJLLIAM S. HART In "SELFISH YATES." MARYLAND Thirteenth and Pine HAROLD LOCKWOOD In "LEND ME YOUR NAME." ORPEIIIM South Side, Twenty-fourth and M PEARL ANDERSON in "THE GREY PARASOL." LEAH BAIRD in "WOLVES OF KULTTJR" ' NO. 1. All children will he ad mitted for war tax only today. CKAND Sixteenth and Blnney COR RINE GRIFFITH In "LOVE WATCHES." "FIGHT FOR MIL LIONS," Eptaode No. 8. leased soon, one reel a week in the form of a news service. The United States government's film "When Your Soldiers Hit" will be released in December. Texas Doubles Capacity of Oil Refineries in Year Dallas, Tex. Under the spur of war, Texas in the last year has ef fected a tremendous development of its oil industry. Today there are in operation in this state' 42 refineries, with a capacity of 278,800 barrels daily. They are capable of refining double the amount of oil produced in the Texas field last year. Fields of unsuspected volume have been opened and made to aid in keeping ships and army motors at top speed. In the coastal region, where 10 refineries are in operation, the first unit is nearly completed of a big oil plant on the Houston, ship enal. It is intended to have a ca pacity of 20,000 barrels a day and represent an investment from $8, 000,000 to $10,000,000. Big Sale of Coal Land to Wind Up Affairs of Oklahoma Indians Muskogee, Okl., Oct. 31. In the sale of approximately 445,000 acres of coal lands owned by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, which is set for December, authorities on Indian history see the final winding- up of government supervision over the 33 separate tribes of Indians still resident in Oklahoma. Practically all legislation required to this end has been enacted and the problems attendant upon, the supervision of the Five Civilized Tribes have largely resolved them selves into a matter of administra tive detail. The affairs of the Cherokee In dians have been completely wound up. Their lands have al! been al lotted and their moneys have been paid out, per capita. The Creek nation is at the present time paying out $2,000,000 as equalization money and all its lands have been allotted. The last remnants of surplus lands belonging to the Choctaws and Chickasaws and the surface of the segregated lands have been allotted for sale. The Five Civilized Tribes now have undisputed numerical superior ity over the 33 tribes left in the state. Before statehood the civil ized tribes owned 19,520,000 acres of land. There were enrolled as members of these tribes 101,519 In dians, including all degrees of blood. Of this number 75,608 were enrolled as Indians by blood and 37.180 as restricted Indians, being one-half or more Indian blood. Governor is Better. Deadwood, S. D., Nov. 29. Gov ernor Peter Norbeck, who has been confined at a local hospital for sev eral days suffering from influenza, has almost entirely recovered. Contraction of Currency in Japan is Recommended Tokio ,Nov. 22. Contraction of the currency which has been inflat ed in Japan owing to the war is recommended in many circles as one means of lowering prices, the soaring of which recently led to disturbances. Baron Takahashi, formerly min ister of finance, expresses the opin ion that currency contraction would undoubtedly lower prices but he fears such a measure would bring in its wake a serious business depres sion. He pointed out that the amount of convertible notes issued by his Bank of Japan has doubled but as money of this nature is in the pockets of workers it will be impossible to reduce its amount and any attempt to do so would prove a blow to the business pros perity which is founded on an ex pansion of credit. Thanksgiving Over, Many Good Things Yet on Market Anyone seeing the rush at the pro duce counters Wednesday might have thought that there would be absolutely nothing left on the market after the Thanksgiving feasts had been prepared. There are those who never in dulge their appetites to the degree that they are incapacitated for fur ther usefulness, and who therefore must take the basket on their arm and visit the market as usual. And for these, it will be welcome news that the miracle of the "loaves and fishes" has almost literally been repeated for one would scarcely think from the nice fresh produce that there ever was a Thanksgiving feast. There are choice wax and snap beans at 15c, California toma toes, nice and fresh, at 12c and : crjsp Florida breakfast radishes at two bunches for a dime. Head let-. tuce, fresh and green is being of-: fered at 12c and leaf lettuce at : three bunches for 10c, while celery sells at 10c per bunch. Cranberries, : 12VJc per quart and cauliflower, 12jc per pound. Potatoes have taken a considerable drop and are selling ; at 29c per peck, while sweet pota toes are still selling at the same old price. There are nice California oranges on trie market at sc ana yuc per dozen. Lemons bring from 50c to 60c and bananas, 30c to 40c per doten. Grape fruits from 7c to 15c each. Among the apples are some fine Spitzenburgs and Winesaps at $3.75 per box, while the Wagner and Grimes Golden are selling at a little less. Eggs have again broken the mar ket record and are sellLg at 75c for the strictly fresh variety and from 48c to 52c for seconds. Butter and cheese have not changed in price during the last week, but are apt to follow the lead of eggs in the near future. Of Interest to Women Tax paying women gained the municipal franchise in Norway in ' 1901. The first woman colljege president, in the world was Ada! L. Howard, of Wellesley. 1 The . National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors will . hold its annual exhibition in New York City late in February. (5 tcr- sp'' The DIET' Owing and After The Old Reliable Round Package Officials of Wymore and Liberty Replace Flu Ban Beatrice, Neb., Nov. 29. (Spec ial.) Wymore and Liberty have put the ban on the schools and pub lic meetings of all kinds because of another outbreak of the influenza. Thirty-two cases of the disease were reported Wednesday and 20 the previous day. In some instan ces entire families are ill. Flaky. J 1 Dainty Crisp. ASK, YOUR OROCER 1 "Having suffered front nervous indigestion I r j-.. 3 1 1 . . . Y. , jot several, years, i pna ajier using ur. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsiy that I am. as well as I ever was and can now eai anything without ienr nf rMitenueiw-' (Vmm o - - - j j vvrv-grifwa a wa-a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by Mrs. John K. Moore, 516 No. 27th St., Richmond, Va.), Indigestion and" constipation are condi tions closely related and the cause of much suf fering. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a mild, . pleasantly effective laxative; it quickly relieves the intestinal congestion that retards digestion and has been the standard household remedy in countless homes for many years. DR. CALDWELL'S Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 at. fc.) $1.00 ' . A TRIAL BOTTLE CAN BE OSTAIKED. FREE OP CHARGE. BY WRITINS TO DR. W. 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