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Treasurer. and P Streets. 121 so 13th b 0OMO 0000000000000000 0O00O MO 00 0 0frO 1807 for New York E on hand and Strictly fresh 1120 O Street. : : mdJomme CREAM C I : JflEBEiii nAD just gradu ated as a student, from the Long Is land medical col lege, in Brooklyn, and as I needed some recreation af ter my long course of study in that institution,! deter mined to take a trip across the Western plains, my ul timate destination being San Fran cisco. ' To a bosom friend, Geoffrey Dennin, a young lawyer I describad the Dros pective pleasure of such a trip, and he at length consented to become my traveling companion. About three weeks later, after var ious unimportant expariences, Dannin and I found ourselves in a small min ing town which I shall call Lathrop, about 130 miles west of Denver. We had just registered at the chief "hotel" of which the placa boasted a rude two-story frama structure, and were at once keenly eyed by the loungers and guests, who evidently considered us very stupid specimens of the "tenderfoot" variety. The most important servant of the house was a stalwart, full-bearded man of thirty-five, whose garb de noted him to be a miner, and whom everybody addressed as "Ike." It was just dark when we signified our intention to visit the apartment assigned to us, and Ike was deputed to escort us thither. Ascending a dark flight of stairs, he led us into a passage, at the end of which was our room, a medium sized, carpetless apartment, contain ing two small cots, a couple of dilapidated chairs,- a wash-stand and a) little round table, upon which he placed the candle, sayinir to me. in a low, mysterious tone, his impudent manner changed suddenly to one of a certain respect: "We looked for you two days ago, doctor you and your friend here and had begun to get pretty skeery when we found you didn't show up. Everything's all right, so far: there's no suspicion. "You've got what you need in them things there" pointing to our valises "and you'll not set to work till the house's all quiet, for walls have ears. Fete'll close up to night extra early in order to give you more time to do the job. You'll find it there," he concluded, indicating with a jerk of his thumb a side door in the room, and at the same time backing suddenly" to the entrance with an expression of fear in his ugly face, while his owlish eyes kept con stantly winking. Utterly amazed, I tried to spaak, tried to find voice to ask him what he was driving at. Indeed, Dennin's tongue seemed tied too. and the fel low had already backed out of the room, and shut the door quickly, and ;ve heard him go bounding down the dark stairs as if a ghost was after him, before either of us could open our mouths toarticulate a sound. "Well," said I, finally, turning to Dcnnin, who appeared to be coming out of a stupor, "What do you make out of this experience?' ' "I make out of it," he replied, with an effort, "that we are in for somo strange adventure. hat did he mean by it? 'Setting to work' 'do ing the job to saj- nothing of what else he said. " "Evidently w " "id that out by opening that side door which he in dicated. And he called me doctor. All this looks like a real mystery. (Dennin. Shall we follow it up?" "I'm with vou." said Danuin. start- ting toward the side door. I caught him by the arm. "Go slow, my boy. Remember his warning about walls having cars and ; not going to work till tha house was i quiet. Let's wait and ask no ques tions, lest- we betray oursalvcs. The more I think of it tha more I am con vinced that Tie lias in soma unaccount able way mistaken u? for other pao plc. Who? What sort.' Of course I cannot conjecture. But certain it is, we are not supposed to be here for any gno J purp se. Didn't you notice how fiightenid he lojkad whan he spoke of it?" "Yes," said Dannin, "and that leads me to belicva we arc on the point of making some imp3rtant discovery I cannot imagina what but which will bring that villain, and perhaps the landlord himself, into trouble." Having delivered himself of this sage conclusion, Dennin washed him self, and after I had dona likewise we went below to see about supper. Ike was not visible, and tha land lord, who was waiting on some new customers, directed us to the dining room, slyly handing me, as he did so, something wrapped in paper, which felt like a key. On sitting down to supper I opened I fife A MURDERED WOMAX. the paper, and, sure enough, I found it contained a door key, while on the paper were scrawled several lines, which I made out to read as follows; "This Key fits the Dore between the rooms don't kum to the Bar agin to-nite, and luk out for people in Room on t'other side of Partition you will find Bags in Closet in Room." After supper we went directly to our room, taking with us a large lamp r-hich had been lighted for our use. It was then eleven o'clock. Through the partition on the right, opposite the door opening into the other room, we heard voices, and listened. It was some miners, judg ing by their talk, discussing business matters. Soon after wa heard them go out; the house became as .still as death. Then, with a .strange feeling creep ing over me, I bade Dennin take up the lamp, and, going on tiptoe to the side door, I unlocked it very care fully, so as not to make the slightest noise, and slowly opened it. We entered. There was no carpet on the floor, and no furniture save a long deal table in the middle of the room. To the right, in tha farther corner was a cot, with a blanket thrown over it; to the left a closet. "Well," I was on the point of say ing, "I see no mystery in this," when Dennin, who was between me and the farther corner, holding the lamp suddenly started back and clutched my arm. "Heavens, .Toe!" he said in a hoarse whisper, "there's something covered up on the cot!" The hand with which he held the lamp shook so that, fe aring he would drop It, I took it from him,: and, in breathless suspense, we went on tip toe to the cot. Yes; there was certainly something nnder the blanket Something that looked li ke the top of a human head peeped out. I pulled down the blanket a little, and a ghastly face, framed by long, brown hair, stared up at us with glassy eyes. Horrified, I recoiled and set the lamp upon the table, while Dennin staggered back against the wall, mur muring: "For God's sake, Joe, what does this mean?"