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j| Tfie Secret jj
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lonesome Cove:
i I By
\\ Samuel Hopkins Mams : j
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Company
The body of an iiru:nown woman pertly
handeurreA la found at Lonesome rCove.
Cheater Kent, a scientist. lnveetlsatea
Watery.
H. meet. Artlat Sedgwick, an old frl»o«.
who Is suspected of kl!Ung her and puna
to help him.
Sedgwick tails at meeting a beautiful
young woman, name unlctaown, with whom
he baa fallen In love, f .
Kent end Sedkwlek go to the Inqueet
upon the woman'a body and engage Adam
Bain af Sedgwick'a lawyer.
Sheriff Schlager and Coroner Breed aud
denly withdraw the body from publle
view. Qansett Jim. an Indian, aecusee
Sedgwick of murder.
Kent secure. an embroidered allver atae
found on top of the cliff above Loneaom.
Cove, tbe night the wonun died.
Kent believes the woman waa band
cuffed to a man who wor. the etar. H.
meets Alexander Blair, who acta in a ana
plcloua manner.
Oanaett Jim, thinking Sedgwick murder
ed the woman, triee to kill him. Kent
hears of Wilfrid Blair, Alexanders scape
grace son.
Wilfrid Blair has died suddenly, and
Coroner Breed is helping Alexander Blair
to auppraaa th. newa.
Kent and Sedgwick dlaeover an IMO pic
ture. which la like the dead woman of the
beach. Kent aplee upon Wilfrid Blair's
funeral
Kent and Setgwlck dig up Wilfrid
Blalr'a body and are oaught at work by
Sheriff Schlager end Alexander Blair.
"How did be know th
Alexander isisir.
"Because 1 had worn them when 1
gat to him for my picture," said Mar
jorie Blair quietly.
"Tbe stranger," continued Kent, "re-,
fused to give Sedgwick any explana
tion, and when he threatened to fol
low stunned him with a rock and aa-,
caped. Some distance down tbe road
tbe wayfarer encountered Simon P.
Groot, the itinerant merchant Sedg
wick afterward met him and made In
quiries, bat obtained no satisfaction.
"Sedgwick waa back in his house by
0 o'clock, and we hare a witness here
who was talking with the wearer of
the necklace at that boor. Jax, let us
have your statement"
Holding tbe copy of the confession
in his hand incase of confusion of
GRAHAM, N. C„ THURS
Ihemory, the starmaster told of hi*
rendesvoua, of the awlft lavin at
tack, of the appalling Incident of the
roanacUa, of the wild race acroaa the
heights and of tbe'flnal tragedy.
"I've thought and wondered and flg
ored day and night," be aald la con
clusion "and I can't gat at what that
rape and the handcoffa meant"
"The handcoffa moat have coat* from
that dreadful collection of Captain
Hogg's things In the big hallway at'
Hedgerow boon" said Marjorie Blair.
"Yes," aaaented Kent, "and the dim
dew to their purpose goes back again,
I fancy, to the strange mysticism of
tbe original Astraea. Tbe disordered
mind, with which we have to deal,
see ma to have been guarding against
any su£h separation as divided in
death Astraea from her Hermann."
"It was the other man that killed
Mr." said Preston Jay. "tbe man 1
beard yell when she went over. But
what became of hlmr'
"Simon P. Groot spoke of bearing
that man's scream, too," confirmed
Bain. "Have you got any clew to blm.
Professor Kent?'
"The other man was Prands Sedg
wick," declared Alexander Blair dog-
Badly.
Chester Kent shook his head.
"I've got a witness against that the
ory from your own side, Mr. Blair,"
said he. "Gannett Jim at first thought
as you do. In that belief Ho tried to
Ull Mr. Sedgwick. Now be knows bU
mistake. Isn't that so, Jim?"
"Yeh," grunted tbe half breed.
"There waa no other man," aald
Chester Kent "Don't you understsnd
Mr. Blair," he added, with significant
emphasis, "the source of that cry In
the night heard by Jax and Simon P.
Groot V
' A flash of enlightenment swept
Blair's face. "Ah-h-hl" be said In a
long drawn breath. Theu; "1 waa
wrong. I beg Mr. Sedgwick'a pardon."
Sedgwick bowed. Marjorl* Blair's
hand want out and her Angers dosed
softly on the tense band of bar father
in-law.
"No third parson had any part what
soever in the drama which Jaz has re
counted to us," pursued Kent "In
the morning the body was discovered.
Sheriff Schlager was sent for. He
found in the pocket-somethlug tliat be
trayed the connection of tbe body with
Hedgerow bouse."
"A bit of writing paper with tbe
heading still legible," said the aheriff.
"With this he accosted Ganaeft Jim.
who after a night long search had
come out on the cliff. Jim. assuming
that tbe sheriff knew all. told him of
the identity of tbe body. The aberiff
aaw a chance for money In it If Ido
you an Injuatlce. Schlager, you'll cor
rect me."
"Go right ahead. Don't mind mat
I'll take my medicine."
"Very well. Schlager adopted the
ready made theory which Mr. Jaz had
prepared for him. so to soeak. that the
6oay waa waaned ashore, ana arrang
ed, with tbe connivance of Dr. Breed,
the medical officer, to bury It aa an
unknown. For this perversion of their
doty Mr. Blair rewarded them hand
eomely. Aa I understand Jt, he dread
ed aar publicity attaching itself to
Hedgerow boase and his family.
"To avoid this. l(r. Blair waa will
lag even to let the soppoeod murderer,
whom be believed to be Sedgwick, go
naecathed of Justice. By chance I
aaw tbe body on the beecb. Not until
the Inquest, however, did I realise tbe
really startling and unique feature of
the caae. There la where you and Dr.
Breed made your fatal error, Mr.
Sheriff."
"That's right You saw the face
When we lifted thl lid, I s'poee."
"No. You' were too quick In replac
ing it"
"Then bow did you get on to tbe
thing?"
"From eeelng the face after the
tody waa returned to the courtroom."
j' CHAPTER fCX.
The Paee hi the Coffin.
*t| VOLD on a bit," interrupted
! 1 I Lawyer Bain. "I remember
II I there waa a fuas about tbe
corpee not being publicly
shown for identification. Some of us
Insisted. Tbe sheriff gave- In. Tbe
coffin lid wasn't quarter off when
Breed gave a yell and 'lu|>|ied It on
again, and they toek the Isjdy back to
hia bouse und shut themselves In with
It for half an hour before tliey took It
to the hall again. 1 rather opined that
some one hud changed bodies "
"That's what made you so cussed
curious, waa It, Aduui?" burked the
sheriff.
"There was no exchange of bodies,"
eald Keat "But there waa a change
la the body Itself."
"What kind of a change?" asked
Sedgwick.
"Has It ever occurred to you to think
that after death tbe hair grows fast?"
"I've beard it said," said Lawyer
Bala, "that it (rows faster than In
life."
"And that It grow* not only on tbe
heed, but oa tbe face as well?"
"T1» facet A woman's facer ex
claimed Sedgwick.
"No—a rnau's."
"What man?"
"The man In tbe coffin."
"Have you lost your mind, Cbet?
The body in the coffin was that of the
woman who met me at tbe entrance to
tbe Nook."
"No. It was tbe body of tbe nan
who, Arise e a In woman's clothing, met
yoo at the Nook and knocked you
down with a stone flung overhand as
not one woman In a thousand could
have thrown it That in Itaelf. ought
to have suggested tbe secret to me
long before I discovered It"
"Bat bow did you discover It?" in
quired Sedgwick In bewilderment.
IDAY, SEPrEMBER 10, 1914.
A.
"By (be cut 5n the cheek. You see.
the sheriff bad failed to foresee that
telltale beard. Tbey bad the body
taken to the bouse and did tbe beat
they could. That cut on tbe cbeek was
a rasor cut Having realised that
much, 1 had to deal thenceforth with
the mystery of a dead man maaquerad
lng aa a woman and being abetted
in tbe deception by tbe officers of tbe
law"—
"Astraea a man!" broke In Preeton
Jax, hla chin in a spasm. "No wonder
abe—be put up -such a light Who
was ber
"My son, Wilfrid Blair," said Alex
ander Blair.
"You see, Mra. Blair," said Kent
very gently, "It Isn't so bad as you
feared. There was no other woman in
the case, no disgrace, no shame. Yon
feel nothing but pity for nn unhappy,
wrecked mind, for which death was
the hsppiest refuge."
"But the man's volcq!" exclaimed
Jax. "Tbe voice of the man on tha
cliff r
"Wilfrid Blair's," ssld Kent "In tha
final moment he came to himself. At
last be resumed his voice. Up to tben
he had been In voice, manner, thought,
purpose, unconsciously playing a part"
"AstraeaT said Sedgwick and Jax In
a breath.
"Yes. It was one of those strange
and complete assumptions of person
ality which puxzle tbe alienists. Wil
frid Blair's diseased mind bad fasten
ed upon the strange history of hla an
cestress and brooded on It until be be
came convinced that her spirit was re
incarnated In himself. Undoubtedly
his striking likeness to the portrait of
Camilla Grosvenor powerfully aided
the obeeeslon."
"We thought it melancholia," aald
Alexander Blair. "Aa you say, be had
been very secretive, very silent too.
We Gannett Jim with him as a
sort of bodyguard."
"I must understand this all," said
Marjorie. "Wilfrid's body Is where?"
"In Annalaka churchyard."
"Than who—what Is burled in his
grave at Hedgerow house?"
"Nothing," aald Alexander Bliar.
"A mock funeral!" •
"My dear." said the man—he ssamsd
to have grown suddenly old under the
nna|>oken arraignment—"l could not
toll yon what I thought the truth. I
thought then that Wilfrid had encoun
tered Mr. Sedgwick and that—that
there bad been a fight. In which be
waa killed, nather than face tbe scan
dal of a murder trial, a scandal In
which tbe family name would have
been dragged through tbe mire of tbe
public prints agnln. 1 cboee tbe part of
deceit"
"But you made me believe that Mr.
Sedgwick killed Wilfrid!" aba accused.
"I believed It myself," he retorted.
"Bat what basis bad you for sus
pecting me of tbe crime?" cried Sedg
wick, turning to Marjorie Blair.
SEe flushed" to her temples. "I—l—
she murmured, "that be
might have kuowu of our acquaint
ance aud have mlxcouatrued; that be
might have gone to And you and at
tacked you aud that you killed blm.
In self defense, I mean."
"Thank you for tluit last at lesst"
said Sedgwick rather bitterly; tben,
as be saw ber wince. "Forgive me!"
he added In a low tone. "But to be
suspected by you, even though you
were misled"— He stopped, catching
Kent's frowning glunce.
"Who discovered that the burial was
a false one?" she naked ufter a pause.
"Professor Kent." said Blair. "He
and Mr. Sedgwick exhumed tbe cof
fln."
"That was the night"— Hfer eyes
questioned Sedgwick.
"That I found you at Hedgerow
house. Yes." lie said gently, -
"Whatever Wilfrid may have been."
she continued after a moment's si
lence, "he wns my husband. 1 bear
his name, nnd to leave hlrn In a name
less grnre is to dishonor bci him
alone, but myself."
"You would claim the body?" cried
Alexander Blair.
"What else Is there for us to do?"
she countered.
"Aud bring down upon us .unavoida
bly the publicity which we bave es
caped at so bitter a price?" cried the
elder Hlatr. "Have we not suffered
enough from tbe scaudul of his life
that we should lie further Involved In
the seauilal of Ills death?"
"He's right, uiiss. It vvou't do." said
tbe sheriff kindly.
Tbe tension was brokeu by a tremen
dous sigh All eyes turned to Preston
Jax, who had risen and was leaning
against the wall, his clilu Jerking gal
vanic-ally.
"Well?" said Kent
"What are you going to do with me?"
I "YouTr oil, you go back to Irene,"
said Kent, with hla Irnlf smile. "That's
, your seuteuce If Mrs. lllalr approves."
The astrologer drew a quick breatb.
Tbe light of a great relief softened Ills
bard little eyes. A startled look wid
ened tlietu as Marjorie Hlalr. her own
.trouble forgotten fur tliu uiouiwut, ruse
and went over to him, the reflection of
another's happiness shining lu her face
and making It doubly lovely. A rthff
glinted In ber outstretched hand.
"Take tbla," she said softly, "for*your
Ireue. Muy you tie very, very happy
together!"
"Wb-wh-wbufll I say? Wbut'll I
do to thank you, ma'am? I—l—l'll Jeet
tell yoa tbls: It's me for tbe straight
end narrow from now on. And If ever
you or Professor Kent or any of yon
waut an Al, special charted, extra ce
lestial star reading for self or friends,
you—you—you c-c-c-come" Ho mode
a msb for the ballwuy, and tbe dqpr
banged a period to bis emotion.
think." anld Clwwtor * r .i~*_~""«ly,
"that lesson Will last" .
As Marjorle Blair stood smiling, soft
eyed, at the door whence the overcome
•tarmaater bad disappeared, Sedgwick
started to pass. With quick and unex
pected tact, Alexander Blair drew 'the
sheriff and the lawyer aside, giving to
the young people their moment Bhe
looked up st Sedgwick with lifted eye
brows.
"Are you not going to spesk to smT"
she said sorrowfully.
"What la there to ssy, except one
thing—and that I may not say now."
"No, no!" sbe whispered. In affright
"Bnt aay you forgive me."
"You! For whutT"
"For having believed, even for an
Instant, what Father Blair ssld, that
you were the murderer."
Sedgwick smiled bravely. "That Is
sll past"
"And you'll think of ma st lesst
kindly r
"I'll think of you with every best of
my heart," he ssld passionstely.
Across her face passed the look of
fslry wlstfulness thst was sll ber own.
"No," she said, "It would be better—for
both of us—that you should forget, for
the time."
'•«, He leaned over ber:
"What shall sssuags the unforgotten
pain
And teach ths unforcetful to forest T"
be quoted very low.
"And yet,",she persisted, "It would
be easier, now that I ain going sway."
"Going away! For long?"
Sbo nodded with compressed lips.
Sedgwick turned very white.
"Ob. don't look like that!" she fsl
tered. "I can't beer It! Csn't you see
that after what bss happened I must
go? I must have time to forget
There la so much to forget! Surely
you can be psttent—snd trust" '
He drew her gase to his own, held
It for the space of a heart best snd
was gone.
e s s s • • •
Summer had waned from the coast
snd with It bad passed the keennsss
of local Interest In the strangest vic
tim of Lonesome Cove. Other subjects
of absorbing Interest supervened dur
ing the long winter, among them the
rumor that Hedgerow bouse wss to
be sold before summer.
"And young B{sir's body along with
It, I expect" remarked Elder Dennett
malevolently. "Heenis to me. If I was
a millionaire like Alexander Blair, 1
wouldn't sell my own flesh snd blood,
dead or alive."
Of Alexander Blair himself nothing
had been seen In the neighborhood
since mid-July nor of bis daugbter-ln
law. Hedgerow bouse was In charge
of Osnaett Jlin aa caretaker. Profes
sor Kent hail left about the same time
as the Blalrs, but Francis Sedgwick
had stuck to the Nook. Though his
work proNjH-red, the worker bad paled.
Wind borne on the blast of a mid-
March 'rah!, Chester Kent droooed
Continued on page 4
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