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PAGE TWO f The I HI Copyright by Geo. H. Doran Company WNU Service SYNOPSIS Events of the story, from June to (September, as set forth In the journal of William A. Porter, professor of Ensr -lisli literature: JUNE —The professor’s uncle. Horace Porter, died under somewhat mysteri ous circumstances at his home. Twin Hollows, which is now Professor Por ter’s property. Jane, the professor s wife, has psychic qualities. She insists Uncle Horace, then dead for a year was at his class reunion, and a snap shot she takes seems to prove her right. Cameron, a fellow professor of Porter’s and president of the Society for Psychical Research, inclines to the idea of psychic photography. Mrs. Porter shows a pronounced disinclina tion to spend the summer vacation at Twin Hollows. A letter Horace Porter had been writing at the time of his sudden death, reveals he had been in terested in spiritualism and makes mention of some implied “danger.” and of the “enormity of an idea.” A “small red lamp” is also mentioned. Mrs Porter’s reluctance to live at Twin Hol lows cannot be overcome, and. with Edith. Porter’s niece, they take uo their residence in the Lodge house of the estate. Warren Hallidav. in lov j with Edith, comes to live in a boat house near the Lodge. A reference Pro fessor Porter had once made to a cer tain cabalistic design returns to plague him. He finds in the village a super stition that there is something mys terious about the red lamp. There are mysterious happenings, and Mrs. Por ter Is sure Uncle Horace’s spirit is hov ering about them. A number of are killed in the vicinity, by some un known person. "" 5c July 5. < The sheriff has offered a thousand tirg reward for the apprehension conviction oi the sheepkiller. l jrstand Livingstone TTprivately of ferT&l another five hundred. Mr. Bethel and hfs secretary arrive tomorrow, and the house is about ready for them, In spite of the fact that Annie Cochran moves about It. unoccupied as it is. like a scared rah bit. I shall see him at once on his arrival. Halliday will finish the float today and I understand intends then to start on the sloop. He has found a way to address me. instead of the for mal “sir” of tlie first day or two, and now calls me Skipper. Today, for the first time, I have taken him fully into my confidence. 1 had been half way debating it, but the matter of the dressing gown decided it. (Note: 1 find that in the original Journal I made no note of this inci dent. The facts are as follows) : At Jane's suggestion 1 proceeded to the main house, to remove such of Uncle Horace’s clothing as remained in the closets and so on. to a trunk ! in the attic. Since the night of her experience in the pantry she had not entered the Armed with a package of moth preventive, I was oo my way when I met Halliday, and he returned with me. We worked quietly, for there is something depressing in the emptiness of such garments, and in their mute reminder that sooner or later we must all. shed the clothing that we call the tlesh. I located the dressing gown which poor old Horace was wearing when he was found, and discovered that there were bloodstains on it near the hem. “I’m going to ask you something,” 1 said to Halliday “A man dies ot heart failure, and as he falls strikes his head, so that it bleeds. He lies Uiere. from some time In the evening until seven o’clock in the morning. There wouldn’t be much blood, would there?” “Hardly any. I should say.” “And none In this location. I Im agine.” 1 showed it to him, and he looked at me curiously. “Itti afraid I don’t get It, Skipper.” he said. “You mean, he moved, after ward?” “If you want to know exactly what 1 mean, 1 believe the poor old chap was knocked down, that he got up and managed to dispose of something he had in his hand, something he didn't want seen, and that after that his heart failed.” He picked up the dressing gown and carried it to the window. “Tell me about it.” he said quietly. As neither one of us knows anything about the heart, or what occurs when Mrs. Nayber—Do you know that your dog killed my cat? Mr. Nexdore—Oh, yes, but I’ve put a muzzle on him so he can’t do it again. Mr. Henpeck—Are you the man who gave my wife a lot of impud ence? Mr. Scrapper—l reckon I am. Mr. Henpeck—Shake! You’re a hero. Lady—Aren’t you ashamed to ask for money? Dusty Rhodes—l got six months for taking it without asking.—The Pathfinder. $ Only the extremely skillful can opinion without getting cru«.ied. a fatal seizure attacks it, it is pos sible Halliday is right. That is, that feeling ill he got up, crumpled the let ter in his hand, turned out the desk light, and then fell. But that he re covered himself and managed to drag himself to his feet again, when the full force of the seizure came, and he fell once more, not to rise. “There is no real reason to belie\<e that he was not alone,” he said. “Nor even that he ‘saw something,’ as Mrs. Livingstone intimates.” But the letter I had found in the drawer interests him. He has made a copy of it, and taken it home to study. “I appeal to you to consider the enormity of the idea. Your failure to comprehend my own attitude to it, however, makes me believe that you may be tempted to go on with it In that case I shall feel it my duty, not only to go to the police but to warn society In general. “I realize fully the unpleasantness of my own situation; even, if you are consistent, its danger. But—” “But —what?” said Halliday. “ ‘But 1 shall do what I have threatened, if you go on with it.’” He glanced up at me. “It doesn’t sound like siieep killing, does it?” “No,” I was obliged to admit. “It does not.” July 6. 1 am in a fairway to go to jail it things keep on as they have been go ing! And not only for sheep-killing If we have not had a tragedy here, certainly today there is every indica tion of it. And with the fatality which has attended me for the past week or so, 1 have managed to get myself involved in it. Last night a youth named Carro way, sworn in by Starr a few days ago as deputy constable, was assigned the highroad behind our property as his beat. He was armed against the sheep-killer with a 30-30 Winchester, which was found this morning in the hedge not far from our gates. Nothing is known of his movements from nine o’clock, when he went on duty, until a few minutes after mid night, when he appeared breathless on the town slip, minus his ride, and hFj j 'yflVu ll y “Te l ide About it,” He Said Quietly. jumping into a motor launch moored at ti e float, started off into the hay. I‘etei <Jeiss, an old fisherman, was smoking his pipe on the slip at tlu» time, hut I’eter is deaf, and although Carroway shouted something the old man did not hear it. There is, how ever, an intermediate clew here, for on his way Carro way had run into the Bennett house, and told the night clerk there to awaken Greenough and get him to our float; that the sheep killer had taken a boat there and was somewhere out on the water. The deputy’s idea was probably to drive the fugitive back to the shore, and os there are, due to the marshes, hut few landing places there, he seems so far as I can make out to have figured that the unknown would be forced back to our slip. Greenough appears to have lost no time. He threw an overcoat over bis pajamas, took his revolver, and com mandeering a car in the street was on our pier before Carroway had been on the water ten minutes. And here, with that fatality which has recently pur sued me. he found me returning from the float 1 There are times when misfortune apparently picks up some hapless indi vidual as her victim and, perhaps for the good of his soul, hammers him on this side and on that until he himself begins to think he has deserved it He is guilty of something; he knows not what. 1 was a guilty man as 1 faced Greenough! And yet the scene must have had its elements of humor. I, rather shaken already with the night air, my teeth rattling, and this ghost ly figure suddenly appearing on the runway above me and turning my knees to water; a terror which only changed in quality when this ghost In structed me to put up my hands. But I knew the voice, and I man aged as debonair a manner as was possible under the circumstances. “Nothing in them hut a flash-light,” ! said. “However, If you insist —” He seemed to hesitate. Then he laughed a little, not too pleasantly, . and cyme down the runway to me. ' “Out rather late, aren’t you, Mr. I’orier?” he asked. it was m.v turn to hesitate. “I came down to pull the canoe up ■ u.!o the float.” ! syid finally. “Mrs. Porter thought the sea was rising.” “Sounds quiet enough to me,” he re- ; toned and turning "ii Ills flush, he ran THE CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBOROrN. C. it over the surface of the water, which was as still as a mill-pond, and onto the canoe, which lay bottom-up and still dripping, on the float. It is indicative of the whole situa tion, I think, that he lighted tlie flash. He was no longer lurking in the dark, waiting for the motor boat to drive the marauder ashore. That marauder, in the shape of a shivering professor of English literature, slightly unbal anced mentally, was before him. Greenough was frankly puzzled. He had, one perceives, a problem on his hands. He wanted Carroway to come in and identify ine, for without that identification he was helpless. And somewheres out on the water was Car roway, possibly with a stalled engine. He put his hands to his mouth and called: “Hi! Bob!” he yelled. “Bob.” But there was no answer, except that Halliday came running out and asked what the trouble was. Green ough was thoroughly Irritated; he lapsed into a sulky, watchful silence, and offered no objection when I shiv eringly suggested that 1 go back to my bed. I left them both there, Halli day preparing to row out and locate the launch if possible, and came back to the Lodge. This morning 1 learn that Carro way’s boat was found by Greenough who had a fast launch with a search light, at one o’clock this morning, drifting out with the tide and about two miles from land. It was empty, and no sign of young Carroway was found. As it trailed no dory, our mystery has apparently become a tragedy. And 1 am under suspicion. 1 have put that down, and sitting hack have stared at it. It is true. And suppose what I am expecting at any moment take? place, and Greenough comes into the drive, to confront me with the damnable mass of evidence he has put together, the circle enclosing the tri angle; the fact that the sheep-killing did not commence until after our ar rival at the Lodge; the night Morri son, driving his truck-load of produce, saw me 6i5 the road ; and most of all, with last night! Suppose f fell him the actual fact? That my wife has some curious power, and that in obedience to it she last night aroused me from a virtuous sleep, to tell ine she had clairvoyantly seen a man taking a boat from our float, and that I must immediately go down; that there was. she felt, some thing terribly wrong? Suppose 1 told him that, which is exactly the fact? And also that, once there, I found that Edith had left the canoe in the water, and that I had, like the careful indi vidual I am, drawn it up out of harm’s way? Will he believe that? I won der — Quite aside from my unwillingness to drag Jane into this, particularly as the possessor of a faculty which she herself only reluctantly reveals even to me, is my conviction that such a story, soberly told, would only increase Greeriougti’s suspicion of my sanity. And as if to add to the precarious*- ness of the situation, Halliday himself in all innocence has added another damning factor; gave it, indeed, to the detective last night. Yesterday it appears, in repairing rhe float, tie found a new and razor sharp knife between the top of one of the barrels and the planks which ; made the flooring. “1 didn't tell you. Skipper,” he says, j “because 1 was afraid of alarming you. And, of course, there might have been some simple explanation. Starr might have dropped it, during his car pentering.” He was first amused and then in furiated by the web which seems to be closing around me. “Os course they can’t do anything,” he says, “unless they catch you in the act.” But the unconscious humor of that statement set me laughing, and after a moment he saw it and grinned sheep ishly. “You know what I mean,” he said. “And in one way, if you can stand it, it’s not a bad thing.” Pressed for an explanation. It ap pears that he had been thinking of go ing after the reward himself, and that this matter of Carroway has decided him. “Reward or no reward,” he said, quietly, ‘Tve had a bit of training; they put me in the Intelligence in Ger many, during the occupation. And of course the way to catch a criminal is to keep him from knowing who’s after him. Then again, if he learns the police are watching you—and he may —he’s watching them, you know —It may make him a bit reckless. You uever can tell.” But he has a third reason, although he has not mentioned it. He is chivalrously determined to protect me, and through me* Edith. i Continued Next Week) 3> A RUNNING FORD! A Laurinburg man. who has one of the new Buick? that runs like a haunt, tells about an experience on highway 20 last week. Coming toward Laurinburg from Hamlet, and at a lively gait, he said he noticed one of the new Fords nosing in be hind him. He stepped on the gas but the Ford stayed right behind. Now the new Buick, he savs will do 75 miles all right and with a litHe coaxing will do 80. On a nrettv , stretch of road he got op to 75 and ) by degrees above it, abnost to the 80 notch. But that Ford was still right behind him. He decided it was time to slow down and he did. Just then the Ford passed him, and the driver was driving with one hand and smoking a pipe with the other.. And now he wonders what the Ford would i have done had his new Buick picked 1 nn to 85 or 90 or possibly an even ‘IOO miles an hour? AND WE LEARN ABOUT REDS FROM THEM ® (News and Observer, April, 19) Viewing the outrage in Gastonia yesterday morning when a band of masked men, variously estimated be tween a hundred and six hundred de- j molished the headquarters and relief \ store of the Loray Mill strickers, ; under the noses of sleeping soldiers j sent there by the State to maintain j order, two or three things stand out ; with shocking prominence. 1. The impression almost invari ably conveyed by the call for troops on the occasion of a strike, that the troops are for service in beating down the morale and the resistance of the strikers, is pointedly em phasized in the failure of troops to maintain that decent semblance of order under which this thing would have been impossible. 2. The first deliberately conceived and executed outrage of the whole strike, the first semblance of disorder that might have called for a show of organized resistance and that would not have been planned and could not have been executed except in the ; faith that the troops on duty would behave as they did behave, is charge able, not to strikers or their radical leaders, but to citizens sympathetic with the manufacturers’ anti-labor attitude. 3. Whereas opposition to the ; strikers and their demands has cen tered hysterically around the pre- 1 sence of several radical labor leaders, with much noisy condemnation of Reds and Bolshevists, the only act i that shows red was committed not by the strikers but against them. These observations lead d'irectly { to the conclusion that Adjutant i General Metts ought to determine by ] proper investigation why, with his troops on duty, this thing occurred; j that Governor Gardner, so prompt ; 1 FERTILIZER We have on hand a good stock of all grades of I Fertilizers including Nitrate of Soda. USE NITRATE OF SODA j All authorities are agreed that soda pays well when used about J cotton chopping time. Let’s make the cotton crop pay this year. The ( surest way is to use Nirate of Soda, and the place to buy it is— THE CHATHAM OIL & FERTILIZER COMPANY j PITTSBORO, N. C. I S/TWETm* ?? *IOTJ C 3 f’ Ptiiy cl iHimi. 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C. for the Red Tag-“with, an OR that counts” to go to the aid of the Gastonia authorities when they feared trouble should use the full powers of his office with equal directness and speed to run down every man who figured in this outburst of mob law; that the people of North Carolina and particularly those, who feel as the anti-strikers element of Gaston feels, ought to realize that all the | Beales and all the Pershings and all the Weisbords cannot create as much radicalism among the mill workers of North Carolina as one such out break against decency and law. HIS FIRST TIME UP (Laurinburg Exchange) A young man at Maxton last week went to work for the telephone company. The first pole he climbed his body came in contact with a “live” wire and he was electrocuted. It was a most touching and distress ing tragedy. The human mind can speculate on any number of things, | of altered circumstances, which might have made the young man’s death unnecessary. 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But it : < h » I to climb a pole and die the ground and do nothin'" ' ld '' o,l l FRANCE AND SPAIN AT rm„ A nasty quarrel has g.4 r DDS I tween France and Spain ~V o/ i Spanish oil monopoly. When c ish government took over all l r Pai h business in the state it proceeded settle with the various foreig n a firms doing business there, t? French firms insisted on an allows for goodwill which the govern™? refused to allow. Finally the Fren? government intervened and sugge? arbitration. This Spain refused a !J thereupon France resorted to renri J by levying full fees for idenS? cards on all Spanish citizens 2 France. This was a breach of a cop vention of 1862 and caused a strut protest from Spain.—The Pathfindl He Came Clean He was a big collar and cuff from Troy, N. Y., but she soon took the starch out of him. —The Path finder. The voters can’t be lured to the polls by talking to them about the duties of citizenship, but there would be a tremendous outpouring if each one got a dollar for voting. ■ This is called the richest country in the world, but you would never know it when passing around a sub scription paper for some good com. munity cause. There might not be so many tri angular love affairs if there were more square meals.
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