THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.
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MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Copyright by Geo. H. Dor in Company
WNU Service
“The chances are,” he said today,'
“that the fellow crept upon him, quiet
like, and leaped into the launch.’*
“But he was unarmed, too,’* I said
remembering the knife under our slip.
It seemed to me that Peter not only
heard that with surprising distinct
ness), but that he shot a stealthy glance
at me. *
“He had an oar,” he said, and fell
back into his customary taciturnity.
In our fore-rigging hangs our riding
light It should be white, but as in a
barst of energy this evening I scraped
a supper plate over the side, I also
scraped off the lantern. So it is red,
oar red sailing light It reminds me
of the lamp at home. I think about
light in general. What do I know
about light, anyhow? That it is a
wave, a vibration, and that only with
in a certain fixed range can it be per
ceived by my human sensorium; that,
below the infra-red, and above the
ultra-violet, are waves our human eye
cannot perceive. Then, all around us
are things to which our human senses
do not react. How far dare I extend
that? From invisible things to Invis
ible beings is not so far, I dare say.
What is reality and what is not?
Only what we can see, hear, touch
or taste? But that is absurd. Thought
is a reality; perhaps the only reality.
But can thought exist independent
of the body? The spiritists believe it
can. And undoubtedly the universe
is full of unheard sounds; all the
noises in the world go echoing around
our unhearing ears for centuries, and
then comes the radio and begins to
pick them up for us».
But the radio requires a peculiar
sort of receiving instrument, and so
with the sights and sounds beyond our
normal ken. Jane may be such an
instrument So for all I know may be
Peter Geiss, snoring in his pup tent
Even myself—
(Note; I fell asleep here, and the
entry is incomplete.)
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July 12.
Just what did Peter Gels* see last
night?
If I were asked to name, in order
of their psychic quality, the three per
sons On this boat, 1 would put Jane
first and Peter last.
He is a materialist Not for him
the interesting abstractions, the con
troversial problems of the universe.
The life of the mind, the questions of
the soul, are hidden from Mm. His
food, his tobacco, the direction of the
wind, the state of the tide, these cover
the field of his speculations and anxie
ties. And yet—Peter saw something
last night.
it was about one o’clock in the
morning, and he had wakened and
crawled out of his pup tent, with, ac
cording to him, “the feeling that we
were in for a blow. There was a cold
wind across my feet.”
So he rose, and he saw that our red
lantern was burning low, and gingerly
stepping across me, reached Into o
locker for the oil can. When he
straightened up he saw a shadowy
figure standing in the bow of the boat,
directly under the lantern.
He thought at first that It was 1,
but the next moment he had stumbled
across me as I lay supine, and the oil
can fell and went a-rolling. The noise
did not disturb the figure, and Peter
gave a long look at it before he howled
like a hyena and brought me up all
standing.
It was only then that it disappeared.
“Just blew to windward,” according to
Peter. I never saw it at all.
Peter did not go to bed again all
night, but sat huddled by the wheel,
A Queer Old Figure of Terror With
out Hope.
THIS CHATHAM RECORD, PITTSBORO. N. C.
staring forward, a queer old figure of
terror without hope. And T admit I
was not much better.
For Peter says that It was that of
a man in a dressing gown, and that
“it looked like the old gentleman.” By
which he means my Uncle Horace.
July 13.
Ellis landing.
1 We have had bad news, and are pre
paring to land and take a motor back.
Edith wires that Halliday has been
hurt. She gives no details.
July 14.
Halliday’s condition is not critical,
thank God.
i We found him (Note: in my bed
room here at the Lodge) with Edith
and Helena fussing over him, and with
his collar bone broken, the result, not
l of the attack but of his ditching the
car.
For he Is the Indirect victim of an
attack.
On the evening of the 12th he was
on his way to the station at Oakville
to meet Helena Lear and Edith, who
were in town on some mysterious fem
inine errand which detained them un-
I til the late train.
At eleven o’clock, then, he took the
, car and started off, and as he was
early took the longer route through
I the back country. The one by San
ger’s mill and the Livingstone place.
It was near the drive into Living
stones* that a man carrying a sawed
, off shotgun stopped the car and asked
for a lift into town. He was, he said,
one of Starr’s special deputies, watch
ing for the sheep-killer.
It was very dark, and he could only
see the outlines of the deputy. But
as, all along, he had come across men
similarly armed —“The fence corners
were full of them.” he says—he
thought nothing of it, and told the
fellow to jump in.
“I hadn’t seen him,” he said, “but
I got an impression of him. You
know what 1 mean. A heavy square
type, and he got into the car like that,
slowly and deliberately. I think he
had a cigar in his mouth, not lighted;
he talked like it, anyhow.”
Once in the car the man was taci
turn. Halliday spoke once or twice,
and got only a sort of grunt in reply,
and finally he began to be uneasy. He
had, he says, the feeling that the fel
low’s whole body was taut, and that
his silence was covering some sort of
stealthy motion, “or something,” he
adds, rather vaguely.
“And of course he had his gun. Ly
ing across his knees as well as I could
make out”
They had gone about a mile by that
time, and then Halliday began to smell
a queer odor.
“He was not trying to anesthetize
me,” he is certain. “He’d had it in
bis pocket, and something had gone
wrong; the cork came out, perhaps.
Anyhow, all at once it struck me that
ether was a queer thing for one of
Starr’s deputies to be carrying, and I
felt I was in for trouble.”
He took his left hand quietly from
the steering wheel, and began to fum
ble in the left hand pocket of the car,
where he had put his revolver. And
although he is confident he made no
sound, the fellow must have had ears
like a bat, for just then Halliday saw
him raise the gun, and as he ducked
forward the barrel of it hit the seat
back behind him with a sickening
thud.
But he had somehow turned the
wheel of the car, and the next mo
ment it had left the road. Halliday
made a clutch at it, but It was too
late; he saw, as the car swung, the
lights of another car ahead and com
ing toward them; then they struck a
fence, and the machine turned over.
He had been found, by the people
In the other car, unconscious in the
wreckage, and brought to the Lodge.
No sign of the other man was dis
covered.
But this story, curious and ominous
as it is, is as nothing to my sensa
tions today when I visited my small
garage, where my car is awaiting in
surance adjustment before undergoing
repairs.
The point of the matter is this:
Greenough has already been to see our
invalid, and has assured him that he
has been the victim of an ordinary
attempt at a hold-up.
So Greenough dismisses the possi
bility of any connection between Halli
day’s trouble and the unknown male
factor; in a word, my absence has
probably not altered his suspicion of
me a particle. Or had not, for within
the next half hour I propose to show
him that an absolute connection exists
between the two.
On the right-hand cushion of my
car, which during the salvaging of it
was thrown upside down into the rear,
there is marked an infinitesimal circle
in chalk, enclosing a crude triangle.
I have sent for Greenough.
Later: Truly the way of the Inno
cent is hard.
Doctor Hayward was making hfs
afternoon call on Halliday when the
detective came, and as I feel confi
dent that the doctor is In Greenough’s
confidence I was glad to spring my
little bombshell on them both like Bun
yan’s Man in an Iron Cage. “I am
j now a man of despair, and am shut
: up in it.”
Edith was on the veranda when the
detective came, and young Gordon
was with her. During our absence ho
has struck up with her an acquaint
ance of sorts, hut she dislikes him ex
tremely. She lias. Jane tells me. nick
j named him Shifty.
(CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)
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Ishka—That Veerhoff girl claims
to have mastered French.
Bibble —Idon’t beleive it.
Ishka—Nor I either. She’s studied
it three years and still when I ask
1 her she didn’t even know the French
word for “attaboy.”—The Pathfinder.
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