TH£ CHABLOTTE NEWS JUNE 20, 1911 vvi I^VI^O MYsrro^r \yELL5HA«nN0>3 // ciTiiT M ttRiAN Hooker rer''->r-‘. ‘9««. Tbe Bobbs-Mcrrill Compaay ,PT ;.R XI. j said uneasily. “He couldn’t have ca reened around there very long without fallinK into the hands of the police; I and they would certainly arrest him. r.'''iily and Impres-jThcy usually arrest everybody in sight Press. r.r.' of the i 1 t'vin^ in an li li hunu about w a\N.‘v liUo the IV i!u:',-;iui' III I i.' I hastily. Will ooino in ’■ >ir. Tabor ii I >' Sl'.. ila • I A 1 I as ini7- 'vvo you an e>f a ti^ht ■ vU'o’i'ly in • :> i* when one person has got away and they don t know quite what the trouble It?.” Mr. Tabor nodded. “Yes. they doubtless have him safe behind the 'liars by now; but I don't think that a siuiMuoriwili hurt us any. Personally, I can , .‘i iiiua'.-;.. iiiiai;ine no place where I should rath ! U' b'. ils; auil I or have him. unless it were far upon ! \ t 11, r!i or under the deep blue sea." iin'usuro ‘‘But. father dear, that is'terrible .IN 1 fool. The If they have him in .iail, he will have V. aniljtt> talk, and he will be blamed for -t ! t!'’u^s toMhar poor wrecked room and every il’.itig. He'll have to give some explan- M I to I/idv. laiion to savo himselm; and he must .* vi T'. swret-|l;now that we are the only people that , ' ' It 'U’t I would be likely to come for Sheila in I Wi’l’ov.jan automobile.'’ “Thr Italian, my dear, is not that brood of man. We may be very glad for once that he is an Italian. There is only about one thing in the world that a man of his race and class will not do—and that is, talk to the police. It is part of his faith not to. He will either invent some all-enfolding lie that tells nothing whatsoever, or else lie will not say a word." "Hut ho must have struck her with something.’’ said I^dy. ‘Suppose they should find that, father. He’d liavo to tell them to save himself.” 1 sHpr.ed my hand into my pocket. unon|‘‘I don't think the will find it." said I, ! and shov.'od the thing above the table. •(1. I !/idy shudderec’. and I quickly return- 'A . 1 owe od it to niy pocket. 1 ;'.M I'tit thi' “Just what you would expect,” said 1 ad tv'o. Wo .Mr. Tabor, “and if you had left it, I . 0 tbtn.ai'i afraid Carucci would have had f ■ have a ; :oine dilFiculty in explaining things. A . !ia'’ rvor I nmiliuospike. ii-n’t it? Poor Sheila . vi-a wero v as really very fortunate that he did 1 i-tuld not I not stab her with the sharp end. A .>n (.'It. You stab wottUl have been more in his a '1' , tit voti line—the bopst. As it is. I don t be- ’ ■' t ii. vo. the 1 olicc will ever find out any , a . i'll- ;>f ;he truth of the matter." ; - . •Well, even if they do." said 1, “It ua." a ^li.'-'r' w (Ui't dt) any great amount of harm. ' 'X .X a_. iiist I They might arrest me for speeding, : !'t d lUt' into 'but that would be about all. No one 1’. • was tbe I in his senses would be likely to accuse ■t’ li Think of;.IS of mtirder." :r l.inil. Hf’- -.My good young man." ^Ir. Tabor jf. Will > 'u j an.'=v,ered, "they absohitely must’nt ' ilrea’.n thatwe had any hand in it at all. ♦ ii’v 1 I'.it’. Tl'.f'v mjjgtti't oven b.ear of us. And I pa'd ?nJTh- vrither mttst anybody else." ; • Y'»u! i/idy ti'zhed wearily, “rm sure that .1 n.n-t oon-'ir will b«' ail right, father," she said. ! “The ch'iuffeur vMll be quiet for the isake of I’.in own character." I added. ■ Ho', as anxious to avoid any connec tion with it as we are. And as for nu\ s’r. r;i niay be stire that nothing I-all out through any indiscre- iio’i r '.'.I in p." , !-• ! r« ;i’.' >,Tr. ’ra'nrr pushed aside his finger- ;.nd I will; iif'v.i. "I understand that. Mr. Crosby . an.'! I api.reciato bow uncomfortable very t'on.-i ji v.nii-t be tor yoii to act in the dark. ; \vr - t’.'it at iv )ic>-.e n’\ 1 regret very much the ne- • V I’.'asth'i; rc^Hity for it. and ai>preciate your gen- . ; "■ akf ; ami oiofc.ii.'. r-, ;.r' bi;.-' i/.i;iy was looking at us, and I color- • ■ .’.I.. Th' )!' r(i. “I'm very much at your service, > T 'O r .1 ,\ir. Ta!;or," I said. - i , , t., L: ' - You may i>erhaps wonder what this ’ a.' i’I» a.-:et'j ;: 'lian has to do with us at all. That, i'V i* tinuiint!, at ! least. I can tell you. He was a sail- ’ >• had (lone.ltM* on one of my ships in years past, . i r I vtTv can'-1 ;-.n*l when the girls were—■" He paus- . 1 iiii for e !. 'When Lady was a little girl,you !; * 1 ‘ >a w. stand, we took quite a voyage L.iU ■’ 'i we oui'-lfor .Mrs. Tabor's health. Sheila was ■ Lady’s nurse—and a very pretty’ slip ;. -t. I suiipf>j'€! ,;f an Irish lass she was. Naturally • II; ! it 1 d ' we -ook her along, and the rest is one 1. \v‘ .' (>u • of tlu-se whimsies of tate that you can >'ly I never exi>lain. This ('arucci fell in ,H.. or tlie car;|nve with her; what attracted her was ri) have mind niore than any one of us could imag- f learly to the ine. but at any rate fhe married him. i Married him as soon as we got 1)ack sir " I rn-!to Now York. Well, after that things I .1 wio g'»t a! •rradually went wrong. The man got . •-> the li'tleia taste for drink, which is unusual— l o-ighs; and I the Lalians aren't a drunken people . 1 Ilf* h'ur of [and although I kept him on against ’• is hat there jniy captain's advice for Sheila’s sake • f w,. not pret-1 in the end I had to let him go. From jtii'ie to time, when there has been i trouble, we have taken Sheila into our 1 1t--ik at the family to give the poor woman some il'jit w»* were jn'otection, though her loyalty .makes I Mis"^ Ta-,it hard to do much for her. Carucci, ri wp smarted ■ however, resents our interference, and . i I'h* y may 1 jiretends that we force her from him. ■ M , but I He is becoming very troublesome.” j Mr. Tabor had lighted a cigar, puf- > I 'vill do?",fing it slowly throughout his story. He b 1'f) d rath- talked very easily; and I was ashamed ;: \\a'k " ; of myself for wondering whether he ' o nHtiiing. ’ ijwas telling all the truth. Perhaps my ! f'f n' 1' M, I -'-..nM- d. V ‘ ■f '2m Ii you depend upon the mail to do that import ant business you may regret the time it takes. Successful men every where are using “West ern Union Day Letters” and “Night Letters” to clip days off the fast est mail service. THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY m encounter with him had made me sus picious, but I could not forget that Doctor Reid had given Carucci m^oney. I felt uncomfortable; and with the mental discomfort, I realized that I had been through a sleepless and vio lent night, and that I was very tired. I must have shown some shadow of this sudden weariness, for Lady rose from her chair decidedly and stretched out her hand. “Now you must go back to your room and get sqptne sleep, Mr. Crosby. You can come back this evening if you like—we should have the evening pa pers by then, and we shall see how much notice has been taken of us.” “Oh, I’m all right,” I protested. “You are tired out,” said Lady, ‘I know. I’m tired myself, and I—” she stopped, flushing. Her father was looking at us with half a frown, and It was to him that I turned. “Well, then, I’m off,” said I, “but I’ll be back to help you dissect the Associated Press.” I had not thought that I could sleep during the day, or even rest, except from worry. But the strain, and per haps even more, the relief of the last twenty’-four hours, must have relaxed me more than I knew; for I did sleep soundly until late in the afternoon. When I returned to the Tabors In the evening, Mrs. Tabor was still invisible; and the others were seated about the big lamp In the living-room, busy over a bale of last editions. The floor was strewn with open sheets from which wild pictures and wilder words stared upward. “Come in and be thrilled,” was Lady's greeting. “You’re an unknown slayer and a mysterious criminal. We seem to be sufficiently notorious, but thus far we remain unidentified.” “Outrageous, the tone of these things.” growled her father. “I never realized it before. They haven’t got our names, though.” As for Doctor Reid, his mind was so concentrated upon the matter in hand that he barely looked up for a mechan ical salutation and plunged again into the abyss of journalism. "How Is Mrs. Tabor?” I said, “and Mrs. Carucci—is she badly hurt?” “Oh, mother’s perfectly well. She was tired a little after sitting up for us. and went to bed early, that’s all And Sheila is doing splendidly.” Doctor Reid came abruptly to the surface. “Fine. Fine. Very rapid recovery. Blow only”^ glanced along the bone. No fracture, no concussion Strong vitality, too. Astonishing what resistance those unhygienic people have. Soon be all over it.” “Look here,” Lady broke In, “here’s a bird’s-eye view of the tenement house, with—no, it’s an X-ray view, the walls are transparent. ‘Arrow points to room in which Mrs. Carucci was dis covered; cross marks location of blood stain; Inner room with disoreded bed; dotted line shows how the body was carried own-stairs.’ See, they’ve got little pictures of us carrying her down on each floor. And here’s the automo bile darting away with me leaning out of the window.” •‘And vignettes of Carucci and the policeman, and a fancy sketch of She ila," said I. "Like those early Italian i^aintings, where they have two or three successive scenes on one can vas.” "This is about the fullest account, too. It’s pretty nearly all here, ex cept who we are. “Carucci is in cus tody.’ Do you suppose they interview ed him?” “I doubt it.” said her father. “It was probably the tenants and the men in the street.” “Listen to this,” put in Doctor Reid, with an indignant snort. “Outrageous the flippant way this sheet takes ev erything. Send a clever young igno ramus to write up Important surgical cases. Poke fun at every thing. Listen: " ‘Antonio Carucci is a true son of Neptune bom, as his name implies, under the shadow of Vesuvius. He goes down to the sea in ships; and, like all good mariners since old Noah himself, returns with a throat parched by many day's of briny' breezes. Last night, being new landed from a long cruise. Giuseppe sought solace in flow ing flagons of Chianti, until, when he tacked through the breakers of River Street toward the beacon light which his lass kept ever burning In her wife ly window, he had almost forgotten his own name amid the rosy aromas of his national potation. Arrived at his domicil, Geronimo fell into a deep sleep, with a sinuous string of spagh etti clasped firmly in his corded hand; and as he slept, he dreamed a dream.’ Then it goes on to treat the whole af fair as a hallucination, distorting or evading all the facts. Ridiculous ac count. Rubbish. Perfect rubbish.” “At least. It can do us no harm, said Mr. Tabor, while Lady and I ex changed mirthful glances. “The more the whole affair Is belittled, the less danger ther6 is of any serious gossip or investigation. What I don’t like is this sort of thing.” He crumpled a red and black page across his knee. There Is no substance In it, but it might stir up trouble. “Last night the perpetrators of a brutal and mysterious crime escaped without a struggle. “They abducted a poor woman, a wife and mother, from her home. They left behind them destruction and a red stain upon the threshold. “ ‘How did these wretches escape WTiy were they not apprehended? ‘ ‘The answer is simple: They were rich. “ ‘A swift automobile awaited them The police were powerless to stop them as they sped away. “ ‘If a poor laboring man, crazed by sorrow, commits a crime, the utmost chinery of justice, the skill of eminent rigor of the law awaits him. He can not purchase a great machine to speed his flight. “ ‘Neither can he purchase the ma chinery of justice; the will of eminent lawyers, the shifts and delays of ap peal. He must pay the penalty. so(ro sssBss srdlu shrdlu hrdlu “ ‘But the rich man pays only his gggl aoln etaoln etaoln mfwyp cmfw myrmidons. The dastards who com mitted last night’s atrocity vanished behind a cloud of gold. “ ‘Shall we permit these things to be so? Shall we allow the wealthy to avoid those punishments which we im pose upon the poor? This means you “ ‘They deem themselves already se cure; but though they exhaust every device of plutocracy, they shall be brought to justice in the end. “ ‘We say to them, We know you and we will find you yet.’ ” “That sounds threatening,” I said “But, after all, isn’t it just as empty as th^ rest? People read that same shriek three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, and nothing much ever happens. Do you think there will actually be any extra search because By One Box of Cuticura Ointment and One Cake of Cuticura Soap, Head Perfectly Clear. “I am pleased to inform you that I have been cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Since I was a boy I have suffered with dandruff, not only from the itching: but from its di.ss.greeable appearance in a scaly form all over my head. I had to brush it off my clothes all day long. I used every kind of prep aration supposed to cure dandruff, also Boaps and shampoos, but it seemed to me that, instead of improving with these remedies, the dandruff increased, even my hair began to fall out and the result was that two months ago eczema developed on my’’ scalp. “I suffer“d bo from this that as a last resource I thought I would try Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Th^* had the most gratifying results for I had used onlv one box of Cuticura Ointment and a single cake of Cuticura Soap when 1 was ci:red, tha txjzoma and dandruff were gone and my head perfectly clear. “I can as.sure you that so long as I lire no other soap than Cuticura will be used by mo and all thoso near to me. I will also add that I v^ill ahvays use Cuticura Ointment as a dressing for the hair. I feel that y?»n should know of mr cure and if yoTi cl'^sire you may use this as a true testimonial trhich comes from a sufferer of thirty years’ standing. I will i>e happy to tdl'anv one of my ex perience in order to assist those who may Be suffering from tht' r:ame disease. J. Acevedo, CoTnn^.ir.sion Merchant, 69 Pearl St., New York, Apr. 21, 1910.” CuJIsv.ra Keniodlw afTord the mojt economical treatment f'.r !v”octio5E of the sJcIt and scalp. A cake of Cuilcura Sr»ap and a bos o* Cuticura Olntraent (.W?.) fire ortPn suCScicnt. Soicl through out ths world. Potter Drue * Chem. Corp.. Sola Props. 13.'} Coiuuli.is Ave.. Bostoa. Miss. jOST'Mailed (rec. back, .an Authority on tba Caic acd I rcBtrrt^at cf l!ic Skm Ucalp and Ualx EVERY GRATIFIED WISH 1 iwen UpKolstoreA of that?” “I’m not so sure,” Mr. Tabor answer ed. “It may not matter to the police but the paper itself is quite capable of seeking us out. Indeed, I think we are really most likely to have trouble not from the authorities, but from re porters.” “That's it,” Reid added. “You’ve put your finger on it. That’s we've got to look out for. Reporters.” “But v.hat can they do?” asked La dy. “Suppose some reporter comes here, we won’t tell him anything, and nobody else has anything to tell.” “My dear child, you haven’t the slightest idea what a newspaper inves tigation means. If they once get a hint of who we are v.e shall have a dozen men and women here, question ing everybody in sight—the neighbors, the servants—trying in every possible way to get at sonieihing which can be made to look senpavional, and printing conjectures if they can’t find facts.” “Besides,” said Doctor Reid, “the poking and prying would be just as had as the publicity. Let’s look at the case: ’Tisn't that we're trying to conceal a specific fact; we’re trying to avoid gossip, trying to avoid appearing in any v/ay unusual, trying to seem like other people. We are like other people, except—v.'ell, we mustn’t be bothered by tbe police; secondly, we mustn't get into the papers; thirdly, we mustn’t be investigated or talked about.” ‘ V.'c’re tolerably safe from the first,” said I, “if Mr. Tabor is right.” “Good. Safe from the first. Then v.'e’ll pars right cn to the next. Nov/ let's see what the i apcrs will try to do. Their whole purpose—” The tiny tinkle of a bell rippled from overhead. Reid was on his teet in a fiash and started for the door. Lad yfoilowing. I had risen, too, startled at the tense faces of the rest. Don’t you come, father dear,” she said, turning for an instant in the doorway. “It’s probably only for She ila. We’ll call if we need you.’ heard their careful footsteps on the stairs. Mr. Tabor had settled back into his chair, the paper lying on his knee, his head forward, and the musclcs of his neck rigid with listening. Somehov/ in the sharp sidelong light he looked much older than I had seen hoim: more conquerable, more marked by time and trial; and with the listless hands and deep eyes of his night's un rest went a strange look of being phy sically lighter and less virile than the formidable old man I had begun to know. And as the noiseless minutes went by I grew presumptuously sorry for him. After a little he relaxed himself with an evident effort and turned to me with his careful smile. “A family man gets very fussy, Mr. Crosby,” he said. “You learn so many things outside yourself to worry about.” “Hadn’t I better go and leave j'ou all free?” I asked. “It’s getting time, anyway.” I wish you’d stay,” he growled, “It’s getting time, anyway.” “I wish you’d stay,” lie growled, “it’s easier to wait when there are two.” I sat down again and tried to talk; but neither of us could keep any movement in the conversation. We fell into long silences, through which the weight of the silent anxiety above pressed down like a palpable thing. At last Indy’s voice called softly, and we rose. Don’t tell me anything,” I said, as I opened the front dooi', “but if I can be of any earthly use, I will.” ‘Thank you, Mr. Crosby,” he an swered, shaking my hand slowly,” I know athat.” There’s a wish in the heart of every newly married young couple^ that wish is for a home of their own. Perhaps you wish and don’t know where to have your wish / gratified. Well then, if that’s the case just come right down to the Parker- Gardner Co. store. Your every home wish will be easily and quickly gratified for this store has everything—goods, prices and terms of pay ment with which to do it. Are you intending today to have your wish gratified? Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Dining Room Suits, Furniture for the Hall, Library and Every Room in the House. 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