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THE CONCORD TIMES. AWl 5 5" John B. Shsrrii,v Editor and Publlhfr, PUBLI8HCP TWIOC JK WCCK. " 0JuCO A Ym, Dv It jj Like OC j Volume XXXIV.' CONCORD, N. 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1907. .: NoETi L j jjc-aaj--- : - I The Bank That Takes Care Of Its Customers Patrons of a Bank like to feel that every reasonable request for accommodation will be met. We always meet every le gitimate demand upon us. : Vulcan Plows Vulcan Plows Wt II onslructed of iisst material ; Nicely Finished. Modeled to run steady and do first-class work with least possible draft. liiulslide, Standard and Point are Interlocked; pre vents straining out of shape. - MoMFioard is rib strengthened, reducing mold break age to the minimum. . - Siiin Piece, Full Called, Always Sharp, Very Dura ble. ' l'oint is of Charcoal Iron, has Patented Extension, Long Snoot Chill, Wide Edge Chill; and Face Chill. It is the -Strongest, Best Wearing Most Economical Chilled Point made. 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"Tat Bmm la tW MM," Th Amukjm Etc Copyright, 1906, The Bobba-Merrill Co. Synopsis of Preceding Chapters. Chapter I Anions? the nienti at a aoci- ety ball in New York are M las Rita Van Arsaale, who has studied nursing and who tells the -.tory; her lover, Anson Du- raua ; Airs, r airbrother. who wears a magnificent diamond and a distinguished Encl Uhmaa. Darand. who is a dealer in gems, is interested in the diamond. Rita sees the vision of a man reflected in a snpper-room window. Mrs. Fairbrother Is found stabbed to death in an alcove. lhe diamond is missing. ChaDter II The diamond in fonnd'ln n pair of Mrs. Fairbrother's gloves placed id I Rita's hand-bag by Durand. CHAPTER III. ITFI benumbed senses and a dis mayed heart, I stared at the fallen jewel as at some hateful thing menacing both my life and honor. "I have had nothing to do with it,' I vehemently declared. ".did not put the gloves In my bag, nor did I know the diamond was in them. I fainted at the first alarm and" "There, there, I know!" interposed the Inspector kindly. "I do not doubt you in the least; not when there Is a man to doubt Miss Van Arsdale, you had better let your uncle take you home. I will see that the hall is clear ed for you. Tomorrow I may wish to talk to you again, but I will spare you all further Importunity tonight." I shook my head. It would require more courage to leave at that moment than to stay. Meeting the inspector's eye firmly, I quietly declared: 'If Mr. Durand's good name is to suffer in any way, I will not forsake him. I have confidence In his integ rity. If you have not It was not hia hand, but one much more guilty, which dropped this jewel Into the bag." "So, so! Do not be too sure of that, little woman. You had better take your lesson at once. It will be easier for you, and more wholesome for him Here he picked up the jewel. "Well thor nnlrl 1r wna n wnnddrt" he exclaimed, ,ln his sudden admlra tlon. "I am not surprised, now that I have seen a great gem, at the .famous stories I have read of men risking life and honor for their possession. If only no blood had been shed!" "Uncle, uncle!" I walled aloud In my agony. It was all my Hps could utter, but to uncle it was enough. Speaking for the first time, be asked to have a pas sage made for us, and when the in spector moved forward to comply, he threw his arm about me, and was en deavorlng to find fitting words with which to fllr up the delay, when a short altercation was heard from the door way, and Mr. Durand came rushing In, followed Immediately by the in spector. His first look was not at myself, but at the bag, which still hung from my arm. As I noted this action" my whole inner self seemd to collapse, dragging my happiness down with it But my countenance remained unchanged, too much so, it seems: for when his eye finally rose to my face, he found there what made him recoil and turn with something like fierceness on his com panion. "You have been talking to hr," h vehemently protested. "Perhaps you have gone further than that What has happened here? I think I ought to know. She is so guileless, Inspector Dalzell; so perfectly free from all con nection with this crime. Why have you shut her up nere, ana piiea ner With questions, and made her look at me with such an expression, when all you have against me is just what yoa have against some half dozen others that I was weak enough, or unfortu nate enough, to spend a few minutes with that unhappy woman in the al cove before she died?" 'It might be well if Miss Van Ars dale herself would answer you," was the Inspector's quiet retort "What you have said may constitute all that we hare against you. but It Is not all we have against her." I gasped, not so much at this seeming accusation, the motive of which I be lieved myself to understand, but at is the same good, old-fash- ioned medicin e that has saved the lives of little children for the past 60 years. It is a med iciue made to cure. It has never been known to law. If your ciiild is sick get a bottle of FREY'S VERMIFUGE I FINE TOKIC FG& CHILDREN Do not take a substitute. If f our druRgrist docs not keep t, send twenty-five cents in . stamps to - 2. tb S, Baltimore, 51l. and a bottle will be mailed yon. Elegant Residence Lot. For sale the Black lot on North Union street. Size 98x300 feet. Most desira ble vacant residence lot in Concord. The terin9 will bemade easy. ' Su1e; Aug. 20 JNO K. PATTEKSON&CU the burning bluab with which received by Mr. Durand. "What do you mean?" h demanded. with certain odd breaks la his vole, i "What can jou have agalnat her?" A triviality," returned th inspector. with a look in my direction that was, I felt, not to be mistaken. "I do not call it a triviality." I burst oat. "It seems that Mrs. Fairbrother,' for all ber elaborate toilet, was found without glove on ber arms. As aba certainly wore them on entering the alcove, the police have naturally been looking for them. And where do yon think they have found them? Not In the alcove with ber, not In the posses slon of the man who undoubtedly car ried them away with blm, buf "I know, I know," Mr. Darand hoarsely put In. "You need not say any more. Oh, my poor Rita I What have I brought upon you by my -weak ness?" "Weakness!" lie started. I started. My yolce was totally unrecognizable. I should give It another name," I added coldly. For . a moment be seemed to lose heart, then he lifted his head again and looked as handsome as when he plead' ed for my hand in the little conserva tory. " You have that right," said he. "Be sides, weakness at such a time and under such an exigency Is little short of wrong. It jvas unmanly in me to endeavor to secrete these gloves, more than unmanly for me Js choose for their hiding place the recesses of an article belonging exclusively to your self. : I acknowledge it, Rita, and shall meet only my Just punishment If you deny me in the future both your sym pathy and regard. But you must let me assure you and these gentlemen also, one of whom can make it very unpleas ant for me, that consideration for you, much more than any miserable anxiety about myself, lay at the bottom of what must strike you all as an act of unpardonable cowardice. From the moment I learned of this woman's murder in the alcove, where I had visited her, I realized that every one who had been seen to approach her within a half hour of her death would be subjected to a more or less rigid investigation, and I feared if her gloves were found in" my possession some special attention might be direct ed my way which would cause you un merited distress. So, yielding to an impulse which I now recognize as a most unwise as well as unworthy one, I took advantage of the bustle about tu and of the Insensibility into which you had fallen to tuck these . miserable gloves Into the bag I saw lying on the floor at your side. I do not ask your pardon. My whole future life shall be devoted to winning that I simply wish to state a fact" ( Very good!" It was the inspector who spoke; I could not have uttered, a word to save my life. "Perhaps you will now feel that you owe it to this young lady to add how you came to have these gloves in your possession." Mrs. Fairbrother handed them to me." 1 Handed them to you?" Yes, I hardly know why myself. She asked me to take care of them for her. I know that this must strike ypu as a very peculiar statement, it was my realization of the unfavorable ef fect it could not fall to produce upon those who heard it which made me dread any Interrogation on the sub ject But I assure you it "was as I say. She put the gloves into my hand while I was talking to her, saying they Incommoded her." "And you?" - "Well, I held them for a few min utes, then I put them in my pocket but quite automatically and without thinking very much about it She was a woman accustomed to have her own way. People seldom questioned It," I judge." Here the tension about my throat re laxed, and I opened my Hps to speak. But the inspector, with a glance of some authority, forestalled me. "Were the gloves open or rolled up when she offered them to you?" "They were rolled up." "Did you see her take them off I" "Assuredly." "And roll them up?" "Certainly." ". "After which she passed them over to you?" Not Immediately. She let them lie In her lap for awhile." "While you talked?" . - Mr. Durand bowed. "And looked at the diamond?" Mr. Durand bowed for the second time. "Had you ever seen so fine a diamond before?" "No." "Yet you deal in precious stones?" "That Is my business." "And are regarded aa a judge of them?" . "I have that reputation." "Mr. Durand, would you know thia JBiamond If you saw it?" "I cettainly should." "The setting was an uncommon, one, I hear." "Quite an unusual one." I The Inspector opened hia hand. "Is this the article." ' "Good God 1 Where" "Don't you know?" - T "I do not" The Inspector eyed him gravely. , "Then I have a bit of news for yon. It was hidden in the gloves you took from Mrs. Fairbrother. Miss Van Ars dale was present at their unrolling.' Do we live, move, breathe at certain moments? It hardly seems ao. I know that I was conscious of but one sense. that of seeing, and of bnt one faculty, that of judgment Would he flinch. break down, betray gullf or simply show astonishment? I chose to be lieve it was the latter feeling only which Informed his slowly whitening and disturbed features. Certainly It all hie wonla expreMea. u Lis glanc flew frota the atone to the glove and back, again to the 1 aspect ox's face. 1 cannot believe It I cannot be lieve It" And hia band flew wildly to hie forehead. "let it is the truth, Mr. Durand, and os yoa bare now to face. Uow'wUl yoa do thie? By any further explana tions, or by what yoa may conaider discreet silence? "I have nothing to explain the facta are as I hare atated." The lnapeclor regarded him with an earnestness which made my heart alnk, "Yon can fix the time of this visit I hope; tell na, I mean, just when yoa left the alcove. Yoa must hare seen some one who can speak for yon." -I fear not" Why did he look so disturbed and nncertaln? "There were but few peraons-ln tbe hall Just then," he went on to explain. "No one was sitting on tbe yellow divan." "You know where you went though? Whom yoa saw and what you did be fore the alarm spread?" "Inspector, I, am quite confused. I did go somewhere; I did not remain In that part of the halL But I can tell ,you nothing definite, save that I walked about mostly among strangers, till the cry rose which sent ua all In one direction and me to the siae or my fainting sweetheart." "Can you pick out any stranger you talked to, or any one who might have noted you during this interval? You see, for the sake of this little woman, I wish to give you every chance." "Inspector, I am obliged to throw myself on your mercy. I have no such witness to my Innocence as you call for. Innocent people seldom have. It is only the guilty who take tbe trouble to provide for such contingen cies." This was . all very well, If It had been uttered with a straightforward air and in a clear tone. But it was not. I who loved him felt that It was not, and consequently was more or less prepared for the change which now took place in the inspector's manner. Yet It pierced me to the heart to ob serve this change, and I Instinctively dropped my face Into my hands when I saw him move toward Mr. Durand with some final order or word of cau tion. Instantly (and who can account for such phenomena?) there floated Into view before my retina a reproduction of the picture I had seen, or imagined myself to have seen, in the supper room; and as at that time it opened before me an unknown vista quite re moved from the surrounding scene, so It did now, and I beheld again In faint outlines, and yet with the Effect of complete distinctness, a square of light through which appeared an open passage partly shut off from view by half lifted curtain and the tall figure of a man holding back this cur tain and gazing, or seeming to gaze, at his own breast, on which he had already laid one quivering finger. What did it mean? In the excite ment of the horrible occurrence which had engrossed us all, I bad forgotten this curious experience; but on feeling anew the vague sensation of shock and expectation which seemed its nat ural accompaniment I - became con scious of a sudden conviction that the picture which had opened before me in tbe supper room was the result of reflection in a glass or mirror of something then going on in a place not otherwise within the reach of my vision; a reflection, the Importance of which I suddenly realized when I re call at what a critical moment it bad occurred. A man in a state of dread looking at his breast within five min utes of the stir and rush of the dread ful event which had marked this even ing! A hope, great as the despair in which I had Just been sunk, gave me courage to drop my hands and advance im petuously toward the inspector. "Don't speak, I pray; don't judge any of us further till you have heard what I have to say." In great astonishment and with an aspect of severity, he asked me what I had to say now which I had not had the opportunity of saying before. 1 replied with all the passion of a for lorn hope that it was only at this present moment I remembered a fact which might have a very decided bear ing on this case; and, detecting evi dences, as I thought of relenting on his part, I backed up this statement by an entreaty for a few words with him apart, as the matter I had to tell was private and possibly too fanciful for any ear but his own. He looked as If be apprehended some loss of valuable time, but touched by the Involuntary gesture of appeal with which I supplemented my request be led me into a corner, where, with Just an encouraging glance toward Mr. Durand, who seemed struck dumb by my action, I told the Inspector of that momentary picture which I had seen reflected In what I was now sure waa some window pane or mirror. Tt was at a time coincident, or very nearly coincident with the perpetra tion of the crime you are now Investi gating." I concluded. "Within five minutes afterward - came the shout 1 which roused us all to what had hap pened In the alcove. I do not know what passage I saw or what door or even what figure, but the. latter, I am sure, waa that of the guilty man. Something of the outline (and it was the outline only I could catch) ex pressed an emotion Incomprehensible to me at the moment but . which In my remembrance Impresses me' as that of fear and dread It was not the en trance to the alcove 1 1 beheld that would have struck me at once but some other opening whlcn I might rec ognise if I saw It Cannot that open ing be found, and may It not give a dew to the man .1 saw skulking "Waa this Cgare wbta yoe w tt tamed toward yoa orj awayr the to spector taqulred, vtthj oaespected te trrest "Turned partly away, lie was rolug from me." ; -And joa sat whersfr -Shall I show your Tbe lnapector bowed, tb wtta a low word of caution turned to say uncle. "I am going to take thia young lady Into the hall for a moment at ber m request May I aek yoa and Mr. Da rand to await me bare?! Without pausing for reply, be threw open the door, and presently we were pacing the deserted sapper room seek big the place where I had aat I found It almost by a miracle, everything be ing in great disorder. Guided by my bouquet which I had left behind me In my escape from the table, I laid hold of the chair before which It lay and declared quite confidently to 'the inspector: "Thte is where I aat NaturaUy his glance and mine both flew to the opposite wall. A window was before ua of an unnsoa! aire and make. Unlike any which bad ever before come under my observation. It swung on a pivot and. though shut at the present moment might very easily when opened present Its huge pane at an angle capable of catching reflection from some of tbe many mirrors dec orating the reception room situated diagonally across tbe hall. As all the doorways on this lower floor were of unusual width, an open path was offer ed, as it were, for these reflection to pass, making it possible for scenes to be imaged here which to the persons Involved would seem as safe from any one's scrutiny as if they were taking place in the adjoining house. " As ' we realized this a look passed between u of more than ordinary sig nificance. Pointing to tbe window, the Inspector turned to a group of waiters watching us from tbe other side of the room and asked if It had been opened that evening. The answer came quickly. Yes, sir Just before the the" "I understand," broke In the lnapect or, and, leaning over me, he whispered. Tell me again exactly what you thought you saw." But I could add little to my former description. , Perhaps you can ten me this, be kindly persisted. "Was the picture. when you saw it on a level with your eye or did you have to lift your bead In order to see It?" "It was high up In the air, a It were. That seemed its oddest feature. The inspector's mouth took a satisfied curve. Possibly I might Identify the door and passage If I saw them," I sug gested. Certainly, certainly," waa bis cheer ful rejoinder, and, summoning one of his men, he was about to give some or der when his Impulse changed, and he asked if I could draw. I assured him, In some surprise, that was far from being an adept in that direction, but that possibly I might manage a rough sketch, whereupon he pulled a pad and pencil from bis pocket and requested me to make some sort of attempt to reproduce on paper my memory of this passage and the door. My heart was. beating violently, and the pencil shook In my band, bat I knew that it would not do for m to show any hesitation in fixing for all eyes what unaccountably to myself, continued to be perfectly plain to my own. So I endeavored to do as be bade me and succeeded to some extent for he uttered a slight ejaculation at on of Its features and, while duly express ing his thanks, honored me with a very sharp look. - '. "Is this your first visit to this boose V he asked. - "No. I have been here before." "In tbe evening or In the afternoon IT "In tbe afternoon." "I am told that the main entrance la not In use tonight" "No. A side door la provided for oc casions like the present Guests enter lng thero find a special hall and stair case, by which they can reach the up stairs dressing rooms without crossing the main hall. Is that what yoa mean?" "Yes, that Is what I mean.' I stared at him in wonder. What lay back of such questions as these? "You came in, as othera did, by this side entrance," be now - proceeded. "Did you notice, as yoa turned to go upstairs, an arch opening Into a small passageway at your left?" "I did not" I began, flushing, for thought I understood him now. 1 was too eager to reach the dressing room to look about me." "Yery well." he replied; "I may want to show you that arch." The outline of an arch, backing the figure we were endeavoring to IdentS fy, was a marked feature In tb ax stem I had Bhown him. "Will yoa take a teat nearby while I make a study of this matter?" I turned with alacrity to obey. There was something in hia air and manner which made me almost buoyant . Bad my. fanciful interpretation of what haa seen reached mm wltn tne con viction It had me? If so. there waa hope hope for tbe man I loved, who had gone In and oat between cuxtalna, and not through any arch such as be had mentioned or I had described. Providence was woifcing for m saw It in the way the men now moved about swinging the ' window to and fro, under the Instruction of the ln; spector, manipulating tbe liftta, open ing doors and drawing back curtains. Providence was working for me, and when, a few minutes later, I asked to reseat myself In my old place at the supper table and tax another i look In that slightly deflected gto I kaew that any effort Ud nxrt wtt tt reward and that tw v4 u a a to revftjTe the itnrTwMkM .f a 4aoe aow Utdvtlbtj lnrtatml m r-y foaac loo!. I but tUt Itr a.aoj t0 Imiu pointing at lb g1a tib a Uvt at the Imperfect ketch I b4 hia and whkm b atui Wki tu ku -Tea, I eagerly rpotJl. -ah bt. tfce a I a. lie wboee figure I a tocr another pereoo etttlrWy; I reaoree or ere fr I bu W "Of coarse not -You are latitat at tbe reflection of one of ij mm tii Van ArsdaH do yea mvcuim thr place now oadec your eye?" I do mot Yea spoke of an art-h la the ball, at the left of the rarrUc ra trance, and I aee a arch lu tb win dow pane before a, but" "You are looking atrebjttt tkmticl. the alcove perhaps jou did not kuow that another door opened at Its back Into the passage which runs beUnd It Farther oa Is tb arch, and beyood that arch the aide hall and stairca leading to the dressing room a. This door, the one In the rear of the alcm. mean. Is hidden from tboae entrrlus from the mala ball by draperWa w bi-ti hare been bang over It for this orai sion. bat It Is qalte risible from th back passageway, and there ran be no doubt that It waa by Its mns tbe man whose reflected Image you aw both entered and left tbe alcove. It la an Important fact to ratabttah. and we feel rery much obllgrd to you for the aid yoa have glren u In this matter." Then, as I continued to stare at bhu In my elation and surprise, be added. In quick explanation: "Tbe light In tbe alcove and In tbe several parlors are all bung with hades, as you must perceive, but the on In the hall, beyond tbe arch, la rery bright which accounts for tbe distinctness of this double reflation Another thing and It la a very inter esting point it would have bern Im possible for this reflection to be notice able from where you alt If tbe level of the alcove flouring bad not tu considerably higher than that of the mam floor. But for thla freak of tbe architect the continual paaaing'to and fro of people would bare prevented the reflection In Ita paaaage from surface to surface. Miss Van Arsdale, It would seem that by one of tboae chances which happen bat once or twice In a lifetime every condition was propitious at the moment to make thla reflection possible occurrence eren tbe loca tion and width of the sereral doorways and the exact point at which the por tiere was drawn aalde from the en trance to the alcove." (Continued on laatpe.) 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