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Number 29
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i The Woman In
the Alcove.
By ANNA KATHARINE CRXEN.
Aatkar ! T1 MIlIloMln Baby - Taa
FUlgm Bill,- xu Oomm la Ik
Rax," Etc i
Copyright, 1906, The Bobba-Merrlll Co.
Hwt i i i j . X
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.
Chanter I Amonor the
ety ball in New Y Inn iiijL ' n
Araaale, who has studied nursing and
who tells the story; her lover, Ansou Du
raud; Mrs. Fairbrother, who wears a
magnificent diamond and a distinguished
Englishman. Durand, who la a dealer in
gems, IB interested ia the diamond. Rita
sea the vision of a man reflected in a
snjjper-room window. Mrs. Falrbrother
is tound stabbed to death in an alcove,
The diamond is missintr.
Chapter II The diamond is feu id In a
pair of Mrs. 1 airbrother s gloves placed in
Rita's hand-bag by Durand.
UnaDter III Durand declares that Mm.
Fairbrother asked him to hold her gloves
without his knowledge that the diamond
was in them. After the murder, fearing
suspicion, ne piactq tne gloves In Kitas
Dag. A splash ot blood is discovered cu
Durand s shirt front.
Chapter IV The blood dropped on him.
eclares Durand, from a stiletto placed in
lantern near the entrance to the alcove.
He mentions stepping on broken China
near tne uoorwav ot the alcove.
Chapter v Grey, the Englishman.
shows great interest in the diamond, now
in tne Dossession of a no I fee insnecfcor. It
is handed to him for inspection. A shrill
cry is heard, and he drops it. A waiter
hands it back. Urey explains the cry as
he usual historical warning heard before
me aeatn oi one oi his family. He is
worried aoout ins daughter, who is ill at
hotel, (irey declares that the stone in
the inspector's possession is only paste.
Ctfore her death, Mrs. Fairbrother re
ceived a warning note, handed in at the
alcove window. She had been at odds
with her husband,' who is in the south
west.
Chapter VI Rita tries to account for
the murder and the disappearance of the
diamond. Fairbrother is ill with pneu
monia in jew .Mexico.
CHAPTER VII.
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OT to be outcfono by the editor,
I insert the article here with
all its details, the Importance
of which I trust I have antlcl
pated:
Santa Fe., N. M., April .
Arrived in TSanta Fe, I Inquired
where Abner Fairbrother could be
found. I was told that he was at his
mine, sick.
Upon inquiring as to the location of
the Placlde, I was . Informed that it
was fifteen miles or so distant in the
mountains, and upon my expressing an
Intention of going there immediately, I
was given what I thought very unneces-
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tary.&'lttre and then directed to a cer
tain livery stable, where I was told I
could get the right kind of a horse and
such equipment an I stood lu need of.
I thought I was equipied all rhzht as
it was, but I said nothing and went on
to the livery stable. Ilere I was shown
horse which I took to at once and
was about to mount when a pair of
leggings was brought to me.
You will need these for your Jour
ney," said the man.
Journey ! I repeated. '"Fifteen
miles!"
The livery stable keeper, a half
breed with a peculiarly pleasant smile,
cocked up his shoulders with the re
mark: Three men as willing, but as inex
perienced as yourself, have attempted
the same journey during the last week.
and they all came back before they
reached the divide. You will proba
bly come back, too, but I shall give
you as fair a start as if I knew you
were going straight through."
"But a woman has done it," said I;
a nurse from the hospital went up
that very road last week."
"Oh, women, they can do anything
women who are nurses: liut mey
don't start off alone. You are going
alone." '
Yes," I remarked grimly. "News
paper correspondents make their Jour
neys singly when they cau." "
"Oh, you are a - newspaper corre
spondent! Why do so many men from
the papers want to see that sick old
man? Because he's so rich?"
"Don't you know?" I asked.
He did not seem to.
I wondered at his Ignorance, but did
not enlighten him.
"Follow the trail and ask your way
from time to time. All the goatherds
know where the Placlde mine Is."
Such were his simple Instructions as
he headed my horse toward the canyon
But as I drew off he shouted out:
If you get stuck, leave it to the
horse. He knows more about It than
you do."
With a vague gesture toward the
northwest, he turned away, leaving me
in contemplation of the grandest seen
ery I had yet come upon In all my
travels.
Fifteen miles! But those miles lay
through the very heart of the inoun
tains, ranging anywhere from G,000 to
7,000 feet high. In ten minutes the
city and all signs of city life were out
of sight. In five more I was seeming
ly as far removed from all civilization
as1 If I had gone a hundred mlleB into
the wilderness.
As my horse settled down to work.
nicklne his way now here and now
there, sometimes over the brown eartlx,
hard and baked as in a thousand fur
naces, and sometimes over the stunted
grass whose needlelike stalks seemed
never to have known moisture, I let
my eyes roam to 6uch peaks as. were
not cut off from view by the nearer
hillsides and wondered whether the
snow which capped them was whiter
than any other or the blue of the sky
bluer, that the two together had tho
effect upon me of cameo work on
huge and unapproachable scale.
Certainly the effect of these grand
mountains, Into which you leap with
out any preparation from the streets
and market places of America s oldest
city. Is such as is not easily described.
We struck water now and then nar
row watercourses, which my horse fol
lowed in .midstream and, more Inter
esting yet, goatherds with their flocks,
Mexicans all, who seemed to under
standno English, but were picturesque
enough to look at anda welcome break
In the extreme lonesomeness of the
way.
I had been told that they would
serve me as guides if I felt at all
doubtful of the trail, and in one or two
instances they proved to be of decided
help. . They could gesticulate if they
could not speak English, aui when
tried them with the one word Placide
they would nod and point out which
of the many side canyons I wa to
follow. But they always looked up as
they did so.vup, up till I took to look
lng up, too, and when, after miles mul
tlplled Indefinitely by the winding of
the trail, I came out upon a ledge from
which a full view of the opposite range
could be had, and saw fronting me
from the side of one of Its tremendous
nan K a tlM can of a-vast hole not 200
feet from the snow line, I knew that,
inaccessible as "it looked, I was gazing
up-nt the opening of Abner Falrbroth
er's new mine, the Tlacide.
The experience was a strange one
The two ranges approached so nearly
that it seemed as If a ball might be
tossed from one to the other, but the
chasm between was stupendous.
grew dizzy as I looked downward and
saw the endless zigzags yet to be trav
ersed step by step before the bottom of
the canyon could be reached and then
the equally Interminable zigzags up the
BffHvltv bevond. all of which I. must
trace, still step -by 6tep, before I 'could
hope to arrive at the camp which from
where I stood Jooked to be almost witn
In hall of my voice.
I have described the mine as a hole
That was all I saw at first a great
black hole in the dark brown earth of
the mountain side, from which ran
iinven a still darker streak into the
waste places far below it But as
looked longer I saw" that it was faced
bv a ledge cut out of the friable soil,
on which I was now able to descry the
pronounced white of two or threo tent
tops and some other signs or lire, en
couraglng enough to the eye of one
whose lot It was to crawl like a fly up
that tremendous mountain side.
Truly I could understand why those
three men, probably newspaper eorre
spondents like myself, had turned back
to Santa Fe after a glance from my
present outlook. But though I under
stood I did not mean to duplicate their
retreat.
The sight of those tents, the thought
of what one of them contained, in
spired me withnew courage, and, re
leasing my; grip uim the rein, I al
lowed my patient burn to procved.
Shortly after this I pad th di
videthat is, where the water nimbi
both ways. Then the descent Iwran.
It was zigzag, just as the climb had
been, but 1 preferred the climb. 1 did
not have the unfathomable spaces ko
constantly before me, nor was my Im
agination so active. It was fixed on
heights to be attained rather than ou
valleys to roll into. However, I did
not roll.
The Mexican saddle held me securely
at whatever angle I was poiseJ, and
once the bottom was reached I found
that I could face with considerable
equanimity the corresponding ascent
Only as I saw how steep the climb
bade fair to be I did not see how I
wt ever to come down again. Going
up was possible, but the descent
However, as what goes up must In
the course of nature come down. I put
this question aside and gave ciy horse
his head, after encouraging him with a
few blades of grass, which he seemed
to find edible enough, though they had
the look and something of the feel of
spun glass.
How we got there you must ask this
good animal, who took all the respon
sibility and did all the work. I mere
ly clung and balanced, and at times,
when he rounded the end of a zigzag,
for instance, I even shut my eyes,
though the prospect was magnificent
At last even his, patience seemed to
give out and he stopped and trembled.
But before I could open my eyes on
the abyss beneath he made another
effort. I felt the brush of tree branches
across my face and. .looking up. saw
before me the ledge or platform dotted
with tents, at which I had looked
with such longing from the opposite
hillsides.
Simultaneously I heard voices, and
saw approaching a brouzed and beard
ed man with strongly marked Scotch
features and a determined air.
l lie uoctor: I involuntarily ex
claimed, with a glance at the small
and curious tent before which he stood
guard.
"Yes, the doctor," he answered in un
expectedly good English. "And who
are you? Have you brought the mail
and those medicines I sent for?"
"No," I replied with a propitiatory a
smile as I could muster up in the face
of his brusk forbidding expression. "I
came on my own errand. I am a rep
resentatlve of the New York , and
hope you will not deny me a word
with Mr. Fairbrother."
With a gesture I hardly knew how to
Interpret he took my horse by the rein
and led us on a few steps toward an
other large tent where he motioned me
to descend. Then he laid his hand on
my shoulder and, forcing me to meet
his e3-e, said:
"iou have made this journey I be
lieve you said from New York to see
Mr. Fairbrother. Why?"
"Because Mr. Fairbrother Is at pres
ent the most sought for man in Amer
ica," I returned boldly. "His wife
you know about his wife"
"No. How should I know about his
wife? I know what his temperature
I preferred tfie climb.
is and what his respiration -but his
wife? What about his wife? He
don't know anything about her now
himself; he is not allowed to read let
ters."
"But you read the papers. You must
have known, before you left Santa Fe,
or Mrs-.Talrbrother s foul and most
mysterious murder In New York. It
has been the,theme of two continents
for the last ten days."
He shrugged his shoulders, which
might mean anything, and confined
his reply to a repetition of my own
words.
"Mrs. Fall-brother murdered!" he ex
claimed, but in a suppressed voice, to
which point was given by the cautious
look he cast behind him at the tent
which had drawn my attention. "He
must not know it man. I could not
answer for his life if he received the
least shock In his present critical con
ditlon. Murdered? When?"
"Ten days ago, at a ball fn New
York. It was after Mr. Fairbrother
left the city. He was expected to re
turn after hearing the news, but he
seems to have kept straight on to his
destination. He was not very fond of
his wife that is, they have not been
living together for the last year. But
he could not help feeling the shock of
Irer death which he must have heard
of somewhere along the route."
"He has said nothing in his delirium
to show that he knew it It is pos
slble, just possible, that he didn't read
the papers. He could not have been
well -for days before he reached Santa
Fe." -
"When were you called In to attend
him?"
"The very night after he reached this
place. It was thought he wouldn'
live to reach the camp. But he Is
man of grrat (Jock. He bekl op US
hU root touched this platform; tb8
he uccum brd j
"If be was as ikk as that" I taut-!
tervd. "why did h 1ct Santa Ftl
He must have known what It would
mean to be sick here."
"I don't think he did. This U his
first TUlt to the mine. II evidently
knew nothing of the difficulties of th
rad- But he would not stop. He w v
determined to reach the camp, evi
after be had been given a sight of It
from the opposite mountain, lie told
them that he had once crossed the
Sierras In midwinter. But be wasn't
sick man then. ,
I xx-tor, they don't know who killed
his wife."
Ho didn't"
I know, bat under such circum
stances every , fact bearing on the
vent is of Immense Importance. There
is one which Mr. Fairbrother only can
make clear. It can be said In a
word"
The grim doctor's eyes flashed angri
ly, and I stopied.
Were you a detective from the dis
trict attorney's office In New York sent
on with special powers to examine him
I should still say what I am going to
say now. While Mr. Falrbrother's tem
perature and pulse remain where they
now areuo one shall see him and no
one shall talk to htm save myself and
his nurse."
1 tnrued with a sick look of. disap
pointment toward the road up which 1
had so lately come.
'Have I panted, sweltered, trembled
for three mortal hours on the worst
trail a man ever traversed -to go back
with nothing for my Journey? That
seems to me hard lines. Where la the
manager of this mine?"
The doctor pointed toward a man
bending over .the edge of the great
hole from which at that moment a line
of Mexicans was Issuing, each with a'
sack on his back, which he Sung down
before what looked like a furnace built
of clay.
"That's he. Mr. Halues of Philadel
phia. What do you want of hlmT'
Permission to stay the night Mr.
Fairbrother may be better tomorrow.
1 won't allow it and I am master
here so fur as my patient Is concerned.
You couldn't stay here without talking,
and talking makes excitement and ex
citement Is just what he cannot stand.
A week from now I will see about It
that Is, If my patient continues to Im
prove, l am not sure mat ne win.
Ixt me spend that week here. I ll
not talk any more than the dead. May
be the manager will let me carry
sacks"
Look here," said the doctor, edging
me farther and farther away from the
tent he hardly let out of his sight for
a moment "You're a canny lad and
shall have your bite and something to
drink before you take your way back.
But back you go before sunset and
with this message: No man from any
paper north or south will be received
here till I hang out a blue flag. I say
blue, for that is the color of my ban
danna. When my patient is In a con
dition to discuss murder, I'll hoist It
from his tent top. It can be seen from
the divide; and If you want to camp
there on the lookout well and good. As
for the police, that's another matter.
I will see them If they coma, but they
need not expect to talk to my patient
You may say so down there. It will
save scrambling up this trail to no pur
pose." "You may count on me, said I.
"Trust a New York correspondent to
do the right thiug at the right time to
head off the boys. But I doubt If they
will believe me."
"In that case I shall have a barri
cade thrown up fifty feet down the
mouutaln side," said he.
"But the mall and your supplies?"
"Oh, the burros can make their way
up. We shan't suffer."
"You are certainly master," I re
marked. All this time I had been using my
eyes. There was not much to see, but
what there was was romantically In
teresting. Aside from the furnace and
what was going on there, there was
little else but a sleeping tent a cook
ing tent and the small one I bad come
on first, which without the least doubt
contained the sick man. This last tent
was of a peculiar construction and
showed the primitive nature of every
thing at this height It consisted sim
ply of a cloth thrown over a thing like
a trapeze. This cloth did not even
come to the ground on either side, but
stopied short a foot or so from the
fiat mound of adobe which serves as a
base or floor for hut or tent in New
Mexico. The rear of the simple tent
abutted on , the mountain alde. 'The
opening was toward the valley I felt
an intense desire to look Into this open
lng so intense that I thought I would
venture on an attempt to gratify It
Scrutinizing the resolute face of the
man before me and frittering myself
that 1 detected sfgirs of humor under
lying his professional bruskness, 'I
asked, somewhat mournfully. If he
would let me go away without so
much as a glance at the man I had
come so far to see. "A glimpse would
Batisfy me now," I assured him as the
hint of a twinkle flashed in his eye.
"Surely there will be no harm In that
I'll take It Instead of supper."
He smiled, but not encouragingly,
and I was feeling very despondent In
deed when the canvas on which ont
eyes were fixed suddenly shook, and
the calm figure of a woman stepped
out before us, clad In the simplest
garb, but showing In every line of face
and form a character of mingled kind
ness and shrewdness. She was evi
dently on the lookout for the doctor,
for she made a sign as she saw him
and returned instantly into the tent
"Mr. Fairbrother has Just fallen
asleep," he explained. "It Isn't disci
pline and I shall have to apologize to
Miss Serra, but if yon will promise
not to speak, nor make the least di-
turbaac I Will krf Jt u UVe IW (b
Pt y irrfer u utjrr."
"1 prvMiiUe," Mid I,
Leading tW wy t tb f-u!o. W:
hliTvl a word to th bvimv ttw-u
UotltXMHl txxf to km In. TW elstt
was a ulnjj l on, but to tuo rry lut
prrlv, TW owM-r vf patac-. a
man to wtxnu milium a tb-
UDd to aoch poor Or vita mm uiT-!f.
lay on an tnirroUts IwhI of. etr
grrru. wrapped In a harm LUiAet a&d
with nothing twtter than another f
the rolled up under hi brad. At hi
side wt bis uura on what touted like
the uneven etump of a trr. CKw to
her hand was a tolerably cat stun, -a
which I aaw arranged a nutnler ff
bottle and such other comforts a
were absolutely oeceaaary to a proper
care of the aufferer.
That was all. In the few word I
hare told the whole story. To tie sure,
this simple tent perched 7.000 feet and
more above aea level, had one advant
age which even his great hooa lu
New York could not offer. Thla waa
the outlook. Lying as be did facing
the valley he bad only to open hU eyes
to catch a full view of the panorama
of sky and mountain stretched out le
fore bun. It was glorious; whether
seeu at mo ruing, noon or night, glori
ous. But I doubt If he would not glad
ly have exchanged It for a sight of UU
home walls.
As I started to go a stir tok pla.-e
hi the blanket wrapp! about his hlu.
and I caught a glimpse of the Iron
gray head and hollow cheeks of the
great financier. He was a very Uk
uiau. Even I could see that Had I
obtained the pennUslun 1 sought uud
been allowed to ak hliu one uf the
many questions burning on my tongue,
I should have received only delirium
for reply. There was no reaching that
clouded Intelligence uow, aud 1 felt
grateful to the doctor for tiut lining
me of It.
I told him no and thanked hliu gu!U
warmly when we were well away from
the tent, and, his answer was almost
kindly, though he made no effort to
bide his Impatience and anxiety to ee
me go. The looks he, cast at the nun
were significant, aud having no wUh to
antagonize him and every wish to vUlt
the spot again I moved toward my
horse with the Intention of uutylng
him.
To my; surprise the doctor held tue
back.
"You can't go tonight." said he. "Your
horse haa hurt himself."
It was true. There was something
the matter With the aulmal's left fore
foot. -As the doctor lifted It the man
ager came up. He sgreed with the doc
tor. I could, not make the desceut to
Santa Fe ou that horse that night. Did
I feel elated? Rather. I had no wUh
to descend. Yet I was far from fore
seeing what the night was to bring to
me.
I was turned over to the manager,
but not without a final Injunction from
the doctor. "Not a word to any one
about your errand! Not a word about
the New York tragedy, as you value
Mr. Falrbrother's lifer
"Not a word," said I.
What Everybody Says Is True
Must Be So. ;
Proof of the Fuddiag Is Chewing Us Bag.
THE FAYORITE STOYE & RANGE C0.
of Piqua, Ohio, j
Vc Would Be Glad,.. m Kive" .....
Whsn you -wish to huj anj kind
of a Store or Kaui0 to hare
70a carefully
COMPARE
Wlth any other make
IN THE WORLD,
We feel your decision will
be farorable to the
FAVORITE,
Therefore we court carefnl ,
comparison. We know they
are not Equaled.
Bell & Harris Furniture Comp'y.
Free concert during the week by the celebrated Sousa, Gil
more and Marine Bands. Haden's Quartette will also ta with
us. No pains will be spared to give you a good time. Come.
s. . 3 tr
,ee. iu I--, i s : - j , f--5., e
I t. : t t.ie t,4v ta
etd .f l'. t t'.r -.,, trnS an! turn
ed ia ;:: t ... (t-. l t;v-te4 ta
kl. t.'-t r.f.ki.i.fi tV. t ewuid ratch
a wUl f Hi' 'vr.t frMw Cnaef lU
rmn -tutfv4 ft f "! U
lu niit'w tt: fftiid! tt tfeat
Hilda. fcM aaw Ufure 1 had rl4 lay
eye- Ihrn '.! vWr ta Wy lft b,
for the pallet,! Vso to tuB and prea
etaijr to talk, aad the (illawaa of the
aolitary he-M belt omnh!ii( abnor
mal I rouUl Utuea ratch th rmrj
WMCda. Ih-i!.! a the were of all ra-
tloltal iiii-nuttig. they eirlted my curt-imtty-
to tin- hot Ming Joiut fof wb
coul. 1 toil if ii luijjtit not any aome
IJiiiiij iM'urtng on the mjaU-ry?
Hut tli.it (Vt (td mind linl recurred
to early . . n.-f tm,l the lbb! which
raiuu to 1 1 1 rain m all of mining
ramps In th ll.x Vl-a and the dicker
of hoi-M-s. lYilmpa the uneaay move
ment of my Iw.rw pullltig at the end of
hi tether bad disturbed hhn. Perhaps--
But at the Inner utterance of the
secoud perhapa" 1 found myself up
ou my cIIhiw liatenlng with all ray ears
and ts ring with l.lo stretched eya
at tho till. V. t of at u nl. si trees where
tho road de!u bed on the platform.
Kouiethlng wn nxttr there beaUlns my
horse. I could catch Hound of an un
uilxtakaMe mi t ure. A rider was Com
ing up the tintl.
Kllpplng. Im k Info my place, I turn
ed toward the doctor, who lay some
two or three bunks uearer the. open
ing. He had started up. too, and In a
tnoiueut was out of the tent. 1 do not
think he had observed my action, for
(Continued cm lat png)
Meantime the ruto hearitur is pil
ing: up a pretty hill of cosls for some
body to pay.- Charlotte Observer,
UOOKlDg nXDIDll
at
"TED STORE THAT limn
lM-giiinin Moihlay, OctoW 7
1
and continuing one w.-k. If
. you don't llivc the Favorite
h tlie best ltane iu the world,
and will do nion- and .tatter
work with I- w ood or cad than
than any Ilane on the inaiket,
all we ak ia come and m-c, ami
Uwte the deliciotu hii.scuito made
from I'orcelin jatent Hour and
drink the fctrenth-ivihg iicc-
tar a. drawn hy Aunt Ilathcl
from White Star Om-eld by
Dove-Uost Co.
We Sell All Kinds or Furniture
1 and House-Furnishings,
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