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Thirteenth Instalment Bi tbe room stood an army coin almost all of the'male popu The sheriff was tak In? no ? of .beta* outnumbered. -You didn't know t was awake, did ytmT the sheriff exulted. "Well. I was. I beard you break In and I fol lowed you ta this room and locked job in." He peered nearsightedly at war <aee. "Well. I'm blessed, durn me H I ain't. Alnt you one of the men tbal started for town?" ?n." I admitted. _i Bi!beck."' exclaimed Jim coming forward. "I*p> (lad * came back. It's all for the best. 1 want you to be the first to con gratulate me on my engagement to Mha "Waite." My stunned, mind refused to assim ilate his statement. In the midst of battle I suppose -a soldier would ikA par much attention to the news that his sweetheard had married an other man. Tbe mention of Maryella's name. ? bowerei. made me think with a sink ing sensation of the predicament I bad unwittingly placed her in. I looked around to' see how she was taking it She was nowhere In sight. At first I was puzzled. Then I no ticed the door across the room. She g""? <" TVre. Probably It was a closet. I made no mention, however, of my suspicion. Possibly the Incident could be ended without her taking part to it. "What were you dolfig here?" de manded the sheriff. "There's some thing peculiar about this." "Yes, there is." I admitted. "Come down slafrsto The mam room where It is warmer and 111 explain what happened." My plan was obvious. By leading the crowd off I would give Maryella an opportunity of getting out. The men started to go when we were stopped at the door by the hur ried arrival of Mr. Hemmingway, who forced his way past the others into the room and stood, a figure of ven geance. shaKlng his fist under my Tve~c?im3ll .vuu." lie said glaring at me. - ? "Cadfeht me?" I repeated wonder lrutly. "Yes! I thought there was some thing funny about it when you agreed to separate from me out there. I suspected that vou wanted to throw me off the track and come back to my wife. You didn't deceive me. I raa>r back and followed your tracks to tbe moonlight. And now I've cautfht you. you viper!" All at once his eves fey upon the rtrrsscT. There in nlaln view lay th? strand of nearls which Maryella had worn at Galatea. "Mv wife's pearls!" he exclaimed savagely "So vol! rp.mP right to her room Mv Ood. I can't conceive of such ? Iniquity. Where is she now? What have vou done with her?" I preserved a diffn'fled silenc;. What us- ..to "ar'-'ue with a mn< maniac like that? ?? ... "Have vou killed her'" he d?*mf*nd ed hoarselv "Where is the bodv?" He ran around the room, looked under the bed and In bureau drap ers as If he exnected to find mangled portions of hla snouse cut un Into con venient sizes and stored away. At last he saw the other door and ?pnroached it. "Don't go in there." I warned. "Whv not? He! So 'hat's where yon have her concealed?" I barred the wav. but he ran at me like an enraged bull and hurled me aride with insane violence. He yanked the door onen and then fell bark In open mouthed amaz-ment. Standing in the doorway blinkint at the sudden light was. a m fin whom I recognised after a moment as Jullps. the escaped convict! No one was anv more surprised at the turn of events than I was. To be expecting to see a beautiful plrl In negligee emerge from a closet, and to'tead to behold a tough-looking man with a three days' growth of whiskers, is startling. Where was Maryella? J did not aXk the question out loud "Kvenlng, gents." said Julius genial ly. "What are vou doing here?" the ?aherlfl inquired. "Why. It was sort of cold outside." explained Julius, "and I thought you wouldn't mind my coming-in to get warm Besides I thought it was about tbne for Bill and me to be moving, ao I come to get him.'" "Well, of an the cusaed nerve?!" the sheriff wondered. "Then where Is my wife?" shouted Hemmingway. "What.Wave you done with the woman I lor*?" 'Oh. John, do you mean that?" Fro^i the rear of the crowd came Mrs Tfemmlngway's voice She strug gled ;through the throne to reach tbe aide oT her mate. He held out his arms ' to her. but paused suspiciously? "Where have you been?" I "Safe In bed until all this racket -woke me up." "Then this Isn't jfour room?" "No." > "But your pearls were on tbe dresser!" "I lent them to Maryella for the .show." ? The , tory. Without asking any' further questions he folded her into his arms 1 and they cooed over one another with shameless disregard of the au dience. While Interest was centered on the reunited Hemmlngway family, Julius the convict seized the opportunity to edge near the door. No one noticed his gradual progress, and now. all at once he made a quick dash for liberty. The crowd started In pursuit, leav ing the Hemmingways to their own devices. ' Fortunately for Julius most of his pursuers were at least twice his age. and were further impeded by rheuma tism. canes and crutches. I might possibly have caught him. but I had n't the heart. I was In too low spirits myself to wish to see any other hu man being in trouble. The rest followed him outdoors, but I considered that I had done mv duty found her unconscious upon the floor, huddled up In ? disconsolate heap. No wonder she had fainted. To step into a closet to find It occupied by another human being was enough to Shake the strongest heart. . I lilted her out. How beautiful she I was even in a faint? Bow clear her j skin and how soft tile flesh around her throat! I put her down on the ; floor while I reconstructed the bed. i After I had pi|t Her upon it I I hunted up lbs. Lillielove. to whom II briefly explained the facts in the 1 case, swearing her to seuecy. She was fauneasely flattered at tiring taken into one of my amorous adventures, and agreed to help. Together we worked over MaryeUa until she showed signs of returning | consciousness. Then, at Mrs. Llllie ! love's suggestion, I left. It would be | better to ie<ei?e explanations until I after Mary^Ua had been rested by a I drew back the covers from the inanimate from on the couch. j when I had gone as far as the main ? floor. Something else was worrying i me! The problem of Maryella's dis | appearance was of a thousandfold I more interest to me than the mere 1 capture of the ex-convict. Knowing that I was safe from in terruption for a moment, I went up stairs to Maryella's room once more. t -mntV The Hemmlngwavs had evidently retired to her room to could. Maryella's room was certainly a wreck. The dismantled bed gave a very dejected air to the entire apart ment. There was only one place she could be. I walked directly to the choset, the door of which stood open, and penetrated its obscure depths. There, hidden by old clothes, T long sleep. I was glad to let it go at that. I was unbelievably tired niyself. The i long hike on skis and the nervous 1 strain of the last hour had worn me | out completely. i 1 hunted up the cot which had \ been assigned me in the ftr?t place and threw myself upor> it, perfectly rr-.nt^nf tn i?t things stand in .statu ; quo until morning. CHAPTER XIII. Br Ice - Boat. The fcearching party had given up the chase of Julius long before I got up. It was a mighty tired bunch ol I old men that aysembled for breakfast, j They were going to eat and then go to bed Tor ah alKday snooze. H yon have any of the following symptom* 1 have the remedy no matter what your trouble has been diagnosed: Nervousness, ttowach trouble, loss of weight, loss of-sleep, sore mouth, pains in the back and shoulder?, peeuliar. swimming in the head frothy like nblcgm in throat, passing mucous from the bowels, especially alter taking purgative, burn* ing feet, brown, rough or yellow skin, burning or itching skin, rash 011 the hand-, face and a rind resembling sunburn, habitual constipation, (sometimes alternating with diarrhoru) copper or metallic taste, skin sensitive to minheat, forget-' fulness,' despondency and thought?* that you might lose your mind, sums a fiery*red and falling away from the teeth, geueral weakness witb lOM of energy. If you have these symptom* and have taken all kinds of medicine an<l still aic*, i especially want yon to write for my booklet, Mrn. J. T). Collett, Route No. 4, High IJeint, N. C., whose picture appears here, writes: "During the winter of 1927*28 I took your treatment*, and lam glad to My that my family doctor says I have no symptoms now. I look, feel, and'arn a different person altogether. I cannot thank you and your medicine enough". FOR FREE DIAGNOSIS AND LITERATURE1 WRITE: W. C. Rounlree, M. D., Austin, Texas. W. C. ROI NTREF, M. D. MBS. J. D. MIHCI* kiiXH-nk-i * .trrt,u0 (.rVkrt. mmi i Wr*?t~ ????? 1'imihiim M?r.iwM #c?k. j Hr ta that While we were at breakfast sheriff, who had gone In to look at his other prisoner, came back wide eyed and trembllng -Boxa." he said. I've wt bad naws.' "What la tty "My prisoner Is dead." "Dead?" some one echoed. "Yep. I dldnf know he was ?iling, neither. I went In Just now to untie the ropes that I used to hitch him in bed with and he_didlli move. 1 put my band on his head and It was cold as Ice. Re la a corpse. I tell you. I want one of you fellows to come and examine him for me." - .The old soldiers showed little In clination to move, even for so excit ing an adventure, so it was up to me I accompanied the sheriff to the room which he was using as a tem porary jail. The shades were drawn, but on the cot I could see the dim outline of a man's figure. Just as the sheriff had done. 1 first obeyed the Impulse to put my hand on Bill's forehead. It was cold and lifeless. I shud dered a little at the presence of death. "Pull up the eurtain,-"" I suggested. The sheriff fumbled with the shade, which escaped from his nervous fin gers and went up to the top with a bang. We both lumped as if we had been shot. I drew back the covers from the in animate form on the cot. It was the papier-mache statute of myself! "Gosh! What is it?" stammered the sheriff, who had not seen our performance and dbubtless thought that Bill was a trifle pale. I explained briefly. "Then he has escaped, too," the sheriff sighed. ?"It looks like it,'1 I ooid. Indeed he had. Pinned to the wall we found a penciled note. It ran: Dear Sheriff: I am mightly glad to have met you and I should like to stay longer, but I've got another en easement. Thanks very much for your horse. ? Yours affectionately; BILL. I am afraid I laughed. It was such a foolish ending to our supposed tragedy I went up-stairs to see how Mary ella was getting along. I found her awake, but still in bed. She claimed she felt as well as ever. I told her briefly what had hap pened the night before and this morn ?p. h r a Licn. due her. Then Lold. ol her terror at finding the strange man in the closet. Of ooune. his betu? then substantiated my story to her the previous night when I had said that I' had followed a man to that "I am clad he- got away," s?M Maryetla Wnth-heartetHy.- "?spatially as he didnt steal anything. The only thing I had of value was Mr*. Hem mingway's pearls." 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