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• YNOPBIS. __ [t*»T«ei Blakeley. lawyer, goes to Pitta burg with tha fornd DotM In the BIMNU CM* to pt the deposition of John Oil mora, millionaire. A lady re pasta Blakeley to bur bar a Pullman i Nut Ha glvee liar lower 11 and re tains lower 10. He finds a drunken man B lower M and retiree In lower % Re awakens In lower T and Ma hla clothes and baf missing. The •an In lower 10 la found murdered. Cir cumstantial evidence points to both Blakeley and the man who atole his ilothsa. The train Is wrecked and Blake lay la rescued from a burning car by a ftrl In blue. Hla arm la broken. The girl frorea to be Alison West, his partner's fweetheart. Blakeley returns home and VMS he Is under surveillance. Moving •Icturee of the train taken Just before the wreck reveal to Blakeley a man leap- Mr from the train with hla stolen grip. Investigation proves that the man's name ■ Sullivan. Mrs. Conway, (Tie woman for Rrhom Blakeley bought a Pullman ticket, tries to make a bargain with him for the torged notee, not knowing that they are fussing. Blakeley and an amateur de tective Investigate the home of Sullivan's water. From a servant Blakeley learns that Allpon West had been there on a flalt and Sullivan had been attentive to aer. Sullivan Is the husband of a daugh ter of the murdered man. Blakeiev's house Is ransacked by the police. He learns that the affair between Allaon and His partner Is off. Alison tells Blakeley about the attention paid her by Sullivan CHAPTER XXVlll.—Continued. "Married!" ahe said finally, In a •mall voice. "Why, I don't think It Is possible, Is It? I—l was op my way to Baltimore to marry him myself, when the wreck came." . "But you said you don't care for falm!" I protested, my heavy mascu line mind unablfe to jump the gaps In her story. And then, without the •lightest warning, I realized that she was crying. She shook off my hand and fumbled for her handkerchief, And falling to find It, she accepted the one I thrust Into her wet fingers. Then, little by little, she told me from the handkerchief, a sordid story of a motor trip in the mountains with out Mrs. Curtis, of a lost road and a broken car, and a rainy night when they—she and Sullivan, tramped eter nally and did not get home. And of Mrs. Curtis, when they got home at dawn. suddenly growq conventional and deeply shocked. Of her own W proud, half-disdainful consent to make possible the hackneyed com promising situation by marrying the rascal, and then—of his disappearance from the train. It was so terrible to ksr, such a Heaven-sent relief to me, in spite of my rage against Sullivan, that 1 laughed aloud. At which she looked at me over the handkerchief. "I know it's funny," she said, with • catch in her breath. "When I think that I nearly married a murderer— and dldn't—l cry for sheer Joy." Then •he buried her face and cried again. "Please don't," 1 protested unstead ily. "I won't be responsible If you keep on crying like that. I may for get that I have a capital charge hang ing over my btai, and that I may be arrested any moment" Thai brought her out of the hand kerchief at once. "I meant to be so helpful," she said, "and I've thought of nothing but myself! There were* •ome things I meant to tell you. If Jennie waa —what you say, then I un derstand why ahe came to me Just be fore I left She had beefi packing my things and she must have seen what condition I was in, for she came over to me when 1 was getting my wraps on, to leave, and said, 'Don't do It Miss West 1 beg you won't do ft; you'll be sorry ever after.' And Juat then Mrs. Curtis came In and Jennie slipped out" "That was all?" "No. As we went through the sta tion the telegraph operator gave Har —Mr. Sullivan, a message. He read It on the platform, and It excited him terribly. He took his sister aside and they talked together. He waa white with either fear or anger—l don't know which. Then, when we boarded ~the train, a woman In bUck, with beautiful hair, who was standing on the car platform, touched him en the arm |nd then drew back. He looked at her and glanced away again, but ahe reeled as If he bad struck her." "Then what?" The situation waa .growing clearer. "Mrs. Curtis and I had the drawing room. I bad a dreadful night, Juat aleeping t little now and then. I •aw hla cigarette cue in your hand. 2 had given It to him. You wore his clothea. The murder waa dlacovered and you were accuaed of It! What could I do? And then, afterward, when I saw* him aaleep at the farm house, I—l was panic-stricken. I locked him In and ran. I didn't know why be did it but—be had killed • man." Some one waa calling- Alison through a megaphone, from the veran da. It aounded like Sam. "All-ee," he called. "All-ee! I'm going to have •ome anchovies on toast! All-ee!" Melther of us heard. "I wonder," I reflected, "If yon would be willing to repeat • part of that story—Just from the telegram on —to • couple of detectives, say on Monday. If yon would tell that, and— how the end of your necklace got lath the sealskin bag—" "My necklace!" she repeated. "But II tat mine. I picked it op la th* "All-eel" Sam 'again. "I see ym « #nrn there. rm making a jnlept" , LOWER TEN hv MAKy ROBERTA WNEHAHT AUTHOR/ «f IMB CI»CUIA» STAIRCASB IUDSTRATIONS M. O. CorvBiQWT »o» jy »w -HWWtt conr*mr For at Half After Five Johnson and I War* on Our Way Through tha Dust to tha Statl&n, Thraa Milaa Away. Alison turned and called through her hands. "Coming in a moment, Sam," she said, and rose. "It must be very late: Sam is home. We would better go back to the house." "Don't" I begged her. "Anchovies and Juleps and Sam will go on for ever, and I have you such a little time. I suppose I am only one of a dosen or so, but —you are the only girl In the world. Tou know I love you, don't you dear?" Sam was whistling, an Irritating bird call, over and over. She pursed her red lips and answered him In kind. It was more than I could endure. "Sam or no Sam," I said firmly, "I am going to kiss you!" But Sam's voice came strident through the megaphone. "Be good, you two," he bellowed, "I've got the binoculars!" And so, under fire, we Twalked sedately back to the house. My pulses were throbbing—the little swish of her dress beside me on the grass was pain and ecstasy. I had but to put out my hand to touch her, and I dared not Sam, armed with a megaphone and field glasses, bent over the rail and watched us with gleeful malignity. "Home early, aren't you?" Alison called, when we reached the steps. "Led a club when my partner had doubled no-trumps, and ahe fainted. Damn the heart convention!" he said cheerfully. "The others are not here yet" Three hours later I went up to bed. I had not seen Alison alone again. The noise was at its height below, and I glanced down Into the garden, still bright in the moonlight. Leaning against a tree, and staring interested ly Into the billiard room, was John son. CHAPTER XXIX. In the Dining Room." That was Saturday night, twb weeks after the wreck. The previous -five days had been full of swlft-followlng events—the woman In the house next door, the picture In the theater of a man about to leap from the doomed train, the dinner at the Dallaes, and RJchey*s discovery that Alison was the girt in the case. In quick succes sion had come our visit to the Carter place, the finding of the rest of the telegram, my seeing Alison there, and the strange interview with Mrs. Con way. The Cresson trip stood out in my memory for Its serio-comic horrors and Its one real thrill. Then—the dis covery by the police of the sealskin bag and the bit of chain; Hotchklss' producing triumphantly Stuart for Sul livan and his subsequent discomfiture; McKnight at the station with Alison, and later the confession that be was out of the running. And yet when I thought it all over, the entire week and its events were two sides of a triangle that was nar rowing rapidly to an apex, • point And the said apex was at that mo ment in the drive below my window, resting bis long legs by sitting on • carriage block, and smoking a pipe that msde the night hideous. The sense of the ridiculous Ift very close to the sense of tragedy. I opened my screen and whistled, and Johnson looked up and grinned. We said noth ing. I hold up a handful of cigars, he extended his hat and when I finally want to sleep, it was to a soothing kim Oat wafted la salt air and • faint aroma of good tobacco. I was thoroughly tired, but I slept restless ly. dreaming of two detectives with Pittsburg warrants being held up by Hotchkiss at the point of a splint, while Alison fastened their hands with a chain that was broken and much too ahort. I was roused about dawn by a light rap at the door, and, open ing it, I found Forbes, In a pair of trouaera and a pajama coat He was aa pleasant as most fleshy people are when they have to get up at night, and he said the telephone had been ringing for an hour, and he didn't know why somebody else in the blank ety-blank house couldn't have beard It. He wouldn't get to sleep until nootj. As he was palpably asleep on his feet, I left him grumbling and went to the telephone. It proved to be Richey, who had found me by the simple expedient of tracing Aliaon, and he was jubilant. "You'll have to come back," he said. "Oot a railroad achedule there?" "I don't sleep with one In my pocket," I retroted, "but If you'll bold the line I'll call out the window to Johnson. He's probably got one." "Johnson!" I could hear the laugh with which McKnight comprehended the situation. He was still chuckling when I came back. "Train to Richmond at 6:30 a. m.," I said. "What time Is It now?" "Four. Listen, Lollle. We've got him. Do you hear? Through the wom an at Baltimore. Then—the other woman, the lady of the restaurant" — he was obviously avoiding names— "she is playing our cards for us—No —'l don't know why, and I don't care. But you be at the Incubator to-night at eight o'clock. If you can't shake Johnson, bring him, lleaa him." To this day I bslleve the Sam For beses have not recovered from the surprise of my unexpected arrival, my one appearance at dinner In Granger's clothes, and the note on my dresser which Informed them the next morn ing that I had folded my tei»ts like the Arabs and silently stolsil - sway. For at half after five Johnson and I, the former as uninqulsitlve as ever, were on our way through the dust to the station, three milea away, and by four that afternoon ws were In Washing ton. The Journey bad been unevent ful. Johnson relaxed under the In fluence of my tobacco, and spoke at some length on the latest improve ments In gallows, dilating on the ab surdity of cutting out the former free passes to see the affair in operation. I remember, too, that he mentioned >the curious anomaly that permits s man about to be hanged to eat a hearty meal. I did not enjoy my din ner that night. Before we got into Washington I had made an arrangement with John son to surrender myself at two the following afternoon. Also, I bad wired to Alison, asking her if she would car ry out the contract she had made. The detective saw me home, and left me there. Mrs. Klopton received me with dig nified reserve. The very "tone in which ehe asked me when I would din* told me that something was wrong. "Now—what is it, Mrs. Klopton?" I demanded finally, when she had in formed me, in a patient and long-suf fering tone, that she felt worn out and thought she needed a resit "When I lived with Mr. Justice Poringlr." she began acidly, her mead- lng baaket in her handa, "it waa an orderly, well-conducted houaehold. Yo« can aak any of the neighbors. Meali were cooked and, what'a more, they were eaten; there waa none of this 'here one day and gone the next' busi ness.'' "Nonsense," I observed. "You're tired, that's all, Mrs. Klopton. And I wish you would go out; I want tc bathe." "That's not all," she said with dig nity, from the doorway, "Women coming and going here, women whose shoes I am not flt—l mean, women who are not flt to touch my shoes coming here as Insolent as you please, and asking for you." "Good heavens!" I exclaimed. "What did you tell them —her, whichever it was?" "Told her you were sick In a hos pital and wouldn't be out for a year!" she said triumphantly. "And when she said she/ thought she'd come In and wait for you, I slammed the door on her." "What time was she here?" "Late Inst night. And she had a light haired man across the street. If ■he thought 1 didn't see him she don't know me." Then she closed the door and left me to my bath and my re flections. At five minutes before eight, I wai at the Incubator, where I found blotch kiss and McKnlght. They were bend ing over a table, on which lay Mo- Knight's total armament —a pair of pistols, an elephant gun and an old cavalry saber, "Draw up a chair and help yourself to pie," he said, pointing to the arsenal. "This is for the benefit of our friend Hotchklss here, who Bays he Is Rmall and fond of life," Hotchklss, who had been trying to get the wrong end of a cartridge Into the barrel of one of the revolvers, straightened himself and mopped his face "We have desperate people to han dle," he said pompously, "and we may need desperate means." "Hotchklss Is like the small boy whose one ambition was to have peo ple grow ashen and tremble at the mention of his name," McKnlght jibed. But they were wrt-lous enough, both of them, under and when they had told me what fEey planned, I waa serious, too. "You're compounding a felony," ! remonstrated, when they had explain ed. "I'm not eager to bo locked away, but, by Jove, to offer her the stolen notes In exchange for Sulli van!" "We haven't got either of them, you know," McKnlght remonstrated, "and we won't have, If wo don't Btart. Come along, Fido," to Hotchklss. The plan was simplicity Itself. Ac cording to Hotchklss, Sullivan was to meet Bronson at Mrs. Conway's apart* rriont at 8:30 that night with the notea. He was to be paid there and the pa pers destroyed. But Just before that interesting finale," McKnlght ended, "we will walk In, take tne notes, grab Sullivan, and give the police a Jolt that will put them out of the count" I suppose not one of us, slewing around corners In the machine that night, had the faintest doubt that we were on the right track, or that fate, scurvy enough before, was playing Into our hands at last. Little Hotch klss was In a state of fever; he al ternately twitched and examined the revolver, and a fear that the two mo menta might be synchronous kept me uneaay. He produced and dilated on the scrap of pillow slip from the wreck, and showed me the stiletto, with its point In cotton batting for safekeeping. And in the intervals he Implored Rlchey not to make such ,flne calculations at the corner*. We were all grave enouglyand very quiet, however, when we reached -tho large building where Mrs. Conway had her apartment. McKnlght left the power on, In case we might want to make a quick get-away, and Hotch klss gave a final look at the revolver. I had no Veapon. Somehow It all seemed melodramatic to the verge of farce. In the doorway Hotchklss was a half dozen feet ahead; Rlchey fell back beside me. He dropped his affectation of gayety, and I thought he looked tired. "Bame old Sam, I sup pose?" "he asked. "Same, only more of him." "I suppose-Alison was there? How Is she?" he inquired irrelevantly. "Very well. I did not see, her this morning." Hotchklss was waiting near the elevator. McKnlght put his hand on my arm. "Now, look here, old man," be said, "I've got two arms and a re volver, and you've got one arm and a splint. If Hotchklss is right, and I there is a row, you crawl under • table." "The deuce I will!" I declared scon* fully. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Proof ef Devotion. "Before we ware married," said Mr. lfeakton, 1 abowed my a fraction for Henrietta by serenading her." "I sup pose you neglect such attentions now." "Yea. I show my affection now by respecting her desire Oat I shall not try to •las,'* • NO WINDOW LAW AT THESE PLACES ALL TOWNS UNDER 10,000 POPU LATION EXEMPTED BY STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION. STATESVILLE LED THE LIST i N»m«i of Stations Omitted From Provisions of Act Regulating Book Mileage Exchange For Tickets— New Bern Largest City Escaped. Raleigh.—The list of towns of 2,000 and more Inhabitants exempted by the corporation commission from the necessity of keeping open two win dows at the stations for the Bervlce of travellers with mileage books has been made public, there' being 21 on the Southern, 7 on the Atlantic Coast Lino, 11 on the Norfolk and Southern and 5 on the Seaboard Air Line. The exemptions are subject to be revok ed at any time. No town of more than 10,000 popu ; intlon is exempted. New Bern is the lntgest town exempted, It having 9,- i 961 l High Point next with 9,526; towns ' of over 8,000 exempted Include Ellza- I both City and Concord. Of fhe towns exempted, Statesville, with an average I of 36 tickets exchanged per day led the list, Oastonla next with 32.1, Con ' cord 31.6, New Bern with 28. The list fcJlowß: Atlantic Coast Line: Tar rhoro, Greenville, Washington, Ply j mouth. Selina, Dunn, Kinston. Norfolk and Sotuhern: Belhaven, J Beaufort, Edenton, Elizabeth City, Greenville, Kinston, Morehead City, | Newbern, Plymouth, Washington, I Wilson. Seaboard Air Line: Laurlnburg, I Lincolnton, Sunford, Shelby, Rock | Ingham. Southern Railway: Albemarle, ! Burlington, Concord, Oastonla, Gra j ham, Henderson, Hickory, King's J Mountain, Mooresville, Morganton, Mt. Airy, Newton, Oxford, Reldsville, Shelby, Statesville, Thomasville I Woynesvllle, Lexington, Goldsboro, High Point. The Concord exemption Is for thir ty days, to be supported by petitions that double window service Is not needed. Instructions to Tax Assessors. In response to Inquiries from county tax assessors under the new state machinery act as to the methods of assessing personal property In North Carolina for taxation the corporation commlttion instructs the assessors that the assessments must be at money value and that, the assessment be that made personally by the asses j sor, or, if the valuation of the owner Is taken, it must be entered as the owner's assessment. Also advises the assessors that there should be the greatest care as to getting In the as sessments of Income. That this Is a fair and general law and that as far as possible it. Bliould be seen to that people with Incomes over SI,OOO are gotten on the books for this tax. Cor rect assessments of farming lands is also another purpose of the act. Salaries of Baptist Preachere. The salaries of the Baptist minis ters In North Carolina Is made the subject of some interesting calcula tions by Statistical Secretary E. L. Middleton of the North Carolina Bap tist State convention. He finds that in the latest, complete reports from churches there are 1,590 churches reporting salaries to pastors, the to tal being $278,400. He finds that there are 113 churches that main fain preaching every Sunday, 66 for half the time and 1,311 churches that have preaching only once each month. Hi« estimate 1B » that this would give an average of 474 pastors for full time and that their average salary Is $587 a year. He thinks that there are mission funds paid to pas tors in mission fields not Included In the salaries reported that would bring up the average salaries to S6OO. Mooresville.—No stone will be left unturned to secure the interurban line from Charlotte to Salisbury. Lots of Foreign Capital Coming. The American Agricultural and Mechanical society of New London, Connecticut, having $50,000,000 capi tal domesticates In this with principal Carolina headquarters at Wilmington for the manufacture of fertilizers and chemicals with by-pro ducts. R. E. Warren, Jr., Is to be In charge of the enterprise. Another notable domestication Is the Dixie Realty company of Minne sota, capital $250,000 and principal North Carolina headquarters at Clar endon, Columbus county. Restores the Veteran's Bible. There came to Adjutant General Leinster, of the North Carolina Na tional Guard, a letter from Charles E. LeGrand to the effect that he has a small pocket Bible that was picked up on the civil-war battlefield around New Bern. It has on the fly-leaf the name of Lieutenant C. A. Boon, Com pany D, Thlrty-flfth Regiment, North Carolina Infantry. The date la De cember '6l, and there la Inscribed: "Preaented by Mrs. C. K. Caldwell." Lieutenant Boon is now living at Eton College. WORK OF THE ODD FELLQJAFS Grand Secretary Berry's Report Ready For the Grand Lodge—lnter esting Statistics. Raleigh.—The grand secretary of the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows has rounded up his re port for the annual session of the Grand Lodge. He finds that the value of property of the subordinate lodges has increased from $103,725 to $239,- 148 during the past decade. In ad dition there Is the splendid property of the grand lodge in the orphanage at Goldsboro, valued at SIOO,OOO, and that Is now caring for 160 homeless N children at an annual cost of about $16,000. The grand secretary says the order In this state has observed a rigid watch over the standing of members and has eliminated members to the extent that In spite of the ad dition of 1,646 new members by ini tiation and 266 received by card and 358 reinstated, the total membership in the state shows a loss of 296. Ho says, though, that since the new year the gain is decided, 480 mem bers having been added the past three months. The nine new lodges Instituted the past year were at Raeford, Hoke county; Paulson, Cleveland county; Rock Creek, Wilkes county; Ola, Haywood county; Saw Mill, Caldwell county; Boone's Ford, Yancey county; Oval, Ashe county; Moxley, Wilkes county; Broadway, Lee county; White Oak Mills, Greens boro, and Walnut Cove. There have been suspended lodges reinstated at Clayton and Edenton. The order paid out last year for relief $25,696, com pared with $112,954 ten years ago. The grand master is Frank Hackett of North Wilkeßboro and the grand secretary Is B. H. Wooddell and as sistant grand secretary, J. D. Berry. Products of County. School Farms. Reports from the farms operated in connection with the county schools during the year 1910 shows a total earning of $598.20, or an average of about $75 per farm. The farms yield ed 5,036 pounds of lint cotton and 725 bushels of seed. The Wakelon High school planted an acre in Irish potatoes which yielded 60 bushels. Two farms planted in corn and one In cotton have made no report. This Is the second year these farms have been operated In connection with the schools and the results are gratify ing. The Bay Leaf High school pro ducts brought $183.91, the highest of the farms. There were twelve farms. Officers Academy of Science. The North Carolina Academy of Science, in annual session, elected officers as follows: President—Dr. H. V. Wilson, professor of zoology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Vice President —Dr. W. A. Withers, professor of chemistry, A. &. M. college, Raleigh. Secretary Treasurer—Dr. E. W. Gudger, pro fessor of biology and geology, State Normal college, Greensboro. Execu tive Committee—Dr. J. J. Wolfe, of Trinity college; Franklin Sherman, Jr., entomologist, Raleigh; Prof. N. H. Patterson, of Chapel Hill. r , t Carolina Branch, American Chemical society, re-elected all old officers. Rich Chinaman Remains In U. 8. A. Washington.—The Ofoinaman, Lee Thung, who has been figuring before the department of commerce and labor recently because the immigra tion officials held him up upon his return from a trip to China and threatened to send him back home, will not be deported. On the contrary, he will be al lowed to proceed to Wilmington to accumulate more bank stock, steam laundries, truck patches, etc., with which he is said to be well supplied. Thung owns stock In one of the strongest banks in Wilmington and has other property worth in all about $25,000. Important Decision on Tax Question. The supreme court affirms the low er court In the case of Corporation Commission vs. Morrison, from Ire dell county. Involving the right of a corporation to deduct from the tax assessment of Its capital stock hold ings or the corporation in the stock of another corporation that pays its taxes. The corporation commission ruled that this could not be done and the supreme court affirms this ruling. The opinion is written by Justice Brown. Two Big Events at Hendersonville. The North Carolina Bankers' asso ciation and the North Carolina Mer chant's association will both be in session at Hendersonville during the week of June 20. Ample accommo dations will be provided. Seaboard Hit for $2,500. A verdict for $2,500 has been award ed to W. F. Wyatt in his suit against the Seaboard Air Line Railroad com pany for $5,000 through the burning of the old Wyatt tannery near Ral eigh. The case consumed two days. Big Corporation Still Growing. The Carolina Power & Light com pany of Raleigh, now the parent cor poration of an aggregate of around twelve million dollars capital, has purchased the Standard Gas & Elec tric company, for many years Ral eigh's source of gas. Doctors' Commissions Renewed. Governor Kltchin has recommis sloned Dr. J. Howell Way, Waynes* ville, and Dr. W. O. Spencer, Winston* Salem as members of the stats boar* of heslth. .
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