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SYNOPSIS. ___ ( -I-'' * _Uwrf»c« Blakeley, liwyr, fo« to 3*lttsburg with the forged notes la the Sronson CAM to met to* deposition of John Gil more. millionaire. A lady re 4unti Blakeley to buy her a Pullman ticket. He give* her lower 11 and re tains lower M. He And* a drunken man In lower 10 and retiree In lower ». He awakens In lower T and Stnds hie clothe* and bar missing. The man la lower 1# Is found murdered. Clr •cuntstantlal evidence points to both Blakeley and the man who stole his clothe# The train Is wrecked and Blake ley Is rescued from a burning car by a alrl In blue. His arm Is broken. The girl •proves to be Alison West. his partner's sweetheart. Blake ley returns home and finds he is under surveillance. Moving pictures of the train taken lust before the wreck reveal to BlaJceley a man leap- In* from the train with his stolen grip. Investigation proves that the man's name Is Sullivan. Mrs. Conway, the wrnnaa for whom Blakeley bought a Pullman ticket, tries to make a bargain With him for the forged notes, not knowing that they are en Using. Blakeley and an amatpar de tective Investigate the home of Sullivan's elster. From a servant Blakeley learns that Alison Weet had been there on a visit and gulUvan had been attentive to 3>er. Sullivan Is the husband of a daugh ter of the murdered man. Blakeley's house Is ransacked by the police. He tearna that ths affair between Alison and his partner Is off. Alison tells Blakeley •bout the attention paid her by Bulllvan. whom she was on her way to marry when the wreck came. It Is planned to give Mrs. Conway the forged notes In ex change for Sullivan. Mrs. Conway kills Jerself and Branson, and the ashes of •he forged notes are found In the room. CHAPTER XXX—Continued. "When did you find it?" asked the tean detective, bending forward. "In the morning, not long before the Wreck." "Did you erer aee It before?" "I am not certain," aha replied. "I fcave seen one very much like It." Her tone was troubled. She glanced at me •s If for help, but I was powerless. "Where?" The detective waa watch ing her closely. At that moment there came an In terruption. The door opened without ct-remony, and Johnson ushered In a tall, blond* man, a stranger to all of us. I glanced at Alison; ahe waa pale but composed and scornful. She met the newcomer's eyes full, and, caught «ns wares, he took a hasty backward •tep. "Sit down, Mr. Sullivan," McKnlght beamed cordially* "Have a cigar? I beg your pardon, Alison, do you mind this smoke?" "Not at all," she aald composedly Sullivan had had a second to sound his bearings. "No—no, thanks," he mumbled. "If you will be good enough to explain—" "But that's what you're to do," Mc- Knlght said cheerfully, pulling up a chair. "You've got the most attentive •udlence you could ask. Theae two gentlemen are detectives from Pitta burg, and we are all curious po know the finer detail* of what happened on the car Ontario two weeks ago, the night your father-in-law was mur dered." Sullivan gripped the arms of his chair. "We are not prejudiced, either. The gentlemen from Pitts burg are betting on Mr. Blakeley, over there. Mr. Hotchklss, the gentleman by the radiator. Is ready to place ten to one odds on yon. And some of us have atlll other theories." "Gentlemen," Sullivan said slowly, "1 give you my word of honor that I did not kill Simon Harrington, and that I do not know who did." "Fiddlededee!" cried Hotchklss, bustling forward. "Why, I can tell you—" But McKnlght pushed him firmly Into a chair and held him there. "I am ready to plead guilty to the larceny," Sullivan went on. "I took Mr. Blakeley's clothes, I admit. If I can reimburse him In any way for the Inconvenience —" The stout detective was listening with his mouth open. "Do you mean to say," he demanded, "that you got Into Mr. Blakeley's berth, as he con tends, took his clothes and forged notes, and left th* train before the wrack?" "Ye*." 'The notes, then?" "I gave them to Bronson yesterday. Much good they did him!" bitterly. We were all silent for a moment. The two detectives were adjusting them selves with difficulty to a new point of view. Sullivan was looking dejected ly at the floor, his hands banging loose between his knees. I was watch ing Alison, from where I stood, be hind her, I could almost touch the soft hair behind her ear. "I have no intention of pressing any charge against you," I said with forced civility, for my hands were itching to get at him, "If you will give us a clear account of what happened on the On tario that night." Sullivan raised his handsome, hag gard head and looked around at me. "I've seen you before, haven't I?" he asked. "Weren't you an uninvited guest at the Laurels a few days—or night*—ago? The cat, you remember, and the rug that slipped f" "I remember." I said shortly. He glanced from me io Alison and quick ly away. "The truth can't hurt me," he aald, -but lt'a devilish unpleasant Alison, you know all this. You would bettor go out." His use of her name erased me. I itepped in front of her And stood over him. "You will not bring Miss West Into the conversation." I threatened, "and she will stay If she wish**." LOWER TEN hy MARX ROBERTS' RINEHAKT —-—■* Johnson U*h*r*d In a Tall Blond* Man, a Stranger to All Of Ua. "Oh, very well," he said with as sumed Indifference. Hotchkiss Just then escaped from Rlchey'i grasp and crossed the room. "Did you ever wear glasses?" he asked eagerly. "Never." Sullivan glanced with some contempt at mine. "I'd better begin by going back a little," he went on sullenly. "I sup pose you know I was married to Ida Harrington about five years ago. She was a good girl, and I thought a lot of her. But her father opposed the marriage—he'd never liked me, and he refused to make any sort of settle ment. > "I had thought, of course, that there would be money, and it was a bad day when I found out I'd made a mistake. My sister was wild with disappoint ment. We were pretty hard up, my sister and I." 1 waa watching Alison. Her hands were tightly clasped in her lap, and she was staring out of the window at the Cheerless roof below. She had set her Hps a little, but that was all. "You understand, of course, that I'm not defending myself," went on the sullen voice. 'The day came when old Harrington put us both out of the houae at the point of a revolver, and 1 threatened—l suppose you know that, too—l threatened to kill him. "My sister and I had hard times after that. We lived on the contin ! ent for a while. I was at Monte Car lo and she was in Italy. She met a young lady there, the granddaughter of a steel manufacturer and an helr j ess, and she sent for me. When I got | to Rome the girl was gone. Last wln i ter I was all- In—social secretary jan Englishman, a wholesale grocef , with a new title, but we had a row, j and I came home. ' I went out to the Heaton boys' ranch in Wyoming, and met Bronson there. He lent me mon ey, and I've been doing his dirty work ever since." Sullivan got up then and walked slowly forward and back as he talked, his eyes on the faded pattern of the office rug. "If you want to live in bell," he said savagely, "put yourself in anoth er man's, power. Bronson got into trouble, forging John Qilmore's name to those notes, and in some way he learned that a man was bringing the papers back to Washington on the FUer. He even learned the number of bis berth, and the night before the wreck. Just aa I was boarding the train, I got a telegram." Hotchkiss stepped forward once more importantly. "Which read, I think: 'Man with papers in lower ten, car seven. Get ! them.'" Sullivan looked at the little man with sulky blue eyes. "It was something like that, any how. But it was a nasty business, and It made mattera worse that be didn't care that a telegram which must pass through a half dosen hands «as more or less Incriminating to me. "Then, to add to the unpleasantness of my position. Just after we boarded the train — I was accompanying gf sister and thia young lady, Miss West —a woman touched me on the sleeve, and I turned to face—my wife! "That took away my last hit of narve. I told my sister, and you can understand she was In a bad way, too. We knew what It meant Ida had heard that I waa going—" He stopped and glanced uneasily at Alison. I "Go on," she said coldly. "It li too late to ahleld me. The time to have done that waa when I wai your guest." "Well," he went on, his eye* turned carefully away from my face, which must hare presented certainly any thing but a pleasant sight. "Miss West was going to do me the honor to marry me, and —" "You scoundrel!" I burst forth, thrusting past Alison West's chair. "You—you Infernal cur!" One of the detectives got up and stood between us. "You must remember, Mr. Blakeley, that you are forcing this story from this man. These details are unpleas ant, but Important. You were going to marry this young lady," he said, turning to Bulllvan, "although you al ready had a wife living!" "It was my sister's plan, and I watt ia a bad way for money. If I could marry, secretly, a wealthy girl and go to Europe, it was unlikely that Ida - that is, Mrs. Sullivan—would hear of it. "So it was more than a shock to see my wife on the train, and to realize from her face that she knew what was going on. I don't know yet, unless some of the servants —well, never mind that. "It meant that the whole thing had gone up. Old Harrington had carried a gun for me for years, and the same train wouldn't hold both of us. Of course, I thought that he was In the coach Just behind ours." Hotchklss was leaning forward now. his eyes narrowed, his thin lips drawn to a line. "Are you left-handed, Mr. Sullivan?" he asked. Sullivan stopped in surprise. "No," he said gruffly. "Can't do anything with my left hand." Hotch klss subsided, crestfallen but alert. "I tore up that cursed telegram, but I was afraid to throw the scraps away. Then I lopked around for low er ten. It waa almost exactly across —my berth was lower seven, and It waa, of course, a bit of exceptional luck for me that the car was number seven." "Did you tell your sister of the tel egram from Bronson?" I asked. "No. It would do no good, and she was In a bad way without that to make her worae." "Your aister was killed, I think?" The shorter detective took a small package from his pocket and held It in his hand, snapping the rubber band which held it. "Yea, she waa killed," Sullivan said soberly. "What I eay now can do her no barm." He atopped to push back the heavy hair which dropped over his fore head, and went «on more connectedly. "It waa late, after midnight, and we went at once to our bertha. I un dreaaed, and then I lay there for an hour, wondering how I waa going to get the notea. Some one in lower nine waa reatleaa and wide awake, but Anally became quiet. The man in ten waa aleeplng heav lly. I could hear his breathing, and It seemed to be only a queatlon of get ting acroaa and behind the curtains of hia berth without being seen. Aft er that, it waa a mere matter of quiet searching. "The car became very atlll. I was about to try for the other berth, when aome one brushed softly past, and I lay back again. "Finally, however, when things hgd been quiet for a time, I got up, and after looking alone the aisle, I alipped behind the curtains of lower ten. You understand, Mr. Blakeley, that I thought you were In lower ten, with the notes." I nodded curtly. "I'm not trying to defend myself," he went on. "I was ready to steal the notes —I bad to. But murder!" He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief. "Well, 1 slipped acroes and behind the curtains. It was very still. The man in ten didn't more, although my heart was thumping until I thought he would hear It. s "I felt around cautiously. It was perfectly dark, and I came across a bit of chain, about aa long as my An ger. It seemed a queer thing to find there, and It was sticky, too." He shuddered, and I could see All son's hands clenching and unclenching with th# strain. "All at once it struck mo that the man was strangely silent, and I think I lost my nerve. Anyhow, I drew the curtains open a little, and let the light fall on my hands. They were red, blood-red." He leaned one hand on the back of the chair, and WAS silent for a mo ment, as though he lived over agnln the awful events of that more than awful night. The stout detective had let his cigar go out; he was still drawing at It nervously. Rlchey had picked up a paper-weight and was tossing It from hand to hand; when it slipped end fell to the floor, a startled ahudder passed through the room, "There was something glittering In there," Sullivan resumed, "and on Im pulse I picked It up. Then I dropped the curtains and stumbled back to my own berth." "Where you wiped yotir hands on the bed clothing and stuck the dirk In to the pillow." Hotchklss was seeing his carefully built structure crumbling to pieces, and he looked chagrined "I suppose I did—l'm not very clear about what happened then. But whea I rallied a little I saw a Russia leath er wallet lying In the aisle almost at my feet, and, like a fool, I stuck It. with the bit of chain, into my bag. "I sat there, shivering, for what seemed hours. It was still perfectly quiet, except for some one snoring. I thought that would drive me crary. "The more I thought of It the worse things looked. The telegram was the first thing against me—lt would put the police on my track at once, when it waa discovered that the man in low er ten had been killed. "Then I remembered the notes, and I took out the wallet and opened It." He stopped for a minute, as If the recalling of the next occurrence was almost beyond him. "I took out the wallet," he en Id sim ply, "and, opening It, held It to the light. In gilt letters was the name, Simon Harrington." The detectives were leaning for ward now, their eyes on hla face. "Things seemed to whirl around for a while. I sat there almost paralyzed, wondering what this new development meant for me. \. "Do you believe me now?" He looked around at us deflaptly. "I am telling the absolute truth, and not one of you believes me! "My wife, I knew, would swear 1 had killed her father; nobody would be likely to believe the truth. "After a> bit the man In lower nine got up and walked along the aisle to ward the smoking compartment. 1 heard him go, and, leaning from my berth, watched him out of sight. "It was then I got the idea of changing berths with him, getting his clothes, and leaving the train. I give you my word I had no Idea of throw ing suspicion on him." Alison looked scornfully incredtv lous, but I felt that the man was tell ing the truth. "I changed the numbers of the berths, and It worked well. I got Into the other man's berth, and he came back to mine. The rest was easy. I dressed In his clothes—luckily, they fitted—and jnmped the train not far from Baltimore, Just before the wreck." "There Is something else you must clear up," I said. "Why did you try to telephone me from M , and why did you change your mind about the message?" He looked astounded. "You knew I was at M ?" he stammered. "Yes, we traced you. What about the message?" "Well, It was this way; of course, I did not know your name, Mr. Blake ley. The telegram said; 'Man with papers In lower ten, car seven,' and after I had made what I considered my escape, I began to think I had left the man in my berth In a bad way. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Shock for Literature. The literary man who goes Into vaudeville runs a great risk of being humiliated when he compares his earning capacity with that of the trained elephant STANDARD OIL CO. IST DISSOLVE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ORDERS TRUST TO DISOLVE WITHIN SIX MONTHS. TOBACCO CASE OP.NION NEXT Highest Tribunal Holds That Oil Cor poration la Guilty of Conapiring to Restrain Trade —Victory For Gov srnmsnt In Famous Buit. *•••*••••• * The Supreme Court holds: • * That the Standard Oil company • * Is a monopoly In restraint of trade * * That this giant corporation must * * be dissolved within six months. * * Corporations whose contracts * * are "not unreasonably restrictive • * of competition" are not affected . • * Other great corporations whose * * acts may be called Into question * * will be dealt with according to * * the merits of their particular * * casea. • * The Court was unanimous as to * * the main features of the decision, * * Justice Harlan dissenting only as * * to a limitation of the application * * of the Sherman anti-trust law. • * President Taft and cabinet will • * consider Immediately the entire • * trust situation and the advisability * * of pressing for a Federal incorpo- * * ration act. • * A decision in the tobacco trust • * case, which was expected simul- • * taneously, was not announced and * * may be handed down on May 29. • * • ••••»•»• Washington.—The Standard Oil company of New Jersey and Its nine teen subsidiary corporations was de clared by the Supreme Court of the United States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing in terstate commerce In violation of the Sherman antitrust law.* The disso lution of the combination was ordered to take place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous strug gle of years on the part of the gov ernment to put down by authority of law a combination which it claimed was a menace to the Industrial and economic advancement of the entire country. ,-■ At the same time the court Inter preted the Sherman anti-trust law bo fis to limit Its application to acts of "undue" restraint of trade and not "every" restraint of trade. It was on this poirit that the only discord ant note was heard in the court, Jus | tice Harlan dissented, claiming that cases already decided by the court had determined once tor all, that the word "undue" or "unreasonable" or similar words, were not in the statute. He declared that the reasoning of the court In arriving at its findings was In effect legislation which belonged ; In every Instance to congreaß and not to the court. Ever since the decree In this case J In the lower court, the United States I circuit court for the eastern district j of Missouri, was announced, hope was j expressed by the "business world" I that the law would be modified so as | not to Interfere with what was deslg ' nated as honest business, that section | of the opinion calling for the use of i the "rule of reason" In applying the law is regarded in many quarters as an answer to the prayers of the "bus j Iness world." The opinion of the court was an ' nounced by\ Chief Justice White. In I printed form it contained more than twenty thousand words Many expected that the decision of J the court in the dissolution suit tgalnnt the tobacco corporations would be handed down Immediately after the decision In the Standard OH case. 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