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A torn piece of yellow paper la found, at sight of which Oeneral Farrlah Is •trluken with paralysis. Kent discovers that C'randall has left town' hurriedly. - Andrew Klaer, an aged banker, commits . suicide about the same time as Katharine ) j attempted her life. A yellow envelope la j found In Elser's room. Post Office In a apector Davis. Kent's friend, takes up | the case. Kent Is convinced that Cran j j dnll'a room and find an address. Lock ' j Katharine's Strang" outcry puzzles the I detectives. Kent and DavtS Sf'arch Onm ! dnll'a room and And an addres. Lock Box 17, Ardway. N. J. Kent goes to Ard way to Investigate and becomes auspt * clous of a "Henry Cook." A woman i. commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A ! yellow letter also figures In this case. „ ■ Kent calls Tx>ul»e on the long distance - ! telephone and flnds that she had lust been I railed by Crandall from the same booth. "Cook" disappears. The Ardway post r \ master Is missing. Inspector Davis ar rives itt Ardway and takes up tha lnves- I ligation. CHAPTER Vlll.—(Continued.) The dry, matter-of-fact way in which J he recited the facts he had learned | added to the value of his narrative. I More and more I marveled at the man's detective ability. 1 was over whelmed with a sense of my own in- I capacity. All day long the coroner, I the constable and 1 had been trying to ferret out the mystery of the unfor j tunate woman's identity with prsc j tlcally the same properties to draw . | deductions from, the inspector in n . ! very few minutes had not only learned j j her identity, but many other impor , [ tant. facts about her. Nor did It oc . I cur to me to doubt the truth of his , information. The assurance with I which he spoke was in Itself ft suf | llcient guarantee. I "How on earth did yon learn all ! this BO quickly?" I asked In amaze ! ment. i He smiled with that grim tantaliz ing smile of his that 1 hod s-een be-1 j fore. His cigarette had burned Itself jto a stub as he spoke. lie turned It I carefully In his fingers, inspecting it j as If to see whether ho could extract J another puff before throwing It away. ! ! He finally decided that lie could not, \ and drew forth his cigarette papers | and tobacco, preparatory to rolling a { new one. Meanwhile I awaited his : answer In suspense. "Go on," 1 continued. "Tell me about It. I must know how you did ! it" i j "The principal part of a magician's art," he said as he lighted his new ; ) cigarette, "lies In what is called 'mis- I i direction.* With a glance from his , j eyes, with a sudden movement of hlB j hand he attractn your attention to his right side. Meanwhile his left Is doing the trick. Now, misdirection. In , j my business, has just the opposite ef , | feet. Amateurs, in investigating I ! crime, examine the evidence and see I j clues pointing in some direction. They , | follow those clues and find themselves , floundering They have the right clues, but they go In the wrong direc- I tlon. You rend the evidence aright ;as to Miss Sackett coming from , I Bridgeport, but all your efforts to lo cate her as Mary Jane Teller were » j simply a waste of time. In the > I clothes Bhe left behind hor wai her ! real name." ■ 1 "Look here," I said, "you can't | string me in that fashion. I myself ! examined those garments closely. ! There was no name in them and there no marks by which she could be iden tified." "Is that so?" There was deep sar casm in his tone. "And not only that, even if I over | looked any marks that might have j been there, the landlord, the coroner, | the constable and half a dozen others i examined them closely. If there were | any marks, some one of ms surely j would have discovered them." For answer he got up leisurely and I walked across to a chair where the garments were still lying. He picked up the skirt shd held it by the lower hem. "Look closely at it," he commanded "Do you see nothing there?" I scanned the dusty cloth. Intently and shook my head. He picked up the coat and offered It gravely for my in spection, even turning It insld* oat, sleeves and all. "Wejl. what of It?" I exclaimed im patiently. "I can't see anything there either." "Can't you?" he asked over-pleaaant ly. "That's where I found the Rom an's name." Xn I took up both garments and I them, but I was positive that there was no name of any sort or any thing to Indicate a nam*. I felt that he must be simply Jesting with me. "Yon can't fool me," I exclaimed. "I would wager you a thousand dollars to ivs hundred that ooafc and skirt do not differ any In the slightest from hundreds of other coata and skirts worn by hundreds of other women." "You lose," he responded tersely. With one linger he began to traoe an almost invisible lias on the goods where there had onoe been a seam. "Do you see that mark?" "Tea," I replied. "I notloed that long ago. It simply means that the aklrt haa been lengthened or short ened, but what of It?" "It means more than that," be an; swered almost severely, as If reproach ing me for my lsck of observation. "It means that a thirty-eight skirt has been lengthened an Inch and a half. Look at this coat. The sleeves have been lengthened two inches. It is a thirty-eight coat. Can't you see how simple the problem has becomeJ" "I confess I can't see It at all." "Let me state It for you: A woman from' somewhere tn Connecticut buys a black suit of a rather peculiar tex ture from a cloak and suit house that receives a great many mall orders. Bhe requires a thirty-eight coat with tileeves lengthened two inches and a thirty-eight skirt let down an inch and a half. That's enough to Identify any person." "I must confess I still don't see how that knowledge will help you." "In these days of system every house that sells women's garments has elaborate card indexes. The great eat expense they have is In altera tions. They figure that a roll pf cloth that costs so much will make so many suits of a certain pattern wfiich they will sell for so much In a certain length of time. They figure on mak ing so much profit on the suits. If the cloth is all right, the pattern pop ular and the price reasonable, they ran figure to a certainty on their prof | its, except for one factor —alterations. Alterations require the time of skilled work-people and also correspondence and frequently extra express charges. The aim of the manager is to reduce alteration to a minimum. For that reason he keeps a record of every al teration made. This particular dress happened to come from a store where I know the manager well. It is their busy season just now, and I tobk a chance on finding him in his office. I described the goods In the suit, gave him the size and the sort of altera tions that had been made on It and asked him to have his card index looked up. I told him in all prob ability the woman 1 wanted to know about came from Bridgeport, Conn., or near there. It happened that only three of the eight suits they lrad made from this piece of goods—at least the only ones entered on the alteration cards—had gone to Connecticut. Of th« three, two were thirty-six coßts, "Look Clossly at It," Ho Commanded. to they could be eliminated at onoe. The third one had had the sleeves 1 lengthened and alio the akirt. The 1 sizes corresponded, so there was Terr little doubt that it had been this worn ' an who had bought It. Mis*' Sarah Sackett, the woman who committed 1 auiclde here." > "But even so.V protested, still mar > veling at his revel*tiona, "how did 1 you get the rest of your Information » about her so quickly?" "The address she had given was 'in • care of the express agent' at Bridge i port. Such an addreaa In a large city i would mean nothing, but In a place - .. the ale# of Bridgeport the Inferenoe was plain that ttaa agent waa probably an acquaintance. If aha lived In Bridgeport, she would have given street and number. I concluded at onoe that ahe lived In the suburbs near Bridgeport. I called up the ex press agent, and he gave me the reat of my facta." "Did he tell jrou why «be committed suicide?" «■ "He doesn't dream that ahe has," the inspector replied. "I put my ques tiona in a guarded way and he hap pened to be a garrulous fellow, who readily followed my leada. All I asked him waa where a letter would reach Miss Sarah Hackett, saying I had forgotten which rural free deliv ery route it was that ahe lived on. He told me that she and her brother were atlll living on the old Sackett place, . Route No. 1. I explained that I want ed to make sure of an important let l ter reaching her at once. He told me i she was away, explaining (hat he had . seen her come down to the station with her brother, and suggested that ■ It might be a good idea to send tbe . letter in her brother's care, and told . me the address of the bank where : her brother could be reached. Bo you l see it is all quite simple when you i know how." t "I don't see, though," I objected, i "how anything that you have learned ' In any way connecta this woman with the Farrish mystery." i "I told you there would be other i suicides, didn't 1?"- —* — ~ "It looks to mo 11144 a mere coincl : denoe." "How about the yellow letter ahe 1 Y a » reading?" 1 I started. For a moment I had for -1 gotten the atrange, tinted link that • aeemed to bind the Farrish tragedy, the Riser case and the Sarah Sackett 1 suicldo together in the terrible chain of mystery. "We've got to find Hugh Crandall!" i I exclaimed. "I will not be content until we do. There is no doubt in my mind that he is the author of those letters. We've got to find him, Davla, and make him explain. I promised the girl I love I would not rest until I had cleared away the mystery, until I had lifted the cloud that is hangr ing over her father and her sister. Nothing, nothing shall stand in the way! Think what it means to me! The one I love, the one who is dearer to me than anything else in the world, is living in constant dread of an un known terror. I feel that Crandall Is responsible. I am positive that he is guilty. Help me And him, Davis! We must And him." As I spoke Davis sat regarding me with unmoved countenance. He puffed leisurely at hts cigarette two or thre» times, and then, with cutting asper , lty, without the indication ~of sympathy for my anxiety, said slowly: "Harding, 1 told you that one of the [ reasons for my success was that I nevef undertake anything that I can not accomplish. I came out here to find the man who has been using the , malls illegally to terrorize people to such an extent that they are driven I to suicide. 1 am confident that we II will quickly locate him and his ac -1 ! complice In crime. Rest assured that ' j you can safely leave the plan of ao , I tion to me." , * "But—but," I stamAered, "what la your plan of action? What are you going to do nowf' "I'm going to bed," he replied, yawn ing aa he rose from hla chair. "There's nothing mors that can be done to night." Impatient aa I was, and anxious though I waa to alleviate Louise's feara at the earlieat moment possible, I could not but feel that he was right Thore was nothing that could be done that night I showed him where the room waa that I had engaged for him —next to mine—and, feeling much de pressed and perplexed, was preparing to tarn in when I waa startled by a sharp rap on my door. "Come in," ! called, thinking, of , course, it waa Davia with some, aew ; theory to suggest. Instead It was the clerk from tbe office below. "You're wanted oa tbe telephone," he said. I had already taken off my coat and waistcoat and I did not wait to put them on. Just as I was 1 sped through the hall to the telephone booth. Who could it be that was calling me at this hour? It most be long after ten. I could think of only two peraons who know of my being in this hotel, Louise and Hugh Crandall. I felt that It must be Louise. Why should Cran dall call me up ? True, he conld have learned my name from &e hotel reg ister, and from my question about the yellow letter he must know that I waa on his trail, but having eacaped from the village, why should he com municate with me? No. It could not Breathlessly I Rushed Into the Booth and Grabbed the Receiver. be he. It must be Louise. She would not call me at thia time unless some thing had happened. That waa it. Something terrible had happened! Katharine was dead, or perhapa ber father. Perhapa both of them. Or ! maybe Katharine had spoken again, j Perhaps she had given some lnfor- | mation that Loui»e felt would aid me | in the investigation that meant so ! much for both of us. Isn't it slrange how fast we can | think? It could not have taken me j more than thirty seconds to race from, j my room to the telephone booth in I hall below, yet-In that—brief-period - all these thoughts and a hundred other queries and fears pursued each other in mad tumult through my brain. Breathlessly I rushed into the booth anil grabbed the receiver. It was the 1 voice of Louise that I heard. Faint [ though it was, I recognized it at once, j and was overjoyed to note that there j was nothing in it of the sadness there j would have been If the worst had i come to her father or Katharine. "Is that you, Mr. Kent?" she asked. "Yes, yes," I cried. "Whst Is it?" ! "This Is Louise Farrish speaking. I want you to promise me that you will I drop your investigation at once and return to the city." "What's that?" I cried, not bcliev- j ing my ears. "If you love me"—she was speaking t slowly and enunciatfcig with labored I distinctness that there might be no mistake—"you will drop all investl- ! gation at once without any questions. Do you hear me? Repeat what I have said so I can be sure you under stand." Word for word I repeated her mes sage, amazed beyond thought at Its import. As I finished repeating it. I cried, "Why, tell me why—" but I heard the thud of the broken con- ; nectiom Frantically I called central. I plead ed, urged, demanded that ahe get the person at the other end of the wire again. It was no use. I called for the Farrishs' number. Central report- 1 ed, "Don't answer." I said that I ' had been called Just now from there. After weary, impatient minutes of waiting and wrangling, she told me the call had come from another num ber, from a pay station. I demanded that number at once and finally she got It for me. It was a drug-store near the Farrish home. 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