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TT/fe Dkam COFVXASHT JSJJ «* Johnston MustratoMfy YlUmnes SYNOPSIS. Harding Kent calls on Loulas Vanish to propoas marriage and And* the house In treat excitement over tb« attempted aul- Blde of her sister Katharine. Kant starts an Investgatlon and finds that Hugh Crandall. suitor for Katherlne, who had bean forbidden the house by Oeueral Far rtah, had talked with KathaHns over the telephone just before she shot herself. A torn piece of yellow paper 1s found, at sight of which Hsneral Fairish Is stricken with paralysis. Ksnt discovers that Crandall has left town hurriedly. Andrew Elser, an agad banker, commit! •ulclde about the sains tlms as Katharine attempted her life. A yellow envelope Is found In Riser's room. Post Office In spector Davis. Kent's friend, takes up ths case. Ksnt Is convinced that Cran dall ts at the bottom of the mystery. Katharine's strang« outcry pussle* ths detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran dall's room and find an addreea. Lock Box 17, Ardway, N. J. Kent goea to Ard way to Investigate and becomes auspi cious of a "Henrv Cook." A woman commits sulclds at the Ardway Hotsl. A yellow letter also figures In this case. Kent calls Louise on the lons dlstancs telephone and finds that she had Just been called by Crandall from the same booth • "Cook" disappears. The Ardway post master Is mlaslng Inspector Davis ar rives at Ardway and takei up the Inves tigation. He discovers that the dead woman Is Barah Sacket of Bridgeport. Louise telephones Ksnt Imploring mm to drop ths Investigation. Kent returns to New York to set an explanation from Louise. Hs find* the body of a woman In Central Park and more yellow letters. He aeea Crandall. whom he recognises aa "Cook," enter the Farrish home. Loutss again Implores Kent to drop ths Inveatl ration and refuaes to give any sxplana- Bon. Later Kent sees Crandall and Louisa n an automoblls. Kant returns to Ard yay. CHAPTER Xl—(Continued). "Let m« see," the continued, "It *»i • week ago Tuesday—no, it was Wed nesday, for I went over to my alater'a Tueaday and Mr. Rouaer left word tor me, and I found It watting for me wben I came back. He aaked me to oome over and take the offlce for the day. I waa aurpriaed when I come aver here to open up to find him here, tor I'd understood that he waa going to be gone all day. He explained that he didn't have to go till after the mall m In, and he stayed here and helped me aort. There waa a lot of mail that day, people round here are great for answering advertisements and get ting circulars. Beaidea that, aome of them get-rich-qulck conoerna have got hold of our telephone subscribers' book and there's always a lot of min ing stock letters. There waa no less than four good-slsed bundles of letters from New York. Rouser was sorting the letters and I was handling the second claaa and the papers. I got through with that and picked up the last bundle of letters. In It was no leas than six lettera addressed to Lock Box 17. 'Seventeen's rented at last,' aaya I, thinking It funny that I didn't know the name on them, Henry Mal colm Stewart. Who'a got ltT 'l'll take charge of them,' aaya be, taking the lettera right out of my hand before I had a chance to look at the poatmarks or anything. I noticed, too, that hp didn't put them In the box, but Jammed them Into his pocket along with a lot of other letters he Bad. I couldn't say who the other lettera was ad dressed to, for I didn't get a chance to see them. «They might have been hla own, for ail I know. But I couldn't help thinking that the only reaaon he'd waited till the mall was distributed was to get hold of them Lock Box 17 letters. As soon as he got them he went away, and he didn't come hack Ull after closing time." "Have you any Idea where he went?" "When I come over here that day I supposed he was going to th« city, but s few minutes after he left ths offlce I saw him driving past In one of the livery rigs." "Which direction did be go?" I asked, feellhg more and mors sure that I had atruck the right trail. In all probability this young fellow in the past-office was merely an innocent tool of Crandall. He bad driven off some where to meet Crandall and give him the Lock Box 17 letters, for I was con vinoed that Stewsrt was merely an alias of the villain who had been aend lng out the yellow letters. If I could learn where the postmaster had gone on this visit. I might be able to find him now. "Every time Charlie Rouser goes driving," said Miss Cox, "he always goes that way," Indicating the opposite direction from the ststlon. "I shouldn't be surprised In the least If be was keeping company with some fanner's daughter." A sudden light came Into her eyes and a smile of satisfaction spread over her face. "Land alive, I never thought of it before," she exclaimed, "but I'd bet anything he's gone off to get mar rled." "Hardly likely," said L "He wouldn't go off and leave the offlce unguarded without telling aay one. And he wouldn't leave five thousand dollars lying there in the drawer." "That's Just what be would do. ril bet be bad a windfall of some sort and the minute be got the mopey In bis bands he Just couldn't wait to go sad tell tbe girl." "Somebody would have known it If be got a horse at the 11 very stable, would they not?" "Oh. that*s neither hero nor there, ■a might have gone ea Ma Meyda. Ha generally keefm It over there In the corner, and It ain't there now." "It might be up at his hoarding house." , "It might be." aald Miss Cox. It came to me that if Davie had thought it worth while to go to the Widow Bmith'a to make Inquiries, it might bo worth mj while, too After asking Miss Co* for directions, I told her I waa going to see if Roueer'e wheel waa missing, and made my way up on* of the eide streets to the boarding-house. Davie' visit evidently had ruffled the widow. I found her in anything but a communicative mood. "If you're another of those detec tive men coming prying around here," she said, "you might Just aa well get out. I've said all I'm going to say, and that's all there Is to it." "Please don't mistake me for a de tective," I said as pleasantly as I could. "I'm—a—friend of Miss Cox down to the post-offlce and we were wondering whether Charlie had taken his bicycle when be went away, and Ml|s Cox thought you might know." "If you're a friend of Jennie Cox," said Mrs. Smith, "I guess I'd be likely to know It, being her own cousin and knowing as well aa I know my own face that she hasn't had a man friend for eleven years, since Aleck Thomp son died. As for Charlie Rouser going away on his bicycle. I don't know nothing about it All I know Is his wheel ain't here, but he never kept It here anyway. He always kept it down to the post-offlos." With that she slammed the door In my face, but I went away well sat isfled. As I walked down the dusty path of the so-called street toward the hotel I reviewed all I had learned and was delighted to think how amated Davis would be when I pre aented my facts gathered In the last twenty-four hours, which were these: Hugh Crandall was aware that we were on his tralL Unable to learn anything from Lou ise over the telephone, he bad dared to go to the Parrish home. He had so Intimidated Louise that she had asked me to withdraw at once from the inquiry. Acting on her fears, he had persuad ed her to accompany him to some plaoe In New Jereey. Lock Box 17 was used for the mall of some one who had taken the alias of Henry Malcolm Stewart. All the mall that came to that ad dress was taken care of by Charlie Rouaer, the poetmaster. Rouser was In the habit of going at frequent Intervals either on his bicycle or In a buggy out on the road that led away from the station. Rouser, when he disappeared, un doubtedly had gone away on his bi cycle. Everything, to my mind, pointed to his having gone to meet Crandall. How to account for the fact that Rouser had not returned was still a poser to me, but as I reviewed Cran dall's connection with the chain of persons who had been driven to death I found myself believing that it was not at all out of the range of possi bility for Crandall to have made away with Rouser for fear of betrayal. From all I had learned about the missing postmaster, I was convinced that he was weak rather than vicious, and I felt that he probably was an innocent party to the nefarious plot of the yel low letters. Davis' story that It was a crime of two persons, after all, was only a theory. When the mystery was cleared up I was positive that the only criminal who would be uncovered would be Hugh Crandall. I shuddered as I recalled that Louise even now was somewhere with him, not exactly alone, to be sure, for the car was driven by her chauffeur, but still It was a most dlsconoertlng thought. As I approached the hotel I saw a buggy stop before It, tbe occupants of which ware Davis and the constable. As Davit dismounted 1 heard him say to tbe constable: "Tonight at eight." "11l be on hand, you bet," aald the constable as he drove off. I quickened my steps and overtook Davis Just as be started up the stairs to his room. "I've got some great news for you,'* I whispered and went on up with him. Tbe minute he got Into the roojn he flung himself on tbe bed, as If utterly worn out, and lighted a cigarette. I had expected that he would be eager to question me but this did not seem to be the case. He lay there with eyes half closed as If unaware of my pres ence. Annoyed as I was at his seeming In difference, I was sure thst when I told him my amaxing news about Crandall and my discoveries about the post master be would he effectually aroused. I took It for granted that his mood was due to despondency over his failure to find either of them. "I have seen Hugh Crandall twloe, no, three times, today," I said byway of beginning, "and I have found out bow Rouser went when he left tbe 90* offloa." "Yes," he Mid absent-mindedly. "Whit'i more," I cried Impatiently, "I Know who had Lock Box No. 17. I know what waa done with the mall that came to that address." Davis, without answering me, reached for another cigarette, light ing It from the butt he had been slook ing. His nonchalant Indifference grated on my nerves and I lost my temper. "Confound It Kent," he said with oonalderable asperity, "I wis so busy thinking out something I really didn't bear what you said. Sit down and tell me all about It" Mollified by hta apology, I sat down on the foot of the bed and told hla the story of my day, how I had seen a man going Into the Farrlsh home and had recognised him later as Hugh Crandall, or at least aa the man who had registered at the hotel as Cook; how I had been barred from the house; how I had discovered another yellow letter suicide In the park; how, when I returned to the Farrlsh home after Crandall had left Louise had told me of the theft of the scrap of yellow pa per from her desk; how she had left me to go off In her automobile after Insisting that I drop the Investigation; how I had eeen her again, croaalng the ferry with Crandall In the ma chine; how I had returned to Ard way and had learned that Lock Box 17 waa held In the name of Henry Mal colm Stewart; how the missing poat maater himself had been In the bablt of putting the mall that came to that address Into his own pocket and go ing off with It and finally, how Miss Cex and I had determined that when he disappeared he had gone off on hla bicycle. "From all I have learned," I said In conclusion, "I am convinced that Rou ser was the tool —In all probability the lnnooent tool—of Hugh Crandall in carrying out his nefarious achemes. Crandall apparently had him take the Lock Box 17 mall to some agreed meeting-place. It would not aurprlae me In the leaat If Crandall, finding hlmaelf in danger of exposure, hM made away with the postmaater. I am convinced that Crandall Is aware that he Is being watched. In his des peration he had the hardihood to vlalt the Farrlsh home and to abstract that fragment of the yellow letter, lest It should be used as evidence agalnat him. I am convlnoed. too, that be haa succeeded in terrorising Louise by the aame methods that he used with {er sister, so that she Is trying to dls uade me from pursuing Crandall. Rouoer, when he left the post oflloe, went away on his wheel on the road that leads from the station. If you fol low that road with me, perhaps we can find him. Pretty good for one day's, work, don't you think T" "Not bad," aald Davla, "if only you would not peraiat In mistaking your own deductlona for facta; but you overlooked the moat important fact." "What do you mean?" "You didn't happen to find out from The Minute He Qot Into the Room He Flung Himself an the Bed. M!M COX or from the Widow Smith, did you, whether or not the missing postmaster was left-handed?" "What's that got to do with itT" I cried, convinced that as usual he was amusing himself at my expense. "Much more than you think," he answered gravely. "It was the knowl edge that the criminal must, or at least one of the pair, must have been a left-lianded man that gave me one of the most Important clues In this case." "Confound you and your clues!" I exclaimed. "Where have they led yonf What more do you know about this chain of crime than when we started V He listened unruffled to my tirade and a* I finished remarked calmly: "I only know this mucb: Constats j£- • , '** \N-nr V I*' .*• Ml Dodda and I are going oat at eight o'clock tonight to arreat the mtaalng postmaster and hla accompli oe. 1 know where they both are, or where they will be tonight You may oome with us It you wlah. And now I am going to get a couple of hours' sleep. I expect we will have a rather busy night of It" As he concluded his amaalng state ment he rolled over on hla side and cloeed hla eyes, and In a few seconds waa apparently faat asleep. CHAPTER XII. The Ride In the Dark. Not slnoe my early boyhood haa (h* terrible fear of darkneas come over me as It did that night at eight aa the three of us set out from Ardway. The mystery of the Journey, too, added to tta terrors. I had not aeen Davis after hla startling announcement of hla nocturnal mission until he cane into the hotel dining-room for supper. All through the meal he had laughed and chatted on all sorts of Immaterial sub jects, Influenced undoubtedly by the fact that there were several others seated at the table with ua. There had been no opportunity for private conversation between us before we left the hotel together a little before eight for a aide atreet where Dodda. the constable, waa waiting for us with a vehicle. We had lingered at the table until all the othera had left Juat aa w« Cot up, Davla turned to me and In • hardly peroeptlble tone aaked: "Have you got that revolver I (an you?" "It'a up-atalra," I answered, In the same underatone. "Do you want ItT** "No," he aald significantly, touching hie hip pocket, "but you may." I hastened up-atalra to g«t the weapon and when I returned he waa waiting for me at the door and hurried m« around the corner and Into the buck-board. With Dodda crowded in between ua we drove along the street leading away from the atatlon and soon struck what la locally known aa the Plank Road, aklrtlng a chain of hllla which the residents dignity by the name of mountains. So precipit ous and rocky are these that little ef fort had been made to cultivate them and the habitations are few and far between. There aeemed to be prao tlcally no travel at night We encoun tered only one vehicle, of any aort, and that waa about two mllea out from Ardway, when we heard an automobile in the distance behind us. "Turn out," whispered Davis to Dodds, "and atop until it baa passed us." The constable drew in under the shade of some trees. It was pltcb dark, the only light coming from aa ancient lantern hung over the daab board. Aa the automobile came near er Davis unhooked the lantern and holding it down between his lega shielded It with the folds of a long raincoat he waa wearing. The auto mobile dashed by us, apparently u» aware of our presence. "All right," said Davis, as soon si it had vanished in the distance, "gc on." Dodds drove on in alienee for per haps two miles farther. We passed s little stone cottage nestling in a clear lng under the hill. "It's Just beyond here?" said Davia a note of Inquiry in his voice. "Yep," said the constable, "Miller*! Lane, they call it" - Though in my city eyes there wa no sign of a road, Dodds, about thre« hundred yards beyond the cottage pulled the'horse sharply to the right and we began ascending a rocky law that led almost straight up the hilL (TO BB CONTUTUMXi •tt • '* ?•' • ■ iv.-. • : ' -w. PEACE OF EUROPE ON SLENDER THREAD N. Q SCUTARI ALONE APPEARB TO CONTINUE AS THE THORNY PROBLEM. AN OFFER OF MEDIATION Dispatches From Constantinople Re port That Fighting Haa Been Re sumed st Tchatalja and Bulgair Rusaia Will Disband About 230,000. London.—'The European chancellor ies and stock marketa are being kept In a condition of nervous tension. No sooner does one thorny problem seem in the way of solution than another crops up. The long expected agreement for Austria-Russian demobHaaUon is pub lished; the Allies have accepted the lowers' offer of mediation under cer tain conditions and arrangements have beem completed for the settlement of the dispute between Bulgaria and Rou manla by a conference of Ambassadors at St. Petersburg, presided over by Serglus SazanofT, the Russian Foreign Minister. Thus the way seems prepared for the restoration of peace in the Balk ans. But at the same moment a new difficulty has been raised by Austria, who objects to Servla going to the assistance of Montenegro and is en deavoring to enHst the Powers to her side to coerce Servla. Further, Aus tria declines to demoblize aa far as the Servian frontier is concerned. It appears tberefoie that the fate of Scutari still Is a menace to the peace of Europe. Auatrla is deter mined to make Scutari the Capital of autonomous Albana. Montenegro is equally determined on the possession of Scutari and in the present temper of the Allies, It seems hardly possible that Servla will desist In her intention of going to the assistance of Monte negro at Austria's bidding. It Is understood Russia tffl? disband 230,000 reservists under agreement with Austria, but that on Austria's side It can hardly be described as de mobilization, since a much smaller number will be dispersed and only from the Russian frontier. A Constantinople dispatch reports that fighting has been resumed both at Tchatalja and Bullar. Attitude Toward Bletsr Republics. Washington.—President Wilson Is sued this formal statement of his pol icy toward the Central and South Am erican Republics: In riew of ques tions which are naturally uppermost In the public mind Just now, the Presi dent issues the following statement: "One of the chief objects of my Ad ministration will be to cultivate the friendship and deserve the confidence of our sister Republics of Central and South America and to promote in every proper and honorable way the Interests which are common to the peoples of the two Continents. I earnestly desire the most cordial un derstanding and co-operation between the peoples and leaderß of Americr and therefore deem it my duty to make this brief statement. Appoint Purchasing Agent. Washington.—lt was announced un officially that Richard E. Edgerton of New Jersey had been agreed upon for appointment as purchasing agent of the Postofflce Department. The office carries a salary of H.QOQ a year and has been vacant since January 6. Mr Taft named Frederick P. Austin, a Democrat, for the place but he was not confirmed. Under the law a de signated official may act as purchasing agent for only 30 days, ruary 6, the Postofflce Department has No 'Changes In Berber Patrol. Washington.—No change in the dis position of United States troops on the Mexican border between El Paso, Texas, and Nogales, Mexico, is likely in view of a report to the War Depart meat from Brigadier General Bltas that no patrols are nearer the Inter national boundary necessary. Police Probe is Proceeding. Washington. lnvestigation of re sponsibillty of the police for the dis order which attended the woman suff rage pageant on Monday, March 3, was continued by the Senate committee of inquiry. It was the Intent of the po lice witnesses to show that their ef fort* to preserve order were sincere but they were handicapped by the im mense crowd and lack of patrolmen Witnesses for the suffragists intended to prove that the police were opposed t the parade and did not attempt to rotect the marchers. - : Cabinet Has Busy Meeting. Washiogton.—PrMMent Wilson had a two hours' meeting with hia Cabinet in which general policies governing the organisation ef the various depart ments were outlined and a few minor appetntments discussed. The Presi dent declared after the meeting that "merely routine" had been taken up. He added that he regarded Cabinet meetings as a "cleartag house" for the handling of details. Members of the CaWaet were retleeat as to what had taken place. RESINOL STOPS ITCHING INSTANTLY It is a positive fact that the moment Resinol Ointment touches any itching akin, the itching stops and healing be gins. 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