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OOfWHffi 19// Ulustralkwsby YLlaraa » SYNOPSIS. Harding Kent ctlli en Louise Ftrrlih to propose marriage and Hi.ds the house In ■mat excitement over the attempted su!- elde of her stater Katharine. Kent atarta an luveatgatlon and finds that Hugh Crandall, suitor for Kathertne. who had been forbidden the houae by General Far rlali. had talked with Katharine over the telephone juat before ahe shot heraelf. A torn piece of yellow paper 1a found, at sight of whlcn General Farrlsh la •trlckan with paralyals. Kent discovers that Crandall has left town hurrledlr. Andrew Elser, an aged banker, Commits aulolde about the aame time as Katharine attempted her life. A yellow envelope Is found In Riser's room Post Of flee In spector Davis, Kent'a friend, takes up the caae. Kent Is convinced that Cran dall Is at the bottom of the myatery. Katharine's strange outcry pussies the detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran dall's room and And an address. Lock Box IT. Ardway. N. J. Kent joes to Ard way to lnveeUsrate and becomes suspi cious of a "Henry Cook." A woman commits suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A yellow letter also figures In this caae. Kent calls Louise on the lon if distance telephone and finds that ahe had )ust been called by Crandall from the same booth. "Cook" disappears. The Ardway post master la mlaslng. Inspector Davis ar rives at Ardway and takea up the Inves tigation. He discovers that the dead woman II Sarah Sacket of Bridgeport. Louise telephones Kent Imploring him to drop the Investigation. Kent returns to New Tork to ret an explanation from Louise. He finds the body of a woman In Central Park and more yellow letters. He sees Crandall, whom he recognises as "Cook." enter the Farrlsh home. 1/oulse again Implores Kent to drop the lnveatl- Satlon and refuses to give any explana on. Later Kent sees Crandall and Louise In an automobile. Kent returns to Ard way. Davis announces that he has planned to arrest the missing postmaster \nd also the niaater criminal. CHAPTER Xll—(Continued). "Wait a minute," said Davis, and the constable checked the horse. Jumping out quickly the Inspector seized the lantern and dropping back • few paoes began making what ap peared to be a minute examination of the road. ' "Taint much of a road," the con stable whispered to me while we wait ed. "It's only used for logging, though when we come up here this afternoon there was automobile tracks both go ing and coming." "Any Idea who made them?" I '• ' - - 1 -i AIKCQ. "Nope, but I guess be knows," with a gesture In the direction of the lan tern light. Just then Davis rejoined us, hang lag the lantern over the dashboard again. Instead of resuming his seat, be knelt on the floor of the buckboard, peeling down at the road as It was dimly revealed by the lantern. "Go ahead slowly," be ordered. As Dodds clucked to the horse I leaned down beside Davis and asked: "What did you find?" "Just what I expected. The auto mobile is somewhere ahead of us." "Whose la Itr "I don't know yet." • My curiosity would be denied no longer. Hitherto I had kept silent, hoping that Davis would confide In me the object of odP strange Journey. "Whom are we coming out here aft er?" I asked. "TKfcs postmaster and bis accomplice, of courde." "Who Is hla accomplice?" "I'm afraid I misstated the caae," ■aid Davis with a grim chuckle. 'The postmaster is the accomplice. The other Is the master criminal." "Who is the other?" I persisted. "Ia ' Is Hugh Crandall?" He was silent for a moment before anawerlng. I attributed it to hesita tion in admitting that he had been wrong and I right, and it was with considerable satisfaction that I finally heard him answer: "I should not be surprised if we found Crandall some where in the vicinity." He continued to peer down into the road as the horse struggled up the bill till we came to a comparatively level plateau. "Stop here," be called out authori tatively. ,> "The deserted cottage is at least a mile farther on," volunteered the con stable. "We'll walk it," aald Davla. "We cannot take any chanoes of the wheels being heard." Dodds pulled off the road and fas tened the horse to a tree. Again tak ing the lantern Davis made a search 1 the road, finally returning the lan tern to its place, after carefully extln gulahlng it. "Come on this way. aa quietly as you can," he directed. "I've got thla," I aald, showing him the little pocket electric light with which I had explored the post office "Do you want it?" "Keep it in your pocket. We may need It, but It Is better not to show • light If we can avoid 1L" I put it back In my pocket and took the precaution of placing the revolver Davla had glv«n me tn the side-pocket «C my coat There It would be more easily available. Davis moved off eoondleeely through the clearing with the constable, t close at hla heels "Thla ain't the direction of the cot tage," whispered Dodds. "I know. I want to find something elae first," Davis explained, keeping straight on through the darkness, like a bound on a fresh scent. He moved rapidly forward for a hun •>') ' dred and fifty yards and then brought us up short with a sharp "Hist." Aa we strained our eyes into blackness we mad* out the shape of an automo bile Just ahead. Its lights had been extinguished and its engine was dead. "Walt here," Davis again oommand ed as be crept pllently toward it to make sure that the tonneau was un occupied. He was back with us tn a minute. "Let me have that lamp of yours, Kent," he whispered, at the same time lighting a cigarette. "Is that safe?" I exclaimed In sur prise, amaxed that be would dare to smoke when he had been taking such precautions against our being discov ered. ' ,l "Sure," he replied laconically. "Who ever was in that automobile is at least half a mile away by now. The glass on the front lamps Is nearly cold. I want to aee the number, though. We may find it useful." Taking my little electric lamp he ad vanced toward the machine again, flashing the light for a second on the number, and then peering by its light into the tonneau, exclaiming as ho straightened up: "I thought so." If It was safe for him to smoke, tho constable and I felt that It waa safe for us, too, to relax our precautions, and together we had advanced until we were beside him. "What did you find?" I asked, won dering at bis exclamation. "What I expected," he replied en igmatically. The manner of his answer provoked me and I determined then and there to have it out with him. - "Look bore, Davis," I said; "I brought you into this case and I do not like the way you have acted about it I have freely told you everything I have discovered and have aided you In every way I can. Before I go a step farther on this trip I want to know more about it" "What is K you wish to know?" he naked. Tho constable edged nearer for fear he might miss something of our conversation. "First, where are we going?" "To what is known as the deserted cottage, about a half mile farther on, at the edge of this clearing, a shack that was built for a shelter for lum bermen or quarry men—which was it, Dodds?" "Built for one and used by t'other," the constable replied, "but 'taln't been used by either, so far as 1 know, for a dozen years." "How do you know the missing post master is there?" "Traced him." "How?" "Bicycle trae'rs," he answered with a chuckle. "You were not the only person who discovered that Rouser, when he disappeared, went on bicycle. In fact, Kent, you are a little slow as a detective. By the time you had as certained that much, I ascertained where tho bicycle tracks led to and had even gone so far as to have Dodds get warranta for Rouser and his''ac complice." "I still do not see how you got evl-' denoe enough to get a warrant for Crandall. Did you find him out here with the missing postmaster?" "I didn't say I had a warrant for Crandall," replied the inspector sharp ly. "Did you ever hear of a John Doe warrant?" "How do you know they are out here now?" I asked. - "We'll soon find out. Coma on," he answered, starting across the clearing almost at a dog-trot. There were many more questions I wanted to put to him, but there was no opportunity, and, besides, I doubted much If he would have answered them. At first he made little effort to move quietly, but after we had gone a quarter of a mile or more h« called back In a whisper, "Quietly now." We had come to a path which led us through a short thick growth of un derbrush. As noiselessly as Indians following a trail we felt our way along, the silence broken now and then by the sound of a bough bent back, or a rustling leaf. Soon the path brought us out on tome rising ground. Not fifty yards ahead of us appeared the de serted cottage. "That's it," whispered Dodds. "8shl" answered Davij. "Wait here!" We stopped there Just at the edge of the underbrush, peering Into the darkness, straining our eyes to see and our oars to hear. From the one window In the side of tho one-story log hut a dim light shone, proving that tho plaoo was either occupied or been very recently. Aa we became mora and more accustomed to the darkness I could see that there were apparently two paths, tho one on which we were standing and another leading off at about right angle. As wo looked and listened I heard a sharp crack, like the breaking of a twig that had boon stepped on. \ The sound, so far aa I could came from tho other path, apparently a hundred foot away from tho cottage. ' I turned toward Davis and saw that be, too, bud heard it. He wu stand ing with hit whole body tenae, hia head bent forward a little as If ready to spring at any instant AB we listened, another sound came to oar ears. At first indistinct. It quickly took the rhythm of footsteps hurrying along the path, a man walk ing rapidly, I decided. The hurryipg footsteps came nearer and nearer. Da vis now was crouching like a runner about to make a hundred-yard dash. It was only a minute of suspense and yet the effect on my nervea was indescribable. I wanted to scream like a hysterical girl; I wanted to run, forward or back. It made no differ ence; I wanted to do something, any- thing—anything but stand there and wait la the darkness. All of a sudden the form of a man hurrying along the other path became risible. He eeemed to be carrying something. Davis took two or three noiseless steps forward and stopped abruptly. From the shadows, from nowhere it seemed, the figure of an other man appeared directly in the path of the oncomer. "Hold on here!" It said, or some thing like that. With a curse the first man dropped whatever he was carrying and start ed to run. The second man started after him. With not more than ten paces between them the pursued man suddenly wheeled. A revolver flashed and the pursuer with a muttered curse fell headlong In the path. The hunted man turned and, with headlong speed, plunged down the path. At the revolver shot Davis bad leaped forward, and, needless to say, Dodds and I were not far behind him. M the fugitive was vanishing Da vis was even faater. With the move ment of a trained runner he, the wiry Inspector, quickly outdistanced Dodds and myself and waa close on the heels of bis man. Aa I ran breathless behind him, hoping to arrive in time to help him In hia capture, I saw the man ahead bait and turn. Instinctively I knew he waa about to shoot again, and, raising the revolver I had been carrying all the while, without even trying to aim, I fired In his direction Just as I aaw the flash from his revolver. There was hardly a second between the two reports and then— A woman shrieked. ' I turned sick with horror. There could be no mistaking it It was the voioe of Louise Farrlsh. With overwhelming dismay it came to me that I had shot the woman I loved. Too stunned to move I stood there. My whole body seemed turned to stone. My arms bung helpless at my sides. My legs refused to move. My mouth was fever-dry and my tongue lay lifeless. Yet my vision, I recall, seemed clear and strong, pene trating the darkness as if it had been "A Flesh Wound, Not at All Dangerous," CrandaM Answered. broad day. I iMDMd to see, as If the sight belonged to tome one else, come one outside myself. I saw the inspec tor and constable, both apparently un hurt by the shots, dash on in pursuit I saw a man's figure rise up from the path. I seemed to bear him call out: "Louise, Louise, where are' you? Are you hurt?" " There was no answer. Almost I had persuaded myself that the strain on my nerves, the horror of the night and the shock of the shooting had giv en me a hallucination, that the wom an's shriek I had heard was but a phantasm of a fevered brain, when the figure I had seen rise from the path, dashed into the thicket, repeat ing its agonised cry of "Louise, Louise, where are you?" At the sound, life came again into me. I dashed my revolver to the ground and spraag after htm. I fbund him bending over an unconscious form on the ground. Just as I reached the spot he bad lighted a match. He lift ed It to see my face, and as he did so I saw that the woman lying there ap parently lifeless waa indeed my Lou ise , Overwhelmed with anguish and re morse. I flung myself beside her, en treating her forgiveness. The other man shoved me roughly aside. "Don't be a fool," he exclaimed. "She has only fainted." "She's shot! She's killed!" I cried. "I shot her!" "I tell you she has only fainted," he cried angrily. "Help me carry her over there by the window." Together we lifted her and bone her gently to the side of the cottage, where we laid her on the ground. Joy surged In my heart aa 1 saw and heard that she was still breathing, Joy that was not even abated when I saw by the window light that my companion was none other than Hugh Crandall. But just then all other thoughts were driven out of my head by the sight of a thin stream of blood trick ling down the sleeve of Louise's auto mobile coat. "I tell you she Is shot. See," T cried, all my anguish coming back anew. With trembling hands I helped Cran dall cut away her sleeve, dreading all the time to see and know the worst. "It's only a scratch," said Crandall, with a sigh of relief. Across her rounded arm was a red dening gash where the "bullet liad cut its way through the tender flesh. While my head told me that Crandall was right, that it was only a flesh wound and not in the least dangerous, in my heart I still felt little better than a murderer. Three Inches to the right, and the bullet from my revolve* would have stilled her heart for ever. I She opened her eyes and stared at us in a puzzled way. "Why, Harding, dear," she said in feeble surprise, "are you here —here with Mr. Crandall?" For answer I bent and kissed her. What mattered it if Hugh Crandall was the criminal? What mattered It if th* chain of mystery was still un solved? What mattered It If the au» thor of the yellow letters had escaped from the Inspector? Ixiulse lived! She loved me! Davis and the constable came run ning up the path, panting from their chase, but empty-handed. "Is she hurt?" asked Davis as he saw the three of us grouped under ths window. "A flesh wound, not at all danger ous," Crandall answered, while I knelt there caressing Louise's hair and whis pering softly to her. "How about you?" asked Davis. "Ho didn't hit me," Crandall a» ' swercd with a short laugh. "I tumble# over the bucket of milk be was carry lng and dropped when he saw ma Didn't you get him?" "He's safe." answered the Inspector, "He ran plump over tbo edge of • precipice in the dark. We heard tha thud of his body on the rocka below. H« must have been instantly killed. Well get tlfc body in the morning. must have fallen two hundred feet." "A good two hundred," the con stable added aa Davia turned to peel in the window of the hut. "And Inside there," aaid the lnapectoi after a minute's survey of the interior, "la the other one, the master criminal —safe enough for the present" "Why, said the constable, who ha 4 followed the inspector's example 1* looking through the window, "whj that's Aleck Young," (To WE coNTimnmo HAZERS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER ORANGE COUNTY JURY RETURNS VERDICT AFTER THREE HOURB DELIBRATION. FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON attorney Bryant, Counsel For the University Sophomores Thanks Judge Peebles For Humane Judg ment.—Fathers Offer No Complaint. lilllsboro.—Ralph W. Oldham, Wil liam L. Merriani and Aubrey C. Hatch University of North Carolina students, convicted for manslaughter iu con nection with the death of Isaac Hand, a fellow student, and sentenced to tour months In Jail, were released by order of the Oranße county commia- sioners. In pronouncing sentence Judge Peebles instructed the county commissioners to hire the prisoners out "to whomsover they pleasu in the i.tate." The fathers of each of the rrudentß were permitted to pay >175 *0 the commissioners and secure the discharge of their sons. This amount would have been obtained if the pris oners had been hired to other per sons in the state. Discharge under this arrangement loaves the students without citiien- Hhip. A movement was started at Kaleigh, however, to petition Governor Locke Craig for their pardon. Establishing a precedent In the annals of this state a verdict of guilty of manslaughter was returned by the jury in the trial of ltalph W. Oldham of It&lelgh, William L. Mer rlam of Wilmington and Aubrey C. Hatch of Mount Olive, the three Uni versity of North Carolina students in dicted in connection with the death of I suae W. Rand in a hazing escapade at Chapel Hill, September 12, 1912. There Is no record of a hazing esca pade being threshed out previously in the courts of this state. Judge Peebles sentouced each of the prisoners to four months in the county jail beginning April 9, next. Each of the defendants was ordered to give SIOO bonds for his 1 appearance before the county commissioners, who shall In their discretion hire them out to whomsover they please in the state." \ The fathers of the defendants were in the court when the minimum sen tence for manslaughter was pro nounced. No evidence of emotion was displayed by them nor by the pris oners. An array of counsel represented the defendants in the proceeding. As a result of (he tragedy which preceded the trial, 26 students in the University of North Carolina were suspended or i xpelled after a sweeping investigation Into the practice of hazing. An Aggressive Campaign. L. B. I'adgett, field secretary of the Lay men's Missionary Movement in this Btate. Is In Asheville planning an aggressive campaign to work up inter est of the convention of the Western North Carolina laymen, which is to be held here April 20 and 21. It 1H plhnned to make the meeting of the laymen of this section of the Btate •ho most successful which haß yet been held in North Carolina. Only One Colelctor of Customs. Beginning July 1, this year, North Carolina Is to liave but one collector of customs for the entire state. Thlß change, radical in that it is the first change in the custom service in more than 100 years, is the reorgani zation of the whole customs service put through in the closing hours of 1 resident Taft's administration. To Revive Guilford County Fair. A meeting has been called for the near future by County Superintendent Kducation Koust for the purpose of reviving the Guilford county agricul tural association and placing it on nuch a footing as to make posHlble an enlarged work in the agricultural de velopment of Guilford county. Postponed County Commencement. The county commencement sched uled for several days ago was post- .poned on account of the very bad weather. County Superintendent Vann nays that there are 105 graduates in the class. They will receive diplomas showing that they have completed the work of the seventh grade In the public schools of Davidson county. These diplomas will be signed by Governor Craig, State Superintendent Joyner and County Superintendent P. S. Vann. The commencement will be held in the near future. In All Absorbing Queetion Future. The proposition to build dykes on Roanoke river and drain the low grounds is the ail-absorbing queetion among the people around Scotland Neck and one hears but little else. Many people declare it is the greatest proposition ever offered the owners of the property along the river, and if carried to completion will do more to enhance the value of the lands than anything that could be done. Already It is said that the value of the lands embraced in the territory has ad tranced considerably. APPOINTS FOUR NEW JUDGES Governor Has So Far Only Received Acceptance From Qge of Man T«»- I the Judgeship. Raleigh.—Governor Craig haa re ceived from Thos. J. Shaw of Greena boro the latter's acceptance 01 ap pointment as superior court Judge for the new eleventh district. Tho gov ernor tendered the judgeship of tho eighth district to George Rouutree of Wilmington and has received a reply from Mr. Roundtree to the effect that he is giving the matter careful consid eration tout desires time to reach a conclusion in the matter. Another of the new judgeships cre ated in the redistricting is tendered) to Cameron Morrison of Charlotte, from whom the governor has not heard since he offered the judgeship to him. Report has it that he will not accept. The remaining judges may not be appointed for a week or two yet. The governor says a num ber of excellent men are being urged and he has by no means made up his mind Those mentioned are Speaker George W. Connor, Wilson; A. A Gaylord, Plymouth; T. T. Thorne and Jacob Battle, Rocky Mount; G. M. T. Fountain and John L. Bridgers, Tar boro. A big delegation is scheuled for a hearing before the governor in the interest of Mr. Thorne. North Carolina New Enterprise*. Knur charters, one for a new rail road, were issued. They are: The Commercial Realty Company, of Dur ham, was chartered with an author ized capital of SIOO,OOO, and $3,000 subscribed for by B. K. Kronheimer, S. W. Sparger and S. B. Pierce. The King: Drug Company, of High Point, reduces Its capital from $12,000 to $lO,- 000. VV. L. Jones is president, j Tho Thermaiarni Company, of Charlotte, amends its charter so that the board of directors may be divided into three classes. A. L. Newell is secretary The Warrenton and Norlina Railway Company was chartered to build a railroad from Warrenton to Norlina a distance of five miles. The prlnct pal office is at Warrenton, and the au thorized capital is $50,000, with $5,000 paid in by J. P. Scoggin; W. H. Bur roughs and W. E. Twitty of Warren ton; A. C. House, of Weldon; J. K. Plummer, Jr., of Raleigh, aad J. E Bowers of Scotland Neck. More Tar-Heels After Jobs, t- Not content to sit idly by and watch other states pluck off near-cabinet po sitions, the North Carolina delegation besides pushing Colonel Osborne for commissioner of internal revenue, have several other Tar Heels, who they consider near-cabinet materia'* and will urge them for heads of bu reaus in government departments. As soon as an appointment can be made with Secretary of Agriculture Hous ton, Congressman Webb and Senator Simmons will ask him to appoint Dan W. Adams Of Ashe county a# chief of the foreiyry bureau. They will also urge Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo to name John W.• Rag land of Elk Park, a prominent lawyer as assistant solicitor under the treas ury department. New Drink Causes A Stir. Quite a stir has been created at Goldsboro by a new drink that on* of the drug stores is said to be serv ing at its fountain. Officers noticed the large number of customers at the fountain A United States deputy marshal! came along and bought one of the drinks. He went out saying, "if that is not whiskey, it is a mighty CIOBW neighbor to it/' and since that time the officers have been busy try ing to And out what the drink really is. Yadkin To Have Commencement. Yadkin Is to have a county com mencement this year. The date set is Easter Monday, March 24. There will be a parade of the committeemen, teachers and pupils of all the schools in the county arranged by townships. The parade will form at the Yadkin ville normal school and march through the principal streets of Yadkinville to the courthouse. Raleigh.—Gilbert C. White of Char lotte and B. M. Hall of Atlanja are two of three arbitrators to pass on the purchase-price Raleigh must pay the Wake Water Cdmpanv for the city waterworks. Supervisor of Teacher Training. Hon. J. Y. Joyner, state superintend ent of public instruction, announce*) the appointment of E. E. Sams as su pervisor of teacher training, to succeed the late J. A. Bivins, who died recent ly. Mr. Sams has been chief clerk in the state department of education. Mr. Joyner has tendered the chief clerkship to some one, but will not announce an appointment to this va cancy until he has an acceptance on hand. As supervisor of the teacher training Mr. Sams will have charge of the teachers' institute work. Explosion Causes "Excitement. The principal topic of conversation in Statesville was the tremendous ex plosion which jarred buildings and caused much excitement throughout this section recently. Explosion Is said, because that is what it sounded like. Just what it was is the debat table question. The great noise and subsequent quiver of the atmosphere came just prior to the breaking of the storm which lasted throughout the night and while some believe it m a freak of nature, others contend thait it was a local explosion of dvnamtta.
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