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Harding Kent calls on Louise Farrish to mug
propose marriage and finds the house in
great excitement over the attempted sut
-ede of her sister Katharine. Kent starts had
an Investigation and finds that Hugh
Crandal., suitor for Katharine. who had He
been forbidgen the house by General Far- sure
rith, had talked with Katharine over the
telephone just before she shot herself.hat
A torn piece of yellow paper is found. I
at sight of which General Farrish is
stricken with paralysis. Kent discovers
that Crandall has left town hurriedly. som
Andrew Elmer, an aged banker, commits cal
suicide about the same time as Katharine
attempted her life. A yellow envelope is kne'
found toi Elser's room. Post, Office In- sure
spector Davis. Kent's friend, take up
the ease. Kent is convinced that Cran- en I
dall is at the bottom .of the mystery. the
Katharine's strange outcry puzzles the
detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran- "
dall's room and find an address. Lock I as
Box 17, Ardway. N. J. Kent goes to Ard
way to investigate and becQnes suspi- witl
blous of a "Henry Cook." A woman
commits suiclde at the Ardway Hotel. A
yellow letter also figures in this case. lord
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CHAPTER VII. you
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Two Disappearances. "1
I looked at my watch and saw that '.
it was nearly noon. I remembered that
I had not yet called up Louise as I hen
had intended to do the very first thing fror
that morning. What a laggard lover
she must think me! How heartless it crfe
must seem to her for me to leave her thai
alone so long in the mansion where vet,
here rather and sister lay dying, per- tim
haps dead, with the black shadowy
mystery still hanging over her and one
them! What must she think of me? "D
Pilled with self-reproach I sprang up tho
without a word of apology or explana- hea
tion to the others and hastened to the dial
telephone booth I had observed in the no
bhall. des
"G'.'e me 0141 Madison," I demand- and
ed of central. I
"What's the matter?" she repeated, stir
with surprise in her tone, which struck owl
me pe.uliarly until I considered that gui
long-distance calli from Ardway must hat
be such ¶ rarity as to surprise even
the operator. iaq
"I want long-distanoe-New York," wa
I expiained, enunciating distinctly, got
'0141 Madison."
"Agta," central replied, flippantly, res
it appeared to me. Ev
I repeated the number, more than cri
annoyed by her response. "Oh, I've cui
got your number all right by this the
time." fro
It wit a good thing for her that she ne
tried no more jocularity with me, or
the rules of the company against pro
fanity would have been shattered.. hit
There wus a wait of several minutes, the
ulled with the usual false alarms of
long-distance telephoning, during ge
which I stood and fumed. At last I
heard my dear Loalse's voice and has- In
tned eagerly to ask after her wel- cis
fhre. Her voie seemed strong and ral
cheerful, though she admitted that she we
had slept little the night before. I lai
apologised for ne' having called up be- as
Dore. She told me that while her fa- no
ther's condition was unchanged, the to
doctor thought he teas in no immedi- ha
ate danger, and that Katharine was to
mach improved. The doctor believed be
now that she could live. She was con go
scions, but very weak, ai Louise had no
been forbidden to speak to her and all
was allowed in the room only for a wl
minute at a time. I hastil) sketched dr
for her the events of the mºrning
"Oh, Mr. Kent," said Louise's voice ju
-how I wished she would call me by na
my first name-"who do you srppose in
called up?" fu
"Who?" st
"Hugh Crandall." he
"What's that?" I exclaimed, harmly dc
believing my ears. at
"Hugh C'randall," she repeated a lit
tie louder and more distbctly. "He t.
asked for Katharine, and the maid m
called me to the telephone. I told him w
my sister was Ill and could not come ki
to the telephone. He seemed greatly te
agitated and insisted on knowing what do
the matter was. He was so agitated yi
and persistent I finally told him she go
had met with an accident. He was
silent for so long I thought he had ti
left the telephone, but all of a sudden re
he asked, 'Did she shoot herself?' and tl
before I thought I answered 'Yes. w
Then he cried out, 'Oh, my God!' or s
something like that and asked if she fI
was fatally injured. I told him that if
she was alive but unconscious, and y
then, Harding, he asked if I had seen t
anything of a yellw letter. I tLought n
I had better tell him nothing about a
that, so I answered 'No,' and then be
rang off."
"That was right," I said. "Where
did he call up from?"
"I have no idea." 11
"When was it? How long ago?" c
"Not very long-within the hour."
Hastily I explained to 1~nlise that a
aan that I believed was Crandall was
bore in 'he hotel with me and that i
would find him at once and make him I
explain the mystery. Before I left the
booth 1 got the Ardway central again I
and from her learned what I had be
g.n to suspect-that "O14: Madison"
Sbed been called from the very booth t
i- which I stood, not over an hour be t
$gra There was no longer any doubat
dabm It ti my mtld--Cook was Cran- t
Ut N evidotily had gone straiht t
M tibder i beet after sUipping s
out of the room as I had asked the Ilgb
question about the yellow letter. From vial
the questions he put to Louise, he I c
must have been suspecting that Kath- loci
arine would try suicide. Why else the
had he asked if she had shot herself? A
He must have known her motive. He str(
surely could explain the dark mystery to
that burdened her father and herself. ma'
I resolved to seek him at once and, bui
even if I had to have. him arrested on lag
some pretext, or if I had to use physi- fao
cal force, to make him disgorge all he the
knew. I felt in my pocket to make cit4
sure that the revolver Davis had giv- wai
en me was there, and hurried back to I ci
the office. off
"Have you seen anything of Cook?" wa
I asked, trying to mask the eagerness ide
with which I sought him. mil
"Not since this morning," the land- hoi
lord volunteered. "I guess you saw
him after I did. The coroner told me ing
you saw him leaving the room during
the inquest." sor
"I seen him," volunteered the clerk.
"Where? When?" I asked excitedly.
"About an hour ago, driving past "H
here lickety-split with the black mare da;
from Jones' livery stable." ma
"Which direction did he go?" I he
cried, all excitement at the thought bri
that Crandall was escaping just at the pa(
very moment when I, for the first wa
time, had made sure of his identity. an,
"He must be followed and found at the
once," I said, turning to the landlord. thi
"Don't his actions look to you like sol
those of a guilty man? The minute he toh
hears me ask about a yellow letter he wt
disappears from the hotel There is
no train by which he can escape. So wt
desperate is he that he hires a horse ini
and tries to get away cross country." tic
I had hoped by my eagerness to ee
stir in the landlord something of my fr(
t own feelihg in regard to Crandall's Bc
t guilt, but these country yokels are lyl
t hard to move. th
a "What do you suspect him of?" he it
iaquired calmly. "Why should he
want to escape from you? Have you
r, got a warrant for him?"
I was not yet ready to divulge my
r, reason for wanting Crandall captured.
Even if we had him, what definite
n crime was there of which I could ae
e cuse him? I was morally certain that
s the yellow, letter or letters emanated
from him, yet how could I prove it? A
e new thought came to me.
r "Where is his baggage?" I asked.
"He "only had a hand-satchel with
S. him," said Mr. Williams, "and I guess
s, that is up in his room."
)r "Suppose we go look for it," I sug
*g gested.
I "You don't do no such thing as that
I- ln my hotel," said the landlord de
1- cisively, "not unless you've got a war
4 rant. He's paid for his room for a
to week in advance, and there ain't no
I law to prevent his going and coming
e- as he pleases, so long as there ain't
a- no warrant out for him. If be wants
te to get out of town behind the fastest
ii- horses in Jones' stable I ain't a-going
is to try to stop him, and what's more. if
td he has left his grip in his room it is
n going to stay there. Maybe or maybe
id not there are things in it, but there
id ain't no prying stranger gging to know
a what's there unless he can show me
td due warrant of law."
"You may be defeating the ends of
De justice," I warned him sternly. Indig
)y nantly resenting his remark, yet see
ae ing no way in which I could success
fully dodge his appellation of "prying
stranger" without revealing my whole
hand, and this I was determined not to
ly do until Davis arrived and I had had
an opportunity to consult with him
t- "I may be blocking your plans." said
ie t. e landlord gruffly, "but you'll get no
id more help out of me unless I know
Im wha.t it is you are after. The right
ne kind of a mystery doesn't hurt the ho
ly tel b\'siness, but there's things that
at do, and if you want any help from me,
ed young 'nan, I've got to know what's
he going on."
as "I wish I knew myself," I said men
ad tally, adduing aloud: "When I am
en ready to speak you will hear many
nd things that r91 astound you. Mean
s. while, I tell you that I have every rea
or son to believe that that man who fled
he from here is a great criminal and that
lat if you do not aid it his apprehension
nd you will be doing a i'erious wrong to
en the community. I'll tell you this
rht much, I am convinced that he was re
ut sponsible for this woman's death and
he for other deaths."
"Maybe he is and maybe he aln't,"
ere sa!d the landlord. "I saw the lady
rnyself, and nobody can persuade me
it was anything but a suicide. Why,. I
cut her down!"
"I am not denying that she commit
ta red suicide," I replied with some as
cas perity, "but I am morally certain that
tI if she killed herself she was driven to
Iim it by the man who has just fled. I
the insist on being allowed to examine [is
ain baggage."
be "Look here, young man." said Mr.
n" Williams. "I have told you once and
oth for all that the baggage of no guest In
be this house is going to be examined
ubt without due process of law. And I
an- want to say right bere that it's evident
ght that you yourself know a lot more
tag aboht this case than you are ttllUg
If you are an ofoet and can show mee
a warrant I am ready to give you all c
the aid and assistance I can, but until 11
you do, I'd advise you to keep your ti
nose out of things that ain't your busi- k
ness and to stay out of places you s
ain't got a right to be in."
The suspicion crossed my mind that *
it might 'e he who had discovered me
in the po office the night before. I
decided stuckly that it could not have t
been, for b, was in the hotel when I n
arrived. I telt sure it must have been a
either Crandall or the postmaster. t
Plainly, though, there was nothing a
further to be gained by argument with I
the obtuse Mr. Williams. After all, a
there ought not to be much difficulty
in tracing Crandall by the vehicle in
which he had driven away. That could
wait until Davis arrived. Meanwhile I
pondered on what I could do to throw t
light on the case. I had it. I would a
visit the post office again and see what I
I could learn about the holder of the <
lock box from which Davis believed t
the yellow letters came.
Abruptly leaving the landlord, I
strolled out into the street, determined
to go boldly to the post office and
make inquiries. As I approached the
building I saw a little group of vil- I
lagers gathered in front of it, the
faces of some of whom I had noted at I
the inquest. They seemed to be ex- I
citedly discussing some happening. It I
was not without some trepidation that I
I came closer. If my visit to the post
office had been discovered and there
was anyone in the crowd who could
identify me, an awkward situation I
might develop. I put on a bold front. I
however, and approached closer.
"What's the matter?" I asked, try
ing to make my inquiry seem casuaL
"The postmaster's disappeared."
some one explained.
"Where?"
"Don't know," said my informant.
"He didn't come to the office at all to
Iday. When the people come for their
mail after the New York train got- in
[ he wasn't here. Hank Rollins always
brings it up on the stage, and as he's
passing, throws it off on the board
walk and the postmaster comes out
and gets it. Nobody ever goes for
their mail for a few minutes after
that, to give him a chance to get it
sorted. The first persons who got here
today found the mall-sack lying just
where the driver had flung it."
1 "Yes, sir," broke in an old man
whom I heard them call "lDad" Hutch
) inson. "Yes, sir, I was the first to no
tice it. I was going to the office to
D see if maybe there was a letter for me
r from my daughter Mary, who lives up
s Boston way, and I noticed the sack
e lying right over there. I went into
the office to tell the postmaster about
e it and kind of have a little fun with
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u*h Po ne.stmasters Dies ppeared," Some Ow. Exptaianed.
him, and bless my soul If there was
hide or hair of him to be seen any
where. Looking through the boxes, I
could see that the back door was
standing open, and I went around
there and looked, and I couldn't see
anything of him, either. It didn't seem
right for the mail to be lying out there
on the sidewalk, 'twas like taking un
due liberty with government property,
so 1 dragged the sack around and lung
it In the door and went looking for the
constable. Then I heard about the aui
cide and the inquest down to the hotel,
so I went down there to fetch him,
and all the crowd that had been down
to the Inquest come trailing lang."
"I noticed when I come along bei
last night that the Dnet oM 4was
dark." votnetee se .rea o .-i
crowd. "I dea't kaw just What tms.
it was, but it was Just belao it began N
to rain. I remember, now, thinkinag i
kind of funny the ofce was abut li
so early, but I didn't stop to invest
gate. Ill bet he wasn't hem last night
either."
"It's burglars, that's what it ins"
said an excited youngster. "I s*w a
them at work. I come along here last
night and there was a fash, like froa
a dark lantern. Right in there behinl
the boxes, it was. They must a bees
at work then. I'll bet they killed his
and hid his body and made away with
all the money and stamps."
"How many of them were there
"Did you see them r'
"What time was it?"
Questions poured thick and fast a
the youngster, who evidently had told
all be knew and a little more. I took
advantage of the furor his story had
created to slip around to the rear of
the building, where I found a self4p
pointed committee of citizees and the
constable guarding the door.
"Has anything been stolek" I
asked.
"Not as far as we can discover,"
said the constable. "There ain't n
disorder about the place and the safe
hasn't been busted, as far as I can
see. I ain't made any regular naves
tigation, being as this is goverament
property."
"Hp. no one any idea where te
postmaster is?" I asked.
"That's jus -what we'Ve been trying
to find out. Jim, here, as soon as we
found Rouser wasn't here, went up .to
the Widow Smith's, where he boards.
Thought maybe he'd just overslept Or
something like that, or maybe was
sick. But Mrs. Smith went up and
looked in his room sad come down and
said he hadn't been home all night"
"Yes," interrupted ylmn, "and what's
more, she said it was bhothing unusual
r for him not to come home. There was
lots and lots of nights recently when
he didn't show up. She had no idea
s where he spent his nights. Sbe's &
I woman that minds her own eusinesa
t and don't interfere none with her
r boarders' goings and comings as lobs
r as they pay their money regular."
t "What are you going to do about
e keeping the offioe open?" I asked,
t much puzzled over this new mystery.
How I wished for Davis! Mystery
n seemed to be piling on mystery with
- ever step I took. Beyond the one
> conviction I had that Hugh Crandall
o was in some way to blame for it all, I
e saw nothing that would help me In my
p undertaking.
k "We've arranged about that We've
o sent for Jennie Cox to come over aMO
it take charge. She always takes b
h when Charlie Rouser wants to take a
day or a hal-day off. She knowi the
combination of the safe and thq moas
drawer, and has been sworn In as spe
clal assistant. Shell know what to d4
and who to notify."
"It may Interest you to know thai
Post Ofee Inspector Davis will be t
here tonight," I told them. "I lf
him in New York last nliht, and he
promised to Join me here."
Suspicion lashed into the tfaes
al my auditors.
4TO W COXIMUSD,)
Both Cold and SOhla .
"Have you say dilsta" i isn isle
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GREENFIELDS 40 iILE VIEW U
New Tewer Is Erseted in eamentiet
by Tewn and the Lead Board
of Trade.
OGreesdeM Con.-The Globe eW
seats herewith a picture o the gew
tower jut completed on Posts Seat.
Oreenfeld. It is built of local sand
stone and eodimands a beautiful view M
up and down the Connecticut Valley 1
of the Shelburne Hills on the west
and other rmages of hills to the east.
On a elear day a view of 40 mei s
can be obtained. The cost of the
tower Is something more than $2,000.
Of this the town appropriated $1,500; h
several hundred dollars was secured w
by the Board of Trade of Greenfeld. we
The plans were drawn by Jerome of
Allen, a native of Greenfield but now
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a New York architect, and were giv- l
en to the town by Mr. Allen without
financial compensation. The builder
was Peter Barber.
The tower is 41 feet and Inches i
high from grade to the top platform,
with a stone parapet tour feet high a
and corner pinnacles eight feet high.
The walls are 18 inches tlhck, with
a slight better about half the *-:-ht
of the tower, thus lacreasn d
thickness of the walls at the e
There are three reinforced cocrete
Splatforms. The stairs from the
ground to the second platform are te
made of reinforced concrete *kth
landlngs at each tarn. The upper
flight to the top, r obervaton pat- p
Sorm, is a circular iron staircase place
in a orner, to give the mulamum psat
form on the second ad third piat
torabs.
lr staitr are about three fet wide.
AU railings are four test high.- Thos
in the triple arches on the sesad
platform are of staoe, while thae In
the other opeings are of Iron. The
stair railings are also ofhe Iron.
TAKES NAP IN WRONGB HOUSE
Bewildered Intruder Is Arrested After
Alarming Ocopants of Boilding
In Cllamonatl.
Onelinnati, Qh-t was sis o'lock
in the morning, when Police Operator
SAbel received a telephone cal frn
a woman living In the at building at
the northeast corner of York and
Freeman avenues. She was very
much, excited and declared that a
burglar was in the place.
One minute after Lieutenant Cover
sent Knapp, Fifth district stati
house keeper to the place, and three
minutes thereafter the cause of the
trouble was in the hands of the police.
The alarm resulted when Sm Ben
bout, fifty-four years old, who says
Ihis home is at the Kings Mills hotel
at Kings Mills, Ohio wandered into
the place somea time in the nlght.
There is a heating store In the hall
ad Sam cuui ndp behind the sove
ad took a nasp The iplace looked
Just like his home, he said.
When he woke up he was bewilP
dered and In order to got his bearings
Jhe rapped on the varous doors he
encountred. Wham the o ps ants ofi
thb rooms peesped through a crack in
the door and saw the Inrade they
were trhtesned. The nt Map wa
to ca far the pwollee
Sam says his mind is a blank as to
his involntary visit.
WOLVES EAT FOUR PERSONS
Packs of Famished Animalr, hDrivenc
Freeom Meuntaln by Sarenws, T
rorie Low Country.
Isbus, Portsgt-,sd ishes wrlvesn
devoured four tronss in the naih
borhood of a villbage in the IPovince
of Beira.
Itarge packs ofd the staorving sal
mali have come down from the goe
ges of the 81erra da Usttrella, whence
they have been driven owing to the
deep saows, and they au terroristng
the low country. They attack lonely
farms at anht, and persons trarvlg
alone along the roads are In constant
im A reat hauts r w ganied by the
a contry inhabitants oin the Proian
a of Beir. Me tha 200 rm t l
l ticipated, nad they sncded tin
rounding up and killing over 1
at wolves. ilght of the haters wos
at badly Mtten.
he Fireman Kiled in an Explateo . .
New Yort.-WIlam Ilammil, a
i fireman was hued fty fet' and in
itantly klled the other day when a
expleasle wreaked a forty thoand
galn oil tan at the Kligs Caty
C ap Plant in Greegajlat. Three othe
m wae learred. The vritime wers
Ien ir he tak whoa the e daletem a
IJEUIREIABEI
w i psd Their Te PlS l
astorTe*Me and miin-
Perfma e bah Takeu
Ci ,nntfpL w-Hospitality a
the Turms e carried to a de t A
short time ago it was i7 prTi s
writes a cosrwpondent, to spend soi
weeks in the harem of the sob-lan-w
of one of Tarkey's greatht Pl
whose leg, shot of In the bttle
Ple , was buried in a emeter s
by side with the body of hiSrnd
child. My btess knew nothin but
Turkish. She was young, beutifu
and happy. Sixty slaves were always
ready to do her bidding--nt sla
in our' sense of the word, but more
like adopted children.
The square, spacious house stood In
a lovely garden, and was divided into
two portions, one-halt (the harenmlk)
occupied by women and the other '
half (the salamlik) by men. The
nofas and chairs in the drawinro
were covered with red and yllow
silk, and here Iadies and slaves, all
wearing loose garments like dressing
gowns, sat for hours chatting or play
ing cards or backgammnon, or listen
ing to the tales of the miradjus, the
profesional women story-teller. The
have no regular hours for meals
snacks of food being brought to them
at all hours. They did not sit at table
in the dining-room, where the host e
tertained his triends and where for
eign l'iadies were admitted.
Visits to a harem ar, looked upos
as an indefnite thing. Some of the
ladies staying in the house had a
rived with a small bundle of clotes
for a few days and had stayed a
more than a year. On an embroider
ed carpet in one corner of the room
a large tray on short legs held all
courses of each meal, placed there be
fore the repast began. Women, old
and oung, In picturesquea Sowing
t garments and swathed heads, handed
delicious stews, one or two meats.
and vegetables and rice in every qom.
Shelia windows opened from the in
side, behtnd wooden, immovable t
ties. Plower baths were a great in
stitution. There were baths of wo.
teaves and baths of hbellotrope-rs
petals were rubbed in the hair and
it
ummer Quarters of a Wealthy Turk
Ish Famiy.
acaip and over the whole body. Th.
Turklsh baths were blt
ro the bhouse and seemed to
be eeapied all day log. Until the
ae of twelvae boys remata in the
hbaum. At thirteen or fourteen tuir
dean the tahartohat or vol ad are
mconsiadere Sit for marriage.
There is masy a bride of ffteen
Swith a Lhsband of seveateen. Ma
I risges are arrans d by the two lad
Ia; thO brlderoom dores not me the
bride uatil after the marriage oe
my, when he raises the veil. i he
omot to do tbis she remalas his o@
elat wife on in ame. Eah Tark
i allowed by the Koran to have tar
legal wives, but moset of them mnow
adays are satised with one
'"FAT OB" IS DISCOVERED
,000 Poeltion n Misseuari Is Re,
a vived After a Lape ef TMhI
. team YeVre.
t. Lots.-A state appointive oSee
L- wthfses estimated at ,00W a yar,
bec h an overlooked for 18
e years, was illed for the frst time with
Ie tho appointment by State Anditor Ge
ng don of Thomuas Bond, a youns atts
ey ans, as the auditors local coansel in
a the eoallection of the eolteral Inhe
ant itae ta. How the lurative posito
bad been overlooked so lon, pol
the ttLas are at a loss to understnd.
r TWO BEANS TAKEN FROM MAM
1* Doeter mve Pele, one or Whelo
M Had egea to Sprout, From
Ear Tuba
hna sersares0 VL-4- o ben.
a mof wca he hauted lat a
t,. e ,a1rp weaet, re remved from the
n headesf KMieda laberer here by Dr,
ma N . V. Dun. hr meathe the ma bad
aty lrpialn o severe angas. The bern
hr bad entaree his bend traouh his les
tc smea , mad appareatly bad boum .
ad t the heb tebq
