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rOUENAE. spread Reductions. ly at 8:30 o you this means that great bargains are made possible by such selling. T o bring down the stocks to the smallest we reduce prices lower than most stores dare. So tremendous an outflow of goods has kept the stocks ever-changingclean, bright, new and stylish in every department. he summer season is yet young and your wants not filled. Anticipate them. Read on. It will be a great sale. Read every item tonight, Thursday night, Friday night. Vomen's Stockings hod Business Follows Good Service. 3$ pws Extra salespersonsExtra Cashiers Everything ready for quick Selling. 25c 50c, 75c and $1 stockings150 zen solid colors and fancy, all er laces lisle, black lace with ot pattern: cotton stockings th embroidered boot dots in vy white stockings, lace boots d fancy patterns extra large )ckings in dots, fine cotton )ckings, silk clocked black cot i stockings, with split or all ico feet the best collection own at any sale. Umbrellas l Business Follows Good Service. Good Business Follows Good Service. for Torchon and Point de Paris lace edges and insertings, as wide as 3 inches, worth up to 12Jc a yard. 87c Men's and Women's fast black k, serge Umbrellas, 26 and 28- ih, on paragon frames, steel " ds, case and tassels, natural and ndsome novelty handles, worth .50. $1.65 Women's Umbrellas, made of e genuine Priestly rainproof 3ravenette," on the best para n frames, steel rod, case and -3sel, selected natural and jrllng silver trimmed handles, rt $2.50. nes 1185. Dayton's Dry Goods Co., 7th and Nicollet 16c for dress trimming laces, in gal loons, medallions and bands of Vemse, Batiste, Point de Paris and black silk, novelties that sold to 50c a yard. 35c for fine novelty galloons, medallions, and bands oi Venise, Batiste, An tique, Point de Paris and black silk, as wide as 7 inches, sold to $1 a yard. Embroideries Good Business Follows Good Service. 15c for Cambric and Nainsook edges, flouncings and bands, as wide as 9 inches, sold up to 30c a yard. 98c for All-overs in handsome open-work patterns, stripes and other effects for waists, sold up to $2.50 a yard. THE FILIGREE BALL Being a Full and True Account of the Solution of the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair. By ANNA KATHERINE GREEN. Author of "The Leavenworth Case," etc. SYNOPSIS OF OPENING CHAPTEHS. The first chapter of "The Filigree Ball" gives an account of mysterious occunonces in thewould old mansion in Washington at the wedding of Miss Veronica Moore, owner of the house, and Ml Jeffrey, both of well known W ashington families David Moore, one of the Moore family, one night informs the detective who relates the story that a light- has been seen in one of the windows of the gloomy house He enters the house accompanied by an officer, and finds the dead body of a lady in the library. It proves to be that of A eronica Moore, who had been miriied two weeks before To gratify a whim the ceremony had been performed in the old house, the festivities having wound up in a panic on account of the finding of the dead body of a stranger in a room full of tragic memories and usually kept closed The detective finds a long w hlte ribbon tied around the bride s right wrist, and attached to a pistol which lav on the floor. The bulled bad pierced her heart. Sending the offl rei to headquarters for help, he pursues his investigation. He notes an odd feature of the library mantel, explores the dining room with Its dismal remains of the wedding feast, finds an open window and following a trail of burnt matches comes to the room upstairs where lights had been seen Here a lighted candle was found and In the big old fashioned bed a lady's wrap and the withered remains of a bridal bouquet tied with white satin ribbons similar to that found on the murdered woman's wrist Evi dently she had dresstd in this room Other clues he finds are a woman's handkerchief with brown bpots upon It, as if it had been used to dust something Five fingeimarks appear on the dust of the mantel, as if som one had rested a hand there to help to a closer look at an old family picture above, a penknife, with file blade open on a small table, and about it filings fine as dust, and in a closet an overturned candel abrum with prisms shattered and a candle crushed and battered an if It had been stamped upon The detective captain and his men having appeared, the next arrival is Miss Tnttle, half sister of the dead woman, who in extreme ex citement, kneels beside the body She calls upon the officers to take away the ribboned pistol, tiajlng she could not bear the sight, and asking why ber sister wag found In a spot she .so Reared and. detested. Shj admits that her sistei !i mm r Lace Curtains Good Business Follows Good Service. R.eal Brussels $ 3.75 Curtains for. $ 5.75 Curtains for. $ 6.50 Curtains for. $ 8.00 Curtains for. $11.00 Curtains for. $15.00 Curtains for. Real Arabians $ 8.50 Curtains for $ 5.49 $12.00 Curtains for 7.49 $12.50 Curtains for 8.48 $16.50 Curtains for 8.89 $22.50 Curtains for 16.98 $35.00 Curtains for 23.49 Irish Points $3.25 Curtains for $3.73 Curtains for $4.50 Curtains for $5.50 Curtains for $7.00 Curtains for Nottingham Curtains 95c Curtains for 79c $1.15 Curtains for 89c $1.35 Curtains for 98c $2.15 Curtains for $1.69 $2.50 Curtains for 1.9 8 Laces Cable Nets $2.50 Curtains for. $3.00 Curtains for. $3.75 Curtains for. 4c Good Business Follows Good Service. Oriental Rugs $115 Khiva at $90 $100 Khiva at $79 $85 Cashmere at $72.50 $140 Sultanabad at $98 Kiz Kelims at 20 per cent, off Mossouls, Kazaks, Shiraz, Bel loochistans, Daghestans, Cara baghs, Hamadans and others, at 54 OFF American Rugs Wilton Velvets- 8-3xl-6, worth $20 $16.49 Tapestry Brussels 9x12, worth $23 $15.98 8-3x10-6, worth $16.50.... 12.49 MB9HH M HP MHHHHPi Firs t Da y that it was for any purpose other than to join some social gathering" , "Dressed this way'" The captain pointed to the floor and her eyes followed Certainly Mrs Jeffrey was not appareled for an evening com pany As'^Jliss Tuttle realized the trap into which she had been betrayed, her words rushed forth and tripped each other up "I did not notice. She often wore black it became her My sister was eccen tric " Worse, worse than useless Some slips cannot be explained away Miss Tuttle seemed to realize that this was one of them, for she paused abruptly, with the words half finished on her tongue Ye t her attitude commanded respect, and 1 for one was ready to accord it to her Certainly such a woman was not to be seen every day, and if her replies lacked candor, there was a nobility In her pres ence which gave the lie to any doubt At least, that was the effect she produced on me Whether or not her in - terrogator shared my feeling 1 could not so easily determine, for his attention as well as mine was suddenly diverted by the cry which now escaped her lips. "Her watch' Where is her watch' It is gone! I saw lit on her breast and it's gone It hung justjust where " "Waif" cried one of the men who had been peering about the floor. "Is this it*" He held aloft a small object blazing with jewels. "Yes," she gasped, trying to take it. But the officer gave it to the captain in stead. "It must have slipped from her as she fell," remarked the latter, after a cursory examination of the glittering trinket. "The pin Jt which she attached it to her dress must have been insecurely fastened" Then quickly and with a sharp look at Miss Tuttle "Do o know if this was considered an accurate timepiece?" "Yes Why do you ask' Is it " "Look'" He held it up with the face toward us. The hands stood at thirteen minutes past 7 "The hour and the mo ment when it struck the floor," he de chord clared "And consequently the hour and the moment -when Mrs. Jeffrey fell," fin ished Durbin. "Valuable evidence," quoth the captain, putting the watch in his pocket. Then, with a kind look at her, called forth by the sight of her misery* "Does this hour agree with the time of her leaving the house?" Co The opyright 1903, Bobbs-Merrill Co. has been unhappy ever since the wedding and shows great (motion over the shock the traged give Mr Jeffrey, the husband Mean time David Moore, uncle of the unhappy Veron ica, Is heard playing his organ in his house oppo site The detective thinks this strangely osten tatious indifference BOOK I. The Forbidden Room. CHAPTER IV.-Continued. Signed Veronica. "But It is far past midnight now," re marked the captain "Is he in the habit of remaining out late?" "Sometimes," she faintly admitted "Two or three times since his marriage he has been out till one " "Were there other causes for the young bride's evident disappointment and misery beside the one intimated? There certain ly was some excuse for thinking so. Possibly some one of us may have shown his doubts in this regard, for the woman before us suddenly broke forth with this vehement assertion "Mr. Jeffrey was a loving husband to my sister A very loving husband," she emphasized. Then, growing desperate ly pale, she added, "I have never known a better man," and stopped Some hidden anguish In this cry, some self-consciousness in this pause, suggested to me a possibility which I was glad to see ignored by the captain in his next question "When did you see your sister last'" he asked "Were you at home when she left her husband's house'" "Alas'" she murmured. Then seeing that a more direct answer was expected of her, she added with as llttlfe appearnce of effort as possible, "I was at home and\ I heard her go out. But I had no idea m Dayton's Daylight Store It is our aim to ad vertise our goods by straightforward statements and to guard against de ception of any kind. We will gladly pay SI to thefirstper- Bon to report to our Mr. Mosher any misrepresentation. Daylight Basement Good Business Follows Good Service. $2.49 . 3.89 . 4.19 . 6.89 . 8.59 . 9.98 Ribbons, l c a yard5000 yards in the gathering, from No. l i to No. 9 worth to 10c a yard all colors. Women's Vests, 8c for 12Jc and 15c valuesfine, white ribbed, low neck, no sleeves, lace trimmed. Boys'Drawers, 15c for the 40c qualitybalbriggan, 24, _ 26 and 28 sizes only. Table Oil Cloth, 17c for the best grade, 5-4 width, white marble arid colors. $1.98 . 2.49 . 3.39 . 3.89 . 4.59 Percales, 5c for 32-inch percales and 27-inch ginghams, in light and medium colors the 10c quality. Men's Socks, 7c for 15c socks in black only, fast color, double heels and toes sizes 10, 10i and 11. Shirt Waists, 22c for 49c black-and-white and blue and-white lawn back and front. .$1.89 . 2.39 . 2.89 Ruffled Nets $2.25 Curtains for. $3.00 Curtains for. $3.75 Curtains for. $4.50 Curtains for. 25c for Point de Paris, Duchesse and applique Valenciennes laces as wide as 7 inches, odd pieces left over from our best selling fine sets, sold up to 50c a yard. $1.69 . 2.39 . 2.98 . 3.29 Ruffled Muslin Curtains 40c Curtains for 3 1 e 80c Curtains for 59c $1.00 Curtains for 79c $1.50 Curtains for $1.19 $1.95 Curtains for 1.4 9 $2.50 Curtains for 1,9 8 I for 12Jc to 15c qualitieszenhyr" ginghams, 4-4 percales, dimities I canvas weave madras and galateas. USES For Lawn and Garde n $3.00 hammocks $2.50 $3.50 hammocks 92.76 24 double $4.50 hammocks $3.75 I teeth, WfMwWTnml $5.00 hammocks. $4.25 4 all steel iMUmiUUUllllL $8.00 hammocks $6.98 -jkj. Wash Goods Good Business Follows Good Service 654c for values 12Jc to 18cprinted mad ras, 36 inches wide the best qual ity Percales printed Batiste, pretty and sheer. 98c for $2, $2.50 and $2.75 imported Swiss novelties, the flower pf the St. Gall looms the fabrics you ad mired and bought at the regular prices 44 inches wide. for 40c and 50c values in natural col or linen 36-inch double fold linen in gunmetal, oxblood and dark f reen Lorraine, Madras and Ox ords, a fine collection of season able styles. waists tucked Brilliantine, 25c for 48c cream figured brilliantine, 36 inches wide for summer dresses and shirt waists. Petticoats, 98c for $1.25 petticoats of black mer cerized sateen, mad*^wi*hFrench yoke, cut full, well sewed. , Men's Wear Good Business Follows Good Service. 1500 Negligee Shirt*. for percale shirts, perfect fitting, cut full, with a pair of cuffs and pocket,the manufacturer's clean up of best patterns of the season 65c values. for negligee shirts of the best kinds cuffs attached or separate, ma terials of all sorts"Quaker City" and other good makesshirts that sold from $1 to $2. V ' Good Business Follows Goo*d Service. HammocksFor Thursday Hoe, rake and spade $1.25 hammocks 98c J g ^ Lawn MowersGuaranteed j\l Three arms, reg kind ^JM ularly $1.25, 90c (tmesm?**^-^^ u-inch, Em* t "* $3,48 ^J|E^B rubber, fully guar- 16-inch9 , ^^^^ anteed, at, per 3 " 8 Good Business Follows Good Service. 15c for 25c Shirt Waist Suitings, in dot, stripe and splash effects. 25c 49c for negligee shirts of madras, with a pair of cuffs, made full, perfect fitting also some with collar at tached and tie to match75c values. x ,, Wash Goods, 7^c * 79c Mrs. Potts' Irons Nickel plated, each 25c Handles, 10c} Holders, 10c Seventh and Nicollet Geo. D. Dayton, J. B. Mosher, D. D. Dayton, Frank H. Carleton. Handkerchiefs ~\ r 10c for Women's handkerchiefs of pure Irish linen, hand-embroidered, un laundered, convent-made, pretty patterns, worth 15c and 20c. ' 5c for Women's handkerchiefs, all linen, hemstitched, full laundered, the 10c quality. 35c for Men's handkerchiefs of very fine, pure Irish linen, with hand embroidered initials, broken as sortment, our regular 50c quality. Women's Underwear Good Business Follows Good Service 22c for women's vests of white lisle thread in lace, 1-1 or richelieu ribbed, low neck, no sleeves, lace trimmed or plain, silk tape in neck and arm, values to 35c. for 50c silk vests, low neck, no sleeves, lace trimmed, silk tape in neck and armwhite, pink and sky blue. 39c r Sad J Gas StovesThe new cleanable large ft f sets ' 25 \ Law n R/^m a t 50 burners, handsomely nickel_plated. pute*re worth 2-burner, $2.50 size, $1.76 3-burner, $3.50 size, $2.50 _i li \ =:s:r '^m,,*^JiVM aw n Sprinklers ^ B jRlV f i foot, 8c Garden 45^PMi Hose ReelsAlways Sets ^ - 75c, at 50c "I cannot say I think so It was some time before or after 7. I don't remember the exact minute " "It would take fifteen for her to walk here. Did -h walk'" "I do not know. I didn't see her leave. My room is at the back of the house." "You can say if she left alone or in the company of her husband?" "Mr Jeffrey was not with her." "Was Mr. Jeffrey in the house?" "He was not " This last negative was faintly spoken The captain noticed this and ventured upon interrogating her further. "How long had he been gone'" Her lips parted, she was deeply agi tated but when she sppke it was coldly and with studied precision. ' Mr. Jeffrey was not at home to-night at all. He has not been in all aay." "Not at home? Did his wife know that he was going to dine out'" "She said notihng about it." The captain cut short his questions, and in another moment I understood why A gentleman was standing in the doorway, whose face once seen, was enough to stop the words on any man's lips Miss Tuttle saw this gentleman almost as quickly as we did and sank with an involutary moan to her knees. It was Francis Jeffrey come to look upon his dead bride. I have been present at many tragic scenes and have beheld men under almost every aspect of grief, terror and remorse but there was somethihg In the face of this man at this dreadful moment that was quite new to me, and, as I judge, equally new to the other hardy officials about me. To be sure he was a gentleman and a very high-bred one at that, and it is but sel dom we have to do with any of his ilk. Breathlessly we awaited his first words. Not that he showed frenzy or made any display of the grief or surprise natural to the occasion. On the contrary, he was the quietest person present, and among all the emotions his white face mirrored I saw no signs of what might be called sorrow Yet his appearance was one to wring the heart and rouse the most con tradictory conjectures as to Just what in his evidently highly-strung na ture throbbed most acutely to the horror and astonishment of this appalling end of so short a married life His eye, which was fixed on the pros trate body of the bride, did not yield up its secret When he moved and came to where she lay and caught his first sight of the ribbon and the pistol attached to it, , the most experienced among us were baf- 'pl fled as to the nature of his feelings and thoughts One thing alone was patent to all. He had no wish to touch this wo man whom he had so lately sworn to cherish His eyes devoured her, he shud dered and strove several times to speak, and tho kneeling by her side, he did not reach forth his hand nor did he let a tear fall on the appealing features so pathetic ally turned upward as if to meet his look. Suddenly he leaped to his feet. "Must she stay here'" he demanded, looking about for the person most in au thority. The captain answered by a question: "How do you account for her being here at all' What explanation have you, as her husband, to give for this strange suicide of your wife" - For reply, Mr, Jeffrey, who was an ex ceptionally handsome man, drew forth a small slip of crumpled paper, which he immediately handed over to the speaker. "Let her own words explain," said he. "I found this scrap of writing in our up stairs room when I returned home to - night. She must have written it just be forebefore*' A smothered groan filled up the break, but it did not come from his lips, which were fixed and set, but from those of the woman who crouched amongst us. Di d he catch this expression of sorrow from one whose presence he as yet had given no token of recognizing' H e did not seem to His eye was on the captain, who was slowly reading, by the light of a lantern held in a detective's hand, the almost il legible words which Mr. Jeffrey had just said were his wife's last communication. Will they seem as pathetic to the eye as they did to the ear in that room of awesome memories and present death' "I find that I do not love you as I thought I did. I can not live, knowing this to be so I pray God. that you may forgive me Veronica " A gasp from the figure in the corner, then silence. We were glad to hear the captain's voice again. "A woman's heart is a great mystery," he remarked, with a short glance at Mr Jeffrey ' It was a sentiment we could all echo, for he, to whom she had alluded in these few lines as one she could not love, was a man whom most women would consider the embodiment of all that was admirable and attrecti\e. That one woman so regarded him was apparent to all. If ever the heart spoke in a human face, it spoke in that of Miss Tuttle as he watched her sister's hus^ band struggling for composure above the y Law * n Hosr Good Business Follows Good Service. Children's Stockings Good Busxness Follows Good Service/ 33c Good Business Follows Good Service. Flour Cans 50-lb., 95c size, at 65o 100-lb., $1.50 size, at 95 Bread Boxes- Small, 45c size, at 29o * Medium, 65c Bize at 39o Large, 75c size, at 49o Carpet Sweepers Bissell's of high- es t J Ribbons 1 &c for the best quality satin and gros grain ribbons, all silk, a great variety of the most wanted colors, 1J to 3 inches wide, sold from 18c to 30c a yard. lOcand 12%c for all-silk taffeta ribbons, washable black, white, blue, pink and the other good colors No. 40, 3-inch, worth 15c, 10c No. 60, 31-inch, worth 20c, 12&C 56 Off the price of fancy ribbons in all the latest noveltiesPersian, Dresden, plaids, stripes, dots, and other late effects. 17c (Three pairs for 50c) for boys' and girls' stockingsblack lace, black 1-1 nibbed, medium and light weights"Black Cat" stockings and odds and ends of our good . qualities, worth to 50c a pair. Housefurnishings _ Clothes Wringers The best made, $1.98 Gas ovensuf polished steel, double lined, warranted perfect bakers, regular $2 at $1.50 prostrate form of her who but a few hours previous had been the envy of all the fashionable young women m Wash ington I found it hard to fix my atten tion on the next question, interesting and valuable as every small detail was likely to prove in case my theory of this crime should ever come to be looked on as the true one. "How came you to search here for the wife who had written you this vague and far from satisfactory farewell? I see no hint in these lines of the place where she intended to take her life." "No, no " Even this strong man shrank from this idea and showed a very natural recoil as his glances flew about the Ill omened room and finally rested on the fireside over which so repellent a mystery hung in impenetrable shadow. "She said nothing of her intentions nothing. Bu t the man who came for me told me where she was to be found. He was waiting at the door of my house. He had been on a search for me up and down the town. W e met on the stoop." The captain accepted this explanation without cavil. I was glad he did. But to me the affair showed incdnsistencies which I ^secretly felt it to be my especial duty to unravel. To be continued to-morrow. Very Low Special Excursion Rates to Boa ton, Mass., Saratoga, N. Y., and Chau tauqua Lake In June and July. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges. On and after June 14th, new fast train from Chicago to Buffalo and intermediate points, 6:15 p .m, daily. For time cards, regular and special rates, etc, send postal card to H. B . Smith, Trav. Pass. Agt, St. Paul, Minn., or D. W. Bowman, General Western Pas senger Agent, Chicago. 111. Soo Line Tit-Bits. One fare for the round trip to Albany, N . Y....- $27.50 Boston, Mass 29.00 Buffalo, N Y 23.90 Montreal, Que 27 30 Quebec, Que. 80.50 Other points in proportion. Dates of sale June 11th to 26th. Generous return limits. 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