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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-15
WHY, OF COURSE.

"Oh, Willie! You're going to fall"
Nav, amt! I'm tryin' new fancy
vie of skatin'-dat's ALL"
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Armstrong, other than his visit here
the next night, you ought to tell me,
Miss 1nnes. We can take nothing fol
granted. If, for instance, the intruder
who dropped the bar and scratched the
staircase-you see. l know about that
If this visitor was a why
should not the same woman have come
back the following night, met Mr.. Arm
strong on the circular staircase, nd, in
alarm shot him."
1T was a man." l reiterated. And
then, because l could think of no other
reason for my statement, | told him
about the pearl cuff-link. He was in
tensely interested.
"Will you give me the link" he said.
when l finished. cor, at least, let me
see It? l consider it a most important
clue
Won't the description do?"
Not as well as the original"
We'll. I'm very sorry | said. as
calmly as 1 could, 1.-THE thing is lost.
lit must have fallen out of a box on
my dressing-table."
Whatever he thought of my e~xplana-
ton, and l knew he doubted it, he made
no sign. He asked me to describe the
link accurately. and 1 did so, while he
glanced at a list he took from his
pocket.
One set monogram cuff-links," he
read, zone set plain pearl links, one set
cun-links, woman's head set with dia-
monds and emeralds. There is no men,
ton of such a link as you describe, and
yet, If your theory is right, Mr.. Arm
strong must have taken back In his
CUFFS n complete cuff-link, and a nall,
perhaps, of the other"
The idea was new to me. If it had
not been the murdered man who had
entered the house that night, who had
1t been?
There are a number of strange thing s
connected with this.case," the detective
went on. Miss Gertrude Innes testi-
fed that she heard some one fumbling
with the lock, that the door opened and
that almost Immediately the shot was
fired. Now. Miss Innes, here is. the
strange part Of that. Mr.. Armstrong
had no key with him. There was no
key in the lock, or on the floor. In
other words, the evidence points abso-
lutely to this: Mr.. Armstrong was adj
mitted TO the house from within"
1T is impossible" / broke in. Mr..
Jameson, do you know what your
words imply? Do you know tina you
are practically accusing Gertrude fnnes
of admitting that MANI"
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see things fairly vel. Bculah gave ms
rather a start by rubbing unexpectedly
against my feet; then we two, eide q.
side, went down the drive.
: There were no fragments ct china.
Tut where the grove began ! nlcked up.
a silver spoon. SO far Rosie story
was Born out; l began to wonae.a II l..
were not indfscrcet. TO say the least,
this midnight proving in a ~ne.ghnor-
hood with such Il deservedly bad reps
~tation. Then I saw something CLEAN
ing, which proved TO be tine handle OF
Il cup, and "a step or two further on I
found q V-shaped DIT of a plate. Buv
the most surprising thing of At ] was To
end the basket sitting comfortably be-
side the road. with the rest of the
broken croekery piled neatly within.
and a handful of email silver, spoons,
forks, and the like, on top! | could
only stand and stare. Then Rosie $
story vas true. But where had Rosi..
carried her basket? And why HAD
thief, if he were a thief. picked uil
broken china out of the road an -
IT, with his booty?
1t vas with my nearest approach ii !.
nervous collapse that l. heard the III
miliar- throbbfng of. an autoneabies en-
gine. AS it came c oser I recognized
the outline of the Dragon Fly, lanl
knew that Haisey had m back.
Strange enough 1t must have seemed
to Halsey, too, to come across me lin
the middle of the night. with tie skirt
Fof my gray silk gown over my shoufd-
|.ers to keep off the dew. holding a red
and green basket under one arm and a
black cat under the other. What with
relief and joy. I began to cry, rlg,t
there, n very nearly wiped my eyes
on .Beulah in the excitement.
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Miss Gertrude only brought forward
her explanation the following morning
/ do not believe it, Miss lines. 1t Is
the story ot u loving and ingenious
woman
"And-this thing tonight
May upset my Whole view Of the
case. We must give the benefit OF
every doubt, after all. We may, Tor i'll
porch; If II was a woman you saw chat
night through the window, we might
start with other premises. Or. MIR
Innes's explanation may turn us in a
new direction. 1t is possible that he
shot Arnold Armstrong as a burglar
and the fled, frightened at what he
had done. In any case, however, l fee
confident that the body was here when
he left. Mr.. Armstrong left the club
ostensibly for a moonlight saunter,
about half after II O'Clock. 1t was :
when the shot was fred"
leaned back bewildered. 1t seemed
to me that the evening had been full
of significant happenings, had l only
held the key. Had Gertrude been the
fugitive in the clothes chute? Who
was the man on the drive near the
lodge, and whose gold-mounted dress
ing-bag had | seen in the lodge sitting
ROOM?
1t was late when Mr.. Jameson finally
got up to go. | went with him to the
door, and together we stood looking out
over the valley. Below lay the village
of Casanova, with its Old World
houses, its blossoming trees and its
peace. Above on the hill across the
valley were the lights of the Greenwood
Club. 1t was even possible to see the
curving row of parallel lights that
marked the carriage road. Rumors
that ] had heard about the club came
back-of drinking, of high play, and
once, a yea ago, of a suicide under
those very lights.
Mr.. Jameson left, taking a short
cut to the village. and l still stood
there. 1t must have been after II, and
the monotonous tick of the big clock
on the stairs behind me was the only
sound. Then I was conscious that some
one was running up the drive. In a
minute a woman darted into the area
of light made by the open door and
caught me by the arm. 1t was Rosie
Rosie In a state of collapse from ter
IVA ~ hOt nv nap osAt
clutching one of my Coalport plates
and a silver spoon.
She stood staring into the darkness
behind, still holding the plate. l got
her, into the house and secured the
plate; then l stood and looked down at
her where she crouched tremblingly
against the doorway.
We'll" / asked, didn't your young
man enjoy his meal?"
She couldn't speak. She looked al
the spoon. she still heidi wasn't so
anxious about it; thank heaven, it
wouldn't chip-and then she stared at
me.
II appreciate your desire to have
everything nice for him." I went on,
"but the next time you might take
the Limoges china. It's more easily
duplicated and less expensive"
Il haven't a Dur here
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these yere electric light things that
tit in yer pocket. He was havin
trouble-one minute it'd flash out, an
the mex it'd be gone. ! he'd a view OF
Is white dress shirt an tie, as | passed
! didn't see his face. But l know IL
warn't Mr.. Arnold. II was q taller
man than Mr.. Arnold. Beside that
Mr.. Arnold was playin' cards when
got to the clubhouse, same's he'd beer
dom all day"
back along the path" pursued Mr.
Jameson relentlessly.
THE mex morning / come bach
along the path an down where / dun
see the man night befoh, 1 picked VI
this here The old man held out q
tiny object and Mr.. Jameson took il
Then he held it on his extended palm
for me to see. 1t was the other half Of
the pearl cuff-link.
But Mr.. Jameson was not quite
through questioning him.
And so you showed it to Sam at the
club, and asked HIM IL he knew any
one who owned such o link, and Sam
said-what?"
wal, Sar, he lowed he'd seer such
a pair of cuff buttons in a shirt be-
longin' to Mr.. Bailey-Mr. Jack Bailey
sab"
"Tl keep this link. Thomas, for q
while the detective said. That's all
l wanted to know. Good night"
AS Thomas shuff1ed out. Mr.. Jameson
watched me sharply.
You see, Miss %Innes,' he said. Mr.,
Bailey insists on mixing himself with
this thing. If Mr.. Bailey came here
that Friday night expecting to meet
Arnold Armstrong, and missed him
if. as I say, he had done this, might he
not, seeing him enter the following
night, have struck him down, as he had
intended before?"
But the motive?1 / gasped.
There could be motive proved. !
think. Arnold Armstrong and John
Bailey have been enemies since the lat
ter. as cashier of the Traders Bank,
brought Arnold almost into the clutches
of the law. Also, you forget that both
men have been paying attention to
Miss Gertrude Bailey's fight looks
bad. too z
And You think Halsey helped him
to escape'?"
a iG 5SOhiu II
be but fight? Miss Innes, let me re-
construct that evening, as 1 see it.
Bailey and Armstrong had quarreled at
the club. / learned this today. Your
nephew brought Bailey over. Prompted
by jealous, insane fury, Armstrong fol-
lowed, coming across by the path. He
entered the billiard-room wing-per-
haps 'rapping, and being admitted by
your nephew. Just inside he was shot,
by some one on the circular staircase.
The shot fired, YOU nephew and Bailey
left the house at once, going toward
the automobile house They left by
the lower road, which prevented them
being heard, and when you and Miss
Gertrude got downstairs everything
was quiet"
"But-Gertrude's story" / stam-
mered.
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She had got her breath now, as | had
guessed she would. IL have been
chased by a thief, Miss Innes.'
did he chase you out of the house
and back again." l asked.
hen Rosie began to cry-not silent
ly, but noisily, Historically. ! stopped
her by giving her a good shake.
"Wha in the world is the matter
with your" l snapped. Has the day
of good common sense gone by? Sit up
and tell me the whole thing"
Rosie sat up then and SMILED.
Il was coming up the drive--' she
began.
"Yau must start with when you went
down the drive. With my dishes and
my silver" I interrupted. but seeing
more signs of hysteria. | gave in. Very
well. You were coming up the
drive
dishes on my arm. and I was carrying
the plate. because-because I was
afraid I'd break it. Part way up the
road a maj stepped out of the bushes
and held his arm like this, spread out
so I couldn't get past. He said--he
saiG-'Not so fast. young lady: I want
you to let me see what's in that bas-
ket.'"
She got up in her excitement and took
hold of my arm.
1T was like this. Miss lines" she
said. "and say o was a man. When
he said that l screamed and ducked
under his arm like this. He caught at
the basket and l dropped it. i ran
as fast as | could, and he came after
as far as the trees. Then he stopped.
Oh. Miss Innes. it must have been the
man that killed that Mr.. Armstrong;
Don't be foolish" I said. Who
ever killed Mr.. Armstrong would put
as much space between himself and
this house as he could. Go up to bed
now; and mind, If ! hear of this story
being repeated to the other maids I
shall deduct from your wages for every
broken dish I find in the drive"
I listened to Rosie as she went up
stairs, running past the shadowy
places and slamming her door. Then I
sat down and looked at the Coalport
plate n the silver spoon. I had
brought my own china and silver, and,
from all appearances. I would have lit
tie enough to AXE back. But though I
might jeer at Rosie as much as I
wished, the fact remained that some
one had been on the drive that night
who had no business there. Although
neither had Rosie, for that matter.
I could fancy Liddy's face when she
missed the extra pieces of china-she
had opposed Rosie from tie start. If
Liddy once finds a prophecy fulfilled.
especially an %unleasant one, she never
allows me to forget it. 1t seemed to
me that it was absurd to leave that
china dotted along the o "a for her to
spy the next morning; so with a sud-
den resolution, / opened the door
again and stepped out into the dark
ness. As the door closed behind me l
half regretted my impulse; then l shut
my teeth and went on.
/ have never been a nervous woman,
as / said before. Moreover, a minute
or two in the darkness enabled me to
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Not quite that he said, with his
friendly smile. In fact, Miss Innes, !
am quite certain she did not. But as
long as l learn only parts of the truth,
from both you and her, what can I do"
| know you picked up something in the
flower bed; you refuse to tell me what
1t was. | know Miss Gertrude went
back to the billiard room to get some
thing, she refuses to say what. You
suspect what happened to the cuff-link,
but you won't tell me. So far, all i am
sure of is this: ! do not believe Arnold
Armstrong was the midnight visitor
who so alarmed you by dropping-shall
we say, golf-stick? And l believe that
when he did come he was admitted by
some one in the house. Who knows-it
may have been-Liddy."
l stirred my tea angrily.
Il have always heard" l said dryly,
that undertakes assistants are jovlal
young men. A mans sense of humor
seems to be in inverse proportion to the
gravity of his profession"
"A mans sense of humor is a bar
barous and a cruel thing, Miss Innes,'
he admitted. 1T is to the feminine as
the Il of a bear is to the scratch Of
well, anything with claws. Is that you,
Thomas? Come i'm
Thomas Johnson stood in the door
way. He looked alarmed and appre-
hensive, and suddenly 1 remembered
the sealskin dressing-bag in the lodge
Thomas came just inside the door and
stood with his head dropping, his eyes
under their shaggy gray brows, fixed or
Mr.. Jameson.
Thomas" said the detective, not un-
kindly, Il sent for you to tell us what
you told Sam Bohannon at the club,
the day before Mr.. Arnold was found
here, dead. Let me see. You came
here Friday night to see Miss Innes.
didn't you? And came to work here
Saturday morning.
For some unexplained reason Thomas
looked relieved.
"Yas, sab" he said. You see it were
like this: When Mistah. Armstrong
and h family went away, Mis- Wat.
son an me, we was lef' In charge till
the place was rented. Mis- Watson
she've bin here a good while, an she
warn skeagy. So sheoslep'in the house.
I'd been having tokens-I tor Mis-
Innes some of 'em-an' I slep' in the
lodge. Then one day Mis- Watson
she came to me am she seq. seq. she
Thomas. You'll have to sleep up iii
the big house. I'm too nervous to dc
it n more But I jes' reckon to my
self that eff it's too skeery fer her. it's
too skeery fer me. We had 1t, then
sbo' nuff, and 1t ended up with Mis-
Watson stayin' in the lodge nights All
| me lookin' fer work at de club.'
Did Mrs. Watson say that anything
had happened to alarm herr"
mo, sab. She was jes' materially
skeered. Well, that was all, fairs
know, until the night I come over ia
see Mis- lines. I come across the val
ley. along the path from the clubhouse,
and ] goes home that way. Down In
the creek bottom | almost u into a
man. He wua standin' with his back to
! me. an he was working with n OF
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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
lowing proposed ordinances passed d second
reading and were ordered to q tnird and nnal
ieading at d meeting of the Board, Of Street
and Water commissioners held LuIy 1, 1909:
An ordinance to provide for the Construction
DIVISION PLACE.
between Centre street and Division court.
An ordnance TO provide for the construction
OF a sewer In
NICHOLS STREET
between Van Buren, street and Tyler street.
An ordinance to provide for the construction
WooDsIDE PLACE,
between summer avenue and Arlington avenue.
A. + EGGERS.
President Of the Board OF Street. and water
WIN. E. GREArHEAp.
jy3-St Clerk OF the Boar "a.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
fowlng. ordinance has been passed by TIM
Board OF street and Water Commissioned al |
BY the Mayor OF the Cityso Newark.
OF 1909, II herewith published by title;
An ordinance to provide for the vacation OF
UNION AVENUE.
from South. Orange avenue to the northorix line
OF Cameron street; from the southeriy line of
Cameron street 10 the northeriy line OF a u
foot alley; from the southern line or a l.-fo6t
alley to the n Jstherty limo OF LuiDle street:
from the southeriy line OF Liable street souta-
crly for 9 distance Of about %, FEET
Passed July l 1909
President Of the Board Of strss, and water
WAN =. enEATHr.p.
Approved July : o. ~'rs "'
49,
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Copyright 1908,
The Bobbs- Merrill Company.

IN

Rachael lines, a spinster. who has raised
ner brothers orphan children, Halsey and Ger
trude, from childhood, engages 'Sunnyside. 3"
fhe country house Of a banker, about whose son
mere are ugly stories. With Liddy Allen, a
domestic she goes to prepare the place for oc-
eupancy. On the second night, while locking
up, they are. startled by seeing n face peering
in through a window. A / midnight a %rattliny
metallic sound in the house awakens them.
Next morning they find the doors all locked.
Inc only indications of a visitor are a half OF
2 INK cum hutton and some scratches on a cir
GUAR staircase leading to the cardroom. Hal
sey ana Gertrude arrive, bringing along John
BAILEY, a friend. Miss lines decides to saw
nothing about her strange adventures. The
family retires at night, leaving Halsev and
Jchn Bailey in the cardroom. A pistol shot
awakens ali and they find the body OF a man
IN the nall. 1t is Arnold Armstrong. son of the
owner of ''Sunnyside.' He has been shot dead
an enemy of the slain man, are missing. The
police are called. Miss lines finds HaIsey's
revolver and a golf stick In the garden and
nldes them. She goes to her room and finds
that the gold cuff link has vanished. Gertrude
Innes tells the detectives that her brother and
Jopn Bailey were called from the house by
telephone at 2:i5 o'clock that morning. and that
she is engaged to marry Mr.. Bailey. SHE was
preparing to go TO he'd at , a. m. when she
heard a latch key in the door. Armstrong
entered, she says, and then q pistol was fred
by some unseen hand. killing the intruder. The
police make her admit that Armstrong and her
brother had quarreled because the former at
mans effects is a scrap Of paper on which he
lad practised forging Haisey's name. A net
Of circunlstantial evidence begins to enmesh
Gertrude, Halsey and John Bailey. The two
latter are still mysteriously missing.
-
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CONTINUED From Yesterday.)
CHAPTER VIII.
Half of the Link.


ISIS INNES," the detective be-
~Nl gan, what is your opinion
of the figure you saw on the
east verahda the night you and your
maid were n,t1e house alone?"
at was a woman" l said positively.
"And yet your s1naid affirms with
equal positiveness that it was a man."
ANonsense," I broke in. "Liddy had
her eyes shut-she always shuts them
when she's frightened"
And you never thought then that the
intruder who came later hat night
might be a woman-the woman, in fact,
whom you saw on the veranda?"
II had reason for thinking 1t was a
man." I said. remembering the pearl
cuff-link.
f"Now We are getting down to bust
ress. What were your reasons for
thinking that 2"
r hesitated.
"If you have any reason for believing
that your midnight guest was Mr..
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CITY ADVERTISEMENT.

(To Be Continued ..mrrrcr.,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-05-08

We had a shot or two at the sound,
and the beasts. whatever they were.
went away. AS at that time We knew
nothing about lions, we were not
quite sure that they were net hyenas
after all; but Abdullah stuck to 1t
they were lions, so we got our beds
and lay down one on each side of the
opening, just behind the fence to
watch, hoping that the brutes would
come back. Nothing furtl r happened,
however At daybreak we sailed out
to see If by any chance we had man
aged to hit lion. but We only found
two or three dead hyenas. One of
these brutes had been partly eaten;
we thought at the time by other hy-
enas. as it was still too dark to make
out tracks. We came to the conclu-
sion We had made idicts CT ourselves.
and had been shooting all night at
hyenas, and we did not feel any the
better when our friends came back
from their night at the village and
told us We had probably frightened
every lion out of the country by our
hom hard mPDt
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to follow it. At that tine none OF us
knew much about tracking. and we
had had such bad luck after the ele-
plants that we did not think much
of our shikaries, and l did not think
it was much good, Abdullah persuaded
me and l went. After we l.l followed
the track for some distance | quite
caught his enthusiasm, and when the
single track was Joined by three 9TH
ers, | was divided between delight at
the prospect of having four lions all
to myself and the thought that per-
haps had more on my hands than
could manage alone.
After track of about an hour we
came in sight of two or three big
thickets of 'irgin" bushes surrounded
by open mimosa scrub ana lntersected
by narrow paths. My second shikari
at that time was a very tall fellow,
called jana, with enormous feet. Sew
eral times during the track Abdullah
had turned round to pitch into him for
making such a noise, aid now he con-
fided to me that jana walk all same
cow" and that we had better leave
him behind here with the pony and
boy, as the lions were sure to be in
the place in front Of us. Knowing
nothing about 1t, l agreed and went
on with Abdullah. We were walking
quietly along the outside of one Of the
thickets when Abdullah suddenly
clutched me by the arm and pointed
towards q tree standing on the edge
of the bush yards of. The tree was
divided into two towards the bottom.
and the sun was throwing the shadow
of a bush on the ground inside the
hollow.
This was where Abdullah was point
ing, getting more excited but l could
make out nothing at all. until . great
yellow beast moved suddenly out Of
the shadow and slipped away on the
far side. I fred from the hip. letting
of both barrels into the tree. We
rushed round to the other side OF the
thicket just In time to see . fine
lioness come out. l could not get a
clear shot at once, and when l did.
after running some distance, was
shaking 80 that could not get on her
at all. and missed. She kept lobbing
along just ahead, every now and then
stopping to look around and show her
teeth at VI. Each time she stopped