The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
Copyright 1908,
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
feontinued From saturday.

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Nohife as a pillow-slip when she tumbled
down the stairs
mo doubt there is some natural e&-
plantation for it. Eliza l said. You
NAV have dreamed it, in your 'fafnting
aitqck. But if it Is true. the metal rod
and the hole in the wall will show it..
2 Eliza looked a little bit sheepish.
q THE holes there, all right. Miss
rnnes.e she said. But the bar was
gone when Mary Anne and Rosie went
up to pack my trunk
THAT wasn't ALL" Liddy's voice came
fnnereally from a corner Eliza sald
that from the hole in the wall a burning
eye looked down at her!'
"The wall must be at least six inches
thick I said with asperity. Unless
the person who drilled the hole carried
his eyes on the ends of a stick, Eliza
couldn't possibly have seen them
But the fact remained, and a visit to
ELIAS room proved it. 1 might jeer all
I wished: someone had drilled a hole
in the unfinished wall of the ballroom.
passing between the bricks of the par
tition, and shooting through the unre-
sisting plaster of Eliza's room with
such force as TO send the rod flying on
to her bed. | had rome upstairs alone.
5and I confess the thing puzzled me: in
two or three places in the wall small
apertures had been made, none of them
of any depth. Not the least mysterious
thing was the disappearance of the iron
implement that had been used.
/ remembered a story l read once
about an impish dwarf that lived in
tthe spaces between the double walls of
.aan ancient castle. l wondered vague
sly if my original idea of a secret en-
trance to a hidden chamber could be
! right, after all, and if We were housing
some erratic guest, who played pranks
on US in the dark, and destroyed the
walls that he might listen, hidden safe
Sly away, to our amazed Investigations.
Mary Anne and Eliza left that after
noon, but Rosie decided to stay. 1t
was about 5 o'clock when the hack
gcame from the station to get them,
and. to my amazement, it had an occu-
pant. Matthew Geist, the driver, asked
for me, and explained his errand with
pride.
i've brought you a cook. Miss
Innes.' he said. when the message
came to come UP for two girls and
their trunks. l supposed there was
something doing, and as this here
,nvoman had been looking for work in
the village. 1 thought I'd bring her
along"
Already had acquired the true sub
urbanite ability to take servant on
faith; l no longer demanded written
and u-nimpeachable references. l..
Rachel lines, have learned not to mind
If the cook sits down comfortably in
lrly sitting-room when she is taking
the orders for the day. and | am
grateful If the silver is not cleaned
With securing soap. And so that day l
merely told Liddy to send the new APP
plicant in. When she came, however, l
seould hardly restrain a gasp of sur
prise. 1t was the woman with the
lpitted face.
She stood somewhat a~wkwardly just
inside the door, and she had ar air of
self-confidence that was inspiring. Yes,
she could cook; was not a fancy cook,
but could make good soups and des-
serts if there was any one to take
of the salads. And so, in the
end, [ took her. As Halsey said, when
we told him, it didn't matter much
about the cook's face. if it was clean.
have spoken of Halsey's restless
ness. on that day it seemed to be
more than ever a resistless impulse
that kept him out until after luncheon.
j think he hoped constantly that he
might meet Louise driving over the
hills in her runabout; possibly he did
meet her occasionally, but from his
continued gloom felt sure the situa-
#tion between them was unchanged
Part of the afternoon 1 believe he
read-Gertrude and l were out, as l
have said. and at dinner we both
noticed hat something had ccurred to
distract him. He was disagreeable,
which is unlike him, nervous looking
at his watch every few minutes, and
he ate almost nothing. He asked twice
during the meal on what train Mr..
IJamieson and the other detective were
coming. and had long periods of alb
straction during which he dug his fork
into my damask cloth and did not hear
when he was spoken to. He refused
dessert, and left the table early, X
cusing himself on the ground that he
wanted to see Alex.
Alex, however, was not to be found.
1t was after eight when Halsey ordered
The car, and started down the hill at
q pace that, even for him, was unusual
1y reckless. Shortly after, Alex re-
ported that he was ready to go over
the house, preparatory TO closing 1t
for the night. Sam Bohannon came at
a. quarter before nine, and began his
patrol of the grounds, and with the ar
rival of the two detectives to look for
ward to, 1 was not especially appre-
hensive.
At half-past nine l heard the sound
Of a horse driven furiously up the drive.
II came to astop in front of the house,
ans Immediately after there were hur-
ried steps on the veranda. Our nerves
were not what they should have been,
and Gertrude, always ~apprehensive
lately, was at the door almost instant
iy. A m later Louise had burst
into the room and stood there bare
headed and breathing hard.
4 ssVhere is Halsey?" she demanded.
above her plain black gown her eyes
looked big and somber, n the rapid
drive had brought no color to her face.
I got up and drew forward a chair.
"He has not come back l said
lduietly. "Sit down, child; o are not
Strong enough for this kind of thing
2 I don't think she ever heard me.
nHe has not come back?" she asked,
hooking from me to Gertrude. DO you
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