The Huttig news., 1910-07-16
SYNOPSIS.


 osition of the chief witness for the pros eeution, John Gilmore, a mii.. "aire. Tn the latter's house the lawyer IS attracted eypans es r p'ssulg S bis n5 . Alison West. He sas~ >Nsr is = rascal and friend es s- 6ssys
 CHAPTER rr-- T Ns. 70 buy a Pullman ticket BlakeH. W requested by a lady to buy one for he. I@ gives her lower Ii and retains lows~-Ien. He finds man in a drunken stupor in lower ten, and retires in lower nine.
 CHAPTER III.-He awakens in lower seven and finds that his travelling bag has disappeared and in it's stead is another. His clothes likewise have been exchanged for others.
 CHAPTER Iv.-An amateur detective interests himself in the case Ii is learned that the dead man is Simon Harrington of Pittsburg.
 CHAPTER v.-Henry Pinckney sulli- van is believed to be the name of the man who disappeared with Blakeley's clothes and grip. He is suspected of the murder.
 CHAPTER vI.--Blakeley becomes in- tereste5 in girl in blue A dirk and blood stains are found in lower seven. Blakeley comes under suspicion.
 CHAPTER vII-Circumstantial evil
  The train is wrecked
 CHAPTER Blakeley is rescued from the burning by the girl in blue. His arm is broken
 CHAPTER Ix.-Together they go to the Carter farm for breakfast. She tells him her name is Alison West, his part ner's sweetheart.
 CHAPTER X.-Alison's peculiar actions m hp Ia To gold bag and Blakeley, unnoticed. puts it in his pocket
 CHAPTER XI-He returns home and learns from his landlady of strange hap penings.
 CHAPTER XtI-Blakeley learns that woman by the name of Sullivan, a fellow victim of the wreck, is in the hospital.
 CHAPTER xIII.-He also learns that he is under surveillance and that the Pttsburg police are looking for survivors of the wreck.
 CHAPTER XIv.-Blakeley hears of strange doings in vacant house next door. Investigation is without result.
 CHAPTER xv.-cinematograph pie lures of the train taken just before the wreck reveal to Blakeley a man leapng from the train with his stolen grip.
 CHAPTER xvI-Blakeiey meets Alison at a dinner and returns her gold bag.
 CHAPTER xvII.-He learns that . man resembling Sullivan ieaped from the train near M The man sprained his ankle and stayed some time at the Carter place.
 auiries at the Carter place. Blaleley finds Alison. He kisses her.
 CHAPTER xIx-whiIe dining in a restaurant the woman for whom Blateley bought q Pullman ticket summons him to her table
 CHAPTER xx.-she tells him her name is Mrs. Conway. She tries to make a bargain for the forged notes, not knowing that they are missing.
 CHAPTER xxI..,Blakeley, tells his partner of the incident. and the latter evolves theory that the woman killed Harrington.
 CHAPTER XXII-The amateur detec- found Sullivan.
 Do you know anything of the fam fly? Are they-were they New York ers?"
 They came from somewhere in the south. 1 have heard Mrs Curtis say her mother was Cuban. 1 don't know much about them, but MT. Sulli- van had a wicked temper, though he didn't look it. Folks say big, light haired people are easy going, but don't believe it, sir
 How long was Miss West here?"
 Two weeks
 I hesitated about further question ing. Critical as my position was, could not pry deeper into Alison Vests affairs. If she had got into the hands of adventurers, as Sullivan and his sister appeared to have been. she was safely away from them again. But something of the situation in the car Ontario was forming itself in my mind the incident at the farmhouse lacked only motive to be complete. Was Sullivan, after all, rascal or criminal? Was the murderer Sulli- van or Mrs. Conway? The lady or the tiger again.
 Jennie was speaking.
 "I hope Miss West was not hurt" she asked. We liked her, all of us. i She was not like Mrs. Curtis l wanted to say that she was not like anybody in the world Instead She escaped with some bruises" said.
 She glanced at my arm. You were on the train?" "Yes."
 She waited for more questions, but none coming, she went to the door. Then she closed it softly and came back
 Mrs. Curtis is dead? You are sure of it?n she asked. She was killed instantly, I be- lieve. The body was not recovered But l have reasons for believing that MT. Sullivan is living.
 'l knew it., she said. II think he was here the night before last. That is why I went. to the tower room. l believe he would kill me if he could. :" As nearly as her round and comely face could express it, Jennie's ex- pression was tragic at that moment. l made a quick resolution. and acted on it at once
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