The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-15
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CHAPTER I'm ss Innes spinstar ana
guardian Of Gerirude and Halsey. estab-
llshed summer headquarters az sunny
side. Amidst numerous dlficuities the
servants deserted As Miss Innes locked
up for the night, she was startled BY a
dark figure on the, veranAa
CHAPTER II--She passed terrible
night, which was filled with unseemly
noises. In the morning Miss lnnes found
a strange link cuT button In clothes
hamper.
CHAPTER III. I.--Gertrude and Halsev
arrived with Jack Bailey. The house was
awakened by a revolver shot, a strange
man was found shot to death, In the hall
CHAPTER Iv--It proved TO be the
body Of Arnold Armstrong, whose bank
er father owned the country house. Miss
lnnes found flalsey's revolver on the
lawn. lie and Jack Bailey had disap-
peared. The link cWff button mysterious
~ disappeared.
CHAPTER V.--Detectiye Jameson and
the coroner arrived. Gertrude revealed
! that she was engaged to Jack Bailey,
with whom she had talked In the billiard
room a few moments before the murder.
CHAPTER vi --Jamieson told Miss
\ Innes that she was hiding evidence from
him He imprisoned an intruder In an
| empty room The prisoner escaped down
! laundry chute.
CHAPTER Wilt developed that the
intruder was probably woman Ger
| trude was suspected, for the intruder left
! "A print of bare foot. Gertrude returned
| home with her right ankle sprained.
CHAPTER VILLA negro foupd thA
| other half Of what proved TO beg Jack
| Baileys cuff button. Halsey suddenly re-
! appeared.
CHAPTER IX.--Halsey said he and
| Bailey Ind left because they had received
a telegram. Gertrude said that she had
| given Bailey an unloaced revolver fear.
ing TO give him Nase-'s l2aded weapon
CHAPTER X.-Cashier .B6Ty Of i'Iu
| Armstrong; bank, defunct, was arrested
charged with embezzement. Halsey saic
! Armstrong had wrecked his own bank
and was able TO clear Bailey. telegram
contained news that Paul Armstrong wa'
dead.
CHAPTER XI.--Halsey trapped Mrs
Watson the housekeeper while she was
stealing from the house.
CHAPTER XII.--At the lodge Mis-,
Innes and Halsey found Halsey's fiance
Louise Armstrong, sister Of the denC
man. She was believed to be In Califor
MIA The lodge keeper told Mias lnne'
that Louise and Arnold had had Ions
talk the night OF the purder. Louise wa
prostrated
CHAPTER X11I-Louise told Ho'---
that while she stlll loved him she was z
marry another and that he would desps
her when he learned the whole story.
CHAPTER XVIII developed that DR.
Walker and Louise were to be married
A new gardener arrives from the city
I CHAPTER XV--A prowler was hear
in the house. Or Investigation Miss lime
heard hair-raisng scream. Lookin
into Louise's room. Miss lnnes saw III
girl was gone
CHAPTER XvI-Loulse was found a
> the bottom OF the circular staircase
Upon recovery she said she had heard
knock ac the door and had answered I
A. hand touched hers on the stairway
something brushed past her and sh
tainted.
CHAPTER XVII.-The coroner's II
4 quest decided Arnold Armstrong had bee
= murdered by an unknown and the flngt
Of suspicion seemed TO point at Bailey
\ CHAPTER XVIII. .-"Ghost evidence
was found In the house though
"spool' materialized while Detectiy
Jameson watched.
III. CHAPTER XIX.-After Seeing
ghost" Thomas the lodge keeper, wa
found dead in Il closet. Ills body bore i
MARKS Of Noler. e.
No one moved to get the whlsk,
from which judged there were thre
pocket TASKS ready for emergenc'
Gertrude threw a shawl around M
shoulders, and we all started dow
over the hill; had made 80 man
nocturnal excursions around the plat
that ! knew my way perfectly. Bl
Thomas was not on the veranda, NJ
was he inside the house. The me
' exchanged significant glances, an
8 Warner got lantern.
"Iie can't have gone far" he sal
"He was trembling so that he couldn
stand when I left"
Jameson and FIalsey together mat
the round OF the lodge, occasional
calling the old man by name. B
there was no response. No Thom
came bowing and showing his viii
teeth through the darkness. begi
to be vaguely uneasy, for the fir
time. Gertrude, who was never mel
Gus in the dark, went alone down {
drive to the gate, and stood thol
looking along the yellowish line of {
road. while waited on the tiny "
anda.
Warner was puzzled. lie cal
around to the edge of the veran
and stood looking at It as If II oue
to know and explain
"He might have stumbled into
house." he said, but he could |
have climbed the stairs. Anyhow, h
not inside or outside. that | can Sc
The other members Of the party
come back now, and no one /
found any trace Of the old man.
pipe, still warm, rested on the et
of the rail, and inside on the table
old gray hat showed that its owl
Y had not gone far.
He was not far, after all. From
table my eyes travelled around
room, and stopped at the door o
closet. hardly know what impt
moved me, but | went In and tur
the knob 1t burst open with the
~ petua OF weight behind II, and 80
IL thing fell partly forward In b
on the Aoor IN Was Thoutaaa--Tho