The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-08
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I--Lawrence Blakeley, law
yer goes to Pttshurg Win the forged
notes In the Bronson ease 20 take the dep
osition OF the chief witness for the pros
ecution John Gilmore, mllhonuire IN
the latter's house the lawyer is attracted
by the picture OF girl. whom Gilmore
explains Is his granddaughter Alison
West He SAYS her father Is a rascal and
friend OF the forger
CHAPTER T-standing in line to buy
a Pullman ticket blakeley Is requested
by lady 10 buy one for her lie gives
her lower II and retains lower ten lie
hnds "A man IN drunken slupor in lower
ten, and retires ia lower nine.
CHAPTER III. He awakens In lower
seven and nnds that his travelling bag has
disappeared ana In It's stead ~ another.
His clothes likewise havs been exchanged
for others.
CHAPTER TV--An amateur detective
Interests himself In tie case. 1t is learned
that the dead man Ia simon Harrington
OF Pittsburg.
CHAPTER v.--Henry Pinckney snlli-
van is believed TO be the name of the
man who disappeared with Blakeleys
clothes and grip lie is suspected Of the
murder
CHAPTER vr-Blokeley becomes in.
terested n girl IN blue dirk and
blood stains are found IVA lower seven
Blakeloy comes under suspicion
CHAPTER VII -Circumstantial evi-
dence against Blakcley is strengtheneg
The train Is wrecked,
CHAPTER VIII. Blakeley is rescued
from the burning car by the girl In blue.
His arm Is broken.
CHAPTER Together they go TO
the Carter farm for breakfast. She tells
him her name Is Alison West his part
ner's sweetheart
I CHAPTER X.-AlIson's peculiar actions
mysufy the lawyer She drops her .sold
bag ana Blnkeley. unnotlced. puts IL IN
his pocket,
CHAPTER XI-te returns home and
learns from his landiNdy OF strange hap
penings.
CHAPTER XII Blakeley learns that a
woman by tile name of sullivan, fellow
victim OF the wreck, IL In the hospital
/ CHAPTER MIL. He also learns that
he IL under surveillance ana that the
Plttsburg police are looking for Survivors
of the wreck
tone that the house across the slree'
4 has been robbed, or that my left hand
neighbor has appendicitis. so now
looked up and asked the question sh,
was waiting for
What's the matter with Euphe
MIA" inquired idly
Frightened into her bed Mrs
Klopton said IN stage whisper
She's had three hot water bottle
and she hasn't done a thing all da
but moan
She oughtn't to take hot waite
bottles, said in my seyerest tone
"One would make me moan. You nee
not wait, i'll ring II need anything.
Mrs. klopton sailed TO the door
where she stopped and wheeled indls
nantly. Il only hope you won't laug
on the wrong side of your face som
morning, Mr.. Lawrence she declared
with Christian fortltude. But ! war
you, am going to have the polic
watch that house next door
was half inclined to tell her thu
both it and we were under police su
yeillance at that moment. But ! III
Mrs. Klopton, in spite Of the fact thi
] make her life torment for her,
/ refrained.
Last night, W '.en the paper said
was going TO storm, ! sent Enpheni
/, TO the roof to bring the rugs In. Ell
J had slipped out, although II was h
!, evening in, Euphemla went up to &
:. roof--it was II o'clock--and soon
o heard her running downstairs cryir
d When she got to my room she u
d folded up on the floor. She said the
e was a black figure sitting on the pal
y pet Of the house next door--the e,n1
{ house--and that when she appeared
= rose and waved long black arms
. her and spit like cat
!, had finished my dinner and v
n lighting cigarette III there "
l. any one up there, which | doubt, tl
probably sneezed,' suggested. i
n II you feel uneasy, I'll take "A lc
le around the roof tonight before ! I,
o. in. Ks far as Euphema goes