The newspaper., 1910-02-11
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Xx:-1n ThonaG pocket
lSsn Waiiace. IL Elm street. Rchfeid." in
fresh ink. DR.. walker asked Miss Innes
6hs refused to leave.
CHAPTER xxL--A note from Bailey
to Gertrude, arranging a meeting at night
vas found. Bailey was supposed TO be
sdsk At his hotel
CHAPTER XXII.-A. ladder was found
against the clothes chute in the east
Wing of the house. The room had beer
locked previously.
CHAPTER xXIII-The stables wer
burned 10 the ground: Gndsr cover p,
house search failed TO reveal him
Miss Innes had shot one Of the intruders
In thu Leg.
put rne candle on the floor at the
top OF the staircase and took of my
bedroom slippers. Then l crept down
th- stsira going very SLOWLY. 80
s.r1 lxxIv.-A man llrnpin. aao
been seen on the road TO Rchneiu.
CHAPTER XXv.-IIalsey mysteriously
dlsappeared. Louise seeming danger be-
fore ms absence was noted. His. auto was
found wrecked by a freight train
CHAPTER XVIII developed that
Haisey had had a protraeted argument
with woman In the library the
Gay before his disappearance. A new
cook. whose suitcase bore IN. r. C" dis
appeared. Miss Innes learned Halsey
the tramp with a warning. II was evil
dent he had told US all he knew. We
had occasion. within a day or two. to
be doubly thankful that we had given
him his freedom. When Mr.. jamie
son telephoned that night we had news
for him: he told me what I had not
realized bsfore-that II would not be
possible to find Halsey at once. even
with this clew. The cars by this time.
three days. might be scattered over the
union But he said to keep on hoping.
that II was the best news we had had.
And In the meantime. consumed with
anxiety as We were. things were hap
pening at the house In rapid success
sion
We had one peaceful day-then Lid
dy took sick in the night. ] went in
when | heard her groaning. and found
her with a hot-water bottle to her
face. and her right cheek swollen un-
I'll II was CLASSY.
''Toothaehe7'' asked. not too gent
iy. You deserve IT. a woman OF
your age. who would rather 20 around
with an exposed nerve in her head
than have the tooth pulled, II would
be over in a moment"
so would hanging" IIddy pro-
tested. from behind the hot-water bot
tie.
was hunting around for cotton and
iaudanum-
You have n tooth just like Il your
self. Miss Rachel" she whimpered.
And I'm sure DIR. Boyle's been trying
to take IL out for years.
There was no laudanum. and Liddy
made a terrible fuss when | proposed
carbolic acid. Just because I had put
too much on the cotton once and
burned her mouth. I'm sure IL never
did her any permanent harm: indeed.
the doctor said afterward that living
on liquid diet had been a splendid rest
for her stomach. But she would have
none of the acid. and she kept me
awake groaning. so at last got up
and went to Gertrude's door. To my
surprise II was locked.
l went around by the hall and into
her bedroom that way. The bed was
turned down. and her dressing gown
and nightdress lay ready in the little
room next, but Gertrude was not there.
She had not undressed.
I don't know what terrible thoughts
came to me in the minute I stood
there. Through the door / could hear
Liddy grumbling. with a squeal now
and then when the pain stabbed
harder. Then, automatically. got the
laudanum and went back to her.
It was fully a half-hour before Lid.
dy's groans subsidized. At intervals I
went to the door into the hall and
looked out. but l saw and heard moth
ing suspicious. Finally. when Liddy
had dropped into doze. even ven
tured as far as the head of the circular
staircase, but there floated up to me
only the even bSeathing of Winters.
the night detective. sleeping Just in
side the entry. And then. far OF, I
heard the rappfng noise that had lured
Louise down the staircase that other
night, two weeks before. II was over
my head. and very faint-three or four
short mufiled taps. pause, and then
again. stealthily repeated.
The sound of Mr.. Winters breath.
ing was comforting; with the thought
that there was help within call, some
thing kept me from waking him. did
not move for . moment: ridiculous