The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-14

Angel shrugged his shoulders despair
ingiy.
i've given up worrying about ms.
applied talents; it is a subject n I'M
as to Jimmy, I'm rather glad you start
ed the conversation in that directlon,
because I'm going to ask you to meet
him today"
"Oh, but l couldn't" she began.
you are thinking of what happened
on the night the will was read? Well,
you must forget that. Jimmy a the
key to the verse. and it is absolutely
imperative that you should be present
this afternoon"
With some demur, she consented.
In the sitting-room of Jimmy's fiat
the three sat around a table Uttered
with odds and ends of papers
The girl had met him with some ire
%pidation, II his distant bow had done
more to assure her than had he dls.
played a desire to rehabilitate hlmsel1
IN her good opinion.
Without any prelinlinaries, Jimmy
showed the contents of the packet. He
did not explain to the girl by what
means he had come into possession OF
them.
o all these papers, began Jimmy,
tapping the letter before him, "only one
is of any service, and ever that makes
confusion worse confounded. I2eale had
evidently had this cursed cryptogram
in his mind for a long time. He had
made man. experiments, II rejected
many. Here is one"
He pushed over a card. which bore
a few words in Reale's characteristic
hand.
Angel read:-
T II word of five letters I will use,
namely:
/. White every "a sec.
g Fixed white and red.
3. White group two every 80 sec.
4. Group occ. white red sec. 80 sec.
5. Fixed white and red"
Underneath was written: mo good;
too asy."
The detectives brows were bent in
p~erplexity.
"i'm blessed If I can see where the
easiness comes H." he said ITO me 1t
seems so much gibberish, and as diff
cult as the other"
Jimmy noted the detectives bewil-
derment With Il quiet smile of satiSfac-
ton. He did not ook directly at the
girl, but out of the corner of his eyes
he could see her eager young face bent
over the card. her pretty forehead
wrinllled in a despairing attempt to de-
cipher the curious document.
Yet it was easy" he said. and If
Real had stuck to that word, the safe
would have been opened by now"
Angel pored over the mysterious clue.
The word, as far as l can gather"
said Jimmy, lis 'smock,,' but it may be
How on GARTH began Angel in
amazement.
"oh, it's easy" said Jimmy cheer
fully, land l am surprised that an old
traveller like yourself should AVE
misled it."
read Angel.
Jimmy LAUGHED
II was the first time the girl as seen
his strange man throw aside his hab-
itual restraint. and she noted with an
unaccountable satisfaction that he was
decidedly handsome when amused.
Let me translate it for you," said
Jimmy. Let me expand it into, Group
occulting White with Red Sectors every
80 Seconds Now do you understand"
Angel shook his head.
You may think I am shockingly
your lucid explanation 1 am still in
the dark"
Jimmy chuckled.
Suppose o went to Dover tonight
and sat at the end Of the Admiralty
pier. 1t is a beautiful night, with stars
ward France, and you seq"
few ships lights, perhaps, and the flash
of the Calais lighthouse
The occulting flash?" suggested
Jimmy.
'.The occ.! By Jove."
Glad you see It," said Jimmy brisk
ly. What old Reale did was to take the
names Of five famous lights-any nau-
teal almanac will give them:
Sanda.
Milford Haven.
Orkneys.
Caldy Island.
kinnaird Head.
They form an acrostic and the in
itial letters form the work 'smock:' but
1t was too easy-and too hard, because
there are two or three lights, partic-
ularly the IKE lights, that are exact
ly the same. SO he dropped that idea"
Angel breathed ar admiring sigh.
Jimmy, you're a WONDER" he said
simply.
Jimmy, busying himself amongst
the papers, stole a glance at the girl.
Il am very human" Nh thought. and
was annoyed at the discovery.
Nov we come to the more impor-
tant clue" he sid, and smoothed q
crumpled paper on the table.
This, ! believe. to have a direct
bearing on the verse;"
Then three heads came close together
over the scrawled sheet.
"a picture Of a duck, which means
T." spelt Angel, and that's erased: and
then it is a snake that means T."
Jimmy nodded.
I'm Reale's Verse;" he said deliberate
lN, there are six words; outside Of
those six words 1 am convinced the
verse has no meaning. Six words
strung together, and each word in cap
itals. Listen"
CONTINUED Next Weelx.) r.
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People troubled with superfuous
flesh should take up a diet Of raw
foods, says the Delineator.
We know that all heating substances,
such as fats, starches and alcoholic
drinks, are fattening; for that reason
many advocate the complete elimina-
ton Of heat. Cold baths instead Of hot
are advised, as by this means bodily
heat is distracted, the effort to supply
more increasing combustion, and re-
duction Of flesh follows.
In addition to cold paths an uncoo,-