The Huttig news., 1910-07-09
SYNOPSIS.

notes in the Bronso.. ease to take the dep osftion of the chief witness for the pros ecution, John Gilmore, a mhS naire In the latters house the lawyer Is attracted by the picture of a sirl, whom Gilmore SVpalnT Wpsq He 's his greaddalsss .ca Alison 0d d friend of 1-~ Sss571
 CHAPTER rr-r---.-- .z ss~~ Co buy Pullman ticket BlaKeA.. V requested by a lady to buy one for he. Ia gives her lower Il and retains lows~~Ien. He finds man in drunken stupor in lower ten, and retres in lower nine. CHAPTER III.-He awakens In lower seven and finds that his travelling bag has disappeared and in its stead is another. His clothes likewise have been exchanged for others.
 CHAPTER Iv.-An amateur detective interests himself in the case. It 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 Blakeleys clothes and grip. He is suspected of the murder.
 CHAPTER yI--BlakeIey becomes in- terestes in girl in blue. dirk and blood stains found in lower seven. Blakeley comes under suspicion.
 CHAPTER VII.-Circumstantial evil Qence against BlakeleY Is strengthened The train is wrecked.
 CHAPTER vIII.-Blakeey is rescued from the burning car 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 mVStffy the IaWVpr She bpr pnld bag and Blakeley, unnoticed. puts it in his pocket
 CHAPTER XI.-He returns home and learns from his landlady of strange hap penings.
 CHAPTER XII.-Blakeey learns that a woman by the name of Sullivan, fellow victim of the wreck. is in the hospital.
 CHAPTER xIII.-He also learns that he is under surveillance and that the Pittsburg police are looking for survivors of the wreck
 CHAPTER XIv.-Blakeley hears of strange doings in a vacant house next door Investigation Is without result
 CHAPTER Xv.-Cinematograph pie lures of the train taken just before the wreck reveal to Bakeley a man leaping from the train with his stolen grip.
 CHAPTER xVI-BlakeIey meets Alison at a hiiiiVi oAAN ittdAAi A4OA 7oih beiot
 CHAPTER XvII-He learns that ~ man resembling Sullivan leaped from the train near M The man sprained his ankle and stayed some time at the Carter place.
 CHAPTER XvIII.-while making in uuiries at the Carter place Blakeley finds Alison. He kisses her CHAPTER XIX-While dining in a restaurant the woman for whom Blakelev bought Pullman ticket summons him to her table
 CHAPTER xX..she tells him her name is Mrs: Conway She tries to make bargain for the forged notes, not knowing that they are missing
 CHAPTER xXI-Blakeley tells his partner of the incident. and the latter evolves a theory that the woman killed Harrington.
 CHAPTER XXII.-The amateur detec- tive s'rnnson, and believes he has tound Sullivan,
 Hotchkiss had discovered fire laid in the enormous fireplace, and in a few minutes we were steaming before a cheerful blaze. Within the radius of it's light and heat. we were com fortable again. But the brightness merely emphasized the gloom of the ghostly corners. We talked in sub dued tones. and I smoked box of Russian cigarettes which I found in a table drawer. We had decided to stay all night, there being nothing else to do I suggested a game of double-dummy bridge, but did not urge it when my companion asked if it resembled euchre. Gradually as the ecclesiastical candle paled in the freight, we grew drowsy. I drew a divan into the cheerful area and stretched myself out for sleep. dotch- kiss, who said the pain in his leg made him wakeful, sat wide-eyed by the fire, smoking a pipe.
 l have no idea how much time had passed when something threw itself violently on my chest reused with start and leaped on my feet, and a large Angora cat fell with a thump to the floor. The fire was still bright, and there was an odor of scorched leather through the room from Hotch- kiss shoes. The little detective was sound asleep, his dead pipe in his fingers. The cat sat back on it's launches and walled
 The curtain at the door into the hallway bellied slowly out into the room and fell again. The cat looked toward it and opened it's mouth for another howl. I thrust at it with my foot, but it refused to move. Hotch- kiss stirred uneasily, and his pipe clat- tered to the floor.
 The cat was standing at my feet, staring behind me. Apparently it was following with it's eyes an object un- seen to me, that moved behind me. The tip of it's tail waved threatening ly, but when I wheeled I saw nothing.
 took the candle and made a circuit of the room. Behind the curtain that had moved the door was securely closed. The windows were shut and locked, and everywhere the silence was absolute. The cat followed me najestically. I stopped and stroked it's head, but 1t persisted in its uncan- ny watching of the corners of the room.