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It'd CIRCULAR STAIRCASE

was cheap at the price Of . church
carpet. ] received less gratificati0o-
and less gratitude-when ! presented
the new silver communion set to st.
Barnabas.
had . great many things to think
about In those days. I made 4 list OF
questions and possible answers. but
! seemed only to be working around
in . circle. ! always ended where !
began. The list vas something like
this:
Who had entered the house the night
before the murder!
Thomas claimed II was Mr. Bailey,
whom he had seen on the foot path. and
who owned the pearl cu9-Mnk.
Why did Arnold Armstrong come hack
after he had left the house the night he
was killed?
No answer. Was II ON the mission
Louise had mentioned?
Who admitted him?
Gertrude said she had locked the east
entry. There was no key on the dead
man or in the door. He must have been
admitted from within.
Who had been locked In the clothes
chute?
Some one unfamiliar with the house.
cNioShtby. oulJ tSo peOpso missing from
the household. Rosie and Gertrude Rosie
had been At the lodge. Therefore-but
was 1t Gertrude? Might It not have been
the mysterious intruder again!
Who had accosted Rosie on the drive
Again-perhaps the nightly visitor. 1t
seemed more likely some one who sus-
pected q secret at the lodge. Was Lou
Use under surveillance?
Who had passed Louise on the circular
staircase?
Could 1t have been Thomas? The key
to the east entry made this q POSSIBLE
ity. But why was he there. II 1t were
indeed he?
Who had made the hole In the trunk
room wall?
1t was not vandalism. II had been done
quietly, and with deliberate purpose II
I had only known how to read the pur-
pose Of that gaping aperture what
might have saved in anxiety and mental
strain!
Why had Louise left her people and
come home to hide at the lodge?
There was no answer. a. yet. to this,
or to the next questions.
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OF Thomas funeral in The villaee. and
Alex and I were In The cooaeevaAary
cutting A0wers for the old naa's cas-
ket. Lddy il sever - happy a. VIXEN
she il making Aerseh vretched, and
now her mouth droopeA vhils her eyes
were triumphant
Il always said there we're Dleaiy Of
things going On here. right unAer our
noses. that We couldn't see." she said,
holding out her aproa.
Il doa't zee With ny Bose" I re-
marked what have you got there"
Liddy pushed aside . half dosen
geranium pots. aAA in the spacs thus
cleared she Dumped the coatents Of
her apron-a handful of tiay bits of
paper. Alex had stepped hack. but I
saw him watching her curi0usly.
wait moment. Lay" ] said.
you have been going through the
library paper-basket again."
Liddy was arranging her bits of pa
per with the skin Of loag practice and
paid no attention.
did It ever occur to you" went
o.. putting my hand over the scraps,
that when people tear up their cor
respondence 1t IL for the express pur.
pose Of keeping II from being read?"
III they wasn't ashsnel a II they
wouldn't take 10 much tfesh3s, Miss
Rachel" LdAy satl oraevlarty. "Nore
than that. with things happsaing every
day. l consider II my duty. II you
don't read and act q this. shah give
1t to that Jamieson. and IN venture
he'll not 60 back to tie city to-day"
That decided me. II the scraps had
anything to do with the mystery or
binary conventions had % value. So
Lddy arranged the scraps. like work
ing out oae Of tho puxsle- pictures chill
dren play with. and she did It with
much the same eagerness. When 1t
was finished she stepped aside while
I read 1t.
Wednesday night nine o'clock.
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Bridge" read aloud. Then. aware
of Alexis stare, l turned on Liddy.
Some one is to play bridge to-
night at nine O'Clock" said. SIS that
your business, or mine?'
Liddy was aggrieved. She was
about to reply when l scooped up the
pieces and left the conservatory.
Nov then" l said, when We got
outside, will you tell me why you
choose to take Alex into your con-
fdence? He's no fool. Do you sup
pose he thinks any one in this house
is going to play bridge tonight ut
nine o'clock. by appointment! sup
pose you have shown 1t in the kitchen,
and instead Of my being able to slip
down to the bridge tonight quietly,
and see who is there, the whole house.
hold will be going in procession"
Nobody knows It," Liddy said hum.
bly,. Il found 1t IN the basket in Miss
Gertrude's dressing room. Look at the
back Of the sheet" turned over some
OF the scraps, and, sure enough, It
was . blank deposit slip from the
Traders bank. So Gertrude was going
to meet Jack Bailey that night by the
bridge! And I had thought he was
Ill! 1t hardly seemed like the action
Of an innocent man-this avoidance Of
daylight, and Of his nancee's people.
l decided to make certain, however,
by going to the bridge that night.
After luncheon Mr.. Jameson sug-
gested that 60 with him to Richneld.
and l consented.
Il am inclined to place more faith
In Dr.. Stewards story" he said. since
I found that scrap in old Thomas
pocket It beazv out the statement
that the woman with the child. and
the woman who Quarrsled with Arm
strong, are the same. It looks a. n
Thomas had stumbled On to soma NJ.
fair which was more q les diseee6
table to the dead man. ana, with 2
stsaiz'Nyaitt % ~ atmhy. ~ -
TITO himself. 11sa, you ~. 80
seoey about The woman At ~ ear1.
room widow beglns 10 neon some,
0iAg. Il 10 IL nearest appspseA -
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Why did both she and Dr. Walker
warn us away from the house?
Who was Luc!en Wallace?
What did Thomas see in the shadows
the night he died?
What was the meaning Of the subtle
change in Gertrude?
Was Jack Bailey an accomplice or a
victim in the footing of the Traders
bank?
What all-powerful reason made Louise
determine to marry DR.. Walker?
The examiners were still working
on the books of the Traders bank, and
it was probable that several weeks
would elapse before everything was
cleared up. The firm of expert &C.
countants who had examined the books
some two months before testified that
every bond, every piece Of valuable
paper, was there at that time. 1t
had been shortly after their examina-
ton that the president. who had been
in bad health, had gone to California.
Mr.. Bailey was still i'll at the Knicker-
booker, and in this, as in other ways,
Gertrude's conduct puzzled me. She
seemed Indifferent, refused to discuss
matters pertaining to the bank, and
never, to my knowledge. either wrote
to him or went to see him. Gradual
ly came to the conclusion that Ger
trude, with the rest Of the world, be-
lieved her lover guilty, and-althoush
believed 1t myself, for that matter
l was irritated by her Indifference.
Girls in my day did not meekly accept
the public's verdict a. to the man
they loved.
But presently something occurred
that made me think that under Ger
trude's surface calm there was q seeth.
ing flood Of emotions.
Tuesday morning the detective
made careful search Of the grounds,
but he found nothing. In the after
noon he disappeared. and It was late
that night when he came home. He
said be would have to 60 back to he
city the following day. and ARRANGED
with Halsey ana Alex to guard tie
house.
Liddy came to me On Wednesday
morning with her black SILK apsua
held up like . bag a1d her syss BIZ
with virtuous wrath. II was u lay
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Mis- Innes. spinster and guardian Of
Gertrude and Halsey. established summer
headquarters at Sunnyside. Amidst nu-
A. Aiss lines locked up for the night
0As vas startled by q dark figure on the
vsranda- Unseemly noises disturbed her
isnss found ne n,s Strange ink I'M ea button 10
Q hamper Gertrude and Halsey arrived
With Jack Bailey. The house was avak-
9' .hot to deaeS in The
holl Miss Innes found Halsey's revolver
- the lawn. He and Jack Bailey had dis
eSSsered, a., The Link Snn6Ttton myis
arrived. Gertrude revealed she was en-
fa&ed to Jack Bailey. with whom she
taAs1 in the billiard room :. .,, few mo no
cused Miss Innes Of holding back evil
Aence. He Imprisoned an intruder In an
empty room. The prisoner escaped down
A negro found the other half OF what
proved to be Jack Bailey's cun.button.
Halsey reappears and says he and Bailey
said she had given Bailey an unloaded
Weapon. Cashier Bailey OF Paul Arm
snSe1.ie%.nt. p HaIsey said Armstrons
wrecked his own bank and could clear
Bailey. Paul Armstrong; death was an
sssons was foaSd at the ioSss Tne
1odsekeeper said Louise and Arnold had
. long talk the night Of the murder: Lou
re was Frustrated. Louise told Halsey.
that while she still loved him she was to
marry another. and that he would despise
her when he learned the whole story.
II developed that DIR. Walker and Louise
were to be married. A prowler was heard
IN the house. Louise was found at the
bottom of the circular staircase. Louise
0Ai0 she had heard knock at the door
and answered 1t. Something brushed past
Der on the stairway and she tainted. Bal
ley il suspected of Armstrong; murder.
After seeing a ghost" Thomas. the
found In his pocket bearing the name
"Lucien Wallace. II Elm street, Rich
fsld."
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CHAPTER XXI.
Fourteen Elm Street.

1t was Monday evening when we
found the body of poor Thomas Mon
day night had been uneventful; things
were quiet at the house and the pc
culiar circumstances of the old mans
death had been carefully kept from
the servants. Rosie took charge of
the dining room and pantry, in the alb
sence Of butler. and, except for the
warning Of the Casanova doctor, every
thing breathed of peace.
Affairs at the Traders bank were
progressing slowly. The failure had
hit small stockholders very hard, the
minister Of the little Methodist chapel
in Casanova among them. He had
received as legacy from an uncle
few shares Of stock in the Traders
bank. and now his Joy was turned to
bitterness; he had to sacrifice every.
thing he had in the world, and his
feeling against Paul Armstrong, dead,
as he was, must have been bitter in
the extreme. He was asked to Of
ficiate at the simple services when the
dead bankers body was inferred in
Casanova churchyard, but the good
man providentially took cold, and
substitute was called in.
A few days after the services he
called to see me, a kind-faced little
man. in very bad frock-coat and
laundered tie. think he was uncer-
tain az to my connection with the
Armstrong family. and dubious wheth-
Or I considered Mr.. Armstrong; tax
ing away a matter for coincidence or
oongratulation. He was not long in
doubt
liked the little man. He had known
Thomas we'll. and had promised to Of
0cfate at the services in the rickety
African Zion church. He told me more
q himself than he knew. and before
- lett astonished him-and myself,
I a1nit-by promising a new carpet
~ hi church. He was much affected.
- I gathered that he had yearned
ovsr hin ragged chapel - . mother
ovae Q Aalf-clothsd child.
"Yeu are laying up treasures, Miss
lnnss." he said brokenly. where
0e1lAse moth nor rust corrupt, nor
E6eves break through and steal"
I sat him home in the car. with q
buneA of dollhouse roses for his wife,
and he was quite overwhelmed. As
for Ne, had a generous glow that
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what vas the bridge ce sishs!"
asked the woman who was looking ct
the picture book.
II suppose" replied Mrs. Fiimglit.
that 10 one Of those games in which
you are obliged to make It spades
every time"
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b ~ Old days whsa oral sxaaiAar
tioas vsrs still tie tAing. - exam.
ining board was puoneliAg IN appu-
cant With ausstioas freo Blaekstoes.
Ksat sAA other famous legal lights.
Il AiAnt study anything shout those
fsilovs.s coop1ainsd Tie applicant.
what ~ ~ sta1yf- ssks1 one of
tAs jSAOsA.
Il studSol IL stakuAes Ct Tie states"
hs replied. II studied them hard Ask
Ne Q question about them and III
show you. That 70 vAsrs I got all my
legal knowledge"
my young fsisaAs,. saiA oas aus
tsrs Judge On De s1aDiniag hoard.
"yos had bsttse b vesy careful for
some DAY the legislature might meet
and repeal everything you know."-
Kansas City Journal.
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Whes . nan go sout to hunt . rep
uEoeiHa an ~ Oots b notoristy.
Lack y semstAiAs Ws blame when
xs ~ anA Aeay vhsa vs succeed.
whss yos are spreediag the salvs
iook ssG hat yos Aoot slip up o. it
yourssk
u hae besa truthfslly said that
~ ~ Deeds . DeoaDeat should
nnt hAvo o..
o. SD way - ksso your helpsrs
Interested 10 70 vt tAs0 share some
q the credit ,-
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DOCS Your Cat couah2

Poor pussy AS II the immemorial
charges against her of keeping US
awake O. nights and of eating canary
birds whenever she gets the chance
were not enough, the doctors have
just discoveredthat for years she has
been responsible for the spread OF
diphthetria DIR. G, ]. Awburn Of
Manchester. England, having traced
an epidemic of this disease in sub
urb of that city to pet cat belonging
to one of his patients, has found, after
much clever investigation, that all
cats are peculiarly susceptible to
diphtheritic affections of the throat
He has therefore recently been warn
ing all families who own cats to
watch them carefully, and, If they de-
velop coughs, to forbid their being
Rugged and petted. DR.. Auburn fur
Their recommends that If the cough
PERSISTS and the cat begins to grow
thin to have the animal destroyed at
once. The only really safe way, he
says, is to let the first wheeze be
pussys death warrant
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SCIENCE AND THE FARM

Much has been said lately about
scientific agriculture and intensive
cultivation. Not little is being done
70 improve cultivation and increase
the yield But farmers all over the
world will hear with pleasure that
even the British Association for the
Advancement of Science is giving
serious attention to these problems.
At its Sheffield meeting this year two
savants announced 'the most impor-
tant agricultural discovery in fifty
years" namely, the discovery that
there are heterogeneous that spoil
and destroy the soil as pathogenic
germs attack and injure human and
animal bodies. There are bacteria
that fertilize and stimulate plants, and
there are bacteria that kill these USE
ful organisms. The bad and noxious
agents may ia turn be attacked and
destroyed. thus saving the soil and
leaving the field free to the beneficial
organisms. AT the same meeting sew
eral scientific experimenters present.
ed results Of the application Of cleo
tricity 70 wheat, vegetables ana fruits
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IGNORANCE OF LAWS

The idea was cleverly executed.
fair imitation of the head of Liberty
was on one side and the advertise
ment on the other. The number was
placed where the date on dime Ia
and the first glance certainly i'm
pressed one as the real coin. The
other side had sheaf of wheat and In
the center the words .On Time"
The firm had no desire to defraud
the public. But INSCRIPTIONS people
who had access to them did. Several
walters at summer park lost money
by accepting the advertisement for
real money, chewing gum machines
were filled with them and at last the
secret service learned how matters
were and began an investigation.
There were 10000 of the metals
contiscated. Some stray ones, how
ever, were in circulation and it took
almost year to hunt them down"
jewelers. are guilty every day OF
committing criminal offense. Every
day some one of them lays himself
liable to the law. According to the or
NAA0ANV AAOSC0 1VOtCt " AAubAldLV
money is an offense in the eyes OF
the law. jewelers. file one side of a
coin smooth and monogram it. The
other side is perfectly good. Pins,
bracelets, lockets and numerous other
things are made. The owner never
means to use the article for money,
But some one gets hold Of the pin OF
locket. He thinks the money would
be more useful and so passes the coin
with the pin or ring pulled off and the
good side up
To change the complexion" of a
coin also is an offense. That means
to dip silver in gold. Only few days
ago "lot" of shirt sets were confis.
Gated and sent to Washington. The
sets were made of Panama halfpen.
MES gilded. Carelessness of the law
again.
The only kind of coin that can De
worn is that so completely mutilated
that there can be no chance at all OF
passing It; for example, the filIgreed
dimes that the Mexicans make.
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CHINESE SAILORS FEED FISH

aged deck fittings and smashed deck
houses The steamer was very hard
hit when passing through the Straits
OF Michigan, sustaining most of the
damage at that period. She was
caught in blizzard that kicked up
waves. which in washing over her
decks tore up steampipes and washed
all movable objects overheard. The
steamers hospital was smashed in by
one comber and several of the crew
had to cling with all their might lest
they be carried overheard by the re-
ceding water. Throughout most of
the passage from Chile to Montevideo
the steamer was covered with ice and
snow. winter weather prevailing.
The Chatham started from Junin,
Chile. on August 20, and called at FIVE
ports while en- route. At Antofagasta
she took on 1910 tons of silver ore,
valued at 100000. and thus her cargo
was one of the most valuable ever
brought to Boston from South Amer
lea.
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PerambuIatIns House Seating 1900
VIII Travel by Aid Of Auto
mobile Train.

Paris. - A perambulating theater
fitted with the latest scenic appli-
ances and seating 1900 persons will
take the road In France next April.
AS in the days Of Moliere, perform
ances will be given where there is a
favored spot. but instead of the chart
OTIS and horses there win be train
of eight automobiles, drawing 21 cars.
The idea originated with Firmin
Gemier, .well-known Partisan theater
director, and 1t became public through
the fine arts report of Deputy Paul
Goncourt. The following details of
the scheme we're given by M. Gemier:
Local and provincial theaters us
ually are insufficient for fine dramatic
productions. Moreover, many commu-
mites have no theaters. The whole
idea is based on. decentralization and
the wish to carry culture to the prov
inces. ] intend to give the classics
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Crew Of Steamer Chatham Throw
Food Overheard for Member
Lost by Drowning.

Boston--So that their drowned
brother might not feel the pangs of
hunger while on the spiritual high
road to the other world, 20 Chinese
sailors, comprising the crew of the
British steamer Chatham. which
reached Boston the other day from
the west coast of South America,
threw rice and other foodstuffs into
the sea all the way from off the coast
of Brazil to Boston lightship. Ii Chow
was the late lamented. Chow fell over
board while engaged in boat drill
when the steamer was off the coast
of Brazil. The Chatham was stopped
and lifeboats launched, but before the
speediest of them got within twenty
feet of Chow he disappeared beneath
the waves Almost Immediately after
the steamer resumed her way the rest
OF the Chinese on board began stinting
themselves and casting overheard
what they saved from their own fare
so that Chow might not go hungry.
That the Chatham encountered se-
we're weather in her 1O,000-mile jour
ney was amply testified to by dam
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Much Money Lost Through Care
lessness in Using Coins.
jewellers Guilty Every Day Of Commit
ting Criminal offense In Filing
One Side of Coin Smooth
Other Offenses.

Chicago Thousand of dollars are
lost yearly by big firms through ig-
norance or carelessness in observing
the federal laws governing abuse Of
coins.
Just lately in Chicago a piano COM
pany came to grief in this way. Had
they asked the proper authorities (the
information would have been furnish
ed gratis) or had they looked up the
law they would have found in Section
165, public act No. $50, these words:
Whoever fraudulently. by any art.
way or means shall deface, mutilate,
impair. diminish, falsify or tighten
the gold or silver coins which
have been or which may hereafter be
coined in the mint of the United
States shall be fined not more
than $4,000 and Imprisonment of not
more than five years"
Much trouble and expense would
have been saved the firm and the gov
eminent had the law only been read.
1t all happened in this way: Some
clever advertiser conceived the idea
of an lad" of metal just the size of a
dime, with the wording and printing
placed in such a way that at first
glance 1t would appear as a dime.
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his daughter in a proper way. So she
was as Mrs. Joshua Flint, but things
change and men and women change
with them. One day Josh was blown
up by his own dynamite in cellar ex-
cavation. He carried $4,000 life In
Surance.
Within month Mrs. Flint began
to. have aspirations. She wasn't SO
very old yet, and there were the
wrinkle removers and the face bleach
ers and the fashionable dressmakers.
She felt it her duty to do something
for Florence. The name of Flint was
changed to Flynt on the new cards.
Joshua became Joseph. The third-fioor
nat was exchanged for a house. The
street cars were exchanged for her
own horses and carriage. Mrs. Joshua
had hustled for money in other days;
now she hustled for aspirations. Flor
ence had very little to do with It be.
yond her wardrobe and jeweiry and
being sent to college.
And now the girl had finished her
education and was coming home for
good. She hadn't been spoiled at all.
a. 9 " ~ oAO W 40 DCS Aun1llS W IGallZ9
the false position her aunt had placed
herself In, but 1t was not for her to
riticise- She was practically penni-
ess
During her trips home she had
card mention made OF matrimony and
ties and castles. and she had come
know that her aunt had schemes.
ChevaIier Darcy couldn't have fig-
fred all this out. but he figured
Benough to make him wish that some
thing would happen before reaching
the city. He was accommodated. Miss
Florence had just opened her lips to
make confession to her aunt and
take her scolding when there was a
ear-end collision with another train It
didn't amount to much--a crash and a
Jar. as that was not the roads regular
day for blunder and slaughter-but
It was SUFFICIENT for the chevalier to
pick himself up OFF the floor, brush
the dust from his knees and offer his
protection
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THE CIIEVALIER
By DONALD ALLEN
Copyright, 1910 BY Associated Literary Press

IN the seat behind the middIe-aged
woman and the girl with her sat Chew
alier Darcy. He had been sitting
there for two hours, and he had fig
1red out that the woman was no lady.
That is. she had not been born to the
purple. She was just woman trying
TO be a lady. He figured that the girl
was about nineteen, the niece of the
other, and that she was frank and In
genuous and not trying to be anything
else. His eyes had told him over end
over again during those two hours
that she was good to look upon.
Chevalief Darcy looked to he thirty
years old He may have been ten
years older. It was his business to
look thirty and to size up people For
half an hour he had seen that the
girl had something on her mind that
she wanted to talk about. One would
have thought the woman would have
noticed it first. but she didn't. Her
thoughts were busy with other things.
Years before. when Joshua Flint
and his wife came to the city. Josh
was a carpenter. He was good work
man. He showed the plane by day and
mixed with politics at night. In year
Josh had pull; in another he was a
city contractor. The members of the
Flint family didn't lose their heads.
They lived in a modest way and they
saved. Josh wore his old coats, and
his wife never went beyond $12 for a
ready-made dress. More politics
more pull-more money in bank.
Mrs Flint's brother Sam. living In
western state. died. Before it was
too late he consigned his daughter.
Florence Benson. to the care OF his
sister She was a girl of fifteen then.
The father had said of his sister that
she was hard-headed, sensible, saw
Ing woman-just the one to bring up