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 "So. Davis" concluded, "you see that every new clue points to Hugh Crandall."
 The post office inspector sniffed.
 What have they done with the dead woman's clothes?" he asked. T want to see them at once"
 l had been anXiously awaiting Davis arrival. not without some little feeling of triumph, to tell to him the startling developments in the mystery. since I had left him hardly more than twenty four hours before at the ferry. was at the station awaiting him, and led him at once to the little hotel The noise of his coming had been bruited about by the village gossips. and as his fame had penetrated even 10 the obscure Jersey village. there was a curious crowd gathered at the station. Some of them even followed us as far as the hotel lobby. pressing so close that private conversation was impossible. To avoid interruption. I took him at once to my room and or. dered our supper served there.
 While We waited for it summarized as briefly as l could the new features of the case. beginning with my finding the post office deserted. the name missing from Lock Box r, the suicide of the woman. the calling up of the Bridgeport police. the testimony of the maid that the woman had been crying over yellow letter. the dis covery of the five thousand dollars in new hundred-dollar bills in the cash drawer. the coincidence in the initials of Cook and Crandail that had first attracted my attention 10 the missing guest in the hotel. his peculiar con.
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 Little Rock.-Final and completa presidential election returns. excent the congressional vote of Greene coun. ty, have at last been received by tho governor.
 The total vote cast shows decrea,. over that of the last election. the vote being l23,S35 against 151,701 in 1908. No cause is given for this except the explanation that the voters were con. fident of the vote all going one way and therefore stayed away from the polls.
 The electoral vote is as follows.
 Democratic Electors-Arbuckle. es.. S20; Steel, 68.S35; Hoffman, 6S,s33: Moore. 6s,S22; Pace. 6s,S24; Scott. 6s.. s19; Priddy, assoc; Wynne, 6S,7sS; Clary 6S,765.
 Republican electors-Trimble 24,. 361; Tiles. 24,366; Edwards. 24,Sss; Henry, 24.3G6; Crawford, 24,372; Lem. ing. 24,367; Becker. 24,369; Tindall, 24,362; Young. 24.3Gl,
 Progressive Electors-Pearsall, 21,- 553; Trieber. 21,57o; Waters. 2l.57O; Mack, 21,510, Ruble. i,572; Youmans. 21,572; Holt, 21,577; Elliott, 21.577.
 Socialist Eleetor-Perrin. S,153
 Prohibition Elector-Denton. S9S.
 This shows a total vote of l2S. .S35, the highest vote for each set Of elect orS being aS follows. Denocratic eS . S35; Republicans. 24.372: Progressives, 2l,577; Socialists, s.153; Prohibition ists, S9S. The vote c: 1908, which was as follows: Bryan. S7.015: Taft, 56- 625; Debs, 5.S42: Chain, 1,194; Peo- ple's party, 1,026: total, 151,7
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duct the minute I mentioned the vel low letter and his flight from the town behind the fastest horse obtainable.
 While l was only an amateur in criminal investigation, prided myself that l had followed everything as far as Davis himself could have done. doubted if even be, with all his shrewdness. could learn the identity or the dead woman or could explain what the postmaster was doing with such an unusually large sum. left so carelessly hid in the cash-drawer. My private opinion was that the money was probably counterfeit and that when we had solved the mystery we would ind that Hugh Crandall was at the head of band of skilful rogues who were defrauding the government. More than likely they had headquar- ters somewhere in the vicinity. Prob aoly with the connivance of the post master they conducted some sort of green-goods or other swindling game through Lock Box r. It seemed to me more than possible that Crandall, taking advantage of Katharine Far rishs love for him. had snared her Idther into some nefarious scheme. such theory would explain her sud- den break with him and might even account for her fathers terror at the sight Of the yellow letter that had re vealed to her his error. The knowi- edge of her fathers plight, too. might have driven her to try suicide. Olc Elser possibly was one of the gangs dupes or agents who saw exposure coming, through Katharine's activity. and feared to face it. The one flaw in my theory, 1t seemed to me, was that IL In no way accounted for the second woman's suicide, and in spite of Da- vis' prophecy that there would be more suicides, l was inclined to be lieve that perhaps, after all, 1t was only coincidence. Learning her identity, l did not regard as half so important as to locate Crandall al most wished that I had gone in pur- suit of him alone 1 would have felt an unholy joy in rounding him up sin gle-handed, while Davis followed oth-
 
 CT minor clues. 1 felt considerably annoyed that Davis apparently was more interested in learning who the dead woman was than in discovering Crandall's whereabouts.
 T have no idea what they have done with the clothes," said almost cross ly. T suppose they are still in the room. The inquest was adjourned un- til tomorrow morning. Maybe they have been taken to the undertaker's He came this afternoon and took the body away. I forgot to tell you that Crandall called up the Parrish house this morning and asked for Katharine right from this very hotel"
 What did he say" he asked apa- thetically.
 l repeated the conversation with Louise word for word as she had told it to me.
 That" said I. lis definite evidence that Crandall, the man whom We sus- pect, was here in the place where you sent me-here under an assumed name. What greater proof of guilt
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1r oaaA'11ssu oozs1'Y Mz1zzAimMU y URaznes


 can imagine
 Whats he been spending 1t for?"
 Well. l noticed him the other day wearing big diamond in his necktie and he bought himself a gold repeater watch and he's always hiring horses at the livery stable and going of for drives in the evening. One night I seen him buy a round of drinks that cost a dollar and ten cents That's what call spending"
 Maybe he met with an accident on his drive"
 Maybe he did, but don't believe it likely. A fellow that can get along with women can get along with horses. and while Charlie wasn't athletic or anything like that, never seen the horses Yet he couldn't drive.
 By this time Miss Cox had her mail sorted and turned to us with If you two gentlemen want to see what's in the safe, now is your chance. I'm go- ing to open it."
 Everything inside the safe was in the neatest order. She removed the ledgers and put them on the desk, in- spected the cash-drawer of the safe and made a tab of the amount. She also carefully counted the reserve sup ply Of stamps, postal-cards and stamped envelopes, and added them to her tally.
 Now for the daily cash-drawer," suggested the constable. Let's see if he's taken any of the cash"
 That's just like a man. snapped Miss Cox. How are you going to tell till l go over these books and see how much there ought to be? We'll open the cash-drawer after I'm through looking"
 There was nothing to do but wait, and it was perhaps half an hour be- fore she completed her calculations. being often interrupted by callers for mail.
 If the cash-drawer hasn't been robbed" she said, well find exactly sixteen dollars and forty-eight cents in it D
 In the presence of both of us she opened the drawer and carefully count ed out its contents. One five-dollar bill, two two's, four ones and three dollars and forty eight cents in silver and pennies were in the drawer.
 Right to t." she exclaimed tri- umphantly. T believe you two are disappointed al not finding shortage Charlie Rouser may have his faults, but he's honest"
 Whats that there at the back of the drawer?" asked the constable, paying no attention to her remark.
 The drawer, one of those heavy wooden affairs with a circular pocket for silver had been pulled out almost to its utmost length. Where the money compartments fitted into the back of the drawer a little space was left, barely visible under the overhang of the desk. It was at this particular space that the constable was pointing.
 Following the line of his finger, l caught glint of yellow. just as the en- ergetic Miss Cox gave the drawer a hard jerk that brought 1t out to it's full length. She reached into the slit and brought out a neat package of one.hundred-dolla bills-fifty of them
 The three of us gazed at each other in blank mazement
 What was poor country postmas- ter on six hundred dollars a year do- ing with five thousand dollars care 1 lessly concealed thus? l Where did he get it?
 Where was he?
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can you have. unless it is actual con fession?"
 The man you suspect" he correct ed with some asperity. turning ab- ruptly to the waiter, who had entered with our supper.
 Tell the proprietor to come up here at once" he said, and tell him to bring with him the garments worn by the woman who killed herself"
 If had sent Mahlon Williams such an order I am positive he would have paid no attention to it. but Davis was obeyed. So quickly that it almost seemed as if Williams had been listen. ing outside the door the landlord aP- peared carrying the black coat and
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skirt the woman had worn. Perhaps 1t was something in Davis authorita- tive manner
 There's no use in your looking those over," I said. They were care fully examined today. and there is not mark on them. The only clue is the letter 'S' on two black-bordered hand kerchiefs and a return ticket to Bridgeport She signed her name as Mary Jane Teller, but there is none of the Bridgeport Teilers who an- swers her description. nor are any of them missing. l found out all that long ago"
 Davis was paying little attention to my conversation. doubted if ho was even aware that 1 had spoken With a small pocket tape measure h1 was taking the various dimensions oi the coat and skirt. He turned up tht hem of the latter and inspected 1t al carefully as if he expected to find name written there. He did the sama thing first with one sleeve and then with the other.
 You say that she registered as Teller and that her handkerchiefs vsere marked with an 'S?'' he sudden ly asked me, showing that he had heard all said.
 Both the landlord and l answered him affirmatiyely.
 Where is the telephone?' he asked. "I want to call long distance. There was note of excitement in his voice that indicated to me thal he believed himself on the verge oi some discovery, though what it was could not imagine.
 He dashed away to the telephone; the landlord following. ate my sup per alone and waited Just as l wai finishing he came back into the room, and, seating himself, began ta eat, apparently indifferent to the fact | that everything had grown cold " the half-hour he was absent. Well" l said inquiringly, "did you ' learn anything?"
 He nodded and calmly finished drinking his cold coffee.
 Expectantly l 2 here. waiting fos him to go on. Il emed not to no, tice my impatience, though 1t must have been apparent. and waited until he had pushed back his chair and ] lighted a cigarette. He always rolled his own, and never before had reah ized what an irritating operation roll | ing a cigarette can be made. II seemed to me that he was taking en, tirely unnecessary pains to have tho ends twisted just so. Finally l could brook no further delay. and burst out with: Well. what have you discov cred, MT Inspector"
 l I supposed that he might have ob l tained a clue to where the woman'a l garments had been manufactured, some tiny thread by which he hoped 1 to run her identity 10 earth Idttla was 1 prepared for the startling dis coveries he volleyed at me, so tersely, so concretely put that I could not doubt the accuracy of his information.
 The woman was Sarah Sackett spinster. She lived on a little farri just outside Bridgeport with her broth
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Move to Offer Reward.

Wynne. - A movement has been started to raise q fund to be offered as reward for the arrest of former County Treasurer A. H. Hammett, who has been indicted by the grand jury on a charge of embezzlement. Those behind the movement say it Is certain that they will be able to raise a sum large enough to make the arrest or Hammett worth while. The probe into Hammett's financial affairs is still in progress.
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CT Robert, who is somewhat older thal she. They inherited the farm iron their parents and have lived there al their lives. The brother is employed as cashier in little country bana about ten miles away Every mornin, he drives into Bridgeport and take, the train. When his sister left, tpt days ago, he came with her to the station. He evidently is not awar. of her death, though he seems great ly worried over her absence. He prc sumably expected her to return las, night. for he waited oser severn, trains. This morning Ee was asl.in, the station agent if he had seen her
 (To BE CoNTiNCED1
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Two Parties official,v no,d

Raliegh. \. C.-officially only one poNtcal party exists in North Carolina according to complete returns from tue recent election filed here by the State Board of Canvassers. A party is required to poll a vote of 5O,OO0 in 'he gubernatrial contest to secure of. lielai recognition. The vote was. eralg tDemocrap, 149,975; AIears eFrogressive). as.93O: settle (Proxres. si'el i.ss1. wlnsa', .Eacg.t7 z,o iAsSe
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Poultry Exhibition Successful.

Little Rock.-The annual show Of the Little Rock Poultry Association closed here after a successful exhibi- ton week. Many fine birds were on exhibition and many prizes were given away to the winners. Many people visited the show during the week. It was decided by the board of directors to hold the 1913 meet in Little Rock during Thanksgiving week of next year.
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Morrilton District.

F. $. H. Johnston, presiding cider. Altus station, ]. NJ. Williams. Apple ton mission, ]. K. Parrish; Atkins sta. ton, W, J. Faust, G. NJ. Barton. super hHmerary; Glarksville station. | r F Bates; Clarksville circuit, to be snn. piIed by NJ. T. Briscoe; Conlay circuit M. R. Lark; Conway station. F. P Steel; Damascus mission. to be sun piled by ]. G. Carter. Dover circ.i F. N. Kelsey; Greenbrier circuit. | | Gossett' Hartman circui, R. A. Rob ertson; lamar circuit, Elisha Dyer. London circuit. J. C. Weaver; Morril- ton station, R. F. l.. Beardon. NavIor circuit ]. F. Wallace; Pottsvil!e cir. cult; C. II. Sherman Quitman sta. aon, J. W. Crichlow; Quitman circuit W. IA. Biggs; Russellyille station. ]. A Nomack; Spadra circuit, J. w. How. ard; Western Methodist, J. A. Ander. son. editor; D. J. Weems, field editor. conference evangelist, A. E. Goode, transferred to southwest Missouri con. terence, C. l.. k. Crook
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OFFICIAL VOTE
 0F ARKANSAS IN Smaller Vote Cast in 1912 Tb., in 1908--- Total Ballot
 Was 123,835. ARKANSAS C0NGRESsMeN Smal. Vote Thought to Be pu. :. Overeonfidence-Nine Arksns,.
 Electors.
ARKANSAS CONGRES sMru
CONGRES SSM EN.

First District. T. II. Carraway. Second District, W. A. OldfieId Third District, J. C. Floyd. Fourth District, Otis T. Wingo Fifth District, H. NJ. Jaeoway Sixth District. Sam NJ. TavIor Seventh District, W. s. Goodwin
 SENATORS. James P. Clarke. Jefferson Davis.
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Senator Gore Introdrca. eu1

"ashington.-Senator Gore of Okla. homa has introduced a bill seeking to create federal judgeship with iuris. action over the entire state of Okla. homa.
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Harrison District.

W. T. Martin, presiding elder; Ape ma circuit, to be supplied; Berryville station, F. 0. Dexter: Berryylle cir cult. to be supplied by J. c. Snow: Bellefonte circuit, T. C. Steel: Clinton circuit to be supplied by c. w. Hatch ett; Cotter mission, NJ. F. Johnson. Eureka Springs station. J. L. Bryant: Green Forest station. E. W. Crump. Harrison station. C. w. Lester: Hlg- den circuit James E. Shell: Lead Hill circuit, to be supplied by J. W. Black; Leslie mission, ]. A. Reynolds; Mar shall mission, Everett Faulkner: Noun. tain Home station. F. c. VilIines, Osage mission, B. T. Robertson: Val ley Springs mission. Percy Vaughan: Melville and Pyatt, W. W. Albright. Melville circuit, to be supplied by l. A. Britton
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CHURCH CONFERENCE ENDS
Bishop Makes Arkansas Appointments
 for Coming Year.

for Coming Year.
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 Atkins-The Arkansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. adjourned here Sunday, after a successful meeting in which many new plans for the coming year were made.
 Bonneville District.
 w T. Thompson, presiding elder; Bonneville station, J. H. O'Bryant; Bonneville circuit, L. W. Fair; Belle vile circuit, NJ. A. Fry; Bigelow mis- sion, H. l.. Wade: Branch circuit, w. NJ. Adcock; Cecil circuit, to be sup piled by H. B. Flippen; Danville sta ton, W. B. Wolf; Dardanelle station, F. NJ. Tolleson: Dardanelle circuit, J. NJ. McAnally; Gravelly circuit, Edward T. Wayland; Magazine and Wesley cir cult, c. L. Horton; Ola circuit. J. R. Ashmore; Paris station, H. Hains- worth Perry circuit. to be supplied by ]. II. Golson; Plainview mission, c. H. Bumpers Prairie View circuit, w E. Bishop: Scranton mission, James F. Glover; Waldron station, D. H. Col quette: Waldron circuit, to be SUD- piled by R. N. Davis; Walnut Tree circuit, to be supplied by J. D. C. Claude; conference missionary secre- tary, J. H. O'Bryant.
 Fayetteville District.
 J. B. Stevenson. presiding elder; Bentonville station, George Medium phy; Centerton circuit. D. H. Cline; Elm Springs, to be supplied by J. H. Ruble; Fayetteville station, NJ. N Waldrip, W. H. Dyer supernumerary Gentry station, B. Margeson: Goshen circuit, J. N. Villines; Gravette and Decatur. William A. Mckee; Hunts vile mission, J NJ Haley; Lincoln circuit, H. A. Armstrong: Parkdale and White River, O. H. Tucker: Pea Ridge circuit, Y. A. Gilmore, Prairie Grove station. F. & Lark Rogers sta tion, F. F. Dodson; Siloam Springs station, F. K. Hamilton; Springdale station, A. L. Cline; Springtown cir cult. G. B. Griffin: Whey Grove cir cult, J. P. Wheeler; War Eagle mis- sion, to be supplied by E. B. McLain: Winslow mission, w E. Reed. mission ary 10 Korea, A. W Wasson: mission ary to Japan, C. B. Moseley; mission ary to Cuba, Henry Smith.
 Fort Smith District.
 ]. II. Hughey. presiding elder; Alma station, B. NJ. Barrow; Beech Grove mission, J. W. Harger; Charleston cir cult, Thomas Martin; Fort Smith Cen tral church, l.. NJ. Broyles Fort Smith Dodson avenue, Geo. E. Patchell; Fort Smith First church, G. G. Davidson; Fort Smith Midland Heights mission. II. H. Griffin; Fort Smith circuit. J D. Roberts; Greenwood station. J. sherman; Haekett circuit, c. C. John son, Hartford and Midland. ". " Womack; Huntington and Mansfield. J. F. Lark; Kibler circuit, D. N. Weaver; Mulberry circuit, C. E. Gray; E. Woodruff, supernumerary; Ozark station, J. ]. Galloway; Ozark mission. J. H. sturdy; Van Buren station, Will liam sherman; Van Buren circuit. J. s Hockler.
 Harrison nirtrirt
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CHAPTER VIII.
A New Clue.

"So. Davis, l concluded, "you see that every new clue points to Hugh Crandan."
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TENAs FARM, tli ACRES, ApJolN-
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200 acres IN cultivation all tillahle rrd
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