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+, Take the wheel minute" said
jeffrey was at his side in minute
! and began steering the boat out to the
/ left where the current wasn't so swift.
Kelly came aft and opened up the gas
| olene-tank, then his face went blank.
The tank was almost empty. Il knew
we had to fIl up again at Adbor-
| got it"
Cant you possibly nurse her along
| to the Beech Hill landing?" jeffrey
| asked
Kelly shook his head. There isn't an
other half-mile in her." he said.
JEFFREY threw the wheel over q little
farther, and We moved still further out
to the left. We were headed straight
for the island now.
ards. The current will take us back
to Oldborough all right"
Put Drew and me ashore here on the
island first. I've got revolver. but
Drew hasn't. Give him yours. Then go
back to oldborough as best you can and
fill up with gasolene. When you've got
IT, come back a pelting.'
Richards hesitated. but Jeffrey was
still at the wheel and heading us
island. IT haven't time to explain" he
said. Il can only give you my word
that I'm asking You to do what you
would do in a minute If you knew the
DREW ss' .na ss ySY cs
"All right" said Richards: 'Tll come
back" And he handed me his re-
volver.
pushed softly into the mud and stopped
There was still an univiting-looking
stretch Of mud and water between US
and the hard bank.
Overheard. Drew" said Jeffrey. and.
suitinR the action to the word, he vault
ed over the side and started wading in
the icy water toward shore.
] wasn't but a few seconds behind
him. but I needed Richards cry and
ssSppsd ibs long G enough to Dnsh the boat
after Jeffrey.
In June. when everything il in full
leaf. 1 suppose Hog Island may be an
attractive spot. in spite Of its name.
tons. But on that cold March morn
ing, bleak. wet, the branches on its
stunted trees and undergrown rafting
In the rising wind. the dark of its shad-
ows betraytng US after the rightness Of
the river had given a promise Of day. so
that We stumbled in our GREATNESS
haste over failed logs and blundered in
to mudholes, II was about the most dis
NAL place I had ever found myself in.
Jeffrey set the pace and 1t needed
about all my energy to keep up with
him. II I'm aimed right" he said as
came painting alongside, we'll come out
just about opposite the boathouse."
How are we going to get a cross" I
asked.
Swim. l suppose" said jeffrey. Il
wish there were quicker way"
Personally. wished there might be a
more comfortable way. My one plunge,
thigh deep in the Icy water, had given
me small relish for the prospect of
swimming in II.
But it gave me. more than anything
that had gone before, a realization OF
how seriously Jeffrey meant that our
getting to Beech Hill in time was a
matter Of life and death. Jeffrey didn't
like to swim any better than a cat. 1t
was one Of the few athletic sports at
which I excelled MIN. Matters were
urgent indeed when ne talked of SWIM
ming.
For the present though we had to,
climb. A long irregular hogback divides
the island along tts major axis-a fact
which was probably accountable for its
name. We were scrambling up now.
clutching at bushes when the treacher-
Gus clay underfoot slipped away be-
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blush pallor and the golden hair. as 1t
went back into the shadows. was wildly
disheveled and dripping wet! But the
eyes shone there out Of the dark, lumin-
Gus like those of a hunted animal
That was the face Barton had seen last
night. o..
l should have fed, as Barton did. II
the paralysis of nightmare hadn't held
me still. I'd have cried out with the
horror of the thing. but my dry throat
was numb. For the girl was dead!
Dead! And yet We saw her there. 1t
was from these blue lips that that wall
ing cry had come.
With an effort I got my eyes away
from her and looked at jeffrey. He
looked a little limp and he was very
pale. But what he said was: Thank
God. we're in time. was afraid we'd
be too late"
He didn't say 1t to me, but to that
dreadful apparation in the cave.
You're quite safe now he added.
and then he moved gently toward her.
A COntinuation Of This Story VIII
BE Found In TomOrrow's
Issue Of The Times.
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CHAPTER Xxx.
What We Saw In the Cave.

- UTSIDE the hotel We met q
leathered-clad man who looked
something like a chauffeur.
He touched his fat cap to
Richards. IT hope You got the man
who stole the automobile. lieutenant"
he said.
jeffrey laughed Surely he got MIN"
tenant to fair"
Back to the boat, Kelly" said Rich
Up the river again"
Heb the runner Of the police boat"
the lieutenant explained to me as We
went pelting down a steep cobble-payed
street in pursuit Of jeffrey and the en-
sineer. We ran and stumbled AND
slipped along in the dark for awhile
without a word. But presently Rich
ards spoke to me.
do you know how he knew i had a
motorboat?" he asked.
Why" painted, ''he knew that Bar
ton was at Beech Hill and that you
were watching Barton. Wed run OF
with the automobile and supposed he
figured that the only way you could
have got back so soon would DE- In
motorboat. We hadn't been. back very
long when you turned up, and We must
have got q pretty good start of you."
lbtl Z ou thS ~Sa
thar makes me sore" confided Richards.
though II admit 1 was mad enough
when my shore party came down TO the
river and told me the man i was look
ing for had gotten away and taken our
automobile with him The thing that
get. NV goat is that Jeffrey should have
hung out a bluff that was all wrong in
suepecting Barton and that the real
game was somewhere else altogether,
and all the while he was tracking Bar
ton himself on his own hook. just to
carry him Off under my nose.
IT he'd said. i want Borton, too; IL
take my way to find him and you take
yours,' that would have been on the
.f3ut." I exclaimed. Jeffrey wasn't"
And then stopped short. 1t had been
on the ttip of my tongue to tell him
purest accident and that Jeffrey had
been perfectly sincere in saying he was
after other game. But the reflection
that / was talking TO a lituetnant OF
the police. and that full account would
have involved a confession that We had
committed a crime ourselves that night
checked me up rather sharply. / had
followed Jeffrey's advice little too well
in forgetting that 1 was a housebreaker.
} Luckily the darkness and the un-
evenness OF the pavement gave me a
plausible excuse for choking off my
narrative Another minute and we were
down on the boat landing. In the dim
giimmer Of the boats lights ! could see
that jeffrey and Kelly, the engineer.
had already got aboard and cast of.
Jeffrey was holding on to the landing
with a boathook and adjurtng US to
hurry.
Richards and tumbled in astern. JEFF
frey seated himself in the bow beside
Kelly, and with a rush and roar we
were on.
The boat was long, narrow. bust
pesslike looking craft, her four cylin-
de-s under the hood up forward and
her fine. tapering lines and her torpedo
stern evidently built for speed.
II WAS brighter on the river than II
had been in the narrow streets of the
town, for the dawn was already paling
TO gray through the clouds over in the
east, and the surface Of the river re-
fected the color still more coldly. The
banks were perfectly black and forbid
ding. We were all warmly clad, and We
needed the warmth badly. In spite OF
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Synopsis of Preceding Chapters.

Just read this synopsis and pick up the
thread OF one Of the most remarkable mys-
eory stories ever written:
Arthur jeffrey is q fashionable portrait
patnter residing in Paris. His is q very
qonsitive nature-he Possesses a highly
so he Of and vet ne
9nits that. Throughout q period Of two
yoars jeffrey has been the victim of .
Oeculiar haunt. Several times when he
&1eered his apartments he had the dis
lieting feeling that some one had just
II the room. had left behind the faint
ss t.napie taeh N Ri. one
- ytsitor-he found delicately per-
&Hmed bit OF lace and linen, wognan's
Ss found week .l,ss sis n:sed Mhsn he os
trait on the easel in his studio-a portrait
Of an alfuringiy beautiful girl, evidently
painted by: herself from her reflection in
hts old gilt-frame mirror. He watches
He keeps II up for IS hours ands then
falls into n doze. When he awakes the
portrait disappears. Has it been dream!
No. for the coiors on his palette are not
the ones he had placed there himself.
Again. one sPring night Just before he 10
returning TO New York, Jeffrey saw his
bridge gazing at the black waters Of the
Seine. He had but fieeting glimpse. yet
Now enter Dr.. Crow, a distant relative
Of JeRrey's. but. more important stili.
friend and physician to the very wealthy
and very eccentric Miss Meredith. DR..
the photograph Of Claire Meredith, niece
Of the wealthy woman-a girl who had
died supposedly two years before during
. smallpox epidemic In the French capital.
It 10 the face Of the ghost-girl,
Now there Ia found frozen. in the ice
the body Of q beautiful girl in her early
twenties, masnihcently dressed. and bear
ing no trace Of the causes that might
have brought her TO her tragic end. That
10 one fact. Here II another: jeffrey re-
turns to his studio to End his new per-
trait OF Miss Meredith has been stolen.
He calls in the police. notably Lieutenant
Richards. The lieutenant finally rescues
the portrait. somewhat dishgured. from
the handS Of some notorious spiritual.sts.
He watches the artist restore the work to
it's former state. and then exclaims:
why. that's the picture Of the girl they
found IN the tce!"
The Cpirituaiists. Mr. and Mrs. Barton.
are arrested On suspicion Of knowing
eomsthinE about the murdered girl. They
confess they knew her slightly. Her name
80 Irene Foufnier. She was French. AT
this tunctuie the man Barton escapes.
Jeffrey, however. ie convinced that the
explanation Of the whole mystery will be
found at the country house of the eccen-
tric Miss Mersdith-she 10 q recluse there.
virtually an insane prisoner. jeffrey also
has q growing suspicion that DR.. Crow
has guilty mowledge of the mysterious
traEedy jeffrey. with party OF friends
sets out for this retreat In q hired auto
In the middle of the night.
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UTSIDE the hotel We met q
leathered-clad man who looked
something like a chauffeur.
He touched his fat cap to
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A marriage license has been issued
here to Richard WeIch, Of Alexandria,
and Miss Lena Murphy. of Washington
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Bids To Be Opened May 7.

Bids for the construction Of q sewer
in Maryland avenue northeast. between
SEVENTH and Fifteenth street. will be
opened 1t the District building May. !.
The sewer vii intercept the drainage
that now pours into the valley north
of Maryland avenue. It's estimate cost
is $4,000.
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Life Crushed Out.

HoBoKEN. n. J., April 2s.-Picked
up by flying STRIP Of paper and drawn
into the fast revolving rolls. Frank
Ward. a helper, twenty years old, was
crushed to death in the Hoboken paper
mill. Ward was working on the big
paper machine when the paper suddenly
broke and he was drawn into the rolls.
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AMATEUR SINGERS
REPEAT "P|hAFORE"
Rockville Benefit Performance
Is Given in Interest Of the
County League.

ROCKVILLE. Nd, April 6.-The
opera "Pinafore." presented in the
Rockville opera house recently by the
Rockville Musical Club, assisted by
Joseph F. Whittemore, tenor, and Miss
Lillian Koechling. vfofinAst. Of WASH
ington, was repeated here last evening.
and was well attended. II was given
ty Social Service League. Mrs. Berry
E. Clark was in charge.
A marriage license has been issued
here to Richard WEIGH. Of Alexandria,
and Miss Lena Murphy. Of Washington.
Three months in the house Of correc.
ton was the sentence imposed by Judge
Arthur NJ. Mace upon Annie Swailes,
convicted OF violating the local option
law by selling whisky to Susannah For
man. colored.
At q meeting of the directors Of the
Montgomery County Agricultural So
ciety. It was decided TO abolish harness
races at the fair this year and to sub
stitute running races and additional
classes In the horse show. II IL intended
to enlarge the horse show.
The citizens of Bethesda district are
planning the establishment of a CEN
trally located high school to accommo-
date the children living in Bethesda dis
trict delegation Of citizens will take
the matter up with the county public
school commissioners.
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Stubborn Junk Shop
Fire Proves CostIv

Damage estimated today at something
over 5000 was done by fire last night
to the junk shop OF George ". Robin
son. In an alley near Second and 1
streets southwest. The rfiemen were
given a stubborn fight for nearly an
hour. The cause of the blaze was not
determined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-30
END OF LONG HOT
WAVE IS IN SIGHT
Cool Wave Is Moving East
ward, According to the
Weather Bureau

Washington, June 29.-An end is in
sight to the hot wave that has held
sway over the central states for sew
eraI days. In it's weekly bulletin to-
night the weather bureau predicted
that the extreme heat would be broken
in the plains states Monday or Tues
day and that a cool wave then would
move slowly eastward. The forecast
says:
.'rhe distribution of atmospheric
pressure over the North American con-
tinent and the adjacent oceans is such
as to indicate a break in the hot wave
Tuesday, and the Mississippi valley
and the upper lakes region Tuesday or
Wednesday, followed by moderate TEN i
peratures in these districts during sew
eral days
East of the Mississippi rives warm
weather will prevail during the first
half of the coming week, followed by
moderate temperatures after Wednes-
day or Thursday. over the Rocky
mountain region and on the Pacific
slope temperatures Will average below
the normal.
THE rainfall during the week will
be generally light and local. A dis
turbance that now covers the plains
states will advance slowly eastward,
attended by local thundershower and
cross the great central valleys about
Tuesday and the eastern states Thurs
day"
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To Make Land Survey

Decatur, June ecial)-Through
the efforts OF Probate Judge William e
Skeggs, a land survey of this county will
be made in the near future. Mr.. William
son of the Alabama Polytechnic institute
at Auburn has been here looking into the
matter and the preliminary steps have
ber of acid tests Of the SOIL Later on he
will make numerous tests all over tie
county.
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public. The accountants and the a
tives are hard at work night as We
day, and the governor is giving
every assistance in his power SO that f
may arrive at the truth at the cal
day possible. or before the grand Il
shall have reassembled. In fact. n
understood the GRIND fury viii NOT
assemble until the governors accounts,
are ready for them.
1t is stated that c. c. Smtth nres;d
of the board of trustees, against WI
four indictments have been returned
to the same general effect, and
corning the deal with Natchez firs
which the state became the owner
old and worthless automobile. and
raigned Monday morning, and h
plead not guilty. 1t is also stated
attorneys for Mr.. Smith will ther
murrers against the indictments
considerable portion of the da a4f
consumed in nNarguing them beft fr
Henry There is every reason Il
that Mr.. Smith will demand p IA
tlRl, and his case will be ca ac tfs
earliest day possible.
1t is generally known arcrn N d
the detectives have succeaiea - .oc
ing the eight or 10 bales ri at repo
ed missing from the 1911 % he RS
kin farm, and the publ sfia specul
ing as to who got thep he farm, |
their curiosity will n sp -atifed
awhile.
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W|LL|NGHAM CALLS
ATTENTION TO NEW
EDUCATIONAL LAW
County Boards Authorized
to Employ Full Time of
Superirltendents
SHOULD CLOSELY
SUPERVISE WORK
State Superintendent of Education
Suggests Enforcement of the Law
in Letter--Assistants Are
Allowed

Montgomery, June 29.-(Special.)-S
intendent of Education Henry ]. Willing
ham has addressed letter to the boards
of education Of the yarious counties in the
passed at the recent session of the legis-
1ature, and operative aftef September 30
of this year, authorizing any county board
superintendent, whose term begins on
October / next.
The state superintendent points out ct
length the Importance of having the coun-
1y superintendent closely supervise the
work of the schools of the county. He de-
clares this 20 he just as important as the
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1t run on an annual expenditure of $4,000
or $4,000 with so little of the money ex-
pended upon those who closely supervise
the employees.
II hope your county board will con-
slider seriously the question of employing
for his full time your county superin-
tendent. and receive from him a monthly
report on blanks to be prepared for that
purpose, and thus put your public schools
on o better business basis. If your coun-
ty superintendent is not school man.
and If his visits to the schools would do
no good, then of course you should take
no action but leave him an his present
basis, allowing him to draw per cent of
the money paid for teachers salaries
whether he supervises the work or not.
If the members of your county board
desires to make arrangements with your
county superintendent it will have to be
done at meeting of the board some time
in July. August or September, before the
first day of October. You have the right
to fix his salary at whatever YOU may
consider fair and just, not less than 5000
per annun1.
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necessity of having a supervisor of a large
business enterprise.
Superintendent Willingham suggests
that the county board receive its supern-
tendent a monthly report, which will serve
to put the schools on better business
basis lie further suggests that the coun-
ty superintendent should receive per
cent of the money annually spent for
teachers salaries, and that the minimum
should not be less than $1,000 per annum.
The legislative enactment re erred to by
Superintendent Wiliingham also author
izes the employment of competent assist
ants to the county superintendents. The
persons employed under the lew, however
are referred to as teachers, and must hold
teachers certificates.
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Manv Attended Unveilinp

Aniston, June 29.-(Special )-Woodmen
of the World and several visitors from
this city attended the unveiling of the
monument TO the memory of d. j. Burns
at Oxford cemetery Sunday afternoon by
the Woodmen of this section. II. A. Cook
of Montgomery delivered an address on
the occasion and his daughter read an ap-
propriate essay, music being furnished by
an oxford choir.
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CAPT. John CRAFT
HURT NOT SERIOUS
The Highway Commissioner
Leaves for Birmingham.
In Good Spirits


Montgomery. June 2s.-(special.) .)-Capt.
John Craft of Mobile, member of the
state highway commission, who was
thrown out of an automobile in Butler
county yesterday while accompanying
State Engineer w. S. Keller on a tour
through the wiregrass section of the state,
left Montgomery tonight for Birmingham,
where he will attend meeting called in
the interest of removing convicts from
the mines and putting them to work on
the public roadS.
Captain Craft was painfully but not Sc
rfously hurt as a result of his fall from
the automobile. He came to Montgomery
from Greenville on the train, and when
seen at his hotel was in unusually good
spirits. He received several severe
bruises in the left side upon being thrown
from the automobile. but his injuries we're
not of serious nature.
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BREWER ANSWERS
CHARGES CONNECTED
WITH PRISON PROBE
No Personal Motive in His
Pushing Investigation,
Says Mississippi
Executive

Jackson, Miss, June S0.--(Special)-
When Governor Brewers attention was
directed to the insinuations of Peniten-
tiary Trustees Montgomery and Smith
that he, the governor, is playing a deep
political game in such vigorous probing
of state prison affairs, he replied with
his characteristic smile, Il am not a can
didate for any office, hence can have no
personal or selfish motive in probing the
pennsylvania management. | know no
penitentiary management. | know no
what I am doing is for what l conside.
the best interests of the state. If the
best personal or political friend ! have
happens to get caught in the dragnet I
have thrown out that Is his fault, and |
will prosecute him to the full extent of
the law"
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Automobile Accident

Decatur, June eo.-(Special.) 1.-The auto
mobile of Capt. j. N. Rike, which was
driven by Captain Rike himself, ran over
little Elsie Aycock. 3-year-old child of G..
S. Aycock, a merchant, and badly injured
the child. though not serious.
The child was crossing a street and
an attempt to dodge buggy ran int
automobile,
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Grand Jury Adiourps

Decatur. June 29.-(Special)--The grand
jury of the Morgan county law and equity
court adjourned ,ate yesterday, after be-
ing In session the entire week. This grand
jury, however. was sworn in some weeks
ago and was held subject to the call o1
Judge Thomas W. Vert.
.They found SO bills and the report is q
lengthy one and contains number of ser-
sational features. The report says the
grand jury las evidence that whisky has
been sold at the Bismarck hotel and sug-
gests that the sherin investigate this.
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Suggests Monthly Report

Superintendent W'illingham's letter TO
the county boards of education Is as fol-
lows:
ITO the County Boards of Education:
ION page % of the pamphlet, School
Laws of Alabama" you will find the
terms of law passed at the recent ses-
sion of the legislature and operative after
September 80 of this year, authorizing
any county board to employ for his full
time the county superintendent whose
term begins on October / next.
thinking People everywhere recognize
the Importance of closely supervising en-
terprises of all kinds. Railroad systems
have their numerous well paid superin-
tendents. supervisors, and auditors. Eveiy
large mercantile establishment pays out
considerable money to a few who super
wise the many. In the construction of a
large building there is an architect
building inspector, "a general superintend-
ent, and numerous foremen of the various
construction gangs who supervise proper
ly the laying of each brick and the plac-
ing of each pipe and the fitting of each
joint. Business men do not employ these
superintendents and Supervisors merely
to give men POSITIONS, but they spend this
money because it pays them to do so.
100000 Annually
1.-The average county IN this state ex-
DeiluS ntdlIy sou,Ulu ANNUALLY III ttit 'ii-
ployment Of teachers These employees
are scattered over a wide range of terri
tory and are left almost entirely to them
selves and to their own inclination and IN
itiative without the benefit of a directing
hand, whose watchful oversight and the
inspiration of whose viists would greatly
strengthen the personnel of the teaching
force and bring TO the patrons of the
school a much higher quality of service
than is being obtained when teachers are
left alone to work in their own way ard
at their own sweet will.
1.-THE amount of public money expended
In Alabama in the average county would
be produced annually at 5 per cent as
the interest on an investment of more
than a half million dollars. Where is any
half million dollar plant or enterprise al
lowed to run itself and depend on its
workmen and employees with such a small
amount expended for supervision as that
which Is customary in the administra-
tion of the average county's school sys-
tenn? That much money invested and
not more closely watched over would
sooner or later break any company OF
business men in the world. In fact, no
company of business men would make a
half million dollar investment and have
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Nothing New

The governor stated tonight there is
nothing new that can be given to the
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&1OOO REWARD

A REWARD OF $1,000 WILL BE
PAID FOR INFORMATION RESULT
ING IN THE ARREST AND CONVIC-
TION OF ANY PERSON OR PERSONS
FELONIOUSLY PLACING DYNAMITE,
NITRO GLYCERIN OR OTHER EX-
P0SIVE ON ANY STREET CAR
TRACK IN THE CITY OF BIRMING-
HAM. CITY or BIRMINGHAM,
BY c. EXUM, AS PRESIDENT OF
THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.