Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-17

e'Those scoundrels at the inn. They | have thrown me out-thrown me out mel
 Hard lines. for a fact but if you | are interested in trains"-
 'I refuse to leave the county" he | shouted "If they think they're going l to get rid Of me they're mistaken Founders. I say. bounders!" He uttered this opprobrious term with great bitterness and crossed his | legs. as though to emphasize his per manence upon the powder Patience on monument is not more eternally planted He seemed in no mood for conversation. so ] sped on, with nc time to lose. I gained the step of the chair car at- tached to the 1O1S with some loss of dignity, the porter yanking me aboard under the conductors scornful eye. The Katonah passengers were still in the aisle. and as surveyed them saw Cecilia take seat in the middle of the car. She was just unfolding a newspaper when 1 moved to a seat behind her and bade her good morning. The look she gave me in turning round had in it something of Hezeki- ah's quizzical humor This interested me, because had not previously seen any but the most superficial resem- blance between the sisters. Her cheeks were aglow from her sprint on the wheel
 We are both truants You must have breaGfasted in a hurry to have caught this train"
 Not all. l enjoyed a brief conversa- tion with your sister, and after she had gone your aunt came back and fingered for a moment"
 She told you suppose, that Provi- dence would look after the servant 1 question. I'm going-to assist Provi. dence a little"
 You become the vicOress of Provi. dence? admire your spirit"
 'Its mere self preservation. Aunt Octavia would have me chained to the ! kitchen if 1 didn't do something about ] t."
 She had permitted me to settle with l the conductor and when l had com. ] pleted this transaction 1 found that sho ! CHAPTER xnL
 At tEe Asolsndo Again.
 " SET or at once for Pepperton's 1 office. where l learned that the
 architect was out of town. But
 his chief clerk greeted me cour- teously l told him frankly that 1 wanted to look at the plans of Hope deld Manor to enable me tO learn the exact lines or the chimueys lie con fessed surprise that they were causing trouble and expressed regret that they were ,Rot in the office.
 Miss Hollister seut for them this morning. and 1 have just given them to a young woman who bore a note from her"
 l was taken aback tO 6nd that she had anticipated me in my rush Cor the plans of the house Clearly l was dealing with a woman who was not only immensely amusing. but exceed ingly shrewd as well. Could it be pos sible after all that she was herself playing ghost merely for her own en- tertainment3 She was capable of it. But I had satisfied myself that she could not have performed the tricks of which | had been the victim the night previous unless she possessed some rare vanishing power hke' that of the East Indian mystics.
 May l ask who came for the pIans?"
 "I judged the young woman to be a maid or perhaps she was Miss Hollis ters secretary"
 I had given little heed during my short stay at Hopefeld Manor to Miss Hollister's personal attendant, ] had passed her in the halls once or twice, a young woman of twenty-five. ] should say, fair haired and blue eyed. Sue might herself be the ghost now that 1 thought of it. But this seemed the most unlikely hypothesis possible
 At my own office Ely assistant p0unc- ed upon me wrathfuIly. He was half wild over the pressure of veXatious business and had just been engaging in long distance conversation with a country gentleman at Lenox which had left him in bad temper 1 was eH- | DlNihAnh AV nAAi tue nNAlnAHAifnn hA NAAN errands at Hopeheld, rather uncon- yincingly fear. and the fact that must return at once when the office boy entered my private room to say that three gentlemen wished to see me immediately They had submitted } cards. but bad refused to state the na' ture of their business It was with q distinct sensation of surprise thut read the names respectively of Perciyal B shallenberger Daniel P. Ormsby and John Stewart Dick
 Show the gentlemen in," l said ( promptly greatly to the disgust of my assistant who retired to deal with several clients whom ! had passed ir the reception room dercely walking the floor,
 had imagined all the suitors estab lished at the Prescott Arms As The n three appeared clad in light uutomohil ing coats ! could not forbear smilt Y at their grim appearance Shalen ! barfrar tha unvnlfaf and nrmehv fhf