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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-08

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Ter bruised, his head swimming a Ut
lie. Suddenly a CLEAN OF light shone
down. A trap.door above his head
was slid a few inches back, The flare
Of an electric torch shone upon his
face, q mans voice addressed him.
mot the great Sanford Quests This
surely cannot be the greatest detec.
tive in the world walking SO easily IN.
to the spiders web!"
"Any chance of getting out" Quest
asked laconically.
"None!" was the bitter reply.
You've done enough mischief, You're
there to rot!"
why this animus against me, my
friend Macdougal?" Quest demanded,
You and | have never come up
against one another before. / didn't
like the life you led in New York ten
years ago, or your friends, but you've
suffered nothing through me-
IF i let you co. nee o came
the mans voice, Il know very well in
what chair | shall be sitting before
4 month has passed. am James Mac
dougal, Mr.. Sanford Quest, and have
got the Ashleigh diamonds, and have
settled an old grudge. if not of my own,
Of II greater than you. That's all.
A pleasant night to you!"
The door went down with a bang.
"A perfect oubliette," he remarked
to himself, as he held a match over
his head a moment or two later, built
for the purpose. 1t must be the house
we failed to find which Bill Taylor
used to keep before he vas shot.
Smooth brick walls, smooth brick floor,
only exit twelve feet above ones head.
human means, apparently, are useless.
Science, you have been my mistress all
my days. You u save my life now
or lose an earnest disciple"
Quest felt in his overcoat pocket
and drew out the small, hard pellet
He gripped it in his fingers, stood
as nearly as possible underneath the
spot from which he had been project.
ed, coolly swung his arm back, and
flung the black pebble against the
sliding door. The explosion which fol,
lowed shook the very ground under
his feet. For minutes afterwards
everything around him seemed to
rock. Then Sanford Quest emerged,
dusty but unhurt, and touched a con
stable on his arm.
ARREST me-" he ordered. Il am San
ford Quest. l must be taken at once
to headquarters"
They found a cab without much diff
ficulty. 1t was five o'clock when they
reached the central police station.
I%nspector French happened to be Just
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Together they carried the sleeping
girl cut of the room into a larger
apartment. A single electric light was
burning on thestop of a square mirror
fixed upon an easel. Towards this
they carriedsthe girl and laid her in an
easy chair almost Opposite to it.
"The batteryhB just on the left"
Laura whispered.
Quest nodded.
"Give me the band" y
She turned away for a moment and
disappeared in the shadows. When
she returned, she carried a curved
band of flexible steel. Quest took it
from her, attached 1t by means Of a
coil OF wire to the battery, and with
firm. soft fingers slipped it on to
Lenora's forehead. Then he stepped
back.
"She's%a subject, Laura-1'm sure
OF it! Now for our great experiment."
They watched Lenora intently.
"Lenora,". Quest said, slowly and
firmly, your mind is full of one SUB.
ject, You e your mistress in her
chair BY the fireside. She is toying
with her diamonds. Look again., She
lies there dead! Who was it entered
the room, Lenora? Look! Look!
Gaze into that mirror. What do you
see there?"
The girls eyes had opened. They
were fixed now upon the mirror-dis.
tended, full of unholy things,
TRY harder, Lenora," he muttered.
his own breath laboring. st is there
in your brain! Look" 4
For a single second the smooth sur
face Of the mirror was obscured. A
room crept dimly like a picture into
being, a fire upon the hearth, q girl
leaning back in her chair. A door
in the background opened. A man
stole cut, He crept nearer to the girl
his eyes fixed upon the diamonds. a
thin. silken cord twisted round his
wrist. Suddenly she saw him-too
late! His hand was upon her lips.
his face seemed to. start almost from
the m%irror-then blackness!
Lenora opened her eyes. She was
still. in the e~asychair before the fire.
INF, Quest!" she faltered.
He. looked. UP from some letters
which he, had been studying.
Il an, SO sorry. he said politely. Il
really had FORGOTTEN that you we're
here; But you know-that You have
been, to Sleep" - ra.
"CanI go now?" she asked.
Certainly" Quest replied. ITO tell
you the truth, ! find that l shall not
need to ask you those question:. after
all. A messenger from the police sta.
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rooih. Ella pointed to the door.

rooih. Ella pointed to the door.
"Lenora, look outside. See if any
one is on that landing. I fancied that
the door opened"
Lenora crossed the room and tried
the handle. Then she turned towards
her mistress in triumph.
1T is locked, my lady," she re-
ported.
go down and ask M%acdougal to
come up. am going to have this
thing explained" 81
i Something of her mistress agita.
! ton seemed to have become commu'
nicated to Lenora. ),
She walked quickly to the back part
of the hotel and assembled to the wing
in which the servants quarters were
situated. Here she made her way
along a corridor until she reached
Macdougal's room. She knocked, and
knocked again. There was no answer.
She tried the door and found it was
locked, Then she returned to the lift
and descended once more to the floor
upon which her mistress apartments
we're situated. She opened the door
of the suite without knocking and
turned at once to the sitting room.
Il. am sorry, my lady she began.
Then she stopped short. The lift
boy, who had had a little trouble with
his starting apparatus and had not as
yet descended, heard the scream
which broke from her lips, and a fire.
nan in an adjacent corridor came run
ming up almost at the same moment,
Lenora was on her knees by her mis-
treas' side, Ella was still lying in the
easy-chair in which she had been
seated, but her head was thrown back
in an unnatural fashion. There was
q red mark just across her throat.
Lenora shrieked, "She's tainted!
And the diamonds-the diamonds have
gone!" T.
A doctor, hurriedly summoned, had
Just completed a hasty examination
when a police inspector. followed by q
detective, entered. T.
This is your affair, gentlemen, not
mine," the doctor said ,gravely. "The
young lady is dead. She has been
cruelty strangled within the last five
or ten minutes" !,
The inspector made a careful exam.
ination of the room.
Tell me-" he Inquired, "is this the
young lady who owned the wonderful
Ashleigh diamonds Fir. j
They've gone" tenora shrieked'
They've been stolen! She was wear.
ing them when l left the room!"
The inspector turned to the .tele'
phone. '.- s e." %'@
mi: Marsham," he said, 81 am
afraid this will be a difficult affair. /
am going to take the liberty Of calling
In IN. expert. That you, exchange? i
want number one, New York city
Mr.. Sanford Quest" g~
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/ ''"You will take your own maid with
you, OF course Lord Ashleigh contin
ued. 'Lenora is a good girl and | an
sure she will look after you quite we'll
but : have decided to supplement LIE
nora's surveillance owe your comfort
by sending with you, also, a. sort OF
courier and general standardization
do you think? Well, M%acdougai. Hs
has lived in New York for some years,
and you will doubtless find this a
great advantage, Ella
Ella glanced over her shoulder at
the two servants who were standing
discreetly in the background. Hell
eyes rested upon the pale, expression,
less face of the man who during the
last few years had enjoyed her ia
TIERS confidence.
For a moment a queer sense of an.
pr"' ension troubled her. Vas it true,
she wondered, that she did not like the
man? She banished the thought al,
most as soon as it was conceived.
"You are spelling me, daddy" Ella
sighed. D.
IF you think so now" he remarked,
II do not know what you will say to
ME presently"
He laid upon the table a very ia.
miliar morocco case, stamped with a
coronet.
Our diamonds" Ella exclaimed.
"The Ashleigh d%iamonds!"
The NECKLACE lay exposed to view,
the wonderful stones flashing in the
subdued light, n
~ Tn New, York" LORD Ashleigh con.
tinued. 1T is the custom to wear jew
elry in public lmore, even, than in this
country. Allow met, d,
He leaned forward. With. LONG, capa.
bic fingers he fastened the necklace
around his daughters neck.
IT is our farewell present to you"
Lord Ashleigh declared.
Ella, impelled by some curious i'm
pulse which she could not quite un,
derstand, glanced quickly around to
where the manseryaHt was standing,
For once she saw something besides
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going of duty. He recognized Quest
with a little exclamation.
Got your man to bring me here"
Quest explained so as to get away
from the mob"
"Say, you've been in troubled" the
inspector remarked, leading the way
into his room.
"Bit of an explosion, that's ALL"
Quest replied. II shall be all right
when you've lent me a clothesbrush."
1.-THE Ashleigh diamonds, eh" the
inspector asked eagerly.
81 shall have them at nine o'clock
this morning." Sanford Cost prom
ised, "and hand you over the MUIR
derer somewhere around midnight"
Quest slept for a couple Of hours,
had a bath and made a leisurely toilet.
At a quarter to nine he sat down to
breakfast in his rooms.
AT nine O'clock" he told his serv-
ant, "a young lady will call. Bring
her up"
The door was suddenly opened. LIE.
nora walked In. Quest glanced in u
prise at the clock.
MY fault" he exclaimed. 1--WE are
slow. Good.morning, Miss Lenora!"
She came straight to the table. She
laid a little packet upon the table.
Quest opened it coolly. The Ashleigh
diamonds flashed up at him. He
led Lenora to a chair and rang a bell.
Prepare a bedroom upstairs" he
ordered. ASK Miss Roche to come
here. Laura" he added, as his
secretary entered, will you look after
this young LADY,"
A few minutes later Inspector
French was announced. Quest nodded
in a friendly manner.
Some coffee, inspector?"
I'D rather have those diamonds"
Quest threw them lightly across the
table.
The inspector whistled.
"And now, French, will you be here,
please, at midnight, with three men,
armed"
"Here?" the inspector repeated.
Quest nodded.
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FIRST tNSTALLMENT
"SANFORD, QUEST, CRiMINOlO.
GiST."

The young man from the West had
arrived in New York only that after
noon, and his cousin, town born end
bred, had already embarked upon the
task of showing him the grea' city.
They occupied a table in a somewhat
insignificant corner OF one of New
York's most famous roof garden res
t~aurants. The place was crowded
with diners. There were many nota-
bilities to be pointed out. The town
young mar was very busy.
Tell me-" the country cousin in
CURED, "whc is the maj at q table by
himself? The walters speak to him
as though he were a little god. Is he
a millionaire, or a judge, or what?'
You're in luck, Alfred" the New
Yorker declared. '"That's the most in
teresting man in New York-one Of
the most interesting in the world.
That's Sanford Quest"
who's he?" Ml
Sanford Quest is the greatest mas
ter in crimino!ogy the world has ever
known. He is a magician, a scientist,
the Pierpont Morgan of his profess
SION" IL.
Say, do you mean that he is q de-
tective?"
YES" he said simply, "you can call
him that-just in the same way that
you could call Napoleon a soldier or
Lincoln a statesman. He is a detec.
tive, if you like to call him that, the
master detective in the world" .
When Sanford Quest entered his
house an hour later he glanced into
two of the rooms on the ground floor,
in which telegraph and telephone op.
orators sat at their instruments.
Then, by mean Of a small lift, he as.
cended to the top story and entered
a large apartment wrapped in gloom
until, as he crossedsthe threshold. he.
touched the switches of the electric
lights. One realized then that this
was a man of taste. Quest drew up
an easy chair to the wide-9ung win
dow, touching a bell as he crossed the
room. In a few moments the door was
opened and closed noiselessly, A
young woman entered with a bundle
of papers. 81.
The criminologist glanced through
the papers quickly. mo further in.
quiries, Laura?" i. 4 rs,,l .E,
She left the room almost noiselessly.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-08
Value Of = Quart Of Milk.

When you sell a quart of milk for
seven cents you r giving more food
for the money than the buyer can get
in most other forms. 1t is twice as
cheap a. mutton or fresh fish, six
times as cheap as dried beef, nearly
three times as cheap as beef chuck.
40 per cent cheaper than pork loin,
three times as cheap as beef sirloin.
nearly three times as cheap as eggs.
The staples that cost less in propor-
ton 10 feed value than milk are such
things as potatoes, rice, dates, corn
meal, prunes, cheese, wheat bresd, and
beans. The above figures will hold
good IN the average interior regions
Of the nation.-Fa-m and Preside
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RIGHT TO FULL PARTNERSHIP
Writer combsts Idea That fNwSnsesH,
Should 30 Looked Upon 40 Nat
ural Dependents.

A woman's pocketbook, even though
che belongs to the wealthiest fam
lilies, has its distinctive limitation.
This fact was brought out in connec-
ton with 'self-sac;tfce" day for the
benefit Of the National Suffrage assoc
citation. Women who work for a Nv.
Ing and who are economically indie
pendent, give more generously than
do men. Women OF wealth and leis-
utre, on the other hand, fr3s whom
naturally most help would fb4 expect
ed. ofien have little money they can
call their own with which to help the
causes that appeal to them. What
ever may be said of the unmarried
daughter who Is treated as a depend
ent in her fathers house, it is q great
injustice when a married woman ls
not looked upon as a full partner
with her husband in all the business
of life. but Is compelled to occupy the
place of a dependent asking fayors
Of her husband. The wife who rears
a family OF children and who either
performs or directs the work of the
household ought, to- be looked upon as
. full partner with her husband In
everything he, does, and be spared
the humiliation, of being made to feel
she is dependent UPON him for gitts.
sometimes grudgingly bestowed. There
are some husbands, possibly an in
creasing number, who share their in
comes with their wives, or who con-
slider that all their possessions are
held Jointly, but there are many men
still under the spell Of the day When
In the eyes Of the law, woman was
looked upon more al q chattel than I.
human being.-Leslie's. a 81,
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1.-THE TENEMENT HOUSE MYs.
Terry"
CHAPTER l.

No.. #-' .#-EHH. ."HhF H-1 al-.' g. Fss-1 -"... '
"This habit of becoming late for
breakfast" Lady Ashleigh remarked.
as she sat down the coffee pot, lis
growing upon your father. Any news,
dear? '
, Ella glanced up from a pile of cor
r%espondence through which she had
been looking a little negligently. !
None at all, mother. My CORE
s%pondence is just the usual sort of rub
Determinations and gossip. Such a
lot of invitations, by the bye"
AT your age" Lady Ashleigh de-
clared, that is the sort of correspond
ence which you should find interest.
ing"
you know l am not like that, moth
err" she protested. "My music is really
the only part of life which absolutely
appeals to me. Oh, why doesn't Della.
rey make up his mind and let father
know, as he promised! Here
comes daddy, num-" !
Lord Ashleigh loitered for a mo
ment to raise the covers from the
dishes upon a side table. Afterwards
he seated himself at the table. ,
II heard this morning." he said,
from your friend Delarey, Ella. He
went into the matter very fully. The
substance Of it is that for the first
year Of your musical training he ad-
vises New York. :
:" have not finished yet. This cable.
gram" he went on, drawing a little
slip of blue paper from his pocket,
was brought to me this morning"
He smoothed it out before him and
read:
To Lord Ashleigh, Hamblin House. Dor
set, England: I find a magnificent pro-
gram arranged for at Metropolitan Opera
house this year. Have taken box for
your daughter, engaged the best profess
.sor in the world, and secured IN apart
'ment at the Leland, our most select and
comfortable residential hotel. Understand
syour brother is still in South America. re-
tturningsaarly spring. but will do our best
Ito make your daughters year Of study as
pheasant as possible. Advise her sail on
Saturday by Mauretania.
"On Saturday." Ella almost
screamed.
u shall now" Lord Ashleigh said,
leave you to talk ove and discuss
this matter for the rest of the day.
AT dinner time tonight you can tell me
syour decision, or rather We will dis.
acuss it together"
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CHAPTER v

There seemed ia. be nothing at. all
original In the methods pursued by
the. great, criminologist when con
,fronted with this tableau Of death and
robbery. His, remarks to the inspec-
tor were few and ;perfunetory. He
asked only q few languid questions Of
Macdopgal and ,Lenora, who were
summoned to his presence. b L
Macdougal then turned to leave tho
room. Lenora was about to follow
but Quest signed to her TO- remain. X
~ should like to have "a Hitler CON
%versation with you about yoAr mis-
tress," he said to her pleasantly. IT
you don't mind, I will ask you to &C
company me in nv car. l will send
the man back with you"
They descended in the lift together
and Quest handed the girl into his car.
They drove quickly through the silent
streets. -
In a few minutes Lenora was in.
stalled in an easy chair in Quests sit
ting.room.
Lean back and make yourself com.
Portable" Quest invited, as he took a
chair opposite to her. II must just
look through these papers"
The girl did as she was told. She
opened her coat. The room was de-
lightfully warm, almost overheated. A
sense of rest crept over her. She was
conscious that Quest had laid down
the letters which he had been pre-
tending to read. His eyes we're fixed
upon her. There. was a queer new
look in them, a strange new feeling
creeping through her veins.
Quests voice broke an unnatural
silence.
"You are anxious to telephone some.
one," he said. "You looked at both
the booths as we came through the
hotel. Then you remembered, I think,
that he would not be there yet. Tele'
phone now The telephone is at your
right hand. You know the number
She obeyed almost at once.
Number 700, New York city"
"You will ask" Quest continued,
whether he is all right whether the
jewels are SAFE"
There was a brief silence then the
girls voice.
Are you there. James? Yes.
I am Lenora. Are you safe? Have
you the jewels? . Where? . ,
You are sure that you are safe? !.
No, nothing fresh has happened"
"You are at the hotel" Quest said
softly. "You are going to him"
~. cannot Sleep" she continued. II
am coming to YOU"
She set down the receiver. Quest
leaned a little more closely over her.
"You know where the jewels, are
hidden" he said. Tell me where?"
Her lips quivered. She made no an.
swer.
Very good" Quest concluded. "You
need not tell me Only remember this:
At nine o'clock tomorrow morning you
will bring those jewels to this apart
ment. !. Rest quietly now.
want you to 60 to sleep"
She obeyed without hesitation.
Quest watched, for a moment, her
regular breathing. Then he touched
& bell by his side. Laura entered al.
most at once.
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CHAPTER H..

The streets of New York were 20
cred with a thin, powdery snow as the
very luxurious car of Mrs. Delarey
drew up outside the front Of the LIE.
land hotel, a little after midnight. Ella
leaned over and kissed her hostess.
Thank you, dear, ever so much,
for your delightful dinner" she ex.
claimed, land for bringing sac home.
AS for the music, we'll, / can't talk
about 1t. am just going upstairs
into my room to sit and think"
The car rolled off. Ella. a large
umbrella held over her head by the
doorkeeper, stepped up the little strip
of druggct which led into the softly
warmed hall Of the Leland. Behind
her came her maid, Lenora, and Mac
dougal, who had been riding on the
box with the chauffeur. He paused
for a moment to wipe the snow from
his clothes as Ella crossed the hall to
the left. Lenora turned toward him.
He whispered something in her ear.
For a moment she shook. Then she
turned away and followed her mis-
tress upstairs.
Arrived in her apartment, Ella
threw herself with a little sigh of con.
tent into a big easy-chair before the
fire and gave herself up for a few mo.
ments to reverie.
A log stirred upon the fire.. She
leaned forward lazily to replace it and
then stopped short. Exactly opposite
to her was a door which opened on
to a back hall. 1t was used only by
the servants. Just as she was in the
act Of leaning forward Ella became
conscious of a curious ha%llucination.
"Lenora, come here at once"
The maid hurried In from the next
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"Our friend" he said. us going tc
he mad enough to walk into helk
even, when he finds out what he
thinks has happened"
1T wasn't any, OF Jimmy's LOTT"
Sanford Quest shook his head.
"French," he said, keep mum. but il
was the elderly family retainer, Mac,
dougal. / felt restless about him,
He has lost the girl-he was married
to her, by the bye--and the jewels,
No fear of his slipping away. | shall
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The Friends You Are Fondest OF.

The friends you are fondest of ara
always the kind that rarely call you
up or 60 out Of their way to see you
or be in your company. They love
you when they are with you, but you
have to do all the going and coming.
When you reproach them with not tele.
tphqaning you 'er. letting you know they
have come IN. town they 'have been
SO lbusy!" Did you ever know It to
fail?
And the ones you like fairly well
but; are not enthusiastic about ring you
up and ask you to dinner, and send
you. tickets, and try to borrow money
from ,yop, and act Just the way yqR
would prefer your dearest friends Il
do!-James Montgomery Flags in tho
American Magazine. nj ,sGi !,
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the perfect automaton. His eyes, in.
stead Of being fixed at the back of his
masters chair, were simply riveted
upon the stones. A queer little feeling
of uneasiness disturbed Ella for the
moment. 1t passed, however, as In
.glancing away her attention was once
more attracted by the sparkle of the
jewels upon her bosom.