Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-13

father not Nto let them be destroyed.
Everyone forgot the discovery Of aren-
oform. for you see DR.. Chester has
been dead twenty years. Only Nor
ley didn't: and 1t was the existence
Of the quantity OF arenoform In the
house left him by his father which
put the idea of coming here into his,
head. He experimental with the stuff
on a dog, and found II was as power
| full as on the day 1t was made. Then
he told me, and l promised to help
in any way could,
Next to the dining hall on one
side, and separating 1t from the two
rooms used as private sitting rooms
for the guests, is long, rather ugly
room which Morley asked Sidney to
give him as private office. Night
after night he worked there before
the house was opened to the public,
and afterward, too, perfecting his
scheme. He perforated the walls, so
that, by means of little movable
machine which I could work? spray
of arenoform could be showered
through the oak wainscoting either
into the dining room on one side or
the two sitting rooms on the other.
Then he had the tables arranged along
| tuC wall, anu do oilC VI
arenoform is that it smells like wood
wonderfully like old oak-no de-
tectiye could have suspected anything
by coming to sniff about the place
afterward. Besides, the perforations
in the wainscoting are SO small that
they seem no different from the worm
holes which are slowly spelling the old
oak.
When Morley was in the dining hall
or one Of the sitting rooms-whichever
place we planned to have something
happen would be in the locked
office, and at a signal which he would
give me when most of the servants
were out of the room waiting to bring
in a new course, 4 would turn on the
spray. He always kept at the very
farthest end of the room, behind the
screen. and put his face to an open
window there. Then, when everybody
in the room was under the influence,
which they were in a minute or two.
he would take whatever he wanted
from some unconscious man or
woman, or even several persons, be-
fore anyone woke up. We've had no
one to help us except an assistant of
the cook, whom I bribed to make it
as long between courses as possible.
When was ready to have the SER
wants go in with the next dish I
would touch a little electric bell in
the office which Morley had arranged
to communicate with the kitchen.
The cooks assistant knows nothing,
though, except that for some reason
1t was convenient to me not to have
the meals hurried and to be able to
regulate exactly the moment when
the different courses should go in.
"Of course, the horrid stuff has az
fected our health-Morley's and mine
las well as that of everybody else
who has, been near when the machine
was worked, or lived in the house for
any lenghth Of time. But we hoped
that Sidney and her mother would
soon give up. Then the place would
be Morley's, and we would be repaid
for everything. While II they held on
we should at least have the jewels.
When Morley was working at the
wallis he discovered the way into this
secret place out of :. our office-not
the only hide hole in the house--but
neither Sidney nor her mother knows
Of its existence. We thought 1t would
be useful to get things out Of the way,
for fear of detectives searching our
boxes, and SO it has been. Morley
has always sent me up because l am
SO light and small. Now you have
the whole story. And If you have any
sense Of justice you'll admit that Nor
ley isn't to blame when the place
should have been his, and not Sidney's
or her mothers"
Long before dawn Mr.. and Mrs.
Morley Chester left Wood House. Next
day Christopher told Sidney and Sir
Walter Raven the tale as 1t had been
told to him. Advertisements were put
in the papers informing the victims
Of the strange thefts where they could
recover their property. Christopher
would not accept any payment from
Sidney Chester--only piece of her
wedding cake to dream on"