The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-03-11
THE STORY

syfr The enforced hiding 81 hsf 4
ahe6, Jim Dallas, slayer IN sell &c
Tense of Homer Parkjpson, mamie,
81 an i%niasntisl family. eybii seup.
Sifasss' T sRgsifi Il : s1 ehsTf,s - psHlornsa5 1
81 aTwsjfth Night oh duii leland
bn the Maine coast. IN the conpan,
are sybil's bosom friend, Anns
Tracy, Anns's brother, joe founs
Rastrel, and Aleck Stokes, an actor
Infatuated with sybi1.
rhiok Is a big hit, waiiy shine.
cf6cial photographer, learns soms1
thing of the Jealousy, professional
and Otherwise, existing In the COM
peny.
CHAPTER u.-Hugh Bassett, d.
rector Of the play, and Anne Trscys
feneel tells {9s he has hsaTd Pc is
TIE whereabouts of Jim Dallas and
Parkinson family. The boys denial
is not convincing.
CHAPTER III.-Joe Tracy 10 ar
ranging for a vacation trip. To
ss5abaEfl he s Re}Tayf tells ans s sgSii he ss has
paws Of Jim Dallas, and TO secure
The NECESSARY privacy they arrange
to meet in a small summer house
near the main bulIolng.
CHAPTER IV.-The sound Of. Q
pistol shot startles the assembled
Company. Investigation shows g. re-
yoiver has been taken from g desk
in the library. Flora, stokes Wife
that sybil has been shot and her
that races by the Island.
CHAPTER V.-Flora Stokes teLls
Bassett She saw Sybil Ehot but did
not see her murderer. BsBaett mott
hee the sheriff, Abel WtlliamS. He
arrives with Rawson, district at
All the company is accounted for,
with the exception of Joe Tracy,
presumably on his trip. Flora gives
her evidence, and the AUTHORITIES ar
range SO that no one a leave b
Island.
CHAPTER yI.-Discussing the
Tragedy with Rawson and Bassstt
Flora Stokes is the guilty person,
the deed being actuated by jealousy.
While they are talking, the sound
Of @ crash in the living room makes
them hasten there.
shoeEed at her friends awful death
ID also uneasy about Joe, Remern-
bering his rage against SybilI AND
realizing she Is not sure he left the
island, her imagination pictures him
as SYPHILIS murderer, and hiding n
the house, the upper story of which
Is unocoupied. Seeking to inform
him of the close watch Kept, she
desoen6s to the living o There
she ditnly sees Joe and warns him
not to try to escape. He disappears
and in her agitation she knocks
over a lamp. She tells the three
men she came downstairs for a
book, and her explanation is &C
cepted.
CHAPTER VIII.-In the summer
house the investigators find evil
dence that Sybil had been there, and
knowing Of Stokes i~nfatuation, |
Rawson and Williams at once sus-
pect him of the murder.
CHAPTER N.-stokes denies all
of the crime, and deftly
Suspicion on Joe. Rawson, |
Impressed by the story
put forward by Stokes, goes to the
to investigate Joe's move
ments.
CHAPTER x.-TorJurea py her
thoughts, Anne visits the ~unoccupied
upper story, seeking Joe, but fnds
nothing, Rawsbn returns with the
information that young Tracy had
not left the island. Suspicion is At
once lnIAEu t0M dbN MAUI anu NJ
Judgements are made for a search
Of the top story of the builfing,
about the only spot, on the itlsnd
where a person could nnd a hiding
place. Hawson and Williams re-
turn, having found no trace of Joe,
or anybody else, In the upper part
Of the building.
CHAPTER XI.-Anne insists that
Joe must somehow have left the ie-
land. Anne tells the amazed Bas-
sett she saw Joe in the living room
the night before, and hal he must
be hiding in the house.
arfangee To- take a Snapshot Of any
one Seeking to leave the house.
Some one makes the attempt, and q
picture is taken. Developed, to every
ones establishment it shows the
face Of Sybtl Saunders. Overcome by
the sight, Stokes insists 1t can't be
sybil, because he had shot her, and
collspses.
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