Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, September 2, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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SYNOPSIS.
lflss lnnes, spinster and ffunrdlan of
Gertrude and Halsoy, established summer
headquarters at Sunnystde. The servants
deaert. Gertrude and Halsey arrive with
Jack Halley. The house wan awakened by
a revolver shot and Arnold Armstrong
was found shot to death In the hall. Miss
lnnea found Halsey'a revolver on the
lawn. He and Jack Bailey had disap-
peared. Gertrude revealed that she was
engaged to Jack Bailey, with whom she
talked in the billiard room shortly before
the murder. Detective Jamleson accused
Miss lnnes of holding back evidence. He
Imprisoned an Intruder In an empty room.
The prisoner escaped. Gertrude was sus-
pected because of an injured foot, llal-
sey reappears and says he and Bailey
were called away by a telegram. Cashier
Bailey of Paul Armstrong's hank, de-
funct, was arrested for embezzlement,
l'aul Armstrong's death was announced.
Ilalsey's llancee, Louise Armstrong, told
Halsey that while she still loved him, she
wajj to marry another. It developed that
Dr. Walker was the man. I^ouise was
found at the bottom of the circular stair-
case Recovering consciousness, she said
something had brushed by her on the
stairway and she fainted. Bailey is sus-
pected of Armstrong's murder. After
T'seeing a ghost," Thomas, the lodgekeep-
er, was found dead with a slip in his
f»ocket bearing the name of "Lucien Wal-
ace." Dr. Walker asked Miss lnnes to
vacate In favor of Mrs Armstrong. She
f'fused. A note from Bailey to Gertrude
arranging a meeting at night was found.
STUNG BY BASE INGRATITUDE
Human Nature.
and his money
"A fool
parted."
"Yen, but you never call
fool till the money is gone."
land Leader.
him i
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There Are
Reasons
Why so many people
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package of
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The DISTINCTIVE
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the palate.
The quick, easy serving
right from the package—
requiring only the addition
of cream or good milk is
an important consideration
when breakfast must be
ready "on time."
The sweet, crisp food is
universally liked by child-
ren, and is a great help to
Mothers who must give to
the youngsters something
wholesome that they relish.
The economical feature
appeals to everyone—par-
ticularly those who wish
to keep living expenses
within a limit.
Post Toasties arc espe-
cially p'easing served with
fresh sliccd peaches.
"The Memory Lingers"
Postnm (>»••• n I Co . l td,
luiue Creek, Mi oil.
CHAPTER XXI—Continued.
Sowery Denizen Seemingly Had Right
to Be Indignant at Old Friend'*
Attitude.
"You remember dat guy, Jim
Burke?" asked an irate Bowery deni-
sen. "He's dat stiff dat's doin' time
up der river—Sing Sing—bolglary—
ten years. Well, you know all I done
fer dat stiff. When he was pinched
didn't I put up der coin for der law-
yers? Didn't I pay der witnesses?
Sure I did. De Oder day I t'inks I'll
lust go an' see dat mutt just t' leave
him know his frlen's ain't tied de
can on 'im._ So I drives out to d' jail
and goes Into d' warden's office and he
says I gotter send me card in. Me
oard! D'ye get dat? Well, anyway,
I writes my name on a piece o' paper
an' a guy takes it Into Jim Wurke, an'
what d' you t'ink dat stiff tells dat
guy to tell me?"
"I've no idea," said the listener.
"He tells him." concluded the angry
one, "t' tell me dat ho ain't Jul"—
Prom Success Magazine.
While In Soak.
Howell—I see that the paper says
that the treasury department an
nounces that by washing paper money
It will last twice as long.
powell—Yes, but what is a poor
1evil to do while his money is at the
laundry?
are soon
children's outfitting i .
tell me the soap is out.
"No, ma'am, Misa lnnes." She had
a nervous habit of looking first at my
one eye and then at the other, her
own optics shifting ceaselessly, right
"Grossmutter," he said. And 1 saw
Mr. Jamieaon's eyebrows go up.
"German," he commented. "Well,
young man, you don't seem to know
much about yourself."
"I've tried It all the week," Mrs.
Tate broke in. "The boys knows a
word or two of German, but he doesn't
know where he lived, or anything
about himself."
Mr. Jamieson wrote something on a
card and gave It to her.
"Mrs. Tate," he said, "I want you
to do something. Here is some money
for the telephone call. The Instant
the boy's mother appears here, call up
that number and ask for the person
whose name is there. You can run
across to the drug store on an errand
and do it quietly. Just say, 'The lady
has come.'"
" 'The lady has come,' " repeated
Mrs. Tate. "Very well, sir, and 1 hope
It will be soon. The milk bill alone
la almost double what it was."
"How much is the child's board?" I
asked.
"Three dollars a week, including his
washing."
"Very well," I said. "Now, Mrs.
Tate, I am going to pay last week's
board and a week in advance. If the
mother comes she is to know nothing
of this visit—absolutely not a word,
and, In return for your silence, you
may use this money for—something
for your own children."
Her tired, faded face lighted up. and
I saw her glance at the little Tates'
small feet. Shoes, I divined—the feet
of the genteel poor being almost as ex-
pensive as their stomachs.
As we went back Mr. Jamieson
made only one remark; I think he
was laboring tinder the weight of a
great disappointment.
"Is King's a
place?" he asked
"Not especially. It is a general de-
partment store."
He was silent after that, but he
went to the telephone as soon as we
got home, and called up King & Co. in
the city.
After a time he got the general
manager, and they talked for some
time. When Mr. Jamieson hung up
the receiver he turned to me.
"The ^'lot thickens," he said with
his ready smile. "There are four
women named Wallace at King's, none
of them married, and none over 20. 1
think I shall go up to the city to-night.
I want to go to the Children's hospital.
But before I go, Miss lnnes, I wish you
would he more frank with me than
you have been yet. I want you to
Show ine the revolver you picked up
in the tulip bed."
So he had known all along!
"It was a revolver, Mr. Jamieson," I
admitted, cornered at last, "but I can-
not show it to you. It is not in my
possession."
CHAPTER XXII.
A Ladder Out of Place.
At dinner Mr. Jamieson suggested
■ending a man out In his place for a
couple of days, but llalsey was cer-
tain (here would be nothing more,
and felt that he und Alex could man-
age the situation. The detective went
back t« town early in the evening, and
by nine o'clock llalsey, who had been
playing golf as a man does anything
to take his mind nway from trouble—
was sleeping soundly on the big leath
er davenport in the living room.
I sat and knitted, pretending not to
notice when Gertrude got up and wan
dered out inlo the Rlarllght. As soon
as I was satisfied that she had gone,
liowpver, I went out cautiously. I had
no Intention of eaves-dropping, but I
wanted to bo certain that it was Jack
Halley she was meeting. Too many
things had occurred in which Ger-
trude was, or appeared to be, Involved,
to allow anything to be left In quo*-
tlon.
I went slowly across the lawn, skir-
ed the hedge to tt break not far from
the lodge, and found myself on the
open roud. Perhaps 100 feet to the
left tho path led across the valley to
the Country club, and only a little
way off was tbe foot brldgo over Cas-
anova creek. Hut just us I was about
to turn down the path 1 heard steps
coming toward me. and I shrank into
the bushes. It was Gertrude, going
back quickly toward the house.
1 was surprised. I waited until she
had had time to get almost to the
house before I started. And then I
stepped back again into the shadows.
The reason why Gertrude had not
kept her tryst was evident. Leaning
on the parapet of the bridge in the
moonlight, and smoking a pipe, was
Alex, the gardener. I could have
throttled Liddy for her carelessness
in reading the torn note where he
could hear. And I could cheerfully
have choked Alex to death for his
audacity.
llut there was no help for it; I
turned and followed Gertrude slowly
back to the house.
The frequent invasions of the house
had effectually prevented any relaxa-
tion after dusk. We had redoubled our
vigilance as to bolts and window,
locks, but. as Mr. Jamieson had sug
gested, we allowed the door at the
east entry to remain as before, locked
by the Yale lock only. To provide only
one possible entrance for the Invader,
and to keep a constant guard in the
dark at the foot of the circular stair
case, seemed to be the only method.
In the absence of the detective,
Alex and Halsey arranged to change
ofT, Halsey to be on duty from ten to
two, and Alex from two until six.
Each man was armed, and, as an ad-
ditional precaution, the one off duty
slept in a room near the head of the
circular staircase and kept his doer
open, to be ready for emergency.
These arrangements were carefully
kept from the servants, who were only
commencing to Bleep at night, and
who retired, one and all, with barred
doors and lamps that burned full until
morning.
The house was quiet again Wednes
day night. It was almost a week since
Louise had encountered some one on
the stairs, and it was four days since
the discovery of the hole in the trunk-
room wall. Arnold Armstrong and
his father rested side by side In the
Casanova churchyard, and at the Zion
African church, on the hill, a new
mound marked the last resting-place
of poor Thomas.
Louise was with her mother In
town, and. beyond a polite note of
thanks to me, we had heard nothing
from her. Dr. Walker had taken up
his practice again, and we saw him
now and then flying along the road,
always at top speed. The murder of
Arnold Armstrong was still unavenged,
and I remained firm in the position I
had taken—to stay at Sunnyside until
the thing was at least partly cleared.
And yet, for all its quiet, it was on
Wednesday night that perhaps the
boldest attempt was made to enter
the house. On Thursday afternoon
the laundress sent word she would
like to speak to me, and I saw her in
my private sitting room, a small room
beyond tbe dressing room.
Mary Anne was embarrassed. She
had rolled down her sleeves and tried
a white apron around her waist, and
she stood making folds In it with fin-
gers that were red and shiny from her
soap-suds.
"Well, Mary," I said encouragingly,
what's the matter? Don't dare to
'There's a ladder up the clothes
chute, Miss lnnes," she said. "It's
up that tight I can't move it. and I
didn't like to ask for help until I spoke
to you."
It was useless to dissemble; Mary
Anne knew now as well as I did that
the ladder had no business to be
there. I did the best I could, how-
ever. I put her on tbe defensive at
once.
"Then you didn't lock the laundry
last night?"
"I locked It tight, and put the key
in the kitchen on its nail."
"Very well, then you forgot a win-
dow."
Mary Anne hesitated.
"Yes'm," she said at last. "I thought
I locked them all, but there was one
open this morning."
I went out of the room and down
the hall, followed by Mary Anne. The
door into the clothes chute was se-
curely bolted, and when I opened it
I saw the evidence of the woman's
story. A pruning ladder had been
brought from where it had lain
against the stable and now stood up-
right In the clothes shaft, its end rest-
ing against the wall between the first
and second floors.
I turned to Mary.
"This is due to your carelessness,"
I said. "If we had all been murdered
In our beds it would have been your
fault." She shivered. "Now, not a
word of this through the house, and
send Alex to me."
The effect on Alex was to make him
apoplectic with rage, and with it all 1
fancied there was an element of satis-
faction. As I look back, so many
things are plain to me that I wonder
I could not see at the time. It is all
known now, and yet the whole thing
was so remarkable that perhaps my
stupidity was excusable.
Alex leaned down the chute and ex-
amined the ladder carefully.
"It Is caught," he said with a grim
smile. "The fools, to have left a
warning like that! The only trouble
Is, Miss lnnes, they won't be apt to
come back for a while."
"I shouldn't regard that in the light
of a calamity," I replied.
Until late that evening Halsey and
Alex worked at the chute. They
forced down the ladder at last, and
put a new bolt on the door. As for
myself, I sat and wondered if I had
a deadly enemy, intent on my destruc-
tion.
1 was growing more and more nerv-
ous. Liddy had given up all pretense
at bravery, and slept regularly in my
dressing room on the couch, with a
prayer-book and a game knife from
the kitchen under her pillow, thus pre-
paring for both the natural and the
supernatural. That was the way
things stood that Thursday night,
when I myself took a hand in the
struggle.
mmm
CHAPTER XXIII.
While the Stables Burned.
About nine o'clock that night Liddy
came into the living room and re-
ported that one of the housemaids de-
clared she had seen two men slip
around the corner of the stable. Ger-
trude had been sitting staring in front
of her, Jumping at every sound. Now
she turned on Liddy pettishly.
"I declare, Liddy," she said, "you
are a bundle of nerves. What if Eliza
did see some men around the stable?
eye, left eye, right eye, until I found It may have been Warner and Alex."
myself doing tbe same thing. "No,
ma'am. 1 was askin' did you want the
ladder left up the clothes chute?"
"The what?" I screeched, and was
sorry the next minute. Seeing her
suspicions were verified, Mary Anne
had gone white, and stood with her
eyes shifting more wildly than ever.
"Warner Is in the kitchen, miss,"
Liddy said with dignity. "And if you
had come through what I have, you
would be a bundle of nerves, too. Miss
Rachel, I'd be thankful if you'd give
me my month's wages to morrow. I'll
be going to my sister's."
"Very well," I said, to her evident
II
11
Mary Anne Mad Uoni wh'U.
amazement. "I will make out the
eheck. Warner can take you down to
the noon train."
Llddy's faco was really funny.
"You'll have a nice time at your
sister's," I went on. "Five children,
hasn't she?"
"That's it," Liddy said, suddenly
bursting into tears. "Send me away.
after all these years, and your new
shawl only half done, and nobody
knowin' how to tlx the water for your
bath."
"It's time I learned to prepare my
own bath." 1 was knitting compla-
cently. Hut Gertrude got up and put
her arms arouml Liddy'a shaking
shoulders.
"You are two big babies," she said
soothingly. "Neither one of you could
get along for an hour without the oth-
er. So stop quarreling and be good.
Liddy, go right up aud lay out aunty's
night things. She is going to bed
early."
After Liddy had gone I began to
think about the men at the stable, and
I grew more and more anxious. Hal-
sey was aimlessly knocking the bil-
liard balls around in the billiard room,
and I called to him.
•"Halsey," I said when he sauntered
in, "Is there a policeman In Casa-
nova?"
"Constable," he said laconically.
"veteran of the war, one arm; In of-
fice to conciliate the G. A. R. element.
Why?"
"Because I am uneasy tonight."
And I told him what Liddy had said.
"Is there any one you can think of
who could be relied on to watch the
outside of the house to-night?"
"We might get Sain ltohannon from
the club," ho said thoughtfully. "It
wouldn't be a bad scheme. He's a
smart darky, and with his mouth shut
and his shirt-front covered, you could-
n't see him a yard off in the dark."
Halsey conferred with Alex, and
the result, In an hour, was Sam. His
instructions were simple. There had
been numerous attempts to break into
the house; It was the intention, not
to drive intruders away, but to cap-
ture them. If Sam saw anything sus-
picious outside, he was to tap at the
east entry, where Alex and Halsey
were to alternate In keeping watch
through the night.
As before, Halsey watched the east
entry from ten until two. He had an
eye to comfort, and he kept vigil in a
heavy oak chair, very large and deep.
We went upstairs rather early, and
through the open door Gertrude and I
kept up a running lire of conversation.
Liddy was brushing my hair, and Ger-
trude was doing her own, with a long
free sweep of her strong, round arms. —Shakespeare
"Did you know Mrs. Armstrong and ———
Louise are in the village?" s!ie called.
"No," I replied, startled. "How did
you hear it?"
"I met the oldest Stewart girl to-
day, the doctor's daughter, und she
told me they had not gone back to
town after the funeral. They went di-
rectly to that little yellow house next
to Dr. Walker's, and are apparently
settled there. They took the house
furnished for the summer."
"Why, it's a bandbox," I said. "I
can't imagine Fanny Armstrong in
such a place."
"It's true, nevertheless. Ella Stew-
art says Mrs. Armstrong has aged ter-
ribly, and looks as if sho is hardly
able to walk."
I lay and thought over some of
theso things until midnight. The elec-
tric lights went out then, fading slow-
ly until there was only a red-hot loop
to be seen in the bulbs, and then even
that died away and we were embarked
on the darkness of another night.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
knee tired.
Ella Fontine—U your
dear?
Slenderly— It must be, pet ; it's *or.«
to sleep.
All the Difference.
The professor was delivering an elo-
quent address ou cruelty to animals,
and to illustrate how a little Judicious-
forethought would eliminate to a great
extent the sufferings that even small
insects are subject to. said
"As 1 was coming through the hall
tonight I saw a bald headed gentlemaa
very harshly trtat a little Innocent
house-fly which had alighted on hi®
head.
"Now, if there was any Justification
for such bad temper, I would be quit®
Justified in Indulging tn It at the pres-
ent moment, for a fly has Just alighted
on the back of my head. 1 can't
It, but 1 "'an feel it.
"Possibly some of you can see it
now; it is on the top of my head. Now
it is coming down my brow; now it is
coming on to my— (»-r-r-eat pyramids
of Egypt, it's a—wasp!"
Detected.
It was at a Fourth of July meeting1
in the little city The mayor, William
Smith, rose, and at dignified lengths
read the Declaration of Independence.
There was a pause; then from on®
of the mayor's old schoolmates cam®
the loud whisper: "Bill never writ
that. Ho ain't smart enough."
Get a Move On.
The Ixmfer—Alas! my ship doesn't
come in.
The Real Mun—Then get a move «>n
and help some other fellow unload his.
Hmr white clothes nre a sign that the
housekeeper lines Red Cross Hall Blue.
Large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
A seal on a watch-fob may be worth
two on an iceberg.
Many who used to »»moke 10c cigar®
now buy I^ewis' Single Binder straight 5c.
Some men are self-made and bouio
others are wife-made.
'oniitlpatlnn rims*** nn<l nnrlouHly atfuntTatr*
mv .lis. Ii I* th. n>o«hly riirv.T »>y Dr.
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Best men are molded out of faults.
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Genuine must bear Signaturo
Condemns Sunshine Fad.
A well known medical man con-
demns emphatically the form of vani-
ty that leads people on their holidays
to do their utmost to get sunburned.
"Workers in city offices," he says,
"who go Into the country or to the
seashore for only one or two weeks
will deliberately sit about hatless In
the blazing sun, so that they may
come back looking brown and healthy.
As often as not this practice will send
them home far less fit for work than
they were when the y stnrted, for
even if one escapes sunstroke the ef-
fects of the sun's rays upon the un-
covered head are very bad. They
will cause dizziness, headache, nausea
and loss of appetite and will often up-
set the digestive system for many
days There are ways of avoiding the
more serious effects of the sun, but
personally I would advise the city
dweller who must have a brown face
to stain It with walnut Juice and wear
a broad brimmed bat like a Bane and
sensible individual."
Making Him Go.
"I don't think 1 shall go to tha
poker party tonight."
"That's one of the truest thinks you
have done for quite awhile."
"Jinx (fives me $5 which ho was to
pay me at the party tonight, and
which I had decided to give to you to
go shopping with, but I am really too
tired to go out; guess I'll let it go this
time "
"Tlmt Is Just like you! If It was
anything you wanted to do you would
go In a minute, but when It la some-
thing for your wife you are too tired)
You will go to that poker party to
night ur vou will bear truiu ui*:"
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