The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1914 Page: 2 of 10
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SYNOPSIS.
Rudolph Va* V«ct t« . a jroung man of
frlsure. «s astonished to tee a man enter
No. 1311. a ttouse across the itrwt from
the Powhatan club. Ionic unoccupied ami
spoken of *« th« House of Mystery. Sev-
eral persona at regular Intervals enter
No. MIX Van Vechten expresses concern
to his frkwid. Tom Phlnney. regarding the
wheroa bouts of his cousin an it fiancee.
fsr*w A fashionably attired wo-
man la *oeu to entt?r the House of Mys-
tery.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER III—Continued.
The door had been closed behind the
girl a minute or such a matter, when
Van Vechten and Hhlnney saw It
Jerked partially open and at once
banged violently shut again. In truth,
they both plainly heard the concus-
sion. Van Vechten rose and pressed
closer to the window, his gaze intent-
ly upon the door across the way.
"By Jupiter!" ho exclaimed under
tiln breath. "Tom, there's a scuffle go-
ing on o\er there, or I'm an Indian!"
And his surmise was promptly af
firmed. The door flew open with a
final jerk and a brawny man could be
•een standing upon the threshold. He
was so large that he fairly blocked the
doorway; his back was to the Btreet,
but It was plain that he was strug-
gling with somebody beyond.
Save for themselves, the room was
now once more deserted (since the
passage of the luncheon hour) and
there was nobody else to witness the
abrupt termination of the affair.
Suddenly the man drew back his
right arm and struck a mighty blow
straight from the shoulder.
"King!" shouted Tom In gleeful ad-
miration. "Oh, my! Wouldn't 1 hate
to get a punch liko that!"
Whoever did, obviously had no fur-
ther stomach for opposing the trucu-
lent one, for tho latter tore loose and
ran down the steps. Van Vechten and
Phlnney recognized him as tho man
who had arrived at noon—Number
Twelve, they afterwards called him.
associating him with the hour. He was
panting and considerably disheveled,
though otherwise he appeared to be
none the worse for the struggle.
However, there was no mistaking
the fact that he was exceedingly
wroth. Once on the walk, he turned
and shook his clenched list at the al
ready closed portal, with a quivering
flexing of the arm that signified a pas
aion seething and surging for adequate
expression. Then he apparently real
lied the futility of upbrading an unre
eponsive door, for he swung round
and made off at a rapid pace.
"Quick, Tom!" Van Vechten was up
and dragging at his friend's arnf
"Our hats! We must overtake that
chap!" -
With a speed that amazed Tom, Var
Vechten led the way to the street. Tin
man was walking rapidly, and as the>
emerged from the club entrance hi
was just rounding the corner into Lex
tngton avenue. The gait of the pur
suers was almost a ruu when they
turned the same corner, in spite 01
which they had not gained upon their
quitted himself to vigorously but a
few short seconds previously, was
lying at their feet—dead.
CHAPTER IV.
'^*41
V
The Face in the Crowd.
Up to the present moment the two
young men had been confronted only
by a series of mystifying incidents,
baffling, to be sure, but bearing noth
Ing sinister upon their faca; and un-
less Van Vechten'B more recent per-
turbation (at sight of the veiled lady)
be taken Into account, neither had the
morning's queer events borne any
especial significance whatsoever.
Hut here, in the twinkling of an eye.
was tragedy stark and grim. Only a
minute or two ago and this man was
pulsing with the perfect vitality of
young, vigorous manhood; now the
spark of life wae tiown—extinguished,
as one might puff out the flame of a
candle.
Both were profoundly sobered by
the shocking end of their brief chase,
and even Van Vechten's more active
mentality was slow to accept realiza-
tion. As for Tom Phlnney, he merely
stood gaping at the still form, his
brain for the time being utterly be-
numbed.
The spell of horror was In a meas
ure broken by a policeman's belated
arrival. Ho stooped and turned up the
man's face, and a thin crimson lino
could be seen staining the left temple
Tho features were composed, as if
death had been kind and mercifully
swift.
Slugged," was the officer's senten-
tious conclusion. Standing upright, he
shot a glance round the crowd. "Who
saw this done?" he roughly demanded.
Nobody replied; only an uneasy stir
ring undulated through the small gath-
ering. which promptly settled again in-
to silent immobility; and the blue-coat,
aB usually happens in such cases,
sought to cover with rudeness Ilia in
competency to handle the situation.
It was at about this juncture. Van
Vechten forever afterwards remem
bered, that he first became aware of
the race. lie was standing behind
Tom. a bit to his left, and opposite the
alley mouth, his entire attention, nat-
urally enough, up to this time had
been absorbed by the ugly scene at his
feet. It was all the more strange,
therefore, that his mind should have
been attracted and held elsewhere,
even temporarily. Hut nevertheless,
ill at once he experienced an indefin-
able. irresistable Impulse to glance up-
ward at a certain point in the ring of
onlookers. And his regard came to rest
upon a particular face.
Straightway he became sensible of
in unfamiliar thrill, an abrupt quick
enlng of the pulse, for which he could
lot in the least account.
Perhaps he would have looked away
igaln at once had there not come to
'.lim, as instantaneously as had the
mpulse to glance upward, a convic-
lon that the face signified something
ar out of the ordinary. The present
ircumstances might in a measure ac-
■ount for the horror mirrored there,
but r.ot for the despair, the terror,
which seemed gradually to be chilling
the faco's owner into a statue of ice
The face. Van Vechten told himself,
was reflecting emotions of a depth and
potency for whjch the man's death
alone was wholly inadequate to ac-
count; the fixed stare was directed at
something beyond and behind the life-
less figure.
It wae a girl's face. It was refined
and delicate of contour, and was
framed in a nimbus of wavy midnight
nalr. It was. moreover, a strikingly
beautiful face—even hauntingly beau-
•iful, for It was a face which the be-
holder would not be likely to forget for
many and many a day. Van Vechten
knew that he had never seen the girl
before; still there was something
about her that teased and perplexed
him.
He knew dimly, later, that she must
the dead man, and intent only upon i
matching her eye. And then the mag-
netism of his look had its effect; her
eyes were drawn to his, and she came
to herself with a start. A tinge of color
appeared In her cheeks; but Van Vech-
ten observed that the terror and de-
spair still lingered in her eyes.
Van Vechten turned his attention
to the man with something like resent-
ment stirring in his bosom, for the fel-
low's manner suggested a proprietary
relationship toward the girl, which, for
a reason he did not attempt just then
to explain, made him angry. As far
as attire went, the man was present-
able enough; but Van Vechten was not
favorably prepossessed by the sullen,
battered countenance, the coarse,
sandy hair, nor the big, loose-jointed,
powerful body.
Then the cautioning glance was of a
sudden accounted for; the man, satis-
tied that the girl had caught his mean-
ly pace back to the Powhatan. Once
more to themsedves, and Tom Phin- |
uey's volubility returned. I _
"Why the dickens didn't you want I |
to tell him what^ you know?" he de- I
manded.
The answer was uttered softly. .
"Tom, whatever reasons I may have |
I couldn't put into words. At least, I i
sha n't attempt to just now. You sure- i
ly know what a 'hunch' Is; your I .
scheme of life seems largely to be gov- |
erned by them."
"Huh!" grunted Tom, without under-
standing, but Inadvertently hitting up- j .
on a part of the reason for his friend's |
reticence. "It Is the veiled lady In the
taxi; you think you are on the scent (
of an adventure. Rets! No adventure ,
there. She was a lady, I can tell you | I
that." I
The other gave him a sharp glance, j
as if estimating the degree of his per- j
spicacity. How much could Tom tell? !
"Tom"—after a moment, "If you i
must talk—and I know your limita- |
tions as compared with your inten-
tions—promise me that you will not ;
mention the lady in the taxi—to any- 1
body."
Van Vechten's manner was so delib- j
erate and grave that Tom favored him i
with a questioning stare.
"Why, sure, Ruddy," was the prompt
and hearty response—"if it's as seri- (
ous as all that. You know her—what?" j
"No, I don't. But I think that I |
should—which is quite a different j
thing."
He knew, that one phase ?f the morn- j
ing's happenings would not be too \
much for Tom to keep to himself, and j
for some unexplained reason Van j
Vechten wanted it to be the mysteri- ;
ous lady of the taxi-cab.
As they were turning into the Pow-
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Are you really "acquainted
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Are you in "daily" touch
with a keen appetite?
Do you know the pleasure of
eating without distress?
Is your liver active and the
bowels regular?
If you cannot truly answer
"Yes,"—you should try
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MAKES AIM ALMOST CERTAIN
Invention Said to Guarantee Every
Shot a BuMseye, Even in
the Dark.
Charles Pechard, a police official of
Paris, has invented an attachment
that enables one to shoot a revolver
more accurately in the dark than in
broad daylight, the New York Inde-
pendent states.
This attachment consists of a metal-
lic tube with a lens at one end and a
tiny electric lamp at the other. By-
means of mirrors the light is directed
out through the lens as a slender cone,
hatan's granite archway, Van Vech- i and Is sufficiently strong at a distance
jten bent an inquisitive glance toward l of some four rods for all practical pur-
Number 1313. His curiosity was now j poses. In the middle of the illumlna-
immeasurably augmented by a fresh ted field there is a small dark spot
interest. And he received another j which coincides with the line of the
shock—one that fairly staggered him. ! bullet's flight. This enables the inex-
For tho first time in all the months ! perienced shooter to hit a selected
that he had surveyed the silent facade,
he caught a movement at one of the
blinds. It was drawn aside, and he
was afforded a momentary glimpse of
a girl's face—the face of the girl In
the crowd.
But it was not this circumstance
alone that stirred him. She was gaz-
ing directly at him with a look that
was both bitterly scornful and accus-
ing. In this new mien the face was ,
even more beautful than he had dared j
hope for. But why should she be witU J
ering him with a look of contemptu-
ous disdain and rebuke? He had nevef i
in all his life seen her face before this \
day.
He was actually stung to an lnvolun- j
tary expression of protest.
"My God! Don't—don't look at me
like that!"
"Er
ing around and following Van Vech
ten's set gaze.
But the blinds were again closed.
"You need a cocktail," Tom coun-
seled pithily after a pause. "Thie
thing of not going to bed at night so
"My God! Don't—Don't Look at
Like That!"
ing, showed that he had noted Van
Vechten's more than casual regard, by
a vindictive look from a pair of steely
gray eyes—a look at once so keen and
truculent and challenging that its re
cipient was for the moment dum-
founded.
However, Van Vechten's puzzlement
over this strange bit of byplay, his en-
grossing admiration of the girl's
beauty, was broken rudely in upon by
a sudden confused movement of the
crowd. With clanging bell and a
noisy clatter of iron-shod hoofs upon
the asphalt, a police ambulance drew
up at the alley. Phinney and Van Vech
ten were jostled with the others, and
the latter's attention was distracted
from the girl and the sandy-haired man
He watched a second officer and the
young surgeon leap nimbly down; the
first to join his comrade in holding
the crowd in check, the other to ren-
der such aid to the stricken man as
any faint indication of life might call
for. The motionless figure, however. , ( „
was beyond the reach of any surgeon s f dear fellow „ wa8 the composed
part of the burglar's anatomy with
more certainty than he could display
in ordinary target practice.
The electric current is supplied by
small dry battery or a storage battery,
which the officer can carry in his
pocket or which the defender of the
home can place under his pillow. The
light tube can be attached to an ordi-
nary pistol, and It may be used as a
flash with peaceful intent or merely
as a show of force.
Helping the Editor.
Wright—It seems to be getting
harder work for the newspaper man
all the time.
Penman—Oh, I don't know about
that. I see that ball-bearing scissors
have been patented by an Ohio in-
ventor.
Same Here.
"Do you object to the income tax?"
"No. I only wish I had occasion to."
—Boston Transcript.
MrA.Winslow's Soothing Syrup (or CtaiMrca
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On way to make a woman happy
is to envy her.
skill; it required but a cursory inspec-
tion to determine this.
Van Vechten saw, hazily, the young
physician indicate the mark on the
man's temple, and lay the tip of a lore-
finger upon another spot behind the
left ear, the while he talked in under-
tones to the two policemen. Then the
crowd quieted, ar.d he had an oppor
tunity to look at the girl again.
It was with something of a shock
that he realized she was no longer con
I ironting him. His glance flew quickly
1 iiither and thither—even hoping for
; .ho sandy-haired man. as a sort of
; clue—but she was nowhere to be seen.
Both had vanished.
The ambulance was now departing
j with its silent burden, the crow d was
I dissolving • or breaking up into little
! groups to discuss the tragedy, and the
Dummies Arrested.
Dummies used by a Pathe director
in ar. auto wreck at South River, N. J.,
had the distinction of being shot at
and arrested by Chief of Police Op-
penberger of that place recently, ac-
cording to a New Brunswick news-
paper. The dummies, when not in
-what?" Tom jerked out. slew- I use_ were placed in the store room of
the Washington hotel. Some jokers
told the chief that strtne men were
stealing cigars from the store room
and when he arrived and saw the
dim figures in the dark ness he called
upon them repeatedly to surrender,
as to be up before noon has got you j Receiving no answer he blazed away
at them several times before he dis-
covered tiie Joke.
135 BUStlElS FERACREf
was the yield of WHEAT
!■ n
on many farms In
Western Canada in
1913. some yield*
being reported u
high •• 50 bushels
per acre. As high
as 100 bushels were
recorded in some
districts for oats. ,
50 bushels for barley and
from 10 to 20 bu . for flax.
J. Keys arrived in the
country 5 years ago from ;
Denmark with very little
means. He homesteaded,
worked hard, is now the
owner of 320 acres of la™.
In 1913 had a crop of 200 i
acres, which will realise him I,
I about $4,000. His wheat I
weighed 68 lb«. to the buahel \
and averaged over 35 buahela |
to tho Aero.
„ - Thousands of similar in- (
[jT, J) stances mitfht be related of the I
homesteaders in Manitoba, Sas- \
katchewan and Alberta.
The crop of 1913 was an abun-
dint one everywhere in Western J
1 Canada.
Ask for descriptive literature and \
reduced railway rates. Apply to 1
Superintendent of Immigration,
Ottawa. Canada, or
Q. A. COOK,
125 W. 9th STREET. UHSAS ClTT, MO. •
Canadian Government Agent
reply, "you can't Imagine how emi-
nently correct you are in that conclu-
sion." And a they passed inside: "No
cocktail, though, thanks. And if you
do not mind, go talk to somebody else;
I want to think."
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Interest in Colors of Beards.
The color of beards arouses many
points of interest. All the ancient tap-
istries show Cain and Judas Iscariot
with yellow or red beards, and Ponti-
us Pilate In ancient art always was
given a beard. (Being a Roman of
good family, he probably had no
beard: but those details did not
trouble the old masters.) A reddish
beard, however, does not carry the
significance that goes with red hair,
for many eminent men wjib dark
That Was Her Business.
"How did that manicure ever man-
age to marry that old millionaire?"
"She just nailed him, I guess."
Still There \Aas Something About Her
That Teased and Perplexed Him.
quarry. They «.aw him disappear east
ward Into Twenty-third street.
He's not acquainted with the neigh-
borhood," Vr.n Vechten ventured:
-he's making for tjie Twenty-third
street L station. Hurry!"
But by the time they turned Into
Twenty-third street a good deal had
happened. A small group of people
were gathered at an alley mouth mid
way in the block, and others were to
be seen running toward the - same
point
"Wonder what'B doing?" Tom ex
claimed. Van Vechten's response was
sn Increased forward pressure on the
other's arm and a repetition of the In-
junction.
"Hurry!"
A second later they arrived at the
alley, where a knot of excited people
was tightly dray 11 around the object
of interest. Tom unceremoniously
forced his bulk through the press, be-
ing closely followed by Van Vechten.
In a moment they taw and under-
stood. The young mau who had ac-
have been slender and not ver> tall ^ fr|ends were walking at a leisure- i brown hair have had reddish beards
for she was standing In the paved al-
ley, on the crowd's outward edge, and
it was only an accident of relative po- ,
sltions that afforded her an uninter- ;
rupted view.
What tertible. gripping horror was ,
it that seemed to be paralyiing all her j
fancies? What did this man's death j
signify to her more than it did to any- j
one else here present?
To one such as Van Vechten. accus-
tomed to reading the all but impercept-
ible Indices of schooled features, this
vision was like a naked human soul.
Terror and despair parted the delicate i
pink lips and widened trfe lustrous j
dark eyes, they blanched her cheeks
and held her breathless, utterly ob- Lord Strathcona. high commissioner
livious of aught else save the dead °' Canada. w o recen > «
man.
And now he discovered, suddenly.
that he was not the only person inter-
ested in the agitated girl. His atten-
tion was somehow drawn to a man
standing a half doxen or so feet from
her; a tall, raw-boned fellow with a
powerful frame and a sullen cast of i
countenance—a countenance just now 1
scratched and bruised, as if its owner
had recently met with a severe accl
dent of some kind.
This man was staring angrily at the
girl. He too seemed to be oblivious of
ENJOYS TRAVEL IN OLD AGE
Lord Strathcona. Ninety-Three Year*
Old, Thinks Nothing of a Journey
of 7,000 Miles.
his ninety-third birthday, returned to
London after a lightning journey to
Canada, in the course of which he cov-
ered over 7,000 miles in 16 days. Lady
Strathcona, who is eighty-nine, accom-
panied her husband.
"I enjoyed the trip Immensely and
feet all the better for it." said Lord
Strathcona. "A journey like that is a
mere nothing In these days of luxuri-
ous boats and trains. I really forgot
how many crossings I have made alto-
gether, but I hope this won't be the
last. 1 have been going backward and
forward to America for the last 70
years. It has become so much a
habit that I never think of the fa
tigue. If there is any. My time wa;
fully occupied. I reached New York
on the Friday after my departure,
transacted some private business and
left early the next morning for Mon-
treal, where 1 attended quite a num-
ber of functions, besides looking after
my correspondence."
What Did He Want?
One of the men In a certain com-
pany of British territorials made a dis-
paraging remark about the man in
front of him The victim turned with
indignation and assumed a fighting at-
titude. Then the captain remarked,
sharply: "That will do there. We don't
want any fighting men In this regi-
ment."
John Tyler was a member of the
Virginia legislature at 21 and a con
gressman at 26.
SKIN CLEARED.
By Simple Change in Food.
It has been said by a physician that
tnost diseases are the result of indi-
gestion.
There's undoubtedly much truth In
the statement, even to the cause of
many unsightly eruptions, which many j
suppose can be removed by applying
some remedy on the outside.
By changing her food a Kan. girl
was relieved of an eczema which was
& great annoyance to her. She writes:
"For five months I was suffering
with an eruption on my face and
hands which our doctor called eczema
and which caused me a great deal of
Inconvenience. The suffering was al-
most unbearable.
"The medicine I took only gave me
temporary relief. One day 1 happened
to read somewhere that eczema was
caused by iddigestion. Then I real
that many persons had been relieved
of Indigestion by eating Grape-Nuts.
"I decided to try it. I liked the
taste of the food and was particularly
pleased to notice that my digestion
was improving and that the eruption
was disappearing as if by magic. I
had at last found, in this great food,
something that reached my trouble.
"When I find a victim of this afflic-
tion I remember my own former suf-
fering and advise a trial of Grape-Nuta
food instead of medicines."
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