The Helena Star. (Helena, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
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Vegetable Coinpound
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ydia E Pinkham’s
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SYNOPSIS
Lwrenee Blakeley lawyer goes to
Pittsburg with the forged notes in the
Bronson case to get the deposition o’
John Gilmore millionaire In the latter’s
home he is attracted by a picture of a
oung girl whom the millionaire explains
i his granddaughter A lady request
Blakeley to buy her a Pullman ticket H
pves her lower eleven and retains lower
ten He finds a drunken man In lower
ten and retires In lower nine He awa-
kens in lower seven and finds his clothe'
and bag missing The man In lower tee
is found murdered Circumstantial evi-
dence points to both Blakeley and the
unknown man who had exchanged clothe
with him Blakelev becomes Interested
a girl In blue The train Is wrecked
Blakeley Is rescued from the burning ear
by the girl In blue His arm Is broken
7ny ko to the Carter place for break-
fast The girl proves to be Alison West
his partner s sweetheart Her peculiar
actions mystify the lawyer She drops
her gold hag and Blakeley puts It In his
fi?c ®'akelev returns home He finds
that he Is under surveillance Moving
pictures of the tra'n taken just before the
wreck reveal to Blakeley a man leap'ng
mm the train with his stolen grip
Blakeley learns that a man named Sul-
livan leaped from the train near M
and sprained his aifi’le Ho stayed some
time at the Carter place While making
Inquiries at Carter’s Blakeley finds All-
son and kisses her
be said in response to my invitation
to dinner “and anyhow there’s no
use dining out when I pay the same
dinner or no dinner where I am stop-
ping” ’
The day had been hot and the first
floor dining room was sultry in spite
of the palms and fans which attempted
to simulate the verdure and breezes
of the country
It was crowded too with a typical
summer night crowd and after Bib
ting for a few minutes in a swelter- lege'boys ea'tltegan to’girow sTllttle
then back to me When she looked
away again I breathed ruler
“Who is it?” aaked McKnight under
his breath
"Ontario" I formed It with my
lips rather than said it McKnight’s
eyebrows went up and he looked with
increased interest at the black-gowned
figure
I ate little after that The situation
was rather bad for me I began to see
Here waa a woman who could if she
wished and had any motive for so
doing put me In Jail under a capital
charge A word from her to the po-
lice and polite surveillance would be-
come active interference
Then too she could say that she
had Been me just after the wreck
with a young woman from the mur-
dered man's car and thus probably
bring Alison WeBt into the case
It is not surprising then that 1 ate
little The woman across seemed in
no burry to go She loitered qver a
demi-tasse and that finished sat with
her elbow on the table her chin in
her hand looking darkly at the chang-
ing groups in the room
The fun at the table where the col
CHAPTER XIX
idicliw and DiitNM after
r VWI PiA Isaall Dm Small Price
e&aiae mu Signature
XHAT HE CONSIDERED FAIR
atfr Olsen’s Offer Must Have Come Ae
Surprise Even to Persuasive
Claim Agent
'Up in Minnesota Mr Olsen had a
wow killed by a railroad train In
we season the claim agent for the
wallroad called
We understand of course that the
eeased was a very docile and valu-
:ak!e animal” said the claim agent in
Us most persuasive clalm-agentleman-Vy
manner "and we sympathize with
and your family in your loss But
r Olsen you must remember this:
Yoor cow had no business being upon
r tracks Those tracks are our prl--vate
property and when she Invaded
’ "them the became a trespasser Tech-
nically speaking you as her owner
kweame a trespasser also But we
J lave no desire to carry the Issue Into
court and possibly give you trouble
- Kow then what would you regard as
j a fair settlement between you and the
- vailroad company?”
"Vafl” said Mr Olsen slowly “Ay
’ en poor Swede farmer but Aye shall
-fve you two dollars”— Everybody's
” 'A business firm advertises a shirt
" without buttons That’s no novelty
Many a bachelor has worn them for
' SCATS
When the patient man la once
-roused he makes up for lost time
T
When It’s
‘mat for
Breakfast?
Post
Toasties
Serve with cream or
milk and every member
of the family will say “rip-
ping good And don’t
be surprised if they want
a second helping
“The Memory Lingers"
rmn Cm) Company LuL
Bauia Crcea Mich
At the Table Next
McKn'ght and Hotchkiss were
sauntering slowly down the road as I
caught up with them As usual the
little man was busy with some ab-
struse mental problem
“The Idea is this” he was saying
his brows knitted In thought “If a
left-handed man standing in the po-
sition ' of the man In the picture
should Jump from a car would he be
likely to sprain his right ankle? When
right-handed man prepares for
leap of rat kind my theory is that he
would hold on with his right hand
and alight at the proper time on his
right foot Of course—”
‘I imagine although I don’t know”
interrupted McKnight “that a man
either ambidextrous or1 one armed
umping from the Washington Flier
would be more likely to land on his
head”
"Anyhow” I Interposed “what dif-
ference does it make whether Sullivan
used one band or the other? One pair
of handcuffs will put both band3 out
of commission”
As usual when one of his pet the-
ories was attacked Hotchkiss looked
aggrieved '
“My dear Bir" he expostulated
“don’t you understand what bearing
this has on the case? How was the
murdered man lying when he was
found?”
"On his back" I said promptly
“head tpward the engine”
“Very well” he retorted “and what
then? Tour heari lies under your
fifth intercostal space and to reach It
a right-handed blow would have struck
either down or directly In
“But gentlemen the point of en-
trance for the stiletto was below the
heart striking up! As Harrington
lay with his bead toward the engine a
person in the aisle must have used
the left hand”
McKnight's eyes sought mine and
he winked at me solemnly as I unos-1
tentatlously transferred the hat I was '
carrying to my right band Long
training has largely counterbalanced
heredity In my case but I still pitch
ball play tennis and carve with my
left hand But Hotchkiss was too busy
with his' theories to notice me j
We- were only Just In time for our
train back to Baltimore bnt Mc-
Knight took advantage of a second’s
delay to 6hake the station agent warm-
ly by the hand
"I want to express my admiration
for you" he said beamingly “Ability
of your order is thrown away here
You should have been a city police-
man my friend”
The agent looked a trifle uncertain
“The young lady was the one who
told me to keep still” be said
McKnight glanced at me gave the
agent’s hand a final shake and
climbed on board But I knew per-
fectly that he bad guessed the reason
for my delay
He was very silent on the way
home Hotchkiss too had little to
say He was reading over bis notes
Intently stopping now and then to
make a penciled addition Just be-
fore we left the train Richey turned
to me “I suppose It was the key to
the door that 6he tied to the gate?”
"Probably I did not ask her"
“Curious her locking that fellow
in" he reflected
“You may depend on it there was a
good reason for it nil And I wish
you wouldn’t be sosuspicious of mo-
tives Rich” 1 said warmly
“Only yesterday you were the sus-
picious one" he retorted and we
lapsed Into strained silence
It was late when we got to Wash-
ington One of Mrs K!optoa’s small
tyrannies was exacting punctuality at
tutal and like several other things
I rerpected 1L There are always
some concessions that should be made
In return for fohfut service
So as my dinner hour of seven was
long past McKnight and 1 went to a
little restaurant downtown where ibey
have a very decent way of fixing
chicken a la King
Ing corner we got up and went to the
smaller dining room upstairs Here it
was not so warm and we settled our-
selves comfortably by a window
Over in a corner half a dozen boys
on their way back to school were rag-
ging a perspiring waiter a proceed
ing so exactly to McKnight’s taste
that he Insisted yi going over to Join
them But their table was full and
somehow that kind of fun had lost its
point for me
Not far from us a very stout middle-aged
man apoplectic with the
heat was elephantinely Jolly for the
benefit of a bored-looking girl across
tho table from him and at the next
taDle a newspaper woman ate alone
the last ed)on propped against the
water bottl before her her hat for
eoolness on the corner of the table
it was a motley Bohemian crowd
I looked over the room casually
while McKnight ordered the meat
Then my attention was attracted to
the table next to ours Two people
were sitting there so deep in conver-
sation that they did not notice us
The woman's face was hidden under
her hat as she traced the pattern of
the cloth mechanically with her fork
But the man's features stood out clear
in the light of the candles on the
table It was Bronson!
“He shows the strain doesn't he?”
McKnight sald holding up the wine
noisy the fat man now a purplish
shade ambled away behind his slim
companion the newspaper woman
pinned on her business-like hat and
stalked out Still the woman at the
next table waited
It was a relief when the meal was
over We got our hats and were
about to leave the room when a
waiter touched me on the arm
“I beg your pardon sir” he said
“but the lady at the table near the
wlddow the lady in black Bir would
like to speak to you"
I looked down between the rows of
tables to where the woman sat alone
her chin still resting on her hand her
black eyes still insolently staring
this time at me
“I’ll have to go” I said to McKnight
hurriedly “She knows all about that
affair and she'd be a bad enemy”
"I don’t like her lamps" McKnight
observed after a glance at her "Bet-
ter Jolly her a little Good-by”
CHAPTER XX
The Notes and a Bargain
I went back slowly to where the
woman sat alone She smiled rather
oddly as I drevfhear and pointed to
the chair Bronson had vacated
"Sit down Mr Blakeley” she said
1 am going to take a few minutes of
your valuable time”
i "Yes I sent for you” She roused
herself and sat erect "Now Mr
Blakeley have you found those pa-
pers?” “The papers? What papers?” I par-
ried I needed time to think
“Mr Blakeley” she said quietly "I
think we can lay aside all subterfuge
In the first place let me refresh your
mind about a few things The Pitts-
burg police are looking for the sur-
vivors of the car Ontario there are
three that I know of — yourself the
young woman with whom you left
the scene of the wreck and myself
The wreck you will admit was a for-
tunate one' for you”
I nodded without speaking
“At the time of the collision you
were in rather a hole” she went on
looking at me with a disagreeable
smile "You were if I remember ac-
cused of a rather atrocious crime
There was a lot of corroborative evi-
dence was there not? I seem to re-
member a dirk and the murdered
man's pocket-book in your possession
and a few other things that were—
well rather unpleasant”
I was thrown a bit off my guard
“You remember also” I said quick-
ly “that a man disappeared from the
car taking my clothes papers add
everything”
“I remember that you said so" Her
tone was quietly insulting and I bit
my lip at having been caught It was
no time to make a defense
“You have missed one calculation”
I said coldly “and that Is the dis-
covery of the man who left the train”
You have found him?” She bent
forward and again I regretted my
hasty speech "I knew it I said so”
“We are going to find him’’ I as-
serted with a confidence I did not
feel “We can produce at any time
proof that a man left the Flier a few
miles beyond the wreck And we can
find him I am positive"
“But you have not found him yet?”
She was clearly disappointed “Well
so be It Now for our bargain You
will admit that I am no fool”
I made no such admission and she
smiled mockingly
“How flattering you are!” she said
“Very well Now for the premises
You take to Pittsburg four nqtes held
by the Mechanics' national bank to
have Mr Gilmore who Is 111 declare
his Indorsement of them forged
“On the Journey back to Pittsburg
two things happen to you: You lose
your clothing your valise and ' your
papers including the notes and you
are accused of murder In fact Mr
Blakeley the circumstances were most
singular and the ' evidence— well al-
most conclusive"
I was completely at her mercy but
I gnawed my lip with Irritation
“Now for the bargain” She leaned
over and lowered her voice “A fair
exchange you know
3
CATARRH CF THE KIDNEYS
FULLY RECOVERED
Mrs Marls GongolL Mayer Mlaa-
Writes the following:
“ 1 must inform you that I recovered
my health after using your valuable
medicine Perana
“ I had suffered with catarrh of the
kldneye and bowels but now I ana
much better and feel real strong
Mr Heavyweight — Well Willie why
do you look bo studious?
Willie — I was wonderin’ If you ever
married sis If I could be able to
wear yer cast-off clothes
REST AND PEACE
Fall Upon Distracted Households
When Cuticura Enters
Sleep for skin tortured babies and
rest for tired fretted mothers Is found
In a hot hath with Cuticura Soap and
a gentle anointing with Cuticura OInfr
ment This treatment in the majors
ity of cases affords immediate relief
in the most distressing forms of itch-
ing burning scaly and crusted hu-
mors eczema rashes inflammations
Irritations and chaflngs of infancy
and childhood permits rest and sleep
to both parent and child and points
The mlnutq you 1 to a speedy cure when other Remedies
put those four notes In my hand— I fall Worn-out and worried parents
that minute the blow to my head has j will find this pure sweet and econom-
caused complete forgetfulness as to ical treatment realizes their highest
the events of that awful morning I expectations and may be applied ta
“I Beg Your Pardon Sir the Lady in Black Sir Would Like to 8peak to
You"
list as if he read from It "Who's tbs
woman?”
“Search me” I replied in the same
way
When the chicken came I still
found myself gazing now and then at
the abstracted couple near me Evi-
dently tbe subject of conversation was
unpleasant Bronson was eating lit-
tle the woman not at alL Finally he
got up pushed his chair back noisily
thrust a bill at the waiter and stalked
out
The woman sat still for a moment
then with an apparent resolution to
make the best of it she began slowly
to eat the meal before her
But tbe quarrel bad taken away her
appetite for the mixture In our
chafing dish was hardly ready to
serve before she pushed her chair
hack a little and looked around the
room
1 caught my first glimpse of her
face then and I confess it startled me
It was the tall stately woman of the
Ontario the woman I had last seen
cowering beside tbe road rolling r?h’
bles in her band Llood streaming
from a cut over her eye I could see
the scar now a little affair about an
inch long gleaming red through its
layers of powder
And then quite unexpectedly she
ilotchkss had de-1 turned and looked directly at me
jariei ecouoriiica ly bent lor a small j Alter a minute's uncertainty she
hotel where he lived on the American bowed letting her eyes rest on mine
with a calmly Insolent stare She
”1 want to think some things over"j glanced at McKnight for a moment
“Certainly" I sat down opposite
her and glanced at a cuckoo clock on
tbe wall "I am sorry but I have only
a few minutes If you—" She laugh-
ed a little not very pleasantly and
opening a small black fan covered
with spangles waVed It slowly
“The fact is” she said “I think we
are about to make a bargain”
“A bargain?” I asked incredulously
“You have a second advantage of me
ton snow my name’’— I paused sug-
gestively and sbe took the cue
“I am Mrs Conway” she said and
flicked a crumb oft the table with an
overmanicured finger '
The name was scarcely a surprise
I bad already surmised that this
might be the woman whom rumor
credited as being' Bronson’s common-
law wife Rumor I remembered bad
said other things even less pleasant
things w hich had been brought out at
Bronson's arrest for forgery
e met last under less fortunate
circumstances" she was saying “1
have been lit for nothing since that
terrible day And you — you had a
broken arm I think’’
"I still have It” I said with a lame
attempt at Jocularity “but to have
escaped at all was a miracle We have
much Indeed to be thankful for”
“1 suppose we have" she said care-
lessly ''although somelmea I doubt
It" She was looking somberly to-
ward tbe door through which her late
companion had mado bis exit
“You sent for me—" I sail
am the only witness and I will be si-
lent Do you understand? They will
call oft their dogs”
My head was buzzing with the
strangeness of the idea
“But" I said striving to gain time
"I haven’t the notes I can’t give yo&
what I haven’t got”
“You have had the case continued1
she said sharply “You expect to find
them Another thing” she added
slowly watching my face “If you don’t
get them soon Bronson will have
them They have been offered to him
already but at a prohibitive price ”
"But” I said bewildered “what Is
your object In coming to me? If
Bronson will get them anyhow — 1
She shut her fan with a click and
her face was not particularly pleasant
to look at
“You are dense” she said insolent-
ly “I want those papers — for myself
not for Andy Bronson”
“Then the idea is” I said Ignoring
her tone “that you think you havs
me in a hole and that if I find those
papers and give them to you you will
let me out As I understand it our
friend Bronson under those circum-
stances will also be in a hole”
She nodded
‘The notes would be of no use to
you for a limited length of time” I
went on watching her narrowly “If
they are not turned over to tbe state’
attorney within a reasonable time there
will have to be a nolle pros — that is
tbe case will simply be dropped for
lack of evidence"
“A week would answer I think”
she said slowly “You will do It then”
I laughed although I was not espe-
cially cheerfuL
“No 111 not do It I expect to
come across the notes any time now
and I erpect Just as certainly to turn
them over to the state’s attorney
when I get them”
She got up suddenly pushing her
chair back with a noisy gratlrg sound
that turned many eyes toward us
“You’re more of a fool than 1
thought you” ahe sneered qnd left
me at the table
TO BE CONTINUED)
Led by the Note
An analytical chemist was retained
as a skilled witness some years ago
where there are questions of analyt-
ical chemistry There was one case
where a farmer bad bought some ar-
tificial manure and he was being
sued for the price of It He resisted
payment on the ground that the ma-
terial had none of the qualities of
manure at alL The expert chemist
was one of the witnesses and had
stated that although the substance
had tbe smell it had none of the
chemical qualities of manure Under
cross-examination he was asked If
that was so bow did he account for
hundreds of the best farmers having
taken the manure for many years
"They must have been led by the
cose" returned the wltaesa
the youngest Infanta as well as chil-
dren of all ages The Cuticura Rem-
edies are sold by druggists every
where Send to Potter Drug & Chem
Corp sole proprietors Boston Maas
for their free 32-page Cuticura Book an
the care and treatment of ekin and
acalp of Infants children and adults
When a man dresses like a slowch
It’s a pretty good sign that he either
ought to get married or get divorced
GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS
Ue the beat That’s why they buy Red
Cross Ball Blue At leading grocers 5 seats
Don’t you notice how the mas who
always wants to bet and who says ho
has a roll In his hand Invariably rolls
away?
Queen’s High
"Does Bligglns ever bluff when ho
plays cardsr
“Never until he gets home and o
plains where he has been”
The Difference
“I don’t see any difference between
you and a trained nurse except tho
uniform” said her sick husband
“And tbe salary” she added
thoughtfully— Harper’e Bazar
Easy for Her
An extremely corpulent old lady was
entertaining her grandchild at luneh-
eon when she found occasion to repri-
mand the little girl for dropping some
food on the tablecloth
“You don’t see grandma dropping
anything on the table” she said
“Of course not" replied the child
“God gave you something In frost to
top !L“
EIIUUAYiSial
I want every chronic rheumatic to throw
way all medicines alt llnlmeota ail
Sluters end rlrc MCNkON’S RlIbUMA-
TISit REMEDY a trial No matter what
your doctor may say no matter what
your friends nny coy -no matter how
Prejudiced you may be ajralnvt all tdeer
ed remedies ro t on-e to ye-r dm
rM and fet a Vottle of the BIIEUMI
tism i:r
EMrPT If It falls to gtT” satis-
faction! wlU refund your money— Munyon
Remember tats remedy contains no sat
rerUe acid no opium coalne morphine or
other harmful drure It la pnt Bp under
the guarantee of tbs Purs Food sod Drug
A-
For sale by til drug jista price z 3c
for Couchs l Colds
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