The Waurika Democrat (Waurika, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Congressman Ranadala of Louisiana
recently told a story of Alec Trimble
the valet and factotum of a pliysl-
clan In New Orleans who took a fan
cy to one of the summer ahlrta of hia
master and finally went and bought
one exactly like it He showed It to
hla mistress who said that he bad
done wrong as the two shirts might
get mixed in the washing and Alec
answered: '
“it'd make no difference missus
’cause dey's both alike in size ' an’
price"
No Affair of His
“I noticed Mr' Lloyd that you were
the only person who did not weep dur-
ing Mr Evans' beautiful prayer"
“You forget Mrs Davies that I be-
long to another parish” — The Hy-
slander We are our best when we try to be
it not for ourselves alone but for our
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which waa llllcil with unaeeinly not
CHAPTER II— Continued
’There’s going to lie a death!” she
walled "Oh Miss Rachel there's go-
ing to he a death!”
’There will be” 1 said grimly "If
you don’t keep quiet Ilddy Alien”
And so we sat there until morning
wondering if the candle would last
until dawn and arranging what trains
we could take hack to town If we had
only stuck to that decision and gone
back before It was too late!
The sun came Anally and from my
window I watched the trees along the
drive take shadowy form gradually
lose their ghostlike appearance be-
come gray and then green The
Greenwood club showed itself a dab
of white against the hill across the
valley and an early robin or two
bopped around in the dew Not un-
til the milk-boy and the sun came
about the same time did I dare to
open the door into the ball and look
around Everything was as we bad
loft it Trunks were heaped here and
there ready for the trunk-room and
through an end window of stained
glass came a streak of red and yel-
low daylight that was eminently
cheerful The milk-boy was pound
Irg somewhere below and the day
bad begun
Thomas Johnson came ambling up
the drive about half-past six and we
could hear him clattering around on
the lower floor opening shutters
bad to take Liddy to ber room up-
stairs however — she was quite sure
she would find something uncanny In
fact when she did not hating now
the courage of daylight she was actu-
ally disappointed
Well we did not go back to town
that day
I warned Liddy not to mention what
bad hnpened to anybody and tele-
phoned to town for servants Then
after a breakfast which did more
credit to Thomas’ heart than bis bead
1 went on a short tour of lovestiga'
lion The Bounds hd come from the
east wing and not without some
qualms I began there At first I found
nothing Since then I have developed
my powers of observation but at that
time 1 was a novice The small card
room seemed undisturbed I looked for
footprints which is I believe the con'
ventlonal thing to do although my
xierlenre has been that as clew
loth footprints and thumb-marks are
' more useful in fiction than In fact
Hut the stairs in that wing offered
something
At the top of the flight bad bee
placed a tail w ickcr bumper packed
with linen thut had come from town
It stood at the edge of the top step
almost barling passage and on the
1 step below it was a long fresh I
scratch For three atepa the scratch
was repeated gradually diminishing
ns If some obj'tt had fatl-n striking
each one Then for four steps nothing
On the fifth step below was a round
dent in (be hard wood That was all
I and it seemed little enough except
' that I was positive the marks bad not
been there the day before
It bore out my theory of the sound
whleb bad been for all the world like
the bumping ol a metallic object down
a flight of atepa The four steps had
been skipped I reasoned that an Iron
bar for instance would do something
of the sort — strike two or three steps
end down then turn over Jumping a
few stairs and landing with a thud
Iron bars however do not fall
down-stairs in the middle of the night
alone Coupled with the figure on the
veranda the agency by which It
climbed might be assumed Hut— and
here was the thing that puzzled me
most — the doors were all fastened
that morning the windows unmolest-
ed and the particular door from the
card room to the veranda had a com-
bination lock of which I held the key
and which had not been tampered
with
I filed on an attempt at burglary
As the most natural explanation — an
attempt frustrated hy the falling of
the object whatever It was that bad
roused me Two things I could not
understand bow the Intruder had es-
caped with everything locked and
why he had left lb small silver
which In tha absence of a butler had
remained downstairs over night
In the afternoon a hark came up
from Casanova with n fresh relay of
servants The driver took them with
a flourish to the servants entrance
and drove around to the front of tbs
house where I was awaiting him
'Two dollars" he said In reply to
my question "I don't charge full
rates because brlngtn' 'em up all
summer as I do It pays to make a
special price When they got off the
train I aea ars : ’There's another
bunch for Hunnystde cook parlor
maid and all Yes'rn— six summers
and a new lot never less than once a
month They won't stand for the
country and tha lonesomeness
I ckon “
Hut with the presence of the
“I Was Roused by
"bunch” of servants my courage re-
vived and lute in the afternoon came
a message from Gertrude that she and
Halsey would arrive that night at
about 11 o'clock coining In the car
from Richfield Things were looking
up and when Iteulah my cat a most
intelligent animal found some early
catnip on a hunk near the house and
rolled in it in a feline ecstasy I de-
tded that getting hack to nature was
the thing to do
While I was dressing for dinner
Liddy rapped at the door She was
hardly herself yet but privately I
think she waa worrying about the bro-
ken mirror and its augury more than
anything else When she came In she
was holding something in her hand
and she laid it on the dressing table
carefpily
"I found it In tits linen hamjier"
she said “It must be Mr llalsey'B
but it seems queer how it got there"
It was the half of a link cuff but-
ton of unique design and 1 looked at
It carefully
“Where was It? In the bottom of
the hamper?” 1 asked
"On the very top" she replied "It's
a mercy It didn't fall out on the way"
When Liddy had gone I examined
the fragment attentively 1 had never
seen It before and I was certain It
was not Halsey's It was of Italian
workmanship and consisted of a
mother-of-pearl foundation encrusted
with tiny seed pearls strung on
horsehair to hold them In the cen
ter w-as a small ruby The trinket
was odd enough but not intrinsically
of great value Its Interest for me
lay In this: Liddy hud found It lying
In the top of the hamier which had
blocked the east-wing stairs
That afternoon the Armstrongs’
housekeeper a youngish good-looking
woman applied for Mrs Ralston's
plsce and I was glad enough to take
her Bhe looked as though she might
be equal to a dozen of Liddy with her
snapping black eyes and heavy jaw
Her name was Anne Watson and'!
dined that evening for the first time
in three days
CHAPTER III
Mr John Bsilsy Appears
I had dinner served In the break
fast room Somehow the huge dining
room depressed me and Thomas
cheerful enough all day allowed his
spirits to go down with the sun He
had a habit of watching the corners
of the room left shadowy by the can
dies on the table and altogether It
wss not a festive meal
Dinner over I went Into the living
room I had three hours before the
children could possibly arrive and
got out my knitting
The chug of the automobile as It
climbed the hilt was the most wel
come sound I had heatd for a long
time and with Gertrude and Halsey
actually before me my troubles
seemed over lor good Gertrude stood
smiling In the ball with her hat quite
over one ear and ber hair In every
direction under ber pink veil Ger-
trude Is a very pretty girl no matter
how her hat Is and I waa not sur-
prised when Halsey presented a good
iooklng young man who bowed at
me and looked lit Trude — that Is the
ridiculous nickname Gertrude brought
from school
"I have brought a guest Aunt Ray'
lialsey aald "1 want you to adopt
him Into your affections and your Sat
urday-lo-Monday list Let me present
John Hatley only you muat call him
Jack la II hours he'U ha calling you
"Aunt': I know him”
We shook hands and I got I chance
to look at Mr Halley ha was a Ull
fellow perhaps SO and ha wore
a Revolver Shot”
small mustache 1 remember wonder
lng why be seemed to have a good
mouth and when b smiled his teeth
were above the average One never
knows why certain men cling to
messy upper lip that must get Into
things any more than one under
stands some mamnai building up their
hair on wire atrocities Otherwise
he was very good to look at stalwart
and tanned with the direct gaze that
I like I ain particular about Mr Hal-
ley because be was a prominent fig-
ure In what happened later
Gertrude was tired with the trip
and went up to bed very soon I
made up my mind to tell them noth-
ing until the next day and then to
muke as light of our excUement as
possible After all what had I to tell?
An inquisitive face peering in at a
window a crash in the night a
scratch or two on the stairs and half
cuff-button! As for Thomas and his
foreboding it was always my belief
that a negro U one part thief one
part pigment and the rest supersti-
tion It was Saturday night The two
men went to the billiard room and I
could her them talking as I went up-
stairs it seemed that Halsey had
stopied at the Greenwood club for
gasolene and found Jack Halley there
with the Sunday golf crowd Mr ltai-
loy had not been hard to persuad'
probably Gertrude knew why — and
they bad carried him Off triumphant-
ly I roused Uddy to get them some-
thing to eat — Thomas was beyond
reach In the lodge — and paid no at-
tention to her evident terror of the
kitchen regions Then I went to bed
The men were still in the billiard
room when I finally dozed off and the
last thing I remember was the howl
of a dog In front of the house It
wailed a crescendo of woe that trailed
off hopefully only to break out afresh
from a new point of tha compass
At three o'clock In the morning I
was roused by a revolver shot The
sound seemed to come from just out-
side my door For a moment I could
not move Then — I heard Gertrude
stirring In her room and the next
moment she had throw n open the con-
necting door
"O Aunt Ray! Aunt Ray!" she
cried hysterically "Some one has
been killed!”
’Thieves" I said shortly "Thank
goodness there are some men In the
house to-night” I was getting Into
my slippers and a bath-robe aod Ger-
trude with shaking handa was lighting
a lamp Then we opened the door
into the hall where crowded on the
upper landing of the stairs the maids
mhUe-faced and trembling were peer-
ing down beaded by Liddy I was
greeted by a series of low screams
and question and I tried to quiet
them Gertrude had dropped on a
chair and sat there limp and shiv-
ering 1 went at once across the hall to
Halsey's room and knocked then I
pushed the door open It waa empty
the bed had not been occupied!
"He must be In Mr Halley's room”
I aald excitedly and followed by Lid-
dy we went there Like Halsey's It
tied not been occupied ! Gertrud waa
on her feet now but she leaned
gatnat the door for support
"They have been killed!” the
gasped Then she caught me by the
arm and dragged me toward the
stairs ‘They may only be hurt and
w must find them” she aald her
ryes dilated with excitement
I don't remember how we got down
the stairs 1 do remember especUng
every moment to be killed The cook
was at the telephone upstairs calling
the Greenwood club nnd Liddy waa
behind me afraid to corns end not
fPSY'-
daring to stay behind We found the
living room and the drawing room un-
disturbed Somehow I felt that what-
ever we found would be in the card-
room or on the staircase and nothing
hut the fear that Halsey was in dan-
ger drove me on with every step my
knees seemed to give way under me
Gertrude was ahead and in the card-
room she stopped bolding her can-
dle high Then she pointed silently to
the doorway into the ball beyond
Huddled there on the floor face down
with hla arms extended was a man
Gertrude ran forward with a gasp-
ing sob "Jack" she cried “Oh Jack!
Liddy had run screaming and the
two of us were there alone It waa
Gertrude who turned him over final-
ly until we could see his white face
and then she drew a deep breath and
dropped limply to her knees It was
the body of a man a gentleman In a
dinner coat and white waistcoat
stained now with blood — the body of
a man I bad never seen before
CHAPTER IV
Where Is Halsey?
Gertrude gazed at the face in a kind
of fascination Then she put out ber
hands blindly and I thought she was
going to faint
"He has killed him!” she muttered
almost inarticulately and at that be-
cause my nerves were going I gave
her a good shake
"What do you mean?' I said fran-
tically There was a depth of grief
and conviction in her tone that was
worse than anything she could have
said The shake braced her any-
how and she seemed to pull herself
together Hut not another word would
she say she stood gazing down at
that gruesome figure on the floor
tfhile Liddy ashamed of her flight
and afraid to come back drove before
ber three terrified women servants
into the drawing room which was as
near as any of them would venture
Once in the drawing room Gertrude
collapsed and went from one fainting
spell into ‘another I had all I could
do to keep Liddy from drowning her
with cold water and the maids hud-
dled in a corner as much use as so
many sheep In a short time although
ft seemed hours a car came rushing
up and Anne Watson who had waited
to dress opened the door Three men
from the Greenwood club in all kinds
of costumes hurried in I recognized
a Mr Jarvis hut the others were
strangers - I
"What's wrong?" the Jarvis man
asked — and we made' a strange pits
ture no doubt "Nobody hurt is
there?" lie was looking at Gertrude 1
"Worse than that Mr Jarvis" I
said "I think it is murder” I
At the word there was a commotion
The cook began to cry and Mrs Wat-
son knocked over a chair The men
were visibly impressed
"Not any member of the family?”
Mr Jarvis asked when be bad got I
his breath I
"No” I said and motioning Liddy!
to look after Gertrude I led the way j
with a lamp to the cardroom door
One of the men gave an exclamation 1
and they all hurried across the room 1
Mr Jarvis took the lamp from me — I
remember that — and then feeling my-
self getting dizzy and light-headed I
closed my eyes When 1 opened them
their brief examination was over and
Mr Jarvis was trying to put me In a
chair
"You must get upstairs” he said
firmly "you and Miss Gertrude too
This has been a terrible shock In
his own home too”
I stared at him without comprehen-
sion "Who Is It?” I asked with dif-
ficulty There seemed a hand drawn
tight around my throat
"It Is Arnold Armstrong” be said
looking at me oddly "and he has been
murdered — la his father's house”
After a minute 1 gathered myself
together and Mr Jarvis helped me
Into the living room Liddy had got
Gertrude upstairs and the two
strange men from the club stayed
with the body The reaction from the
shork nnd strain was tremendous I
was collapsed — and then Mr Jarvia
asked me a question that brought
back my wandering faculties
"Where la Halsey ?” he asked
“Halsey!” Suddenly Gertrude's
stricken face rose before me— the
empty room upstair Where was
Halsey?
“He was here wasn't he?" Mr Jar-
Vis persisted "He stopped at the club
on hia way over”
"I — don't know where he la" I aald
feebly
One of the men from the club came
in asked for the telephone nnd I
could hear him excitedly talking say-
ing something about coroners and de-
tectives Mr Jarvia waned over to
me
"Why don't you trust me Miss In-
near' he said "If 1 can do anything
I will Hut tell me the whole thing”
I did finally from' the beginning
nnd when 1 told of Jack Dailey's be-
ing In the house that night he gave
long whistle
"1 wish they were both here” ho
said when 1 finished "Whatever mad
prank took them away It would look
better If they were here Especially—”
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