The Olustee Democrat. (Olustee, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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YNOFSIS
Mis Innes spinster and cuerdlen of
Oertrude and Hsleey established aummer
headquarters at Bunnyalde Amidst numerous-
difficultly the aarvanta deserted
Aa Mlaa Innea lacked up for the night
aha was Startled by a dark flcura on the
veranda Unseemly noises disturbed her
during the night In the morning Mias
Innes found a strange link cuff-button In
a hamper Gertrude and Halaey arrived
with Jack Bailey The house was awak-
ened by a revolver shot and Arnold Arm-
strong was found shot to death In the
hall Miss Innea found Halsey's revolver
on the lawn He and Jack Halley had dis-
appeared The link cuff-button mysteri-
ously disappeared Detective Jamieson
arrived Gertrude revealed she was en-
gaged to Jack Balloy with whom she
talked In the billiard room a few mo-
menta before the murder Jamieson ac-
cused Miss Innea of holding hack evi-
dence He Imprisoned an intruder In an
empty room The prisoner escaped down
a laundry chuto Gertrude was suspected
A negro found the other half of what
¥1 roved to be Jack Bailey's cuff-button
lalsey reappears and says he and Bailey
left In response to a telegram Gertrude
said ahe hud given Bailey an unloaded
revolver fearing to give him a loaded
weapon ' Cashier Bailey of Paul Arm-
strong's bank defunct was arrested for
embezslement Halsey said Armstrong
wrecked his own bank and could clear
Bailey Paul Armstrong's death was an-
nounced Halsey's fiancee Ixmise Arm-
strong waa found at the lodge The
lndgekeeper said Louise and Arnold had
a long talk the night of the murder Lou-
ise was prostrated Louise told Halaey
that while she still loved him she waa to
marry another and that ha would despise
her when he learned the whole story
It developed that Dr Walker and Louise
were to be married A prowler was heard
In the house Ixtulse waa found at the
bottom of the circular atalrcaae Louleo
aid she had heard a knock at the door
and anawered It Homethlng brushed past
her on the stairway and she fainted Hal-
ley Is suspected of Armstrong's murder
After "seeing a ghost" Thomas the
lndgekeeper was found dead A slip was
found In his pocket hearing the name
"Luclen Wallace 14 Bliu street lllcli
eld"
CHAPTER XX-rContlnued
“Certain"
“In wliat part?"
“In the east wing'
"Can you tell me when these Intru
Iona occurred and what the purpose
eemed to be? Waa it robbery?"
"No" I said decidedly "Aa to time
once on Friday night a week ago
again the following night when Arn-
old Armstrong waa murdered and
again last Friday night”
The doctor looked serious He
seemed to be debating some question
In his mind and to reach a decision
“Miss Innes" he said "I am In a
peculiar position I understand your
attitude of course but — do you think
you are wise? Ever since you have
tiave come here there have been hos-
tile demonstrations against ' you and
your family I'm not a croaker but—
take a warning Leave before any-
thing occurs that will cause you a life-
long regret"
"I am willing to like the responal
blltty ” I said coldly
I think he gave me up then as a
poor proposition lie asked to be
shown where Arnold Armstrong's body
had been found and I took him there
He scrutinized the whole place care-
fully examining the stairs and the
lock When he had taken a formal
farewell I was confident of one thing
Dr Walker would do anything he
could to get me away from Sunnyslde
CHAPTER XXI
Fourteen Elm Street
It was Monday evening when we
found the body of poor Thomas MoO'
day night had been uneventful things
were quiet at the house and the pe-
culiar circumstances of the old man's
death had been carefully kept from
the aerfante Rosie took charge of
the dining room and pantry In the ab-
sence of a butler and except for the
warning of the Casanova doctor every
thing breathed of peace
Affairs at the Traders' bank were
progressing slowly The failure had
hit small stockholders very hard the
minister of the little Methodist chapel
In Casanova among them He bad
received as a legacy from an uncle a
few shares of stock In the Traders'
bank and now hie Joy waa turned to
bitterness he had to sacrifice every
thing he had In the world and his
feeling against Paul Armstrong dead
as he was must have been bitter In
the extreme He waa asked to of-
ficiate at the simple services when the
dead banker's body was Interred In
Casanova churchyard but the good
man providentially took cold and it
substitute was celled In
A few days sftor the services he
called to see ms a kind-faced little
man In a very bad frock-coat and
laundered tlo I think he was uncer-
tain as to my connection with the
Armstrong family and dubious wlieth
sr I considered Mr Armstrong's tak-
ing away a matter fur condolence or
congratulation He was not long In
doubt
I liked th little man He tint known
Thomas well and had promised to of-
Arista at the services In the rickety
African Klnn church lie told ms more
of himself than ho knew and before
he left I astonished him— and myself
1 admlb— by promising a new carpet
for bis church He was much affected
and I gathered that he had yearned
ever hla ragged chapel ae a mother
mver a half-clothed child
"You are laying up treasures Miss
Innes" he said brokenly "where
neither moth nor rust corrupt nor
dhlsvea break through and alenl"
t cent bln boms in the car with g
ihunsh ef hothouse roses for hla wife
aid ha was gulls overwhelmed Aa
dev me I had g itaereua glowtkat
was cheap at the price of a church
carpet I received less gratification—
and leea gratitude— when I presented
the new silver communion eet to 81
Barnabas
I bad a great many things to think
about In those days I made a list of
questions and possible answers but
I seemed only to be working around
In a circle I always ended where 1
began The list was something Uke
this:
Who had entered the houae the night
before the murder?
Thomaa claimed It was Mr Bailey
Whom he had seen on the foot-path and
who owned tha pearl cuff-link
Why did Arnold Armstrong come back
after he had left tha houia tha night he
was killed?
No answer Was It on the mission
Louisa had mentioned?
Who admitted him?
dertrude said aha had locked the east
entry There was no key on the dead
man or In the door Ho tnuet have been
admitted from within
Who had been locked In the clothes
chute?
Some one unfamiliar with tha house
evidently Only two people missing from
the household Bogle and Gertrude Rosie
had been at the lodge Therefore — but
waa It Oertrude? Might It not hsva been
the mysterious Intruder again?
Who had accoated Rosie on tha drive?
Again— perhaps tha nightly visitor It
seemed more likely some one who sus-
pected a secret at tha lodge- Was Lou-
ise under surveillance?
Who had passed Louise on the circular
staircase?
Could It have been Thomaa? The key
to the east entry made this a possibil-
ity But why was ha there If It were
Indeed he?
Who had mada tha hots In the trunk-
room wall?
It waa not vandalism It had been done
quietly and with deliberate purpose It
I had only known how to read tha pur-
pose of that gaping aperture what I
might have saved In anxiety and mental
strain I
Why had Louise left her people and
come home to hide at the lodge?
There was no answer as yet to thla
or to the next questions
He Scrutinized the Whole Place Carefully
W'ilker
Why did both alia and Dr
warn ua away from I ho houae?
Who waa Luclen Wallace?
Wliat did Thomae see In the ahadowe
the nlsht he died?
What was the moaning of the subtle
change In Uertrude?
Waa Jack Holley an accomplice or a
victim In the looting of the Traders'
bank?
What all-powerful reason mads Louies
determine to marry Dr Walker?
The examiners were still working
oh the books of the Traders' bank and
It waa probable that several weeks
would elapse before everything waa
cleared up The firm of expert ac-
countants who had examined the hooka
omn two months before testified that
every bond every piece of valuable
paper was there at that time It
had been shortly after their examina-
tion that the president who had been
In bad health had gone to California
Mr Halley was atlll III at the Knicker-
bocker and In this as In other ways
Gertnide'a conduct puszled me She
seemed Indifferent refused to discuss
mntters pertaining to the bank and
never to my knowledge cither wrote
to him or went to see him Gradual-
ly 1 came to tho conclusion that Ger-
trude with the rest of the world be-
lieved her lover guilty and— although
I believed It myself for that matter—
I was Irritated by her Indifference
Girls In my day did not meekly accept
the public's verdict to the utan
they loved
Hut presently something occurred
that made hie think that under Ger-
trude's surface calm there waa a seeth-
ing flood of emotions
Tuesday morning the detective
made a careful search of the grounds
but ho found nothing In th after-
noon he disappeared and It waa late
that night when he came home He
said he would have to go heck to the
city the following day and arranged
with llalsey sad Alan to guard the
linnse
Llddy came to me on Wedneaday
morning with her blech milk apron
hold up like n hag gad her eye big
with virtuous wrath It was tho day
of Thomaa funeral In the village and
Alex and I were In the coneervatory
cutting flowers for the old man’s cas-
ket Llddy la never so happy aa when
he la making heraelf wretched and
now her mouth drooped while her eyea
were triumphant
“I always aald there were plenty of
things going on here right under our
nosea that we couldn't see" she aald
holding out her npron
"I don't eee with my noee" I re-
marked “What have you got there T'
Llddy puehed aald n half dozen
geranium pots and In the space thus
cleared ahe dumped the contents of
her apron — a handful of tiny bits of
paper Alex had stepped back but I
aw him watching her curiously
"Walt n moment Llddy" I aald
“You have been going through the
library paper-basket again!”
Llddy waa arranging her bits of pa-
per with the skill of long practice and
paid no attention
"Did It ever occur to you" I went
on putting my hand over the scrape
"that when people tear up their cor-
respondence It la for the express pur-
pose of keeping It from being read?"
“If they wasn’t ashamed of It they
wouldn't take so much trouble Mlaa
Rachel" Llddy aald oracularly "More
than that with things happening every
day I consider It my duty If you
don't read and act on thla I shall give
it to that Jamleaon and I'll venture
he'll not go back to the city to-day"
That decided me If the acrapa had
anything to do with the mystery or-
dinary conventions had no value So
Llddy arranged the scraps like work-
ing out one of the puszle-picturea chil-
dren play with and ahe did It with
much the same eagerness When It
was finished she atepped aside while
I read It
‘‘Wednesday night nine o'clock
Bridge" I read aloud Then aware
of Alex's stare I turned' on Llddy
"Some one is to play bridge to-
night at nine o’clock” I said "Is that
your business or mine?"
Llddy was aggrieved ' She was
about to reply when I scooped up the
pieces and left the conservatory
"Now then" I said when we got
outside "will you tell me why you
choose to take Alex Into your con-
fidence? He’s no fool Do you sup-
pose he thinks any one In this house
la going to play bridge to-nlght at
nine o'clock by appointment) I sup-
pose you have shown It In the kitchen
and Instead of my being able to slip
down to the bridge to-nlght quietly
and see who Is there the whole house-
hold will be going In a procession"
"Nobody knows It" Llddy said hum-
bly ‘‘I found It In the basket In Miss
Gertrude's dressing room Look at the
back of the sheet" I turned over aome
of the scraps and aura enough It
wae a blank deposit slip from the
Traders' hank 8o Gertrude waa going
to meet Jack Bailey that night by the
bridge) And I had thought he was
lilt It hardly aoemed like the action
of an Innocent man— thla avoidance of
daylight and of hie fiancee's people
I decided to make certain however
hy going to the bridge that night
After luncheon Mr Jamieson sug-
gested thnt 1 go with him to Richfield
and 1 consented
"I aiu Inclined to place more faith
lu Dr Rtewart'e story" he said "since
1 found that scrap la old Thomas'
pocket It bears out the statement
that the woman with the child and
the woman who quarreled with Arm-
strong are the same It looka aa If
Thomas had stumbled on to soma af-
fair which waa mora or Inaa discred-
itable to the dead maa and with a
eertala loyally to tha family had kept
It to himself Thaa you act your
story about tha woman at tha card-
room window toaglua to mass some-
thlag it 1$ tas hahrsat appraash to
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anything tangible that we have had
yet”
Warner took to Richfield la the
car It was about SB mllea by rail-
road hut by taking a series of atrociously-
rough short outs wo got there
very quickly It waa a pretty little
town on the river and back on the
bill I could eee the Morton big coun-
try house where Halsey and Ger-
trude had been etnylag until the night
of the murder
Elm street was almost the only
street and number 14 wan ‘easily
found It was a small white bouae
dilapidated without having gained
anything picturesque with a low win-
dow and a porch only n foot or no
above the bit of a lawn There was n
baby-carriage la the path and from
a swing at the side came the sound of
conflict Three amnll children were
disputing vociferously and n faded
young woman with a kindly face waa
trying to hush the clamor When ahe
aw us she untied her gingham apron
and came around to the porch
‘‘Good afternoon” I said Jamieson
lifted hla list without speaking “I
came to Inquire about a child named
Luclen Wallace"
"I am glad you ' have come" ahe
aald "In spite of the other children
I think the little fellow Is lonely We
thought perhaps his mother would be
here to-day"
Mr Jamieson stepped forward
“You are Mrs Tate?" 1 wondered
how the detective knew
"Yes sir"
"Mrs Tate we want to make aome
Inquiries Perhaps In the house — "
- “Come right in” she said hospitably
And soon we were In the little shabby
parlor exactly Uke a thousand of Ita
prototypes Mr Tate sat uneasily her
hands folded In her lap
"How long haa Luclen been here?"
Mr Jamieson asked -"Since
a week ago last Friday Hla
mother paid one week's board In ad-
vance the other has not been paid”
"Was he 111 when he came?"
"No sir not what you’d call sick
He was getting better of typhoid she
aid and he'a picking up fine"
"Will you tell me hie mother’s name
and address?"
"That's the trouble" the young
woman aald knitting her brows "She
gave her name ae Mrs Wallace and
aald she had no address She waa
looking for a boarding house In town
She aald she worked in n department
store and couldn't take care of the
child properly and he needed fresh
air and milk I bad three children of
my own and one more didn't make
much difference In the work but — I
wish she would pay this week's
board" v
"Did she aay what store It waa?"
"No sir but all the boy's clothes
came from King's He haa far too fine
clothe for the country”
There waa a chorua of shouts and
shrill yells from the front door fol-
lowed by the loud stamping of chil-
dren's feet and ' n throaty "whoa
whoa!" Into the room came n tan-
dem team of two chubby youngsters a
hoy and a gtrl harnessed with n
clothes-line and driven by a laughing
boy of about seven la tan overalls
and brass buttons The amall driver
caught my attention at once he wna
a beautiful child and although he
showed traces of recent severe lllneaa
hla akin had now the clear transpar-
ency of health
"Whoa Flinders" he shouted
"You're going to smash the trap”
Mr Jamleaon coaxed him over by
holding out a lead pencil atrlped blue
and yellow
"Now then" he said when the boy
had taken the lead pencil and wae
testing Ita usefulness on the detect-
I Could lee the Morten' Big Country
Houae
Ive's cuff "now then I'll hot you don't
know what your name 1st"
"1 do" aald tha boy "Lucloa Wal-
lace" "Ores 1 1 And what's your mother's
name?”
"Mother of count What's your
mother asm?"
Aal h polntad to mat ‘I am iotas
to atop wearing hlaakj It doublet
woman's ago
"Aid when did you llvs baton you
cam bars?'' Tba datactivo waa gotta
aousb hot to amllo
tTosa coMTUftai
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START OF PITCHER EO WAL&
Pt Much Tim While “Warming
Bench" Watching Other Plteh-
' are— Oct "Naar-Balk"
By ED WALOH
Whatever success I have had In
baseball la due to two things first the
patience and confidence In me shown
by President Comlakey and Manager
Jonea and second hard atudy and
hard work
When I cams Into the American
league I waa a raw green fellow
strong and willing but what I didn’t
know about baseball would have made
good pitchers out 'of half n doaen fel-
lows if it could be scattered around
Trom tha first both Jonea and Comls-
koy seemed to think that soma day I
would be a good pitcher and It was
their confidence In mo that kept me
there After I got used to the sur-
roundings I settled down to wstcb
what the other pitchers were doing
I had sense enough not to aak many
questions' but to keep my eyes and
ears open and try to learn all I could
In those days the White Box had A lot
ef smart pitchers men who did things
and who used their heads all the time
Every time I aaw one of them pull off
something I made a aneak over toward
the clubhouse and tried It myself to
eee whether or not I could do It I
worked as hard In those days sa ever
n man worked In a mine or a mill I
waa determined I waa going to be
pitcher Comiskey and Jonee both
coached me told me what-to do and
how to do It but they could not make
me a pitcher A fellow has to do that
for himself When I began to use the
pit ball I worked like a borae I
must have pitched two or three games
n day trying to get control and make
that ball go where I wanted It to go
No one ever watched baseball closer
than I did When some good pitcher
for a visiting team waa working I
never lost a chance to crawl as close
behind the catcher aa possible to aee
what he waa doing to study how he
pitched to certain batters and how he
used his curves I think I spent near-
ly all of one season trying to get n
balk motion that waa not a balk and
finally I succeeded 1 defy any um-
pire to say honestly that I balk and
no one can do It without straining
the rules
I waa three years almost on the
bench before I got my chance find
when It came 1 waa ready I was aa
confident aa If I had been pitching all
the time And then after I had be-
Ed Walsh
come n winner 1 did not stop hut
kept hustling and working and trying
to learn more all the time I knew
that a fellow must work and Improve
steadily must learn something new
or the batters will learn to hit what
he has So 4 kept at it and managed
to hold up my end
PLAYERS BRING GOOD MONEY
lx Central League Teams tell Talent
to Big Leagues for the turn
f $25000
Six Central league clubs will this
year realise about $20000 to I2SOOO
from the sale of players to the higher
class organizations Of this amount
South Bend has already received
$4000 from Pittsburg for Shortstop
McCarthy and Outfielder Carey and
expects to secure at least $3 BOO more
through the sale or drafting of Welle
Welschnnre Kroy Lindsey and Koob
ler Next to South Bend Daytoo haa
the moat profitable aggregation Man-
ager Knoll having disposed of aCtch-
er Martin to Pittsburg for $1600 and
Shortstop SI arks to Brooklyn for
$2000 Knoll also expect to lose Nee
and Justus by draft
Terra Haute has sold Pitchers Hen-
nla and Alberta to tha Bt Louis Na-
tionals for $1000 each and enured
another thousand for Outfielder Wheel-
er who has Joined Cincinnati Pitt
burg la expected to buy Flret Base-
man Rommerlot o f at least draft him
and an American association olub will
probably take Third Baseman O'Don-
hell of tha aama club
Kvanavlll haa aold Pitcher Coving-
ton to Detroit for $lffi0 and will get
tha draft price for Outfielder La June
Fort Wayne expects to loa Pitchers
Robertson and Miller by draft and will
return Plrat Baaaman Oaluor to De-
troit Baseball In Haavan
"Baseball la heaves" was tba aub-
Jest of a aarmoa preached raeaatly by
Rev 0 Julian Tuthlil pastor of tba
Congregational church Mattapolsett
Maaa "Heaves la but an evolution of
Uls world" ba aald "A Christian
may leva a ball game sad ramala a
Christina Why than la It not aafa
to prophesy that tba ffiaia will bnvo
let ptaeo la hsataar
STAIf FAIR READY
FOR OPINING
New Buildings Arc Being
Completed Grounds
Geaned and Ex-
hibits Installed
The State Fair Grounds at Okla-
homa City la tho center of much activ-
ity In preparation for tho Fourth An-
nual Exposition which will be held
September 27 to October 9 Men and
teams are at work cleaning p tho
grounds putting the numerous build-
ings In a state of cleanliness and add-
ing the finishing i touches to tho new
buildings The new $40000 Livestock
Pavilion will be completed on tlmo
for the Livestock Judging and the In-
teresting events of the First Annual
Horae Show 1
Seventeen counties have made ap-
plication for space for collective agrl-
cultural exhibits This le seven more
than the number displaying last year
The -management la working hard to
run the number of county shows up
to twenty-five and each county should
make an exhibit
A large number of fancy horses
have been entered for the First An-
nual Horae Show which will be held
In the new Livestock Pavilion at
night from October 8 to 7 A booklet
waa recently Issued giving detailed In-
formation concerning tho different
claaaea provided for and la being
mailed to all who apply for it
Beginning September 1 the grounds-
and various exhibition buildings were
opened to exhibitors and the saw and?
hammer brigade la doing full time for
the folks who are getting things ready -for
state people to aee and talk about
for a year to come Never waa tho
management in position to give atato
fair visitor more for their money
never were the grounds furnished with '
aa many modern conveniences Ev-
erything Indicates a record breaking
attendance for the fourth annual op-
ening of Oklahoma’s greatest Llvo-
stock Agricultural and Industrial Ex-
position Officials of the M K and T Sant
Fe Rock Island and Frisco rail road si
have announced that their respective
lines will carry passenger from any
point In the state of Oklahoma to the
State Fair for one fare and a third for
the round trip minimum fare 60 cents
The reduced schedule will apply from
September 26 to October 10 It la
hoped that all railroad In the state
will decide to make a similar reduo-
tlon It is time that everyone made reser-
vation for hla needs Full Information
and the Fair Catalogue will be mailed
free to anyone addressing I S Mahan
Secretary
“THE POWER AND THE GLORY"
In one of the great ootton mills of
Massachusetts may be found a certain
desk to which a secret button la at-
tached Whenever a government In-
spector comes near to see that the
state’s child labor law la being en-
forced this button Is pressed and a
warning Is tent to every room In the
factory Immediately all children un-
der the legal age are acuttled Into
hiding places prepared for Juat such
emergencies and tha Inspector finds
the mill within the law
It la not about the mills of Massa-
chusetts the state which shouts aloud
her auperlortty in things governmen-
tal but the southern cotton mill which
Grace MacGowan Cooke haa written
about In her powerful story "The
Power and the Glory" Juat published
by Doubleday rage ft Company Her
heroine la a superb example of un-
daunted hope and courage and you aee
clearly the power and tha glory in her
splendid struggle and ultimata aucceaa
LITERARY NOTES
On Thursday September 1st Loth-
rop Lee ft Shepard Co will publish
the following Important novel by wall
known authors: WE8TOVER OF
WANALAH A Btory of Love and Life
In Old Virginia by Georg Cary Eg-
gleston and TfIK CASTLE BUILD-
ERS by Charles Clark Munn who Ural
won distinction ten years ago by hla
exceptionally popular UNCLE TERRY
Lothrnp Lee ft Shepard Co an-
nounce a fourth printing of their sue
oesaful novel of ranch Ufa THE LIT-
TLE KNIGHT OF THE X BAR H
by Mr Mary K Haul which waa
published April 1st
High Haldan ef tha Twin
The village of High Halden near
Ashford England undoubtedly hold
tha record for tha number of twin
born there Ten children all of whom
are twins attend tha village school
regularly Every morning two older
twlna can b aeon carrying two young
or twlna to achool all being member
of on family
At Least Do Samathlng
By all means begin your folio Rrou
If tha doctor does not give you a year
van If ha hesitates about a moalh
make on brave puah and ae what
can ba accomplished la a wash— Ste-
venson :
Origin f Old ftagraaalaa
Tha aipraaslon "tlo to Hallfea
originated In tha terror with which
rognaa used to view tha law of Mall-
fat Yurkahlro county England Tho
law waa that criminals ahenld ho eon-
damned Irat and Inquired ifta aftww
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