Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1921 Page: 2 of 4
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THE COYLE CLIPPER
WIFE TAKES
HUSBANDSADVIGE
And Is Made Well Again
by Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound
Springfield, Maas.—“The doctor told
my husband that 1 had to have an pper-
ation, otherwise I
would be a sickly
woman and could not
have any more chil-
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my weakened con-
dition. I refused to
have the operation.
My husband asked
me to try Lydia E.
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had to lie down most of the time, was
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which I did. Of my eight children this
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1 am thankful for your Vegetable Com-
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Silver
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|i^NDAI,LP4^T>ISH
AUTHOR OF
THE STRANGE CASE of CA VEHDISH'
0*0 ILLUSTRATIONS'*
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COPYRIGHT, BY RANDALL PARRISH
MURDER!
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Pynopala In h New York Jewelry
•tore Philip Severn, United States
consular agent, notices a xiyull .box
which attracts him He purt haaea
It. loiter he discovers In a secret
compartment a writing giving a
clew to a revolutionary movement
in this country seeking to overthrow
the Chilean government. The writ-
ing mentions a rendezvous, and
Severn decides to Inveatigate. Find-
ing the placu mentioned in the writ-
ing apparently deserted, Severn
visits .i saloon In the vicinity. A1
woman in the place Is met by a
man, seemingly by appolntmfnt,
and Severn, bis suspicions aroused,
follows them. •They go to the des-
ignated meeting place, an aban-
doned Iron foundry. At the ren-
dezvous Severn Is accepted us one
of the conspirators and admitted.
He meets a sltptnger who addresses
him "hs Hurry Daly. The Incident
plays Into Severn’s hands and he
accepts It. His new acquaintance
Is a notorious thief, “Gentleman
George” Harris. Concealed, Severn
hears the girl address the conspira-
tors. 8he urges them to hasten the
work of revolution. The girl dis-
covers Severn listening She ac-
cepts his explanation of his pres-
ence and asks him to meet her next
day. He tells her his naVne Is Daly.
She Is "Miss Conrad.” Harris In-
forms him of & scheme he has to
secure Jl.OOO.OuO, the revolutionary
fund, and offers to "split” with him.
Severn accepts. Severn learns It
was his new friend ftnd a "Captain
Alva” W'ho had lost the box which
started him on the trail. Harris
tells him the woman Is Marie Gess-
Isr. He arranges to meet Severn
next day at Tom Costlgan’s saloon
rather than a weapon with an odd,
ftuiciful hilt 'Hit* re were stains upon
t^e polished steej ; and the moment 1
saw It, I knew where It had attracted
my attention before—as a pin In Ma
rle GeHHler’s hat.
CHAPTER VII.
I Seek Miss Conrad—The Threads Be
come Tangled.
I grasped the thing In my hand,
holding lj up IncredulouslyJnto what
ever faint light I could find. There
was no question as to Its identity; 1
could not doubt. This was the same
peculiar ornament 1 had observed that
evening In the girl’s hat, or else Its
'exact mate. I recalled the quaint
shape of the miniature hLlt too clearly
to he mistaken. Thet^thls car was the
one In which she had departed with
Gustave Alva two hours before. What
had occurred In the meanwhile? Some-
thing serious evidently. * The dagger
on tlft* floor would indicant a struggle,
or at least a hasty departure from the
vehicle.
I stood staring at It, slowly compre
bending the probable meaning of those
dark stains on the blade. Their na-
ture could not he determined In So
dim a light, yet when I touched them
with my Huger it became discolored
My God! could it be blood? BJood! it
was blood ; then this had been a scene
of tragedy, of awful crime perhaps.
'Plie discovery sickened me hut I had
• for prlcft*.
Dallas. Tex
KREMOU SSSKl®
CHAPTER VI—Continued
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If so, who then was “Miss Conrad?”
Not Marie Gessler, certainly, under
another name, fof she wouJd have re-
turned to Washington. There was no
<leuht as to that, for Alva had agreed
to tuke her direct to the depot in his
own Air, and would scarcely leave un-
til she was safely on the train. Prob-
ably the other woman was a confed-
erate with whom she would eotumuni
cate- by telephone. My clearer Judg-
ment told me ali this, made me fully
conscious of the danger of keeping
this appointment, fret never swerved
me from an Intention to do so. Marie
Gessler’s eyes were frank and honest;
they had lookeft directly Into my own,
pleadingly I Imagined, and I retained
a blind faith In her no ordinary cir-
cumstances would overcome. She was
Involved in this criminal conspiracy—
there could be no d^iht as to that—
hut why? under what conditions?
What could ever have driven so worn
anl? a-woman to such an association?
Was her appea^to me an effort at as
sistance? Was she blindly endeavor-
ing to Jearn In ttUs way If I w*s
worthy of trust, and confidence? This
hope would not down; It remained in
•latent, p^sistent. I would keep my
word ; I would go to the place desig-
nated, at the hour set; I would go
armed, prepared for whatever might
occur of treachery—but I would go.
Perhaps here was tlfe key to the whole
mystery; and once \J solved tier con-
nection with the plot, particularly If
It absolved her from blame, and the
necessity of exposure, I could go for-
ward with clear conscience, and land
Jheae others where they Justly be-
Vnged.
I must have covered four or five
llocks Immersed In such thought, al-
most forgetful of my surroundings,
my head bent low before the rain, my
feet carelessly slushing through the
water In pools on the sidewalk. 1 met
so one, heard no sound to arouse me;
• II about was dark, desolate, forlorn.
Then suddenly I became conscious of
some unusual obstruction Just ahead.
At flrst I took It for a wrecked wagon
lying against ttie curb, but another
•tep forward revealed the truth a de-
serted touring car. Its red taiJ-light
plastered with mud, and bandy .visible
I approached with n feeling of relief;
it was not wrecked no sign of acci-
dent was to he noticed. Eveff In that
dim light I could see the machine was
no common car. a sedan,#lfls glass brll
llant In spite of the rain spatters, and
Its paint gleaming brightly.
I stared .about wonderlngly, hut
rould perceive nothing to account for*
the presence of such a car, or Its ap-
parent desertion. Up and down both
streets not a figure moved; not a
sound reached me hut the slough of
the wind, and the patter of rain. 1
•hlvlred with the loneliness of It ail,
as curiosity led me to cross the muddy
parkway to assure myself as to what
this strange desertion meant.
There was no one in the car. I
could look straight through the
dimmed windows, against the glare of
a street lamp a block away. One of
the rear doors stood half open, and,
tempted by It. 1 bent over and felt
within. My nand touched some oh
Ject on the floor, and I Instantly
•t flight cued up with the thing
gripped in my fingers It was a long,
thin blurted dagger an ornament
erwlse she would flare guarded
against auch danger of discovery.
Why, that carelessness alone might
ruin every hope of escape, might bring
her to the electric chair—It was
damning evidence.
I dare not remain there In the
presence of this grisly spectacle. To
he found would fasten the hideous
crime upon me. while such a story ns
I must tell would never he believed. I
dll! not know even who she realiy was,
or \\lp»re she might t>e. I cared noth-
ing for Alva’s* death; hojrlble as it
was, I was conscious of no regret, hut
I must not he mixed up In the affair.
The only thing for me to d° 'vns
disappear, and leave the police to
make their own discovery. And the
knife? the weapon which had done
ihe deed? What should I do with
that?
I *dld not hesitate long. I would
protect her from discovery If T could;
at least until I was guy self convinced
of her jyiilt. There was no longer
the slightest doubt In my mind hut
what this was her act. Everything
pointed, straight toward her. Yet
there might be a reason, a worthy
cause, and, In any case, she had done
a service to the country. The world
was .better off with this conspirator
<|»*nd ; iy)r Would I denounce the one
who had taken his life. I hid the
knife In a pocket of my coat, and
hastened down the side street toward
the nearest car line, my only desire
being to escape that neighborhood as
swiftly as possible.
By a quarter of three T was safely
In my>• room at the hotel Mr the first
time feeling a sense !>f real security.
Yet It was not to sleep. I did not
even undress, except to remove my
wet o\lt(ffr-garmfcnts before fllnglnjtmy-
self on the .tied. My brain wouldn’t
rest, and 1 lay there staring up at the
celling, while my mind reviewed over
and over again every Incident of the
night, and planned for the morning
How would the murder of Alva affect
the plot I had started to overcome?
Would It continue under some other
leadership? Who? And the money?
what would become of that? What
readjustment of plans would Harris
consider necessary? Once I knew his
conception of the situation, 1 could
better regulate my own action. Mean
while the only safe course was to re
main still, and profess Ignorance
Then I had the engagement at 247 L*
Compte street—that might reveal
something of Importance to help u>«
solve the problem.
I *got up, removed the dagger from
• my pocket, and examined It In the
electric light. It was a toy weapon,
yet asfficlently dangerous, for all that,
and T looked at It with a sense of hor-
ror. llow could a woman have ever
thrust even that keen blade with one
blow through to the heart? Yet the
evidence was before me. Those (Jnrk
stains were blood- human Wood—
.dried now, hut unmistakable In their j
| proof of crime. J washed the steel,
leaving the blade bright and polished;
then wrapped It carefully, and hid it
away at the very bottom of my hog,
“locking the latter against possible in-
spection by a curious maid. I felt re-
lieved once T had the weapon out of
sight
The morning papers contained no
reference to the tragedy—the hody of
the dead man had not been found In ]
time. There wouid he
After Every Meal
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•
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Kandy to carry—beneficial
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THE FLAVOR
WAX MUST FIRST BE HEATED SPIDER ATTRACTED BY MUSIC
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Impossible to Get Light From Wax According to Organist, He Was Always
-r j«
It Was a U°ng, Thln-Bladed Dagger.
toego on. .1 wrenchfbd open the for
ward door^and peered fearfully with-
in. I could not hut ktiow instantly
what I saw—a dim, 'huddled form
leaning forward across the steering-
wheel, one hand yet on the spokes,
with hend dangling helplessly, upheld
ojjJy by contact, with the windshield.
I knew the man wal dead before I
touched the cold hand; hls*very pos-
ture told that—and how he had died;
Instantly, from a stub In the buck. I
could not sec his features, the dark-
ness hid them, but desperation dro\e
n;e to pass my hand over the con-
cealed face; the upturned mustache,
the exposed teeth, grinning ironically
In death, left no doubt as to who he
was- the Chilean soldier and attache,
Captain *\lvu. The awffil horror of It
paralyzed my very brain. She must
have done this! That girl must have
klUed him! But why? for what rea
son? for what purpose? Could It havt
been in answer to Insult? Had the
man dared to press his advances once
they jvere alone? and had she re
slsted? I would not question his In
clinatlon, yet this was not possible/?
The knife lay on the floor behind him.
Just as plucked, blood-stained, from
the wound. The girl, then, was not
even riding beside him; slu»*could not
he to have dt-alt such a blow--she
must have been aJone In the rear seat.
There In the dark, unnoticed by tin*
man driving, she had leaned forward,
and driven that sharp blade unerring
!y home to the heart- He had sus
pected nothing In time to raise even
an arm In self-defense. Then dazed,
frightened by her terrible deed, for-
getful even of the knife In her terror
she had dashed It to the floor and fled
Into the darkness, leaving the rear
door open behind her.
That was the story; that must he
the story. My inlnd pictured the scene
in ait its horror. ^ et nhat could ac
count for such an net’ What cause
could transform this woman, this
smiling faced girl. Into a murderess?
Her leaving that weapon behind
would seem to proclaim that the deed
was done In haste, on the spur of the
moment; that It had not been In an\
way premeditated und planned. Oth
Candle Without the Presence of
Necessary Gases.
A wax candle really is a gas torch.
You will find tltfit when you apply u
lighted match to the wick of a candle
it will not light readily. You have to
hold the match to the wick until the*
wick him' sufficiently to heat the wax
hot enough to turn it into gases which,
eft mixing with the oxygen In the air,
produce the fire in the form of light,
ecu iLFimu in i The Tiindle will continue to be
noise enough j lighted .and to burn as lei.g as tlu*
when It was. nh doubt, for Alva must I "ilx ^mtinues hot enough to give off
have been widely known and ranked Hie gases or until the ..candle Is on-
us of some importance. Even If his 1'rely consumed. Any interruption to
identity was never established, If no 1'||V l'r" ' nttisiniiiiing tin* wax
suspicion was aroused as to his posl- l'1*0 "’HI result 1n ti e extinguish-
tion, and,secret work In thif* country% b'L' (>t the light.
yet the very mystery of the case would 1 *le reason the candle goes out
create a sensation. But perhaps he | " *u‘n •vou blow; on the flame Is that
had papers^jn his person of value. I #HSef< which feed the flame at
regretted not having aearchetf hl§ <,,ul nl *l,e "'h'k are blown away,
pockets. Then the* conviction came
that*possibly here might he the true
solution of the murder—a desire to se-
cure some do^iments the man carried.
I went down to Costigan’s plnee on
foot, not being entirely certain of the
exact location. It was .an ordinary
corner saloon, with a stairway lending
to rooms above. In the morning hours
the barroom was nearly deserted, hut
the man at the bar. looking me over
cautiously, said thnt •Mr. Barker” hud
oJready gone out, arid had left no
word ns to when he would return. I
was rather glad, yet I left t tele-
phone number, with a request that I
he called whenever he came hack. I
waited impatiently for the call In my
room, hut none came. It dawned upon
me that in all probability Hfirriff was
frantically endeavoring to find the
whereabouts of Alva, ns yet having no
suspicion of his death. I telephoned
Costlgnn’s, but “Mr. Barker” had not
returned.
I *ent out for a noon edition, eager-
ly scanning Its columns, hut finding
nothing. Surely the deserted car,
with Its grim burden, must have been
discovered before this. The police
mu.-t have suppressed the news to en*
able them to work In secret; they
might have, found s<nn»‘ evidence In
the dead man's pockets, of In the dnrk
recesses of the car, by which they still
hoped to capture the assassin.
I remember citing In n basement
restaurant, where I was totally tin-
knownt and then departing for the
rendezvous on Le Compte street. I
approached the number given with
serious misgivings. If the police were
actually on the trail, some knowledge
of this place might he In their posses-
sion, nnrt I rould not he too cautious.
Thftrft is no “Miss Conrad.*'
the process of turning the hot wax
into gajf is interrupted and with the
gas supply shut off the flame is ex-
tinguished. Cleveland I tain Dealer.
• # Saving a Salary.
"B\e got a great Idea,’* exclaimed
the producing manager.
"What Is it?”
“Your performance of* Hamlet is
good, hut the atmosphere Isn’t up-tb-
dute. We’ll cut the ghost out of Ham-
let and put in a oulja hoard.”
Sure of One Listener When-
ever He Played.
An organist, telling of his Experi-
ences while playing the frreat Instru-
ment In a Boston hall, relates a pret-
ty story of his most regular listener
—a spider that had taken up hls abode
in th* organ * use over the performer's
head. It remained there for about
a year.
It was a musical little fellow, and
when the man began to play It would
spin down almost to it level with hls
shoulder .and gently swing to and fro
and listen. When he had finished a
piece It would draw itself up to Its
nest, and when lie began another,
down it would come again and resume
its position as an interested listener.
It had six legs. Two It put out In
the air as a balance pole, two It
handled the w^t? with, and the third
pair it used In pulling Itself up hand
over hand, as sailors climb a rope.
The organist came at lust to watch
for the little fellow, and It was always
faithful, so that he was sure of at
least one attentive .and appreciative
listener.
• ♦
Altogether Too Fussy.
.Tad Tunkins says he knows a m*n
so particular about grammar that he’ll
sit and criticize the literary style of a
promissory note instead of hustling
around and trying to pay It.
(TO BB CONTINUED )
He thnt pnssoth by and tnoddleth 1
with strife belonging not to him, is Ilk** |
one that taketh a dog hy the eart.-«
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Probably you are not eating the proper food.
Probably the nutritious elements are not being
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