The Kiowa County News. (Lone Wolf, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1913 Page: 3 of 9
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HiHlin Kent rails on Ixtulaa Pnrrloh to
pn>pt>o« marriage and flnda the houae la
gr<-at exrltemrnt over the attempted aul-
iM» of her elater Katharine. Kent atarta
an Investigation and flnda that Hugh
Crandall, aultor for Katharine, who had
been forbldda-n the house by General Kar-
ri ah. had talked with Katharine over the
telephone Just before she ahot herself.
A torn piece of yellow paper la found,
at alght of which General Karrtah la
Stricken with puralvsla. Kent discovers
that Crandall has left town hurriedly
Andrew Riser, an aged banker, commits
suicide about the same time aa Katharine
attempted her life. A yellow envelope la
found In Elser’a room. Pont Offlce In-
spector Pavla. Kent’s friend, takes up
the case. Kent la convinced that Cran-
dall Is at the bottom of the mystery.
Katharine’s at range outcry pussies the
detectives. Kent and Davis search Cran-
dall’s room and find an address. I»ck
Boa 17. Ardway. N. i. Kent goes to Ard-
way to Investigate and becomes suspi-
cious of a ’’Henry Cook." A woman
commtta suicide at the Ardway Hotel. A
yellow letter aleo figures In this case.
Kent calls Louts. on the long distance
telephone and flnda that ahe had Just been
called by Crandall from the aame booth.
”C >nk” disappears. The Ardway post-
master Is missing. Inspector Dsvts ar-
rives at Ardway and takes up Inves-
tigation. He discovers that tha dead
woman la flarah Backet of Bridgeport.
Ixmlae telephones Kent Imploring him to
drop the Investigation. Kent returns to
New York to get an explanation from
Louts.. He finds the body of a woman
Central Park and more yellow letters.
Hr sees Crandall, whom he recognises as
“Cook." enter the Farrlah home. Louisa
again Implores Kent to drop the Investi-
gation snd refuses to give any explana-
tion. Later Kent sees Crandall and I»ul#e
In an automobile. Kent returns to Ard-
way. Pavla announces that he has
planned to arrest the missing postmaster
and also the master criminal. « hile seek-
ing the criminals. Kent comes across
ionise and Crandall. Pursued hv Davis
the post master Jumps off a precipice and
la killed Aleck Young, the master crim-
inal. Is found In a hut In a morphine
stupor. Ixrnlse tells Kent that she and
Crandall had come to get papers from
Toting whlsli gave him a strange hold
over General Karrlsh. It Is shown that
Crandall’s only Interest In the case 1was
to help Katharine recover her father's
papers Young Is shackled and bound,
with morphine Just out of his rea£h-.'n
an attempt to make him confess and give
up the papers. After «# hours °f torture
from morphine hunger Young gives up
and reveals the blackmail plot.
CHAPTER XVI.—(Contlnuad.)
Aa liflylfl finished reading the let-
ter I took It from bis hand and care-
fully re-read it. There could be no
doubt that It was the same In form
aa the scrap Louise and I had found.
As 1 scanned the Hnee, the word# at
the beginning of each, from the
seventh on to the thirteenth, were
the same as those over which we had
racked our brains. The context now
made them plain enough, but etlll I
failed to see what deadly Import the
letter had or what sinister meaning
In It should drive Its recipients to
desperation and suicide. Surely on
Its face It appeared to present the
harmless whim of an old man’s slight-
ly unbalanced brain. I turned to
Davis for an explanation.
“An Ingenious letter.” Davis was
tiaylng. “And they fell for it?”
A look of pride came Into the pris-
oner's face.
"Wasn’t It great,” he exclaimed.
“Why, they ate It up like hot cakes!"
“Juat plain blackmail," said the In
spector.
“No, Indeed—fancy blackmail,” said
Young Indignantly. “They never had
It dished up to them quite In this wr.y
before. I Insist, If I’ve got to go to
Jail for It, on at least receiving credit
for a new criminal invention.”
“I fail to see,” I Interrupted, “Just
how the letter was a criminal one or
why it should have bothered any
one.”
"I'm afraid you will never make a
good detective,” said the Inspector
pityingly. "Don't you see how It
worked? Young devised this letter.
He needed the co-operation of some
one in the post offlce to send It out
without arousing suspicion. He tried
yellow letters first on General Far-
rlsb to test the terrifying effects.
Satisfied (hat his yellow letter plan
would bring results, he recalled his
acquaintance with Rouser, whom he
knew to be weak and easily led. He
returned to Ardway—his old home—
and found It child's play to enlist
Rouser’s services. It was part of his
general scheme for Rouser to send
and receive all the mall through a
lock box with a false name. Ills ob-
ject in this was to enable him. In
case the postal or police authorities
got on his trail, to have all the docu-'
mentary evidence point to Rouser
alone. Before his connection with the
letters could be eatabllshed he could
make hie escape with the money the
letters brought In.”
“I still don’t see,” I protested, “how
these letters could bring In money.
They read exactly the opposite. They
promise to give away money.”
‘That’s ths cleverest thing about
ft," the Inspector said, and Young's
malevolent eyes glistened at this
tribute. “Can’t you see how it work-
ed? Young and Rouser, from tax
llata, bank directories, from telephone
books—from a variety of sources—
compiled a Hat of persons employed
fn positions of trust and began send-
ing out these yellow letters broad-
cast. If one of these should reach
• an honest bank employe or cashier,
♦he conspirators figured that be would
laugh at It and tear It up. But sup-
pose one of them fell Into the head*
of a man who was guilty of pecu-
lations of some sort. Suppose, for In-
stance, old Andrew Elser, when hla
law business had failed him. had be-
gun to speculate with the funds be-
longing to the boy for whom he was
guardian. Hla speculations are un-
fortunate. He plunges and loses still
more. He becomes desperate. He
sees no way of replacing the money
be has stolen. It seems certain that
his crime will be discovered and that
he will be disgraced. He can not
sleep nights. Hla brain, constantly
agitated by fear and worry, will not
permit him to rest. Hla Judgment,
never acute, or he would not have be-
come a thief, becomes more and more
unbalanced. Then one day this yel-
low letter comes. It reads convinc-
ingly. It promises immediate aid. It
pledges secrecy. At last he sees an
honorable way out. He hastens to
send a reply to Lock Box No. 17,
Ardway, N. J., as directed. Can't you
Imagine what happens then? Young
communicates with him at once. You
used the telephone, didn't you?”
“Sure," he said, “the telephone ev-
ery time. It leaves no records behind
It and tfie Berttllon system can't
Identify a voice.”
“Now,” the Inspector went 'on.
“what does Young say over the tele-
phone to Riser? Something like this
—’You’re an old thief. I've got the
proof. You are stealing somebody's
money. Steal some more and give
It to me or I'll tell.* Unfortunately.
In old Elaer’a case there was no more
money left to steal, bo he killed him-
self. Am I right. Young?”
Again the prisoner nodded, and
again he demanded another dose of
morphine. Hla muscles were again
getting beyond bis control. Aa Davla
fixed the hypodermic, I naked: “But
where does the old maid from Con-
necticut come In? Surely she wasn’t
a defaulter.”
“I suspect It was the brother with
whom she made her home,” said the
Inspector.
“Damn her,” said Young bitterly, “It
was she who queered the whole game.
We tackled her brother for five hun-
dred and It came bo easily we de-
cided to make another try. The weak-
kneed old thief, in his terror of us,
told hla sister all about It. She in
slsted on coming down here. She
saw Rouaer and tried to find the sign-
er of the letter. Rouser denied know-
ing him. She was a wise old creature
and pointed out that as postmaster he
must know who got the mall. Her
suspicion of Rouaer scared him stiff.
He wanted to give her the money
back, but at first I wouldn’t hear to
It. She was threatening to commit
suicide if we didn't. He was so
scared that I finally consented to let
him square her. I wanted to use him
still further and wasn't ready to have
him get cold feet. I gave him the
money, and he went to the hotel late
in the afternoon to see the old girl.
He slipped up to her room and found
her hanging there. It gave him such
a shock that he dashed back to the
post office, grabbed his bicycle and
hustled out here as fast as he could
come, where I was waiting to meet
Katharine Farrisb.”
With difficulty I suppressed an ex-
clamation of astonishment. I could
not doubt that he was telling the
truth, for his story dovetailed so well
with what Louise had told me. Yet
it seemed Impossible to believe,
surely was preposterous to Imagine
that General Parrish, wealthy and
honorable as he was, could have
been a thief. I refused to believe It.
I decided to demand an explanation
from Young of why he had sought a
meeting with Katharine.
“It's too bad Rouaer was so easily
frightened,” Davis was saying sar-
castically. “He was so scared that he
left behind In the cash drawer five
thousand he had Just received from
Henry Eberle.”
“The accursed fool!” screamed
Young in a frenzy of rage that he had
failed to get his hands on this bit of
plunder. “The sneak didn’t tell me
that. All he said was that Dora Hast-
ings, who was a restaurant cashier,
had Insisted that it was utterly im-
possible for her to pay up. The dirty,
damned sneak!”
In a fit of madness be cursed and
cursed again bis dead associate, foul
oaths rolling la streams from his
parched Ups. Anxiously I waited for
his fury to subside to ask him about
Katharine and Hugh Crandall. II
seemed a desecration of her woman-
hood to mention Katharine's name In
the presence of such a man, so as he
subsided I merely asked: “But what
about Hugh Crandall?"
"Damn him,” he cried, “that was
another of my mistakes! I knew
Crandall in college. When I got the
goods on old Farrish I thought I could
rely on Crandall to help me to turn
the trick. I didn't know he waa In
love with the daughter. When I told
him about It he refused to have any-
thing to do with It and rushed off and
squealed to the general. Much thanks
ha cot tor it ! The haughty old geo
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eral ordered him out of the house
oad wouldn't let tha daughter have
anything more to do with him. I
tried then to get him In on the
scheme, but It wns no go- For weeks
he kept trying to norm my secret
from mo. 1 fired yellow letter after
yellow letter at the general, but he
kept defying me. aud all the while
Crandall kept after me to mak# mo
give up the papers 1 was afraid I’d
weaken. There are \Jmes the dope
gets me aud 1 hardly know what I’m
doing, so I vanished It struck me
that If the general wouldn't come
across maybe the daughter would. I
put It up to Crandall and we arranged
a meeting. I was to put the papere In
her hands and she was to pay over
the money. I slipped up on the Erst
appointment and I guess you must
have spoiled the second."
1 stlU was puzzled. What could be
the terrible mystery In proud old
General Farrlsh's life that gave this
miscreant auch a hold on him? It
waa beyond my Imagination to con-
jecture, so I put the question bluntly
to the prisoner.
“Why ask me?" he snarled “You’ve
got the whole thing—every paper
bearing on it In your pocket there."
Quickly 1 snatched the envelope
from my pocket and was about to rip
It open. At last I was to know the
secret that had brought such unhap-
piness Into the life of Ixtulse. At last
the mystery waa to be cleared up.
But Just aa my thumb went rudely
under the flap, Davis laid a restrain-
ing band on my arm.
"Walt,” he said gently. "Would It
not be Just aa well to deliver that
envelope to Katharine Juat as It is?
The fewer people know its contents
the less unhappiness there will need
to be."
Davla waa right.
I waa beginning to think he waa al-
ways right.
CHARTER XVII.
The End of tho Mystery.
With one of the conspirators lying
In the undertaking shop of Miller-
vale and the other safe behind the
prison bars In Ardway, the docu-
mentary evidence against him In our
possession reinforced by his full con-
fession signed and witnessed. Inspec-
tor Davis and I that same afternoon
hastened back to New York, where.
It can be Imagined, I lost no time In
reaching the Farrish home.
As we waited for the train I had
telephoned Louise and she was ex-
pecting me. She met me In the lower
ball. One glance at my radiant face
told her that our mission had been
successful and she flung herself into
my arms while I rained happy kisses
on her Ups, her cheeks, her glorious
hair. But thoughtful ever of others,
even in such a moment of ecstasy,
she gently unclasped my arms and
whispered: “The papera—did you get
them?”
A little cry of Joy came from her
Ups aa I handed her the envelope.
“They are all here,” ahe excla'.meo
with a sigh of relief as she passed
them to Crandall
“Tee," echoed Crandall happily,
“they are all here "
"Burn them. Hugh; burn them at
once." she demanded
Crandall, gathering them up wtlb
the envelope In which they had been
encased crossed to the grsle where
a cheerful fire was burning and one
by one fed the documents to the
flames.
That was three mouths ago 1-outso
and 1 are married now and Ksiharlue
and Hugh are oil their honeymoon,
too. taking a tlx months' European
trip Though we uever mention the
mystery of the yellow letters in the
presence of our wives, for It recalls
too many sad memories unnecessarily,
my new brother In law and 1 had a
good laugh the night before I mar-
ried l«cuii»e As I at first suspected
him of being one of the conspirators,
so It seems he had suspected me. It
was he who peered Into the post of-
fice that night as I was examining the
books by the light of my electric
lantern He knew that ’’•Ming had
an associate and was trying to find
him.
The mystery of the disappearance
of the ydlow fragments that had giv-
en us the first clew Is a mystery no
longer, it merely had slipped behind
the drawer in which 1-oula. had put
It. Aleck Young is serving a well-
deserw-d sentence of fourteen yeurs,
as nuuchaluntly, I presume, as he un-
derwent his trial. Bo long as prison-
keepers can be bribed to keep him
supplied with his beloved drug, I
doubt If he bothers over his lack of
freedom. Bometlines I think hla pun-
ishment falls far short when I recall
all the misery snd suffering he
caused, yet my new-found happiness
has softened nty view of life.
As for General Farrish. he died
three weeks after Young's arrest.
Before the end he regnlned his facul-
ties sufficiently to understand that the
papera that had menaced bis peace
and reputation had been destroyed.
In his last hour he put Katharine’s
hand into Hugh Crandall's.
What waa in the documents that
Katharine and Hugh Crandall burned?
What was the secret with which
Young threatened hitn for months and
months?
I do not know.
Louise does not know.
We never discuss It even among
ourselves. It Is better so. Only
Katharine and Hugh Crandall and a
poor drug sot in a dl stunt cell know
what those papers were. 1 might
conjecture if 1 cared, and what would
be the use? After General Farrlsh's
death It came out that his vast estate
had shrunk to almost nothing. Un-
fortunate Investments In hla old age
had swept away his fortune. He waa
the custodian of various trust funds.
It may be that In a senile effort to
recoup his losses he had misused
some one else's money and Young,
NOW WALKS
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Rreminent Doctor's Beet Proscrip-
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Bat far Fifteen Long Yean, Mr*.
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of Tine.
"From your drugglot
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hh.ike the bottle Slut take a tabls-
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this. Insist on having the genuine Torts
compound In the original one-ounce, seal-
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worst n»'S were cured here by this pro-
scription last winter, published by tl\a
Globe Pharmaceutical Isboratarlsa aw
Csrdul, the woman s tonic, too highly,
writes Mrs. K. J. Dickson, of 2»07
Bryan Street, this city. "It Is the
greatest boon to those suffering from
womanly trouble. In existence.
For IS years, I was a sufferer from
such severe pains, caused from woman-
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stand on my feel, long at a time. I j
also had backaches snd headaches. I
commenced taking Cardut, the worn-
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The girl w ho smiles too much makes
an'a tonic, and now 1 can walk any- aa ar,.Ht ft mistake as she who smiles
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I am so thankful that I took your
fhedictne, aa 1 feel like a new woman
entirely.
My advice to all women Is to try
Cardut, the woman's tonic, when they
please, ahe lays herself open to the
charge of insincerity. A smile can
transform a plain face Into loveliness,
but It only does this when it Is the
feel they need a tonic, aa It will cep outcome of some special emotion, and
talnlv do for them, what It has done
tor me "
Cardul g ms to the weak spots and
helps to make them strong. It Is for
the weak, tired, nervous, Irritable
women, who feel as though everything
were wrong, snd who need something
to quiet their restless nerves, and
strengthen their worn-out systems.
Thousands of women now enjoy
good health as a result of taking Car
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druggists.
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Not on tho Program.
A little four-year-old girl, whose par-
ents had been discussing an approach-
ing meeting ill connection with the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children, begged to be taken. Her
mother explained that the meeting
would not amuse her, but she persist-
ed in her demand, and finally her
mother agreed to take her if ahe prom-
ised to be very quiet.
She was very good throughout the
greater part ol the proceedings, but
after listening patiently to the
speeches for some time she whispered
to her mother:
"Mununy, this Is dull! When Is the
cruelty going to begin?"
not a mere almles parting of the Itpe.
"Smiling to order.” on any and ev-
ery occasion, la fatal to charm, and
should be carefully avoids 1.
No Hurry for That Vehicle.
A short sighted old lady in a hurry
to mount a tram car held up her um-
brella and shouted to the driver of a
passing vehicle. “Stop! Stop!" To
which the driver replied, "Don't be I*
a hurry, mum: It ain't your turn yet”
It was a hearse.
Real Teat.
Labe—How do you tell a genu Ink
diamond from a fake?
Steve—Try to hock it.
The Kind.
“What would you recommend aa
the fish diet for Bailors?”
“Roe, of course.”
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No Indulgence.
Mrs. Alec Tweedie of the Eugenlca
Education society of London, said at
a reception In New York:
"Eugenics will save the son from
paying for the sins of hla father. Eu-
genlca shows us that there has been
no escape' heretofore from these pen-
alities. In the matter of eugenlca It la
not aa It was with Spence.
" 'Let bygones be hvgonea,' Spence
Indulgently said to his old debts, aa
he started In to make tome new ones.”
RIIAKB INTO YOl’R SHOBfl
Allen's Knot-Uase. ths Antiseptic powder far
tUi’d. schlns, swollen, nervous foot. Gives
real and comfort. Makes walklns a delight.
Sold everywhere. 26c. Dun'l accept any sub-
St.lute For KHKK sample address Allan a
Olmsted, U lluy. N. Y. Adv.
Whipped Child's Protest.
"Mamma whips you only when aha
has reason for it.”
"I won't stand it any longer, papa!
I'm not married to her.”
Place for Them.
“Where do they try electrical
cases ?"
“I don't know, but It ought to be
In the circuit court."
“Isn’t it
funny"
the differeace It Makes
in your general health
and happiness when
the Stomach is right.
Liver active snd Bow-
els regular? If you have
any trouble with these
organa
Hostetler’s
Stomach Billers
will overcome h quickly.
Try a bottle today. It to
for Soar Stomach, Heart-
burn, Indifostlon, Coo-
tiveneao, Coldo, Grippe,
Malaria, Fever tad Ape.
\C0/ Reads tan OSI.ka— has
\ / aas sad winds. Warranted
V# not to Irak, ran •» as te
▼ Blaoaa. Writs tbs an kor ■
It takes a practical fisherman to
detect the lie In a fish story.
Some men begin to economize after
marriage by growing whiskers.
Pettits \ vo Salvo
RELIEVE*
SORE EVES
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ALCOHOL-.! per cent
ANeffbble Preparation for As-
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INFANT'S < HI LD KL N
“Burn Them, Hugh; Burn Them at Once!"
she cried Jubilantly, “let’s
“Come,1
take It to Katharine at once! The
sight of It will do more to cure her
than all the doctors In the world."
Together we hastened to Kath-
arine's room, where we found her Bit-
ting up in bed, much stronger than
when I had Isat seen her, though a
nurse waa still In attendance. Hugh
Crandall wan seated In a chair beside
the bed. The Joy I read In the faces
of Katharine and Crandall as Louise
handed her sister the envelope was
reward enough for all 1 had gone
through since I had set out to solve
the mystery.
Frantically Katharine tore open the
envelope and inspected . three docu-
ments It fontalAed. v,-:';
with his devilish Ingenuity, had
found It out. Certain It Is that while
the papera commented widely on the
small estate he left, in none of them
was there the slightest hint of scan-
dal. Equally certain atn I that neither
his daughters nor his sons-in-law be
moan the lack of an inheritance
Louise snd 1, I know, have learned
that happiness lies not In wealth and
luxury, but in loving service each tc
the other.
And one thing more.
Both Davis and uiyself have quiet
ly withdrawn our accounts from the
Million bank
The cashier's name there is Henry
Eberle
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