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Local News of the Week.
To get the news read i he News
For Sale A new organ at a bar
gain. Call at News office.
Mrs. W. H. Whiter is home from,
a visit at Brinkley.
Mrs. S. V.'inbourn was an E! Do
rado visitor this week.
Cash.er F. W. M.les was an El
Dorado visitor Sunday.
Dr. L F. Magee was at Texar
kana on business Monday.
W. R. Dickerson was among the
court visitors in El Dorado this
week. __
George Gibson is home from a
visit with his sister, Mrs. James
Russell, at Rochelle. La.
T. G. Moore of Strong was here
Saturday night attending the meet
ing of the Woodmen lodne.
Mrs. Mary D. Wood and daught
er, Miss Irene, of Stuttgart were in
Huttig this week visiting friends.
A. E. Lucas, wife and daughter
are home from from a three weeks
visit at their old home in Michigan
Miss Leora Whitehead of Jack
sonville. Texas, is th° guest of her
sister, Mrs. C. E. McHenry, anc
family. _
Miss Leona Gullatt of Minder.
La., is here on an extended visit
with her sister. Mrs. E. Spencer,
and family.
Mrs Butler Phillips and Misses
Alice and Amma Phillips of Oak
land. La., visited relatives here last
Saturday and Sunday.
D. M. Clowney, store manager,
and W. H. Moor.', assistant store
manager for the Union Saw Mill
Co., transacted business in Little
Rock this week.
Mrs. C. C. Bell and sister. Miss
Deima Rieve. were called to Fern
day. La.. Tuesday morning by a
telegtam announcing the serious
illness of their father, C. H. Rieve.
We treat Piles successfully with
out knife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application
Di-S. McCall &l Williams.
Lawson, Ark.
G. W. Brasher, Ollie Knox, Ike
Dupois. Allen Martin W. L. Reagan
and John Raybourn were at LI D )
i ado this week as witnesses in the
circuit court.
All parties interests I in the Hut
tig Public Library should attend
the meeting at 8 o'clock next Mon
day evening in the library for the
purpose of electing a new board of
directors.
The members of Sweet Bay
Camp No. 41 1. W. O. W., were
agreeably surprised when they
were stormed by the members of
S.veet Bay Grove No. 1 45. W. C..
who had spread a fine supper in the
music room and invited the boys
out to eat. Come again ladied.
W. E. Atkinson, who was em
ployed here for several years as
civil engineer for the Union Saw
Mill Company and who surveyed
the Little Rock & Monroe and
Louisiana &, Pine Bluff railways
fo- them, has been appointed chief
engineer of the state highway de
partment of Louisiana.
Announcement is made that the
sawmill of the American Lumber
Co., located at Merryville, La.,
closed down Saturday night for an
indifinite period. Local lumbermen
do not believe t.iat the mill will re
sume operati m before next spring.
The American mill employs an av
erage of one thousand men and is
the only one in that section ern j
ploying members of the Timber
Workers’ Brotherhood.
The Woman's Missionary Union
net Tuesday at the usual hour,
■with ten members present and
•lrs. Watson as a visitor. Meeting
opened by singing Anywhere With
Jesus and Revive Us Again, and
repeating the Lord’s prayer in con
cert. We had an interesting Bible
'esson -the book cf Proverbs. V/e
will meet with Mrs. Moore in op n
meeting next Tuesday and ladies
are urged to be present.
Despite the fact that you hear a '
certain class of people declaring!
the State Agricultural Schools to
be a failure, the attendance was so
large at the one for this district
located at Monticello, that Super
intendent J. L. Spence was forced
to telegraph to Governor Dona
ghey asking for the loan of 15
tents of tne Arkansas militia. The
governor sent the tents, whi h
have been orectod on the campus
and are now being occupied by
many of the boys who were unable
to find other quarters. Arkansas'
agricultuia! schools are growing in
popularity as the farmers learn of
the great benefits their sons and
daughters receive by attending.
NeeMswell.
Mr. S. R. Neel of El Dorado.
Ark., and M>s Minnie Aswell of
Farmerville we~e married at the
I
Baptist parsonage this moaning at
10 o’clock. Rev. J. U. H. Wharton
officiating.
Mr. Neel is a native of Claiborne
parish, but is now a railroad con
tractor in Arkansas. Miss Aswell.
a ho is a pretty young woman and
belongs to an old Louisiana family,
is a relative of Congressman-elect
J. B. Aswell. Mr. and Mrs. Neel
left on the 1:30 Iron Mountain
train for their new home in El Do
lado. Monroe News-Star, 1 Wed
needay.
k !ey V. Williams Dead.
Riley A. Williams, aged 24. did
at the home of his father-in-law, T.
, E. Arrant, near Cecil. La., at 12:10
o'clock, Sunday morning. October j
6. 1912. of typhoid fever after m
illness of two weeks. The De
ceased leaves a wife and three
small children, his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Williams, one sister,
i Mrs. J C. Phillips, and one brother,
Garland, to mourn his untimely
death. He had recently moveci
back into this country from Dan
ville. La., and was going to work at
the mill of C. B. Wood west of
i town. Interment took place at
Union cemetery Sunday afternoon
j m the pres mce of a large number
of friends and relatives.
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Tho readers of this paper tv'll bn
pi. ..sod to burn that them is at 1< mt n 1
dread d bi v that science 1 is bo i
able t i on ’ io all its slaws, anil that is
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positivo ru.o n tv Known to tho medio ,1
frib-rnily. t’at rrh l- ■ ; a eon. titulion il
. :,e, iT inir a mostitu ion 1 trer>
-ne it. II i's < s' rrh Oro i; ml.on i i
trn.lly. aetinK diroctly npnn the tdo m1
:io.d mucous surfaci s of the r on ■ m. ther >
in- den'royme t ,< foundation of the d -
[ iso. and r. ■ -'A 1! pnti. nl .<;•r.”ielIt by
bud.liny up t' o r<nistitntion and nssistimr
nat’-ro'in «' •’ z i's ti .-k. T’ • pr .prietors
b. c fo r . i, •>, in i*s eiirative pow
ers tl t they off r fine 1!n■ dr*• i Dell irs
' r a -y e en P >t 1* f ils to i ure. Send
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So’d by r’l bnirriro, 7'~
Take Hall's Tamily l’iUn i r constipation.
Ailv.
Railroad Breaks Reiord.
The Missouri Pacific is coming
in for more attention than it has
since the days when the stock sold
at 125 in 1902. The reason is
the extraordinary business being
done by the company. August,
1912. was the largest month in its
history in the point of traffic car
ried. but twice within ten days it
h is broken other records. On Fri
day. September 27. the Missouri
Pacific-Iron Mountain system
moved 17.063 load'd cars, the
best previous record having been
scored 11 months befote. when
14.048 cars were moved.
Both records were made since
the regime of Benj. F. Bush, the
present head of the Missouri Pa
cific-Iron Mountain system.
SYNC PS 13,
CHAPTER I -HanTlng Kent cnlls o’
Douiac Farrish to propose marring*- an* |
lif *1s the house in great eX'.Uimnl ove:
the attempted suicide of her sister Kath j
mine. Kent starts an imestiuatier. are
finds that Hugh Crandall. suiter f«* .
Katharine, who had been forbidden tie |
house by flencral Farrish, lmd talked wit', j
Katharine over the telephone just h for
f.he shot her e’f. A torn piece of yellow ;
paper is found. a4 s!trht of \vht'*h Fen |
•rai Parrish is stricken with paralysis.
CHAPTER IT—K^nt discovers that !
f’r.ivda!! has left town hurriedly. An
w El •. r. an agr^d hanker*. oimit’Ha I
anb’ldr about the same time as Katharine j
attempted her life.
CTfAPTFR TTI—A yellow envelop** h
found in Kiser’s room. F'ostoflh e Tn-^pec
mr Davis, Kent’s friend, takes up th*
case.
CHAPTER TV—Kent is convinced thn1 !
Crandall is at the bottom of the n y-t< r\
FIT \ J»TER v -Kent rvl Davis snare’* |
Cr indall’s room and find an address
“T.oek Fb \ 17 Ardwty. \T. J.” K* •; I
reos to Ardwny to inv r ,irr*.te and be- j
comes suspic ious of a “Henry Cook.”
HI APTKR vt a woman commits sni
• Ide at tit*' \rdvny Hotel. A yellow let 1
ter also tiyuns in this case.
CHAPTER VTT Kent calls T/ju'se or; |
the Inntr d’*.taner» t Tenhone a ud fimN that
she ha*l just b*»en called hv Frnnd !1 fr *n.
fhe same booth. 4*CV»ok” di^oppears. Tin
Ardwav postmaster is missing.
CHAPTER VTTT Inspector Davis ar
r’vos at Ardwriv and t‘d;«'s up the Inv^s
lirrMtbui. He disenv* r« that the dead
** .man is P:irah 'eft of Tdrhb/epori
l.ouisf t* !■ !d»o*>*''-s T- *it imploring: him t«>
drop the invcstlgatlon.
CHATTER TV Kent returns to Wr
Terk to g< t an explanation from I milwr.
tTo finds; the body of a woman In On
ti-e | P'»rV ami more yellow' loft«r« TT*
pone; 14raodall, whom be f*<'e<icrni?.ew a;
"t dnk." enter t lie Finish home.
faf \pTt*'r; V l.nntcp agatn Implores
T' ut to dr n th«» investt-mt’on ami re
fvses to gi e anv ♦•vplanatIon l.r.ler
t'ent sees C an da 11 and Doiilso in an an
t omobile;
FITS FTT’TT VT -Kent r' turnc to Anlwav
r». :s nrjnoun ibat he has pjnnmd *•
•'IT' st fbe misstnsr postmaster and also
the master criminal. '
‘'From rill I have learned,” I said in
conclusion, "I am convinced that ffou
■:or was (he tool—in all probability the
innocent tool—of Hugh Crandall in
•tarrying out his nefarious schemes.
Crandall apparently had him take the
Lock Iiox 17 mail to some agreed
meeting-place. It would not surprise
me in the leasl if Crandall, finding
himself in danger of exposure, had
made away wi ll the postmaster. I
in convinced that Crandall is aware
that he is br ing watched. In his des
peration he had the hardihood to visit
•he Farrish home and to abstract that
.'ragment of the yellow let.er, lest it
j ;h mid be used as evidence against
him I am convinced, too. that he has
succeeded in terrorizing Louise in
the same methods that he used with
her sister, so that she fs trying to dis
| .-made ine from pursuing Crandall
ftouser, when he left the post office,
! went away on his wheel on the road
i ;hat leads from (he station. If you f<d
i low that road with me, perhaps we can
| find him. Pretty good for one day's
j work, don't you think?”
“Not bad,’’ paid Davis, "if only you
'Quid not persist in mistaking you!
*wn deductions for facts; but you
rverlooked the most important fact.”
“What do you moan?”
“You didn’t happen to find out from
Miss Cox or from the Widow Smith,
lid you, whether or not the missing
postmaster v\tis 1< ft bended t"
"What’s ihat got to do with it?” 1
cried, convinced that as usual he was
Amusing himself at my cxixnse.
"Much more than you think,” he
tnswen d gravely. "It was the knowl
! edge that the* criminal must, or at
least one* of the pair, must have been
a left-handed man tlitr gave me one of
, the most Important clues in this ease.”
“Confound you and your elite's!” 1
! exclaimed. "Where have they led
; you? What more do you know about
! tbjs chain of crime than when we
started ?”
l i> listened unruled to my tirade
and as I finished remarked calmly;
"I only know this much: Constable
Dodds and I are going out at eight
o’clock tonight to arrest tlx* missing
postmaster and his accomplice. 1
know where they both are, or where
they will he tonight. You may come
with us If you wish. And now 1 am
going to get a couple of hours’ sleep. I
expect we will have a rather busy
night of it.”
As he concluded his amazing state
ment he rolled over on his side ai d
closed his eyes, and in a few seconds
was apparently fast asleep.
CHAPTER XII.
_
The Ride in the Dark.
Not since my early boyhood lias the
terrible fear of darkness come over
me as it did that night at eight as tee
three of us set out from Ardway. The
mystery of the journey, too, added to
its terrors. I had not seen Davis after
his startling announcement of his
nocturnal mission until he cane in o
j the hotel dining-room for supper. All
through the m< i! he had laughed ai d
( hatted on all sorts of Immaterial sub
jects, influenced undoubtedly by the
i fact that there were several others
reaped at the table with us. There
had Von no opp: rtonlty for private
conversation between ns before we
it ft the.hotel togofhet a before
eight for a side s reel v
'be constable, was waiting for n. w: • h
a vehicle.
We had lingered at the table until
all the others had left. Just as v.e
; got up, Davis turned to roe and in a
hardly perceptible tone asked:
"Dave you got that revolver I gave
you ?”
‘ It's up-stairs,” I answered, in the
| same understone. "I)o you want it?"
“No,” he said signifi' antly, touching
his kip pocket, "but you may ’
1 hastened tip-stairs to get the
weapon and when I returned lie was
waiting for me at the door and hurried
me around the corner and into Die
buck-beard. With Dodds crowded in
between us we drove along the street
leading away front the station and
voon struck what is locally known as
tile l’l: uk I?cad, skirting a chain of
hills which the r< si dents dignify by
the name of to mntaiits. Ho piwipit
our nod rocky are these that Ik tie ef
iort had bt r n made fn cultivate them
ind the habitations arc few and far
between. There seemed to be prac
.’.rally no trawl at nigbt V.'e enci un
ten d or-l.v one vehicle of any sort,
and that was about two miles out from
•Vrdway, wimp heard an an om'-hile
n the distance behind ns.
"Turn out,” whispered Davis to
t*dds, “and stop umil it has passed
:s ”
The ennstahle dr- w in no'rr the
shade of some lives It w pin h
I
dark, ti c only Ii": : cr-ming from an
..neient lantern hung n- < r the da-h
board. As .’••• CPI III Idle mine m r
«r Davis 11; honk'd the lan! in and
holding it down between his bus
shielded it with the folds of a bu "
raincoat lie was wearing The auto
mobile darbod by us, apparently un
aware of opr presence
"All right,” said itavis. as soon in
tt had vanished in the nh m. <■, “g >
on.”
Dodds drove on i slier. « for per
haps two miles farther. We pass- d a
.it'le stone cottage nestling in a clear
ing under the loll.
“It'S, just beyond here?" said Davis,
a note of inquiry in his voice.
"Yep,” said the constable, "Willcrb
Lane, they cull it.”
Though itt rrv city eyes there war.
no sign of a road, Dodds, about three
hundred yards biyor.d the cottage,
nulled the norse sharply ;o the ti hi
■ nd we began ascending a ro !:y hum
that led almost straight up the hill
“Wait a minute,” raid Dr is, and
‘lie constable eh< eh d the horse.
Jumping out qui ' ly ti e in'peeior
seired ilie lantern and dropping hack
a few paces began making >.■ hat sp
eared to tie a minute examination of
the road.
‘"Taint, mm h rf a read,” the con
stablf whispered to we while we trn't
rd. “it's only used f r 1 ■ "ging. though
when we come I1]1 lure t-’ia afterwei
thero was aiTomoblle tr. . Its b-vh ..ri
ng and onming.”
"Ary idea who trade (fiem?” T
uskr d.
“Nrpe, bnt I ck* :q Vi" l-no-s,” v>th
a gesture in the dincti n of the lan
i tern light.
Just then f la vis rojoim d iw, I
ins the lantern over the dnshbo'.n
again. Ins end of resuming Hs s*-.t..
he knelt on the floor of the biwkbnnrd.
peering down at the road .is it war
j dimly revealed by ihe lantern.
“Co ahead slov ly," he ordered.
As Dodds clucked to the horse 1
1 leaned down hc'diV 1and "lad
“What did you find?"
“Just what I expected. The onto
I mobile is somewhere ahead of us.'’
“Whose is it?"
“1 don’t know ye."
My curiosity would he denied no
j longer Hitherto I had lent silent,
| hoping that Davis would confide i
trie the object, of otir strange journey
“Whom are we coming out here aft
er?" 1 asked.
“Th< postmaster and hi? accomplice,
j jf course.”
“Who is his accomplice?”
“I'm a maid I mi muted tease."
said Davis with a grim chuckle “The
postmaster is the act ouinlico. Tb
other is the master criminal.'
/ “Who is the other?" i persisted, “is
S3 Hugh Crandall?”
He was silent for a moment before
answering. 1 attributed ii to h< d*a
lion itt admitting that he hud been
wrong and i right, and it was wi'h
considerable satisfaction that I Anally
h ard him answer: "I should not bo
surprised if we found Crandall some
where in Die vicini y.”
l;e continued to peer down into the
road as the 1 -rse struggl d up the hi'l
till we came to a comparatively level
plateau.
“Stop here,” he called out authori
tatively.
"The deserted cottage is at least a
mile far!her on,” volunteered ttie con
stable.
“We'll walk it,” said Davis. “We
cannot take any chances of the wheels
being heard."
"Z/oiiub iiuik.-c1 oii ui* loiiu ai.ci ia.H
“What Did You Find?”
toned the hors#? to n tree Agptn tnk
ing the lantern Davis made a search
of the road, finally re urni: g the I. ti
tern to its place, after carefully extin
guishing it.
"Come or. this wry, as quietly ns
you can,” he directed.
"I’ve got this.” I said, showing him
the little pocket electric light with
which 1 Imd expiated the post office
“Do you want it?”
"Kei p it in your pocket. Wo may
need it. but it is better not to show
a light if we can avoid it."
1 put it hack in my po- ket and took
the precaution of placing the r. v liver
Davis had given me m the side pocket
of *ny coat where it would o'- itu • >
eerily available. t> vis mo\ .1 off
s endlessly through the clearing with
the constable, I close at hi- heels
T1 rc was more 1 i■ lit here than there
! had hr<>n ott the shaded road, hut ov-m
so we could t.oe ltardly twenty t<■ i
ahead of us.
i "This ain’t the d'rccflen of th-o cot
tage.- whispered Dcd-’s.
1 i,t:tiw I want to Had rnrr'r fhiMg
- cl*--e- first," ft., is e v p la i ru'd, I.roping
i*■ ••tight on through tin- darkness, li >,
; t hound on a i it - h scent
IV- rc- • »») -apfdly I'o. ,-:ird f- r -i ban
: dial and f»ft>" yards I d t! -n I. 'lit-! I
| tin r-herf v. i It a sharp ilist.”
i strrk'icd car rye into id ekm
; we ne tic out (■ n p), , f ;,-t act- tr.o
j bile just ahead. I s lights had hr it
ox • i -•! 1-a ri a (1 |l>. riit-lii# va. ■ dot d.
"Wait here." it.w. is again •• v; mm n
c.d as he crept ptI. r.tly town: t it to
f. he fro that tic tfatiaati v. "s 1HV
oc-upi- d. I'o w; s h k with r.s in a
minute.
"jot n o have th.nt lamp of you-a,
g. ] - wvj; perrd, at the same tiniq
lighting a civ:,n he.
"ts that sat I exclaimed in sur
prise, a may-' .1 that hr- would dare to
niche whrti he 1 d h en rai.ing su h
rc -'I,ficus jig.uinet r itf being discov
ered.
; a; ti« ron’a } y --inicalt-.' "Who
cv-r was ill t! at ti.. .it bile is at t nd
half a mile- aw ay by no v. The glass
n the from lamps is n, ,iriy cold I
want to ere the number, i hough. We
may ftrd it. n • '*t !.’
Taking my little oh - trie lamp b« ad
vanced toward (he ir. ---h?::n ag.it!n,
'.’a?! h’g the k ht f-v a s< - -1 -1 rn t: -•
i-mnber. and then p. erittg by its It:-’ t
Into the Innitcrtu, o\ -ialmlng as he
straightened up: "I thought so.”
If it n;is sate t~r ! >vn to smoke, tl e
'OTir.ti'hlp ard I f 1 that it vs sc.f e
for us, too, to relax our prpe:>ut!nn*»,
, a.d tope! her we bad advanced iritil
vp worn b« ride him.
I "What did vmi find?'' T nrfcod, von
der’ug at his excirri’a t.
"V'hnt 1 < spoofed,” 1 rcpl’- d ff
i"maltif Uy.
Tbp irri'nir rf iiii a..
mo r 1 I d ’i r iir ! Ill :i m d iimre
0 havo it out with him.
"1 -'I'll h r\ I):- hi,” I aa’d; "T
iimiiplt y u into thin i‘ar,o and I d > t'»'• t
dl.e !he ri v you havo nofod ah u:t
1 havo Irmly lold you ever", thing 1
ave discovered and hep aid i| you
n every way i ran. Prf >< j g >■ a i
■rfher on this trip I want to know
iiioro about it.”
"V’hrt 's it you h to know ?” hi
■irked Tlio roust; ’do odr. d nerrei
yr fear ho might miss semef king ni
■llir non ' - VS II ; 1 ■ 'll.
“First. where are we pilin':""
“To y hat is limr n as d sorted
•■ottaftP. about a half mile fait1 ■ r on
■t tlio edge of ’his clearing, a shack
rnf was lii’O* f ;■ a shelter f r i»»n:
’minion or ipiarrymen which was it,
i >0(1 its?”
“iluilt for ono and mod by t’othor.”
the ronstahlo replied, “but ’taln’t hi on
: sod tiy eiiiur, so far as 1 know, for
a down years.”
"How do yon know the missing post
master is t lino ?”
"Traced him."
“How ?"
"lii.ycle tracks,” he answered with
; a chuckle, "you were not the only
parson who discovered that Uous* r,
wiion lie dlsipiiearod, w. nt on hi ■< to
in fact, Kent, you are a little slow as
a detective. I>y the time ’ m had as
certained that rruch, 1 ascertained
where the bicycle tracks led to and
Had oven pone so far as to have Do las
get warrants for lions,or and ills ac
compli!
“1 still do not see how yen pot evi
dence ono. :»h to got a warrant for
Crandall. Did you find him out bore
with the mist it ■; postmaster ?”
“1 didn't say 1 had a warrant for
('rand; II." replied the inspector sharp
ly. “Did you ever hear of a John Dee
warrant ?’*
“flow do you know they are nut here
now?” 1 asked.
“We’ll soon find out. Come on," he
answered, starting across the clearing
almost at a UOfe-troi.
There were many more questions I
wanted to put to him, but time was
no opportunity, rial. I>. si :■ s, I doubt* (1
mu 'll if he would hav'e answered the in.
Ai first he- made little effort to move
quie ly, but after we bad gone a
quarter of a mile or mote he called
buck it! a whisper, "Qriit’y now.”
We had come to i path v. hi 'h h-d
ns tin ugh a short tlt:« i-.ro>- ' n of tin
rh rbi'ii h. As ni.j-eh 1/ as Indians
following a trail we u It nnr a> aha.g,
the sitein e broken now a: d tl,i n by
the sound of a hough le nt h o i., or a
rustling i- if. S.« n the f.aih brought
tts out on some rising ground N >t lilty
yards ahead of us appeared the de
serted cottage
“Thatls it,’ whispered Dodds
answered Da vs. “Walt
hem! ”
We stopped there just at the edre
of the underbrush, pm ting into ti e
darkne s, straitiUig our to s*. e
and ('ur ears to hear From the one
wi. d w in the side of the one-story
log hut a dim light shone, proving that
tin place was cither oecui >d or I
been very rc<- titiy. As we been re
more and more accustomed to he
darkness I could see that there w re
apparently two paths, the one on
which we were standing and anotnor
leading off at about right angle
As we looked and listen: d I heat ! a
stuir(i crack, like the hriaking of a
twig that had been stepped on.
The sound, so far ns 1 could Judge,
came from the other path, apparc !y
a hundred feet away from the cottage.
1 turned tov.vrd Davis stud saw t;,at
he, too, Imd heard i* lie was stand
ing; with his whole body t< use, his
head bent forw; rd a link as if reedy
to spring at any itc ant Almost un
consciously rev hr, d went, into my
pocket and brnughi c'ul tny revo’.cr l
U It that n.'fairs were rapidly approach
ing a crisis
As we listened, amthcr sound ecme
to cur cars. At ftp t indistinct it
quickly took the rhythm of foatsi pa
hurrying along the p, ih a man w. ;fr
it t g? rapidly i derided The hurr> ng
footsteps cattie neat’- r and neat"! ' m
vis now was emu hi" - like a rye er
ab'ml to m-i' e a hundred ard ri sh
i it was nnlj a noun e of sir t ’ a
aerf yet t| e effect on rnv n rves v a
fl.desrri liable 1 vaig-d re rrw u
I I a hysterical irl; I wanted to »;n,
forward or bark, it made no rlih r
en e; I wanted to do s'" cthing, ac,
thing- anythin.: hot laimi i hn i a a.d
v. ait in the da i k n, s
All of a sudden the f vm <r a n n
! hurrying along the other pith i • • o
l visible. He seemed to he litrr. lag
something. Da-, is took tv n cr It,a a
noiseless st<i s forv a: d atid stopp'd
ulii'up'ly. From the shadows., id \
nowhere it seemed, the figure of an
other man appeared directly in the
I path of the oncoter.
i “Field on here!” it said, or some
thing like that.
With a. curse the first man dropp'd
; whatever he v as onrr;. ing and sta r
ed to run. The second man st.-n < I
after him. With riot more than to i
l, -cs between them the p r">t d c i
I suddenly wheeled A r-'volvrr flas’ 1
and Hip pursuer \\ I' h a mutt rod <"i >
j fell lu adi ng in ti e p Ih. The lit.-" 1
man turned and, wi h headlong spi -
plunged down the pa h.
At ilie revolver si it F'- vis 1 I
leak' d forward, and, m "dl > to s,- ,
i Dodds and 1 were net far b hind IT ■.
Fast as the fugitive was van! bins ! '■ -
vis v as even faster. With the re -
, pent of a trained runner tie, the v ' y
i "T- 1 or, qui'j.ly «•«■(!• tanked It ■ ,
| ard myself and was close on the he is
! of his man.
As 1 ran breathless behind h'm,
■ ticking; to arrive in time to h> 1 yi 1 ' i
| !n l1- capture, 1 ran tie tv an a hr;, I
i hs It urn) turn. Tnstinetreiy ! knew he
was about to shoot a (Tain, art!, raising
I the revolver 1 had hern carrying r’l
the whde, tvl'hmit even trying to a!n,
[ fir' d in his ibecti. i jwt ps I saw
. the fash fr in h's rev<dv r.
1 ore a s ] | (M;- a so d bet ween
the two reports and then—
A woman etui hoc].
1 turn'd si'k with honor. Th'we
| rniitd ha no mistaking if.
It was the voioe of Louise Farri-h.
With overwhelming: dismay i: i.oio
to tie that I hud sho* tb*> woman I
lov>d 1 o stunned to m oo I r d
tlmre. My windo tiod.v seemed turned
to stone. My arms hung In Iple: nr
my sides. My 1- gs refused to move.
M v mouth was fever dry and n.v
tongue lay lifeh • s. Vet mv vision, I
reoall, seemed Hear and strong, pene
trating the darkness as if it had been
broad day. i seemed to see. as if fine
sight belonged to some one els“, some
one outside m.vse If ! saw the ittspeo.
tor and constable, both apparently un
hurt by the shots, dash on in purs dt.
I saw a man's figure rise up from the
pith I seemed to hear him rail out:
"I.nuige, Ionise, where are you? Are
you hurt?"
There was no answer Almost I had
person led myself that the strain on
IPV nerves, (tie horror of the n‘etit
and (tie shook of ihe shooting had g v
cn me a hallucination, that the wom
an's shriek I had heard was hut a
phantasm of a fevered brain, when
tli figure 1 had seen lie from the
path, da.-hod into (lie thicket. r< peat
lug its agonised ory of "lanilse, Lti «,
where are you?”
At the sound, life name again h to
me. 1 dashed my revolver to tl'o
ground and sprang after him t found
him bending over an unconscious form
on the ground fust as 1 reached the
spot ho had lighted a match. He lift
ed tt to see my face, and as he did so
I saw that the woman lying there ap
parently lifeless was indeed my Lou
ise
Overwhelmed with anguish and re
morse, I flung myself beside her, en
treating her forgiveness The other
man shoved me roughly aside.
“Don't be a fool.” he exclaimed.
“She has only fainted.”
(To Be Continued Next Week.)