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Clean up your yards.
Rub-My-Tism w.11 cure you.
A. E Lucas was at Monroe
Monday on business.
For Sals A new organ at a bar
gain. Gall at News office.
C. R. Duncan transacted busi
ness in Monroe last Saturday.
Everybody has a hobby, doing'
the right kind of job work is ours
Mrs. J. B. Crockett is home from
a visit with friends at Bastrop. La.
Miss Clara Price of White was
here Thursday on a visit with Miss
Froriie Phillips.
Reed Dickerson and wife visited
Will Torn Sehon and family at
Sauie Sunday.
Mrs. E. L. Adams and son of i
Camp No. 1 a^e at Naslrdlle visit 1
ing with her father.
Mrs. J. C. Parker of Waldo was
here this week the guest of he:
son, J. L., and family.
Mrs J. D. Morris and ohildrei
returned Sunday from an extended
visit with relatives in El Dorado.
Mrs. J. Clayton Johnson and son
of Monroe, La., were thf- guests of
Mrs. T. B. Weaver here this week
An enjoyable dance was given at
the school house last Friday night
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cal
vert.
Miss Annie Mae Linder left
Monday morning for her home at
Wesson, after a visit here with her
sister, Mrs. W. C. Thompson.
Mrs. C. Howard has succeeded
Mrs. J. B. Calvert as manager of
the Union hotel and took charge of
the same last Saturday.
Subscribe for The Huttig News
5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
case of Chills and Fever: and if
taken then as a tonic the Fevei
will not return. Price 25c.
J. D. Norris has been succeeded
as manager of the McKinney Mer
cantile Co., by Charley Canterbsr
ry. Mr. Norris will return to El
Dorado. _
While a ram may be criti ised
for his manner in Butting in. You
got to give him credit for the Force
of his Argument after he enters
the game.
Eugene Crockett has accepted a
position as timekeeper under Road
master Hawkins of the Iron Moun
tain, and left last weak for McGe
hee to work.
M. B. Scott of Kinder, La., was
in Huttig this week visiting his
many friends. He came up to ac
company his wife, who has been
visiting here, to their home.
Mrs. A. P. Phillips and children!
arrived home Monday from an ex
tended visit with her daughter.Mrs.
J. R. Scott, at Bogalusa, La. Mr.
Phillips met them at Monroe.
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J. B. Calvert and family left
Sunday morning for Harrodsburg.
Ky., where he headquarters as
manager of a string of retail stores
located in that and adjoining states.
C. S. Watkins, cashier in the
general office of the Union Saw
Mill Co., is visiting his father at
Tyler. Texas, this week and will go
to Hale, Mo., where his wife is
visiting, before returning here.
Rev. H. C. Rosamond of El Do
rado has accepted a call to peach
two Sundays in each month for the
Baptist church at Farmerville, La.,
and knowing him as we do, feel
sure that he will please and also d<
a good work the-e.
J- T. Lawrence who was shot or
July 1 1th by Gene Towns nea
here was alive 7 hursday morning o
this week and resting fairly well.
We treat Piles successfully with
out kr.ife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application
Drs. McCall & Williams,
Lawson. Ark.
You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mill company store
the Union hotel and Beil's crearr
parlor four different local post care
views in colors. If these sell wel
the publisher expects to add sev
eral other views to the list. The>
will be sold at two for five cents.
S R Neel..the railroad contrac
tor who was located here forsever
a! years, is again at work on the
Larmcrville &. Southern branch o'
the Iron Mountain, having the con
i' act for widening the roadbed be
tween Litroe and Farmerville anc
has a large number of teams on the
job,
Mrs. C. T. Thompson enter
• ineJ a number of friends in hei
usual charming manner last Tues
Jay evening from 8 to 12 o'clocl*
in honor of her guest of Mrs. M. B
Scott of Kinder. La. Progressive
high five was played and ice crearr
and cake served. All present hac
a delightful evening.
Women's work at the 1912 Ar
cansas Stile Fair will be one of th
:>ig features of the exhibit. A1
'eady the woman's department i‘
ittracting attention from other sec
Lions of the country and many pub
ications are featuring this big de
oartment which is an annual ant
prominent characteristic of the fair
While H L. Remmel the chair
man of the office-holding branch o
Lhe Republican party in this stat‘
s mailing out circular letters to al
‘ederal office holders predicting e
/ictory for Taft, men in New Yorf
ire offering to bet 3 to 2 on Wilsor
ind their money goes begging anc
Lhey pxpect to have to offer 2 to 1
cr better to get lakers.
The state board of election com
missioners. composed of Governoi
Donaghey. Attorney General Nor
■vood and Secretary of Stntf
1 lodges, have named the electior
commissioners for all the countie1
of the state. Those named fo;
Union county are G. H. Murphy
and T. W. Williams. Democrats
md Lawrence Russell. Republican
W. S. Wood of Strong has pur
chased the Elberta peach crop o'
J. T. Carlton consisting of 1 .OOC
oearing trees and located neai
Bolding. Mr. Wood expects to pul
ip 50.000 cans this season and i:
he finds a market for this year's
pack he will put in a good sizer
canning factory at Strong next
year. We wish him success a;
nothing would benefit this sectior
of Union county more.
"The trouble we have had in the
nasi three years, resulting in soon
of our mail being sent to Lanson
Newton county, instead of Lawson
our postoffice in Union county, ha;
finally been overcome by abolish
ment of the Newton county of
fice," said Senator J. Monroe Smitl
it the Gleason hotel. Little Rock
to a Gazette reporter the othei
day. "The names of the two of
fices looked so much alike tha'
carelessly directed letters to one
of the towns frequently were sen
to the other and it required from
one to two weeks to correct the
mistake. The town of Lawsor
was formerly known as Dilolo, bu
after the completion of the Nev
Orleans and Northwestern road c
station was established there anc
named Lawson in honor of Lawsor
Smith, my father, who settled there
n 1 833."
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“Von don't know ifatharlne as I do."
she said reprovingly, "or you never
would have said that. She is the soui
of honor. If she was going to pee Hugh
ehe would have done so openly.”
“But he telephoned her today,” I per
sisted.
“That's so,” admitted Louise. "And
I think he must have done so day be
fore yesterday, too. Some one called
her, and she went out ,1ust as she did
today. Generally we tell each other
where we are going, and I thought it
peculiar at the time that she said noth
ing to me.”
In deep perplexity we both sat, si
lently pon lering the mystery of Katha
rine's action. What could have made
her do it? Was it, I wondered, because
her father had learned someihig dis
creditable about tier suitor and had
forbidden him the ho me? Had Cran
dall been trying to persuade her to
continue to see him despite tier fa
ther's wishes? Was the conflict in her
heart between love an l duty too much
for her? I^ouisp turned to me and laid
her hand gently on my arm.
“Harding," she said, “;hcre is some
deep mystery behind all this that has
been creeping like a black shadow
across the lives of both Katharine and
my father. In some way Hugh Cran
dall is concerned in it. 1 know it. I
feel it. It is something more than mere
ly the refusal of my father to permit
her to marry Crandall. I have watched
them both and I know. I have seeD |
this mysterious specter hovering over
my father, gradually crushing the very ,
soul out of him. 1 have seen Kath- i
aiine's life, too, blighted by its con ,
slant presence. Whether Katharine j
lives or whether she dies. I must find
out what it is. I must, before it kills
you?”
There have been strange wooings
ami strange betrothals in love's his !
torv, but nevei beiore lias any man
been brought to a fuller realization of
the depth of a woman's affection for
him or her confidence and trust in him
than 1 was at this moment when lsru
ise put this question to me. My arms
went about her and my Ups met hers
In one long kiss that was a pledge—a
pledge that henceforth my life, my
heart, my mind, my powers, my every
thing were hers. All my abilities would
be devoted to clearing this mystery
that was stealing the joy from tier
years, when they should be the pleas
antest, But this was tio time for love
dalliance. The mystery must be ,
solved. Suicides generally left letters. ■
Perhaps—
Hand in hand, Louise and T went
into Katharine's apartments, where
the room's disorder still told of the
tragedy so recently enacted there. In
one corner stood a little open desk.
Its contents bore evidence of a recent
careful sorting that hinted very plain
ly of premeditation, but there was no
note or letter there. 1 looked next on
the mantelpiece, hoping to find among I
the photographs and cotillion favors j
that littered it some clue which might
solve the mystery, but there was noth- !
ing there, ei her.
My eye fell to the grate below,
where a Are burned cheerily. Here \
•gain was evidence of premeditation
in the ashes of burned letters and the
charred corner of a photograph. A
blackened bit of paper that had fallen
through the grate before It burned
caught my glance and l stooped to
pic k it up. It was just a scrap of yel
low, torn, from a folded letter, with its
:,dges burned to fragileness. Careful
ly Louise and I unfolded it, for it
seemed the only thing in all the room
that might yield some explanation. As j
we pored over the meaningless frag
meats of sentences, an exclamation of
horror came from the doorway. Look
ing up we saw the tall form of General i
Farrish tottering on the sill.
Clad in a dressing-jacket, his wiiite
hair in wild disorder, he pointed with
accusing linger at the yellow scrap of
paper in my hand. Never in mortal :
face have I seen such terror as I saw 1
in his. His eyes, dilated, seemed bulg- j
itig from tlielr sockets. His counte
nance was white as chalk. His jaw
had dropped in the paralysis of terror.
From hi3 throat came horrible mumb
lings, as he tried to speak and could
i not.
Louise and I sprang to his side, but
with almost maniacal strength he
i shook us off and, with finger still
I pointing to the yellow scrap I had let
fall to the floor, he managed lo gasp
‘‘That yellow letter. Where did "
Before he cnnld finish the sentence
. he fell stricken to the floor, his voice
choking, his eyes glazing, paralyzed by
some hidden terror—we knew not
1 what.
CHAPTER II.
Our First Clue.
Louise and I sat at dinner together.
Isn’t it strange In this world of
j ours how the commonplace follows on
' the terrible, how the usual and the un
: | usual intermingle, how the clock ticks
I on when the whole universe seems to !
Ite tumbling about our heads! In one
of th*> rooms up stairs- ’ :v Katharine,
still unconscious, with a i rnd a
nurse constantly at her side .
let had been removed, and wh
had penetrated the brain some slight
distance, Doctor Wilcox said there was
just a chance— the barest chance that
she might recover. It migl t, hovrov r.
Ik- hours, he explained, before she re
gained consciousness—if site ever did
In another of the rooms lay General
Fairish, more dead than alive. Paraly
sis had deadened his limbs and tied
his tongue. Only his eyes seemed
alert. Most of the time sinoe he
stroke had felled him he h 1 been
slumbering heavily, not with the sleep
of health or weariness but with the
coma of disease. In the moments
when he was awake and seemed cot:
soious his eyes still had the look of
terror that we hod seen .ins1 before he
was stricken. Coupled with this look
of fear was n indefinable expression
of entreaty, as if ihore was something
he world ask and could not Anxious
as Louise and I were to learn what it
was that was treubt ng hint, the do-tor
forbade our making any effort to do
so, and made us leave the room,
where he had put a second nurse in
charge.
While the bustle of caring for the
two stricken ones lasted there was
little time for thought, and 1 was glad
for the activity that kept Louise's
mind distracted .lust at the moment
when it seemed that everything* bad
been done and there was nothina left
but the anxious waiting—waiting for
the worst- the butler had tiptoed in to
summon us to dinner. Bravely, at
first, Louise and 1 made pretense of
eating, each trying to encourage the
other, hut the unforgetable events of
the afternoon, the missing fares at the
ifimt- ami inp^uimw in;u mirci ur- nu* r.
made food impossible. Drawing our
rhairs together, we discussed in whis
pers the baffling mystery of Kath
Brine's attempted suicide and Iter fa
thers strange terror.
On the table before us lay the serai
of yellow paper, tbe sight of whief
had so agitated General Farrish. At
soon as he had been carried into hit
own rooms I had hastened to rescue 1
from the floor. I felt that, insignifn-an
as if appeared, it must have some lm
portant connection with the events oi
tbe afternoon. Yet as Louise and ]
puzzled over it, there seemed nothing
sinister in the fragments of sentences
that the flames had left all but 'inde
cipherable.
Thp paper, of a peculiarly yellow isr
tint, was hardlv more than two square
Inches, the torn corner of a folded Jot
ter. On it we could make out the.-**
words:
ha
used se
a sister t
seemed inevlta
and disgrace ah
by accident ie
nr ke good
As we studied the hit of type-writ
ing, word by word, we tried to tra-f
in it some hidden meaning, some sin
ister warning, something or anything
that would connect it with poor Kath
arine’s mental distress and her la
ther’s poignant terror. That the let
ter of which this was a part had beer
In Katharine’s possession was evident
from the place where I had picked up
the fragment. It was equally certuir
that it had been her purpose to do
stray it. On the other hand, Genera
Farrish, too, must have known of the
existence of this letter, else why die
he show such terror at the mere sight
of a scrap of it? It must have beer
part of some document that had made
a; vivid impression on his mind More
than likely, we fell, whatever the let
ter was, it had played some part ir
the quarrel between Katharine anc
her father the afternoon before she
dismissed Hugh Crandall.
We ran over all the words we conic
think of that begin "b-a,” trying to fit
one to the phrases following -back
br.r, ban. bank, bankruptcy, basin, bar
rel, barren, battle—there were toe
many of them. We gave it up anc
passed on to the next phrase, 'usee
se—” It proved equally puzzling. W«
could make no king out of it, but the
third line at least was deiinite enough
for discussion.
“A sister—” said Louise. “That
makes it certain that this letter dir
not apply in any way to father, for lie
never had a sister. He was an onlj
child.”
I was not so positive as she that Die
letter did not apply to the general
The thought came to me that perhaps
even in the proud Farrish family there
might have been some girl child oi
unblessed birth whose existence l ad
been kept secret from l/ouise. Per
haps some knowledge of this sort had
oome to Katharine and the letter re
ferred to it. I refrained from suggest
ing such a theory, for I felt It would
be the height of cruelty even to hint
such a thing to lionise at a time when
the father was helpless to explain.
Yet the following phrase, “seemed in
evitable,” might well fit into _some
ftieory such ai this, TofloweU as 1? was
In the next line with the word ‘‘dis
grace.”
For a moment I felt that I was on
the track of the solution of the mys
tery. Some specter from the general’s
past had risen to haunt his declining
years, to threaten Ids good name, to
| worry him into his grave. His elder
daughter had discovered it and had
been unable to carry the burden of
shame. Could ihis have been the
secret that these two shared and kept
Louise in ignorance of? A word from
Louise all at once upset my theory.
"I wonder,” sl.e said, “if this isn't
part of a letter about Hugh Crandall.”
On the Table before IJs Lay the Scrap
of Yellow Paper.
Roth she and 1 wore convinced that
in some v.ay Crandall was involved
My theory would not account for his
connection with the case and I at once
abandoned it. listening intently to one
i Louise advanced.
i "There must have been some con
motion between his having telephoned
1 iter and what she did this afternoon.
I Before she shol herself site burned
i this letter, or most of il. Father must
have known about tlie letter, so I am
eerinin that it concerned Crandall.”
"lias Crandall as sister?”
“1 do not know,” said Louise. “I
know nothing about his family. It
scorns strange, too. when for months
ami months we saw so much of him. 1
do not recollect his over having men
Honed any of his relatives.”
My brain recorded a victory for
i woman’s intuition over man’s logic.
Her theory seemed infinitely better
th in mine After all it was absurd to
suspect a skeleton in the life of a man
like General Parrish, who had been
, constantly under public scrutiny for
, many years. It was much more prob
! able that the letter referred to some
, incident in the life of Crandall, some
thing so discreditable that the general
had been forced to forbid Katharine
having anything to do with him. This
theory would account for the quarrel
between father and daughter, for Cran
dall's reticence about his family, for
Katharine's distress, and naturally
the sight of the letter that had caused
all the trouble would upset tb<> gen
erai. 1 began to see a plan for action
"Louise, dear--” How quickly ad
versify strips off conventionality and
puts us where our hearts would have
ns! “Louise, dear," 1 said, "it will
| probably he days before either your
father or Katherine will be able to
j give us any assistance, yet the knowl
edge that everything has been cleared
j up. that the specter has been driven
j away, undoubtedly would hasten tin*
recovery of both. So I feel that we
must go ahead.”
"Oh. Harding.” she breathed. Tier
hand stole out and Fought mine. "What
a comfort you are to me! What would
1 have done this afternoon without
you! You're right. dear, we must solve
this awful mystery at once. We must."
"The first thing for me to do,” 1
went on, "is to find Hugh Crandall
Up can probably tell us all about this
letter. Even if he can't he can say
why lie telephoned Katharine and
where aim went this afternoon. When
we have learned this much we shall
at least have made a good starl. The
npxt thing will lie to trace the letter.
If Crandall does not know about it, we
will try to learn from whom it came.”
“That's impossible,” objected Lou
ise. “Haven't we looked everywhere
in Katharine’s room for the envelope
in which it came. 1 am positive that
she burned it. Without the envelope
you can never discover where it was
mailed or to whom it was addressed.”
"I'm not so sure about that. The
post oftice has wonderful ways of
tracing mail One of the inspectors is
a friend of mine and we will enlist bis
help. Hut first 1 must find Crandall.
Probably he can tell us everything if
lie will. Do you know where he lives?”
“He has bachelor apartments some
where along the avenue, 1 don't know
just where. I know his place of busi
ness.”
"1 know that, too. hut it is useless to
try to find him there tonight."
"Katharine uspd to send all Tipt
notes to one of his clubs where he re
ceived his mail—I think it was the
University."
“Come into the library,” said I, "we
ran quickly locate him.”
1 stopped in the hall to examine the
telephone book, hoping It might give
his home address, but it contained
only the office of his firm. However,
1 had no difficulty in finding In the li
brary the volume I sought—the club
directory—and turning to his name 1
saw that he was a member at both the
University and the Harvard.
As I was a member of the Univer
sity myself 1 had no difficulty In get
ting Crandall's address over the tele
phone. Loath as I was to leave Louise
alone, I felt that prompt action was
demanded, so I took my departure at
once.
“If T find Crandall T will brine him
back with me so that you may hear all
he has to say. Whether or not 1 suc
ceed, 1 will return within an hour. My
friend, the post office inspector, lives
somewhere out In Jersey, but. I will
see him the first thing in the morn
ing."
The grateful look Louise gave me as
I left imbued me with a new and
wholly delightful sense of responsi
bility. The ten minutes it took nte to
reach Crandall’s rooms were filled
with that incoherent bliss that conics
to every man v\ ho realizes for the first
time what it means to have a wom
an's confidence entirely his.
Crandall lived in one of those re
modeled mansions so common in that
part of Fifth avenue from which the
families have fled before the advance
of trade. The basement and first floor
were given over to shops and the tip
per floors to bachelor apartments. I
had no difficulty In finding among the
doorplates the name I sought, but re
peated ringing brought no response.
Determined not to leave until I had
learned his whereabouts I gave the
janitor’s beil a vigorous push.
"Where can I find Mr. Crandall?” I
asked as soon as he appeared.
M1s manner made It evident that he
considered my question an imp< rti
nence. hut 1 had met Fifth avenue
janitors hefore.
”1 am a lawyer,” 1 persisted. “I
must see Mr. Crandall tonight on an
important matter.”
“You won't," he replied, almost glee
fully it seemed'to me
“Why noi ?" I demanded sharply.
"What do you mean?"
My manner was not without Its ef
fect.
hp r gone away, trie mnn v
plained a little more respectfully.
"Gone!” 1 exclaimed. Here wa a
new mystery, or i>erliaps the explica
tion of the first one It may have In <;n
his departure that had depressed Kath
arine so.
“Where has he gone? When dh! he
go? How long will he be away'. I
volleyed.
F.xasperatingiv he delayed his reply.
At last it seemed to occur to him that
I was not malting these Inquiries pure
ly for his amusement. Somewhat
more politely than at llrst, he an
swered: “Only an hour or iw> apt) -
about three o’clock it was—lie came
rushing down into my room with n, :
keys In ids hand. ‘Mike,’ says lie, T. 1
going away tonight. I may he gone
week and I may he gone a month,
don't know how long H< re are rr
kpys and don't, let nnhodv into n ■
rooms while I'm away, on any preto
whatever.' And wid that he was in >
a taxicab and off before I could 1 i
saying my thanks for the bill he it
in my hand.”
Crandall suddenly gone. Katharir. >
dying by her own hand. General Fa -
rlsh stricken, all within two hours. (
knew now there must be some co.,
I I^Sk.
“All About the Suicide,” He Bawled.
neetion between those events. More
than ever I was anxious to find Cran
dall, yet I felt that the janitor had
told me all he knew. I could see in
the young broker's departure guilty
knowledge of the shadow descending
on the Farrish home. Surely his flight
was confession.
There was nothing to he gained bv
further questioning of the janitor.
From the manner of Crandall's depar
ture it would be useless to look for
him at either of the clubs to which he
belonged. I might try to trace him
through the taxicab, which he had
probably called from the TTuiversity
Club near by, but that could wait until
later. Just now 1 felt it my duty to
hasten back to Louise and tell her of
this new development.
As 1 turned from the door a news
boy with an armful of evening "extras'’
thrust one at. me.j Impatiently I.
waved him away. ,
"AH about the suicide,” he bawled
as he darted off after another passer
by.
Quickly T pursued him and fairly
snatched one of his papers from him.
Had the reporters, after all, learned of
the tragedy in the FarrUh home? I»oe
tor Wilcox and 1 had discussed the
matter of notifying the police and the
coroner. We both felt that It would
l>e wiser not to communicate with
them, for such a course would inevit
ably bring publicity.
(To Be Continued Next Week )
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