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Glean up your yards.
Rub-My-Tism will cure you.
Furnished room for rent. Call
on C. A. Berry.
F. T. Carroll was at El Dorado
Tuesday on business.
F. W. Miles spent Sunday with
his family in El Dorado.
Marshal Tom Ashcroft was at
Monroe Monday on business.
Fes Salf. A new organ at a bar
gain. Call at News office.
Dr. F. P. Vines, formerly of
Strong, is now located and practic
ing at Hot Springs.
Mrs. Harrison of Hodge. La., is
here visiting her brother, Charley
Thompon, and family.
John Humpries. an old timer
here, arrived in Huttig last Satur
day from Palestine. Texas.
For Sale Practically new
“Crusader" bicycle at a bargain.
See John Collett at postofTice.
Miss Annie Mae Linder of Wes
son is here the guest of her sisterv
Mrs. W. C. Thompson, and family.
M. L. Phillips visited his father.
M. B., sr.. who was reported to be
quite sick at his home at Oakland
Thursday.
Mrs. W. H. Moore and children
left Thursday morning for Nash
ville to spend several weeks with
her father.
J. C. Britt and family left Wed
nesday morning for their future
home at Smackover where he owns
a large farm.
Mrs. J. B. Calvert visited with
her sister at Mansfield, and Mrs.
G. S. Prestridee at Shreveport the
first of this week.
0. M. Morgan's children arrived
in Huttig Sunday afternoon from
Sayre where they have been mak
ing their home with an aunt.
5 or 6 doses 666 will break any
case of Chill and Fever; it acts on
the liyer better than Calomel, and
does not gripe or sicken. 25c.
W. A. Benson and wife left Wed
nesday morning for Jackson, Miss.,
where Mrs. Benson will enter a
sanatarium for her health.
Miss Clyde Pitts, who has been
visiting her brother. Pat. left Sun
day for Fostoria, Texas, to visit a
week and from there will go to her
home at Orange.
Marshal Ashcroft arrested Gus
Campbell, colored, here Monday j
morning for the sheriff of Caddo
parish. La. He was wanted there
for a murder committed some time
ago.
Rev. J. R. Rushing and the edi
tor were at El Dorado this week
attending the meeting of the Cam
day district conference of the
Methodist church.
F. E. Storton of Memphis, who’
succeeded C. F. Pirscher. resigned,!
as bookkeeper at the plant of the
Wisconsin Lumber Co., was at
Memphis this week consulting a
specialist about his eyes.
C. C. Bell and C. B. Wood have
taken the contract for putting on
the tract a lot of hardwood timber
at Wardville for the Wisconsin 1
Lumber Co., and shipped a number
of teams and wagons to that place ■
Wednesday to begin work.
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A woman recently wrote an edit-:
or of the personal columns and
said: "I have lost three husbands
and now have an offer of the
fourth. Shall 1 accept him?" The
reply came: "If you have lost
three husbands I should say you
are too careless to be trusted with
a fourth."
Eorn to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lank
Ford of Felsentha! on June 10th, a
girl weighing 14'2 pounds.
Lee Lankford of Felsenthal who <
was shot not long ago by Mike
Stirnson is able to sit up in bed and j
will be out in a few days.
J. R. Sims has been elected
superintendent of the Union Sun-j
day school to succeed W. H. ;
Wheler, resigned. Mr. Wheler
made a faithful superintendent for
a number of years and is entitled
to the thanks of all.
In a dispute over a yearling calf
Thursday morning N. E. Towns
shot and dangerously wounded J.
T. Lawrence. It seems that they
met in an old field and the argu
ment come up with above results.
The trouble occurred just across
the line nea'- Sadie. La. The par
ticipants are brothers-in-law.
Everybody has a hobby, doing
Lhe right kind of job work is ours
At a meeting of the directors of
the First National Bank of Huttig
held Tuesday afternoon a dividend
of 6 per cent was declared and the
5 Der cent additional earnings for
the time the bank has been it
operation was placed to surplus
and undivided profit accounts
This is indeed a fine showing ana
proves the bank here to be unde^
excellent management.
(i u u i jr t>i iui vt w v* i i i wu w 1
had gone along for more than ar
hour when the trial judge discov
ered that the panel was shy a
juror. “What does this mean?"
he roared. “There are only elever
jurors in the box. Where is th
twelfth?” “Please, your honor."
answered one of the eleven, “he
lias gone away on important busi
ness. but he left his verdict wit!:
me.” _ __ _
The courts are adopting a more
rigorous policy toward strike riot
ers by sending them to prison. A
gang of 21 Italian agitators of the
International Workers at Kearney.
N. J., were sentenced to a y^ar in
the penitentiary. The Italian
newspapers defend the men and
declare that they wore doing noth
ing wrong, but the court held that
where strikers interfere with the
right of other men to work they
must take the consequences.
A number of new banana pro
ducts are being placed on the
market. These come mainly from
Jamaica, where the surnlus crop is
utilized in this way. One of the
novelties is what are called “bana
na figs" a sort of conserve which
resembles closely the real fig and
is very rich and toothsome. An
other product is banana chips,
which is the meat of the fruit dried
by steam or hot air heat. This |
makes a good breakfast food. The
chips when ground fine make ba-1
nana meal, which has numerous
culinary uses.
The law forbids national banks
to make loans above a certain per
centage. thus impairing their cap
ital and endangering the interests
of their creditors. But for many
years some banks have over
stepped the rule and the govern
ment has v/inked at the practice.
Now however, the comptroller of
the currency, who has supervision
of the subject, has issued a notice
tiiat beginning with Sept. 1 all
banks must obey the law strictly.
In 1 906 as many as 56 per cent of
the banks exceeded their loan limit
but now the number has been re
duced to about 13 per cent.
COPYRIGHT 19J.7
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CHAPTER I
Into the Maelstrom.
They say that coming events cast
their shadows before, but certainly I
had no intimation when 1 left my office
in the afternoon of April twelfth, of
the maelstrom of mystery and tragedy
into which 1 was about to plunge. I
was worried and anxious, it is true,
bill only as every young man is who
finds himself for the first time deeply
In love. There w, • no portent of evil,
no foreshadowing of the terrible chain
of events that all but destroyed my
belief in my fellow-man, and left its
mark so deep upon my memory that 1
do not believe time ever can wholly
efface it.
Even now that it is all ended, and
the shadow which hung so heavily
over the household of my sweetheart
has been dispelltd and the hand whose
devilish ingenuity brought shame and
grief and wreck to so many innocent
lives is paying the penalty behind
prison bars—even now 1 shudder at
the sight of anything yellow. A scrap
of yellow paper vividly recalls—and I
fear always will recall—the painful
events of the last few weeks.
I had been waiting ever since my re
turn from court for a telephone mes
sage that had not come—the word
from Louise which I felt would decide
my fate. 1 had written to her the
night before, asking if I might go to
her in the afternoon to speak on a sub
ject of importance. I knew she would
understand the object of my letter,
though all that I had asked was that
she would Ulephone me earlier than
four whether she would be at home.
From my window I had watched the
great hand on Nie Metropolitan tower
clock creep slowly to twelve. As the
chimes began to sing the hour of four
I felt that I could bear tlie suspense
no longer. Message or no message, I
would go to her at once. Before the
vibrant note of “On-n-n-n-e” had died
away I closed my desk with a bang.
As the fourth stroke reverberated I
stood with hat and overcoat on, my
hand on the kuob of my office door,
hoping yet to hear my telephone ring.
Impatiently 1 waited a minute and
then dashed toward the elevator. The
telephone, I learned afterward, rang
almost the minute I was out of the
room and Louise’s voice called fran
tically for me, but I was not there to
hear.
It was only a short walk up Madison
rtv^nue to the home of General Far
rish, the father of Louise. With the
doubt that possesses every lover on
mob a mission as this, 1 walked it.
tow laggardly, as misgivings filled my
heart, now quickening my pace as
hope routed my fears. As I turned
the corner into the street where the
Farrisli home is situated my steps
sere leaden. What right had I to ask
Louise Fairish to be my wife? The
laughter of a man worth many mil
lions, a girl of exquisite beauty and
jf many accomplishments, one who
ttould choose a husband where site
billed—what right had I to hope that
she would ever consent to become the
wife of a struggling young lawyer
mch as 1? To be sure, my family was
»f the best. With my earnings and
he modest little fortune my father
lad left me I would be able to provide
'or her. But as yet, though my pros
pects were bright, I amounted to nulli
ng in my profession. It would be
rears before 1 could hope to give my
isife the luxuries to which Louise Far
•ish had been accustomed.
On the other hand. 1 felt that with
Louise as my wife I could do great
kings. 1 loved her with a great love.
[ fell that her affection and companion
ship would be inspiration enough for
iny man to conquer the world. I
loped that siie loved me. I recalled
he trifles which seemed to show, at
east, that she found pleasure in my
society. 1 tried to comfort myself, too,
iy remembering that General Parrish
ivas a self-made man, that when he
married he was as poor as I, if not
poorer. I knew that he liked me and
pad confidence in me. Was it then,
liter all, 1 asked myself, presuming
n me to hope that Louise would lis
en to me and that her father would
•onsent to her becoming my wife—
fet, why had she not telephoned?
i uiuggcu my ucsuuung ieei
icross the street 1 was aroysed from
■\v reverie by the rush of an automo
bile that all but knocked me over.
With an angry impreca ion at each
reckless driving I gjunced up and
r■ cognized the man who occupied it.
He was standing beside his chauffeur,
is if ready to leap out. It was Doc
!or Wilcox, a noted practitioner who
attended the Parrish family,and whom
1 had met at their home. 1 plunged
forward in anxious dismay as I saw
Hie machine halt before the Parrish
door and the doctor jump out and run
up the steps.
My first, my only thought, was of
Louise. What could have happened?
t-'he must be ill—desperately 111, as the
doctor’s haste suggested. Did not fids
explain her failure to telephone? Could
It be that she was diad? What
thoughts flashed throe '■ • •• m’vd T
cannot analyze further. 1 i-„ ■ •’■■w
I reached the house but a st< p b< : i.i<1
the doctor. He had hardly parsed
through the door whin I, too, flung
myself into the hall and stood th* re
swaying, with not voice enough to ask
a question of flie* whii< in<«d, horror
stricken maid who had answered the
doctor’s ring.
“Where is she?" T krrrd the doctor
ask as he Hum, his c at to the maid
and started up the stairs. Before she
could answer him there were lturri'd
foot steps on the upper landing ami
Louise peered down, (lie anxtety in
her face lessening a( the welcome
eight of tlie doctor.
I gave a silly cry of joy and started
up the stairs. Doc,or Wilcox was
ahead of me, time steps at a time,
and, following Loui e's silent direc
tion, had di; apimaiv d in a room on
the second floor, when I, with out
stretched arms, approached t er. I did
not think te a what had happened
or who was ii! or what tlie matter j
was. My only thought, was one of joy i
that she was alive and well. What |
mattered if Louise was safe? And the |
i emotion that filled me was still more
intensified when she ran to me, and
throwing herself into my arms, cried
out:
"Oh, Harding, thank Cod, you've
come! ’’
It was nhnost the first time she had
failed me by my name, certainly the
first that she ever had given herself
to my embrace, and i hi Id her close
ly, thrilled through at the thought ,
that it was to ?ne she turned in time
of trouble. Then, all at once, 1 was
aroused by the opening of the door
through which Doctor Wilcox had gone
and the appearance of a maid, who
ran along the hall.
“What is it? What has happened?” !
I asked.
“Katharine,” moaned Louise, “Kath
arine—she has killed herself!”
For a moment 1 was stunned. The
first, thought that catue to me was the
impossibility of it. What place had
tragedy in this happy, quiet home?
Familiar enough, though I was, with
deeds of violence, with self-murder as
it thrust itself forward in the courts
and in the lurid headlines of the
newspapers, that such a thing could
intrude on the peace of this well-or
dered household seemed beyond my
j comprehension.
“ I telephoned to you, but you were
not in your o(Ti: a,” sobb d Louise,
ei 111 clinging to me in tlie abandon
ment of grief.
“When did you telephone?” I ashed,
even under such circumstances rejoic
ing to learn that she had telephoned.
“Just afier she did it—1 don’t know
when it was—it seems ages ago. I
couldn't—get you and—I thought —you
would never come—then then I t< le
pboned for the doctor and father.”
Just after she did il! I had hern
trying to make myself believe ii must
have been an accident, though from
Louise's manner I feared the worst.
Yet Katharine Parrish was the last
"Oh, Harding, Thank God, You'v*
Come!"
person In the world of whom one
would think in connection with sui
cide. A quiet, reserved girl of great
strength of character, several years
older than Louise, her dignitv mid her
well-considered actions had led me to
believe her far less emotional than
her younger sister.
‘‘It was an accident, of course," I
said, though doubtfully.
"No!” gasped Louise, shuddering
anew at the thought of tho horror s! e
had just witn* ssed. “I heard the shot
and found her on the divan in h- r
room. The revolver was stil! in her
hand—her own revolver."
For the first time It came to me
with sudden vivid force that in (tie
eider sister s life, behind the smiling
mask of reserve she always wore,
was h'dden som° secret sorrow. 1 un
derstood, now, that far-away look in
i.er eyea I felt there may have beei.
-there must have been—concealed
■he kno ledge of some mystery tha!
impelled her to this awful deed. Vet
■ t To did 1 suspect v.hither my effort?
to find why Louise’s s'r.ter had shot
hortioir would load me. Little did I
it: a Hue iii what a web of criminal
cunning, of baffling crime, of hidden
evil, I would find myself.
As 1 strove to soothe tioulse's agi
tatlon the doctor appeared at the door
and imperiously beckoned me. 1
tried to persuade Louise to wait out
ide. but she (dune: to me like 8
'•ichietif d chi d and Insi.-ted on ac
■ ompanyirg me into the room.
“Kerr," said the doctor in the cur
'""ms of autliority, “1 want you b
1 dp me carry her into a quieter place
iiefrrc I operate.”
‘“I his «a v," said Louise, recovering
lirisv If as mon a.s she saw the oppor
funily to he useful, “into my rooms
'! he.', nre oh the street and much qui
Cl or."
I saw the look with v liich she trio
to read I lie do> tor's face and put th<
.question she dared not a«k.
“Wli She H\e?"
Porter Wilcox shook his head
era" ly.
“Pi e is just alive and that is alt
I r an not tell yet whet iter or not w>
'■an s; e her. There must be abso
lute quiet, t tint going lo probe fo
the bullet and gre what course it hr
taken. I’lease telephone at once fe.
there two men. The}' are my hosp:
tal aides. As scon as they arrive
will operate."
As qi i• • 1 • 1; as we'had laid the sens-'
leas girl on la rise's bed, I telephone
for Doctor Wilcox's assistants, at
was form, ate in being able to rear
both immediately. Louise and tl
mads nanwhile were kr pt busy h
the doctor preparing for the operation
so it f, II to my lot to break the nev
to General Parrish w hen lie arrivr >
Louise had merely told him over th
telephone that Katharine had nu
with an accident, so lie entered tk
house almost wholly unprepared f«.i
flit' shock my news gave him.
I had before seen strong men in
grief, hut never had I witnessed such
a ware of heartrending agon1' as
swept over the general, lie came into
lus home erect, military, slightly per
turbed, but still in manner and bear
ing tlie vigorous old soldier, fully
master of Ills emotions. My words
M at told him as gently as was pos
slide what had happened seemed to
sap all his vitality. His face became
ashen pale, his lips quivered, great
Lars crursod down his cheeks, hi'
shoulders bent under the weight ot
his grief and he tottered as if about
to fall.
While he was fond and proud of
both his daughters, the elder had a!
ways been his faVoritc. As is oftei
the case with fathers who have no
soti, Katharine had been both son and
d. : Jo ei to him. Since her mother’?
death some years ago she had beet.
; practically lie; 4 of the household. I)
was on her that he relied for ever;,
tiling, and if was with her I hat h
discussed nil his business affairs. Suci
association between them natural!'
had stre gth< nod the bonds Into fa
more than the ordinary father-anti
daughter a!f< cion.
“idy poor little gi rl KathariiKt—in:
little Katharine,” hr moaned in tone:
of anon;, lhai wt .:ng my In art fen
him.
Tils flrrt lhonchi was to go to hoi
but I he doc'or forbade his present*'
in the. room. I persuaded him to g<
to his ov.n ararfnieiits, leaving him in
the lends of I is valet a id promising
to beep him informed as to Knthn
tine's condition.
Deeply as I frit for him. it was e"
Louise I thought most. I wanted to hr
with her constantly, to give her the
succor of my presence. As soon as
I>ot“or Wilcox's assistants arrived,
bringing with them a nurse. Louise
and I were hoth banished from the
room. Gently I drew her Into a little
situn:r-rcr>m, where, with the d"oi
ajar, v.e waited to see if our aid might
he needed. Tearless sorrow now
weighed heavily on her.
"Tell me everything.” I said, with
my arm about her. “Why did she do
it?"
“1 don’t know,” she cried out. “I
can’t understand it at all! There is
tome mystery, some terrible mystery
that I cannot fathom.”
"When did you see your sister last?”
“We had luncheon together. She |
was sweet and kind, as she always
whs, hut 1 could see that something
w; s worrying her. We v.-we to have
gone shopping together tliis afternoon
but she told me that she had an er
rand that would make it impossible
for her to go with me. I had re
ceived your note, so I told her that It
would suit me much better to put the
shopping off until tomorrow. Right
after lun< heon she went out—where. I
do not know. She did not use the car
or call n taxi. All I know Is that she
was gone about two hours. When she
came in I was arranging the flowers
in the dining room. I heard her enter
and came out Into the hall. She
walked right past me without a word
and went up-stairs to her own room. I
ran up after her, thinking she might
be ill, but just as I got to the door I
heard her turn the key. I understood
that she wished to be alone. About
u If n u Iwitir lo t/v** I h/vi rd »» □> mi m rl li i'n
a shot and rushed up stairs, railing to
the servants. We found the door still
locked and we could hear her groan
ing. 1 had the butler hurst open the
door and there we found her, juFt
where Fhe was when you saw her, still
as death, with her own little revolier
clutched In her hand."
“What do you suppose made her
change her mind ahou' going shopping
with yon?" I asked. “Did she receive
any let’ers or telegrams today?”
I ouise thought for a moment b<>
fore answering, her slender form still
shaken with silent sobbing. Gently l
brushed away the tears that gathered
In her eyes and drew her to me unil
her head was pillowed on mv should*—.
I doubt that if in her distress she no
ticed my action, save in the sense of
comfort that it brought her. How fe:
rible it is to see the woman 'hat you
love suffer po much and to f*el power
less to do anything to help her!
"No,” said Louise, "1 am positive
Katharine received no letter or tele
gram today except an invitation or
two that we read at breakfast. Wo
were together practically all the tin,9
until after luncheon.”
"Perhaps some one telephoned to
her,” 1 suggested.
Louise did not recall any message.
We summoned her sister’s maid, who
was crouching outside the door like a
faithful animal, and put the ques !ro
to her. She was In such a hysteric; I
state that it was difficult to make lv —
understand what we wanted, but final
ly she remembered that there had
been a telephone call just before
twelve.
"Who wanted her?” asked Loul.-o
and I together.
The girl shook her head as if be
wildered
"Think, think," I commanded. ”Wh t
was the name? Who was it? If you
a
"■U(c r
“Was It Mr. Crandall?" Asked Louise.
answered the telephone, whoever it
wsh must have Riven his name."
Stupidly she shook her head again.
“Was It Mr. Crandall?" asked Lou
ise.
Light came into Hilda's fire nt onc.\
“Now I remember," she ex< lairnc- .
"Dot was him. It was Mr. Crandall.”
The name meant nothing to me at l
I turned to Louise for explanation
Though there were many callers at t'. •
Farrish home, 1 never had met a V
Crandall, nor had 1 even heard t! t
name mentioned.
“It must have been Hugh Crandall.'
said I/iuise. “I was afraid that it w t
he.”
Her remark puzzled me. The on '
Hugh Crandall I knew anything abo
was a prosperous young broker who. ■
1 never had met personally, though
had seen his name occasionally in cc •
ncction with exchange and club aflfnli .
“Do you mean Hugh Crandall, t'-e
broker?" 1 asked.
Iconise nodded, and leaning again
my shoulder, told me of a chapter <
the family history with which I w:
wholly unfamiliar. This man,
seemed, had met her sister two yea
before on a steamer on which Ih*
were returning from Europe. Alter
that he had bren a frequent visitor at
the Farrish home. Katharine was very
fond of ititn, and he had been in high
favor bflHi with the general and Lou
ise. Though no formal announcement
of an engagement had b°en made.
Crandall was look»d on hv ever'- one
as Miss Farrtsh's most favored suitor.
About, three pionths ago. Just prior to
the time when I first me* LouL°, his
visits to the house had suddenly
cea sed.
"I'm sure," Iioutse explained, “that
Katharine eared for him very much.
She and father had a bitter quarrel
shout him, though why, 1 never could
understand, for father had alwa's
seemed to like him. There « some
thing strange about the nay his visits
ended. Father came home one d y at
noon looking worried lie called Kath
arine Into the library and phut the
door. I could hear Katharine pleading
with him and once or twhe I Ima- i
both their voieps ralspd as if in anger.
When my sister came out her eyes
were red as if she had been weeping.
She went at once to her room and did
pot come down to dinner. When Mr.
Crandall called that night she came
down to see him, hut he staved on y
Interview with father, and father re
fused to see him. He left the house in
heat anvi never has been here since.
For several da vs Katharine seemed
much depressed hut she volunteered
no confidences and T hesitated to ask
her any questions She seemed after
a while wholly to have recovered her
spirits, and I was convinced that she
had made up her mind to let Mr. Cran
dall go out of her life."
"What effect did this have on the re
lations between your father anil sis
ter?" I askpd, seeking In vain for a mo
tive that would hav«vcaused Katharine
to attempt her life.
"None whatever that I could see.
Through it all. except for that one aft
ernoon. Katharine's attitude toward fa
ther has been most lovabV If any
thing, it seemed to me that she was
tenderer toward him afterward tliaA
before."
"Ho yon suppose she has been mepf
Ing Crandall surreptitiously?"
Louise quickly and Indignantly drew
herself away from w
(To Be Continued Ni-xt Week.)
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