Local News of the Week.
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Mrs. F. 0. Mahony visited El
Dorado Tuesday.
Old papers for sale at this office.
100 for 1 5 cents.
W. C. Thomson visited at El Do
rado last Sunday.
Faytie Carter of New London
was here Monday and Tuesday.
Miss Alice Taunton of Lapile
visited relatives here this week.
C. R. Duncan transacted busi
ness at the county seat Tuesday.
Mrs J. R. Rushing left Saturday
for Okalona for a two weeks visit
with her brother.
J. E. Taunton and family of La
p;le were here last Sunday visiting
his daughter. Mrs W. R. Dickrson.
Mrs. D. A. Keasler and children
arrived home Monday from a visit
with her mother at Ruston, La.
Mrs. Mary Richardson returned
to her home at Warren Monday
morning after a visit here with her
sons.
t Charley Cabaniss, who formerly
worked here, is now a brakeman on
the Farmerville-Womble run of the
Iron Mountain passenger train.
J. W. Johnson was called to Pol
lock. Sunday by the serious illness
of his mother and wired his wife tc
come Monday as she was very low.
We treat Piles successfully with
out knife or chloroform. Refer
ence and information on application
Drs. McCall & Williams,
Lawson. Ark.
S. W. McFarland and wife visit
ed with their daughter. Mrs. R. L.
Townsend, and family this week.
Mrs. McFarland is enroute to
Louisiana to visit relatives.
Mesdames W. H. Wheler. A. C
Benson and C. A. Berry and Supt
J R. Sims attended the County
Sunday School convention at E!
Dorado Monday and Tuesday.
Hale Thompson, one of the most
efficient counter jumpers in the
clothing department of Union Saw
Mill store, is enjoying a two weeks
visit with relatives at Wesson.
Mrs. R. W. Cargill attended the
grand lodge of the Rebekahs and
G.£. Waller the grand lodge of the
1. 0. 0. F. at Pine Bluff this week
as representatives of the locai
lodges.__
Rev. A. J. Vallery. president and
manager of the Home of the Good
Samaritan at Monroe, filled the pul
pit at Union church Sunday morn
ing and evening and Monday even
ing and preached three good ser
mons. __
You will find on sale at the
Union Saw Mil company store,
the Union hotel and Bell’s cream
parlor four different local post caro
views in colors, if these sell well
the publisher expects to add sev
eral other views to the list. They
will be sold at two for five cents.
The Missionary Union met at
the regular hour Tuesday after
noon with eight members present.
Meeting was opened by singing
I Love to Tell the Story and Sweet
Hour of Prayer: prayer by Mrs.
Milstead. Bible study the books
of Ecclesiastes and Solomon.which
was a very interesting lesson. The
meeting closed by singing Come
Thou Fount.
Teaching young America how to
shoot is a new undertaking of the
war department. A letter has
been issued to the governors of the
various urging them to arrange for
shooting matches for studen.s in
1 the schools and colleges. Prizes
| are to be given and it is believed
that in this way a desirable class
of recuits for the national guard
will be developed.
Drinkers are catching it hard all
along the line: they are finding that
they are not welcome anywhere.
The war department has now
adopted the policy of docking the
pay of officers and men in the army
who are unable to attend to their
duty properly by reason of their
attachment for the cup that in
; ebriates.
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL, APPLICATIONS, as tlv y
cannot reach the scat of the disease. C i
tarrh is a blood or constitutional disea <\
1 and in order to cl.o i you must take in
ternal remedies. I! ll's Catarrh Cure is
! taken internally, «u:.d a< ts directly tip a
| the blood and mu ous surfaces. Hal. t
Catarrh Cure i ; r ;t a quack medicine. It
was prescribed by cr.o of the b< t ph -
sicians in this conn ry fur co;irs and is
I a regular pr -.rr'p'.i.' n. It iu up «<•<] of
I the h(. t tonics 1 ' wn, combined with t •
I best blood p rlf. ra, n^tiri? directly on t >
mucous surf'u■< s. The perf rt rombir: -
tion of the two ingredients i- what p* -
duces such wonderful results in curb
catarrh • Send fnr testimonials, free.
F. J. CTIENFY CO . Props.. Tnh-do. O.
r ’ 1 > v Pru^h Is. price 7>\
Take Hall’s Family rihu for constipation.
Adv.
Wonderful effects in textile
goods are now being obtained by
making use of metallized yarns
The new yarns have a core of cot
ton or other fiber but are chemic
ally coated with metal so that th< y
seem to be nothing but metal. All
shades of silver and gold are pro
duced. Cloth is woven which h is
all the irridescent colors of the
rainbow and which is even more
beautiful than the “cloth of gold'
which was so famous in carli r
times.
The navy department is in a
dilema. Bids for the making of
$2,000,000 worth of big-gun am
munition developed the fact th • 1
while American concerns want
from $490 to $526 apiece for
makrng 14-inch armor-piercing
projecticles. an English concern is
ready to make them for only $595
The government wants to save
money and yet it wouldn t look
well to let a possible enemy make
the very ammunition you may want
to fire back at him. So that's th'*
riddle._
Edison has about completed at
Llewellyn Park. N. J.. a sample
louse fitted up with every possible
nodern electrical contrivance.
His purpose is to prove that elec
tricity in the detached home is
practical. The system consists of
i small dynamo run by a gasoline
engine, and a storage-battery tc
take up the reserve current anc
supply the numerous lights, mo
tors. etc. The control and regula
tion of the whole system is simpli
fied so that it is almost "fool proof."
Water from the Chagres river is
now pouring into the great Gatum
dam at Panama at the rate of six
billion cubic feet a week, raising
the water level three feet in that
time. When the lake is filled to
ts final level of 87 feet above the
sea it will contain nearly 200 bil
lion cubic feet. It will use 5.500,
000 cubic feet every time a ship is
locked through the canal, but there
is water enough to operate the
'ocks 150 times a day, which is at
least twice as fast as ships can
pass.
A jolly party composed of Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Storton and C. S.
Watkins: Misses M iry Pope. Mary
Holman and Lelia Lineberry and
Messrs. Louis Cartall, G. H. An
drews, C. T. Thompson. J. W.
Bryant and C. A. Berry went tc
Monroe Monday night on the Union
Saw Mill Company train to accom
pany Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Scott
home from that city where they
arrived at 5:40 that afternoon from
their wedding tour to Cuba. The
train was in charge of Conductor
J. D. Loyd and Engineer A. P.
Richardson. A hot box on the
tank was the only thing that marred
the trip and that only served to
make the arrival of the party in
Huttig happen on Tuesday instead
of Monday.
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/ilusfny/loi/s by Yl&irnes
6 YN0PSI3,
CTTAPTKR I Harming Kent call* O’’
Dunise Parrish to propose marriage ami
finds the house* in great excitement nvjr
‘iie a t tempted suicide of her sister Hath
Brine. Ken* starts an Investigation and
firms that Hugh Crandall, sw’tor fot
Katharine, who had been forbidden the
house by General Farrlsh. had talked with
Katharin* over the telephone just before
‘he shot herself. A torn pee*. of yellow
pup* t is four.d, at s’srht of which Gen
eral Farrlsh is stricken with paralysis.
GIT PTFR IT Kent discovers that
rn::.!;iH has left town hurriedly. An
drew fC’ser. an ay“d banker, c'lmrnlts
sui- hh about i) e aime time as Katharine
attempted her life.
CH APTFR 7TT— A yellow envelope is
ff»uml in Kls< r’s room. Postofflce Inspec
tor Davis, Kent's friend, takes up the
case.
CHAPTFR TV—Kent 1s convinced that
Crandall is at the bottom of the mystery.
^PITNP'T’KR V Kent nad Davis «earcb
Prand - ll's rnnm and find an address,
"I.O' k Box 17 Ardwev. X. J.** K* ’it
f-ore to Anhvnv to inv< ignte and be
comes suspicious of a “Henry Cook."
GIT \ PTFR VT A woman commits sul
fide at ti e Ardway H del. A yellow let
ter also figures in this case.
Grl \ PTRlt VTT Kent cabs T/;r<so on
the li.nvr di'tmie.. tidcnpone and finds that
she had just h n c-.p -1 by Crandall from
the sain*- booth.. "Cook" dis appears. The
Ardway postmaster is missing.
PTTAPTKR VTTT- Inspector Davis nr
r:\ < < at -\rdwav and takes op the Inves
t'g.uti m He discovers that the dead
woman i*1 Sarah Rcai-ott of Bridgeport.
T.nois- telephones Kent imploring him to
drop th^ investigation.
CH \ PTFR TX Kent returns to Vew
Vnrk tn g.-t an explanation from Dou’se.
He find« the body of a woman In Con
f r-H P lr1- and more yellow letters He
'■••s Crandall, whom he recogni7.es as
“Cook," enter the Farrlsh home.
CfT \ puM-r* y T.on'so again Irnnlores
T', nf tn dr n tie- investigation and re
' ec to gt o anv exphtnatlou T.-.ter
c oro sees c.andall and Don tee in an p.u
1 oniobile.
CH \ PTFR XT Kent returns to Ardwav
n-v» -‘s :innnini' ('«! that he h-is, pjamied to ]
rrest the iptsshig postmaster and also ■
(he master criminal.
C trtPTcr» XTT While secWr»rr thp
r*11■ i • ;*D. T'.-id i-.iiM > n rnsj; I .outer* and j
-’ranOii] Pursued bv Davis Ihe pnslm-ic
*er inmM off a preeinice a»»d Is '■-llled.
' ie»-V Vounc the n '«ter criminal, is
found in a I it in a morphine stupor.
I guess l was the reason," l re
lied. - “1 ‘ut when did you reitirn
ier< ?”
"Vi e had dinner at the little hotel,
nd ns soon as 1t was dark, atartcil
’nek for the eotfage. When we at
ived we found a light in the window
nd saw Voting there in a stupor ins*'
s you see him. rhe otiier man was
owhere around. After trying to
waken Voting, without success, Mr
‘rai.dall searched his clothes, hut
here was nothing in any of his pock
's. Me even felt all the seams, and
ok off his shoes in search of the pa
rr we wanted, hut it was nowhere on
nt. He ransacked the cottage as well
s was possible in this dim light, but.
nt.nl not find any suggestion of a.
'ding-place. Out in tlie little sited
hat servos as a kitchen he found a j
li;> on which was written a list of
t*tables -bread, ntilk, eggs and such t
kings. We decided from this that the
uher man—Houser, I think Mr. Oran- !
util had said his name was—had gone j
0 some neighboring farm-house or
‘ore to lay in supplies and probably
•ould soon return. Mr. Crandall sug
sted onr hiding in the bushes until
is arrival, and we did so. We had
ardly taken our place behind the
usl.es before we heard him coming,
dr. Crandall stepped out, and the
est is so mixed up T don’t know just
hat happened. I heard shots and felt
1 pain in my arm and I thnik 1
"reamed and then 1 don’t remember
ny more until I found you bending
>ver me.”
“To think that it was my bullet that,
'it you!” 1 cried. ”1 might have killed
oil.”
‘‘It’s only the lightest sort of
latch,” she protested. “It doesn't
veil hurt any more. It does not bother
e half so much as to know how to
■11 Katharine that we failed in our
lission.”
“Tell her," said I, “that one of the
onspirators is dead and that the oth
r is safe in the hands of Inspector
favis and myself. Tell her that any
ocument either of ns finds that, in
ny way relates to her fnthpr will be
•■Weed in her hands at onre. Tell her
hat 1 will not leave the prisoner’s side
intil T have it safe and that my honor
s pledged botli for Davis and mys'"f
nnt no word affecting her fa’her will
-ver become pnhlic. Crandall is out
Imre now talking with Davis, and I
’hink you will tlnd that he, too, will
rell her the ‘•ame thing.”
As it in corroboration of my w'ords,
the three of them. Crandall, f'ivi° and
the constable, returned just at this
moment,
“Come, Mis« Farrlsh.” =aid Crandall.
1 think it time I was starting heirs,
with you. if you feel able to travel 1
have run the car up just outside the
cottage. I think we can safely leave
the completion of our mission to the
inspector and Mr Kent."
“I wish Mr. Kent was coming hack
with us," said Louise in a sweetly
plaintive tone that made me long to
gratify her wish.
“I need him hero,” said the la
port nr alnu -1 roup' V.
"And that ccmrs in. 'vr all of 'if."
-he said bravely, as I m ,n d tier to
he ear.
1 watched the automobile out of
ight, and then turned back into the
■nttage, where I found the countable
notched on the fioor, already fast
sleep Davis. sitting on the floor be
ore some smoldering iocs that, had
n en placed in a rudely-constructed
pen fireplace, seemed wrapped in
bought and did not even look up when
entered.
Nevertheless, I seated myself on the
floor beside him and, piaelng my hand
on his shoulder, 1 said once more:
"And now 1 want to know all about
it.”
“Shut up,” he said, savagely shaking
off my hand. "Can’t you see I want to
think ?"
Rebuffed and amazed by his rude
ness, I sprang to my feet, only to get
a new surprise as, in tones as courte
ous as his others had been rude, hr
said: "if f were you. Harding, I’d fol
low the constable’s example and try to
get some sleep. Von and i have a
hard day ahead of us tomorrow "
Seeing that lie « as in no mood to no
questioned, : smothered ha- k the many
things I wanted to a. k him and
stretched myself on the fioor, not to
sleep, hut to ponder As I reviewer,
the amazing events of today, of vestf.
day, of the day before, it seemed as
if ages ana ages—grim, mystifying
terrifying ages—had passed Mine that
hour when I left mv office hvht neatt
ed to call on i,nui..< Karnsh.
And the morning—'he ,n. pector nod
said—was to bring a hard uay *or ootb
ol as.
What ntsw terror could tomorrow
bold?
CHAPTER XIV
l-.snerto'- Fxti’a>n?.
Thump, thump. thump!
I had not thought dumber pnsr.it>!'
for me. and vet I >nu ■< nave slept M'
b< wi.dered '<-n -'s. dazed os a suad<u
recall ic ict vity, took subconscious
■ognizance it a regular, pevsisten
pounding end eventually stu c.epoed i
stirring me to attention, i sunneni'
sat up and .ooKen anout me l fourn
rrvseif :n the deserted cottage tn<
drug smve stu: motionless m ms con1:
ana lie .ogs Mill smoldering m rtiv
tire mare
l'uat bumping I qui ’kh wier
it came ’rum Mavis was standing ive,
'lie sleeping form it Liortds tie -or.
s ame, engaged n i!ie work >1 nw.
•mng mm o.v me park i>o‘i -email
metnod kicking him on the sums oi
nis shoes
l'lir process was successful. The
eonstaDle snorted, drew up Ins legs
ruh a on ms eyes and sprang 'o ms rer-t
“It will oe daylight in naif an nour.
I heard It a vis tell nim. “I want you
'o go and get Hie mickboard and drive
around to where Houser's body lies
Bring me any papers you find in his
pockets, heave his money and his
watch and keys so as not to arouse
any suspicion of robbery. As soon as
you have done that 1 want you to
drive back and pick up the body he
fore anyone else finds it. Drive with
it to Millervale and leave it there
Don’t talk too much. Tell everybody
that you found the body at tiie foot
Nevertheless, I Se?fed Myself on the
Floor Beside Him.
of the precipice nnd Impress nn them
that if must have been an accident hi
the dark. As soon as you can conveni
ently get away, come haek h« re Mak<
sure, though, that nohody follows you.
As soon as the constable had gone.
Davis lit a cigarette, turned up his
coat collar rfnd took a scat on a
rough bench just outside the door.
“Conte on out Ik re, Harding, and
watch the sun rise," he called to mo.
I rose hastily from where 1 had
been sitting grtting stupidly about me
and joined him on the bench.
“There was something you wanted
o ask me, wasn't there?” he said
pleasantly.
rjicrft were ip, m-_’ *' IMnrs l y.-ant
.. i.i.n i huiuiy Knew' where u
i< . in, but the illst thing 1 blurted out
• ns:
Is Hugh C.'ar.drll guil’y?”
‘H ■ is guil'v only of being in lov<
vish Kr.tfc urine Farris! against her fa
er s wishes," he replied.
■‘But surely. I said doggedly, “h
as seme connection with the criro
if the yellow letters. He knr.
Ve in:' Hr Knew where to find hi'
rliere are many things about his »<•
tics that to my mind call Cor expla
nat ion."
'Hid you notice his eyes?” ashed
i vie It was still too dark for rcu to
see the inspector’s face, but I feit
sure that lie v, if laughing at me. He
made rue feel that way all too often.
"1 didn't,’’ I answered rather cross
ly. “but what’s that got to do with
it ?’’
Tin afraid, Kent, as I have said be
fore. you will never make a good de
tective. You are entirely too unob
servant of important details Do you
recall my asking early in our Investi
ga:ion whether or not Crandall had
blue eyes?”
‘‘Yes,’’ I grudgingly admitted, “I re
call it.”
"As soon as I discovered that Cran
dall had blue eyes that eliminated him
ag the probable criminal.”
”1 don't see your log'c."
"I’ve told you before,” said Davis,
after a pause long enough to permit
him to light another cigarette, “that
there are classes of crime and types
of criminals, each strongly marked
after its own sort. 1 saw right at the
start that this crime was of the hid
den sort, of the kind that includes con
spiracy, blackmail, secret plotting—
'lie kind that requires a skilful sneak
You never in your life found a bln-'
eyed sneak. There are lots of blue '
eyed desperadoes and burglars. Most
of the notorious had men of the wesi
were blue-eyed, but you don’t tind a
man with blue eyes shooting or stab
bing a man in (he back or kidnapping
a child or writing blackmailing let !
ters.”
W hile T was not at all convinced
bv his argument, I felt that it would
he useless for me to dispute it, for
would he invading comparatively un
known territory, whereas he undoubt
edlv had dozens of eases at his finger
tips ready to illustrate his theory, t
decided to change the subject.
"1 recall, too," I said, "that you
a;;k< d if Crandall was left-handed. f-<
tar as ! saw. he is not. What of that7
i:. that another proof of Crandall's in
nocence?'
“No," said Davis, "that didn't prov<
Crandall's moocence It proved lion
ser s guilt. In fact. It was the left
handed elue that put me on the right
track and eventually tea me to tint
very cottage"
‘For Heaven’s sake" said I Imps
Mentiv. nor, t talk in riddles Go 01
I mu explain tt “
't "h re not to blame." ho continuer
calmly, 'fot not having seen the left
handed elvie You ,aok 'he education
> tiny ■* person who nad seep hundred.'
! and hundreds of envelopes and nat
I studied them closely would nave oh
•er\‘d it. You re mum nor that a pn
iceman Drought me part of a ye lion
envelope innt nad oeen found tn oh
Andrew Kisers room On it was
stamp and part of me postmark. IT
first thing mm i noticed was that th
stomp was put on 'rooked Thi
night mean much or nothing A left
landed person stamping a letter ii
variably gets tpe stamp on crooner
It ordinarily is put in Hie upper righ
hand corner of the envelope A righ'
landed person stamping a ic'fer nai
'itp two edges of the envelope as
guide try putting on a stamp wit!
vour left nand and yon will see lha
vour hand conies In such a positiot
that, the edges of the envelope ar
hidden and in ninety nine eases out
of a hundred the stamp is out oi
.'dumb. On the other hand as a post
dice Inspector, I am well aware that
m a business house or nffirr whrr<
there is a large correspondence, m
office bey mailing hundreds of letter,
ai a time, is apt to get most or
stamps oil crooked. If this yellov,- r!
ter was one (hat had hern malic.) r
a business office. Hie crooked :■«!,p.p
meant nothing. If, on tlie ot mmI.
il had been mailed singly w :h a
few others, it was pretty sar* >*-11inp
Hia* the man who mailed it was left
handed, it was easy after I name tr
Ardwav, especially as ftnusrr was al
read1' missing and every one was talk
ng about him, to learn that lie wa
.eft-handed.”
‘‘I still fail to spo," 1 said stubborn
'Y, ‘‘why you did not suspect (’ran
h’ 11. Thorn worn many things tha
m mnd to point lo him his tnlnphon
'ns to Katbarinn just hoforn shn shot
herself,-his suddnn dis.ippnaranee, tin
Hiding of tbn morphino syringe in hi:
looms, tbn Ardway address in his notn
hook, coupled with the fact that (len
>al Farrish had forbidden liim th<
nouse. I do not see how you 0011)1.
kelp suspecting him.1’
“I'll admit that on thp surface the**
‘hings all did look damaging, bn
•gainst ihis was the one importan
art that lie was too well-balanced
mo sane, if 1 might put it that wa\
I quickly learned that he was a repu
table business man, ihnt he was on«
•f the governors in two clubs, and yn.
ourself informed me that Katharin<
Farrish had thought highly of him
Vo well-he hi need mati commits crime
of this sort. You might fir'd an Insan.
man conducting >< sue* ossful buslnes>
md getting away .viih it, but it h
1 iohly improbable that lie could sue
r ed in not tv*raying his met- al con
dition to his club-fellows or his won
rn fiieiiris. On the otiier hand, a tnai
1 light bo sane enough In society, hui
you would find the vagaries of hi;
brain manifesting themselves in bnsi
r ess. As soon as 1 convinced nv sep
that Crandall was sane and we|!-ba
sL‘(hlfci 1'e!L that. C s^thUHS Qt li 1
being the criminal was eliminated.
"Do you mean to tell me," I cried
angrily, “that all criminals are in
sane?”
Yes,” said Davis thoughtfully, "I
mean exactly that. The time will
come when our courts will not be punl
ve but curative. Men are criminals
ecause they can not help it. The
reat well-balanced majority of people
'e that in the observance of the laws
ie community has made for itself
the only hone of » ’’arpy. regular
life. The unbalanced few, the m
honlthy product of unfit pa ret. is, in
their poor misshapen brains ate un
atile to comprehend this. They be
come the rebeds against authority, the
slaves of alcohol and narcotics, iiUe
that poor devil in there. T’ '■y can
not help themselves. It s the fault of
their parents, it's the shape of their
heads, it's the diseased condition of
their nerves. It's mir fault for not tak
ing the same care in breeding the hu
man race that we would In breeding
horses or dogs.”
"Oh, bosh,” said I. "I ask yon how
you account for the hypodermic sy
ringe in Crandall's rooms and I get
a sermon.”
"I-awyer though you are,” retor'ed
Davis, "I'm afraid that you are w< nk
in logic. Having decided that Cran
dall had no criminal connection wifh
the case, what then? 1 9et up ' e
theory that his connection was exa't
ly the same as your own. You were
in love with Louise and were deter
mined to trace the nidden danger that
was threatening her father. He was
lu love with Katharine and was try
"But How About the Morphine
Syringe.’* I Asked Again.
In<* to do the same thine In fart, he
had several weeks tty start of vott.
Kvery one of nis actions which von
regarded as so suspicious and dawtra
lory was perfectly explicable on iti:a
theory "
“Yes." 1 grudgingly admitted as I
hastily review 'd them in nt.v mind I
i suppose, they could ail he explain' cl
! in that way.”
"rite rpiestlon then came to me ■*
continued Davis, "how could Crandt. I
have known of the hidden dang r
'hat thrpa'ened Heiieral Parrish? .t
••as nlfhly improbanie 'hat the g<
era) would confide a thing of this so ,
cither to hi* daughter ir to tier fia ••
i p He must .nave conie on .t tn sop •
-ther wav 1 tudged that when • a
revealPd his knowledge to the genertl,
•he latter in fear that his daughter
might learn what he had been trying
to keep from her. in rage ordered
Crandall from the house.
"The only logical way for Crandall
lo be restored to favor was for him
to clear iiV’ the mystery tha' was men
acing the general As he had been Jit
work on It for some time. 1 felt sure
that in his rooms we would find a clue
to the address of the persons we were
seeking I was confident, ton, that af
fairs were approaching a crisis r,ran
dall apparon'ly had taken Katharine
into his confidence Ft looked as If
some plan they might have made had
failed and that this failure had driven
Katharine lo despair WlfJj thp lock
box ip Ardwav as a due. with the left
handed stamp as evidence apd p|ih
Crandall's movements to watch. I felt
certain that we could quickly solve
the whole mystery.”
“Ttuf how about the morphine
rlngc?” I asked again.
“1 hardly gave it a second thought
For all I knew. It may h»vf rnitif thrr«
by accident. yet Crandall quickly 5X
plained its presence In the talk that
I have just had with him He kept
Ibis chap, Young, there In his rooms
for two weeks, trying to worm out of
Mm I lie secret with which Young had
been trying to bl.it ktnail the old gen
oral. When Young lisappeared i)'
left the syringe behind him."
"So," I exclaimed In c\(i?■ rnenf„
"the mystery of the yellow * uer was
a blackmailing plot agaJ' st General
Fairish."
"No,” said On vis. "f don't think Hi*
Fairish rase liad nothing to do with
the ottier ehaln of suicides, unless it
was that bn*b devilish plois originated
in the drug-fevered, malevolent brain
f the poor fellow in yonder. It .9
true that General Farrish got vellnw
letters. Once a week for months and
months he has found one in his mail,
each more threatening, more menacing
ban its predecessors, fie has for a
long, long time been living in daily
dread that the anonymous writer of
ihese letters might at any moment
carry out his threats and expose him
to public shame, and disgrace him in
the eyes of h’.s beloved daughters.”
“Rut how did you learn all this?" I
nsked.
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