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Mrs. Edwards of Haile. La., was
the guest ofjiar sistfsr, M s. G. S.
Farmer.
Commencing October 1. the
night run will be put back on at
' No. 1 mill.
Mrs. T. F. Ashcroft and children
visited this week with relatives at
Calhoun. La.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. D. W. Spencer on Thursday
of last week.
Miss Ollie Mobley of Mor.roe
was the guest of Miss D Ima
Rieve this week.
Mrs. J. H. Raybourn and chil
dren are home from a visit witr
relatives at Pat kdale.
Mrs. A. P. Phillips and children
visited with relatives near Cecil
La., several days this we^k.
C S Farmer and wde have go
to housekeeping in the house for
merly occupied by R. L. Lancaster.
G. C. Waller was a delegate t
the Baptist association held at El
Dorado last Fricay and Saturday.
Dr. H. C. Pushing was at Hot
Springs this week visiting with his
wife and son who are there for
their health.
5 or G doses 666 will break an)
case of Chills and Fever: and if
taken then as a tonic the FevSi
wiil not return. Price 25c.
J. R. Sims was at El Dorado
Sunday visiting the Sunday schools
there to study contemplated
changes in the Union Sunday
school here.
Mrs. M. H. Claybaugh and Miss
Fronie Phillips were at El Dorado
last Friday and Saturday attending
the meeting of the Liberty Baptist
association
A baseball game between the
boys of Harper Springs and Rose
bud schools was stopped last Sat
urday afternoon account of the
rain with score tied.
J. H. Williams and wife, who
have been living at Danville, La.,
for the past year, have moved back
to these parts and are located
about one mile west of here.
A Missouri editor says the big
gest trust on earth is the country
newspaper: "It trusts everybody,
gets cussed for trusting, mistrusted
for cussing, and if it busts for
tt usting, gets cussed for busting
General Manager G. S. Pre-t
ridge, of the Frost-Johnson Lum
ber Co., is here from Shreveport
and will be in charge until the re
turn of Manager F. W. Scott about
November 1.
Miss Carrie Harrell, principal,
and Misses Mary Pope and Mary
Holman, assistants, have arrived in
Huttig and all is in readiness for
the opening of the public • school
hQre Monday. See that your chil
dren start the first dav.
Miss Minnie Martin of Bruce. 111.,
was elected music teacher in the
HuLtig public school at a meeting
of the school board Monday night
and will arrive next Monday to
commence her work. She comes
highly recommended and will be
quite an addition to the teaching
force.
Cards have been received here
by friends announcing the coming
marriage of Miss Bessie Temple
Gwathmey at the home of her
brothe- at Cedardale. F uarK. Vir
ginia, to Mr. Frank Woolfolk S^oit
| of Huttig at 8 o'clock on the evr
nir.g of S .turday, the fifth of Octo
j *3er- f hey wiM bi at home after
November first at Huttig, Ark.
A son was tori on lost Thursday
to Mr and Mrs. T. K. Billberry.
J- H. Sehon was a witness ir, Cir
cuit court at F.l Dorado Wedr esday.
Rev. J. R, Rushing will or.cupy
; the pulpit at the Methodist church
l in El Dorado Sunday.
Nearly 90.000.000 money or
ders are issued annually in th
| country and every one of these
! his to be audited in Washington.
Usually this auditing takes nearly
i a whole year. Now it is planned
to introduce electrical tabulating
machines in the postofiice depart
ment similar to those used in the
census bureau.
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Notice ol rn'ii’iijiiuncr's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of
authority arid directions contained in the decretal
order of the Union Chancery Court made and
ntered on the 2nd day of September, 1912, in a
certain caurr then per.dir.;-; therein between E. S.
Harry, complainant, and N. N. and Lula L,. Fristy.
defendant. wherein judgment was rendered agair t
JCrtndan* r- the %um ot 3438.78, with 6 per c at
nterrst per annum from this date until paid togeth
er wi.h all costs ot ■ Ct, the undersigned, as com
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outcry to the highest bidder, at the cast door of th
Union county court house in the city of El Dorado
within iht hours prescribed by law for judicial sales,
on Saturday, the I A day of December. 1912. the
following described reai estate, to wit: SEU of
SWl4 and SW'4 SEU Sec. 5 T, 17 S. R. 12 W, corn
laining eighty acres, situat J in Union county. Ar
kansas. to satisfy said judgment, interest and costs
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SYNOPSIS,
CHAPTER I—Harding Kent calls on
Demise Farrish to propose marriage ami i
finrls the house in great excitement over '
tho attempted suicide of her sister Kath I
aiine. Kent starts an investigation and !
fntds that Hngli Crandall, suitor, for j
| Katharine, who had been forbidden the !
house by General Parrish, had miked with |
Katharine over the telephone .iust before
f be shot herself. A torn piece of yellow
paper Is found, at sight of which CDn
•ral Parrish is stricken with paralysis.
j CTT VPTKR TT—Kent discovers that
r‘r;1 ’idajl has left town hurriedly. An
r> rr> w i'ls«r, an hanker, commits
suicide about tin* same time as Katharine
attempted her life.
CTT AFTER TTT — A yellow envelope is \
found in Kiser’s room. Postoffiee In^pec- ;
ror Davis, Kent’s friend, takes up the
case.
CHAPTER TV—Kent is convinced that
Crandall is at the bottom of the mystery.
CH M'TER V—Kent nod Davis search
Crandall’s room a^d find an address. !
“Dock Box 17. A rd way. N. J.” Kent
goes to Ardway to investigate and be
comes suspicious of a “Henry Cook.**
CHAPTER VT—A woman commits sui
cide at the Ardway Hotel. A yellow let
ter also figures in this case.
CHAPTER VIT—Kent calls Pouise on
'tie long distance telephone and finds that
"he had just been called by Crandall from
the .< - me booth. “Cook” disappears. The
Ardway postmaster is missing:
CHAPTER VTTT—Inspector Davis ar
rives at Ardway and takes up the inves
tigation. }?c discovers that the d^ad
woman Is Pc rah Sackeft of Bridgeport.
Doing** telephones Kent imploring him to
drop the investigation.
CHAPTER TT- Kent returns to New
York to g* t on explanation from I onise.
Me finds the body of a woman in Cen
tral Park and more yellow letter*. He
iwes Crandall, whom lie recognizes as
“Cook.” enter the Farrish home.
On The corner was a drugstore.
Sheltered by its awning I took my
stand to wait until Crandall loft the
house I could see the Farrish door,
yet niv presence there under the awn*
'ng would hardly be noticed. I had
not long to wait. In about five min
utes the door evened and the caller
merged. This time T had an opportu
nity to get a good look at him. I was
right. His face was that of the man
who had been registered in the Ard
way hotel as Henry Cook, who had so
abruptly left the room when the in
quest was being held as T bad begun
to ask questions about the yellow let
ter, who bad driven from the town be
hind the fasten horse obtainable.
Sheltered by ths Awning I Took My
Stand to Walt Until Crandall Left
the House.
lie came Bringing down the street
past where I stood. As he came closer
I was amazed to note that, his face
was not the unnatural color of the
morphine user's that I expected, but
ruddy with health. Ills eyes, however,
wore a strained expression and his
brow was knotted with wrinkles. I
was strongly tempted to spring out
from where I stood as ho passed, to
seize him by the throat and to make
him tell me all 1 wished to know about
the hideous mystery. Yet better judg
ment withheld my hRnd. After all,
the evidence I had against him was
not of the tangible sort that would
convict. Even though T knew of his
telephoning Katharine just before she
shot herself, even though General
Parrish had learned something about
him that barred him from the house,
even though we had found in his
rooms a hypodermic, syringe and the
address in New Jersey where the third
suicide hn(\^takcn place, even though
I myself had noted his suspicious ac
tions there, there was nothing definite
enough to warrant seizing him as yet.
I watched him as far down the ave
nue as my eye could follow and then
turned toward the Parrish house. This
time 1 was admitted without delay.
Apparently the maid had new instruc
tions.
"I’ll tell Miss Iconise yon are here,’*
she said as she showed me into tha
reception-room.
As I waited I tried to think how I
should greet Louise. While there was
D'UCjl Ibai l mighj. repronch_her tor.
felt that surely" it huT not been her
uilt. I knew she must he noting: un
er compulsion. 1 was dot mined,
hough, to let her know that I knew
hat Hugh Crandall had been in the
house.
Suddenly I heard a smothered
scream upstairs and a second later
Louise burst into the room. There
was terror in her face as she ran to
me.
"Oh, Harding,” she gasped, “it’s
'one—stolen!”
“What do you mean? What’s sto
’on?” I cried, seizing her hands tightly
n my own.
She was trembling all over and her
reath came in quick, short jerks,
he was dressed in an automobile hat
nd coat, but even through the thick
olds of her coat I could feel the pal
■itating of her heart. The new mys
ry, whatever it was, had been too
ouch for her already overstrained
.erres. She was in a condition close
y bordering on hysteria.
“Tell me about it, what was it?” I
aid.
"The yellow letter—-it’s gone, sto
cu!”
“Where was it?”
I had taken It with me the morn
ng I went down to Inspector Davis’
nice, hill after he had compared it
.ith the Kiser fragment he had re
timed it to me. I had restored it to
Louise when Davis and I called on her
after our visit to Mrs. Trnsk’s board
inghouse. I had not seen it since
then. My last recollection of it was
Macing it in iter hand as Davis and
t left the house.
“Let me think,” she said, trying
hard to regain her composure. “When
,ou and Mr. Davis were here the other
lay you gave it back to me. I took
t up-s'airs and put it in a drawer
in it little desk in my room. I locked
>he desk and hid the key in a vaso
n the mantel. T went to the desk
ust now to get it and it was gone.”
"Was the desk locked?”
Site redded.
“Who could have taken it?” I aelsed
Kven ns 1 framed the queSuou twi.
nine to me the thought of Crandall'i
i: it. lie It d been in the hotel ir
•Vrdvity where the women committed
suicide after reading a yellow letter
uid tearing it up. The scraps of that
otter had disappeared. More likely
he h id come here just to get that
crap of yellow paper lest its evidence
might bring home his crimes.
“Who has been in the house?”
“No one but the doctors and nurses
and the servants,” said i/ouise, flush
ing uneasily as she spoke.
I waited, expecting her to mention
Crandall's visit, hut though she hesi
tated for a second she said nothing
of it.
"I wonder who could liave taken It?”
the paid after an awkward pause.
“What motive could any one have?”
i asked, determined to direct, her
thoughts to Crandall. “The only per
son who would have a reason for mak
ing away with it would be some one
who feared that it might be used
against him.”
TJjere was a silence while we both
pondered the situation.
"You remember,’’ said Ixniise sud
denly, “the agitation my father showed
at light of that paper. If he were not
lying paralyzed up stairs I think he
would have tried to gain possession
Of it."
"How is your father, and your sis
ter?” I asked, suddenly recalling that
I had asked after neither of them.
Katharine is much better,” said Lou
ise. "She Is entirely conscious, though
very weak, but the doctor says that
she will in all probability recover
quickly. My father's condition remains
the same, though he seems to have
regained the use of his right hand.
He wrote some brief directions to-day
about his business.”
“Are you sure of all the servants?"
I asked.
“All of them have been 'With us for
years; all but one, ever since before
my mother's death. I would not think
of distrustihg any of them.”
“Are you certain the house has not
been entered in the night?"
1 was asking these questions with a
view of convincing her that it was
impossible for any one hut Crandall
to have taken (he yellow- scrap- for
any one else to have even a motive
for taking it.
"That would be impossible,” Fhe
said. "All the doors and windows are
protected by burglar alarms and 1
know they are in working order or I
! would have heard about it.”
"There is or there must have been,”
I said slowly, ‘some traitor in the
bouse, some thief, some one who had
an object in getting hold of that pa
per.”
“There has been no one here,” said
Louise with a painful effort, “no one
’ answering that description.”
“How did you come to look for the
: paper In your desk?”
“I wanted—” she stopped short.
“Mr. Kent,” she said, her entire
l manner toward me stiffening as she
j withdrew her hands from mine. “I
asked you last night If you would-not
cease your inquiries at once.”
“But—but—” I protestingly began
“I asked you to do what I requested
without any questions. You have told
me that you loved me. If that is the
case I know you will do what I ask
without trying to force my confidence.
Isn’t it enough for you to know that
I wish you to do it?”
"Louise, dear,” I said firmly, "a mys
terious trail of hidden evil in some
way has crossed your home. It has
stricken your sister and your father.
You yourself asked me to try to find
the secret and I vowed that I would.
I don’t know what your motive is in
making this strange request, but I
can’t believe you are doing it of your
own volition. I am certain that you j
are influenced by fear—fear lest some
greater evil will befall, if my efforts
to unmask the criminal are success
ful. Is it not so?”
"Don’t ask me, Harding,” she begged
piteously. "I can’t tell you. It is not
my secret. I can tell you nothing.
Please don’t ask me.”
More than ever now I was convinced
that fear of Crandall dominated her.
Quickly following on his telephone
message he had come to the house
and had cast over her the same mys
terious spell as had fallen on her sis
ter. More than ever was I determined
to follow the trail of mystery to it*
end, no matter where it lay or what It
cost. What was life to me if the wom
an I loved was to he for ever under
a shadow, In the power of some hid
den criminal who might prey on her
as he had done on the other members
of her family? I felt It my duty toward
her to go on and, If I could, compel
her to divulge something of what she
was holding back from me.
“Why did you want that bit. of the
yellow letter? What were you going
to do with it ?”
“I can’t tell you. Please don’t ask
me.”
“Why do you want me to stop my In
quiries?”
"1 can’t tell you. Please don't ask.”
“What was Hugh Crandall doing
here this morning?”
The question, direct and blunt ns I
put it, had almost the same effect as
if 1 had tired n bullet at her. 8h«
caught her breath quickly and her
face turned pale. I thought that she
was going to faint. With a great ef
fort she recovered, and looking me
straight. In (he eve, she answered soft
ly: “Mr. Crandall was not here this
morning. What made you think he
was?”
I did not try to conceal thp open
eyed amazement with which I stared
-it her as she gave me this unequivo
cal reply. What could it mean? I
could not, would not believe that this
I high principled, honorable girl would
wilfully deceive me, yet 1 was as sure
as hat 1 was standing there tha.
Hugh Crandall bad been in the hous*
, U> J.t morning. Could it have been tha
: 1 he had entered without her know!
1 edge? Was if possible that one of the
j maids in the Parrish home was in
his pay and had permitted him to en
| ter without Louise's knowledge? That
might explain the rifling of the locked
i desk. The maid might know of Lou
, iso's habit of hiding the key in a vase,
i It began to look as if 1 had a solution
1 of this new mystery. Vet It could
hardly he possible for Crandall to
have been In the house for fully half
an hour without Louise knowing It.
Furthermore, why had admittance
been denied me when 1 first called?
“I saw Hugh Crandall leaving this
house not ten minutes ago,” I said.
“Really!”
Her tone was cold, hard, forced,
though she tried to make it sound nat
ural.
“It was he who broke open your
1 desk,” I cried. “He wanted to regain
possession of that scrap of paper and
thus remove all evidence of hfa guilt.”
“I am afraid,” said Louise with the
manner of offended dignity, “that you
are entirely mistaken. I was not
aware that you knew Mr. Crandall by
sight.”
"If that wasn’t Hugh Crandall whe
came out of your house just now, who
was It?” I asked, my anger at this
nan whom I believed responsible for
the chain of evil getting the better
of me. “I don’t know Crandall, but 1
know the evil he Is responsible for,
for the tragedy of your sister, the
plight of your father, the suicide of
old Andrew Elser, the suicide of that
poor woman out in Ardway. Why, not
an hour ago I helped drag from the
park lake a fifth victim, a poor young
girl, driven to death by another of his
accursed yellow letters. I found the
fragments of it, water-soaked and illeg
ible, In the lake.”
“Mr. Kent,” Interrupted Louise, “you
were kind enough to undertake a mis
sion on my behalf and I appreciate It
greatly. Certain circumstances have
arisen that have entirely altered mat
;ers I called you up last night and
asked you to drop all investigations.
Vou have said that, you love me. By
hat love you say you hold for me T
now ask you, no—more-—I order you
!o make no further attempts to solve
ho mystery—pRase, Hnrdmg, please.’’
Her voice broke, and with one last
mature of appeal she flung hors°lf
nto n. chair and covered her fare with
ler hands.
Perplexed beyond measure with the
turn affairs had taken, with my heari
-veiling with sympathy for her, I stoo<
watching her slender form as it shoo)
with sobs, trying to make up rr.y mine,
what to do. My hesni bade me prom
ise her anything, everything if i:
would bring her peace of mind, ye*
my brain told me that it was best for
her, best for every one. if I should go
ahead as my friend, the inspector,
had advised.
“Ixmise,” I began, trying to keep
my voice steady, "if you will answet
me one question—”
“Don’t, Il§rdin£, ptea.se don’t.,” she
sobbed, lifting Her tear-stained lace
to me in entreaty. "You mustn’t. You
mustn’t ask me any questions. If ydu
love me, please do just ae I say.”
"Louise,” I replied almost sternly,
“you tire not yourself. Can't you rely
on me? Can’t you trust me? Don’t
you know tlmt I will do nothing that
is not for the best?”
I gathered her into my arms and
held her close. 1 prend my lips
against her fragrant hair where !t
strayed from under her art omolv'e
bonnet. As she lay unrcslsMing in i •
arms her sobs decreased and she :
came calmer.
"My darling,” I srtd, “I know
Hugh Crandall has been here. I t'«
that he has been influencing jo
“I Saw Hugh Crandall Leaving This
House Not Ten Minutes Ago.”
against me. Won’t you do what your
heart bids you and tell me every
thing about It?”
She drew a long deep breath and
gently freed herself from my enc r
eling arms and, facing me, looked at
me with Arm resolution written all
over her lovely fare.
"You must do what I tell you. I
ran answer no questions. I wish I
could, but I can't. You mustn't a.tic
me. It Isn't my secret.”
“The car Is waiting, Miss Iconise.”
As the maid’s voice interrupted she
gave a start, and reaching her hands
out impulsively to me. in more like
her own dear voice, said to me:
"Harding, 1 must go. Please trust
me, and please, please, do what 1 a: It
of you. Good-by."
She broke from my encircling hands,
and ran to the front door.
| By the time 1 reached it after b?r.
she was already in the car. 1 tried
to catch the direction she whispered
to the chauffeur but could not. P.etiye
1 could collect my thoughts the great
sixty horsepower machine had van
ished around the corner.
Where was she going? Tt soon’ d
to me that every hour add- i to ti.e
I chain of mysteries in which 1 fr- d
become involved. I was convinced
that In some wav Louise, too. had
been ensnared by the master of crime
who had plotted all this evil, but hew,
l could not Imagine. Yet more and
more, if seemed to me, all elites point
ed to Hugh Crandall. What eottld have
been Louise's motive in denying to
me that he had been in the house?
She must have known It.
I began to wish that I had taken
Davis’ adviee and remained In Ard
wav. Perhaps by this time I woo'd
have had some definite clue. I re
solved to go hack there at once. The
Inspector seemed to think that that
was the moat fruitful field for Investi
gation, and probably h» was right.
Hailing a taxi, I bad* him drive me
to the ferry, but to my great annoy
ance reached It just two minutes too
late to make a train. Too dispirited
to do anything else, I entered the wait
ing ferryboat, and, elnklng into a s<at
!m the *en#r, far* myaelf up to bitter
reflection eg fallune to solve the
problem T had eat myaelf. The more
I tbrnight abmrt It the more firmly I
became eenvlneed that. It was wise to
disregard Isuilse's request. My love
for her, my duty to her, demanded
that I go on.
So absorbed was I In mv reflections
that I did not notice that the boat
had reached Its slip, and I was almost,
the last, to leave It. Just as 1 stepped
off tha gang-plank a huge machine
shot by me, giving me barely time lr»
catch a look at the occupants, hut in
that fleeting glimpse I recognized
them both.
It was Louise with Hugh Crandall.
CHAPTER XI.
Mara Discoveries.
Tba worse tha Injury the less It
hurts at tha moment. I once saw a
man with both legs eut off laughing
and Joking with tha men who pulled
him from under a ear. Though he
died In ten minutes. I doubt if he suf
fered half as much as if he had
bumped his head or had run a splinter
under his thumb-nail. It is when you
are mortally hurt and live that the
pain becomes so terrible.
In the few m'nutes I had had with
Louise I had not realized the depth of
the wound in my heart her conduct
toward me had made. Kven when I
saw her dash away from me In an au
tomobile, pained though I was that our
Interview should have been eut short,
I still did not comprehend what a ter
rible blow it was that had befallen
me. It was the sight as I left the
ferry of the automobile dashing by,
with Lculse—the woman 1 loved—
seated beside Hugh Crandall, that
gave new poignancy to my pain, that
added to the tires of jealousy, that
made me understand to the full the
dire import of what had happened.