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Folgom's Satine companions 'had Nevi ley Ta elen Bar- It is established thar Fol oth," Just befére his death Wad been Handi 2 next to Aled Barron, known as the copper kin Then the startling "snnouncement 'is made that Folsom had hee stabbed b death'in the water. Ross, his valet, is ma as are Barron and his , "but no ight is shied on the mys- Se estonia Folsom, eccentric and masterful sister of the dead man, ar- rives and takes command. At the in- yduest it is established that the death Kae, was a pichag, an Oriental Sand that it and been purchased on the boardwalk. hag hoon Ju Valdon, who stood on the other side of Folsom at the time of his death, is unable to describe his Imetions at the time, land the coroner | seems suspicious. 'NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XX. "That's all right, then," said Anas- (tasia Folsom to Riggs, "we'll waste no more time over it just now. First jof all, have yiu the slightest idea of | any ndividaal whom you consider | responsible for my brother's death?" * No, I haven't, except to say that jany one near him in the ocean that morning might be the murderer." "But we can't hale to court all the bathers in the'ocean at that'time. We must get. at it.eome other way." "And perhaps the logical way is through the motive." "Now that's a sensible remark. Of course we 'must work through 'the motive. And that's just what I can't conceive of. How Gould anyone want to kill my brother Why, Garrett was the best man inthe world, The finest character; "the kindest, dearest bros ,- Aher 1" "Now, now, dear lady, I make all allowances for the devotion of an affectionate sister, but 'you musa't idedlize the man." "But it's true. Every dns who knew him will 'tell you the same. He was a remarkable man--a man of a thou- sand." Titus Riggs had heard much about Garrett Folsom since the unfortunate man's death, and most of 'what he had (hoard Was greatly at varignee with his } ' Yet 'he felt a hesi- her ideals too "It Stands to Teason,: Miss Folsom, | that somebody must have looked upon you brother with a less kindly eye than 'your 'own. Unless Mr, Folsom was killed by mistaks "Po you think that: probable" "Frankly 1 don't, 'it is pos- sible. - But if we're to find out the truth wé can't depend on imaginings or vague suppositions, We must get down to facts." To trug-evidence 'and proved. testimon: ne "That's just it!" a Anbstasia's face 'brightenéd. "But, so 'far as I can vee, we have ro evidence and no testimony "of any account." "That's pretty nearly. rue. | First of all, what about the man. Ross? Is he Absolutely Snsyspestablel' its seabbard cn "Absolutely, I wiily'in ne tway, I could suspect Rosa. 1 mean'it would be a logical way to 186k. "But he can't Ne iy be at Spall He is ultesly respectable and qiidet-lived; he Hse always been by to Garrett's waéll- being, and he is, in all respects, 'the idetil servant, with no underhamred Wie or ultarior motives' © 1 "Does Ke | ndything from Mr. Folsom's will?" "There is, a 'bequest to him of 'a thousand dollars. But that would never tempt him to murder his mas- ter, for I happen to know Rose has a d-sized bank account of his own. My brother gave him a generous sal: ary, and paid-all his living 'expenses, even to clothes and a 'small motor car. No, Ross had nothing to gain by Gar- rett's 'death, and much 'to lose." "What 'ebout other servants?" "They are all at our home in Chi- " ~ "They receive bequests under Mr. Folsom's will?" "Two or three do. But they are small legacies. Oh, the servants are out of the question." "Who does benefi by the will?" "Only 'myself, "Mr, Pelton, my nephew, and Mr. Roger Neville. We anything 'he'd tell. you can pin the' erime on to someone in 'Ameriea--someone down here." "At any rate we must try to do so. There's the da y you know. That ought to be a clue--" : "I doubt it. I know how these auctions down here are fun. I'mean auctiofl" sales of unimportant goods. If that bad been 'a really valuable Oriental curio, of course, a record would have beén made of the buyer and the price and all that. But there are thousands of 'cheap items sold at auction 'that aré not recorded and no reazon why they should be." "All true emough. And with the ocean 'to clean it, there's no chance of any finger prints on the knife. No, it doesn't seem hopeful as a clue. Yet the first principle of detection is in- vestigation of the weapon used." "Well, it's been investigated. I'm not unreasonable, Mr. Riggs. I don't expect you to work miracles, But I do want you to use your common sense, which is more than some de- tectives db, and work with me and see if we can't succeed." "I'll do that. I accept your propo- stion, Miss Folsom, and we'll leave "FIRST OF ALL, MISS FOBSOM, T1"WANT A LOOK INTO 'MR. FOLBOM'S LUGGAGE AND PAPERS! » each get about one-third of Garrett's estate. "And as I exclude you, because you |. loved your brother, and I exclude Mr: Pelton, because. you .tell me 'he: was! in New York at the time, that leaves only Mr. Neville to -be discussed. 'What about him?" y your very generous offer as to salary "When 1 " remuneration. I knowy as well as ot that it seems absurd for a man to try detective ga series otters from Mrs. is homesteading in Canada marks the 'frontier home of claim have come letters enlisting our warm sympathy In a struggle which, through 'it 'seems 'almost unparalleled, doubtless has its counterpart in many an unchronicied life. Readers will re- member Mrs. Rose's letters written: from her American Stump Farm which we published In February, March, and April, 1027. This later correspond: ence-comes to us through the Madness of Dr. Mary 'Hobart of Massach: Ini the earlier serfes Mrs. Rose 3 nd her seventy year old husband and nine year old son were camping in a tent In latitude 50 degrees. A few of 'the letters are: as follows: -- + Port Vermilion, Alberta, July 10, 1926 Dear Doctor-Lady: -- Iam now on the steamer going north and will land very soon, so this will be a short letter 80 I can get it ready and leave it here on the steamer to take back: to civilization. 'We will land at L. Point, which is ten miles before we come to the trading post. There is only one white gettier there and he is on the 'boat. He has fifteen chiléren ~is a very large, fine-looking, jovial man. His father was a missionary and-the first white man here. He has taken-a great fancy to Paddy, and as he is-a very rieh man his word is law on the river. 'The boat was crowded | ma and we had no berths.and night was coming on. He called the purser]. and told him 'to give us a good tate room and look after Say, I never saw & man jump around so swiftly, The. best stateroom was Elven to ms: and: we had 'every atten: tion 'as if" we were rich. Daddy was eight days in the freight ¢ar and was in a dreadful state when he arrived. I'took him to a"hotel and gave a wo- water from the creek and heat two cans of it, and then I bathed the poor dear and put him to bed. ~ He couldn't even - eat for exhaustion He -was just a helpless baby. I'm mo glad Mr. L. has taken charge of us. 'Now everything will be all right and I've quit worrying." Boy is the 'only child on the boat and 1s very happy. Everybod wants him, and from the captain, who coaxes him up into his tower and lets him use his telescopes, to the engineer and deck bands, be surely has a.good time. |. Leaving: Edmonton, the freight that On our office map a blue:star: on the go. white waate area of morthwestern Hilda Rose: From her Peace River |ghatte: Rose; t {Hooked tired and needed rest. River Town distriets. are man a dollar to carry me four pails of [a "see her mind was 'know 'it takes some ertar colilne to come dn here and] Jive alone and. not see Hore than anes oo mis ar" a you haven't ea | lonesomeness will ge! ind This wo- ton flelds of Texas. She knows no- thing but work. . I questioned her about Jer lite bere in order to learn | what 1 could of the lonsliness that makes, insanity among sheep herders and farm women. ; I 8ge by 'one of your otters 'that you have mq conception «of how far north 'I'am. Calgary, is.a darge city erowdsd with rears. Farther. north: is Rdmon- ton, also a big clty. Next comes Peace River, a amall town at the end of the raliroad. It has some antos and two wooden hotels. Each hotel has a bathroom fn 'it, but you have to carry ybur 'water up 'from the creek 'and heat ft on the kitchen range if you want to take a bath. Then I went on a steanier that holds thirty carioads.of freight in the bottom, We went north] all the way until we came o the Great. Slave Lake Region. We got off just this stde of it in the wilderness. There are no-autos in 'here. There are nine white 'people at Fort Vermilion, 'the Governor, doctor, Mounted Police, 'Hudson Bay man, and. so forth, Get a d find the Great Slave Lake. A little south of it--that's here. Boy hés already had two ievitations Ir gon Indians to go trappin, Shor. ith hig thero when ba gets: abit i The 'Calgary, Fdmonton, farms till it looks like avoheckerboard. Hero. is the prime) wilderness. Un- jess I have the dog- with me I never dure go out of sigh' of the house, as I get lost so earily. ~The white set tler's-wife and children bave to cilmb tree quite freguenily. when picking Yhorrios to see in what direction to.go home. Ag there are no roads in the -gea, 80 there are none here. May 31; 1927 | Boy and I went hunting yesterday together 'for 'the first time this year. 'He got four ducks, each time he shot getting) bis bird. The fifth tims he shot hedkilled his duck, but she floated out of reach and. tbe water was too ideep. for him to wade in after her. He can't swim yet very well, and I can't either, Of those he brought home, two were mig mallards, one was an Tndian | Daddy was on lost twelve .cars just. behind 'him. . They turned turtle and piled up on'the track so that my train' was delayed eleven hours. ' Finally we | got going again and we had a wreck, + but our car wag lett standing on the track. This was in a.Ewamp and we. were there six hours at night; and the ' mosplitoes. descended onus and Boy | almost lost-his-mind, though Lawrapped his degs dn my ; tiand fanned him constantly. Finally 'they Tastied => an ol 'locomotive and' a fr and'took us to Peace River Town. oi 'was very crowded and' the first-class passengers were horrified when they had to ride with us emigrants. Three in a seat and on the floor, just as tight as could be. . No lights, and they sang 80Ngs -a8 -we rode along, for most of ' ' us swere; "happy to be going again through the:dark hills toi safety. I'have no time to'write more, The land Jooks green, 'lovely, and 'lone- some: I'am a Mitte homesick. Just thirty-one are white, the white women | duck; and the other was a speonbill. It's all the:meat we have and it's very' {Bood. He Is reglly Eating 1 to be 4 a yyery Eo shot. Meat is very scarce here some y! {and Las been so. for quite 4 few years, py fhe Indians say. It's 'too far aortl and ithe dountry is so jarge, and wolves keep it down, 'too, But {@ucks are good 'as 'long es they ; last. "After -a While 'there will be: 'prairie | "chickens. There are small deer-here, {but they are very scarce. I have never seen one. In the muskegs there are mouse, but except in winter they are fmpassable. "Bands 'of large wolves feedon'them. It's such. big, wild: country--big dakes, rivers, and. muskegs; no «rails and.no", . Less, than two human beings. 078th {icp thousand square miles, and that. Indians, too. I loud "that I'm lonesome, ; Robinson Crusoe existence. le bon 'ing alive iyet buried, "Books will save | °' gone fnsane--not| a 8. mar popimdhnl by 'trom the €ot-| f A YOUTHFUL FROCK. This charmingly simple frock Is flounces of material or lace at the front. - The sleeves are long and gath- ered to wrist-bands, or short and open at the sid:s. 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ITrappers:tell i \° 'white Hrom the outside | '| "pull out" 'of their selficonsol % yard less 80-inch mater- | the {Military Contribution in Legis-| "Inthe. unexplained to ne arestest pleasure." queer a whose 'Thymes are as fine as any we can offer to our children? Have you meen 'them beg for more and more of that other child, far, far away' that in another garden plays 'that little child 'that Stevemson pfe- 'tures to. us so sympathetically, his small. horizon, his tiny exquisite ob- rainpool seas? your children laugh -and chuckle awit old Jim Jay, or live again with the old lady who went blackberry pleking, "halfway over fron waepi sto wick- ing"? Yes, the «wée-small door has opened. Our children are reliving the dence, redigcovering the fojk-lore, re- entering ithe -poetsy 'kiygdom. They are learning fo express the ves, to usness, and to weave their own dfeams, thelr fawn times, their own aspirations, their | very selves Into patterrs of beaity." We are living ina new era of charm and joy' through our. contémporary Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, Bina St. '| Vincent Millay, Sarg * Teasdale "and all 'the rest, have given to'us.a few in one piece with two gathehéd "solace, a sweet nectar (o. ip. have taken us all into the land of "chofce : colors and: stories" : And 'the librarians, bless them !-- have péeped right over the adult world y stralght. inte the Learts of . the chil: dren. They have brought to the Mb- raries the poetry written not about children, but for children. They are helping the childre.d to look for (hat | something in: poetry that they look 'for in music or in beautiful friend- ships. We have 1ct the children in---their choices, their 'desires, their tastes are all eonridered. we. slow them to make wee sm oems of their own, to cleea their CR and see and form | their own pictures, to tfaved afar "up a-hill anda hill" and back. again for this is their birthright--"The word with all ite grace. of 'meaning and 1 ! Cloudesley : "Brereton in the Gon- temporary Resiew: Like the poor, the us, and Fist as opinions of the poor yy: from. the Tenmysonian dictum 'of ogarding thm as bad in the lump jects of fancy, 'his' ¢lover trees and 2 And have you quite reoentty beard © hss poets. "Robert Frost, Vachel Yaindsay, - * 3 3 e soapbox. orator's cliche of their it fe sort of sexclusive and. inex § Boumkible Hite ve had the old- belief that the child is 2 3 . criminal, and i Br t