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id HAS GONE BEFORE, arret Folsom is stabbed to death Yalle swimming at Ocean Town, NJ. - believed that the death weapon 48 a pichaq, an Oriental knife, and Hat hi was purchased on the board- Folsom's bathin i bad g companions been Roger Neville, a business part- nee; Mrs. Helen Barnaby and Car- melita yaldons i i nastasia = Folsom, eccentric ani masterful sister of the dead jon takes command, and it is establis ed that one Croydon Sears is a fancier of curious weapons. Sears admits buying twy knives but wot the pichag: nastasia engages Titus an architect, to work on the ote Dan Pelton, Folsom's nephew, arrives and is puzzled by the curious French dolls in his uncle's rooms. Croydon Sears sends for Fleming Stone, famous detective. He tells him Folsom had been blackmailing him and he had lied at the inquest but was innocent. Stone meets others of the circle, including Ned Barron and his wife, Madeline, who puzzles him. Stone comes upon Carmelita Val- don, whose suspicious actions have in- Yived her, and determines to question er. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XLVI "Well, I don't know anything about that," said the fat bellboy, "but Fol- som waited over for another car while he looked at them, They didn't see him; they were laughing and talking together, but he couldn't 'a' been more kerflummuxed if he'd seen the Old Nick himself." "Was he unpleasantly surprised?" "I don't think so, sir. He didn't seem either glad or sorry, especially, only just struck. That's all." "Well, that doesn't seem to amount to much," Stone sighed wearily. "Hello, here's Myrtle. We seem to get clean towels every hour on the hour." "That {sn't why Myrt shows up so frequent," Tubby said, and, laughing, he went away. "Myrtle," the detective said to the chambermaid, "I suppose you know nothing of Mr. Folsom that you haven't told, do you?" "Not a spick-speck," declared the girl. "Wish I did. I'd be rich if I could answer the questions that's been fired at me ever since the poor man died." "He was nice to you " "He was a gentleman, Mr. Folsom was. He was nice, if you mean gen- erous with his money and polite-man- nered. But if you mean anything like petting or silly talk, no." "Stil" you only saw him once or twicg ths " "That's all sir, but we girls size up a man in less time than that. And Mr, Folsom, he wasn't the sort. to be silly that way. The only silly ways he had was this doll racket." She looked around at the dolls, still scattered about the room, and going to one of them changed its position to what she deemed a more picturesque se. "You're fond of them?" Stone said, as she fingered the short skirts and long slim legs of the doll. "T Jove 'em," she declared. "As a baby I was always crazy about dolls. I had dozens of them, though none, of course, except cheap ones. And even as I grew older I didn't outgrow my love for dolls. Then, a few years ago, these began to be the rage. I have A two or three, but they are not the expensive kind like these. You know they make imitations that are quite dear, but nothing of this sort is made 'over here. dolls, or imported ones, anyway." played with the dolls, and Stone watched her curiously. a child who loved dolls, mingled with the natural feminine delight in ex- qiiisite fabrics and harmonious colors. 1 hear," he said. as there?" These are all French As Myrtle talked she carressed and Yet it was only the admiration of "Pelton gave you one of these dolls, "Was it as pretty "Beautiful I" : {ais dol, the ons that ooked like he would yet have her for his own Myrtle turned rapt eyes to him, "It was the one Mr. Fol- som loved best. Mr. Pelton let me take my choice and so I took that one. Oh, it's beautiful." "Will you let me see it, Myrtle? Where is it?" "In my room: Yes, sir, I'll get it." She went away and returned with the doll. Moreover, Folsom had declared the , was bis best love, and that again, This implied that ke had formerly ed her and-- Where was it all leading? Clearly, Je had never connect- ed the appearance of this doll with the beauti Mrs. Barron. But then, Myrtie dopbtless'did not know Made! line. T i on Myrtle's floor, and the girl had no| way of seeing her, as her duties never took her to the lounge.or dining room. Tubby might ¢ the "1 blance, but a boy would not notice such things. 4 For a moment Stone was so shock- od, 80 upset by the vistas opening be- fore his troubled imagination, that he was tempted to call Myrtle back, buy the doll from her and burn it up. Yet he could not, in honesty, sup- press such a definite lead: He shrank from the job of piecing things together, but it had to be done. First he thought up everything he knew about Madeline Barron. It wasn't much, but it was definite, Barron's rooms were not |. Ask your Rogoers Dealer for a De- . monstration ia Your Home. To begin with, he remembered her unwillingness to talk on the subject (ft Folsom's death. When he had about it, she had bécome so nervously excited as to be almost hysterical, "Then, when he had taxed her with this, she had declared it was because she was sympathetic with Folsom's sister and nephew. But further prob: ing had brought out an assertion that her unrest was because of worry lest Croydon Sears be suspected of the crime. Then, too, she had stated that she had absolutely no acquaintance with Garrett Folsom, and knew nothing 6f him save what she had heard since "ThigAs my hour off," she explain- his tragic death. She had deeply re- asked her a few simple questions|' Q. R.8. Music Co., Toronto, Ont, § TF ' A brisk hike on the boardwalk seemed to e indicated, and with a sigh Stone went out to take it. As he passed the squad of empty chairs at the great hotel entrance a sudden thought struck him. " He turned to the group of idle but alertly watchful chair-pushers, and said: "Listen sharp here, boys. . Did any of you take Mr. Folsom out in a chair the night he was here? You know; the man who was killed in the ocean." "Nope," and "No, sir," came from various disinterested hearers, and chair that night, but he came home in one." "What?" Stone's hand sank deeper in his pocket and some coins clinked pleasantly.~"Don't make up anything, now, that won't do." "No, sir," and the earnest voice be- tokened truth, "but that gentleman, he came ot here to this door, about the middle of the evening: Say 'bout ten o'clock." "Was he alone?" "Yes, sir, allNalone. "There's a dollar, you can find me the brought him here, Ii (To be continued reefing Minard's Liniment kills wa mmnetilipetirenn Gaping Cavity. Null--*"I started out on the theor me." Vold*-"And yo Null--"Well, now." "THERE'S A DOLLAR, MY MAN, AND IF YOU CAN FIND FOR ME THE CHAIR MAN WHO BROUGHT HIM, I'LL DOUBLE IT." ed. thing else: me. Isn't she lovely?" hands and stared at it. Then he said: som's favorite?" "Yes, sir. loved. this one best." "Go a doesn't, ¥ will, Bat go away now." Myrtle fllness, nor did he look ill. But there was no choice Stone said go, and she" went. Th "Mr, Pelton said he didn't mind if I came in here and played with the dolls, so long as I don't touch any- This is the one he gave Fleming Stone took the doll in his For a moment he was speechless. "Did you tell me this was Mr. Fol- I think it reminded him of somebody he loved. For he talked to it and said: "You're mine--you shall be mine again--and forever!' or some such words as that. Oh, yes, he And Stone, saw that the doll was the very ge of Madeline Barron. now, Myrtle," Stone said, speaking, as she said afterward, like| 'a man in a dream. "Go away, Myrtle | Here, take your doll. I daresay Mr,| aio | Pelton will give you another. If he anced at him sharply. | for her. about a real stranger. nearest friends. Anyway, it had to be looked the merest chance | Under the British Nomination _ Bcheme, your relatives and friends can travel at this low rate from' sented his queries, so deeply that it began now to seem she could scarcely have been so annoyed at .inquiries Well, none of this meant much, but it all went to prove that Madeline Barron had a secret trouble that wes |velope of Diainond Dyes will duplicate not shared by her husband or her into, and perhaps--and Stone hoped--it would turn out to méan nothing and the doll's resemblance to the lady be ey Ocean Fare £2 mel "Unmarried Med Co them 80 often." Did you know, that a fifteen-cent en- vogue in dainty 'underwear? - Keep your oldest Hngerie, stacking too, in the shade of the hour. s easy if you only use a true dye. Don't streak your nice things with synthetic tints. Dye or tint anything; dresses, or drapes. You can work wonders with a few, inexpem Diamond * Dyes (tfrue dyes).: New colors right over the old. Any kind of material. FREE: Call at your druggist's and get a free. Diam Valuable suggestions, simple | color. & aT od frock shown here. The ekirt is shir- red across the front and is joined to the bodige. ' There are tucks at each shoulder, frilled cu tight-fitting sleeves Stone was about to go on his way, B-41g] g when the sight of his hand sugges- and a1 lldr. No. 1478 is for tively in his pocket stirred the mem-| Te Women, and is in ory of one of the pushmen. Sizes 6, 18 andl 20 years. Size 18 (36 "I say, Boss," he volunteered, "that|o % ) I B% Jards 39.juieh, > idn' i aterial, ce Mr, Folsom, he didn't go out in no hy setton: lly, giving number and size of such Our Crimes." Bui-ufé not told about! any delicate tint 'that may be the: ond Dye Cyclopedia. | - samples. Or, | BRITA! 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He contracted with the gov- ernment, at the government's request, to deliver the bonds at' certain fixed prices, and he carried out his contract faithfully, to the public advantage. He made a reagonable profit by the transaction--but it, should be cons sidened th Rdgglirred a risk, His ~The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for pain. But it's just as important to know that there is only one : going Aspirin. "The name Bayer is on tablet, and-on the If the name Bayer s, it's orion if it d itis ot). Headaches arc dispelled by Aspirin. So d the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis "ism Aspirin--at are oo loss mo beep greater n pine of the ely misunder- who presided ie jurnwhich con- "thought he-was not profit at all, and that f own he was was de- nce. The $200,000 'and which he paid han the amount of who signed the . hich we have al ludeg gsgest the form which Mr: Ja mdication should take, Part of his punishment cannot be re- mitted. 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