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'THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932 THE HAILEYBURIAN Page 3 EIGHTH NSTALMENT SYNOPSIS Six people, Horace Johnson (who tells the story) his wife, old Mrs. Dane, Herbert Robinson and his sister, Alice, and Dr. Sperry, friends and neighbors, are in the habit of holding weekly meet- ings. At one of them, Mrs. Dane, who is hostess, varies the program by un- expectedly arranging a spiritualistic seance with Miss Jeremy, a friend of Dr. Sperry and not a professional, as the medium. At the first sitting the medium tells the details of a murder as it is occur- ring. Later that night Sperry learns that a neighbor, Arthur Wells, has been shot mysteriously. With John- son he goes to the wells residence and they find confirmation of the medium's account. Mrs. Wells tells them her husband shot himself in a fit of de- Pression. Atasecond seance, Miss Jeremy adds details about a summer resort where been at the same time that Mrs. Wells was there. She also speaks of a poc- ketbook being lost whi-+ contained some important car tickets and letters. Mrs. Dane, alone of the women, seems thrilled by the inyestigation. Johnson goes alone and investigates the deserted house. He is frightened by strange noises, as of an intruder in the house, but completes his investiga- tion. : He leaves the house and in his ex- citement carries off the fire tongs, leaving them in his own hall rack where his wife discovers them the next morning and reproaches him for hir nocturnal wanderings. H- 7's0 forgets to bring away his overcoat, which is carried off by the mysterious stranger. Mrs. Dale learns of his peculiar actions and charges him with possessing an, unsuspected sense of humor. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "T am not aware " T began stiff- ly. "I have always believed that furnished to the Neighborhood Club its leaven of humor." "Don't spoil it," she begged. "Don't. If you could know how I have enjoy- ed it. All afternoon I have been chuckling. The fire-tongs, Horace. The fire-tongs!" Then I knew that my wife had been to Mrs. Dane and I drew a _ long breath. "I assure you," I said gravely, "that while doubtless I carried the wretched things home and--er--placed them where they were found, I have not the slightest recollection of it. And It is hardly amusing, is it?" "Amusing!" she cried. "It's aelic- ious. It's made me' a young woman again. Horace, if you could have seen your wife's face when she found them, I would give cheerfully almost any- thing T possess." But underneath her mirth I knew there was something else. And, after all, she could convince my wife if she were convinced herself. I told her of the visit Sperry and I had made the night Arthur Wells was shot, and of what we discovered; of the clerk at the pharmacy and_ his statement, and, last of all, of my own experience in the deserted house. She was very serious when I finished. Tea 'came, but we forgot to drink it. Her eyes flashed with excitement, her faded face flushed. And with it all, as I look back, there was an air of sup- simple, so direct. I acknowledged. thing has come of it." ed," she said impressively, appeared. They were in the same col- umn." vember Avenue and Park Avenue, possibly on an Eastern Line street car, a black handbag containing keys, car-tickets, private letters, and a money. Reward and no questions ask- ed if returned to Daily News office." compared the two. and I confess to a tingling feeling that coincidence, that element so much to be feared in any investigation, was not the solution here. a chance and I spoke of it. cab ride. SIGHT;UNSEEN MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Se "In what way?" "How does anyone trace lost art- icles?" she demanded. "By advertising, of course. tised for the bag." Last Wednesday I adver- I was too astonished to speak. "I reasoned like this: If there was no such bag, there was no harm done. As a matter of fact, if there was no such bag, the chances were we were all wrong, anyhow. a bag, I wanted it. vertisement as I inserted it." If there was such Here is the ad- She gave me a small newspaper cut- ting. "Lost, a handbag containing private letters, car-tickets, etc. Liberal regard paid for its return. A31, the Daily News." Please write to It was so And I, a lawyer and I sat with it on my palm. p resumably acute, had not thought of Charles Ellingham was known to have a 4 See "You are wasted on us, Mrs. Dane," "Well? I see some- "Yes, but I'm not ready for it." She dived again into the bag, and brought up another clipping. "On the day that I had that insert- "this also She read the second clipping aloud, slowly, that I might gain all its significance: f "Lost on the night of Monday, No- the second, between State small sum of She passed the clipping to me and I It looked strange But there was such "Coincidence rubbish!" she retorted. I am not through, my friend." She went down into the bag again, and I expected nothing less than the pocketbook, letters and all, to appear. But she dragged up, among a miscel- lany of articles women like to carry, an envelope. a "Yesterday," she said, "T took a taxi- You know my chair gets \ : and talk, and even labor. We think we are living. But for the last day or two I have been seeing visions--you and I and the rest of us, living on the surface, and underneath, carefully kept down so it will not make us uncom- fortable, a world of passion and crime and violence and suffering. That letter is a tragedy." But if she had any suspicion then as to the writer, and I think she had not, she said nothing, and soon after I started for home. In one way, Mrs. Johnson's refusal to speak to me that evening had a cer- tain value, for it enabled me to leave the house without explanation and thus to discover that, if an overcoat had been left in place of my own, it had been taken away. It also gave me an opportunity to return the fire-tongs, a proceeding which I had considered would assist in return of the entente cordiale at home, but which most un- justly appeared to have exactly the opposite effect. It has been my experience that the most innocent action may, under cer- tain circumstances, assume an appear- ance of extreme guilt... . By Saturday the condition of affairs between my wife and myself remained in statu quo, and I had decided on a bold step. This was to call a special meeting of the Neighborhood Club, without Miss Jeremy, and put before them the situation as it stood at that time, with a view to formulating a future course of action, and also of publicly vindicating myself before my wife. In deference to Herbert Robinson's recent attack of influenza, we met aft the Robinson house. Sperry himself wheeled Mrs. Dane over, and made a speech. "We have called this meeting," he said, "to determine whether the Neigh- borhood Club, as a body wishes to go on with the investigation or to stop where we are." He paused, but, as no one spoke, he went on again. "It is really not as simple as that," he said. "To stop now in view of the evidence, we intend to place before the Club, is to leave.i all, our minds certain suspicions -- that may be entirefy unjust. On the other hand, to go on is very possible to place fom "Tnis young lady is going to marry me," Doctor Sperry said. pressed excitement that seemed to have nothing to do with my narrative. I remembered it, however, when the denouement came the following week. She was a remarkable woman. Even then she knew, or strongly suspected, the thing that the rest of us had miss- ed, the x of the equation. But I think it only fair to record that she was in possession of facts which we did net have, and which she did not divulge until the end. : "Yon have been so ungenerous with me," she said finally, "that I am tempt- ed not to tell you why I sent for you. Of course, I know I am only a helpless old woman,.and you men are people of affairs. But now and then I have a flash of intelligence. I'm going to tell you, but you don't deserve ate She went down into the black silk bag at her side which was as much a part of her attire as the false front she wore with such careless abandon, and which, brown in color and indif- ferently sewed, was invariably parting from its mooring. She drew out a newspaper clipping. "On going over Clara's notes," she said, "I came to the conclusion, last Tuesday that the matter af the miss- ing handbag and the letters was impor- tant. More important, probably, than the mere record shows. Do you recall the note of distress in Miss Jeremy's voice? It was almost a wail." I had noticed it $ "J have plenty of time to think," she added, not without pathos. "There is only one Monday night in the week, and--the days are long. It occurred to me to try to trace that bag." tiresome, the newspaper office, and found the bag had not been turned in, but that there was a letter for A 31." out the envelope to me. ious human document. be no wiser for reading it, shows one thing: We are on the track of something." is written on glazed paper, ruled with blue lines. ing style we used to call Spencerian, and if it lacks character I am inclined to betveve that its weakness is merely the result of infrequent use of a pen. them Dane. grave and rather sad. our orderly lives. We eat, and sleep, occasionally. I stopped at She held "Read it." she observed, "It is a cur- You'll probably but it I have the letter before me now. It The writing is of the flow- "You know who this is from, I have the bag and the letters. In a safe place. If you would treat me like a human being, you could have I know where the walking- stick is, also. I will tell you this. I have no wish to do her any harm She will have to pay up in the next world. even if she gets off in this. The way I reason is this: As long as I have the things, I've got the whiphand. I've got you, too, al- thought you may think I haven't. » About the other matter I was innocent. I swear it again. I never did it. You are the only one in all the world. I would rather be dead than go on like this." It is unsigned.. I stared from the letter to Mrs. She was watching me, her face us all in a position where to keep si- lent is to be an accessory after crime." He then proceeded, in orderly fash- ion, to review the entire situation up to then Mrs. Dane then read and explained the two clippings and the letter, and the .situation, so far as it had develop- ed, was before the Club. Were we to go on, or to stop? We broke into animated discussion. The Ictter to A3l1 was the rock on which all our theories foundered, that arid the message the governess had sent to Charles Ellingham not to come to the Wells house that night. By no stretch of rather excited imaginations could we infagine Ellingham writing such a letter. Who had written the letter, then, and for whom was it meant? As to the telephone message, it seemed to preclude the possibility of Ellingham's having gone to the house that night. But the fact remained that aman, as yet unidentified, was un- doubtedly concerned in the case, had written the letter, and had probably been in the Wells house the night I went there alone. In the end, we decided to hold one more seance, and then, unless the fur- ther developments were such that we must go on, to let the affair drop. That my wife had felt a certain bit- terness toward Miss Jeremy, a jealousy of her powers, even of her youth, had not dawned on me. But when on Sun- "You and I, Horace," she said, "live day, in her new humility, she suggest- ed that we call on the medium that afternoon. I realized that, in her own way, she was making a sort of atone- ment. r Miss Jeremy was out riding with Sperry, but arrived shortly after we got there. Sperry was glad to see us. It was not hard to see how things were with him. He helped the girl out of her wraps with a manner that was almost proprietary, and drew a chair for her close to the small fire which hardly affected the chill of the room. Sperry looked at the girl and smiled. "Shall I tell them?" he said. "T want very much to have them know." He stood up, and with that uncon- scious drama which actuates a man at a crisis in his affairs, he put a hand on her shoulder. "This young lady is go- ing\to marry me," he said.. "We are very happy today." My wife, to my surprise, kissed the girl. Tea was brought in bv Hawkins! I knew him immediately, but he did not at once see me. He was evidently accustomed to seeing Sperry there, and he did not recognize my wife. But when he had put down the tray and man actually stared. I cannot say that he changed color. He was always 4 pale, anaemic-looking individual, But it was a perceptible instant before he stooped and gathered up the coat. TO BE CONTINUED. Canadian National Railways Earnings The gross revenues of the Can- adian National Railways for the week ending July 21st, 1932, were $2,784,068, as compared with $3, 298,097. for the corresponding period in 1931, a decrease of $514,029. Temiskaming % Northern Ontario Railway TRAIN SERVICE Train No. 17--North Bay to Mooso- nee, leaves North Bay 10.00 a.m. Mon- days, Wednesday and Fridays, arrives Moosonee 8.00 a.m. Tuesdays, Thurs- days and Saturdays. turned to pick up Sperry's overcoat to Train No. 18--Moosonee to North ie 7 A 1 carry it into the hall, he saw me. The! Bay, leaves Moosonee 9.30 p.m. IN Tues- days, Thursdays and Sundays, arrives orth Bay 5.50 p.m. Mondays, Wed- nesdays and Fridays. Trains Nos. 17 and 18 use Canadian Pacific Railway station at North Bay, and operate sleeping car service be- tween Moosonee, Cochrane, Porquis Jct., Swastika, Cobalt and Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Trains Nos. 46 and 47--Through ser- vice daily between Toronto and Coch- rane ,carrying through sleepers be- tween Toronto and Timmins, Toronto and Rouyn, and between Montreal and Cochrane. Parlor Cafe Car service operating between North Bay and Swastika These trains use Canadian National Railways station at North Bay Connections at Earlton Jct. for Elk Lake, daily except Sunday. Daily except Sunday service between Englehart and Charlton. Connections at Perquis Jct. daily for Connaught, South Porcupine, Schumacher, Timmins and Iroquois Falls. , Connections at Swastika daily for Kirkland Lake, Cheminis, Aldermac, Rouyn and Noranda. 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