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i = £ WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE. Death strikes Garrett Folsom while bathing with th Sete aja at Ocean Town, where | tec NJ. AL the umes te they h been guests, an 'inquiry begun, ad be a doctor, perfunctorily examining him on the beach, pro- neces him dead. som's companions . had Rages Neville, 'Mrs, Helen 2 on Carmelita Valdon. It is estab- ust before his death, had been Etan next to Ned Barron, known as the ¢ r king, Folsom's sister, Anas is sent for in New York. Then gis 'startling announcement is made that Folsom had been stabbed to death in the ites. Roa: is pet, i questioned, no t is sl ol e mystery. Anastasia Folam, eceentine and Basterful takes command, She Ned Barron and his wife, and Te, Riggs and Robin Sears, listen- ing, believes she already entertains 8. Now GO ON WITH THE STORY. CHAPTER XIV. Riggs and Robin Sears thought deeply, and were suddenly brought to attention by the decided tones of Miss Folsom, as she said: "Well, then, I'll ask you, Mr. Bar- ron, and you, Mr. Sears, to go with me at once to the office and give your itions." It was clear from the glance of the speaker that she meant Croydon Sears and not his son. But Robin, eager for the opportun- fty of seeing the investigation car- , Tied on, said, quickly, "Come on, dad. "Pm going with you." "Andi I, of course," ' added; which left only Madeline Bar- ron and Angelica Falr behind. "You girls better go up to your rooms," Barton said, glancmg at his wife. "Run along Maddy, and take Angel with you." "I will, Ned. Come to vs there as soon as you can get away." Miss Folsom seemed to marshal her erowd along the way, and Jed them to . Room J, where already a crowd was | Besieging the 'door. Tite Riggs and Robin Sears fell behind and the elder man said, "Sis- ter is certainly on the warpath! 1 shouldn't care to be the villain of the picce if she is hunting him down!" . "No. And she will hunt him down and convict him before she a ques- thro "But she can't do that all on Yer own," Riggs returned and Jury will 'have 'something. to say." Young Sears smiled "I've been "reading 'Alice ny Wonderland' to the Barron kiddie," he said, "and sister reminds me much of one of the Jingles: "Il be judge, Tl be Jury, % said cunning old Fury, 'I'll try the whole cause and condemn you to death!' "Somehow Miss Folsom seems to me very like cunning old Fury." "Yes, that just expresses her, I'm much 'interested to see' what she makes out of the mystery." They entered Room J to find it al- most filled with would-be witnesses. It was amazing to see how many people had suddenly bethought them- selves of knowledge they possessed concerning the behavior of Garrett li at Sea | ieneed Jepson, whose knowledge of the "The judge! cain Wells Folsom while in bathing the day be- fore. Detective Jepeon and the hotel de- tective, Dixon, were at their wits' end to decide which ones were important to be listened to and which should be summarily dismissed with scant at- been | ent Men and women both, nearly all with an air of mysterious knowledge, throngad the place end moré or less insistintly 'teled to pour: forth their stories. Tite. Riggs was deeply interested, and found himself a place near the interlocutors, where he might get the drift of the examinations going om. He was. surprised at the deft handling of the crowd by the exper- value of testimony enabled him to dis- miss many with a few words, and held others while he put leading questions to them. But, after all, little was told of any real help to the investigation, "You i" my brother?" The words were sot at'him almost accus- ingly. "I' had met him a few thhes in busi- ness. 1 never met Mr, Folsom soci- ally." "No, but I have some letters you have written him." Yes?" ~The monosyllable was a mere murmur-of courtesy and carried Most of the reports were merely from those who had seen Garrett Fol- no invitation to further disclosures. "Yes. You will be so good as to Tite . Riggs | i i ¥ WOULD-BE WITNESSES. THEY ENTERED ROOM J TOFIND IT ALMOST. FILLED WITH som in the water, and had perhaps heard him speak a few words to his companions, . Others 'told of peeing him on the beach before he entered the surf, but none could tell of any one who might have attacked him with murderous intent, Z "All right, all right," Jepson would, say to the garrulous ones, 'this isn't an inquest. I'll take your name and if wanted you will be called for." It really seemed as if many gave, precious," fin he wants by ting for it, shout vigorously all day. He is pampered in a manner which would have made lls greatgrand- mother stard™ with 'amazement. Hi bath water must be gauged with a clinical themomete:, instead of be ing tested with the back of the hand. His victuals are all scrupulously weighed, and compounded with due re- gard to their vitamines. 'He must her. The "dear precious" must not set up apperdieftie; and this will give him stomach-ache, and that will in- duce hiccups. = Dust and dirt must not soll his deinty body. Therefore crawling on all fours, that delight of children -of other generations, is forbidden to him, "I couldn't dream of letting ' the darling crawl about," his idoHsing mother says, "The doctor tells me there are millions of germs in floor dust, and the dear sweetums: mht] get 'all sorts of @iseases." All his toys must be of the hyglenie variety, safe and uninteresting. Not {aor him the "purple" monkey, "Climbing up a yellow stick." There is too great a fear in his mother's mied "Hat he would-- "suck {he paint #li off, "And make him deathly sick." 'He must not play with the little boy and girl next: deer, They may be. sickening for scarlatina or chicken: POX; OF, even Worse, they may teach him bad manners... So the embryo citizen begins lite in glorious isolation. One day the autocratic stranger, who 1s.only about the house at week- ends, issues a fiat, "Come now, old girl, that youngster must start school." | Floods of tears from mother and "boy. "He 'shan't" go {o a disgusting eéle- mentary school, so there" Motlycoddied: to 'M: The autocratic strarger compromis- "|'ed, and feminine snobbery trimuphs. The tearful mamma {finds solace in the prospectus of & dame school at the: 'end of the street, offering: "Refined instructions to little beys.and. gris, by staff of Gentlewomen. Mannere and deportment Prominent Features." Though his desfination fs but a couple of hundred 'yards off, his fond mother must .see him to and fro. When the sun shines, her darling boy appear at the inguest and explain those letters." "Certainly," said Croydon Sears. Robin had looked up anxiously at the beginning of this Sonyersation, but as he noted his father's comple! indifference to the remarks of oe lady, he breathed freely again and returned his attention to the scene before him... «- | Although the detectives. gave Miss! Set font i, and made must keep his hat; on, lest-he gets 4 sunstroke. In light -rain he is -| sheathed in oflskins. vs Later on, she will choose every- , thing he needs, buy Lis derclothing, and tell him when tc change it. He will have t which will take bim'too fag from home; Overdrawn? Net at all. Scores of 'such cases exist in every | mother-complex. 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It 1s" belleved the: quake 'was of un usual severity but that the damage was confined to the northern Kansu refuse any billet). TH region in. the vicinity 'of 'Liangchow. | | There 1s no means of making an ay- -thentic check, however, since tife com- mission's Kansu: committee, mostly : lias i b of | foreign 'evacuation ot the province: | here "are no 'other agencies capable of compiling estimates of casualties. 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