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. pichaq. Part], io Tips twitching a little with emotion an Oriental n Ay on the Vrs 'but Just once agein, Please. master, Mr. Fol- "Here in this room, sir," said wi} but otherwise calm, "Yes, Hr "WI were you sitblig?" "I wasn't sitting, sir. I stood at the Nadow looking down 'at the "its learned that one C yd Beats A buying two knives but not the astasia engages Titus Ri archi to work on the case. Pelton, the dead man's nephew, ar rives and is jnteigued by some curious French dolls in Folsom's room. Croydon Sears sends for Fleming Stone, famous detective. He tells him Folsom had been blackmailing him and Je had lied at the Squash but was innocent. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL. "Has any one meddled with things since you eaw them Stone said in a most matter-of-fact tone. "No," eaid Pelton, looking up in surprise, but turning red. "Who would do so, and why?" and yet li for Mr. Fol- esom's step in the hall n "I see. You didn't see the commo- tion attendant on the bringing of Mr, n | Folsom's body from the water?" "No, sir. It fe not visible from these windows, Or if it is, I didn't see it. If I had I should have rushed i there, sir." "Of course, yes. Now, Ross, you have another good master in Mr. Poi. ton?" | "Yes, sir. " "And he is confidential with you, as uce, Mr Folsom was?' interlocutor with a mild wonder, as if not understanding the drift, but pay- ing attention to the words, "When he leaves the room, 6! doesn't lock up things from you?" oh was that of Caesar's wife at her best. "No. I'm sure of that. Well, then; this evening, while Mr, Pelton was out, who could have come in here and "I don't know, I'm Te and Stone meddled with his belongings?" "JUST A FEW QUESTIONS, M ROSS. 9 TO Y MAN," STONE SAID AFFABLY turned it off iightly, "Was that sult- ease locked » "It should have been," and Pelton i examined the catch. "But it wasn't. It seems to be a little out of order." "How. sbout that man of yours?" 8tone sald, suddenly. "Ross? He wouldn't touch it, I'm sure." "Call him in, please," Stone said. A moment later the imperturbable valet stood before'them. "Just a few questions, my man, Btone sald affebly, and thotigh Ross Jooked a little startled, he sod quiet- | by at attention, ready to rep i ow you've been thro \ this a dozen times," Stone said pleasantly, even undue interest. "Yet somebody did so." * "I know nothing of it, sir." "Nor 11" exclaimed Dan Pelton, un- able to keep still longer. "What are any one came in here and rummaged my things?" "You said it yourself, though not in 80 many words," replied Stone, calmly. "Is it/not the truth?" "Tyuth That somebody rummaged --mnonsense! -Of course it is not the truth." "And you don't care to admit it, nor tell. me who the intruder was?" Stone went on, quite as if Pelton had sald yes'to his queries instead of no. "Of course I don't! That js" Pelton stumbled in his. speech--*"of course nobody came in." "You may go, Roses," Stone said to the man, "and as you go, gend me the chambermaid. » "These orders were obeyed, and in & short time Myrtle arrived. She came' in, pluming herself with a sense of her own importance, but when she saw the crestfallen look and downh appearance of Dan Pel- tan, she, too, began to look frightened. This sequence of events was not lost upon Stone, who said, rather ourtlys. a ---- "You are the maid of hese rooms?" "Yes, sir," said Myrtle, her air of bravado melting before that direct eye. "Waiting for his return, I'm told" | "Yes, sir." The man looked at his [ing "It is not mecessa sir," and} Petals a later? Come to let someone else in? Because you wee well paid for it!" "I don't know, sir, I'm sure," and Ross showed no embarrassment or you driving at, Mr, Stone? Who said Minard's Liniment for asthma' n 5 Yah ) "You have been in there this even- "Ivalways come, sir, to turn down the bed, and bring fresh towels." "I know that. At what time did he | You-come for that purpose?" "I dummo, Bout eight, I guess." "And at what time did you come At each sentence Stone looked a little more menacing, and spoke in a little sterner voice. At the climax, his voice, though not loud, was of a oold, deadly inflection and scared Myrtle nearly out of her wits, as was the detective's amiable intention. She began to cry, and Stone said, shortly: "Cry all you like, my 'girl, but be- fore you begin, tell me who it was you let into this room. Quick, now, out with it!" "Mre. Valdon," said Myrtle, impel- led by the inexorable voice, and she ran from the room. "And 86," Stone sald, as the door closed, none too gently, after Mystle, "and so, Mr. Pelton, your desire to shield Mrs, Valdon is so great that you clog the wheels of justice in order to gratify it." "That's about how dt stands," and Dan Pelton "fooked embarrassed, but far from penitent." Mies Anastasia sighed. "That's Dan all over!' she said. "He'd always do anything to save a woman from annoyance." "But he hasn't saved her," and Stone looked indignant. - "Im fact he has probably made more trouble for her than if he had been frank in the first place." "What do you mean by that?" and Dan Pelton's voice held a great fear. This did not escape Stone's alert attention, and he pressed the point. "The facts are self-evident," he' 8 said "Garrett Folsom had letters or papers that in some way incriminated | or at least bothered Mrs. Valdon, and she was determined to get them. Mr. Pelton knew morafor less about these papers, and he had possession of them, he supposed, in that suitcase full of | 4 papers. Right so far, Mr. Pelton " |. "Yes," was the answer, growled rather than spoken. "Do you know the nature or contents of the papers.in question?" "I do not." "I thought so. Well, the papers disappeared from the suitcase without Mr. Pelton's knowledge, for it was easily seen that he was relieved when he opened the case to find that the papers were not there. He spoke of some letters of his own but that was scarcely plausible." "Then it was that woman, after all!" and Anastasia Folsom's voice rang out in triumph. "I knew you'd find out, Mr. Stone. And I know it was a woman who killed Garry! She looks the adventuress. You can see it sticking out all over her--" "Oh, hush, Aunt Stasia! Don't be ridioulous--"" began Pelton, but Tite Riggs interrupted. (To be contipued.) Qi Turning the Tables. A class of children were wrestling with a lesson in arithmetic, and the scholars found that fractions were too much for them. The trouble started when little Doris déPared that she would rather have half a jam tart than two-thirds of it. "How often have I tried to drive it into you," said the exasperated teach- er, "that two-thirds of anything is more than a half? Now you all know," ghe went on, "that Doris prefers a mall portion of tart to a large plece. Funny child, isn't she?" Doris 'having been held up as a model of stupidity, put up her hang. "Well, asked the 'teacher, ail "Please, miss," sald Doris, in' a smal 'clear, piping voice, "I don't like tart!" PR RUE {111 make a book like*a yellow peach That smacks of the summer sun, Full of the. earth, the sap of tf And the warm fu breeze When the day 1s dove If ever I make a printed book, Which the kindly fates forefend, I'll make me a fat unstinted book, A nothing-concealed-or-hinted book From the first Page to EE md Gilbert. 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