WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE death while . NA Folsom’ s bathing companions. had been ROGER NEVILLE, a business pa ‘ N. BARNABY and CA az Y. ve ANASTASLA FOLSO eccentric sister of t weapon Was fental knife, and it had been bougl: on the boardwalk. It is lea that one CROYDON Ears is u fancier of curious weap-! ,, He a ‘buying two kilives out not the hag. i stusia eqyonar TITUS’ RIGGS, |; architect work o the DAN. PELION, the dead man’s sheet ew, arrives is igued by some stiriouws French dolls in Fol- som's room. * Croydon Sears’ initials are discov- ered in a notebook of Folsom's = “ggg thinks his uncle had been di some blackmailing. ROBIN SEARS. Croydon’s son, is worried n that suspicion is resting on his father. Riggs tells him he bas learn- ed that Croydon Seats had purchas- éd a third dag, ne elder fenrk sends for FLEM- ano ag mee detective. An- asia, uestioning MADELINE BARRON, alte of NED. BARRON, upsets her and Madeline goes to her room to break down and sob NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. since XXXVL ad arest,”” a An Fai mvotbad the short, ruffled locks “don’t mind that horrid woman.-s don’t wonder she gets on your ner Forget her; she isn’t worth wor- rying about. “IT know it,’ Madeline Barron. —_ raising het head a little “I kn it—b-b-but oh, Angel, I wish ghe'd go away from here— or that w-w-we could “She won't go—you couidn’t ex- pect that. But we can all go. Ned will el yes to that In a minute if you ask him else ia a w it—blese his dear old dar- ling heart. But he loves it here. Oh, ngel, | am 80 miserable.’ “Why, Maddy, was trul¥ puzzled, can't be eo deeply affected by dear,” and the girl “what is it? You that aah ae ae al “You're too absurd, Helen!*’ she never mind, Angel. Don't let's dis- thing ~ 7 ci gee ae for a cuss it. Just help me pull myself to-| tins. Dut Pe " : Srey & TAN . gether and get into shape e ocean without yeing seen y Glad at this opportunity to help nl near me—if they were all ae m4 ;;lynx-eyed as you are, dear. You can Angel brushed her friend’s hair and brought her makeup box and a fresh handkerchief and soon a transforme- tion had been wrought that result- ed in a very lovely and serene Mrs. Ned Barron who went downstairs again ready for her luncheon. Dan Pelton crossed the room and paused at the table where Carmelita; and Mre. Barnaby sat with - Roger Neville. “Golf today?" he inquired, for he! had rather decidedly attached him- self to the train of the beautiful, far-) melita. “Yes, if you like,” she smile a at) him, and then — him to sit with| |, te for luncheo “I will, giaties * he said, taking the fourth chair. ‘My adored = has gone off with friends, and a walf and a stray Even as he seated himself he saw Madeline Barron enter the dining room and join her own group of friends. “Yes, she IS lovely,” said r- melita, intercepting his glance, “but you're not to concentrate on her. We're here. ’ ‘ “Very much here, “ insiated the Duchess, gaily. “It’s a strange thing, as soon as a man is in the com- pany of two of the most beautif women in the place, his attention im- mediately wanders to some other wo- man.” “For an instant only,” and Pelton laughed as he devoted himself to his companions. was not long before drifted to the Folsom case “But perhaps the subject. bores or pains you, Duchess,” Dan said, ae and gt began to discuss it. " she returned, smtiing faint- ly, “not if you don't keep it up too long.” “Just ille, the talk a minute. You see, _ Nev it's just this way don Sears in connection by the tak- ing off of my uncle. Oh, putting it rather balay. my reverted aunt, I usually call apade a spade r, at “ some Other folks are doing so. Now, Mr. Riggs tells me that you assured him that so far as you know Sears ‘had no dealings with my uncle, save oné fea ed FOLSOM is coagulated to} swimming * Ocean he spoke oft” ness with Sears that neither side | wanted to make panies and that’s all i can say about j ou'll say more it the authori- ties ak ye “They haven't asked yet,” said | Roger Neville. the possibilities or probabilities of Sears’ connection with the Folsom {case ,Dan Pelton put matter _|Sidered him selfishly inclined. darted about everywhere and took aes aca on the subject of Cc. n't—-you ee “tyS “Béstirance I “Not assurance, no. How could Ft? There may have been all sorts of connections between those two men of which I-knéw nothin “Weren't you Uncle Garry's part- r? “In some of his business pursuits, , yes. In others, n a man of many Hnes of activity.” “So I am finding out.” ton looked eraraie I'm asking you now, as man to man. if you did know of any-—-I will ‘be plain—of any secret shared by uncle and Mr. Sears ‘that might any time in their Uves have caused a tae et s between ba) alpably evident,” Neville said slowly, “‘that yon have somehow learned that your late unc- le did share secreta with some of his —-tlientse——that might in certain cir- cumstances cause unfriendliness—” “Or more. “Or more. Such things ‘are not entirely unknown in lawyers’ tionships, bit ft is often oo place‘too much stress on them. uite sure oy Sears could have ined no secret, sha y Mr. Folsom, that would or poaalbiy could haye brought okont ge eee, that took place."’ Re, - n't be eure of that, Rog- Carmaiitea Valdon exclaimed. No one can say for sure who did or did- n't or oe S. couldn’t be implicated in that a “Of cou ve not,”’ said the Duchess vaguely, fon she had a sudden feeling that she was being left out of the gabe singe “Why, for all these n know, you eo BS might have kill- 2: the men Carm ‘Don't talk roti” " Carmelita cried, with a reproving glare at her friend. Tien’t rot,” the Duchess re- turned placidly. “At least it may be for me, for I'm sure I couldn't let go of the rope even with one hand to make that estab, But you could, Car- my, you're so brave’ in the water.’ Cat afmelita gave the speaker a sud- den glance of withering anger, and then as*suddenly broke into a smile. in swear I didn't do it, can’t you?” “Oh, Lord. honey, I didn’t mean you did it, I only meant—’ “You haven't the faintest idea t you meant,’°and Dan (Pelton augted at the bewildered look on the Duchess’ round pink face. “Well, fall I'm asking of you, Neville, is raged you can suggest a motive ie r Croydon Sears, or whether you jeanyt? can't, said Roger Neville | shortly. but his harassed eyes seem- jed to belie the frankness of his ‘as- / se en uppose you know it’ ‘8 your duty n anything you can.’ “Yes, but it’s not my duty to sur- 5! mise or imagine. I do know that m| Folsom had certain dealings or busi- ; Lacking the initiative that had led ; Tite Riggs to investigate for himself {from his mind and devoted his after- |noon to golf. He was not on the deck when a jtall, dark-eyed man appeared there | and immediately made himself at jhome in a certain pleasant corner. which Robin Sears had held against other would-be occupants for very purpose. Secluded corners of the deck of the Hotel Majusaca were greatly liked by individuals or small groups who wished to be alone, and when at last Croydon Seare and his guest ar- rived, Robin Sears was relieved, for he had been the target for the en- vious glances from e who con- had met Stone before, though not recently, and he looked with in terest at the grave-faced,. quietly moving man, whose eyes, owever, in everything. CHAPTER XXXVII With Croydon Stars and Fleming Stone came also Tite Riggs, who was deeply impressed with Stone’e charm Make Your Own SOAP piety SILLETT’S pune LYE] having expected a much more prosaic and business-like personage. For Fleming Stona was one toa marked degree, his surroundings who took color from the intervening boardwalk with dropped and he smiled with the delight ofa ehild at the spectacle. Never been here before,” he plained, taking tt all = rapidiy, a he seated himself. . “I'v: the New England coast psecntes and the southern and western ones. But nev- er before chanced. on New panse of 6 “Thats raion ugh agreed Cradon | Sears... ‘But I "a som was} Sears rela-| yishop later that eveningY and I this t % while Riggs nodded *|dagkers I had bought And now, at sight of the sea anak was arm Riga | toward the wide ex-} trané-: Stone's pleasant x ty} Robin, and all at t-once the | felt | | oeporece and surety: that thats, was [eae Bie rther trouble in father with a man like that a with a Hight heart. he went in search of hig Angel, and the three men settled down to consideration of thgir. case Don't think I'm mind-wandering if I-gaze about,” Stone said, smiling. “¥ love to absorb these sights and sounds, and Instead of distracting my attention they help _to concentrate} | Sie “You know, of course, the maii detaiis of the Folsom murder?” said “Yes. All that was in the papers. and all that I conld piece out myself | * from the newspaper reports. ‘That's What else can you tell me?” “T,”’ Sears said, “will tell you my wn personal and individual connec-{. t} tion with the matter, and then Riggs will tell you what he knows or thinks about _ people. "Yo ve'a personal and indivyid- ual ochuattion with it, then?” Stone asked. “Yes, or I shouldn't have called you down here in such haste. I've no desire to be arrested, and it’s a thing that may easily come about. Uniess we head off ‘the energetic and truth- ¥ou see, “Tt-begins to look as if it didn’t, but that’s fot you to pase opinion on. You see, the inquiry naturally hinges largely on the question of the weap- that, on, . “They know about don’t hey?"’ “ ¥es; that'is, they assume, and doubtless truly, that the pichag ‘ound in the ocefin-4s the one that killed Folsom. Now, ‘they know also tbe T bought two daggers that night in ki a 7 that the deadly wea a6, esumabiy, bonght. They sale that 1 have those two daggers here in my possession, .and they have no further interest in i called a bundle ss the same shop later the sante evening.” “7 fl on't know who he was?” “No; and of late they have come to the Pocet Foe Be that it was I.” “It wasn't?" “No, it wasn’t, I mean the murder- But I did return to that did buy a bundle that contained two odd, insignificant daggere. when they asked me at the inquest ‘it I had eeeerent, to the shop that night, I ai er wasn't. “Hm " Fleming Stone looked at his friend with a glance of affection and trust. Not for a moment did he question the good faith of Sears to- ward himself, whateyer he might have done on the witness stand. “I did it,’ Sears went on, “because f I had said I went back there, they would have at once assumed that it was one Of my daggers that killed Folsom, and it wasn’t.” “And to have the matter brought into question .would ‘have -wrough harm. to someone else,” Stone said, understandingly. = etly. A harm and a someone else that ‘ couldn't allow Well, it got you into a snarl?” ; “It has begun to look that Here's the truth , You er in. iggs. Garrett Folsom had a pleas- ant Httle way of making ‘capital out of other people’s secrets.’ “Tt s been done, I've remarked Stone. “Yes. Well, he didn’t make a big business of this; he only used a few way. heard,” choice secrets “belonging to ai few): oo friends, on enemies, of hie. And I was honored with a place among these. The secret of mine one. posed and misunderstood, as it would be, it would mean a shad- ow, not deep, ‘because of its. very vagueness, but a hint of blacknéss that would niar the future,» of my boy—that would perhaps stand on the way of the happiness of my 6 Robin. I am willing to tell you the a. Story, ‘but not at this o- men “Nor ever,” said. Fleming Stone, in assent. “Go on, Croy. You felt that if you were questioned vat “all this thing would come out? “Yen, an that. I knew I was in- nocent of Folsom's death, but those hounds of the law would think, and with reason, that as I had. bought more daggers that night, I must of night? necessity be the one who had made the fatal stab. So I denied heving returned and let my case rest onthe while with Meeker, who could vouch for the truth of my “Why didn’t they know you when you went back and bought the last ot?’ “I don’t know. E-chanced £ them from a man T'didn’t ethag but the other clerks stood about. It's a big shop. But the point is that some- body else did go there about. the same time I did and did buy © tie} + bundle that held. the dagger that killed Garrett Soe That a the man we" Tato “That's the man we’ TAs to Waa, of ser Fleming Sto: - re whe igorer§ Stone 3 carried ou was tate in Gn Be pt before inference im his presence and 1 eh with a aut iin yesh > too, Was hewcomer,.and Robih d forgotten his very her attention to this new ed > in bis way, smiled genially on th alg took Httle un tn the Heat _ Be Continued.) er Fleming Stone week ‘oul Madeline gti and ques- HORTICULTURE NOTES a a a a ee a as a a . S§NAP-DRAGON RUST *“Snap-Dragon Hust very’ prevalent in Ontario during the past’ few years and is worst troubles with 4which Snap- ragon growers have contend. It can_be readily recogni b e od hi elongated. reddish-brown pustules on the leaves which are often complete- ly covered by them. 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