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"A wondertul frock," she said, adâ€" wiringly, as she folded it carefully Into a surprisingly small compass and laid it away. . "I1 doubt if there‘s a Bbetter ghost effect possible. That man was literally seared stiff. Penny will "You promise?" she breathed, her gray draperies wavering through the air, as her hidden arms moved them, and her gleaming eyes fixed on him in the darkness, "I1 promise!" he returned. "And you will keep that promiseâ€" or" the faint voice grew ainterâ€""or â€"tomorrow nightâ€"tomerrow nightâ€"" And she was gone. Even as she whispered the words, Zizi knew her ruse had succeeded. She had already sized up Lionel Rayâ€" mor as no villain at heart; she was «onvinced that he had suppressed the will because of a sudden greed and because of the opportunity afforded him by the peculiar conditions of the ease. Moreover, she knew be traly thought that Nancy Raynor had killed his father and bekeved that therefore she had no right to the inheritance. But she knew, too, that he was frightâ€" ened and apprehensive at what he had done, and that this ghostly warning would, in all probability, bring about the restoration of the will. As a matter of fact, Zizi merely sank to the floor but it gave all the effeqct of a supernatural disappearâ€" Ance _ She crawled to the doorâ€"which was in an alcove, and noiselessly let herâ€" self out into the dark hall. Again in her own room, she removâ€" ed her phosphorous, and powder, and slipped out of her multitadimous layâ€" wrs of fine tu*% "If you are rightâ€"if you are ready to do rightâ€"to restore the willâ€"the willâ€"the willâ€"" Realizing the need for haste,â€" lest her subject become too satisfied of his zafety, she murmured : R "If you are rightâ€"if you are ready lionol Ka Srightened Orville Kent; Ezra Goddard, friend of Einley; Miss Mattie, Raynor‘s sisâ€" ter, and others, enter the room. Lionel IRaynor, son of Douglas Raynor by first marriage, com.s to claim his father‘s estate. Nurse Turner conâ€" fesses to attemp'fing to poison Douglas Raynor â€"for enge. Pennini'on Wise, a celebrated detective, and Zizi, his girl assistant, are called to take the case out of the hands of Detective Dobbins. Zizi disguises herself as a host and goes into the superstitions {.ion,-l Raynor‘s room. He is badly Dougias Raynor is found shot through the heart in the early evening on the floor of the sun room of Flower Acres, his Loag island home. Standâ€" ’:g over the dead man, pistol in hand, #s Malcolim Finley, former sweetheart of Raynors wife, Nancy, Eva Turner, Raynors nurse, stands by the light switch. Then Nancy; her brother, NOW GO ON wWITH THE STORY . “ p% “.‘\ :/: onth N C ';)‘ s (\Cfl ‘w‘“‘“‘afl's .‘ofl’“ a Per Year 12 é $10A 91. 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The thing is to find out what has beâ€" come of the ruber that made this print. It can‘t be the property of one of the servantsâ€"" ‘"Now, why can‘t it?" First, becouse it‘s too large for any of the maids. And, too, girls don‘t wear rubbers nowadays. But, any way, this is the print of a man‘s rubâ€" ber." "I ean, and I hold that it was Dougâ€" las Raymor‘s rubber, and that Mrs. Raynor wore it that evening when she came in and shot him, because it would be a sort of disguiseâ€"a false now, that‘s another thing. She only wanted to be rid of her husband that she might marry another manâ€"a young man and one who would be kinder to her. 1 don‘t wonder at her bating old Raynorâ€"he was a brute if ever one livedâ€"but she had no right to shoot himâ€"no, ma‘am, that she hadn‘t." Zizi looked at Dobbins meditatively. "You‘ve never flinched from your suspicien of her, have you?" she asked. "Oh, yesâ€"but that could bring out nothing. Rubbers are all alikeâ€"and I couldn‘t find any shoe dealer who had sold rubbers to ary member of this family or any of the servants lately. Most likely it was bought in New York, and of course, it‘s imposâ€" sible to trace it." Raynor w came in would be clew, you "No, ma‘am, not really. I‘ve been swayedâ€"yes, swayel, one way and another, but I always come back to herâ€"‘cause why, who else could it be? It‘s got to be somebodyâ€"the idea of an outsider is too ridiculonsâ€"it‘s ‘Yesâ€"yesâ€"it doesâ€"it does, I‘m sure. But how to get at itâ€"that‘s the wnx.n # deep.. 0 though ing to would ever convict that murseâ€"even if she‘s succeeded. But, Mrs. Raynor, "I suppose you‘ve raked the shoe shops hereabouts." did gor io be somebocuy in the houseâ€" somebody interestedâ€"desperately inâ€" tereated in old â€"Raynor‘s death. Now, excepting Mr. Finley, who is so interâ€" ested as Mrs. Raynor? And after the "I think," Zizisaid to him, as she found him in the sun room, gazing at the still visible print o the overshoe, "I think, with you, Mr. Dobbins, that the whole secret rests on the footâ€" mi.')t'" that that To be sure, it wasn‘t much, but Dobbins had been on the case from the beginning and he might have scraps of information that might be of value. But Zizi had a notion that there was something to be gained by a judicious quizzing of Dobbins, and with her feminine tact she "attered him until he was ready to tell her any thing he knew. Minard‘s Liniment for Warts. CHAPTER XVII. . ONE MORE CONFESSION. It was no secret that the detective Dobbins was no friend of Pennington Wise. The local sleuth was jealous. Nor did any one care. The will, a true document, gave Nancy Raynor the larger portion of the fortune and estate of Douglas Raynor. It providâ€" ed. properly and comfortably or his son and his sister, it left a goodly sum to Girimshawe Gannon and to the household servants, and was in all respects a satisfactory willâ€"to all concernedâ€"unless an exception might be made of Lionel. It was in all respects like the carbon copy Dolly Fay had unearthed, but it was signed and witnessed. "Where was it?" Nan asked. "It had slipped behind a drawer in father‘s desk," the son declared, and Wise never knew whether that was the hiding plaee Lionel had chosen or whether he had produced it from his own room and made up the desk story. Sure enough, Penny Wise was pleasâ€" ed the next day, when he found what a perfect success Zizi‘s plan had been. Early in the day Lionel KRaynor went to Nan with the news.that he had found the will in question. And she tucked herself into bed, and slept soundly till daybreak. be pleased. And I‘m sure he‘ll keep his promiseâ€"if notâ€"" You mean just that, . one, that. Mrs. gh 1 thought first to poison Mr. Ra wasn‘tâ€"it was 1 that. And Lord ou mean & overshoe, footprintâ€" mean just one, that. she and purposely 1 purposely )ws no jury nurseâ€"even put it on made : 10c "Our office lifft broke down this morning and my new typist and I were caught in it. "Who caught you, your wife?" For Sprainsâ€"Use Minard‘s Liniment. "Yesâ€"but that was after the shot. Why couldn‘t she have fired the reâ€" volver, dropped it, and then have gone to the door, and turned on the lights?" "Noâ€"noâ€"that won‘t work." "Why not? It‘s as likely as that Mrs. Raynor did itâ€"or Mr. Finley. You must admit it as possible." (To be continued.) "They all saw herâ€"Mrs. Raynor, Mr. Finley, Miss Rayrorâ€"why, all of them saw her in the doorwayâ€"" "Oh, them overshoes might have been a sudden freakâ€"say she happenâ€" ed to see ‘em sitting around and stuck her little feet in ‘em as an additional precaution." "Sour.ds fishy to me. What did she do with the otershoes afterward?" "AK, that‘s just it. If we could find thoseâ€"but, you see, whoever shot Rayâ€" nor hid those oversmcesâ€"why, there‘s no Jloult that the murderer wore them â€"the print is right near where Rayâ€" nor stood, it‘s pointed right toward himâ€"the shoe must have been on the foot of the murderer. There‘s no getâ€" ting away from that." "Just like leaving a visiting card." "Just exactly. And if we can find the rubbersâ€"they may not give away the criminalâ€"but I‘ll say they will." "How about the nurseâ€"shed have big feetâ€"nurses always do. And she‘d be as likely to shoot Mr. Rayâ€" nor as to poison him." "Miss Turner? Why, she was in the north doer pushing on the lights." it?" "Not a bit too much, I tell you she‘s a deep oneâ€"she planned it most likeâ€" ly long before she carried it outâ€"then waited her chance." 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