6 The Mystery -OF Carney-Croft By JOSEPH BROWN COOKE •£!oi»fyright, I'JO7, by Story-I'ross Corporation.) CHAPTER XIII. Quiet Is Restored. "Now then," said MacArdel, the next morning, as we were comfortably seat ed in the library, "this mystery is clearing itself up more rapidly than I expected. Have you got those two notes with you? I mean the one you found on your bed the other morning and the one that slipped out of your .pocket last night?" I handed them to him and we spread them out on the table and ex amined them closely. The first was written in a cramped labored hand which was obviously disguised, while She more recent one had evidently &een dashed off hurriedly and with I > ateempt at masking the chriog raphy of its author. In both in stances, however, the English style of writing was so clearly exemplified and there were so many letters having points in common, that it did not re quire the skill of an expert to per ceive that the two notes were the work of the same individual. "You see," exclaimed MacArdel, "I was right, only 1 got the cart before the horse. I told you that after we had discovered how the first note was placed on your bed we would have lit tle or no difficulty in tracing its au thorship. As matters have turned out, "however, we know the author but we •don't know how she got. the paper into your room. Nevertheless you cught to be satisfied for you remem ber you said that you cared very little how the letter reached you if you could only find out who wrote it." "1 am not so sure that we know who wrote it even now," I returned, gloom ily. "The goings-on in this house are altogether too bewildering to suit my taste." "Why, it must have been the woman!" cried MacArdel, with empha sis. Who else could have done it, man? You'll admit that both were written by the same hand, and I hardly think you'll deny that she was responsible for the one we found last night. If she wrote one she must have written the other, too." "Perhaps she didn't write either" I muttered insistently. "Oh, rubbish, Ware!" exclaimed MacArdel, impatiently. "What's the use of looking for more mystery when the whole thing is as good as ex plained! There she was, locked up In that little room across the hall. She couldn't get out, except through the window, and there was only one, which opened on (he veranda right beside my chair. P.ut she could look out and aee ail that was going on, and when we had our little tussle with Jenks, she took it all in from start to finish. "Now, the widow's no fool, Ware, and as soon as she realized that she and Jenks were completely in our pow er she wrote this note at the desk in the corner of the room and kept it In her hand until the opportunity came to slip it into your pocket. She wrote hurriedly for she did not know when she would be interrupted and so she had no time to disguise her hand as she did before. She's English the writing's English and I'll warrant the l>aper in the desk is the same as this she used." We crossed the hall to the little re ception room, and, as MacArdel had suggested, we found the desk open and some stationery strewn about which exactly matched the paper I held in my hand. Moreover, on the floor near by was a lead pencil which, apparent ly, had been thrown down carelessly so that it rolled off the desk to the place where we discovered it. The note was in pencil, and, un doubtedly, had been written with this pencil or with one of the same quality •of lead. There seemed to be no room for further argument as to the identity of <tbe author of these remarkable com munications, but, while the facts con •cerning the second were sufficiently plain, much mystery still surrounded •the first. "Hang if. all, Mac!" I exclaimed, I'll have to admit that the widow wrote the notes in spite of myself, but how on earth did she know of my feelings toward Miss Carney? And, what's more, how did she get that letter on my bed ?" "Guessed at it, as far as your first nueation is concerned," replied Mac- Ardel, cheerfully. "Just used her com mon sense as to the fitness of the match, and took the chance. That's all there is to it, Ware." "Even so," I returned, "and I'm hardly willing to admit that your ex planation is correct, how did the note get on the bed?" "Easiest thing in the world," laughed MacArdel. "You were in and out of your room after you made up the bed for the night, weren't you?" "Why, certainly!" I rejoined. "I fixed it up . first and then came down and locked up the house. I must have heen out of the room for 15 or 20 'o'miics after the bed was made." "Well," h« continued, "wliat more do you want? The woman, or one of her accomplices, evidently has a way of getting in and out of the houses, at pleasure, anil while you were fussing around downstairs the note was tuck ed tinder a fold of the counterpane with the idea that you would find it when you turned In. As a matter of fact you didn't find it till morning, but you probably slept as well, for all that." •'How about the cigar case?" I ask ed with a grin. "Oh, bother the cigar case!" ex claimed MacArdel. "That was only an incident in this whole plot to scare people away from here. It looks queer, I know, but so did the other things, for a time. We'll find out how it was worked, sooner or later, and, even if we don't. 1 can't see that it makes any great difference. We know the lead ers in this business and we've got them pretty well subdued. All you have to do is togo ahead and open up the place. There won't be any more non sense when they realize that you don't care a snap of your finger for them or their doings. Just get your serv ants here all at the same time. Have the house cleared and aired from top to bottom and keep lights burning in the halls all night. Fill the stable with horses as you told me you in tended to do, and see that all the servants' cottages on the place are oc cupied. "You won't have any trouble. Ware, if you will only take the precaution to have all these people come at the same time, and transform the place into one of bustling activity within a few hours. All you have to do to stamp out this ghost business is to overwhelm it entirely, and there won't be any more of it, I promise you, as soon as the place is running full blast." MacArdel's idea seemed to be the most practical one that presented it self, and within a few days, the house was filled with workmen and their II Ml # Jg|jj ? ' ' "How Did the Note Get on the Bed?" helpers, while the retinue of carefully chosen servants was imported frorr town, and gave to the establishment an air of permanent occupancy. As many men from the village as could be persuaded to work on the place at all were assigned to the roads and lawns, and every effort was made to beautify and render attractive the en tire estate. I had no hesitancy in authorizing the lavish expenditures which were necessitated by such wholesale rehab ilitation of the property, for not only was I assured that anything I might do would meet with the full approval of Miss Carney, but, from my position as her trustee, I knew that the in come of the estate would warrant the steps I was taking toward its improve ment. There were no further uncanny man ifestations or mysterious happenings of any kind, and Jenks and the widow continued to follow their usual voca tions as if nothing out of the ordinary had occurred, so that we were forced to believe that they were living up to the spirit as well as to the letter of their oath. MacArdel who had remained with me as my guest and companion while this work was in progress, did not half like this submissive behavior on the part of Jenks and the Hruce woman and his suspicions were greatly in creased when i ordered the widow out of her cottage to make room for the golf links that Miss Carney wanted laid out. "Keep an eye on her, Ware," said MacArdel, when I told him how promptly and willingly she had acqui esced in my wishes, and with what seeming gratitude she had accepted the new quarters in which I had installed her." Watch her carefully, old man,"he continued. "She'll be up to some devil try yet, you may be sure. Neither she nor Jenks has breathed a word, even to you or me, about that business the other night, but they haven't forgotten it by any means, and we'll hear from thom when we least expect to. unless CAMERON COUNTV PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1907. we keep a sharp lookout. I almost Wish they had cut up a row over it at the beginning, rather than have them goon like this. They are nurs ing their rancor all this while and some day they will try to get their re venge." A telegram announcing the sailing of Miss Carney and Miss Weston spurred us onto greater efforts and, when at last we were ready to leave for town that I might meet the travelers at the pier, we were both satisfied that our labor had not been in vain. Carney-Croft looked iike its old-time self in its happiest days. The lawns had been cut and sodded, the roads and paths graded and repaired, thf shrubs and hedges trimmed, and the flower beds filled with rare and well chosen plants. Within (he house had been cleaned and renovated from garret to cellar and the corps of servants from house keeper down to kitchen maid, were re liable, capable, and of thoroughly at tested respectability, while the stable, with its new horses and trustworthy men, was nowise behind in point, of complete reorganization and equip ment. "You've done a great bit of work in the last few weeks," said MacArdel, as we were speeding toward town In the fast express. "Well," I replied, "my heart was in it, Mac. That accounts for it, I sup pose." The idiotic grin with which here ceived this remark caused me to blush like a schoolboy, and I turned away from him to the window and watched the ever changing panorama that glided past as we rushed on toward the city. CHAPTER XIV. Return of the Wanderers. Miss Carney came down the gang plank followed closely by Miss West on, and greeted me in a way that was plainly sincere. "Oh! I am so glad to bo homfc again!" she exclaimed joyously, and her face lighted up with pleasure as she glanced about at the crowd of expectant people that choked up the pier. "So is Annie, too!" she laughed, lay ing a hand on Miss Weston's arm and patting it playfully. "She was dread fully ill all the way across and scarce ly left her room until we reached Quarantine this morning. I don't know what seasickness is, myself, and I simply lived on deck. Why, how do you do, Mrs. Randolph! lam so glad to see you!" Mrs. Randolph, who proved to be Miss Weston's aunt, kissed both young women affectionately and then 1 was introduced indue form. "Mrs. Randolph is to be our chap eron," Miss Carney explained, "and is going to Carney-Croft with us as soon as the place is ready. I was wishing this morning that you knew her, for I was sure she would be here and you could have been company for each oth er while you were waiting for the ship to come up. We used to say, when we lived here, that there seemed to be a fate that kept you two people from meeting one another." "You had a pleasant trip, I hope?" I asked, solicitously, after expressing my regret that 1 had missed the pleasure of Mrs. Randolph's acquaint ance. "Delightful, every minute of it!" she rejoined. "If it hadn't been for An nie's seasickness and —" "And the parson's!" interrupted her friend, with a laugh. "Yes, the parson's,'- continued Miss Carney, flushing faintly as a smile flit ted across her face. "They were going to some kind of a convention and they were everywhere; In the forecastle, praying with the sailors; in the smok ing room casting horrified glances at less sanctified passengers wjio ven tured to drink or piay; at the table before the places were fairly laid; and —" (TO BE CONTINUED.' ji JftM J Ulglffn The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has homo the signatnre of So, ' j: • • - - and has been made under his per- H|!l : : ER CE , NT (- Sonal supervision since its infancy. ™siti '-eUcMZ Allow no one to deceive you in this. \c£ « Slrailaijflg(heFoodantfßegufa All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good" are but §fSxQ§:: ° Ute otoraaois anißowelaof Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment* lis Promotes DigpslionJCheerfii Whdt IS CASTOR IA \ a c" ncssandßest.Containsneither _ , „ £0 Opium .Morphine norMiueraL Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- It li;! 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O. nail's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting ilrectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ot the •ystem. Testimonials tienr free. Trice 75 cents per bottle. Sold iiy all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Cheapens and Improves Coal. Consul General W. R. Holloway, of Halifax, says that the Canadian com- j mercial agent at Manchester, England, j reports an invention at that place for ! depriving soft coal of its most objec tionable feature by abstracting the oils said to produce smoke, and call ing the resulting article "coalite," which is something like coke in ap pearance and which can be furnished at one-third the present cost of coal. Five acres of land near Manchester have been purchased, and large works will be erected for its production.— United States Consul Reports. The Human Shield. The advent of Decoration day caus ed Admiral Dewey, at a recent dinner, to praise the bravery of the American troops during the civil war. "Both sides alike were brave," he said. "North and south, soldiers and sailors. And the bravery of the raw recruit was a thing to be seen to be believed. "There used to be circulated, though, a good story about a Connecti cut recruit. Thi3 young man, aftefr he had gotten initiated, fought heroical ly; but in his first engagement he was very nervous. "A chum of his was In the line ahead of him, and when the bullets began to fly, the chum began to dogde "Thereupon the recruit shouted ex citedly: " 'Hey, Jim, don't duck. I'm be hind ye."" AN OLD EDITOR Found S2OOO Worth of Food. The editor of a paper out in Ol'la., said: "Yes, it is true when I got hold of Grape-Nuts food, it was worth more than a S2OOO doctor bill to me, for it made me a well man. I have gained 25 pounds in weight, my strength has returned tenfold, my brain power has been given back to me, and that is an absolute essential, for I am an editor and have been for 35 years. "My pen shall always be ready to speak a good word for this powerful nutritive food. I had of course often read the advertisements regarding Grape-Nuts, but never thought to ap ply the food to my own use, until, in my extremity and sickness the thought came to me that it might fit my case. The statements in regard to the food are absolutely correct, as I have proven in my own case. One very fortunate thing about the food is that while it is the most scientifically made and high ly nourishing, concentrated food I have ever known, it has so delicious a taste that it wins and holds friends." "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Corporations Oust Miners. The Klondike proper—that ia, that portion of the Yukon territory in the vicinity of Dawson—aa far as the in dividual miner ia concerned, is on a rapid decline owing to the immense area of ground being acquired by dredging companies. One company alone lias purchased nearly all the placer ground on the three principal creeks, namely: Bonanza, Eldorado and Hunker, and has bonded consid erably more on Dominion and other creeks for various reasons. Where formerly hundreds of miners were working for wages or working their own ground, thus creating a demand for provisions, clothing, machinery, hardware, etc., and the transportation from Dawson to the different mining operations, now dredges are either op erating or in course of construction. — Consular Reports. The World's Dairy the Parent of Con sumption. This is the argument put forward by scientists to-day, and is causing no lit tle alarm, because practically all the leading men who have made the sub ject a careful study and test are united on the statement and agree that a great per cent, of all cattle in the U. S. have Bovine Tuberculosis. In Den mark 50% of all Cattle are infected. Recently The Mutual Mercantile Co., Cleveland, 0., have issued a free book let showing how it is wrong to kill so many thousands of our Dairy Cows when a few cents worth of Rasawa purchased at any Drug Store will posi tively prevent Tuberculosis. The claim is made that it is a germicide and ren ders the cow immune. Ask your dealer or the above company for a free book. Our Queer Sense of Humor. "Americans have a strange sense of humor, don't you know," began the Englishman. "The othah day, for ex ample, I went into a restaurant with a friend and he awsked for sinkahs. I was surprised to see them bring him three biscuit of some sort or othah. Again at anothah time I dined with him at a table d'hote cafe. He said to the waiter, 'Bring us a couple of bottles of pink ink.' What the waiter brought him, don't you know, was two bottles of red wine. "Really, it is very strange, the American sense of humor. You catch onto my meaning?"—N. Y. Press. The Same Species. 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