6 IIIL CIRCULAR STMKASE &VmahY ❖ ROBERTS ❖ RIMZHART ILLUSTRATIONS BY £^vvV r * / V' ItPrfuair not »y odaof -MJttuf c+ T SYNOPSIS. Miss Tntirs. spinster and guardian of Gertrude ami Halscy. established summer headquarters at Sunnyside. Amidst nu merous difficulties the servants deserted. As Miss Innes locked up for the night ■he was startled by a dark lieu re on the veranda. Unseemly noises disturbed her during the night. In the morning Miss Innes found a strange link cuff-button In » harrip' l*. Cert rude and Halsey arrived With Jack Bailey. The house was awak ened by a revolver shot and Arnold Arm strong was found shot to death in tlie hall. Miss Innes found Halsey's revolver on the lawn, lie anil Jack Bailey had dis appeared. The link cuff-button mysteri ously disappeared. Detective arrived. Gertrude revealed she was en gaged to Jack Bailey, with whom she talked in the billiard room a few mo ments before the murder. .Tamleson ac cused Miss Innes of holding back evi dence. Me imprisoned an Intruder in an empty room. The prisoner escaped down a laundry chute. Gertrude was suspected. A negro found the other half of what proved to be Jack Bailey's cuff-button. Halsey reappears and says he and Bailey left in response to a telegram. Gertrude •aid she had given Bailey an unloaded reVolver, fearing to give him a loaded Weapon. Cashier Bailey of Paul Arm strong's bank, defunct, was arrested for embezzlement. Halsey said Armstrong wrecked his own bank and could clear Bailey. Paul Armstrong's death was an nounced. Halsey's fiancee, Ix>uise Arm strong, was found at the lodge. The lodgekeeper said Ixjuise and Arnold had a long talk the night of the murder. Lou ise was prostrated. Louise told Halsey, that while she still loved him she was to marry another, and that ho would despise her when he learned the whole story. It developed that Dr. Walker and Louis* were to be married. A prowler was heard In the house. Louise was found at the bottom of the circular staircase. CHAPTER XVl.— Continued. "I was not sleeping well," she be gan, "partly, I think, because I had slept during the afternoon. Liddy brought me some hot milk at ten o'clock and I slept until 12. Then I wakened and —I got to thinking about things, and worrying, so I could not goto sleep. "I was wondering why I had not heard from Arnold since the —since I saw him that night at the lodge. I was afraid he was 111, be cause—he was to have done something for me, and he had not come back. It must have been three when I heard some one rapping. I eat up and listened, to be quite sure, and the rapping kept up. I was cau tious, and I was about to call Liddy. Then suddenly I thought I knew what It was. The east entrance and circu lar stal#«use were aKays used by Arnold whim he was out late, and sometimes, when he forgot his key, he feould rap and I would go down and let him in. I thought he had come back to see me—l didn't think about the time, for his hours were always erratic. Hut I was afraid I was too weak to get down the stairs. The knocking kept up, and Just as I was about to call Liddy, she ran through the room and out into the hall. I got up then, feeling weak and dizzy, and put on my dressing gown. If It was Arnold, I knew I must see him. "It was very dark everywhere, but, of course, I knew my way. I felt along for the stair-rail, and went down as quickly as I could. The knocking had stopped, and 1 was afraid 1 was too late. I g'lt to the foot of the stair case and over to the door onto the east veranda. 1 had never thought of anything but that it was Arnold, until I reached the door. It was unlocked and opened about an lnd>. Everything was black; it was perfectly dark out side. I felt very queer and shaky. Then I thought perhaps Arnold had used his key; ho did —strange things sometimes, and I turned around. Just as 1 reached the foot of the staircase I thought 1 heard some one coming. My nerves were going anyhow, there In the dark, and I could scarcely stand. 1 got up as far as the third or fourth step; then ( felt that some one was coming toward roe on the •talrcase. The n**xt instant a hand met mine on the stair-rail Some on* brushed past me, and 1 screamed Then 1 must have fainted " * That was I.ouisi s story There could he no doubt of Us truth, and the thing that made It Inexpressibly awful to me was that the poor girl had crept down to an wer the summons of a brother who would never need her kindly office again Twice, now, with out apparent cause, some one had en tered the ho'ise by means of the east entrance; had apparently gone lifs way unhindered through the house, and gone out again as lie hud entered Had (Ms unknown visitor been there a third tie e, the night Arnold Aim strong »n murdered? Or a fourth, n time Mr Jamleaon had locked some on> in the clothes chute? Sleep was Impossible, I think, for any of us We dispersed finally to baile and dress, hating Louise little Mit lor her experience (tut I determined that before the day wui over alii' luutit know the true state of affairs Another decision I made, and I Mit it Into ex. i n''mi immediately after br. .ku»t I hud one of the mm?*d bedrooms In th» east Ming, back ahum the small corridor, pre pai'-d lor upancy and front that lilite on Aleg, the gardener, slept there One man In lhai barn of a house an abft irdlty, w tit thing * happ< luii, all th<i time, and I must say th*t Sl« \ a mob 'liable a inv oif iimilil i=i -.1 bly bav< b. n Tl-u next iii,unllig, al . Hal > and I niad' m«• ihau*i >.• • n, si m tb« rit tl lit • ii" I «airy at n i » »n<i th "I i g from It 'I nere wa« no evidence cf an. Uiiag 'in ml I' ti •» '• itid i-U i\ J) V "My Home Is in Englewood," the Doo tor Began. had we not ourselves heard the rap ping noises, I should have felt that Louise's imagination had run away with her. The outer door was closed and locked, and the staircase curved above us, for all the world like any other staircase. Halsey, who had never taken seri ously my account of the night Liddy and I were there alone, was grave enough now. He examined the panel ing of the wainscoting above and be low the stairs, evidently looking for a secret door, and suddenly there flashed into my mind the recollection of a scrap of paper that Mr. Jamieson had found among Arnold Armstrong's ef fects. As nearly as possible I re peated its contents ta him, while Hal sey took them down in a note-book. "I wish you had told me this be fore," he said, as he put the memo randum carefully away. Wo found nothing at all in the house, and I ex pected little from any examination of the porch and grounds. But as we opened the outer door something fell into the entry with a clatter. It was a cue from the billiard room. Ilalsey picked it up with an excla mation. -"That's careless enough," he said. "Some of the servants have been amusing themselves." I was far from convinced. Not one of the servants would go into that wing at n(ght unless driven by dire necessity. And a billiard cue! As a weapon of either offense or defense it was an absurdity, unless one ac cepted Ltddy's hypothesis of a ghost, and even then, as Halsey pointed out, a billiard-playing ghost would be a very modern evolution of an ancient institution. That afternoon we, Gertrude, Hal sey and I, attended the coroner's in quest in town. Dr. Stewart had been summoned also, it transpiring that in that early Sunday morning, when Gertrude and I had gone to our roopis, he had been called to view the body. We went, the four of us, in the ma chine, preferring the execrable roads to the matinee train, with half of Cas anova staring at us. And on the way wo decided to say nothing of Louise and her interview with her step brother the night hu died. The girl was in troubh- enough us it was. CHAPTER XVII. A Hint of Scandal. In giving th'- gist of what happened ut the in<|Ui'it, I have only one ex cuse—to recall to tint reader the events of the night of Arnold Ann •strongs uiurder. Many things had I occurred which were not brought out ,at the inquest and some thlug were j told there that were new to me. Al together, It was a gloomy affair, and ! the six tien In the corner, whu con •tltuted the coroner's Jury, were «-vi iti-nily the merest puppets in the hands of thut all powerful gfutlfiucu. the coroner. Qcrtrude and I *nt well bark, with our veils down. There were a nam bur of people I knew: ltarbara Kit* iiu&h. In extravagant mourning sh» always w -nt Into black on th<> »llght • ■»t provocation, kcum It was be-coiu lug und Mr Jar via, the man who ; had come over from the <lre«uwood | club the inglit of the murder Mr 1 Kartell w .is there. t>m, looking lut | patten' a'• the Inquest dragged, but alive to every particle of evidence 1 Krom a corner Mr Jamieson was watehlng the proceeding* Intently lir Ht« wart was called Krst Ilia | evident)* was told briefly, and amount ed to this tin the Huuday ii>>>rnlu| j in - vluus, at a t(uart»r before nv», h« I had been called to the telephone The iue »g» was I row n Mr Jar vis, who I aalit d him to ewuie at om> •> to tiuUUJF CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1910. side, as there had been an accident there, and Mr. Arnold Armstrong had been shot. He dressed hastily, gath ered up some instruments, and drove to Sunnyside. He was met by Mr. Jarvis, who took him at once to the east wing. There, just as he had fallen, was the body of Arnold Armstrong. There was no need of the instruments; the man was dead. In answer to the coroner's question—no, the body had not been moved, save to turn It over. . It lay at the foot of the circular staircase. Yes, he believed death had been in stantaneous. The body was still some what warm and rigor mortis had not set in. It occurred late In cases of sudden death. No, he believed the probability of suicide might be elim inated; the wounds could have been self-inflictedr but with difficulty, and there had been no weapon found. The doctor's examination was over, but he hesitated and cleared his throat. "Mr. Coroner," he said, "at the risk of taking up valuable time, I would like to speak of an incident that may or may not throw some light on this matter." The audience was alert at once. "Kindly proceed, doctor," the coro ner said. "My home Is in Englewood, two miles from Casanova," the doctor be gan. "In the absence of Dr. Walker, a number of Casanova people have been consulting me. A month ago— five weeks, to be exact —a woman whom I had never seen catne to my office. She was in deep mourning and kept her veil down, and she brought for examination a child, a boy of six. The little fellow was ill; It looked like typhoid, and the mother was frantic. She wanted a permit to admit the youngster to the Children's hospital in town here, where I am a member of the staff, and I gave her one. The incident would have escaped me, but for a curious thing. Two days before Mr. Armstrong was shot, I was sent for togo to the Country club; some one had been struck with a golf ball that had gone wild. It was late when I left-—I was on foot, und about a mile from the club, on the Clayburg road, I met two people. They were dlsput Ing violently, and I had no difficulty In recognizing Mr. Armstrong The worn an, beyond doubt, WHS the one who hud consulted me übout the child." At this hint of scandal, Mrs Ogden Kitghtigh sat up very straight Jutnle -1 son was looking slightly skeptical, ' and the coroner made a note. "The Children's hospital, you say, doctor?" he asked. ' "Yes. Hut the child, who was en 1 tered ns Luclen Wallace, was taken away by his mother two weeks ago I have tried to truce them and failed " ' All at once I remembered the tele gram sent to la>ulse by some one signed r. 1.. W —-presumably l)r • Walker Could the Veiled wouu.n be the Nina Cutriugton of the mes.->age'' Hut It was only Idle speculation I had > no way of tlndlug out. and the Inquest ■ I Was proceeding The report of the coroner's physi " I elan came next. The |M«M mortem ex amination showed that the bullet had , entered the chest la the fourth left • intercostal space and had taken an i >ililltiu« course downward and back j «nrd, piercing both th« heart and I luugs The left lung was collapsed t ! and the exit point of the ball had bet u found In thu ggiisclus uf the back to (he left uf thx spinal column It was ! improbable that sueh a wound had • been self inflicted, and Its oblique downward course pointed to the tan I that the shut had bee a fired I rum • above In other word as th* tuur t|»-red man had been found d> ad at able that the trot had be>-a tti<d hi some one higher up on the stairs. There were no marks of powder. The bullet, a 38 caliber, had been found in the dead man's clothing, and was shown to the jury. Mr. Jarvis was called next, but his testimony amounted to little. He had been summoned by telephone to Sun nyside, had come over at once with the steward and Mr. Winthrop, at present out of town. They had been admitted by the housekeeper, and had found the body lying at the foot of the staircase. He had made a search for a weapon, but there was none around. The outer entry door in the east wing had been unfastened and was open about an inch. I had been growing more and more nervous. When the coroner called Mr. John Bailey, the room was filled with suppressed excitement. Mr. Jamieson went forward and spoke a few words to the coroner, who nodded. Then Halsey was called. "Mr. Innes," the coroner said, "will you tell under what circumstances you saw Mr. Arnold Armstrong the night he died?" "I saw him first at the Country club," Halsey said quietly. He was rather pale, but very composed. "I stopped there with my automobile for gasolene. Mr. Armstrong had been playing cards. When I saw him there he was coming out of the cardroom talking to Mr. John Bailey." "The nature of the discussion — was it amicable?" Halsey hesitated. "They were having a dispute," he said. "I asked Mr. Bailey to leave the club with me and copie to Sunnyside over Sunday." "Isn't it a fact, Mr. Innes, that you took Mr. Bailey away from the club house because you were afraid there would be blows?" "The situation was unpleasant," 1 Halsey said evasively. "At that time had you any suspicion that the Traders' bank had been wrecked?" "No." "What occurred next?" "Mr. Bailey and I talked In the bil liard room until 2:30." "And Mr. Arnold Armstrong cacne there, while you wera talking?" "Yes. He came about half-past two. He rapped at the east door, and I ad mitted him." The silence in the room was In tense. Mr. Jamieson's eyes never left Halsey's face. "Will you tell us the nature of h!a errand?" "He brought a telegram that had come to the club for Mr. Bailey." "He was sober?" "Perfectly, at that time. Not earl ier." "Was not his apparent friendliness a change from his former attitude?" "Yes. I did not understand it." "How long did he stay?" "About five minutes. Then he left by the east entrance." "What occurred then?" "We talked for a few minutes, dis cussing a plan Mr. Bailey had in mind. Then I went to the stables, where I kept my car, and got it out." "Leaving Mr. Bailey alone in the billiard room?" "My sister was there." Mrs. Ogden Kltzhugh had the cour age to turn and eye Gertrude through her lorgnon. "And then?" "I took the car along the lower road, not to disturb the household. Mr. Bailey came down across the lawn, through the hedge, and got into the car on the road." "Then you know nothing of Mr. Armstrong's movement! after he left the house?" "Nothing 1 read of his death Mon day evening for the first time. "Mr. Bailey did not see him on hi# v/ay across the lawn?" "I think not. If he had seen htm he would have spoken of It." "Thank you. That Is all. Miss Uer trude Innes." Gertrude's replies acre fully as con cise as Halsey's. Mrs. Kltzhugh sub jected her to a clone Inspection, com ment ing with her hat and ending with her shoes. I tlatter myself she found nothlug wronst with either her gown or her manner, but poor Gertrude'* testimony was the reverse of com forting She hud been smuutoued. she said by her brother, after Mr. Armstrong had gone. She hud waited ! In the billiard room with Mr. Bailey : until the automobile had been ready. Th> n she had locked the dour at the fool of the staircase, ami, taking a lump, had accompanied Mr. Italluy to the main entrance of the house, and bad watclled htm cross the lawn. In stead of going at once to her roout, she had goue ba» k to the billiard room tor something which had been left there The cardroout uud billiard 1 tuuu were In darkness, She. had groped around, tuund the article she | was looking (or. and was on the point I of returning to her roam, whan she had heard sume IIRH tumbling at the ;• •• k i' i! ■ •<r door Hh» had thought It was probably her brother, and had been about togo to th» door, 'wh« n she heard It open Almost tut uo dtately there wa* a shot, and she had roa panic stricken through the diuwtug n M>W and bad the house ffu Ufa 1 OMU&UJbUj NO WIN SIGHT COLONEL GEORGE HARVEY SAYS COUNTRY ALL RIGHT. THE WRITER SEES NO CLOUD Striking Article In North American Review That Is Attracting Wide Attention. The attention of business and pro fessional men In all portions of the country has been attracted to a strik ingly strong article by Col. George Harvey In the September Issue of the North American Review in which the writer takes a view of the greatest hopefulness for the future of America and Americans. The article Is en titled "A Pfea for the Conservation of Common Sense," and it is meeting with the cordial approval of business men of all shades of political opinion throughout the entire country. In part, Colonel Harvey says: "Unquestionably a spirit of unrest dominates the land. But, if It be true that fundamentally the condition of the country Is sound, must we necessarily succumb to despondency, abandon effort looking to retrieval an* cringe like cravens before clouds that only threaten? Rather ought we not to analyze conditions, search for causes, find the root of the dis tress, which even now exists only in men's minds, and then, after the American fashion, apply such rem edies as seems most likely to produce beneficent results? Capital and Labor Not Antagonistic. "The Link that connects labor with capital Is not broken but we may not deny that It is less cohesive than It Bhould be or than conditions war rant. Financially, the country la stronger than ever before In Its his tory. Recovery from a panic so severe as that of three years ago was never before so prompt and compara tively complete. The masses are practically free from debt. Money is held by the banks in abundance and rates are low. "Why, then, does capital pause upon the threshold of investment? The answer, we believe, to be plain. It awaits adjustment of the relations of government to business. • * • The Bole problem consists of determining how government can maintain an even balance between aggregations of Interests, on the one hand, and the whole people, on the other, protect ing the latter against extortion and saving the former from mad assaults. "The solution is not easy to find for the simple reason that the situ ation Is without precedent. But Is not progress being made along sane and cautious lines? • • • Conserve Common Sense. -Is not the present, as we have seen, exceptionally secure? What, then, of preparations for the future? Patriotism is the basis of our Insti tutions. And patriotism In the minds of our youth Is no longer linked solely with fireworks and deeds of daring. It is taught In our schools. A new course has been added —a courso in loyalty. Methodically, our children learn how to vote, how to conduct primaries, conventions and elections, how to discriminate between qualifica tions of candidates and, finally, how to govern as well as serve. They are taught to despise bribery and all forms of corruption and fraud as treason. Their creed, which they are made to know by heart. Is not com plex. It Is simple, but comprehen sive, no less beautiful la diction than lofty In aspiration. These are the pledges which are graven upon their memories: "As It Is cowardly for a soldier to run away from battle, so It Is coward ly for any citizen not to contribute his share to the well-being of his country. America Is my own dear laud, she nourishes me, and 1 will love her and do my duty to her, whose child, servant and civil soldier 1 am. "As the health and happiness of my body depend upon each muscle and uerve and drop of blood doing Its work In its place, so the health and huppluess of my country depend upon each cltlseu doing his wurk In his place. "These young citizens are our hostages to fortuue. t'uu we not safely assume that the principles ani mating their Uvea augur well for the permanency of thu Republic? When before have the foundation stones of continuance been laid with such care uud promise of durability? "The future, then, is bright. And the present? But one thing Is need ful No present movement Is mora laudable than that which looks to conservation of natural resources. But let us never forget that the great est Inherent resource of the Amer ican people Is Common Sense. 1/•! that be conserved and applied with out cassation, and soon It will be found that all the Ills of which we «t>mplalu but know not of are only such as attend upon the growing palus of a great and blessed country. He Knew* the Game. According to the Metropolitan Meg astnv t>lre Chlui John Conway of Jer ee> City, has solved the baseball e|- uuee question by the posting of the following prlutad uotlve on his deek It tire headquarters; "All rwquests for leave of al>st>uee owing to grandmothers' funerals, laiue ba> l huus* cleaning, loot lug. sura thi at, headache, brainstorm, c«nt»!na' a<• tiding general Indisposition, «4e , n ,»t be handed to the chief not lata* than ten o'> lovh on the morning of the game" AN UP AND DOWN ARGUMENT. 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