JED ABDUCTED,
Synopsis. - Dr. John Michelson,
just beginning his career, becoines
resident physician and companion
of Homer Sidney at Hartley house
Mr. Sidney Is an American, a semi-
invalid, old and rich and very
sirous to live Mrs. Sidney 8 a
Spanish wor dignified and retl
cent. Jed, the butler, acts
privileged member of the
The family has come from
video, South America
house is a fine old isolated «
place, with a murder si
“haunted pool,” and many
dogs, and an atmosp
tery. The "haunted pool” is
Richard Dobson, so
owner of Hartley house,
his broth Arthu Dobe Jed
begins operations by locking the
doctor in his room the very frst
night. Doctor John fixes door
so he can't be locked In. He is
Isobel, daughter of the house, and
falls in love at first git In the
night he finds the butler drunk and
holding Mrs. Sidney by the wrist
He interferes. Mrs. Sidney makes
light of it. John buys a revolver
John overhears Jed telling Mrs
Sidney he will have his way. In
reply she says she will not hesitate
to kill him. Mrs. Sidney asks John
to con to the announcemant of
his engagement to Isobel The
young people consent to the make
bel engagement, Later they
find it is to head off Jed, who
would marry Isobel. Jed tries
kill John, but the matter Is
smoothed over, John, though “en-
gaged” to Jaatsel, conceals his los
Mr
pr
de-
nan,
where
primer
killed
er,
moe
ent
jeve
to
Visita a
bson,
out “Jed te
son murder
America
ils the story of
The familly go
for the winter
the
Yan.
CHAPTER VIilI—Continued,
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our coavietions.”
de.
“1 cannot
I said. “You must use your best ju
ment. You have our
anything that
“You're
aried.
“We
all,” 1
for
iggest
correct ¥y
i wrmission to
suggests itself
to you "
going to brazen It
ia
are not going
said, “not seeing any necessi
I might
tl
ty
any merely
doing ng.
st to you that ere are
Kmail”
with
evaporating,
provisions against blac
The quiet little man,
tions profit
became savage and desperate
“I can't be fooled with™
“l know you. You won't
with a blackmail charge
I know 1
his
of
he cried
be ause you
do not dare
can be punished un
hold on this family.
chance thet I ha
Bot but
am guilty
less 1 have a
I have taken the
real hold,
pow 1 know it.
Ye 8
certain,
ow
“You Are in for Trouble” He Said.
“We Know What You Have, and
We'll Get It"
is not enough oft a hold, but it is
enough to keep you from making trou-
ble for me, and I'll see that soon it
will be enough to make you listen to
me.”
“Yon may do anything you want to
do,” 1 said.
He became quiet and cunning again.
“Then, If you don't mind, I'd like to
speak to Jed” he sald.
I rang for him.
When Jed came, the little shabby
lawyer became excited again and got
up out of his chair to shake his finger
at Jed,
“You are in for trouble,” he sald.
“We know what you have, and we'll
get it. They don't dare stop us, and
1 want to give you notice that you are
marked. That's all. You'll be follow:
ed and hounded and run down In the
end, and there'll be an end to this
superciliouspess here. It may be when
you're dead
and the people In
the best of It.
and my Span-
threat,
can make
“That's a
house
deal
the
make
You have chosen to
with us In this fashion. We'll get
of this evidence, and we'll
pay ten times more than we'd be
willing to for We've
equity in matter, and we're
going to collect it. We know all a
you
settle now. got
this
my friend Jed,
we Where's
I'm going to get
regret it,"
“Jed,” 1 sald,
the
you,
cane
of
do. my
out here,
the gentleman
don't let the
way
disappointed shyster went away In
rplexed but
“show
door is and
out.”
A
a hurry.
alarmed.
man, of his
morals, 1 had no
only question was
make his malevolence
effective,
Jed showed him to the door and
I could see that he
to death.
CHAPTER
I was not only px
Of the rapacity
of
of
lence
all.
he
cupldity
Conse
doubt at
whether
lack
i
nnd
then
came back. wae
1X.
We had seen nothing of
lawyer for nearly thea
to think that we had heard
Dravada’ 9 purpose
nou the
cupidity was
abandon his
them.
‘na
long
last of
too rished and
foo great
intent,
been
for
Jed's
Inwyer's
either to
disposition and
thought his
thet ir intent.
wns resilient, SOOT)
He
was a relief to me when going to
t
bed a
hear the rush
nd lying a few minutes awake
of
and scurry
They
COONS,
were active nt
i
the place.
labbits,
lly a fox kept them
night
returned—and with It
Jed's courag
temper. It.showed itse
then In
was glad to find that Jed in
was not
Sidney He
gainst me 1 knew that he
enn He had
to me unless he AW me in
mooliness and ins
# mood this time
welf against Mrs,
1irne<! a
4
was In torment ag noth-
frie
ing
to say
Sidney's room he
pleasant.
“Jed,” 1
“1 know you
You'll tor
sald to him of morning
better than you th
went yourself until
rat ™
greet
said Jed.
do.
the
devil,”
I had
two
“Go to
Isobel and been
mally
situated
were,
1 had
gone
as young
with regard to
ther as we
One evening been reading and
Isobel to the plano
down on as
my knees
t1
perceiving, without seeing,
somebody was near me,
I turned suddesd) and saw Jed. He
not three feet behind chair.
His face roeauled disorder of mind
“Do you want a cocktail?” he
“No.” 1 sald.
Isobed touched the keys of the
ith
oar
my
isked,
piano,
as a player done w do
surfeit
a mood may
lusion.
asked,
to exp
“Not a
sisting.
“Well them said.
I took up my book again and forced
myself read. 1 had
not heen able to do it 80 long as Isobel
but now that she had stopp™d
at least try.
I made an effort.
nition on the type.
After fifteen minut: §
found that 1 had not turned a page.
Neither had Jed brought the cocktail
I got up and walked about the library.
[ went to the front entrance to find if
a few deep breaths in the open would
not produce tranquillity.
As 1 stood at the entrance Isobel
came running toward it. [ beard her
before 1 saw her. She was running
and gasping. She came up the steps,
saw me, controlled herself and tried
to appear undisturbed. She might
hnve succeeded, but a sleeve of her
gown was torn from her walst and had
fallen to her wrist.
“What has happened
asked,
“Nothing,” she sald.
“You are running.”
“A little exercise.”
“Look at your sleeve” I mid.
She clutched at It as if she had be.
coune conscious of It for the first time,
and then ran by me and indoors.
We mef at dinner twenty minutes
tater. Isobel! had on another gown.
Jeg did not serve us. Dinner was de
layed ten minutes. Then two maids
undertook the service. Mrs. Sidney
asked for Jed. One of the maids said
that he had not appeared and they
were doing the best they could with.
out him,
“Why, what can bave happened to
Jed?" Mrs. Sidney exclaimed,
“What did happen to Jed? I asked
fsobel after dinner when we were
alone,
“I don’t know,” she sald.
“Who tore your sleeve?’
Tess Cod
mild one? Jed per:
very weak,” I
as discipline, to
played,
I mig!
I tried to keep
It was no
reading 1
my atts
~~
use,
to yout”
“Jed,” she sald with resclute frank-
ness,
“Where [8 he?”
“I don't know.”
“Where were you when he did it?”
“At the edge of the woods. 1 had
gone out for a bit of alr—just across
the lawn. Jed appeared.”
“What did he say?”
“I don't know-—something
ent, violent: and he took me
sleeve, 1 was not frightened,
drev’ back suddenly,
out. We were at the edge of the woods.
Three men appeared, strangled Jed be
fore he could ery out, picked bim up
and carried kim off.”
I spent the evening with Mr, Sidney
incoher-
by the
but I
He was
concerned, and I made the lle a kindly
ane,
mls insignificant.”
his habits he must
price, A
time.”
To extemporize a
through the night
but was not back In the morning
and Mr. Sidney had to be deceived in
enduring fashion
I explained to hi
called
which
fy
my
tion
This explan:
, but
pf any
Is I sald, “With
occasionally pay 8
of
touch indigestion
few lies to get
WHS easy
Jed
more
AwWny on an urgent
seemed to Mrs
his going at once. Mrs, Sidney
request, made the same
Sidney
seemed
M:
reason
matter,
and Mr.
01
inter,
accepted it
very nme to
Sidn oy
Jed
im
it served, did not
why
Ve offered hb
the nt's
| disappear
i oF
he accepted it,
It was app
and the yer hb
concerned In
nation Serva absence,
aren that the
two
ght,
Spaniard
a been of the
‘ed's pl
thought It best to telephone
detective agency
put under
thought this was a
at
jaw
men
and have the
Mrs. Sik
proper
etter one
ines
Course ar
serutiny
least was avall
able,
Two dave Inter the detecti
¢d that the lawyer Lad d
from all
{ that it might require some time
of hin
Jed had
'
ef report
rappen
omed places and
to got
trace
been gone
of the malds asked for a
Her m
Riiney
one
leave other was very
sald. agreed
| though disliking to lus
he
very
of an «
HS recom
some rel
Anna Ww ;
as met at the train by
She thirty-day
maid came in. |
i thought er In ier did not
ent awl
was the
i toOK
| Mr Hked
fi bout m, and Agnes
{ her brig pretty ng srance and goo
3 In three
as glad to have
Jedd h
{ for him. In little over a
| hin ores
service!
her 1
folir days he w
{ signed to duties which
Wei
{ had fitted into the routine of the
! perfectly
nothing had
the ninth day of
}
the de
Up to this
of
time been
| heard Jed, but on
his diem tectives tele
M
ective-superintend
i pea rane
vib
phonéd that they had the lawyer
as the det
Guire w
ent's name,
“1 am not to un
back of this case”
ing.
is not necessary.” 1 said
to here In your
i= enough.”
day MeGuire,
with the lawyer
was trying keep
ghtened as he felt
derstand
phon
“It
willing
that
is
tody,
he
come Cus
detec
the
who
next
tive, came
parently
looking as fri
ol
my own vol
“With Mr. MeGulre
your volition,” 1 suggested
“1 think I'l}
for a while”
“What
this?”
tective
ap-
to
understand 1
tion,” he
have you came
of
sald.
representin
look
MeGuire,
ta gain
when the
said
do You
the lawyer
had gone
"What did you
coming? I asked
our dealing plain,
a party of three
expect
asked
by
de
fear to lose by not
“Suppose we make
You were of
that abducted the
servant Jed, We want him
and returned here where he is needed ™
“You are talking nonsense,” sald the
lawyer. “I came with your detective
because 1 thought that at Inst this
household was prepared to deal rem
sonably with a reasonable man.”
“Where Is Jed? 1 asked.
“That's nove of my business.”
“It will be made yours.”
“Barking dogs—moonshine-—thlngs
scare babies” sald the little man.
McGuire came hack.
“F guess i've seen all | want of the
grounds.” be sald, “and there's a train
back In half an bour. We'de our rig |
waiting.”
“I'm not going back,” sald the law
yer. "1 stay at Hartley.”
“What Is he to do?” asked McGuire.
“Merely leave the house,” 1 sald, and
I rang for a maid.
“I''i not be bulldozed,”
lawyer,
“You are not being” 1 suggested.
“The mald will show you out.”
He was af a loss but had nothing
else to do hut go when the maid came.
I held McGuire for only a moment and
asked him to have operatives watch
the lawyer constantly, with an iden
that he actually would remain in Hart
ley, and to continue to search for Jed.
Mr. Sidney, Isobel and | had a cheer
ful dinner that evening. Worried as
Mrs. Sidney was by Jed's disappenr.
4
one
fo
sald the
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i
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|
ance, she was relieved hy his absencs,
I had a plensant two hours with Mr
Sidney, and after that the night pro
duced an occurrence,
Ever since Jed had disappeared I
had been accustomed to taking certain
responsibilities with regard to the
house, The element of security en-
tered ns a question, I knew we werd
in circumstances which demanded-—at
least asked--precautions. So I went
about the at night to
locks, in a supervision of the duties
the servants performed in closing the
one I took on myself without
anything about It,
Hartley house wus large,
wings, It w nearly a haif-hour's
work to visit all the entrances and
to bolts, Many of the halls and
ridors were dark, and I earried
electric fl: to use when needed.
I did say anything of my
sumed but 1 suggested
conmidering
house Hoe
place
saying
ns
Ree
cor
an
1h
not
duties,
as
Mrs
to
Sidney that, the state
boy Wh
Said the Law.
yer.
would be wize to tell the
all doors would be lock-
Mrs
thought
sn o'el Sidney ight
wl policy and the servants vo
mend,
which had
a developine
i the hones at
! wn Mi
wd put on a smoking
t my revolver in
id my watch on
wn
night
nenon as
15
Sidney's roo ) mY
jacket and
wre, pt ms
pocket
the dresse
wtalrs and exami
and cha
ns
In
doors there
house
for the nigh
I went from hall
or, lighting
ttons
t. lock,
ti main entrance
from these
ing
tric buttons, and the
ibly closed
10
in the south
or “he
room was wing
or
of
the
ahove a
and 1
windows to ad-
attracted
aocomnd windows
toward the east showed
on just rising
iixed with larch
¢
fat one Of
ak n
the
scene. 1 was
turned-—by a
farther end of the hall, At that
hall were the stairs to the
where Jed had his room,
nt that
darkness,
of
the
» i1iiet
gue
artled but noise
4 +
at the
i +
end of the
socond floor,
end
al-
ht
windows
ere were no windows
in
igh three
the
ih
and It was
#4
not
com
faint rays
hall from
plete
moonlig
vi ree)
ie
I listened, and it seemed that the
sounid 1 heard was the creaking of old
«talrs under a light and stealthy step.
That interested and 1 went as
| quietly ns 1 could toward the sound,
The
me
made some noise,
§ stood still
There
an insthnt of silence. 1 took another
step toward the stair and hit my, foot
chair, almost losing my bal
{1 must have
was
against a
i
i
i
i
of feet and a
the bottom of
ACTORS dark hall 1
flashed my electric light, and within {ts
rave a glint white which in-
stantly disappeared down a side cor
ridor which led to a small door used
by servants. 1 started in pursuit, but
a hlow on the head, sharp but not pow-
erful. coming from behind, knocked
ine down
It dazed me a bit and felled me, but
not enough to make me uncon
scious. Nevertheless [ got to my feet
unsteadily and made my way slowly
down the corridor into which the flash
of white had turned. 1 came to the
door with my electric light illuminat.
ing the hall, and thus 1 knew no one
wns in it—1t had no recesses or Marni
tire to offer concealment-—and found
the door locked from the outside,
There was a scurry
rustling of skirts from
stairs the
anw of
wns
«Aunad, the new maid, can
not be found.”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
The Eye of the Cat.
As showing how widely the perma:
nently blue eyes of cats differ from
other eyes, it is noted that immediate
Iy the eyes of white cats that are to
have permanently blue eyes open they
shine bright red in the dark. No oth
vr colored eye does this,
One of Human Ways,
Ever notice how every one of the
near-centenarians thinks his one good
hahit 1a the secret of longevity?
TRIMMING IN USE
Wealth of
Pregedence® Over Silhouette.
——— ———
Lavish Use of Decoration
Question of ‘Wheres Needlework
Is to Come From,
the silhouette, asserts a
fashion authority. This Is the thing
that one most forcibly Wn the
lute wodels, Many of the «ld forms
f trimming are cast aside for em-
which are used so lavishly
that we wonder where all the work-
ers are coming from to turn out so
much of this neediework.
strikes
brolderies,
to an extrava-
of
It ig unfortunate to run
pant use of any
tiom. No oue can gainsay the
rativeness of beautiful embroidery,
but it, like noything else, becomes
commoupiace when extensively
used,
ne reas
ioe
deco
too
on for
nay be bed
changed so slightly
that this the
something new,
are
#0 much trim-
sauxe the silhouette has
designers have felt
onbly way offering
Straight dresses
embroidery, the
{O-
fo
using
ming
¥
is Ol
line
with
stitches being placed
covered
so closely
alinost impossible
Coats and hats
as much embroidery as do
gether that it is
discern th
show quite
the frocks.
it
use of
i¢ patterns,
is surprising to se# such
trimming directly
movements ward
that 1 off
dress is like
ny economy, It
would seem ort toward
in swimming
the «
ure of success
economy
urrent With what meas.
these dresses will meet
181 ReCes.
much
it i» difficult to say. i
sarily be
hey mt
expensive with so
r them
things used
A che
Yery unusual are the
— -
nnd
Chemise Dress Embroidered
in Red, Bright Blue and Copper.
frock of =atin has the entire
and back portions
grapes
colores] wooden beads. Steel
front overlaid with
huge clusters of
nallhend embroideries in con)
Among Late Accessories is an Algerian
Chain of Du'l Gold; An At.
tractive Meaddress.
Although the season is well advanced
us with something new
Summer never has been a
the shops exploited new
This year, however,
provide
cessories to be had, states a Paris
fashion correspondent.
studded with vari
colored stones. At the end of
chain hengs a gold care,
aary lip stick holder, but is like 6 metal
handsome ornament.
An Empress
composed of black satin leaves placed
so that they form a crown, is novel
the crown spring slender silver wires
a-glitter with tiny crystal balls,
SWEEPING AND DUSTING
(By U. 8. Public Health Service.)
In sweeping a room raise as little
just as possible, because dust, when
preathed in, irritates the nose ami
throat and may set up catarrh. Some
of the dust breathed is carried to the
tungs, making portions of then black
and hard nnd useless,
To prevent raising dust lo sweeping
AAAI
Blouse of couture brown Klimax sat-
in with applique coin dots of green
velvet, worn with box plaited skirt of
pussy willow satin,
FOR THE PORCH AND GARDEN
Furniture and Accessories Suitable for
Qutdoor Use and Whith
Resist Weather.
blems that
none is
t of convert
a ctarm
ly aad
ace into
to which fan
writes Winnifire
How wekeeping
vitate,
Good
Vely gra
June
lightfully
ate furnl
oh
natural wilio Rqun
to sag and lose their resiliency is to
set them out i! in admin
ister a copious shower the
garden hose. While thi medy is a
trifle fiber willow fur-
piture that has been ined or paint.
in the ordin those
Yo
on
with
drastic for
ITY 1 even
will successfully withstand
stl ”
and dampness,
Boudoir Cape Late
The latest In ne
the be
garments is
glige w
wudolir cape.
When
News
scraps and
carpet. In
paper
are floors. nse moist sawrlgst,
be room Is
Hh
t noisten a
tear it into null
the
SCTans of
and they will
dust and hold it
, Just as the sawdust does on bare
floors. Do not have the paper or saw-
dust dripping wet—anly moist,
In dusting a room, not
paper
scatier
ping.
nlong with
catch most
fast
these over
brush these
the bhroom
of the
do use a
remove the dust from the room, bnt
Use soft
with, and shake
of the window;
or use slightly moistened cloths and
them out In water when fin.
ieliexl. In this way the dust can be
gotten out of the room.
In rooms which have bare floors. 'n
houses, =tores, shops, school rooms,
all dust, ean be easily removed
iia by passing over the
floor a mop which has been wrung ont
so as to be only moist, not dripping
wet,
dry cloths to dust
Straw Braid Trimming.
A very odd trimming is seen on
some of the new satin models. It is
a bristly straw braid sewn to the
frock in a conventional design very
much after the manner of old-fash-
foned braiding. The effect is extreme
Iy novel. By combining embroidery
done In heavy biack silk threads with
this straw brald great elaboration is
obtained.
Frocks of Taffeta,
Many afternoon frocks are of taf.
feta, very often black, combined with
white georgette ~repe or crepe de