a A vr a eae a CHAPTER IX—Continued, wf Yo By this time I had my senses fully recovered. I ran to the nearest win- dow and was just ino time to see two figures, one in white, the other Indis- tinct, at the far edge of the lawn, run- ning. They ran into the woods, and while 1 stood at the window, trying with painful consclousness of stupldity and ineptitude to decide upon a course of action, 1 heard an automobile en gine start in the lane the WO LIS. Qut of a stupor, in which I watched the two strange figures from moonlight on the lawn into the dark of the oak grove, I was aroused sibly by the sound of the engine of the automobile—with a course of action suggested. It came of fears long entertained, now present with a threat of limminent consequence. 1 ran for the stairs, flashing the light, up the stairs and to Jded’s room, His door was open. As I have said, this wing was not wired for electricity. I turned my light about the room, saw that the fear which bad caused me to patrol the house was realized and then hunted for the lamp, which I teund and lighted. Jed's room was in the disorder in which a hard-working housebreaker, intent or? finding jewels he knew the room contained, might have left it. It seemed almost ripped to pieces, On a table was a small pearl-inlaid ebony box. The lid was open; the box was empty. As 1 stood In the midst of the dis array of the room, with the empty box the most significant thing in it, the marvelous unreality of Hartley house, a smiling dread, seemed to have visible token. The empty box, I thought, had cob- tained the manuscript which recorded Mr. Sidney's secret. The flush of white which I had seen in the hall indicated the method by which it had disap peared. The two figures crossing the fawn in the moonlight were further indication. There was the sound of the nutomohile engine. 1 had a sore @pot on my head. The manuscript, I knew-—or belleved—had been in the Box which stood with significant emp tiness in the midst of the disordered room of Jed, who had been kidnaped. $f my surmises were correct, Mr, Sid- ney's secret, upon which I knew the Bappiness of the family depended, was in the hands of men designing to make ese of it, Jed, being a major-domo about the pince, had in his room a telephone con- necting with the warious servants’ quarters. I used it to arouse the chauf- feur. It took five minutes of ringing his bell to awnken him; when he re sponded, I told him that the house had been robbed hy & man and a woman dressed In white, who had escaped, ander my sight, through the oak grove and had used an automobile waiting for them on the road beyond the grove, f told him to awaken one of the gar- deners, take weapons and go as quick iy as possible south by the best roads. When this had been done, I called Mrs. Sidney's mald and told her to awaken Mrs. Sidney and tell her, if beyoud or ¥ £0 the DOs po ? ’ As w— “0h, if We Can, We Must!” She Cried. possible without alarming her, that I wished to speak to her on an urgent matter : in a few minutes the mnald came tack and sald that Mrs. Sidney could see me. 1 found her in the sitting room of her sulte, “It is nothing serious, Mrs, Sidney, 1 sald-—"nothing that we need now re- gard as serious; and it does not con: cern Mr. Sidney's health, There has been an intruder in the house, More. over, the purpose was to oreak into Joed's room. and Jed’s room has been broken into. 1 got a ghmpse of the person who did it, a woman, 1 saw a man and a woman rus into the oak grove and 1 beard au automobile en gine start on the read. | have sent n chauffeur and a geodener in chase, but they are traveling against so great a start that 1 have no hope. What 1 " foar ia that they have Mr. Sidney's By CLIFFORD ;re hd diary. ity” “No, doctor,” sald Mrs. Sidney. “If there had been any chance of finding It we should have taken it away from him. In his absence we have searched his room frequently.” “These people are after the manu- seript, and they are satisfled that they have it.” 1 said. *l1 am sure of that There was a small pearl-iniaid box, open and empty, in the middle of the floor.” “We never found such a box,” Mrs. Sidney. “Then it might have been there “It might.” “If it was, they have it and we must get it back.” “Oh, if we can, we must” she cried, holding her hands so tightly clasped that the delicate bones made a crack- ling noise. I tried to be encouraging and consol ing and, as a practical measure, gave her a bromide. Do you know where Jed kept sald gee CHAPTER X. Hartley house had a general office where the business of the estate was handled. It was to ene side of the main entrance. 1 had promised to be an extraordin- ary person !n meeting extraordinary circumstances, but all I dM was to go to the office and, lighting the lights, sit there. I was in the extreme dejlection of a weakling when the door opened and Isobel came in. “What are you doing, up?’ I asked, “I'll nsk the same thing of you. What are you and the whole household doing, awake and moving?” I told her that housebreakers had been surprised at work and had es caped. “If you have been disturbed.” I sug- gested, “probably your father has, also. You had better go to his room and tell him that the servants have heen flus- tered by a burglar scare, and then you had better go to your mother’s room and stay with her untill things quiet down.” That seemed sound enough advice, but when Isobel had gone I was left wondering again what to do next. It was out of the question to notify the authorities. The thieves had stolen something which, from what I knew of it. 1 preferred to have in their hands rather than In the possession of the police. Our detective agency I could trust, but I did not want to communicate with anyone but McGuire, the superin- tendent, and there was no needsof tele phoning him until later In the morn ing. The case, as I thought it over, came to this: The Spaniard and the attor ney, by the ald of a confederate, a woman, had obtained possession of the diary contalning the secret of Hartley house. They would soon be heard trom. They would not disappear. We did not have to pursue them. They wonld pursue us. There was the possibliity of dealipg with them by force extra-legally. Any- thing we did for our protection had to be done extra-legaily. I thought Me- Gulire could and would attend to that, and I Intended to Instruct him to con- sider murder the only process not to be thought of. 1 tried to reconcile my ideas of Mr. Sidney's character with the facts of the family’s terrible dilemma. What could @ man of so just and honorable, kindly and charming a nature-—as re vealed In his old age—have done, even in a hot and passionate youth, which he could not face now? What crime could he have committed which not only constituted a danger to his secur ity but remained a source of satisfac tion to him? For two hours 1 sat by the telephone, expecting momentarily to hear from the chauffeur who had gone in pursuit of the thieves, It was about four o'clock In the morning--there was a pule suggestion of light in the windows —when Mrs, Aldrich, the housekeeper, came to the office. She was an lmper- turbable lady of disciplinary habit and ordinarily unruffied dignity, but now she was disturbed, “Doctor,” she sald, “Agnes, the new maid, cannot be found, She is not in her room. Her bed has not been touched. Most of her belongings and her suitcase are gone, 1 came to you with this probably unimportant do- mestie ineldent, thinking that—well, the occurrence of the night might have some connection with this girl" “l think Agnes probably was In volved in the matter,” 1 said “We have always so dreaded to take a new servant” sald Mrs. Aldrich, “hut Agnes came recommended for the month by a very faithful girl who wanted a month's leave. Has anything of great value been taken?” “Nothing of any intrinsic value whatever, Mrs, Aldrich, 1 imagine the robbers were alarmed before they found any jewels or plate.” “That's a consolation, In any event,” sald the housekeeper; “but we never shall be able to take In a pew servant ngnin with any ease of mind.” The chauffeur telephoned as Mrs, Aldrich went away. The chase In the night had been useless, as might be expected, and ] told him to return home, S. RAYMOND Mrs. Aldrich breakfast, brought me a lght and one of the gardeners came to say that the dogs had been found in the woods. They had been fed drugged meat and were sick and even now barely able to stand, 1 was preparing to go to Mr, Bid ney's room when the telephone rang again, It was a call from the village of Horwich, forty miles east, a place of some repute, or ill repute, for the number and character of its drinking places and roadhouses, The mann calling me sald he was the constable of the township of Horwich and asked If he were talking to a per- son of responsibility. 1 assured him he was. Then he told me that an auto- mobile accident had occurred two miles out of Horwich and that the only identifying marks suggested Hartley house as a place to make Inquiries, He asked if 1 could come to Horwich, I endeavored to question him over the telephone, but he sald there was little information he could give, a it Mad My Bottie of Beer, man and a woman lo & car—man past middle nge, a young woman In white; the mau was dead, the woman badly injured “I'll be over as soon as possible,” 1 sald. “Please keep the effects all to gether.” There was no doubt In my mind that the quavering little rascal of a lawyer with his precise way and timid but controlling unscrupulousness had come to the end of his road-—-and at the very moment when be had suc cess in his hand, Theres was no rea- son to doubt that the woman was the maid Agnes whom [I had surprised at midnight stealing down the stairs from Jed’s room with Mr. Sidney's diary. But if we were rid of the timorous, grasping little attorney, we were in worse difficulties. With the attorney and his Spanish client, we at least knew the manner of dealing. It was disconcerting—I might almost be for- given the exaggeration of saying it was horrifying—to consider that the diary was being bandied by a con- stable, a sheriff or a coroner or even by any idler or resort-keeper in the village of Horwich If the automobile accident had dis posed of one ingenious enemy only to make a half-dozen equally nserupu- lous ones, or to apprise (I was tempted to think this was worse) one Incor- ruptible officer of the condition of Hartley house--in either event, we were the worse for the change In cir cumgtance, One of the stablemen knew how to drive a ear, and I asked him to bring out the automobile which I used when I went to town. The chauffeur, when he returned, would have been up most of the night. 1 did not want to impose on him. 1 might be gone most of the day. In a half-hour we were away toward Horwich, 1 never had been over the rond. which ran by old farms with stone fences and was little trav eled except by the people who lived along It, Originally the place had a respect. ahle tavern. It was called the White Owl. It was still respectable, but odd- ly enough, It was the success of the White Owl which had attracted the other places, I inquired for the constable and was told that I should likely find him at the White Owl, he being a frequenter of that place and now having a case which needed a great deal of drinking and talking over, I went to the White Owl and on en- tering the barroom, which really had an attractive rather than a disreputa- ble nppearance, saw a group of men about a short, broad, squareshoul- dered fellow who was talking to the integest of half a dozen or more fel lows, My entrance made no diversion, and Judging, from what I had been told, that the squat, talkative fellow was the constable and that he was telling the story I wanted to know, I decided to remain’ unidentified. have a bottle of bheer—from the bartender, who eame half-heartedly from the con. stable’s nparration—and thus as an # 5 A nr PPP 4 4 °, ee Sree eTeleTee, » * eavesdropper get what 1 in direct conversation. I had my bottle of beer, and the bar- tender went back to the group. domi- nated by the squat, talkative fellow, nme to get stable, He showed Intelligence decision, but evidently he was fond of a story when he had it to tell He was saying: “I was up late because there was a bad set at the Half Day, and with them before he got them on their way. About o'clock they had a quarrel, without anything but talk, divided into two sels and went away in two cars toward the gity. I split a bottle of beer, and Bill said he'd he going himself. It was nearly one and see if anyone got off “Bill gave me the keys and told me to shut the place up. I had another bottle of beer and was playing taire on the bar when Number Eleven stopped. “1 went to the front door of the bar and looked over toward the station. A man had got toward the Half Day, which was the only place showing a light, in the doorway, and when up, I saw he was a foreigner. gold rings in his ears, he came in. He didn't speak enough ing. the bar, put down a quarter and point. ed toward the whisky, 1 gave him the and he pointed me and smiled. So I said I didn't mind if | did. and we had a drink together. 1 thought I'd like to know what this fel. to gest it was closing time, “Then 1 was surprised to hear a car to be expecting it We both went The ear stopped at the door, and a man helped a womag out. He was a little old shriveled fellow. was young and pretty. my foreigner, and he threw his arms in the alr, wriggled all over, langhed and fell on the old fellow and kissed him. The old boy struggled and kicked. but the foreigner just picked him right up and kissed him on both cheeks, “That old boy was mad when he got “This is anthinkable,' he said, ‘It is beyond expression. You human loose, derstood, but it lar on the bar and to the whisky again, pointed tables in a far corner of the room. “They sat down, and the two men talked. The gir! didn't seem to have the language. The foreigner was ex- cited, eyeglasses. He wasn't much nervousness as the but he was pleased over something. “I kept behind the bar, as near their table as 1 could, and pretended to play solitaire and wait for their or ders, watching them as much as pos gible and trying to make out what they were talking about. Pretty soon showing the city. He paid me the toll, and I showed him the telephone booth and heard him give his number. It was River 40500, Yes, as expected. Let him go. “That was all. table. I noticed that he Kept hold all the time on a leather case, When they got to talking again, the foreigner kept pointing toward case and began to get more happening, as they kept on talking and motioning. it was the black leather care the foreigner wanted, and other man woulduo't let him have It, (TO BE CONTINUED.) Meredith and Lady Macbeth, Lady Butcher in her “Memories of George Meredith,” recently published, gives the world not a little new Infor mation about the novelist which is poth significant and extremely enter. tnining. Here iz one of the passages she quotes from her diary which shows his amazing power to paint with words! “Ar. Meredith went with father and me to see Irving and Mrs, Crowe (nee Bateman) In ‘Macbeth’ During sup per hie explained the meting of th sleepwalking scene to mother, and wishing to describe the way that Lad, Macbeth pushed! the palms of her hands from nose to ear, he said: ‘My dear Mrs, Brandreth, 1 assure you that she came through her hands like » corpse stricken with mania in the act of resurrection’ I"—From “Book Gos sip.” To a person, five feet tall standing on the beach at seaside. the horizon is about twyu and three-quarters miles away. PARIS PLAID MAD Fashion Land Seized With Fad for Black and White. Color Combination Prevails in fikirts, Suits and Jackets—Laces in the Limelight. After months of subdued rolors and deepest mourning Paris hes been sud- denly seized with a fad for wearing GOWN OF NAVY BLUE SATIN Since n few dressmekers displayed Some summer models with black-and- white designs In recordion plaits, the boulevards, apd after a popular run at the races coatinued In favor long aft. Plaits are coming out stronger and And black-and-white check skirts and sults are now the models. The fabric ers have accepted the patterns. The hlack-and-white craze has not apparel untouched, Buits male in checks are numerous in the race-courses black or white jnck- ets with black-and-white checkered skirts predominate. Other in combinations are and llkewise there's any outfit plack.-and.white woo! skirt with popular checks and accordion plaits; topped with black sweater and white striped scarf with jersey «ith hiack Ince Inserts with white motifs, Conree linens will nithough quite Another dainty Innovation the figured parasa’s and or gandie dresses. Painted dresses with batik flowers, will alford cheerful com. binations in color with the graceful parasol, relieved worn expensive, iz the re vival of Snakes Supplant Bluebirds, The last season's vogue of puiterned hued bloebirds and butterflies ts on has been back hix na tive shores for some tine. Whenever any pattern is usell it is some hizurre, weird creation such as a wriggling green snnke, a garment-free cannibal, or a bevy of alliguntors, on Navy blue satin with attractive side | rufflings and a colorful flower at the belt makes this an attractive fall frock. SIMPLE FROCKS FOR KIDDIES Children of Oifferent Types Require Styles That Suit, but Not Fancy Clothes. | Simple frocks nnd plenty of them is the best possible guide to the mother who wonld have her small daughters Children's styles change very little from seuson to Season und the youngster who Is nnd well grovmed is always attractive looking. Elaborately trimmed dresses gre nev- er in good taste for children. Another point that should he considered when planning clothes memhers af the younger generztion is the matter of type. There plain tallored chil. dren and fuffy.ruffles children, just us there are different types of grows. ups. and certninly the blue-eyed cher with golden curix and the dark- eved youngsters with straight, dark tnir. boblied just helow the ears do not require the same styles in clothes, For warm weather organdie has had a great vogue this season, sharing hone ors with dotted swiss Voliex have rather gone a-hegging. altheugh some dainty little volle frocks have been brought Voile does not generally launder quite as attractively as or gundie which probably sceounts for tte lenning to the latter fabric. For next season, In cotton fabrie | frocks. plain colors will predominate, as at present. Where checks ave used "they will generally be rather small, The striking Scotch plaid ginghams have not heen very popular for sev eral seasons with desizners of very high cinss frocks for children. Autumn's Hats Are Gay. Feminine New York says that an { tumn hats must cover the eyebrows {and that the brim must not be even These hats will be properly covered with frulis, and no somber colored hats will be seen, Leading colors are copper, royal and Algerian blue, mahogany, cerise, fade green, chow hrown snd canary yellow. Gandy em broideries In soutache, wool tinsel metallic threads and celluloid or wooden beads carry out the Easterr effect. well dressed, clean for Are uh out. FABRICS NAMED FOR CITIES terials Traced to Various Foreign Towns and Villages The origin of the names of popular routs of New York Eveniug Mail About the year 1320 the woolen Worsted, about fiftecu miles from Nor. wich. and it was at this place that the manufacture of the twisted double thread woolen, afterward enfled worsted, was first made, If not in- vented . Linsey woolsey was first made at Linsey. and was for a long time a very popular fabric, Kerseymere takes its name from the village of Kersey. andl the mere close by it. in the county of Suffolk. We have to thank Gaza. in Pales tine. the gates of which Samsoe car ried away, for gaza or gnuze. Gaza means “treasure.” Voltaire, wishing to describe some intellectual but dresay woman, sald: “She I8 an eage 'n a cage of gauze.” Muslin owes its name to Mossoul, a fortified town In Turkey in Asia Tulle ob'r ins its name from that of a city In the south of France, Trav. elers by rail in Brittany often glide past Guingamp without remembering that it was here that was first pro- duced that useful! fabric, gingham Lamask derives lis name from the city of Damascus; calico from Calicut, a town In India formerly celebrated for ite cotton cloth, where also calico wis printed; cambric from Cambray, a town in ®landers, where it was first made: and tweed from a fabric worn by fishermen upon the River Pweed. Drapery Fabrics. Each season marks an advance in the beauty and variety of enrtain fab ries, and adde to the number of those { which may be safely ironed after {| washing, rather than stretched. While we shall probably always have fine Iace curtains which necessitate stretch. ing. lovely effects may be secured hy the use of filet nets fine swisses, volles, scrim, silk gauze, English case- ment cloth and Scotch madras, all of which may be ironed. When selecting materials with the ironing qualities in view, it is safest to try a sample first, if this is not convenient, a reliable guide is the mesh and edge. especially in net. If the mesh is square instehd of round, and the edge straight, rath- er than scalloped, it will be almost sure to fron without pulling askew. Good Housekeeping. Scrim Curtains, A very effective curtain is made of scrim and Ig put on curtain rods, both top and bottom. Stretch the curtains tight; they can be washed and hung when wet. This stretches and dries them at the same time. It saves time and doesn’t make curtain washing a burden. This kind of curtain is spe- cially attractive when a draping of some kind iz hung with it Lingerie Set . An effective and practioal lingerie set suggested for a trosseau is of or ehid gorgette, devoid of lace. but trimmed daintily with tiny ruffles of eel material and narrcw, ribbon In orchid and yellow,
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