$ U&!tt KVENItfCf UBLIO EJIDaBB-PHIEAipErJPBlr rWEOeraSlilY?' jMtrABf;'.26,' M l -,-. H I v 11 Mil fer 4 If! l L IS TANGLED TRAILS ity WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE Auther of "A Man Four-Square," "Gtmsight Pass," etc. CepvWeM, lilt, by WIHim MaeLted flatus Eftfr I1U8 nnOINfl THE 8TOKY Tinifll PlinntfinliafM la alM .m1 mttit ilew. H turns (town ths plea of a elrl who h clnlm en him nnl kicks out IB. tTlftfl Ivhn aivai f'nnntnnhnm nn am lit n ', shiue en n (milncM dtal. At a cowboy csrnlvM Wild Ilofe, rldlnir Blrl. H thrown nnJ hurt by Wildfire, n wild bronche The announcer calls out Klrby Lane," who la a friend of "Wild Jleiw' Mclean. Ha tames Wlldnre. and learns of Hese's sister's trei'bles. noe. hrlntc Cunningham Is his uncle, snjs Jhs'll hsva nothing te de with the fam ly. Klrby ther ankri up the matlpr lth his two ceu'lrrs, favored preteges of Jatne Cunningham, who demand te knew the nims of the girl, which Mna says hs will tell only te his undo. When he tela te his uncle's apartment he finds tha man chloroformed bound ard dead. On elk table Is a nlove. one ha lad sein en -iTVIld Hese. Ha takes It and makes Ills scape by the nro-escape. but is euareu ipy a reporter, who noed-nnturedly lets hint pass after "Jeshlne" him. AM) ilkm: it continues ! CHAPTER IX Tite Story In llie "News" F10M a booth In n drugstore ou Six- ' tcenth street Klrby telepbencd the police thnt .Tnmes Cunningham had been murdered nt hli home in the Pnrndex Apartment Up staved te nrmver no questions, but hung tip nt once Krem n fctdc deer of the btere he otepprd out te Wclten fctrcet nnd vnlkcd te his hotel. I lie pa!rd n vvretcbed nicht Th" , distress that flooded his miml wis due less te hi own danger than te his anx iety for Hese. Ills course of action was I set at all dear te him In case he aheuld be identified as the man who had been seen going te and coming from the apartment of the murdered man. He could net explain why he was there without impllrntln? Urnc and her sla ter. He would net betrav (hem. That. Of course. But he had told his reuMns why he was going. Would their story net ttnrt a hunt for the woman In the cae? Man 1 nn Hlegienl biped Before Klrby had epti the glee en tin- table nnd associated It with the crime, his feeling had been thnt the gallon was the proper end of se cruel a murderer. New he net eulv mtendrd te protect Hese, but Ml heart un filled with pity for her. He iindertoed In r better than he did any ether woman hep lnnlty ind Iee and swift, upb'nzttig ancer. Even If her hnnd had fired the eliet. he told lilmcelf It was net Wild Hew who had done It-net the little Mend lie had cenn te knew nnd like mi well, but a tortured woman Iw-ldn herself ngnln luuilv with grief for the slater te whom she . -,rc ..,:vv had nlvvajs been a mother .ia.ui.u l l ..m? ra Mi WllWBwmk ynjRmwM 1 ,sfHii Ttat slie dlil see wa dLsgrace, the shlpwrccli of the eung Ilfe fJie leed se mudi something rjtieer about her. I I'm I afraid." , "What are you afraid of?" "She's se se kinda tierce," Esther! walled. It was Impossible te explain, eren te this big brown friend of Hese who looked as though his quiet strength could move mountains. He was a man. Beside, every instinct In her drove te keep hidden the secret that tome day would tell Itself. , Her eyes fell They rested en the News some boarder bad te"-ed en the table beldc which she steed. Her thoughts were of herelf and the pllcht In which she had become Invoked. She looked at the big headline of the paper and for the moment did net ee them. What hc did -ee wns disgrace, the shipwreck of the young life she loved co much. Her pupils dilated. The words of the headline penetrated te the bruin. A nind (hitched at her heart. She read nearest officer. An I can't run away without cdnfessln' guilt. Even If I had Killed Uncle James, I couldn't de much etee except tell some story like the one I've told you." "It wouldn't go far In a courtroom," Jack Bald. "Net far," admitted Klrby. "By the way, yeuhaven't expressed an opinion, Jack. De you think I Bhet Uncle James?" Jack looked at him. almost lullenly, and looked away. He poked at the corner of the desk with the ferrule of bis cane. "I don't knew who shot him. Yeu had quarreled with him, and jeu went te have another row with him. A cop told me that) some emi who knew hew te tie ropes fastened the knetu nreund his arms and threat. Yeu beat It from the room by the fire i scare A jurv would hang veu high tis ilnman en that evidence. Damn It. there's n bad bruise en jour chin that wasn't there when we saw you yester day. Fer all I knew he mny have done it before you put him out." "I striiek nsnlnst a corner In the darknes-rt." Klrby said. "That's what you say. You've get te explain It somehow. I think your son's lishy. If ou nsk me." "Then you'd better call up the po lice," sucgested Lane. "I dldn t say I wne going te call the cops," retorted Jack sulkily. Jarne looked at his cousin. Klrby Lane was strong. Yeu could net deny bis strength, audacious yet patient. He was a forty-horsepower matt with the wnlle of a boy. Moreover, his face was a certificate of manhood. It was n recommendation mero cffcetlve than words. "I think you're wrong. Jack,"- the elder brother, said. "ICIrbjr hed no mere te de with this than I bad." "Thanks," Klrby nedded. "Let's Investigate this man null, What Klrby 6ays fits In with what you saw a couple, of evenings age, Jack. I'm assuming he's the same man uncle flung dewiistalrs. Uncle told you he was a blackmailer. There's oue lead. Let's fellow It." Iteluctantly Klrby breached one angle of the subject that must be faced. "What about this girl In uncle's of fice this one In treuble? Are we geln' te bring her Inte this?" There was a moment's silence. Jack's black ejes slid from Lnne te his brother. It struck Klrby that he was wnltlnt tnrtnnlv fnt. fhn ftniletnt, if James, though tiie reason for his anxiety was net apparent. James gave the matter consideration, then speke judicially. "Better leav her out of It. Ne need te smirch uncle's icputatlen unless It's absolutely neces sary. We don't want the newspapers glentlng ever any mero scandals than they need." The cattleman breathed freer. He had nn odd feeling that Jack, tee, was relieved. Hnd the young man, after all. a warmer feeling for his dead un un cle's reputation than he had given him credit for? A, As- the three cousins stepped out of we uquitabie minding te Stout street a newsboy was calling an extra. A-l-1 'bout Ounn'n'ham myat'ry. A streamer at him. Hnxtrrl Huxtrrl Klrby bought n paper, headline in red flashed a HORIKAWA, VALET OF OUNNINa IIAr, DISATPEAB8 The lead of the story below was te the effect that Cunningham had drawn $2000 in large bills from the bank the day of his death. Herlkawa could net be found, nnd the police had a theory that he had killed and robbed his mas mas ter for this money. Te be continued tomorrow J. F. Black te Talk en Ceal A lecture en "Tlie Chemical Forma tion of Ceal" will be given tonight at the Pennsylvania Scheel of Industrial Art by Jehn F. Black, of the Newport Chemical Works, of Passaic, N. J. The lecture will he followed by another il lustrating the manufacture of dyestuffs and intermediates. TAKE HELIUM GAS. 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The Ktery of the murder had the two eol eel umns en the right-hand side of the front page nnd bieke ewr te the third He hurried bni k te his roefii te lead it behind a lei K'd deer. The ten wns of a kind In which newspaper rerl Cunningham wns a well-known i lnii.ieter. teural times n millionaire His death even by i'lnees would hnxi- bteti worth a column But the horrible nnd grueome wnj of Ms taking off, the mjsterj surrounding it. the absenee of ntn apparent motive uu less It were rpenge, nil whetted the np- i petite of the editors. It was a big "story," one that would run for many days, and the New played It strong. As Klrby had expected he wai e lected as the piobable a-MisMn A re porter had Interview r, Mr nnd Mr Cass Hull, who eeeupied the apartment lust below that of the murdeied man They had told him that a young innn. a stranger te the;n, powerfully bulk and dressed UKe a piospereus rnnchman. had knocked en their deer about !) :20 te msk the way te the apartment of Cun ningham. Hull explained thnt he remembered the time particu'arlr bccauFt) he happened te be winding the clock nt the moment. A desenptlen of J.aiie was gien In n two-reliimn "Ux." He read it with no amusement It wns tee deadly ac curate for comfort. INGHAM MURDEItnn then collapsed fainting Inte n chali. The supposed nssaln of Jnmei Cunningham Is described by Mr. Cass Hull ns dressed in a pepper-and-salt fcuit and a white, pmehed in cattleman s lint. He Is about -lx feet tall, between twent-fhe nnd thirty cars e'd. weighing about -00 or perhaps 210 pounds. His hair is a light brown and his face tanned from the sun. nis age and his weight were over ever Btated, nnd his clothes weie almost n khaki brown Otherwise Mrs. Hull had ghen n ver cIem description of him, considering her (t.ite of mind at the moment whin lie had s,cen him. There wns one sentence, of the s-terv he read eve- two or three times. Hull nnd his wife agreed that it wns about 0:20 when he hnd knocked en their eloer, unless it w.i-. a printer's error or the reporter had mad" u mistake. Kirbv knew this was wrong. He had lnnkid Ot his watch just before he had entered the Paradox Apartment. He had stepped directly under a street glebe, and the time was '." Had the Hulls dilibcrat'lv hifted the time bak thirty -lie minutes'' If l0, wliV H' leuieinhercd hew stark terror hnd stared out of both their faces. L)id tlie knew mere about the murder thnn tluj pretended? When he had mentioned his uncle's name the woman had In en close te collapse, though, of course, he could net be sure that had be' u the reason. Te his mind thcre flashed the mimerv of the note he had sem en the tabic The man bad calltd en Cunningham and left word he might all again AVas it pos sible the Hulls had just ionic down from the npaitiuent nbec when he Inn' knocked en iluir doei ? If se, hew did the presence of Kue fit into the schedule.' , , , ., Lane pounced en the fear nnd tin evasion of the Hulls as an out for Wild Itese. It wns only u morsel of hope, but he made the nmst e it CHAPTER Kirby Asks u. Direct ()ursllen The story uf ihc Cunningham inn terv, as it wns already being called, filled the early editions of the nfter nfter nfter noen papers. The Times had the scoop of the daj It was n story signed by Chuck Kills, who had seen the al leced murderer climb down bv a lire-e-cipe from the window of Cunning ham's bedroom and had actually talked with the man ns he emerged from the illej. His description of the suspect tallied fairly closely with that of Mrs. Hull, but It corrected errors in re- gard te weight, age and color of clothes. As Klrby walked te the Enultnblc I Building te keep his appointment with his reusins, it would net hac stir- j prised him It at any moment an officer hnd touched him en the shoulder nnd I told him lie was under nrrest. I Entering the office of the oil broker, where the two brothers were waiting for him. Kirbj had a sense of nn in- ' terruptul conversation. They h.id been, talking about him. he guessed. The atmosphere whs electric. i , .liimcs spoke quickly (n bridge any , emlmrni-smunt. "This is a dreadful , thing about 1 ncle .lames. f(. never been se shocked before in my life 1 The crime was ubselutth fiendish." Kirbj nodded. "Or else the deed of some insane person. Men In their right senes don't de such things." "Ne," agreed James "Murder's one thing. Such cold-blooded deviltry is I quite, another There may be Insanitv .connected wl'h It Hut one thing is 1 1 sure I'll net rest till the villains 1 run te. earth and punished " i His eyes met these of his cousin. j , They were cold nnd bleak. "De you think I did it?" asked Klrby , ' quietly. i . i Tlin directness of the question took ' James aback After the fraction of a second's hesi tation he speku. "If 1 did I wouldn't he ceing trt lunch with veu " Jack cut In. Incitement had ban ished his usunl almost insolent inde- t lente. His dark eyes burned with consuming Arc. "Let's put our cards' en the tnhle. We think eu'rc the mnn the police are looking for the one de scribed in the papers." "What makes jeu think that?" "Yeu told us .veu were going te see him ns seen ns he get back fiem the Springs. The description nts jeu te a T Yeu can't get aw ay with nn alibi se fnr ns I'm concerned." . "All right." said the rough rider, his1 low, even voice unruffled by excitement "If I can't, I can't. We'll say I'm the mnn who came down the fire-escape. What then?" , lames was waicning dh cousin nil ' x iii ii i iit I I i i i in Js ttSSs' a EQ, WVSE MARKSff ,v: . EfflgKlIK) 0OES7 P&!!glAKm wlltasfe Founded in 1865 The Heuse that Heppe built Inaugurated the One-Price System !a 1881 C J. Hcppe & Sen Downtown 1 117-1119 Chestnut Street Uptown N. W. Cor. 6th & Thompson Sts, C . 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A guiltv man would have denied being In the ntin f i.mnt -! ,rt 1 nil 1(1 lim n In ft tnsat t . .if.. . i . 1. 1111 li I i I in JL iti- M'UI'i nil I l 1L1I LI J 11 II The iiewMmper va3 incline,, m unns , disnneart.,l.' Stage tin- mvMerieu mail wie nun ..,,, ,.,. Anl,. U,) the poll;, M 1 )-.. te tell ,.T, - - fh , y . '; that CunnliiBiinn mm u.en mur- ,, ,: nn me T -,,, V. " "h' In his roenih. une was ttiihinan.' "' -,K" ',, nrn i.i .' ,' "'., .'" he he the murderer Jf no. why l'i i .Vi.ii l-rifc m. T . ..u . 1,1 he te.ephenc the police and start "" ' , "",,; 'i' ''....;. ...... I elv Un- hunt nfter himV If r1.... ',Ai '..".f V" ..- ik uu ttuum uu n uuiiu iuj uume ie ine i un callcl them dered Could Hheuld Itnmpdlflt net the Killer, hew did In- Knew thnt n crime, hail bum committed less tlun an hour befere'' i As been as he hnd eaten brenKfnst, Kirby vvnlhed round te the liniirdinc ' house en CheroKee btreet where Wild Kese was stuj Iiib w ith her ntcr. I Kese was out, he learned from the landlady, lie nsKed If he might bee I ber elMcr. His anxiety was eu grcut I he could net leave wltneut a word ei ber. Presently Ksther came down te the parlor where the eunK uian waited for her. Lane introduced himself as n friend of Hei-e He was worried about her, lie Mild, She seemed te him in n highly vvreiicht up. nervous state. He wondered if it would net be well te get bcr out of Denver. Esther swallowed a lump in her (hreat. She hud never seen Hose se lumpy, she agreed. Last night she had rene out for an hour alone. The leek In her eyes vvhen she had come back had frightened Esther. She bad gene ' at once te her bedroom and locked the Aaec,' but ber sister had heard her 1 wevlng about for hours. Then, suddenly, Esther's threat t .welled nnd she began te b. She Itnew well enough that she was at the bottom- of Wild Kebc'h worries. , V, "Wjicre Is she new?" asked Kirby Jwlicre ehe was telas. 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