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It won't cost you anything to let us suggest a i i| color scheme for that house of yours. It will surprise you how little it will cost if you use Lucas Tinted Gloss Paint Henry Gilbert & Son lj \ 219 Market Street ' ) Ik J j! TUESDAY EVENING, T OWER SCHOOL AT COLLEGE Special to the Telegraph Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 29.—Gettys- I burg College will establish a lower j school in connection with the pre paratory department, the school (o be for the benefit of children under 12 J years of age. SILVER SANDALS A Detective Story of Mystery, Love and Adventure. By Clinton H. Stagg. Copyright, W. J. Watt & Co., International News Service. Each halting step of the man brought him nearer Sydney. Ea ,f h Inch Sydney Thomas moved back his chair seemed to take all the strength from his body. An arm of the beard ed man straightened out slowly, the hand rested on Sydney's black hair. A chill shook Thames' body, but he did not move; he did not even look up. ••You wish the aid of the Prophet? The words, solemn, spoken slowly, came in' the heavy voice of the man who stood over him. "The Prophet wishes to aid you. Speak!" There was the same solemn ity In the resonant words, but in the tone seemed kindliness; just a hint ct gentle command. Sydney Thames felt the hand resting light on his head; about the man who stood over him seemed to hover the scent of some subtle Oriental perfume, as of incense burning. But there was no brazier, no smoke, and there had been no smell until the man's hand had touched his head. The woman in her black chair swayed back and forth, her eyes closed, her withered lips curved in a smile. From the skull top the crow blinked at him wisely. Every bit of will Sydney Thames possessed fought back the fear, the superstitious awe, that was in him. His fist clenched at his sides; his jaw set then relaxed as he asked his ! blunt question, the only question that I would come to his atrophied brain: I "Why were you at the restaurant — dead?" In type, the question sounds silly; but there was nothing silly In it to Sydney Thames as he felt the hand of the bearded man on his head, as he saw the woman before him who was apparently sleeping, as the black crow blinked at him from its perch. "I was not dead I slept," The kindly note was still in the heavy voice. "But why did you choose such a place to —sleep?" Sydney Thames asked the question doggedly. The strangeness of the thing was making him forget the superstitious awe. Somehow he wanted to smile at the grimness of it—of asking a man he had last seen dead the why and where fores of it all. Surely no one had ever had such an opportunity before! "Recause there was feasting and merrymaking. Death should always come to the banquet board to re mind the living that the body is but an ephemeral wraith inclosing the restless spirit." "The old Egyptian idea of the mummy at the feasting board?" asked Sydney. His only feeling now was one oif curiosity to see how far he could go. He forgot the sleeping woman, the crow, the single candle in the velvet-hung room. He thought only of the voice in which was a note of kindliness, and the gentle pressure of the hand on his head. "I was in Egypt ten centuries agone. My beliefs are the beliefs of the wise men of the Nile." The sol emn sincerity of the words was un mistakable. It drove all thoughts of amusement from Thames' mind. The man standing over him believed what he said! But Sydney Thames refus ed to be side-tracked. The man who spoke might believe such a thing, but Sydney Thames refused to credit such belief. The man was there, and Col ton had said he was dead in the res taurant. The blind man did not make mistakes! "You were murdered in the restau rant!" Sydney snapped out the words, and his muscles grew tense for the explosion he expected. The hand on his head did not move; there was no new note in the voice that answered: "That is untrue. I went to sleep hours before you saw me. The two who guided me knew I was sleeping; but years have obscured the true be lief, and preparation was necessary to carry out my wishes. When the day came for my sleep forecasted by the oracles centuries back everything was ready. Those who car ried out my wishes will be rewarded." The words carried conviction! Syd ney Thames shivered under the touch of the hand as his mind went back to the picture at the restaurant: the mechanical walk, the waiter, and the woman who not only g-uided but sup ported. Dead when he entered the restaurant! The thing seemed absurd. A dead man could not walk even with supporting arms! And Colton had remarked the strangeness of the bearded man's voice! "You do not believe!" The kindli ness was gone now. Anger had taken its place. "See!" The hand was lifted from his head. The man stepped back. Slowly he rolled the sleeve from his left arm, baring the thin, corded forearm. Around the flesh, above and below the elbow, Thames saw cleverly hinged, double circlets of silver! "The preparation!" said the solemn vojce. "Years of thought, and of toil wrought by mine own hands; of bands of silver, of coils, and springs and braces of your new metal called steel." The mechanical walk! The auto maton leg-lifting! The unmoving head, held high! All those things came back to Sydney then. There was no lie in the speaking voice. Sydnjy knew that. And his eyes had seen! "So you died naturally?" the words came slowly from Sydney's lips. "The bringing you to the restaurant was but the carrying out of your desires?" He remembered the toast the wo man had drunk; the touch of the woman's lips to thb man's forehead, I the moment of bowing before she walked out of the restaurant. It must be true, all true. Thornley Colton had been wrong! ' There had been no murder; only the obeying of a curious wish of a strange man. "Yes." The bearded man answer ed the question as he slowly backed toward the cabinet in the corner. "Yes. So you may tell your blind master." His blind master! The words arofis ed Sydney Thames' numbed brain like a sudden plunge into cold water, and brought back to his mind all the sus picion the words of the man had al layed. He knew of Colton! He must know of the trailing. So it was all a trick. He realized then that he had left the bearded man ut the restau rant. There was no way he could have gotten here. Who was this man? Who was the man with his fingers around the stem of the wineglass? Who was the woman? The woman! He'd forgotten her completely! He moved his chair as the curtains of the cabinet closed before the back ing man. Silver Sandals' eyes were still closed, her body moved back and forth in her chair. He started to rise. He'd find out what it all meant! The sharp voice of the crow cut the tomb like silence. "Wake, Sliver Sandals!" It com manded. "The young man has seen and heard. Wake, and touch him with your hand, that he may know it is not all a dream." The body swaying ceased. The coal-black eyes opened slowly, stared straight into his. Again Sydney felt their uncanny power. His tense muscles relaxed as he sat back' in the chair. The woman rose slowly from her seat. She came toward him, her silver sandals moving slowly under the black silk ot her gown, her hands rigid -t her sides. Once more Syd ney feit the wild impulse to get away, and once more his limbs refused to HABJRXSBURG TELEGRAPH obey the dictates of his mind. She stood before him, over him, as the bearded man had stood a few minutes before. She raised her hand. His eyes, moving to avoid her gaze, caught the bright, silver flash of something in her hand. The hand came nearer. Ho raised his arm Instinctively to pro tect himself; his chair moved back as his heels dug into the velvet carpet. Then the woman's arm moved like a flash of light. He felt a stinging, burning sensation in his left side. The woman seemed to sway dizzily before him, then she went farther and farth er away. For an instant he saw a new figure standing against the black vel vet hangings of the corner cabinet. It was that of a girl, her eyes wide with fright and horror, the fingers of her left hand gripping tight at the velvet, the burnished gold of her hair glinting in the light of the candle. The girl's lips moved. Finally he heard the sobbing words: "Another! My Ood, another!" Darkness came to hide all things from the eyes of Thornley Colton's secretary. CHAPTER VII Tho Panhandler To the blind man tnere were a thou sand voice inflexions which told him a thousand little things that the eyes of the seeing missed. In his brain j were catalogued hundreds of men by j their voices alone. His memory, train |ed wonderfully by the constant use ; necessitated because of the lack of i eyes, never forgot a voice nor the man J who used it. So Thornley Colton's i blindness was an asset rather than a j handicap. Faces may be disguised so i that the sharpest-eyed will not recog (nize them, but the vocal cords have been attuned by nature to a pitch that cannot usually be radically changed. The problemist, with one hand on the rusty iron rail of the brownstone steps that led to the door of the old house, waited for the district attor ney, who had greeted him from the underslung machine. Another new twist to the case that had already in volved the coroner and a precinct ' captain. The district attorney hurried across the sidewalk, nodded cheerily to the silent Shrimp, and took Colton's ex tended hand. "If you're exploring." he smiled, "we might lust as well ex plore together. Our patHS lie in the same direction, I think." "Silver Sandals?" queried the prob lemist. The district attorney nodded, losing sight of the fact, as most people did, lhat Colton was blind. "A queer char acter," he said. "For more than a quarter of a century she has escaped the periodical crusades against for tune-tellers and their ilk. Men have been sent to get 'false pretenses' evi dence. and they've come back to re port the wonderful things she did. I'm going to see for myself, this morning." "I think you've waited about six hours too long," declared the blind man, with quiet certainty. "What do you mean?" In the voice of the district attorney was the inflexion Colton had been awaiting. The previous statement regarding the "exploring" had been no more true than Colton's own. The problemist answered the ques tion simply; "I mean that Silver San dals has gone, taking with her the ex planation of the dead man in the res taurant of the Beaumonde." "How did you connect the two?" The official was plainly chagrined. "Silver Sandals are not common pedal coverings in New York; nor is it a common nom de guerre." "That's equivocation!" The law yer's training made the statement a trifle snappish. "When did you know that a clairvoyant in a section like this was connected with a murder in one of the biggest Broadway hotels?" "My secretary visited this house a short time after the bearded man was discovered to be dead." "Why, the police haven't connected the two yet!" . "I am not a policeman."V Colton was gently ironic. "No, you aren't!" stated the official positively. Then, frankly: "Look here, Colton, why can't we work to gether? I know the police have nettled you, and you're human enough to resent it. But this case has all the earmarks of the unusual. That's why I'm on the job myself. Things were dull yesterday, and I happened to come across some of the reports re garding Silver Sandals. When I heard of this case I immediately took a chance of connecting the two. 1 un derstand and appreciate your abilities, and I've got sense enough to know that my official position doesn't imply that I know it all. What say?" The frankness of the appeal touched Colton as nothing else in the world would have done. Perhaps the district attorney had been clever enough to understand that; but there was sin cerity in his tone nnd words. The official had been keen enough to know that the problemist was human; that he did resent the supercilious attitude of the professional investi gators of crime whose record was based on the number of convictions and not the number of correct solu tions they found. With the police the arrest and conviction of the man they had picked up ended the case and added to their prestige. With the blind man, the solution of the problem was the great thing in the crime puzzles he loved. He realized the fairness of the district attorney's proposition, and he met frankness with frankness. "I'll give you all the help I can," he promised, and there on the brown stone steps their hands met in an oath of allegiance. "Now we'll go Inside. Frankly"— the district attorney smiled apologet cally—"l can't quite credit the dis appearance of Silver Sandals. For years she has been a sort of institu tion. No one seemed to know where she came from, nor what her real name was. The files at my office cover her for years back." "Anything criminal?" "Nothing. She is merelv a high class clairvoyant. Deaf and dumb, with a wonderful crow that does all the talking for her. That seemed to be merely a trick, but dozens of tests have been made to see if the woman really could hear or speak. A build ing was to be torn down across the street, and men were watching her to see if the noise would bother her. It collapsed one day, and she didn't even hear the crash. She is deaf and dumb, all right, and a list of the persons who visit her would surprise you: members of the four hundred, politicians, hard headed bankers. Wall Street opera tors, gamblers, and men-about-town." "The superstitious streak is in all of us," nodded Colton. "Even Na poleon had his dream-book." The district attorney took a step toward the door. "Ready?" he asked. "One minute." Colton turned to The Fee. "How clean is that suit of yours to-day, Shrimp?" he wanted to know. The boy's face went as red as his hair. "Honest, it's clean. Mister Col- Iton," he protested. "I only got a lit ! tie dirt off the car when I helped Mike I clean it yesterday." He turned to the district attorney pleadingly. "It is clean, ain't it?" (To Be Continued.) TO-MORROW, WEDNESDAY i The Day One Dollar Does the Work of Two and in Some Cases Three | WF Read This Big List of Rare Bargains and Come Early 1 , \t ' \ 1 .12 Women's and Women's Silk Art $1.»8 Crochet AA A ,lIU 'smn'/t ( "" K SI.OO f > Poplin Coats I* Bed Spreads I*— Wash Dresses J, 331115 f M , , , Worth to $3.50, for m Worth to for lor ............... 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From the very entrance to the grounds, where the diversions are strung in two direc tions/sandwiched by fortune-tellers and the "knock - down - the - nigger-babj, there is something doing overj minute, and something that doesn't cost a lot of money to see. One of the leading attractions of last night s Per formance was the motordrome. This concession was filled with curiosit> seekers from the time the show began eatly in the evening until nearly mid n'The motordrome deserves a lot of commendation, for during every min ute of the performance two daring young people —one a pretty K' r ' their lives in their own hands by whirling around a steep bowl-shaped track at breakneck speed on a motor cvcle This, however, is not all these daring motorcyclists do, for while they are traveling around the almost per pendicular track they are doing acro batic stunts such as will make your heart come up in your mouth or make your hair rise slowly up on end at the very sight of it.—Adv. heixik in link-up Chicago, Aug. .29. Heinie Zim merman, former third baseman for the Cubs, expects to be in the line-up at Cincinnati to-day to play with the Giants to whom he was traded last night for Larry Doyle, Inflelder Hunt er and Outfielder Jacobson. Doyle, who was a veteran of the New York 'AUGUST 29, 1916. | team, is depended upon to hold down J | the second sack to-day at Weeghman j park In the game against Philadelphia, j American Exports to Russia Take Sudden Bound Upward By Associated Press New York. Aug. 29. An analysisl of last week's foreign trade jit this | port, it was announced here, disclosed that $12,596,659 of the $78,106,341 worth of American goods exported were sold to Russia alone. Of this amount about $10,000,000 represented purchases of war material and the remaining $2,500,000 included har ness, motor cars, miscellaneous ma- WHILST THERE IS NO KNOWN CURE FOR | Infantile Paralysis jj 11 nor no known positive preventative, yet State Health Commis- !j il sioner, Dr. Dixon, and all experts agree that the best preven- j; !j tatfve is a non-poisonous antiseptic, such as Liquid Antiseptic in 34c and 67c bottles, applied two or three times a day by j; !! means of a Davol Magic Atomizer. i> Use McNeil's Stock Dip and Disinfectant around the home, j! j| SOLD AT jj Clark's Medicine Stores 300 MARKET ST., and 306 BROAD ST. j! ij HARRISBURG, PA. j | chinery and general merchandise. Exports to Prance were $2,000,009 j greater than those to Russian but tha Russian item is the more striking one, ! it was said, because of Its relatively j sudden growth. GERMANS ON* DEFENSIVE ALONG ENTIRE WAR FRONT | Paris, Aug. 29. "On the Somme, as at Verdun, we are leading In the offensive and dominating the adver | sary," says an otficial note reviewing last week's operations on the French front. "There is not a point in tha general theater of operations where the enemy is not actually reduced to the defensive," continues the note. "Actions which we have undertaken continue dospite the resistance or re-» action of the enemy." 5