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T OWER SCHOOL AT COLLEGE
Special to the Telegraph
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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
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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.)
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The Shamrock Fire Co.
Carnival in Cameron Street
Several thousand people, it is said,
visited the carnival yesterday which
is located at Cameron and Mulberry
streets and all were very favorably
impressed with" the Krause show,
which is here in the interest of the
Shamrock firemen, whose home is at
Fifteenth and Herr streets.
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.
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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."
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