IMary Roberts Rinehart's S Thrilling Mystery of < Curve of thefcatenary'' (Continued From Yesterday.) "Well, youne man," father said. "If you will explain what took you out of the house at 6 o'clock this tnorning*—" —Of all mornings," the mater put In. "Oliver, is there ever to be a time when wo can depend on you?" Can you beat It? You'd have thought to hear them that I'd put out the lights and stolen the jewels and been the whole blooming show myself. I got a bit peeved, but In five minutes or so, when they'd all blown off steam, the mater told me what had hap pened. I didn't say I'd heard it from Bois seau. I knew she wanted to tell it. Besides, I wanted the real story. In the time they were telling me that I couldn't be depended on and the rest of it, I'd made up my mind to find the mater's pearls and the rest, or sprain a fairly serviceable mind. I was pretty sick of being known as the family fool and idler. But it I was to do anything I had to have something to work on. ... Old Boisseau had been correct, but he'd let out one or two things. It seems that when the mater was lined up again the wall, she was not far from a desk telephone, and as the crowd grew she edged toward It. "I was trembling so I could scarcely stand, Oltver," she said. "But at last I got the receiver and took it off. I knew if I called for help he'd shoot me. I tried to speak, but at first'l couldn't make a sound. But at last I managed to speak to him, very loud, so the girl downstairs could hear. I said: 'This is an outrage. You will never get out of the building with these jewels.' I almost fainted, but I knew the telephono girl could hear It" "The telephone In the restaurant was out of order?" "Not at all," father broke in fur iously. "The fool of a telephone girl was not there. One of the gang had assaulted the policeman at the door and she'd left her board for fear she would miss something." "I wish you wouldn't both interrupt me," mather said peevishly. "The man heard me and wheeled on me like a shot. 'Hang up that telephone re ceiver!' he said, in the most savage manner. 'No tricks, ladies.' He was waiting until Pamela Brook undid the safety clasp of her diamond collar. 'Hurry up, madam,' he said. 'And In case any of you have any hope of assistance, I'll tell you two things. First, one of my men is standing near the switchboard down stairs and has the operator covered. Second, even If the operator could use the switch board, the telephone trunk lines are out of order. Boisseau's is cut off from the world, ladies.' "But he was nervous, nevertheless" the mater said, with something very like triumph. "He hurried Pamela. Indeed, he was quite brutal to her. Her hands were shaking, of course " Pretty nervy of the mater, I call It I was just about to tell her so, when Bis demanded where I'd been all night. • "I came in shortly after midnight went to bed," I said virtuously. And got up at B o'clock, I sup pose: "I did. Exactly that." "I don't believe it. You'll be tell- J! s next that s'ou've been to the I mill. i 1 didn ' T t car<? to EO into things Just then, so I Ignored her "By the way, father." I said, "Miss Haze I tine is not well. She fainted this morning, and I took her home in a taxicab." "Who is Miss Hazeltine?" mother demanded. "One o f the office stenographers " ,;gid you have to take her home?" "Good heavens, mother," I said "the girl was sick." Now I look at things this way. If a chap's people think he's a dub he gets to thinking it, too. And he's apt to think that what he does doesn't matter, because they don't expect anything better. Do you see what I mean? And another thing. It never turns a fellow against a girl to call her things she isn't. 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Whfcirton School of Fin ance and Commerce wfcji Ur liversity Pennsylvania THUSSEW EVENING, HABRISBITOG td§3S& TELEGRAPH! OCTOBER 5, 1916, We're built that way. So It didn't help matters any for the mater to turn to father and say: "I don't know where he gets It from." "Gets what from?" This was fath er, and a trifle sharp. ' "His liking for low company." "Mater!" "You see nice girls, your own sort, j all the time, Oliver. And t yet, on the slightest pretext you are off with Some s designing young minx who—" "She's a nice girl, mater, and you have no right to attack her." "Have you asked her to marry you?" Can you beat that? "Good heavens, no. I hardly know her." "I don't believe she fainted. It's 1 easy enough to pretend to faint. Why couldn't Howard Martin take her home?" i I saw poor Sis color. I give you ; my word, I'd never thought of her . and Martin before. I knew how much chance Martin had with the mater— about as much as a ripe apple in a school yard at recess. We had a family row then and • there. The mater got it out of me 1 that Miss Hazeltine had not fainted ■ at the office. I'm not clever at dodg > Ing, and before I knew it she had the damning fact. Things went from bad ' to worse. The governor put in a few choice words, and because we were all jangled and upset there was the deuce • to pay. At the end of ten minutes I heard myself saying: "Just a minute, mother"—l give you my word, I had no idea of saying it. If It was a bombshell to the rest you can guess what it was to me! "Miss Hazeltine is a lady, as far as ' that goes. I don't think she'll have me. She's seen too much of the Gray : temper—" this was a shot for father, and a bull's-eye—"hut if she'll over look the family weakness, I'm going i to marry her." And I slammed out. I'd been a fool and I knew it. She'd ■ never get back to the office. I knew i the mater. The more I thought of things the worse they looked. It came over me the way things hit a fellow sometimes, that the reason I hadn't kicked owr the traces long ago nnd got out of the office was be cause she was there. ... i There was another thing. I've never had to worry about money. Mother's father left me some, and I had an allowance. But I didn't suppose for a minute that Miss Hazeltine took father's dictation and his peevish ; spells because she liked It. She work led for a salary and now that was I gone. Lots of chance I had 1o carry out my threat, if you can call it that, to marry her. She'd hate the ground I walked on. and no wonder. Her going away would peeve Mar tin, too. He liked her. All at once it struck me that he liked her pretty well. He'd asked me what she was crying about, d'you remember? And when I thought about It, I recalled seeing them together now and then at odd times, talking very earnestly Perhaps they were engaged. Hang It all, anyhow. I took a chance and sent her some flowers. Then I went to my bank and overdrew my account to get some j money for the office cleaner's family. II hey let me overdraw now and then and char,ere it to the governor. He's the president of the bank. It's queer looking back, to think how that of fice cleaner haunted mo, as if my sub conscious self, or whatever you like to call it, had somehow happened on the truth and was irresistibly shoving me along. e It's not so darned queer either. I'm going to bo frank in this or stop writing it I was afraid somebody Miss Hazeltine was interested in was ™i re "? r or Indirectly responsible for the thing, and it pleased me to think I was doing my bit to help. Form of vanity maybe. lipi!t^the I i pi ! t^ the nlone y In an envelope and sent it by a messenger from the tele graph office. "Be careful of it, eon," I said "It's money." He eyed the address. "More sympathy!" he said in a dis gusted tone. 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I offered that kid a dollar to tell me who'd sent him before and he took it and talked glibly about a tall thin man with a black mustache. But when I made him look at me I knew he lied. I didn't BO on with him. I was afraid he'd say it was a girl. I went to the office. I knew the governor would call up to know if I was there, and there was no use making things any worse. Martin was storming around when I got there. "You people run this business like an amateur tennis match!" he rav ed. "Your father not here, you not here, Miss Hazeltine laid up and the first order for weeks here by wire." Gee, It was good to be busy again. My nerves settled down. We called a meeting of superintendents and de partment foremen and talked things over until noon. Then, of course, just when we'd got a line on things, the governor came in and stifred every thing up again. It made me sick. I tried to tell him what we'd thought of, but he wouldn't listen. "You run out and play with the locomotive," he said. "When I need your help to run the business, I'll send out to the s~hed for you." That let mo out, all right. I got my hat and left the mill. What's the use? But. before I left, I went back to the office. "I'm going, father," I said. "Not to the shed, however.. I'd tired of play ing office boy here. If I can bo of any use, and you want me, you'll find me at the club." "I don't expect to want you." "Very well. But I'd better say a word before I go about Miss Hazel tine, I met her this morning on the street. She was 111 and in trouble, so I took her home." "She will have plenty of time to recover," the governor said grimly. And I knew the mater had got In her fine work. She would never come back to the office. • "Very well. It's rotten injustice and I—" "Just a moment," ho cut In, "I'll have a check made out, and as you will probably be seeing her to-day, you can take it to her." But I went out and slammed the door. Poor little kid, the straightest, whitest little girl I'd every known, and shoved out like that! Why, be side her. the girls they threw in my way all the time were—oh, well, what's the use? Out in the mill yard I remembered some notes I'd made at the confer ence that morning to give the gov ernor and I fished in rnv pocket to tear them up. But I pulled out a piece of paper I didn't recall. It had u sort, of formula typed on tt. Typed except for the symbol, which was [ drawn in with red ink. This was the ( formula: h=l sine oc </= 1 COB <** I<£ The Curve of the Catenary ©C = angle with t.h. I On the second line the "d" was not typed, hut written in. T turned it over. It was the paper with the dead woman's address on it. It was nothing new for Martin to have formulas about him. He was always figuring out something. But that "d" now. It looked as if the thing had been written on the ma chine in the governor's office. Martin had his own stenographer and ma chine. The "d," too, looked like Miss Hazeltlne's writing. I admit I was somewhat heated up. Why the mis chief didn't he use his own sten ographer? I stuffed the paper back in my pocket, and shook the dust of the mill from my feet. I'm not the mop ing sort, but I made up my mind not to go back to the office until I'd been sent for. I was 2 3 and the governor might as well learn now as later that I wouldn't stand for insult. I decided to do a little detective work that morning, lunch at the club and play golf at the country club that afternoon. And until father came over with an apology I made up my mind to live at the club in town. One of the fellows calls the club "an ever-present help In time of trouble," and take my word for it, it is. • • • I went to Botsseau's. Workmen were taking down the awning, and Boisseau's manager and one of them were having an altercation on the pavement. "The tear was there when you put the awning up," the manager pro tested. I should have objected, but there was no time. If It had been raining. I would have refused to ac cept a damaged awning. Boisseau's cannot afford to have anything but the best." > "Well, I*ll tell you this," the other man snarled. "I put that awning up myself, and if there was a hole in it I'll eat the whole thing, scallops and all. Somebody shied a champagne bottle through it from a window above. That's all there Is to it" "If there was a bottle there would be glass." "I've got. the bottom of the bottle In my pocket." Ho hauled out a piece of glass tri umphantly and held it on his extend ed palm. But the manager waved It away with disdain. "That's not part of a bottle," he said. It was not. It was a round piece of glass, like a watch crystal, but much thicker, and rather larger In diamet er. Even the awning man saw his mistake, and with a shrug of his •shoulders he shied the thing into the i .street. 1 "ffhtr* did you And that?" I "On the matting under that hole." The mention of the hole turned him ugly again. I left him and the manager wrangling and went inside. Old Boisseau was glad to show me the scene of the previous night's trouble. He'd been thing it over, and he had a theory. "It was a one-man job, Mr. Ollie," he said. "There were no men with revolvers in the ballroom. Why should there be? All that was necessary was to tell the ladies they were there. It served the same purpose. Think of it, Mr. Ollie. One man and a million dollars or more! No accomplices to spoil the scheme; no cogs, as you say, to slip." I didn't agree with him. We had got to the ballroom, and were etand- Children Cry For Net Contents 15 TlniA Oj)ium,MorphiQC nor iuMiai- Caatorla Is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil,' Pare imfl 1 NOT NARCOTIC. gorie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It SISKt jbaMcfOttDtSAMMLIin*RR- contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Nareotlo BsSR'- jl— Mr jYrf . substance. Its age Is its guarantee. 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He could j have climbed the pole, short-circuited the wires, climbed down, walked ! across the park, and entered the hotel, I all in ten minutes. | < "He couldn't have got to the ball- I room without an assembly card." j "That could be stolen. Not all who , receive cards use them. You, for in- stance, Mr. Oliver—you did not use yours." By Jove, that was true. My card had been stuck in the mirror of my shaving-stand for days, but I didn't remember having seen it the day be fore. Of course, that was all non sense. Sis had a way of gathering up all the house invitations and putting them away. Then the mater's secre tary makes up the lists from them for dinners and parties. Still, it had given me a start. "Even If he did what you say," I argued to Boisseau, "how about the attack on the policeman?" (To Be Continued.) 7
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