Mary Roberts Rinehart's Thrilling Mystery of "The Curve of the Catenary" (Continued From Yesterday) 1 "Never took a picture In my life." "Not even at night?" "Not even at night." "X happened on a camera belong- tag to you to-day." "I don't own a camera." "That's curious," he said mocking ly. "The dealer evidently made a mistake." Well, I saw I was in for It, and there was no use fencing any longer. "A friend of mine lost a camera. I know what you mean. It isn't mine." "Lost it at Boisseau's?" "Near Boisseau's." "I'll have to ask you who owns that camera." "Ask ahead. I don't have to answer. I don't think it's any of your business. What has a camera to do with the robbery at Boisseau's?" "That happens to be my affair." "I'll not tell you who owns it." "You know," ho said, and I give you my word he showed his teeth. "You'ro only delaying the game, son. There are a number of ways of finding out about that box. The man who made it got his supplies somewhere. The little spring that was dropped by Schmerz wlien ho was attacked—that was made somewhere. Oh, we'll trace it, all right." "How do you know there is any con nection between the camera and the robbery, or the murders, or whatever you have in mind?" "I didn't know it, my boy, until you refused to talk about it." Then he went out and closed the door softly behind him. Can you beat that? Well, they were after me, all right. I'd meant to have dinner at the club, as I've said, but hardly knew what to do. I tried to telephone Martin, but my room phone seemed to be out of order. Just as I lost my temper and slammed tho receiver up, I got a note, hastily written on a sheet from a pen cil pad. "Don't use the phone. Calls watched." Honest, it made me creepy. It was from tho telephone girl downstairs. She's a nice little thing, and I used to send her candy at Christmas and chaff her a bit now and then. She lost her job over that warning, by the way, and we have her at the mill now. Curious how things turn out! Well, I was learning a few tricks myself. I knew I'd bo followed, and there was something I wanted to do that night that didn't require two of us. I located my man from a window in the smokingroom. Then I telephoned out to the country club and ordered dinner there, using the telephone downstairs. The operator raised her eyebrows in surprise. "I sent a parcel to your room, Mr. Gray," she said. "Thanks. I got it." Between the time I sent for my car and its arrival I suppose the detective At the first sign of skin trouble apply Resinol That patch of eruption is not neces sarily a serious matterl Even in severe, well-established cases of eczema, ring worm or similar affections, Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap usually re lieve the itching at once and quickly overcome the trouble completely. How much more, then, can this simple, in expensive treatment be relied on to dis pel skin troubles in their earlier stages. Kesinoi Soap and Reainol Ointment are sold by ill druffgriiU. For samples of each, free, write te i)e*t. I*R, Kesinoi, Baltimore, Mi. fVEREADY T^'aNAME HOW WOULD YOU LIKE to be adopted by a nice looking THREE THOUSAND-DOLLAR CHECK? You can be if you say the word. TK*a is worth investigating. Come in at once and ask us about the EVEREADY CONTEST. Contest closes November 7—at midnight. Contest blanks may be had from E. MATHER CO., 204 Walnut Street HARRISBURG ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. 24 S. Second Street DAUPHIN ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES CO. 434 Market Street FRIDAY EVENING, HABBISBORa TBIEGRAPB OCTOBER 13, 1916. got my call and my destination. He was determined not to let me out of his sight. For when I went out he was waiting at tho corner in a taxi, and the chase was on. When I saw that he was comfort ably settled, I started, and we had a very nice run. I took it easy, let him almost catch me now and then, and stopped at the top of a steep hill to look at a tire, while he crept up. But a bit more than half way out I opened the throttle and cut loose. In two minutes I had lost him. In four I was sliding quietly down a steep lane with the power off, and. in five I was headed back to town on the lower road. 'l'd like to know what that fellow's taxi cost htm that night, for at 7 o'clock I telephoned to the country club that I'd changed my mind and would dine at White's, out in the country, and I've every reason to be lieve he went on out there. • • • I had no definite plan at first. But I wasn't exactly surprised when I found myself within a mile of the Hazeltine place. It was dark by that time and I got out and left the car in a lane. The hilltop is almost country. What I wanted was to see Hazel alone and to tell her about the camera. Yes, I called her Hazel to myself. But I give you my. word I'd no intention of making love to her. She was engaged to Martin, and I may be flippant and all the rest of it, but I'm no trespasser. I had a certain amount of curiosity about the place. There was almost an acre of ground around it, and it led to the brow of the hill and even over it for a few feet. It seemed to me that it would do no harm to take a look about the place. If they were in trouble, and I was to save them, I'd have to know what I was saving them from. Naturally, I didn't Intend to go around peering through windows. It was the garden I was Interested in. I'd got the idea of an aeroplane in my head. Silly? Well, of course it was, but I had to have something to work from. But it took just one minute to discover that nothing larger than a dog could be concealed on the place. And there was no dog. There was a hedge, but no gate. I went in and made the rounds of the place in the shadow. At the edge of the hill there was a sort of pergola, a simple little thing, covered with grape vines. "I'd got as far as the pergola— arbor, I've found they fall it, and it's a much better name—when the old gentleman came out on the porch and looked about. I slipped into a deeper shadow, feeling like a house-breaker. He'd heard me, or more likely, he'd seen me. Don't talk to me about the failing sight of age. "Is that you, Hazel?" he called. When there was no reply he spoke again. "I'm going for a little walk," he said. "I have written the advertise ment and offered a small reward." He muttered querulously when there was no reply, and I watched him out to the street. Then I turned and went toward the house. I suppose, crossing the lawn as I did, I made no noise. For the next thing I knew there was a heavy thud ding behind me, followed by a second, a Ynetallic clang that rang out like a bell. I half expected to see the old man come running in from the street. But he did not come. Then I remembered that he was deaf. Deaf and placid with age. Two muffled blows. Then silence. Then two more. I turned and went back across the lawn. I don't know what I expected to find. I'd got in the way of ex pecting trouble. The noise had come from over the edge of the hill. I knew that. The place was black-dark and I could hear some one moving about among the dead shrubbery. If you ever read that people are coolest in moments when they face a crisis, don't believe it. It's one of the lies we tell to cheer ourselves. Just remember that I'd come to the con clusion that something extremely baleful and uncomfortable, and given to deeds of darkness, was housed on that hilltop, and you'll understand why I was covered with a hot sweat as I crept on my knees to the edge of the hill and looked down. There was something just below me, moving about on what was evidently a ledge. So close was whoever or whatever it was that I could hear labored breathing, and once a pole, or what seemed to be a pole, almost touched my face. 1 I don't know how long I listened. 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The next moment the light was gone, and something that I could not guess was going on below. It was a struggle, but not a battle. Then, all at once, I felt a stinging sensation on my cheek, and almost instantly the ledge was silent. But through the shrubbery something was falling down the hill, slowly at first, then rapidly. Then a second of wait ing and a splash far below. I put my hand to my face. It was covered with blood. Scared? You bet I was scared. I leaped down over the embankment like a frightened horse, and clutched at the shadow that stood there. No. it wasn't courage. It was in sanity. I give you my word I didn't mean to leap. What I meant to do was to run like the mischief the other way. That's another fallacy of cour age exploded. I caught at the shadow like a mad man, and it folded up like a con certina and sank into the ground. Not into it, exactly, for the force of my rush carried me forward. I fell over it. * • . It was Hazel. 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Either there was too much to say or too little. I didn't know. The town lay spread out before us like a table set with a thousand can dles. It made mc think of the pic ture the queer camera had taken. Our mill was going full. All the lamps were on, and I saw a moving light that I knew was the yard locomotive. It wound in and out on its rickety track, and I even fancied I recognized its whistle. It looks like a pug dog, Magical Effect of Simple Face Peeler To maintain a clear, white, youthful complexion, there's nothing so simple to use and yet so effective as ordinary mercolized wax, which you can get at any drug store. Just apply the wax at night as you would cold cream. In tho morning wash It oft with warm water. If you've never tried it you can't im agine the magical effect of this harm- IPSS home treatment. It causes the old worn-out scarf skin to come oft In minute particles, a little at a time, and soon you have entirely shed the offen sive cuticle. 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"And—a very honor able gentleman, Oliver." I didn't deserve that, and I told her so. I'd been looking around the place, and even if my motives were fairly decent, I wasn't proud of it. "I've been thinking all day. I haven't had much else to do." Her voice was wistful, and I knew she was thinking of the office, and the war order have I said it was a war order? It was. Shells. "And you'll have to know about things. I can't let you think I wander about the streets at night, but now that the mill is on double time, and he is trying to get things organized, he has very lit tle time." "I guess you know you can count on me," I said. My voice wasn't exactly steady. It was great to have her turn to me, but of course it hurt, too, with Martin's ring on a ribbon around her neck, and all the rest of it. I'll go over the bank, if you say the word, like the —whatever it was." "I want you to do something. Do you think you could get to the roof at Boisseau's?" "I don't see why not." "In daylight." "In daylight. Sure. To tell you the truth, I'm beginning to prefer day light for most things. It's safer." "We have lost something, and 1 think, at least there's a chance, it is on Boisseau's roof. If it isn't, it may be on another near by. I should think you could see from Boisseau's." "I think I know what you have lost." "You know!" She put her hand on my arm, and it was shaking. "I may be wrong. I'm no sleuth. But If it is what I think it is, I know where it is. Only I'm hanged if I know why there's so much trouble about the thing. It's a camera, isn't it?" "Yes." I told her about it. It was rather a long story. She stirred a trifle when I said I had seen her pick up the spring, and when I said that Sohmerz, the policeman, had stooped for one like it when he was hurt, she gave a little cry. I took her hand then, and she let me hold it. Queer about hands, isn't It, how (he touch of a girl's mite of a hand will make a fellow either a king or a fool? Honest, I was older and—well, better is the only word I can think of—the minute I felt her cold little paw under mine. The tear in the awning, the lens, the I camera dealer's window, I told her the whole thing. But she stopped me when I told her.how I'd lost the lens when I was showing it to Martin. "But he must have known!" she said. "He would know that it was a lens, and that probably—" Her voice trailed oft. I don't always have to stand under a pile-driver to get things driven homo. I saw the whole thing in a minute. Martin had upset his glass of water, you remember, and the cloth had been changed. He'd had plenty of time to put the lens in his pocket before I missed It. "As far as I know, he has the lens now." "Of course he would get it, if he could." Then she rose to his defense gallantly. That's a good word, and It fits her. "Probably he is waiting to get the rest of the camera. Ho felt Quite sure he could • recover It He knows how vitally important It is." (To Be Continued.) 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