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THE DOUBLE
DEALER
By VARICK VANARDY.
fur ot “Missing 381,500.
ing old 34. Senin i impae
it thoment omen whell nl Hore resis
nséious of the arrival of nd other
h is no necedSity. fot you to
here any longer Delorme
; “This man any to have
on lone, and—"
od furthés: speech
" steppitig in front of Bobcat and
8 his first in the yegi's face.
“You lie when you y. that you |
éme here alone, Rielle" = 56
d. ‘Out with it now. ):
? If you don't tell i had rn
ng it out of you down-town. Name
id wisn anybody “wit ne. r
eds alone,” was the sullen, reply.
9 SRE. yi you, Bobcat? |
ot a
Ei y aged Th 4
Th, at os ln Mdréuie
iled calmly; and then he crossed
ckly to Bobcat and bent forward |
§ if to peer more closely at the MmikN.
he turned his gaze to Baxter,
afd thefy, wi Qitatical bal Balt on
i is eyed hs 8a;
why: leiitenafit: thid burglar we
end of yours. Artists do not forget
taces—especially types; and. this one
& type.
Lim ig sat
Jou Sally mm
He alia upon Mr. Delorme be-
Baxter sould Teply and added
“x think, ole) tha
, this rn to the go, ho ok
ers. It is Play a ag | 1
To Sn nsouts en his
ayuh mean by that, Nr.
?” Marline demanded, blaster
"wil in # 1 $e ovhweak
two plein-clothes men
E have seen you together,
he that thing which
ur lingo, & & ‘stool-
v that this, house was to |
jg rend rat at quite
hat you SENT thé Burglird
fOr ABBE 9
SS PARR BG AH. 55 dy ip alo iT He
| ug
| deated by. a tapestr:
of the small building. It was the
Toi the workroom, of a sculptor.
usts, Tes, - groups; plagues, re:
miny 5 t them finished or half
ished and others just begin and
abandoned, were everywhere, on ta-
bles, taboyrettes, shelves, and even
chairs. Mag
softened for use were there.
3
There were some valuable Palatings
against the walls; there were curios
and decorations about the room, which
evidenced the fact that the sculptor—
whoever e sculptor be—did
not depend upon art for # livelihood.
In the left half of the partition
which divided the depth of the builds
ing a door was wide open, and through
it Moreaux could see a luxuriously ap-
Pointed ae ne fa patil
a
po the
Was con-
§ Shadestiona.
ble richness.
Moreaux, without hesitating, step-
{ ged Jorkerd. and; pulfed the tapestry
6 diclosed @ second door,
aside, and
which was
But, the da 4 obje ect that Cfewe
had taken from oF oblong silver box
in the safe deposit compartment
Lorna, Delorme’s. m, and which
Rickett had not been able to see, was
the, tiny key to the lock of that doer,
Morea produced it,
door, ant disclosed another door
Behind it—a_ door, which was
fukably fide of steal, and whick wa |
fastened nst intruders by a com-
binatiod ae
And herd Horeatix fefbric to bi
small; silverboind. bogk + a8
Crewe, he had been at such od »
x ocure, and the clasp of which
ett hid forced for him in Lorna's
Loan,
I:é pened ft, turned tHe thick,
RET feaves rapidly Tr
ne
figures he had found for a moment,
| and then turned his. Aczention
to the 5 door, reaching ou
ja peal ay of the fides
Tat HY d¥tended Hand paused ero it
f fodhed the afl.
Moreaux bent forward and studied
Lit attentiyely for several seconds.
Then, with a startled intaking of his
tredth, Ho, drdspéd tHe handle of tite
door below the dial and Suruce is
The steel door w
FIé pulled ft open An a aR
F then, with re exclamation of startled
pins p wdshmént,, he
te ow ane thus ddim
irently quickly at the top of tHE
§ and Walted there ;
i wi Muchmore—"' Mo-
; but that officer inter
. in p milingly.
“Captain Muchmore, if you please;
hs “Mo ux,” he said. “I Vv
x he SE
ee arine glared.
tal! I Stulate
: C ha uchmore! 0, the
t greatly simplifies conditions" Here.
©: pr n'—poin
y those two men, Baxter and
arlin®, with beinz accessories to the
ime, and therefore, also, with buz-
, Mr. Riehard Delorme Joins
wit me in ‘preferring those charges.
Tomorrow we will present formal
charges to the commissioner. Just
now, captain, your duty ‘as the rank:
ing officer present is plain. ”
Muchmore turned to the two wuni-
formed policemen. :
“Take Rickett to the station-hquse
and lock him up,” he ordered shortly:
“Baxter, you and Marline had better
report at headquarters without delay.
In the meantime.l will telephone in
that you are on your way.”
Baxter turned away with bowed
head and without replying.
Not so Marline. He took a step
toward Moreaux, then stopped; but
ha shook his fist in the air, and every
one of his fiery red hairs seemed to
bristle as he ground out savagely:
“I'll get your goat yet, Mr. Birge
Moreaux, and when I do I'll get it
good and hard. You was more’n half
responsible for me bein’ laid off be-
fore, and by—”
Muchmore stepped forward in front
of the man.
Marline hesitated, stopped, then
turned away and followed Baxter
down the stairs.
Just half an hour later—that is to
say, at half past two o’clock in the
morning—Moregux, alone, unaccom-
panied, halted in the street beneath
an arc light and attentively exam-
ined two small flat keys that he held
in the hollow of his hand. He was
endeavoring to decide which one of
the two he should make use of first.
One of them, he felt assured, would
unlock the mystery of the lost wed-
ding presents—but which one? Which
one?
He asked himself that question over
and over again 2 went on his way.
s he
CHAPTER XIV
The Jewel Worshiper.
After a rapid walk of ten minutes
Moreaux came to a in front of
a low, one-and-a-half story brick strue-
ture which once had been a stable,
although it was plain that a long time
had elapsed since it had been put i@
Slop
? ~epening and sot
ting r
ickett— “with he :
2
lying at fall upen
black velvet eove
I THE :
frcions Sure on the Sor wie Lorsa
d no attention to the
| AER & y of jewels (Hat adorwea
|. the walls .of that remarkable room,
' were éntirely égvered with
black Me vghets nor to the ebony
| pedestals, fall a a8 T
the room was littered, ea
ing its precious burden of precious
stone 8; o a i
He lifted Lorna gently in his artis
and carried her into the lounging
, tion; and he: saw, when he put her
down upon the couch, that she had
only fainted, and that nature was rap-
idly restoring her again to conscious-
‘ness.
Knowing: that she would” opea her
ey es presently to a full realization ‘of
her surroundings, he left her and re-
turned to the velvet room and ifs
incalculably valuable contents, where
4 single cluster of electric bulbs
glowed from the middle of the black-
bound ceiling overhead.
The riches, the values, the wen-
drous collection of precious erna-
ments and stones that were there ap-
palled even Birge Moreaux.
He had anticipated something of
the sort, but nothing that approached
the realty of it. He knew that Lor-
na’s father was a multimillionaire and
that the daughter had, ever been un-
stinted in her allowances; but he had
expected no such revelation as this.
Nevertheless, he devoted no more
than passing glances upon the various
treasures of that strange room.
He had gone there to seek the miss-
ing wedding-presents—for, ever since
that time when he had painted Lor-
na’s portrait while she was still a
girl, ever since she had gone into such
raptures over the wire-gold raja’s
bracelet, with its setting of a single
ruby, and had insisted that it sheuld
appear on her arm in the portrait,
Birge Moreaux had known !er as one
who was obsessed by a mania for
jewels—a jewel worshiper!
Upon one occasion, two years be-
fore that night, he had met her in
t when she was returning te
from the stuflio which her
purchased for
1d ‘reconstri
igns; for she was
nt of Sonint r
t even then.
rried a little s
Solngd book under her arm, and in a
burst of ¢ i > when he had ask-
ed her, “What is inside of the little
book Ww ith the locked clasps, Lorna®®
she had replied:
unds of clay waiting to be ]
ijod the right |
opened the |
and the place he sought, studied the ]
again |
ech one knee ;
Be rug of | i
the Bae 2
bride of long :
Tie Cag ef ho Cah
"thie “Walls ‘amd ‘ceiling and “floor of |
oe ue ;
room at the othér side of thé partl- |
ar J 8 A 2 iets yitod]
ab ut Fo for t tho
because he believed that the oy
‘of it would:resultiin an absolute-eurs |
of her oe ;
He had confidently anticipated
Ing a tom jewels in fhe
o He
tod to fad HER the
p20 # i
| But Lorna WAS there,
ing the fact that she was supy
be traveling westward in her fath-
er'’s, .privite cgr—and’ L Law
thorough search conyi a lgroged |
that the lost jewels ne not there.
A slight sound attracted him, and
he turned quickly. ¥
Lorna was standing in the dootiay
of the jewel room, clinging with
clenched’ rs to the casing. Her
face was, as white as alabast Her
éyes- = wide, . Jrishtened, sovegugk
Her MH io, and Shy
spasm cally.
Moreaux_ went uy to her, and
he, led gent an d L pesistingly |
a stats 8 gobs pd
“Wait a moment, Lo
then, as don’t, be £
hé réturied wo
; he said
tamed Sip
the
| snapped off the light ed he steel
4d door, twirled the, d al, arg o tape
try into place over it, an wohl back
k to her.
His frst question. was _4 natdial
one. “How does it happen that I find
you herd?” He as
She. aid fot my 3 Fo ind stated
ih aad R02 ld at him before ake
i ll id Sr
, and the other Jewels |
a not org been ex —
might; be lost,” she fife
XS Xora re y.
sed a i oh a be
Jerry left 8 ¥ Schon a “brs
os 2
of FOHERISE
troit.
some purchases, A
New York py nd
a hasty note te
hand-bag, and—|
that train.
“I told Jerry to wait there for me.
I explained to him in that mote I
exactly ‘why I was returring.
% ba TE I kad stolen my
ow was ris and + .
‘When I arrived in New York I tele-
graphed to him te go to a telephone
at the Wayne hotel across the street.
Then I waited two ho!
what nT - was—midnight, 1 think,
i or later.”
‘urely, you did not expect to find the
vels here? You had no opportunity
' to bring them here from the recep
tion,” Moreaux said quietly.
“No. But I did put them in'a reund
| leather case, which I wrapped and
| addr ssed to myself, Then I wrap-
ped that and addressed it to the wo
| man who takes care of the studio for
| me — and she comes here ray Say
and’ stays until evening. I w
hasty mote, telling FSr WHE % *
‘ with the-package. and. where to put it.
. . “But she did not receive it. I went
to her house and roused hér when I
found: th t the package was not here.
She had neither seen it nor heard
of it.
“The man to whom I gave it to for-
ward for me did not send it or deliv-
er it—and I have not the least idea
who he was, although he was properly
presented to me. Then — then, Mr.
Moreaux I came here again. I went
into the jewel-room and closed the
door after me—and that is all I know
until——until—"
“I understand, Lorna. Now, tel)
me: You gave the package to one of
the guests to mail for you?”
. “Yes, yes; but—” :
“And you de not know who the gen-
tleman was?”
“No. He was a stranger. I don’t
think I had ever seen him before.
That was why I selected him for my
messenger. An acquaintance might |
have thought it strangel”
“Can you describe him, Lorna?”
“No. No, I cannot. I was ex-
—miserably ashamed of what I had
done, but alive to the fact that it was
too late then to remedy it. Oh, Mr.
Moreaux! Birge, help me! Tell me
what I must do. I have been insane,
but this experience has cured me. I
contains.
removed. Tell me what I must do!”
“And the lost jewels?” Moreaux
asked quietly.
“Let them go. I will explain it all
to Jerry and papa. Nobody else need
know.”
“Have you
when?”
“Yes, I have eaten.
I need nothing.”
Then I will leave you here until
You can make your.
hol’ burner
I will
rry within a few |
1 to meet you at
ffalo, and 1 will Tee |
ere for you at eight o'clock. In|
the ti brew yourself a cup of
tea, and then go to sleep.”
eaten anything since—
I am not hune
\ over: the alc
FEIT
rs
t 4 buf |
RE HEE T Mont know | N°
‘But Lorna, why did you come here?
cited, nervous, distraught, bewildered |
will strip that room of everything it
I will have the steel door |
png oT fou fea
is ROR. ss — it IF
atips, ug
and slow
e the stones I WOE i
is Past now,
od for it!”
ye taf 5h na
cked up
£ from
oF to bins resting Her hands
and wilh her
Legutiful face dangerous pear
his; ang 1 he pushed her away ry
him, almost roughly.
“Birge,” she said giletly, but with
copvjction, ° ‘nex +9 Jerry and papa,
I love you more tfi".n anybody in the
world.”
4 moment lo’. that Dirge Moreaux
was again in tlie at; eet,
(70 | be Continued.)
ALISBORY.
ua over from last week)
Wm. Broman and, Miss Eliza-
; Goclitan both of Salisbury, were
married in Cumberland on December
of
upon his as
ie. Wm. Knecht of West Safls
bury is, seriously ill with an attac
of pneumonta; She is being nurs
{by her sigter, Miss Nellie Bevans, a
jtrainey nurse from Co; nielEville.
Ringler of Pit ‘urd épent the
h ily season with his family at this
* ab whan
» ;
Miss Lucile Lichltterot Washing:
wi, i Fu Ty rode Mis. £7
Jay L. Shaw of Pittaburg spent sev-
las days of last weak with his par
go uF and Mrs, Joe Sha dw and his
dant, Mrs. Lydia Shaw ar an fami
Miss Mayme bP who fas oon
Nving in Pittsburg Had accept
position as housekeeper at the a
dge of St. Michael's church, West
841Ebury.
Mr, and Mrs, J. 8. Stevanus of the
nd Flat Fruit Farm were shopping
fn town. Saturday Iast. ‘
M. D. Thomas who has for several
months been policing our town has
been dismissed by the burgess, not
inefficiency, nor for lack of need
an office?, but for lack of funds in
io borough treasurery.
p.Jiss Myrtle Johns of Cleveland,
Ohio, spent last week with her par.
Tents, Mr. end Mrs. R. S. Johns on
§
Miss Olive Maust of Blue Ridge.
'w Windson, Md., spent the holiday. |
season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs,
F. A. Maust.
Samuel Ringler, of Elk Lick fown-
ship, who for a number of years op-
‘erated a coal mine for local custom
on his farm has started to ship coal
and last week loaded two cars on the
Maust siding at’ West ‘Salisbury. For
two days they could not operate
the mine on account of its being too
full of water.
Mr. ‘Clarence Stevens of Pittsburg,
and Miss Grace Short of Salisbury
were married in Cumberland on De-
cember 27th.
Miss Della Kretchman of Pittsburg
spent Chritmas season with her moth-
er, Mrs. Annie Kretchman.
J. M. Middlestadat of New York,
spent the past week with his daugh-
ter, and his wife at this place. .
Miss Irene Newman spent last
week with her sister, Mrs. N. P. Meyer
in Summit township.
: ROCKWOOD.
The Rockwood borough council was
Teorganized and the new councilmen
were sworn in on Monday evening
Dr. G. F. Speicher who was elected
to both the town council and to the
school board, has resigned from the
council and the new council elected
Dr. Chas. H. Ridenour to fill the va-
|cancy. The new officers are: Presi-
ident, J. R. Shanks; Sec, W. M, G,
{ Day; Treas, E. J. Weimer. The new
policeman is E. BE. Sullivan.
Irvin Wolf is seriously
East Main street residence.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E Miller of Cum-
berland are guests of friends for sev-
eral days.
Mrs. Robert Groff and children of
Berlin are spending several days this
week with relatives here.
ill at his
Mrs. Swanson of Pittsburg, is the;
i guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E.
| BE, Sullivan.
NEW DIVISION OPERATOR.
H. D. Pigman has eeen reappointed
division operator of the Connellsville
{division of the Baltimore
jellsville, Pa. The position was
péensed with about a year ago, when
Mr. Pigman resumed his duties as a
dispatcher of the main line dis
| the road.
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similafing the Food
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CLEAN }O0PS, MORE EGGS. :
It bas | been said that hens al-
ways lay well in a new house. Th
reason for this is that a new house,
© | perfectly clean. Dust filth lice and dis-
ease germs are absent. To get as many
EES. in 8p, old house it must be made,
as new.
First, the walls
be swept to remove in opt cine mun |
Then All the dis gi the floor should
be taken out. If there is a board or
concrete floor the job of cleaning. is
an easy one but if there is only a dirt
floor then all the dirt should be re-
més thidt had edn’ Worked in by the
hens.
After the sweeping and shoveling
are done cover all cracks in the walls
with tarred paper fastened on with
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from a sanitary standpoint, as good 4
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Funeral Director and Embalmer
Meyersdale,
5 Ewa
ig
Penn’ a.
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Anyone in need of a first-class Slate
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whitewash should cover everything
and penetrate every corner and crev-
ice.
Half a gack of h yds
five or pails
cally all of it 3
pi ml itil rt a ha
crude do ne to each pailfull
the henhouse will be thoroughly dis-
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Leave the nests out of doors to be
be purified by sun and rain and re-
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Wash end
need them, first giving them a good
going over with disinfectant. If, when
all this is done, the windows are wash
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litter provided, the fowls will have
clean, well lighted quarters and the
winter égg problem will be more than
half solved.
E. W. Wheeling, the new chief phy-
sician and surgeon of Windber Hos-
pital, has arrived in Windber and as-
‘| sumed his new duties, succeeding Dr.
R. F. McHenry, who died several
months ago. Dr. Wheeler has for some
time past been chief of the staff of
the Spangler hospital.
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