LOCAL AND PERSONAL j
Items of Interest Gathered in and About Town J
Mi h. H rm Atkins of Kel
so, Wa-h., visit 1 her mother
Mi. John Fluke the past
week.
Mrs. Mollie Allin visited
friend in this city last week
Don't let your uti lu i
tell yon how good the Jubilee
Concert was. Ti there and
enjoy it yourself.
Miss Kora Browne viiitee
her parents in Lebanon over
Sunday.
Chae. Irvine and wife left
for their home Wednesday
after an extended visit here
Mrs. Hugh Hauna wa a
Dallas visitor several day
last week.
Mrs. J. G. McIntosh"n
teitained the "Wednesday
Afternoon" club Wednesday
A numhtr of guobis were in
vited and a delicioui lunch
way served Guests were
Mekdames Webber, Robert
son, McLaughlin, Ireland.
Younjr, Davidson and Mis?
Dorothy Cooper.
Wilson i ' off the job, Smith
sells fruit trees and Tripp
still !! real estate. 4-t
Mrs. Gray spent a tew dayc
in Portland the guest of her
sister, returning Sunday.
John C. Payne has a ba'd
head. Hut listen, it wont b
bald when he imperBoimte
"Black Patti" at the Jubiib
concert at the lei s Tuesday
evening the 24th.
Abstracts of Title made promptly
carefully and at reasonable prices,
Brown 6 Sibley, Attorney and At
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The Mystery of the Boule
Cabinet from page 5
u tnit you. Mr. Lester?" allied
oies.
"Yea."
"This la Parks." and I suddenly real
law) thnt bin voire wai unfamiliar be
cause It wai hoarse nod quivering with
emotion. "Could you come down to
the bouse rlxht away, air?"
"Why. yea." I snld. wonrteritiRly. "If
It's Important Poen Nfr Vantine need
me?"
"We all need you!" said the volee
and broke Into a dry itob. "For (Sod's
ank. mme quick. Mr Lester!"
Gray & Smith have been
busy mending bop baskets.
They have visited twelve
hop yards up to date, and
upejt to reach probably
sixiy hop yards this year.
Dr. II. Wyse Jones who
has been holding a series of
revival meetings at Indepen
dence, spent last Saturday at
his home here. He will re
turn for another weeks woik
at that plaoe, after which,
with Mr. Blackstone, his
singer, he will go to Mt.
Vernon, Wash., to hold evan
gelistic eervices. The meet
ing at In lepi ndeiice'has been
a auccessful one. After hold
ing for two weeks there were
about 40 additions by bap
tism. McMinnville Tele
phone Register.
J. Wilson Cook of Inde
pendence was in McMinn
ville from Thursday until
Sunday visiting his many
friends, and on Saturday
spent the day with the local
grange. Mr. Cook report
that his daughter in-law,
Mrs. Dean Cook, who recent
ly suffered a stroke of paraly
sis, has not shown any re
covery. MeMmnvillo Tele
phone Register. j
!
Art Ilosjan bought tW
P ncus Laws alialfa roots
this week, paying 75o perj
HX'O. He contemplates
grafting hops into these al-
falfa roots and sell them to
the trade. I
"Look hr!" he erisd again.
"All right," I aald without" furth.f
parley, for evidently he had lust bla
aelf control. "SonietlilnK baa happen
ed down at Vautliie's," I added to
Godfrey aa I hung up the receiver.
"Shall I cuum. too?" nuked Godfrey.
"I'erhnps you'd better It aouuded
pretty w-rloiis."
We went down together In tbe ele
vator, nud three niluutea luter we bail
hailed a tuxl and were spetMliui! east
ward towaM the avenue. Aa we
reached the avenue and turned dowu
tuwu the driver pushed up bia apark
Five nitnutea later we drew up lefore
the Vantlue place.
-Turks must have been on the front
atepa looklnK for me, for he oame run
Ding down them almost before the car
had stopped. Flla face startled me.
"la It you, Mr. Lester r he Rasped.
"Steady, man." I aald. "Don't let
yourself go to piece. Now what haa
happened?
"I'll abow yon, air," ha sold and ran
np tbe atepa, along the hall, to the
door of the anteroom where wa had
found the Frenchman's body. "In
there, sir!" be Bobbed. "In there!"
The room waa ablaae with light, and
for au Instant try eyea were ao das
led that I could distinguish nothing
Plnily I saw Godfrey spring forward
and drop to hla knees.
Then my eyea cleared, and 1 aaw.
on the very sit w here IVAnrvIle had
died, another body. I remember bend
tug over and peering Into tbe face.
It waa the face of Philip Vantlue.
"He'a deait" aald Godfrey.
Then there was an Instant'a silence
"Ieater, look here!" cried Oodfrey'a
Toloe, aharp. Insistent
Godfrey waa kneeling there holding
uinethlug toward m.
"Look here."' ha cried again.
It waa tbe dead man'a band h waa
holding tbe rlht hand, a swollen and
discolored baud and on the back of It
ycrat above the knock!, wero two tlnv
wtranda, troui men a rew orops of
blood had trickled.
And aa I stared at this ghastly slj;bt. (
scarce able to believe my eyes, 1 heard j
a choking voice behind me saying over
and over again: i
"It was that woman done It! It was,
that woman done It!" . I
I have no very clear remembrance of
what happened after that. The shock .
waa ao great that 1 bad Just strength j
enough to totter to a chair and drip
into It and ait there staring vajruely
at that dark splotch on the carpet.
Two or three persona came into tiie
room Parka and tbe other servants. I
suppose. I heard Godfrey's voice giv
ing ordera, and finally some one held
glass to my llpa and commanded me
to drtnlc Again, then, 1 saw Godfrey
standing over me.
"Feel better?" he asked.
I nodded.
"I don't wonder It knocked yon out,"
be went on "I'm feeling shuky my
self. I bad them call Vantlne'a physi
cian. But lie can't do anything."
"Godfrey." 1 whispered, "whose voice
waa tt onetliln Ko mm"'"
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