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THE TURNER TRIBUNE VOL. IX T U U N K It , WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK U S. MARINES LAND IN CHINA ('onllngvnl Reaches Taku on Cruiser Huron Start for Pekin. Tleulsln. — One hundred American OREGON, RUSSIA, BRITAIN ARE NEAR BREAK marine* wera landed from the Amer lean cruiser Huron at Taku Monday Brief Resume Most Important FOR and left immediately for Pekin. Daily News Items COMPI LED morning, Rumors of developments at tb* capl YOU Cvsata o f Noted I'w p lr, • »4 I 'w l k Nurthwret. end Other Things Worth Knowing. K i l l ol 7u cooto i Uoirn prun'd ■nor* attractlv* to robber* uf • To (» in * | r w « r f oluro Wodnusdsy o lib l than money lo tho m b register. For the ftrat time In the hlatory of tho Income t a i law the amount* paid by Individual taxpayer* and corpora tion* am now open to public Impac tion. The general condition and *trenglli of lluwagrr Queen l.»ul*e of Denmark, who ha* been III iom a time, are le** satisfactory. It wa* officially atated Wednesday. Assertion that the land embraced In the Columbia basin Irrigation project I* sure to be Irrigated was made by Charles II. Locker of Hancock, M d , federal engineer engaged In an In vest Igatlun of the project, at a cham ber of commerce luncheon In Spokane Tuesday. No format comment was available at the W hite House Wednesday on the recurring report that Secretary Wal lace of the agriculture department Is planning to retire from the cabinet In the near future. Mr. Wallace Is In a hospital here recovering from an operation. Throe 7 year-old boys were Instant ly killed and 17 other children were Injured."several seriously, late Tilths day when an Interurban Vnr crashed Into a school bus about eight miles east of lairaln, O. Approximately 36 first and second grade pupils were In the bus when It was struck and over run! ed. A statement urging that a half hull day be granted by employers to In dustrial workers throughout the coun try on election day. November 4, In order that they may have "equal op portunity” with all dtlsens to go to the polls, was Issued by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor. i: STATE N E W S j IN BRIEF. ! ! ♦ Portland. had been ordered to use. Cecilia Kay. IS. of S42 Tillamook street, used the acid Hu-<d»v and died before medical attention could n a u i Lor. RELATI ONS ARE ACUTE — — g Uusaisn Ire Is Directed Against Mac Donald for Allowing Subor dinate to Sign. • Moscow. — Russo British relation* Salem. — Committees of the city publication of the alleged Zinovieff council and the taxpayers held a ses sion here Saturday and adopted the Jotter. which the aoviet government municipal budget for the year 1925. brands a* an impudent forgery and an The budget aggregates $252.213 28, or election campaign maneuver, designed 89 cents leas than the maximum per to destroy the Angto-Russian treaty mitted under the ( per cent lim ita and Imperil the present friendly rela tion law. Eugene.— Thirty-nine fires outside Maxim Lltvlnoff, assistant commis the national forest were handled by Sluslaw national forest crews during sar fur foreign affairs, bss sent a the past season, according to a report strong denial to M. Rakovsky, the Issued Saturday by R. 8. Shelley, su charge d'affaires In l-ondon. sod M. pervisor. These fires burned over Zinovieff bss denounced the whole af 1840 seres snd damage amounted to fair In no uncertain terms to the Brit $3375, aayi tbe report. tions between the two governments. ish trade union congress, characteris Salem.— A parade of all m ilitary and I ing the document as a "gross falsifica patriotic organisations, addresses by men prominent In the affairs of the tion." Soviet officials here take grave ex state and nnvelllog of a monument ception to the aevere language em erected here In honor of departed sol ployed In the British note snd also diers, probably w ill be the outstand resent the signing of the note by Mr. ing features of tb * Armistice day cele Gregory, sn under official. Instead of bration in Salem on November 11. Prem ier MacDonald, which they re gard aa an affront lo the dignlly of the aoviet republic. They are espe cially Irritated at the sentence In the British note: "T h e soviet govern ment must say definitely whether It ha* or has not the power to stop such propaganda o f organisations over which it cannot exercise control." Brownsville.— Friend* snd relatives to the number of half a hundred call ed at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Craig Thursday night, bearing gifts snd offerings o f money. The occa sion of the surprise party was the 80th anniversary o f birth for Rev. Mr. Craig. H e Is a retired Methodist cir cuit rider and camp-meeting minister. The British note as published In London •>es not contain the foregoing sentence In the form quoted, but tells (he soviet government that If It has (he power to carry oat agreements it ought to do ao snd If It has not the power, snd If the responsibilities which belong to the stale in other countries, are In Russia in the keeping of private and Irresponsible bodies, the soviet government ought not to make agreement* which It knowa It cannot carry out. SUverton.— Mrs. A lf O. Nelson of Sllverton bss received word of the death of her father. Rev. J. A. Thor- sen, at Minneapolis. Rev. Mr. Thor- sen, who was S< years of age, was s Minnesota pioneer minister. He was stationed at Rockville, Minn., for 40 years. Rev. Mr. Thorsen was known by many Lutheran* on the Pacific coast. * SECRETARY WAL L ACE DIES IN WASHI NGTON ing of linn Washington, a negro, be- caust of his alleged association with a white woman. Rev. E O. Jones, gen era) kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan here, was sentenced to five years In the state penitentiary. T. A. 1-andls was fined 2500 and sentenced to <0 days In Jail. Ivan Poling was fined $5000. A six months’ stay of execution was granted. Sky Prowler Is Sighted. London. Dr. Baade, German as tronomer, has discovered an object of the tenth magnitude, and planetary In aspect, moving so rapidly that he sus pects It Is .a comet, says a message from Copenhagen to the Greenwich observatory. Should this prove to be true, the discovery would bo of the greatest Interest because o f the prox imity of tjie object's orbit to the earth. Salem — Mailing of (he voters’ pstn phleti, which contain the argument* of practically all candidates fur office' at the November election, was com pleted Saturday by the secretary of state. Approximately 370,000 pamph lets were sent out. havs reached an acute phaae over the Managua, Nicaragua.—The Nicara guan government has Informed Hon duras that any further violation of Nicaraguan territory by the regular troops of Honduras will be considered an act of open hostility. W arning was given In a dispatch that If the Honduran government did not Immediately place troop* to guard its frontier, In view o f the present revolution In that country, Nicaragua would be forced to abandon the-pass Ive attitude It has observed, even In the presence o f outrages on Nicara guan territory, against which Nicara Washington, D. C.— The fifth break gua now most energetically protests, In the original Harding cabinet came to do what he ran to solve the prob Saturday with the death of Secretary lems of the farmer as secretary of of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace. His agriculture. passing means the third change In the cabinet since President Coolldge as 8henandosh Ends Ldng Cruls*. sumed office following the death of Lnkchurat, N. J.— The navy dirigible President Harding a little more than Shenandoah came to earth at Its home s year ago. station liere just at midnight Sunday It la believed to be probable that after a Journey o f 9000 miles across President Coolldge will tender the aec- the country and back which had taken retaryshlp o f agriculture to ex gover 18 H days. A fter circling above the nor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, who field o f the navy air station the crew refused a place In the flrrt Harding of the airship dropped a coll of rope cabinet and aubsequently rejected ten -from a trapdoor at 11: SO Saturday ders of (He ambassadorship to Great night. This was Immediately grasped Britain and the republican vice-presi by the ground crew and the ship was dential nomination. drawn to earth, the control cabin Ek-Governor Lowden's Interest In touching ground Just at midnight. agriculture was a prime reason for re fusing to accept the other positions, Minister Is Sentenced. * ordinarily considered of greater Im Fairmont. W. Va.—Convicted of con portance, and an Impression prevails splracy In connection with the shoot that he will welcome the opportunity Child and Puppy Found. Eugene, Or.— The fact that his little pet, a puppy, was with him perhaps saved the life o f Halford, 3 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jackson of Meredith, who wandered away from home Friday afternoon and remained Jn the mountains all night during a hard rain storm. The child and dog slept huddled together beneath a fir tree and when they were found at 8:30 Saturday morning, three miles from home, the boy was apparently no worse for the experience, although he was pretty badly chilled. Searchers spent the night In the mountains and paaaed several times iU»ng the road near where the child and puppy were sleeping, but the boy failed to hear thorn. Smuggled Chines* Dies. New Y o rk .— Seven Chinese who were smuggled Into this country from Hongkong In parking cases aboard a steamship, suffered ao severely from starvation and hardship during the 30- day voyage that one o f them died soon after taken Into custody by the police Saturday and the six others were near death. Three Chinese of this city, charged with smuggling their seven countrymen, also were arrested. A ll are members of the Hip Sing tong. 1924. NO. 0. tr. THE Salem —The body of an aged man, dressed In blue denim overalls and a bine Jumper, which apparently had been lying exposed in the open be tween tw o and three months and which Is now believed to be beyond hope of Identification, was found early Sunday morning near (he bank of the W illam ette river about 11 miles north o f Salem. Salem.— A total of 371.169 voters in Oregon registered for the general elec tion to be held November 4, according to a compilation completed here Sat urday by Sam A. Koxer, secretary of state. The registration prior to the general election in November. 1922. was 333,056. showing an iperease of nearly 40.000 voters for the election to be held next month. Salem.— I f the Interstate commerce commission acts favorably upon the report o f two of its examiners with relation to railroad development in central and eastern Oregon and there are no delays because of litigation, actual construction work should get under xjray w ith liPthe next year, ac cording to H. H. Corey, chairman of the Oregon public service commission. l A Tale O f The Fl at wo o d « ♦ —— I A fter mistaking a deadly reliable news could not be obtained. One persistent report said >111100*1 province troops were looting Tuug- chow, an Important city on the grand canal, IS miles east o f Pekin. Further reinforcements for Wu Pel Fu went through Tientsin Monday, some coming by trala direct from Chanwangtao, and others landing al Tangku from transports. A ll proceed ed up the railway line t-vward Pekin. Wu Pel Fu. who wa* .oinmander In- chief of the Chinese national armies until the overthrow of tbs central government last Thursday by Feng Yu Itslang, "th e Christian general," atad one of Wu's principal aides. Is marching on Pekin to regain bis lost power. Taku and Tangku are outer ports for Tientsin, both small towns. An allied m ilitary train which left here In the morning for Pekin Is re ported to have reached Fengtat, 10 miles from the walls uf Pekin, at S o'clock In the afternoon. BO, Hillsboro.— Announcement has been made by O. Phelps, owner of the Lib erty theater, that be will Invest $26.- 000 In a new building, construction to begin at once. poison for a throat gargle wblcb she The recognition of the soviets, which was sem io fficially announced for Fri day last, now Is understood to have been delayed by the Russians. Mos cow, It was said, had Intimated through Its French supporters that General Haan Is Dead. even tacit reservations concerning debts would not bo tolerated In the Washington, D. C. — Major-General W illiam O. Haan, retired, who com art of recognition. manded the 32d division In France, . Oregon had 120 automobile fatnll- idled at Mount Alto veterans' hospital tles In 1023 as against 113 In 1922, 103 here Sunday after an lllpess of several In 19fl and 87 In 1920. Portland had months. 39 fatalities la 1923 as compared with General Haan was born In Indiana. 40 In 1922, 38 In 1921 and 34 In 1920. He served In the war with Spain and Washington state had 240 fatalities In In tho Philippine*. He won the dis 1923, compared with 173 In 1922. 8e-‘ tinguished service medal for m eritor uttle’s fatalities In 1923 wera SB, com ious conduct In the Argonne. pared with 44 the year before. * • A bonded caretaker has been placed on guard at the residence o f Miss Martha Hhumate, of Winchester, Pa., wealthy spinster, who died last week leaving a hoarded fortune stuffed and crammed In nearly every nook and cranny o f the house. Much of the gold roln Is said to be of old mintage, many pieces being from the California mint, coined while the gold rush was at Its height. Impudent Forgery. CM T O B E U tal were circulated everywhere, but II. W. Wager, aged I I , a Spokane Look's Father Is Dead. randymaker, *et fire lo bl* Rom» Thursday, look a dose of poison and Chicago. Albert Henry I.oeb, multi then haoged himself lo a tree In hi* millionaire vice president of Hears. yard, police »aid. Roebuck A Co., who had »ro ll III for several months with heart disease, Pressing temperature* were report died Monday night at his Chicago res ed over the upper Mississippi valley idence. He had been brought back stale* Wednesday. Scores of points to the city from tb* magnificent Loeb throughout Michigan. Wisconsin and estate at Charlevoix two weeks ago. Iowa reported SO to SI degrees. but only bis Intimate friends knew of The death list In tho powder explo the transfer. He was the father of Richard Loeb. sion of the scout cruiser Trenton off who, with Nathan t^opold Jr„ was the Virginia rape* Monday ha* In sentenced . to life Imprisonment for creased to eight with the death In the kidnapping and murder of Robert the naval hoapttal of Iwo of the 16 Franks. This shoeklng crime weighed Injured taken there. heavily upon the father o f the mur A marathon dance contest at le r r o » derer and doubtless hastened his park cabaret In'M anila which started death. Mr. Ixieb was S< years uf age Saturday night ended Wednesday and, until a few months ago was en morning after one Klllplno couple had gaged In the most active period of his completed 7k hour* and 15 minutes busy Ilf*. of dancing, declared locally to be a world's record. Nicaragua Near Clash. The department of agriculture Is sued a statement Wednesday night saying Secrotary of Wallace, who Is In a hospital hero recovering from a recent operation, pad authorised the “ most positive denial" of rumor* that he Intended to resign bis cabinet post. M. Zinovieff Declares Letter THURSDAY, David Andepon*? J lu Phi* MoorvT Iiw t»d io n ^ î^ ! I* win. Mÿïir/ . 9 ) TV* & «KVa C H A PTE R X V II—Continued. I tlvo forward dock looking guardedly i about. • -**“ There was no mistaking th* somber “ Has T ext* Colin passed tb* gat* t'day, (Joel* Asburyl— you know 'er. frock cost, neck stock and high bst— It was Caleb Hopkins. A moment he don't y'o?” “Ol' Sim# Colin's da'ter— the purty stood listening at tbe door; glanced leetl* gal wl' the brown hair an' laugh around again In every direction, snd in' eye*— wall, 1 reckon I do know 'er. slipped over tb* side o f the houseboat No, she haln't passed tbe gate t'day, into the skiff. nary way— why?" As he rowed up around tb* head of th* Island snd across ths north chan “ Oh— she rid up this w sy— " "Did she?— no. she didn't pass." H< nel to shore, he passed within lass than hobbled a step closer. "Ol Sime ha< fifty yards or where th* woodsman lay t' let loose at last, didn't ‘e? Dern concealed, his eyes hard and danger shame, though, ‘e bad t* be bumped ous, his fingers betraying an almost Ir off. Reckon they ain't found the feller resistible Inclination to stray toward the butt o f the revolver st his hip. ylt that dons It V Drawing the skiff well In among tb* The woodsman made no reply. It Is even doubtful If be beard. Ills mind fringe o f scrub willows, Hopkins was flying fast from point to point of glanced back In tbe direction of tbe every possibility that lay between houseboat, snarled out an Impatient Black rock and the tollgate. He washed exclamation snd set off across th* bot th* froth off Graylock's nose; tightened toms. Ths woodsman rose and softly tbs saddle g irth ; paid bis toll and followed ; shadowed him through th* tsngl* of bushes and vines snd fallen mounted. "Thank* f r the drink. Uncle An logs out to th* River road; watched him crow, pick hla way up th* bluff bury.” ” 1 don't make no business o’ water and slip sway among th* trees of th* in’ bosses," tbe old man called after upland. T h * unguarded safe, tbe bundles of him as he rod* away, "but s ho*F Ilk* that— he • welcome t* drink tb* well money under th* floor of tbe cabin at the homestead, crossed ths woodsman's d ry " The concealed house-boatg— the mind. But there wo* a far higher woodsmen pondered tbe slgniflcanc* of stake In bis tense thought Just then It; th* possibilities of It; tb* horrible than safes and bundles of money. The threat o f It as be galloped down th* frock cost snd high hat were no sooner well out o f sight then be sprang up road. from where h* lay In ths thicket at ths Hs glanced at the son— within half edge of the bottoms and hurried back so hour of tb* tree-top*. Hs htd blun dered— Hopkins had Just undercut to th* skiff; slid It out from ths wil lows and crossed the channel to the him— but maybe the light would hold Island. There he hid It again and to redeem to* blunder. Ills jaw tight slipped through the tangle o f under- ened snd he gave Graylock tb* rein, bruah and driftwood to where hs could closely wanning every Inch of th* road get a view of the houseboat. — and every foot of river— that cams There reached him the dull sound of Into view as be passed. footfalls on the cabin floor, and the Tw o miles above Black rock. Just tiny craft rocked slightly as some one where s by-road, a mere wagon track, evidently crossed from side to side, but Isd off across th* wooded bottoms, b* there was do sound of voices; from found what he was looking for— a mass which h* concluded that the unknown o f horse tracks, with a print or two of tenant was alone. a boot heel that lie knew. In the fast gathering shadows he Ills lips twisted Into a bard g rin ; crept to the edge of tbe Island ; crawled tightened till they squeezed every mlt* with extraordinary car* under the o f mirth out o f It. He had lost th# band rail to th* diminutive forward tr a il; like a bound at fa u lt had actually deck. run by It—and her* It lay. right where T h * door he had watched Hopkins be had crossed It hburs before. fumbling over he had locked— pad He had been bending low In tbe sad locked oo the outside. He stood still dle. Hs straightened snd rode cau tiously down th* by-rotd through the dank snd dismal bottoms. Where the narrow by-road approached Mud haul h* again found w hat he was looking for — Brown!* hitched to a tree, restless and prancing from side to side. Hiding Graylock In a thicket, he un buttoned his blouse, loosened bis re volver In Its holster snd crept down th* mucky bank toward the hiding- place o f the houseboat; crawled close to Its lurking place— It was gone. H * came out o f the bushes and found where th* gangplank had freshly scarred the mud; searched the shore for footprints; found them— th* marks of a shapely small shoe, snd the print of a stylish boot heel. A »peck of color caught his eye near th* scar of th* gangplank— a spot of gold on th* dank mud. He stepped for ward and bent over It. The next mo ment fa# had snatched up something and stood gazing st It— n yellow or chid, flattened snd faded. In *11 likeli hood th* very one he had found for her th# Friday before— lady »Upper day. Over th* man's fine face spread a light that transfigured it. But there was a task railing— tens*; Insistent; mayhap horrible. Taking out his pockethook. he put the flower Ths Deer He Had Watched Hopkins Fumbling Over Hs Had Lacked— carefully aw a y; frowped hard down Padlocked on the Outsld*. th* river shore. 8L Helens. — Lumber shipments from St. Helens for the week ending Saturday night totaled about 2.000.- Knowing that the narrow by-road led 000 feet. The steamer Multnomah, which departed Wednesday night for through the wooded flats almost to Al- San Fedro, carried 985,000 feet of lum ptns Island, nn.-l-d sharply and crossed ber and a number o f passengers, and to the bluffs something more than a mil* above Black rock, he went back the steamer Munafrea finished taking to Graylock, left Brownie prancing snd on a 1.000.000 foot consignment of lum pawing th* weeds, snd rode cautiously ber for New York and departed Sat on down the river. urday. Jnst short o f the point where the narrow road angled toward the bluffs, Redmond.— Borden, the IS month-old h* again hid Graylock, went on afoot baby o f Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Beck of sor distance farther and stole through this city, caused quite a disturbance th* tree* to tho river bank. In his neighborhood Friday, when dur Creeping down to the edge o f the ing his play he pulled a patent cake water, with a caution so great that a tin over hla head and face. Frantic crane wading a rod or two below failed effort* o f the mother and neighbors to*taks th* alarm. Jack crawled out falling to remove It, so the little fel among th* linttis of s cottonwood that had uprooted and lopped over th* low was taken to a hardware store, stream snd peered down the sides of where the tinsmith brought his shears tho Island, lying less than two hundred Into play with-success. • ', yards below. A short distance down th* south side, Pendleton. — The drouth that has almost completely hidden among the prevailed In the wheat belt this fall willows and riding at the end of a rope has become so pronounced that Its hltchsd to s tree on the bank, lay ■ continuance will make It necessary for small houseboat with s skiff tied at Its farmers to reseed much wheat, accord Bid*— unmistakably ths same tiny craft ing to the belief expressed by Abe that had found concealment at the Molstrom. a prominent wheat grower. head o f Mud haul. The woodsman was Just stealing The stand of wheat Is spotted In many hack through the limbs o f th* cotton districts, he said, and In some places wood, with th# bold Intention o f creep the plants have begun to die. I f a ing farther down ths hank and swlm- heavy rain doea not fall within the i mlng out to the Island, when a man next few days reseeding o f large areas cam* sut o f tho snug llttl* cabin, care will be necessary, he said. fully closed the door, fumbled s while Las If locking It and stood on tho dltnlnu- and listened— tome one was moving shout Inside the cabin, and a speck of light showed behind a narrow crack between the door and the Jamb. Very guardedly he crossed tb* deck snd brought his eye close to the crack — It commanded a view o f a narrow section of th* room. A candl* was alight somewhere at th* side, and a shadow—one shadow—flitted about th* floor. The shadow slid across th* section that he could see; deepened; disappeared ; and In Its pise*— Texle. Sh* cam* to th* door on th* outsld* of which he was crouched and tugged at th* latch; as sh* bad probably don* many times since being left a pris oner, but the stout padlocked hasp held firm. With an exclamation that held just a shads of petulance, sh* turned sway. H * Watched her till she passed out o f rang* v>f the crevice— doubtless to sound ths walls for som* other means of escape. But the narrow opening had told him what It heartened him much to know. He took a bullet from hla pouch; flattened It between hla teeth; with hts powerful Unger* forced It noiselessly Into th* keyhol* of the padlock In such a way as to mak* It Impossible to Insert the k ey ; Jammed It so tight with th* b laje of hla pocket knlf# that nothing short o f s lock smith's tools could have dislodged It. (bawling slung th* gangway to th* after deck, he rendered th* padlock •*n ITT# r«*e door eqnaTTy uselese; !th- teued n moment to the quick reeUSOT steps inside; crawled under the band rail to th* bank snd. with every pre caution known to woodcraft to bid* hts trail, rveroased th* Island to th* skiff. 11* shoved th* skiff lnte th* water, rawed up sruund th* heed o f th* Island, down th* south cbsnn*l snd back to tb* boua*-bost. Fastening th* sktff to the rail, be unhitched th* rap* from th* willow on th* bank; sprang lightly to tb* forward deck, being careful to ksep out o f range of th* ere vie* between th* door and Jamb; picked up one of the two light poles with which such craft are propelled; pushed o ff; suffered tbe snug llttl* r*s**i to catch th* drift of the cur rent and. being careful to keep well within the shadow o f the willows, let It drift down the channel. Far down toward th* lower point o f tbe Island a narrow pocket gashed Into the rather steep bank— a place well known to the woodsman. Care fully withdrawing the boat from th* current a* he approached, he deftly turned th* p row ; poled the little ves sel Into th* slack water o f the pocket snd far ap under tbs overhanging vines and branches, where It would likely escape anything short of th* very closest scrutiny, either from land or water; hltchsd It securely to a tree on the bank; went back to the deck and stood listening. The girl Inside the cabin had re peatedly wrenched at th* doors as the veesel drifted down tb* channel. Sev eral times she Sad called th* nsm* of Hopkins, begging him to rale*** bar. doubtless believing It was h* that set th# boat adrift. T o all this ths woods man had returned no answer. Sh* must bars known when ths boat stopped, must hgv* board the scrap* of tb* limbs snd vine* as It was poled up Into ths pocket, for thera followed sn Interval o f alienc*. He could not resist tb* longing to steal one* mors to th* narrow crevlc* where th* bar of candle-light escaped. H * brought hla ey* close; peeped within. Sh* was standing near th* mlddl* of the floor, listening Intently snd ap parently In deep thought. As b* watched, be saw s sudden light leap to her fac* and wak* the wonder of her eyes. She crossed th* floor; cam* (4os* to tbe door and. with the cau tion o f a woodcraft almost as tin* aa Ms own, softly called: “ Jack— !” It took the utter sum of the man's resolution to keep stllL He watched the wonder of her ey** transform to disappointment and despair; watched her stand clasping and unclasping the slim fingers of her shapely small hands. > On* consideration alone restrained him from beating to fragments the dis abled padlock and setting her free— right In that stoat cabin, with Its doors secured by Jammed locks that could not be opened without breaking, securely hidden at th* end o f a cov ered trail, was th* safast place In th* Flatwood* for h«r Just then. Thar* would be hard faces and quick fingers in th* red-roofed cottage that night. But even so. it was the most diffi cult thing th* big woodsman bad svtr tried to do in his Ilf* to turn »why from that door and go back to tha skiff. With set and serious face he rowed np the channel, around the head o f th* Island, across to th* mainland and carefully stepped ashore; dropped both oars into the river; set the host a d rift; stood a moment watching It float away and, with extraordinary pains to hide hia trail, hurried back to Graylock. C H APTE R X V III In th* Dsad Night. Twilight had long faded Into dark, tb* haxy stars seeming only to Inten sify the deep gloom of th* woods, when Jack Warhope returned to Black rock, coming In by way of th# feed- pens. and sllppii.a Lb# horses Into tha barn through the cattle abed*. H * crouched a long time on th* kitchen (tep listening. N o unusual sound disturbed the silence. Very care fully he fitted his key— the same that had com* so near causing him trouble st th* Inquest— into the lock; guard edly turned It; worked th* door slow ly open; entered; softly closed snd locked It. Stealing across th* floor, he mad* his way to the small office room where the papers and safe were kept. Hs tiptoed behind tbs curtains that hung over the entrance to a closet un der th* stair In th* sitting room and stood still, his ears strung for every sound that rode the night. It couldn't have been short of mid night. and hi* mind had gone back to the house-boat, riding safe and secure in the pocket tt Alpine Island, when there cams the sound for which his ears were straining—-hands' outsld# prying st th* window o f th* west room. He drew his revolver, cocked It and took a position so that h* could see through th* curtains without causing them to move. There cam* a low aonnd o f crum bling wood ; the muffled slither o f crack ing glass; the soft grata o f th* sash as It was slowly raised; finally the creak of th* wtndow-slll and th* faint swish of clothing as somebody crawled through. Th * sounds were repeated— on*— no more. (TO BB CO NTINU ED .) A Temporary Substitute. Mr. Peews#— "ao*d-by, dearie. H I writ* every day." Uls W ife— "!)# sura you do. And God be with you till f get back home. Then I’U look after yon." Highest City In lursps, Madrid. In point o f geographical ele vation, la tb* hlghast city In Europe.