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fags Ki-r; IN PAGE? - DAILY EAST OTIEGONIAN, ITNPLSTO:!, Cr.CGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1916. a n Having told my ranch in Combs Canyon, 8 mile southwest of Pendleton, I will of fer for ale the following pertonal property, on Erin p J UL 1 LJ W I ill I 1 Bay Team, Mare, with foal, age 6 and 7, weight 13S0. 1 Brown Horte, age 8, weight 1400. 1 Sorrel Hone, age 7, weight 1800. 1 Bay Horte, age 10, weight 1600. 1 Bay Mare, age 4, with foal. 1 Brown Colt, age 3. 2 Black Colts, age 2. 1 Driving Team. I Saddle Pony. 1 Black Horse, weight 1600. 1 Holtteia Bull. 9 Head of Milch Cows, part Jersey, some will be fresh this month. 7 Head of Shoats. 1 3V,-in. Wagon and Wagon. 3 Sets Work Harness. 1 Buggy Harness. 1 Wheat Rick. 1 McCormick Header. 3 Header Boxes. 1 McCormick Binder. 1 Mower and Hay Rake. t Sale Starts 10 a.m. Trough, one Democrat 1 Fuller & Johnson Gas Engine on trucks, and, feed grinder and wood saw. 1 two-bottom Oliver plow. 1 two-bottom Dealing Plow. 1 five-section Harrow. 1 12-foot Weader Blade. 1 Fanning Mill. 1 Grind Stone, 1 14-inch Walking Plow. 1 12-ft. Galvanized Watering new. 7 Cords Wood. 1 Sharpies Cream Separator. 1 riAf-r nulL 1 Orchard Spraying Barrel and Pump and 16 foot of Hose. 6 Dozen Chickens. 3 Rarrel Vinegar. 1 Incubator and Brooder. 300 Sacks Winter Apples. 100 Black Pine Poles. 10 tons of rye hay cut with binder. Free Lunch at Noon TERMS All sums under fifty dollars cash, all sums over fifty dollars, time will be given until Oct 1, 1917, on approved notes at 8 per cent. 2 per cent will be given off for cash on sums over fifty dollars. , ...Jt?HZx&. O. P. Roberts, Owner COL YOHNKA, Auctioneer. E. L SMITH, Clerk. BIG EATERS GET KIDNEY TROUBLE HCREASE If OFFERINGS TAKE HALTS AT FIRST SIGN OF IUiAIl)KK nUUTATION OK BACKACHE. The American men and women muirt guard constantly against kidney trnubla. because we eat too much and all our food la rich. Our felood la filled with uric acid which the kid ney strive to filter out, they weaken from overwork, become siuggisn; mei ellmfnatlve tissues clog and the result Is kidney trouble, bladder weakness and a general decline In health. When your kidneys feel like lumps of lead; your back hurta or the urine 1 cloudy, full of sediment or you are obliged to seek reller two or three tlmea during the night; if you suffer with alck headache or dizzy, nervous spells, acid stomach, or you have rheumatism when the weathe la bad, get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a table spoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa mous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon Juice, combined wWfc. 11,1,1. nnit tia. flffl UflAft for generations to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys; to neutralize the acids In the urine so it no longer Is a source of Irritation, thus ending bladder disorders, Jad Salts Is Inexpensive; cannot In jure, makes a delightful effervescent llthla-water beverage, and belongs In every home, because nobody can make a mistake by having a good kidney flushing any time. TO DARKEN HAIR APPLY SAGE TEA imw vniivr.t , nitTXfl BACK ITS NATl'KAIi OOMMt OIXSS AXD , ATTRACTIVENESS. PORTLAND, Dec. 4 Only In the swine division was there an increase In offerings at North Portland for the week; all other lines showing a decrease. Nevertheless) considerable strength was shown all through the week In the hog trade and values held well with the movement out ward on a food scale. With every Indication of decreased holdings of hogs In the country, packers are Inclined to take hold of all offerings without disturbing val ues. General hog market: $9-70 9.80 Prime light weights 9 559.6i Good light weights 9.409.50 Medium weights 8.25 9.S5 Hough heavy 8.00 8.50 Cattle Market Firmer. In the cattle division there was a firmer tone shown at North Port land for the week. Receipts were smaller than during the preceding week, while demand was better. There was little real good Stuff and top prices were not given a test at any time during the period. Regarding the feeder market the stockyards reports as follows; Feeder trading on country account has been raWier light alt week. Best feeding steers are selling at 85.50 to 15.75; while well bred stuff in 'a' few caies brought 18.00. Valley feeding stuff was mostly on the ordinary and common variety sold from 84 00 to $3.00. Good heifer calves sold from 5.00 to $6.00 With yearling heifers at $5 25 to B-50. There was a fairly good outlet for all arrivals, especial ly stuff with good breeding. General cattle marked range: Prime heavy steers $7.2607.35 Prime light steers 7.0 07.15 Good steers 6.50$i6.75 Medium steers 5.756 25 Ordinary steers 5.00 5 .50 Common steers 4.254 7r rrlme cows 6.00I.2" Prime heifers 6.26(56 EO Good cows 4.75 6.15 Ordinary cows 4 00 4.25 Common cows J. 00 4.25 Prime heavy bulls 4.2504.50 Good bulls 4.00 4. 25 Ordinary bulls 8.008.50 Best light calves ........ 7.00 Ordinary calves 6.006.50 Poor calves $.00 5. 75 Mutton Market Strong. To say that the mutton market was strong at North Portland during the week Is to put the matter very mild ly. There was a decreased run In this division of the local market for the week as compared with the pre vious week, although totals were fractionally greater than for this same week a year ago. There was no toppy stuff available in the market during the week. Sales of ordinary quality were made at the same prices recently paid for toppers, therefore it Is easy to presume that the better stuff would have brought forth an advance. General mutton and lamb market' Select spring lambs $9.009.!5 Ordinary lambs 8. 75 8.S6 Best yearlings ........... 7.76 8.09 Good to common wethers 7 2507.64 Best ewes , 6.0006.23 Heavy' to common ewes.. 4.004.5ft Common garden sage brewed Into a heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn (fay, streaked and faded hair beautifully dark and luxuriant Just a few applications will prove a reve lation if your hair la fading, streaked or gray. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home, though, is troublesome. An easier way Is to get a 60-cent bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur at any drug store all ready for use. This Is the old time recipe Improved by the addition of other In gredleats. While wispy, gray, faded hair is not .,..! ... .ti Aaaim tn ratatn our 01IUU1, WD mil - youthful appearance and attractive ness. 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December 4th, lilt, for the purchase of Improvement bond aggregating $784.08, dated December 1st, 111, being Improvement bonds series 4 of the City of Pendleton, Oregon. Bach bid must be accom panied by a certified oheck for $100, payable to the order of the Mayor of said City, the same to be forfeited to the City if the bid be accepted and the bidder falls to take and pay fer the bonds, but to be returned to the bidder If he be unsuccessful No bid will be considered for less than par and accrued Interest, and The City of Pendleton reserves the right to reject any and all bids at Its pleasure. Dated this ISrd day of November, A. D. 1110. THoa rrrz gbraxd, City Rsjsordea When the food forestallers find that a human being can live on 40 cents a day they are likely to raisa prices again, their slogan being "All that the traffic will bear." IRISH fcPlT 'RISES TO ARISTIC GLORY IX BAREFOOT DAXCE CHICAGO, Dec. 1. The Irish spud has risen to aristlc heights, along with the rose, the magnolia and the violet. The potato heretofore dedicated to coarser usages, took its aesthetic de gree last night before an erudite au dlence of University of Chicago au thorities and students. Vathcl Lindsay, a poet, read his masterpiece, entitled "The Potato's Dance," and Miss Bleanor Daugherty, attired In an imitation potato Jacket, interpreted the poem's troches and futurisms Into a closslo dance. Miss Dougherty was barefoot. Miss Dough. erty's dance is described as symbol ical, rather than material or spiritual StntKU T.IWnfRNT EASES PAIN Sloan'e Liniment is first thought of mothers for bumps, bruises and sprains that are continually happen. Ing to children. It quickly penetrates and soothes without ruDDing. clean er and mora affective than muss) planters or ointments. For rheuma. tin arhas. neuralgia Daln and that grlppy soreness after colds, Sloan's Liniment gives prompt relief. Have a bottle handy for bruises, strains, sprains and all external pain. For the thousands whose work calls them outdoors, the pains and aches follow in nnsure are relieved by filoan'a OpV AICMT 9 'I . rtoouoTto WttH Jose"". Novelized ip-AlBEHI PAYSON TERHUNE from lhe Consolidated Hot ion Picture Triumph How It AU Began, H ABOLD BTANLET, ton of 0 Xev York pti6Mnr, if to love spring lock resisted his best efforts. Steps sounded from within. Some one was crossing the laboratory to ward the door. Stanley moved back a few feet and stood ready to strike, with Flanmoe Ifonfmae. dnunter ot should his foe venture forth. perfecting a itochine to rejuvenation was yawning. His hair was humanity. Btpnley it hunting thb disheveled and bis eyes were blink- ilaytr of fourteen temtthv Xew York- Ingaleepiiy. . n , , "A burglar ran In here Just now," err. Becaim Morenos catchei tight Horence StaJlle of the murderer when Stanletf$ replying, forced his way past the father is made the fifteenth Crimton etuplQed doctor and Into the labors- Stain victim in her home Pierre La tor , t , x . ., , . ., . . The laboratory was empty. Harold Rue, M tteier, hypnotltet her. She Blowerei the 8helf.iinea waIta it revived, and when the tliteenth like a hunting dog thrown off the victim it tlatn in the apartment of scent Fow Tosoa the findt Tanya hypno. burglarr repeated Dr. Mon- ., . . . , . . - . trose, in astonishment, his eyes stray- f(z4 and photograph La Rutft furUy6 'toward th, image in her eyet. But Layton Par- cret at the far end of the room. rith, a mytteriout detective, "acci- "Impossible. I have been In here ever dentally'' iropt and treaii the photo- since luncheon I'm sure I should oropWo praf. Stanley piecet the w!ndowTeP theconl.r to plate together and photograph it. open," stammered the doctor. "If Later Mn. Clayton glvet a math anyone ran in here he undoubtedly hall and Stanley gotl dUguUed at La ot out that way and dropped to the Rue. He U given a WW necklace fM br tiolen from Urt. Clayton ly one of La Harold leaned out of the window. Rue't henchmen at the man it etcap- No sign could he glean of the masked ing. f CHAPTER VIII. "In the Shadow of Death." R. MONTROSE advanced at once to the bed where lay his daughter. If he noticed Har old Stanley's strange appear ance and make-up If he saw the glimmer of the necklace in Ear old's hand or heard the young man's words ho gave no sign. Harold, covertly removing the. rest of his dUgulse, went out of the room, leaving them alone together. Directly after lunch, next day, he called at the Montrose house. Felix ushered him into the library and went In search of Florence. Pres ently the girl entered the library. "Tell me all about It!" she demand ed at once. "When I phoned you this fugitive. When Florence and Harold at last quitted the laboratory Dr. Montrose shut the door behind them of a duplicate key, had Just en tered It. "It's all right," he was saying, "I've got one of the men posted on the roof across the court If worst come to worst we can make a get away there. The others ought to be here in a few minutes Stanley and Clayton and the girt. It's one min ute of I." He strode to the window and, con cealing himself behind the filmy cur tains, looked down Into the street below. Vanya Joined him at his post of vantage. "There's a car turning In at the curb," she said, presently "Per haps " She broke Off with a gasp of genuine amazement. Kven the iron-nerved super-criminal at her side could not repress a violent start of surprise. Both of them stared in dumb Incredu lity down into the street. The motor car to which Vanya had called her companion's attention had drawn up at the curve. Its smartly livened and goggled chauffeur had jumped down and opened one of the tonneau doors. Out stepped Pierre La Rue Or at least out stepped a man who at that distance waa the living image of Pierre La Rue. The crisp black beard, the tumbled hair under the unconventional hat the pose of the head, the general outlines of the face ell were Pierre La Rue, to the life. "It's It's oh, who Is It?" whispered and stood for a minute with drooping Vanya, In awe, as she looked up won head and furrowed brow. flerlngiy at La Hue nlmseir. ; But Pierre, after that first brief An hour later Vanya Tosca, In the atart of surprise, was himself again, morning you promised to. Tell me. I don't understand any of It." He put up a hand in laughing pro test, aa If trying to ward off her olley of eager excitement Then his she's coming to the studio this after- living room of her apartment was entertaining no less notable a visitor than Pierre La Rue himself. The Crimson Stain was glowing luridly in Pierre's eyes. He was In a -diabolically bad humor at the world in general, for his henchmen's failure on the previous night to steal the necklace. He was the angrier in his abnormal crim inal vanity that Stanley should have ventured to Impersonate so Illustri ous a personage as himself. He had been giving Vanya Instruc tions for her conduct during the ap proaching visit to Clayton's studio; and he had interspersed these with fierce denunciations of his followers' stupidity. "The Montrose girl knows where Stanley has the necklace hidden," he said at last as he rose to go. "And face grew grave, and he replied "I found a cipher note that told of a Crimson Stain plot to get hold of Mrs. Clayton's necklace at the ball last night I don't know which of ' wo . people who called at my office dropped the note." "But who dropped the note In your officer' 1 think," .replied Harold, reluct antly, "I think it-waa Vanya Tosca. And I think we can learn more from her, If we don't rouse her suspicions. I'vo Just asked Bob Clayton to phone her to come to his studio at 3 o'clock tills afternoon to pose for him." "But what's the plan?" asked Flor ence. "You said you and Bob " "Wait till we've tried it" he evaded. Then If it succeeds Til tell you all about it I believe I am on the right trail at last." The curtain that covered the door way Just Dehind the couch on which they were sitting moved ever so slightly. Neither of them noticed It From an Inner pocket he drew some thing that flamed and glittered and flashed from a thousand points as he held it up in the sunlight Florence gave a little cry of wondering admira tion. "Mrs. Clayton's necklace!'' she ex claimed. "You you haven't returned it to her, thenr "No," he made answer. "And I have the best reasons in the world for keeping It in my own possession a little longer. What the Crimson Stain gang goes after, the Crimson Stain gang usually gets.' noon. We'll find a way to make her speak up and tell where we can find the neckiace." With no word of good-by, he swung open the door and was gone. Vanya began to make ready for her visit to the studio. Presently a ring ing of the electric bell brought her to the front door of her Sat Robert Clayton stepped in. Hiding her sur prise at his visit she welcomed him pleasantly: and be followed her Into her living-room. "I came to ask If you would do me a great favor," returned Clayton. "Will you?" "I don't think there are many fa vors you could ask that I would not gladly grant" she answered softly, her hand resting In appealing pres sure on his. "What is itr I want to patch op our differ- and he had already formed his own idea of the situation. But his face was livid with fury and the Crimson Stain flared hotly in his eyes. 'It's that meddling Idiot, Harold Stanley," he told Vaaya, "and he la coming up here. Don't you see what's happened? He suspects you. Just as 1 thought He has made Clay ton ask you to come here. Then, while Clayton keeps out of the way, Stanley makes up as Pierre La Rue and meets you. He thinks you'll mis take him for me and babble to him. The fool! Except at a distance or behind an eye-mask (like last night) we're no more alike than chalk and cheese. The turkey tries to look like the eagle. And here i where the eagle strikes back!" Steps were coming along the top floor hallway toward the studio. Pierre slipped behind the hangings of an alcove. Vanya stepped over to an easel and began to study a half-fin ished sketch. terious "plan" of theirs, which Harold had refused to explain to her. She was a little late, so she hurried Into the building and started rapidly upstairs, without noticing the car at the curb, or the goggled and liveried chauffeur who stood beside It Harold Slanley waiting for a pre arranged signal to Join Claytoa-wns ' staring up at the studio windows. lie did not see Florence go in until she had passed Into the building and waa starting upstairs. Thus It dawned on him that her pre nee would be a most decided detriment to Clayton, and that on seeing Bob, she would assuredly mis take him for La Jtue. So, leaving the car, Harold ran upstairs to catch up with Florence, if possible, before she should reach the stuillo and to per suade her not to go In there. He was not able to overtake her , until Just as she had reached the top , Boot. Then, out of breath from his) long upstairs run, he caught her by the arm, pantlngly calling bor nam as he did so. ,' Whirling around at the touch, Flor ence saw beside her a man who she did not at all recognize in such a dis guise. Crying out in fear, she wrenched herself free and ran dowm the hall to the studio door. , Without supping to knock for ad mittance, she flung opea tie doort and burst Into the studio. ' With another scream on beholding La Hue, she shrank back Into the doorway again and all but collided with Harold Stanley, who sprang past her into the studio. Stanley waited not the fraction of an Instant Taking in the whole sit uation as his eye swept the room, he ' launched himself at La Rue. c But his mad haste marred his) Judgment. La Rue, with a snarl, sprang forward to the battle liae a cornered rat Stanley's fist whizzed past Pierre' head, and La Rue, before Harold' could recover his balance, had leaped across the threshold and out Into the) hallway. Climbing the ladder aa nimbly as av' scared cat La Rue rhoved open the scuttle, wriggled through barely eluding Stanley's grasp at his legs . and slammed the scuttle in his pur suer' face. Harold paused only to draw his re volver (so that La Rue might not attack him at an advantage from above), then threw open the scuttle and bounded to the roof. , The moment'a delay had given: Pierre the time he so sorely needed. ' His man cn the roof across the nar row court waa alertly on the lookout. At a signal from the escaping Fieri The door behind her opened in stealthy silence as some one outside be tossed him a rope-end. unlocked it and turned the Knob. Sort ' .4.-4. footsteps crossed the studio to where l nUe swiftly and securely tied the weman waa standing. the end to a Jutting iron bar in tha Vanya turned, as if noticing a draft parapet's masonry. Tanner had al- frora the open door. And thus she ready fastened the rope's other end confronted the man who hac? 't en- to. a chimney of the house across the tered the room. The man wi. glared court at her was really a very creditable as Stanley reached the pempet L imitation of Pierre La Rue, as. far as his general aspect went The woman stared at him, aa If hj-pnetized. She did not shift her Rua v,-as already crossing the taut rope, hand over hand, to the opposite . roof. Harold leveled his pistol, took de- gaze from his. Yet subconsciously liberate aim at La Rue who was not . , . . . . TJ !. .1 . a sno Knew xnai riwrc ux m..- etx leet away li-om nira ana nreu. crept noiselessly forth from h's hid- The shot toon no effect. Again Staa- ing place and had picked up a heavy iey nrej anj again arU as,-in; more ences," said Robert, "and hare come antique cabouret that stood near ihe qUi0kiy now, but with deadly accu- to ask you to pose for me again. I am so discouraged about my 'Delilah' picture. I can't possibly finish It with any other model. Won't you do It? It means so much to me." "Why, of course, I will," ehe laughed. 'Td do anything for you. Til be at your studio at S this after noon." Without warning, ehe swayed for ward, and would have fallen, if Clay ton had not caught her. Almost ln lnstantly, she broke free from hia supporting arm and stood back. "I'm so son- !" she said, smiling in deprecation. "It's silly of me to keel wall. The supposed Pierre La Rue opened his lips as if to speak. But the words were never spoken. Down came the teak wood cabouret with murderous force on the back of the newcomer's head. The man fell crashing to the studio floor like a polled ox. "Quick!" ordered La Rue, pointing at the quivering and senseless body on the floor. He and Yanya lifted the Inert form to the nearest chair, and there they deftly bound the hands and legs of their victim to the lgs and arms of the big chair. "He's coming to bis senye- racy ot aim. There was no chance, apparently, ' of missing, at such ridiculously short . range. Yet Pierre continued hia leis urely hand-over-hacd process along the rope toward the opposite roof. Not one of the six heavy-caliber-, shots hit him. He ttyned ami grinned': amusedly back over his shoulder at, the marksman. A thrill cf something like super- . Btitious terror tingled through Stan- 1 ley as he saw his failure to hit the . easy target. ( "The man Is a devil!" he muttered bewildered to himself. "Bullets can't ; hurt him." A wholeeome indignation surged into his Drain, dispelling the mo- mr ilka that. Wait a minute. I m He was about to drop the treasure , tn tkB aromatic spirits of tared La Rue. "He must hi back into his pocket when a hand mmnr,ifl like a store wall. I thoup shot out through the curtains tie- gh9 )cft the room; presumably in split his skull. Get out of sight, . - mentary awe. He sprang to the iron hind him. With lightning swiftness nl th. medicine she had spoken where. Vanya. He mustn t see you bar and tueced at the Knot La Rua of. Instead, she went swiftly into the here with me." had tied. next room, and there drew out from Presently the stricken man orned But La R'Je had fastened It too the flowing sleeve of her blouse the his eyes, blinked dazedly and s' sied cunningly, for all his haste, to permit revolver she had so deftly abstracted about him. Then his wanderinc siue Harold to untie it soon enoujrh for the hand snatched the necklace from him and darted back through the curtain folds. f But, out of the corner of his eye, Stanley had noted the darting mo tion. Instinctively, with his free hand, he snatched at the vanishing gems. His strong fingers closed about the thcif's wrist. With a wrench, he sought to drag the intruder through the enveloping curtain (olds and into the library. The other resisted with desperate force: but, under Harold's grasp, the thief's fingers opened, and the neck lace fell to the floor. 'Tick It up, please!" he bade Flor ence; at the same time flinging him self forward and maintaining his grip of lronvon his unseen oppo nent's wrist His opponent was tall and strongly built. His head and face were en veloped In a mask-hood, through whose narrow silts his eyes glittered as evilly as a snake's. Out into the hallway reeled the two fiercely struggling men. Harold for an instant released his iron grip on the other's wrist and grasping a handful of the mask-hood, tore It away from his enemy's head. To bis amaze, he did not thus re veal a face, but merely a second and from Robert Clayton's hip pocket during the brief instant she had reeled against him. "Breaking" the revolver, she ex tracted its sit cartridges. Then, from a box she took six "blanks" and put them into the cylinders in place of the bullets. Returning to the living-room, she chatted for a minute or two longer with Clayton. As he turned to go, she exclaimed: "Hold on, Mr. Clayton. What In the world have you been leaning against? There's a line of white powder or motor dust across your Bhoul'.lers. Stand still." Before he could guess her intent, she eausht up a little silver-handled whlskbroom and vigorously brushed his shoulders and back. "Thwel" she said, eluding his ef forts to prevent her from doing him this valet service. "Now it's all gone. Dood-byl" And Robert Clayton left the flat blissfully unaware that his pistol had bestt stolen, rendered harmless, and put back In his pocket again by his fascinating hostess. Clayton went directly to Stanleys focused on Pierre La Rue, who -iod with folded arms and a sneering r.ilf smile, looking calmly down upon him. "Mr. Stanley," said La RU0, with ironic courtesy, "the game is tip Here is where you drop out cf tha Crimson Stain pursuit, very deSii ;y and permanently." "You presumptuous fool!" he snarled fiercely. "L'p to yesteruay I should have been content to give you a simple death, with the 'finger nt;k lace.' Today I am not. You are going to die by torture. The mos-t acute torture J can inflict 'Do you know why?" He paused as if for an answer. The bound man in the chair merely gaped at him In fascinated horror. "Mr. Stanley," resumed Pierre, "H is not on the freo list to try to Im itate me. This you did last night. This you have done again today. The turkey cock has strutted In the eagle's plumage. And to punish that you shall be tortured." As he spoke he reached forward with a gesture of anger and tore away his prisoner's false hair and beard. And once more the chilled- the purpose he had in mind. Stanley whipped out his pocket-knife and T drove its keen edge Into the rope- -strands. "if hot iead can't kill him well try v coll steW!" growled Stanley to him- ' self as he hacked feverishly at the rope. La Rue was barely half wa? across the chasmlike court. It Harcili could sever the rope before Pierre should reach the safety of the farther roof, the man must be hurled against tho side wall of the opposite nouse. And such an impact would certainly cause him to loose his precarious hold on the roof and tumble to tho flag stones a hundred feet below. La Rue saw his own danger. And he redoubled his cautious sp!ed to get across, before the rope should part. With one last effort, Harold sawed through one ot the two re maining strands. With a sharp crack the atrand broke. La Rue's body was whirled downward, clinging frantically to the rope. Like the end of a heavy pendulum, ' swung and with a whizzing speed. In another instant It seemed his body Inner hood-mask, adjusted more home, where he found Harold await- stew nerve sustained aisunci snocs. must strike with terrific force against closely than the first. Ing him. There, in pursuance or In the moment of dazed astonish- the plan they had hit upon that mant while Harold stood marveling morning. Harold proceeded to "make at this phenomenon tho masked man up" the artist as nearly as possible took advantage of the brief respite to wheel about and dash at full speed np the stairs. Harold, recovering bimanlf. followed. But the other had gotten a start ot several yards and was as agile aa a cat. Hurry aa he would, Harold could not overtake him. He was Just In time, at last to see the man slip into the laboratory, closing the door with swift Bolselessness behind him, Harold cleared the Intervening dis tance at a bound and seized the laboratory doorknob. But the to resemble Pierre La Rue. He him self was content with such disguise aa a pair of fact-hiding goggles and a chauffeur livery afforded him. Thence, descending to Harold's waiting motor car, tbe disguised Clayton got Into the tonneau. Har old cilmbed to the front seat, settled himself at tho steering wheel, and with a glance at his watch, started the car toward Clayton's studio. The studio at that very moment chanced to ne- occupied. Pierre La Rue and Vanya Tosca, by means as the tied man revealed the face of Robert Clayton instead of the sup posed Stanley's. "I went hunting for a fox." com mented La Rue, his nerve steadying again. "And It seems I have caught only a rabbit But a rabbit that mas querades as a lion cannot expect to live to boast about it." He leaned forward, his long, lean Angers slowly encircling the helpless Clayton's throat. Florence Montrose, true to her res. olution, had come down from River dale to the studio building: arrang ing to be there by S o'clock, so that she might induce Clayton and Stan ley to let ber help them in this my- the farther house's wall. Then- It was not the solid wall his body smote against, but against one of the windows t In that wall. And straight through the window-carrying glass and sash with him, he waa hurled. Stanley saw him crash to the fl'wr Ot a room, gather hlmavK up panting and shaking from the Jar of the fall and stagger away out of sight. "Yes, he Is a devil!" mused Stanley, agahst, as he turned to descend to xhe studio. "A devil! He boara a : charmed life. But but, sooner or later, 1 am going to Ireuk tha cbann!" (To be continued next wets.) B mkamMBt.SH.AI)TiRalU t Mr fniuMiriWTC rwrovwrnc Liniment. At all druggists, 25c a Ad.