o AMystery
OfS Of Two
Holladay 1
T STEVENSON
Conp ny
CHAPTER L
f I liJ atmosphere of tie office that
I morning was a shade less gen
: ial than usual. We had all
of us f ought our way down
town through Buch a storm of wind,
snow, slush and sleet as Is to be found
nowhere save In mid-March' New York,
and our tempers had suffered accord
ingly. I had found a cab unobtainable,
and there was, of .course, the inevitable
jam on the elevated, with the trains
many minutes behind the schedule. I
was some ' half hour late in conse
quence, and when I entered the inner
office I was surprised to find Mr. Gra
ham, "our senior, already at his desk.
He uixlded good morning a little curtly.
"I wish you'd look over these papers
In the Hurd case, Lester," he said,
and pushed them toward me.
I took them and sat down, and Just
then the outer door slammed with a
yiolcuce extremely unsual.-
I had never seen Mr. Koyce, our jun-1
lor, so deeply shaken, so visibly dis-
tracted, as be was when he burst in r
upon us a moment later, a newspaper
In his hand. Mr. Graham, startled by
the noise of fiis entrance, wheeled
around from his desk and stared at
him in astonishment.
"Why, upon my word, John," he be
gan, "you look all done up. What's
the matter?"
"Matter enough, sir," and Mr. Royce
spread out the paper on the desk be
fore him. "You haven't seen the morn
ing papers, of course. Well, look at
that!" and he indicated with a trem
bling finger the article which occupied
the first column of the first page, the
place of honor.
I saw our senior's face change as
he read the headlines, and he seemed
positively horror stricken as he ran
rapidly through the story which fol
lowed. "Why, this Is the most remarkable
thing I ever read!" he burst out at last.
"Remarkable!" cried the other. "Why,
It's an outrage, sir! The idea that a
gentle, cultured girl like Frances Hol
laday would deliberately murder her
own father, strike him down in cold
Jblood, is too monstrous, too absolute
ly preposterous, too too" And he
fitnnnivl fntrlv fhnkeA hv hi emotion.
The words brought me upright In my
chair. Frances Holladay accused of
iWell, no wonder our junior was up
set! But Mr. Qrahain was reading through
the article again more carefully, and,
(while he nodded sympathetically to
show that. he fully assented to the
other's words, a straight, deep line of
perplexity, which I had come to recog
nize, formed between his eyebrows.
"Plainly," he said at last, "the wholo
case hinges on the evidence of this man
(Rogers, Holladay's confidential clerk,
and from what I know of Rogers I
should say that he'd be the last man
In the world to "make a willful mis
statement. He says that Mis3 Holla
day entered her father's office late yes
terday afternoon, stayed there ten
minutes and then came out hurriedly.
A few minutes later Rogers went into
the office and found his employer dead.
That's the whole case, but it'll be a
hard one to break."
"Well, it must be broken!" retorted
the other, pulling himself "together
with a supreme effort. "Of course I'll
take the case."
i "Of course!"
"Miss Holladay probably sent for me
jlast night, but I was out at Babylon,
iyou know, looking up that witness in
the Hurd affair. He'll be all right,
and his evidence will" give" us the case.
(Our answer In the Brown injunction
can wait till tomorrow. That's all, I
think."
The chief nodded.
"Yes, I see the Inquest is to begin at
JO o'clock. You haven't much time."
"No, I'd like to have a good man with
pie, ana lie glanced in my direction.
r"Can you spare me Lester?"
i My heart gave a Jump. It was just
ithe question I was hoping he would
ask.
"Why, yes, of course," answered the
(Chief readily. "In a case like this,
(certainly. Let me hear from you In
ithe course of the day."
Mr. Royce nodded as he started for
'the door.
"I will. We'll find some flaw in that
fellow's story, depend upon it. Come
on, Lester."
I snatched up pen and paper and fol
lowed him to the elevator. In a mo
ment we were In the street. There
were cabs In plenty now, disgorging
their loads and starting back uptown
Again. We hailed one, and in another
moment were rattling along toward
our destination with such speed as the
storm permitted. There were many
questions surging through my brain to
which I should have welcomed an an
swer. The storm had cut off my pa
per that morning, and I regretted now
that I had not made a more determined
effort to get another. A glance at my
comptinion showed me the folly of at
tempting to secure any Information
tfrom him, so I contented myself with
(reviewing what I already knew of the
fclstory of the principals,
i I knew Hiram W. Holladay, the mur
dered man, quite well, not only as ev
ry New Yorfcesr fcnew that multimll;
lionaire as one of the most successful
operators in Wall street, but personal
ly as well, since he had been a client
of Graham & Royce for twenty years
and more. He was at that time well
on toward seventy years of age, I
should say, though be carried his years
remarkably well. His wife had- been
long dead, and he had only one child,
his daughter Frances, who must have
been about twenty-five. , She had been
born abroad and had spent the fixst
years of her life there with her moth
er, who had lingered on the Riviera
and among the bills of Italy and Swit
zerland in the hope of regaining a
health which had been falling, so I
understood, ever since her daughter's
birth. She had come home at last,
bringing the black eyed child with her,
and within the year was dead.
Holladay's affections from that mo
ment seemed to grow and center about
his daughter, who developed into a
tall and beautiful girl too beautiful,
as was soon apparent, for our junior
partner's peace of mind. He had met
her first in a business way, and-afterward
socially, and all of us who had
eyes could see how he was eating his
heart out at the knowledge that she
was far beyond his reach, for it was
evident that her father deemed her
worthy of a brilliant marriage as in
deed she was. I sometimes thought
that she held herself at a like value,
for though there was about her a con
stant crowd of suitors none of them
seemingly could win an atom of en
couragement She was waiting, I told
myself, waiting; and I had even pic-1
tured to myself the grim irony of. a
situation in which our junior might
be called upon to arrange her marriage
settlements. '
The cab stopped with a jolt, and I
looked up to see that we ' had reached
the Criminal Courts building. Mr.
Royce sprang out, paid the driver and
ran up the steps to the door, I after
him. He turned down the corridor to
the right and- entered the room at the
end of it, which I recognized as the
office of Coroner Goldberg. A consid
erable crowd had already collected
there.
"Has the coroner arrived yet?" my
companion asked one of the clerks.
"Yes, sir; he's in his private office."
"Will you take him this card and
say that I'd like to see him at once, if
possible?"
The clerk hurried away, with the
card. He was back again In a.mo
mbnt ,
"This way, sir," he called. 4
We followed him across the room
and through a door at the farther side.
"Ah, Mr. Royce, glad to see you,"
cried the coroner as we entered. "We
tried to find you last night, but learned
that you wsre out, of town, and I was
just calling up your office again." ,
."Miss Holladay asked for me, then?"
"Yes, at once. When we found we
couldn't get you, we suggested your
senior, but she said She'd wait till you
returned."
I could see our junior's face crimson
with pleasure.
"You didn't think It necessary to con
fine her, I trust?" he asked.
"Oh, no. She wasn't disturbed. She
spent the night at home under sur
veillance." "That was right. Of course If s sim
ply absurd to suspect her."
Goldberg looked at him curiously.
"I don't know, Mr. Royce," he said
slowly. "If the evidence turns out as
Jm glad to see you!" she cried, v
I think it will, 4 shall have to hold her
the district attorney expects it."
Mr. Royce's hands were clutching a
chair back, and they trembled a little
at the coroner's words.
"He'll be present at .lie examina
tion, then?" he asked.
"Yes; we're waiting, for him Xoa
tee, if s rather an extraordinary case."
"Is it?"
"We think so, anyway!" said the cor
oner, just a trifle impatiently.
I could see the retort which sprang
to our junior's lips, but he choked It
back. There was no use offending
Goldberg.
r "I should like to see Miss Holladay
before - the : examination begins,' he
said. "Is she present?" -
"She's In the next room, yes. You
shall see her, certainly, at once. Ju
lius, take jlr. Royce to Miss Holladay,
be added to the clerk.
I can see her yet, rising from her
chair with face alight, as we entered,
and I saw instantly how I had mis
judged her. She came a step toward
j us, holding out her bands Impulsively;
; then," with an effort, controlled herself
and clapped them before her.
, "Oh, but I'm-glad to see you!" she
cried In a voice so low I cculd scarcely
hear it " "I've wanted you so much!"
i "It was my great misfortune that 1
could come no sooner," said my chief,
his voice trembling a little despite him
self. "I I scarcely expected to see you
' here with no one"
"Oh," she interrupted, "there was no
one I cared to have. My friends have
' been very kind have offered to do any
thing but-1 felt that I wanted to be
- just alone and think. - I should have
liked to have my maid, but"
"She's one of the witnesses, I sup
pose,", explained Mr. Koyce. -well,
now that I'm here, I shall stay until
JL've proved how utterly ridiculous this
charge against you is."
She sank back Into her chair and
looked up at him with dark, appealing
eyes. ' - .
"You think you can?" she asked.
"Can! Certainly I can! Why, it's too
preposterous to stand for a moment!
We've only to prove an alibi to show
that you were somewhere else, you
know, at the time the crime was com
mitted and the whole business falls
to pieces ln an instant. You can do
that easily, can't you?"
The color had gone from her cheeks
again, and she buried her face in her
hands. '
"I don't know," she murmured indis
tinctly. "I must think. Oh, don't let it
come to that!" '
I was puzzled, confounded. With hei
good name, her life perhaps, in the bal
ance, , she wanted time to. think! I
could see that my chief was astonished
too.
"I'll try to keep it from coming to
that, since you wish it," he said slow
ly. "I'll not be able to call you,, then, to
testify in your own behalf and that
always hurts but I hope the case will
break down at once. I believe it will.
At any rate, don't worry. I want you
to rely on me." --
She looked up at him again, smiling.
"I shall," she murmured softly. "I'm
sure I could desire no better cham
nlon!".., (To be Continued.)
The Polmatier Sisters Concert
Orchestra could be heard again
and again with positive delight and
the Chautauqa . management is to
h complimented upon bringing to
high class attraction to cultured
Carthage. Daily Democrat, Car
thage, Mo. These artists are to
appear in college chapel tomorrow
evening.
LETTER LIST.
The following letters remain uncalled
for in the Corvailis postoffice, for the
week ending Jan. 20, 1906:
Miss Ada P. Applegate, W. C Bullis.
J. J. Curtis, Mrs. C. E. Clark, L A.
Cook, Geo. Davidson, Ralph Davidson,
Mrs. Mary Daon, Henry Edwards, Le
land Fisher, Mrs. Bernice Godlev, Roy
Heeley, Miss Maud Howell, W. H
Jacobs, Mrs. Emma Jones, Earl and
Herman Jones, J. J. Jones, Philip Mc
Connell, S. E. Moore, Frank Philbrick,
A. A. Philips (2), W. C. Patty, M. A.
Rashid, Mrs. Amy Smith, C. 1 nomas,
J. S. Taylor, J. B. Wamsley, R. C
Wrinht, Mrs. Lora Young.
B. W. Johnson, P. M.
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Corvnllls, Or.. Jan. 20, 1906."
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HOTHOUSE GRAPES.
A Lobk Island Gardener's Way al '
Growing- Grapea In Pota.
" The gardener who 'cannot afford
space In the greenhouse for hothouse
grapes In beds can grow them to good
advantage in pots. This is easily done.
Early iriT January strike one eye- cat
tings of the different varieties, especial
ly Black Hamburg and Muscat of Alex
andria. The cuttings must have a bot
tom heat ranging from 70 to 80, de
grees, and in two or three weeks they '
will be ready to put off. . Put them at
once in three inch pots in a soil con
sisting of heavy loam and sand. A
sunny greenhouse is necessary. When
1TU6CAT OF ALEXANDRIA. .
the pots are filled with roots shift the
plants to pots two sizes larger, mixing
in the soil some cow manure and horn
shavings. The vines will soon begin to
grow rankly. It is necessary to keep
the foliage well sprayed. This en
hances the vigor of the plants and the
leaves, which, In my opinion, are the
main factors lor producing good
grapes. Keep on transplanting the
vies until they are in ten inch pots.
I trail them to the rafters of the green
house, as shown in the illustration. I
have had best results with my green
house at a temperature of from 70 to 80
degrees.
New side shoots should be pinched
back tofive leaves. After the last
shift fn the pots, which should be
made about the middle of July, the
plants should be heavily fertilized. I
get best results with blood, bone, su
perphosphates, etc. When the wood
begins to ripen I take them out of doors
and harden them. I generally with
hold water from the plants until the
leaves are fallen. About Nov. 1 I put
them in a frost proof place or cellar
and keep them there through Novem
ber and December. In January I take
them up and prune them In the same
-way that hothouse grapevines are
handled and put them in the green
house. I then treat them In the same
manner as hothouse grapes v grown In
the usual way. Usually by the end of
May they are ready for the table. In
this manner I secure grapes every year
In our private department with splen
did success. Grapevines only ten to
seventeen months old bear at least six
bunches. Some of these bunches weigh
from two to three pounds each. This
Is certainly a good showing from such
young vines, concludes Adolph Jae
nlcke of Long Island In American Agri
culturist. "
Management of Cuttings.
At the present time, when growth is
practically at. a standstill, cuttings
will more naturally make roots. If left
until the growing 'season Is well ad
vanced growth will be made at the ex
pense of roots. The almost continuous
firing necessary Jnst now, both day and
night, produces a more even bottom
temperature. The sun's rays not being
so powerful, less air is admitted, and
a moister atmosphere prevails. Very
little artificial shade Is therefore need
ed, and less water is required. The
day and night temperatures are also
more nearly equal. From the fact that
the sun's rays are less powerful and
less air Is admitted less evaporation
from the leaf takes place, and the' leaf
has thus a better chance of surviving
the ordeal than it would have later on.
The Brown Tail Moth.
If the caterpillars of the brown tail
moth only attacked trees, fruit, shade
and forest, the case would be serious
enough, but they are a menace to the
comfort of the residents of the infested
district, and if they are allowed to re
main undestroyed in our shore resort
towns their presence will keep away
the summer visitor. The residents of
many towns in eastern Massachusetts
now make a practice of leaving home
early in June to avoid caterpillar poi
soning, and they will not go to places
infested with the brown tail. Farm
Journal.
The Green Rose.
I am bound to say that the green
rose meets with very little admiration.
The general verdict Is, "More curious
than beautiful.'' But I like the rose
and even admire it, and to botanists
it is extremely valuable, because it Is
one of the best proofs we have that all
parts of a plant above the root are
modifications of the same thing, and
In the green rose every part may be
called a leaf. It also gives a strong
support to the view held by many
great botanists that all flowers were
originally green. Canon Ellacombe.
MARKET PEACHES.
fEIbertaa Everrwkere tke Incoaapar
able Commercial Peach. '
Take the Elberta peach it la known
to every one. It fills the bill complete
ly in size.' In some places it is quite
sufficiently colored, jya other places not
so well. Experience , has proved,
though', that Elbertas from any region
are the commercial peach. 'It is a
profitable peach, if a season like tha
last doesn't strike It, when the brown
rot carries off the crop. You can plant
the Elberta safely. At any rate there
is no peach that can compare with it
that is known extensively. -
- Chinese Type of Peach, " .
In selecting the commercial varieties
of, peaches, get a few extra earlies,
as Alexander, Sneed, Triumph, Dewey,
Mamie Ross and Carman. The Alex
ander represents a class In which there
are forty or fifty different varieties,
very little different, a bright peach, but
a poor peach in quality. The Mamie
Ross, Carman, Ray and several others
of the Chinese type, combined with
other varieties, are excellent market
peaches, so long as they do not meet
their brighter competitors, but In that
season we need, a class of peaches with
more color than they have. Some are
being introduced. ,
. An Ideal In Shipping: Peaches.
The Gold Drop, largely grown in
southern Missouri, is a good shipping
peach. It was originated by myself
and sent to Missouri under another
name. It is much superior to the Tel
low St. John. If you can get such a
peach as the Gold Drop in color, size
and quality that will bear as well Tis
the Carman you have a fortune, be
cause there is no other early peach that
will do this. T. V. Munson, Texas.
The Prickly Wild Gooseberry.
The most abundant gooseberry of the
Atlantic states is probably the prickly
fruited Ribes cynosbati. It is a stout
shrub, very abundant in rocky wood
lands and bears the largest fruits of
any of our wild species. The berries
are usually very prickly, though smooth
fruited plants have been found. They
often reach half an inch in diameter
and are dark reddish purple when ripe,
thick skinned, pulpy and generally well
flavored. Little has been done to in
troduce this promising type to cultiva
tion. Rural New Yorker.
The Baby Chrysanthemum.
The accompanying illustration Is of a
plant or several together in a seven
inch pot of the yellow miniature pom
pon Chrysanthemum Baby placed on
the market last fall. In color It is a
bright golfien yellow, the individual
flowers being from one-half to five
eighths of an Inch in diameter. Every
CHRYSANTHEMUM BABY.
flower petal is quilled, which gives the
blossom quite a unique appearance.
The sprays carry from six to eighteen
flowers, according to their strength.
Robert Kif t, describing this variety
In Gardening, from which the cut is vg
produced, says any of the choice va
rieties of the pompons could be grown
In this way and would make very sala
ble plants. This variety is said to have
been imported from Japan some three
years ago. It may not be a new sort,
but as put out it looked like a novelty
and brought the price.
Roses For Forcing;,
Hybrid perpetual roses, whether In
pots or boxes, are best left outdoors
until quite severe weather. They will
need no water except to keep them
from shriveling. Before the coming
of zero weather and heavy snow they
should be stood In a cold pit, cellar or
dormant fruit house.
HORTICULTURAL BREVITIES
.. It will not do to set a weak growing
rose beside a very sturdy one, for the
stronger plant 'will overshadow, the
feebler. . .
New YorK produces every year about
half a million gallons of wine and Cal
ifornia some two million gallons.
Cut away the suckers from newly
grafted trees from all trees, for that
matter.
Clean up all trash in the orchard,
mow the weeds, burn ' the rubbish.
Then the owls, hawks, cats and crows
can see and catch all field mice.
The best time to plant peonies Is in
September, but it can be done as long
as the ground Is not frozen.
Cut away the old wood and mulch
the roots of the blackberries. 'Tender
sorts should be laid, down and lightly
covered with soil at the tips.
Secure marsh hay or other coarse lit
ter free from weed seeds fov mulching
the strawberry; beds.
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MISCELLANY.
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A. B. Carnon, Chicago, writes March
4. 1803, "Having been troubled with
Lumbago, at different times and tried one
phyc-ician alter another, then different
ointments and liniments, gave it rip al
together. So I tried once more, and eot
a bottle of Ballard's Uoow Liniment,
which gave me almost instant relief. I
can cheerfully recommend it, aud will
add mv name to your list of sufferers.""
Sold by Graham & Wortham.
STEAMER POMONA
For Portland and way points, leaves
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day at 6 a. m. Albany 7 a. m. Fare to
Portland, $1.75; round trip ?3 00. -H.
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. Estray Notice.
3-year-old red bull came to my premises
in November. Owner please call and pay
pasturage and price of this notice. Twelve
miles southwest of Corvailis.
9 16 William Park
Notice of Final Settlement.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
administrator of the estate of B, B. Barnes, ,
deceased, las filed in the County Court of
Benton County, Oregon, his final account as
administrator of said est te, and mat Mon
day, the 5th day f February, 1906. at the
hour of ten o'clock A. M., htm been fixed by
said Court as the time for hearing of ob
jections to said report and the settlement
thereof. K.F.BARNES,..
Administrator of the Etate of B. B. Barnes, .
deceased. 1
Dated January 2, 1906.
Imperfect Digestion. -
Means lees nutrition and in conse
quence lees vitality. When the hver
fails to secrete bile, the blood becomes
loaded with bilious properties, the di
gestion becomes impaired nnd the
bowels constipated. Kerbine will rectify
this ; it gives tope to the stomach, , liver :
and kidneys, strengthens the appetite,
clears and improves the complexion, in
fuses new life and vigor to the whole
system. 50 cents & bottle. Sold by
Graham & Wortham.