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After mature consideration we have concluded to close out
without reserve our entire stock of Men's, Young Men's Boys'
and Children's Clothing. We want the room for other lines of
Merchandise.
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The Decks must be cleared before the 1st of July.
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This will be the Greatest Grandest, and Most Stupendous Sale of
High Grade Clothing ever conducted in the W illamette Valley.
Profit and a big part of the cost, annihilated. The time limit is set. We will clear out this stock quick Double Quick, i
Better be an early buyer than a late one it you want tlie eream.
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Sale Commences
Saturday, Mar 24.
ALL SALES
SPOT CASH.
No Reserve
A Mystery
Of Two
Continents
BURTON E.
STEVENSON
Copyright. 1903. by
Henry Holt and
CompaLny
"oo, irs not me ocean!" I protested,
and what with the moonlight and the
eoft night and the opportunity "the
time and the place and the loved one,
all together" would have uttered I
know not what folly had she not
sprung suddenly forward with a sharj
cry of alarm.
"Mr. Royce!" she cried. "Mother!"
Tlvsy stivM and turned toward her
Jast as o heavy spar crashed to tht
deck before them.
I
CIIAFTER XV.
UNDERSTOOD in a flash what had
happened and sprang up the st&k
to the upper deck, determined 'to
have It out with our enemy once
! for all. I searched it over thoroughly,
looking In and under the boats and
behind funnels and ventilators, but
I eould discover no sign of any one.
j When I got back to the promenade a
little crowd had gathered, attracted by
the noise of the falling spar, which a
dozen members of the crew were busy
hoisting back into place.
"I do not see how those lashings
could have worked loose," said the of
ficer in charge.
I took a look at the lashings. They
had not been cut, as I expected to flud
them, but had been untied. Martigny
had doubtless worked at them while
we sat there talking.
"Well, luckily, there's no damage
done," observed Mr. Royce, with af
fected lightness, "though it was a close
shave. If Miss Kemball hadn't called
to us the spar would have struck us."
Mrs. Kemball closed her eyes with a
giddy little gesture at the vision the
words called up, and the officer frown
ed in chagrin and perplexity. Just then
the captain came up, and the two step
ped aside for a consultation in volcea
so low that only an excited word of
French was now and then audible. I
turned to Miss Kemball, who was lean
ing against the ran with white face
and eyes large with terror.
"But it was not an accident. Mr.
Lester," she whispered. "I saw a man
leaning over the spar.'
I nedded. ."I dont doej It to ; th
least. But "don't tell your mother. It
will only alarm her needlessly. We'll
talk it over In the raornlne.'.' . .
sue said good night and led her moth
er away toward their stateroom. I
went at once in search of the ship's
doctor and met him at the foot of the
saloon staircase.
"How Is Martigny, doctor?" I asked.
"Worse, I fear," he answered hur
riedly, "lie has just sent for me."
"Which room has he?"
"He's in 375, an outside room on the
upper deck."
I went forward to the smoking room
and looked over the colored plan of the
ship posted there. A moment's inspec
tion of it showed me how easily Mar
! tigny had eluded pursuit He had only
to walk twenty feet, open a door and
get Into bed again,
j When I sat down next morning be
! side Miss Kemball she closed her book
' and turned to me with a very deter
mined air.
"Of course, Mr. Lester," she began,
"If you think any barm can come from
telling me, I don't want you to say a
word, but I really think I'm entitled
to an explanation."
"So do I," I agreed. "You've proved
yourself a better guard than I. I'd for
gotten all about Martigny. I was
thinking well, of something very dif
ferent. I had no thought of danger."
"Nor had I," she said quickly. "But
I chanced to look up and see that dark
figure bending over them, and I cried
out, really, before I had time to think."
"It was just that which saved them."
"Yes; but, oh, I could think after
ward! I'd only to close my eyes last
night to 'see him there yet, peering
down at us, waiting his opportunity.
And then, of course, I puzzled more or
less over the whole thing."
"You shan't puzzle any more," I said.
Then I laid the case before her, step by
step. She listened with clasped bands
and Intent face, not speaking till X
bad finished. Then she leaned back In
her chair wits a long Blgh.
"Why, If s horrible r she breathed.
"But you haven't given me your ex
planation yet, Mr. Lester."
- "T haven't anTeTVlwrt" T waM
helplessly. "I've built up naff a dozen
theories, but they've all been knocked
to pieces, one after the other. I don't
know what to think; unless Miss $61
laday is a victim of hypnotism or de
mentia of some kind."
"Sometimes she's nice and at othtSt
times she's horrid. It recalls 'Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde,' doesn't It?" 1
"Yes, it does. Only,aa I say, such an
explanation seems absurd."
"There's one theory which might ex
plain it part of It Perhaps it wasn't
Miss Holladay at all who returned
from Washington square with the new
maid. Perhaps it was the other wom
an, and thei barred windows were real
ly to keep Miss Holladay a prisoner."
"But she wasn't there!" I protested.
"We saw her when we gave her the
money."
"Yes, in a darkened room, with a
bandage about her forehead, so hoarse
6he could scarcely speak."
I stopped a moment to consider.
"Remember, that 'would explain
something which admits cf no other
reasonable explanation," went on my
companion "the barred windows and
the behavior of the prisoner."
"It would explain that, certainly," I
admitted, though at first thought the
theory did not appeal to me. "You be
lieve, then, that Miss Holladay was
forcibly abducted?"
"Undoubtedly. If her mind was go
ing to give way at all it would have
done so at once and not two weeks aft
er the tragedy."
"But if she had brooded over it" I
objected.
"She wasn't brooding at least she
had ceased to brood. You have Mr.
Royce's word and the butler's word
that she was getting better, brighter
quite like her old self again. Why
should she relapse?"
"I don't know," I said helplessly.
"That affair last night has upset me so
that I can't think clearly. I feel that
I was careless that I wasn't doing my
duty."
"I shouldn't worry about it; though,
of course' she added a little severely,
"you've realized by this time that yo-3
alone are to blame for Martigny's pi?s
ence on the boat."
"But I had to go to the Jouirdains,"
I protested, "and I couldn't help their
going to him. To have asked them not
to go would have made them suspect
me at once."
"Oh, yes; but at least you needn't
have, sent them. . They might not have
gone at all certatar ihe$ frotfldtft
have gone so promptly If you hadn'i
sent them." 1
"Bent them 7' I repeated; and stared
at her la amazement, doubting if I
had heard aright.
"Yes, sent them," she said again em-
PMinv. "Whr do yon impooee they
went to tne nbspftai so early the next
morning?'.
"I suppose they had become suspi
cious of me."
"Nonsense! What possible reason
could they have for becoming sus
picious of you? On the contrary, they
went after the key to those padlocks
on the window shutters. Of course
Martigny had it" v .
For a moment I was too nonplused
to speak. I could only stare at her.
"Well, I was a fool, wasn't I?" I de
manded finally. "To think that I
shouldn't have foreseen' that! I was
so worked up over my discovery that
night that I couldn't think of anything
else. Of course, when they asked for
the key, the whole story came out."
"I shouldn't blame myself too severe
ly," laughed Miss Kemball as she
looked at my rueful countenance. "I
myself think It's rather fortunate that
he's on the boat"
"Fortunate! You don't mean that!"
"Precisely that. Suppose the Jour
dalns hadn't gone to him. He'd have
left the hospital r.nyway In two or
three days. He isn't the man to lie
inactive when he knew you were
searching for the fugitives. He'd have
returned then to his apartment next
to yours; your landlady would have
told him that you had sailed for Eu
rope, and he had only to examine this
boat's passenger list to discover your
name."
"But, at any rate," I pointed out,
"he would still have been in America.
He couldn't have caught us."
"He couldn't have caught you, but a
cablegram would have passed you In
midocean warning his confederates.
If they have time to conceal their pris
oner, you'll never find her. Your only
hope is In catching them unprepared.
And there's another reason since he's
on the boat, you've another opportuni
ty. Why not go and have a talk with
him that battle of wits you were look
ing forward to?"
"I'd thought of that," I said, "but
I'm afraid I couldn't play the part"
"The part?"
"Of seeming not to suspect him. It's
too great a risk."
"The advantage would be on your
side," she pointed out "You could tell
him so many things which he already
knows and which he has no reason to
suspect you know he knows. It sounds
terribly involved, doesn't It? But you
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Notii-a Is i.fie'jy given tliat the undersigned'
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properly verified is by law required, at Cor
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