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l i t.I NI! WEEKLY Gt'ARP. 4 ♦ The Woman By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN. Author of "The Mihionsire Baby.- "The Filigree Ball." “The House In the Mist." “The Amethyst Box." Etc. ♦ If COPYRIGHT. c 0 p Y C hapter xi v lJkOÖ. THE BOBBS-MERRILL <continued.> I T,, canrre i went, but 1 cast him an I Llln- look ns 1 <11'1 KO- U I * hal it" •'ffet't' f,r hls MPressl,,n I J —a ns hls hand fell on the door- j ’ ! be snap the lock tight. . w giiut me out from what con- f ! -ie.| me as much as it did any one I L the »'bote 'n "rl(I- °r would he reco«- uiv anxiety the necessity I was I * \ .- just the ground I I , and let me hear what tt ' man ha,l •” report ! ! I , .- be 1 the door. It ciooed alow- I X too slowly to latch. Would he | I y the kn»l>? No; he ■■ it thus. ami. while the crack was Unllj |K>reeptible. I felt confident that the hast shake of the floor would wid- ' . . ... the opportunity I sought. But 1 did not have to wait f,,r"this. The two men in the office I just left began to speak and. to ny nul»unded relief, were sufficiently Intelligible even now to warrant me lu .aingtbem my fullest attention. ■ ' After some exprès- i us of astouish- oeat on the part ef the inspector ns to the plight in which li ■ other presented bitLself, the hit. r I rone out: •fve Jit • - aped death! I'll tell you abed liiat later. What I want to ¡-■¡I you now i that the man we want p iii town. 1 saw him last night or his sliiuiow. whic h is the same thing. It was in the house in Eighty-sixth s:twt. the !e -e they all think closed. He came lu witii a key and”— I "Wait! You have him?” “No. It's a long story, sir”— “Tell It!" The tone was dry. The luspeci •tor was ■evidently disappointed. “P t blame i e • !l you hear." sni-.' the oilier. "He is no common crook Tl' - is how it was: You wanted th.- ' nmix-'-fs phoi I COMPANY heard a noise which was not that ot swishing rain or even gusty wind— these had not been absent from mg ears for a moment. I didn't like that noise; it had a sneaklsh sound, and I shut my light off In a burry. After that I crept hastily out of the room, for I don't like a setup In a trap. “It was darker than ever now in the hall, or so it seemed, and as 1 backed away I came upon a Jog in the wall liehind which I crept. For the sound I had heard was no fancy. Borne one else besides myself v.as in the house, and that some one was coming up the little turret stair, striking matches as he upproucbed. Who could it be? A detective from the district attorney's office? I hardly thought so. He would have been provided with something better than matches to light Ills way. A burglar? No, not on tile third floor of a house as rfi-li as this. Some fel low on the force, then, who had seen me come In and. by some trick of Ills town. had managed to follow me? I would see. Meantime I behind the jog and knowing which way would go. "V,'hoover he was. he was evidently *stonlshi*d to see the turret door ajar, for he lit anotl: her match as he threw It open and. though I failed to a glimpse of his £ :ure, I succeeded in getting a ve y gixid one of jliis shadow, It was one to arouse a detective's lu- stlnct at once. I did not say to myself. this is the man I want, but I did say, this is nobody front headquarters, and I steadied myself for whatever might turn up. ■‘Tlte first thing that happened was the sudden going out of the match which had made this shadow visible. The Intruder did not light another. I heard him move across the floor with the rapl 1 . * one woo km.its b!« way vA‘!I, ¡it-4 the next minute a gas Jet flared up In the steward's room, and I knew that the man the w!ioie force was looking for had trapped him self. "You will agree that It was not tnv duty to take him then and there with out seeing what he was after. He was thought to be in the eastern states or south or west, and he was here. But • here? That is what I knew you • d-.l want to know, and It was Jus- what I wanted to know myself. So J kept my place, which was gmxl enough, and Just listened, for I could not see. "What was his errand? What <lid be want In this empty house nt midnight? Papers first anti then clothes. I heard him at his desk, I heard him in the closet and afterward pottering In old trunk I had been so anxious to look into myself. He must have brought the key with bint, for It was no time before I heard him throwing out the contents In a wild search for something he wanted In a great burry to look for tin in hr. Fnlrbr Ingly got the lite last even ing undertook the Job. I sent akusc- I wns always an egotis- ticj! chap. 1. lore's the pity—and with no further pr caution than )\ passing «planatli n t the o.'Iicer 1 mot at the C. -Tier I h:!Sti-::ed up the dock to the mrentrance < .cnth streit. There .no tb'iis- .... to the Eairbroth- er burse, as you probably know, two <>a Eight]street (the large front <ae and a small one connecting direct ly with the turret stairs) and one ou Eight, seventh street. It was to the litter 1 had a key. I do not think any me saw me go In. It was raining, and such people as went by were more -a crta-d in keeping their umbrellas properly over their beads than in watching men skulking alxiut in door ways. "I got lu, then, all right, and, being careful to close the door behind me. went up the first short flight of steps tnwbitt l knew must Is? the main hall. He found It sooner than you would be I bad b. en given a plan of the interior, lieve and began throwing the things ’nd I l.ad studied it more or less before back, when something happened. Ex cartlug out. but I knew that I should pectedly or unexpectixlly. his eye fell set list if I did not keep to the rear on some object which roused all bis <jir i-e. at the top of which I ex passions, and he broke into loud excla pected to find the steward's room. mations ending in groans. Finally he There whs a faint light in the house. In fell to kissing tills object with a fervor «pite of Its closed shutters and tightly suggesting rage and ¡1 rage suggesting •;rawn «!. i les. and having a certain tenderness carried to the point of ag dresd of using my torch, knowing my ony. I hnv" never heard the like. My weakness for pretty things aud bow curiosity was so aroused that I was ou i ird it would lie for me to pass so the point of risking everything for a '.any fine rooms without looking in, look, when he gave a sudden snarl and • I made toy way up stairs, with no oth- cried out loud enough for me to bear; ‘T guide than the handrail. When I •Kiss what I've hated? That Is as bad • id reached what I took to lie the third as to kill what I've loved.' Those were 'i'W. I stopped. Finding It very dark. the words. lam sure he said kiss, ami '' - I a natural instinct with I am sure he said kill.' "This Is very Interesting. Go on os—then I lit up and looked about me. “I was in a large ball, empty as a I with your story. Why didn't you col rwit and almost as desolate. __ _____ Blank lar him while be was In this mood? doors met my eyes In all directions, Yon would have won by the surprise." ■».tli bars and there an open passa ge- "I had no pistol, sir, and he had. 1 T«y. I Mt myself in a maze. I _____ bad heard him cock It. I thought he was ■io idea which was the door I sought. going to take his own life and held - d it Is not pleasant to turn unaccns- my breath for the report, but nothing o*i knob» in a shut up bouse at mid like that was In bis mind. Instead he tut. with the rain pouring in torrents laid the pistol down and deliberately ‘ ’!■“ wind making pandemonium in tore in two the object of his auger. Then with a smothered curse he made •—of d xen great chimneys. ' 1 to lie done, and I went at for the door and turret staircase. It "I was for following, but not till I : ir order till I ttune to a lit- <h one opening ou the turret had seen what he had destroyed in u? r. This gave me my bearings, such an excess of feeling. I thought I °om adjoined the staircase. knew, but I wanted to feel sure. So • t • difficulty in spotting the before risking myself In the turret 1 «act < ',r ii'i'v and. merely stopping crept to the room be had left and felt to ekx.. ' i"'n ng I had made to this about on the floor till 1 came upon "■ 1 crossed to this door tliese.” “A torn photograph! Mrs. Fairbroth - ■' "pen. I had been right In ' Jt was the steward's er’s!*’ "Y ■ s. Have you not heal rd how he ‘d I made at once for the love. 1 her? A foolish passio in, but evi- dentily ■ nee re aud“— yon found?“— •'N ever mind comments, S let wapr ':-y 1- k. d drawers. But a key ■' .i opened some of these and StickL to fâcts. "I will, sir. They sre the rest. Here are the specl avi« AI»Wr \ I ■ ii >'i nickPi p-’ «to’* ,jf ■ handwriting which I col etna’. gli. I >t •• !»:• to t * * ■ I doubt if you will get much I »aw nothing compro- cast* And bere 1 made my i ■ -n the whole room, but then I I «ft lime to go through his trunks, i i looked very Interest- Th ’ ha‘‘ t time? Why hadn't you "hat happened to cut it ■ ti tell yon. was wiM rot nspector. "I he desk wbicB bnd 4Uaap- ■nd was casting a look •k*« the >ni, which was as bare as of e'*‘rJThing like ornament M «: xr wht ainaoet say comfort—when 1 Ft_.il he stopped midway and would tny t first intimation of his presence be the touch of cold steel or the flinging ’«round tne of two murderous arms? I had met with no break in the smooth surface of the wall, so could not have ’ h l the seitmd story \Vhi*n I should get there the question would lie whether to leave the staircase and seek him In the mazes of its great rooms or to keep on down to the parlor floor and so to the street, whither he was possibly bound. I own that 1 was alm st tempted to turu ou my light and have done with It, but I remem- here I of how little use I should be to you lying In this well of a stairway with a bullet In me. and so I managed to compose myself and go on as I had begun. Next Instant my fingers slipped round the edge of an opening, and I knew that the moment of decision had come. Ilenli -Ing that no one ran move BO softly that be will not give away hls presence in some way, I paused for the sound which I knew must come, I and when a click rose from the depths of the h.all before me I plunged Into that hall and thus Into the house proper. “Here It wn not so dark, yet I could make out none of the objects I now and then ran against, I passed a mir- ror (I hardly k iw how I knew It to be stielr. and in that mirror I seemed to see the ghost of a ghost flit by and vani-li. It v.as too much. I muttered g suppressed oath and plunged for ward. wtien I struck against a closing door. It flew open again, and I rushed In. turning on n y light In my extreme desperation, when, instead of hearing the shr.rp report >.f a pistol, us I ex pected. I - iw it second dixir fall to be- fore me. this time witii a sound like the snap of a spring lock. Finding that this was so. and that all advance was barred that w y. I wheeled littr- riedly back toward t he door by which I had ent tere " I the " phn». to find that .1 s i .nuTtaneously ‘ i i 11 1 t-1 tl rtrit t <1 v xvith that had f'lllon fallen f to with the oilier, a single spring acting fot both. I was trapped a prisoner in the strange-t s rt of passageway or closet, ami ¡is a speedy- look about presently assured tne. a prisoner with very little hope of immediate escape, for the doors were not only Immovable, with out even locks to pick or panels to break in. but tbe place was bare of windows, and the only communication which it Yonld I e said to have with the outside worli) nt all was a shaft rising from the ceil! g ainiost to the top of the hom e. Wbethor this served as a v •?,: er ¡1 i vf lighting up the hole when Loth doors were shut. It was much to:> lnacce- ;ible to offer any apparent way of c-cape. “Never was a man more thoroughly boxed lu. As 1 realized bow little ch u!i'.‘ there v. as of ¡my oor«ii!e Inter ference, how my captor, even if he wns seen leaving the bouse by the offi taken for my- cer on duty, would self an 1 so allowed to escape, I own that I felt my p ■ .n a hopeless one. But ang -r 1« a . ' .ill stiinul int. and I was mortally angry, not ouly with Sears, but with myself. So when I was done swearing I took another hx»k around, ami. finding that there was no getting through the walls, turned my attention wholly to the shaft, which would certainly lesid me out of the place If I could only find menus to mount It. “Anil bow do you think I managed to do tills nt last? A look at my be draggled. lime covered clothes may give you some idea. I cut a passage for myself up those perpendicular 11 THl'KSDAV. WRIL I«, ItXW knife amt even to penetrate de< enough to afford a place for the tips of mv fingers aud afterward for the point of my toes, digging, prying, sweating, panting, listening, first for a sudden opening of the doors beneath, then for some shout or wicked Interference from above as I worked my way up Inch by inch, fixit by foot, to what might not be safety after it was at- ta Ined. "Five hours—six. Then I struck something which proved to be a wlti- dow, and when I realized this aud knew- that with but one more effort I should breathe freely again. I came as near falling as I had at any time be fore 1 began this terrible climb. “Happily. I had some premonition of my danger and threw my-elf Into a |x> sltlon which held me till the dizzy min ute passed. Then 1 went calmly on with my work, and In another half hour had reached the window, which, fortunately for me. not only opened In- ward, but was off the latch. It was with a sense of Inexpressible relief that I clambered through this window and for a brief moment breatlnxl tn the pungent odor of cedar. But It could have been only for a moment It wns o’clock In the afternoon before I found myself again In the outer air. Tils nose she don't remember. Hottl agree, or rather, all agn*e. that he wore uo beard, Sears did. but a lieiird can be easily taken off and all of them declare that i they would know him instantly If they saw him. Am so tbs matter stands. Even you cai give me uo definite description one. I mean, an satisfactory or unsatisfactory as this of Hears." I shook my head. Like the others. I felt that I should know him If I <axv him. but I could g> no further than that. There reemed to lx1 so little that was distinctive al oct the man Hie Inspector, hoping, perhaps, that all this would serve to rouse my mem ory. shrugged Ills shoulder« and put the best face he < ctild on the matter “Well, well.” said he. "we shall liav to I ? patleut. A day may make tile difference possible In on? out'- -o'. If we can lay hands on men”— He seemed to realise he had said a word too much, for he Instantly changed the subject by asking If 1 had succeeded In getting a san.,’le i f Miss Grey’s writing 1 was foiced to say no; that etet ' thing had been carefully put iiivay. "But I do not know what moment I tuny i o:ne it|xin ?t." I added “I do not forget its itnpor.liuce in this In vestigntlon." “Very gixnl. Thixs.i Um s handed tip to Mrs. Fall-brother from the v ¡ilk out side .are the second most valunble clew we ¡xissess." I did not usk him what the first was I knew. It was the stiletto. ' Strange that no one mis testified to tliat handwriting." I remarked. lie looked at me in su,i>rlse. “Fifty persons have sent ill samples of writing which they mink like ft." he observed; "often of persons who nev er heard of the I airbrothers Wo have b»eu bothered greatly wl|!i the busi ness. Yon know little of the difficul ties the police labor under.” "I know too much." I sii;he<l. He smiled and patted me on the hand. “Go back to your patient." he said. •1'orget every other duty but that o* your calling until yon ;. t srnne definite word from me. I shall not keep you In suspense one minute longer than is absolutely necessary." He had risen. I r > too. But I was not satl li'd. I eni’.lil pot leave the room with my Ideas (I might say with my conviction«» In xl ' c ’ i u turmoil. think "Inspector.” o very ob.st nate. ha vc told me ab »’t S**nr. board about him. In —“does not c< folly of i.v own ■ u O' .-on«. Indeed. I am afraid t!i.-it. If anything, they uro strengthened. This steward, who Is a doubtful char -‘<r. I noknowledge, may have h id hls reasons for wishing Mrs. Fnlrbrother's <!< 111. may even have bad a hand hi the 'matter, but what evidence have you to show that ho. himself, entered tne nlcove. struck die blow or stole the diamond? I have listened eagerly for some such evi dence. lint I have listened In vain. “I workrA my uay up inch hy Inch." The ouly way I cm ace unit for the lapse of time is tfint the strain to which l>oth body and nerve had been subjected was too much for even my hardy body and that 1 fell t > the floor of the cedar closet ami from a faint went into u sleep that lasted until I can easily account for the last hour because It took me that lull;; to cut the thick paneling from the door of the closet. However, I am here now. sir, and In very much the same condition lu which 1 left that ljmrae. I thought my first duty was to n Jt you tint I had (Continued Next Week.) seen Hiram Sears In that house last night and put you on his track.” I drew a long breath I think the In spector did. I had been almost rigid Positively cured by from excitement, and I don't believe these Little Pills« he was quite free from It either. But They also relievo DI* hls voice was calmer than I expeete<l tress from Dyspepsia. In- d 1 c st Ion and Too Iluar ty when he finally said: Fating. A perfect rem “I'll remember this. It was a gocdl edy tor Dizziness. Nausea. night’s work.” Then the Inspector pnt Drowi lnesa. Bad Taste Walls is the boy did up the face of to him some questions, which seemed I In t’.ia Mouth, Coated ' tä the mitmil bridge in Virginia. Do Tongue. Pain In the side to fix the fact that Nears had left the ». you remember that old story in the TORPID IJVER, Thej bouse before Sweetwaier did, after render? It came to me like an fn- which he hade him send cert 'in meu to regulate the Bowe’s. I urely Vegetable. spiration as I stood looking up from him and then go and tlx bin <*!f up. igh 1 kucw taat I beloxv, and, I lielleve he had forgotteq me. I should have to work most of the way Genuine Must Bear In perfect darkness, I decided that a bad almost forgotten myself. Fac-Sitmle Signature man's life was worth some risk and ITTIE CHAPTER XV. that I had rather fall and break my OT until the ins[x'ctor had given neck while doing something than to p . L £ several orders was I again sum spend hours in maddening inactivity, REF'ISF <HRSTITUTES moned Into hls presence. He only to face death at last from slow smiled as our eyes n '. but did starvation. "I had a knife, an exceedingly good not allude, any more than I did, to Nevertheless knife, lu my pocket, and for the first what had Just passed few steps I should have the light of my we understood each other. When I was again seated he took up ehetric torch. The difficulty—that Is, the first difficulty-was to reach the the conversation where we had left It. “The description 1 wns just alxiut to shaft from the floor where I stood. There was but one article of furniture read to yon." he went ou; "will you In the rixotn. and that was something listen to It now?" "Gladly." said I. "It Is AVellgood’s, between a table and a desk. No chairs, A pure, antisep | tic Toilet Powder ai: I the desk wns not high enough to I ! elleve." for infants and Fie dbl not answer «are by a curious enable me to reach the mouth of the adults. Exqui shaft. If I could turu It on end. there glance from under hls brows, but, tak sitely perfumed. might be some hope. But this did not ing the piiixtr again from bis desk, Renders an excel look feasible. However, I threw off went on rea ling; lent complexion "A ra n of tlfty-flve looking like one my coat ami went nt the thing with a and keeps the skin vengeance, ¡md. whether I was given su of sixty. Medium height insignificant clear, soft and velvety. Relieves perhuman power or whether the clumsy, features, hea l bald save for a ring of fl skin irritation and thing v s not « li ivy as It looked, I scanty dark hair. No Ix-ard, n heavy should I* used did finally Mice I lu turning it ou its nose, long mouth and sleepy, half shut freely after bath end done tinder ; e opening fr >:n wli! b eyes capable of shooting strange ing and shaving, the shaft ro«e. The next thing wns to glances. Nothing distinctive In face or giving a delight get on Its top. That seemixl about as figure save the depth of bls wrinkles ful and refreshing Impossible as climbing the bare wall and a scarcely observable stix>p in hls effect. At deal ers or by mail, 25 Itself, but presently I bethought me right shoulder. Iw> you see VVellgood cents Box. V of the drawers, and. though they were tn that?” he suddenly asked. pared by “I have only the faintest recollection locked, I did succeed by the aid of my keys to get enough of them op<’n to of hls appearance,” was my doubtful FERD. T. HOPKINS, N.Y. CITY, make for myself a very good pair of reply. "But the Impression I get from ............. . of uOURAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM this description Is not exactly the one lull WAI.E AJiD MBCOMMBNDFD BY stain. i "1 could now see my wny to the 1 received of that waiter in the mo mouth of the shaft, but after th.it! mentary glimpse I got of him.” “So others have told me before." he Eugene Taking out my ktvife. I felt the e.l-ge. It was a goxl one. Mo was the point, remarked, looking very disappointed. “The description Is of Sears given me but was It good enough to work h In plaster? It depended somewhat by a man who knew him well, and If we could fit the description of the one upon the p' to that of the other, we should have it finishing th easy.z But the few persons who have the poor wi seen tVellgrxxl differ greatly In their Ina have STONE'S HEAVE HKOPM t remembran'of hls features and even ness erlag. It la f t' Dtahlng how It uid tv 11. 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