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About Eagle Valley news. (Richland, Or.) 191?-1919 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1918)
i,' The DESTR O YING ANGEL jay Juouis Joscpn vance iht : "V HAVE YOU ANY "SAND?" If you should be mysteriously beaten up when you stepped Into your home eome night, and the following day should be warned that you would be killed next trip, do you think you'd hurry to hiding or would you take defense steps and defy the Mystery to do Its worst Supposed to be dead, Hugh Whltaker turns up In New York after five years and hunts for the girl he married there tew protect her good name. During the midst of a brilliant theatrical performance, he and she recognize one another across the footlights. (She Is known as Sara Law, a noted actress.) The play stops abruptly. She refuses to see him. Drummond, his former law partner, engaged to marry the supposed widow, Is reported a suicide. Whltaer's friend. Mar tin Ember, former detective, doubts the report and warns Whltaker to beware of violence from a mysterious source. The warning Is lg. nared. Whltaker Is murderously assaulted and goes to Ember's coun. try place to recover. Strange things happen there as told In this In. stallment. Queer goings onl . CHAPTER IX. 10 The Window. Though they left Now York not long after three In the afternoon, twilight was fast ebbing Into night when Etubcr "gnve the motor Its head. Its head lights clove a path through darkness, ltke a splendid sword; on either hand woodlands and desolate clearings blurred' into dark and rushing walls; only the wonderful wilderness of stars remained Imperturbable. Whltnker. braced against the jolting, snatched begmdged niouthfuls of air strong.of the sea. He had no very defi nite Idea of their wherenbonts, having neglected through sheer Indifference to qr.esUon Ember, but he knew that they wero drawing minute by minute closer to the Atlantic. After soma 1me the car slowed to a palpitant pause. Ember jumped out to open a barred gate, then, returning, swung the car Into a clear but narrow woodland road. "Mine own domain." he Informed Whltaker with n laugh. "Now we're shut of the world en tirely." Whltaker bent forward. Inquiring: "Where are we?" "Almost there. Patience." Whltaker reckoned Idly that they must have threaded a good two miles of woodland, when at length the car emerged upon a clearing and immedi ately turned aside to the open doorway of a miniature garage. The forest bemnied the clearing on three sides; on tbe fourth Iny water. A hundred yards distant the lighted windows of a one-story structure shone pleasantly through a scattering planta tion of pine. Linking arms the better to guide his guest, Ember drew him toward the lights. "Bungalow," he explained, senten tious, flourishing his free hand; "her mitage retreat" "Paradise," Whltaker summed up. In the same manner. "No neighbors?" "Oh" Ember motioned to his left as they faced the water "there's a mar ried establishment over there some where, but we don't bother one another. Fellow by the name of Flske. I under stand the place Is shut up Flske not coming down this year." "So much the better. I've been want ing just this all summer, without real izing It" "Welcome, then, to Half-a-Loaf lodge !" They entered a long and deep liv ing room with walls of peeled logs and, at one end, a stone fireplace wherein a wood fire blazed heartily. At a com fortable distance from the hearth stood a table bright with linen, silver and crystal covers for two. Tho rear wall was broken by three doors, in one of which a rotund Chinaman beamed oleaginously. Ember hailed him by the title of Sum Fat, ex plaining that It wasn't his name, but claiming for It the virtue of exquisite felicity. "My servant In town, here man-of-all-work; I've had him for years; faithful and Indispensable. . . . Toward the end of an excellent din ner, Whltaker caught himself nodding and blinking with drowsiness. Em ber took laughing compassion upon him and led him forthwith to a bed room furnished with the rigid simplic ity of a summer camp. Then bo slept round the clock. The shrill, Impera tive rattle of a telephone bell roused him. As he dressed ho could hear the voice of Ember In the living room talk ing over the telephone. Presently there came a tap at his door, and his boat entered. "Up, eh?" he said cheerfully "I wa afraid I'd have to wake yon." Hla ttmllo vanished beneath the clouds of an impatient frown. "This Is the dovll Of a note : I've got to leave yon." "What's tho trouble? "That's what I'm called upon to find out A friend of mine's In a tight 'place, and I've got to go and help pull blm;througb. He Just called me up and I can't refuse. D'you mind being left alone for a day or bo?" "Certainly not only I'm sorry "So more than 1. Hut I'll try to get hack tomorrow. If I don'JI, the uoxt day or as soon as I possibly can. Meanwhile, please consider yourself lord and muster here. Sum Fat will take good can; of you. Anything you want, just ask him. Now I've got to get Into waterproofs It's raining like all get-out. but I can't wait for a let up." By the time Whltaker was ready for breakfast his host had splashed off to his motor car. The wind, freshening and driving very respectable If miniature rollers ngnlnst the beach, came In heavy gusts, alternating with periods of steady, strong blowing. At times the shining lances of the rain seemed to drive almost horizontally. Whltaker poked his head into the kitchen. In thnt Im maculate place, from which every hint of breakfast had disappeared as If by magic. Sum Fut was religiously cleaning his tooth for the third time that morning, to Whltaker's certain knowledge. When he hnd finished. Whltaker put n question : "Sum Fat. which way does the wind blow, do you know?" Sum Fat flashed him a dazzling smile. "East'ly," he said In a cheerful, clucking voice. "I think vely fine throe-day blow." "At least," said Whltaker. "you're a high-spirited prophet of evil. I thank you." He selected a book from several shelves stocked with a discriminating taste, and settled himself before the Are. The day wore out before his patience did, and with every Indication of ful filling the prognosis of Sum Fat; by nightfall tho wind hud duvelopcd Into nn enthusiastic gale, driving before It sheeted rain and great ragged wastes of mist. ' And the second day was like unto the first The third day broke full of the spirit of the second; hut toward noon the rain ceased. In the evening, weary of the sedulous attentions of a cloud of famished mosquitoes. Whlta ker sat In darkness, not tired enough to go to bed. too tired to bestir himself and seek distraction from a tormenting train of thought. A pool of limpid moonlight lay like milk upon the floor beneath a window and held his dreaming gaze while mem ory marshaled for Ids delectation a pageant of wasted years. Infinitely des olate and dreary In his vision. now long he sat unstlrrlng, preoccu pied with fruitless Inquiry, he did not guess. But later he reckoned It could not have been long after ten o'clock when he wus disturbed. The sound of a footfall, hushed and stealthy on the veranda, roused him with n start, and almost at the same instant he became awaro of a shadow that troubled the pool of moonlight, tho foreshortened shadow of a man's head and shoulders, lie sat up, tense, rigid with surprise and wonder, and stared at the silhou etted body at pause Just outside tho window. The fellow was stooping to peer In. Had Drummond hunted him down to this Isolate hiding place? On the thought he leaped up, In two strides slammed out through the door. "I say I" he cried loudly. But he cried, apparently, to empty air. The man was gone vanished as strangely and as quietly as he had appeared. Pausing and glaring round tho clear ing In complete bewilderment, he de tected or elso fancied a slight move ment In the shadows on tho edgo of tho encompassing woodland. Instantly, heedless of the risk he ran if the man wero Indeed Drummond and if Drum mond were Indeed guilty of the assault now four nights old, Whltaker broke for the spot It proved to be tho en trance to one of the woodland paths, and naturally whether or no his imag ination were In fault thero was no body waiting there to be caught But If anyone had been there, bo bad unquestionably fled along tho trail. Whltaker in a rage set himself to fol low. Before he realized he could have covered half the distance, be emerged abruptly Into tho clearing of tho Flsku place. Hero ho pulled up, for tho first tlmo nltvo to tho Intrinsic Idiocy of his con duct, and diverted besides by tho dis covery that his Impression of tho early evening, thnt the cottage was tenanted, had been well founded. Tho ground floor windows shono with n dim but warm Illumination. Ho could see distinctly part of n living room rather charmingly furnished In sum mery way. At Its farther end n dark haired woman In u plain black dress with n short apron and laco cup sat reading by lamplight evidently a ninld. Her mistress Judging by up pearunces was outside on tho lawn below tho veranda, strolling to and fro in company with a somewhat short nnd heavy man who wore an automobile duster and vlsored cap. Hy contrast, her whtte-clad figure. Invested with thu Illusion of moonlight, seemed un usually tall. Her hair was fair, shin ing like n headdress of palest gold us she bent her head, attentive to her companion. And Whltaker thought to discern an unusual quality In her movements, n quality of charm and n graciuusness of mien rarely to ho no ticed even In the most beautiful of tho women he hnd known. Of a sudden the man paused, pro duced a watch from beneath his dust er, consulted it briefly and shut tho case with a snap. He said something In n brusque tone, and was answered hy what sounded like a pleasant nega tive. Promptly, ns If annoyed, he turned nnd strode hastily away, disap pearing round thu house. Alone, tho woman watched him as long as he wns In sight, her head to one side with nn effect of critical amusement Then, with a low laugh, she crossed the wrnnda and entered the lighted room. At the sntno time Whltaker, lingering and watching without In the least understanding or even questioning why he was doing this thing so contrary to his Instincts, heard the heavy rumble of a motor car on the far side of tho house and saw the machine swing on across the clear ing Into tho woods. In the living room the woman wns saying: "You may go now, Ellse. I'll be ready for bed before long." "Yes, mndam." The maid rose and moved briskly out of sight. Her mistress, casting uslflc a scarf of embroidered Chinese brocade, stood for a moment In deep thought, her head bowed, the knuckle of n slender forefinger tapping her rhln charm ingly posed. Whltaker abruptly un derstood why It was he loitered, peep ingshe was absolutely beautiful, a creature both exquisite and superb, a Matchless portrait for the galleries of his memory. MANY BIRDS UNABLE TO FLY Something a movement or pcrlmpn a slight sound hnd drawn his ntten tlon from tho woman. Ho miw the other man standing boldly In t moonlight, all his attention eoiu'cntrnt oil on (ho brilliant picture framed by tho window. Ho was unquestionably without knowledge of tho urnrnoss of tho other of Whltaker In tho shnd ows. And though his back was to tho n uon nivd his face further shadowed by a peaked cap, Whltaker was nhso lutely sure of the man ho wns cer tainly Drummond. Without pause for thought, he sprang toward hlin, In a guarded volco utter lug his name "Drummond I" Hut the follow proved too nlort nnd quick for him. Whltaker's hands closed on noth ing morn substantial than thin air; at tho saiuo time ho received a blow upon his bruised shoulder smart and forcible enough to stagger hlin and evoke nn In Having No Necessity to Use Wings to Escape Enemies, Those Mem. bers Ceased to Develop. Of the TO kinds of birds existing In New Zealand, 30 are found nowhere else, and of this number by far tho larger portion Is flightless; this, no doubt owing to tho fact that for ages, ever since the sea swollowed up a con tinent, leaving only the Islands com prising the present Dominion of New Zealand, thero have been no destruc tive carnlvora In the land, except those small ones imported recently to aid In abating thu rabbit pest, and, having no enemies, tho birds also hud no use for wings, which ceused to develop, and ns years rolled by left iuuny species with only little nubbins for wings and ab solutely without power of flight. Centuries ago thero were In exist ence ut least three varieties of gigan tic birds, two of which wero ns largo In body as (he fabled roc, tho rescuer of Slnbad tho sailor. Those Included the Ilapagomls, the Dinomls or Moa nnd the Cnemloruls, which was a gi gantic goose. The Moa becumo ex tinct some COO years ago. It was a flightless bird, said by tradition to have been a hunter of humans, a man eater, was of varying size and ex tremely plentiful. In National Forests. Increasing use of tho National for ests for municipal camp sites and sum mer school locations Is reported by the forest service. Permits have already been Issued to several cities and educa tional Institutions and other applica tions nro expected. Officials say that far moro people use the forests for public playgrounds than for nny other purpose, and that this use promises to bo one of the most Important to which they can bo put Just tho Idea. Barber I want a motto from Shakespeare to bang up In my shop. Can you give mo one? Pntron Of course. How will this do : "Then saw you not his faco." He Sat Up Tense, Rigid With Surprli voluntary grunt of pain. And before he could regain his balance tho fellow was thrashing noisily away through tho woodland underbrush. Forthwith he struck off and blun dcril senselessly through the forest, misled by Its elusive phantasmagoria, until, realizing at length ho did but duplicate an earlier folly, ho gnvo up tho chase In disgust and slowly mnde his way back to the bungalow. What la the connection be tween Whltaker, Drummond and the mysterious girl? Is more than one person eager to see Whltaker dead? (TO UK CONTINUED.) Fish Couldn't Submerge. Sitting on his porch tho other morn lug, J. W. Stnwnrt noticed a good sized catfish floating downstream, a StateHvllle (N. C.) correspondent of the New York Sun writes. The fish was very much alive and was lu much commotion, apparently trying to go under water and for some reason unablo to, Mr. Stewart was Interested nnd he got his boat, went out on the river and captured the fish. He put It In n tub of water and found that It wouldn't sink. This led to further examination nnd Mr. Stewart says ho found the flsh had swnllowed n largo quantity of wheat having access to the wheat as a result of tho recent Hoods the wheat grains had swelled so tho flub couldn't digest (hem nnd altogether thnt gorgo of wheat had put that fish In a bad fix. Ho not only could not go under tho wnter, but ho was doubt less suffering much "misery" on his In sides. In all his long experience on the river Mr. Stewart says ho had never come across n case like that. On Eugenics. Prof. Herbert L. Flower snld In an address on eugenics in Boston: "Youth's point of view Is bettor than age's when It comes to questions of eugenics. "Here, for example, Is a dlaloguo to prove my claim: "A beautiful girl said on a white beach to her fashlonablo mother: " 'Yes, mother, dear, I llko Mr. Qobsa Golde, but Isn't ho too old to bo con sidered eligible?' "Tho fashlonablo motlior compressed her rouged lips. "On tho contrary, my love,' she said; 'ho Is too ellgtblo to bo consid ered old."' Making It Easier. Yeast Tho Jolt has been taken out of tho whcelburrow by a Mulno mnn who has Invented ono with springs between tho uxlo ends and Bldo bars. Crlwsonbeak It won't bo so hard now for a fellow to pay nn election bet, will It? GRAY HAIR BECOMES DARK AND BEAUTIFUL Try'Grniulmotltcr'B Old Favorite Kcclpc of Snjre Tea and Sulphur. a . VlinWR that HtaJtfl Tea nnd Sulphur, properly compound- ed, br tigs pack inn nmur-i t" n. i.. i. whnn ftitnd. streak- ed or gray. 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To do this successfully you need to put on healthy flesh, rouse tho liver to vigor ous action, so it will throw off these germs, and purify the blood so that thoro will bo no "weak spot" or soil for germ-growth. We claim for Dr. Plerco'a Oolden Medical Discovery that It doea all this In a way peculiar to Itself. It cures troubles caused br torn Id liver or lrapuro blood. "The Common Sonso Medical Ad viser," latest edition. In French cloth binding, will be sent free on recstnt of five dimes or stamps to pay the cost of printing and mailing only. Addrtsa ut. rierce. rresi. mval Ills' iiotal. nuf. falo, N. Y. Adv. Located. "Where was your old man wound. ed!" "In the abdomen." "Where'a that?" "Don't know somewhere In BYan- I suppose." Cassell's Journal. With the Fingers ! 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